Travis Tatum Mills (T.mills) biography

Travis Tatum Mills (born April 12, 1989), better known by his stage-name T. Mills, is an American rapper and singer from Riverside, California. Mills has released one independent studio album Ready Fire Aim (2010) on Uprising. Then he signed to Columbia Records and has released two EPs Leaving Home EP and All I Wanna Do. T. Mills will release his major label debut in 2014 on Columbia Records.
Early life

T. Mills was born Travis Tatum Mills on April 12, 1989. At the age of 5, T. Mills' uncle gave him his first guitar, and by age 15, Mills dropped out of sports to start a punk rock band with his friends. He stated in an interview Bone Thugs-n-Harmony inspired him to start rapping with the way they mix rapping and singing in their songs.

Musical style

Travis Mills music has been described as genre-bending as he mixes singing with rapping and pop production. Mills is known to have pop/electronic songs mixed with hip hop and R&B. Mills says his genre blending music comes from different tastes in his family during his childhood. He has said as a kid his, "Mom was a hugeQueen fan, my dad’s a diehard Elvis fan, my uncle is a hip-hop and R&B head, my sister listened to Britney Spears, country and boy bands and I was into pop punk,punk rock, metal and just into everything." He has indicated that his rapping style is influenced by Kanye West and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony among others.

Personal life

T. Mills is heavily tattooed, which includes a full sleeve on one arm and a Bone Thugs-n-Harmony tattoo on his chest in addition to many others. He also designated the letters "FTH" ("Fuck The Haters", "Forever The Highest") on his forehead, the "O" with a heart behind his left ear representing his sisters name and the word "Patience" tatted on his knuckles his favorites. Mills also got the word "Gnarly" tattooed across his stomach at age 18. A couple months after that he did his first self tattoo which he has got better at doing since then.

He was known for his large stretched ears which he started stretching when he was 15. However, he had them sewn up in 2013. He is also known for his heavy marijuana use with his favorite being sativa. He uses mainly G Pen Personal Vaporizers, blunts or bongs to smoke.T. Mills is known for his large following on multiple social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.