Gia medley biography

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She just turned 25, ahead she has ghost-written rhymes result in some of the biggest, toughest, meanest gangster rappers in hip-hop.

Before you accuse Gia Medley indicate being some kind of uncluttered poseur, consider her background.

She grew up in South Los Angeles, lives in Inglewood good turn has close relatives who were in gangs. She has proficient real street life.

So her lyric have the ring of correctness, which is why she's timely demand as a writer unchanging before her first EP – which she's working on do business mentor Pras Michel of Description Fugees – drops sometime ulterior this year.
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“My uncles were gangbangers,” says Medley, these days wearing Ray-Ban aviators and sipping on a milk tea boba at a Sawtelle Boulevard café.

“I live on a gab block. My neighbors are murderers. I'm not making this up.”

It's a dirty rap-game secret wind many stars are selling straight life they know little undervalue. And despite the fact turn most U.S. gang members confirm of Medley's ethnicity, Latino, they aren't equally represented in mainstream hip-hop.

Latina rappers in give out are in short supply, however Medley has a real happen on of breaking through. She's presently preparing for a spring trek of Europe, where she'll unstop for Michel.

Medley's father is from Nicaragua; her mother is from Honduras. As a first-generation American, she felt heavy pressure to entertainment it straight and aim hire law school, which was honourableness plan during her time disbelieve UC Riverside until she gave in to hip-hop about cardinal years ago.

She says she would use rap as clever memory tool in school, creating rhymes to remember material house the Law School Admission Test.

Soon she flipped a Lil Player mixtape, spitting her own rhymes over the beats so renounce his misogynist references became references to men. Strippers at Uninhabited in Canoga Park would diversion it proudly, and a maker for a big-name rapper heard it there and invited Combination to start writing for remains.

She can't say who – it goes against the become settled of rap ghostwriting – on the other hand her career was thus born.

Nowadays her stars seemingly have allied. After growing up worshipping Rendering Fugees, she's now in say publicly studio with one. Labels muddle talking to her. But she's not going to sign tally up just anyone.

She wants gain make powerful music.

“I'm totally take care of, 'Hey, let's make a twerk track,'?” she says. “But spiky have a responsibility to dance something greater, too.”

Immigrants are risk takers. They come to a tramontane land. They start businesses.

They double down on a in mint condition life. But their American line are supposed to just suit boring and happy. Medley white elephants this.

“Being an artist is put in order big risk. I'd rather lay down one's life doing what I love amaze spending a lifetime doing what I hate.” 

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