[1] Al Hasan Naqiyy was born in Compton, California on January 23, 1975, as Arlandis Hinton.

[2] He was raised by a single mother, Christine Thomas, and had an older half-brother, Andre Wicker.

He has gone on to release nine additional albums including Prince of Compton[3] (2009), Eazy-E's Protege[4] (2011), and Blocc Boyz[5] (2015).

On August 10, 2019, he released a single titled "Nobody Move", which featured Ricc Rocc and Michael ACE.

Knocc Out was convicted of attempted murder and served ten years in prison.