Derek Mcallister Biography

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Derek McAllister was a young rapper from New York City, NY. And was born November 6 1994 so right now he would of been 23 years old which is pretty young. And he passed away when he was 19 on March 4, 2014 Columbia, SC so he was 19 when he passed away and that is very young that is like barely having a few years graduated from high school. And it’s sad because he was barely getting to see the adult life he didn’t get to get out of his teen years. Derek McAllister also known as his rap name speaker knockerz had barely a couple years of becoming a rap artist. He was well known around the world he had a lot of music out and they would hit the billboard and if you dont know what the billboard is then I can give you an idea of what it is. So the billboard is when your song is hits the top 100 on the chart so basically you have to reach a certain amount of views on the song in order for it to get the top 100 so that is what almost all his songs hit. And Derek’s songs would go platinum and as you can imagine he was very wealthy from his songs. But a bad thing about him is that according to his music that he was born around drugs and guns and basically all those narcotics and bad influence. …show more content…
One of those would be marijuana which he started as a young age and never stopped it and also went to cocaine and also used the codeine syrup. But the least views he would get on a song would be 200,000 views and the most would be over 3 million views which is a crazy number. Also one song that really hit was rico story which he says based on a true story and he did three different parts to that song and all three parts have millions of views and in all his videos he always had drugs like weed and codeine

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