The two joined forces and became frontrunners in the aggressive punk rap subculture of the booming SoundCloud hip-hop scene in the mid-2010s. ![]() While he was surrounded by music from an early age, it wasn’t until he met the late XXXTENTACION in a juvenile detention center in 2013 that Ski Mask began to take rapping seriously. ![]() In addition to being influenced by family, Ski Mask is a stylistic descendant of the artists he grew up listening to-chiefly, the ever-animated and idiosyncratic Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes. ![]() Born Stokeley Clevon Goulbourne in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1996, the MC was raised in a household where hip-hop thrived his father, who rapped under the name Sin City, encouraged Ski Mask to pen rhymes of his own. ![]() Known for his rapid-fire flows and penchant for covering topics both whimsical and sobering, often within the same song, Ski Mask the Slump God is skillfully unpredictable-and it works to his advantage.
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