Flavia

Liberty "Flavia" Darson (b. 18th January 2002) is a Brazilian-Kuboian recording artist and internet personality, who has over 9 million subscribers on YouTube and has been on multiple international hits. She is known for being the daughter of Assa Darson, and for being signed to Favelopia on her eighth birthday.

Early life
Liberty was born at 3:13a.m. on 18th January 2002 in Salvador, Brazil. Her father is Brazilian singer Assa Darson, whilst her mother, Sifre Crows, was a Kuboian model. Liberty is named after Liberty City, a city which her mother spent most of her childhood in. Liberty spent the first three years of her life in Salvador. Until she turned 5, Liberty was mostly kept inside the house, and her birth was not announced in France, Heartlake, the Island of Sally, Sea Country Island, Amedisa or the Island of Soda in order to avoid XMUSIC (her father's rival) killing her.

In 2005, when Liberty’s parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Meifahrn, Kuboia. She only lived there for a half a year until she was moved back in with her father, however, due to her mother neglecting her. Since Liberty’s early childhood was very hectic, with her barely attending school, her father decided to sign her onto Favelopia for her eighth birthday, in order to keep her out of trouble and allow her to express her feelings in songs. As her father was already a good friend with the label’s founder, Mask Torn, she was signed for free.

Personal life
Liberty and her father moved back to Kuboia in June 2010. As of 2018, the two live in her father’s mansion in the Kuboian Borders, with a butler.

Liberty coined her nickname, Flavia, in April 2009. Talking about coming up with her nickname, she stated ''”I was surfing the internet, looking for names. I saw Flavia, and I liked it.”''

Mother’s death
On 25th November 2017, it was reported that Liberty’s mother, Sifre, had died in her sleep at the age of 59, due to drug misuse. Talking about her mother’s death, Liberty showed little emotion, stating that she ”didn’t really like [her] mum”. Sifre’s funeral was held on the 28th that month, with Liberty breaking down into tears when she was called to speak. At the start, it was believed to be a murder by XMUSIC and/or Zara Dawson, but the couple stated they did not know Sifre.

Liberty has stated that a song dedicated to her mother will be released sometime in Spring 2018.

Controversy and criticism
Liberty as a whole has been criticised in the media, with several well-known celebrities passing her off as extremely egotistical, insensitive towards most people and a frequent bragger.

She has also been criticised by music fans and reviewers for “stealing” flows from other rappers. Liberty’s rapping is generally compared negatively to the likes of Eminem, Nas, T.I., Meek Mill and, by fans of Grime music, Kano.

Juicebox Awards
During the Juicebox Awards 2014, Liberty won the award for "Best New Rapper". However, it was reported the next day that 52.8% of her votes were her own. Since this was technically not against the rules, Liberty got to keep her award, much to the media’s disbelief.

Liberty released a freestyle song, "Awards", in October 2014, referencing the case.

[undecided] Awards
During an award show in the United States, Liberty was slapped in the face by Zara Dawson for bragging about being the “best” rapper.

Sallyish radio and television ban
'''“So Radio Disney can play S and M but they can't play perfectly kid-friendly music? Radio Disney is f***ed up!” — Zara Dawson'''

In the Island of Sally, Liberty's songs were banned from the radio, and her music videos were banned from TV. This was caused due to her lying about a contract with Binkini Records to release her music in the Island of Sally.

However, her music videos may have been unbanned due to a Next pop-up on MTV saying that "Dancing With the Devil" is coming up next.

2014 fistfight
On 17th June 2014, Liberty got involved in a fistfight with a Jetanie schoolgirl. According to Liberty, the girl was using racial insults towards her and ridiculing her career. The girl’s identity was kept confidential for legal reasons.

Further controversy occured when an early version of Liberty’s song "Dare To Be" referenced the fight. In the final version of the song, the lyrics were omitted, an agreement Liberty made with her father.

Yahtzee
In July 2012, Jetanie rapper Yahtzee received criticism for calling Liberty "a fake gangster wannabe". Liberty seemed to ignore this at first until the release of her song "Fishing (for Competition)", which disses Yahtzee several times. Yahtzee responded in April 2013, in a freestyle of "Fishing (for Competition)", which was solely made to diss Liberty.

Liberty's father, Assa, showed displeasure towards the feud, and allegedly sent a threatening email to Yahtzee telling her to leave his daughter alone. It was noted that Liberty was reported severely upset and stressed out due to the feud. Because of this, Yahtzee was attacked with severe online and public shaming.

In August 2013, Yahtzee said she was done with the feud, and apologised with a video on her Twitter account.

On Liberty’s 13th birthday in January 2015, it was reported that Yahtzee has sent Liberty over R$4,000,000 worth of presents. Both Liberty and Assa showed shock towards this. Both Liberty and Yahtzee were later seen together in a Kuboian pub in April 2015 on good terms. Although Liberty has refused to state how the two resolved things, it is worth noting that the two have collaborated several times since, and Yahtzee goes out of her way to back up Liberty in her modern controversies.

Zara Dawson
Due to Liberty ripping off Dawson's music video for her song "Get Ready For It", Dawson hates Liberty, and has made six diss tracks towards her. Recently, these diss tracks are also targeted towards her father Assa Darson and Melanie Martinez.

Dawson's diss tracks towards Liberty are:
 * 1) Don't F*ck With Me Flavia
 * 2) F*ck You
 * 3) Assa Darson's First Three Letters (Remix, XMUSIC ft. Zara Dawson)
 * 4) Flavia + Melanie Martinez = Bullsh*t
 * Die, B*tch, Die
 * 1) A Diss

Recently, Dawson has taken to death threats, and is planning to murder Liberty. The evidence is in her song "A Diss".

Filmography

 * Marilyn (2018) - Jasmine Star (as Liberty Crows) (upcoming)