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Kendall Jackson is a 23 year old author who was
born in Decatur, Alabama and raised in Riverdale,
Georgia which is where he gives credit to his keen
sense of hip-hop. “Growing up in Atlanta during the
90’s is equivalent to growing up in New York in the
80’s when it comes to hip-hop culture and ethnic
culture in general,” says Kendall. “A lot of folks
don’t consider Clayton County as a part of Atlanta
but, I mean, a family in my church lived across the
street from one of Ludacris’ houses and they lived
further south than me.” Kendall says that growing
up, he was exposed to all kinds of music which is
important because hip-hop, being one of the newest genres, has been influenced by every other
genre from rock and roll to reggae. Jackson’s first
experience writing was for his middle school newspaper, a monthly column entitled “Sixth Grade Advice”.
“In all honesty, I didn’t like writing much back then, they required us to do it too much in school, and I
hated school. I had no desire to pursue any type of career in writing,” Jackson admitted, and continued to
state, “I did begin to enjoy writing early in high school, but I wasn’t even sure I was good at it until I was an
adult. I started ‘editing’ peoples papers (which he admits me