Press Fanatic Magazine September 2015 | Page 8

Macc Milliaon was born March 29th 1989, in Salinas California. He was raised on the eastside of Salinas by his mother who took on the battles of being a single mom trying her best to raise a boy into a man on her own. As a child Macc Milliaon found himself singing for his church choir and school events, although things were not always so easy for him growing up he had always stayed actively participating in music in one form or another. When he started entering his young adolescence he grew older and his skin got tougher. He was a young man when he had been introduced to the streets, where all he could see was drugs, gangs, and violence. Then the trouble started… first with the passing of his grandmother at the age of 8 years old. He soon began to experience the life he was introduced and sucked into. After getting into trouble around the age of 10 he became award of the state. He was sentence to do time in a in a juvenile hall facility for six months, then placed into a boy’s home. His mom had gotten into drugs, first as A high-level neighborhood supplier but then later becoming addicted to crack cocaine. He resided and was confined to the group home for two. Due to his ADHD diagnosis and severe depression he was not progressing, which was needed for his release. With his mom and her unfortunate drug problem he could not go home to her. The state agreed to try another avenue for this young man and sent him to live with his father. At 12 years old he was moved once again from the only home he knew being California to a whole new place in Portland Oregon having to leave his mom and 3 siblings behind. Between then and 19 years old he moved back and forth between Cali and the Pacific Northwest. As a teen he wanted more for himself, and after seeing the easy money, lifestyle, and being well known by everyone on the block (Soledad St./Chinatown) due to his mothers heavy role in the game when he was a child he took that step and hit the block himself. The money was fast, the times were crazy but this is what young maccin did to survive…. Coming from a family of musicians, He has always had a love for music.