Early Life
Jacobs was born and raised in the Brooklyn residential neighborhood of Brownsville to an African-American father and African-American mother. He was raised by his mother, Yvette Jacobs, his grandmother, Cordelia Jacobs, and his aunts. Jacobs graduated from Erasmus High School.
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