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Songs We Love: NSTASIA, 'Trap Or Die'

The rising R&B songwriter has worked with Beyoncé and Pharrell, and steps out with her first single, a classic love song for a bad boy.
NSTASIA's debut EP comes out this fall.

A white Dodge Challenger with tinted windows speeds down an empty Atlanta highway. Inside are two people in elated, ecstatic love. NSTASIA's "Trap Or Die" is just that — a love story between a bad boy who might only have two options and the

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