period ain't none in between that you know
trying to get away from here before 42 doug would drop tracks one of
one hard times rolled on my shoulder and grace and we paid alongside little baby
off his 2020 album might turn as far as me
rapping shit i started rapping in jail before 42 doug would get mentorship for
both yogaty and little baby signing a joint venture between four pf
and collective music group motherfuckers gonna rob you all
day shit like that you can't be certain places
it's dangerous before 42 doug would clock in just shy of 1 million instagram
followers 100 000 subscribers on youtube and 15 000
followers on twitter at the time of this recording
before 42 doug would come up with the iconic whistle sound which kicked off
nearly every song off his 2020 mixtape young and turned vol 2.
just like from that point on he was just making calls for me getting my music on
worse like just doing it from you know what i'm saying now for decades detroit
has made attempts to becoming a major city in rap
with the exception of a few most notably eminem these aspirations
well they've never fully realized for a variety of reasons
enter 42 doug who wants to be the person who bridges the gap
between the detroit rap scene and national audiences and if street cred
means anything well this kid he's got a whole bunch of
it i thought about none of it i'm just doing 75 years you
talking about a paddock get your ass on my face while i kill you
at only 25 years old while 42 doug he's already served six years in prison
that's where he first learned to rap but at the time well he was just keeping his
talents to himself in fact he told billboard i would just
keep to myself and keep my raps to myself
i was in jail for six years and mfurs well they never heard me rap
except for a few people they were surprised that i was rapping after
starting to rap in 2015 well doug he began to take his rhyming career more
seriously upon regaining his freedom in 2017
and then he quickly caught the ear of little baby i'll explain more a little
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little doug was born dion marquis hayes on november 25th
1994 and good old detroit michigan oh i'm for whittier whitewater
okay east side of detroit being from the east side of detroit one of the city's
roughest areas well doug he landed himself into some legal
trouble for carjacking and felony firearms possession while the kid was
still a teenager that was arrested earned doug four years
in prison but he ended up doing six after his sentence was extended for
a physical altercation with another inmate but we ain't at that part of the
story just yet it was childhood nickname it was doug
and the number 42 well he and his crew they were attached
to that as it stands for the answer to the ultimate question of life
the universe and everything that's according to author douglas adams who
wrote the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
let's roll a clip the answer to the ultimate question
of life the universe and everything
before getting locked up he had grown up listening to a whole lot of jeezy
and his later mentor yogati he told billboard i used to listen to jeezy and
yogati all day i got into gotti but i was on jeezy from the get-go of
course since i was listening to jeezy everyone wanted to be trapping and
we really was just having fun and everyone wanted to go skate and be kids
i f with big sean as soon as he dropped too then we also like to party and hit
up the skate park but as the story goes while
life hustling on the streets it caught up with them fast and he found
himself behind bars at the age of just 15. now all in all this turned out to be
a bit of a blessing in disguise because it was while behind bars in his fourth
year that he learned that he had a talent for
rap now while placed in the solitary confinement after an altercation
well that's when he started to freestyle with himself and then in the one
hour per day that he was allotted to leave confinement
well he would rap to a select few of his fellow inmates yeah my brother was
across from whoa oh yeah my brother rico he was
across from me so i used to be like what would this
sound like and he like go out there and he like go out there and do that i see
what's going on period although in doug's eyes well as raps
they weren't very good and in that interview with the stewie show well doug
admitted that he thought his initial material was more or less bull
now in his interview with billboard he further explained i had gone to the hole
and i ain't got to do i was hungry as a mother so i put
some together i didn't like my raps so i
threw all them away i went back to the hole and i
thought this shit is starting to sound all right
nobody teach me i tell myself
trial and error experimentation yeah just
something you wanted to do or somebody pushed you to do
no i want none of that it was just something to do in 2018 doug he began to
acknowledge rap as more of a serious career path in 2018
at the studio with fellow detroit rapper 42 twin
well 42 doug he wrote his first breakout single mama i'm sorry
i disappointed her when i ain't come home on time
and she loved me really about my uncle my home and my homeboys
it sounds like it's about a hoe but it's really about my home but
now this track gets an open letter to his mother apologizing for having his
jail sentence extended by two years after you know he got paroled now this
song it was a bit of a failure to launch and doug has said that even though
people uh may not have listened to it then
well he thinks that they're going to appreciate it more later that track
being a self-proclaimed failure well it made him shift his focus to figure out
what was working for him instead of what wasn't working now from
there he unloaded projects like one one two four one wayburn
and one one two four one wayburn part two in 2018.
now doug he began to hit his musical stride as he earned thousands of streams
on soundcloud now i assume there was something behind
this address so we decided to look it up on google earth
and it looks like that house whatever it was well it's been demolished now that
same year he dropped the streets a babyface ray assisted single that
helped give him his most visibility to date
another video for the track and now has amassed over 8.3 million views on
youtube at the time of this recording that year is music it caught the ear of
lil baby in 2018 and the two they first hung out while
gambling no doug admitted that little baby he got him good
one time in his billboard interview he also stated yeah we used to shoot dyson
i called him one day and he was listening to one of my songs they
already knew that i rapped and they were rapping along
then i came to atlanta and baby asked me to play some of my music for him
it was really just turned from there this was 2018. now this was the start of
their partnership but there was another rapper
who had an eye on the young talent enter yogaty
i met gotti well really baby i put gotti on to my music you know what
i'm saying and the rest is history huh no really he
played my music but he didn't tell him who i was he got it like i asked like
well who was this like this is my homeboy
from detroit he's like sure he heard you know what i'm saying
but he said he was gonna turn me on the goddy like
i want you to sign my home you know right
but he was trying to sign me at the same time so there's a lot going on
yeah so he like i don't just want to just get you to him
you know in 2019 baby and gotti they got into a bidding war
over the young kid before he signed a joint venture now 42 he signed to yo
gotti's collective music group along with little baby's 4pf imprint and
from there well he dropped his young intern project
where recently he landed his first ever billboard hot 100 chart placement by
appearing on little baby song grace and with all this success well he still
has a lot to look out for because recently the kid he got arrested
for firing a gun at a gun range while having a felony history thankfully
the kid was out in no time now speaking about his success
well 42 doug he had this to say i feel like everything i do is from the heart
i don't do no clout chasing none of that fake
you're gonna get the reel with me every time you know what i'm saying
and yes we do know what you're saying he's also become a double xl freshman
class list nominee so if you're a fan be sure to go over and send your support
but you know go support him huh go follow him on twitter
instagram and vote for him for you know you do what you got to do
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