“Mello Buckzz is ripping apart any beat that comes her way,” the online music magazine wrote at the time. She has millions of streams on her music and videos. Her track “Boom Pt. 2 (feat. Latto) has more than 3.5 million streams on Spotify. Its music video on YouTube has amassed nearly 9.5 million views.

A drive-by shooting outside a Chicago nightclub where an album release party for rapper Mello Buckzz was held has left four dead and 14 wounded.