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Amid the flourishing underground rap scene of Houston, Lil' Flip rose to quick and prosperous fame after his independently released 2000 album The Leprechaun broke through to a national audience, prompting the young rapper's signing to Universal Records soon after. Nicknamed the Freestyle King, Flip as a teen initially won the attention of the immortalized DJ Screw, who ushered the rapper into his loose-knit Screwed Up Click. The affiliation brought instant respect for Flip throughout Texas as well as the greater South, and his Leprechaun album capitalized on that, moving an impressive number of units for an independently released album. The album's slowly mounting yet ultimately broad reach and Flip's youthful appeal attracted Universal Records, who signed the barely 20 year old to a major-label contract in 2002 and released Undaground Legend later in the year. Driven by the lead single, "The Way We Ball," as well as a remix of "I Can Do Dat," a hit previously released on The Leprechaun, the album extended Flip's audience nationally and heralded him as one of the South's most promising young rappers of the early 2000s.

In 2002, Flip returned with Undaground Legend, a slick sophomore effort. It would go practically unnoticed. Two years later, Flip returned to the scene with the more expansive double-disc set U Gotta Feel Me. The set spawned a couple sizable hits, namely "Game Over (Flip)" and "Sunshine," and brought Flip the national fame he'd long been courting. With that fame came competition, and it wasn't long before Flip was beefing with T.I. for the right to don the crown of King of the South. Flip kept his profile public not only with such drama but also with a string of mixtapes, most notably the Freestyle Kings series, which reached its sixth volume in 2005. Flip's next album was planned to follow that year, but at the last minute Sony refused to release it and the rapper was without a label for the next three years. I Need Mine finally appeared in 2007 as a double CD and on the Asylum label. A year later his collaboration with Outlawz member Young Noble, All Eyez On Us, was released. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music GuideMore

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Lil Flip
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Sep 23rd, 9:20am
Luv ya FLIP, u got skillz
Jul 18th, 8:35pm
Yo let me set it strait!!!! The Leprechuan is THE best flip album by far. To all the peeps who hatin' on Flip get ya mind right cause u know TI isnt droppin shit from the pen!!! And to my man Flip Gates get at me for dat piff when you round boston!! Tino11776@aim.com
Jun 16th, 5:24pm
lil flip u can rap
Jun 12th, 6:56pm
please post sunshine? so i may post it on my blog.
Apr 16th, 3:45pm Last edited Apr 16th, 3:45pm.
Apr 16th, 4:42am
Yo Trillhiphop:
You got to get your facts straight. Flip did not whip TI. One of Flips homies sucker punched TI when TI went to Cloverland to expose flip. Flip never laid a hand on TI. As a matter of fact Flip had his father talk to TI to squash the beef. As far as TI being a snitch. IF he was an informant you could look it up online in the clerk of courts for what ever county he would be an informant for. Somebody got you gassed up. If you gone d*** ride at least do the research. Im not a hater I just know facts and I aint heard or seen flip do anything big since he dropped game over. Where you at Flip?
Apr 13th, 2:59pm
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Apr 8th, 9:45pm
nice playlist...
Apr 8th, 5:20pm
FLIP GATES NICCA FUCK THA HATERZ!!!!!!11ONE
Mar 27th, 2:33pm
hey wats up man hey u did ur thing in odessa tx. keep on doing ur thing man