B.U.G. Antman is considered one of Atlanta’s brightest younger stars. He not too long ago signed a take care of Warner, and he even opened up for Teezo Landing‘s tour cease in Atlanta. He dropped by rolling out on Contemporary Friday to carry out considered one of his hit songs and inform us what we will anticipate from him in 2025.
So, B.U.G. stands for “Bringing Up Greatness”?
, it’s good correlation. , my title being Ant, man, however yeah, B.U.G. is on some extra constructive s–t, like citing greatness. Like, I’m actually attempting to be the very best at this s–t. So, yeah, I actually needed to staple that with the title.
So, what’s your each day grind with regards to making music? Do you report day-after-day? Do you write day-after-day?
I report day-after-day. Man, I don’t write, however I do report day-after-day like and the rationale why I don’t write is as a result of I really feel like mastering repetition. The extra you do one thing, to even freestyling, the higher you get at it. So that you don’t even gotta write anymore. And with me, after I first began, like I by no means wrote to start with. So, simply doing that time and again, up till now, I actually really feel like honed in my sound. And talking on the work ethic, man, like I hate feeling like somebody outworking me, particularly in Atlanta, bro, as a result of, like, it’s so many artists out right here that you just gotta be greater than onerous. You gotta be greater than coronary heart proper now. She gotta be simple. Arduous ain’t sufficient. Even final month, I cooked up 120 songs.
What do you consider Juice WRLD, a rapper with an identical work ethic?
It’s loopy you retain bringing him up. Juice truly had handed on my birthday. So, it’s like he was an enormous inspiration for me, for certain. Triple 9, , I used to be born in 1999, Dec. 8. Dec. 8, the day he died [in 2019]. And his center title was Anthony, that’s actually my actual title. So, that’s why I’m going by B.U.G. Antman. That s–t actually spoke to me, bro, and I really feel like I’m simply carrying on and persevering with as a result of he actually didn’t get to go so far as he needed. He reached the heights, however he didn’t get to achieve his full potential. Like outdoors of Drake, no one was singing and rapping like Juice WRLD.
What can we anticipate from the Y’all Ugly EP?
Man, Y’all Ugly will probably be totally different. It is going to be so totally different than any artist, even totally different from my earlier work, like I simply, I’ve been actually, actually honing in on the sound for this. However y’all can actually anticipate it in March, mid-March. Let’s simply throw that date out mid-March. However man, it’s actually onerous. I’m actually attempting to push this sound.
What’s good with the bag?
So, the bag is just like the mascot for the mission Y’all Ugly, I often have somebody submit up behind me with it, or no matter. I began styling this s–t and I’m like this s–t form of onerous. I like this s–t, so I began rocking this s–t. However um, for the mission Y’all Ugly. Prefer it’s additionally some constructive s–t. Like, ugly stands for U Gotta Love Your self. I see lots of artists like, Tyler or Ye who’ve mascots for his or her mission.