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At the height of Spacejam Bo’s homelessness, he would slip into hospitals to sleep. Ever since his grandmother passed away, he, his mother and his sister had been bouncing around between shelters. Spacejam dropped out of high school and started breaking into houses in order to steal money to survive.
Born Jadarren Lewis in 1996 (the same year Space Jam was released), Spacejam Bo grew up in low-income housing projects with his grandmother. He never met his father, a former Marine who went to jail when Spacejam was two. As he entered his teens, his grandmother passed away. With nowhere to go, his little family shuttled in and out of six shelters. Meanwhile, his mother lost both of her jobs.
One bright spot appeared — a friend & aspiring producer let him start coming by his studio to record the lyrics he’d been scribbling in a composition book since he was nine. He started putting out songs, but his friends laughed at his attempts. “It made me want to be great,” he says. Besides, his grandmother’s voice rang in his ear. “She was the first person to tell me to follow my dreams no matter what.”
His friends stopped laughing when they heard “Who Really Love Me.” After a video for the song went viral, Interscope reached out late 2016 and it dawned on him: He was a bona fide rapper now, and it was all due to the streets relating to his story. "Rap should inspire people to be great," He says. "I came from nothing. I’m gonna tell them a story and lead them to be great, too.”
Born Jadarren Lewis in 1996 (the same year Space Jam was released), Spacejam Bo grew up in low-income housing projects with his grandmother. He never met his father, a former Marine who went to jail when Spacejam was two. As he entered his teens, his grandmother passed away. With nowhere to go, his little family shuttled in and out of six shelters. Meanwhile, his mother lost both of her jobs.
One bright spot appeared — a friend & aspiring producer let him start coming by his studio to record the lyrics he’d been scribbling in a composition book since he was nine. He started putting out songs, but his friends laughed at his attempts. “It made me want to be great,” he says. Besides, his grandmother’s voice rang in his ear. “She was the first person to tell me to follow my dreams no matter what.”
His friends stopped laughing when they heard “Who Really Love Me.” After a video for the song went viral, Interscope reached out late 2016 and it dawned on him: He was a bona fide rapper now, and it was all due to the streets relating to his story. "Rap should inspire people to be great," He says. "I came from nothing. I’m gonna tell them a story and lead them to be great, too.”
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