Before Rap Sh!t, KaMillion Made This Cheeky Underground Calling Card
Today’s Song Choice of the Day reaches back to 2017 for one of KaMillion’s cheekiest calling cards: “I Heart Banana.”
Long before wider audiences met her as Mia Knight on Issa Rae’s Rap Sh!t, the Jacksonville rapper was already turning bold hooks, playful double meanings and full-volume confidence into her own kind of underground spectacle. “I Heart Banana” wastes no time pretending to be subtle—and that is exactly why it works.
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KaMillion made “I Heart Banana” impossible to forget. Visit her official video channel, then keep the speakers stocked with her music and more women-led Southern rap.
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Released on December 15, 2017, the 3:41 track arrived through Republic Records and Lava Music LLC. The production keeps the bounce simple and immediate, leaving plenty of room for KaMillion to stretch every punchline, smirk through the hook and make the entire record feel like an inside joke she has generously decided to let us hear.
There is no complicated mythology to decode here. “I Heart Banana” is bright, knowingly ridiculous and completely committed to its own bit. KaMillion sells the record through personality first, turning a novelty-ready concept into a proper late-2010s hip-hop earworm.
Years later, that same fearless comic timing would help make her a natural fit for Rap Sh!t. Still, Mia was never the beginning of KaMillion’s story. Records like this already showed an artist who understood how to make the camera, the hook and the joke all work for her at once.
Watch KaMillion’s “I Heart Banana” Music Video
Press play on the official visual and revisit KaMillion’s colorful, campy and proudly unsubtle 2017 underground banger.
Source: Official KaMillion VEVO and Apple Music.
