Born in Boston Massachusetts in 1976 to a Jamaican father and (white) South African mother. Raised in Cambridge Massachusetts: started rapping at the age of 9 and continued on the streetcorners of the Coast(Riverside: Cambridge). Was kicked out of the Commonwealth private school for being to black to strong to loud(or maybe just to loud) and graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin in 94. Took studio production classes at Columbia University(98\