--Born Marcus Julius O’Nealy, he came from a prominent middle class family. Later he would dub himself MacKilla Guerilla, after he fell from the cul-de-sacs of the suburbs, and landed in the streets of the ghetto.

Yeah, um, parents were cool, they were cool… But I was like… I ain’t havin’ none of that, you know what I mean? So, I um left prep school, left the valley, and fuckin’ just got an apartment and started goin’ to Ingelwood High. And people weren’t getting me, or where I was coming from. Like, why you living off your parent’s allowance, wearin’ tommy gear, and shit… And I had to like rhyme just to stay alive, or I’d get beat every single day… And I still got beat every single day.
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Eventually, I adopted the name MacKilla Guerilla… and I’d still get shit like “why you call yourself a gorilla.”

--MacKilla Guerilla was first discovered on Jenny Jones.

Ironically, uh, it was for a show called “you’re not so hot, white boy Raps-A-Lot.” [laughs] And we was, [correcting] all of us [quotes] “white boys” [repeat quotes slow-mo], asked to perform indivually like. And uh, I’ll admit it, I got booed off, but I guess some rich, white record producer-executive-whatever saw it and liked it and you know, here I am.

--What followed was a period of drinking, drugs, and excess.

Yeah, there were drugs, and there were girls, yeah there were some serious whoo girls. [laughs] That was about the time I met Tanisha, which was cool, it was cool.

--Tanisha was pregnant.

When I found out I was a daddy, I was like… shit. [collecting himself] Oh, I’m sorry, you’re not supposed to, you know… [beat] But, I mean, I was like… Sheyet!

--And just as it started, it was over.

You know, in hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have started partyin’ so hard before I even started a record. Um, like sixth months later, the record company was getting kinda upset, because other than a few more Jenny Jones appearances, I wasn’t, uh, how’d they put it, producin’ any product. So I was cut, and um, I’m now sellin’ VHS copies of my three Jenny Jones appearances, and uh, you can still kinda hear me over the boos. But, uh, you guys got a buy this shit, because I don’t know how I’m going to support this baby, man, you guys got a help me. [crying] I’m beggin you man. You got to help a brother… even a white brother, come on people… Hey, hey, buy my clothing line, I’ve only got a few t-shirts printed, but its about to explode…