Name	ScHoolboy Q
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Quincy M. Hanley
Alias	Q
Birth date	October 26, 1986Frankfurt, West Germany
Origin	Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Rapper
Genre	Hip hop
Years active	2008-present
Label	Top Dawg Entertainment, Interscope Records
Associated acts	Black Hippy, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Tyga, ASAP Rocky, Jhené Aiko, Childish Gambino
Website	}}

Quincy Matthew Hanley (born October 26, 1986), better known by his stage name ScHoolboy Q, is an American hip hop recording artist signed to Top Dawg Entertainment and Interscope Records. Hanley is a member of Black Hippy along with Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul. In a 2011 interview when asked about what encouraged him to start rapping, Hanley explained that it was something he was "born to do": "I was just chillin’ man, but rapping’s just something I was born to do. I don’t know when I started rapping. I don’t know how I started rapping, but I know I wrote a verse and I was stuck ever since," he explained.

Preceded by two mixtapes, his first independent album ''Setbacks'', reached #100 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart in 2011, selling close to 1,000 digital copies in the first week. On January 14, 2012, he released his second independent album ''Habits & Contradictions''. The album debuted at #111 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, with first-week sales of 3,900 digital copies in the United States.

Biography [link]

1986-2009: Early life and career beginnings [link]

Hanley was born October 26, 1986, on a military base in Frankfurt, Germany. While there, his parents decided they were no longer staying together, therefore his mother chose a last name for him at random. That is why no one else in his family shares his surname. His father remained in the Army, but his mother took Hanley to Texas for a couple years, before going to California. He grew up in Los Angeles, California on 51st Street, neighboring Figueroa and Hoover Street. He claims to have been playing football since the age of six years old until he was 21. He played receiver, cornerback, and tailback, however in college he just played receiver and returner. After graduating Crenshaw High School, Hanley went on to attend Glendale Community College, Los Angeles City College, Southwest College and West Los Angeles College where he played football for the West Los Angeles Oilers: "I went to West L.A. college, I went to Southwest college, LACC, and Glendale. I didn’t really get the school like that. I would go to practice and go home. I wasn’t really paying attention in class. I was just in there making sure I did enough work so I could still be eligible. I wasn’t really trying to pass the class. I was just trying to be eligible to play football." As to how he came up with his stage name: "When I was in school, all the homies called me Schoolboy. I wore glasses and I had a 3.3 in high school, before fucking up my senior year gang-banging. My name’s Quincy, so I just stick to Schoolboy Q."

Growing up on Hoover Street he joined a street gang, the 52 Hoover Crips: "I was gang-banging at 12. I was a Hoover Crip. My homies were doing it and I wanted to do it. I can’t really explain that. I didn’t get into it with another hood or anything like that. I was just following the leader." Before turning to music Hanley became a drug dealer selling Oxycontin, and for a short time crack and marijuana: "I was selling Oxycontin. I sold crack a little bit, but I didn’t make a whole lot of money selling crack or weed or any of that. I made a lot of money selling Oxycontin. I used to go out of town and get it. You just sit back, your homie tell you about this person, and that person spread the word. And then they come to you. You don’t need to get that hype. So I was selling all types of shit. Got beat up, beat shit up." In 2007, he was arrested for a crime he won't disclose and says he was sent to jail for six months, half of which he finished on house arrest: "When I was 21 I got arrested and went to jail. I got a felony charge and they gave me a strike too. I don’t be putting out what my charge was but it wasn’t a sexual thing."

He claims to have written his first verse when he was 16, but wasn't serious about music until he was 21. Music became his way of expressing himself: "I wrote my first verse when I was 16. I wasn’t really rapping, but you know everybody wrote a verse before. I wrote the verse but I wasn’t really fucking with it. By 21, I started to really get into it and gained a passion for it. You got to let your aggression out, so you got to get in the booth and let it out. I was really working on my craft, studying music, and I became Q. I did all of it, school and the streets. I was just lost; I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was just trying to do something. Then I found music and it was just over after that. I made my first little bit of money doing music, after that I wanted to get used to doing it, and I kept rapping. Then it became something that I had to do."

