Before They Were Famous

22Gz | BTWF | NYC Drill General Biography


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Before 22Gz would pioneer the Brooklyn-Drill rap scene with hit songs like “Blicky” “Up Next”, and “Suburban”. Before 22Gz would let the entire world know that he’s not a fan of “WHOOPTY” rapper CJ and dropped his diss track, “Goofy”. Before 22Gz would have over 186K subscribers on YouTube, 17K followers on Twitter, and 387K followers on Instagram at the time of this recording. 22Gz is a rapper born and bred in the city of Brooklyn and before he had even turned 20-years-old, he arguably helped create an entirely new form of music emanating from his hometown, a genre that came to be known as Brooklyn-Drill. It was his song “Suburban” that really opened up the possibilities for the genre as he injected the single with the type of cockiness and swagger that always seems to be found in the most famous of East Coast rappers. But a life steeped in the streets would almost blow up 22Gz’s success-story before it could be realized, because just as he was catching on, 22Gz would go to jail for catching something else entirely: a body.
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