BarettaBrix

MY ARTIST NAME IS BRIX AKA YG. I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THA MEAN STREETS OF NEWARK,NJ AKA DA BRICKZ.I'M A 20 YEAR OLD NEWCOMER TO THE RAP SCENE, I'VE BEEN WRITING MY OWN LYRICS SINCE THE AGE OF TWELVE. NOW I DECIDED TO PURSUE MY DREAM TO BECOME A MULTI-PLATINUM RAPPER. I'VE HAD MY UPS AND DOWNS IN MY LIFE, BUT NOW I PLAN TO HAVE NOTHING BUT UPS. EVERYTHING I RAP ABOUT IN MY SONG I HAVE ACTUALLY LIVED IT, RUNNING UP AND DOWN DA STREETS ALL DAY, AND CARRYING 9MILLIMETERS I'VE BEEN THERE DONE THAT. I NEVER GREW UP WITH THE FATHER FIGURE I NEEDED I ALWAYS LOOKED AT MY UNCLE FRED AS A FATHER FIGURE. MY UNCLE FRED ALWAYS LOOKED OUT FOR ME AND UNTIL THIS DAY HE STILL DOES. I'VE GOTT ALOT OF UNCLES THAT MEAN ALOT TO ME LIKE MY UNCLE LEON SMITH HE'S ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS I GOTTA GO PLATINUM, HE WOULD SAY STUFF LIKE "TERRELL YOU KNOW YOU GOT IT IN YOU SO GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT YOU DO" AND HE WAS TELLING ME THIS AT THE AGE OF TWELVE. THEN THERE WAS MY UNCLE ANTHONY THE ONE THAT GETS DRUNK AND WANNA KICK KNOWLEDGE. MY UNCLE CARLTON HE WAS THE CRAZY RYDE OR DYE ONE, AND IF YOU ASK ME I THINK HE'S WHERE I GET MY GANGSTA WAYS FROM. I LOVE MY MOMZ SHE THE ONE THAT KEEPS ME ON MY TOES AND STUFF NAH MEAN. EVEN THOUGH I DIDNT GROW UP WITH MY MOMS BECAUSE OF SOME PERSONAL REASONS, BUT WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER (LENA SMITH) DIED I MOVED WITH MY MOMS. I WAS 15 THINKING "DAMN THIS HOW LIFE GONNA TREAT DA KIDD." I THEN MET MY FATHER WHEN I WAS 15,YEAH I KNOW YOU THINKING WHERE WAS HE MY WHOLE LIFE I WISH I KNEW. THEN I STARTED PUTTIN MY TALENT OUT THERE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE, I ENTERED A TALENT SHOW THAT WAS HOLDING AUDITIONS AT THE CENTRAL WARD BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB ON AVON AVE. PEOPLE WHERE YAPPING THEY'RE MOUTH ABOUT THE ALL STAR NETWORK AND ABOUT HOW I SHOULD GO AND AUDITION SO I DID. I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS BUT I DID IT,AND AFTER THAT I GOT NO PLAY FROM THEM AT ALL. I THEN AUDITIONED FOR A TALENT SHOW HELD AT MY SCHOOL (MALCOLM .X. SHABAZZ HIGH). I AUDITIONED THINKING TO MYSELF "ALL-STAR NETWORK DONE LET A FUTURE STAR SLIP AWAY." I THEN PERFORMED WITH MY BOY (BAM) AND A NOT SO HOT DUDE NAMED (CHASE). WE DID THE SHOW AND GOT BOOED BECAUSE CHASE WAS STUMBLING OVER HIS VERSE AND WAS NOT HYPED AS WE WAS. IT WAS A NOTHER TALENT SHOW AT MY SCHOOL NEXT YEAR THE WHOLE TIME I WAS THINKING "I REFUSE TO BE BEAT AGAIN." THIS TIME IT WAS JUST ME AND MY BOY BAM, BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE TELLING US THAT WE WOULD DO ALOT BETTER WITH JUST US TWO, SOO WE TOOK THE PEOPLES ADVICE AND DROP CHASE FROM OUR NEXT ACT. ASK ME AND I DONT KNOW IF IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO DROP CHASE, BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TIME TO DEVELOP MORE, HOWEVER WE MANAGED TO TO DO A LIL BETTER. I WAS GETTING BUSINESS CARDS FROM LABELS AND STUFF. SO I WAS HAPPY, BUT NOW IM TALKING ABOUT BIG MONEY WITH SOME LABELS BUT NONE OF THEM ARE TALKING BOUT MONEY I WANY BUT NONE THE LESS WE'RE TALKING! THANX TO EVERBODY THAT KNEW I COULD DO IT STAY UP J-J-J-JERSEY IS IN THE BUILDING!!!