Yung Boi Tre, born Travis D. Hood, III, is an up and coming artist on the scene of Dallas, Texas. His art of rapping and songwriting started at the tender age of twelve years old, when he first heard his big brother vibing to the lyrics of the late Big Hawk. Inticed and intrigued by the metaphors and similies of the deceased rapper, Tre put his mind to work and mimiced the artist to create his own music. "I used to sound like Hawk when I first started rappin'. I loved the way he would make his punches stand out more and the vocabulary he used was great for a southern rapper," Tre proclaims in a recent interview. After a couple of months of perfecting his craft from that aspect, Tre started expanding his horizon by listening to different form of music and various artist. Just as he did with Hawk, by the time Tre was fourteen and in high-school he had adopted the rapping styles of artist such as Eminem, Common, Twista, Ludacriss, and the late Tupac Shakur. "It was so easy for me to take styles from other rappers, because I hadnt yet made my own. My favorite style and the last one that I took and copied was that of Jay-Z." Tre's flow was simply named crazy but yet fulfilling to the ears of all his listeners, he was given the name Looney Tune for these reasons, but this alias didnt last long at all. Through many trials and tribulations Tre realized his own talent and style, and after many years of perfecting his craft he finally had his own style. At the age of eighteen Tre joined the military where he was exposed to different kinds of people, which led to different kinds of music he had never heard. Classical, country, techno, pop, and jazz were just some of the many different forms of music Tre had clinged to in his time of military service. "It was amazing for me to see these different kinds of music being loved by so many different people. I realized I had more than a regular love for this thing people call music." With that being said Tre switched his alias and his grind to embody everything in that he stood for, "In the bible it states that God wants you to love him with the spirit of a child, and that's the way I love music. To music I'll always be that young boy that loves it with no exception. So I took on the name Yung Boi and just ran with it." Now Yung Boi Tre A.K.A Southern Boi Rock, is back at the age of twenty with a new vision to take music unto a place its never been. With the upcoming mixtape "Mixtape Chronicalz Vol. 1" Yung Boi graces various tracks such as, "White Girl", "They Know", and T.I's new hit release single "Hurt", with the grace of a true emcee. With the thoughts of taking this rap game by storm and placing his hometown of Dallas where it should be, Yung Boi aims to blaze the mic as well as the lives of people who lend an ear to his voice.