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Artist
Yung C
12+ albums
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about
There are two artists under the name “Yung C” [1] Yung C (aka Yung Cupid) Born Henry James Colin Powell Smith, on March 6th 1991, in Ottawa, grew up not knowing the definition of Peace and happiness. A troubled home couldn't define the environment that surrounded this boy. Syringes in the playground and in the streets and yet he still came out with his head held high. At the age of 2, he went through the tragic divorce of his parents. It prolonged for 14 years before the courts ruled in favor of his mother. Mean while, His trouble with racism had just started. While going through elementary school, Henry was the the outcast of his schools. The white children spat on him and beat him down because he was different. Teachers on the yard said they didn't notice this going on. "Fighting was my past time in grade school. It was like a death match every day, i had to fight to survive". Every week was another fight and eventually , Henry learned it wasn't about fighting, it was about your voice being heard above others. By the time He learned that henry had transfered from 6 different schools and during that process started writing poetry and found himself people he could call friends. At the time Henry was in middle school and wanted to just focus on his studies but never could he escape his past of violence or "flo-etry" as he would call it. in 2005 Henry released his first mixtape Pain to Glory : Chapter One: the Beginning. For him it was an accomplishment and found that he
