Mark Battles

In the morning hours, Aishareika's car collided with a pick up truck on Northwestern Side near 71st street near their school Pike High School.

Carl, Aishareika and Mark were rushed to the hospital, however shortly after arriving at the hospital, Carl was pronounced dead.

Local media reports state that both cars were speeding on a yellow light, and as a result of the accident prompted the roads near the school to be enforced with speed cameras.

In several songs performed by Battles, including "One For The Money", he mentions and pays tribute to his brother Carl.

His brother Carl was, according to Battles, the reason for his motivation to pursue a music career.

Mark started rapping officially at age 15.

Mark Anthony Battles (born September 2, 1991) is an American rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur and producer from Indianapolis, Indiana.

Mark Anthony Battles was born on September 2, 1991, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

His mother is Chiffonda Ducking.

He has 2 brothers named Anthony and Carl, and one sister.

Battles and his siblings were raised in the urban, poor communities of Indianapolis, having lived in several homeless shelters during the early part of his childhood.

However, it wasn't until he began high school that things got a bit better for his mother.

He began rapping under a different stage name before using his current rap name.

On August 31, 2006, his brother Carl Battles was riding the backseat of his sister Aishareika's car to school.

He graduated as Class of 2009 from Pike High School located in northern Indianapolis.

His inspiration for music originated from hip hop icons such as Big Pun, Drake, Eminem and 2Pac.

Mark started his own independent record label called Fly America in 2011, which is a brand that is heard throughout his music.

In 2012, Battles released his first mixtape Walking Distance and gained online recognition for his song "Last Night", which placed second on MTVu and was later remixed by Kid Ink.

He has worked closely with Wale, Dizzy Wright, French Montana and Kevin Gates, overall releasing a dozen mixtapes including a collaboration project with Tory Lanez and King Los, surpassing a million digital downloads.

In 2012, Mark released his first mixtape called Walking Distance with appearances by Kid Ink, LoLa Monroe and King Los.

Walking Distance went on to be certified gold on DatPiff, having over 100,000 digital downloads.

Mark's music video single Last Night was remixed by Kid Ink and was released without a music video.

Most of the material in the mixtape was produced by Mark's DJ & producer, DJ Yung 1.

Mark's most famous singles were "Ugh Oh" featuring Los, and Last Night, which was featured on MTVu Freshman and hit second place for air time on MTV.

Mark has remixed numerous famous hip hop songs which have appeared on his mixtapes.

On November 2012, Mark released the first part of his mixtape series Saturday School.

In 2012, Mark Battles went on tour with MMG recording artist Rockie Fresh.

In 2013, Battles released his 3 part Saturday School mixtape series, along with a national tour that included a sold-out show alongside Bad Boy rapper MGK.

On December 27, 2013, he released his collaboration mixtape with King Los.

The mixtape Broken Silence was released in 2013 and artists featured include Wale, Curren$y, Ab-Soul, French Montana, Dizzy Wright, Cyhi Da Prynce and Chevy Woods.

The first single was released titled "Got A Feeling" which featured Wale and former Fly America rapper Derek Luh.

On August 12, 2014, Battles released another mixtape titled "Preseason".

In October 2015, Battles released his first independent album Numb, which peaked at #25 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop and Heatseeker charts.

On October 2, 2015, Battles released his debut studio album "Numb", which was released independently on iTunes.

The album peaked at #25 on the U.S. Billboard Heatseekers charts and reached #39 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop charts.

In 2016, Battles was named in a HuffPost listicle on addressing mental health stigma.

On May 13, 2016, Battles announced on his Twitter account a partnership deal with iconic music producer No ID's record label ARTium Recordings, a division of Def Jam Records.

In 2017 Battles released a project titled “Day 2” which featured artists such as Brittani Jenae and Tory Lanez.

The following year in 2018, Battles released a project titled “Vasi World” that he admits was not his best effort despite overwhelming positive feedback.

Most recently he has released a project titled “Fortunate” which consists of zero features and his second most commercially successful song, “Numb.”