The back-talk, poetry, and recording all synergized when one day, she heard the boys recording themselves rapping. Around that same time, she used to hang out with a couple of boys from across the street who made radios and recorders out of car parts, “How we did it, I don’t know." As a child, her father regularly sent her to her room as punishment for talking back, and she whiled away that time writing poetry and messing around with a tape recorder. Her 2022 single Duffel Bag captures her essence as a working Mom balancing her creative life with a 9 to 5.īulli was raised in Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood and always had a way with words. Pretty Bulli has been freestyling since she was 13 years old. What does my gender matter? Did I body you for a girl, or did I just body you?” she says, frowning. She had just laid down a fiery 16-bar freestyle on a track with a male artist, when the man, likely still stinging from Bulli’s lyrics, turned to her and said her work was, "nice for a girl." Bulli was not happy. Rappers don't do that,” Bulli says.īulli recalls a time that happened in the studio, “I’m gonna leave names out,” she says with a twinkle in her eye. You have to be able to control a crowd and care about the lyrics that come out of your mouth, putting metaphors together, wordplay. “To be an emcee you have to be a master of ceremony. That means you should choose yours carefully when in her company.įirstly, don’t call her a rapper. Hit the 'Listen' button to hear Bulli's story accompanied by clips of her music. In the second installment in this series on Buffalo's women of hip hop, WBFO features emcee Pretty Bulli.
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