User:Lennierichardson/sandbox

Lennie Richardson (born March 4, 1994) is a person from Greensboro, NC. Lennie was born to Quentin Richardson and Tonja Canady at the Women's Hospital of Greensboro, NC. As a child, Lennie showed a lot of interest in music, writing his first song at 9 years old. By the age of 12, Lennie decided that he wanted to take music seriously and make a career of it. By the age of 13, Lennie started to teach himself how to play guitar and make home recordings using a makeshift home studio. He was inspired to start recording music after hearing Avenged Sevenfold's song "The Beast and the Harlot." He originally wrote rock music, but after hearing Lil Wayne's mixtape "Da Drought 3" he decided to start writing rap songs. For a while most of his songs were a genre called Crunkcore which is a fusion between Crunk Rap and Heavy Metal. Lennie Richardson made Crunkcore music under the stagename "It's Her Birthday" but after shifting more towards hip hop music, he later changed his stage name to "Star Rocket" in 2010 and then to "Hotshot Rocket" in 2011. He added the "Hotshot" to his name after dating six different girls from his school in the span of three weeks, eventually getting kicked out of Robert B. Glenn High School for having sex with a girl in the bathroom and getting caught with ecstasy pills. After getting kicked out of school, he moved back to Greensboro to start his life over and refocus on his music career. Lennie Richardson graduated from Grimsley Senior High School in the summer of 2012 and moved to Winston Salem to further his education and make more connections in the local music scene. Lennie attended Forsyth Technical Community College where he met his friend and fellow artist Trapbo Chad. Lennie and Chad started collaborating on several songs together and began performing at local open mic's and various shows in Winston Salem and Greensboro. Lennie went on a hiatus from music for much of the year 2014 due to his school schedule and excessive partying with popular locals such as The Bunnies Ashley & Ashley but is currently recording his debut EP which is set to be titled "OTG Mane."