Lil Rick was born at the medical university in Charleston, South Carolina on March 25th 1977 as Richard Clay Flynn. His father was controlling and abusive toward his mother, Karen, and she left him for hers and her sons saftey. Richard never really had a relationship with his father again but did grow up close to his fathers mother, Grandma Barbara. By the time Richard was the age of five Karen married a navy man named Bernie Snyder who grew fond of Richard and adopted him by age six, at which point Richard became Richard Flynn Snyder. Being Bernie..'s line of work, the family which consisted of 2 stepbrothers and eventually a half brother, Chris, and a half sister, Casey moved around all the time and it was difficult to maintain friendships. Then at the age of 13, Bernie was stationed in Millington, Tn. Unfortunately for the family there was no base housing available so Bernie and Karen bought a house in North Memphis in the Raliegh-Frayser area. While in Memphis the family fell apart, the 2 stepbrothers were sent to live with their biological mother, and Bernie got stationed in Virginia. Rather than try to sell the house in Memphis Bernie went alone and left the family behind. With no man around and Richards mother turning to alcohol, Richard had to take care of his younger brother and sister. He also turned to drugs, preferably weed and acid. Richard spent most of his teenage years in and out of juvenile court and was put into Shelby Training Center at the age of 15. After getting released he violated his probation by throwing wild parties and continuing his drug use, and was put back into STC. During his second stint in STC, his best friend Steven Dowland was brutally murdered back in the neighborhood, which to this day remains a Memphis Unsolved Mystery. While mourning Stevens death in lock up, Richard began rappin with some other inmates from his unit. In order to get out of STC early Richard agreed to leave the state of Tennessee and went to try to get to know his biolgical father in Summerville, S.C...." Da only thing i dug about dat place was my baby sister, Baillie.." says Rick, .." I quickly understood what my moms was talkin bout!.." Richard quickly got tired of the slow country life and missed his people back in Memphis, so despite agreeing not to come back untill he was at least 18, he did anyways. Richard had no place to live and only a bag of clothes, he stayed between friends houses and hotels. He soon began selling herb and acid to make ends and started writing more frequently and was starting to impress everyone with his lyrical skill. He became Lil Rick. .." It was like a metamorphasis.." says Rick, .." It completely defined me.." Lil Rick saw many friends die and decided to see the country to clear his head, so he joined a traveling magazine crew. .." There were all kinds of deviant pricks from all over da country on dat damn crew.." says Rick, .." like a hundred or more sometimes.." Lil Rick met a girl on the crew who became pregnant and he decided to get back to Memphis to raise his child, but the drug-addicted mother of his son, Cameron, ran off with Ricks son. Lil Rick then met a young man in Raleigh called Psycho, who was originally from Chicago. The two started working on some songs and were planning an album untill Psycho got in some trouble. Really depressed, after many attempts to get something off the ground in the rap world, Lil Rick turned to heavy cocaine and heroine use. .." I just felt like nothin could go right.." said Rick, .." somethin good would start and bam, shit!!! I only blew da heroine, never injected, dats for junkies!.." Rick then met J.J. Diamondsmile and the two hit it right off and quickly got to work on .."Dem Wyte Boyz, Will Bump Fo..' Food.." which was backed by Lady B and featured Skinny Pimp. Unfortunatly Lady B didn..'t promote the album as she had led the young men to believe. Ricks job fell through and he and his then girlfriend Brandy Meadows moved to Moncks Corner, S.C. where they were married and had a beautiful son Vincent. They both were very unhappy there, so when word got to Rick that his album was starting to get some steam he and his family moved back to Memphis so he could get to work on his solo album. Soon after returning, Ricks other son Cameron turned up and once again Rick put his life on hold, this time to get custody of his son. Now Lil Rick has custody of Cameron, and is working on his solo album entitled .." Yeah, I Rap.." which he plans to be through with by March 08....." Its gonna be hott.." says Rick .." im gonna feature a few up and comin folks, don..'t miss it ya..'ll !!!.."
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