before little Aussie Bert would drop bangers including EXO tour life money
longer eraser social batted Bujji sangwon paradise and his long-awaited
studio album a turtle a tank did I sound muscle I sold my soul for you now figure
that out time I got some I saw I saw much so for you before the Lucifer would
be nominated for a Grammy a billboard award twice for an MTV Video Music Award
and when first song in the summer with EXO tour life back in 2017 little
Lucifer didn't always dream of becoming a rapper in fact at first he was just
jealous of the attention his friend was getting at school for releasing a song
now one point in time he was even a member of his school's marching band but
who is he he gravitated towards idols like Marilyn Manson who knew how to
stand out in a crowd and it wasn't long before he was picking up the pen to
garner more attention from his classmates now it didn't take long for
him to realize that creating music was a god-given talent his parents they
weren't so fond of his new career choice and they kicked him out of the house so
nowhere to stay and no money after quitting his job as a bag boy well they
moved with his grandma in her small nursing home and hoozy played nothing
left to deal with but his dreams that was serious to me because I live I live
with my grandma my whole life even when I went to go moving my dad I came back
and lived with my grandma no matter what like I'm the last days of me like living
in Philly my grandma actually sleep lived in like a good nursing home and I
lived there with her it was like it's a little space but we his chilling one it
was normal to me no she'll be watching QVC on there what's going on guys it's
for my couple cretin tak been into life and career of little Aussie Berg prior
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okay minigame making happy songs the life just hit me that's what happened
I'm smirking because it's like it's finding outlet it's not fun blue zipper
was born Sameer woods in North Philadelphia on July 31st 1994 where he
grew up in the Francisville neighborhood widows he was still young his parents
separated so he would bounce between his mother and his father's homes now
although he grew up in a rough neighborhood he got used to things
pretty quickly besides he always avoided getting into trouble because he didn't
like leaving the house very often now while hanging out inside Susy he was a
big fan of playing video games like bad Hoffman's Pro BMX and he loved to watch
cartoons including Rugrats and CatDog that's before he fell in love with anime
and if you listen to his music or you take a look at his cover art well the
amount of anime influenced it definitely shows but eventually Ozzy started to
spend more time outside after a friend of his named Elijah he introduced them
to skateboarding and when he was 12 years old who's these dad he got him and
his brother a four-wheeler to start riding and while his little brother did
crash it once well nobody got hurt and to this day we'll see he still likes to
ride everyone knows this video
all right we gotta go now in terms of early musical influences well Ozzy's
first-ever CD was Mike Jones's album and his grandma later bought him wanted by
Bow Wow then he started getting into Meek Mill and Wiz Khalifa and he says
that Wiz is actually his favorite rapper and the two were actually good friends
now but who's these biggest influences were not rappers he fell in love with
emo punk music like Paramore My Chemical Romance the all-american rejects and GG
Allin but the biggest influence on his style his attitude and his music was
actually Marilyn Manson now one day while he was watching celebrity
deathmatch on TV well he came across an episode that included Ricky Martin and
Marilyn Manson squaring off against one another
no after Uzi watched that program she became obsessed with Marilyn Manson and
he dug up absolutely everything he could find on the singer's life he also
downloaded all the Manson files that his computer could store now although his
friends at the school weren't as big of fans of the singer and Uzi says that he
got teased for his different taste in music
well he didn't care he became infatuated with the singer's life and still cites
him as one of the biggest influences of all time my father the PAL Emperor yes
listen here at age 27 I will leave this earth for this man right here oh well
you see he didn't immediately pick up a guitar join a rock bed or paint his
nails black well he did experiment with different instruments he played the
trumpet in his school's bed and sites Hot Cross Buns as the first song he ever
learned how to play but he wasn't trying to become a successful trumpet player
you only joined the bed to help get his grades up trumpet at my school it was
nice I mean I did this I won't be in trouble that you in the school band slit
for a little bit but then I can work out my great after the trumpet phase was
over and he stopped listening as much to early 2000s emo well he found the music
may SAP rocky Pharrell and Kanye West's 808 heartbreaks which he says changed
his life now today Ozzy well he can be spotted
shopping alongside Kanye nobody guess conde is very
family-orientated because the first time he talked to Z on the phone well he told
him that he was not only happy for him but for his family because well the kid
is something special now who's he wasn't only a band member
but he was also a class clown who loved attention from his classmates in any way
shape or form but he always was an outsider who never quite fit in with his
