Nigerian rapper Bisola Olungbaga chose Aunty Rayzor as her stage name for a reason. "My pen is the razor and the razor is me," says the rising star of the Lagos scene in an interview with Fifteen Questions. Always slicing the right beat with the precision of a scalpel, her rhymes are one of the most prominent exports of Ugandan sub-label Hakuna Kulala alongside other female rappers dabbling in pan-African rhythms like MC Yallah. Aunty Rayzor has already managed to present her debut Viral Wreckage, which doesn't spare any aggressive flow, at the Nyege Nyege Night showcase in Prague's Fuchs2 club and now she's about to heat up this year's Colours of Ostrava.
Rapper and songwriter Olungbaga has risen from underground rap personality to a sold-out stadium artist in just a few short years. She discovered her sense of words and music at the age of nine, and was only driven to play live by the euphoria that her performance at a school party sparked. She first rose to fame with the pandemic viral track Kuku Corona, which opened the door to her label Nyege Nyege and its sub-label Hakuna Kulala.
On Viral Wreckage, she nimbly bounces between English and Yoruba rap against a backdrop of productions and instrumental backdrops drawing from diverse musical traditions. Behind the Afrobeat rhythms, Nigerian alt-genre fusion, Brazilian baile funk and West African references, there are a number of experienced producers and musicians such as Congolese multi-instrumentalist Titi Bakorta, Japanese producer Scotch Rolex and French musician Debmaster, who also collaborated on the debut album Yallah Babe by rapper MC Yallah.
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