SPM’s father was Arturo Coy a former marine from Falfurrias community in brooks county. Met a woman who dropped out of high school to marry. The marriage was ended three years after Carlos’s birth. Carlos’s sister Sylvia said she was his “mother-sister” . Carlos when to a lot of different elementary Schools before entering the music program at Welch Middle school. Carlos’s family moved from southeast Houston to South Park, and he attended Woodson middle school. Brad Jordan, aka Scarface, was also attending Woodson .Carlos attended Milby High School until he dropped out in 1987 when he was still in ninth grade . Carlos still obtained a GED and enrolled in San Jacinto Junior College for a business associate degree, but failed all of his classes. Carlos started to work at a chemical plant for minimum wage. After being unemployed he worked as a door-to-door perfume seller and then crack cocaine dealer.