Bia Talks Working With ‘Legendary’ Timbaland & Busta Rhymes

Bia‘s career is just getting started. Despite having two albums under her belt — 2020’s For Certain and this 12 months’s Really Her — she’s already had some main veterans in rap taking discover, one thing that she says is “surreal” to expertise.

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The rapper labored with Timbaland on latest single “I’m That Bitch” and Busta Rhymes on final month’s “Beach Ball,” and spoke about each collaboration on the lastest installment of Billboard News.

“Timbaland is so legendary, like he dropped so many gems and to just be in the same room with someone like that who has that type of catalog, you can just learn from them,” she stated. “Aaliyah is actually one of my favorite artists of all time, so to even be in the room with him, just to see what he thinks of my music. I got to play him my album and he loved it. It’s literally so surreal, all of the people I look up to the most always embrace me, show me so much love and helped me become the artist I am today. I feel blessed to be here.”

As for the collaboration with Busta, Bia revealed that she was approached with the chance as a result of he particularly had her in thoughts for the visitor spot. “Me and Busta did this song months ago, he called me up, he’s like ‘Listen Bia, I’ve got this song. You gotta do this part. It’s only your voice that’s gotta this part,’ so I went to studio right away, I did it. And to perform with Busta during Hip-Hop 50…this is crazy. It’s unreal.”

Following the discharge of “I’m That Bitch,” the observe hit the highest 40 on Billboard‘s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, peaking at No. 27. The music spent a complete of 90 weeks on the chart.