[5][6] Born in Chicago, Illinois, Roundtree and his family subsequently relocated to Poughkeepsie, New York before then moving to Riverside, California when he was nine.

[4] He graduated from Canyon Springs High School in Moreno Valley before moving back to Los Angeles in 1993.

One of the singles, "Top of the Stairs", was featured in the ending credits as well as the soundtrack to the 1995 film Money Train.

He quietly "retired" from rapping five months after the album's release because of a dispute with label Sunshine Records.

Skee-Lo claims Sunshine Records took all the credit from the album's success, and he did not make a single cent from it.

He returned to the music scene in 2000 with a new single I Can't Stop, which would be the titular track on his second album released in 2001.

[8] In January 2010, Skee-Lo returned from another musical hiatus with the EP Overdose where he collaborated with record producer Michael DeBarge.

[citation needed] In 2011 he wrote "Burnin' Up" as part of the soundtrack of the 2013 horror movie Killer Holiday from Lionsgate Entertainment.