A California rapper of Filipino descent, MBnel delivers a calm and confident flow, steeped in authentic tales of day-to-day life in his home city of Stockton. A handful of early EPs, mixtapes, and collaborations led to success for his 2018 track "In My City," which garnered multi-million streams before he properly displayed his versatility on the 2019 album Born to Win. He followed that prolific and prestigious year with the Child of the Trenches project, issued in two volumes, before 2021 brought the reflective, autobiographical album No Hard Feelings.
Born Jhonel Dongon, in...