The two mixtapes included tracks he had recorded since 2008. Then on September 19, 2009, he released his second mixtape Teenage Mutant Ninja Rapper. He performed at local Connecticut venues, including Toad's Place and the Heirloom Arts Theatre. The mixtape featured his first hit single " La La La," first released on April 17, 2009, on YouTube, based on "Around the World" by Beat Ink and samples ATC's " Around The World". On April 30, 2009, Chris Webby released his debut mixtape The White Noise LP. Following getting kicked out he looked at rapping as a career, and focused on releasing music. He would then spend a week in jail and be banned from the school. He was arrested on March 27, 2009, during his sophomore year, in connection with a failed robbery attempt of a drug dealer on Hofstra University campus. During this time his rap name was Vindictive, and was a known freestyler through the frat houses, himself being a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity (ΣΑΕ). Musical career 2007–2011: Mixtapes Īfter graduating from Green Farms Academy in 2007, Chris Webby went to Hofstra University in Long Island, New York on scholarship. He attended Greens Farms Academy, a private school in Westport, Connecticut. He started listening to rap at a young age admiring Eminem, he then started writing his own raps in 2000 at age 11. Webby's mother was a middle school teacher at Nathan Hale Middle School, his father was a guitarist and he was their only child. Webster released his debut studio album Chemically Imbalanced on October 27, 2014. He then released Homegrown, another EP, in November 2012. In 2013 he and his label, Homegrown Music, signed a deal with E1 Music. He has worked with various artists such as Freeway, Mac Miller, Joell Ortiz, Big K.R.I.T., Method Man, Apathy, Prodigy, Bun B, Tech N9ne, Jarren Benton, and Kid Ink. Chris Webby has released many mixtapes such as the DJ Drama-hosted Bars On Me (2012) and his EP There Goes the Neighborhood (2011), which peaked at number 101 on the Billboard 200. Christian Walcott Webster (born October 13, 1988), better known by his stage name Chris Webby, is an American rapper from Norwalk, Connecticut.
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