Lil Gnar

A skateboarder first and a rapper second, the Atlanta-based Lil Gnar nonetheless took quickly to his second outlet, and within a year of making his informal debut scored a major-label recording contract that led to the release of the mixtape Gnar Lif3 (2018). Born Caleb Sheppard, Lil Gnar rapped for fun as a teenager, then involved on a deeper level with skateboarding and, eventually, his Gnarcotic apparel line. Among his fellow Atlantan skaters was Germ, whose rap aspirations provoked him to take the form more seriously himself. Gnar gained serious traction in 2017 after an ...