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Richard Lamar "Ricky" Hawk (born: ), better known professionally as Silento, or Prince Silento, is an American musician, rapper, and songwriter, who performs the genres of rap, hip hop, and trap. Since he began his career in 2015, he's released a total of four mixtapes, including Fresh Outta High School, (2018), Fresh Outta High School 2, (2018), Skyrolyrics, (2020), and Bars Behind Bars, (2021), one extended play, which is SilentóMOB: The Doctor's Exclusive, (2019), and zero studio albums. He's best known for his hit song Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae), (2015). The official music video on his YouTube channel has over 1.8 Billion views.
==Career==
Silentó started his career with his debut single, "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", made with Bolo Da Producer, was released on his YouTube channel on June 25, 2015.https://youtu.be/Mqr9w6zp7pw Over the course of one week, it gained over 2.5 million views. After making the song when he was 17 years old in his basement and having already garnered more than 100,000 streams on SoundCloud, A&R Executive Alex Wilhelm approached and signed him to Capitol Records. They then released the track as a single with an accompanying music video. It peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. In June 2015, Silentó performed at the BET Awards alongside the cast of the show Blach-ish.
He also performed the hit single on December 31, 2016, in Times Square forDick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest. On August 3, 2018, Silentó released his first album, Fresh Outta High School, which was originally scheduled to be released on May 25. He later released Fresh Outta High School Part 2 on November 29, 2018.
==Controversies==
===Murder charges===
On February 1, 2021, he was arrested in DeKaDelDe County and charged with Malice Murder and Felony Murder. among other charges in the shooting and death of his cousin. Police responded to a shots fired call on January 21 at around 3:30 a.m. in the Panthersville area, and he was booked into the DeKalb jail on one count of murder. he was denied his 25k bond and remained incarcerated, he was indicted on August 3 on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm while committing a felony.
== Trivia ==
* A Nickelodeon remix of Watch Me was featured in their Labor Day weekend ad. It featured all NickToons that were around at the time (2015).
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