After Ugly God would gain over 3 million instagram followers, 1 million twitter followers and
After Ugly God would absolutely kill the Double X L Freshman Cypher alongside Playboi Carti,
XXXTentacion and Made in Tokyo
After Ugly God would accidentally send 100 tracks to a fan, who would hold them for ransom
Many were unsure how Ugly God’s career would pan out. Being compared to the likes of Lil
Dicky, who manages to always stay relevant, I mean did you guys see that Sway freestyle?
Anyway, back to Ugly God. The basketball player and computer engineer turned rapper saw his
rise to fame come when his music video and song I Beat my Meat would go viral. The hilarious
song, accompanied by a video portraying Ugly God and his friends, well, acting like they’re
beating their meat, would quickly garner the attention of kids and teens world wide. At
the time of this recording it’s got around 5 million views on youtube. Following the
hit, Ugly God would release his debut single which would chart on the billboard hot 100
at number 100. Eventually it would hit 80 on the charts, which would lead to Ugly God
dropping a couple mixtapes and have fans eagerly awaiting his debut album, Bumps and Bruises.
Although 2017 was a killer year for Ugly God, it seems he really stayed quiet in 2018. Aside
from dropping his EP, Just a Lil Something Before the Album which included 4 tracks and
jumping on a feature with Lil Yachty, as well as a couple others, he didn’t do much. Now
that we’re more than half way through 2019, you guys are probably wondering, what’s
the man been up to? Well we’re going to tell you all about his future plans, including
his 100 tracks currently being held from him for ransom, here for you on Where Are They
Now?
What’s going on guys, Jarred Bronstein here for you today on Where Are They Now. This
isn’t so much a new series as it is a rebranded version of After They Were Famous. Turns out,
just because someone isn’t in the spotlight for a bit doesn’t mean their fame has run
out. That was the case with the likes of Bad Baby, also known as The Cash Me Outside girl,
and I feel that’s going to be the case for Ugly God who’s expected to have a big second
half of 2019. If you guys like the series be sure to give us a thumbs up, as well let
us know in the comments below who else you’d like us to cover. If it we’re up to me I’d
say maybe Blink 182, those guys were my childhood. I think Tom from the band hunts alients, maybe
he started the Area 51 march, who knows? Anyways, we gotta jump right into this one but before
that, we got a trivia question. How did Ugly God come up with the Little Dick Clique ? Let
me know in the comments below and I’ll answer that at the end of this video.
Ugly God was born Royce Cornell Davison on September 19th, 1996, in Indiana. It’s believed
his parents are originally from the Dominican Republic, but growing up Davison would move
a ton of times. From Indiana, the family moved to Mississippi, before going to Cleveland
Ohio. But it wouldn’t end there, the family would again move to Houston Texas, then to
Louisiana, until ultimately returning back to Mississippi. However if you we’re to
ask Davison himself, he’d probably say he’s from Houston Texas. He considers Houston his
Now in regards to his rap name, well originally Davison went by Pussy Bacon, but it’s believed
he changed it to Ugly God for a handful of reasons, one of them being his parent’s
displeasure of the name as well as social reasons, to name a few. He decided on the
Mississippi where he got a scholarship double majoring in Computer Engineering and Web Development.
He explained he wasn’t all that serious about rapping and just did it for fun while
playing basketball and focusing on his studies. All that would change when one of his songs
would go viral, and he’d start to realize he had a real career opportunity in front
of him. If you want to hear more about Ugly God’s rise to fame check out our Before
They Were Famous we did on him. It is a couple years old, so maybe it’s time for an updated
version. Let us know if you want us to see that in the comments below. But we gotta talk
about what he’s been up to the last couple of years, so let’s get into it.
Ugly God promised the world more music tweeting out RT if you got bump my album all the way
through world war 3 on April 14th, 2018. Just over week later, on April 23rd, he would drop
the mixtape Just a Lil Something Before the Album. This would prompt people to think an
album is coming soon right? Maybe not. Although Ugly God would continue to promote his up
coming debut album, he wouldn’t drop any tracks from it. At first fans got a peak of
the album’s sound when he release a snippet on instagram back in May of 2018. It is fair
to say during this time, Ugly God was touring the US, with stops in Miami, Philadelphia,
Chicago, and Dallas to name a few, while finding time to perform at Rolling Loud in Miami between.
His US tour would officially wrap in New York on July 14th.
