Rae Sremmurd is an American hip-hop duo consisting of Aaquil Iben Shamon Brown (born: December 29, 1991) and Khalif Malik Ibn Shaman Brown (born: June 7, 1993), better known professionally as Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee.
History[]
The Browns met Jemiah Middlebrooks in Tupelo while he was playing basketball at a local park. They decided to form a hip hop band called "Dem Outta St8 Boyz" with him. Aaquil took the stage name "CaliBoy," Khalif "Kid Krunk," and Jemiah "Lil Pantz." They used money from their part-time jobs to buy equipment and to produce music at home. The two brothers were composing their own beats and the trio were rapping. Visibly inspired by Soulja Boy Tell'Em, the boys released songs and dance videos on social media. It was at the same time that the group first met, and then later became friends with Jermarcus Jackson, or JJ (today known as Jay Sremm), a young disc jockey, who was studying at high school with the two brothers. He since became the DJ of the group.
The Browns' mother broke up with their father, and following the breakup, the two brothers started skipping school and working more seriously on music. They would return home at late hours, even when they had school the next morning. Their mother, fed up with their schedules, eventually kicked them out of her house, which left them homeless. They began squatting in an abandoned house in the city with a friend of their stepfather's, taking advantage of the opportunity and organized parties in their new home in order to spread their music.
In 2011, Lil Pantz left the group due to legal problems and was replaced. Aaquil and Khalif took the opportunity to change their stage names from "CaliBoy" and "Kid Krunk" to "Weirdo" and "Kid The Great," respectively.
Jemarcus put the group in touch with producer Pierre "P-Nazty" Slaughter, a cousin of his, who had grown up in Tupelo but had moved to Atlanta to work with Mike Will Made It's record label EarDrummers. P-Nazty appreciated the teenagers' music and decided to work with them. Thereby, the three rappers left Tupelo and spent a few months with P-Nazty and Marquel "Marz" Middlebrooks (another EarDrummers producer) in Georgia. They took the opportunity to perform in talent shows and recorded the track "I Dip", produced by Marz, and which increased their popularity a little more. They released their second project "Three Stooges Mixtape" at the beginning of 2012.
Channel[]
The channel was created on December 27, 2013, and the first video was uploaded on January 6, 2014. The channel uploads music videos and audio of their songs.