For Foreign, the migration to music began with sports.
New York drill rapper Fivio Foreign is well known for a posthumous collaboration with Pop Smoke, Zoo York, and Big Drip, which helped him earn a nomination for this year’s XXL Freshman Class. But Foreign’s introduction to the public came by way of basketball, not music.
Foreign played basketball while growing up in East Flatbush, NY. One of his teams won a state tournament, and, as Foreign likes to say, it went viral.
But music soon became the mainstay of his life, and with success in rapping, that profile won’t change anytime soon.