In 2006 he began to work with Top Dawg Entertainment, recording at their studio "House of Pain" and collaborating with their artists. His first time at the studio he worked with his soon to be Black Hippy cohorts Jay Rock and Ab-Soul: "I walked in and the beat was playing. Ali told them that I rap. Punch told me to jump on the beat. It was a record that Jay Rock and Ab-Soul were writing to, so then I wrote it. Punch liked it and he told me to come back through. I kept coming back, kept getting better, and eventually they signed me to TDE." On July 29, 2008, Hanley released his first mixtape titled ''Schoolboy Turned Hustla''. After the release of ''Schoolboy Turned Hustla'', he signed a deal with Top Dawg Entertainment in 2009, where he formed Black Hippy with fellow label mates and frequent collaborators, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul.

In 2009 Hanley was involved in a short "beef" with fellow west-coast rapper 40 Glocc. Hanley released a diss track titled "Ezell (40 Glocc Killa)" where he questions 40 Glocc's gang-banging. Hanley has went on record as to why they were "beefing": "He made some false statements about my boy, Tyga, that's my little brother. He did a lot of fake stuff with Wayne, a lot of lies, rumors and childish shit that I really didn't like, and I really felt disrespected by this clown saying all this shit so I just had to like air it out". He went on to say "It's over with, I did what I did, I said what I said and I won't diss him no more, because it's obvious he ain't on my level...so why categorize myself with a loser?". He released ''Gangsta & Soul'', his second mixtape on May 14, 2009, which included the diss track.

2010–present: Independent albums and Black Hippy [link]

Although Hanley did not release a project, 2010 had him touring, doing guest appearances and had him in the studio working with the rest of Black Hippy and on his then-upcoming project ''Setbacks''. On January 11, 2011, exclusively through iTunes he released ''Setbacks'', his first independent album under Top Dawg Entertainment to critical acclaim. The album reached number one-hundred on the ''Billboard'' 200 selling 787 units it's first week. Two weeks after the album's release Hanely took to Twitter and gave the album away for free. By the time Q's first album, SetBacks, was released in early 2011, he'd quit gangbanging altogether. ''Setbacks'' propelled Hanley into the spotlight and allowed him to earn a large internet following: "The concept behind Setbacks was [to talk about] all the shit that’s the reason why I can’t rap. The reason I can’t accomplish what I want to accomplish is because I’m doing all this dumb shit. I put it all together on the album. Like, ‘Druggys With Hoes,’ I’m out here drugging and I’m not even trying to fuck with hoes. ‘Kamikaze,’ I’m not even trying to rap—keep going broke. Different shit like that, I sum it up all in one album. My life did a whole 180 after that dropped. A lot of people still didn’t know the name though, but a lot of people did. It was weird. It just took me to the right spot. I made some fucking money off the project, it helped me see that I needed to do more positive shit in life, and it made me into the person I am now. All I do now is just chill. I’d rather just chill, work on my music, be with my two-year-old daughter, and smoke weed and shit."

Hanely headlined his first show on March 11, 2011, at the Key Club in West Hollywood, California. In March 2011 Hanley was arrested at the 2011 South by Southwest music festival and explained that he was ultimately jailed because of marijuana possession: "I got sent to jail for some weed. That was all bad. And I was the one that broke up the fight," said Schoolboy Q. "And then my manager Dave he thought he was Tupac Shakur, ‘Don’t touch my artist! Don’t touch my artist! Don’t touch my artist!’ I’m cool. I’m his artist. I’m like whatever. I’m straight then he kept going crazy. My ass went to the pen…Yea, I got away and then everybody walked out like Tupac in MGM. Police was like ‘Aww, there they go.’ Of course I’m the only one with all the weed."

On September 22, through his Twitter feed, Hanley announced the title of his second full length project to be ''Habits & Contradictions''. He described the album as a "prequel to ''Setbacks''". On September 26, 2011, he released the first offering off of ''Habits & Contradictions'', a song titled "Druggys Wit Hoes Again" featuring Ab-Soul. On October 19, 2011, he leaked "There He Go", followed by "Oxy Music" on October 28. On October 31, he was featured on ASAP Rocky's critically acclaimed mixtape ''LiveLoveA$AP'', on a song titled "Brand New Guy", which was well received by the public. To keep promoting ''Habits & Contradictions'' he released "My Hatin’ Joint" on November 15, 2011. On November 29, 2011, a music video for "To tha Beat (F'd Up)" from ''Setbacks'' was leaked, later that same day Hanley officially released a music for a track titled "Sacrilegious" for ''Habits & Contradictions''. On January 2, 2012, Hanley released another song, "Blessed" featuring Kendrick Lamar and announced the album's release date to be January 14, 2012.

