GGOTC(Gotta Get Out This Club)

Get It On

Another track from the highly anticipated Album "Life".

East Side Decatur GA

At a rapid relapse rate Akua's addiction for love has lead to an unintentional love overdose. However, when his addiction takes over, he faces life or death consequences and become seriously injured. 

Overdosing

Keep It Moving Akua Bishop Aka B.I. Monetary Music

FYA Exlusive

FYA - Clean

Hate to Love

“A love for life, a short temper for bullshit and a drive for being successful,” is how Akua Bishop—aka “B.I.” -- describes himself. A rapper whose liberated spirit and lyrical prowess are expressed through compelling songs, as his artist name signifies, B.I. means business.
 
Born in Manila to an African-America military father and a Filipino mother, B.I. was brought to the U.S. as a baby and raised in a single-parent home in the east side of Decatur, Georgia, “My dad was a DJ,” B.I. remembers. “It was just the two of us, so he had to take me to every gig and every party. It was my little self, sitting behind the DJ booth listening to George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Parliament-Funkadelic. I absorbed it all.”
 
In elementary school, B.I. was drawn to the drums. At Southwest DeKalb High School – famous for its drum line – he excelled in concert bands. Joining up with two friends, he was part of 2Raww – an energetic young hip-hop trio. “I heard what they had going on and I thought, ‘ I could do this.’  I had a way with words.”
 
Sketchy business associations derailed the group’s aspirations and the allure of street life threatened to put B.I. away. “I got snagged up when I went down that road. It was the most devastating time of my life. My freedom was taken away. I was looking at a lot of time,” he recalls. Miraculously, it all worked out. “I came back a changed man. The lessons I learned would not allow to me go down that path; I was given a brand new start.”
 
Now, with a tight professional team, supportive producers and a solid business structure, B.I. is imagining the most powerful music of his life. “I listen to the track a million times and the message comes out naturally. It’s like a blind man with a paintbrush. He can’t see what he is painting but his mind tells his hand what color to dip in.”
 
The shades of B.I.’s songs are vivid, bright and vital. In his own words, his lyrics “…dance on the tracks.” And he prefers not to draw on negativity or to depend stereotypical urban themes in his lyrics. “Trying to deal with the day in or day out, making ends meet is depressing enough. Music frees me from that – I just come up with some feel good shit. It makes me feel good to express myself. That’s all music is anyway.”
 
As a persuasive cadence and an uplifted spirit illuminate an upward career path, B.I. is confidant, enthusiastic and original. “I don’t put myself in the same category as other artists,” He confirms. “This ain’t no Bisquik, it’s like your momma’s biscuits – we make it all from scratch.”

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