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Born Derek Charles Sykes on June 3rd, 1987, the rapper you know as Geezy Jones was born in the Itty Bitty City Of Vallejo in the north side Lofas area to Charles and Renee Sykes. He Spent a lot of time at his mother’s parents in the El Cerrito hills. His grandmother showed him the most love of all of her grandchildren because he spent a lot of time at her house it’s where he learned to expand his reading abilities even though he not a fan of reading. With his grandparents being from the Oklahoma and Shreveport, Louisiana it was easy for him to pick a "country" accent. Being raised by the bay and the traditions of south is what gives him his swagger of hospitality yet cockiness when he gets on the mic. He started his education going to private school for elementary and into 6th grade but after he lost his grandmother in the middle of his 6th grade year he decided that he 'd rather go to school somewhere else in addition to the fact he was tired of the school. so in 7th grad...