YouTube: jacksfilmsCanadian rapper bbno$ opened up about his ‘retirement’ from the music industry, revealing his future plans and why he decided to step away from the field on the Fear& podcast.
bbno$ is a popular music artist, known for his upbeat tracks like ‘Edamame’ and ‘Lalala’ He’s also quite active in the online streaming space, having collaborated with VTuber IronMouse, as well as performing at and even financially contributing to The Streamer Awards.
Despite his positive demeanor and activism, bbno$ has been a controversial figure on social media over the last year, with online detractors slamming his ‘cringe’ personality. More recent claims assert that the artist allegedly made racially-charged remarks toward a high school classmate.
While the latter claim has not been publicly addressed by bbno$, he announced his ‘retirement’ from the music industry in a viral tweet on December 8, which he captioned, “Thank you for the memories.”
“As you guys know, I am for the people,” he wrote in a statement. “And the people have asked me to stop making music. Due to the millions of people begging me to stop, I have made the incredibly difficult decision to stop making music for the foreseeable future.”
bbno$ says online “negativity” drove him away from music
While the seriousness of his announcement is still up in the air, he opened up about the situation in a December 15 episode of the Fear& podcast, telling co-hosts Will Neff, AustinShow, Hasan, and QTCinderella that the online negativity toward himself and his fans became too much for him to bear.
“I’ve just been bullied online,” he explained. “I’m obviously a small little pillar of positivity online. I get messages every day from my die-hards like, ‘I can’t keep up with the negativity. I’m trying.’
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“I’m just like, why not take a step away? It’s fine. I’ve done what I needed to do in my life. Maybe I come back, maybe I don’t. It was kind of a random feeling where I was like, you know what, I don’t have a normal life. I have free will. I can do whatever I want.”
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As for his plans for the immediate future, the artist still isn’t sure, but said he’d like to purchase a home and focus on himself.
“I’m probably gonna take the majority of next year off and just think about my life,” he admitted. “I really wanna buy a house and settle down.”
This is the latest news to go viral from bbno$ after he censored streamer Asmongold out of his ‘Mary Poppins’ music video in May, which he’d filmed with other members of OTK.