Q .  W I L L I A M S

Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey and now residing in Houston, Texas, Q. Williams, formally Q45, wrote his first rap at 9 years old, did his first show at 11 years old, his first out of town gig at 12, and released his first mixtape consisting of all original music, titled "The Birth", at 13.

Q. just dropped his most recent album, "No Black Men Were Killed While Making This Album", at 35.

 

In between that time Q. Williams has opened for 112, appeared 4 times on the

album Split Decision by former Darkchild artist and Michael Jackson. collaborator

FATS and Bathgate, put out numerous mixtapes (he sold 10,000 copies of his

"Infiniti Flow 2" mixtape in 2006) and launched the "President Carter Sign Me"

campaign where he slept outside of Def Jam for 38 Days looking to get signed by

then President Jay Z before signing with Flipmode artist Rampage's label,

Deep Freeze Entertainment. 

 

Q has worked with the aforementioned FATS and Bathgate along with Joe Budden,

Rodney Jerkins, Freeway, Needlz, Angie Martinez, Nokio from Dru Hill, Mickey

Factz, Loaded Lux, Saint Cassius, Tugun Cannon, B Rossi, and more. 

 

His most recent album, "No Black Men Were Killed While Making This Album", an

attempt to make contemporary music without the guns, drugs, and verbal killing of

black men,  "is impressive..." says Hiphopdx.com.