It's that he's still alive. After a long drought someone is finally set to break nationally, a young rapper from the city named Antonio Harris, also known as LA4SS. Only twenty years old, he's already done time in federal prison and seen the people closest to him murdered. Growing up in a family waterlogged with despair, legal trouble and tragedy, he's found an artistic voice — equal parts brutal and enchanting — that's captivated north city, north county and beyond. Chingy's fallen off, Nelly's facing sexual assault charges and today's St. Louis, when you make a diss song, you have to be ready to die off of it," says rapper Kosta Longmire, of the St.
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At an age when most boys are entering high school, meeting girls and studying for driver's tests, Harris was getting gold fronts on his teeth and tattoos on his chest, and engaging in caustic disputes with adversaries.

Artists still in high school point actual guns at the camera, threatening rival gangs. Harris' music doesn't glorify black violence for the entertainment of white audiences, a charge often levied against gangsta rap.
Louis, who over the years has shared management with Harris.
Even among hard-edged rappers, Harris stands out for his intensity. Louis - North City ST.
LA4SS Could Be St. Louis' Biggest Rapper in a Generation -- If He Survives
Louis rappers don't have much in the way of national hits or media coverage. Today Tomorrow This Weekend.
Louis - Washington Avenue ST. Harris' journey to the top of the St. Ever since I been knowing 4SS I been worried about him.

September 1, Best Things to La4sa In St. Interviews with a wide array of friends, collaborators and close observers paint him as someone who's short on trust. By all accounts Harris' upbringing was rough. Though he's spoken with this reporter in the past, he declined to be interviewed for this piece. Special Issues Summer Guide.

He began making music in earnest around age sixteen, finding unexpected success after performing a verse posted to a friend's Instagram. Louis hip-hop has been without breakout stars in recent years. Growing up in a family waterlogged with despair, legal trouble and tragedy, he's found an artistic voice — equal parts brutal and enchanting — that's captivated north city, north county and beyond.
It's that he's still alive. Harris' manager Slim Cunningham, a veteran St.
No one buys records anymore, and so instead the local scene is centered mostly around YouTube. His manager says he's wary of self-incrimination, perhaps understandable considering Harris is on probation and due back in court later this worrk on a charge of ls4ss arrest. The way people crowd around you. Though his charisma was never in question, a hundred other factors seemingly contrived to try to take him down.
Louis rap ruled charts in the early s, with Nelly and Chingy's platinum hits revolving around hotel rooms, shiny jewels, tight jeans, slurred "rrr"s and lots of hometown pride.
Work [prod by MA on the track] by LA4ss Official | Free Listening on SoundCloud
These videos lead to actual killings. Calendar Events in St. To survive he was forced to embark upon journeys both figurative and literal, descending into a pit of despair seemingly without bottom. Under the mentorship of a famed local promoter, he still might have a chance.
LA4ss 06 - Work [prod By MA On The Track] by MA On The Track | Free Listening on SoundCloud
Don't expect comic relief or syrupy odes to girlfriends in his songs; he's percent serious, focused on life and death in the streets.
It's that star shit. Louis impresario known as LooseCannon, has worked with the most popular rappers in the country. That's a big reason St.
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