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Artist
Figs
12+ albums
avantgardeexperimentalrapnoiseRussia
about
FiGS was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y.’s eastside and he comes with a story all too familiar in hiphop biographies. At 7 years old, his dad left him, his mother, sister and five brothers. A few years later, he and his best friend had graduated from playing with guns to selling weed and running drugs in the neighborhood....... By 12, shorties, basketball and hiphop had become the center of his life. Late nights were spent listening to hiphop masterpieces like Nas’ “Illmatic” and Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones.”....... “I studied hip hop before I started to spit. People were like you should spit. I was like, ‘No, you’ve got to understand it before you do it.’ That’s the kind of shit I was on,” says FiGS....... At the age of 13, the same time FiGS was becoming a serious student of hiphop, he bought his first rap tape: Method Man’s “Tical” album. From there it was Keith Murray, Big L, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and KRS-One. Hiphop had become his life’s soundtrack....... “Hiphop is just everything I grew up with. It’s real: my growing up, my family, my life,” says FiGS....... A close brush with death at the age of 15 and the return of his father began to give FiGS a new perspective. He became starting point guard on the high school basketball team and graduated with the 11th highest grade point average in his school. His academic prowess and athleticism gained him a full scholarship to the University of Rochester....... But higher education wasn’t just about getting a degree....... Fresh
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