Mansa and G-Eazy link up for a brand new track Red Button, Mansa’s love
for hip-hop goes beyond being a fan. Long before he was
crooning, Mansa recorded music as a rapper under the name Manny Phantom.
“I was playing off of the Danny Phantom cartoon. I didn’t really start
singing until I was about 16. And then I was like, ‘OK, I can play
around with melodies.’ I started writing songs,” he recalls.
The suggestion to change his name came
from his “Red Button” collaborator and fellow Bay Area native G-Eazy.
“I’ll never forget what he said, he was like, ‘Coming from an artist
with a bad rap name to another, you got to change your name,'” laughs
Mansa. “Then I told him my name, and [G-Eazy] was like, ‘Dude, run with
that.'”
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