Draft:Zuba

Zaa'Hir Qualik Reid (born August 23, 2009), known professionally as Zuba, is an independent American rapper/singer from Delaware, New Castle. continuing his music career, he has made an outstanding performance with his latest song, "Slow Down". He is an upcoming independent singer/rapper, with musical desires.

= Early life = Zaa'Hir Qualik Reid was born on August 23, 2009, in the New Castle area on the North Side of Delaware for about 2-3 years. His elementery year he attended New Castle Elementery School in Delaware. He lived most of his life in Wilmington, Delaware. From a young age, demonstrated a keen interest in music and sports, showing an aptitude for both rapping/singing, and sports. He grew interest in a basketball team called the: "Bombs", at an local "Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware". Later into his life, he grew interest in football at the age of 12. Zaa'Hir joined his first football organization called: "302 City Raptors".

He grew up with a great deal of responsibility at home, as an older brother of 7 siblings. His family, recognizing his natural talent, encouraged his musical pursuits and provided him with the resources to develop his skills.

= Career =

Early career and rise to popularity 2021-2022
In 2021, early November, Zuba soon created an YouTube account. Zaa'Hir went under the name of "Lil Zuba", starting his music career as an independent songwriter. In 2022, late September, "Lil Zuba" released his first song "Ride With Me", distributed by DistroKid. Furthermore, when the song was released and displayed throughout his social media, Zaa'Hir has gotten much love and support from family, friends and others. During the same year Zaa'Hir released a track on October 10: "No Discussion". During the same year a couple days later, October 26, "When I'm Down" was released.

Zuba soon revealed he does not go to an paid recording studio, but records on a mobile workstation app called: "BandLab". He uses an external Apple earbuds with an internal mic located on it. While Zaa'Hir was on his upcoming rise of the year 2022 he did not recieve much fame or popularity, but reached an good amount of number for an upcoming artist of around 480-300 views, and plays.

Late 2022, Zaa'Hir soon ended his musical career to build the center of attention on his football career.

2023-2024: Comeback. A new start
June of 2024, he created a story on his Instagram, announcing that he was making a return on his musical career as a idependent songwriter, while football was on pause

He took out the "Lil" in his last rapper name: "Lil Zuba" and soon enough came up with "Zuba". Due to his popularity from the early start of his musical career, he alarmed his fans of a upcoming track: "Slow Down", which is an rnb, rap and hip hop song. This track was songwrited by Zuba and instrumental was produced by Stoic", who is a beat creator/producer.

A week into his announcement, he premiered "Slow Down" on YouTube of June 16, 2024. He noted that he still used BandLab to create this song. This track was distrubuted by UnitedMasters and produced on all platforms.

Furthermore he spread the news of his new song on all of his social platforms he had connects to. This track has around an estimate of 160 views and plays on YouTube with an estimate of 2,000 views on Tiktok. Zuba is currently not in a label, nor group, but is an independent rapper/singer. He then later annouced he was making another track a month later: as of July 17, 2024.

= Personal life = Zuba is a Christian. He has no children. Since of May 18, 2024 he has been in a relationship with Samia Seth.

As of, July 17, 2024 Zuba, lives in Elkton, Maryland and attends Delaware State University/University of the State of Delaware/DSU, where he will be getting his education and will be continuing his football career at. He is an older brother of 7 siblings and lives with his mother. In 2022 he father was accused of first and second -- degree murder. Zuba's father trial was counted as an mistrial, due to an corruption. Tahesha Brown is Identified as Zuba's mother. His mother is doing perfectly fine and is healthy in great conditions.

Zuba's uncle sadly passed away in Wilmington, Delaware due to fatal gunshot wounds while sitting in a car outfront of his home.

= Discography =


 * Ride With Me (2022)
 * No Discussion (2022)
 * When I'm Down (2022)
 * Slow Down (2024)