It is a common story of youngsters from America who have grown up in unfavourable environments, have seen umpteen amounts of struggles and faced many challenges of life; but it is uncommon that some of them overcome all these hurdles in their life and rise above their problems to create their own path for taking them towards achieving their dreams. They say pain gives birth to great music and one such musical artist we know of who channelled all his pain and struggles in life into creating excellent hip hop music is Blake Glenn, also known as BenFly.
Representing Oceanside, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, BenFly always had innate talents of creating peppy and groovy music and songs. This took him towards his journey in the hip hop music industry. BenFly took inspiration from legends like Currensy, Snoop Dogg and Notorious B.I.G., and this strengthened his aspirations to keep moving forward and inch towards making a name like them in the industry.
BenFly came from a middle-class family background and was raised by a single mother who took care of her three children all alone. He learnt to put all his focus on his music through his pain and struggles in life and this upped his confidence to create music and become an artist of the American hip hop music industry. His astute business understanding and his abilities as a musical artist have today made his name synonymous to the world of hip hop culture. He has amassed millions of followers and fans for his musical creations after being in the industry for the past ten years, and this has taken him towards earning global recognition as well.
BenFly is known for creating a connection with his audiences and this resulted in him creating a popular hashtag as AZWayTooActive. This hashtag is a useful source and network for artists all around the world for sharing their events and music. Many urban artists used the power of social media through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for promoting and creating more awareness for their music across audiences.
His songs and creations have impressed the likes of Phoenix New Times, Power 98.3 in Phoenix, Arizona, and HipHop DX. He was invited to play at the well-known Arizona Hip Hop Festival. BenFly even performed with Kid Ink at SXSW.
His single “Dinero” reached more than 1 million streams. His songs have been a hit on Spotify with 100 thousands of listeners on an average in a month. His newest album “1919”, has already garnered massive streams on Spotify approaching 500 thousand.
BenFly’s hip hop song creations have made the Arizona Hip Hop Community proud, where BenFly has earned a loyal fan following and has gained the respect and adulation of other artists from the industry as well. He is adamant and dedicated towards fulfilling his dreams of creating an empire and take the hip hop music industry to an altogether higher level in the near future.
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