His talent for music comes naturally from his upbringing, with a mother who was an opera singer and brothers he used to freestyle with for hours as a youth. Rasheed first began to write poetry and raps at age 14, but placed more importance on singing around friends and at local talent shows. Around the same time, Rasheed started to spend more of his time boosting and doing petty licks with his friends, which eventually caught up to him, and he didn't graduate high school on time because of it.