James McClain Though he’s just 25, French songwriter and record producer Alex Petit — better-known in the hip-hop music community as CashMoneyAP — already drives a new Bentley SUV and just dropped $1.8 million on his very first home, a five-bedroom structure in L.A.’s wealthy but oft-overlooked San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Tarzana.But Petit can well afford that sort of lifestyle thanks to a big burst of early career success — after experimenting with creating bass-slapping beats in his teens, he began peddling his original work on YouTube and the beats-selling platform Beatstars, where he found buyers with a healthy appetite for his productions.
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