GloRilla surprised the students and staff at her former Memphis middle school this week with a generous donation that she gifted them in-person.
On Monday (November 13), Big Glo popped up at Westside Middle School in Memphis with a $20,000 check that will be used for the school’s fine arts program.
AD LOADING...
Talking to local news afterward, the “Tomorrow” rapper gave her young fans some words of encouragement.
“Chase your dreams!” she said. “Whatever you want to do is possible. I’m living proof because I came from this exact neighborhood, this exact school. Whatever you want to do, you can do it. Manifest and actually work to achieve it!”
Check out the clip below:
GloRilla surprises students at her old middle school with $20K donationhttps://t.co/3Yh0bOWXIA
🎥: @3onyoursidepic.twitter.com/3jicOhGsly— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) November 15, 2023
GloRilla certainly put in her share of grunt work before breaking through in the music industry, and in a recent conversation with HipHopDX, she shared one of her funnier experiences from her less-glamorous days.
DX caught up with the 24-year-old rapper at the 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards last month, where she elaborated on some of the 9-5 jobs she worked before stardom made her life easier.
AD LOADING...
“I’ve had a lot of jobs,” she began. “I worked at Nike, I worked at Amazon, I worked at Walmart.”
When asked how those gigs would end, she admitted: “I’d usually get fired — me and my friend, Gloss Up, we were singin’ a Beyoncé song and we got fired from Nike.”
AD LOADING...
The Memphis artist was released for singing “Dance For You” on the job, but things eventually came full circle as she attended three of Bey’s Renaissance World Tour shows this year and got to sing along with the Queen herself.
As a peek into said past, GloRilla a shared a clip of her days as a student in a social media post over the summer. In the footage, she repeatedly refers to herself as “Big Glo” and even issues an open challenge to anyone who wanted to fight her.
AD LOADING...
She captioned the playful Twitter post: “Why my friends use to lemme look like this in high school???? [three laughing emojis] den had da nerve to be messy ont.”
“Lil Glo turning into Big Glo,” one fan commented, while another replied to that with: “Nahhh she was Big Glo back then.”
A third Twitter user wrote: “You have some real friends though!”
Regarding teen Glo’s attitude in the clip, a fan added: “Been a savage from the start.”
In March, the Memphis rapper took it even further back, sharing a couple of gun-toting photos from her childhood and fans had a blast cooking up jokes at her expense.
Hours late with her Throwback Thursday post, Big Glo set Twitter on fire with pics that saw an even younger version of herself posing with a silver pistol and another proudly flaunting an assault rifle with a banana clip.
“I think I got da funniest teenage pictures on da internet,” she wrote with multiple laughing emojis.
Fans couldn’t get enough of the armed baby Glo pics and plenty of memes and videos quickly flooded her replies as the tweet now boasts over 90,000 likes as of press time.
AD LOADING...
“I know you was a bad ass kid,” one fan replied, while another compared her look to Lil Bow Wow’s Calvin Cambridge character from 2002’s Like Mike.
Another fan asked Glo: “Cuzzz who was ya sending a message too and putting Fear in?”
