Lil Important

Damien "Dave" Demarcus DaMan (born February 3, 1994 [age 28]), known by his stage name Lil Important, is a Randomese rapper, and singer-songwriter who is currently signed to Random Records.

DaMan is considered a very unique, talented, and experimental rapper, he rose to fame with his single "3-D" in late 2014. The song would act as the lead single for his debut mixtape Finally Happy, which peaked number 3 on the Random-ness 200 chart. In 2016, DaMan released his debut studio album Kome Home Kali, which was dedicated to his mom. Kome Home Kali peaked at number 2.

Following a three year hiatus in music, Important released the single "Back" in 2019, topping number 3 on the Random-ness Hot 100, shortly after the release, Important released his highly anticipated Dave Da Damn Man album, which became his first chart topper and the most streamed album of 2019 in Random Region. DaMan's third mixtape Seeing Space was released September 24, 2021 and peaked number 6. His collaboration with Famous Dex, Dave + Dex, was released October 16 and charted number 1.

Early life
Dave DaMan was born in Awesomeness City, Central Provinstate. He did not have a father figure as his dad was serving time in jail for a unknown violent crime he did shortly before his birth. He was raised by his single mother, Kali MacKenzie.

DaMan's interest in music started around his teenage years, where he was addicted to many video game soundtracks and would freestyle over them, he also joined the school band in 7th grade, where he was able to play multiple instruments such as the trumpet, flute, and drums.

Sometime when he was in 9th grade, DaMan's mother Kali unexpectedly died from a car crash, this resulted in Dave moving into his grandparents house, his music quickly saw a change, as he went from rapping about how he was the best, to not even having fun.

In September of 2016, DaMan revealed in an interview that his birth certificate shows he was born on February 3, 1994, after erroneously believing he was born a day later on February 4, 1994.

Career beginnings (2010-2013)
In order to get DaMan to be his regular self again, his friends would always hang out with him after school, they would make him freestyle by hyping him up, throwing dollars all over the room he was recording in. DaMan released his first three tracks on SoundCloud in 2010, with the help of fellow friend Straight A Verse, under the name Dude DaMan, one of the tracks is called "Eatin' McDonald's" and can still be listened to this day while the remaining two have since been deleted.

DaMan continued to freestyle and post songs on SoundCloud, he started using the stage name Lil Important after a comment from one of his song said: "dam bru this is fire! if u gonna be in the rap game one day you gonna be important." Later in 2011, Important signed to SAV's label, A+ Productions.

After graduating high school in 2012, Important started rapping near local marketplaces to get money, a Random Records manager saw him rapping and offered him a deal with the label, at first Important rejected, but quickly changed his mind after realizing it could change his life.

Important released his debut single "Best" on early 2013, along with his debut mixtape "Important Mixtape". The project would get over ten thousand streams along with other songs, but it wasn't until 2014 he saw big attention.

Breakthrough, 3-D, and Finally Happy (2014)
In late 2014, Important released a snippet for an upcoming song titled 3-D, the snippet received positive reviews from both critics and fans who admired Important for the beat and flow. Shortly after, Important teased the release for the song, and on September 20, 2014, the song was finally released. 3-D entered the Random-ness Hot 100 making it become Important's first entry on the chart. 3-D debuted at 87 and peaked at 19. The song spent a total of 57 weeks on the chart.

A few weeks after 3-D's release, Important annouced on Twitter that he will release his second mixtape on Christmas Day, throughout the next 3 months, Important posted many snippets online, hyping his now huge fan base up. 1 week before the release, Important teased the cover and title and on Christmas Day of 2014, Important released his second mixtape and project, Finally Happy. Finally Happy made its way to the Random-ness 200, making it Important's first project to enter a music chart. It debuted at 25 and made it's way to 6, the mixtape received positive reviews from both critics and fans. Around this time, Important started to dye his hair blue.

Aurora, Do Da Most and 5 hour freestyle (2015)
Due to his massive fame at the time, Important claims he was barely able to drop any music in 2015, he did however on March 2015, freestyled on the Random Hot Rap station for 5 hours straight. Filling the room with hot, clever, and hilarious bars, this made Important even more popular and he now had more fans that he could've ever imagined.

