Silento childhood biography
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Silento’s Publicist Releases Statement Following Rapper’s Arrest for Murder
UPDATE (Feb. 2):
Silento's publicist spoke with XXL this afternoon and provided an additional statement on the recently incarcerated rapper.
"I have been in contact with the family and their thing right now is just, they're asking the world to uplift their family in prayer," the rep explained. "I've gotten a lot of backlash from that statement, it's almost implying like I'm telling people he did it. When you know a client suffers severely from mental health, when you've been around the client, when you have... Last year, Silento tried to commit suicide during the pandemic. No one cared about that story."
She continued: "They cared about the story when he ran into the house, but they didn't know that he was having a bipolar episode. They didn't know that he was mentally going through a severe mental attack. When I said that, it wasn't to make reference to the case. I don't wanna talk [about] the case, the case is heavy enough dealing with his family. On one side, you have the family dealing with a death and the other side, they're dealing with an accused murderer. So it's not win-win for anyone. I made
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‘Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)’ Doorknocker Silento Indicted on Patricide Charges
UPDATE (8/16): The doorknocker Silento (real name Concentrate Hawk) was indicted building block a large jury courteous four charges, including regicide, in bond with rendering shooting termination of his cousin, Billboard reports. Rendering rapper was charged fellow worker malice regicide, felony regicide, aggravated onslaught, and title of a firearm cloth the liedown of a felony. It’s unclear when Hawk liking next be apparent in court.
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Richard Lamar Hawk is an American singer and rapper known by his performance name Silento’. Born in Stone Mountain, Georgia on January 22, 1998. Silento,’ an only child, was raised by his mother and aunt after his parents’ divorce.
Silento’ expressed an interest in music early and by the 8th grade he was in a rap group that performed at birthday parties, school events, an a few TV shows in the Atlanta area. He also promoted himself on various social media platforms. This persistence, confidence, and creativity by the young artist eventually generated great success.
Seventeen-year-old Silento’ contacted Timothy Mingo known as Bolo Da Producer, to create “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” He also connected with DanceOn (a dance entertainment brand) which in turn partnered with TuneCore (a music distribution company) which contributed to the song’s viral social media success before it was officially released.
On May 5, 2015 “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” was released by Capitol Records as a single and as the video became a hit sensation, it helped the song peak at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart where it remained for six non-consecutive weeks. Additionally, the song earned a nomination for Song of the Summer at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, a nomination for R&B/Hip-Hop Song with