Keon Clayton grew up on Hilton Street after leaving Cedonia where his grandmother housed his parents,and grew up on Garrison and Dolfield where his grandfather paid him to clean up hair after school in his private barber shop. After various plays at Center Stage while in GAT gifted and talented he left Cab Calloaway Elementary and was elected unanimously to attended the Baltimore school for the Arts where Jada Pinkett and Tupac Shakur attended.After receiving a full scholarship to CALARTS ie Don Cheadle he began working on AMW with an impromptu leave in the first year of college due to a small hustle for a TV show formerly called "The Show" and is a principle 2 time role player on AMW and his first movie starring Ving Rhames and Mary Louis Parker called Jamesy Boy.