Before Lil Mosey dropped tracks like Noticed, Boof Pack and Pull Up
Before touring with the likes of Juice Wrld, Smooky Margielaa and Smoke Purpp, and would
share the stage with Lil Xan
Before Lil Mosey would sign with Interscope and blow up on SoundCloud and Instagram with
100s of thousands of followers...
Damn these rappers keep on getting younger and younger... at only 16 Lil Mosey has proven
to be an artist to keep an eye out for and another super talented rap prodigy who got
his start working with basic equipment posting his work onto SoundCloud of all places.
Success wouldn't come without it's hardships with him losing his close friend and collaborator
Kari Cash.
If you’re watching this buddy, I'm personally sorry for your loss, I can't imagine what
that feels like.
Now Lil Mosey is still pretty new to the game and the information on him is far and few
between, nevertheless we've pulled up some decent info to piece this one together and
this time we figured out his real birth name.
What's going on guys?
My name is Marlon Palmer, documenting the life of Lil Mosey prior to fame, here for
you on Before They Were Famous, and this is an updated video.
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Not even close like that other guy.
Me and Michael have known each other for sometime here in Toronto and he invited me to come
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I hope you guys are happy with me, I'll continue to make you guys proud.
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Aright, let's get into this video with Lil Mosey.
Lathan Moses Echols was born on January 25, 2002 in Seattle Washington.
He grew up in the North side of the city in Mountainlake Terrace, Washington population
just under 20K.
He would later link up with people in the South when he started making music in 2016.
But despite his strong Seattle roots, he doesn't really have a lot of love for the city, once stating:
“I'm really the only n**** making it out there...but other than that, there's nothing
going on in Seattle.”
He expressed his love for the weed though and also shared via Instagram.
“I only f*** with a couple heads in Seattle and the soufend, all my n****s in the norf,
if y’all don’t know about us you will fosho.”
I'm guessing he's not a Macklemore fan.
He would later clear the air stating this.
“What I really meant to say was I’m the only new wave artist to really break out of Seattle
There’s a lot of hidden talent, there’s a lot of new wave artists that haven’t been
recognized by the world yet.
I’m trying to put on for my city.
I’m trying to do what Drake did for Toronto.”
Some big shoes to fill.
Mosey was raised primarily by his mom, and also has older brothers.
Now, the details on Mosey's life prior to fame are still pretty sketchy, and with young
rapper there's always misinformation out there.
For example, in an interview, professional gamer Sinatraa mentioned being a big fan of
Lil Mosey, and claimed the rapper went to his rival high school, Shorecrest High School.
On the other hand, wikipedia currently claims he went to Mountlake Terrace High School.
There is this picture of Mosey in Mountlake Terrace Hawks football jersey.
But I think that's actually him in elementary school.
There's also a Mountlake Terrace Elementary school, and their mascot is also the Hawks.
Why you all gotta make my life so god damn difficult...
Then on his old facebook he cites Mountlake as his highschool so I'm gonna go with that.
Either way, the kid didn't spend too much time in school.
As his soundcloud numbers grew, he attended high school less and less, and dropped out
completely in 2017.
But what got him into hip hop in the first place?
Well, apparently it was all thanks to his older brother stealing his ipod for three
days.
When Mosey got it back, loaded up was the Meek Mill's 2012 album, Dreams and Nightmares.
A personal favorite.
Meek would be not just the first rapper he ever listened too, but also the inspiration
for becoming a rapper himself.
Despite his love for Meek Mill, you might have noticed that Lil Mosey doesn't exactly
sound like him.
He described his sound to Billboard like this,
“My sound is more like the new era, melodic rapping.
It’s hard to explain.
You can maybe compare it to some others, like how it sounds, but not how good it is.
It doesn’t sound like anybody.
“
In his interview with XXL, Lil Mosey did come up with someone he feels like he's similar
to.
“Music-wise, they be comparing me to Drake.”
Drake-like or not, Mosey says that his mom was not a big fan of him pursuing music in
the early days.
She wanted to focus on practical things like school, and pursue the rap career later on.
But, obviously moms advice was put on the back burner.
Like many in his generation, he started recording his raps with a simple homemade set up.
He actually put his first tracks together with Garage Band.
Then, after linking up with a producer, Royce David he was then able to get some free time
in a professional studio, where he recorded his more polished tracks, including Pull Up.
Which at the time of this recording has clocked in 13 Million streams on Soundcloud and another
15 Million views on YouTube.
In the early Seattle days, Mosey didnt just record tracks.
He also performed live, although back in those days he wasn't getting paid big bucks for
his concerts.
In fact, he actually had to pay to get stage time, an investment which quickly paid off.
One positive early experience was performing at Coast 2 Cost Live in November of 2016.
In the nation wide star search, Lil Mosey took fourth place.
One of the first people to embrace Lil Mosey's music was his buddy Kari Cash.
They would hang out.
The performed together, and were both members of Band Kids.
On top of that, Mosey identified him as one of the people who really took him under his
wing, saying,
“My bro Kari Cash taught me a lot of stuff, too.
He's from Seattle.
He's told me a lot of stuff that he's seen and that other people have done.
Things that I shouldn't.”
Apparently Kari was giving pretty good guidance, because Mosey saw success very quickly.
He knew he was on to something when his SoundCloud was starting to hit big numbers.
The song that really did it is the oldest still available on the channel, Off White.
Mosey said of the track,
“That was my first one and it started at like 50k, before “Pull Up.”
People didn't know who I was, but they still knew my sound.
I was just dropping on SoundCloud and made a video for “Pull Up,” and now I'm here.”
Of course, Lil Mosey didnt just straight from Off White to Pull Up.
He put in the work, building a catalogue of tracks including So Bad, Skrt Off Freestyle,
2 Paid, Been On, Lame S***, and another 7 songs he included on his 2017 mixtape, North's
Best.
But it was his track Pull Up that drew the world's attention to Lil Mosey.
The music video dropped on Elevator on Dec 7, 2017.
When asked how he got the song on the site, Mosey explained that it was basically a matter
of just pushing for what he wanted.
He told Complex,
“I just kept sending it in to the website, the Twitter, the owner's Twitter.
And then the owner, Bryan, he seen it in the messages, and he was just saying he wanted
to drop it.”
Lil Mosey moved to LA in March 2018, and that's when he says he started to make some money
for the first time.
Now that the kid had a few bucks in his pockets and was rubbing shoulders with others on the
come up the world was his oyster.
It was on March 14, 2018, that his next big music video, Boof Pack, would drop on World
Star, garnering a good 13 million view at the time of this recording.
Lil Mosey would then embark on his first tour, with another young artist, Smooky Margielaa.
During that tour he signed to Interscope.
He would go on to appear on Smoke Purrp's Outbreak Tour, before becoming an opener on
Juice Wrld's Wrld Domination Tour.
He also performed at Rolling Loud in Miami, and at the world star show at South By South
West.
But around the same time, Lil Mosey would also experience a serious tragedy.
Kari Cash passed away on May 6, 2018.
In one interview, Mosey claimed the culprit was sleep apnea.
But other sources seem to suggest it might have been a drug overdose.
Despite the loss of his close friend, Mosey would continue to push forward.
His latest single, Noticed would rack up over 7 million views on sound cloud in just one
month, with the Cole Bennet directed music video hitting 98 million views over on the
Lyrical Lemonade youtube channel at the time of this recording... the kid is certainly
gaining major traction and he's only 17.
God damn it, like that's almost... half my age, it's... ugh.
As for the rest of the story, well, we'll have to wait and see because this is Before They
Were Famous.
My name's Marlon Palmer, thanks for watching.
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