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Born Ricardo Jerome Butler in Orlando, FL on December 12th,�1978. I picked up my love for hip hop in about 85' when my uncle used to play Run DMC and D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince records. I grew up on bass music like DJ. Magic Mike before it turned into booty movement. I started off in hip hop as a graffiti artist, then into hip hop dancing and afterwards a little break dancing. But after I heard the Nas/Illmatic album one New Years Eve in 1994 going into 1995, I declared myself a rapper and hadn't wrote one single rhyme. Earlier on in life I did poetry and one a lot of the contest in middle school. But I had no idea I actually liked to do it. The Illmatic album captivated me. At the time I had just came to Christ prior to that, but I wasn't going to church or anything like that. I actually didn't start really walking with the Lord until 2004. Anyway, I picked Bishop as my first rap name. The reason why I changed it to Reason is a whole other story. But I started out with a ...