C.C.Marley
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C.C. Marley’s 1st
interview ever and Heather Henry was able to sit down with him
and chop it up. A lot of laughs later, a story emerged how C.C. Marley was able
to become C.E.O. of West Side Money Team, L.L.C.
Born in Cleveland, with ancestors from Maryland, Marley grew
up on Detroit Ave, a one- way street out West. Laughing, Marley explained how
he did what most children do, dumb shit. Throwing potatoes at cars, sitting in
lawn chairs trapping, getting his jaw broke and chipping and losing his two
front teeth, it was never a dull moment for Marley. Listening to locals wasn’t
his thing. Matter of fact, he would tell people he was already famous, because
of a 5 piece grill he got for fucking up his 2 front teeth.
He’s mom worked all
the time, leaving him time to do what the middle child does, slip through the
cracks. He’s father is D.J. Mark Cox, but Marley doesn’t use his father’s name
in the game, because he didn’t meet his father until 8. Marley feels that he’s
dad didn’t shape or mold him to what he is today. Smoking good since he was
thirteen, he was forced to enter a drug treatment program and drop every week.
He credits life skills classes for teaching him the
entrepreneur skills needed to run his empire. Marley made it to twelve grade,
and then entered life skills. He stopped going because they couldn’t stop
breaking into his van. His mom didn’t
know he had a car for months. He would act like he was walking to school and
hop in his car down the street. If you ask him, he will tell you he was not
banking on rapping. His thing was drag racing his corvette. After everyone
started screaming west side money team, he was given an original beat, and
forced to do a verse. He didn’t want a label, he wanted a movement, and he
didn’t want to scream one side of town, when cats could move deeper together.
After analyzing the game, Marley decided to call himself a commercial rapper.
Marley feels that he is farther ahead than most cats that have been in the game
for years. He took his time studying the game watching other people’s mistakes
and mastering his craft.
Always a leader, the hate came as soon as he started putting
out promos. Marley would get his own
camera, put in on top of his car, and shoot his own videos. You won’t catch him in a battle or freestyle
because he has to marinate on what he wants to say. His songs are calculated,
thought out, and synchronized. Always thinking ahead of the game, Marley knows
that putting out an album sinks ships faster than just flooding the streets
with singles. Why do an album, let it be hot for a minute, when you can keep
dropping singles?
At 23, mature for his age, Marley just entered the game a
year and some change ago. It took him
one time to have a bad show, with bad lighting, before he decided he would book
his own shows, bring his own equipment, and if he had to, call it his
production. After getting good feedback from people who didn’t even really
listen to rap, Marley officially entered the game in January 2012.
Mastering his craft
by studying the competition and seeing the mistakes they made, taught him how
to not do what they were doing.Some would say he’s arrogant but it’s okay with
him, because he doesn’t care what you think. Marley believes the people who work
with him are considered family, and he doesn’t want to push a gang, or side of
town, but a movement.
Luck is a dangerous word. Marley wouldn’t say that he’s
lucky, but would say that he has had some experiences that he doesn’t know how
he got out of. One time while getting robbed, a guy squirted some industrial
cleaner in his eye, which could’ve blinded him for life.One day Marley bought a cash explosion and didn’t think
anything of it. His mom found it in his car, mailed it off, he got on the show
and won eight-teen thousand dollars.
Marley seen some stuff in the courtroom. Not one to
elaborate on certain situations, Marley had situations where he was supposed to
point someone out and didn’t, he took a case to trial on mistaken identity, and
witnessed dudes who tried to get him, tell on each other. He got stereotyped on
a robbery charge for having the same amount of money in his pocket, than the
victim claimed was taken.
Having his hair dreaded for three years, smoking well every
day, and having the name Marley, C.C. gets asked all the time is he trying to
be like Bob Marley. The answer is no.
With a limited budget,
his engineer and beat maker are people he grew up with, so they show him made
love. He knew Smokehouse since he was a child, and they can chop it up for
hours making beats.
The $500 Performance
Winner, in the, “Are You Visible Contest Concert”, feels signing to a record
label is creating debt, and Marley doesn’t like to owe anyone. So he’s
contingency plan is to use rap to build an empire and take his business skills
to another level.With his budgeting growing and people seeing his potential, he
plans to use rap to expand into a bigger company.
You can catch him at an Italian restaurant, out with his
friends, at the movies, or being a good father to his children. Marley is going
to hold it down until his dude Vic gets out of jail on a murder charge.
“People who analyze games are called experts; those who
ignore the stats are called champions”. C-C Marley.
Written and edited by:
Heather Henry
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