User talk:Kashkid DeDhope General

Name           = Kashkid DeDhope General Background      = basketball player Aption         = Kashkid General Birth_name      = Emmanuel Maccobb Birth_date      = September 15, 2000 Birth_place     = Tema General Hospital,Ghana

Kashkid DeDhope General was born Emmanuel Maccobb and raised in the Ghana  with his Father and siblings. In middle school, Kashkid began to get into fights and get involved in robberies leading him to serve multiple two and three-month sentences. In 2016, at the age of 15, he was sentenced to one year in a youth detention center. This longer time period influenced Kashkid to begin writing lyrics. In late 2017, Kashkid made a promise to his family that he would no longer be involved in crime. Before recording in a studio, he made several songs on his phone and computer, using bars designed to work in hip hop style. He was inspired by Usher and Michael Jackson, which his mother would play as he was growing up.[citation needed]

Within the first ten months of Kashkid's music career, he had released five tracks that recorded over a million plays on SoundCloud. "Resume" gained 14 million views in just over a year. "Brothers" has accumulated 44.4 million plays on SoundCloud. Other notable singles include "Goat", which has 19.4 million plays on SoundCloud, and "Leaked", which has 16.8 million plays.

In July 2018, Kashkid worked with producer Cash Money AP to release "None of Your Love", which amassed 18.2 million plays in eight months. Cash Money AP has produced tracks for rappers such as Lil Skies, Ty Dolla Sign, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again. In January 2019, Kashkid was featured on a single with Yb Nba titled "No Game", which has 87 million views on YouTube. When the artist released "Leaked" in September 2018, the song gained over 600,000 plays in less than a week on SoundCloud.