Life was a struggle for young BanJoE, growing up on the wrong side of Detroit and being a mule for the local H trade. Family life was tough, not knowing his father and his mother never being around. This was his alternate reality. The reality was, BanJoE grew up on the right side of Linden, New Jersey, with no direct contact with H, and a pretty much ordinary family life (except for the time he got yelled at for throwing a loaf of bread on the roof and leaving it there for a week in the hot sun and pouring rain).