Bryant Lamar Looney II, a professional MC known as Huey Briss, creates hard-hitting tracks about his life growing up in North Long Beach. The community that he remembers growing up in has changed, largely because many of the people he grew up with are now either dead or in prison.<\/p>\n
Last month\u2019s release of his newest single, \u201cGrace Park Legend<\/a>,\u201d has propelled Briss into the \u201ctop albums of spring 2021\u201d playlists<\/a>, earning him spotlight plays on Apple Music and the accompanying music video<\/a> amassing over 113,000 views on YouTube.<\/p>\n At first glance, the word \u201clegend\u201d in the song\u2019s title may come across as an egotistical reference to himself, but Briss dismisses that. The word is actually used more to document the ghost stories of a community he no longer recognizes.<\/p>\n In \u201cGrace Park Legend,\u201d Briss speaks to his earlier life in his neighborhood, which stretched from \u201cDel Amo to Artesia\u201d\u2014the streets on the south and north ends of North Long Beach.<\/p>\n Briss is a product of the old-as-time saying that Long Beach is a melting pot of cultures. His mother grew up in a mostly Muslim family. His father grew up in a Christian household where his grandmother taught him religious values.<\/p>\n