Famous Dex is a famous American rapper whose net worth has been evaluated around $600,000. The amount is being speculated to increase soon with all the ongoing concerts and the most-awaiting studio album.
Early life
Famous Dex was born as Dexter Gore Jr. on September 6th, 1993 to Pamela Winters and Dexter Gore Sr. in Harlem, New York. He was raised in Englewood, Chicago, Illinois. He was the fourth of twelve children. Famous Dex is of American-African, Moroccan, Indian, Haitian and also Canadian descent. He went to Hernandez Middle School and then attended Robeson High School for his education. He and Lil Durk attended the same high school. His music career began after high school.
Dex played basketball during growing up and was indulged in playing point guard when he was in the high school. He has a job at Lids in sales. On her mother’s demise in his junior years he was pushed to a miserable life involving drugs and other sexual acts. Once he was stabbed for six consecutive times which led him to spend four consecutive days in a state of coma.
Career
The post is recovering from a coma; he committed himself to have a successful career as a rapper. He changed his stage name Famous Dex. The subjects of his songs steered away from using violence as a subject. He collaborated with Cole Bennett to make videos and began gaining popularity online.
In 2015, Dex began by recording and uploading songs which have a Southern influence, online. After he released his first single Drippy Drippy in 2015 and released his debut mixtape Drippy on January 7th, 2016. The mixtape accompanied parental advisory and contained a total of ten tracks. Some of the songs on the record are Oh Man God Damn, Do What I Do, Stuck in the Sky, Back Now, and I Get The Drip From My Walk. The record Drippy was a successful project and bagged a lot of views online. It was heavily streamed on both SoundCloud and Datpiff.
In early 2016, in Chicago Famous Dex was introduced to Rich, The Kid by DJ Victorious. Later, he flew Dex to Los Angeles where they met and become great friends. Dex habitually refers to Rich as his brother. March 2nd, 2016 marked the release of second single Hell Yeah which featured Rich The Kid, a New York based rapper. The song was another hit and was an excellent showcase of the passionate vocals and became another star in his now growing discography. The collaboration was well received and played over 10,000 times online.
A few days later, Dex dropped his second mixtape, #OhhMannGoddDamm. Like the first one, this mixtape was hosted by DJ Shon. This was his first release after signing the Rich Forever Music which is Rich The Kid’s new label. The mixtape featured artists like Dice Soho, Famous, Irv and Lil Yachty. Some of the tracks are Ciabatta; I Ain’t Talking Spaulding, Hell Yeaaa Remix, Yeaaa Yeaaa, Ran Off On Yo Bitch.
On May 10th, 2016, Dex released another single My Energy which was a part of his third mixtape, Heartbreak Kid. The music was a little upbeat as compared to his previous works. The track has over 100,000 streams on Dex’s SoundCloud account. The music video fished over 3.8 million views on YouTube. A few days later he released another single named I’m Crazy featuring Rich The Kid and Lil Yachty. On May 26th, 2016, he dropped another single Goyard featuring Rich The Kid and also had a heavy bass beat done by 808 Mafia. This song received over 2 million streams on his SoundCloud, making it his most popular song yet.
On June 12th,2016, Dex dropped his third mixtape Heartbreak Kid. This was also hosted by DJ Shon, and some of the tracks from the record are Rich Forever, I’m Crazy, Count Up, Never Saw, Disrespectful, U Late. The collaboration in this mixtape included Chino. Rich The Kid, Lil Yachty, Lit Fortunato. The record was well received in Datpiff with over 191,000 streams. In the same month, Dex released another single 2 Times(Remix) featuring Rich The Kid and Wiz Khalifa.
In September 2016, Dex released his fourth mixtape named Dexter the Robot. This mixtape was produced by Big Head and Maaly Raw. The features contained the likes of Quavo, Jose Guapo, Rich The Kid, Maxo Kream. Few titles of the tracks are Living My Life, Took Time, Going For Ten, Pressure, Speed Way and Pulled Up In Ghost.
The fifth mixtape, Different was released on November 1st,2016. The mixtape celebrated his unique style, and the seven hit track includes Switching Off, Jump In The Crowd, Finish Him, All The Time, B4 The Nights Over. Apart from Rich The Kid, the tapes also featured Playboi Cart. After the mixtapes, Famous Dex has released few more singles Drip From My Walk (Remix) Feat. Lil Yachty, Annoyed, Maybach, Gorgeous Feat. Thouxanbandfauni, No Reason.
Famous Dex has toured around doing live concerts and other shows. In 2016, he has performed in over 30 venues over the country ranging from Columbus, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois.
Personal life
As of records, Famous Dex is not married. He was in a relationship in 2016. Rumors surfaced on the internet in 2016 that he was beating up his girlfriend. Someone anonymously uploaded footage of the rapper assaulting a woman, physically, it was presumed to be his girlfriend.
Dex and his girlfriend solved their issues and got back together and welcomed their baby son in 2017. Famous Dex also has two daughters whose names are Baby T, and Baby J. He is very affectionate towards his kids.
In 2016, Dex bought a house and hosted a big celebration which was later shared with his fans online. Short videos of the house were later shared by the rapper over social media.
In February 2017, it was reported that Famous Dex had purchased a lavish Lamborghini from a local dealership. Later the big buy was showed off by the rapper through his Instagram account.
Quick summary:
Full Name: Famous Dex
Date of Birth: September 6, 1993
Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Age: 24 years
Profession: Rapper
Height: 1.8 m
Weight: 158 lbs / 72 kg
Net worth: $600,000
