DeAndre Coleman was born Jake Brock in Chicago, Illinois on June 22, 1971. He was born in a parking lot to a 15 year old girl and her 14 year old boyfriend, who where currently on the run from their parents. They dropped the young boy off at a local hospital with a note attached to his blanket saying his name and when he was born. The note explained why the parents were unable to keep the child and asked that he be given up for adoption.
Jake lived in a foster home for five years. He was kicked out of kindergarten for telling his teacher to fuck off. His foster parents were forced to home study him, and beat him occassionaly for it. He was finally adopted at seven years of age to a young couple: a black man named DeAndre Sloan and a white woman named Harley Sloan. After Jake explained to his new parents what went on at the foster home and just where he learned the words that got him kicked out of school, DeAndre was able to get the two foster parents convicted of child abuse and neglect.
DeAndre moved his family from Chicago to L.A. and opened a law firm while Jake attended a private school. Things were looking up for Jake, but on his ninth birthday his father never came home. DeAndre Sloan was killed by an associate of the man he was currently trying to get thrown into jail. The day after that, Jake's mother shot herself in the head out of grief, while Jake was sleeping in the next room.
Jake was put into another foster home, this time with six other kids, and this time much worse than before. The man who ran the home, Ricardo Vasquez, only fed the children once a day, and it was always creamed corn. He made them sleep in the basement of his three story house on cots on the floor. He would then make the kids work night and day on fixing his house and attending to his garden while he used the money sent to him for the kids on personal items.
Finally, when Jake was twelve, he ran away from the foster home. He stole all of Ricardo's money that he had hid away, and took a bus back to Chicago.