Before They Were Famous

If the thumbnail didn't give it away I've got something very different to show you in this video, myself & Kara got Married in Las Vegas on Valentine's Day and spent an entire week at the Wynn Hotel. This was absolutely the most fantastic weekend of my life, I mean we bumped into so many celebrities including Logan Paul. But he was just one of the countless others who were there. I mean right afte...

Remember back when you were on the cusp of entering high school? What were you doing at that time in your life? What had you already accomplished? Odds aren’t it’s not even half of what up-and-coming hip-hop rapper BabySantana has at the age of just 15-years-old. Having already worked with contemporaries like SSGKobe, Lil Tecca, and KA$HDAMI before he even graduated from middle school, Baby Santan...

Rapper Rob Stone is looking to put his native town of San Diego on the hip-hop map. You might recognize this Lemon Grove artist’s name from his 2014 hit “Chill Bill”, which went viral from the moment he uploaded it to SoundCloud. The inevitable deal with a record label was up next, but like many artists of his generation, Rob would come to realize that he stood to gain a lot more by taking his art...

When the year 2012 first kicked off, Trinidad James was still nothing more than an urban clothing store clerk based out of his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Sure, he definitely had something of an eccentric fashion sense, but he wasn’t yet the man we know him as today. Back then, he was simply Nicholas Williams. In the Fall of that year, however, Trinidad James was born when he dropped the single...

When the general public looks at Dr. Dre they consider him a musical legend, but when you're going deeper into the topic you slowly have the realization that Dre is not only one of the legendary rappers like say Tupac or Ice Cube, but also a world-renown producer and composer From his unappareled work ethic, his inclination for innovation, the ability to shift the landscapes of music as we know it...

Kendrick Lamar is an MC born and bred in Compton, California, who, over the course of his career, has garnered three consecutive No.1 albums on the Billboard 200 including 2015’s “To Pimp a Butterfly”, 2016’s “Untitled Unmastered”, and 2017’s thought-provoking masterpiece, “DAMN”. Following the monumental success of that last solo album, Kendrick would be tapped to shepherd the “Black Panther” sou...

We've gone over Eminem's past a number of times here on this channel so in this video, we are going to dive much deeper taking a look at his lineage, his parents traveling band and all the intricate details of the truth come up of Marshall Mathers the Third. We've scowered the internet to find facts about how his mom met his father, the mental illnesses in his family, his uncle Ronnie's impact on...

Since achieving fame, Snoop has had a number of brushes with the law. In 1990, he was convicted of cocaine possession. Three years later, he pleaded guilty to gun possession. Snoop was also tried and acquitted of murder charges in 1996. The case involved the killing of an alleged gang member who was shot by someone in the vehicle Snoop was riding in. Despite a number of brushes with the law over t...

Music has been in Dr. Dre’s blood from the very start. The man who would one day revolutionize the hip-hop game started working as a DJ in his teens and his first major success came not long after as a member of the rap group, N.W.A. Later on, in his career, he’d co-found Death Row Records, and his first solo album, “The Chronic” released in 1992, was one of the biggest hits of the decade. In fact...

“Viva La Bama” tended to have a specific theme, mission, or challenge that would be explored throughout the length of each episode. The show wasn’t quite a cultural phenomenon, but it had a dedicated fanbase all around the world and was popular enough to last five seasons. But after the show went off the air in August of 2005, the fans of this series were left without their daily fix of stars like...

Known as not only a Rapper, but also a singer and actor, KYLE is obviously a whole lot of things – and at the very top of that list is happy. Sure, his journey to the top of the rap game hasn’t always been simple. Hell, it hasn’t always been pleasant either, but KYLE understands that in order to truly succeed in this world, you have to keep meeting everything that comes your way with a brave face...

Ayo and Teo are two brothers from the State of Michigan who started uploading videos of themselves dancing to social media and within the span of just two years had launched a career as two of hip-hop’s youngest and brightest. Over the opening years of their career, they’d not only dance with Usher on-stage at the BET awards but in his music video for “No Limit” as well. Before long, Vogue would e...

