Blxckie Explains How His Complexion Inspired His Rap Name

Blxckie Explains How His Complexion Inspired His Rap Name. Blxckie is easily one of SA Hip Hop’s breakout stars of 2021. The rapper has everyone in SA Hip Hop rooting for him as he continues to rise in the industry as a young and independent talent.

The Durban native rapper recently featured as the Apple Music Africa Now cover star for his song Sika off his debut album B4Now. He was hosted on Africa Now Radio with host Cuppy to speak about his rise into South African music as well as the song Sika. Cuppy also used the opportunity to ask Blxckie what inspired his rap name.

Blxckie explained that his complexion and growing up as a young boy people used to come at him for his complexion but he has since embraced it. He mentioned that through watching Hip Hop movies he learnt how to own something that people don’t like about you.

“Blxckie is basically about my complexion. Growing up people used to try tease me about it but I listen to a lot of Hip Hop and watch a lot of Hip Hop movies, the one thing I learnt was that people tell you that something about you is off or like they tell you about it the best thing to do is take it in your own hands and own it and that’s what I’ve been doing and that’s where Blxckie comes from.” He explained.

Blxckie explained that his 12-track debut album B4Now serves as him introducing himself into the industry again. He explained in an interview with MacG that he made all the songs on the album before he became a mainstream artist and so he wanted those songs to shine. To get to the 12 tracks he had to sort through a total of 420 tracks to land on the perfect 12.

Listen to the full interview here: https://music.apple.com/za/station/blxckie/ra.1567926514