MC Ren began his solo career signed as a solo artist to Eazy-E\'s Ruthless in early 1987, while still attending high school. By the end of 1987, after having written almost half of Eazy-Duz-It, he was included in N.W.A. After the group disbanded in 1991, he stayed with Ruthless, before leaving the label in 1999.\n', '

Lorenzo Jerald Patterson was born in Compton, Los Angeles, California on June 16, 1969 and raised on Pannes Ave, around Kelly Park. He grew up with his parents, two brothers and a sister. His father used to work for "the government", until he later opened up his own barber shop.\n', '

Patterson joined the Kelly Park Compton Crips, a gang that Eazy E would also be in, but quickly left when he wasn\'t making money: "At one moment I tried to get into the little banging thing, but the little banging thing wasn\'t working out. I wasn\'t getting paid." Leaving the gang, Patterson began selling dope after watching people getting paid: " I seen everybody around me getting paid and making ends, so I started getting into the dope game for a quick minute." Following a raid on his childhood friend MC Chip\'s house, Patterson abandoned the dope game and focused on making music: "Then my homie Chip, his house got raided, fucked up everything. So we had to chill out for a minute. After that I was just trying to stay deep into the music." \n', '

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