FKA Co$$, Troy Johnson was born on the South Westside of Los Angeles in a small community east of Crenshaw called Leimert Park. Leimert Park is widely known as one of the United States' top spots for jazz and also home to many of LA's finest hip-hop artists. Inspired by his surroundings, Troy started rapping at the age of 14.

Less than a year after Troy began emceeing, his father died. Experiencing the loss of his father at such a young age became the most pivotal event in his life. While Troy still had a religious foundation academically, he began hanging out in the streets, making affiliations with both gangs and gang members, which ultimately resulted in him developing a balanced perspective on life. This is the very reason why CashUs King is both conscious and street, bad and good as well as the yin and yang. His movement is truly universal and he passionately emcees for the thugs, nerds and scholars and well as elementary school dropouts. CashUs King wants to show that the West Coast has a lot to offer as far as diversity goes and as far as innovation is concerned... it's definitely not all about khakis and Taylors, although he proudly represents that aspect. Most importantly, Co$$'s goal is to humanize the common day MC and to remind people that rappers are just regular people with regular problems. For every record he releases, he wants people to evolve with him and share in the experience of existence. Co$$ is CashUs King and CashUs King is evolution. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.