“The fact that I'm finally getting recognition for what I do is always a blessing, you know?”

American rapper, born 1995

Denzel Curry is an American rapper from the Carol City neighborhood of Miami Gardens, Florida. Born in 1995, he began rapping in sixth grade and became known through the Florida hip-hop scene. He started work on his first mixtape, King Remembered Underground Tape 1991 to 1995, in 2011. The project was influenced by underground Florida rapper SpaceGhostPurrp, and after it appeared on SpaceGhostPurrp’s social media, Curry gained local attention and joined Raider Klan, the hip-hop collective led by SpaceGhostPurrp.