Vocab rapper4/9/2023 For the next year and a half Vocab put himself through a (game like) rap training course. Vocab attentively agreed, and in about 30 minutes the verse was finished and Cab had found his calling. One of the last days of Bentley’s trip, he challenged Vocab to write a verse. When Cab would get home from summer school Bentley would have at least three verses written. His best friend from Toronto, Bentley, flew to Portland to spend the summer with Cab and his family. It wasn’t until the summer after his junior year at Lincoln High, when he was first introduced to writing raps. The quick change from an extremely multicultural east coast city to a predominantly white side of town and attending a mostly white school was a culture shock, to say the least. In middle and high school he made mix cd’s for his friends under the moniker “Ridgeway’s finest: DJ Fuck You.” Rapping never entered his mind as a possibility until years later.Īfter moving out to Portland (P-Town) with his mother, the 15 year old young man from Toronto (T-dot) found himself in extremely unfamiliar surroundings. But, when his NBA hoop dreams turned out to be just that, his love for hip-hop was the one constant from his childhood to adult years.Īs young as 8, Sean and his cousin Chris would make mixtapes using three ghetto blasters, one to record and the other aimed directly at the speakers of the first. It wasn’t rap that he used to elevate him from his circumstances. With his mothers’ strict rules, the adolescent decided young that he wasn’t going to succumb to the same pitfalls it seemed so many of his friends were doomed. He frequently spent time talking to the fathers of his friends who’d already been through the system. Running with a group of older kids, Sean saw more than his share of fights, stabbings and the occasional parties getting shot up. So, he did what most young kids did that were stuck in the big city with nothing to do he hit the streets. With his mother constantly working and little or no adult supervision after school, Vo found himself with a lot of time to kill and not much to kill it with. In the absence of his father, the young boy (like so many other kids in his demographic) was forced to look elsewhere for male role models. After Vocab’s first birthday, contact with his father was limited to visitation which dwindled as he got older. His father’s hectic schedule as a performer conflicted with his mothers’ idea of stability, both emotionally and financially. Vocab’s father (Carl Harvey) was a guitar player for a number of different bands, (among them, Grammy winning Toots and the Maytals). Both his mother and father had emigrated separately from Jamaica and were introduced through a mutual friend. On February 6th, 1983 in Toronto Canada, Sean Harvey (a.k.a.
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