Hopsin

**Marcus Jamal Hopson** (born July 18, 1985), known professionally as **Hopsin**, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director and actor from Los Angeles, California.

In 2007, he was signed to Ruthless Records, and had founded his own record label, Funk Volume, in 2009. He would then go on to found another record label, Undercover Prodigy, in 2016. Hopsin has released five studio albums, *Gazing at the Moonlight* through Ruthless Records, *Raw*, *Knock Madness* and *Pound Syndrome* along with the collaborative project Haywire with SwizZz through Funk Volume and *No Shame*. He is well known for his use of white colored eye contacts in music videos, performances, and interviews.

## Early Life

Marcus Hopson was born on July 18, 1985 in Los Angeles, and was raised in the largely Hispanic Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles. He attended James Monroe High School, where he was placed into special education classes. Hopsin has been an avid skateboarder since the age of twelve, and many of his music videos feature him skateboarding. He started rapping at sixteen years old, and took his hobby more seriously by 2003 which is the year the majority of the tracks from Hopsin's self-produced album *Emurge* were recorded. In 2004, Hopsin and a group of friends were arrested for vandalizing James Monroe High School property. It was supposed to be a school prank but later they were all charged and held on $20,000 bail. Hopsin, who dropped out earlier that year, was sent to Los Angeles County Jail where he spent a year. Upon his release in 2005 he began to pursue a career in music, purchased a microphone, and installed FL Studio (known as FruityLoops at the time) on his computer. He credits Eminem as the rapper that initially got him interested in hip hop music.

## Good Qualities

1. He has one of the best voices in the Rap Game as it is very gritty, grimy, entertaining, aggressive and confident.
2. He also has one of the best flows as it can be fast, fun, entertaining and its perfect for riding beats.
3. He has great lyrical talent as he tends to rap about life experiences, family issues, issues with friends, being poor, violence and fake love. They can also have good messages.
4. He has very hard hitting beats and they can sound dark, fun, and adventurous. They can also have nice basses and they're great for parties.
5. He preformed well in 2012 XXL Cypher.
6. He has good energy.
7. His new song "BE11A CIAO" is amazing.
8. His songs like "Covid Mansion", "Kumbaya", "Be11a\_Ciao", "Ill Mind of Hopsin 8", "Sag My Pants", etc are great.
9. He dissed Soulja Boy on "Sag My Pants".
10. His cover arts, while not that good, are still decent.
11. Following GQ#4, like Juicy J, he can produce his own hard hitting beats.
12. His music videos are well-shot and good most of the time.
13. His "Ill Mind of Hopsin" series is pretty good.

## Bad Qualities

1. He has some of the most terrible lyrics such as "sex" before bed and sex for breakfast" and "I shit on n\*ggas, that's why I rap with a diaper on".
2. He has some terrible songs like "No Words", "Ramona", "FLY", "Happy Birthday", "You Should've Known", "Money On The Side" and more.
3. He has a bad chemistry with DAX (Ex. "You Should've Known", "Yourworthit.org").
4. Sometimes people say he's corny due to how old school he is and not giving new hip-hop a chance.
5. He's only known for dissing Odd Future and Tyler, the Creator.
6. Like Eminem and Lil Pump, he's horrible at dirty rap as his album "*No Shame*" is terrible.

## Discography

* *Gazing at the Moonlight* (2009)
* *Raw* (2010)
* *Knock Madness* (2013)
* *Pound Syndrome* (2015)
* No Shame (2017)
* *Minor Disturbance*