Big Latto Named MTV’s Global PUSH Artist for the Month of February

Atlanta-bred rapper dishes on her musical beginnings, collabs with fellow ATL artists Gucci Mane and Lil Baby and shares exclusive performances of “Sex Lies” and “Muwop”

MTV’s PUSH has announced Atlanta’s own Big Latto as its featured artist for the month of February. The self-proclaimed “Queen of Da South” is taking the hip-hop game by storm, making her way up the charts and even making a cameo in one of the most talked about videos of the year:“WAP.” Latto opens up to MTV about her musical beginnings, how a fan girl moment over Gucci Mane turned into a collaboration, her approach to writing, plus shares two exclusive performances: a sultry rendition of “Sex Lies,” her collaboration with Lil Baby and her single “Muwop,” featuring Mane.

Big Latto on Collabing w/ Lil Baby & Gucci Mane + ‘Sex Lies’ & ‘MUWOP’ Performance | MTV Push

Highlights from the session

On her musical beginnings growing up in Southside Atlanta

“I knew I was going to be a rapper early on, I’ve been rapping since I was 8-years-old, and I’m talking about professionally, like been doing talent shows, open mics, paying to get on shows in the clubs at 15-years old, 14-years old, opening up for your favorite rapper, the real way.

On collbaorating with Lil Baby for “Sex Lies:”

“I already had “Sex Lies” recorded and I knew I wanted a feature on it…I want a male on it. And then I’m like ‘who else? I’m the hottest female out of Atlanta, Baby is the hottest male out of Atlanta right now,’ so I just felt like it was the perfect combination. I pulled up on him in Miami and he was in the studio and I pulled up on him with the song and he cut the verse in like 10 minutes, on God, on God. That was intimidating too, I was like damn, I need to step my [sic] up.”

On collaborating with her favorite rapper of all-time, Gucci Mane, for “Muwop:”

“The producer, we were in the studio creating “Muwop” together and he was telling me, I know Gucci personally…and he’s like, ‘I’m going to reach out to him and see if he wants to get on the song’ and I’m like yeah, whatever and I don’t hear anything else for like a month. Then, I get this random audio file, I’m listening to it and I hear ‘WOP,’ and I just froze. Boom, Gucci was on it. Oh I lost it, I more than lost it, to this day I still be like, damn, I really got a song with my favorite rapper.”

On writing and what inspires her music:

“I’m such a creative, my songs can start from anywhere. I might be in the shower and just come up with some lines and then I just put it in my notes on my iPhone. Or I’m in the studio and I come up with it after I hear the beat. And it’s not always something I’ve seen, it might be something a friend is going through or something a friend has talked to me about and then it’s like okay boom, I can make a song about this, somebody can relate to this.”

On what people would find most surprising to know about her:

“I used to drag race before I rapped. Full helmet, drag racing suit, seatbelt, strapped up in the car like real deal drag racing.”

Throughout the month of February, MTV will roll out exclusive performances, interviews and personalized content to bring fans closer to Big Latto across MTV’s on-air, digital and social platforms around the world.

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