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I grew up in the border towns of Nuevo Laredo/Laredo. As a kid, I enjoyed participating in poetry and speech school competitions. I enjoyed being on the volleyball school team and playing tennis.

As a kid, I was always into breakdancing, graffiti, Djing, and rapping. But, in middle school, I got mixed up with the “wrong crowd” and spent two years on probation. I didn’t know it at the time, but this was a blessing in my life …

My mother was a teacher. My father was a Marine veteran and a salesman for IBM. My brother Geoff was a Marine corporal, and he had a mental breakdown when I was 13