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Before They Were Famous

Michael McCrudden

Based on the popular YouTube Channel "Before They Were Famous" with over 3 Million YouTube Subscribers & nearly 1 Billion views. This is the audio version of those recordings documenting the rise to fame of both traditional stars but mainly internet stars. Artists in rap, comedy, instagram models & YouTubers. This channel profiles who they are, where they came from and how they reached the top of the entertainment industry. Thanks for tuning in.

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8:02

NAS EBK | Before They Were Famous | The Bronx Drill...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/13

Before becoming the latest in a long line of promising drill-rappers to emerge from New York City, NAS EBK was born on July 2nd, 2003 in the Bronx where he grew up around 158th and 3rd Avenue. Nas began his life as an aspiring basketball player and in his teenage years, he played for the Eagle Academy school in New York, winning a championship in his Freshman year. After that first season, he was recruited by a prep school out in Pennsylvania which would force him to re-classify as a Freshman yet

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9:49

The Case of Кing Vоn

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/13

On November 6th, 2020, up-and-coming rapper Кing Vоn, would die at the age of 26 from multiple gunshot wounds incurred during an altercation outside of a a club in Atlanta, Georgia. Von’s tragic passing ended a two day-period that would see him celebrating the release of his debut album, “Welcome to O Block” by throwing a massive party in Atlanta, only to then, hours later, be gunned down in the streets. Why was Von k1lled at the height of his greatest accomplishment? What exactly do other rappers

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8:02

Spazz Drilly | Before They Were Famous | The Most...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/13

Before Spazz Drilly would become one of the deadliest drill rappers of all time, he was born Tabu Harris sometime in the year 2001. He grew up on the G-Side neighborhood of the Bronx which might be a small place, relatively speaking, but it sure does have a ton of violent gangs occupying its streets. After all, everyone from the Bloods, to the Crips, to the YGz claim a piece of turf somewhere in the area. It was on these tension-filled streets that Tabu began going by his earliest nickname, Spazz

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10:38

Adriana | Before They Were Famous | Hardworking...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/13

Аdrіаnа was born on November 4, 1991, in Downingtown, Pennsylvania but she moved around a lot because she grew up in foster care. She was told that she is of Russian, Serbian, and a little bit of English ancestry, but she says that there is no way to verify this so she can't be absolutely sure. We did what we could to try and find some childhood photos of Adriana but those appear to have been scrubbed from the internet. Growing up in 13 different foster homes gave Adriana a bit of a different

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8:34

Noticuz | Before They Were Famous | Favorite New York...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/11

Noticuz is a YouTube personality and content creator whose best known for creating a ton of inventive comedy videos on his self-titled YouTube channel. This young man only just started trying his hand at YouTube a little over three years ago and by the end of his first year, he had already reach around 5K subs. Flash forward two years and Noticuz has blown that impressive accomplishment right out the water, acquiring over 315K subs on his primary channel alone. But outside of some hilarious videos

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8:11

D'Aydrian Harding | Before They Were Famous |...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/06

Before he’d become a YouTube comedian and prankster, D’Aydrian Harding was born on August 3rd, 2001 in Wichita, Kansas where he grew up in what was generally a pretty idyllic set-up – and by that, I mean one where he didn’t have to worry about much as kid. Located smack-dab in the middle of America, there wasn’t a whole lotta trouble or even excitement for D’Aydrian to get up to – which means more often than not he used to hang out with his friends around the 44-foot tall “Keeper of the Plains”

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8:02

Rah Gz | Before They Were Gone | Tragic Story of...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/06

Before 16-year-old drill rapper Rah Gz would die as a result of a shooting in the back of an Uber, he was born Ramon Gil-Medrano on September 7th, 2004 in the Bronx to a family of Puerto Rican descent. But growing up in one of the most dangerous boroughs of New York City led to Rah forming links with the local street gang known as the 800 YGz and this association would get him into a lot of hot water with police, including three arrests over the span of 90 days prior to his tragic passing. More than

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10:02

Karen Bassily | Before They Were Famous | Egypt's New...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/04

Moving to a new country, especially one in which you’re totally unfamiliar with the language, can be hard on anyone. But for model Karen Bassily it opened up the door to opportunity. Originally hailing from the country of Egypt, Karen discovered a love for fashion modeling upon her arrival in North America and her introduction to “America’s Next Top Model”. Determined to make herself as famous as the faces she saw parading around on her television set, Karen not only taught herself English but a

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8:07

Luciano | Before They Were Famous | Germany Drill...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/01

Before rapper Luciano would become one of Germany’s hottest hip-hop exports and the face of what’s now known as Deutschrap -- he was born Patrick Jamal Grobmann on January 28th, 1994 in the Eastern German city of Bautzen. Raised by a father from the African country of Mozambique and a German mother -- at the age of three, Luciano and his family including his younger sister, moved from their hometown to the capital city of Berlin. There, the cold, prefabricated buildings of the Eastern part of the

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12:14

Jeffrey Dahmer | Before They Were Criminal | Insane...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/10/01

