GloRilla has spoken about her upcoming debut album, the feminine rap renaissance and extra in a current interview.
This month marks 50 years of hip-hop. Honouring the ladies who’ve formed the style through the years, the American information present Good Morning America spoke to the Memphis-born rapper.
When requested about what it’s like being part of an enormous cohort of profitable ladies rapping, GloRilla instructed the programme, “I got here in at an necessary time when ladies needed to are available in and began dominating. I’m cheering each feminine rapper on: maintain going, maintain doing it, we bought this.”
She additionally spoke about her Grammy-nominated “anthem” ‘FNF’, which was the 24-year-old’s first-ever Billboard Sizzling 100 entry. “Loads of us undergo the identical stuff,” GloRilla defined about why her debut single was so well-liked. “That’s what I characterize actually, as a result of I’ve been in poisonous conditions and the sensation of being free. Everybody loves the sensation of feeling free.”
The following hit she launched was ‘Tomorrow 2’, the remix to her assured and authoritative second single that includes Bronx star Cardi B. “I used to be so pleased and excited throughout the entire inventive course of,” GloRilla instructed NME final yr. “It was loopy when [‘Tomorrow 2’] hit the charts. I used to be like, ‘Ah! Ain’t no person find out about me a pair months in the past!”
The NME 100 alum continued: “I had been sending Cardi music since I first began rapping, and I attempted for thus lengthy to get her to take a look at my music. However then she ended up listening, and preferred my music, to the purpose the place she was like, ‘I’ve already performed my verse for ‘Tomorrow 2’ earlier than I heard the rest from her.” On GMA, she shared how ‘Tomorrow 2’ is her “favorite function of all time.”
Ending the phase, the interviewer requested her what was subsequent for her to which GloRilla stated she is “excited” about her highly-anticipated debut album: “I plan on going Quantity One. I’ve gotta make a music that gone have all the ladies screaming and one other anthem.” The report would be the follow-up to her debut EP ‘Anyhow, Life’s Nice…’, which got here out final November.
Earlier this yr, GloRilla was part of Questlove‘s curated star-studded Grammys tribute to hip-hop music. She carried out alongside LL Cool J, Jay-Z, Queen Latifah, Melle Mel and extra within the phase.
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In April, the rising rap expertise and Southern Hip-Hop legend Boosie Badazz named their pets after one another. Boosie named his canine after GloRilla and he or she, in flip, named her pet lizard “Boosie Woosie.”
This yr, GloRilla has dropped 4 singles to date. In January, she and fellow labelmate Moneybagg Yo collaborated on the bitter relationship monitor ‘On Wat U On’. Afterwards, she dropped the rambunctious ‘Web Trolls’ and ‘Ex’s (Phatnall Remix)’ that includes Chicagoan Lil Durk.
Whereas performing across the US on her ‘Anyhow, Life’s Nice…’ tour, three individuals have been killed in a stampede that occurred at GloRilla’s gig in Rochester, New York on March 5. In a tweet, she stated, “I’m devastated [and] heartbroken over the tragic deaths that occurred after Sunday’s present. My followers imply the world to me. Praying for his or her households [and] for a speedy restoration of everybody affected.”
In Could, she dropped her newest viral hit ‘Lick Or Sum’, which samples and interpolates Miami trio Three 6 Mafia‘s ‘Slob On My Knob’. GloRilla carried out the monitor on the 2023 BET Awards alongside together with her aforementioned chart-climbers ‘FNF’ and ‘Tomorrow’.
Final month, GloRilla carried out at this yr’s Wi-fi Competition, which noticed Playboi Carti, Travis Scott and D-Block Europe headline the rap spectacle.
