Petey Pablo

Moses Barrett III was born in Greenville, North Carolina in 1973. He served five years for a 1993 armed robbery, then moved to New York, met Busta Rhymes and Black Rob, and signed to Jive.

“Raise Up” in 2001 was a tribute to his home state and became its unofficial anthem; the album it led, Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry, went gold. “Freek-a-Leek”, produced by Lil Jon, went platinum.

Written from Wikipedia and WRAL.