hmm i forgot, but it think he was born in a military camp in... fuck hold up.
yes he was born in peru, now i remember. and yes i'm pretty sure, but then he was brought to America. To Harlem to be more specific.
He was at Penn state university but he fucked someone up and went to jail for a year for aggravated assault, wrote lots of lyrics and when he got out he put them together and revolutionary vol. 1 was created.
that's the basics i guess.