| V.I.C. | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Name: | Victor Grimmy Owusu |
| Birth Date: | 20 July 1987 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Origin: | College Park, Georgia, U.S. |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Occupation: | Rapper |
| Years Active: | 2008–2015 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. Records |
Victor Grimmy Owusu (born July 20, 1987), better known by his stage name V.I.C., is a retired American rapper. His single, "Get Silly", reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2008. He is also known for his hit single "Wobble".
V.I.C. was born Victor Grimmy Owusu in 1987 in Corona, Queens to a mother from New York City and a father from Ghana. At ten, he wrote his first song, a drug awareness rap for his elementary school. Later that year, he moved with his family to College Park, GA. After graduating from high school, he worked as a freelance barber while pursuing a music career.[1]
His first album Beast (2008) charted at number 73 on the Billboard 200. He recorded a couple of songs[2] [3] for a second album Revenge of the Beast that was never completed.
He released a single called "Twerk It" in 2012 and another called "Snapchat (Pose For The Camera)" in 2015.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [4] | US R&B [5] | US Rap [6] | |||
| Beast |
| 73 | 12 | 7 | |
| Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [8] | US R&B [9] | US Rap [10] | |||||
| "Get Silly" | 2008 | 29 | 13 | 5 | Beast | ||
| "Wobble" | 94 | 77 | - |
| |||
| "Say Bow" (feat. J-Futuristic) | 2009 | - | 87 | - | rowspan="3" | ||
| "Twerk It" | 2012 | - | 70 | - | |||
| "Snapchat (Pose for the Camera)"[12] | 2015 | - | - | - | |||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart. | |||||||