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Corey Hamilton also known as general stone was born in 1980 in stony brook hospital on long island. His mother Nina McDaniel’s and father Frankie Hamilton raised him in many parts of long island along with his two brothers Derek and Christopher Hamilton. His childhood was a rough and uncertain one most of the time stone and his brothers would be alone listening to old hip-hop records. That’s where it all began. He was influenced mostly by his older brother Chris who would recite verses from groups like a tribe called quest leaders of the new school and black moon. Later stone would be reciting these verses to him self and then attempting to make up his own rhymes. By the age of 13 he was writing on his own and by 17 he was recording songs in a studio in Patchogue New York backed by a close friend who goes by P.Bright Who saw something in him. As he worked on his first project he started to make a name for him self around the neighborhood and out of town as a good mc and promisi...