Deon "King" Toure was born in Linden, Guyana, in 1979. Subsequent to his father's troubles spilling over into their homelife, he and his mother migrated to the United States when Deon was only six years old. For the two immigrants, making a living in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn was not an easy task. Suhati, his mother, worked extremely hard trying to sustain a stable lifestyle and shield Deon from all the negativity that surrounded them. After an altercation Deon got into with a bully at school he befriended a neighborhood hustler by the name of Jayson "Jay-Roc" Washington. Jay-Roc familiarized Deon with the street-life and schooled him on the necessary skills needed to survive in the concrete jungle. ... It didn't take long before Deon became immersed in the lifestyle his mother once tried to shelter him from--P. [4] of cover.