| Young Maylay | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Christopher Bellard |
| Also known as | Maylay |
| Born | February 17, 1979 (age 33) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop Gangsta Rap |
| Occupations | Rapper, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Maylaynium Muziq (2000–present) Lench Mob (2008–present) |
| Associated acts | King T, DJ Pooh, WC, DJ Crazy Toones, Ice Cube, DJ Premier BG Knocc Out, Dresta, Dubb Union |
Christopher "Chris" Bellard[1][2] (born February 17, 1979) also known by his stage name, Young Maylay, is an American West Coast rapper from Los Angeles. He is best known as the voice of Carl "CJ" Johnson in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Christopher Bellard was born and raised in Los Angeles, California amidst the gang violence and the gangsta rap peak of the 1980s and 1990s. Bellard chose the rap career when he had no other options of earning income and at this period of his teenage days, he met King T.[3]
With help from King T, Maylay made his first appearance in Killa Tay's Thug Thisle, with the song #1 Hottest Coast (Killa Cali) in 2000. Later he appeared in Rodney O & Joe Cooley's Summer Heat in 2002. Since then, he has been featured on many releases across the West Coast. Maylay wrote the majority of King T's album Ruthless Chronicles.[4] He founded his independent label in 2005 with the money from GTA San Andreas and released his debut album in the same year.
In 2006, Maylay was featured in Deeyah's single "What Will It Be" with a music video. In the same year, he appeared in DJ Crazy Toones' CT Experience, it was the first collaboration of the trio DJ Crazy Toones, WC and Young Maylay. In 2007 the trio began working in Maylay's album The Real Coast Guard. The album was released in 2008 and later that year, WC signed Young Maylay to Bigg Swang/Lench Mob.
Lench Mob Records were set in 2006 to put out Ice Cube's and WC's records, but later other artists were signed, like Young Maylay, who is considered a veteran by Ice Cube.[5] DJ Crazy Toones created two blogs for Maylay, the first is called Who's Young Maylay? Mix Blog[6] and the second is called Young Maylay, WC & Bad Lucc Mix Blog.[7] Young Maylay is working on three albums, by himself, WC and Crazy Toones. Young Maylay is featured on two tracks by Ice Cube called Ya'll Know Who I Am and Too West Coast on the album I Am the West. In 2010 Young Maylay was featured on two tracks on the album DJ Premier Presents Year Round Records - Get Used To Us. The track 'Temptation' is a solo performance while the track 'Ain't Nuttin' Changed (remix)' is a collaborative effort with Blaq Poet and MC Eiht.
Maylay was working in New York when he received a phone call from DJ Pooh, who was in a meeting with Rockstar staff. They started a regular conversation about music which, unknown to Maylay, occurred on speaker phone. Rockstar staff heard the conversation, and after conversation between the two ended, they encouraged Pooh to bring Maylay in to audition. A few weeks after the audition, Rockstar reviewed the tapes and decided on Maylay for the role of main character of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, C.J.[8]
In the game, Maylay starred alongside celebrities such as actors Samuel L. Jackson, James Woods, Peter Fonda, Clifton Powell, Faizon Love, Big Boy, David Cross, Andy Dick, Chris Penn, Danny Dyer, Frank Vincent, Sara Tanaka, Charlie Murphy and William Fichtner, rappers Ice T, MC Eiht, Chuck D, The Game, Frost and Yo-Yo and musicians George Clinton, Axl Rose and Shaun Ryder.
OBG Rider Clicc is Young Maylay's rap trio (with Young Dre The Truth and Killa Polk) the group first appeared in Young Dre album called Revolution In Progress The Movement with the single Let's Get The Game Bacc Right. and later appeared with Compton Cavie, Dresta and BG Knocc Out with the song Wes Indeed in the Cali Luv mixtape.
Malaynium Muziq is Young Maylay's own independent record label based in Studio City, California. His mixtapes were released on this label.
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2005 | San Andreas: The Original Mixtape[9][10] |
| 2008 | The Real Coast Guard |
In an interview, when asked about a new album, Maylay said:
| “ | Yeah, I'm working on an album. But I will not tell the title again! (laughs) And we gonna know when we're gonna drop it. But I got something that I wanna put out. Fuck it, I was gonna call it "Brushfires and Earthquakes", cause that's California all day. On the brushfire side I come with just straight heat spittin' like a mothafucka. And then on the earthquake side I'm coming for the mothafuckas that like to get out there in traffic and show you they got some sounds. But that's gonna be more or less like a mixtape. The album is in the works. I'm not trying to just take songs that I didn't use off my mixtape and put it on a cd and call it my album. I can't really put no timeline on it, we're working everyday. So it ain't the fact about getting songs done or nothing like that, timing is everything man.[11] | ” |
The song Mic It is scheduled to be on the album.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Introduction | Carl "CJ" Johnson | DVD released as the introduction to the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas synopsis. Voice only. |
| 2004 | Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | Carl "CJ" Johnson | The main character. Voice only. |
| 2006 | The CT Experience: DVD Files | Himself | DVD released by DJ Crazy Toones for music videos from his album CT Experience. It includes 3 videos with Young Maylay. |
| Year | Song | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | What Will It Be | Deeyah featuring Young Maylay | What Will It Be Single |
| 2006 | Roll On 'Em | DJ Crazy Toones featuring Xzibit, Young Maylay, MC Ren and WC | CT Experience |
| 2006 | The Rat Pack | DJ Crazy Toones featuring King T, Young Maylay, WC and Roscoe | CT Experience |
| 2006 | We See You Niggas | DJ Crazy Toones featuring WC, Jayo Felony and Young Maylay | CT Experience |
| 2006 | Let's Get The Game Bacc Right | OBG Rider Clicc | Revolution In Progress The Movement |
| 2009 | Ain't Nuttin' Changed (Queensbridge To California Remix) | Blaq Poet featuring Young Maylay and MC Eiht | The Blaqprint |
| 2010 | Mic It | Young Maylay | |
| 2010 | Too West Coast | Ice Cube featuring WC and Young Maylay | I Am The West |
| 2010 | Y'all Know How I Am | Ice Cube featuring Doughboy, OMG, WC and Young Maylay | I Am The West |
| 2011 | You Know Me | WC featuring Ice Cube and Young Maylay | Revenge Of The Barracuda |
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