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Lin was born on January 16th, 1980 in Manhattan, New York City. He grew up in Inwood, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, but spent a month every summer with his grandparents at their home in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. He attended Hunter College High School and went on to Wesleyan University, where he graduated in 2002. Growing up, Lin helped create jingles for political campaigns to help his father, a political adviser at the time. In college, he was part of a hip hop comedy troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme. After college, he wrote articles for the Manhattan Times and composed music and jingles for

MGK was born to missionary parents on 22nd April 1990. His family moved a lot during his childhood. Finally, they settled in Denver but his mother left his father. His father was suffering from unemployment and was very disappointed after her wife left. At that time MGK was bullied by other children there. He attended Hamilton Middle School and started to listen to rap songs when he was in 6th grade only.

At age 12 his cousin introduced him to freestyling and he followed that inspiration and became one of the best hip hop rappers of this generation. At his young age he fell in love with storytelling rappers such as Nas, Eminem, and Canibus. By the age of 17 he would post his raps online

Tupac Amau Shakur was born on June 16, 1971. He was raised in a very political family, both parents were active supporters of the Black Panther Party. He started his young career at a small school in Harlem. Tupac lived in the very rough parts of the Harlem, New York. This helped build his strong character. When Tupac was a teen he moved to Baltimore and took acting classes and even Ballet classes. in the 1980’s he later moved to California and that is what started his rapping career. The year 1991 was a very big one for “2Pac” he set out his debit album “2pacalypse Now”.

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, who is also known as Kendrick Lamar, was born in Compton, California, on June 17, 1987. After writing stories as a child, he put to music some lyrics about the rough Compton streets he grew up on. His stage name was K-Dot when he first started to get the lime light, releasing a series of popular mix tapes, which brought him to the attention of hip-hop producer Dr. Dre. Lamar 's debut major-label recording, good kid, m.A.A.d City, was released to great sales for an up-and-coming recording artist. He continued to receive accolades for his 2015 Grammy-winning album “To Pimp a Butterfly”.

That's when Tupac began to hang out with the wrong crowd. When he turned 15, he fell into rap, and started writing lyrics, forming his New York background for all it was worth. He called himself Mc New York and made people believe he was a tough guy. By the time Tupac was 20 he had been arrested eight times, and served eight months in prison, after being convicted of sexual abuse.

During his early years he dropped out of high school and was a drug dealer for some years. He was good friends with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. They started making songs for their new album that was called “Boyz-N-The Hood”. In 1987 they made another album that was called “Straight Outta Compton” that album

Steven Adam Markowitz, now known as Hoodie Allen was born on August 19th, 1988 and raised in a Jewish household along with his younger brother Daniel*DAMMMMNNNNN DANIEL*, on Long Island, NY. Hoodie attended the Long Island School for the Gifted from Pre-K to the 9th grade, then later attended John F. Kennedy High School, where he played football and then continued his football career at the University of Pennsylvania as a defensive back. After he finished college in 2010 with a degree in marketing and finance he started working at Google as an AdWords associate in their Standardized AdWords Reseller Training program. But while his Music career was taking off he felt like he was working 2 full time jobs and it was becoming very difficult

then got him signed to Island Def Jam Recordings.  He then released his first album, and went platinum

The cool, calm and collective Gunna creates loud and phenomenal music. His unusual name, Gunna, comes from his cousin who felt that the name Gunna was more suitable for his attitude and lifestyle, so his previous stage name Snypa was abandoned. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Gunna attained a lot of knowledge from the streets which kept him focused on a career path in Hip Hop. Growing up listening to Jay-Z and Lil Wayne, he knew that he was capable of making great music. Being a part of the evolution of Hip Hop, his sound of music is different than the artists that he listens to.

Dieuson Octave was born and raised in Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida. Better known as his rapper name Kodak Black he has been in and out of jail. I consider him as a hero to his county because in big cities like where he is from not everyone makes it, it is either you make it by making music or playing sports.

The mother in the short story called “The Other Family” is a very caring and loving character. Near the beginning of the story, the mother states, “What did I do, she thought, I took her away from her own people and her own language, and now here she comes walking alone, through an alien street in a country named Canada.” (Bannerji 99). Even though the mother seems conflicted, she did what was best for her child. The mother would not brought her daughter over to Canada if their homeland was perfect.

Singer/Songwriter Neil Young was born November 12, 1945, in Toronto, Ontario Canada, to Scott and "Rassy" Young. Neil Young moved to Winnipeg with his mother when she and his father got a divorce (Erlewin N.Pag.). Upset with failed attempts to become successful Young left his former band The Mynah Birds and moved to Los Angeles. (N.Pag.). Young's movement to America was illegal and was an illegal immigrant all thought playing with Buffalo Springfield as well as some of his time with Crosby Stills Nash and Young (Crowe 193). He has been many things throughout his life; he has been a singer, guitarist, film director an activist and much more. However, Neil Young has had many struggles throughout his life. He has seen The Needle and

The singer whose real name is Alex Apoko is accused of attempting to kick out a family that lives in the house which reportedly belongs to a deceased foreigner.

As said in the previous paragraph, Khalid is from El Paso, Texas or what he also calls “The 915” which is the area code for the part of Texas where he’s from. He recently graduated from Americas High School and went on to be one of the most amazing musical artists of our time. Though Khalid has a great life now, when he was younger he had to move various times because of his parents serving in the U.S. military. Khalid never really knew where his mind was mentally until his mom was stationed in El Paso. Growing up Khalid had a passion for singing from his mom. His mom wanted to be a R&B singer in the past, but chose to serve instead. He grew up with music all around him which only heated up his passion for music. He met and made great friends in El Paso