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Daymond John was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hollis, Queens. His mother had some difficulty with making ends meet when she and his father and split up early in his life at about age 10. Daymond has challenges with dyslexia which perhaps he has been able to use to his advantage by learning to use other forms of media rather than the printed word to promote his business ideas.
John, like a lot of young people in Hollis and Southeast Queens, was lit over the new musical art form exploding in "da Bronx," called rap or hip hop. Hip hop had an urban realistic storytelling and hard core poetic edge.
He attended Bayside High School. Later early on in his working career he waited tables at a Red Lobster restaurant while getting involved in clothing production and manufacturing of his clothing brand FUBU.
