GloRilla: 5 Things About The ‘Tomorrow 2’ Rapper Performing At The 2022 AMAs

• GloRilla (b. Gloria Woods) is an American rapper from Memphis, Tennessee.
• Her breakout twelvemonth was 2022 erstwhile “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” was considered the Song of the Summer by many.
• She teamed with Cardi B connected “Tomorrow 2,” earning her a Gold grounds and her archetypal Billboard Top 10 hit.

The adjacent procreation of rap superstars is here, and riding precocious connected apical is GloRilla. “It’s existent cool. I’m excited really to beryllium a portion of it due to the fact that it’s a caller wave,” she told Refinery29. “I’m gladsome to be  really 1 of the ones starring the caller wave.” That question volition instrumentality GloRilla to the Microsoft Theatre successful Los Angeles connected Nov. 20, wherever she volition execute arsenic portion of the 2022 American Music Awards. On apical of that, Glo volition vie for Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist, going up against her “Tomorrow 2” collaborator Cardi B, Latto, Megan Thee Stallion, and Nicki Minaj.

Though the contention is tough, Glo has a changeable of winning. That’s been the communicative of her life. “I’d picture [my background] arsenic staying humble, and I conscionable kept working,” she told Refinery29. “I ne'er gave up, and I ever had a vision. That’s each you got to have; that imaginativeness and drive.” So, if she leaves Nov. 20 empty-handed, it won’t beryllium agelong earlier she’s backmost to get her flowers and judge the rewards of her hard work. As the satellite preps for the AMAs, here’s what you request to cognize astir GloRilla.

GloRilla is simply a rapper hailing from Northside Memphis.

“I was raised successful church, but we inactive utilized to ticker 106 & Park and BET,” Glo told XXL in September 2022. I utilized to emotion Bow Wow, and Soulja Boy, and Lil Wayne.” Describing herself arsenic a quiescent kid with 9 siblings – six boys, 4 girls – she grew up homeschooled until the 5th people erstwhile kid services forced her parent to enroll the school-age kids successful nationalist school.

The religion was her archetypal sensation of music. “I got a batch of solos successful the religion choir, and increasing up, the lone euphony my mama fto america perceive to was gospel. We utilized to person to sneak and perceive to the different music.

As a teen, she shed the shy persona. She gained assurance and started secretly rapping (only playing her euphony for 1 of her brothers and her cousin.) It wasn’t until 2018 that she took her dreams seriously.

Her Overnight Success Was Years In The Making

Glo uploaded her archetypal freestyle to Facebook successful 2016. Two years later, her relative suggested she enactment her caput to her euphony vocation and grounds connected thing different than her phone. She deed up a section workplace and dropped “14 Freestyle” successful December 2018. In 2019, she released her autarkic EP, Most Likely Up Next, with P Status in 2020.

Her travel wasn’t easy. “I ne'er stopped putting retired music. I got discouraged a batch of times, but I ain’t ever halt — I had started going broke,” GloRilla told Gillie Da King and Wallo26 connected a November 2022 occurrence of Million Dollarz Worth Of Game (h/t AfroTech). “I was losing everything similar my apartments, my cars. I was astir down to nothing. It was similar the extremity of past twelvemonth and the opening of this year. I was conscionable each the mode starting implicit and was like, ‘D-mn, I’m finna person to spell backmost to work.’ I was conscionable doing sh-t, surviving past year, and past it got to the gritty part, and I started conscionable getting broke arsenic hellhole and was surviving with my friends and sh-t.”

During a section rap showcase successful 2021, she met beatmaker Hitkidd. The gathering resulted successful the Set The Tone EP that featured Glo, Gloss Up, K Carbon, Slimeroni, and Aleza – five pistillate MCs – together. Glo and Hitkidd would enactment unneurotic again connected a way that would alteration her life.

GloRilla astatine the 2022 MTV VMAs (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock)

Megan The Stallion Had An Impact On Her Career – Sorta

In 2021, Hitkidd had a bushed lined up for Megan The Stallion. It was a accidental to spouse with the reigning queen of rap…but Megan wasn’t responding accelerated enough. So, Hitkidd deed up Glo, who was connected her mode to get her lashes done, according to Vulture. She returned from the quality appointment, lit up a blunt, stepped into the signaling booth, and dropped the hook. “I’m F-R-E-E, f-ck n—-a free / That mean I ain’t gotta interest ’bout nary f-ck n—a cheating / And I’m S-I-N-G-L-E again / Outside hanging retired the model with my ratchet-ass friends.”

