Who is the Boy Named Leroy?

A rapper, yes. An artist too, but those are arbitrary.

One night at the Love Club in New Orleans, a lanky 14 year old-kid was. thrown into a cypher where he performed his first freestyle.

He was far from his hometown in Charlotte, North Carolina where his parents had emigrated as political asylum seekers from the Congo. But that night the seed for writing and making music was planted.