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Christopher Maurice Brown was born on May 5, 1989,in Tappahannock, Virginia, to Joyce Hawkins, a former day care center director, and Clinton Brown,a corrections officer at a local prison.He has an older sister, Lytrell Bundy,a bank employee.Music was always present in Brown's life beginning in his childhood. He would listen to soul albums that his parents owned,and eventually began to show interest in the hip-hop scene. His parents had divorced when he was 6 years old, and his mother's boyfriend terrified him by subjecting her to domestic violence. In a 2017 self-documentary film, Welcome to My Life, Brown recalls the couple's abusive relationship. Brown said that when he was six, his mother's partner shot himself in the head, but did not die. The gunshot blinded him, the physical impairment only adding to his rage. Donnelle vented his anger and frustration on Brown's mother. "I had to hear my mom get beat up every night. I'd pee on myself, just scared to even walk out into the hallway, because I didn't want to see nothing".