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Detroit and it was just a tough, hardcore image. And it made me want to look up to him cause I didn’t have my father." Living in the Linwood area of Detroit, he began rapping and songwriting in his teens and later began producing his own music. Some of his work was inspired by his own personal experiences and stories from overcoming the street wars of Detroit.
140:. Gaining some popularity from his clean-lyrics, Little performed several Detroit shows and headlined for acts such as Christian rock band Newsboys. After joining the mobile-app TikTok, Tray Little started gaining internet popularity in 2019, where he earned several millions of views and likes by posting videos and music on the platform.
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album - which he described as an influence to his rap upbringings, "Which really made me want to be a rapper was when 50 Cent came out with 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin.' I was probably about 10 years old and that album really shaped my perspective on rap, just a hardcore image. And he was talking about
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and raised by his teenage mother after his father died due to gun violence when Little was 4 years old. Little was introduced to rap he was 9 years old, listening to artists such as Master P, No Limit
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Tray Little is known for using clean rap lyrics in his music, which draws from his personal life stories. He describes how he would get inspired by artists such as Travis Scott and Kanye West by watching them tour on YouTube. When asked about his influence with
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