FIRST OF ALL IF YOU HAVE MYSPACE AND WOULD LIKE TO SEND ME A FRIEND REQUEST THERE AS WELL MY PAGE IS WWW.MYSPACE.COM/TILOTHEGODLION WELCOME TO TILO'S OFFICIAL LOST CHERRY PAGE!!Tilo The Godlion born Gerardo Balmaseda and raised in Jackson heights, Queens, Tilo grew up in a broken home. His unknown mother dissapeared when he was only 3 days old, and his father serving life in prison for a shoot out between cops that accidetnally left a by stander dead by both cops and father, Tilo's father was incarserated in 89 for Murder and attpt murder, leaving his Father's wife to parent him. As a teen, he followed the lead of his older friends and began hustling. The Cocaine/crack trade proved successful for Tilo when a disagreement between Tilo and his supplier went bad,This pushed Tilo to lead and escalate to trafficing into NYC. Tilo organized TGL and began selling to dealers all over the city, bringing a strong/dangerouse reputation to the organized groups. Tilo began to study police, the detective, reading FBI manuals, police drug force books in order to organize his soldiers and confuse invetigators. Creating a powerful secret empire over New York city, in the late 90s until he eventually encountered the law, during an investigation of a shooting that took place by a member of Tilo's organized groups, bringing heat into the organization Tilo began making visits to FL and back to NYC to see his son. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It's around this point in 2001 that he turned toward rap and away from crime. Tilo had a son in 97 that he struggled to raise, underage parenting and disputes, after finally been able to feel what it was to have a son Tilo vowed to change his life for his son and become all he will become. Giving him the strengh to not just be a rapper but dominate the industry successfully. His break came in 2006 when he met Travis Dixon aka (Big T), who worked with Curtis (Dr. Dre's son), Glasses malone of Wall street (The Game's Label) and Big D who produces for the leganday Tupac 2 Pac Shakur. Big T gave Tilo a tape of beats and asked him to rap over it. Impressed by what he heard, Big T began to help the aspiring rapper to his connections in L.A. Over time Big T and Tilo became very close as brothers helping each other out. Eventually Tilo Partnered with Big T and made him part of TGL now making way for another empire about to come over the entire rap industry with a force loud enough to be heard world wide and lasting even after the lifes of those envolved with the TGL Empire and the TGL organiztion for the rest of time. -Lions pride- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------