Five things you should know about the rapper behind the #BussItChallenge
Banks hails from Dallas, Texas, and her hit single Buss It has seen the #BussItChallenge taking over the Internet since the beginning of 2021.
Here are five things you should know about Banks and the first big viral trend of the new year.
ERICA BANKS’S #BUSSITCHALLENGE
The #BussItChallenge is similar to the #Dontrush makeup challenge that trended over the lockdown in 2020.
The challenge sees participants recording themselves in comfortable clothing as Nelly’s Hot In Here plays. Then, as they get down, the video cuts to a glamorous change of wardrobe with Banks’s Buss It playing while participants twerk.
Celebrities like Gabrielle Union, Tracee Ellis Ross, Nelly’s girlfriend, Shantal Jackson and others have joined the challenge. The funniest one yet is Monica Denise Arnold’s #BussItChallenge where her son, Romelo, chimes in, calling her out on it.
MZANSI CELEBRITIES JOIN CHALLENGE
South African celebrities were not going to let this one pass. Dancer and musician Moonchild Sanelly, actress Pasi Koetle and rapper Nadia Nakai were among those who joined in on the challenge.
Watch the official music video for Buss It here.
HOW ERICA BANKS GOT HERSELF NOTICED
Independent record label 1501 Certified Entertainment CEO and former MLB player Carl Crawford discovered Banks via Instagram Live. One night Crawford went live and allowed new artists to showcase their talent. When it was Banks’s turn she played him Buss It and he liked it.
A few weeks later he reached out to her and signed her to his team.
BANKS NOW SIGNED TO WARNER BROS RECORDS
Following the success of her hit Buss It and the viral #BussItChallenge, Banks announced on 7 January that she was signed to Warner Bros Records. In an Instagram post she and 1501’s Crawford are seen popping a bottle of Champagne.
“I’m just getting started!,” she declared.
ERICA BANKS ALMOST STUDIED NURSING
The rapper who had solid school results enrolled into college to study nursing, but changed her major to business. She later dropped out of college to pursue her career in music.
SHE RECEIVED NICKI MINAJ’S STAMP OF APPROVAL
In November 2020, Banks shared a snippet of a remix of Whole Lotta Choppas and she name-dropped Nicki Minaj calling her the Queen. Minaj retweeted the post with the caption “sending love right back, you sound dope on this”.
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