Lawrence Ross was born on February 20, 1966 in Los Angeles, California. He attended Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and then University of California, Berkeley and UCLA, where he earned a degree in History. Ross worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Independent Newspaper and was appointed managing editor of Rap Sheet magazine, hip hop's first West Coast magazine. Wikipedia
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