Sonny Rich is tagged as: rap, hip-hop, under 2000 listeners Surely it is not an understatement that SONNY RICH is the voice of today’s average urban youth, and young adults. Born second to the youngest of six brothers and sisters in a single mother home, young Sonny took to the streets of Charlotte North Carolina at the tender age of eleven. Asked why, he states “My mother was hardly able to pay the bills. As a kid, I wanted nice things, I wanted it all and the street was the only job for an eleven year old kid. No application, no experience needed”. His story is that of many urban youth and young adults. Raised in the crime infested Westside of Charlotte, Sonny’s life experience reflects a point and time of everyone life. He is no stranger to adversity, by the age of 14 he was kicked out of his mother home. “I was out of control, my mom couldn’t handle me. My older brothers were in and out of jail, I was bringing drugs and guns in the house. I was doing all type of crazy things on the streets, so she put me put me out”. After two years of running the streets without a sense of direction he ended up in Job Corp. “My older brother came home from jail and made me go. That was my first real out of state living experience without my family around me. It was crazy; Job Corp was no different than being in jail”. During this... Read More About Sonny Rich Biography... Send Sonny Rich ringtones to your cell |
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