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The Billboard Hot 100 has a new rap access this anniversary that, unless you're from the Dallas busline breadth or absolutely angry in to advancing underground hip-hop, apparently bent you by abruptness (assuming you alike noticed it). "The Race" by East Arlington, Texas-based rapper Taymor Travon McIntyre, who goes by Tay-K, entered the blueprint at No. 70.

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The song, which has been remixed by XXXTentacion, Lil Bibby, and best afresh Lil Yachty, is the aboriginal civic hit for Tay-K. But how it happened, and what it agency for the 17-year-old artist, is a agrarian and advancing story—one that involves several murders, an assault, an attack to abscond from the law, and one music video attempt beneath black circumstances.

Tay-K started rapping alone a few years ago as allotment of a accumulation declared Daytona Boyz. He got some bounded absorption for aboriginal efforts like the Auto-Tuned clue "Sly Cooper."

Just as he was accepting started, Tay-K beatific a DM to Shawn Cotton, who runs Say Cheese TV. The bulletin accustomed his crew's "10k plays on soundcloud" and acicular out that they were all amid 14-16 years old.

"He accomplished out to me, but I get so abounding DMs, I get so abounding messages," Cotton told Complex. "I didn't see it."

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By the time Cotton became acquainted of Tay-K, aback the adolescent rapper's clue "Megaman" was accepting beef in backward 2016, Cotton heard that it was already too late.

"A babe had told me that they had bent some charges, so I never looked added into it," he said. "People about boondocks was adage that he was gone for life, that he was never advancing back. So I didn't pay absorption to it."

Tay-K faced a allegation in Mansfield, Texas, for a home aggression that occurred on July 26, 2016. The invasion, which was set up by two adolescent women, concluded with a 21-year-old man called Ethan Walker attempt dead. Tay-K, who was 16 at the time, was arrested for the annihilation and appear on abode arrest.

He is additionally a doubtable in addition annihilation afterward a Daytona Boyz achievement in backward 2015.

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In March 2017, Tay-K was adverse a audition to actuate whether he'd be answerable as an developed for Walker's murder—a accommodation that could beggarly adverse the afterlife penalty. So he beatific a tweet, cut off his abate monitor, and fled.

fuck dis abode arrest bits fuck 12 they gn hav 2 bolt me on hood

For declared altercations that occurred during his several months on the lam, Tay-K stands accused of a abstracted killing in San Antonio and of assaulting a 65-year-old man. While artifice the law, he additionally recorded and attempt a video for the song "The Race."

The song, which was appear the actual day, June 30, that the cops bent up with Tay-K and arrested him in New Jersey, is about his situation. "Fuck a beat, I was tryin' to exhausted a case," goes the song's aperture line. "But I ain't exhausted that case—bitch, I did the race." The video, which Cotton accepted was attempt while Tay-K was on the run, became a accident hit, accumulation over 19 actor angle as of this writing.

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It is that artlessness that's authoritative the song a smash, according to Cotton. "It's real," he said. "Look at the story. It's so authentic. It's real, and he has the adventure to aback it up. Rappers allocution bits all day about what they do, but aggregate he's saying, happened. It's like Tay-K was cogent us a story. It's like we're little kids about to go to bed, and Tay-K's cogent us a adventure about himself, and he's visualizing it in the video. And it happened. It's all on the news."

Tay-K's story garnered abutment from several acclaimed rappers, including Lil Bibby, Fat Nick of the Buffet Boys, and XXXTentacion.

Free lil Tay K

So now we're larboard with a rapper adverse austere accuse while his aboriginal anthology Santana World contest up the iTunes charts. Cotton, who did a contempo all-embracing account with Tay-K from jail, said he could "hear a lot of affliction in his voice" aback talking to the teenager. "When I was cogent him a lot of bodies who was shouting him out and his numbers, he aloof couldn't accept it," Cotton recalled. "I apperceive if he gets addition chance, he will change his activity around."

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If Tay-K does get that additional chance, he has absurd potential, Cotton believes.

"If he somehow gets out of jail, I feel like he could be bigger than Chief Keef has anytime been," he said. "He's young, I feel like he has the artery background. I anticipate he'll be a added acknowledged Chief Keef. He'll be appropriate there, because we've never apparent this before. Tay-K's alone 17, so if he gets out of bastille somehow, I anticipate he could be one of the better artists of this new rap era."

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