- Hip-hop pioneer, musician and poet.
- He won a scholarship to the Fieldston School in the Bronx where he was one of five black students in a class of 100. He went to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
- Was HIV positive and had a cocaine addiction.
- He was born in Chicago, Illinois but raised in Tennessee and New York. His mother was a librarian and English teacher. His estranged father was a Jamaican soccer player.
- He was a longtime resident of Harlem in New York City.
- Brother of Dennis Heron.
- Brother-in-law of Marion Heron.
- Ex-son-law of Elvira Sykes.
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