Before Jeffrey Dahmer would become arguably the most notorious criminal of all time, he was born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. For the first few years of his life, Dahmer was described as an energetic and happy kid – right up until the age of four when he underwent surgery to correct a double hernia. Afterward, his parents believe he was never quite the same. Now noticeably subdued, Dahmer became increasingly withdrawn following his surgery as well as the

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8:03

D Block Europe | Before They Were Famous | Young Adz...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Before the hip-hop collective known as D Block Europe would take over the “UK rap wave” scene with their unfiltered takes on the streets and some truly explicit sexual lyrics, Adam Nathaniel “Young Adz” Williams and Ricky Earl “Dirtbike LB” Banton would be born on July 29th, 1995 and October 30th, 1996 respectively. These two developed the kind of chemistry you can’t fake by spending a good portion of their youth together, forging their friendship on the streets of South London. They first met at

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8:09

Coolio | Gone But Not Forgotten | Gangsta's Paradise...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Hip-Hop legend, Coolio, the man who once lit up the charts with massive hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage”, has died at the age of 59. Born Artis Ivey Jr. on August 1st, 1963 in Monessen, Pennsylvania -- which is just South of Pittsburgh -- Coolio moved to Compton, California as a kid and then spent his teenaged years growing-up in Northern part of the state where his mother sent him after realizing that Compton was far too dangerous a place for her son to spend his childhood. In

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10:30

Savannah Bond | Before They Were Famous | Your...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Savannah Bond was born on June 6th, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia. Long before she became one of the most prominent actresses in the industry, Savannah was a Catholic high-school student who often found herself getting into a whole heap of trouble. Being the sociable creature that she was, Savannah had a huge group of friends, both girls, and boys, but even still, she says that she seldom if ever dated during these years. In fact, she didn’t start dating regularly until about three years after

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8:39

DreamDoll | Before They Were Famous | Rising Star of...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Rapper and former reality television star Dream Doll was born Tabatha Robinson on February 28th, 1992 in the New York City borough of the Bronx where she was raised by a single mother as the oldest amongst five siblings after her father was sent to prison to serve a 50-year sentence. Tabatha attended high school at Bronx Academy and afterward she headed off to Westchester College for her post-secondary studies before earning a degree in Business Management from yet another institution known as

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8:38

Clix | Before They Were Famous | How Did He Become...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

“Fortnite” has opened the door for a new wave of popular streamers and aficionados to go pro by turning their favorite past-time into a potential career. Outside of a few major streamers that most of us already know like Ninja and Tfue, there are even younger players who have newly arrived on the stage ready to leave their mark on the industry. One such player is the man we know as Clix, a kid who has managed to go from a complete unknown to one of the most popular streaming personalities on Twitch

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11:23

The Liver King | Is He Really Making $100 MILLION a...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

The Liver King | The Rich Life | Is The Liver King Really Making $100 MILLION a Year ??? Hearing that number out loud might leave most of us shaking our heads in disbelief ñ after all, this dudeís only been famous for months, not years. How could he possibly be worth that much? Especially when most websites that stake their reputation on these kinds of things peg his bank account to be somewhere in the ballpark of $1 Million. Thereís a very big gap between $1 Million and $100 Million ñ so where did

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9:40

Ice Spice | Before They Were Famous | UPDATED | Bronx...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Ice Spice realized that drill music was her future. But it wouldn’t be until she met her good friend and future producer, RIOT that she’d actually attempt to mount a career in it. With both of these two hailing from the Bronx, they immediately hit it off and Riot began sending her the beats he was working on to see if any of them interested her. One of those beats was what would eventually become “Bully” and Ice couldn’t get enough of it. Right around this same time, Ice took part in the Erica Banks

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8:34

TURK | Where Are They Now? Did Turk Have Relations...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Old-school rapper Turk was a key component of the Cash Money label as a member of the hip-hop collective, Hot Boys. After his group’s debut album would sell over 300,000 copies and chart nationally on Billboard, the crew would follow that success up with a second album before many of them would depart, leaving Lil Wayne all by his lonesome. And while Turk would initially find great success on his own with the release of his debut solo album “Young & Thuggin’” -- which would become a Top 10 hit on

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8:45

Lee Drilly | Before They Were Famous | Demon of Bronx...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

Teenaged rapper Lee Drilly began his hip-hop career with a bang by unleashing the hit track “Final Destination” back in February of 2021. From that point forward his career would explode in an upwards trajectory and he’s been releasing music at a break-neck pace ever since, dropping new singles at least once a month up until news broke earlier this year that he and nineteen other associates had been arrested in a city-wide sting that was determined to use drill rappers’ own music against them. It

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8:03

Lil Mabu | Before They Were Famous | New York's...

Before They Were Famous ·

2022/09/29

When it comes to the New York City drill scene, it kind of feels like we’ve seen it all. Not only have we seen artists emerge suddenly out of nowhere with one hit song, we’ve even seen some of them be young kids still in their mid-teens who find a way to turn themselves into big-time stars. And Lil Mabu? Well, he’s more or a less combination of both those things. Not only did he spring up out of nowhere over the past two years, but he did so at the age of just 15-years-old, while also being... let’s

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