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“It’s good to see a young black male doing something positive. The man’s got a future & is going to be a millionaire before twenty one”. Such positive feedback like that drives people to put in the same effort with their own personal craft. As a great man once said “Perfect practice makes perfect” & if anyone second guesses that, they must have not heard about Atlanta-based producer Lil’A the ‘Teen of Crunk’. Unbelievable? Well let’s do a background check. In the summer of 2006 Lil’A landed a song on FM & XM radio charts without even having management or a legit record deal. So how did this 18-year- old go from getting in trouble for passing out beat flyers on the Marta Train to producing for some of the hottest artist in the dirty south. Lil’A ‘Teen of Crunk’, born A. Lockart in Washington D.C, moved to Atlanta at the age of 5. Atlanta is labeled the ’Music Hollywood’ where many artist come to get a shot at stardom. “When I first moved to Atlanta, I aint gone lie, I was scared of freak-nick” which was an Atlanta Celebration that took place on the streets of the city. “Here I am only 5 years old and I see folks going crazy in the streets, jumping on cars partying like rock stars,” Lil’A says. Little did he know that this was going to be the city that was responsible for his stardom ten years later. As young Lil’A got older, his neighborhood acquaintance Curtis had a school assignment involving a music rap. Curtis wanted to use Lil’A as the rapper for his school project. “I