12/29/2023 0 Comments 80p gorilla background![]() ![]() (“I said, ‘I’m not gonna get no whoopings no more. Things shifted when she went to live with her more lenient father halfway through high school. “I used to get suspended on purpose by being defiant and talking back to the teachers.” By the time she entered MLK Prep in the tenth grade, it had strict uniform codes and longer hours than other schools in the city. ![]() Her mother, a woman of God, kept the radio tuned to Memphis’s 95.7 Hallelujah FM any non-radio rap that GloRilla heard was away from home until she got her own phone in her late teens. Raised in the Frayser area of North Memphis, Glo - born Gloria Woods - and her older brother weren’t allowed to listen to rap for the majority of their upbringing. She’ll drop an album before the end of the year, going from zero to 100 within eight months. ![]() “People from the hood use Facebook.”) The song’s ubiquity pushed Memphis rap legend and executive Yo Gotti to sign her to his increasingly stacked label, CMG, in early July. ![]() (“Twitter for bougie people,” she laughs. It’s a setup so DIY it’s no wonder people have been tripping over themselves trying to re-create it with videos of their own from the moment Glo’s day ones knowingly posted a scene on Twitter. There are shots of Henny being poured down girls’ throats one of her friends is drinking a 40 her pregnant homegirl is on the hood of a car twerking a baby runs into the frame for a quick second Glo delivers a funny attempt at Memphis’s jookin’ dance form. around an empty parking lot in the middle of the day. The video feels like a day-in-the-life vlog, with unsteady camera movements following Glo & Co. “F.N.F.” thrives on the satisfaction that a day of unbridled debauchery with the girls will always beat being stressed over a man who refuses to act right. It’s a classic fuckboy dismissal in the vein of her breakout hit. We’re on Cal Poly’s Pomona campus, where she’s shooting a video for an unreleased song, “Nut Quick,” about a sneaky link whose company she genuinely enjoys but whom she sees no future with, for reasons the title implies. “A week before!” It’s an exceptionally hot day in Greater Los Angeles, and GloRilla is in an all-pink velour short set and white forces, sprawled on the bed of her non-air-conditioned artist trailer with the back of one hand delicately placed on her forehead while the other holds a purple mini-fan directly over her face. My car got repo’d, like, less than a week before I dropped this song,” says the 23-year-old. (a nod to Memphis’s area code) and began to spread across the internet. The next day, it was uploaded at 9:01 p.m. (Let’s Go),” and told her to return with all her friends later that day to shoot the video. A week and a half later, Hitkidd brought her back to the studio to record a new first verse, titled the song “ F.N.F. The clip initially went viral in her home region. It was savvy posting song snippets across socials prerelease has become a new way for artists at all levels to try to guarantee a hit. She arrived at his studio straight from the appointment, stepped outside to hit a blunt before getting in the booth, and came back with the hook that changed the trajectory of her life: “I’m F-R-E-E, fuck nigga free / That mean I ain’t gotta worry ’bout no fuck nigga cheating / And I’m S-I-N-G-L-E again / Outside hanging out the window with my ratchet-ass friends.”Įager to share, Glo uploaded part of the hook to Triller (the short-video app that predates TikTok), playing over a video of her, blunt in hand, swaying from side to side, before the song was even finished. The artist had been on his radar since he saw her perform at a local showcase last year. Not hearing back from Meg quick enough, standout Memphis producer Hitkidd reached out to Glo, who was on the way to get her lashes done, saying he needed a summer anthem - and fast. GloRilla’s meteoric rise began with a beat originally dreamed up for Megan Thee Stallion. ![]()
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