Before They Were Famous

BEFORE becoming “SteveWillDoIt’s” on and off again girlfriend, Celina Smith was born on February 22nd, 1999 and grew up an only child in a single-parent household in Orlando, Florida. Now, I’m not going to lie to you – a whole bunch of the “finer” details about Celina’s life have yet to be revealed. In fact, outside of her relationship with Steve -- which goes back considerably farther than you might think – we don’t know a whole lot about Celina’s past. But here’s what I was able to uncover. According to Celina’s Instagram page – she and Steve first met while still in high-school and started dating when she was 14 and he was 15. Soon afterwards they kick-started their relationship which would go onto last a number of years ... even if there have been some bumps along the way which we’ll get into further in a moment or two. Now, only a few months ago, SteveWillDoIt’s YouTube channel was taken down as a result of him having posted clips of himself gambling on his secondary channel without taking the necessary steps to protect himself from the platforms’ rigorous protocols when it comes to that sort of thing.

Ever since Georgian fashion designer Demna became the artistic director of the European fashion-house Balenciaga in 2015, the once lauded brand has become far more infamous for its controversy than its clothing. But the surprising thing to discover is how often that’s been by design – like that time they remade IKEAS’s 99-cent shopping bag as a $2,000 luxury good. Hell, they even dressed one of the sexiest women in the world in a head-to-toe black body stocking and then sent her up a flight of stairs to the Met Gala. Poor Kim. But something tells me we probably really should have started paying closer attention when Balenciaga created a campaign that would see models walking up and down the runway while carrying garbage bags made out of expensive leather. In almost every one of these moments, Balenciaga was counting on outrage to fuel their brand, but now, they’ve finally gone too far after releasing two new campaigns that has taken public outcry to levels they never dreamed of reaching. It all started in the middle of November when Balenciaga published a campaign called, innocently enough, Balenciaga Gift Shop. But the name is where all forms of innocence came to a stop.

AFTER kick-starting her wildly successful career with a viral video that asserted her as hip-hop’s “icy girl”, rapper Saweetie has been hard at work on her debut studio album. Unfortunately, a high-profile lover’s quarrel and some questionable sales-numbers have recently thrown a wrench into all of her best laid plans. But long before all that would come to fruition, Saweetie was born Diamonte Valentin Harper on July 2nd, 1993 in the city of Hayward, California. Largely raised in the Bay Area, Saweetie earned her eventual stage name from her grandmother, who used the loving term of endearment as a nickname. And even though she had herself a couple of industry contacts thanks to her mom’s former reputation as a model who popped-up in a few iconic hip-hop videos back in the day -- including DMX’s “What These B*tches Want” and Nelly’s “Ride wit Me” -- Saweetie says that it was always her intent to make it on her own merit. Saweetie grew up listening to the classic rap-stylings of artists like 2Pac, Biggie, and Lil Kim – which meant that by the time she was thirteen, she was already writing her own lyrics in a journal that she kept in her room. Shortly thereafter she’d perform for one of the first times ever at a high-school talent show taking place during Black History Month. But knowing that she needed a back-up plan just in case – Saweetie also made sure to place an emphasis on completing her education. After graduating from Monterey Trail High School in Sacramento County, she began her post-secondary education at San Diego State before eventually transferring to the University of Southern California.

These days everybody is looking for love, some people never find it while some people find it in the wrong places, but sometimes you find it in the wrong person. Social media has a paramount effect on the way we view and navigate relationships whether we like it or not. Gone are the days when we would only hear about famous power couples on talk shows or media tabloids now we are able to keep up with seemingly every moment a couple shares together and some celebrity couples are just inescapable. At this moment in time is there any couple more polarizing than Blueface and Chrisean Rock? From countless physical altercations, to mirror messages written in blood to stolen vehicles Blueface and Chrissean's relationship has been nothing short of a spectacle to some while a cautionary tale to others so we figured we would break down the relationship timeline right here on Before They Were Famous, we also wanted to give a big shoutout to The Unpopular Party who also has a video covering this relationship, there’s is a little longer and more in-depth if you’re interested, we have also done Chrissean's before they were famous bio so be sure to check that out when you have a chance and without further ado lets get into this video

Before earning her first cross-over hit with “Big Energy” and seeing over a hundred of her unreleased tracks leak onto the internet, the rapper Latto was born Alyssa Michelle Stephens on December 22nd, 1998, in Columbus, Ohio to bi-racial couple, Misti Pitts and Shayne Stephens. At the age of two, her parents moved the family from Ohio to Atlanta, Georgia where Alyssa grew up on the South Side in Clayton County and bonded with her father over their shared interest in drag-racing. As a kid, Alyssa was always drumming up ingenious ways to earn a little extra scratch. She not only sold candy in the halls of her elementary school but when she got a little bit older, she claims she would sometimes make around $10K a night by throwing house parties and charging an entry fee at the door, while also marking up snacks like chips and soda on the inside. During these parties, Alyssa would play the music from some of her favorite artists, not only rappers that her father introduced her to like Tupac, Bone Thugs N Harmony, as well as the NWA, but her own favorites like Nicki Minaj and Gucci Mane as well.