On January 6, 2012, via Twitter, Hanley announced guest appearances on the album would include ASAP Rocky, Currensy and Dom Kennedy. On January 6, Hanley also released a public service announcement for ''Habits & Contradictions'', shot and edited by Dwayne LaFleur. Hanley sat down with freeOnSmash, for an interview and spoke on some of the tracks from his ''Habits & Contradictions'', the interview was released on January 9, 2012. OnSmash claims "The 17 track project, due out January 14, is a look into Q’s life, with tales of pill selling, life struggle, partying, religious hypocrites, his block and everything in between." The album was released exclusively on iTunes, with only a few hard copies being sold and signed by Schoolboy Q in L.A.. In early hours of release, the album moved up to iTunes Top 10 Albums chart and stayed over within days after release. The album debuted at #111 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with first-week sales of 3,900 digital copies in the United States. With only two days at retail the Top Dawg Entertainment release scanned nearly 4,000 units to crack the Top 100, without any marketing or advertising. The album also debuted on the Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums at number twenty-five, Top Rap Albums at number sixteen, Top Independent Albums at number seventeen and at number three on the Top Heatseekers album chart respectively. Music videos for "Hands on the Wheel" with ASAP Rocky and "Nightmare on Figg St." were later released.

In March 2012, MTV announced that Top Dawg Entertainment, the independent record label Schoolboy Q is signed to, have closed a joint venture deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment, marking the end of his career as an independent artist. Under the new deal, Black Hippy cohort, Kendrick Lamar's debut studio album, ''Good Kid in a Mad City'' will be jointly released via Top Dawg/Interscope/Aftermath while releases from the rest of Black Hippy (Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and ScHoolboy Q) will be distributed via Top Dawg/Interscope. On March 24, Schoolboy Q announced #TheGroovyTour; a month long tour with Ab-Soul accompanying him the entire way. The tour kicks off on April 20 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California. On April 3, 2012, Interscope Records released "Hands on the Wheel" as a single via iTunes and began promoting the song at Urban and Rhythmic radio formats in North America.

Musical style [link]

Influences [link]

Schoolboy Q cites Nas, 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Mobb Deep, Kurupt, 2Pac, Biggie, Kanye West, Beanie Sigel and Wu-Tang Clan as rappers who influenced him: "But Biggie, Nas and 50 Cent [are my biggest influences]".

In several interviews Schoolboy Q has stated 50 Cent is the biggest reason he started to take rapping and his music career seriously, even going as far as saying 50 Cent probably saved his life: "We got the same shit going on. Everything he talk about is the same shit I did. I relate to Fifty… I can listen to 50 Cent and tell he really mean what he’s saying. He’s one of them niggas that got away with confidence. Fifty ain’t got the best bars, he ain’t got Jay-Z bars but his confidence on a record…you can’t deny it. I seen where he was doing an interview about Ja Rule during the beef shit, he was saying that any nigga that just getting out of jail that don’t know what to do with himself is getting into the rap game. Recently when I just got out of jail I didn’t know what to do I wasn’t going to try and finish playing football. That’s when I was fucking around with rapping, I wasn’t really rapping but when I heard that I was like fuck it…I really went hard at it. Fifty probably saved my life on some real shit."

Rapping technique [link]

In an interview with Complex magazine, he says he got his "rhyme-style" from Jay-Z: "I got [my rhyme style] from Jay-Z though. If you really listen to Jay-Z, he has a new sound every time he raps. It’s never the same. He might use a little swag, but it’s always like a different flow. So that’s all I try to do."

Schoolboy Q has been called very versatile with rapping as proven on his albums ''Setbacks'' and ''Habits & Contradictions''. ''LA Weekly'' noted on ''Setbacks'': "His style had begun to take shape, with his penchant for stretching vowels like Silly Putty or slurring a word and then snapping back into double time." As stated he never tries to stick with the same flow: "But at the same time, its just a feeling I can’t really explain. You got to be wiser to stay on the track, but there’s no rules. When you start rapping with rules, it’s when you start sounding boring. You may hear me fuck with my voice, you may hear me do a two-bar pause, you may hear me do an odd 33 bars instead of 30. Give you 14 bars instead of 16."

