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They participated on the December 8th show in New York City and performed "Party Animal". Thanks to their savings, the group took part in the auditions of the "Wild Out Wednesday" segment on BET's show " 106 & Park" in Memphis, Tennessee and succeeded to qualify. Īt the beginning of 2010, the group released the single "Party Animal", which gave them a local fame, allowing them to perform at these local festivals and to broadcast their tracks on local radios. They took advantage of the opportunity and organized parties in their new home in order to spread their music. They began squatting in an abandoned house in the city with a friend of their stepdad’s. Their mother, fed up with their schedules, eventually kicked them out of her house, leaving them homeless. They would return home at late hours, even when they had school the next morning. Following the break-up, the two brothers started skipping school and working more seriously on music. Shortly after, Bernadette Walker and her companion split up. It was at the same time that the group first met, and then later became friends with Jermarcus Jackson aka JJ (today known as Jay Sremm), a young disc jockey, who was studying at Tupelo High School with the two brothers. Visibly inspired by Soulja Boy, the boys released songs and dance videos on social networks of the time. The two brothers were composing their own beats and the trio were rapping on. They used money from their part-time jobs to buy equipment and to produce music at home. Aaquil took the stage name "CaliBoy", Khalif chose "Kid Krunk" and Jemiah took "Lil Pantz". They decided to found the hip hop band, called "Dem Outta St8 Boyz" with him.
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2009–12: Career beginnings and Dem Outta St8 Boyzīrown brothers met Jemiah Middlebrooks at Tupelo while he was playing basketball at a local park.
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To support the family and to keep the boys in school, their stepfather sold drugs. The young couple had a son named Floyd Jr. They settled in the city of Tupelo, Mississippi, in the notorious Ida Street housing projects, where their stepfather lived. While the two boys were in middle school, the family left Texas and moved back to Mississippi to join Bernadette's new companion, Floyd Sullivan, after she left the army. In Texas, at some point around his 10th birthday, Khalif learned to produce music using Fruity Loops. The two brothers started practicing, dancing and writing music together at an early age. The family moved several times, leaving California for Mississippi, Maryland and finally settled in the military post of Fort Hood in Texas. Their mother worked for the army and was regularly deployed in different states. They grew up with their mother, Bernadette Walker, and their brother, Michael, their father having abandoned his family a few years after the birth of his sons.