Brian Imanuel Soewarno[3] was born in Jakarta, Indonesia,[10] and is ethnically of Chinese-Indonesian descent.[11] He is the youngest of four siblings.[12] Brian was raised in West Jakarta in a middle-to-low class neighbourhood.[13] Despite his father being a lawyer,[14] he never had a formal education and spent most of his time helping at his parents' café while being homeschooled.[15]
In 2010, while growing up in Indonesia, Brian began his career with social media when he was 11 years old. He discovered YouTube after he got a Rubik's Cube and realised he could log onto his parents' computer to find strategies for solving it faster. He also joined Twitter in August 2010, when he was just 11 years old. This eventually led him to making video content, including dark-comedy sketches on Twitter.[14] He moved to the platform Vine when he was 15 and began to post daily videos there. Brian, who at the time spoke only Indonesian, taught himself to speak English by watching YouTube videos and by listening to rappers like Childish Gambino, 2 Chainz, Macklemore and Tyler, the Creator.[16]
Brian began listening to hip hop music in 2012, when an American friend he knew on the internet introduced him to "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.[17] Brian began to explore the genre, discovering Drake, 2 Chainz, Kanye West and Logic at first. Brian wrote his first rap song in 2014 and recorded it onto an iPhone microphone over an MF DOOM produced instrumental.[18]
Brian originally wanted to become a cinematographer in Los Angeles, giving up once his music career began taking off.[19]
Career
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