- GOV’T NAME: Neko Bennett
- AGE: 20
- REPPIN’: Dallas
- X: @4batzz
- INSTAGRAM: @4batz
- TIKTOK: @4batz
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “act i: stickerz ‘99,’” “act ii: date @ 8,” “act ii: date @ 8 (remix)” that includes Drake, “act iii: on god? (she like)”; Tasks: U made me a st4r
- LABEL: Unsigned
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: New music coming this yr.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “Tyla.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “Dru Hill. Kut Klose. Keith Sweat. SWV. Mint Situation. The record goes on and on. I simply love the ’90s R&B, and, in fact, Texas music. Z-Ro. Paul Wall. [’90s R&B] is nostalgia. I simply really feel like that was the perfect time and the perfect music in that sure style, and I really feel like that R&B, if these folks didn’t make that music, then I don’t know what music would sound like now, truthfully. That was like the guts of R&B. The very best time of R&B and that basically influenced me to make what I make.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “I barely was a pupil. I barely went. I used to struggle quite a bit at school, and so they used to ship my ass to different college, I really feel like, each two months. They’d ship me to different college to the purpose the place my sophomore yr, I used to be like, F**okay it, and I simply stopped going.”
I’m not gonna lie, God is nice, as a result of rising up as a ni**a from the hood, seeing XXL, they was like our heroes. You get on XXL, you made it and also you’re like set. They see you on that cowl, ni**a, you’re like a famous person. So, me being on that sh*t, it’s a dream come true.
Proper now, I’m most centered I’ve ever been in my life. I believe I’m prepared for it. I believe my music is prepared for it, I believe the world is prepared for it. So, I’m excited.
I’ve been centered, I’ve been turnt, I’ve been excited, however on the identical time I’m simply at a special stage now. You must form your profession, it’s a must to understand how you need folks to take a look at you, and a part of my factor is I really feel like regardless that I do what I do, I must be right here. That’s how I would like folks to take a look at me and sh*t. ’Trigger it’s like, why not? I ain’t by no means had sh*t, so I take each alternative with every little thing, bro, as a result of there was a time once I couldn’t get this. Now I’m getting it. I’m excited. I’m turnt up.”
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