Bbno$
Alexander Leon Gumuchian (/ɡʊˈmuːtʃən/; born June 30, 1995), known professionally as bbno$ (pronounced baby no money), is a Canadian rapper, singer, and songwriter.
He is best known for his 2019 single, "Lalala" (with Y2K), which peaked at number ten on the Canadian Hot 100, as well as his collaborations with American rapper Yung Gravy.
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| Birth name | Alexander Leon Gumuchian |
| Born | June 30, 1995 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
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| Website | bbnomula |
Early life
Gumuchian was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to an Armenian father and Swiss-Danish mother. He was homeschooled before he began high school. While growing up, his mother had encouraged him to learn piano, but he had always struggled with music theory. Gumuchian claims that he was good with rhythm and that he enjoyed playing the djembe, but did not listen to music for recreation until the age of 15.
Career
2014–2016: Broke Boy Gang and SoundCloud
Gumuchian started working with music after experiencing a back injury which prevented him from pursuing his dream as a professional swimmer. He became interested in rapping and music production in 2014 when experimenting on GarageBand with a group of friends. Gumuchian began simply making music for enjoyment with this group of friends who later deemed themselves Broke Boy Gang. After five or six months of performing live as a group and releasing multiple tracks online, the group broke up. He began posting tracks on SoundCloud in September 2016 under the moniker of "bbnomula" where he quickly gained millions of streams and followers. He gained popularity in China where he sold out his first few "back-to-back" headlining tours. He credited his overseas popularity to the Chinese dance crew TFBoys, after one of the members, Jackson Yee, danced to the track "Yoyo Tokyo" at his own birthday party.
2017–present
In 2017, bbno$ released his first EP, Baby Gravy, as a collaboration with Yung Gravy, shortly before releasing his debut studio album, Bb Steps, and his second collaborative EP, Whatever, with So Loki in 2018.
In late 2019, bbno$ released his second studio album, Recess, which draws inspiration from the Disney series of the same name, and includes features from Y2K and Trippy Tha Kid. Many tracks off of Recess gained millions of streams on Spotify. bbno$ and Y2K have been recognized for marketing their single "Lalala" online by using various websites and online apps, namely Tinder, Instagram, TikTok, and Craigslist. The song was able to peak on over 20 charts around the world and gain close to 1 billion streams worldwide. On March 17, 2023, the song was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for equivalent sales of 3,000,000 units in the United States.
Later in 2019, bbno$ would go on to release another album, I Don't Care at All. The album featured various pre-released singles, "Slop", "Pouch", and "Shining on My Ex", the latter of which featured frequent collaborator Yung Gravy. The album was solely produced by Y2K.
On February 14, 2020, Baby Gravy 2 was released properly in collaboration with Yung Gravy. It serves as a sequel to the 2017 EP Baby Gravy.
The video for his single "Imma" features bbno$ in drag, travelling around Victoria with drag queen Jimbo.
On January 29, 2021, "Help Herself" was released. The song, produced by Diamond Pistols, was the first single from a new bbno$ project.[citation needed]
Later in the year, on May 14, 2021, the five-song EP titled My Oh My was released. Three of the five songs, "Help Herself", "Bad to the Bone", and "Help Herself" (with Benee) had been released as singles prior to the EP releasing.
On July 24, 2021, "Edamame" featuring Rich Brian was released. This song was the first single from bbno$'s mixtape Eat Ya Veggies, and was later used in a trailer for "The Garfield Movie."
On October 8, 2021, bbno$ released Eat Ya Veggies. The sixth track in the album, "u mad!", was included in the October 7, 2021 update of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
He released his first new single of 2022 on April 8, titled "Mathematics".
bbno$ released the studio album Bag or Die on October 21, 2022. It includes the singles "Mathematics", "Piccolo", and "Sophisticated", along with a collaboration with Yung Gravy, "Touch Grass".
In 2023, bbno$ and Yung Gravy released his seventh studio album Baby Gravy 3 and his third collaboration album with Yung Gravy. It includes the singles "Goodness Gracious", "You Need Jesus", and "Nightmare on Peachtree Street" featuring Freddie Dredd.