On September 20, later that year, Important released two singles; Aurora and Do Da Most, which both were claimed to be freestyles. The two songs entered the Random-ness Hot 100 and both respectively peaked 12 and 38. At the end of the year, DaMan announced his debut studio album Kome Home Kali, with the two songs being the lead singles of the album.

Kome Home Kali (2016)
On February 2016, Important was featured on Carl Wheezer's single Can't Complain for his EP. The single peaked 5 on the Random-ness Hot 100, becoming DaMan's first top 5 single as a lead or featured artist.

Throughout the next 6 months, Important released many snippets for his upcoming album Kome Home Kali, a project dedicated to his mom, with "half hype and half sad" songs. Important also was featured in the Random Loud concert. Important released one more single titled Nothing Lasts Forever. The album was suppose to release on September 3, but it was delayed as Important said that he was gonna "add more fire". In early November, Famous Dex claimed that Kome Home Kali was gonna release within 2 weeks, on November 18, 2016, Important finally released Kome Home Kali. The project met with positive reviews and peaked number two on the Random-ness 200 chart.

Dave Da Damn Man (2017-2019)
In early 2017, Important tweeted the words "DDDM: Coming Soon", announcing his soon to be big second studio album. A week later, Important stated the words stood for "Dave Da Damn Man", and he started to work on it late 2017. He would release snippets, and some songs would even be leaked and gain millions of streams.

Due to the leaks of the song, DDDM was constantly delayed and DaMan wouldn't release any new music, he was though, featured in many songs such as "Fire Flame" by Famous Dex, "New Guy" by Carl Wheezer and unknown songs with Buster Puppet and other various artists.

In 2019, Important released his first song in over three years, simply titled "Back", the chart topped number 3 on the Random-ness Hot 100, becoming Important's highest charting single at the time. The following month, Important annouced that Dave Da Damn Man was finally completed and would release sometime in July. After multiple weeks of delays and leaks, Important released the 20-track Dave Da Damn Man album on July 19, 2019, the project peaked and debuted number 1 on the Random-ness 200 chart, becoming Important's first chart topper release. Later in October 18, 2019, DaMan released the deluxe version which contained 10 new tracks, including guest appearances from Big Floppa, Kanye East, and MC Virgins.

Seeing Space, and Dave + Dex (2020-2021)
In early 2020, Important stated that him and Famous Dex are working on a collaborative project. Important also released a single titled "Everything Gud", a single which was originally planned to be part of Dave Da Damn Man, the song peaked 78 on the Random-ness Hot 100.

A year later on September 22, Important teased a on his Instagram. A day later, Important the title as "Seeing Space" and featured a mystery guest appearance in the song "Solar System". After the album was released on September 24, the mystery feature turned out to be Carl Wheezer, who was recently revived from death, with the song being his return to music. A week later, the song peaked number 2 on the Random-ness Hot 100, becoming the highest charting song in Important's career.

On September 29, 2021, a week after Seeing Space's release, Important announced his collaboration project with Famous Dex, titled Dave + Dex. On October 9, the album's lead single, "Different" was released and peaked number 9 on the Random-ness Hot 100. Dave + Dex released on October 15, 2021 and debuted at number one on the Random-ness 200. It became Important's second and Dex's first number-one album on the chart on the week of October 23, 2021. On October 22, the song "Fire/Water" (ft. ASAP Rocky) from the album was released as a single and peaked 40.

Along with Dave + Dex being released, the four throwaway tracks from Dave Da Damn Man were included in an EP titled Dave Da Damn Man 1.5 which possibly indicates his next project, Dave Da Damn Man 2.

This turned out true, on December 5 while on tour with Famous Dex, Important announced his next album Dave Da Damn Man 2, set to release in 2022.

Musical style
Many people praise Important's music. The Random Times stated that "he is one of those stage names that you should immediately recognize." Fellow friend Famous Dex stated he is a "born to be musician" and is basically a scientist because he experiments in his songs.

Influences
Important is a fan of many rock music, such as Green Day, Maroon 5, Simple Plan. He is also a fan of Kanye West, Lil Uzi Vert, Denzel Curry, and Wiz Khalifa.

