Felipe Luciano

Rapper Felipe Luciano overcame huge hardships on the road to getting his music to the people. He channeled a lifetime of difficult lived experiences into the sharp storytelling and wizened lyrical perspectives of albums like 2020's Legends Never Die. Felipe Luciano was born Clifton Gordon and grew up in North Carolina. When his family relocated to Los Angeles in 2001, they found themselves homeless for a time before landing in a neighborhood rife with gang violence. Luciano became active in gangs himself, and by 2008 he was serving time in prison for gang-related crimes. Whil...