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”.