A summer smash and her big personality has made the east Atlantan her city’s next all-star.
Most artists dream of signing to major labels, but BunnaB didn’t care when she got dropped from her last deal. Her 2023 single “My Man” had sent A&Rs calling, but personnel changes ground the Atlanta rapper’s momentum to a halt. Bunna tried to work around the hurdles, investing her label advance into starting a daycare business and putting up her own money for video shoots, but eventually creative differences became too much to bear.
“I made this art that I like and somebody coming and editing my art,” she explains. “Once they seen me stop going to the studio, they hit me up like, ‘yeah, sorry Bunna you’ve been dropped from the label.’”
That was January. Eight short months later, BunnaB is calling me from Los Angeles, hard at work on the follow-up to her promising April debut, Ice Cream Summer, and its June deluxe. Blending Atlanta trap with just a dash of futuristic swag, her sound is well-suited for the moment, but the biggest draw is her outsized personality: a little bratty, a little bossy, all star power. Just listen to her troll haters on “Bunna Scoop” or “Last Laugh,” smirking around every syllable whether her flow is laid-back or hyperactive…