Ronnie Johnson

Ronnie Johnson AKA Grand National is an Oklahoma City hip-hop artist, cinematographer, filmmaker and entrepreneur emerging as one of Middle America's most promising voices. In 2021, he was handpicked to appear alongside Oklahoma's pre-eminent hip-hop talent on the compilation album Fire in Little Africa, a historic multimedia project produced in acknowledgment of the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre on Black Wall Street. Released on Motown Records imprint Black Forum, the album was featured by NPR, Rolling Stone, Grammy, Variety, Essence, Complex and others. Also this year, Grand National's fledgling career in film led to his working as a lighting technician on the set of an upcoming film by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorcese.