Chuckie was featured on two national documentaries talking about his life and how it was growing up as an Asian youth in urban Toronto.
The son of Vietnamese refugees, Chuckie grew up in the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto.
He grew up with his mother, and his father was not present in his childhood after his parents split at an early age.
Chuckie found music in his teenage years as an outlet to express his upbringings in the Jane and Finch community.
His music expressed a lot of what teenage youth in the area went through during the time and despite the sometimes negative view, it always had a positive message behind it.