“[I am a] Southern, passionate, energetic storyteller. I think that’d probably be the best way to explain it. As an artist I say ‘We just live life and rap about it.’”
Corey Paul grew up in South Park, Houston, Texas, in a neighborhood with a forty percent high school dropout rate. Corey Paul’s biological father was never a part of his life; his mother and stepfather raised him.
“My mom [is an] amazing woman, strong woman. I wouldn’t be who I am without her. My stepdad was also an amazing man, but he got addicted to cocaine back in the 80s so by the time I was growing up, I was growing up with him as a dope fiend.”
As a child, Corey Paul experienced a lot of verbal, physical, and mental abuse from his stepfather. “By the time I was six or seven I had already seen my mom go through all kind of pain; being beat up, being dragged down the hallway of the house, punched in the face and the whole nine.” It got to a peak where his stepdad would come into their house, take whatever he wanted, and his mother lived in fear for her own safety and that of her kids.
