Haggerty attended Garfield High School and Nathan Hale High School. He was interested in reaching a younger generation through his music and became part of a program focusing on education and cultural identity called "Gateways for Incarcerated Youth", where he facilitated music workshops. Īt the time he started to sing, Haggerty listened to "a lot of East Coast underground hip hop", listing Hieroglyphics, Freestyle Fellowship, Aceyalone, Living Legends, Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep, Nas, and Talib Kweli as his major influences. At the age of 15, he began to write lyrics. According to a YouTube interview, he listened to "parental advisory" music from the radio when he was an underage youth. Haggerty was six years old when hip hop first came into his life by way of Digital Underground. He has Irish heritage and was raised Catholic. He was raised with his brother Tim in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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