Discography [link]

Independent albums [link]

+ List of albums, with selected chart positions	scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:10em;"	Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
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''Setbacks''		* Release date: January 11, 2011	* Label: Top Dawg Entertainment	Music download>Digital download	100	25	12
scope="row">''Habits & Contradictions''		* Release date: January 14, 2012	* Label: Top Dawg Entertainment	* Format: Digital download	111	25	16

Mixtapes [link]

+ List of albums, with selected details	Title	Album details
''Schoolboy Turned Hustla''		* Released: July 29, 2008	* Format: Free download	* Label: G.E.D. Inc
''Gangsta & Soul''		* Released: May 14, 2009	* Format: Free download	* Label: G.E.D. Inc, Top Dawg Entertainment

Promotional singles [link]

+ List of promotional singles, showing year released and album name	Title	Year	Album
"Druggy's wit Hoes Again"(featuring Ab-Soul)
"Hands on the Wheel"(featuring ASAP Rocky)

Guest appearances [link]

+ List of songs with guest appearances by Schoolboy Q	scope="col" style="width:16em;"	Title	Year	Album	Artist(s)
"Cuts Up"			''Outraged & Underage''		Tyga
"Welcome to C4"	''C4''	Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, BO
"Far from Here"	''Kendrick Lamar EP''	Kendrick Lamar
"I'm a G"	''Longterm''	Ab-Soul, Glasses Malone
"TDE Roll Call"
"I Do It 4 Hip Hop"
"Smoke Chronic"	Jay Rock, Spider Loc
"There They Go"	''The Curious Case of Boo Bonic''	Boo Bonic, Rich Hil
"Pass the Blunt"		''Longterm 2: Lifestyles of the Broke and Almost Famous''	Ab-Soul
"Michael Jordan"	''Overly Dedicated''	Kendrick Lamar
"Loaded (Remix)"			Smoke DZA
"This is 4Da"	''Eulogy''	Be-1, Skeme
"Hell Yeah"	''Longterm Mentality''	Ab-Soul
"Say Wassup"		Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar
"The Spiteful Chant"	''Section.80''	Kendrick Lamar
"Overhigh"	''Rolling Stoned''	Smoke DZA, Trademark da Skydiver
"Tye Dye Everything"	''Blazed By the Bell''	Mod Sun
"May 31st"	''Living In Forever''	A$ton Matthews
"This Is Me"	''I Trust Me''	Fas Action
"Brand New Guy"	''LiveLoveA$AP''	A$AP Rocky
"Get Into the Moment"		Kid Ink
"Warrior"		''The Surface''	Erreon Lee
"SOPA"	''Control System''	Ab-Soul
"Ashtray"	''Rugby Thompson''	Smoke DZA, Domo Genesis
"Love Me Not"	''The Cafeteria Line''	TiRon
"Unnecessary"	TBA	Childish Gambino
TBA	''V.6''	Lloyd Banks
TBA	''Quality Street Music''	DJ Drama

Music videos[link]

As main artist[link]

+List of music videos, showing year released and director	scope="col" style="width:16em;"	Title	Year	Director(s)
"Take the Pain Away"		2009
scope="row">"Live Again"(with Kendrick Lamar & CurT@!n$)			Fredo Tovar & Scott Fleishman
scope="row"	"What's the Word"<	(featuring Jay Rock & Ab-Soul)		Matt Plunkett
scope="row">"Phenomenon"(featuring Alori Joh)			Fredo Tovar
scope="row"	"Druggys wit Hoes"(featuring Ab-Soul)		Ramses Perryman
"Fantasy"(featuring Jhene Aiko)
"Sacrilegious"
"Hands on the Wheel"(featuring A$AP Rocky)
"Nightmare on Figg St."
"Druggys wit Hoes Again"(featuring Ab-Soul)

As featured artist[link]

+List of music videos, showing year released and director	scope="col" style="width:16em;"	Title	Year	Director(s)
"Michael Jordan"(Kendrick Lamar featuring Schoolboy Q)		2010
scope="row">"Say Wassup"(Jay Rock featuring Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q & Kendrick Lamar)
"Tye Dye Everything"(Mod Sun featuring Schoolboy Q)		Mod Sun
scope="row">"Brand New Guy"(ASAP Rocky featuring Schoolboy Q)		2012		TBA

References[link]

