But Bang has needles of his own which he sticks into your consciousness with the piercing and hypnotic “Wynn,” a four-alarm joint which immediately grabs your attention like a lightening strike in the middle of a clear day. P.I. Bang has chewed on a menu of dramatic circumstances during his turbulent and exciting journey coming up in his Central Florida stomps, and he has spit a lot of that back onto wax with the rumbling joint, “Trap Keep Jumpin,” a lacerating lyrical lesson that tears through the lies and exposes the truth of what goes down in the hood. It was produced Atlanta-based hit maker Zaytoven who provided some hits for Gucci Mane, OJ da Juiceman and Usher.
On the two mixtapes, Banglando and Bang for Mayor, hosted by Disco JR and DJ B Strong, P.I. Bang enumerates the ways in which the concrete jungles of urban Florida sculpted his current psychic and added steel layers to his hardened exterior. Now the man who used to sport numbers stenciled on the back of his prison fatigues is now armored enough mentally to walk through the walls that separate him from rap prominence.
“I come from the streets for real, as far as being a hustler,” Bang breaks it down. “I done been in jail quite a few times. Being in and out of jail, going to court and dealing with problems with my family gave me a lot of stuff to write about in my music.”
Better yet, Bang has a vault worth of experiences stored in his soul that’s being poured into his third installment, Bang for Mayor, hosted by Disco J.R. and DJ D-Strong on February 24 during the NBA All Star Game. The currents are gaining enough force to blast ashore the music landscape like a Category 5.
When that happens, P.I. Bang will affix the title to his crown that corresponds with his given name.
“P.I. is short for my first name, Prince. One of my partners had an uncle whose name was Prince too and they called him P.I. for short. He was like ‘since your name is Prince, I’m not gonna call you that. I’m gonna call you P.I.’ And it stuck with me since I was 14 or 15 years old,” Bang recalls. “He never knew what the meaning was either. Bang is a metaphor for something exciting, something big. And that’s exactly what I’m bringing to the game- excitement.”
There will definitely be excitement for the P.I. Bang camp as well as those in attentdance when he unfurls third mixtape Bang of America during NBA All Star Weekend
“I’m trying to capitalize off of a lotta important people in one spot during that weekend. I’mma flood the streets and try to make a mark while they’re in my city and use it to my advantage.”
– terry shropshire
