Young Maylay – Wikipédia

Young Maylay , from his real name Christopher « Chris » Bellard ^{[ first ] , [ 2 ]} , born the June 17, 1979 In Los Angeles, California, is an American rapper. He is best known to be the voice of Carl “CJ” Johnson in video games Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas released in 2004.

Youth and beginnings (1979–2005) [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Christopher Bellard was born and grew up in Los Angeles at the heart of the violence of gangs and gangsta rap of the 1980s and 1990s. With the help of King Tee, Maylay made his first appearance on the album Thisle gave from Killa Tay with the song #1 Hottest Coast (Killa Cali) in 2000. It appeared later on Summer Heat From Rodney O and Joe Cooley in 2002. He has been collaborating for many West Coast projects for. He participates in particular in the compilation The Ruthless Chronicles from King Tee published in 2004 ^{[ 3 ]} .

While working in New York, Maylay receives a phone call from DJ Pooh in a meeting with Rockstar staff. They start talking about music while the conversation is put on a loudspeaker, which Maylay ignores. The Rockstar team therefore hears everything and then asks Pooh to bring Maylay for a hearing. A few weeks after the hearing, Rockstar listens to the recordings and decides that Maylay will be perfect to double the main character of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , Carl « CJ » Johnson ^{[ 4 ]} . During the development of the game, Maylay will rub shoulders with celebrities like actors Samuel L. Jackson, James Woods, Peter Fonda, Clifton Powell, Faizon Love, Big Boy, David Cross, Andy Dick, Christ Penn, Danny Dyer, Frank Vincent, Sara Tanaka, Charlie Murphy and William Fichtner, Ice-T, Mc Eiht, Chuck D, The Game, Frost and Yo-Yo and the musicians George Clinton, Axl Rose and Shaun Ryder.

In 2005, thanks to the money earned with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , he launched his own label, Maylaynium Musiq, located in Studio City; He published his first mixtape the same year, San Andreas: The Original Mixtape , the November 7th ^{[ 5 ] , [ 6 ]} .

LENCH MOB and Solo Carrière (since 2006) [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 2006, Maylay appeared in the clip of the Deeyah single, What Will It Be . Still in 2006, he collaborated for the first time with DJ Crazy Toones and WC for the project CT Experience . In 2007, the trio began working on Maylay’s album, The Real Coast Guard , which will be released in 2008. The same year, WC signs Young Maylay on the Bigg Swang/Lench Mob label. Ice Cube launches Lench Mob Records to publish his albums and WCs, but later he signs other rappers, like Young Maylay which he already considers as a veteran ^{[ 7 ]} . DJ Crazy Toones lance deux blogs pour Maylay, Who’s Young Maylay? Mix Blog ^{[ 8 ]} et Young Maylay, WC & Bad Lucc Mix Blog ^{[ 9 ]} . Young Maylay works on three albums with WC and Crazy Toones. He participated in two songs from Ice Cube on the album I Am the West ( Y’all Know Who I Am And Too West Coast ).

During an interview given in Dubcnn in June 2008 , Young Maylay said working on a new album: “Yeah, I work on a new album. But I will not give you the title yet! The release date remains to be determined. All I can tell you is that I am on a project that I would like to call Brushfires and Earthquakes ( Earth fires and tremors ) because it is the daily life of California. For the fire part, it’s simple, it’s like spitting fire. Then I’m going to upset everything like an earthquake and show you that I make good sound. But it will be more or less a mixtape. We also work on the album. I’m not going to be content to take sounds that are not on the mixtape to make it an album. I can’t really give you a specific date but we work on it every day. We are not at the stage of finalization of the songs, all that is done, now all is Timing my guy ^{[ ten ]} . »

And 2009, L’Albumum Tha Blaqprint de Blaq Poet, in which the song is included Ain’t Nuttin’ Changed (Remix) With Mc Eiht, is cited in the top 25 of the best albums of 2009 by Hiphopdx ^{[ 11 ]} . In 2010, Young Maylay participated in two songs from the DJ Premier album, DJ Premier Presents Year Round Records – Get Used to Us . In 2013, his cousin Shawn Fonteno, alias Solo, Double Franklin in video games Grand Theft Auto V Posted in 2013 by Rockstar Games ^{[ twelfth ]} .

The 17 mars 2015 , he publishes his mixtape Wit’ This Gangsta Shit 2 Under the name of Maylay ^{[ 13 ]} . Still in 2015, he participated in the song Drinks on Me de N.O.R.E. With Tariah and Young Noble; It is produced by Swissivory ^{[ 14 ]} .

Obg Rider Clicc is the trio formed by Young Maylay, Young Dre The Truth and Killa Polk. The group appears for the first time on the album Revolution in Progress the Movement from Young Dre, with the single Let’s Get the Game Bacc Right . Later, he collaborated with Compton Cavie, Dresta and BG KNOCC OUT on the song Wes Indeed mixtape Cali Luv .

Mixtapes [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• 2005: San Andreas: The Original Mixtape
• 2008: The Real Coast Guard

Collaborations [ modifier | Modifier and code ]