External links[link]

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Name	Kendrick Lamar
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Kendrick Lamar Duckworth
Alias	K. Dot
Birth date	June 17, 1987
Origin	Compton, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Rapper, songwriter
Genre	Hip hop
Years active	2003–present
Label	Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope
Associated acts	Black Hippy, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, J. Cole, Dr. Dre
Website	}}

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987), simply known as Kendrick Lamar, is an American rapper and songwriter from Compton, California currently signed to Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope. He first gained major attention after the release of his 2010 mixtape ''Overly Dedicated''. In 2011, his album ''Section.80'', released exclusively through iTunes, instantly ranked as one of the top digital hip hop releases of the year. Lamar has amassed a large internet following, is a member of hip hop collective Black Hippy, along with Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, and has worked with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Wiz Khalifa, Game, Drake, Busta Rhymes and Tech N9ne among other popular artists.

Biography[link]

1987-2009: Early life and career beginnings[link]

Kendrick Lamar was born in Compton, California, a community southeast of Los Angeles city limits, to parents from Chicago, Illinois. At the age of eight, in 1995, Lamar witnessed his idols, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre film the music video for their hit single "California Love," a very significant moment in Lamar's life. In 2003 at the young age of sixteen, Lamar released his first mixtape, ''Youngest Head Nigga In Charge'' under the name K. Dot. The mixtape was able to garner enough attention for Lamar to get a record deal with Top Dawg Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based independent record label. He then released a twenty-six track mixtape two years later titled ''Training Day''. More recognition came Lamar's way after a video of a Charles Hamilton show surfaced, where Hamilton goes in the crowd and battles rappers at attendance. Lamar didn't hesitate and began rapping a verse over Milkbone's "Keep It Real", that would later appear on a track titled "West Coast Wu-Tang". In 2008 Lamar made a cameo appearance on Jay Rock's "All My Life (In the Ghetto)" music video. After receiving a co-sign from Lil Wayne, he released his third mixtape in 2009 titled ''C4'', heavily themed around ''Tha Carter III'' LP. Soon after, he decided to drop his stage name K. Dot and go by his real name. This resulted in him releasing a self-titled EP; the ''Kendrick Lamar EP'' in late 2009.

2010–2011: ''Overly Dedicated'' and ''Section.80''[link]

In 2010 he toured with Tech N9ne and Jay Rock on ''The Independent Grind'' tour. On September 23, 2010 he released ''O(verly) D(edicated)'' a highly acclaimed mixtape that included a song titled "Ignorance is Bliss" in which he glorifies gangsta rap and street crime but ends each verse with "ignorance is bliss" giving the message "we know not what we do". It was that song specifically that made hip hop producer Dr. Dre want to work with Lamar. This led to him working with Dre and Snoop Dogg on Dre's ''Detox'' album and him considering signing to Aftermath Entertainment. In January 2011 Lamar said his debut album was 90% finished.

In early 2011 Lamar was featured on XXL Magazine's 2011 Freshman cover along with CyHi the Prynce, Meek Mill, Mac Miller, Yelawolf, Lil B, Big K.R.I.T. and Diggy Simmons among others. On July 2, 2011, Lamar released his third solo project ''Section.80'' to critical acclaim. It features guest appearances from GLC, Colin Munroe, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and includes production from longtime collaborator Sounwave, Wyldfyer, Terrace Martin, J. Cole and more. On the topic of whether ''Section.80'' would be an album or a mixtape Lamar said "I treat every project like it’s an album anyway. It’s not gonna be nothing leftover. I never do nothing like that. These are my leftover songs y’all can have ‘em, nah. I’m gonna put my best out. My best effort. I’m tryna look for an album in 2012". The first single for ''Section.80'' was the J. Cole produced track "HiiiPower", of which the concept was to further explain the HiiiPower movement. ''Section.80'' went on to sell over 10,000 copies in its first week without any television or radio coverage and received many very positive reviews. In the second half of 2011, Lamar appeared on Game's ''The R.E.D. Album'', Tech N9ne's ''All 6's and 7's'', 9th Wonder's ''The Wonder Years'' and Drake's ''Take Care.

In August 2011, while onstage with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Game, at the West Los Angeles concert, the three of them crowned him the "New King of the West Coast"

2012–present: ''Good Kid in a Mad City''[link]

On February 15, 2012, a song titled "Cartoons & Cereal" featuring Gunplay of Triple C's was leaked. Lamar revealed later that the track was for his upcoming album and he was planning to shoot a video for it.

