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Born in Bay City, Texas, Virgil René Gazca learned quickly that he would have to make something of himself to get through his difficult upbringing. Gazca was always drawn to music, listening to a mix of the in-your-face classic rock of AC/DC, the pulsating nu-metal of Slipknot, and the vivacious southern parking lot pimping music of Slim Thug, Lil Keke, Sauce Walka, and the rappers who ushered in the mid-00s Southern rap takeover. He always gravitated towards music, but after losing his mother early in life, and dealing with his dad being in and out of jail, Gazca faced a crossroads in seventh grade as he pondered how to change his circumstances. "Being a rapper is damn near impossible," Gazca says. "With the luck that I got, I know I'm not making. What am I going to do in life? I couldn't see myself doing anything else, so it just had to happen."
With that realization, Gazca got to work, spending as much time in his uncle's makeshift studio as possible and entering into rap battles around the city. But issues with self-esteem pushed him off the path in a bad way. Scared of repeating the mistakes of his other family members, Gazca re-dedicated himself to his craft around junior year of high school, continuing to hone his rapping with his uncle and his cousins. After locking in and releasing his first project, Southern Texas Project, in 2020, Gazca got the attention of Greg Gates, who offered to manage him. Gates changed Gazca's life, pushing him to learn to make songs, rather than focus purely on rapping.
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