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In his native hometown of Monroe, Louisiana, and throughout the south, Big Hoot has created nothing short of a movement. Terrance "Big Hoot" DeGrate started his rap career beat-boxing with his uncle when he was only 6 years old. "My uncle was killed when I was about 12 years old and since then I've been head first in this game." Now the world will get to find out what insiders have been buzzing about since his Grind to Shine debut, "King of the City" dropped in Fall 2005.

The streets responded by snatching up his album by the truckload. Hoot has gone on to drop several mixtapes; Jay and The Phatmann - What the Streetz Wants, The Leak, Blue Macic: Good Product for the Low, and added verses on several of his 672 Ent label compilations; We Are The Streetz - The Flood Edition, Big Stoke - Hood Dreams, E-Dash The KillaMan - Live From B.A. etc. But now that he has a following, Hoot is ready to reel them in with his next mixtape, " Class Act: The Mixtape".

Hoot's lyrics show his childhood hardships in his life and the dark side of Monroe. “A lot of the cats I came up with I've lost or they're doing time in the federal penitentiary,” he says. “That’s why I do music--for the struggle.”

"So many celebrity rap artists set it off for all of the people popping cris [champagne], people riding on 23's and living in gated or isolated cribs, but Hootie says, "My music is for all of my people in the hood who watched me grow up. They have to feel me first, before anybody else feels me."

"My music ain't gangsta rap because I ain't no gangsta. I'm a hood nigga that makes hood-hop," he concludes. "It deals with trap niggas, dope boys, ladies in the club, ballers and I even got something for the old heads."

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