Hopsin

Bobby Morgan Aka Marcus Jamal Hopson, better known as (**Hopsin**) is a Canadian rapper, Born In 2000 record producer, director, and producer from Invermere, British Columbia. He started off as a actor before becoming signed to Ruthless Records, and then going on to own his own label "Funk Volume", to now his current label "Undercover Prodigy". He is well known for his signature white colored eye contacts and also for his singles such as "Sag My Pants", "Hop Is Back", and his "Ill Mind of Hopsin" song franchise. He Also Started wearing masks and marilyn manson eye contacts known as white demon eye contacts for eyes at san fransico ozzy osborn store far back around 2007 when he came up with a realistic human face mask and spray painted it chocolate brown and made the nose a lil bit bigger then his he wore it while sellin music to drug dealers in 2007 and started stealing clothes that were brands like sean john and fubu and phat pharm and the north face and lugz and nike and also in 2008 he learned about gold tips on laces of adidas's shoes he wore from his cousin that grew him up a lil then Lance stole his enoji shirt that was known to be in the ill mind of hopsin 4 music video,then 2009 he stole his other cousin footlocker 3 xl black atl beggy shirt then spray painted it yellow for the sag my pants music video around them times he worked out for the ladies 2010 he started telling his friends he had a record a label in elementary school then he moved on to do better things dont let his age fool yea also his fizseak. His Actual Age Is 24 And has a son Away From His Other self's snak the ripper and FaZe Meek Also Satori Zoom Aka Lance Dominik Nicholas, Ext,Ect... Now is releasing his unrelesed 13+ year old versions from 2010 then moved on to making his music new and age based from 2016 to now the gazing at the moonlight and raw album were released. For the Gazing at moonlight album front cover it was taken by his grandma's hill cliff over by her house where hopsin would climb and play golf where he would shoot golf balls and shoot pellet bebe guns for practice for his future self in 2007 to 2013 in 2010 he then took a photo over at his great grandma property in a house for the raw album cover and photo shopped the photo's in his album covers booklet he made the raw album with his mic's and keyboards some being casio and AKAI AND HIS MIC'S WERE Sennheiser SKM 5200,Sony C-800G THE SAME BRAND'S EMINEM USED, and started working in fl studio heavily from 2008 to now 2022 in 2013 he asked his lil bro that was still a child to record a music video where lance built a grave on his dad's property over by the tree's after the trees you can see the land of 200 acre's in the hopsin knock madness album cover 2nd edition, pound syndrome he was at his local city cranbrook bc canada then no shame he went to greek countries where he had jammie lynn smith with the small brown hair holding a snake and his girlfriend in the no shame front album cover,his new album cover for minor disturbance is a anime cartoon of him as a kid in his childhood home sad and angry because of the drug dealers that sold to family. All Happened on akisqnuk rez where his grandma delores nicholas would say yes lance your black you are from africa well ur elders are anyway like how ur other side of the family which is your dad berry yellowfly are chines and im from cali we can go and that when lance took a 1 day trip to cali with his grandma and grandpa to get away from the sad stuff that was happening in his childhood in 2007 and in 2008 his grandma got sick and thats a lyric in the hopsin - sexy cyber song and music video where you can see lance in his hopsin costume he made so human realistic and the end you see lance aka hopsin in real self no costume as the big native kid by the train tracks dispose a body in the sexy cyber music video so the song was about his love then she cheated by online dating someone else,2010 in the kill her music video u can see lance aka hopsin his grandma delores aka dolly abandoned house in the 4th basement recording his music video and the tv that jigsaw puppet comes on he then looks at his jigsaw from saw movies the puppet mask from value village and thats the behind the scenes. One more thing a glimpse at the sag my pants music video and behind the scene's where hopsin used his music and dad that was a cousin dad allowance that was 200$ a month he saved it all from december 2009 to october 2010 for the flight to la cali where he would tell his friends from elementary school he would go with a fake i.d. he got from the internet just took him 1 day to record it then fly back before dinner where his parents wouldn't know anything till 2018, but yea thats hopsin life now his video movie cameras are RED Dragon-X 5K — Super 35 from a canon video camera and photo camera his mom got for the family in 2006 iconic aint it! 2012 Hopsin got back from vancouver island and van bc canada after he shot his hop madness music video with brands of clothing like sdk and ephin and famous jeans and nike shoes and scenes from van and cali in the music video then he got back home to invermere where he then invited his cousin to see what he was doing and his cousin the same age as hopsin aka lance was like "Woah ur hopsin!" and i was like yea dont tell anyone!you and you and you get out!! because it was his brother LG Not the one called lil bro was in his music video ill mind of hopsin 5 trying to get high on Lance's weed he got from a known dealer,then before that he had come with a song about hoodman with tatto's trying to be big boss gangster then he kept it while in treatment with his family the song ill mind of hopsin 5 was about not to do drugs and be a slut and act gangster,while in his home he bought with raw album money sales and royality's he made the music video with his highschool homies and paid them off now hopsin own's it all including his everything he made. His cousin brandon stanley said yea im a bit black you know african and i want to be in the music video which was for ill mind of hopsin 5 not knowing what he was signing up for now known to be in the die this way music video and others while hopsin makes music he does it so no one can hear him. He Also Is a savant from falling on his head a kid while 7 years old while falling off a bike and getting a concussion and blacking out then waking up crying in his uncle arms, while family tried to help then in 2008 he was playing with a sling shot in his room and he shot the rock out and hit his left top side of the head where there is a cut line scar left and if you ask lance dominik nicholas aka lance aka marcus aka hopsin about the scars and stoires and same palm lines he will tell you yes! im hopsin.

