Lil Rob Bio

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Roberto Flores, better known by his stage name Lil' Rob, is a Chicano record producer and rap artist.

He was born in 1975, the youngest of three children. Lil Rob debuted as an Artist in 1997, selling as many as 200,000 units for each independent CD he recorded. The number Twelve Eighteen, which is tattooed on Lil Rob's arms, represent the numeric value of the letters L and R, respectively, in which are Lil Rob's initials. The number was used by Lil Rob during his days as a graffiti tagger. In 1994 at the age of 16, Lil Rob's chin was shattered when he was shot on the jaw. Roberto witnessed a few criminal acts, dropped out and quit his gang affiliation. Since then he has strictly been representing "Brown Pride".

In 2002, Rob was signed to Upstairs Records after having been recording under numerous independent labels beforehand, including Familia and Low Profile Records; lil rob would stay with the label in later years. In 2005, he found commercial success with the release of Twelve Eighteen, Pt. 1, which had been in regular rotation on radio stations outside of the West Coast due to the singles "Summer Nights", and "Bring Out The Freak In You". Currently, Lil Rob's newest singles are "Slow It Down" that featured Frankie J, "Cortez Shoes", And "Let Me Come Back" that featured Fingazz. His recent album, Twelve Eighteen, Pt. 2 was released October 21, 2008. Lil Rob also had a song on the mixtape Top Doggs.

On June 29, 2007, Lil Rob made his very first appearance overseas in Okinawa, Japan.