rapper and singer ennyintegrity talks music, colorism, and chasing her teenage dream ✨➡️
When Enitan Adepitan was a kid, she would spend her time scrawling down lyrics in her school books. “I wanted to be a child star, like onor something,” she laughs over a video call, her straight black hair cascading behind her, “I would write raps anywhere. I used to write raps during church service. I have the notebooks still, full of bars I was writing when I was 13, 14.
, was a fresh sounding jam that spoke to the vastness of Black womanhood and beauty, uplifting her peers in a society that too often sidelines Black women / Want a fat booty like my aunty got, yo”). Released in October 2020, the track was so huge that it got an official remix for Colors, a taste-making music platform on YouTube, but this time featuring none other than Jorja Smith .
Quitting the bank job was evidently a successful gamble. In July this year, ENNY put out her debut EP,, to critical acclaim. It’s an accomplished project that sets a vast tone for where ENNY can go sonically and lyrically – broadly, this is warm, soulful music with conscious rap, making space for everything from the stories of survivors of abuse, tracks celebrating self-love, interrogating gentrification.
This idea of capturing and preserving moments on her journey is something that seems significant to her. It comes up again in the lyrics for a recent freestyle she did on, a popular series run by UK platform GRM Daily. On it, she offers the line, “You wanna make bangers for now? Aight, cool, I’m trynna make songs that my children’s children will feel, I’m talkin’ ‘bout legacy.
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