GloRilla Gives Back: Rapper Takes After Cardi B and Drops Massive Donation

GloRilla is maximizing her rookie season with charitable deeds - fans can just check out how she treated her alma institution to see how generous she is.

To celebrate the highs in her career, she dropped a $25,000 cheque to her high school, to the shock and glee of the student body and school leaders.

Glo was back in Memphis on Thursday at Martin Luther King Prep High School, where she made a donation to the school's fine arts programs in an effort to promote future talent.

MLK Prep principal Chiquita Perry welcomed the donation in front of students and faculty, and Glo referred to being able to give back as a blessing, similar to her most recent hit.

Glo's donation follows Cardi B's visit to her high school earlier this month, during which she presented the institution with a massive $100,000 cheque.

As luck would have it, the two rap superstars collaboratee on Glo's forthcoming track "Tomorrow 2," which will be released on Friday.

Glo is a major contender for hip hop's rookie of the year award for 2022. Her breakthrough single "F.N.F. (Let's Go)" was released in April and peaked at No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has now earned her a lucrative $500K contract with Yo Gotti.

Cardi B took to Twitter on Wednesday (September 21) to promote her forthcoming duet with GloRilla, "Tomorrow 2." The rapper captioned a photo of the single's party-ready cover art with "Tomorrow 2 ft. Me."

For her part, GloRilla provided fans a hint about the song's lyrics by tweeting, "BUT DATS WHY I LUV TOMORROW," followed by a succession of golden trophy and green checkmark emojis, and concluding with, "it's official me & my girl @iamcardib Linked up for TOMORROW 2 DROPPING FRIDAY 9/23 @ MIDNIGHT... presave the below let's gooooooo."

The song will be Cardi's first release since she gave $100,000 to the Bronx middle school she attended as a child earlier this month, and it will be presented on Friday.

Glo, born Gloria Woods, and her older brother were not allowed to listen to rap for the bulk of their upbringing in the Frayser neighborhood in North Memphis.

Her mother, a woman of God, kept the radio tuned to 95.7 Hallelujah FM in Memphis; until she acquired her own phone in her late teens, GloRilla only heard rap outside the home. By the time she reached MLK Prep in the tenth grade, it had stricter uniform requirements and longer academic hours than other municipal schools. She said she despised it.

Things changed when she moved in with her more lenient father during her junior year of high school.

At her new school, where she had less connections with other pupils, she became interested in rap after realizing that her church singing wasn't good enough to get her very far.

Prior to uploading any music to the internet, her rap name was going to be Big Glo, but a close cousin suggested she alter it to GloRilla since it was more memorable. She ran with it, and in 2019 she released the mixtape Most Likely Up Next, which was inspired by yearbook superlatives.