Young Sid

South Auckland, New Zealand, may seem to be a world away from South Central Los Angeles, but some things are exactly the same. Sydney Diamond, aka Young Sid, grew up in a poor Auckland neighborhood with a drug-dealing father and an alcoholic mother, sharing a mattress with his siblings. America's hardcore hip-hop spoke to him and his situation, and after listening to his brother's copy of N.W.A's "Gangsta Gangsta" he knew what he wanted to do with his life. At the age of 11 he formed his first crew, who called themselves the Murder Squad. Their main exploits involved getting i...