For Richmond Virginias Native Antonio "A.d.A" Allen's Diverse And Street Smart Style was Influenced By His Favorite Rappers Such As T.I.,Jay Z  Eminem And Most Importantly His Mom. Listening To These Artist Growing Up I Felt Like What They Were Rapping about Helped Me Understand My Life And Why I Went Through What I Did. Also, I Was Told My Mother Loved Music So I Felt Like This Is What She Wanted So I am going to  Make It Happen Just For Her.

Born Antonio Devon Allen, Antonio's Life Had Its Ups And Downs. Mostly Downs He Explained As He Stated " I Lost My Mother At A Very Young Age And It Killed My Life When I Found Out She Was Gone" He Said" As He Explained How Hard It Was For Him To Grow Up. I Really Felt Outta Place In School" Seeing The Other Kids Bring There Parents To School Was Confusing I Felt Alone It Was Really Hard But I Managed.

As Years Passed Antonio Stayed In Trouble In School Got Kicked Off Of Sports Teams For His Bad Grades And Just Felt Like His Life Was Going Downhill From There. Until The Age Of 14 He Said He Started To Write Down His Thoughts And How He Felt On Paper And Thats When He Discoverd The Artist Side Of Him He Said. But Didnt Really Understand What He Was Doing He Didnt Understand Why His Words Where Rhyming And All He Was Doing Was Just Writing Down His Thoughts. So He Went To His Uncle And Showed Him What He Was Doing And Told Him Why He didnt Understand He Said "My Uncle Told Me Nephew What You Have Is A Gift" And From There With The Help Of His Uncle He Developed Into A 14 Year Old Rapper With A Passion Like His Mothers For Music.

At The Age Of 15 Antonio Moved To Richmond Virginia Where He Took His New Talent Since He Figured That Was The Only Thing He Wanted To Do Was Rap And Write Music. But It Started To Get Harder For Him Because He Couldnt Stay Focused On That Keeping His Grades Up And Everything Else That He Had Going On At The Same Time. "I Love To Play Ball" He Said That Was Like My Passion As A Youngin But I Felt Like This Dream I Had For Music I Didnt Want Anything To Get In The Way Of It.  So With That Being Said He Focused On His Music Only To Hit A Dead End.

At The Age Of 18 Everything Fell Downhill I Wasnt As Focoused As I Was At First I Felt Like I Was Writing The Same Thing Over And Over  Again I Basically Just Wanted To Quit It All I Didnt Have No Type Of Motivation I Just Wanted To Give It All Up Until I Met Travon L.G. Meredith Another Rapper Who Went Through And Had The Same Passion For Music As I Did. But Travon Was Already Ina Group Called The GuddaBoys Which were already known and had a name for themselves from the type of music they were doing. Travon introduced me to the CEO of the group and he told me to rap something for him and when i did he asked me to be a part of the Gudda Boys so i joined the Gudda Boys for a while but it didnt work out because I felt like i wanted to be different from other artists and i didnt want to make the same music every other artist was making. So one day me and Travon were talking and he told me that he wanted to start his own group so I followed him and that's when BBI came about. So we started our own group music was good everybody liked the music we was putting out but we just didnt want our music to be local we wanted it to be worldwide so that we could get more than just our family and friends opinion we wanted the worlds opinion on our music so to this day we are still working on getting our name big and doing what other local artists arent doing and thats making good music.

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