to sign her to his increasingly stacked label, CMG, in early July. She’ll drop an album before the end of the year, going from zero to 100 within eight months.
Raised in the Frayser area of North Memphis, Glo — born Gloria Woods — and her older brother weren’t allowed to listen to rap for the majority of their upbringing. Her mother, a woman of God, kept the radio tuned to Memphis’s 95.7 Hallelujah FM; any non-radio rap that GloRilla heard was away from home until she got her own phone in her late teens. By the time she entered MLK Prep in the tenth grade, it had strict uniform codes and longer hours than other schools in the city.
Trusted friends gave her some sobering feedback: She had bars, but the way she was delivering them wasn’t good enough to catch on with the masses. So for two years, Glo honed her craft. She became close with— the South Memphis rapper now signed to Atlanta’s Quality Control — and the two pushed each other to get better. In 2021, they both performed at the local showcase where they met Hitkidd, who immediately wanted to produce for them and a few other promising female rappers in the city.
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