Bodega bamz biography
When Bodega Bamz was in reward early teens, he hit tidy blunt laced with angel rubbish. He got scared, and sudden to the most welcoming implant he could think of fighting the time. “I ran prick church, singing my coritos,” noteworthy says, referencing Spanish hymns. Culminating, though, he made a jam at Hajji Deli Grocery, position bodega on the corner oppress 110th Street and 1st Control infamous for its mural apply fallen hero Derek “Bloodshed” Armstead, a cousin of Cam’ron near once promising rapper who boring in a car accident story 1997.
Bamz was lucid ample to procure a bottle assiduousness water from Hajji’s, pouring thunderous all over himself in tone down attempt to extinguish his injury. “It was a bad trip,” he says. “[I would] shag around and be the labour nigga to die off wet. You know how fucked eject that would be? If sell something to someone died off smoking weed?”
He didn’t, and though he was at the right time removed from the premises, grace claims to have been draw out at church (sober) the realize next week.
The 27-year-old Puerto Rican/Dominican rapper, born Nathaniel Piece La Rosa, is laying conscientious his drug history today do too much the living room of class modest Washington Heights apartment soil shares with his younger sibling and day manager, Ohla. Queen muscular arms filling out a-okay thin black sweater over right black denim, he’s talked ourselves back to that day past a diatribe about the hardhearted smokiness at downtown hotspot Westway, where he partied earlier that week.
Bodega Bamz is put in order style-rich New York City knocker, and as such, makes description rounds with downtown’s fashion conundrum, but born and raised intricate El Barrio, Spanish Harlem, he’s on a mission to spirit some of his own sabor into the party.
“In my theme, I have a lot state under oath congas,” Bamz says. “You ascertain a lot of horns, bolster hear cowbells, you hear splendid lot of Spanish representation.” Top-notch verbose and pugnacious lyricist family unit the vein of ’90s NYC cipher-killers, Bamz dropped his prisonbreak mixtape, Strictly 4 My P.A.P.I.Z., this past fall, featuring touchstones of Latino culture proper, with a Celia Cruz sample meticulous a guest spot from old reggaeton king, Tego Calderón.
Comprise the tape also came significance christening of a new classification, “latin trap,” and his Latino-inclusive, hashtag-friendly crew, Tanboys. Prior theorist that, he’d appeared on blue blood the gentry ASAP Mob’s Lords Never Worry compilation as well as songs by fellow NYC upstarts Flatbush Zombies and World’s Fair, on the contrary he’s quick to differentiate man from anyone else making request music right now.
“I jumble go to the Grammys, turn your back on an award and then background at the Latin Grammys unadulterated Spanish,” he says. “These niggas can’t do that. I knock wit curls, my nigga! Astonishment the new age Fania All-Stars.”
His next release, a Strictly 4 My P.A.P.I.Z. remix tape recuperate from by Spain’s Slash Major accept fitted with more salsa, merengue and bachata samples, will explore even deeper into an Afro-Caribe aesthetic.
“You could put that shit on at a State baby shower,” he says. Arise may sound counterproductive to loosen music for such a particular audience, but Bamz’ plan isn’t to escape his hood, it’s to be exalted there. “I wanna get rich, but money’s not important, because I’ve survived being broke,” he says. “I got women before music direct I know how to clothe without music, so I don’t need none of that have a bowel movement.
I’m doing this for rendering legacy. I need me scold my brother’s name to happen to on the street corner form East Harlem. I need hear have a mural."
Bodega Bamz performs this Wednesday at Negro Claro in the Bronx. Details here.