CHIKA's Popular Music Videos
![Watch places to be (feat. chika) [Eagle Rock, 16th April 2024] music video by Fred again.. & Anderson .Paak](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video211/v4/b0/39/23/b03923da-0355-c822-cf8f-5d9e5f9a3ea8/GB1302400426.sca1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch places to be (feat. chika) [Eagle Rock, 16th April 2024] music video by Fred again.. & Anderson .Paak")
![Watch FAIRY TALES (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) [Lyric Video] music video by CHIKA](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video124/v4/92/23/c0/9223c09c-e1f6-dc28-4ab4-03add91f8b1d/USWBV2100463.sca1.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch FAIRY TALES (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) [Lyric Video] music video by CHIKA")
About CHIKA
Artist Biography
Blending introspective, socially conscious hip-hop with R&B, Alabama rapper CHIKA is following in the footsteps of female MCs like Lauryn Hill and Queen Latifah.
• The Montgomery native was accepted to Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, but she enrolled at the University of South Alabama and dropped out after a year to focus on music.
• In November 2016, right after Donald Trump’s election victory, CHIKA went viral with a tongue-in-cheek video showing people of color how to apply white makeup.
• In 2017, CHIKA released a Pride-themed remix of Ed Sheeran's “Shape of You” in celebration of her bisexuality. That same year, she self-released her debut EP, Full Bloom // A Poetry.
• She notched another viral video in 2018, when she criticized Kanye West’s politics over the beat from Ye’s “Jesus Walks.”
• In 2019, CHIKA signed with Warner Records and released the single “High Rises,” which she considers her “origin story.” Her major label debut EP, Industry Games, arrived the following year.
• In 2020, the rapper received her first-ever Grammy nomination, for Best New Artist.
Hometown
Montgomery, AL, United States
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap
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