Emerging from Brooklyn’s Flatbush area, he was steered toward the arts by his mother’s enrollment of him in Manhattan’s High School of Art and Design after a family move to New Jersey, and later lived with his cousin Fredro Starr in Queens, where his street-wise reputation earned him the nickname “Sticky Fingaz.” Discovered by Jam Master Jay, he became the charismatic frontman of Onyx, whose debut…
