Lil Skies

Kimetrius Christopher Foose was born August 4, 1998, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He began freestyling at age three. He was introduced to music by his father, Michael Burton Jr., a hip hop artist formerly known as Dark Skies, now as BurntMan, and his mother Shelby Foose. Foose's stage name is a play on his father's. Foose and his family moved to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania when he was in third grade. When he was 11, his father was injured in a workplace chemical explosion at the Rust-Oleum plant near Williamsport, Maryland.

Skies claims he used to have to sell marijuana and work "little jobs" to pay for studio time and music videos. He also worked at a McDonald's and a Japanese restaurant in his hometown. In the meantime, he would spend the summer at a relative's house; it was at that point in time he worked in collaboration with his dad on his first project released on August 14, entitled, "Birth of Skies Vol. 1". Foose and his father would write an album the following year, Father-Son Talk, discussing the recovery process. Foose graduated from Waynesboro Area Senior High School in 2016 and briefly attended Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania before dropping out to focus on his rap career. His musical inspirations are Lil Wayne, The Offspring, Punchline, MxPx, Audiovent and 50 Cent.

In October 2016, Foose opened for Fetty Wap at Shippensburg University and later released his first mixtape, Alone, in January 2017. In July 2017, he released two songs, "Red Roses" featuring Landon Cube and "Off The Goop" featuring Sprite Lee. He would later release other songs that year, including "Rude" and "Signs of Jealousy."

Foose's repertoire of singles caught the attention of Atlantic Records who partnered with his own label, All We Got. He released his first major label mixtape, Life of a Dark Rose, on January 10, 2018. The mixtape debuted at #23 on the Billboard 200 chart and went on to peak at #10. The songs "Nowadays" and "Red Roses" (both featuring Landon Cube) debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 list at #85 and #98 respectively and have since peaked at #55 and #69 (also respectively). He also toured nationally with Lil Uzi Vert in 2017 and began his "Life of a Dark Rose" tour in 2018, but had to end the tour short due to pneumonia.] On May 4, 2018, the music video for "Lust" was released, peaking at number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and being certified platinum by the RIAA. On May 31, he released "I Know You," featuring Yung Pinch, which peaked at 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is now certified gold by RIAA.

On March 1, 2019, Lil Skies released his album Shelby, while simultaneously debuting the music video for lead single "i". He made a short documentary for the album on his YouTube channel by interviewing her and surprising her during it by telling her he was going to name it after her. In the interview his mother said, "When I took you to get your first tattoo, and I said just don't ever do your face, your hands, or your neck", and skies smirks as he has many of them in all of those places. He claims to have gotten them on his face and his whole body to make him commit fully to music since it would be nearly impossible to get a day job with them.[2ollaborated with rapper Machine Gun Kelly on the song "Burning Memories". And He Would Also Release Two Solo Singles With The First One Being Fidget(Lil Skies song), was released on April 20, 2020. And Second One Being LightBeam With NoCap Was Release On July 23, 2020.And Second One Being LightBeam With NoCap Was Release On July 23, 2020. beside those Two Songs All The Other Singles In 2020 Appeared On His Second Studio Album Unbothered

On March 4, 2020, Skies released the song "Havin My Way", which features close friend Lil Durk and serves as the lead single from his second studio album, Unbothered (2021). It was followed by the second single, "Riot", which was released on May 14, 2020. "On Sight", was released on November 6, 2020. On July 10, 2020, he released the track "Red & Yellow" from the Road to Fast 9 mixtape. On December 16, 2020, Foose announced Unbothered and its complete details along with the single "Ok". The album was released on January 22, 2021. On May 14, 2021 Foose Would Release An Deluxe With anticipated Snippet's Like Ice Water Featuring Trippie Redd And Perfect Groove

Lil Skies was also featured on the soundtrack for Madden NFL 19 with his song "Welcome to the Rodeo" and Madden NFL 20 with the song "Magic"

Foose resides in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. In July 2019, Foose and his longtime girlfriend, Jacey Fugate, had a son.

Foose cites his own song "Red Roses" as his personal favorite song, referring to the musical combination with him and Landon Cube as "epic". He cites Lil Wayne as his biggest music inspiration.

Foose tries to avoid drugs as much as possible after seeing it negatively impact the lives of his old friends.

In an interview, Skies claims if he was not rapping, he would like to do some "Bear Grylls type, outdoor stuff" and that his favorite hobby is fishing.