IAMNOTU

A Hustler, Born October 12, 1998 Mandrell "IAMNOTU" Winans is an unusual music artist from the Austin community out the Westside of Chicago with an uncommon approach to rap music in his hometown.
IAMNOTU was in and out the house living with his mother in Aurora, IL at the age of sixteen.
Baptized in the gang culture and drug lifestyle, he witnessed his family and close friends become victims of drug use and street violence.
During IAMNOTU’s junior year of high school he dropped out only to a couple months later serve 5 months in a military/correctional school in Rantoul, IL where he studied and obtained his GED.
After his release while shifting house to house and living out of his old school book bag, IAMNOTU got back in the streets and started hustling again. Presumably involved with robberies and possession/selling of narcotics, he put up his coins, stole FL Studio Producer Edition, and jumped in the studio and recorded his first project “Never Seen A Nigga Like Me” in early 2018. IAMNOTU is not just a name, its a lifestyle... a movement of uncommon pioneers and leaders, seeds growing out of the concrete floor.