 Papoose was born Shamele Mackie on December 31, 1978 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, USA, the very same area that rap legends Jay-Z and The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls hailed from. He was given his the alias that he uses in rap today (Papoose) by his grandmother, because of his childhood resemblance to a Native American child.
Inspired by the likes of rap legends Rakim, Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane, Papoose took his first shots at following in those rappers footsteps at the young age of 11. Since then he has been well respected in the underground street circuit for a long period of time now, and has survived the trappings and politics of todays rap industry, which uses gimmicks as well as fake street and jail images in order to sell its records, and many true Hip Hop fans believe that this destroys the essence of what a true MC really is. Papoose however, is reagrded as a true MC, in every essence.
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