his fourth long-player who reached rank 34 as the highest chart position on the Billboard 200. Ģ016 appeared at Christmas time with Do What Thou Wilt. , which entered position 11 on the Billboard 200 and had features by, for example, Lupe Fiasco and Rick Ross. In 2014 he released the album These Days. The long player, which contained guest contributions from all Black Hippy members, as well as Jhené Aiko and Danny Brown, among others, made it to number 91 on the Billboard 200. The Werk Control System followed in the next year, with which he experienced his breakthrough. In 2011 he finally released his solo debut album, Longterm Mentality. Gone is the indie-pandering of sampling Modest Mouse and sweeping pop hooks, and in its place is one of the bleakest releases in recent memory. With the other top Dawg artists ScHoolboy Q, Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock, he founded another group in 2009 with Black Hippy. Fiasco’s first release since his reportedly highly-compromised Lasers album, which Fiasco himself has expressed his displeasure with, Food & Liquor II sounds like its exact opposite. During this time, however, there were hardly any noteworthy publications, so he switched to Top Dawg Entertainment in 2007, where he brought out a mixtape called A Day in the Life in 2008. Īfter graduating from school, he took the job more seriously, founded the group Area 51 together with the rapper Snake Hollywood and signed a two-year contract with the small label Street Beat Entertainment in 2005. As a hobby he was rapping and writing freestyle texts online.

At school he was teased because of his looks and had to give up his dream of a professional basketball career. As a child, he developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, which caused his lip to turn black, suffer from photosensitivity and therefore mostly wear sunglasses. Herbert Stevens was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Carson suburb.

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