In March 2012, MTV announced that Top Dawg Entertainment, the independent record label Lamar is signed to, have closed a joint venture deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment, marking the end of his career as an independent artist. Under the new deal, Kendrick Lamar’s projects, including his upcoming debut studio album ''Good Kid in a Mad City'' will be jointly released via Top Dawg, Aftermath and Interscope, while releases from the rest of Black Hippy will be distributed via Top Dawg and Interscope.

Lamar premiered "The Recipe", his debut single and the lead single from ''Good Kid in a Mad City'', at Power 106 on April 2, 2012. The track was released for digital download the following day. The song was produced by Scoop DeVille and features Dr. Dre.

It was announced on May 14, 2012, that Lamar is working on a collaborative album with J. Cole. In an interview with Bootleg Kev, Cole stated that "I just started working with Kendrick the other day. We got it in, finally, again. We got maybe four or five [songs] together."

Personal life[link]

In high school, Centennial in Compton, Lamar was a good student. Lamar said that he has seen relatives who have died in his dreams for years. Tupac Shakur is also his favorite rapper, and influences not only his music, but his day-to-day lifestyle as well. In terms of subject matter, Kendrick Lamar has often been compared to Tupac Shakur. He revealed that his favorite and most influential rappers are Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Jay-Z and his label-mate Eminem.

Discography [link]

''Section.80'' (2011)

''Good Kid in a Mad City'' (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

kedricklamar.com Official Site

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James "Boobie" Miles (born April 16, 1970 in Houston, Texas) was a high school football tail back, and was a primary subject in the book ''Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream'' by H.G. Bissinger, and the movie inspired by the book. He attended Permian High School in Odessa, Texas.

Miles is a major figure in Bissinger's book as one of the top high school running backs in Texas. He was sought by dozens of top college football schools, but his promising career was derailed by a knee injury.

Early life[link]

Miles was born en route to St. Luke's Hospital in Houston with a police escort on April 16, 1970. He lived with his parents until he was three when his mother left him with his maternal grandmother in Houston and moved permanently to Oklahoma without him. Around the age of five Miles went to live with his father, James Sr. The elder Miles was working two jobs, as a truck driver and printing-plant laborer. His father lost custody of Boobie when he started dating a woman who, Boobie claims, physically harmed him. He was placed in a foster home in the Houston area, and eight months later he was put in the care of his uncle L.V. Miles in Odessa, Texas. The two shared the house with L.V.'s wife, Ruby, and her three daughters.

Miles started playing football for the Vikings, a Pop Warner football team that L.V. coached.

High school football career[link]

In 1987 Miles rushed for 1,385 yards. Expectations were high every year at Permian High School and in 1988 the Associated Press, in its preseason predictions, had chosen Permian to win the state title based partly on the play of Miles. From the spring through the early fall of '88 Miles was heavily recruited by numerous top football schools. Letters came from Notre Dame, Nebraska, Houston, Texas A&M;, Clemson, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, LSU, SMU, UCLA and Arkansas.

However in a pre-season scrimmage against the Amarillo Palo Duro Dons, Miles' leg was caught in the artificial turf when he planted his left leg to stiff-arm a tackler; another player then fell on it from the side. The next day he was examined by a local doctor. The initial diagnoses of the injury was that is was only a sprained ligament. Four days later an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Thurston E. Dean, examined Miles and felt the injury was severe enough to require arthroscopic surgery. The surgery was performed the day before Permian's season opener against El Paso Austin. Miles had severely torn the anterior cruciate ligament. He had also torn the cartilage in his left knee. Miles was given the option of immediate reconstructive surgery, which Dean had recommended, or a program of rehabilitation. Rehab would allow Miles to play football with a knee brace. Both Boobie and L.V. opted for the brace.

Miles returned against Abilene High School, however left the game limping with a cramp after only a handful of carries. The next week against Midland Lee High School, Permian lost, with Miles threatening to quit the team at halftime for his lack of playing time. Miles spent the rest of the season on bench, and in November 1988 Dean performed reconstructive surgery on his knee. After rehabilitation from the surgery Miles lost much of the speed that had made him an effective running back.

