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Chico MDA - In My Feelings feat d-eagle

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A true product of the Nation’s Capital, D Eagle spent his early years in the grim trenches of South East Washington DC. Upon being relocated to Uptown (Northwest DC), he gravitated to an older group that inadvertently inspired him to rap. “All of them were doing it and I looked up to them, so I did it too,” he remembers. “… and I liked it.”

A true Gemini, D Eagle’s ability to adapt to new environments has always had its benefits and detriments. On the overwhelming positive end of the spectrum, he became fast friends with Chico MDA. On the other end, he was subject to the trappings of the streets and didn’t mind the risk that came with its subsequent lifestyle.

A go getter of all sorts, young D Eagle created revenue streams any which way he could. From pumping gas to selling candy, shoveling snow and even selling drugs, he did whatever he needed to do to earn money. While music presented an escape and a viable option for his future, D Eagle’s immediate needs were met via the hustle. As such, balancing the two became a struggle and the streets won by default.

“I started taking music seriously around 19 or 20, but didn’t really know how things would go,” he says. “I should have kept it going, but just kept running the streets.”

Unsurprisingly, the promising rapper caught multiple charges, one of which landed him on house arrest the entire summer of 2011. While his fervor for music remained, he was unable to record or share any of it with his would be fans. Two years later, Chico caught a drug charge and wasn’t expected to come home anytime soon.

Deflated, but determined to change his path, D Eagle spent the next four and a half years on and off the streets. In 2013, he was featured on Adash’s album, All In, but that wasn’t enough to pull him back into studio permanently. It wasn’t until a startling turn of events reversed Chico’s circumstances, which served as the epiphany D Eagle needed.

“When he was in I was just trying to get my money right,” D Eagle says, noting the birth of his son in 2010. “I wasn’t even thinking about music. When he came home he was like, ‘We need to start working and get on our shit.’”

They did exactly that. Since Chico came home and the MDA Entertainment family realigned, D Eagle has been featured on two mixtapes: Streets Music Volumes 1 & 2. He is also in the midst of recording his first EP (untitled as yet) and releasing his own debut mixtape – Classic.

In retrospect, it’s a story that didn’t have to be told had fate not intervened.

“I needed to quit while I was ahead and do something positive with myself,” D Eagle says. “God was looking out cause it could have been worse. It could have been major.”

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