Before They Were Famous

The Liver King | The Rich Life | Is The Liver King Really Making $100 MILLION a Year ??? Hearing that number out loud might leave most of us shaking our heads in disbelief ñ after all, this dudeís only been famous for months, not years. How could he possibly be worth that much? Especially when most websites that stake their reputation on these kinds of things peg his bank account to be somewhere i...

Ice Spice realized that drill music was her future. But it wouldn’t be until she met her good friend and future producer, RIOT that she’d actually attempt to mount a career in it. With both of these two hailing from the Bronx, they immediately hit it off and Riot began sending her the beats he was working on to see if any of them interested her. One of those beats was what would eventually become...

Old-school rapper Turk was a key component of the Cash Money label as a member of the hip-hop collective, Hot Boys. After his group’s debut album would sell over 300,000 copies and chart nationally on Billboard, the crew would follow that success up with a second album before many of them would depart, leaving Lil Wayne all by his lonesome. And while Turk would initially find great success on his...

Teenaged rapper Lee Drilly began his hip-hop career with a bang by unleashing the hit track “Final Destination” back in February of 2021. From that point forward his career would explode in an upwards trajectory and he’s been releasing music at a break-neck pace ever since, dropping new singles at least once a month up until news broke earlier this year that he and nineteen other associates had be...

When it comes to the New York City drill scene, it kind of feels like we’ve seen it all. Not only have we seen artists emerge suddenly out of nowhere with one hit song, we’ve even seen some of them be young kids still in their mid-teens who find a way to turn themselves into big-time stars. And Lil Mabu? Well, he’s more or a less combination of both those things. Not only did he spring up out of n...

American stand-up comedian, actor and podcaster, Andrew Schulz was raised in the Big Apple and grew up a fan of comedy, but he never actually considered entering the field himself until being encouraged to take to the stage at a restaurant he managed during an open-mic night. After this seminal moment, Andrew would return to New York City, dead-set on making a name for himself in stand-up. Over th...

Just a short time ago there were few rappers with a more promising outlook than DaBaby. Not only did his 2019 debut studio album, Baby on Baby peak at the number seven spot on the Billboard 200, but his second studio album also released later that year would hit the number one spot. Then Blame It On Baby came around in 2020 and not only duplicated its predecessorís success, but topped it by boasti...

DD Osama is a promising young rapper who might have started his music career with the hopes of putting himself on the hip-hop map, but now he’s looking to complete his journey not just for himself, but for the brother with who he shared a common dream with and who he lost along the way. Hailing from New York City, DD Osama has managed to capture the drill spirit and sound like few others, especial...

Brooklyn drill rapper Bizzy Banks found the inspiration for his career while growing up with an older brother who used to love to freestyle around their family home. This lit a fire under Bizzy to master his own skills when it came to hip-hop and by 2019, he had committed to this path by stepping up his consistency and dropping his breakthrough hit, “Don’t Start”. Listen to that ominous tune for e...

SugarHill Keem is the latest New York City rapper to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the drill music landscape. This talented artist who often times operates under the moniker of “Mr. Move Look” only started rapping at the tail-end of 2021, but he’s somehow already managed to produce over a dozen hit tracks, many of which have seen their view counts climb all the...

I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I think about the United Kingdom it’s basically impossible for me not to conjure up images of the Royal Family -- more specifically -- Her Majesty the Queen who has not only been the country’s monarch for as long as I’ve been alive but a heck of a lot longer than that! Since ascending to the throne in 1952, this mother of four has talked politics with 1...

They just keep getting young and younger, don’t they? Today, drill music’s newest dynamo and childhood prodigy is the man -- sorry, I meant to say kid – we know as SugarHill DDot. This youngster has just barely entered his teenage years and he’s already throwing around more money on social media than the rest of us are likely to see in our lifetimes. But that isn’t to say that everything has been...

When it comes to battle rap, the genre’s very best artists might not nearly get the kind of spotlight or recognition that the more mainstream rap artists receive on the regular, but Canadian spitter Pat Stay was looking to change all of that. This guy scratched and clawed his way towards relevancy while growing up on Canada’s East Coast -- not exactly a hotbed for hip-hop -- but Pat never let that...

