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Rapper Los, aka King Los, had a few brushes with the mainstream -- and put in over a decade of work -- prior to the release of his first proper album. Born Carlos Coleman, the Baltimore, Maryland native gravitated toward writing and rapping as a teenager, following the murder of his father. He auditioned for and was selected to appear on the second season of <a href="spotify:artist:59wfkuBoNyhDMQGCljbUbA">Diddy</a>'s Making the Band, but balked at signing the paperwork. Despite this, he signed with <a href="spotify:artist:59wfkuBoNyhDMQGCljbUbA">Diddy</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Bad+Boy%22">Bad Boy</a> label three years later. The deal didn't pan out, and in 2008 Los released the first of many mixtapes and continued to operate in the underground. A few years later, he signed to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Bad+Boy%22">Bad Boy</a> a second time, issued more mixtapes, and appeared on labelmate <a href="spotify:artist:6vXTefBL93Dj5IqAWq6OTv">French Montana</a>'s "Ocho Cinco." An album had yet to materialize when Los left <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Bad+Boy%22">Bad Boy</a> again. The rapper said the reasoning had more to do with parent label <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Interscope%22">Interscope</a> than with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Bad+Boy%22">Bad Boy</a> proper. A subsequent deal with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22RCA%22">RCA</a> resulted in God Money War, his debut album, released in June 2015. Stamped with an executive production credit for <a href="spotify:artist:59wfkuBoNyhDMQGCljbUbA">Diddy</a>, the album saw the versatile rapper work introspective and confrontational angles with equal ease, and he explored spirituality while evading classification as a Christian rapper. It debuted at number 68 on the Billboard 200 with minimal promotion. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi
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