![]() In the Triller for “Bump It,” Kenzo dons a ski mask, a Nike hoodie, and some Ugg boots, hardbody bullying the camera lens as she unleashes her menacing bars. She sat on it for a month, “and then one day in December 2021, something told me, ‘Today’s the day to make a Triller.’” The buzz only fueled her desire to keep going. “I posted it on Instagram, and it went a little crazy,” she says. “So I wrote this thing real quick, I put my phone up, and I’m just recording on my phone, spittin’.” It’s reminiscent of the early days of hip-hop, back when girls like Roxanne Shanté and MC Lyte were thrown into the fire as collateral damage for someone else’s war and barked back with a vengeance. “I was like, I’m just gonna come back at him,” she explains. The first was a response to a boy who dissed her brother in a song, and pulled Kenzo into it for good measure. “Bump It” was actually Kenzo’s first real attempt to formally release music with the exception of her cereal-themed bars, it was technically the second song she ever wrote. Her 2022 breakout “Bump It” uses a sample from 1962 surf rock anthem “Miserlou” Kenzo expertly rides the beat, delivering barb after barb: “Top 5 real bitch don’t me / Fuck all thе talkin’ just send me the addy / If shе chattin’, I'm beatin’ her badly / Flatten her out, turn that bitch to a patty.” In the same way the iconic PUMA Classic line has a pedigree that would make them must-haves across history while feeling uniquely of-the-moment, Kenzo obviously has the chops to thrive in any era of New York hip-hop. “And it really didn't get a lot of views, but back then - for what it was - it was a reasonable amount.”īefitting someone who had such an unconventional upbringing, Kenzo is cut from a far different cloth than the other New York drill rappers of her ilk. “Then, basically, we posted it on YouTube,” she explains. By the time she was 13, Kenzo and her siblings had filmed their first music video. Kenzo knew her time in the booth was limited, so she prepared all of her rhymes beforehand, in order to best duke it out on tape with her brothers. ![]() Kenzo’s mother saw the foundations of stardom being laid, and started saving up money to fund her kids’ studio time. “And from there-because I loved to do it-I just kept doing it.” Her first song was about a bowl of cereal, to the tune of Drake’s “Started From the Bottom.” She still remembers her bars: “I was like, ‘Hangin’ with my sis and bros, drinkin’ all this milk / eatin’ bowls of cereal, dancin’ ‘cause we kilt.’” “I tried writing one day as a joke,” Kenzo says. Eventually, Kenzo’s brother urged her to pick up the pen herself and bring something more to the table, but she didn’t think anything of it.
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