No Panty: Bodega Bamz on Latinos Not Representing Correctly After Big Pun
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No Panty a group formed by Hispanic rappers Joell Ortiz, Bodega Bamz, and Nitty Scott stopped by VladTV to talk their new project, working with Salaam Remi, how the group formed, and their Latino backgrounds. The group told Vlad that Salaam Remi reached out to Joell Ortiz who then reached out to Bodega Bamz. Bamz explained, “So I got a call one night feel me, from Joell Ortiz to tell me about an opportunity and he was telling me like yo listen Salaam Remi reached out to me. He’s tired of the representation of Latinos in music, and he wants to bring a project forward to showcase that talent.” Joell told Remi about Bamz, and they set up a studio session, and the rest was history.
The trio also spoke about how they all are of Puerto Rican decent, but don’t tend to incorporate Spanish in their raps. The project was initially for the Puerto Rican day parade before the group went down to Miami to record with Remi. Vlad asked the group if they felt it was a coincidence that Remi had a hand in all of the Fugees hits, and now their group is formed in the same fashion being two guys and a girl, and the group had plenty to say. ” I think it is; I think it’s a coincidence. But it’s also a very divine like how things come full circle because he hand picked us you know for what we would bring to the records, but I don’t think it was like, I’mma recreate the Fugees,” Nitty expressed to Vlad.
So why the name No Panty? The group joked it was because Salaam Remi is a “freaky ass n**ga,” but it was a random name that they chose to stick with. “He had mentioned he wanted to create a party in the city and call it No Panty Thursdays… I guess we took on the shape of that party through the music…so when you looking for the Spanish spot to go to it’s us. Plus when No Panty also means you get right to it, and that’s what I feel we did on this project, got right to it.”
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