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Aiden Marko '''(born January 11th, 2005), known professionally and more commonly known as Yea t, XxxRage or simply 'RAGE' is an American rapper, and songwriter. Gaining mild traction in December of 2022 when his song 'TELL ME YOU LOVE ME'" had started gaining attention and amassing 1.8k streams in a couple of months. In 2023 he dropped his Senior album RAGE, and then two weeks later, dropping another album titled Thieves N Beggars. With 3 former, more lesser-known albums and one EP dropping mid 2022 to little success. (Devil's Advocate, Corpse Collection, and the No Limits EP)'''

Early Life
Aiden Marko was born on January 11th, 2005 in Harrisburg, North Carolina. Marko is of german-caucasian descent with not much else being known of his family. It is noted that Rage has one younger sister and went to Winecoff Elementary school, from 2007 to 2013, moving away to Concord, North Carolina in 2014 to which he would then go to Patriots Elementary school, when he graduated and spent two of his three middle school years at Hickory Ridge Middle School, also in Concord before moving away in 2020 to go to Florida, which is where he currently resides while currently pursuing his music career.

2017 - 2020 The gradual interest in music/Beginnings:
Rage had been a avid fan of rap music for a very long time by this point but had only sought interest in making music in 2017, under the name 36kCam, as stated in a now deleted Twitter post of an abandoned account used by Rage. Rage had around 2 planned albums at the time which never made it past planning and development titled "The Shut Up and Listen Album" and "IDONTLOVEYOUANYMORE" both of which were scrapped in mid 2020, where Rage would rename to "XXXRAGE".

2020 - 2022 Finding the sound for XxxRage: The No Limits EP, Corpse Collection, Devils Advocate
Rage had been in and out of conflicts with his High School and hadn't planned out any noticable etch for a future job in any way, so with little to no active hobbies, Rage started working on a early project he had scrapped a while back titled "The No Limits EP" which was inspired heavily by two famous rappers, Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem. The EP dropped in July of 2022 after two years of work, though most of this was admitted by XxxRage to be time spent slacking, instead of working. The album contained notable tracks such as "God, can you hear me?" and "Vontaze Burfict" which contained a feature from Underground artist "L1l_N!66@", who is Aiden's childhood friend, with the pair meeting in middle school. The EP was poorly made and received just as poorly as it was expected, as Rage hadn't found a solid sound and was still not putting 100% into every song and lyric.

In September of 2022, Rage tried once more at making music, this time after being heavily inspired to get back into the game after Underground artist "Yeat" started going viral on Tiktok for songs like "Möney So Bïg" and "Turban", songs that Rage had liked extensively as he had taken a liking to the now famous artist. Because of this inspiration, Rage had begun work on his first album, "CORPSE COLLECTION". A fifteen-track album which, once dropped in September 2022, had more popular songs like "JUMPMAN" and "WHO AM I" which were enjoyed for their unique flows and special cadences, accompanied by enjoyable and melodic trap beats. With "BOOM BOOM POW" being the most popular song on the album at the time with 91 views on Youtube. Never being released to streaming platforms, despite its gravitational flow and addicting hook.

In October of 2022, Rage had seen the faults within the last album, now more interested in a themed album, with a more steady tracklist which would be easily transitionable and better to listen to. This album would eventually be teased and announced as "DEVILS ADVOCATE", a much more successful and popular album amongst XxxRage's community, which had been growing through a Twitter parody that XxxRage was running. Devil's Advocate was chock full of inspired flows from both Yeat and Detroit rapper Babytron. With songs like "Cant Touch This" and "Stanley Steamer" being very well received. Although songs like Misunderstood (Featuring Mr. Midnight (Now WarWillKill)), Halloween, and New 2 Me popularizing XxxRage as a serious rapper within the Florida rap scene and his community in general.

2023 - Present day
A big leap in time had occurred as XxxRage had taken a four month hiatus from music and public releases, due to losing three close friends of his as well as a childhood friend to Covid, and other incidents. After some time passed, Rage got to work on his next album which was simply titled "RAGE". Releasing in January of 2023. Which ultimately was heavily inspired by Yeat, using hard Rage Trap beats and heavy vocals and high notes in order to create a power ballad of extremely heavy bass-filled tracks, fourteen in total. RAGE was highly received by his Aiden's community. With songs such as "MY NAME IS RAGE" and "FL2LA (Featuring The_Hives_Mind (Now Jvly38!))" being very highly received. Ultimately making him a bigger name within the Twitter community, being seen as someone who was genuinely improving with every project he dropped.

Two weeks later, on February 28th, 2023, Rage dropped a project which wasn't hinted or teased at whatsoever, the project being titled "Thieves N Beggars" which turned out to be an experimental album that shifted away from the Rage Trap genre that Marko was working with at the time, to move to a more Melodic Trap vibe. Rage stated in a couple Twitter posts that he "Felt uninspired" and "Honestly very bored" with the genre and needed to expand his horizons more, hinting at a possible Hyperpop album and then releasing Thieves N Beggars, which as mentioned before, was more Melodic Cloud Trap. The album was very highly received and tracks like "TB4L" and "No Mans Land" being standouts with their heavy flows with clear inspiration from rappers like Don Toliver and Lil Wayne, to "What you Wanted" sounding more like a Drake inspired outro. A few days later, on March 2nd, 2023. Thieves N Beggars released on Spotify and Apple Music. where they continue to hit very high streaming numbers.

Musical Evolution/Style - Work Ethic
Rage had recently been picking up traction as a fan favorite within the underground rap scene, as his flow and rythm, as well as his ability to infuse Autotune heavy adlibs inspired by artists like Yeat and Playboi Carti, with smooth and silky calm vocals that we've seen in artists such as Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Yung Gravy and BabyTron. XXXRAGE has solidified himself as a prominant and versatile artist within the underground and just recently became a verified artist with Spotify and Apple Music. As he grows, Marko has stated he wants to branch out more with his sound and become even better with time. Rage has a decently sized Twitter account where he leaks and gives previews to his upcoming projects, and albums. Although stating recently he wants to step away from announcing projects so he can take the time to work on them to completion first.

It's been said that with the inspiration Rage has gotten from artists such as Yeat and Babytron, he has worked and studied their flows and what makes them so gravitating to a normal listener. Claiming he's wanted to always make music he'd know he'd enjoy. Stating that it's a positive and negative attribute of his, because the genres that he's into are very niche and small within their respectful communities, making it evidently harder to grow as an artist because the subgenre of rap fans he caters to are in very small amounts.

Rage has been reported to make 4 to 5 songs a day, with most never making it to release so he can hone his abilities more carefully, only picking the best few songs out of each bunch, but when starting out he would work on 8 to 10 over the course of a couple hours. This proved to be helpful in his journey to discovering his own sound and making it unique to him.

Current/Personal life
Rage resides in East Florida where he's currently working and going to school while also making music and experimenting with writing books and managing his social media accounts, stating he's looking for managerial experts to help him with these tasks. It has been said and made public by Marko that he is suffering from heart problems, which have made it difficult as of late to make music. He's claimed he's focusing on himself and his girlfriend, whom of which he's been public about very little, as not much is known about her. Referencing her in his music and in his Instagram stories. He is currently 18 years of age.