FiGS was born and raised in Rochester, N.Y.’s eastside and he comes with a story all too familiar in hiphop biographies. At 7 years old, his dad left him, his mother, sister and five brothers. A few years later, he and his best friend had graduated from playing with guns to selling weed and running drugs in the neighborhood....... By 12, shorties, basketball and hiphop had become the center of his life. Late nights were spent listening to hiphop masterpieces like Nas’ “Illmatic” and Mobb Deep’s “Shook Ones.