BbyMutha returns to Crybaby, the Oakland room where she last played, for a $1 Saturday

Her last East Bay show was New Year's Eve 2022 on the same Telegraph Avenue stage; she's back Nov. 21.

The last time BbyMutha played the East Bay, it was New Year's Eve 2022, on Telegraph Avenue, at Crybaby. Nearly four years later she is coming back to the exact same room.

BbyMutha plays Crybaby in Oakland on Saturday, Nov. 21. The show starts at 9 p.m. and tickets are $1 through TicketWeb. Yes, one dollar. The date was announced Oct. 30, so it has been on sale for barely a week as of this morning, two weeks out from the show.

A lot has come out of Chattanooga's most unpredictable rapper since that New Year's Eve. In 2024 she released the album *Sleep Paralysis* on True Panther, which The Fader reported alongside the single "Go." That record arrived after a stretch in which she seemed ready to step away: her 2020 album *Muthaland* was billed as a final project, as Hypebeast noted at the time, and she kept releasing music anyway, including the EPs *Muthaleficent 2*, which Stereogum called "tough" and "adventurous," and *Cherrytape* in 2021.

Her 2020 album was billed as a final project. She kept releasing music anyway, and now she's back in the room where she last played Oakland.

The pattern is what makes her worth seeing live: an artist who keeps saying one thing about her career and then doing another, and whose records swing between rap, R&B and whatever else she's in the mood for.

The room helps. Crybaby sits at 1928 Telegraph Ave. in Uptown, across the street from the Fox, in the old Uptown Nightclub building, and holds about 400 people, per KQED's report on its opening. The same team has since opened Ceremony, a 1,000-capacity music hall downtown, but Crybaby is still the one built for a 9 p.m. start that runs late. Four hundred people is close enough to see everything, and loud enough to feel like a party.

The TicketWeb listing bills the night as a Queen Out presentation. At a dollar a ticket, the bigger risk isn't the price; it's the room filling up.

Grab the ticket now, eat on Telegraph, and walk in before the line does.

Sources: TicketWeb: Queen Out presents BbyMutha at Crybaby (ticketweb.com); The Fader: BbyMutha announces new album Sleep Paralysis, shares 'Go' (thefader.com); Hypebeast: Listen to BbyMutha's new album 'Muthaland' (hypebeast.com); Stereogum: Stream BbyMutha's tough, adventurous new EP Muthaleficent 2 (stereogum.com); The Fader: Listen to BbyMutha's new EP Cherrytape (thefader.com); KQED: Crybaby nightclub opening in Uptown Oakland (kqed.org); KQED: Ceremony, new music venue downtown Oakland from Crybaby team (kqed.org); JamBase: BbyMutha at Crybaby (jambase.com)