Troy Ave is an American rapper, best known for his hip hop studio albums New York City: The Album , released November 4, 2013, and Major Without a Deal , released June 5, 2015, both under BOD Records . Troy Ave also released more than 20 mixtapes between 2009 and 2018 I’m Trafficked (2009), Bricks In My Backpack (2010), KFC (Kilo For Cheap) (2010), Bricks In My Backpack 2: Powder For The People ( 2011), Bricks In My Backpack 3: The Harry Powder Trilogy (2012), White Christmas (2012), BSB Vol. 1-3(2013), White Christmas 2 (2013), BSB Vol. 4-5 (2014), BSB Vol. 5 – The Extras (2014), Major Without a Deal (Reloaded) (2015) and White Christmas 3 (2015).

In 2016 he released mixtapes Free Troy Ave , Roland Collins , and White Christmas 4 , while in 2017 he dropped 5 others – Dope Boy Troy , Nupac , Style 4 Free , Album of the Summer , and White Christmas 5 . In 2018, he positively surprised audiences with mixtapes White Christmas 6 , Style 4 Free 2 , and More Money, More Problems . Troy has a large number of social media followers with more than 1 million followers on Instagram, more than 100,000 followers on Twitter and more than 200,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Born name

Roland Collins

nickname

Troy

Sun sign

Protect

Place of birth

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States

Residence

Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States

nationality

training

Troy Ave has attended South Shore High School and New Utrecht High School , both in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.

occupation

Rapper

family

• Father – unknown
• mother – unknown
• Siblings – He has a brother and a sister.

Manager

unknown

Genre

Hip Hop, Rap

instruments

Life

labels

BOD records

To build

Athletic

Height

5 feet 9 inches or 175 cm

weight

75 kg or 165.5 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Troy Ave has kept the details about his girlfriend a secret. He has two sons, one of whom is named Roland and calls Troy Lil Ro-Ro, born in early 2015.

race/ethnicity

Schwarz

He is of African American descent.

hair colour

Schwarz

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Thin mustache
• Often wears glasses
• full lips
• Short afro hair
• Often wears expensive necklaces and watches

brand promotion

Troy Ave endorsed his own clothing brand, GODisGreatPaper$traight or GIGP$ for short as of January 2019.

Religion

Christianity

Known for

• His studio albums New York City: The Album (2013) and Major Without a Deal (2015)
• Released hip hop/rap mixtapes such as I’m Trafficked (2009), Bricks In My Backpack (2010), KFC (Kilo For Cheap) (2010), Bricks In My Backpack 2: Powder For The People (2011), Bricks In My Backpack 3: The Harry Powder Trilogy (2012), White Christmas Vol 1-6 (2012-2018), BSB Vol. 1-5 (2013-2014) and many others
• Collaboration with well-known artists such as Lloyd Banks, Raekwon, Prodigy, 50 Cent, Ty Dolla Sign, Young Lito and many others

First album

Troy Ave released his debut studio album New York City: The Album on November 4, 2013 under the BSB Records recording label. The album consisted of 17 tracks and received very positive reviews from both audiences and critics. It debuted at number 47 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the US that same year.

First TV show

He first appeared as himself on the episode Joe Budden, DJ Premier, Rich Boy, A$AP Ferg, Troy Ave, Torae of the music talk show RapFix Live in 2013.

Troy Ave Fakten

1. He began his professional rap career in 2009 with his debut mixtape I’m Trafficked in Human Beings , released August 17 of that year under BSB Records .
2. He was born into a poor family living in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
3. His stage name, Troy Ave, comes from the name of a street near his birthplace – Troy Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City.
4. Troy was named “2014 Freshmen Class” by XXL magazine that year.
5. On his social media, Troy constantly tries to motivate his fans to wake up earlier and work harder on their dreams. He proclaims that if you are healthy you have the basis to achieve greatness and leave a legacy to your children.
6. Fatherhood, family, friends and “homies” are precious according to him and his “road traffic regulations” and something that should never be left hanging and should be protected at all costs.
7. In 2015, he started a beef with rapper JoeyBada$$, also from Brooklyn. Joey claimed that he was “the number 1 independent hip hop recording artist in the world”, while Troy pointed out that he was signed by a major record label, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment . As part of their feud, Troy released a diss track titled Badass In February 2016, he insulted another rapper, Capital STEEZ, who was a good friend of Joey’s.
8. The reason behind Troy’s insults to Capital STEEZ was that he committed suicide by jumping off a building in December 2012. Troy has always been religious, saying that God gave him life for a reason and it wasn’t up to Capital to forcibly take that gift away.
9. Troy’s dissertation was heavily criticized by fans, and also well-known rappers like A$AP Ant, A$AP Twelvyy and Styles P. Joey responded to his track with their own freestyle on a TV show in March 2016. Despite the best efforts of other artists, their feud persisted in early 2019.
10. On May 26, 2016, he was arrested for illegal weapons possession and attempted murder at a rapper TI’s concert in Irving Plaza, Manhattan, New York City. 4 people were shot and 1 was killed – Edgar McPhatter, Troy’s friend and his bodyguard. Surveillance footage showed Troy firing a gun multiple times, leading police to conclude he was the one who shot his bodyguard. He denied these claims, saying he fired in self-defense and that an unknown assailant killed Ronald. He was released on bail in July 2016 and brought to trial in April 2019.
11. Troy said he enjoys fishing and wearing fur, but also has a passion and business acumen for buying, renovating and selling homes.
12. On Christmas Day, December 25, 2016, Troy was shot dead by an unknown, hooded assailant while sitting in his bright red Maserati car in Brooklyn with his girlfriend. Luckily, he was only grazed on the head and hit once in the arm. The well-known rapper 50 Cent visited him in the hospital.
13. In late 2016, a thief stole Troy’s laptop with videos of him in what appeared to be a s*x tape of him and an unknown girl and tried to blackmail him with lots of money. Troy didn’t back down and released the footage in the form of a music video for the self-titled song S*x Tape on December 23, 2016.
14. In 2014, Troy worked on a remix of a song featuring All About the Money with Young Jeezy and Rick Ross.
15. Troy also collaborated with rappers TI, Puff Daddy and rappers Ma$e on a remix of a song Your Style from his mixtape BSB Vol. 5 in 2014.
16. He was credited as the writer and performer of a song Full House in the popular film Dirty Grandpa (2016), starring Zac Efron, Robert De Niro, Zoey Deutch, Julianne Hough, Aubrey Plaza and Dermot Mulroney.
17. In mid-April 2019, Troy announced that his GODisGreatPaper $traight managed to reach $100,000 in sales in just 3 months of living.
18. Visit its official websites at www.troyave.com, troyave.bigcartel.com.
19. Follow him on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, SoundCloud, AllMusic and Discogs.