As a kid growing up in South Central L.A. he eared the moniker Schoolboy because he was a bit of a keener in school, wearing glasses and scoring a 3.3 in high school. He wasn’t interested in what he was learning so he would cheat – his priority were sports, he played four years of high school varsity baseball and eventually some college football. Throughout this time he was living a double life as a member of 52 Hoover Crips where he sold drugs and prescription pills and battled his own addictions, that is until he got locked up and then decided to make a life for himself in music.