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Keshaun Rashad Kelly (born April 1, 1999), known as Kae.Kapone, is an American Rapper. The Georgia raised rapper is mainly underground and has released a slew of singles.

Kae.Kapone’s debut single OMB (2018) features close friends and fellow rappers DMillz and Wulff.Takashi. His second single No Hooks was released in 2019 and features DMillz. He would later go on the release his most popular song Nonstop. Although Nonstop wasn’t able to reached the level he had hoped it would, the song did gain attention locally and even reached several countries overseas.

Early Life
Keshaun Kelly was born in Fort Hood, Texas while both his parents served in the military. He was seven years old when his parents decided to move the family to Augusta, Georgia. Growing up, his father had left to work and provide for the family so that left his mother to raise him and his five siblings. While in school, he would often get in trouble and always get kicked out of class and because of this he would struggle academically.

His father had returned home in 2011, even though his father was more lenient towards them, he was also very strict about their education. His father would always push them to finish school but Kelly would not listen to the advice and was benched from all sports until he improved. In 2014 his parents decided to separate and they split the children between the two of them. Kelly’s older brother and baby sister would stay in Georgia with his father and his other sisters would go to live with their mother in Indiana. While living with his father, him and his older brother would often get into trouble in school and around the neighborhood. Because of this, his mother had them sent to live with her in Fort Wayne,  Indiana. While in Indiana, he attended R. Nelson Snider high school where he met close friends and fellow rappers, DMillz and Wulff.Takashi. All the way up until his senior, Kelly continued to struggle academically and almost failed his senior year. After graduating in July of 2018, he started his rap career.

Career
2018-2019: Career beginnings

Shortly after graduating high school, Kelly started to get into music. He would produce his own instrumentals and send them to longtime friend and, DMillz. Kelly moved out on his own and started producing more and more instrumentals for DMillz, whom would rap on the instrumentals Kelly sent him for practice.

In December of 2018, Kelly decided to give up producing and start rapping with his friends. He collaborated on the song, OMB which featured DMillz and Wulff.Takashi. After it’s release, OMB was not really heard, having less than 300 streams on  Soundcloud and YouTube. 2019 saw much more improvement for him with more features such as No Mercy and My Love being viewed and even played more than the previous songs. He released his debut single No Hook, the song featured rapper DMillz and showed how Kelly could flow easily and better than before.

2019-2020: Tragedy and Sacrifices

2020 had a rough start on Kelly, facing three back to back tragedies. On March 3, 2020 he moved back to live with his father in Augusta, Georgia where he took a brief break from rapping after the death of close friend Ronnie Hall. He released the song, Forgive which featured his older brother on the intro. The song reached over 50,000 views in less than two weeks on SoundCloud but was later taken down by his brother due to personal issues. After the release of Forgive Kelly wanted to work on a collaboration EP with his brother but the two had a fall out and the project was never started.

2020-2021: Nonstop and Paid off

Kelly rereleased Forgive and started working on his next project. With the new year coming in, he would show how much he has progressed within music. On July 3, 2021 he started writing Nonstop, the song was not gonna have any features and was not gonna be released until later in the year. While writing the second verse, he took a break and came across another talented rapper named Dev. He reached out to Dev and asked him if he was interested in being a feature on Nonstop. Nonstop was finished and released on July 6, 2021. The song reached 5,000 views on total on Spotify. To this day, Nonstop is his most popular song, reaching countries such as Russia and Canada. December 25, 2021, Kelly released his latest single Paid Off

Discography
Singles

• Sacrifices (2020)

• Paid Off (2021)

Collaborations

• No Hook (2019)

• Forgive (2020)

• OMB (2018)

• My Love (2019)