Born Jeffrey Germain on August 8, 1985, Faze-G was the youngest of five children. Under the influence and reputation of his Haitian drug hustling parents, Faze-G started his life recklessly running the streets of Dade County. By age eight, Faze-G had a growing reputation as a hoodlum, and a fledgling lyricist. When Faze-G was eleven, his father fell victim to an unworthy illnesses, leaving behind his family and an overwhelmed drug empire. Devastated by the untimely death of his father, Faze-G sank deeply into the darkness of the North Miami streets. Drama escalated at home, and Faze-G retreated, affiliating himself with Zoe Pound out of Little Haiti, one of Miami’s most vicious street gangs. Faze-G continued to write rhymes, but the drama of the streets and his constant run-ins with the authorities, proved to be distracting.Matters got worse, when his mother grew deathly ill, and was unable to travel back and forth to Haiti to conduct the business. Faze-G’s behavior also grew more out of control. “I was robbing niggaz, getting’ into fights, getting kicked outta’ school, in and out of juve[nile hall], f*cking broads, shootin’ guns, all by age twelve,” he explains.Faze-G got moved from house to house and school to school, at some point living in every major part of Dade County. Finally, he found a stable home in the suburban community of Ives Dairy. This kind of stability was new to Faze-G, but allowed him, for the first time, the opportunity to focus on his music. To say he was focused is actually an understatement; Faze recorded over 400 album-ready songs and performed every chance he got. At age fifteen, Faze-G lost his mother also, but was unable to get to her, from where he was in Ives Dairy. He feels he missed his chance to say good-bye, but he was more energized to use rap to escape the crazy life that his family had introduced him to.Having beat the odds, while in college at age nineteen, Faze-G moved out to seriously pursue his rap career. Since then he has collaborated with major labels artists, performed in more than sixty different venues, and recorded countless hits.