Watch Chicago-based rapper Sunshine Benzi’s new video for ‘Barracuda’
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Undeniably, Sunshine Benzi is from the school of Onika “Nicki Minaj” Maraj.
Today, Chicago-based rapper Sunshine Benzi released the bass-heavy track ‘Barracuda’, where she raps about being in a room with shooters and “all these hoes are her daughters”. In front of a graffiti-covered builing and in what appears to be an abandoned factory, she performs her lyrics.
If you are a fan of modern Rap/Hip-Hop, you know that stream of consciousness was spawned by Nicki Minaj, who famously referred to her easily influenced competitors as “her sons”. The Pontiac, Illinois songwriter, whose real name is Sunshine Kathleen Holt, thinks highly of New York Rap. In January, she explained herself in a detailed interview with The FADER.
Recently, the rising artist performed at All Points East in London. So, hearing her channel her first international trip on the record was fun. In the record, she mentioned local places like Heathrow, Buckingham, and Big Ben. Listen to the PhilgotAnother1 and Buddah Bless production below to form your opinion.
Listen to the PhilgotAnother1 and Buddah Bless production below to form your opinion.
Last year, she released her song ‘Trump the Bill’. It has amassed over twelve million streams on Spotify. Would the “Queen of Rap” perceive Sunshine Benzi’s style as a compliment?
One thing is for sure. Nicki Minaj’s physical mark on the future of Rap stardom is evident in today’s scene, from Trim to Earthsignchels, who have collaborated on the remix of ‘Trump the Bill’. Before exiting, check out the track on the ‘BBE’—short for “Bad Bitch Energy”—editorial playlist on Spotify. ‘Eastside’ currently sits at #27.
To be fair, we don’t know how Sunshine Benzi has lived her life before this moment, We don’t know how she has lived her life before this moment, but we understand the power of a global influence. Global superstars cannot tailor which groups of people they touch through their music.
Nonetheless, some people have criticised the 24-year-old and see her as someone who is taking up space by cosplaying a legendary Black American superstar.
