SA: Money Badoo joins Apple Music Up Next programme

The announcement coincides with the release of her debut album PORN$TAR, which is available for streaming and download on all major digital platforms. The project, which features songs such as ‘Gone Girl’, ‘Your Way’ and ‘100 Day$’, cements the rapper’s multi-dimensional creative outlook over ten tracks that are a solid sonic fusion of trap, R&B, and pop. Lyrically, Money Badoo traverses themes of aspiration, social commentary, self-confidence, and sexual liberation, all fuelled by her own experiences.

“Thank you, Apple Music for choosing me for Up Next South Africa,” Money Badoo told Apple Music. “I’m so excited for the world to get to hear this project. I put my heart and soul into what I call a timepiece of my life.”

As the newest Up Next artist to be spotlighted in South Africa, Money Badoo will be featured across Apple Music’s South African Up Next playlist. The curated Up Next playlist features a dynamic class of new and emerging artists, thoughtfully hand-picked by Apple Music editors from around the world. The playlist is genre-agnostic and represents a line-up of artists the Apple Music global editors are passionate about and eager to expose to a larger audience.

Money Badoo was born and raised in Ennerdale, Johannesburg. Her debut single 'All My Friends' in 2019 launched her onto the global stage, and she got a feature on Apple Music's The Ebro Show. She followed this up with a joint EP alongside new wave rapper Sauwy called Mk-Ultra (2020), which was praised for its melodic runs and biting flows.

Money Badoo joins SunMan, ByLwansta, Halo Yagami, Filah Lah Lah, Lucasraps, Una Rams, Ciza, Hersch, Valley Sixteen, SiBi and Blxckie as Apple Music’s growing stable of Up Next artists from South Africa.