Artistry
bbno$ has described his own music as "oxymoronic rap" that is "ignorant but melodic". bbno$ grew up listening to straight bass dubstep and house music from names like Datsik and Excision, before listening to hip hop artists, namely Tupac Shakur, Gucci Mane, and Chief Keef. He has cited Yung Lean and Pouya as his main inspirations as a rapper.
Personal life
bbno$ lives in Vancouver but has previously lived in Kelowna, where he received a degree in kinesiology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in 2019.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||
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| CAN | FIN | LIT | NOR | US | |||||||||
| BB Steps |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Recess |
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| I Don't Care at All |
| 88 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Baby Gravy 2 (with Yung Gravy) |
| — | — | — | — | 188 | |||||||
| Good Luck Have Fun |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Eat Ya Veggies |
| 36 | 19 | 17 | 32 | — | |||||||
| Bag or Die |
| — | — | 83 | — | — | |||||||
| Baby Gravy 3 (with Yung Gravy) |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||
Extended plays
| Title | Details |
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| Baby Gravy |
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| Whatever (with So Loki) |
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| Babydrip (with SwuM) |
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| My Oh My |
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Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
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| CAN | AUS | FIN | NOR | NZ | SWE | UK | US | US R&B | WW | ||||
| "Money Conversation" (with Y2K) | 2018 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
| "Thankful" (with Y2K and Lewis Grant) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Recess | ||
| "Pouch" (with Y2K) | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | I Don't Care at All | |
| "Cheesy" (with Warhol.SS and Dilip) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "Lalala" (with Y2K or with Y2K featuring Carly Rae Jepsen and Enrique Iglesias) | 10 | 16 | 16 | 23 | 16 | 58 | 32 | 55 | 22 | — | |||
| "Bad Boy" (with Yung Bae and Billy Marchiafava) | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bae 5 | ||
| "Slop" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | I Don't Care at All | ||
| "Shining on My Ex" (with Yung Gravy) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | I Don't Care at All and Baby Gravy 2 | ||
| "Iunno" (with Yung Gravy) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Baby Gravy 2 | ||
| "Welcome to Chilis" (with Yung Gravy) | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Off the Goop" (with Yung Gravy and Cuco) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Out of Control" (with [email protected] and Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Incentivize Unpaid Overtime | ||
| "Mememe" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun | ||
| "Quarantine Freestyle" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "What Would Baby Do?" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Bad Boy" (with Yung Bae and Max) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Astrology" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun | ||
| "Jack Money Bean" (with Yung Gravy and Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun and Gasanova | ||
| "Imma" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Good Luck Have Fun | ||
| "Backwards" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "WaWaWa" (with Y2K) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Help Herself" (with Diamond Pistols or with Diamond Pistols and BENEE) | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | My Oh My | |
| "Bad to the Bone" (with Lentra) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Wussup" (with Yung Gravy) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Eat Ya Veggies | ||
| "Edamame" (featuring Rich Brian) | 13 | 23 | 8 | 24 | 21 | — | 89 | — | — | 165 |
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| "Take a Trip" (with [email protected] and Jungle Bobby) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Yoga" (featuring Rebecca Black) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Eat Ya Veggies | ||
| "Mathematics" | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bag or Die | |
| "Piccolo" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Sophisticated" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "C'est la Vie" (with Yung Gravy and Rich Brian) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Marvelous | ||
| "Touch Grass" (with Yung Gravy) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bag or Die | ||
| "Still" | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Ushme Uturbe" (with Kalush Orchestra and DITVAK) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Goodness Gracious" (with Yung Gravy) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Baby Gravy 3 | ||
| "It Happens" (with Little Big) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | ||
| "We Are Not the Same" (with Marcus & Martinus) | 2024 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Pho'real" (with Anh Phan and Low G) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Submissive & Breedable" (with Smosh) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Lil' Freak" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. | |||||||||||||
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2020 | Juno Award | Fan Choice Award | Nominated | |
| Breakthrough Artist of the Year | Nominated |
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