EBK Jaaybo makes some heat for the street, but the Stockton, Calif.-bred rapper actually grew up on a steady diet of R&B music. Keyshia Cole and Alicia Keys were artists in his regular rotation. He officially took up rapping around 12 years old after watching his late father chase his own rap dreams. Jaaybo’s dad, a local Stockton rapper by the name of RRari, who was murdered in 2015, was instrumental in kickstarting the 20-year-old rapper’s hip-hop career. In middle school, Jaaybo was freestyling in the lunchroom while making a beat on the table.