GloRilla stakes assert for hip-hop crown at Beale Avenue Audio Competition

All through the final Beale Street New music Pageant in 2022, GloRilla was a largely not known underground rapper, with a few small-noted mixtapes/EPs, who has just produced her initially substantial one, “F.N.F. (Let’s Go).”

What a distinction a 12 months helps make.

On Saturday night, GloRilla took the music fest phase as a bona fide star and hometown hero. The 23-year-old’s quick rise above the past 12 months has resulted in a Grammy nomination, a Bet award get, a significant signing to Yo Gotti’s CMG label, as nicely as a top 10 pop strike and a pair gold singles.

GloRilla’s performance at Tom Lee Park was the most up-to-date in a series of triumphant turns for Bluff City hip-hoppers at tunes fest, following Moneybagg Yo’s 2022 functionality in the wake of his chart-topping triumph, “A Gangsta’s Agony.”

GloRilla performs at Beale Street Music Festival on Saturday, May 6, 2023 at Tom Lee Park in Downtown Memphis.

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On a day when the idea of coronation was in the news — thanks to the ascent of King Charles in England — GloRilla staked her assert to the local hip-hop crown, with a fiery 40-minute efficiency on the Bud Gentle Stage.

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