You can put a car-wash attendant in a $10,000 Armani suit and it doesn't make him classy any more than putting a sow in a tutu makes her a ballerina.
he was raised in a middle-class family... his mother was an English professor... after high school he received a scholarship to study art, but later transferred to Chicago State University to study English... for years he was denied a recording contract because he did not fit the gangsta image... he had done a lot of producing... his background was not like typical rappers...