Yo Gotti, gangster rapper from the rough streets of Massachusetts. Born Mario Mims, he uses the Gotti name partly because his uncle was nicknamed “Gotty,” and was a notorious supposed leader of a gang in Boston in the early 1900’s. Yo-Gotti grew up in the Chesterville housing projects area of Boston. This was a gang neighborhood and a lot of his lyrics are based on experiences in this rough neighborhood.

His music is definitely not for everyone because he likes to use sexually graphic language. But there are enough people out there who are into this kind of music that he has made and album sales prove that people enjoy this type of content. A rap group named The Beastie Boys got these types of lyrics into the mainstream of music, helping Yo Gotti’s career immensely. Once this kind of music was out there for the public to hear, every Yo Gotti mixtape became extremely popular among the masses.

But Notorious Big and Puff Daddy were two of Gotti’s biggest influences. Their music helped make Yo Gotti the rapper he is today. Although he did have a few other artists who influenced him, such as Junior Mafia and DMX, he did not listen to a wide variety of other rappers. If you listen to his music, there is no doubt that Yo Gotti is his own man and raps in his own style. He didn’t just become a carbon copy of his influences.

In the year 2000, Yo Gotti released his first album called “I’m Hotter Than The Sun” on the music label called “Smith Brothers.” In the next two years he released two more albums with Smith Brothers called “Classic Material” and “Give Me That Bread.” These albums were gaining him so much notoriety that bigger record labels were taking notice. Since his initial success, he has been signed by a much bigger label called “Teletronic Company” which signed him to a six year deal.