Bktherula

One Liner: Atlanta rapper who can't seem to find the beat

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but this is rap, hip hop
Home: Atlanta

Poster Position: 24
Weekend Two Only.  Friday.

Thoughts:   As soon as the first song starts, I'm betting this was a TikTok thing.  If so, I can't find anything about it.

She started performing at 15, and is about 20 now.  The first interview I read from her was terrible, just pithy little answers and one word responses.  Her label has a very nerdy bio that actually downloads in Word format when you click on the link.  He actual name is Brooklyn Rodriguez, and she was born in Fulton County and raised in Atlanta, the daughter of a "talented vocalist" and a dad who was part of a "rap group that even opened for A Tribe Called Quest."  Not sure what it would hurt to mention the name of the damn group?  Had to hunt for it but apparently it was called Planet X (but I don't find them on Spotify).

She doesn't even seem very interested in actually timing her raps with the beat.  Like, literally, on many of her most popular tracks, she's not even rapping or singing on the beat.  That really feels like an important part of being a rapper - really throws me off when the beat is still plowing along and she's rapping to a different beat?  Get your shit together, man.

The top track is "LEFT RIGHT," with 25.4 million streams.  

Short, and nothing much to it.  This was a 2019 single, but unlike most other artists, it never made it on to any of her subsequent three albums.  Interesting.  At first, the track sounds promising, but I literally can't stick with it once she starts falling off the beat.  There was another big rapper like that recently BlueMan or something, and he did the same.  Couldn't stand it.  It's just wrong!

After that "LEFT RIGHT" thing, she released 2020's Love Santana, 2020's Nirvana, and 2021's LOVE BLACK.  Speaking of Mac Demarco (in my last review), she samples him on "IDK WHAT TO TELL YOU," the second-most streamed track from that newest album, and it pretty much rules.

Mac's "On The Level," and it makes for a perfect sample.  For sure the best track I've heard from her.  The other big streamer from his album is called "SANTANNY" but it is another where she seems uninterested in sticking to the beat.  I will say, she usually has pretty good trap beats.  But she sucks at using them.

Not into it.  I'm sure she is going to be the big, hot thing to go watch - especially for my doofus kids - but I would not go see this.