When she appeared on that now infamous episode of 'Dr. Phil', she was introduced as Danielle Bregoli.
These days, thanks to the unprecedented popularity of her youthful rap stylings, Danielle Bregoli goes by Bhad Bhabie – and she’s coming back to tour Australia.Bhabie has swapped out meme-worthy phrases like ‘cash me outside’ for song titles like ‘Get Like Me’, ‘Bestie’, and ‘Babyface Savage’, relatively successful songs that feature rappers NLE Choppa, Kodak Black, and Tory Lanez respectively.
Of course, try asking a headstrong 16-year-old how opportunities to work with artists of prestige and how they may have influenced her, and you get an adamant Bhabie saying she looks to no one for influence, and learns from no experience.
She does her own thing. She’s “keeping it real”, a phrase it transpires, Bhabie likes to say a lot. “I’m just out here trying to do my own thing,” she says in regards to the success of her 2018 debut single ‘These Heaux’.
Success is something that’s come quickly for Bhabie. In 2018 she earned a Billboard Music Award nomination for Top Rap Female Artist, and sold out her first Australian tour that same year off the back of her mixtape ‘15’.
Last year, Bhabie was listed by Billboard at number eight on their 21 Under 21 list, thanks to the nearly (now) one billion streams her music had received.
How has she achieved such a rate of success? “I’m just keeping it real,” she giggles.
In a rare, second full sentence Bhabie actually passes comment on how she feels about her upcoming four-date headline tour, saying “I’m excited, I’m just gonna live in the moment.”
There’s no telling what a teenager abroad might do, so Bhad Bhabie’s performances are bound to be interesting, explosively entertaining even, given the style of rap and the admittedly catchy melodies she runs with.
A Bhad Bhabie show looks like it might be pretty authentic, even if her conversation, at times, isn’t.
Bhad Bhabie had been scheduled to play the cancelled Groovin The Moo regional festival series as well as her own headline tour of Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney; these dates have been cancelled due to COVID-19.
