Brionne

Who are you? 

I'm Brionne. I'm from Dallas, Texas six five Grove side. I'm 24 and I am just a Dallas, you know, Texas worldwide renown femme and I'm used doing my thing, my shit, and just getting my shit off.

What made you want to start rapping? 

I used to do clothes and I wanted to make commercial jingles, like making little raps. But I was never rapping about the clothes. I was just making regular raps. So it just happened, I just decided to fall in love with making the music. But I've done poetry since middle school. It's not like the same at all, but it's definitely intersects. I  think that's the reason I have a different style, because of how I write as a poet. So I guess it all comes full circle, especially with the clothes because I'm starting my  merch. 

Who got you into the studio?

My brother, he was probably 18 at the time. I sent a song to my little brother, to Cassie, and all my best friends. It was trash at first, of course, but they were like, “Yeah, bro, you gotta keep doing this shit.” They hyped me up. And that shit came with a lot too, with a lot of backlash, but we worked through that shit. 

What is your goal in music?

So I feel like I'm here to inspire people, just by doing like the icy shit that I do. I don't know if that sounds egotistical but I just definitely feel like my words, the shit that I put out, could definitely inspire. If 10 people, then a hundred, and if a hundred, then a thousand, five thousand, a million. And with my music specifically, before quarantine, I wanted to get signed. I wanted to get the money, blah, blah, blah. But after the downfall of the celebrity in 2020, you really see people for what they are, that people are human as hell. They just hustled their ass off to get where they are. Everybody worked a long fucking time to get wherever the fuck they are, like years. Rihanna inspires me heavy, not even just on a music tip, but as a business woman. This bitch is a boss, bro, like she does music, she does clothes, she is the first black person in the fucking fashion house. The makeup shit. She got Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian competing with her. Like it's fucking going crazy. Like all these fucking spectrums. So that's what I'm trying to be on. It's not just rapping for me. It is like one of my loves, but it's not like a love that I love over a lot of things. 

 How do you feel, what are your thoughts on like the scene? Like the creative scene out here?

I feel like we've been getting better as far as collaboration and helping people who seek information, especially on Clubhouse like, thank God for Clubhouse.  I've made a lot of connections off that hoe. It's shown me how heavy Dallas is, talent wise. And Dallas is the kind of city that if your shit ain't hot, they probably ain't gone support it. They gone be like “You need to work. Just keep working.” And people need to learn how to market their music and market themselves so they can get to those videographers and photographers who want to work with them.  And it’s also about leverage bro. If you trash and I’m hot, that ain’t gone work, it don’t balance out. But if you’re hot, then I’m thinking you might blow, so I’m gone put in work.

Would you move out of Dallas if that’s where your career takes you, or do you want to stay in Dallas?

I just had this talk with my manager about when I first started rapping, I wrote down a list of things that I'm never going to do. Like I'm never going to pose naked, etc. And I wrote a list of 10 things I want to do. One of those things was to always show love to my city. No matter how mad they probably would make me or make me feel like “I'm finna shit on you niggas,” I always wanna give back to the niggas who didn't make me feel that way. So am I going to move on and if I feel like I'm getting big? Am I going to go explore and do some other shit? Yes, of course. Why wouldn't I? Why would I hold myself back for anybody other than myself? Even when it comes to the city, you always put yourself first regardless, and then I’m going to come back and make a little community and grow up some shit like a grocery store, a smoke shop, a restaurant, like why not? Every other city does that shit. Everybody else's city got that shit. Everybody else got their OGs and shit. Erykah Badu is probably the only OG we got, and honestly she ain't putting nobody on. We need to build this shit and that's what I'm trying to do.