“Ice Cola” didn’t end up making the final tracklist for Don Toliver’s 2020 album
Heaven or Hell, so Wonder Gang kept the song for themselves, later making it their proper debut single.
The brothers were born and raised in Zimbabwe and grew up on the sounds of Buju Banton and Bob Marley. When he was in second grade, Wonder won his school’s talent show by lip synching and dancing with friends.
Savage and Wonder immigrated to the U.S. when Wonder was 14 and Savage was 8. Wonder created the Keith Wonder moniker when he was 15 after discovering Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Jay-Z.
The artist was known as a popular freestyler back in his high school days in Rockwall, using rap as a form of expression rather than a serious endeavor. Since those days, he took a break from pursuing a career in music and found himself wrapped up in another calling: exploring his spirituality. Now, over a decade later, he’s returned to his roots and rekindled the creative flame that’s been quietly flickering inside him.
“I like the term artist, but I rap, sing, engineer. I do fashion, sell my own shit. I represent,” he says.
Mallo s been experimenting with new sounds and focused on producing high-quality, innovative content. Over the year, with his beats and vocals, he began to explore different, innovative genres.
It was also during this time that King started drumming for Fort Worth jam band Cherry Mantis an unexpected place for a rapper to get his start.
“I just drummed for anything because I liked all music,” King says. “But I always kind of had that thing in the back of my mind that I wanted to be a singer, rapper guy.”
In 2018, tragedy struck again when his father, suffered a heart attack and died.
“How could this happen twice?” King remembers asking. “I wouldn t have ever gotten into music if it wasn t for him. He helped me in so many ways to start being a drummer and love music and everything. I will always love him for that.”
“Feminism claims to include all women, but a lot of times, we don’t see the issues that pertain to Black women and women of color,” DeeVine says. “During that time [in the military], I was exposed to a lot of different issues that I dealt with just being a Black woman in a leadership position. That’s when I kind of realized the differences and started doing more research.”
In her research, she found works by Alice Walker, who first coined the term “womanism.” Her learning was followed by a self-care journey and a newfound ability to affirm herself.
How does a UT Arlington and Eastfield journalism dropout find a way to express his love for the city and the teams that represent it? He might as well rap, he figured.
Garland native Kevin Cusingberry told his friend, an aspiring recording artist, that they should work on a mixtape together. His friend only had a month left in the country before moving to Toronto, so within weeks, Cusingberry bought a MacBook and paid for his buddy’s microphone, in cash. Within months, Cusingberry released a single and adopted a new moniker: Cush With a C.
By the summer of 2019, Cush released his first album,