Armani White broke into the hip-hop scene a number of years ago. 2015 to be exact. That’s when he uploaded his track “Stick Up” to the internet. Soon after, emails began pouring in from people all over the industry. It seemed like Armani’s ascent was all but guaranteed. But then, tragedy struck when he discovered that his father was dying from cancer. Even with a complicated relationship thanks to...

Kanel Joseph is a content creator who got his start on YouTube by ripping off other people’s “Minecraft” videos as a young kid and never really found his way until much more recently when he transformed into a prankster and comedian over the course of the past year or so. But just because he’s now stumbled upon his magic formula for success doesn’t mean that everything has suddenly become easy. Fa...

19-year-old rapper, Set Da Trend, is a strong believer that everything happens for a reason. This South Bronx native dedicated himself to his musical journey after recording his very first song only to then drop multiple music videos that would rack-up millions of views in the span of just one year. His breakout collaborations with other Bronx drill artists like Kay Flock, Dougie B, and C-Blu woul...

C Blu is a promising up-and-coming artist based out of the Bronx who had only just started to release music and work his way up the industry food chain when something happened that nearly wound up costing him everything. In early 2022, C Blu was accused of shooting a cop during a struggle over the teen’s stolen weapon after he was part of what authorities are calling a “disorderly crowd” gathered...

From the streets to the strip clubs, the rapper known as Trapboy Freddy has been active since the mid-2010s, following a stretch of the better part of three years where he was in and out of jail constantly. But at the age of 21 years old, Freddy decided it was time for a change and started throwing together a slew of self-released mixtapes and a bunch of guest verses while becoming one of the more...

Having arrived in the spotlight at the tender age of just 18 years old, Florida singer YK Osiris’ first few years in the music industry were an eye-opening experience. After quickly being discovered by label execs thanks to a stream of independent releases that he uploaded online like his breakthrough hit, “Valentine”, Osiris would continue with a string of successful singles leading up to the rel...

Well, it was bound to happen eventually, wasn’t it? Andrew Tate, a onetime kickboxing champion – sorry, Andrew, I meant four-time – turned self-styled men’s-help guru who regularly argues that women are the property of their husbands and should just: “have kids, sit at home, be quiet, and make coffee,” has finally had his social media accounts taken away from him. Yep – the man who, in the past, h...

English YouTuber, Daz Black, is perhaps better known by the handle of his incredibly popular gaming channel, Daz Games. This one-time former blue-collar worker has spent the past decade turning himself into a recognizable content creator after discovering Vine back in the early 2010’s. When that platform went the way of the dodo bird, Daz was able to parlay his substantial audience into a solid su...

22-year-old female rapper, Ice Spice, pairs her entirely enticing appearance with some of the cleanest and best production to come out of the Bronx in a hot minute. If you’ve ever seen her on social media then you know that Ice is fully capable of grabbing her audience’s attention before even uttering a word. But by working with her producing-partner, RIOT, Ice Spice has found a magic formula when...

I’m sure a ton of you already know this but English YouTuber KSI is getting set to make his big in-ring boxing return at the end of August. And while he was originally set to fight Alex Wassabi, a medical issue has now prevented Alex from participating. This sent KSI scrambling to find a new opponent, one of which will be boxer Ivan Nikolov, while the other will be a warm-up match against his fell...

For a very long time now the man we know as Steiny has been something of an enigma. Sure, he’s appeared in a ton of NELK content, including regular appearances on the Full Send Podcast, but outside of his name – none of us knew all that much about him. Well, all of that has changed after the past few months during which time Steiny has become more prevalent than ever before. Not only has he found...

Larry June is a Bay area rapper who spent a pretty decent portion of his childhood growing up in the city of Atlanta as well. Today, he draws on aspects of both those cities to create a flow that’s as gritty as it is smooth. But what really separates Larry from the rest of his peers is his willingness to embrace a healthy and mindful lifestyle. I mean, how many other rappers do you know are workin...