Tessica Brown, dubbed 'Gorilla Glue Girl' after her viral hair disaster back in February, announced Wednesday that she is dropping her debut single "Ma Hair."
Brown shot to pop culture fame after she used Gorilla Glue in her hair because she ran out of hairspray before a date. After many failed attempts at removing the industrial adhesive, she pleaded on TikTok for help.
After the debacle, Brown was the subject of various memes and also had many remixes made of her video, including one called "Bad Idea (Gorilla Glue Girl Remix)" which led to a cease and desist. But this time Brown wanted to take back her voice, she told TMZ.
"Made a TikTok video for answers and all," Brown rapped. "My scalp was burning, it was concerning...till I saw it went viral."
In the song, Brown remixed audio clips from her original viral video in a recording studio in Hollywood last month. Her team told TMZ that Brown wrote the track all on her own and that this is her first time ever rapping.
Brown's team also said that they reached out to Nicki Minaj in an attempt to get her on the track. Back in May, Minaj shouted out Brown in her song "Fractions" when she mentioned "little miss Gorilla Glue." Brown and her team said they thought maybe Minaj would be down for a collab, but unfortunately, Minaj did not reply.
The single dropped today and is available on all streaming platforms.
Brown became a viral sensation back in February when millions of people online watched her journey to remove the Gorilla Glue from her scalp.
Eventually, after a month of agony and unsuccessful visits to the emergency room, a celebrity plastic surgeon saw Brown's viral video and contacted her. He offered to perform a $12,500 procedure for free in order to save her hair.
She traveled out to Beverly Hills and plastic surgeon Michael Obeng performed a four-hour surgery to remove the glue from her hair and scalp. Brown was under light anesthesia during the operation in which Obeng used medical-grade adhesive remover.
In June, Brown announced the release of her new haircare line called "Forever Hair." In an Instagram video, she showed off some of her new products including a hair oil.
She also sells a hairspray called "Forever Hold" as well as other hair products and merch with a photo from the original video that started it all.
"As y'all already know, about four months ago I ran out of hairspray and ended up using Gorilla Glue spray," she said in the Instagram video. "Bad, bad idea. As a result of that, I ended up losing my hair and having scalp damage. But since then I have been working with professionals to create and formulate a hair growth oil."
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