User:Acappellabreeze

darren williams aka acappella king is an american rapper born in baltimore md dec 28 1971.his mother charlene maria perry a baptist.his father eugene hilton bey a morish american muslim.darren grew up in one of baltimores most notorious housing projects. murphy homes was widely known as a drug haven.murders robberies and shootings were sanonimus with the housing project.drug dealing and using was a way of life.darren attended samuel colleridge taylor elementry school on mccollah street.he graduated june 13th 1983.he attended booker t washington jr high school.from there he attended fredrick douglass high school.he graduated in june of 1989.on may 14th 1986 darren's daughter danielle rene armstead was born.he was a young yet dedicated father who has been and is still apart of his childs life.he now boast 3 beutiful grand children.

darren however did get caught up in the covet of his surroundings.he began selling drugs to help support his self and his daughter.often sneaking the ill gotten funds to danielle's mother darlene armstead so her mother would not know.darlene and darren met in kindergarden.the couple stayed together off and on for 10 years often meeting secretly to avoid supervision of their parents.in 1989 darren got involved with the bloods gang.the gang was not well known at that time.two gang members from newyork came to baltimore to recruit young males to sell crack.at the time crack was a new drug and prior to selling it,darren had never heard off it before.but quickly found out that it was very lucritive.darren started making roughly 300 hundred dollars per night.he soon started bradishing his red bandana also known as a flag.most of his friends were not aware of the meaning.darren was also arrested on robbery and assult charges in 1989 durning his initiation period for the bloods.

after selling drugs and being involved in the gang, in 2000 he got out.his sect was broken up in the catonsville area of baltimore county by police.in 1997 darren then known as kg kidd getting busy,was signed to now defunct record company amint records jamm.amint was a subsitiary of motown jazz records.darren was the 1st rapper from baltimore to ever do a full length video and psa about kids being shot by stray bullets.the name of the video and song was called: every time we crank.the psa was inspired by the shooting of 5 year old james smith the third who was shot and killed as he set in a barbers chair getting a hair cut.the video was widely shown throughout the baltimore,washington,virgina area.darren met with multi million aire businessman lavan hawkins owner of inner city foods in 1997.he was selected to do rap jingles and commercials for lavans more than 200 hundred burger kings across the country.however the plans were haulted do to lavan hawkins arrest for tax evassion.

darren also landed a job as promotions manager for double d's production company.where he was incharge of promoting baltimore's up and coming young artist.in 2000 darren decided to take a positive message to the streets.he encouraged young men and women to leave a life of crime,drugs,violence and truancy.he started a program called:precision youth power program inc. (pypp)it is a program that works with at risk youth and young adults.it is designed to get them out of gangs,away from drugs and back into school.it also provides job traing and placement.pypp makes the dreams of its members come true of rapping,singing,dancing,acting poetry,ect if they give up a life crime.it also brings local,nation and world attention to its members.pypp and its members have been featured on many tv shows local and national.they have been in many newspapers and magazines including xxl,ski mask,urbanite,the baltimore sun,the chicago tribune and more.also local and national radio including the ed norris show from cbs radio,the laura ingrim show upwards of 6 million listeners and more.also was featured on swiss,german and french television.has appeared on the judge hatchett show amongst others.

on jan 18th of 2001 darren was shot in his back by drug dealing gang members.he was shot after talking to drug gang members to convince them to come off the corners and into studios.he was shot in his back and the bullet is lodged in his spinal canal.he will walk with a cane for the rest of his life.no one was ever caught for the crime.in 2004 pypp got an indorsement from hip hop superstar lil mo.who asked darren and his members to come on her radio show on x105.7.she then introduced darren to her manager michael lighty.mr lighty has managed the likes of 50 cents,busta rymes,lil wayne and more.inexchange for pypp members giving up crime,mr lighty and violator records reward the members.they now except all pypp's members music and songs for review for a chance at a possible record deal.violator is a major record label in the industry.mr andre neal is head of a&r for violator.pypp was also in the documentary called original gangster.

mr williams still runs pypp and is still helping countless youth and young adults beat the allure of the mean streets.over 100 drug dealers,gang members,truants,ect have come through pypp and pypp has come through for them.mr williams has often said:all they did was hurt my body,but not my spirit.