Coming out of the southside of ATL is the artist B.A.M.A
bringing words of substance to ears of the believers that RAP and HIP-HOP is
alive, and well represented in the “Dirty South”. The artist, yes we said artist since anybody
can rap, but it takes an artist to take words and paint a picture, and this is
what you will get from the artist B.A.M.A. The pictures that B.A.M.A. paints
are ones of real life struggles, the ups and downs coming up in the city of
Atlanta,Ga. B.A.M.A said his life lesson
where learned here in Atlanta starting at the age of three when his family
moved to Atlanta’s Overlook Apt and
Honey Hole projects in the community of Bankhead where he, his mom, brothers
and sisters lived and he attended Carter G. Woodson Elm and later Stewart middle
school. B.A.M.A. at a young age used writing as an escape to take his mind off
what he was seeing in the hood and his mother life struggles as she tried to
provide for him and his brothers & sisters. Even though his mother tried to
provide as much as she could she too became a victim of life's struggles by
being locked up and ultimately loosing her children to Atlanta DEFACS system.
B.A.M.A. said this is when his life changed for the worst and he wrote even
more to try and escape what he and his sibling where going through as they
where separated, and sent from home to
home, shelter to shelter and eventually back to their mom. B.A.M.A. says for a
while thing where looking up, but an event took place that would changed his
life forever and that was when his stepfather was charged with attempted murder
and locked up for life for trying to kill his mom. “That one situation changed
my life because I was there and saw it all, and could not stop it”. It’s just
something a kid should not see and even more worst I had to help clean up the
blood” “Just wrong”. There after B.A.M.A. and his sibling moved to the
southside of Atlanta to their Aunt Dottie and Uncle Cleve down off Conley St.
There B.A.M.A. says he wrote his first song of true inspiration for mom title
“Struggles” and she loved it and encouraged him to write even more songs. It is
true that from “Concrete Roses Do Bloom” and from that moment going forward
B.A.M.A. has been writing and rapping. B.A.M.A. first open mic was at Hot107.9
“Akini Da Black Mac” Blues in the Alley where artist in the ATL came to compete
to see who was going to be invited back for each month “Best of the Best” which
meant that you would be seen by some of Atlanta leading Clebs, DJs, Radio
Station Personalities and Record Labels. B.A.M.A said he has performed at every
open mic in the city of Atlanta, but Akini open mics from the Royal Peacock to
ThroBacks brought out the best talent in the ATL, and that made him work even
harder to improve on his writing skills. From those open mics B.A.M.A. wrote
songs like “Try Harder”and “Lonesome” which can be found on his first mixtape
hosted by DJ Scream. In 2008 as B.A.M.A.
worked the ATL underground music scene he got the attention of Young Jezzy who
signed him to his first record deal under Young Jezzy label CTE. B.A.M.A. said
that was one of his happiest moments because he knew he was ready to move up in
the music game and he really respects how Young Jezzy came from the bottom up
just like him. However, in 2009 came a few events that would cause B.A.M.A. to
re-evaluate everything; one was the infamous night at “Lucky Lounge” where an
altercation took place and B.A.M.A. almost lost his life and the other was his
parting ways with CTE. Even though
B.A.M.A. respects Jezzy for giving him the opportunity he felt it was time to
move forward. B.A.M.A. has released his
3rd mixtape title “Hello World” “Above the Illuminati” which has got
the hoods buzzing and the Internet clicking on livemixapes.com to download his latest mixtapes which has
over 35,000 download in a matter of a couple of weeks. B.A.M.A. attribute his
latest mixtape release success to just given the people what they want real
life music.
B.A.M.A is currently working with producer/artist DRUMMA BOY ( Drum Squad) and pushing his new single "SHE ROCKIN" produced by Paul Shawty Beats
His newest Mixtape: From Da Block 2 Da Big Screen hosted by DJ Genius & Drumma Boy will be dropping Fall 2012
