Jackson was raised in the Christopher Homes area in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans.

As a teenager, he began rapping under the name G-Slimm, and was discovered by Charles "Big Boy" Temple in 1992.

He was signed the next year to Big Boy Records along with Mystikal, Black Menace and Partners-N-Crime.

[citation needed] G-Slimm's debut album Fours Deuces & Trays was released on September 3, 1994,[citation needed] and featured guest appearances by Mystikal[1] and production by Leroy "Precise" Edwards, who gave it a West Coast southern feel.

[5] On October 13, 1996, gunmen opened fire on Jackson and three other men outside Christopher Homes.