Joyner Lucas

The video was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 61st Grammy Awards.

The video was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 61st Grammy Awards, but lost to Childish Gambino's "This Is America".

Gary Maurice "Joyner" Lucas Jr. (born August 17, 1988) is an American rapper.

Gary Maurice Lucas Jr. was born on August 17, 1988, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

He began rapping at the age of 10 and attended South High Community School in Worcester.

Joyner Lucas first started rapping under the name G-Storm, but by 2007 had changed his stage name to Future Joyner and started working with his cousin Cyrus tha Great, forming a group called Film Skool Rejekts.

That year they released Workprint: The Greatest Mixtape of All Time.

Lucas released his first solo mixtape, titled Listen to Me, in 2011.

After rapper Future came to prominence, Lucas dropped the "Future" from his name and continued as Joyner Lucas.

He released his first mixtape under this new moniker in 2013, titled LFO's (Low Frequency Oscillators).

Lucas first received widespread exposure and critical acclaim after the release of his single "Ross Capicchioni" in 2015.

Outside of music, Lucas co-founded the music technology platform Tully in 2015, with manager Dhruv Joshi.

His next mixtape, Along Came Joyner, was released on April 5, 2015.

This mixtape contained his critically acclaimed "Ross Capicchioni".

Following the success of the song, Lucas was featured in the 2015 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher.

Originally intended to appear in the online-only cypher, he was later promoted to rap as part of the live broadcast cyphers based on the strength of his initial performance.

Since 2016, Lucas has also become known for remixing popular hip hop songs like "Gucci Gang" by Lil Pump, "Bank Account" by 21 Savage, "Panda" by Desiigner, "DNA" by Kendrick Lamar and many others.

Lucas signed to Atlantic Records on September 21, 2016.

Ever since 2016, Lucas has also become known for remixing popular hip hop songs.

In June 2017, he released his fourth mixtape, 508-507-2209, which was his first on a major label.

In November 2017, Lucas released his single "I'm Not Racist", which quickly went viral, gaining him further mainstream attention.

Lucas went on to release a project titled 508-507-2209 on June 16, 2017, with Atlantic Records.

The mixtape charted at #7 on the Heatseekers Albums chart on Billboard and contained the singles "I'm Sorry", "Ultrasound", "Just Like You" and "Winter Blues".

On November 28, 2017, Lucas released the single "I'm Not Racist" via his YouTube channel.

The music video quickly went viral and gained critical acclaim.

The controversial song is about race and society, and race relations from the perspectives of a white man and a black man.

In October 2018, he announced his debut studio album ADHD, which was released in 2020.

Lucas and Chris Brown announced a collaborative project titled Angels & Demons on February 25, 2018, with the project's first single "Stranger Things" releasing the following day.

On April 1, 2018, Lucas released the single "Frozen", a song focused on different forms of reckless driving.

The second single from the Angels and Demons collaborative mixtape, "I Don't Die", was released on May 2.

On December 24, 2018, it was announced that Lucas departed from Atlantic Records.

On July 31, 2018, Lucas announced that he was forced to cancel appearances in the Australian and European legs of his I'm Kind of a Big Deal tour due to hoarseness and laryngitis.

A month later, Lucas was featured on "Lucky You" from Eminem's tenth album, Kamikaze.

The song debuted at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Lucas' first top 10 entry on the chart.

On October 12, 2018, Lucas announced that he would be releasing his debut studio album entitled ADHD.

He also announced a single from the album that would be released the following Wednesday.

It was preceded by nine singles from October 2018 to March 2020, the time before release.

The album featured appearances from Logic, Young Thug, Chris Brown, Timbaland, Fabolous and King OSF as well as appearances from Chris Tucker and Kevin Hart who both appeared on skits.

The song, entitled "I Love", was released as the lead single from ADHD, which was released on March 27, 2020.

On August 17, 2020, Lucas announced the release date of his debut EP, Evolution.