| TOPDOLLA'Z BIO SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT ME AND SEE A TROUBLED KID. IF YOU ASK MOST PEOPLE,THEY WOULD SAY I BECAME THIS WAY FROM WHATCHNG TO MUCH TV. YOU KNOW WHAT. THERE PROBALY RIGHT, BUT I WOULD SAY I BECAME LIKE THIS BECOUSE I CHOSE TO. IT ALL BEGAN IN 1996.I HAD JUST GOT INTO THE RAP AND HIP HOP FAZE. I DIDNT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE WAY BLACK'S PLAYED THE GAME, BUT FOR SOME REASON I LIKED IT.I LIKED THE WAY THEY ACTED AND TALKED. SO I STARTED ACTING LIKE THEM. IT WASNT LONG AFTER THAT WHEN I STARTED FINDING OUT MORE ABOUT THE GAME. MY BEST FREIND AND RIGHT HAND MAN THE JUDGE(BEN THOMAS) WAS THERE BY MY SIDE HELPING ME ON EVERYTHING, BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT CHANGED ME FOR EVER.ON SEPTEMBER THE 4TH, A RAP LEGEND WAS SHOT AND KILLED. HIS NAME WAS TUPAC SHAKAR. THE ONLY RAPPER THAT SHOWED ME THE WAY OF REAL LIFE IN HIS MUSIC. AFTER HE DIED, THE MEDIA TRIED TO BAN RAP BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED.DURING THE TIME THAT THEY WERE TRING TO BAN IT, I THOUGHT AS A 8 YEAR OLD I COULD SAVE RAP. I ADMIT I WASNT ANY GOOD AT RAPPING AT THAT TIME BUT I STILL TRIED. SOON IT WAS 97 AND I WAS STILL TRING TO BECOME A GREAT LEGEND LIKE 2PAC. IN THE EARLY TIME OF 1998, I STARTED A SMALL GANG CALLED 8 BALL. I HAD FOUR PEOPLE ,BESIDES ME, IN IT. THEY WERE BEN THOMAS WHO WENT BY THE NAME OUTLAW AT THAT TIME. THERE WAS JOHHNY BROCK, TIMMY CURRY, AND BRANDYN HICKS. I GUESS YOU COULD SAY WE WERE INDESTRUCTLBLE.WE ALWAYS GOT IN FIGHTS AND WE NEVER LETTED SOMEONE PUSH US AROUND, BUT ITS NOT LIKE WE DIDNT HAVE COMPITION. THERE WAS ANOTHER GANG CALLED NAVY 2000. THERE LEADER WAS JARVIS MORTON. WE WERE ALLIES WITH THEM UNTIL THE LAST 3 MONTHS OF SCHOOL REMAINED.THATS WHEN JARVIS AND THE NAVY JUMPED A MEMBER OF OURS. AFTER THAT THERE WAS A HUGE FIGHT IN THE REST ROOM. WE WERE CAUGHT AND SENT TO THE OFFICE. THE GUIDENCE CANCELLOER BROKE BOTH GANGS UP, BUT UNDER THE ASHES OF 8 BALL ROSE THE TWO TRUEST. MY SELF AND THE JUDGE.IT WAS 1999 AND A NEW GANG WAS STARTED IN MEMORY OF 8 BALL. I STARTED UP THE NATION WIDE KILLAZ WITH A NEW NAME. I WAS TOPDOLLA. BEN WAS THE JUDGE. TIMMY WAS BABY GANGSTA. BRANDYN WAS CASH TANK. YEAR 2000 REACHED AND WE WERE THE BEST. NOBODY EVER PUSHED US AROUND. DURING THE TIME OF 8 BALL AND NATION WIDE KILLAZ WE WERE RAPPING. JUST ME AND THE JUDGE. WE DECIDED TO COME UP WITH A NAME FOR OUR RAPPING BUSINESS. WE CALLED IT NATION WIDE RECORDS. WE HAD MADE TWO HIT SONGS IN 99. DALES ON FIRE AND JUDGEMENT DAY. BY 2000 THREE MORE WERE MADE. WE RIDAZ, LET IT RING, AND ONLY GOD KNOW'S.THEN 2001 CAME. WE HAD TONS OF SONGS MADE. NOTBOOKS FULL OF SONGS AND SONG IDEA'S. WE WERE ABOUT READY TO MAKE AN ALBUM. WE CALLED THE ALBUM UNITED. |