In just a few short years, Memphis-bred rapper GloRilla has put her own personal stamp on hip-hop with authentic Southern beats and her one-of-a-kind lyric delivery. Her 2022 breakout single “F.N.F. (Let’s Go)” earned her her first Grammy nomination, and earlier this year showed she was ready to take her place in the spotlight with Ehhthang Ehhthang, her first label-released mixtape.
GloRilla’s debut album Glorious is out now and comes jam-packed with features from some hit-making peers, from newer stars like Megan Thee Stallion and Latto to established artists like Kirk Franklin and T-Pain. She confessed in an interview with Billboard that she’d originally planned to drop her debut album last year but instead opted to tide fans over with her Ehhthang Ehhthang mixtape. She kicked off the year with “Yeah Glo!” and followed it up with “Wanna Be,” her club-ready collab with Megan Thee Stallion. After that, she heat up the summer—to approximately 95 degrees—with her album’s lead single “TGIF” and kept fans moving with “Hollon” released last month.
Her success comes after much reflection from the rapper, fittingly legally named Gloria Hallelujah. “I was praying for it. I didn’t know if it was going to come or not, but I was praying for it, though, and manifesting it,” she told Billboard. She counted the tepid response to “Cha Cha Cha,” her 2023 collab with Fivio Foreign and her CMG labelmates, as a pivotal point in her journey to releasing her first album. “When I dropped that song and everybody just hated it so bad, it just really made me go back to the drawing board and it pushed me to go 10 times harder,” she said honestly.
Now, with Glorious out there for the world to enjoy, GloRilla is well on her way to her dreams of hip-hop stardom. “The initial prize was me getting to where I am right now,” she told Elle last year. The goal now is “more accolades, more awards, more accomplishments, more plaques. More me.”
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