Brandon Hughes (born August 01, 1977), better known by his stage name 6 Tre G is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, and CEO from Fayette, Alabama. He is also the founder and CEO of Mazerati Records. 6 Tre G has released many studio albums Don Mazerati, Boss Muzik, El Trapo, Marlon Bando, Nuclear Winter, and many more.
Biography[]
1980–2000: Early life and career beginnings[]
6 Tre G spent much of his childhood in Fayette, Alabama after he was adopted due to racial tensions in Birmingham, Al, His surrogate family influenced him musically during his formative years with his sister teaching him to play the piano and his mother, who was a poetry and arts teacher, sparking his interest in rhyming after suggesting he do so for a creative writing contest in second grade.Shortly thereafter, when his cousins brought him a record from Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh, Tre became fully immersed in beats and rhymes. “I learned ‘La Di Da Di’ because it was the only record I had,” he says. “When I came home from school, I played that. It got to the point where I knew it so well that I just played the instrumental and I’d say the words.”
1999–2001: Warner Bros. Records[]
The buzz 6 Tre G developed behind bars as a fierce battle rapper on the prison yard leaked so far into the free world that he landed a lucrative 7-year deal with Warner Bros./JD Entertainment, (signed as the Unknown? By Allison Ball Gabriel), with a net worth of $11 million.
”I was in the penitentiary with New York rappers, West Coast rappers, and Jamaican rappers,” he says. ”I can speak patois and spit that. I’ll challenge anyone in the game. I’ll slaughter them because I’m not confined to one thing. I’m not South or East Coast or West Coast.”
2002–2008: Dark House Music Group[]
After winning an Emmy award in 2001, and against popular belief, being the first rap artist to ever win, a major television award for his musical contributions (Theme Music) to the hit HBO miniseries “The Corner, the 25 yr. old Brandon then (the Unknown?) would find himself becoming the victim of an unforeseen corporate merger between AOL & Time Warner. Warner Bros. Records was was one of the first of many Warner Bros. assets to be audited in the beginning of 2002 ultimately cause the artist to be released from the label. After living in Atlanta for 3yrs, Brandon would move back to Huntsville, Al to raise his son and start a family with his future wife Veronica Ward who had 2 children previously from another relationship. It was during this time that 6 Tre began to develop his now regionally Legendary group Cotton Rowe featuring group members Kodiene(Deaundray Stowe), Kush(Chad Fluker), Los(Carlos Zavala), & Do Wrong(Billy Harris). Releasing over nine compilation mix CDs within a six year span. “ we literally hit the block and sold them out of the trunk. Everybody had a backpack full of CDs my homeboy Kali was the cameraman. And all we did was hit the strip when whatever city we went to gettin at the chicks. And slang and records at the same time.
2009–2011: Jive Records[]
Former Jive Records marketing executive Julia Kadarusman also loved the record and quickly signed 6 Tre G to her Moonstone Records imprint distributed by Battery/Jive. His music is a reflection of the perseverance it’s taken him to get here. Although many new artists would be nervous about how their music will be received, Tre doesn’t feel any pressure. ”I’m not trying to show anybody anything,” he says. ”I wanna give people something they can relate to. Then like minded individuals are gonna end up being my fans because I’m talking what they’re living or wanna do.” Fresh went on to become international hit amassing over 100,000 radio spins, 600 million streams and is now RIAA tripple Platnium. Making him the first urban artist to achieve these landmark numbers from the state of Alabama. During his tenure at Jive Records he also was very active behind the scenes in production, mixing recording and mastering. Working with the likes of Usher Raymond, Pink, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, and the legendary Timberland. 6 Tre also can be somewhat credited with the development of the artist Yelawolf also from Alabama who was signed to inner scope and Eminems imprint Shady records in 2007. 6 Tre also worked with many country artist from the Nashville seen while recording at the legendary, Quad Studios on music Row. They’re recording, mixing and mastering for artist, such as Rascal Flatts, Kelly Clarkston, Bo Bice, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and actually winning a Grammy award for his contributions on Ricky Skaggs country and contemporary Gospel album, Salt of the Earth. He is also credited for developing the Bluegrass country artist of the year in 2022, Billy Droze.
2011–Present: Island/Def Jam Recordings[]
Jive recording artist, 6 Tre G has signed to Island/Def Jam Recordings. 6 Tre G is a native of Alabama and best known for his single “Fresh”. His single was released in 2010 and features a sample from the 1985 Def Jam Records release, “La Di Da Di” by Doug E. Fresh and the legendary MC Slick Rick. “FRESH”, hit record numbers on music charts such as Billboards, Broadcast Data Systems, Media Base, and 106 & Park. 6 TRE G currently moved back home to assist in building an infrastructure for the music industry in Alabama.
He proved to be extremely musically inclined learning how to play the saxophone in band class by the time he was 8 and already recording songs. But a visit to Chicago during the summer when he was ten would prove to be a pivotal and destructive moment as he met and joined the Gangster Disciples. Admitting he was “an idiot” from that point on, 6 Tre started his own G.D. faction once he returned back home. Shuttling in and out of juvenile detention centers, he amassed 11 felony charges by the time he was 13. Finally declared an adult by the state of Alabama just shy of his 15th birthday, he received a nine-year sentence for negligent homicide shortly after being acquitted for 7 felonies related to a Murder investigation in Bessemer, Al. During his incarceration he learned how to play the lead and acoustic guitar, and wrote hundreds of songs.
The buzz 6 Tre G developed behind bars as a fierce battle rapper on the prison yard leaked so far into the free world that he landed a lucrative 7-year deal through Warner Bros. with a net worth of $11 million. He linked up with Trae of Rap-A-Lot Records and emerged with “Dem Jayz”.
Songs[]
- Hard Drugs (feat. Young Buck)
- Fresh (Dressed Like A Million Bucks)
- 100
- Fresh (Dressed Like A Million Bucks) Remix Ft. Lil Boosie
- Rain
- Cold
- Money & The Power (Feat. Jackie Chain)
- U Don't Like Me – feat Trae & Rob G
- Dopeboi Walk
- Dilemma
- Boss Up
- Swagga Like Us – feat Mic Strange & Mook
- The World Champion 2
- Hustlemane
- One (Young Buck)
- Dat Boi A G (Ft. Cotton Rowe)
- Day Off (Feat Cotton Rowe)
- Yung Trap Hitta
- One – feat Young Buck
- Private Show (Feat. Jackie Chain)
- Get Me ft. Young Buck
- The Stove
- On A Roll Feat. Trae
- Feel The (aka Chris Brown) ft. S.T. 2 Letta of G-Side & A.C. Burna of Untamed
- Dem Jays (Remix) ft. Trae tha Truth
- Salute Me
- The Realest – feat Young Buck & Boo Rossini
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