{"id":331162,"date":"2026-03-06T01:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331162\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:10:10","slug":"atlanta-rapper-behind-bunna-summa-and-more-talks-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331162\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Rapper Behind ‘Bunna Summa’ and More Talks New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBunnaB<\/a> is well on her way to becoming one of hip-hop<\/a>\u2019s go-to girls for a bit of virality. Take her recent feature on the remix to Charleston, South Carolina, rapper Trim\u2019s \u201cBoat,\u201d a trending song on TikTok since its December releaseWhile the remix marks one of Trim\u2019s first moments in the spotlight, BunnaB had already spent the preceding year as one of the genre\u2019s new darlings. On \u201cBoat,\u201d Bunna is confident and chaotic as all the ways she wants to twerk (and drink and have sex) tumble out of her mouth into the song\u2019s best verse, like Tetris blocks aligning. \u201cWaw bunna really reached a flow state,\u201d wrote<\/a> a commenter under the official YouTube video. Over on TikTok, a video of Bunna teasing her bars ahead of the remix\u2019s release promptly racked up more than 2 million views. On another recent solo single, \u201cSeeumsayin,\u201d Bunna is barred up over new sounds, too, wrangling Jersey club and blown-out bass.<\/p>\n

\n\tBunnaB was a big get for Trim. Last summer, she helped catalyze the renewed nostalgia for her hometown of Atlanta<\/a>\u2019s crunk and futuristic eras. Her songs like \u201cBunna Summa,\u201d \u201cInnit,\u201d and\u00a0 \u201cMad Again\u201d evoke the late 2000s and early 2010s, when the city\u2019s street anthems were slightly silly, fit for a block party on Mars. With Bunna and fellow Atlanta rap<\/a> girls YK Niece (a good friend of hers), Pluto, and Bankroll Ni leading the charge, megaproducer Metro Boomin capped off the season with the definitive mixtape A Futuristic Summa. Of course, he tapped Bunna for the tracklist, offering her a prominent feature alongside futuristic veterans J Money, Roscoe Dash, Meany and DJ Spinz on \u201cMy Lil Shit.\u201d But for Bunna, this dip into the past wasn\u2019t calculated. \u201cI feel like everything just happened,\u201d she tells Rolling Stone. \u201cWhen I\u2019m in the studio, I don\u2019t try to intentionally do things.\u201d When she first heard the beat for her breakout single, last January\u2019s \u201cNo Drought,\u201d she didn\u2019t even recognize the prominent sample of Crime Mob\u2019s 2006 smash \u201cRock Yo Hips\u201d in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tBunna has decided not to share her age herself, but her manager, Terrence \u201cSnake\u201d Hawkins<\/a>, (known for his work alongside stars like Young Thug, Gucci Mane, T.I, and Young Dro) freely mentions it to me. Let\u2019s just say she would have been quite young when futuristic icons like Travis Porter, Rich Kidz, J Money, Gucci, and Dro reigned over the scene. Still, J Money has given Bunna her flowers for the resurgence, she says. They shot a video for their Jermaine Dupri-helmed single \u201cMagic City Money\u201d together, alongside Bankroll Ni. \u201cHe be like, \u2018Thank you. You really bought it back,\u2019\u201d Bunna tells me.<\/p>\n

\n\tLike the burgeoning rapper predicted last April, it was a \u201cBunna Summa\u201d indeed. By June, Lizzo name-dropped<\/a> Bunna as one of a handful of Atlanta rap girls she was listening to nonstop. Houston rap darling Monaleo has also become a fan of Bunna\u2019s, and a source of friendly advice. \u201cShe always gives me encouraging words every time I talk to her,\u201d Bunna says. GloRilla has shown love, too. The real measure of Bunna\u2019s reach, though, is the ordinary people who love her, like the women at my Atlanta spin studio who go crazy for her trendy songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile social media popularity can be fleeting, BunnaB and her team are working on building something sustainable. Snake has helped her set up her own companies to house her work. He breaks down her budgets with her and encourages her to prioritize ticket sales. \u201cI feel like he teaching me the right ways to go,\u201d Bunna says. \u201cWhat not to do, how to be a businesswoman, and build myself as an artist.