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Bizzy Crook

“It’s been one hell of a week for Miami’s own Bizzy Crook. Fresh off earning his first Grammy wins for his songwriting contributions to Leon Thomas’ acclaimed debut album Mutt, the rapper and songwriter is channeling that momentum straight into his next chapter.” –Miami New Times

“He’s been around the block in Miami, making music since he was a young teen, and has been coming up with some of local rap’s most interesting concepts” – Miami New Times

“How do you bounce back from a place so dark and deep you could never dream of escaping? If you’re American rapper Bizzy Crook, the answer is simple: put it into song. The rapper is renowned for his deeply personal writing style and mellow vocal delivery” – Wonderland

With his new album Underdogs Win Eventually, Bizzy Crook is proudly representing for anyone who has ever scored a touchdown by putting pen to paper. “I know how to alchemize my pain into lyrics,” says Bizzy, who has been active behind the scenes for close to a decade. The Miami rapper and songwriter’s new album is a salient reflection of his time in the industry and in life thus far. In addition to co-producing cultural touchstones like Drake’s “Pipe Down” and lyrically assisting on fan favorites like GIVĒON’s “Mud,” Bizzy Crook has become a multiple Grammy Award-winning co-writer, thanks to his work on Leon Thomas’ beloved 2024 album MUTT. Bizzy is soaking it all in, and refocusing the lens on his own ambition. “The struggle was never in vain,” he says. “Everything led up to here.”

A signee to Ty Dolla $ign and Shawn Barron’s EZMNY label, Bizzy Crook is in prime position to take flight — and take over. Describing his sound as triumphant, resilient, poetic, and philosophical, with a touch of earned braggadocio, Bizzy has settled into a sonic space that was only made possible through patience and time. “I’ve been on the come up so long that after a while, people just kind of wrote me off as, ‘That guy’s never going to make it, he’s always going to be on the come up,’” Bizzy says. “To take a step back and come in as a writer with Leon Thomas, and then that opening the door for artistry again? Underdogs win eventually.”

Bizzy Crook met his current creative partner Leon Thomas in 2017 at a mutual friend’s house party. As he recalls, he was severely depressed. “I forced myself to go; something just told me to go,” Bizzy says. He was introduced to Leon shortly after, who asked Bizzy to send him some material. According to Bizzy Crook, he sent a pensive 2016 song called “Crazy Love,” which led to an immediate studio invitation. “Leon was like, ‘I feel like with your storytelling and your bars, and my melodies, we can really create something special,’” Bizzy remembers. “That night just changed my life without me even knowing.”

That night — and what led up to it — was history in the making. Born in Miami to Afro-Cuban and Dominican parents, Bizzy Crook grew up across the area and spent about two years in Egypt, where his father worked as a bodyguard for an exiled Saudi prince. By age 7, he had immersed himself in art and music, discovering poetry before pop and eventually R&B through artists like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Jennifer Lopez, and Usher. Hearing Eminem’s 1999 single “My Name Is” for the first time all but solidified Bizzy’s future. “Instantly, I was like, ‘This is what I want to be — I want to be a rapper,’” he says.

Fully invested in hip-hop, Bizzy Crook did everything in his power to connect to the genre. “I remember the first time I got arrested at 16 years old,” Bizzy recalls. “I was like, ‘Well, at least I can rap about this now.’” He found his first supportive figure in his late best friend DJ Hof, who let Bizzy use his studio for free to keep him out of the streets. The end of his first romantic relationship led Bizzy down yet another artistic path. “Writing about that heartbreak, what it did to me, and what it took off my chest, gave me my new music identity,” he says. “I realized it doesn’t all have to be gangsta rap. I could rap about what I’m going through for myself. And I started making music that I needed to hear.”

With features from Ty Dolla $ign and Leon Thomas, Underdogs Win Eventually is Bizzy Crook’s opportunity to take an aerial perspective of the depths and pinnacles of his trajectory thus far. “Risky,” the latest single ahead of the new album, sees Bizzy flexing his progress while acknowledging the precarity that comes with the limelight. A Floridian affair, the song features an expectedly cocky verse from Rick Ross and regional pride by way of Fort Myers’ C Stunna. The follow-up single, “Could Be Worse” with Leon Thomas, sees Bizzy meditating on the life he’s built over a sample of Zapp’s “Be Alright,” initially flipped in 2Pac’s motivational 1993 hit “Keep Ya Head Up.” Over breezy production that bounces as it billows, Bizzy illuminates the importance of gratitude: “We done been through the dirt/ Everything ain’t all good, but it could always be worse.”

Bizzy Crook admits he spent “a lot of years chasing the wrong things”; he just as readily acknowledges that true growth is possible through acceptance. “I feel like I’m comfortably myself,” he says. “I’m just at peace. I love myself. I know myself. I’m not seeking approval. I’m excited to come out as an artist who knows himself now.”