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Originally from Omaha, NE. Young O moved more times than he can remember from North Omaha to South Omaha, and back again always being relocated to new schools and having to start all over. Young O always felt as if he didn’t fit in, like he was an outcast due to the fact that he could never make friendships that lasted longer than a year or two. Raised by his mother and two older sisters, times really got hard for O with no father figure around as he was growing into a young man. Often, O looked to the older kids in the neighborhoods he lived in for guidance not knowing that the lessons he was being taught was simply the street smarts of juvenile delinquents. By the time Young O was 12 his mother who worked long hours into the night as a bartender had picked up a drug habit that would eventually split the family. His oldest sister had gone to live with friends, while his other sister moved to the opposite end of town to live with his aunt, leaving O with no siblings to look after him. Within another year, O would be shipped off to live with his father who he barely knew, a few hundred miles south in central Kansas. Meanwhile his mother decided to take control of her life and moved out of Omaha, halfway across the country to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 18 months later, O would be forced to relocate again.
He decided to move to Maryland to be with his mother instead of moving back to the inner city of Omaha. Shortly after moving to Maryland, O began rapping after seeing one of his friends freestyle in front of hundreds of students during a school dance. Later that night he attempted to write his first verse to give to his friend, so that he could rap it at the next dance. His friend refused to rap the verse and suggested that Young O began writing more often and start rapping himself. For the next six years if Young O was doing anything, he was writing music and perfecting his ability to structure songs, creating his own way of writing his bars so that his timing was always perfect. Young O prides himself not only on his writing ability but on his song structure and delivery as well.
In the summer of 2001 Young O for the first time stepped foot into a real recording studio, and in two hours recorded his first track. The owner of the studio was so impressed by Young O’s talent that he offered to take him under his wing and offer him free studio time so that he could record even when his budget was tight, the only thing asked for in return was his loyalty to the studio and record label. Over the next four years Young O molded himself into one of the best rappers in his area, collaborating with several of Salisbury’s other rappers and introducing himself to nearly every local artist and producer he could. By 2005 Young O was ready to take his music to the next level. He began recording for his first solo project and linked up with two of the areas top young producers, Scootie J and M.I. aka SOZE. Within another two years his debut album “Cash Rulez†was finally complete. Young O claims it is his greatest work to date, saying that it has the potential to launch his music career to the top.Young O claims that he is “destined to put Maryland on the Hip-Hop map, whether you like it or not.†He is currently hard at work on his sophmore album "New Money," as well as several other projects including a compilation album from SOZE, and various projects in which he is a featured artist. Young O not only has something to prove to the haters but also something to prove to the Hip-Hop world. Get ready for the next great rap artist, he goes by the name Young O!
