Artist Spotlight: Pimmie mixed her own songs in Houston before Drake gave her a spot on his album

Before she was a name on a Drake album, Pimmie was a stranger you could hire to mix your record. The Houston singer and songwriter taught herself mixing and mastering, and sold those services on an online marketplace for producers before she focused on her own songs.

That is the first thing to know about her. The second is that she writes like someone who has spent years listening closely to other people's vocals. If SZA's Ctrl is still the record you reach for after a bad text, Pimmie is the name to add next.

Who she is

Pimmie's first release was the EP BITTERSWEET in February 2024, followed by the three-track Bye Luv in October 2024. Most listeners met her on 14 February 2025, when she became the sole vocalist on "Pimmie's Dilemma", a track on Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR's $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. That album opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and the track gave her a first Hot 100 entry.

She signed to OVO Sound in January 2026. Her debut album, Don't Come Home, followed on 6 March 2026: ten songs, roughly 18 minutes, released through OVO Sound under licence to Santa Anna Label Group. Apple Music's own description frames it as an album about wanting emotional security while swinging between self-doubt and heartache.

Start here

Three songs, in the order we would play them. We are pointing you to where they sit on the record and how they came out; press play and make up your own mind.

"Bet" is the way in. It was her first single under OVO Sound, out on 30 January 2026, and it has an official lyric video on YouTube.

"Call Me When You Can" opens Don't Come Home, so it is also where the album starts if you want to hear it as intended.

"Wasted" is track five of ten.

If those land, go to "Closure", which closes the album, and "Foul", which came out as a single on 20 February 2026.

Why now

Short albums suit how we listen. At about 18 minutes, Don't Come Home fits a bus ride across Delhi or a single walk to the metro, and it asks very little before you know whether it is for you.

Her route in is unusual too: she learned the engineering side first, then stepped in front of the microphone. Her writing has often been linked to Jhené Aiko, and her ballads to SZA and Snoh Aalegra.

If you like Pimmie, try

• Snoh Aalegra for slow, heartbroken R&B written in the same register.
• Jhené Aiko, the writing influence listeners most often hear in Pimmie.
• Raveena, a Punjabi-rooted R&B voice we spotlighted earlier today: read the Raveena spotlight.
• Mary Ann Alexander, our pick from Bengaluru for readers who want R&B from India: read her spotlight.

Pimmie's official artist page is on Spotify.