Full Bio Birth name Terrance Wayne Anthony Born June 8, 1988 (age 34) Berkeley, California, U.S. Listed height 6 ft. 1 in Listed weight 216 lbs. Also known as Trip Da Ruler & J.Tripper Early Life Terrance was born in Berkeley, California, at Alta Bates Hospital and later moved with his single mother to North Oakland, California. Attending Golden Gate Elementary School. He enjoyed drawing & sports as a child, and began rapping at age 10 over old 33 & 45 records. Mostly slowed down instruments of old school funk classics. Chiefly inspired by funk and soul artist. Such as James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton & Rick James Seeing rap artist Big Daddy Kane aka Antonio Hardy on Hip hop shows such as Yo! MTV Raps created a monster. Heavily influenced by Oakland's own Too Short aka Todd Shaw and a young rapper named Ice Cube aka O'shea Jackson from South Central, Los Angeles, California and Scarface aka Brad Jordan of the Houston, Texas super group The Geto Boys in the early 80's and 90's aka the golden age of Gangsta Rap. At the age of 18 he began recording in a real studio and made his first real song titled Recognize (Produced By Monk Funk) The song ended up on a local compilation called The Sea Of Green " Project Come Up." Not receiving any money in rap at that time. Terrance started to get into more trouble with the law because of his I don't give a fuck attitude and lack of respect for others. After being incarcerated several times, he knew his life had to change.