After his injury Miles was the target of racial epithets and was told he "should be shot like an animal" after being injured. After a fight with L.V., Miles moved out and with Chris Comer taking his place at running back, Miles did not play for Permian High School again.

''Friday Night Lights''[link]

In 1990 a non-fiction book written by H. G. Bissinger follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa as they made a run towards the Texas state championship. Miles was a key figure in the book. In 2002, Sports Illustrated named ''Friday Night Lights'' the fourth-greatest book ever written about sports.

A movie version of ''Friday Night Lights'' was made and then released in the United States on October 6, 2004. It starred Billy Bob Thornton as Permian Coach Gary Gaines. The film was a box office and critical success and, in turn, spawned an NBC television series of the same name, which began airing in October 2006. Boobie was played by Derek Luke.

After high school[link]

Miles attended Ranger College for a year and played as a fullback before flunking out and has since had trouble holding jobs. He then spent some time playing semi-pro football in Culpepper, Virginia though he was never able to regain his high school form or confidence in his ability. He regrets trying to play on his injured knee before having surgery to repair it.

He has two children who live in Midland with their mother. As of August 2009 Miles lives in Dallas and is not working. In May 2009, he was charged with aggravated assault. Police said he struck his stepbrother repeatedly in the head with a beer bottle. He received a sentence of five years' deferred probation in district court. The charge will be dismissed if he successfully completes probation.

In 2012, Buzz Bissinger published a 34 page afterward called ''After Friday Night Lights'', which has Bissinger visiting with Miles and discussing their 25 year friendship.

References[link]

External links[link]

Official ''Friday Night Lights'' Book Website

Salgado blocked for famous Boobie Miles in Odessa

West Texas Prep Hero Is Striving For New Lease On Life

1987 Permian vs. Arlington Video

Friday Night Lights: Twenty Years After Their Iconic Season, Where are They Now?

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name	LoLa Monroe
background	solo_singer
born	October 23, 1986Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
origin	Washington D.C., U.S.
genre	Hip hop
alias	Angel, Lola Luv
occupation	Rapper, model, actress
years active	2006–present
label	Blue Rose, The Commission, 1017 Brick Squad, Taylor Gang
associated acts	Wiz Khalifa, Lil Boosie, Trina, Juicy J, Los, J-Doe
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Lola Monroe (born October 24, 1986) is an American rapper, model and actress.

Early life[link]

Monroe was born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. She is of mixed Trinidadian and Ethiopian background.

She was raised in Garfield Terrace, Washington D.C.. Monroe began writing poems and songs at the age of 12, using music as an escape and a form of expression.

Career[link]

She made her acting debut in the Wendy Wiliams biopic "Queen of Media" and later acted in "Crazy like a Fox." She began modeling and appearing in music videos for various artists. She later became LoLa Monroe in 2007; "Monroe" is a reference to the actress, model, film producer and singer Marilyn Monroe.

In June 2009, she released her first mixtape, ''Boss Bitch's World''. In October the same year, she released her second mixtape, ''The Art of Motivation''. That year, she also released her collaboration mixtape, ''Untouchables''.

In September 2010, Monroe released her first single, ''Overtime'', from her mixtape. A video was recorded and released on 106 & Park for this single. In December 2010 LoLa released her fourth mixtape, ''Batteries Not Included''.

She was nominated for Best Female Hip Hop Artist at the BET Awards of 2011.

Artists who have influenced her musical style include Jay-Z, Tupac Shakur, MC Lyte, Salt-n-Pepa, Trina, and Lauryn Hill.

Discography[link]

;Collaborative albums

''TBA'' (with Taylor Gang) (2012)

;Mixtapes

''Boss Bitch's World'' (2009)

''The Lola Monroe Chronicles: The Art of Motivation'' (2009)

''Untouchables'' (with Lil' Boosie) (2009)

''Batteries Not Included'' (2010)

''Crown Ain't Safe'' (2012)

;Singles

+ List of singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name	scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20em;"	Title	Year	Peak chart positions			Album
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"Overtime"(featuring Trina)	2010	—	—	—	''Batteries Not Included''
"Darling"(featuring Wiz Khalifa)		—	—	''Non-album single''
"Dark Red Lipstick"	—	—	''Crown Ain't Safe''

Filmography[link]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2009		Mona	Direct-to-video DVD
2010		Pier Angeli	Direct-to-video DVD
2010		Jessica	Full-Length Film

