Michael Kofie kportufe was born on November 30, 2001, in Chicago, Illinois, to a Jamaican mother and a ghanaian father. Kofie spent time with his maternal grandmother icilda Edwards who taught him how to play piano when he was younger. He occasionally visited Ocala Florida every year since he was a child. Kofie’s mother Sharon Marie Kportufe is from seaforth St Thomas Jamaica, and his father Christian kportufe is from the Volta region of Ghana. Kofie and his sibling grew up in Jamaica traveling throughout the island where their relatives reside. His network of family members varied from the UK, Ghana, Jamaica. Kofie grew up in a family of musicians, artists, and leaders.
He has an older sister Tenesha, an older brother Gerald amarte, two younger sisters Riley and Chantal, and two younger brothers, Prince and jaden.
and moved to Ocala, Florida, with his parents in 2006 later returning to Illinois as a teenager. He attended Central Middle School and Evergreen park community High School.[10] He is the third eldest of 5 siblings and the paternal grand nephew of Godfried kportufe agama, who was a Ghanaian economist and a governor of the Bank of Ghana. G.K. AGAMA held the record to date for being the longest-serving governor of the bank. Michael kofie Kportufe’s first recording experience was at 4 years of age, at his father’s studio.[11] He began producing beats online in the sixth grade during a technology class. Kofie started rapping in middle school as a battle rapper and was involved in many open mics with a few youth led organization in Chicago including Circles and Cyphers and Young Chicago Authors. He openly expressed how important church was in his youth.
Michael took animation and screen play and studio animation art classes at evergreen Park community highschool in Illinois. He spent his junior and senior year earning how to use Adobe to create animated shorts.
Mr kazin Mr paske.
Kofie started recording music in 2019, using the garage band daw app on his school ipad. I was walking home from school every day and Dame lived right across the street from the baseball field and his garage was always booming, I always nodded so one day he invited me in.
I recorded guarantee, March madness and a few other tracks. Dame showed me the science behind the music. Dame was actually the first person to introduce me to the whole recording process we made a few songs. Every session was like a class that I understood it didn’t matter who was recording what. I was working after school programs and stuff like that so I would spend $40 for 2 hrs until eventually one of the guys on the block offered to pay for me one time and I was like nah I’m good but he insisted and Dame just gave him some weed. But yeah when bro payed for my session I was like yeah I gotta make it now it was like encouragement from one of the older guys.
Flip dinero
Kofie openly expressed his love for music while Loosing a lot of friends during the process.
Lil Reese and Tay Savage from Chicago’s notorious oblock.
Kofie met Jamila woods at young Chicago authors Later meeting Donnie trumpet and young pappy’s brother Tay Savage.
Kofie went to Harvard University
I went through 5 real phases during my career in music, that was reflected by my life between 2019 and now. When I started I had waves, and I was living in evergreen park where I graduated highschool, when COVID happened my class missed the events we were supposed to go to like graduation and prom. My friends died around that time and I moved to palos hills. My plans were to keep producing and go to college. I dropped bonsai the year before and I was homeless around that time. My uncle died in 2021 and I grew my hair out. when my curls grew into a frow, then braids, I was in Chicago and I did acid a few times. I just saw fire and my hair was fire so i got a twist out in 2022.
Farrakhan
Dj Khaled and flipp dinero
Kofie ‘s penmanship is Setting his boundaries between Florida and Chicago. He turned into a stereo Savage.
My grandmother wrote poems and played instruments, my uncle is a Dj and my parents are singers. Kofie started writing songs at the Burbank park district summer camp in Burbank IL between 2011-2014 later joining young Chicago authors and circles and cyphers between 2017-2020. Kofie and chantal would hear songs played on the radio at the pool and recreate them. They played a lot of pop artists so I learned melodies and song structures based of of what I liked hearing.
Kofie took earth-space science, animation and screenplay, studio animation, and contemptorary art. He did band class during lunch hours. Kofie did track and field, swim.
In February 2023 Kofie flew to Cambridge Massachusetts with circles and cyphers, a restorative justice organization in Chicago, to lead three class circles at Harvard University. Professor Lani gave him props for his work being the youngest person in the class. “This was the first college that I attended for real and Mostly everyone was older than me, it felt like I was in an airport, and nobody knew who I was” Kofie spent hours at night going through library archives and reading books about American law. He befriended fellow students, studied music and literature during the week and explored Boston on the weekends. My routine was simple, I would wake up, order breakfast, listen to future, get dressed, go to Dunkin and take an Uber to campus everyday.
Somedays I stayed in night class others I would go to the library. Mornings in Boston are so peaceful to me so I was writing a lot of music.
Kofie was the face on 10 billboards across the city as well as an exhibition in a museum of art on the northwest loop of chicago.
alot of my peers where stunned, but I needed to be sound with what I was doing because I was blessed with the opportunity,
I walked into the museum and waited in line like everybody else, and the lady in the front recognized me and shook my hand. It
was humbling to hear that she cut paper verions of my face out over a few hundred times. at that point I was like yo this is insane.
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