Feeling that he had to do something to avoid foreclosure, Bigg started stealing cars and using the money to pitch in on bills.īut even through all of his trials, tribulations and lessons learned, rapping was always in his heart. Ironically, though, all of those lessons went out the window when his grandmother fell on hard times and was unable to pay her mortgage. “Jumping in and out of trash cans with no gloves on, throwing cans and cardboards out taught me to appreciate everything that you have and not take anything for granted that you have.” “ That’s where I learned the value of a dollar,” he recalls. Every day, Tommie would go out with the old man picking up cans and paper for recycling, earning $5 a day. While there, his step-grandfather instilled in him the importance of hard work. With all of her daughters and their kids, it was like 13 people living in an eight bedroom house.” “She never gave up on me,” says Bigg-Time. That was until he turned 15 and his grandmother took him in to keep him on the straight and narrow. I expressed myself in music because I didn’t have anyone to talk to.” “I was raised in an environment around a lot of different music. King, Tupac and Michael Jackson,” he remembers. They were always listening to Marvin Sease, B.B. “ It was so much music at that time coming from my aunt’s house. It was during this early phase in his life that he fell in love with various musical genres. With hustling being hereditary in his family tree, many of his aunts with whom he lived bootlegged beer and dollar shots of gin as well as sold dime bags of weed to make ends meet. Because his mother was too busy pursuing her own extra-curricular activities, young Tommie spent the majority of his youth being bounced around between relatives’ houses. Bigg-Time grew up knee deep in the struggle. They won’t accept anything less.”īorn Tommie Walker in the south side Atlanta suburb of College Park, Mr. “I can’t give the people anything other than that. “ My style comes from a lot of anger, a lot of stress, a lot of celebration and a lot of things that made me who I am,” says Mr. Also, the mixtape features the heartfelt sentiment “Fallen Soldiers” featuring Wingo from Jagged Edge, a tune which pays homage to all of the slain soldiers of war and people lost to jails and senseless murders. The mixtape features the flossy lead single “Pull Out the Maserati”, “If You Ain’t Talking Money (You Speaking Chinese)” featuring A-town trapstar Rocko and “Jump Fresh”, a song for the detractors who doubted him. Bigg-Time and flossy lead single “Pull Out the Maserati”. Bigg-Time is back like he never left with his forthcoming 1803 Records-released mixtape The Return of Tommie Walker hosted by Mr. Most known for making clubs jump with his 2007 anthem “Check My Footwork”,Mr. Bigg-Timeis one of those very few artists who has withstood the test of time and kept the South rocking to his music. And only a select few artists can break the mold with originality. Most singles sound just like the last one played. Nowadays, many rappers are only cardboard cutouts of every other artist on the radio. Bigg Time - Check My Footwork, Part 2 (feat. Bigg Time - Welcome 2 College Park (feat. Bigg Time - Don`t Talk On The Phone (feat.
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