soze grew up heavily influenced by gang culture, especially that of a well known, early '90s gang that he had grew up seeing in brixton, called the 28s. soze then grew to be a part of a well known london gang known as the peel dem crew, of which he later founded and transformed into pdc rap group, also known as poverty driven children or p.d.c. as told in a book written about his journey called "street boys", written by himself and tim pritchard and published by harpercollins.