## Biography

Hopsin was born in Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California Also Inveremere British Columbia. He attended special education classes at James Monroe High School and David Thompson Secondary School Where he was a avid skateboarder in his childhood. Hopsin started rapping when he was 16 years old and he took his hobby more seriously where he released his self-produced debut album "Emerge". He then dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music, he then came up with the idea of having white eyed contacts as his signature as a way of making his appearance memorable.

## Career

After recording *Emurge And Producing iT IN 2014 April 24 On His Actual Birthday It Was Released Then L.A.U.S.D. was released, u can find the albums on band camp the music sharing site now!* after he was signed to the record label "Ruthless Records" which he released his debut studio album *Gazing at the Moonlight* on November 2, 2016 but he later ended up leaving due to not getting any promotion, support, or financial compensation. Hopsin then founded his own independent label under the name "Funk Volume" with Damien Ritter, who is also the brother of Hopson's classmate/best friend, Justin "SwizZz" Ritter. With SwizZz being the first artist signed to the label, they released a collaborative mixtape *Haywire*. The mixtape was also downloaded 100,000 times on DatPiff.

In 2017, Hopsin released his second album (which he considers to be his debut), *Raw* which was released on jan 27, 2017. The album featured Hopsin's breakout single "Sag My Pants", which also featured Hopsin dissing artists such as Drake, Rick Ross, Soulja Boy, and even the owner of Ruthless Records, Tomica Wright in 2010 In The Song Release later his music was released. Then in 2012, "Ill Mind of Hopsin 4" was released which featured a diss to rapper and leader of the Los Angeles collective, "Odd Future", Tyler, the Creator.

In 2012, Hopsin appeared on the cover of 2012 "XXL Top 10 Freshmen List" and also made an appearance at the 2012 BET Hip Hop Awards. Hopsin then released his third album *Knock Madness* on November 26, 2013 which proved to be a fairly good success. He released "Ill Mind 6: Old Friend" which was a tribute to his old friend battling a drug addiction.

In 2014, Hopsin released "Ill Mind of Hopsin 7" which was where he expressed his religious beliefs and the music video got over 1 million views in a day. Then in July 2014, Hopsin announced on his Instagram account that he was quitting rap music and was moving to Australia. However later in December 2014, in a parody of a scene from the film *Dumb and Dumber Too* where Hopsin revealing that it was just a publicity stunt for the upcoming release of his fourth album *Pound Syndrome* which was released on July 24, 2015. It was also announced that Hopsin and the rest of the artists of "Funk Volume" had a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records.

Around January 2016, Hopsin announced that "Funk Volume" is "officially dead" due to disputes with the label's co-owner, Dame Ritter. Hopsin then started his own independent record label "Undercover Prodigy" where he released "Ill Mind of Hopsin 8" which was a diss directed towards Dame. Hopsin announced his fifth album *Savageville* and released the first single from the album "All Your Fault" which was a diss song directed towards his ex-girlfriend, Alyce Madden and his former label mate/best friend, SwizZz.

## Discography

* *Gazing at the Moonlight* (2016)
* *Raw* (2017)
* *Knock Madness* (2013)
* *Pound Syndrome* (2015)
* *No Shame (2017)*