By: Christopher Santos
Bryson Lashun Potts, better known as NLE Choppa, is an American rapper, songwriter, and entertainer based in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for his 2019 breakout single Shotta Flow which was certified platinum. He has a lot of good hits like Camelot and go stupid he was born on November 1st, 2002, and now he is 17. NLE also has albums like Narco Choppa, Holly Trap, and No Love Take Over. In my opinion, he is one of the best rappers out there, and he has an event on Friday, April 24 at 7:30 pm at Pomona, California.
By: Christopher Santos
Jarad Anthony Higgins, known professionally as Juice Wrld, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Born in Chicago Illinois he was known for his singles "All Girls Are the Same'' and "Lucid Dreams" which helped him gain a recording contract with Lil Bibby's Grade A Productions and Interscope Records. He was born on December 2, 1998, and he died on December 8, 2019, he is one of the best rappers, in my opinion. He has a lot of good songs like lucid dreams, bandit, and robbery. He also has 4 albums: Death Race for Love, Goodbye, and Good Riddance, too soon, and future and Juice Wrld presents Wrld on drugs.
By: Matt Yare
Kentrell DeSean Gaulden known as NbaYoungBoy is one of the biggest artists right now. He was born October 20, 1999 he also has two siblings Ken Gaulden(16) and the other is Telee Gaulden which is his sister. Kentrell was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been on YouTube's Top Artists list in the United States for the past 101 weeks, and he's been No. 1 for the last 19. This week, he sits atop the list with 54.6 million views. He has 4 kids Kayden,Taylin,Kamari and Kacey his oldest son is Kayden. The best album credited to YoungBoy Never Broke Again is AI YoungBoy which is ranked number 59,276 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 4. When NbaYoungBoy was younger he went to school at Scotlandville Magnet High School then later on dropped out to help his mother and siblings and he also had a kid. One of NbaYoungBoys biggest songs was “Untouchable” he made that song when he was 17.
By: Jesus Juarez
Jacques Berman Webster II, also known as Travis Scott, is from Houston Texas born April 30, 1992. From ages 1-6 he lived with his grandmother somewhere in south-central Houston. Travis Scott graduated from Elkins High School at the age of 17 years old, he also attended the University of Texas San Antonio but dropped out sophomore year to pursue his music career. In 2012 he signed his first major-label deal with Epic Records. He is also signed with 4 record labels(Cactus Jack Records, Epic Records, Grand Hustle Records and Good Music). Travis Scott got very popular because of this song “Antidote” which was released July 28, 2015. On September 4, 2015 “Rodeo” was released and is one of his most iconic albums of all time. This album also got Travis very popular. On July 14, 2017 “Butterfly Effect” was released which to this date is very popular with 227,000,000 views. On December 6, 2017 Travis Scott was featured in “Dark Knight Dummo” which is one of Trippie Redd’s most popular songs. “Astroworld” was released on August 3, 2018 to critical acclaim and debuted #1 on the billboard hot 200. In November, 2019 he remixed the already very popular song “Hot” and in December he released his most recent hit “Highest in the Room”.
By: Christopher Santos
Pop smokes death continues to rattle the hip-hop community. One rapper is looking to push forward his legacy. On Sunday night, March 1 announced his desire to not only finish Smoke’s album, but the executive producing it as well.
"I'm on the move listening to Pop smoke, I decided I'm gonna executive produce and finish his album for him.” He wrote on Instagram.
Pop Smoke was shot and killed at a Los Angeles residence last month. Weeks before his death, the 20-year-old Brooklyn star released his new project, Meet the Woo 2, which debuted in the top 10 of the music game.
By: Jesus Juarez
Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr, also professionally known as Roddy Ricch is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. He started to rap when he was 8 years of age, and began making beats at the age of 16. He is signed to Atlantic Records, a well known music label with other big artists, some are Nba youngboy, Lil Uzi Vert, Ed Sheerean and the G.O.A.T, Lil Uzi Vert. His birthday is October 22, 1998 and he is from Compton California. In July 2018 he released “Die Young, '' which is a very popular song produced by London on da track. Later in the year around October 2018 he dropped his album “Feed Tha Streets II'' this album had some of his most popular songs(Die Young and Every Season).In June of 2019 he released one of his most popular songs to date called “Ballin” that was produced by another well known producer known as “Mustard”. His newest album “Excuse me for being Antisocial” was released in December 2019, which had a song called “The Box'' it did so good it was #1 on the billboard's hot 100.
By: Jesus Juarez
Jeffery Lamar Williams is a very well known rapper known as Young Thug, he is an american rapper, singer and songwriter. Some of his popular songs are Hot, The London, Best friend and About The Money which he was featured in and now the really popular Tik Tok song Out West that he is featured on. He is known for his vocal style and his dodgy dressing style. His birthday is August 16, 1991 making him 28 years old at the time i'm writing this article. He also has 6 kids. The first being born was in April of 2015, leaving “Thugga” at a super young age of 17 years old. Recently he got into a lot of controversy because he was commenting on Dwyane Wades child that recently came out as transgender, calling the kid a boy not a girl.
By: Jesus Juarez
Selena Marie Gomez is a Hispanic singer who was born in Grand Prairie Texas. She also is a songwriter, actress, and television producer. She is 27 years old and her birthday is July 22, 1992. Some of her most popular songs are “It ain’t me”, “Kill em with kindness” and many more. Selena began her acting career in 2002 and was on a popular kid show known as Wizards of Waverly Place from 2007-2012. She started making music in 2009, but that group separated in 2012 (Selena Gomez & The Scene) but she began her solo career in 2013. Which is also the year she dropped her first album. Tragically in 2015, she was diagnosed with lupus and because of this, she had a kidney transplant in 2017. Recently in January 2020, she dropped her most recent album named Rare. She also got into a race with another well-known rapper known as “Roddy Ricch” for the #1 spot on the billboards hot 100.
By: Jesus Juarez
Tione Jayden Merritt aka Lil Tjay is an american rapper born and raised in New York, Bronx. He is 18 years old, he mostly became famous because of his song “Pop Out” which is a Polo G song that Lil Tjay was featured in. His song “Brothers” gave him a lot of views and “clout”. His music is uplifting and makes you want to move around.