In under a year, GloTheofficial went viral on TikTok, recorded a hit with Cardi B, and earned her first Grammy nomination. For our Spring Fashion issue, she spoke with tirhakahlove about her thrilling catapult to fame and what’s next 📷: Eric Johnson
she was Gloria Hallelujah Woods from Memphis, Tennessee, the eighth of ten children, and was homeschooled until the fifth grade. “A normal kid would’ve liked it,” she says, but for her, it was too restrictive, especially considering she lived on the same street as an elementary and middle school. “So when the kids used to get out of school, I used to just look out the window and look at all the kids walking down the street, going home after school, and they just looked so happy.
Moms immediately pulled her back to the crib after a few skirmishes and homeschooled Glo for the rest of middle school. She returned to the classroom in the ninth grade at Martin Luther King Prep, where she started to dabble in music-making. She started rapping for fun at the end of high school, though she says she didn’t take it seriously.
Her homies in the studio called her out on it: “They were like, ‘You really got bars. Your voice just sound squeaky,’” forcing her to reckon with whether she was being herself on record or playing a role. “I was like, ‘Oh, okay, let me just put emphasis on what I already sound like, just add a li’l bit more sauce to it.’” You can hear the turning point between 2021’s “OOOHH” and “Gang Nem.
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