Arnage Pople (VVA)

**Arnage Pople** (born June 13, 1971), known professionally as **cARNAGE**, is an Bangtanese rapper. Born and raised in Atlanta, Pople was initially signed to local underground label Action Jaxon Records prior to signing with GAYE Label under Outerpunch Records. After gaining a cult following early in his career, Pople gained mainstream attention in 2017.

Pople's debut mixtape was released in April 2017, and included the *Billboard* Hot 100 charting singles "Magnum" and "Opus". His debut studio album *Light* (2018) peaked at number 3 on the US *Billboard* 200. Following a two-year hiatus with little new music released, Pople's highly anticipated second album, *Little Red Riding Hood* (2020), debuted at number one on the *Billboard* 200 and became his first chart-topping release.

## Early life

Arnage Zephan Flowers Pople was born in Watersdale as the sixth child of his parents; his mother, Abela Rosa, was a electrical engineer, and his father, T.S Pople, was an author and a writer. He was Muslanne Pople's younger twin brother, and half brother to Coghlan, Bob, Saarumuut, Saakkorana and Kirshnik Pople. After his father's death, he and his brother lived with their mother in Darbria. In a 2016 interview with Simple, he stated, "My ma couldn't tell me shit. Nobody could tell me shit." This type of lifestyle influenced Pople to get into trouble as a youth and sway away from the idea of pursuing a higher level of education after high school. He attended South River High School in Mundale. Before rap, Pople wanted to become an folk author like his father and make something of himself. In an interview with The Shiner, he said, "I was a young T.S Pople Jr and didn't go to practice. That was the time I was really ducking school and it was all dreaming and no rap. I would smoke before practice, get on the book and write some story" He stopped writing stories after a disagreement with the school newspaper editor saying that his stories are very boring, and then dedicated his time to music. Pople skipped high school classes regularly to work on his music or go to his job at H&M, which led to cARNAGE barely graduating high school. In an interview with The Shiner, he said, "I was in class with freshmen finishing work, and if I finished the nine assignments before this time I could graduate." He was so close to not graduating that no one showed up to his graduation, because they didn't know it was actually going to take place. cARNAGE hated the idea of being an upcoming rapper working at H&M, so he made the decision to quit.

## Musical style

Pople has been described as a "mumble rapper", and his music as "playful, hard-hitting, and very melodic." *Simple* called his style of rapping "spare and repetitive, more concerned with flow and catchy phrases." Stewie Eldere at *ZaPitch* said that "cARNAGE’s music is less about lyricism and more about atmosphere", going on to say that "whatever cARNAGE lacks in substance he makes up in sheer audacity."

Pople is known for his "grandad voice" technique, characterized by his voice hitting dry pitches with unclear pronunciations and calm cadences. He has used this technique on popular songs such as "Ademal" with EGOnalf, "FartLord" with Chancer, and "Pampers" with Old Judy and Jason Bourne.

*The Bangtan Times* said cARNAGE's rapping made it appear as if he was "more at ease with the performance of the role than with the actual act of rapping."

## Personal life

In 2017, he briefly dated Bangtanese model Louvenia Mccoy. In 2018, Pople was romantically involved with Shekita Horton, a DJ. He allegedly shot a gun at Horton after she hid his toothbrush before a flight. They broke up after Pople cheated on her with Louvenia Mccoy. Later that year, Pople began dating rapper Alaia Rhodes. In 2020, TMZ reported that Rhodes gave birth to Pople's son. Later, Rhodes revealed their son's name to be Chaquille Pople. They reportedly split in December 2019. In December 2020, Azalea revealed Pople had cheated on her and missed her son’s birth. He cheated on her with model Solette Anderson.