At 16, Trill Entertainment recording
artist Lil Trill can truthfully lay claim to the title of
the youngest in the Trill Entertainment camp. Like his
label mates, Lil Boosie and Webbie, Lil Trill started out
at an early age and thus brings a youthful energy to the
music that is capturing the imagination of rap fans
throughout the Deep South. In addition to being young,
gifted and dynamic, Lil Trill also brings a smooth R&B
flavored rap style to the table that is destined to appeal
to the fairer sex, all of which bodes well for Lil Trill
because like a lot of red-blooded teenage males, he likes
the ladies.
“I like girls so I make girl
songs,” says Lil Trill of his music. “When I was in high
school I used to do a lot of club songs but mostly what
put me on was girl songs because I’m a ladies man. I love
the ladies.”
Lil Trill (nee) was born in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana in 1994 and grew up in the Sherwood area.
According to Lil Trill, he grew up living between his mom
and his dad in a dichotomy that struck the balance between
his well-to-do father and middle-class mother. “Things on
my dad’s side were way more expensive than on my mama
which was mostly middle class. So it was a balance between
the two worlds.” In addition to balancing the two worlds,
Lil Trill was also busy absorbing the myriad of music that
his father used to play while he was visiting him.
According to Lil Trill, one of his first memories of
hearing rap as a small child was his father playing
“Missing You,” P. Diddy’s touching tribute to the
legendary Notorious B.I.G. As he got older he started
listening to Biggie and Tupac. Later on he would fall
under the influence of local rappers Boosie and Webbie,
who were slowly emerging as regional stars in their own
right. Lil Trill literally grew up watching the two hone
their craft and build their careers into national star
status. By age 10, Lil Trill was writing his own rhymes
and reciting them to his friends. One day, Trill
Entertainment CEO Turk heard the youngster rapping and
invited him to come to the studio and lay some rhymes
down.
“I got into the studio and came
up with some ideas,” recalls Lil Trill. “They listened to
it and was like ‘keep on trying.’ I kept on trying until
they liked it. Now this is what I do.”
From that moment on, the teenager
wasted no time jumping into the fray recording songs. He
recalls his defining moment when he graced the stage at
Baton Rouge’s Annual Summer Jam in 2007 to do his hit song
“The Dummy Way.” “When I got on stage and said I do it the
dummy way, everybody in the crowd yelled backs ‘I do it
the dummy way!’ I was really shocked because I didn’t
think that so many people knew it that way. That was real
cool.” Some of the songs that Lil Trill has appeared on in
the past are “My Avenue” by Lil Boosie, “Don’t Stunt” and
“Get It, Get It, Get It” by Webbie as well as other songs
with Trill Entertainment artists. He’s also featured on
five out of the 17 tracks on Trill Entertainment’s All or
Nothing compilation.
Chief among those five tracks is
“Turn the Beat Up.” featuring Foxx, Lil Phat and Webbie.
The song serves as the club banging lead single that is
heating up dance floors throughout the South. “Turn the
Beat Up is actually for the DJs,” says Lil Trill. “You
know when you’re in the club and you hear a dope song and
you want the DJ to turn the beat up so the club can get
hype.” “#1 Girl” is Lil Trill’s solo song that is aimed
directly at the ladies. It is a smooth R&B flavored track
that allows Lil Trill to get his lyrical mack on. The song
promises to have many girls swooning over this track.
Another outstanding song from the All or Nothing
compilation is a slamming track called “Our Age.” “On that
song we’re basically saying that you can’t do what we did
at our age,” explains Lil Trill. “It’s a stuntin’ song.”
With hit songs, sold-out shows,
mix tapes, high-profile collaborations with Webbie &
Boosie behind his belt and a debut album in the works, Lil
Trill (who also has ambitions to be an attorney later on
in life) is poised to take the world by storm before he
reaches his 18th birthday.