Crooked I is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on September 23, 1978 in Long Beach, California, United States. Born Dominick Wickliffe in the year 2000, he is an American rapper who is the self-described “Boss of the West.”
He worked together with He collaborated with Snoop Dogg on a song for the film Caught Up. on a track in the film Caught Up.
Around the age of seventeen, Crooked I started an independent record company called Muscle Records with professional football players also from Long Beach, Chucky Miller and Leonard Russell. It’s not known how many songs were recorded, and the music recorded during this period still remains unreleased. This is when he caught the attention of Noo Trybe/Virgin Records, and landed his first record deal in 1995.
Crooked I also had talks of signing to Dr. Dre’s Aftermath imprint, but Dre wanted to release Chronic 2001 and Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP before releasing Crooked. He also had talks with other major record labels who wanted to sign him, but they too were waiting for Dr. Dre’s Chronic 2001 album to be released before they would consider signing another West Coast MC. It was around this time that Crooked I re-negotiated the original deal he had with DPG Records/Death Row Records as a solo artist deal with just Death Row Records.
His mother was a wanting to be a singer when she got pregnant with the baby.
