Lucki | Before They Were Famous | King of Underground Rap

BEFORE becoming one of the most successful and prolific underground rappers of recent memory, Lucki was born Lucki Camel Jr. on May 30th, 1996 in Chicago, Illinois at Masonic Medical Center on the city’s North Side. While he might have entered this world on the city’s North-side, Lucki was primarily raised on the West End where he attended school in the suburb of Maywood. During his earliest years, Lucki used to harbor aspirations of becoming a football player while playing wide receiver for his school team. The only problem is that he wasn’t very good at it. Like, at all. Thankfully, there was something he was much better at -- rapping. Lucki wrote his first lyrics while in the 7th Grade. He wasn’t confident enough in his ability at the time to actually perform those early songs, but his fascination with the rapper Lil Wayne meant he was writing one song after another in an attempt to improve his talent. The first beat Lucki ever wrote to was for Ron Browz’s “Jumping Out the Window.” This young kid would continue to refine his skillset over the next few years and by the time he entered adolescence he was determined to take the artform more seriously. That’s when he started heading downtown to the Chicago library and discovered the music of Chance the Rapper – more specifically, the little-known duo Chance was a part of at the offset of his career known as “Instrumentality”.