Trick-Trick

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Trick Trick
Trick-Trick
Trick-Trick
Background information
Birth name Christian Mathis
Origin Detroit, Michigan, USA
Genre(s) Hip Hop and Rap
Occupation(s) Rapper
Years active 1992 - present
Label(s) G-Unit Records
G-Unit MidWest
Associated
acts		 G-Unit, Eminem
Website Official Site

Christian Mathis, better known as Trick-Trick, is an African-American rap artist from Detroit, Michigan.

Trick learned to love music from his mother who was once a backup singer for jazz legend Alberta Adams. He also grew up listening to gospel, soul and funk music at home; two of his early musical memories were Phil Collins and George Clinton. Later on in his childhood he began to listen to hip hop such as Public Enemy, N.W.A. and Run DMC.

Trick's nickname was given to him at a very young age for his competent schemes of attracting the girls of his neighborhood, though later on he changed his name to Trick-Trick to play off his best friend and label companion Click-Click. Trick began his journey in the rap business when he signed his first deal with Click-Click's label, Click Boom Records, in 1992.

As a teenager, his father leaving home led him to take to the streets and become part of a gang where he became involved in hustling. This eventually resulted in charges for murder and he received a prison sentence. When he was released from months in custody after later being found not guilty and went back to the streets as a grown man, he devoted himself to a new enterprise: the music world.

In 1995 on his first day out of Michigan correctional facility he recorded his first radio hit with The Goon Sqwad titled "Booty Bounce". The single instantly took the #1 position on FM 98 WJLB in Detroit and other surrounding stations. Under Innersound (an Atlanta, Georgia based record label) the single reached sales of over 400,000 and 30,000 independently.

While continuing to record hits on the small independent label Click Boom Records, run by him and his friend Click-Click, after a while every single released charted no lower than #3 on Detroit radio.

In the 1990s Trick-Trick received scanning over 500,000 of singles alone and over two million mixtape sales with his Wonder Boy Entertainment label. In 2000 he gained world-wide attention in the documentary titled "Street Life".

In 2004 he was released and promptly began working on his latest release titled The People vs. which would now be distributed by Motown/Universal Records. Trick-Trick's "Welcome 2 Detroit" single featuring Eminem, entered the Billboard Top 100 at No. 90. It is the first single off The People vs. and received a large amount of airplay on release.[citation needed] In 2007, Trick Trick signed to G-Unit Records, making him the first Midwest rapper to sign on. He would sign on to Shady Records, but Eminem advised to go to 50 Cent instead because many Midwest rappers are signed to Shady. Under the G-Unit Records label, after Trick was added, there was a sub-label created called G-Unit MidWest.

The vocal style of Trick-Trick is often described as a thick, guttural tone edged with both menace and a refreshing sarcastic jest.


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