OMB Peezy is one of the hardest street rappers in the game right now. Hailing from Mobile, Alabama, the “Lay Down” MC has been rapping his entire life, recording his very first song at 12 years old. At the same time, he relocated to Sacramento, but makes it a point to keep his Southern roots at the forefront. Some of his favorite things include “money, guns, shit like that,” — which gives you an idea of his personality and character.

Before the music took off, Peezy was doing anything to get money. This included a lot of bargaining, “buying, selling, and trading” in his words. It was at 16 years old when he was rapping in high school and the positive feedback from his peers let him know it was time to commit full-time. At age 19, he released Lay Down, which brought his name from the underground into a new deal with 300 Entertainment.

In fact, the music video currently clocks in at over 9.8M views on Youtube alone. On the making of the hit, he states,

“I was real mad when I made that record. Real mad. I was in jail when I had wrote it. When I got out and recorded it, everybody was like ‘boy don’t put it out.’ I’m like ‘I’ma put it out, I ain’t trippin.’ Because I ain’t gon’ lie, I was talking about the stuff I didn’t want to deal with. But at the end of the day, it helped.”

Currently, Peezy moved to Atlanta, which stands only 4 hours away from his hometown. However, he’s self-aware that it’s not too healthy to stay down there for too long. Comparing the opposite coasts, he states, “It’s real different [in the south]. It’s slower, real slower. I don’t know how to explain it. California and the South real different, period. The people different, the attitude’s different.”