DORROUGH - Ozone Magazine

LIL TONY
Words by Jee’Van Brown
On the road to success many
people give up after facing OBSTA-
CLES, but not Lil Tony. For nearly
ten years, Lil Tony has been chasing
his dream of becoming an All-
Star rapper, and it seems that all
the hard work is finally about to
pay off. After being in a rap group
where things didn’t work out
and losing some of his closeST
friends, he’s finally found his
home with NGenious Entertainment.
Now Lil Tony plans to do it
big, Texas-style.
What do you have going on right now
I just joined NGenius Entertainment, and I’m
pushing my singles “I Like That” and “Shout
Out.” The first artist off of Ngenious Entertainment
was Dorrough. The second time around
we’re going do it real major, plus we’ve got DJ
Merk as the CEO. I’m also working on my visuals
like YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace.
How did the opportunity for you to get
signed to NGenius come about
I was a friend of Dorrough’s and he used to
always tell me he was going to look out for
me. One day DJ Merk just hit me up when
they were on their way back from a show. He
said he was thinking about bringing me onto
Ngenius Entertainment.” We just took it from
there. He put me in the studio and it’s been
crazy ever since.
How did you and Dorrough know each
other
I knew Dorrough because he played basketball
in high school, and in Texas, high school
basketball is a big thing. I had been hearing his
name and then I heard he started rapping. We
really hooked up from doing shows together,
seeing each other in the club, and networking.
As a child you were in the group S.A.S., Street
All Stars. What happened with that group
Well, we never broke up. It was a group with
me, Lil Twist of Young Money, and Gator
Main, now of the Ball Playaz. We were signed
to M.V.P. Entertainment, but we all parted
because of financial problems.
You’re half African-American and half Mexican.
Has your racial background affected
your rap career
It kinda helped me because a lot of my fans
are black and a lot of my fans are Spanish, but
I really felt like some people just wouldn’t give
me the chance that I deserved. They thought I
was this mixed breed trying to be something I
wasn’t.
Your two best friends died when you were
younger. How did that change you
My two best friends Sergio and Hillard were
murdered on October 4th, 2007. From how
the story was told to me, they tried to rob a
security guard. During the robbery Sergio was
shot dead on the scene, and my other partner
Hillard was driving off and the security [guard]
shot his car 11 times. He was hit 5 times. That
changed my life forever. That was my last year
of high school, and I just couldn’t believe I lost
two of my partners like that. That woke me up
and helped me change my life. It inspired me to
work harder at what I do.
Are you working on any new material
Yeah, I have two projects coming out: Flight 214:
No Destination with DJ Drop and The Original
Tape…Posted, Loaded, Floatin. Chalie Boy is
also putting me on his All Star Remix for “I Look
Good.” //
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