peer group he dyed his hair in the tenth grade and he got grills in high school
that wasn't until his senior year of high school that Uzi would find the
thing that would change his life forever and give him the attention that he was
looking for now whose EES friend William Aston he dropped a remix to Chris
Brown's popular song look at me now and when their classmates caught wind of the
rap well they went crazy and they showed Williams more love than Uzi had ever
received in his life now who's he he saw how the girls were looking at his friend
and the attention he was getting from making music and he wanted some of that
for himself so who's he he told William I can rap too and that was a lie at the
time Suzie had never thought about rapping a verse until that moment will
he called his bullshit and told hoozy to rap for him and after making up excuses
and pushing it off well he finally penned a verse to spit for his friend
now will was impressed and he invited newsy to the studio now from there the
two they began to create songs together and at the time boozy he was rapping
under the moniker stake down vertical as part of the stake down crew with William
near the vertical part of his name it was in reference for vertical jumps
which was a metaphor for reaching the top now people they started to call him
vert but the name we know him by today apparently it came from some random dude
woozi he didn't even know another dude heard whose hear a ping and he said wow
you rap fast like a machine gun or something like a little Uzi and just
like that the legend of little Aussie had begun then we started posting songs
onto a newly created soundcloud page under his new name but his songs they
weren't really doing numbers at first in fact he said for the first few songs
well barely anyone would listen but then one of his songs
it went from 150 place to a thousand and from a thousand of 3,000 and him and his
friends while they were ecstatic he told complex in a 2015 interview that
just that couple of thousand felt so crazy just being at home even a thousand
people listen to your song he would find beats on YouTube and record freestyles
over them the first song still up on a soundcloud
page is titled in the field freestyle which is from six years ago but who sees
slow soundcloud climb coincided with the decline in his grades at school
now he was failing and getting into trouble even having to move schools at
four different points over the course of his high school career in fact who's he
was getting into so much trouble that his mom she actually threatened to kick
him out of the house if he didn't step up his grades and stop focusing on rap
that was he he told complex about this time period where he stated I'm already
popular in my city I was just trying to get rich man I'm not gonna lie to you I
didn't really want to go back to school I mean my family was mad about that
because you know you tell your family you want a rap and they look at you like
you're crazy but he believes in himself and knew that his music would be heard
by the right people if he continued to release it he dropped the project purple
thoughts vol 1 which included production from space goes purp a man we've never
done it before their famous video on which we should have done or perhaps we
should do a where they now anyway finally Uzi certicates the attention
from the people who could change his life though he and William they caught
the ear of DJ buzz worthy with their music who offered to manage the two now
William he declined but Ozzy he said he was looking for any way to not have to
go to school anymore and he just wanted to make some money
off music real quick so he accepted no buzz worthy he introduced Suzie to
charlie heat who produced the 2014 trash boozy now while it was he was working on
that song he was unknowingly working on a song that would get his music heard by
all even more powerful people now that song it made it into the hands
of DJ diamond cuts from the Philly radio station power 99 Newsies manager at the
time was diamond cuts his fiancee who sent her the track she liked it so much
that she played the song on the radio in Philly which was a huge moment for Z at
the time and while his record was spinning on air well it just so happened
that the mixtape legend Don cannon well he was in Philadelphia at the time
driving around listening to power 99 cannon called
Suzie the music so much that he came back out
to Philly to meet with them nosey he kept going to the studio and perfecting
his craft and said one day when he went to the studio alone well DJ diamond cuts
was there I go to the studio I'm going Danny like what they hit so they let me
it's a resident working with me I start working it was within ASAP yams was
another artist to give Ozzy and early cosign he told you that he would be a
star one day and the two they began to talk on the phone about music and life
on the regular RIPD yams now we have done it before
they're a god video on yams I think that one could use an update in 2014 Ozzy he
started dating stylist designer and artist Britney bird that was love life
it was great his music career was taking off and he had all the right industry
contacts for a successful music career but who Z's mom she still wasn't
impressed though she told him that he would have to find a real job a newsie
well he wanted to make his mom happy no no no she just like just imagined she
don't know no rapid spike saying you got to become a rapper like Shane believe it
it was then that he started working as a stock boy at bottom dollar now he did
quit after three days but hey at least he kept his word and he found a real job
