Joey Fatts
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| Birth name | Joey Vercher |
| Born | August 3, 1991 |
| Origin | Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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| Years active | 2012–present |
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Joey Vercher (born August 3, 1991), better known as his stage name Joey Fatts is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Long Beach, California. Fatts is signed to his own label, Cutthroat Records. He gained recognition by releasing the Chipper Jones series with the help of the late A$AP Yams, who helped catapult his career. He went on to release the other mixtapes, Ill Street Blues (2015) and I'll Call You Tomorrow (2016).
Joey Vercher was born on August 3, 1991 in Long Beach, California. Joey's mother and father are originally from Compton, but moved to Long Beach because they wanted a better life for Joey and his older brother. Joey's mother is apart of the Piru Street Family and his father is a crip. Fatts started getting involved in gang activity in the summer of 1999, at the age of 8. Joey's mother was an alcoholic and never paid any attention to him. When Joey was in the fifth grade his father went to prison and left Joey's mother alone with him and his sister.
Joey and mother moved to San Fernando Valley for a while. At age fifteen, he moved from his mother's house back to Long Beach to play football, despite not having anywhere to live in the city. He slept wherever he could, his friend's garage, his girlfriend's house, the back of his 1986 Camaro, while chasing his dream of playing in college. When he was sixteen, one of his best friend died from a shooting and was depressed for a while. About six of his closest friends died from shootings while growing up. He soon gave up on that dream when he started gangbanging with his friends. By the twelfth grade, he had been arrested for robbery and stopped playing football completely.
After giving up on pursuing a career in football, Joey's cousin, Vince Staples suggested that Joey start rapping. Joey quickly realized that he was good at rapping, but couldn't get any record producers to make beats for him, so he decided he had to make them himself. In December 2011, Joey stole someone's iMac and after recording some songs, he decided to give up on rap. So, he decided to sell the iMac by tweeting, "Yo, who want an iMac?", Staples retweeted it, then Matthews responded. Joey and A$ton met up in Burger King and he sold the laptop. Then Joey and A$ton started talking about their dream of rapping and they instantly connected because they shared the same interests. In January 2012, They started to get really close and soon Joey moved into Matthew's garage. A few months later, someone passes on Joey's beats to ASAP Mob founder, ASAP Yams. Joey didn't hear anything until he got a call from ASAP Rocky and he told Joey he wanted to work with him.
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