J Bambii Delivers the Performance of Her Life (Real Recap)
Whether it’s an impromptu speech at Soho House about living in the moment or a verse bashing colorism and Western beauty standards, Chicago rapper, event curator and tarot reader J Bambii aka @oprah_gucci somehow always finds the right words.
J Bambii’s performance at Sleeping Village Saturday night was triumphant, a beautiful accumulation of nearly a decade of rapping. In between songs, she reflected on her journey, explaining how tarot reading inspired her to write her first song, reminiscing on early recording sessions with Solar Five and revealing that she recently experienced homelessness and only told a select few about it.
Rapping and singing her way through what we believe is the entirety of her debut album BLACK AMERICAN BEAUTY, J Bambii showed the packed-out Sleeping Village crowd the raw power of her voice all evening, accompanied by a stellar 4-piece band and Renzell holding it down on the decks. The album still doesn’t have a release date—J Bambii prefers to go at her own pace and won’t half ass anything—but we’re already considering it one of our most highly anticipated albums of 2025.
