Nicholas Alexander Simmons (Born December 18, 1999), known professionally as YBN Nahmir, is an American rapper. He is best known for his singles "

Rubbin Off the Paint "Rubbin Off the Paint" is the debut single by American rapper YBN Nahmir. It was originally released on Nahmir's SoundCloud account on August 21, 2017, but was released for digital download and streaming on September 18, 2017. The single peaked a ...

" which charted at number 46 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, "

Bounce Out with That "Bounce Out with That" is a song by American rapper YBN Nahmir. The track was released on January 24, 2018, and peaked at number one on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart and at number 76 on the Canadian Hot 100. The track was certified Gold on A ...

", which peaked at number one on the

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chart, and "

Opp Stoppa "Opp Stoppa" is a song by American rapper YBN Nahmir, first released in June 2019. A sleeper hit, it went viral on TikTok in 2020 and was subsequently re-released on November 24, 2020. Two remixes of the song have since been released in 2021, the ...

" (solo and/or with

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on the remix) which peaked at number 78 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart.

Early life

Simmons was born on December 18, 1999, in

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. He was raised in a home with his mother, his cousins and his aunt. Simmons attended

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, though dropped out following the success of "Rubbin Off the Paint;" he graduated in May 2018. Simmons' interest in music started when he was fourteen years old and was gifted an

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for Christmas. Simmons began to play the video game ''

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'' (which he would later use to record his first song.) and eventually moved to playing ''

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'' and then started recording gameplay videos where he would generate a following on

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. During his time playing ''Grand Theft Auto V'', Simmons would freestyle in

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parties and alongside numerous other friends, established the

Young Boss Niggas YBN (short for Young Boss Niggas), was an American hip-hop collective formed by Nick Simmons, who goes by the stage name YBN Nahmir. YBN was a collective of rappers, record producers, social media personalities and promoters. The collective includ ...

collective.

Career

Simmons formed the hip hop

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YBN (an

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for Young Boss Niggas) in

in 2014 composed by him,

YBN Almighty Jay Jay Gerard Bradley (born August 6, 1998), known professionally as Almighty Jay (formerly YBN Almighty Jay), is an American rapper. He was part of the YBN (collective), YBN collective before their disbandment in August 2020. He is best known for s ...

YBN Cordae Cordae Amari Dunston (born August 26, 1997) known mononymously as Cordae (formerly YBN Cordae and Entendre), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He gained popularity by releasing remixes of popular songs, such as "My Name Is" by Eminem ...

, YBN Glizzy, his cousin YBN Manny, YBN Walker, YBN Nicky Baandz, YBN Malik, YBN Carl and YBN Dayday. Simmons uploaded his first song onto YouTube when he was fifteen with fellow YBN member,

. The song, titled "Hood Mentality" was uploaded on March 21, 2015, to barely any reception. Simmons uploaded several more songs to YouTube before releasing his first mixtape on January 2, 2017, titled ''Believe In The Glo'' on SoundCloud. Simmons uploaded his second mixtape to SoundCloud on January 21, 2017. Simmons released "

" on September 18, 2017, to

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's YouTube channel. The song quickly went viral with Simmons explaining it as "blowing up overnight." After the success of the song, Simmons was pulled out of school due to his exceptional popularity and forced to start online classes. The song debuted at 79 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and peaked at 46. In November 2017, Simmons was involved in controversy following his song being claimed by a record label after his manager sold the instrumental for the song to a third-party. In response, Simmons now has an in-house producer for his instrumentals who is a member of the YBN collective. Simmons released six more tracks in 2017. On January 23, 2018, Simmons released "

" on

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's YouTube channel. The song wasn't available on streaming services for up to three days after the release of the music video. The song has accumulated over 159 million views on YouTube after its release. In April 2018, Simmons signed with

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. He was later named as one of the members of '' XXL's'' "2018 Freshman Class" on June 12, 2018, competing in a cypher with

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and

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. On July 13, 2018, Simmons announced via

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he would do a Tour in Europe in the fall 2018 with

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and

Cordae Cordae Amari Dunston (born August 26, 1997) known mononymously as Cordae (formerly YBN Cordae and Entendre), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He gained popularity by releasing remixes of popular songs, such as "My Name Is" by Eminem ...

. They would visit

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and more. The collective YBN released ''YBN: The Mixtape'' in 2018 with

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and

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, between others. On March 22, 2019, he released "Baby 8". On June 10, 2019, he released a music video called "

". On March 26, 2021, Simmons released his debut album ''Visionland''. On July 9, 2022, Simmons has confirmed to have signed a new recording deal with

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, making him the second artist to draft instantly to the latter from Atlantic Records since

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in 2006.

Musical style

Nahmir lists his main influences as rappers from the

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such as

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. Talking on his influences in an interview with ''Billboard'', Simmons stated that the lack of mainstream rappers from Birmingham made him listen to more artists from the West Coast such as

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and

Tupac Tupac Amaru Shakur ( ; born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known as 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He is widely considered one of the most influential rappers of all time. Shakur is among the b ...

Personal life

Simmons currently resides in

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. In August 2018, he began a relationship with social media influencer Sahlt. In 2021, it was announced that the two had ended their relationship.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended Plays

Mixtapes

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Notes

References

External links

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