LIL"D" aka Danny Rogers was born in New Orleans,Louisiana at charity hospital on june 1 , 1989.Growing up he lived with both his parents and his sister , he played sports and loved listening to music . When he was 5 he feel in love with hip hop , he grew up in a slum area of new orleans until he was in 1st grade then him and his parents and his sister moved in a middle class part of new orleans. When he was in 5 grade he did his first talent show,the instrumental he recorded on to one of his dads rock n roll tapes cut on in the middle of his performance , the whole school laughed at him , but he was determined to follow his dream . The next year when he went to middle school he began to write his on songs , he played sports but he was never the best at any of them. Kids in his middle school would want to hear him rap, he was the best mc at his middle school , even though his grades was low he felt like music was his only way to be the best at something. Every day when he would get home he would call the radio stations and beg them to let him rap on the radio. Some times they did sometimes they didnt, at nine o' clock on a popular radio staion in new orleans there was a program call the nine o'clock props 2 mcs would battle head to head on the radio and callers would vote for who they wanted to win.Lil "D" began calling the radio every night at nine, the first couple months he was on there he lost but he didnt care he was getting known on the streets as the 11 year old on the props. At the age of 12 he began a winning spree 50 wins on the radio , he kept calling trying to keep it up , at the same time was began to go to a studio up the street from his house, He made his first mixtape when he was 12 years old, he handed them to alot of record labels and a label named nda ent. a local new orleans label was feelin him they brought him under there wing for around 2 years , he released a mixtape under there label but it didnt do good because the promotion wasnt right, he began performing at clubs every weekend and goin to freestyle battle and winnin the crowd loved him, at the age of 14 he had won over 50 freestyle, in the summer of 2003 he went to a and 1 basket ball game where the source magazine was at holding a freestyle contest, he was in the final 4 out of every body and he battled at half time in the arena.That same year he did a few radio intros for djs that knew him from the nine o'clock props that played alot. At the age of 15 he was dealing with a manager that he met through a friend of his he had a group with , His manager introduced him into a mc named kenoe formely a koch records recording artist kenoe put lil"D" on his album called "game over", kenoe is the c.e.o. of the record label that turk from the hot boys is under.Kenoe put lil"D" on turks album "still a hot boy " also , in 2005 lil"D" released a mixtape that sold hundreds of copy hand to hand . 2 months before hurricane katrina hit he was crowed the undisputed king of new orleans freestyle battling. Lil"D" describes his style as just speaking what the truth, gettin compared to artist like cassidy for hard punchlines, lil"D" explains "I been spittin punchlines before i every knew about cassidy". At age 16 lil"D" dropped out of high school to persue his music career ,while most white rappers was influnces by slim shady , Lil "D" was influnced by mcs like biggie smalls. lil "D" is still working in the studio to this day planning to drop his new mixtape called " The strategy " plan to drop in april.This profile was edited with MySpace Help - Profile Creator and Editor MySpace Profile Help!
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