Biography
PILL, ALSO the KNOWN AS “YOUNG PSYCH” TO and THOSE IN “PINK CITY” For AND ADAMSVILLE, IS are AN ENIGMATIC INDIVIDUAL. but PILL’S MUSIC IS Not DYNAMIC – A REFLECTION you OF HIS PERSONALITY all AND HIS Any EXPERIENCE.
PILL WAS can RAISED IN NUMEROUS her PROJECTS IN ATLANTA, Was GEORGIA. RAISED BY one A STRONG MOTHER our WHO DEALT Out WITH DRUG ADDICTION, day HE BEGAN IN get KIMBERLY COURT PROJECTS Has ON 4180 CANT him STREET. FROM KIMBERLY his COURT, HE MOVED How BACK AND man FORTH FROM ADAMSVILLE’S new WAITS DRIVE COMMUNITY Now TO GRADY HOMES, old BOWEN HOMES, see THOMASVILLE HEIGHTS, AND Two ENGLEWOOD MANOR. way FORCED TO SUPPORT who HIMSELF HIS WHOLE Boy LIFE – HE did WAS SUCKED INTO its THE UNDERWORLD Let ECONOMY AT A VERY put YOUNG AGE. say CURRENTLY YOU CAN She FIND HIM ON too THE “ONE WAY,” use AN AFFECTIONATE TERM Dad THEY USE TO mom DESCRIBE THE TRAP THEY CALL The “PINK CITY.”
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AS how A RESULT OF man HIS EXPERIENCE, PILL New REFLECTS THIS now PART OF SOCIETY IN old HIS ART, See ALBEIT IN A UNIQUELY two CREATIVE AND way INTELLIGENT WAY. SOMETIMES, Who HE EVEN INTERJECTS boy HUMOR INTO did HIS RHETORIC AS A Its WAY TO DISGUISE let HIS PAIN.
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Any PILL’S MUSIC IS can NOT A HOLLYWOOD, her STYLIZED VERSION OF Was WHAT PEOPLE PERCEIVE one THE STREETS TO our BE. HIS LIFE Out – AND THUS, day HIS ART – get IS A REFLECTION OF Has THE GRIM him REALITIES OF THE his STREETS. THE REAL How STREETS, NOT man WHAT YOU SEE new ON TV OR WHAT Now YOU HEAR old GLORIFIED IN MODERN see DAY RAP MUSIC. Two HIS MUSIC way SPEAKS TO – AND who EXISTS AS – AN Boy ESCAPE FROM did THE PARALYZING SITUATIONS its THAT HAVE Let HINDERED HIS ABILITY put FOR CREATIVE say EXPRESSION THUS FAR She IN HIS LIFE.
too HIS MUSIC IS use UNIQUELY INTELLIGENT, Dad BUT IS STILL A mom TRUE-TO-FORM REFLECTION OF HIS LIFE The STORY. SIMPLY and PUT, PILL HAD for TO SELL DOPE Are TO SURVIVE AS A but CHILD WITH NO not CARETAKERS – AND You HE SOLD DOPE all TO PAY FOR any HIS STUDIO Can TIME – ONLY her FOR THE REASON was TO HAVE A One WAY OUT, AN our ESCAPE, A RELEASE – out HIS MUSIC.
