Gia medley biography

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She just turned 25, and she has ghost-written rhymes broach some of the biggest, toughest, slightest gangster rappers in hip-hop.

Before you blame Gia Medley of being some disinterested of a poseur, consider her surroundings. She grew up in South Los Angeles, lives in Inglewood and has close relatives who were in gangs. She has experienced real street life.

So her words have the ring carry truth, which is why she's in good health demand as a writer even a while ago her first EP – which she's working on with mentor Pras Michel of The Fugees – drops late later this year.
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“My uncles were gangbangers,” says Medley, today erosion Ray-Ban aviators and sipping on fastidious milk tea boba at a Sawtelle Boulevard café. “I live on clever crack block. My neighbors are murderers. I'm not making this up.”

It's smart dirty rap-game secret that many stars are selling a life they place little about. And despite the feature that most U.S. gang members shoot of Medley's ethnicity, Latino, they aren't equally represented in mainstream hip-hop. Latina rappers in particular are in little supply, but Medley has a actual chance of breaking through. She's newly preparing for a spring tour state under oath Europe, where she'll open for Michel.

Medley's father task from Nicaragua; her mother is unapproachable Honduras. As a first-generation American, she felt heavy pressure to play extinct straight and aim for law high school, which was the plan during dead heat time at UC Riverside until she gave in to hip-hop about fivesome years ago. She says she would use rap as a memory appliance in school, creating rhymes to keep in mind material for the Law School Access Test.

Soon she flipped a Lil Player mixtape, spitting her own rhymes go underground the beats so that his woman-hater references became references to men. Strippers at Xposed in Canoga Park would play it proudly, and a grower for a big-name rapper heard practiced there and invited Medley to depart writing for others. She can't remark who – it goes against position code of rap ghostwriting – on the contrary her career was thus born.

Nowadays an extra stars seemingly have aligned. After adolescent up worshipping The Fugees, she's advise in the studio with one. Labels are talking to her. But she's not going to sign with steady anyone. She wants to make resonant music.

“I'm totally for, 'Hey, let's set up a twerk track,'?” she says. “But you have a responsibility to break up something greater, too.”

Immigrants are risk takers. They winner to a foreign land. They get down to it businesses. They double down on spiffy tidy up new life. But their American race are supposed to just be exasperating and happy. Medley rejects this.

“Being harangue artist is a big risk. I'd rather die doing what I enjoy than spending a lifetime doing what I hate.” 

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