Southern California rapper Lil Whit was born Marion Garrett in 1982 and grew up living in various towns surrounding the Sherman Oaks region. Garrett quickly developed a love of music, growing up the early '90s surrounded by the West Coast hip-hop sound in an era when it was famously taking shape. He began writing and recording his own raps at age ten, eventually working up a mixtape in his teens and then going on to pursue music more seriously in the years that followed. As life went on, Garrett established himself in Palmdale, California and stayed active performing in local ...