T-Wayne

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Nasty freestyle
  DE 85 05/15/2015 (4 weeks)
  UK 41 05/09/2015 (11 weeks)
  US 9 
platinum
platinum
05/02/2015 (20 weeks)

T-Wayne (born October 27, 1990 in Abilene , Texas ; real name: Tyshon Dwayne Nobles ) is an American rapper .

biography

Nobles began his musical career after seeing the film 8 Mile and was particularly impressed by the rap battles it depicted . At the age of 15, he moved from his hometown of Abilene to Dallas , where he distributed demo recordings and mixtapes and performed so-called "showcase" appearances, in which musicians without a record deal briefly audition for people in charge of the music industry .

He then moved to Houston at the age of 19 , as one of his songs became locally known there. In 2013 he finally got in touch with the Brick Squad label , which among others had the rapper Waka Flocka Flame under contract. However, a contract for T-Wayne failed, so he started uploading his music on social media . Among them was the song Nasty Freestyle , a freestyle over the beat of Nasty from Bandit Gang Marco .

After he recorded a shaky video for it, it went viral as numerous other people put the first line of his rap ("First, let me hop out the motherfucking Porsche") under their own short films that they shared on Instagram or Vine . The attention led Nasty Freestyle to reach position 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and be awarded a platinum record by the RIAA for more than a million downloads , which earned T-Wayne a contract with 300 Entertainment .

A few more singles and two mixtapes were subsequently released . However , he could not repeat the success of Nasty Freestyle .

Discography

Mix tapes

  • 2011: Trending Topic
  • 2015: Who Is Ricky Wayne?
  • 2015: Who Is Ricky Wayne 2
  • 2017: Forever Rickey

Singles

  • 2015: Nasty Freestyle
  • 2015: Killin It
  • 2016: Swing My Arms
  • 2016: I'm Grinding (together with TK-N-Cash, Rich the Kid and Tate Kobang)
  • 2016: Be OK
  • 2017: Fell in Love

swell

  1. ↑ Official German Charts: T-Wayne - Nasty Freestyle
  2. ↑ Official Charts Company : T-WAYNE | full Official Chart History
  3. ^ Billboard : T-Wayne - Chart history
  4. ↑ a b Justin Charity: Interview: T-Wayne Signs To Lyor Cohen's 300 As His "Nasty Freestyle" Climbs The Hot 100. Complex UK, May 18, 2015, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ What Is a Showcase Gig, and Will It Help Your Music Career? About.com , April 26, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Steven J. Horowitz: T-Wayne Talks Signing to 300 Entertainment, 'Nasty Freestyle' & Viral Success. Billboard , May 4, 2015, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  7. ↑ RIAA : Database with artist search for "T-Wayne"

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personal data
SURNAME T-Wayne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nobles, Tyshon Dwayne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Abilene , Texas , United States