Rapper Milo was born Rory Ferreira in Chicago in 1992. Born to young parents with complicated lives, Ferreira changed schools and relocated often during his young life, living in Maine, Wisconsin, and Illinois before finishing high school. He became interested in rap after hearing Nas for the first time as a preteen, and by high school, he was part of the Wisconsin hip-hop collective Nom de Rap under the stage name Milo. Ferreira alluded to several different origins of the name Milo, stating in some interviews that it stemmed from an early moniker, "Wise Owl, Himself," and in ...