The “white girl who raps fast” will be making her first Uptown appearance in a year after her viral video took YouTube and Ohio University by storm.
Bailee Moore will perform at The Union, 18 W. Union St., Friday at 10 p.m. with Eric Paul, No Limits and DJ LoCo.
Her video, “White Girl Raps Fast,” has garnered more than 900,000 views on YouTube and her EP, Game Changer, debuted at No. 44 on the iTunes hip-hop charts.
“There are a few random people that come up and ask if I’m that rapper girl,” Moore said. “Other than that it hasn’t been bad … At least I don’t have people coming up to me all the time.”
Despite her YouTube fame, she said that her following in Athens has been minimal. She hopes Friday’s show will help boost her local following on Twitter and Facebook.
Matt Crumpton, Moore’s manager, said that she picked up an additional 600 Twitter followers after a 15-minute radio interview on ESPN 850 in Cleveland last week.
Crumpton is also the vice president of D.P. Dough, 174 Richland Ave., and will be holding a raffle at the show, offering one lucky attendee a full year
of calzones.
Moore might also be premiering a new song, “Sun Goes Down,” about the party life that erupts when the sun sets. However, she might not rap the new poppy, party song because of a lack of practice under her belt.
Between being a full-time student, a musician and working another job on the side, Moore has very little time for other things these days.
Her song “Catch Me If You Can” addresses her soaring fame and dares others to compete with her success and determination. In the song, Moore said she is “chasing shots and chasing dreams,” but she said that it is more than that.
“I’m also making sure that my dreams of finishing college and getting a degree come true,” Moore said. “Getting a career after that, whether it’s music or not, would be even better.”
wh092010@ohiou.edu
