Lil Important

Dave Demarcus DaMan (born February 3, 1994), 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 6 on the Random-ness Hot 100 album chart. In 2016, DaMan released his debut studio album Kome Home Kali, which was dedicated to his mom. Kome Home Kali peaked number 2, while his third project Dave Da Damn Man released in 2019, became his first chart topper.

Early life
Dave DaMan was born in Awesomeness City, Balkra. He did not have a father figure as his dad was serving time in jail for a 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 (2010-2012)
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, 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."

After graduating high school in 2012, DaMan 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 DaMan rejected, but quickly changed his mind after realizing it could change his life.

DaMan 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, DaMan released a snippet for an upcoming song titled 3-D, the snippet received positive reviews from both critics and fans who admired DaMan for the beat and flow. Shortly after, DaMan 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 DaMan's first entry on the chart. 3-D peaked at 39 and spent 77 weaks on the chart.

A few weeks after 3-D's release, DaMan annouced on Twitter that he will release his second mixtape on Christmas Day, throughout the next 3 months, DaMan posted many snippets online, hyping his now huge fan base up. 1 week before the release, DaMan teased the cover and title and on Christmas Day of 2014, DaMan released his second mixtape and project, Finally Happy. Finally Happy made its way to the Random-ness Hot 100, making it DaMan'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, DaMan started to dye his hair blue.

Aurora, Do Da Most and 5 hour freestyle (2015)
Due to his massive fame at the time, DaMan 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 DaMan even more popular and he now had more fans that he could've ever imagined.

On September 20, later that year, DaMan 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 part 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, DaMan released many snippets for his upcoming album Kome Home Kali, a project dedicated to his mom, with "half hype and half sad" songs. DaMan also was featured in the Random Loud concert. DaMan released one more single titled Nothing Lasts Forever. The album was suppose to release on September 3, but it was delayed as DaMan 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, DaMan finally released Kome Home Kali. The project met with positive reviews and peaked number two on the Random-ness Hot 100 chart.

Dave Da Damn Man (2017-2019)
In early 2017, DaMan tweeted the words "DDDM: Coming Soon", announcing his soon to be big second studio album. A week later, DaMan 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 Lil Swag.

In 2019, DaMan released his first song in over three years, simply titled "Back", the chart topped number 3 on the Random-ness Hot 100, the following month, DaMan annouced that Dave Da Damn Man was finally completed and would release sometime in July. After multiple weeks of delays and leaks, DaMan released the 25-track Dave Da Damn Man album on July 20, 2019, the project peaked number 1 on the Random-ness Hot 100 chart again becoming DaMan's first chart topper release. Later in October 19, 2019, DaMan released the deluxe version which contained 10 new tracks, including guest appearances from Big Floppa, Kanye East, and MC Virgins, it peaked number 3.

Upcoming projects and new singles (2020-present)
In early 2020, DaMan stated that him and Famous Dex are working on a collaborative project. DaMan also released a single titled "Everything Gud" which peaked 78 on the Random-ness Hot 100.

In 2021, DaMan teased multiple snippets of songs similar to the ones from 2014-2016.

Musical style
Many people praise DaMan'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
DaMan 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
DaMan has a son, named Dylan, from a previous relationship from a girl named Stella, who he met after he graduated high school.

DaMan and Famous Dex have been friends since childhood, he lived with him in the past, DaMan and his son currently live in Hot Beach.

DaMan claims he is a fan of RARCAR and watches it every Sunday, he also randomly showed up to the 2018 Fried Chicken 500.

Discography

 * Main article: Lil Important discography


 * Kome Home Kali (2016)
 * Dave Da Damn Man (2019)

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