but apparently that still wasn't enough for moms because she kicked him out of
the house now at this point with nowhere to go well who's he he ended up living
with his grandma in her nursing home apartment where he would work on his
music knows grandma she liked his music and said that he could work on his
mixtape while staying with her now when wiz khalifa was on his under
the influence tour well they had to stop in pennsylvania so little lucy bird he
showed up oh you are no longer I'm not Rockaway if I was 90
always on every boy this is chili and join under the hip florestal a young
news he came to the show to meet with DJ drama who got put on to his music
through Don Cannon now apparently when the two first bat will ooze II said the
drama he was looking at him funny so the first thing he ever said was right well
you look at that before like that like well yeah the two instantly clicked
after that and along with Don Cannon well the team had a lot of faith in the
kid from Philly so they brought him out to Atlanta to record where they worked
on his upcoming mixtape the real doozy that was big break was when Ozzy had a
standout feature on DJ Carnage's single wdy W in 2015
featuring ASAP Ferg and rich the kid now who's these energy and new flow over the
hard mix of EDM and trap well it came as a surprise to many fans who are unaware
of his music who's the inked an official record deal
with Cannon and drama signing the generation now later signing on with
Atlantic Records now finally was all coming together for
Ozzy and he put out the project loved his rage which garnered Herrmann even
more bus fun fact the Lu V and not only represents love but it's also an acronym
for lil uzi berg now who's he he also was featured on the intro to young thug
slime season 2 which gave him a big push to new audiences now thug and hoozy they
became very close and thug was calling him the next stop though whose he said
that he learned a lot about flowing from thug and that he top thug thinks as well
now who's he he kept releasing he putting out little Aussie vert vs. the
world and things started to move fast when then he became a double XL freshman
alongside little yadi Kodak black and 21 savage 2016 was a big year for Z as well
he released the perfect love tape including the smash do what I want which
is close to 70 million plays on soundcloud he also appeared on the last
verse of the me goes number one hit padded bushi which made people feel like
take off well he got left off bana bougie
it also became the biggest song of the year he also dropped a collab project
with gucci mane called 1017 versus the world which according to easy was
created within the span of just two days and who's he says that his favorite
mixtape so far no fortunately during all of these highs well
was dealing with a breakup from his longtime girlfriend Britney after that
Uzi went on tour at the weekend for the European leg of his starboy tour now
while in London on tour he previewed the song he wrote about his breakup and when
he released it while he named it EXO tour life paying homage to the weekends
EXO brand and while this song didn't reach the masses right away
well his core fanbase loved it and over the course of the next year
well more more people caught on to Easy's way looks radio started playing
it and the world caught wind of Ozzy's Talent well it was all over the set
seven times platinum in the US and it won the award for song of the summer at
the MTV VMAs he followed the success of that song up with his debut label album
love his rage too which topped the Billboard Hot 100 hip hop and R&B charts
it seemed like Ozzy was reaching new levels with his music and becoming the
rock star that he had always imagined for himself he was unanimously
considered to be one of the best new artists even being nominated for Best
New Artist at the Grammys to celebrate his success he bought his grandmother a
house to thank her for the role she played in his success and he also bought
himself his first car which just so happened to be a Lamborghini then he
began to work on the follow-up to the success of love his rage too and T
snippets from the album he was calling eternal a tank but it was in January
2019 that Uzi he made an announcement the left fans scratching their heads in
an Instagram story little Ozzy furred he announced that he was retiring from
music crazy he stated I'm done with music I deleted
everything I want to be normal I want to wake up at 2013 thank you love you know
Ozzy was suffering from label troubles and it seemed like he was being held
back from releasing music enter jay-z who signed Ozzy to a management deal
with his label Roc Nation and while we can't be sure if that was the reason we
would be hearing new music from the Philly artist while we saw him release
free Ozzy and Sango on paradise shortly afterwards and well as he said that at
first he was only rapping for money will it turn into him loving the attention
that comes with being a mega successful artist and it just hopes that people
will they keep paying attention I think it's safe to say that Uzi well he's
gonna be a megastar for many years to come
hopefully someone I don't have to make another before they were famous out
because I've made this video up quite a few times
he's just the king you know what I mean after the rest of the story we're gonna
wrap this one up here of course this is before they're famous my name is Mike
what can we make of such a celebrity bias you guys gotta let us know who's
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