Young Dro

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Young Dro performing in Akron
Young Dro performing in Akron
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Best Thang Smokin '
  US 3 09/16/2006 (13 weeks)
High times
  US 57 11/02/2013 (2 weeks)
Singles
Shoulder Lean (feat. TI )
  US 10 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
07/08/2006 (20 weeks)
Ain't I (with Yung LA & TI )
  US 47 02/14/2009 (19 weeks)

D'Juan Montrel Hart (born January 15, 1979 in Atlanta , Georgia ), better known by his stage name Young Dro , is an American rapper .

biography

D'Juan Hart was born in Bankhead , a deprived area in western Atlanta . One of his best friends was Chris "Daddy Mack" Smith, part of the Kris Kross duo . Inspired by his success, Hart began to rap under the stage name Dro .

He had his first successes around 2000 when he was hired by Raheem the Dream , a bass music rapper from the Geto Boys environment , for his label Tight IV Life Records . In 2001 Dro's debut album I Got That Dro was released . Apart from the regionally successful song Yes Sir , his music, which was influenced by the Goodie Mob , also from West Atlanta , did not gain any commercial significance.

Another of Hart's youth acquaintances, TI , had his breakthrough as a musician in the following years. After the contact between the two, which had been lost in the meantime, was re-established, Hart became the protégé of TIs and signed a contract with him for his company Grand Hustle Records , an imprint of the major label Atlantic Records . Now performing under the alias Young Dro , Hart released the single Shoulder Lean featuring TI, which made it to 10th place on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song was particularly successful as a ringtone . It has been sold more than two million times in the USA and has been awarded a double platinum record by the RIAA . The accompanying album Best Thang Smokin ' reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 .

Despite the success, only a few mixtapes by Young Dro appeared below . Only in 2009 he was listed again when he and TI made a guest appearance on Yung LA's piece Ain't I , which reached the top 47 of the US charts.

It wasn't until 2013 that another official full-length player was released, High Times . At number 57 on the United States 'album sales list, however, the work lagged far behind the sales of Best Thang Smokin' .

Yet another album followed in 2015. However, the reality show was only featured in a few categories of Billboard magazine .

Discography

Albums (with single releases)

  • I Got That Dro , 2001
    • "Yes Sir"
  • Best Thang Smokin ' , 2006
    • "Shoulder Lean" (featuring TI )
    • "Rubberband Banks"
  • High Times , 2013
    • "FDB"
  • Da Reality Show , 2015
    • "We in da City"

Features

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard : Young Dro - Chart history
  2. ^ Billboard: Yung LA - Chart history
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  4. ^ Allmusic : Raheem the Dream | Biography & History
  5. ↑ Allmusic: TI | Biography & History
personal data
SURNAME Young Dro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hart, D'Juan Montrel (maiden name); Dro (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia , USA