There are a lot of new acts coming out of south Memphis these days, but Moneybagg Yo has a talent too big for any one city to contain. While he’s proud to rep his hometown, stylistically, he doesn’t limit himself to the crunk sound of many local Memphis rappers, and despite his southern drawl, he’s as likely to lace his rhymes over Chicago drill and Atlanta trap tracks as anything from Memphis.
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As you’ll see when he joins our line-up of performers at the BET Awards 2021, he brings a bluesy, emotional depth to his tales of trauma and street knowledge. He began dropping mixtapes almost 10 years ago, releasing from “Da Block 2 Da Booth” in 2012, and last year, his album, Time Served, debuting at #3 on the Billboard 200. So when his most recent album, A Gangsta’s Pain, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, it was a success that’s been almost a decade in the making. Here are five facts about Moneybagg you might not know.
