Bobbie Dreke(pronounced Drake) is an up and coming rap artist hailing from the wild suburban life of Prince George's county ,MD(right outside of DC). Born Greg Harrod in little Rock, Arkansas , the young artist aquired a small part of his accent from his short stay in arkansas and from his older brother(Dj Kenokey). An airforce brat early on in his life moved around thru a couple other southern states as well as a brief stay in michigan before his family finally settled in PG county.In his many years of life in the PG/DC area Bobbie Dreke has encountered a unique route to becoming the man/artist he is today. He wasnt the most downtroden, poor,reckless ,or delinquent of kids coming up but the PG/DC area has a way of gettin folks caught in the wrong place at the wrong time oftenas well as situations where one might know how to react. These events throughout his life have been eye openers to himself along with his peers this is why he chooses to speak on this part of his life with his audience. A lyrical philosopher at times finding his music asking questions that the audience would answer in their own way. He developed a love for music at the tender age of 8 because his older brother was an aspiring Dj. He started freestyling soon after and by the age of 11. In sixth grade he and fellow classmates Brandon Reed(Prophecy) and Martin Simmons(Yung Wise) were always rappin on the playground during recess and had formed a group called new image. Prophecy moved away to South carolina after this one year of friendship. Bobbie Dreke not really sure of his rap prowess with no avenues with which to make his music progress had changed his route and started writing poetry instead of rap music thoughout his middle school years. In highschool he hooked back up with Yung Wise and sum friends that he and Wise knew and became known as the U.G.A.S(unda-ground all stars).This is around the time that Yung Wise had dubbed Greg as GNOCYD The group being young and misguided never really showed its potential and disbanded before they all graduated in 1999.With The U.G.A.S disbanded and his mind ready for college the artist found new ground with a group of friends at Bowie state university. The friends not all being inclined to make rap music mostly had fun gettin into trouble around the campus and rapping, battling and freestyling at all the campus activities for the next 2 yrs. This group of misfits would be known as the X-men. Newly named Bobbie Dreke and Fellow X-men members Mr.Sinista(Jeff Ruffin) and Gambit formed an actual music group with some of the old U.G.A.S members and a couple poets to be called the Poe Fox(pronounced po folks). The Poe Fox project was soon trashed be cause of differences in opinions within the group. In 2003 Bobbie Dreke discouraged with how the plans of makin music were always being shattered by people not serious bout the art craft and grind, did a couple features with some local artists, performed acouple open mics with his poetry and tried to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. He even considers giving up his love for rap to be a "normal" person. Soon after this he is reunited with old friend Prophecy in the most unlikely of places. Prophecy had also been doing his thang wit the music over the years and had noticed that Bobbie still had something to offer the game with his unique approach to the music. He helped bring Bobbie Dreke outta his rutt and had him featured on his "the lost hits"mixtape(2003). In 2004 they collaborated to do the "It's a new day"mixtape(2004). He was soon introduced to friend Traceless(Chris Downing) and the three did a couple shows together. They soon came up with an idea to make a mixtape for people that like to smoke, and did just that. In 2005 they released the "4:20 radio vol1" mixtape(2005) which was a street hit. The mixtape brought alot of feedback to the artists making the three join together to make the group 4-2-0 and start on a group album. In 2006 with the album done and and a few more shows having been performed the three couldnt come to terms with how the business was to be handled and disbanded on friendly ties with a possibility of getting back together in the future. Since then Bobbie Dreke has been commited to doing features and working on his own solo indevors. And now tihout further ado it is the KOOLEST KAT ON THE PLANET BOBBIE DREKE, be easy folks!!
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