Before Hit Boy would earn his name by producing some of the biggest hip-hop tracks of the past decade, he was born Chauncey Alexander Hollis Jr. on May 21st, 1987. As a child, Chauncey grew-up in Fontana, a city about fifty miles East of downtown Los Angeles. For most of his young life, Chauncey’s father was in and out of prison, leaving him to be raised primarily by his mother – the one person he says he has to thank more than anyone else for believing in him from the start. From the time he was a kid, his mom would always let him play music all around the house as loud as he wanted and when other moms would ask why she’d let her son listen to music at such a high volume, she’d tell them that at least that way, she always knew where he was and what he was getting up to. Chauncey wasn’t the only musician in the family either. His Uncle, Rodney Benford, was a member of the R&B group Troop, and he encouraged his young nephew regularly to pursue his talents to their fullest extent by skipping out on other normal teenaged social activities like parties to focus on developing his musical abilities.