Christopher Daniels Miller (born November 6, 1985), better known by his

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YC, is an American

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. He is best known for his 2011 debut single "

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", (featuring

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), which peaked at number 42 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Since then, several remixes and freestyles have been created of "Racks". His follow up single was "I Know" (featuring

Ace Hood Antoine Franklin McColister (born May 11, 1988), better known by his stage name Ace Hood, is an American rapper. He was born in Port St. Lucie, Florida and raised in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He was signed to record producer DJ Khaled's label We ...

) released later that year.

Early life

Born in

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, he was raised by his stay-at-home mom and his father, Milton Miller Sr., who worked in the aviation industry. He attended both

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and McNair High School, but dropped out and didn't graduate. Originally under the moniker Yung Chris, he shortened to YC to avoid confusion with another rapper

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Music career

YC was originally signed to

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, formally known as Yung Chris and was a member of the rap group, Block Boyz. After disbanding himself from the label and group, he decided to focus on a solo career. He was featured in the song, "Dem Girls", which features singer Yaboythetruth. After releasing the song, he recorded "

", featuring Future, for his first mixtape ''Got Racks'', which was released for free download on April 5, 2011 and received over 24 million downloads via

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. "Racks" was released on April 5, 2011. The song peaked at #6 on the

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chart. The video was directed by

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. He performed the single at the

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. The song missed the top 40, peaking at #42 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. He appeared in the video "This is What I Do", from

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's 2011 album ''

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'', with Gucci,

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, and

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. Gucci Mane also appeared in the music video for "

". YC appeared in Waka Flocka's video for " Grove St. Party", featuring rapper Kebo Gotti. On October 4, 2011, he made his second single "I Know" and it features Yung Booke of T.I.'s group D.O.P.E. The video was directed by Mr. Starrize and became #23 in The Billboard Hot 100. Then YC released the remix as the second single on

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and it features

. This was the second time that him and Ace Hood collaborated. YC later released the video for "Like This" featuring

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and Nephew (originally titled "Fucking Around"). The video was also directed by Mr. Starrize. On March 9, 2012, YC released another mixtape ''Back From Vacation'', the mixtape had over 8,000 downloads. On November 9, 2012 it was announced that YC was back in the studio, working on two new mixtapes, one of them revealed to be titled ''Gift to the Streets''.

Personal life

YC is the father of four children, all from different women. He rarely talks about them, but has posted pictures of them on Instagram.Harris, Julia (April 13, 2015)
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Discography

Mixtapes

Singles

As lead artist

Music videos

Guest appearances

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:YC Living people African-American male rappers American music industry executives People from Decatur, Georgia Rappers from Georgia (U.S. state) Southern hip hop musicians 1985 births 21st-century American rappers 21st-century American male musicians 21st-century African-American musicians 20th-century African-American people