- GOV’T NAME: Trevon Gardner
- AGE: 25
- REPPIN’: Detroit
- X: @_Skillababy
- INSTAGRAM: @_skillababy
- TIKTOK: @_skillababy
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Tay B Type” that includes Tay B, Sada Child and EWM Buck, “Attractive” with Tee Grizzley, “Bae,” “Icki Vicky Vibes”; Tasks: Crack Music, We Eat the Most, Controversy with Tee Grizzley, The Coldest; Visitor Appearances: Rob49’s “Mama” that includes Tay B, Yung Miami’s “CFWM (Can’t F*** With Me),” DaBaby’s “Judy”
- LABEL: Geffen Data
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Crack Music 3 mission dropping finish of the 12 months or early 2025.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “I feel y’all picked most people that I needed to win. I feel Veeze ought to have been part of it. I feel he’s been deserving of it for, like, two, three years.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “Musically, I’m influenced by Lil Wayne, Anita Baker, Luther Vandross. Meek Mill was an enormous affect for me. Stage-wise, I feel I’m influenced by Michael Jackson. I like how he carried out and stuff like that. I’m influenced by lots of people.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “I used to be energetic, antsy. I wasn’t unhealthy, however I used to be a bit of an excessive amount of. My favourite class was math. I’d get kicked out of each class, however math.”
Being part of the 2024 XXL Freshman Class is necessary to me as a result of, like I mentioned, it simply solidifies my title in hip-hop. I’m part of these names. You possibly can’t simply be part of that. [It’s] like being part of the Corridor of Fame. All people don’t get inducted. So, for me to be doing sufficient to be a part of the Freshman Class, and this can be a actual accomplishment for individuals, it’s simply huge for me. After which I’m from Detroit. We don’t have plenty of Freshman Class members.
I feel proper now’s the suitable time [for me to be an XXL Freshman] as a result of I feel I’m bringing a breath of contemporary air to music proper now. Final 12 months, I assumed I used to be slighted, however then I began speaking to individuals after which realizing that I deliver one thing to music this 12 months. It’s not that folks simply know me. I deliver a distinction to music. I really feel like I’m shape-shifting music, altering music, [making] individuals need to do what I do in music, carry out how I carry out. So, I really feel like this 12 months is the 12 months for me. I feel that is my 12 months.”
Watch Skilla Child’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
Skilla Child 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle
Skilla Child is the coldest out of Detroit proper now. With buzzing mixtapes—one even aptly titled with that very same chilly descriptor—to options with among the greatest names in rap, the 25-year-old rapper has stored his foot on the gasoline with constant releases over the previous few years. Whereas he is been dropping official tracks since 2015, he actually caught his stride in 2022 with tracks “Tay B Type” and “Depart It within the Streets.” Since then, the Midwest native has been perfecting his craft. He considers himself to be a shape-shifter within the rap recreation together with his genuine sound and distinctive method to music. All of that are displayed in Skilla Child’s 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle.
In a short while, Skilla has proven his versatility. He crafts songs for the streets and makes anthems for the women, however in his 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle, the rhymer unleashes bars about success and the glitz and glam that comes with it. He is sometimes calm and demure, however right here, Skilla lets his bravado fly. He is poised, rocking heavy ice as he affirms his expertise within the recreation, whereas tossing a little bit of mud in the direction of his constituents, whom he would not really feel are as much as par. “Valedictorian, I am on the high of the category/Push up in Ferrari truck/I am on the high of the sprint/My youngin’ chasin’ sh*t down like a block off the glass/I feel the labels get plenty of rappers proper out the trash,” he raps within the video under.
Skilla Child additionally makes use of intelligent wordplay in his rhymes by referencing Tupac Shakur’s 1996 diss observe “Hit ’Em Up” aimed toward The Infamous B.I.G. Skilla additionally name-drops the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo in a witty line centered on the money.
“Rap beef, no hit ’em up/Put my opps via trauma/My Draco, my Ok-Dot, they gon’ scream, ‘Who shot ya?’/New cash, new issues, two watches/Bust Presi, plain Richard Mille/Every little thing I do timeless/Coast to coast with them bucks, I am like the brand new Giannis/I ain’t gotta paint my nails ’trigger I am too polished,” Skilla rhymes.
The rising artist, who received XXL‘s Freshman tenth Spot this 12 months, is at the moment headlining his Vultures Eat the Most Tour with former 2023 XXL Freshman Rob49. Earlier than hitting the street, Skilla launched his mission, The Coldest, in April, which options visitor appearances from Moneybagg Yo, G Herbo, DaBaby, Polo G and extra. With standout hits like “Icky Vicky Vibes,” “Attractive” with Tee Grizzley and anthemic tracks like “Bae,” Skilla has garnered over 50 million Spotify streams and almost 2 million month-to-month listeners on the streaming platform.
So far as the recipe for his success, Skilla attributes the place he is at to humility and being himself. “I feel I am totally different from plenty of artists,” he tells XXL. “’Trigger I am unapologetically myself. Like I mentioned, I may very well be a gangster at instances and stuff like that, however I am not too cool. Not too cool to carry out. I am not too cool to the touch the individuals. I feel I deliver a special humility to rap… However that is simply naturally me, although.”
Skilla’s rising reputation is not simply together with his followers, however his rap friends as effectively. He appeared on Yung Miami’s “CFWM (Cannot F*** With Me)” in April and collaborated with French Montana on “Skyami” in June. Skilla was additionally introduced out on stage to carry out at Madison Sq. Backyard throughout A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s sold-out Higher Off Alone Tour that very same month.
Try Skilla Child’s 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle under.
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