Personal life
Important met Stella LeSwagness during high school and the two started dating after they graduated. On August 26, 2014, they welcomed their son Dylan. They separated in mid 2016. Currently, DaMan and his son live in Hot Beach, he also has another house in Random City.

Important tries to avoid drugs as much as possible due to him thinking it was the reason his dad was arrested. His dad's release date and the crime he did remains unknown.

In an interview, Important stated that he is a fan of RARCAR and watches it every Sunday, he also randomly showed up to the 2018 Fried Chicken 500 and performed in the 2020 Fried Chicken 500. Important's favorite RARCAR driver is Chad Engine, Important first referenced Chad in his hit single 3-D", he has since made multiple songs about the racer, even making a cameo in the music video for "Everything Gud".

Famous Dex
Important has been long-time close friends with Dex. Important and Dex met in 2014, while Dex was still in the U.S. producing beats on Youtube, this caught Important's attention and he asked him to come to Random Region to produce for his then upcoming album Finally Happy. Shortly after the release, Dex moved in with Important and began recording songs. After moving out in 2017, the two parted ways and began working on their individual careers. The two later reunited at the 2019 Random Loud concert.

Important still describes Dex as his "number 1 homie".

Straight A Verse
Important and SAV have been friends since childhood, and SAV played a major role in helping him blow up. SAV introduced Important to SoundCloud where he would release his first songs. SAV signed Important to his label, A+ Productions and had a number of collabs with him. During late 2014, their friendship would fall apart after a beef over Important's song "3-D"

Carl Wheezer
Important became friends with iconic singer Carl Wheezer on Twitter, after Carl stated that he would love to work with him. The two went on to collaborate on two tracks, "Can't Complain" in 2016, and "New Guy" in 2018. There were also rumors that the two had been working on a collaborative album.

On April 22, 2020, Wheezer died due to complications from a invention testing accident, Important reacted on his Twitter with the words, "BRO WTFFFFFFF CARL WAS MY HOMIE, BRUH WE LOSING TOO MANY LEGENDS THIS YEAR". Important was later present at Carl's funeral on April 25. After Carl was brought back to life, he explained that he was "confused but overjoyed" at the same time.

Juice WRLD
Important knew Juice before he was a big artist, the two met on GTA V during 2016, Important encouraged Juice to follow his dreams while he was still underground. When Juice blew up in 2018, the two met in Random City where they recorded "Chicken Wing", a song which was originally part of Important's album Dave Da Damn Man, unfortunately, the song leaked and was never fully released.

Important learned of Juice's death while performing at a concert, he paid tribute and alerted fans of the unexpected tragedy. Important later flew to the U.S. to attend Juice's funeral.

Straight A Verse Beef
During 2014, after previewing his soon to be hit song 3-D, SAV showed his dislike for the track, saying on Twitter "Important this sh*t sounds like every other rap song at least sound lyrical". Important responded by saying "stfu watch this blow up u only got one hit rn", the two would have a long-time argument which resulting in Important being kicked off A+ Productions, and SAV saying "cant believe I had to do this 2 u important u couldve blown up".

However, when 3-D's popularity grew, SAV called out Important and his fans on Twitter, saying they were "mindless", and "had no taste". On 2015, SAV would release a disstrack titled "Unimportant", Important though, never responded. It is unclear if the two are in good terms, but that is most likely the point, due to SAV congratulating Important for his Dave Da Damn Man album and Important shouting him out in his "Everything Gud" single.

Joltsborrow Mayor Controversy
On early September of 2021, DaMan expressed anger for Joltsborrow's mayor JoltikplaysTehRandomBoi, due to his decision to ban Twitter across Random Region. DaMan responded with an Instagram Live attacking and yelling at Joltikplays and hinted that he would release a diss track aimed at him. After a decision was made to only ban Twitter on Joltsborrow, the two men reconciled. On October 2021, Joltikplays decided to cancel the Twitter ban as a whole, which Important happily agreed on.

Discography

 * Main article: Lil Important discography

Studio albums
 * Kome Home Kali (2016)
 * Dave Da Damn Man (2019)
 * Dave Da Damn Man 2 (2022)

Collaborations
 * Dave + Dex (with Famous Dex) (2021)

Concert tours

 * Dave Da Damn Man Tour (2019)
 * The Dave + Dex Tour (2021)