Growing up as an Ivorian-American in Washington, DC, SIR E.U immersed himself in pop music, the DC go-go scene and gospel bands - developing a wide musical vocabulary that would later inform his out-of-body, stream-of-consciousness approach to music and performance. A competitive lyricist at heart, SIR E.U got his start as a teenager with the locally celebrated rap-duo Koolkluxklan, who enjoyed early success and became legends in the underground DC rap scene. The group’s ascent was tragically cut short when co-founder and close friend of E.U, Avionadramida, died of an epileptic seizure in 2012. Devastated, E.U continued to use music to channel his many frustrations and emotions, adapting his style into a freer form and more confrontational version of his former self. Much like his musical hero MF DOOM before him, Sir E.U became something of a super-villain - challenging conventions of rap by-way of punk-driven left-field releases like African American Psycho and legendary performance art-style shows such as a limit-testing 25-hour endurance concert.