Kid Ink got his start in music as a teenager in after-school music programs making beats, taking after those he looked up to including Timberland, Swizz Beats and Pharrell Williams. Before he focused full time on music he was working as a security guard and at a Tattoo parlor originally under the name Rockstar and was strictly a producer before he put himself on the mic.
Born Brian Todd Collins He was born on April 1st 1986 in Los Angeles California. He and his older brother were raised mainly by his mother who remarried and from that marriage he would have two step brothers and two step sisters.