That's not how his life story went at all. His father was a photojournalist for the main newspaper in Atlanta and his mother was a Fulbright scholar. He grew u

That's not how his life story went at all. His father was a photojournalist for the main newspaper in Atlanta and his mother was a Fulbright scholar. He grew up in a solid middle class suburb and he attended a magnet school for gifted kids before getting a scholarship to the American Acaedmy of Art. He started producing music for artists directly out of high school and was producing for Roc-A-Fella within 3 years of starting out in the music scene. It was at Roc-A-Fella that he decided to be a rapper, and it took him all of 2 years to produce The College Dropout. He lived an incredibly charmed life before he ever started rapping.