For Skrap 1090, the story starts in Brooklyn, where he grew up watching the people around him and learning early what it meant to provide for yourself. His father played a major role in shaping his mindset. He describes his father as a “money-getting” individual, and that mentality stayed with him as he got older.
Growing up, Skrap was influenced by his older brother, music, and the hood movies that captured the environment he was coming from. Movies like Belly and State Property left an impression on him, giving him another perspective on the streets, ambition, and the pursuit of money.
Skrap developed a hustler mentality at a young age. He knew early that he wanted more for himself, especially after seeing his household struggle to make ends meet. He didn’t look at the traditional path as the only way forward. Sports were never really his route because he felt there were faster ways to make money and create a better life.
That mindset eventually led him deeper into street life, something he openly reflects on today. The experiences he went through became part of his story and shaped the way he sees life. More importantly, becoming a father gave those experiences a bigger purpose. He didn’t want his children to experience the same struggles he grew up around. He wanted to build something that would give them a better life.
Music eventually became a major part of that journey.
Skrap began putting his experiences into records and built a catalog that included songs like “Foreigns,” “Pop Out,” “Burberry Bandit,” “Forever Flossy,” and more. What started as another form of expression became something bigger. Music gave him a way to tell his story while connecting with people who understood where he was coming from.
But just as his music and life were moving forward, Skrap’s journey took a major turn.
He was incarcerated as part of a complicated legal situation involving Florida and New York. In Florida, he was held in county jail over a probation violation. He spent four years there before taking a plea deal that resulted in a 10-year sentence for the probation violation and another 10 years for leaving the scene of an accident, with the sentences running concurrently.
At the same time, Skrap was facing a 14-count felony indictment in New York. While he was serving his time in Florida, his codefendants had already gone to trial. Near the end of his Florida sentence, he was extradited to New York to face his own trial.
Skrap ultimately beat the New York case at trial.
After winning his case, he was extradited back to Florida, where he served his remaining 60 days before finally being released.
Those years behind bars changed the way he looked at his future.
Instead of allowing incarceration to stop his progress, Skrap began shifting his attention toward the business side of music. While locked up, he started managing artists in New York and putting his time and resources into helping them develop their careers.
For Skrap, it became about creating another path—one that could provide a future outside of the streets. Somewhere along the way, he realized that he had genuinely fallen in love with the music business.
Today, Skrap 1090 is looking at his journey from a different perspective. The experiences, mistakes, struggles, music, and incarceration all became part of the story that made him who he is.
Now that he’s home, he’s focused on perfecting his craft and preparing to release his own music again. This time, he isn’t just making records. He’s preparing to tell his testimony.
Skrap 1090 has already lived through the chapters that many people only rap about. Now he’s ready to put those chapters into his own words and let the music tell the rest.
