New rappers pop up on social media all the time,
but none of them came in and took over the game like SleazyWorld Go.
He went from prison, to working in a factory,
to making millions in the rap game in record time -
and now he’s one of the hottest new artists in the industry.
Today we’re breaking down the wild come up and career
of SleazyWorld Go.
Let’s get right into it.
Sleazy was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
and spent most of his early life there.
He has a big family with six other siblings,
and he said back in the day
they was like a little gang riding bikes around the hood
getting into fights and throwing parties.
Back then making music wasn’t part of the plan,
but Sleazy has been rapping since he was like five years old.
His dad tried to make it in the industry,
and he had Sleazy and his brothers battle rap each other for fun.
Now his brother 81Hundo is in the rap game too,
but he hasn’t had any massive hits like Sleazy yet.
The first time Sleazy recorded a song
was at ten years old with his mom and brother.
His pops wasn’t around much,
so Sleazy and his siblings was mostly raised by their mom.
She tried to keep them on the right path even though they ain't have much,
and in an interview Sleazy said
“We had a microphone and a little laptop
and we recorded the song in the bathroom of the shelter.
We really ain’t realize the situation we was in.”.
Sleazy says he was a wild kid,
but he wasn’t always getting into trouble in class.
Instead, he caught other kids at recess or outside of school and tried to fight them.
There usually wasn’t even a reason for him to throw hands,
but he just loved to fight.
When he was 14,
Sleazy’s mom decided to move the family
to Kansas City, Missouri to be closer to his aunt and grandma.
Moving out of the city you’ve known your whole life is tough,
and Sleazy wasn’t rocking with the idea at all.
So that’s when he dropped out of school
and ran away from home for a whole year.
He kept going back to Michigan and hid out with his homies,
and eventually the police got involved.
One night Sleazy was out past curfew and the cops pulled him over.
He ended up goin to juvy for three months,
and the cops told him
if he ever came back to Grand Rapids they would lock him up for real.
At that point Sleazy had not other option
but to adapt to his new surroundings in Kansas.
Eventually he started meeting new homies
and learning how to move in a different city,
and now he says that he likes KC more than Grand Rapids.
But moving to another city aint keep him out of trouble,
and in 2015 Sleazy caught an armed robbery charge.
There aint a lot of details about the case,
but Sleazy pleaded guilty and got hit with a four year sentence.
Getting locked up made him realize
he needed to switch up how he moved though,
and that’s when he decided to start taking music seriously.
After he got out of jail in September 2019,
Sleazy got a job at a Kohl’s warehouse
shipping boxes all day.
He says working in the factory felt like slavery
and he knew that he had to make it out of the streets a different way.
At the time he was dating a girl who he was focusing on more than his career,
but when she cheated on him
Sleazy knew it was time to go hard in the booth.
That’s when he got the name Sleazy,
and in March 2020
he dropped his first official track called Sliding.
But right when he was finally ready to put both feet in the rap game,
the whole world shut down during the pandemic.
Sleazy couldn’t book shows or link up with fans,
but he said that everything shutting down when he started dropping music
actually turned out to be a good thing.
He told Billboard
“People were in the house, on their phones,
so people were discovering me
and having time to actually sit down and listen to me.”.
He started popping off in his city early on
and was racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
Sleazy dropped three mixtapes in just over a year,
proving he had a solid work ethic.
He was already on his way up and had labels reaching out to him,
but then he dropped Sleazy Flow and changed everything.
Sleazy knew it was a hit before he even dropped it!
He tried to get Icewear Vezzo on the track,
but it too long to get his verse
so he just went and shot the music video so he could drop it.
Sleazy linked up with a videographer named Dot Shot It Films.
At first he was nervous because they never worked together,
but Sleazy loved how it turned out.
They put together a little snippet and posted it online the same day they shot the video.
It went viral instantly
and racked up over 30K shares on Facebook.
Everyone was ready for him to drop the full video,
but then the videographer got locked up before he could finish it.
