Avery has three siblings, two brothers and one sister and grew up in View Park, a working class neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Avery attended and graduated from Beverly Hills High School where he played baseball and waterpolo.

He landed a short stint on the hit television series Doogie Howser, M.D.. Avery continued to hone his music career and produced the lead single Push on the debut album of singer/actress Tisha Campbell.

In 2001, soon after wrapping Shot, Avery was arrested and charged with a double homicide for shooting two random people, for which he was sentenced to life in prison.

[4] He was murdered on September 4, 2005, in Crescent City, California, at the age of 36, after being strangled by his Pelican Bay State Prison cellmate Kevin Roby as part of a "Satanic ritual that was intended as a warning to God.