
I admit that I was vaguely familiar with Mill Bill about a year or 2 ago but I never gave him too much attention. Not to say he wasn’t good, I always liked his delivery and his songs definitely appealed to my ear but I guess I naively wanted something more that I couldn’t quite put into words. In actuality, maybe it was I who wasn’t ready to look at his work objectively at that point. Growing up in Pocatello, Idaho Mill Bill had been writing and putting music together for nearly a decade. His song “Crazy” featuring Mark Battles has at this point, become his biggest single he’s released pulling in 17 thousand views on Youtube as well as 65k on Twitter and 100k on Facebook. Say what you want, social media has given many artists the ability to create their own platforms and make countless opportunities for themselves while allowing them to control their own narrative.
As an upcoming rapper, you’d think that Mill Bill would be all about hoarding the earnings from his work and using it to propel himself only, but on the contrary, during the holidays last year, Ill Bill stepped out into the community that shows him so much love and gave back. He put together a clothing drive which was able to successfully hand out over 800 coats to the homeless. It’s this grassroots connection and hardline drive to constantly stay moving that lead to him performing to a crowd of 20,000 people in Spokane, Washington in August of this year.
With that kind of hustle, Mill Bill looks to be starting off the New Year on the right foot by continuing to push the pace on a marathon he’s been conquering in silence for quite some time.
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