Young MA

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Katorah Marrero (born April 3, 1992 in Brooklyn , New York ), better known by her stage name Young MA , is an American rapper . 

Private life

Young MA grew up in Brooklyn as the daughter of Jamaican Latasha Blackmon and Puerto Rican Kenneth Ramos. Her father spent 10 years in prison when the musician was between 1 and 11 years old. Her brother Kenneth Ramos Jr., who had a particularly close connection that went so far that she said he had raised her, was stabbed to death in 2009 at the age of 20, which is why the musician underwent therapy to deal with the trauma to process. She also has a sister. Marrero attended Weston Middle School and graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School . She later went to Weston College . She is part of the RedLyfe hip-hop crew . In 2019, together with her mother, she founded the KWEENZ Foundation to overcome trauma and pain caused by the death of loved ones . Young MA is avowedly homosexual , a fact that she also expresses in her music. She describes her coming out as a decisive event in her life.

Career

In 2014, Young MA was presented to a broader public for the first time. On the one hand, the song Brooklyn (Chiraq Freestyle) of her crew developed into a much discussed song on Facebook , on the other hand she was brought on stage by the rapper Buckshot at a performance by Mobb Deeps in New York for the twentieth anniversary of her album The Infamous advertised as "one of the dopest MCs at the moment". The musician then took over the marketing and distribution of the newcomer. In 2015, the rapper released two mixtapes , MA the Mixtape and Sleepwalkin , which initially failed to achieve any notable success. In 2016 she achieved her commercial and critical breakthrough in the USA with the single Ooouuu . The song was awarded four times platinum and placed in the charts and in several leaderboards. The accompanying EP Herstory , released a year later, and their 2019 debut album Herstory in the Making were also featured on the Billboard 200 , with the album faring significantly better than the EP in both sales and criticism . There were no further chart placements for individual songs, but the singles PettyWap and Big still achieved gold status in the United States.

Musical style

Young M.As style is a mixture of Trapmusik and old-school - hip-hop . She uses a particularly hard rap style, which can be assigned to hardcore hip-hop , east-coast hip-hop and underground hip-hop , and does without melodic or sung paasages and autotune , often entirely Refrains. Critics also say she has a talent for freestyle rap .

Discography

Albums

  • 2019: Herstory in the Making (US: # 16)

EPs

  • 2017: Herstory (US: # 166)
  • 2020: Red Flu

Mix tapes

  • 2015: MA the Mixtape
  • 2015: Sleepwalkin
  • 2016: God Girl
  • 2018: God's Girl 2
  • 2019: God's Girl 3

Singles

  • 2015: Body Bag
  • 2016: Ooouuu (US: # 19, 4 × platinum)
  • 2016: Hot Sauce
  • 2017: Walk
  • 2018: Praktice
  • 2018: PettyWap (US: Gold)
  • 2018: Car Confessions
  • 2018: election
  • 2018: Bleed
  • 2019: Stubborn Ass
  • 2019: Big (US: Gold)
  • 2019: PettyWap 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about Cradle Biography. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ BK Reader article on Latasha Blackmon. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ AllMusic biography. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ AllMusic biography. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ Information about Cradle Biography. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ US awards. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ US single charts. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ US album charts. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ AllMusic genre name. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Rolling Stone Article. Retrieved June 16, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Young MA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marrero, Katorah (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York