Guystone Mbozo Menga, or Larry Cummings Kiala (aka. Yxng Bane) is an upcoming British rapper hailing from the ends of Custom House (near Canning Town) East London an area also known as favela, he gained fame for his smooth and passionate flow mixed with harmonious & hearty singing that he credits Chris Brown & Future for serving as an inspiration since they have consistently remaining at the top despite the things they’ve been through. Gaining attention from the release of Lone Wolf, Yxng Bane has been quite consistent and dropped his first EP/mixtape Full Moon quite quickly which included soon to be hits like Doubted Me and Villain. The list of songs in the EP features a wide variety of different songs that appeal to both the male and female counterparts. Currently his most recent tracks have been Can’t Hold Me Back and Should’ve Know Better that both dropped May.

Before rap, he wasn’t known as Yxng Bane, it was just G Mula. When he started doing the rap thing, he didn’t want to show his face, and just wanted to do it for the music, as he quotes, “Because I got love for music and I got stories to tell and things that are happening in my life.” So he decided to let just “put Yxng Bane out there, with the Bane mask.” However, he had never watched the Batman movie with Bane in his life. So he quickly Wikipedia’d Bane and read up on his thing and apparently thought it was decent story. But he quickly changed his mind on not showing his face right before the shooting of his first vid, Lone Wolf/Pronto. In his own words, “I was like, Why am I hiding my face?! Let me take off my mask and just tossed the mask away. I thought, fuck it, now there’s a face behind the voice”

When asked what he wants people to take away from his music he responded with: “From the first time when you click on a Yxng Bane link, I need you to have an open mind and not to expect anything, because I could just drop something totally different to what you heard previously. Just let it hit you from the first drop. If you don’t like it from the first drop, then don’t listen to the rest of the song. If you like the drop, then keep listening man. Keep your ears open… From the time I dropped Lone Wolf, that’s when I found my sound. Some of my new tracks will be similar to Lone Wolf, but they are all real life experiences and will be expressed in different ways.”

The documentary below also discusses a bit of the story behind Yxng and his first mixtape/EP

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