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V.I.C. | |
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| Birth name | Victor Grimmy Owusu |
| Born | July 20, 1987 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Origin | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper |
| Years active | 2008–2015 |
| Labels | Warner Bros. Records |
Victor Grimmy Owusu (born July 20, 1987), better known by his stage name V.I.C., is a retired American rapper. His single, "Get Silly", reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2008.
V.I.C. was born Victor Grimmy Owusu in 1987 in Corona, Queens to a mother from New York City and a father from Ghana. [1] At ten he wrote his first song, a drug awareness rap for his elementary school. [1] Later that year he moved with his family to the Atlanta. [1] After graduating from high school, he worked as a freelance barber while pursuing a music career. [1]
His first album Beast (2008) charted at number 73 on the Billboard 200. [2] He recorded a couple of songs [3] [4] for a second album Revenge of the Beast that was never completed.
He released a single called "Twerk It" in 2012 [5] and another called "Snapchat (Pose For The Camera)" in 2015. [6]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [2] | US R&B [7] | US Rap [8] | ||
| Beast |
| 73 | 12 | 7 |
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [10] | US R&B [5] | US Rap [11] | ||||
| "Get Silly" | 2008 | 29 | 13 | 5 | Beast | |
| "Wobble" | 94 | 77 | - |
| ||
| "Say Bow" (feat. J-Futuristic) | 2009 | - | 87 | - | Non-album singles | |
| "Twerk It" | 2012 | - | 70 | - | ||
| "Snapchat (Pose for the Camera)" [6] | 2015 | - | - | - | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart. | ||||||
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