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GOONEY ORIGNAL NAME IS RAYSHAWN RANKIN. HE WAS NAMED AFTER HIS FATHER. AT THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS OLD RAYSHAWN RANKIN (EVERYONE KNOW AS RIO THE DON) SAW A MAN GET SHOT IN THE HEAD. "RAPPER" GOONEY SAYS "HE DONT KNOW WHAT CAUSE IT TO HAPPEN BUT WHEN HE SAY THE MAN IT LOOKED LIKE HIS BRAIN WAS MISSING". HE ASKED HIS MOTHER WOULD THAT EVER HAPPEN TO HIM AND SHE SAID " YEA IF YOU ROAM THESE STREETS BOY."BEFORE GOONEY STARTED RAPPING HE USED TO PLAY BASKETBALL, THAT WAS HIS FIRST DREAM BECAUSE HIS DAD MADE IT TO THE NBA ROOKIE CAMP AND GOT HURT, SO THEREFORE HE FELT LIKE IT WAS HIS NEED TO FINISH WHAT HIS FATHER STARTED. HE ALWAYS KNEW DEEP DOWN IN HIS HEART THAT HE WASN'T GONE MAKE IT TO THE NBA CAUSE OF HIS GRADE.GOONEY FIRST GOT EXPOSED TO THE STREETS AT THIRTEEN. HIS GRADES WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH TO PLAY BALL AND HE WANTED THE NICEST THINGS SO HE STARTED SELLIN DRUGS AT SKOOL. HIS COUSIN RIP SHOWED HIS HOW TO SELL AND WHO TO SELL IT TO. THE MONEY HE USE TO MAKE OF THE DRUGS HE USED THEM TO BUY CLOTHES SO HE REALLY WASN'T PROFITING ALOT HE SAY. HIS COUSIN WAS A BIG TIME DRUG DEALER SO EVERYTIME HE WOULD FALL OF HE WOULD PUT HIM BACK .. SO LONG RIO WENT TO JAIL FOR TEN DAYS. HE SAID TO HIMSELF "LORD IF YOU GET ME OUT OF THIS MESS I PROMISE I WANT TOUCH A DRUG AGAIN. HE GOT OUT AND AFTER MONTH HE WENT BACK TO HIS OLD WAYS.GOONEY PARENTS WERE HAVING PROBLEMS AND EVENTALLY THEY SEPARATED. GOONEY AND HIS MOTHER AND SISTER MOVED BACK TO HIS HOMETOWN MEMPHIS,TENN. GOONEY WASN'T TAKING THE SEPARATION SO WELL. HE QUIT PLAYING BALL AND STARTED WORKING. HE STARTED SELLIN MAJOR DRUGS DOWN THERE AND HE STARTED USING HIS PRODUCT. HE WAS SKIPING SCHOOL AND THE TIMES HE WENT HE WOULD EITHER SKIP CLASS OR GO TO SLEEP. AT THE END OF HIS TENTH HE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO FAIL THE TENTH GRADE. HE DIDN'T ALL HE WANTED WAS MONEY. HIS MOTHER STARTED KICKING HIM OUT THE HOUSE SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE OF HIS VIOLENCE BEHAVIOR. HE ENDED UP GOING BACK TO JAIL.GOONEY FINALLY OPENED HIS EYES. HE HAD MADE UP HIS MIND HE WAS GOING TO GRADUATE AND PLAY BALL. RIO THE DON STARTED GOING TO A ALL WHITE SCHOOL IN MISSISSIPPI CALLED SOUTHAVEN HIGH. HE MET THIS BOY THERE NAME JAMES LINEAR. THEY STARTED TALKIN BOUT GUNS AND HAD MADE AND AGREEMENT TO TRADE GUNS AT SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY. THE NEXT DAY CAME AND GOONEY GOT CAUGHT WITH A 22 CALIBER AND A 145 BULLETS. GOONEY LIFE WAS WAS GONE DOWN THE DRAIN HE SERVED 4 MONTHS IN A YOUTH PRISON DOWN IN RANKIN COUNTY. WHEN HE GOT OUT HE WAS A MUCH SMARTER YOUNG MAN AND STILL HAD DREAMS AND THAT IS WHAT HE DO NOW RAPPING