BEFORE Bouba Savage would become one of the youngest hip-hop performers ever, he was born Boubacar Diallo on October 17th, 2006 in Conakry, Guinea. That’s where Diallo would spend the first decade of his life growing-up in an Islamic family in West Africa, where he learned to appreciate hot-sauce as his go-to condiment and got pretty good at basketball and soccer to boot. Unfortunately, he was a little bit less interested in reading an every-single page of the Quran during class hours and when he’d make the mistake of falling asleep, his teachers would ensure he regretted it by whipping his hand with a wire coat hanger. Then, in 2016, he and his siblings left their mom behind and immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City – more specifically, Courtlandt Avenue in the Bronx – to live with their father. At the time of his arrival in North America, Diallo couldn’t speak a single word of English, so he quickly integrated himself in not only the city’s culture, but his new step-family as well and within two years he was speaking the language fluently.