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BNSNG born Prince Bonesang Rabodietso (March 10 1996) is a Botswana rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer.

 Early Life 

Rabodiesto was born on March, 10, 1996 in the small town of Lobatse in the Southern District. His mother Josephine Rabodietso was a teacher and raised him a single parent as his father abandoned them right before his birth. He stayed with his grandmother a lot as a kid in Lobatse but also spent an equal amount of time living with his mother at the school she taught at which was located in a small village next to Lobatse called Molabowabojang.

In 1999 his mother met a man who would soon become his stepfather. His stepfather abused his mother constantly. In 2001 his grandmother moved away from Lobatse to their hometown Kanye which is also in the Southern District. This meant that during this period Prince could not go see his grandmother as regularly as before and was forced to witness the abuse of his mother even more.

In one incident his stepfather tried to force him to take a bath with the bathwater his step dad had used but luckily his aunt was around that day to stop him. On one incident his step dad beat his mother and held her captive all day not allowing her to attend an award ceremony that she was the host of for top students and teachers alike, he also had ruined her new hairdo that she had went to get done for the special occasion.

Prince attended Peleng West Primary School in Lobatse named after a section of Lobatse it's located in, Peleng. There he did his first and a part of his second grade. Prince would usually visit his grandmother on weekends and go to church with her in Kanye. During one summer break Prince went to his grandmother to spend the summer there when one day when he woke up he saw his mother right before him naked with bruises all over her body. His stepfather had beaten her severely during the previous night that she had to run away naked during the night to seek help. It was in after that event that he and his mother moved away and went to live in Kanye with his grandmother and two aunts where now they'd all sleep in the same bedroom.

Prince was then transferred to Makaba Primary School in Kanye where he did his second grade up to seventh grade. Prince was often bullied in his new school as he was a new kid and always felt an outsider. However he was a bright student and scored an A for his final exams in primary school. He attended his secondary education at Ntebogang Secondary School where he did what is known as Form 1 (grade 8) up to form 3 (grade 10). By Botswana law, one is guaranteed 10 years free education and an additional two more years provided one passes a mandatory exam known as JCE which Rabodietso passed with a grade B. He went on to attend senior school (high school) at Seepapitso Senior for two years and did form 4 (grade 11) to form 5 (grade 12) and completed in 2013.

Career

Bnsng first gained interest in rapping when he was about nine years of age after being greatly influenced by Missy Elliot at the time. He would write lyrics and perform to his mother who would tell him to use more rhyming words. He would also always ask his mother to buy him recording equipment but she couldn't because of financial problems. From a young age Prince showed great passion for music and was also greatly influenced by rapper, Eminem whom he was a big fan of.

Due to inability to afford any recording equipment Prince would become demoralized and by so he would fall in and out of writing music but still listened to music heavily regardless. He listened to music through the radio during his earlier days and would wait hours for his favourite hip hop radio show on RB2 to hear his favourite music and here he'd get exposed to more music where he hear his favourites artists Lil Wayne, J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj and rapper Drake who he cited as his biggest influence.

As years went by Prince stopped writing raps altogether as he felt that there was no possibility of him becoming a rapper any longer. In 2014 after completing high school he moved to Jwaneng, a small mining town notorious for it's large number of diamonds to live with his mother. It was then when he started to feel isolated and felt depressed and started writing again.

In 2016 a friend of his introduced him to Fl Studio, a beat making program. He did not take it seriously until early 2017 when he fixed his second hand laptop he'd gotten as a birthday present from his aunt. He quickly taught himself how to use the program through the guidance of YouTube tutorial videos. He spent all of 2017 learning the aspects of the program, from creating beats to audio mixing & mastering. He could not afford a microphone at the time and used his cellphone to make recordings.

He did not release any music at this point and his goal at the time was to better his sound.In early 2018 he and his younger brother managed to save up enough money to afford a second hand microphone to which they used to record their first ever song titled Never.

He and his brother have released a combined total of four songs from February 2018 to October 2018 namely, Never, RACING, Preach and Frequency (Distortion) in that order.

 Artistry 

Influences

Bnsng has cited numerous artists as his influences, this list includes, Drake, Lil Wayne, Missy Elliott, J Dilla, Eminem, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, King Krule, J. Cole, Mac Miller, Mobb Deep, Big Pun, Wu-Tang Clan, Logic, Joey Badass , The Notorious B.I.G., Tyler, the Creator, among others. He also cited Lil Yachty, Knxwledge, Lance Skiiiwalker, Flying Lotus, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, D'Angelo, SZA, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, Travis Scott, PartyNextDoor , Radiohead, Coldplay, Erykah Badu as his other important influences. Bnsng grew up listening to a variety of musical genres such as Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Rock, Blues, Kwaito.

He also credits film to shaping his style and citing movies such as The Shining, Pulp Fiction, Face/Off, as heavy influences