While promoting themselves in an event, he and Paul Wall met Michael "5000" Watts, a popular mixtape DJ from northern Houston. Before becoming a rapper he held numerous jobs, including stocking trucks and transporting blood and urine for a medical lab In a January 2006 interview with The Austin Chronicle, Chamillionaire stated that at first lived in a section of Houston zoned to Eisenhower High School and that his parents moved to the Jersey Village High School attendance zone so he could play in its more advanced basketball program.Ĭhamillionaire stated that he has been recording mixtapes as early as 1998. He moved to Houston, Texas at the age of four. to an immigrant father from Oyo State, Nigeria and a Nigerian mother. He is a former artist on Michael 5000 Watts' Swishahouse label. In 2007, he won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for his number-one single "Ridin'", a number-one hit in the United States for two weeks in 2006. Chamillionaire is a founder and original member of The Color Changin' Click. He is also a hook writer and usually sings and harmonizes with himself (using multi-tracked vocals) on his own hooks. He stated that his aim is to prove that the South can produce quality lyricists. Hakeem Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire (pronounced Ka-MIL-yin-air, IPA: /kəˌmɪljəˈnεər/, a portmanteau of "chameleon" and "millionaire") is an American rapper, CEO, singer and musician from Houston, Texas and the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment.
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