Frenna
Francis Edusei (The Hague, 17 November 1991), known professionally as Frenna, is a Dutch rapper and singer. He was a member of the rap group SFB and also currently releases music as a solo artist. He was one of the rappers that was awarded the Popprijs award at Noorderslag thanks to the album New Wave (2015).
Edusei is of Ghanaian descent and was born and raised in The Hague. Although rap initially started out as a hobby for him, he ended up investing more time into it, leading to the development of his rap group consisting of three friends known as Strictly Family Business, more commonly known as SFB. Oftentimes, at the start of the group's formation, Frenna and the other SFB members would hone their talents by simply creating raps in the car, rapping about whatever came to their mind. Their first recording was based off of a song called Zieknieh, which they performed at a birthday party of their friend. The success of this track led to the release of the song Flexen as a debut single. This song ended up becoming a club hit, and it has been viewed well over a million times on YouTube to this date. Even though Frenna was initially nervous to fully step into the music industry he decided to take it up as a serious profession. Frenna himself often refers to the studio as his second home, as he spends many hours perfecting his craft. With SFB specifically, the lead-in to many of their tracks that they produced came from freestyling. Using this method, Frenna and SFB were able to make their raps sound much more creative and unique in comparison to the monotonous, pre-written lyrics of many of their competitors in the Netherlands at the time. This is also why they consistently develop the chorus' of their songs in the form of a freestyle. Later on, in 2018, Frenna was able to break the Dutch single-standing Spotify record for gaining the most streams on a song after the first day of release with his single Verleden Tijd. This song was able to keep a grip on the top spot in the Dutch Top 40 charts for 6 consecutive weeks. Towards the end of 2019, Frenna's discography had received over 325 million streams, which at the time officially crowned him the most-streamed Dutch Spotify artist. In this time period, he even surpassed global superstars like The Weeknd and Justin Bieber within the Netherlands.