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Podcast: Dropping Bombs
Episode: Mario Canon. From the Mean Streets to a Role on Empire. Episode 521 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Description: Mario is from Springfield IL. He grew up with his mother and his cousins as his brothers. Mario always wanted to be a rapper/entertainer and recorded his own songs/tapes in the 3rd and 4th grade using radio shack karaoke machines and a lot of miscellaneous wires. Loving basketball at a young age but then ruining his basketball dreams and military opportunity to join the Air Force after getting into some serious trouble with the law as a teenager. He was crushed and turned to the streets. No one would hire him and no one would giv...