Paul Wall is an American Singer and rapper, popularly known for his contribution as a rapper totally based on Swisha House Records. Paul is also well known for releasing few of the super hits like ‘Stay True,’ ‘Peoples Champ’ and ‘Get Money’ by signing a contract with the Atlantic Records.
He also collaborated with a number of other famous celebrities, but the most amazing pair up was the rapper, Chamillionaire. ‘Get Ya Mind Correct’ was independently released by him which fetched him considerable success and made his way possible in the music industry. In addition to this Paul is also an outstanding actor.
Early life
Paul’s full name is Paull Gideon Manry Slayton and birthplace is Southlea in Texas in the United States, being born to American parents who are from Georgetown. He experienced his childhood years in his hometown along with his parents. Paul’s actual biological father had left the family, leaving behind his younger sister and his mother. The family underwent a severe depression of losing out the man of the family when Paul was only 5 years old. Initially, Paul was mentally attacked and considered himself inferior to others and not good enough.
The family had a terrible phase which made Paul hate his father who got addicted to some other heroine. His mother worked really hard to pay off the bills and carry forward Paul’s and his sister’s education. Later, the children were accompanied by a stepfather with whom they got along well but used to spend the majority of their childhood days in Austin. Paul says his favorite place was Austin as there lived his beloved grandmother and thus, paid a number of visits to her.
Paul, from an early age, showed ardent interest in singing as well as rapping. Unfortunately, the study course which he was pursuing was completely based on mass speaking and business. He studied at Jersey Village High School located in Texas, where he made an amazing friendship with Mike Jones.
After that he applied and got his enrolment done in the Houston University in the course of 3 years, majoring in mass speaking. Since his interest and study course had nothing in common, he chose to follow his dreams and take up the career of being a rapper. In order to follow his interest in singing and rapping, he dropped out from his university and pursued his career in music.
Career
After dropping out from the University of Houston, Paul took the initiative to get to work with a company of Michael Watts, Swishahouse which was a renowned house of rap label and put real efforts to impress him through his mixtape entitled as ‘Choppin Em Up Part 2’. Since he was able to impress him, Paul along with his fellow mate Chamillionaire was made permanent members of the Swishahouse.
Then both Paul and Chamillionaire started off with their own group named ‘The Color Changin’ Click’ and discharged a few promoting labels like ‘No Limit Record, ‘Def Jam Records’ and ‘Cash Money.’ He then got his first studio album named ‘Chick Magnet’ released where he had collaborated with popular artists like Slim Thug, Mike Jones and much more. This album release gave a great boost to his career as this fetched him a huge fan base from all over the world. He also collaborated with a number of popular rappers like Juelz Santana and Snoop Dogg and gained position on Billboard’s Hot List at No. 8.
Due to some personal reasons, Paul decided to leave this group and thereby, got his own album entitled as ‘The Peoples Champ’ released. This album comprised of amazing songs like ‘Girl,’ ‘Sittin’Sidewayz,’ ‘They Don’t Know’ and much more which made his debut at being the No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Paul then joined ‘Strange Music’ where he was positioned as a fictional rapper named as Grillionaire for the movie named ‘I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.’ In addition to his music profession, Paul made his debut as an actor in the film ‘Furnace.’ He had also been a part of a number of other movies where he had significant roles to perform. He is, therefore, considered as a human with immense talent who rose to success with all his hard work and dedication towards both music and acting.
Personal Life
Paul is married, and his wife is Crystal Wall. The couple has been blessed with two adorable children, the son named as William Patrick Slayton and Noelle, the baby girl who was born two years after their son’s birth.
His wife is also within this musical field and is an amazing music artist, being a renowned R&B singer. Though the couple had a love marriage, Paul claims that it was just not loved which led to their marriage, it was also their love towards music which pulled them closer mentally.
The couple met each other during their college days and sealed their love relationship by marrying each other in 2005. Paul has a deep love for music which does not allow him to discriminate different genres of music and hence he loves each and every music forms. But his wife has a special interest in country music because of which Paul made a song named ‘Codeine’ which has been actually renamed as it was a remake of the song ‘Jolene’ created by Dolly Parton.
Due to excessive intake of Codeine, Paul became overweight. He could get away with the Codeine addiction after undergoing one medical treatment. He then underwent a gastric sleeve surgery which made him lose around 130 pounds. His wife also lost considerable weight by adopting Zumba classes, and now she has become a Zumba instructor herself. The couple now leads a healthier lifestyle; teaching their children good food habits as well as making the little ones go through disciplined exercise routines.
The couple now promotes a healthy lifestyle and share their struggle with losing weight in a website entitled as FeelRich.com. Here they express their personal thoughts on weight loss and their individual struggle. Paul openly spoke about his depression and anxiety when he gained weight and suffered from extremely high blood pressure.
Paul has recently got a tattoo on his chest during his birthday which reads ‘Be someone.’ He says that these two words give him great inspiration whenever he sees it.
Paul was also caught red-handed in drug raid along with his fellow mate Baby Bash, which was initially considered as a rumor. But then the news got confirmed when Paul himself admitted it.
Quick Summary
Full name: Paull Gideon Manry Slayton
Date of birth: March 11, 1981
Birthplace: Southlea, Houston, Texas, United States
Age: 36 years
Profession: Musician; Rapper; Actor
Height: 5 ft 9 inches (183 cm)
Weight: 99 kg
Net worth: $12.5 Million
