Lola Brooke | Before They Were Famous | New Face of Brooklyn Drill

BEFORE becoming one of the most promising female emcees to ever
emerge out of Brooklyn, rapper Lola Brooke was born Shyniece Thomas
on February 1st sometime in the mid-to-late 90s and raised around
Tompkins Avenue in the neighborhood known as Bed-Stuy. As you can
tell from that quote, her childhood was far from easy, but that
never prevented Lola from believing she was meant to accomplish
something special. Everyday she’d wake up with a feeling deep
inside of herself like she was meant to do something spectacular
with her life. The question was, what was that something supposed
to be? Throughout her childhood she was unsure, but that never
stopped her from working towards it. Starting at around
eight-years-old, Lola began using words as an outlet to express
herself creatively. With her father having never had much of a
presence in her life, her mom sent her to spend a summer in
Birmingham, Alabama at her grandmother’s house. That’s where Lola
came across a music video for the rap duo Kris Kross and instantly
fell in love with hip-hop. While watching that video, Lola turned
to her grandma and told her point-blank that one day, she was going
to become a rapper herself. But a lot would happen between that
realization and the fulfillment of her dreams. With how
uncomfortable she was discussing the difficult emotions she was
experiencing, Lola begged her mom to bring her home a bunch of
journals from the 99-cent store and began chronicling her feelings
as often as possible