References[link]

External links[link]

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name	Bun B
background	solo_singer
birth name	Bernard Freeman
birth date	March 19, 1973
origin	Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.|
genre	Hip Hop, Southern Rap, Trill
occupation	Rapper, Songwriter, Producer, CEO
years active	1987–Present| label Rap-a-Lot
associated acts	UGK, Slim Thug, Outkast, Scarface, Sean Kingston, Z-Ro, Beyoncé Knowles, Trey Songz, Kirko Bangz, Chamillionaire, Juvenile, Rick Ross, Drake, Usher, Wu-Tang Clan, T.I., Lil Wayne }}

Bernard Freeman (born March 19, 1973) better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz). He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas. He recently released his third official solo album Trill OG on August 3, 2010, which received a 5 Mic "Classic" rating in The Source Magazine - the first album in over five years to receive the honor. Bun B is married with two stepchildren.

Music career[link]

UGK[link]

In the late 1980s, Pimp C started the rap duo UGK. They then got signed to Jive Records where they released their major label debut album, Too Hard to Swallow, and their sophomore album, Super Tight.... Their third album, Ridin' Dirty reached the R&B; Charts in 1996 peaking at number 2 and the Billboard 200 chart peaking at number 15. After releasing their fourth studio album, Dirty Money, Pimp C got sentenced to jail.

''Trill'' and beginning of solo career[link]

When Bun B's UGK partner, the late Chad "Pimp C" Butler entered a jail sentence on an aggravated gun assault charge in 2002, Bun B made guest appearances on numerous albums by other rappers and released a 2005 mixtape titled ''Legends''. Singles featuring a Bun B guest appearance included "They Don't Know" by Paul Wall, "Gimme That" by Webbie and "I'm A G" by Yung Joc. Bun B also appeared in a documentary titled ''Screwed In Houston'' produced by VBS/Vice Magazine that details the history of the Houston rap scene.

In October 2005, Bun B's debut solo album ''Trill'' was released. Singles included "Draped Up", "Git It", and "Get Throwed". The album peaked at the sixth spot on the American Billboard 200 chart and number one on the Top R&B;/Hip Hop Albums chart.

''II Trill''[link]

After Pimp C died in 2007, Bun B returned to a solo career. In 2008, he released his second album, ''II Trill'' The first single was "That's Gangsta" featuring Jamaican American artist Sean Kingston. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, selling 98,000 copies. Other singles were "Damn I'm Cold" featuring Lil Wayne and "You're Everything" featuring Rick Ross, David Banner, DJ Corbett and 8Ball & MJG, the latter of which was dedicated to the late Pimp C.

''Trill OG''[link]

Bun B's third album is ''Trill OG''. In an interview with MTV Live, Bun B stated that 2Pac is set to feature on the album, claiming "It's a brand new verse." The album was released under Universal Music Group on August 3, 2010.

4th studio album[link]

On October 28 2011, a song titled "The Life" and produced by 14KT was leaked.

On March 3 2012, Bun B leaked a song featuring Royce Da 5'9 and Redman titled "Stop Playin'" after he reached 400,000 followers on Twitter. He has not announced the song's appearance on his upcoming album

Other Ventures[link]

Acting[link]

Bun B recently acted in the Straight-to-DVD movie "Ghetto Stories: The Movie". It is unknown at this time though if he is still pursuing an acting career.

Teaching [link]

At the start of the Spring 2011 semester, Bun B joined the faculty of Rice University as a Distinguished Lecturer. He taught a course in the School of the Humanities on Hip-Hop and Religion.

Personal life [link]

Family [link]

Bun B is married to Angela Walls with two children. One of his sons is American rapper Young B, who is currently a member of the rap group ''Youngest N Charge.'' Youngest N Charge is currently Bun B's opening act.

Discography[link]

2005: ''Trill''

2008: ''II Trill''

2010: ''Trill OG''

2012: ''Trill 4 Life''

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

''Ghetto Stories'' (2010)

References[link]

External links[link]

Rap-A-Lot Records

Discography at discogs.com

Bun B RBMA lecture

Category:1973 births Category:African American rappers Category:Rappers from Houston, Texas Category:People from Port Arthur, Texas Category:Asylum Records artists Category:Living people Category:Rice University faculty Category:Southern hip hop musicians Category:Rappers from Texas

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