Enny
Artist
Enitan Adepitan, known professionally as ENNY, is an British-Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter.
Raised in a strict household, ENNY wasn’t allowed the leave the house often, so she’d frequently stay home and experiment on her keyboard. Singing along to gospel songs was her first beat, often in car journeys to and from church. During her teenage years, curiosity brought rebellion into the mix in the form of rap music – more specifically, die-hard J Cole fandom. Creating a band like every other clicheéd teenager, ENNY and her mates called theirs Room AA, in reference to the room they practised in at school. Before long, she identified herself as a rapper.
However, when she left to study film at Canterbury Christchurch, music fell to the wayside. “Musically during uni I wasn’t really like outside, because I’m an introvert so I really just kept to myself and my housemates,” she explains. “I had my production stuff in my room but I never really tried to make music. I think that’s the period in my life where I didn’t really make music or meet other artists or look at the music scene.” Her venture into the film industry proved was fruitless, and the young artist found it difficult to catch a break. “I was just getting older and after graduating things weren’t picking up and I just got a normal job,” Enny says. “I’d been there for two years and I started to realise that I wasn’t happy, and then you just start realising that you only have one life and you have a desire to chase it.”
Motivated, ENNY quit her job and threw everything back into music.
The South-East London rapper found breakout success with her 2020 single “Peng Black Girls” which gained popularity following a remix version with Jorja Smith which was performed live on ColorsxStudios.
