Twantooinked (Rapper)
Twantooinked (Rapper)
Antwan Toney (born 09/20/1994 ) better known as Twantooinked is an American Rapper, Songwriter, gamer, and entrepreneur from Denver, Colorado. His career has been hallmarked and up lifted mainly by his social media presence. He is known for his hyperactive public persona, where he is often portrayed taking shirtless selfies, seen actively participating in daily viral activities as well as showing off his accolades and lifestyle almost on a every day basis. He is often criticized for his behavior seen on social media yet he stills maintains a undisturbed vibe while maintaining a cult following relating to both younger and older audiences[2].
Twantooinked rose to popularity in 2019, after he released his single "Lotto" produced by Multi-Platinum and well known internet producer FrankGotThePack, which then peaked at number twenty on the SoundCloud New & Hot charts [1]
Personal Life
Twantooinked truly has no hometown he quickly bounced state to state after being born in Little Rock.
His family traveled from Texas, Memphis, Atlanta, California for not any longer than a two year stint before settling down in Colorado where he ultimately started his Music career
Legal issues
On November 23 2017, Toney was arrested and charged with a DUI as he was caught sleeping in a vehicle at a IHOP restaurant with a high school friend.
According to the report employees called the police on Toney as they were worried because of the way he was parked.
Police found 4 ounces of open marijuana inside the vehicle before being asked to perform an on site sobriety test in which it states he failed.
On February 13 2019, Toney was re arrested for not complying with the terms and conditions of probation and was sent to serve 48 days in Arapahoe County where he was revoked and reinstated under the same terms and conditions
Career
Twantooinked rap career began when his close friend Kid 6 came back from Minnesota and seen he was interested in making music seriously however Twantooinked was just recording at a friends house for fun.Kid
6 also known as Tigee Jackson was working on a track and asked him to freestyle over it.The two
then made multiple tracks which were eventually removed from streaming platforms however song "Draco"[3] Produced By Izak who is the same person who did fellow American rapperYBN Nahmir's "Rubbin off the paint". "Draco" accumulated 5,000 views on his SoundCloud in one day which was all the motivation twantooinked needed to keep him going. SoundCloud earned him recognition among the global underground rap scene, in a style known as "SoundCloud rap". He then released his first mix-tape January 17 2018 based off his favorite all time movie "Juice"[5]. The mix-tape did well in streaming as it accumulated over sixty thousand views.[5]
Rising popularity and endorsement deals
Mane ' N Tail Beauty
Bang Energy
Twantooinked has co-signs from stars of the legendary "Juice" film Kahlil Kain(Raheem) and Jermaine Hopkins(Steel) which both gave a thumbs up on him making the film into a mix-tape Jermaine Hopkins commented on his picture in relations of the mix-tape.[17] While Khalil Kain messaged him directly and they both still follow him on Instagram till this day [19]. Twantooinked states" this was a very special accomplishment for me becuase at this point i was a nobody in the music world im just glad the two stars from my favorite movie reached out and seen the work i was putting in." He also has numerous co-signs from fellow Soundcloud rappers and other social media public figures. Earlier this year of 2020 twantooinked sat down with A&R Emily Lazar from "Spotify for artists". Both parties experimented with having a pre-order chat party as they did a joint collaboration to re -release his juice mix-tape on there platform. It was successful over 300 active people joined as they waited for the release of the tape to be available on Spotify as well as all other major platforms twantooinked had a chance to get to know and chat with his fans he stated" this was a huge event for me i didn't expect it to do that good but a lot of people are still interested and haven't heard that mix-tape im just happy to finally have it out on all platforms."
Bang Energy: [8] Last winter after growing a huge following in connection with his single “Lotto”twantooinked went on a business road trip visiting South-West states including Las Vegas,Arizona,New Mexico, Utah,and Wyoming to meet with brand ambassadors and other Social media Public figures.While in Las Vegas he ran into [20] Bang Energy CEO Jack Owoc who ironically was with a brand influencer already familiar with the "Lotto" artist from social media platform Instagram. Owoc was astonished that he was interested in promoting the brand to his twenty seven thousand Instagram followers.How much he earns per promotion post was kept disclosed.
Manentailbeauty: September 30th 2020 Twantooinked landed another sponsored collaboration endorsed by Mane ‘n Tail Beauty.The product range includes shampoos, conditioners, leave-in spray treatments and conditioning creams, styling pomades and hand and nail therapy for humans. It also includes a series of products for equine animals like detanglers, conditioners, moisturizers uses by horse wash. How much he earns per promotion was kept disclosed.