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RealLiveRari
Georgia native, Merari Pritchett (June 13, 1996) known professionally as 'RealLiveRari’ is an American rapper born and raised in Thomasville, Georgia. The independent artist made his name in 2018 when he released his first single 'Run It Up' His first mixtape 'Reconstructed' was released on April 13, 2019

Early Life
Merari Kenyon Pritchett was born on June 13, 1996 in Thomasville, Ga. From an early age music was apart of his life. He started playing drums at the young age of 3. He started playing in churches from child to adolescent then began playing in his elementary (Scott Elementary), Middle School (McIntyre Park Middle School), and high school (Thomas County Central High School) percussion lines making district honors band and being awarded a Full ride scholarship at Johnson C Smith University for Music and Academics.

At the age of 14, Rari, began his musical career with his associates called the Livin' Legends spending countless nights in their home made studio recording tracks and perfecting their craft. They dropped many songs under various aliases as they made their way through the industry gaining traction fast. Unfortunately the buzz would not last long as the group was hit with many setbacks and relocations. Nonetheless Rari endured, moving to Charlotte, NC to attend college he knew his purpose. Class by day studio by night a countless cycle of learning finally rendered Rari's first hit single '4Rari'.

Career
After releasing a successful hit single Rari acted fast to capitalize on his new found buzz by dropping his first project 'Financial Finesse' a project that tells a story of a young boy battling the hardships of life and finally having a breakthrough. The project gained Rari more exposure for the oncoming year of 2016. In 2017, After officially changing his artist name to RealLiveRari and fully rebranding the hiphop artist released his biggest single at the time 'Run It Up' accumulating over 1million streams on platforms. RealLiveRari quickly follows this up with 'Repeat' another hit single that led him to creating his most notable mixtape 'Reconstructed' executively produced by Willy Franko and Producer 20 of Audio Box Studios in Charlotte,NC. This bred a new ground for the artist as RealLiveRari began to network throughout the city landing him at Platinum Plus Recording Studios where owner and producer Slim Hood took him under his wing. There, RealLiveRari learned mixing and mastering as well as producing. From these events the smash hit '2020' was born, a song about the positive outlook on the artist's life going forward and the pain he feels for the loved ones he's loss to death and incarceration. He quickly follows this slow heart felt song up with a much more up beat club banger 'Double L' the intro to his 2020 mixtape  'Livin Legend'. After a successful project push the artist stepped away from music to maintain other business endeavors he had been working on outside of music. After a year of quick posts and previews of new music RealLiveRari finally went on to release his latest single 'Gang Sh*t' and he didn't come alone as popular hiphop artist Luh JoJo spits a mean 16 bars. RealLiveRari is currently working on his new project for 2022 which has no title or release date as of yet.