Top Dolla has been rapping long before he got into the professional wrestling business.
Hit Row‘s Top Dolla was the latest guest on Out of Character with Ryan Satin to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about knowing he wanted to be a wrestler growing up, Top Dolla credited his parents for supporting his dreams at a young age.
“I told my parents what I wanted to do early on, and they’ve always supported me,” Top Dolla said. “They always told me that if I put the work in, I’d be able to do it. Their only thing was that I did good in school, but to me, school was always easy. So that was nothing. I was just grateful for the fact that I had parents that believed in me, and when I was eight years old, and I would tell him I want to play in the NFL or want to go to WWE, they didn’t say like, well, maybe you should look into engineering or electrical work. There’s always work there. No, they never said that what I wanted to do is out of reach. And because of that, it instilled a confidence in me, because I personally have — even if the dream is out there and is far-fetched and there’s no way that you can get to it. Like to me, I think I could still get it done.”
Before getting into professional wrestling, Top Dolla was told that the Hit Row concept wouldn’t work but has gone out of his way to prove those people wrong.
“Even when I first started wrestling, people told me Hit Row wouldn’t work because of hip-hop and wrestling. It has to be more of a caricature. It can’t be the real thing,” Top Dolla said. “And I’m like, why? And they’re like, Oh, well, you know, it works better when it’s like [this]. Well, let me try it the way that I know that I can do it and not be a caricature and just be me.
“My favorite thing, and it happened today on Twitter too. People will be like, ‘How come when they’re black group, they always gotta be rappers or something?’ I was like, bro, I was a rapper before I got to WWE. They didn’t say hey, go out there and be a rapper, kid. I had two albums before I got here. Same with Brianna. People don’t even know that, but they just open their mouths, and they think they know everything.”
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