Tech N9ne got into music extremely young and taught himself to read and do math through his own tutorial raps. He was raised by a single mother who battled lupus throughout his life, young Aaron found an outlet from the emotional pain of her health through music, he also developed an early obsession with ghosts which would inspire him to develop his signature on stage look. Outside of music he was getting in trouble as a youth rolling with the Bloods and nearly died one night taking 15 ecstasy pills all at once. He was signed to a few major labels but no one knew what to do with a black artist wearing face paint and with red hair. The man worked long and hard grinding it out as an independent for decades before making it to the top of the class, when he would eventually achieve his dreams and be listed on Forbes for earning 8 million dollars, well his mother succumbed to her illnesses, not witnessing the success of her only boy.