Rapper
Hydrow Records/Ent.  CEO./President /ARTIST.

Hydrow Records/Entertainment Artist. 
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$kinny Champ $krilla. Born Craig Hairston, October 7th on the notorious N. Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first born of a young couple that would eventually go on to give him two brothers and two sisters. His mother was a receptionist. His father worked in the steel mills, and in addition sold drugs for extra income. When the mills began to close, the layoffs and firings came. The blacks were the first to feel the wrath of the dying industry. Out of work and with mouths to feed, selling drugs went from his father's secondary income to his primary. Champ was captivated by what he perceived to be prestige that came with the distribution of narcotics. At seven years of age he mastered using a triple beam scale. He would sneak into the laundry room in apt.107-E in the Allegheny Commons housing complex where they lived, and weigh everything from lint from the dryer, to the oregano in the kitchen cabinet. 
Once he graduated from the 5th grade they moved from the Allegheny Commons housing complex to the Fineview neighborhood. It was a neighborhood that was separated by black and white. The blacks mainly lived in one of the three projects. Sandusky Court, Belleau Drive, or Letsche. He and his family moved into a house that sat right behind the Sandusky Court projects. 
8th grade he started to get mixed up in the streets. His father had succumbed to the same drugs that he once profited from. Seeing his mother struggling to keep food in the mouths of her five children, Champ turned to selling drugs himself. Soon after the gang culture took over the city lots of his childhood friends fragmented into different factions many of which were killed. He went through high school on autopilot. He did just enough to graduate. During those times there were more important things to tend to, like staying alive. 
Graduation day he had picked up his mother in his old school 79' Cutlass that he'd recently bought. They drove to his girlfriends house to pick her up so she could attend as well. On their way to the school Champ noticed that he was not accelerating as he was stepping on gas. His car broke down in the middle of the highway. He pulled over to the shoulder. Shortly after a state trooper pulled behind them lights flashing. When Champ explained that he was on his way to his graduation the trooper told him to get in the back of his car. The trooper had a conversation with his mother and girlfriend then jumped in the cruiser and pulled off with Champ in the back. When a State Trooper pulled up outside the graduation and let him out the back of the car teachers and students looked at him and whispered amongst themselves. He just laughed shook his head and walked into the stadium. 
After graduation he took a year off to gather as much money as he could before heading to north Carolina to go to college. Close friends of the family worked at a College down there and made it possible for him and his close friend Ed to attend after some time Champ let the lure of the streets call him home. He and Ed made an agreement, Ed was to get his degree and Champ would return home and build the studio. They'd been rapping since the 8th grade. They both did what they said, however, their plan never came to fruition.

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