\u201d Snake says Bunna will release her debut album this year and hopes it\u2019ll reflect the magnitude of her new experiences. \u201cWe just keep encouraging her to have fun with the music, encouraging her to make healthy relationships with other artists, other writers, producers,\u201d he says. \u201cIf she stays focused and continues to evolve, the music will continue to evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a brief moment last October, though, it looked like Bunna\u2019s time could have been up. A video made the rounds of some students booing<\/a> when she was declared a performer for Atlanta colleges Spelman and Morehouse\u2019s storied homecoming. Later, some clips of Bunna looking unenthused<\/a> at her set spread as well, with Bunna later telling TikTok she decided<\/a> to return the energy with an unmotivated performance. That all turned out to be more fluke than prophecy though, as Bunna hit around 18 more college concerts last fall and had a blast \u2014 especially at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, where she got to crowd surf. \u201cWhen I got onstage, it was just all energy,\u201d she says. \u201cThat was my favorite school that I\u2019ve been to so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBunna takes my call from a car in November, riding across the D.C. area in the middle of her college run<\/a>, dubbed the Ice Cream Girl Road Trip: Homecoming Edition. She decided not to call this \u2014 nor the eight-city original Road Trip<\/a> before it \u2014 a tour. \u201cYou\u2019re going to know when it\u2019s a tour,\u201d she says. She\u2019s armed with the bright smile and giggly demeanor she\u2019s come to be embraced for, despite having lost her dad a few years ago. He encouraged her to rap since she was a little kid. Bunna says she hasn\u2019t really had time to wrap her head around the grief. \u201cEverything been happening so fast for me,\u201d she says, \u201cBut I know it\u2019s going to come soon.\u201d Still, she says the unfettered happiness she\u2019s known for is real: \u201cIt\u2019s natural. For other people, I don\u2019t know why they be so mad. I feel like mad shouldn\u2019t be natural. Everybody go through stuff, but I feel like you don\u2019t have to show it on your face what you go through.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHer bubbly persona often comes packaged in pink clothes, pigtails, and bows \u2014 she\u2019s leaned hard into the sugary aesthetic of her \u201cIce Cream Girl\u201d alias. This look, her playfulness, and spate of shows at colleges and high schools makes it seem like her base is mostly youthful, but she insists it spans all ages. \u201cOld people can wear bows too,\u201d she says. Influential Atlanta producer Jermaine Dupri, for one, says he was surprised to find her rapping about very adult themes. \u201cI got a 14-year-old daughter that\u2019s really, really into all of that,\u201d Dupri says of Bunna and her contemporaries. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy because the stuff that BunnaB is talking about is the same stuff that Cardi B is talking about.\u201d Bunna says she doesn\u2019t do everything she raps about; for example, she doesn\u2019t drink or smoke weed. \u201cI make music for the people,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s just not based on my feelings. If I rap about me all my life, who going to relate to it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBunna is the mom to a three-year-old daughter<\/a>, and believes kids, like her own, should be free to listen to what they like. \u201cI\u2019m not going to control what you can look at and listen to,\u201d she says. \u201cMy momma didn\u2019t control what I did. Well, certain stuff \u2014 as long as you ain\u2019t looking at no crazy shit. I don\u2019t be having no explicit-ass videos. Music is music. I feel like kids don\u2019t be knowing the meaning anyways.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tSnake thinks Bunna\u2019s natural radiance and how she channels it on TikTok are what set her apart. \u201cHer biggest thing is \u2018I want people to be happy,\u2019\u201d he says. He mentions a TikTok she filmed recently with another manager of hers, Sarahn: \u201cShe was dragging her around the little chair that spins around in the hotel room, just having fun. I\u2019m learning from her, organic content works best versus content that you always have to produce. She\u2019s at her best when she\u2019s at that mode.\u201d Snake sees the same passion for her fanbase he saw in T.I., Thug, and Gucci. \u201cShe goes to her P.O. box. The things that her fans send, she gets on Instagram and she shows the world,\u201d Snake says. \u201cThey send her wigs, she\u2019ll wash those wigs and she\u2019ll wear them. That\u2019s attention to detail in regards to the fan base that the greats got to have.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBunna is strikingly comfortable interacting with the masses online, in spite of the sometimes harsh criticism she and people like her friend YK Niece have received. She recorded the 2025 track \u201cJust a Girl\u201d about the bullying about their bodies they faced after their first major performance at Atlanta\u2019s State Farm Arena. \u201cI like the internet,\u201d she says. \u201cI like entertaining the internet. I like having conversations with them. They talk shit, but I ain\u2019t the type to take the talk seriously.\u201d Sometimes she laughs at it. Other times: \u201cI reply like, \u2018Shut your bitch ass up.\u2019\u201d Either way, with a new project in the works, she seems ready for more. \u201cBoy, the internet can do something to some people,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I won\u2019t let it get to me.\u201d<\/p>\n