In today's society, the world that makes up celebrities and pop culture, in general, can best be described as a circus and that's still sugarcoating it. From athletes to actors and actresses to musicians, sometimes we tend to forget how much influence these people can have over everything, and cancel culture in many ways is a by-product of that powerful and sometimes dangerous influence. Cancel culture has exacted its wrath on a number of celebrities but I think there have been few in recent memory who have truly felt its wrath more than Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West and I mean this is not undeserved or not for no reason either, unless you have been living under a rock the past few months than you have absolutely heard of Ye’s controversies, antisemitic comments and problematic antics. It's crazy because controversy, in general, was pretty much synonymous with Ye before he went on his latest run of problematic behavior from Taylor Swift, wearing the confederate flag, his TMZ outburst about slavery or his presidential rally meltdown Ye has been doing this for a while now. But his recent actions have clearly made a bigger impact than any wrongdoing Ye has done before so, and it kinda feels like it happened quick so today we are going to be chronicling the unfortunate descent of Ye’s problematic behavior into a comprehensive timeline, right here on Before They Were Famous.

Before sitting down to attend one of the most controversial dinners in recent memory alongside Ye and former President Donald Trump, alt-right commentator Nicholas J. Fuentes was born on August 18th, 1998 in La Grange Park, Illinois. A former student of Lyons Township High School, Fuentes was active in the student body as a member of the speech team as well as the institution’s Model UN. In fact, in May of 2016, he was one of four students invited to greet Governor Bruce Rauner during his visit to the school and escorted the politician inside of the building. It was also while at Lyons Township that Nick launched his career as a television pundit with his very own series that aired five or six times during his tenure there. Bill Allen, the supervisor of television services for the school would remember Fuentes as someone who stood out from the rest of the pack. Following his graduation in 2016 however, something inside Nick shifted as he took to embracing the extreme right like never before. During a speech he would give that year to an anti-immigration group, Fuentes would admit to having become convinced that immigrants were taking jobs from Americans and dooming the Republican Party to irrelevance – that’s despite the fact that Fuentes himself has claimed to be descended from Mexican immigrants.

BEFORE becoming an American musician known for pumping out some truly psychedelic pop songs, Steve Lacy was born on May 23rd, 1998 in southern Los Angeles County to an African American mother and a Filipino father. Taking part in a largely middle-class upbringing, Steve attended private school during his early years and was shielded from the rougher parts of Compton by his mother who regularly encouraged him and his three sisters to stay inside as often as possible. For the most part, Steve’s father was absent from his childhood and would tragically pass away when his son was only 10-years-old. Following this, Steve would largely lose his connection to the Filipino side of his heritage, which left him with a natural curiosity about the culture that he hopes to one day explore in greater depth. Around the same time that he lost his father, Lacy discovered his life’s passion – music. More specifically, he discovered guitar while playing the video game, “Guitar Hero”.

When Sky Bri showed-up as a guest on the first episode of the Sidemen’s “Tinder in Real Life” dating series, she set the internet on fire by flashing her ample sized assets while in the midst of meeting Mike Majlak. Sky began her career a couple of years ago. While living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bri wasn’t happy spending her days working at Target, earning somewhere around $1,000 a month. So, to supplement that income, she and her then-boyfriend began filming some of their nightly aerobic-sessions, which she then uploaded to “OnlyFans”. Shortly thereafter, Bri reached out to professionals who taught her the ins and outs of the adult entertainment business and if you’d like to learn more, be sure to check out our Before They Were Famous that Sky Bri herself has shouted-out for being almost entirely accurate over on TikTok! Of course, following her appearance on Side-Plus, Bri’s content would become all the more popular. Today, Bri charges around $20 a month for her tantalizing material and now – only two years or so removed from her days working retail -- she’s regularly earning around $500,000 a month! But just as important as the money she makes are the relationships she’s forged along the way. In fact, over the past few months, Bri’s been linked to a whole bunch of different men – the question is, which one if any of them is she actually dating? Let’s see if we can’t find out.

The trouble with Andy Dісk and his plunge into the Dark Side of Fame began long before headlines revealed that he’d been arrested in Santa Barbara, California on felony burglary charges after allegedly entering a home under construction and stealing multiple power tools. Stealing something might be a brand-new offense for Dісk, but groping is most definitely not. And if he’s not having problems keeping his hands to himself, well, he’s probably somewhere out there in La La Land, doing illegal stuff. In some ways, Andy Dісk fall from grace is a tragic chain of events that brought down a once-promising comic who was heralded by Time Magazine as “the most talented, gutsy, and truly strange comic of his generation”. In other ways, controversy and Andy Dісk have become such common bedfellows that to expect anything else from the dude would probably be asking too much at this point. You see, as Andy’s star rose in Hollywood thanks to his presence in the cult-classic television series, “The Ben Stiller Show” and “NewsRadio”, so too did his seemingly endless appetite for illegal substances.