Katie Got Bandz whose real name is “Kiara Johnson” was born in 1994. Katie Got Bandz never dreamed of becoming a rapper, but that would all change after her cousing Donta “Block on da Trakk” Moye asked her to record a track with him. The two met up and recorded Katie Got Bandz’s first song “I need a hitta” which became very popular on youtube, and thus began the career of one of the few female rap artists from Chicago. Katie Got Bandz ‘s cousin ‘Block’ thought the drill music scene in Chicago needed some female faces