Jaja Soze was born Elijah Kerr on 16 February 1980 in Birmingham,[1] England, to parents from Jamaica.

[7] Because of domestic disputes in his family, Kerr moved to Brixton, on the Angell Town Estate in South London in the early '90s,[8] where he then became heavily involved in crime, and convicted in 1996 at the age of just 15, for a bank robbery.

Soze then grew to be a part of a well known London gang known as the Peel Dem Crew, of which he later founded and transformed into PDC Rap Group, also known as Poverty Driven Children.

[10] Soze began creating music at the age of 12 years old (1992), heavily influenced by his upbringing of Rastafarian music with a mix of early American '90s hip hop like that of Public Enemy and UK London Posse which was rumoured to have sparked his interest in starting his own street type movement.

[11] Him and his friends would later go on to set up PDC rap group and create a massive platform that would inspire young disadvantaged youth, to be able to express their opinions and struggles of the UK street culture, via music.