Hit-Boy | Before They Were Famous | Story Of Jay Z & Beyonce's Beat Maker | King's Disease III

Before Hit Boy would earn his name by producing some of the biggest
hip-hop tracks of the past decade, he was born Chauncey Alexander
Hollis Jr. on May 21st, 1987. As a child, Chauncey grew-up in
Fontana, a city about fifty miles East of downtown Los Angeles. For
most of his young life, Chauncey’s father was in and out of prison,
leaving him to be raised primarily by his mother – the one person
he says he has to thank more than anyone else for believing in him
from the start. From the time he was a kid, his mom would always
let him play music all around the house as loud as he wanted and
when other moms would ask why she’d let her son listen to music at
such a high volume, she’d tell them that at least that way, she
always knew where he was and what he was getting up to. Chauncey
wasn’t the only musician in the family either. His Uncle, Rodney
Benford, was a member of the R&B group Troop, and he encouraged
his young nephew regularly to pursue his talents to their fullest
extent by skipping out on other normal teenaged social activities
like parties to focus on developing his musical abilities.