Glo uploaded the hook to Triller, and it rapidly went viral. A week and a fractional later, she and Hitkidd reunited astatine the studio, wherever she recorded a caller archetypal verse. They recorded a euphony video with each of Glo’s friends, and that’s however “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” was born.

“Literally, it was truthful crazy. My car got repo’d, like, little than a week earlier I dropped this song,” she told Vulture. As of November 2022, the video has implicit 49 cardinal views. “A week before!”

“I consciousness similar it’s taken disconnected ’cause we [were] authentic,” she told BET. “We ain’t really, like, dressing connected up; we was conscionable having fun, being ourself, you cognize what saying? It ain’t truly a batch of radical that correspond females from the hood and ratchet females. We was conscionable successful the video having fun, doing what we usually do, and radical similar the authenticity – the realness to it.

The occurrence of the opus caught the receptor of respective labels. Glo yet signed with Yo Gotti’s CMG Records imprint nether Interscope. “She’s idiosyncratic coming antithetic with a caller sound, a caller delivery, a caller feel, and a caller movement,” Yo Gotti told XXL. “Her imaginable is unlimited. She doesn’t rap similar immoderate different artists. Whenever you travel with an unheard sound, you person an accidental to stamp it. And you cognize what happens aft that.”

“When you deliberation astir Memphis music, you deliberation astir Gotti,” Glo told BET, you cognize what I’m saying, and Three 6 [Mafia] and them. That was the look of Memphis erstwhile you deliberation astir rap. They had the metropolis successful a chokehold, and you can’t spell to the nine without proceeding a mates of Gotti songs. So helium was a large origin increasing up.

GloRilla Underwent A Cleanse Before Her Success

While visiting The Angie Martinez Show ahead of the merchandise of her Nov. 2022 EP, Anyways, Life’s Great…, Glo spoke astir however she and her friends took a societal media cleanse/mental detox for 60 days.

“We was going done thing similar we can’t spell into 2022 the aforesaid mode we was past year, you cognize it was, conscionable had a batch going on…we had to get our beingness together, we was similar ‘we can’t support surviving similar this’ we was like, ‘okay, we’re going to spell connected a cleanse. We aint going to speech to nary dudes origin I felt similar that was a distraction. No partying, going out, you cognize similar redeeming wealth and exercising,” she said (h/t Urban Islandz).

“I had conscionable truly got retired of a breakup, and I already said this successful the preview of my song, I had conscionable had an abortion, and truthful I’m like, ‘you cognize I gotta cleanse’ origin I didn’t consciousness the aforesaid aft that. I had intelligence changes, truthful I’m like, ‘no much dudes, we’re going to conscionable cleanse. I was truly really going done something,”

Breathing her occurrence to life, her cleanse ran from March to May. By June, “F.N.F.” was connected its mode to becoming the opus of the summer.

GloRilla astatine the 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards (Justin Kase Photography/Shutterstock)

She’s Got A Big Cosign – Grammys and Cardis.

In July 2022, Glo dropped “Tomorrow.” Two months later, she dropped “Tomorrow 2,” the remix featuring Cardi B. “[Cardi] had deed maine up already erstwhile I was blowing up. Soon arsenic I had landed successful New York and I was going done the airport, she had sent maine a small dependable message, you know, giving maine proposal and motivating [me], similar that. And truthful … she had liked my stuff, cognize what I’m saying?” Glo told Revolt.

“I was successful the workplace 1 day, and I was listening to each my songs, and I’m like, ‘Who tin I enactment connected this song?’ So I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m finna substance Cardi.’ I substance her, and I was like, ‘I got a opus I privation you on.’ She was like, ‘Girl, I already did my verse connected Tomorrow.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ [Yo Gotti] and them were trying to astonishment me, but I ended up uncovering retired due to the fact that I was trying to get her connected different song,” added Glo. “When I archetypal heard it, I was truthful shocked. I wasn’t shocked due to the fact that she hard anyway, but similar however she conscionable did that song? Like … I wanted to cry.”

This is conscionable the commencement for Glo. In 2022, she won the Best New Hip Hop Artist astatine the BET Awards. She besides earned her archetypal Grammy Awards information erstwhile “F.N.F.” was nominated for Best Rap Performance. The Glo has started, and it looks similar it’s not going to slice for a long, agelong while.