Donny Goines was born in the borough of Manhattan but spent most of his youth going back and forth between Philly, the Bronx, and Harlem. With and incarcerated father and a mother recovering from her battle with a drug addiction meant that Donny would be left to fend for himself and exposed to the allure of the streets at an early age. Ingrained with a sense of the streets that can often be imitated but not fully understood or solidified offered an understanding of how life would be empty unless something meaningful was added to.

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