October 19th 2018 Ugly God posted another snippet of the album, with short clips of
songs expected to be on the album. He would tweet out the same clip, captioned “Comeback
szn. Bumps & Bruises. The smoothest piece of art I have ever put my heart into. Love
you guys. RT if you ready.” At the time of this recording that tweet has just under
21 thousand retweets, safe to say, people want to hear the man’s new tracks. He also
went on to explain why it’s taken so long for his new music to drop. “There are plenty
of talented artists out; too many to name. Some of these young guys make AMAZING ass
music, and it made me a bit insecure about mine. It took me a while to realize that I
make my own kind of art.” He went on to write: "I wanted to make sure this album is
so smooth, it gives you guys chills every...single...song. The reason I named my album “Bumps & Bruises”,
is because I fell into a year-long depression. The reason is a bit personal but people talking
shit about me on the internet was just the cherry on top. I was so weak for letting that
shit get to me, but I’m glad I manned up and grew past it.” This wouldn’t be the
first time Ugly God would speak on his depression either. He’s tweeted out things in the past
such as Depression is no Joke and briefly spoke about it in an interview with Montreality.
Ugly God would continue to stay quiet about his music, until he actually chose one random
lucky twitter follower to hear a snippet of the new album. Tweeting out "Finna dm one
of y’all of me listening to some of my album. idc what you do with the video after i send
it. you can feel selfish and keep it to yourself or you can post it lol up to you. who though?”
The tweet has since been deleted but Ugly God stayed true to his word, sending twitter
user @notluvyet, who’s since changed their handle to @plusultradevon, a clip of him jamming
out to one of his tracks. Unselfishly, they shared the video with the world, which at
the time of this recording has been retweeted one 10 thousand times. Fan’s wouldn’t
hear much more from Ugly God until he finally dropped his first single from the album on
March 28th 2019. The song Hello, featuring Lil Pump would quickly blow up, garnering
millions of views in a matter of days. Currently it’s clocked in over 11 million views. On
May 10th Ugly God would drop another single, Lost in the Sauce, which at the time of this
recording has just under 3 million views. Now although fans are eager to hear Ugly God’s
music, inspiration can take time! The man can’t write about just anything.
Or maybe he can. Which would actually make sense, because he apparently has 100 tracks
already recorded that he was just saving for release. Unfortunately he accidentally sent
the tracks to someone who previously sent him beats to rap over. Thinking they could
make a quick buck, whoever it was that got the tracks sent to them via email gave Ugly
God an ultimatum, send him a ton of money or have his songs leaked. Ugly God decided
he wasn’t going to let someone make money off of his own music, so he’s leaving the
fate of his unreleased tracks up to chance. In a now delete tweet, Ugly God wrote "I put
all my songs that didn’t make the album into a folder and put it in a dropbox link
that i accidentally emailed to some fan and he’s wants me to pay him or he says he’ll
leak them, and i refuse to buy my own shit from some fan, so if 100+ songs leak, fuck
it..”. Someone asked him why he doesn’t just buy them back, to which Ugly raised the
solid point if he did pay for them, how can he know for sure the person holding them ransom
will delete them? Now I’m not sure what kind of fan would hold someone’s music for
ransom. Obviously a desperate one, but why extort someone you’re tryna support in the
first place? That just doesn’t make any sense, but then again anything for clout right?
Gross. Aside from the touring and his songs being held ransom, Ugly God claims he’s
actually lost some weight. Now I never thought of him being too hefty, but according to a
recent tweet he’s down 40 pounds. Hey good for you brother that’s amazing. Lastly,
Ugly God took to twitter to encourage his followers to play the shit outta his new album
when it drops. He announced the official release date is going to be on August 9th, it’ll
have 14 songs and a total of 2 features. He went on a bit of a twitter rant which I’m
not going to read but you can see here, it was a long one. In short, he pretty much talks
about how he’s doing everything on his own. No promo from other websites or blogs. He
also touches on how he headlines his own shows, doesn’t open for other acts aside from being
at a festival, and how the whole process is a long one. Either way, it’s safe to say
fans will bump his debut album Bumps and Bruises when it drops. But I wanna know, will you
? Let me know in the comments below if you’re excited for the drop. And say only positive
things because Ugly God might read the comments guys!
I
feel your pain bro. Difference is I get a million hateful comments and one nice one.
Now before we wrap this one, we gotta answer our trivia question. How did Ugly God come
up with LDC, also known as the Little Dick Clique? Well turns out he was watching porn,
and after realizing how well endowed all the adult entertainers were, he started questioning
his own size. But at the time he was only 14. He came to realize as he gets older, but
his little guy won’t be so little anymore. He explains it all during an interview with
Sway, so be sure to check that out.
Alright guys that’s it for this one. Thanks for tuning in, hope you enjoyed. My name is
Jarred Bronstein, as always be sure to like this video, drop a comment with who you’d
like to cover next or feel free to dm me on twitter or instagram @bronst7. Or just @ me.
Whatever works. Until next time, peace.