Snootie Wild Biography
His street single "Yayo" with Yo Gotti kept the club and the hood fed from his North Memphis stomping grounds to radios nationwide. His mantra is motivation - bred from the projects to prison where both are now a memory. He's Snootie Wild, and like his recent mixtape suggests: Ain't No Stoppin Me.
By now you know the name, but you probably don't know the man. Snootie Wild came up in North Memphis, Tennessee, a spot on the map where violence and music are the two biggest exports. At 6'3, the bright teen was an aspiring basketball star, but a knife wound to the knee at 17 crushed any chances of the NBA.
With no other way out, Snootie turned to the streets but that life caught up to him and he was soon handed a four year prison sentence. It was in prison where the musical pedigree of his relatives B.B. King and Arthur Lee first emerged. Spending his time battle rapping and perfecting his song-craft, S...
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Snootie Wild Biography
His street single "Yayo" with Yo Gotti kept the club and the hood fed from his North Memphis stomping grounds to radios nationwide. His mantra is motivation - bred from the projects to prison where both are now a memory. He's Snootie Wild, and like his recent mixtape suggests: Ain't No Stoppin Me.
By now you know the name, but you probably don't know the man. Snootie Wild came up in North Memphis, Tennessee, a spot on the map where violence and music are the two biggest exports. At 6'3, the bright teen was an aspiring basketball star, but a knife wound to the knee at 17 crushed any chances of the NBA.
With no other way out, Snootie turned to the streets but that life caught up to him and he was soon handed a four year prison sentence. It was in prison where the musical pedigree of his relatives B.B. King and Arthur Lee first emerged. Spending his time battle rapping and perfecting his song-craft, Snootie emerged from jail with a newfound skill but the reality of life outside the cell set in quickly.
"For four years straight I just really dedicated my whole life to music, and when I got out I became a walking instrument. After prison, the reality of my life was crazy trying to figure out what my next move was going to be, especially knowing I've got kids," he says. "It was a struggle, and you lose hope fast, but my kids and my family kept me going."
Snootie started investing his time and money into music, taking on every challenger and becoming a regular at open mic nights. Finally, he broke through with "Yayo" and caught the ear of fellow local legend Yo Gotti who signed Snootie to his CMG imprint. Almost immediately, he delivered on the promise he had shown when "Made Me (ft. K Camp)" became the second major hit of his young career.
"'Yayo' took me to a whole other level in my life, which in turn helped me to change people's lives," Snootie says of the hit single. "It was a great movement for giving people out of my city some hope that they could do anything. It helped change my life."
While Snootie's Chapter One mixtape and subsequent Go Mode EP (CMG/Epic) showcased a burgeoning young star with hits and a special sense of melody, his most recent release, Ain't No Stoppin Me, solidified Snootie as an artist and songwriter with a lasting message. Motivated, he emerged as a rare talent able to pen club-fueling anthems while imbuing them with inspirational undertones. A street poet telling real life stories of adversity, Snootie uses his words to pull himself up and in doing so inspires others.
"Me talking about motivation so much comes from my struggle and experiencing bad things in my life," he says. "Sometimes you can lose hope, so me coming from a bad situation to a better one, leaves me no choice but to speak out and speak the truth. It doesn't matter where you're at or what you're going through. You can always get yourself out of it and live life how you want to live it."
In a world where many forget the meaning of gratitude, Snootie Wild is thankful for every day he is alive. "I'm a young man that came from nothing in these streets - that had all the hope of being something, but just never had anything to gravitate towards trying to get there. And here I am." Having proclaimed "the projects weren't big enough for me," it now looks as though Snootie is truly on the verge of stardom.
Website: http://www.snootiewild.com/
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iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/snootie-wild/id653599663
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