Shulman was born in 1972[1] and grew up in a middle-class area[2] in the south-east suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, becoming acquainted with local hip hop music while still at school during the 1980s.
[2] During the 1990s, he became involved in an educational initiative called the Push, which ran workshops on hip hop and contemporary urban cultures to young people in lower socio-economic regions of Victoria.
[6] and is known for inspiring and uniting other hip hop artists, including Illy, Sereck (of Def Wish Cast), Hilltop Hoods, Pegz,[5] and Briggs.
[3][2] Shulman works as a high school teacher,[2] teaching chemistry[1] and Australian history at Mount Scopus Memorial College in Melbourne (as of 2006[update]).
Tony Mitchell of UTS Sydney described his work thus:[4] Reason is a key practitioner in the Melbourne scene and records on the Obese label, having produced two EPs and two albums to date, Reography and One Step Ahead, which have been important in terms of contributing to a distinctively Australian hip hop linguistic idiom, history and identity as well as a concern with a range of political and social issues.