Lil O

A member of DJ Screw's Screwed Up Clique who blew up with 2001 solo single "Fat Rat wit da Cheeze," rapper Lil O was born in Lagos, Nigeria but raised in Houston, Texas. His mother passed when he was just 13, and with his father's strict disciplinary style, the only parenting Lil O experienced in his teens, the future MC rebelled, up to and including drug dealing. As he worked his way up the ranks, he also began to rap, although drug dealing was his center. In 1999, he released his debut album, Blood Money, but he was soon locked up on drug charges and failed to promote the LP...