Dolla-B the prezident

About Dolla-B the prezident

Billy Garner aka "Dolla-B" was born Septemember 27th, 1989 in Oakland, California. His parents Sharmeka (mom) and Billy (dad) weren't together so he grew up in a single-parent home with four other siblings. He spent most of his younger years in church and going to school. With him being the oldest sibling and the only boy in the house, he had to take help his mother take care of his four younger sisters. Dolla started to write poetry at the age of 6, but fell in love with music at the age of 8. He started listening to hip-hop music such as EPMD,Rakim,Mobb Deep,The Lox, Notorious (expired link) Pac, Nas,etc. The more he listened, the more he grew a infatuation for writing to a beat. As the years progressed, Dolla-B started to get better at writing to the rhythms and sounds that he heard. He enjoyed putting the rhymes together and having cyphers with his family and friends just to play around. At age 14, he got more serious with his craft and recorded for the first time. Since the first recording, he kept working on his skills any way that he could. If there was a dictionary on hand, he was in it finding new words to try to fit into verses or hooks for songs. On the morning of February 24th 2007 things took a turn for the worse for Dolla. His mother passed away. Dolla-B was only 17 at the time. Even though he was going through a very dark time in his life, he stuck to his dream and he never let go of his love and passion for music. His vision in music is to reach the world and let everyone that ever felt like you couldn't do it know "Don't ever give up on yourself. You already got half the world against you...don't be your own opponent". Recently he has been involed with a upcoming music group called Raw Combination. Dolla-B has dropped some very versatile songs to show his true artistry such as his currently hit single The Suite(Sweet)Life (produced by General Beats), Can You Feel It, Breathe, Cookin' My Coke, Like A Drummer. He has also been feautured on a lot of track, mostly indie artist. This unsigned hype is one of the most enthusiastic,talented,well-rounded individuals that I know. I look forward to seeing what this artist is going to do in the future.


Quotes:" I don't bust over a check, I check the principal and bust for respect"
- Dolla-B

" In this life tha principal is to survive, but the twisted part about this world is everybody's always born to die. As I sit and morn I ask the Lord why? He told me calm down son you gotta grow your wings before you fly" -Dolla-B