Rappers Who Were Accused Of Faking Their Tough, Street Image

Publish date: 2024-05-08

The title of Tyga's first album is No Introduction, but after it was released he still needed to introduce himself and explain just how he grew up. That's because, in December of 2013, old footage leaked of a show called Bustas that showed a teenage Tyga talking about living in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. "Grew up not too tough, parents had a Range Rover, doing it big, not too much hard, but I'm still street," said Tyga on Bustas (via TMZ). This snippet raised some questions, as Tyga has always said he was from Compton, the West Coast city made famous by people like Dr. Dre and N.W.A.

After the clip surfaced, the "Rack City" rapper set the record straight during an appearance on Big Boy's Neighborhood on Los Angeles radio station Power 106. "The intro beginning was scripted. I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life ... I'm young, I'm ambitious, I don't care, I'm getting a check for this, I'm having fun, I'm about to be on T.V.," he said. The controversy pretty much died down after he explained himself, and the California native went on to have a pretty fruitful career afterward.

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