Dontae Dunlap was born on December, 1995, the son of an Nurse and a club promoter, and raised in Greensboro of north Carolina . His father is Christian and his mother The same. Vinci was raised Christain . Before attending Gtcc middle college School,Vinci attended HHSA. In high school, Vinci decided to focus on his hip-hop career, later noting, " I got real serious about it and it changed my life ... I used to be into sports, played all the sports, go to parties. But once I found out hip hop is almost like a job, that's all I did