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Artist
Alex King
12+ albums
hip hopraptrebleLITTLE STARyoungstar
about
Born in Hollywood, CA, Alex Kings journey has been nothing short of a Quinton Tarantino film. Witnessing his father fatally shot in the last of many violent domestic disputes with his mother would mark Alex’s first and last memories of his father. After the shooting was ruled as self-defense, Alex’s mother moved with her son back home to N.Y.C. where they moved around alot, young Alex King would discover Hip-Hop in the parks and on blocks that he would walk down on his way home from school. Alex's mother remarried and moved him and his three younger sisters to Nashville, TN where he would spend the next 10 years of his life. In 1992, his mother divorced and she began working nonstop. Raising 3 girls, she tried with everything she could but was unable to keep Alex from roaming the streets.He soon dropped out of high school and after seeing numerous close friends die and/or go to prison, he packed a bag and hopped on an 82-hour bus ride headed for Boulder, CO where he spent 4 months camping out in a tent by him self, reading, and refocusing his energy. A magazine subscription company then hired Alex, off the street and he spent the next year traveling across 39 states. On these trips, he began to formulate his life into songs for the first time. Following a trip back to Nashville to attend the funeral of murdered childhood friend, he began DJ'ing small parties, producing and releasing mix tapes. This would lead to a recording contract with the largest independent record label
