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Baltimore, Maryland

CEO & Founder

King Truth is among the many hardcore rappers who came out of hip-hop's Dirty South school in the late '00s. ; Not all Dirty South recordings are gangsta rap, but King Truth has favored the thugged-out gangsta side of the Dirty South, and he gets his inspiration from both Southern and non-Southern rappers. Lenwood and His Baltimore-based On My Own Records are an influence; so are N.W.A., Dr. Dre, and the late Tupac Shakur. King's more sexually explicit lyrics also owe something to Oakland native Too Short, who was never a gangsta rapper but did a lot to popularize X-rated rap lyrics. King Truth, however, isn't from the West Coast any more than he is from Baltimore; his stomping ground is