KAGE
Mezeio Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas, at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The same hospital where John F. Kennedy took his last breath. At the age of four, Mezeio, his single mother, and his younger brother moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where [+]KAGE
Mezeio Jackson was born in Dallas, Texas, at Parkland Memorial Hospital. The same hospital where John F. Kennedy took his last breath. At the age of four, Mezeio, his single mother, and his younger brother moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where the artist known as Kage began to take form.
"I lived in the hardest part of Jackson." Kage recalls, "An area called Wood Street / Bailey Avenue. And I went to the hardest junior high school you could go to, Rowan Junior High. In Jackson it's real. A lot of people skip through Jackson when they come to Mississippi to get to Memphis, Chicago, wherever they going, but a lot of people don't stop in Jackson to see that there's a lot of real niggas there. It's a real city and coming up man."
Jackson is a medium sized capital city with a population of about 200,000. It's home to many of Mississippi's top state officials, but it's got it's gritty side. The side you won't find in any travel brochures that balances out the cities claim to be the "Best of the New South." As a city it is growing and things seem to be moving in the right direction, but to hear Kage rap - "daddy wasn't there so I had to be the man, for my momma flip a chicken, put some money in her hand / hate the life I live, but it pay the bills / made a name for myself - fuck with this you get killed" - you get the idea that all is not well in Jacktown.
"My father left when I was two, but my mom was a straight up soldier." Kage explains the life that made him the independent man that he is. "She had to raise two boys in the hood, and used to work the 7am - 11pm shift at this hospital. So me and my brother started staying at home alone when I was four years old and he was three. She used cook our food before she left, leave it in the stove, and put us in the bedroom. She would tell us she don't care if God came to the door, don't go to the door. And she raised us on the telephone."
At age four, most of us are just getting our bearings in this world. Kage was already running his house.
He continues, "I knew that at 12 'o clock to go in the kitchen and look in the stove and get our lunch and then go back in the room. And then when she called us at dinnertime then I'd go get the food and feed me and my little brother. And I did that stuff un
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