Erica Banks

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Dallas rapper Erica Banks exudes confidence and cockiness, approaching minimal trap beats with a variety of powerful flows. Before signing with 1501 Certified Entertainment, she worked independently on projects like 2019’s The Art of the Hustle. She landed a hit with the 2020 single “Buss It” from her eponymous mixtape and continued her reign on projects like 2022’s Diary of the Flow Queen.

Banks grew up outside Dallas, Texas, and gravitated toward poetry early in life. Shortly after entering college with plans to complete a nursing program, Banks shifted her focus to pursuing a musical career. She parlayed her lifelong interest in poetry into rapping and began writing original songs around 2018. Early singles like “Thousand” and “NO Hook” led to the 2019 EP The Art of the Hustle, and two other mixtapes were released independently that same year, Pressure and Cocky on Purpose. The buzz growing around the rapper in the Texas area led to a signing with the 1501 Certified Entertainment label in 2020. The club-themed hit “Buss It” marked Banks’ first release with the label and was included on her self-titled mixtape in June 2020. “Buss It” proved so potent that in 2021, Travis Scott hopped on a remix, drawing even more attention to the song and to Banks. She released many standalone tracks and appeared as a featured guest on other artists’ songs for much of the next few years, issuing singles like “Slim Waist,” “Pop Out,” and “Throw a Lil Mo (Do It)” in 2022 before sharing the studio album Diary of the Flow Queen in June of that year. In 2023, Banks continued releasing new tracks like “Real Rap B**** (Poppin It)” and Splash Rob collaboration “Bad Bitch Alert.” ~ TiVo Staff

Memphis rapper Gloss Up is known for her free-flowing, humorous rhymes and glamorous yet down-to-earth fashion sense. Rising through the hip-hop scene, she dropped her debut mixtape Different Shades of Gloss in 2019, before inking a deal with Quality Control, which issued 2023’s Before the Gloss Up and Shades of Gloss. Not Ya Girl: Act 1 followed in 2024.

Born and raised in Memphis, Gloss Up found rap in her early years, practicing her flow at school rap battles and recording her own rhymes over tracks by Meek Mill and Future. It wasn’t long before she was uploading her own material, and after a short-lived connection with an all-female crew, she went her own way. In 2019 she forged a close relationship with fellow up-and-coming rapper GloRilla and that same year issued her debut mixtape, Different Shades of Gloss. Following a slew of tracks, Gloss Up teamed up with GloRilla, K Carbon, and Slimeroni on the HitKidd-produced track, “Set the Tone,” which helped push her further into the hip-hop spotlight. Catching the ear of Quality Control, the label signed a deal with her and at the beginning of 2023 issued the full-length Before the Gloss Up. A string of tracks followed before she released her second album for the label, Shades of Gloss. The seven-song Not Ya Girl: Act 1 appeared in 2024, with features by Jacquees, Hunxho, and Skilla Baby. ~ Rich Wilson, Rovi