BeNita AppleBomB Where are you from? Rosedale, Mississippi
Making Moves
Have your surroundings shaped you in a creative sense, and in what way(s)? Yes, my whole life I’ve been in what they call “The Hood” bad language, drugs, guns, gangs, etc. although none of those are good things, but hearing the music that was created from those things definitely played a significant role in my music. Which is probably why I’m still underground.
What did you start doing first, producing or rapping? I was originally a writer, and wrote the book “Selected Chapters of Life”, and that opened the doors to rap. How did you get started? A producer (Eldridge Jenkins) R.I.P. purchased one of the aforementioned books and asked me if I was interested in adding music to my lyrics and we got in the studio and laid a track. What was your introduction to the underground scene? I wrote a song called “Trap Queen” my first song ever that I really didn’t put much promotion behind, but then I dropped a song called “Shake” and it took off I did a lot of touring with that song.
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At what age did you begin creating, and in which mediums? I began creating rhymes at the age of eleven and everyone said that I was very mature for my age because one of my first poems was, “Sea of Love”.
