Why G | Before They Were Famous | Toronto's Top Demon

Before rapper Why-G would become one of Toronto’s most promising young artists, he was born on November 12th 1994 and would spend the better part of his youth growing-up around the city’s most notorious neighborhood – Jane & Finch. It was in this part of the city that Why-G would bounce between his mom’s place on Orpington crescent, his Auntie’s home in Driftwood, and his grandma’s house at the intersection of Jane and Sheppard while his mom headed off to her job as a Child Youth worker during the day. As much back and forth as he was doing at home, Why-G was doing nearly as much shuffling at school as well, heading from Beverly Heights Middle School to Elmbank Junior Middle Academy for a year of Grade 8 and then off to C.W. Jeffrey’s Collegiate Institute for his high-school career. It was a hectic adolescence to say the least, but all this moving around never got in the way of him making friends. In fact, Why-G grew-up alongside Quinto Armani Gardner, aka, Pressa, and their history goes back a long way with both sets of their parents having been friends from the time they were attending high-school together.