When I was 13-years-old I had just discovered masturbating and the Paris Hilton sex tape, two things that I'm sure you can work out were not mutually exclusive.
I certainly was not forging out a rap career like Lil Poopy, the pint-sized rapper who began recording music about about hoes and cocaine when he was just nine.
Now the little lad has landed a four-year record deal with Sony-Epic label. Big news seeing as though the label also boasts big name artists such as Outkast, Timbaland and Jennifer Lopez.
Lil Poopy, whose real name Luis Rivera Jr. hit the headlines aged nine when he appeared in a music video as the 'cocaine cowboy', rapping about money, 'hoes' and kissing fistfuls of cash.
The video shocked the American public and even prompted a child abuse investigation.
Luis Rivera Snr., the Massachusetts father of Lil Poopy, was charged in February 2013 after police claimed the music video, amounted to child abuse due to its sexually suggestive nature.
His dad defended the accusation by claiming his child was 'just acting' in the video.
"When you hit a home run, when you go to the bleachers, they tap you on the butt,' Rivera said. 'He's not doing anything wrong."
The charges against Rivera were dropped. Now, three years later his son, who featured on Lifetime's The Rap Game earlier this year, has been signed to a major label
"All of the older people - older friends - always underestimated me," Lil Poopy said. "They like me now. ... I just want them to know that I'm coming for the top. They better be ready."
Good look to him.
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Words by James Dawson
Topics: rap