Chin had a talent for poetry, which he started developing from the age of 12.[7] In 2001, he and a friend set up a music studio,[8] for a band, where Chin used to play keyboards and different sound boards.[9] The former street gang[10] and musical collective was called SMS 'South Man Syndicate' (later known as South Muslim Soldiers),[11] and he was known at the time as Smalls.