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Belize Ainoa Nicolau Kazi (born 28 April, 2000), known professionally as BB Trickz (stylized as Bb trickz), is a Spanish rapper. She began rapping in 2023, releasing her first two extended plays (EPs)—Trickstar and Sadtrickz—that year. Her music is known for its humorous and provocative lyrics and its influences from American hip hop styles such as sample drill.

Life and career

Belize Nicolau Kazi was born in 2000 and raised in Barcelona, where she worked as a child model, starring in an advertisement for Nesquik and appearing on the cover of ESO books, and as a child singer in the group Oh!Cake & The Cookie. She is Catalan; her mother is Canadian and works as an acupuncturist and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine and her father, who she spent less time with growing up, is a DJ and record producer who goes by An Der Beat and plays Brazilian funk music. She has said that she was bullied while in school.

Kazi decided to start rapping professionally under the name BB Trickz—derived from Beatrix, the name of the protagonist from the 2003 film Kill Bill, which Kazi's mother allowed her to watch as a child as a birthday present—in September 2022. A snippet of her song "Bambi" posted to TikTok in February 2024 went viral. She released "Missionsuicida", her debut single, on 15 April 2023 with an accompanying music video. The song samples the theme song of the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and gained popularity on TikTok, as did her follow-up single "Bambi". Soon after, it was announced that she had been signed to Virgin Music Group. Her debut extended play (EP), Trickstar, was released nine days later through Virgin, with its beats all downloaded from YouTube. Her first live performance was at Rolling Loud in Portugal in July 2023. She appeared in Veeze's music video for his song "Overseas Baller", released in August 2023. She released Sadtrickz, her second EP, on 29 November 2023 through Sony Music. She featured on the remix to "Club Classics" on Charli XCX's remix album Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat, released on October 11 2024. She announced her decision to quit music on 28 December 2024, citing the inability to remain authentic as an artist.

Musical style

BB Trickz makes drill music that takes influence from American hip hop music, including sample drill, in songs that are usually around 90 seconds long. According to her, she does not write her lyrics and primarily freestyles. Her inspirations include rappers Cash Cobain and Shawny Binladen and singer Amy Winehouse. Shaad D'Souza, for Dazed, wrote that she was an "acid-tongued lyricist" whose music was defined by its provocative and humorous nature, while Elliot Hoste, for the same magazine, wrote that both her visual and musical styles were "playful" with "a deft sense of humour". Interview's Julian Ribeiro described her lyrics as "raunchy". Nestor Parrondo, for GQ España, described BB Trickz's rapping voice as a whisper, while ABC contrasted the "humor" and "provocation" of her music with her "small figure" and "shyness". She has been called the Spanish version of American rapper Ice Spice due to similarities in their sound. She has also been accused by critics and social media users of appropriating her urbano aesthetic.

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

Other charted songs

Guest appearances

References

1. ^ Parrondo, Néstor (21 December 2023). "BB Trickz: 'Hace 40 años las canciones duraban 20 minutos, ahora duran 90 segundos. El mundo va rápido, es lo que hay'". GQ España. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
2. Yakovenko, Margaryta (17 November 2023). "Drill Generation: Wild rhymes for a youth without hope". El País. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
3. ^ Soufi, Daniel (4 May 2023). "'No eres calle, no eres gitana. Yo soy puro 'beef', tú menú de Aitana': la polémica detrás de Bb trickz, nueva sensación musical española". El País (in European Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2024.
4. ^ Rivera, Antonia (9 May 2023). "Anime, porros, pistolas y Mario Kart: quién es Bb Trickz, la joven española que ha revolucionado la música urbana". Esquire (in European Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2024.
5. ^ D'Souza, Shaad (22 March 2024). "Bb Trickz is changing the face of Spanish rap". Dazed. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
6. ^ "BB Trickz: 'Quiero hacer una música que, cuando la escuche, me sienta fuerte y orgullosa'". ABC (in Spanish). 28 November 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
7. Piera, Mar (12 July 2023). "What we experienced at Rolling Loud Portugal 2023". Highxtar. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
8. Luis, Cristina (17 November 2023). "Bb Trickz: 'Soy más liante que el Rey Emérito'". El Mundo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2024.
9. Centeno, Tony M. (16 August 2023). "Veeze Treks Across Europe In 'Overseas Baller' Video Ahead Of His 'Ganger Tour'". iHeart. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
10. ^ Darville, Jordan (29 November 2023). "Bb trickz shares Sadtrickz EP". The Fader. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
11. https://www.stereogum.com/2283580/charli-xcx-brat-remixes-album/music/
12. Ferrer, Alexia G. "Bb trickz - "Viva españa!"". Acero (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2024.
13. ^ Hoste, Elliot (21 December 2023). "Bb trickz: 'I'm the most hated rapper in Spain, but I love it'". Dazed. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
14. Ribeiro, Julian (6 December 2023). "Meet Bb Trickz, Barcelona's Drill Savior". Interview. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
15. Wang, Steffanee (5 December 2023). "Bb Trickz Sees Your Ice Spice Comparisons". Nylon. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
16. "Discography BB Trickz". spanishcharts.com. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
17. Peaks on the NZ Hot Singles Chart: Peaks on the NZ Hot Singles Chart:
    • "Club Classics featuring bb trickz": "NZ Hot Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. October 21, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
18. Peaks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart:
    • "Club Classics featuring bb trickz": "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles - Week of October 26, 2024". Billboard. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
19. Peaks on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart:
    • "Club Classics featuring bb trickz": "Charli XCX Chart History (Hot Dance/Electronic Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 22 October 2024.

• 2000 births
• Living people
• Spanish women rappers
• Drill musicians
• Child models
• Spanish child singers
• Spanish people of Canadian descent
• Musicians from Barcelona
• 21st-century Catalan people
• Urbano musicians
• Sony Music Spain artists