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Martin Ruzicka. Jan Kana. Kimball Union Academy. San Diego Gulls. New Mexico Mustangs. Corpus Christi Ice Rays. Knoxville Ice Bears. College scouts wrote him off, and the ice was melting on his hockey career. The story did not end there. Instead, it only began. Instead, Charles Baldwin played hockey again. Instead, Charles Baldwin experimented with rapping. After Baldwin's dismissal from prep school, he went home. Actually, home is a loose term for Baldwin. He was born in San Diego, but when Baldwin was 10, his family relocated to northern Virginia.

While Baldwin was at prep school, his father lost his job, and the family moved back to San Diego. When Baldwin returned to San Diego after getting kicked out of school, he had nothing.

His closest childhood friends were in Virginia and prep school friends were in New Hampshire. He had nobody. For two months, Baldwin sat at home and tried to figure out his life. He barely left the house and barely spoke to anyone. Hockey had been priority number one, and now it was gone. In January , Baldwin enrolled at a local high school and began taking classes again.

He had no friends at the school and no forecast of his academic life. But hockey kept him going. In the back of his mind, Baldwin still believed hockey was in his future. He still thought his career had life. Baldwin searched for local teams to play for. Next thing I know, I'm a junior hockey player. Baldwin played out the season with the Gulls, while continuing to finish his junior year of high school.

He found a niche in junior hockey. I've always been the class clown type guy. Baldwin wanted more. He wanted to get serious. Tier III was a good start, but he wanted to play more competitive junior hockey. He needed a league better suited for his undersized , pound frame. After attending camps with multiple teams, Baldwin thought he would be a Fresno Monster. His name never showed up. Not next to the Fresno Monsters' name nor any other team. He headed right for the desert.

Baldwin attributes the birth of his rap interest to his childhood move from San Diego to Virginia. He says the hip-hop culture was stronger in the East Coast and rap was a more common interest among the friends he hung around. My parents didn't like it, so I'd hide in a shoebox, so they couldn't find it. I'd come home from school, lock my door and just listen. Baldwin started writing raps in class, at home, wherever he was. He bought a chain and a backwards hat. Despite the passion, he almost never showed his raps to anyone.

As he grew up, Baldwin started going to parties where friends would freestyle rap. He tried it to wing his rhymes on random beats, but he had trouble. Baldwin, whose friends called him "Master Bizzle," could not get much further than "My name is Chuck and I play puck.

Eventually, my flow got nicer. By the time Baldwin started going to prep school in New Hampshire, he had the confidence to record. He found a few friends who also rapped and they began recording in dorm rooms. Baldwin improved his ability to create beats, and he started to record. Baldwin and his friends sent their tracks around school and classmates commended them.

Then Baldwin was expelled before he could progress any further at prep school. Back in San Diego, while Baldwin struggled to find a future in hockey or school, he did retain his rap interest.

He bought some recording equipment for his bedroom and continued to write. Rap helped Baldwin assimilate at his new high school. He recorded a mixtape for a few new friends under his new name, "Chucky Chuck. After that, I was like, well, I'm kind of a rapper I guess.

Baldwin took the success as a sign of encouragement. When he was not at the rink or in school, Baldwin worked on his rapping. By the time the summer came, he was ready to go public. The mixtape had a West Coast gangster rap style and featured no songs related to hockey. And people say I'm slick with a lot of things in life. Whether it's a hockey move or hanging with my buddies, people would say, 'Chuck, that was slick.

By the time Baldwin's second year at New Mexico started in fall , his world had turned around. He went from an expelled prep school player to a respectable junior hockey player in one of the nation's elite leagues. He also had a blossoming rap career. During the first half of the season, Baldwin worked on a solo mixtape, "Medina Block. He received good feedback from friends and teammates and made a music video.

The video garnered a few thousand hits, but Baldwin wanted more. I've always had these dreams of being successful and living a great life through hockey or entertainment. I was like what can I do to get my name out there? So many people are getting famous off YouTube these days. There are so many rap songs that just have a catchy chorus, so they blow up. What can I do to make one really catchy song? The song, which has gained a cult following among the hockey community, has more than , hits on YouTube today.

I'm going to make a junior hockey anthem! Baldwin picked a beat that winter and went to work. There was no time for sleep. Hockey and rap. That was it. When Baldwin was not playing hockey, he was writing lyrics. He fumbled around with the chorus and tested lines. Baldwin did not record until he felt he had reached his full potential. But when Baldwin put the song up on his music page, it did not get the quick views he expected.

Baldwin didn't give up. He felt something special about this song and brainstormed other ways to publicize it. I wanted to show the dream. Using his new camera and a Flip Video camera borrowed from teammate Dallas Crum pictured below , Baldwin documented the life of his teammates and him.

He uploaded his footage into Windows Movie Maker and made a film. Then the next day: 30, views. Next thing I know, it blew up," he says. Now, I'm up over 20, It surged past "Dangle, Snipe and Celly" and became a fixture in hockey culture.

The video currently has about , hits. Crum, 20, now of the Springfield Jr. Blues, was among the teammates who helped play up the song. Baldwin's fellow Mustangs tweeted about it and watched the views rise.

It was cool to see all that. He's a talented guy and it was sick. A Canadian reality TV show paid Baldwin to use the song in its credits. Gongshow Gear, a hockey apparel company, called Baldwin to make him a company ambassador. Baldwin had been wearing a Gongshow hat of his own in the "Living The Dream Junior Hockey Anthem " video, and now wears apparel for the company.

Despite the viral reaction, Baldwin maintained a steady head. He kept his hockey career and rap career apart. It didn't change him. The success and fame did not make Baldwin lazy in rapping. In fact, it encouraged him to work harder. In June, Baldwin came out with another mixtape, "Ignorance is Bliss. The video has more , hits, despite that particular link never being promoted by Baldwin.

The video currently has more than , hits. I want people to say I listen to Chucky Slick and I don't even play hockey. At this point, that is probably what Baldwin loves most about his life: The fans. Baldwin has made it a point not to take his support group for granted.

He remembers he was once just a normal kid with a dream looking up to others. He embraces the role of role model. They were going to quit hockey and now they're doing everything they can to play junior hockey. It's unbelievable.