Jojo Pellegrino

Staten Island native JoJo Pellegrino grew up with Slick Rick and other golden-age MCs as idols, and as a preteen, Pellegrino hit the streets of his neighborhood looking for further inspiration and other aspiring MCs to battle. It was there, in the Brighton and Stapleton projects, where Pellegrino realized that the road to being a recognized MC wasn't easy, yet every day he would head out into the streets with new rhymes and a knack for battling anyone with his fiery freestyling. Though Violator A&R man Eric Nicks was far from the first to recognize Pellegrino's talents, he was...