Raised in Durham, North Carolina, Kenneth Redding learned from an early age that success is determined through hard work and preserverance. His early successes where first visualized in the classroom. While attending Club Blvd. Elementary it was there hat he first received the title Academically Gifted, a title which would remain with him throughout adulthood. As a model student he would mentor and tutor those who were less fortunate than himself and would later receive many awards and recognition in his community. However though his academic career was promising, his situation at home grew more and more troubling. Living in North Durham, residents would sleep through gunshots and awaken to the sounds of police sirens daily. He would witness the deaths of many of his childhood friends and even himself become a vitcim of a random act of violence. It was not until 1994 after the death of his grandfather would his mother, brother, and himself would move out of the neighborhood and into a home in Campus Hills near NCCU. It was here where the legend of KenRed began. His athelte and scholarly skills would make his name legendary among the neighborhood elites and would forever shape his life. Even with the added attention it never quenched his appetite for wealth, starting his first business of lawncare at the tender age of 14. Later he paid his way through his undergraduate degree in political science, and returned to Durham. It was then he decided to start Akademikjeanius.com a ecommerce site devouted to music instrumentals and mixtapes. After the success of the website he then create the Akademik Jeanius Music Group as a full fledge hip hop productions company to promote, manage, and expose the future of hip hop artists from the south.
