 paul michael slayton (born march 11, 1981), better known by his stage name paul wall, is an american rapper. he is currently affiliated with swishahouse records, having released several albums under the label as well as collaborating with other rappers signed to the label. he was formerly musical partners with rapper chamillionaire releasing several collaborative albums including the independently released get ya mind correct. in 2005, he was signed to atlantic records and became successful with his major-label debut the peoples champ. get money, stay true followed in 2007. ==career== wall attended jersey village high school and studied mass communications at the university of houston for three years. after proposing to do promotions for michael "5000" watts' company, swishahouse, chamillionaire and paul wall came to watts' studio, kbxx. paul & chamillionaire convinced watts to let them rap on his radio show and put the verses on one of his mixtapes. that mixtape was titled choppin em up part 2, which was released in mid-1999. the freestyle became so popular in
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