Sleazy waited a month and a half
until finally he linked up with Dot Shot It’s baby mama and got the footage
so he could edit the video himself.
Most people think Sleazy Flow just blew up in 2022,
but it already had a million views before it started going viral on TikTok.
Sleazy had a lot of labels interested in signing him,
but back in March he decided to ink a deal with Island Records under Universal.
He was actually meeting with Island Records earlier this year
when Sleazy Flow started going viral on TikTok.
The track was already buzzing on YouTube,
but the TikTok wave brought in a whole new audience
and put Sleazy right in the spotlight.
Huge artists started shouting out Sleazy on social media,
and Lil Baby posted a TikTok singing the track.
Having one of the biggest rappers in the game posting your song is huge,
but a couple of months later Sleazy scored an even bigger win
after Lil Baby hopped on the official remix.
Sleazy went from an underground artist working at a warehouse
to one of the hottest new rappers in the game almost overnight.
Now he’s got his money up and his name is buzzing in the industry,
but Sleazy says
It's a lot of stress, mother****** want money.
He told No Jumper,
That's what I've been learning todo, set boundaries you know?
I feel like,
once you do something for a mother****** and they don't like...
and they don't do what they supposed to do.
then it's like s*** I don't really- I don't know what to tell you after that.
It's like you gotta make it.
He also knows that blowing up as a street rapper
and staying in your city is dangerous,
but Sleazy wants to stick around KC and Grand Rapids for now
just to show other people that they can make it in the industry
even if they’re not from a place like Chicago or Atlanta.
Before Sleazy came up,
there wasn't a lot of artists from either city who really blew up.
Back in the day
Sleazy didn’t even know it was possible to be successful
if you came from where he did,
but now he wants to inspire young kids to believe in themselves
and go hard with the music too.
He said “Me growing up I ain't never seen a celebrity in the city.
I ain't never seen nobody that was like big.
Rich as hell,
just in the city, just coming through, so I want
the mother****** under me to be able to see that type of s***
So like I still want my presence in the city.
You know I'm saying.
After Sleazy Flow took off,
Sleazy kept grindin and dropping new music.
Offset reached out to him on social media,
and they linked up for the viral track Step 1.
He's also been getting put on shows and performed at Rolling Loud in Miami
and Yo Gotti’s Birthday Bash in Memphis.
Sleazy just dropped his newest project Where the Shooters Be,
with features from Rich the Kid, G Herbo, Fredo Bang, and more.
A lot of people were calling him a one hit wonder after Sleazy Flow popped off,
but he’s proving that he’s got what it takes to hold a career in the industry.
Sleazy got a lot of people rockin with him right now,
but that don’t mean he don't got opps.
Back in August,
someone posted paperwork from 2016
that allegedly shows Sleazy and his brother 81Hundo
snitching about the armed robbery case he got locked up for.
One picture shows a hand-written letter from someone asking a judge for forgiveness,
and the other pics are of a transcript where Sleazy and his brother
allegedly worked with the cops.
Sleazy clapped back and wrote
“Fake news n****s know my body”
on his IG story.
Then he posted a screenshot
where someone was talking about how to make fake court documents.
Sleazy captioned it with
“I ain’t know n****s was making fake paperwork out here on n****s.
This s*** getting scary.”.
Some people still wasn't convinced he didn’t rat,
so Sleazy hopped on the phone with the dude he allegedly snitched on
and posted the conversation online.
His co-defendant said it was all cap
and that Sleazy ain't rat on him,
My n**** solid, n**** ain't tell on nobody.
Know what I'm saying, but n***** know what time it is
bro n**** just clout chasing b**** second like always.
and dudes like Billionaire Black hopped online and defended Sleazy too.
Nobody knows what really went down except the people who were there,
but Sleazy obviously ain't too pressed about it.
He just dropped a project with the biggest features of his career,
and it’s probably just a matter of time
before he pops off with something even bigger than Sleazy Flow.
At this point, who knows where his career can go.
As long as he stays in the booth and off the streets,
SleazyWorld Go is really ready to take over the game.