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Gene Elliot Simpson Biography

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Gene Elliott Thornton Jr. was born August 18, 1972 in New York City. later him and his family moved down south to Virginia Beach. Him and his brother Pusha T was in a rap group called the Clipse in 1992. They were later introduced to Pharrell Williams, and he was a part of The Neptunes. Gene always said “I was raised in church-my parents and my grandparents all took me to church. So I was always in around church.” But going to church did little to change his lifestyle. Growing up, he hung out with the “wrong crowd”, and got into drugs and alcohol. In 1996 Gene was at a friend’s house celebrating the release of another friend from prison. They sat on the street throwing back one beer after another.
A woman approached them and asked them if they knew Jesus. She started preaching to them and during that moment they began defending their lack of faith. After each of them rejected what she was saying, she changed her …show more content…

A rumor began began going around about Gene that claimed that he gave a girl AIDS. At one point in time instead of rapping because he loved it, he had to rap because he needed money/ he decided he was just going to like “No more feeling guilty.” In the spring of 2009 Clipse former manager at the time, was arrested, around the same time Malice had told his brother that he didn’t want to rap anymore and that is time for them to go their separate ways. Gene said he imagined himself being a rapper not an author. He never imagined sharing his story to the whole world. He realized that it was depression, just never being satisfied, always wanting and searching for the next big pie, but never being able to reach it. When writing he finds something to zone in on and when he finds it, he focuses on it. Malice later changed his name to no malice, for the fact that malice means the intention or desire to do

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