On the Bright Side of Fame, way back when at the dawning of this current millennium, three words would change the course of reality television forever. When “Jackass” first debuted on MTV in the year 2000, no one had ever seen anything else quite like it. Not only was it rude, crude, and full of attitude, but it would also go on to become a global phenomenon, birthing stars like Steve-O, Johnny Kn...

In the summer of 1996, a Swedish fantasy author hired an astrological specialist to predict the future career for his newborn baby. As the Tarot cards laid out their secrets, they revealed something unexpected – the child would one day become a world-famous singer. Considering no one else in the family had any musical talent whatsoever, it seemed like a long shot. But the kid’s father decided to t...

BlocBoy JB is looking to prove that he’s a superstar. This young rapper from the streets of Memphis rose to popularity after becoming an online phenomenon off the back of his “Shoot” dance from the music video of the same name. Following that up with further successes like “Rover” featuring 21 Savage and “Look Alive” alongside Drake would cement BlocBoy as a certified banger-maker. By 2018, he was...

Ever since he hit the big-time in 1994 with “Ace Venture: Pet Detective”, Jim Carrey has brought in over $3 Billion in box-office revenue. This incredible singular success is even all the more impressive when you take into consideration the border-line poverty-stricken background he emerged from. The youngest of four children, Jim would spend his teenaged years working as a janitor along with the...

Modern-day New York socialite, Julia Fox, has been using her past couple of years in the spotlight to totally re-write the story of her life. This young woman was born across the ocean in Europe and only moved Stateside when she was six years old. A little over 20-years-later and she’s officially become one of the most high-profile celebrities in the country, especially after news broke that she a...

California-bred and Portland-based rapper YEAT has always believed himself destined for a career in music, so it’s no surprise that his sugary, auto-tuned melodies, distinctive vocals, and wild production choices have allowed him to flourish over the past few years. After dropping two albums in 2021, not to mention a truly astounding number of singles, YEAT is finally seeing the type of acknowledg...

Native New Yorker, Kai Cenat knows better than to hold anything back when it comes to his comedy content. As one of the six members of YouTube comedy group AMP, he’s not only seen immense success as a collaborator but as a solo act as well. For Cenat, it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Like many kids in Gen-Z, Kai grew up watching YouTubers and started regularly posting content of his own a...

Rae Sremmurd is a hip-hop duo consisting of real-life brothers, Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee. These Mississippi-raised artists have come to embody a new type of mainstream music that creates a kaleidoscope of musical genres which encourages their listeners to dance, jump, or simply sing along depending upon their mood. In that sense, they’re very much the encapsulation of the endless alternatives defin...

Nardo Wick has only been rapping for about two-years and he’s still somehow managed to find the blueprint for success when it comes to the hip-hop game. Last year, his single “Who Want Smoke” earmarked him as the next big thing to emerge out of Jacksonville. And when the remix of that track featuring Lil Durk, 21 Savage, and G-Herbo landed, Wick’s career was wholly-cemented. Now, this 20-year-old...

This female streamer known the world over as Amouranth is an American costume designer, model, and social media influencer who has quickly become one of the fastest-growing Twitch personalities of all time, a platform where she’s recognized for her highly detailed cosplay outfits and for pioneering what’s come to be known as the Hot Tub Meta. But where did this video-game playing knock-out come fr...

In today’s day-and-age, many Twitch streamers have larger-than-life personalities and most are more than willing to go over the top when it comes to keeping their viewers invested. xQc is no different. One of the platform’s most continually watched superstars, xQc began his professional career as an Overwatch player before a couple suspensions would see him altering his career path slightly and go...

Video-game streamer Tyler Blevins is best known to the vast majority of us as Ninja, and he’s also the closest thing that gaming has ever really had to a crossover superstar. Thanks largely to his incredible skill at playing “Fortnite”, not to mention the good-natured and mischievous ways in which he composes himself with his fans, this 29-year-old has amassed a truly epic following across nearly...

On the Dark Side of Fame is another story altogether and Pokimane is no different. Although she’s only been streaming for a few years, she’s already made a number of enemies in the midst of her own community, all of whom consider her to be the very definition of a hypocrite thanks to her frequent use of Copyright-Strikes. Then there are those rumors of manipulating her male fans, not to mention so...