Timothy Patterson aka Mozzy is from Oak Park, Sacramento, California.

Mozzy grew up on 4th Avenue, in Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood. Mozzy's mother was a crack cocaine addict and his father was incarcerated, so he was raised by his grandmother Brenda Patterson-Usher, a Black Panther party member, who owned several homes throughout Oak Park. Mozzy attended Sacramento High School, but eventually dropped out and earned a GED. He worked various local jobs until he decided to pursue his music career full time in 2010.

Mozzy started rapping in 2004 under the name Lil' Tim, before changing his stage name to Mozzy in 2012. He received little notoriety until his 2015 album Bladadah which was ranked the 22nd best rap album of 2015 by Rolling Stone and which gave him the "best run" of 2015 according to Complex Magazine.

In 2016, Mozzy moved from Sacramento to Los Angeles, California and released the album Gang Related Siblings, featuring his fellow Oak Park native and Mozzy producer June.

Between 2005 and 2008, Mozzy was arrested three times by the Sacramento Police for possession crimes, including illegal possession of a firearm and evading police. He was arrested again in 2014, and served a sentence in the Sacramento County Jail, during which his cousin and colleague E Mozzy released the album Free Mozzy. After leaving penitentiary, Mozzy decided to focus solely on his music, releasing four solo albums in 2015.

Mozzy's 2016 album "Mandatory Check" reached no. 7 on the Billboard Rap Albums chart.

In 2018, Mozzy released his album, "Gangland Landlord", which peaked at number 57 on the US Billboard 200, becoming his highest charting album to date.

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