Denzel Rae Don Curry was born on February 16,1995 and is an American rapper and singer.
42 Facts About Denzel Curry
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Denzel Curry left Raider Klan in 2013, releasing his debut studio album, Nostalgic 64, in September of that year, while still in high school.
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Denzel Rae Don Curry was born on February 16,1995, in the Carol City neighborhood of Miami Gardens, Florida.
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Denzel Curry is of Bahamian descent through both his mother and father.
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Denzel Curry started down an artist's path with early poetry ambitions in elementary school before he began rapping in the sixth grade.
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Denzel Curry attended Miami's Design and Architecture High School for two years before being expelled.
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Denzel Curry then attended Miami Carol City Senior High School, where he started working on Nostalgic 64 while still attending class.
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The whole project that Curry posted was later included on SpaceGhostPurrp's page, which prompted the birth of Denzel's music career.
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The group Raider Klan was disbanded, which led to Denzel Curry deciding to embark on his solo rap career.
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On September 3,2013, Denzel Curry released his debut full-length album, titled Nostalgic 64.
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In 2014, Denzel Curry was featured on Deniro Farrar's track, called "Bow Down" and Denzel Curry was featured on Dillon Cooper's track, called "Eyes of the World".
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Denzel Curry himself has stated that he was heavily inspired by Outkast's record, Aquemini, saying he drew the cover for Nostalgic 64 while listening to the record.
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Denzel Curry was inspired by Goodie Mob and CeeLo Green, and other southern music.
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In June 2016, Denzel Curry appeared in XXL magazine as part of their 2016 Freshmen Class.
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On May 13,2017, Denzel Curry uploaded a track titled "Hate Government [demo]" to his SoundCloud account.
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Since he started releasing demos for songs on 13, Denzel Curry made several mentions of his third studio album titled, Ta13oo.
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On May 24,2018, Denzel Curry released the second single off the album titled, "Percs".
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Denzel Curry then released the third single titled, "Clout Cobain", on July 13,2018, and announced that his album Ta13oo, would be released in three acts: The first act, Light, was released on July 25, followed by Gray on July 26, and Dark on July 27.
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On February 14,2019, Denzel Curry performed a cover of "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine on the Australian radio station Triple J as part of Like a Version, which was met with widespread acclaim.
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Denzel Curry's cover went on to place 5th on that year's Triple J Hottest 100 countdown.
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On May 8,2019, Denzel Curry released "Ricky", his first single since the release of Ta13oo.
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On May 22,2019, Denzel Curry released a second single title "Speedboat" and announced the release of his next album Zuu for May 31,2019.
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On July 15,2019, Denzel Curry made his television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing a medley of "Ricky" and "Wish" from his album Zuu.
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Denzel Curry revealed that he had cut his signature dreadlocks.
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On July 24th, 2019, Denzel Curry joined artists such as Germ, City Morgue, Trash Talk, Shoreline Mafia, Night Lovell, Pouya, and Turnstile on a nationwide tour titled "Grey Day Tour", which was created by the hip-hop duo $uicideboy$.
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On January 6,2020, Denzel Curry released a project titled 13lood 1n + 13lood Out, featuring fellow rappers Ghostemane, Xavier Wulf, ZillaKami and AK of The Underachievers.
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On February 7,2020, Denzel Curry released Unlocked, an EP collaboration with Kenny Beats.
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In October 2020, Denzel Curry was featured on $NOT's track "Sangria".
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On March 5,2021, Denzel Curry released Unlocked 1.5, a remix of his previous collaboration with Kenny Beats.
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In June 2021, Denzel Curry appeared on FX Network's "The Choe Show", alongside David Choe.
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Denzel Curry was featured on the September 2021 song "Bleach", released on rapper ZillaKami's debut album, DOG BOY.
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Denzel Curry collaborated on the track "Dynasties and Dystopia" from the Netflix series Arcane, alongside Gizzle and Bren Joy.
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Denzel Curry said the album "is made up of everything that I couldn't [include] on Ta13oo or Imperial because I was going through depression [and] anger issues", and would take inspiration from traditional hip-hop, drum and bass, trap, poetry, and jazz.
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Denzel Curry recorded a song featuring rapper Reason, "1st Quarter", as a contribution to Apple Music's "collection of exclusively commissioned new songs from Black creatives", titled Juneteenth 2022: Freedom Songs.
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On June 29,2022, Denzel Curry performed an NPR Tiny Desk Concert.
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On September 30,2022, Denzel Curry released Melt My Eyez See Your Future.
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On May 5,2023, Denzel Curry released his live project Live At Electric Lady, which featured new versions of Melt My Eyez songs and a rendition of Erykah Badu's "Didn't Cha Know" with Bilal.
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Denzel Curry succumbed to his wounds, and he ultimately died after being transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
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Denzel Curry's family argued that the incident was a case of police brutality.
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Denzel Curry has spoken about Johnson's death and police brutality in interviews and in his music.
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Denzel Curry always expressed his love for art, with many different comic books and anime shows inspiring him to draw.
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In January 2021, Denzel Curry found out that he is related to St Louis rapper Smino through the discovery of a shared uncle.