The rising star, Will Fury aka Furious, hails from the streets of Pacoima, California. Will Fury hooked up with underground rap legend Kenny Kingpin (Poppa LQ) of The Regime and Po No Mo Entertainment for guidance in the music business. Kenny Kingpin heard two songs and instantly took him under his wing by hopping on one of the two songs he heard, the street banger, Fuk What U Feelin, which featured on Kenny Kingpins mixtape, Play Your Position Vol.4: Super Size Your Hustle, hosted by Dow Jones. Kenny Kingpin also introduced him to The Regime family and was embraced by Yukmouth making them official Regime members.
Furious took a little longer to catch the rap bug, because he was too busy staring in sports (football, baseball, and basketball) and playing drums. Another reason was gangs, growing up without a father like many of todays youth and living in one of the most notorious projects in Pacoima, The Van Nuyz Apartments aka The Nams, Furious looked to the gangsters around him as family. His gangsta mentally is displayed on every song with his tenacious/ no hold bars rap flow. After realizing school/sports was not his long term goal, Furious went full time with rapping/producing consecutive underground hits.
Will Fury is also the newest member of Jazzy Management (The hottest management group in Los Angeles)and is working on his EP due to drop soon...
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Pacoima, Los Angeles, California
Pacoima is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.
It is bordered by the Los Angeles districts of Mission Hills on the west, Arleta on the south, Sun Valley on the southeast, Lake View Terrace on the northeast, and by the city of San Fernando on the north. Major thoroughfares include San Fernando Road and Laurel Canyon and Van Nuys Boulevards. The Golden State and Ronald Reagan freeways run through the district.
History
Pacoima's first inhabitants were the semi-nomadic Tongva and Tataviam Native American tribes; the name Pacoima in fact comes from the Tataviam language and translates to "the entrance". In 1797, Spanish colonists built the nearby Mission San Fernando Rey, but the Pacoima area remained without permanent settlement until 1887. In that year, former Republican California State Assemblyman and California State Senator Charles MacLay purchased 56,000 acres (227 km²) in the area with a loan of $117,500 from a friend, U.S. Senator Leland Stanford (president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, former Governor of California, and founder of Stanford University). MacLay proceeded to subdivide the tract into agricultural parcels, most of which were used for the production of Southern California staples such as citrus, nuts, beans, wheat, and vegetables. As was the case in most of the San Fernando Valley, the lure of plentiful, cheap water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct proved irresistible to Pacoima's farmers, and the district was annexed by Los Angeles in 1921.
During World War II, the desperate need for housing for workers at Lockheed's main plant in neighboring Burbank led to the construction of the San Fernando Gardens housing project. By the 1950s, the rapid suburbanization of the San Fernando Valley had come to Pacoima, and the area changed almost overnight from a dusty farming area to a bedroom community for the fast-growing industries in Los Angeles and nearby Burbank and Glendale, with transportation access provided by the Golden State Freeway. While racial segregation barred African-Americans from most of the Valley, Pacoima was home to a large black population until the 1990s, in addition to whites and Latinos. Industrial decline, capped by the demise of Lockheed's Burbank operations in the 1990s, led to the departure of most of the white and black population from the 1970s onward; by the 1980s, the area was majority-Latino. Since the late 1970s, it has been one of the poorest districts in the city of Los Angeles, with San Fernando Gardens a particular locus of poverty and crime. However, the district has received a great deal of attention from the Los Angeles Police Department since the arrival of new chief William J. Bratton in 2001: according to LAPD statistics, the area has seen the largest decrease in crime during that period of any of LAPD's patrol areas.
Famous natives
Well-known Pacoima natives include:
• Bobby Chacon, world champion featherweight boxer
• Andraé Edward Crouch (born July 1, 1942), gospel musician, recording artist, songwriter, arranger, and producer, was a key figure in the Jesus Music movement of the 1960s and 1970s
• Anthony Davis (born May 21, 1952) known as AD, was an American football running back
• Leonardo DiCaprio, noted film and television actor
• Dobie Gray (born July 26, 1940?) is an African American musician / singer best known for his song "Drift Away", which was one of the biggest hits of 1973 and still remains a staple of radio airplay.
• Howard Huntsberry, Solo R&B Singer, member of the group Klique, Actor (Jackie Wilson in La Bamba)
• William H. Marshall, actor, director, and opera singer
• Cheech Marin, Chicano comedian and actor
• Gary Nathaniel Matthews Sr (b. July 5, 1950 in San Fernando, California) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball.
• Ronald Oden, Mayor of Palm Springs, California
• Mary Helen Ponce, writer
• Alex Padilla, State Senator
• James "J-Ro" Robinson, rapper and member of "Tha Alkaholiks". J-Ro is releasing an album called "B-Boy Funk"
• Sal Rodriguez Writer, Comedian, Emcee/Host, Humorist
• Ese Santo, Chicano Christian Rapper
• Crystal Scales, voice actor known for her recurring roles in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Static Shock and The PJs.
• Billie Thomas (originally William Thomas, Jr.) (March 12, 1931–October 10, 1980) was an American child actor best remembered for portraying the character of Buckwheat in the Our Gang (Little Rascals)
• Ritchie Valens, rock and roll singer
• Jacob Vargas, film and television actor
• Charles White is a former professional American football athlete. He had a distinguished college career and later played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and the Los Angeles Rams
• George Antonio Lopez, comedian
Business
Juicy Couture, an apparel company, was founded in Pacoima.
