Everyone has an origin story. For artist and rapper K’ron Major, a.k.a Ruuch, it begins in the small town of Hopkinsville, Ky., but that was just the beginning of the ride that would lead him to San Marcos and the burgeoning hip-hop community here.
“In Hopkinsville, the neighborhood I lived in was gang territory,” Major said. “It was called the DA, which stood for Dirty Avenue.” Around age 5, his mom met a man, and the family relocated to Dallas. He and his brothers went to school, played sports and made friends, but when his stepfather went to jail, they returned to Hopkinsville where they would have tighter family support.
“When we moved back to Kentucky, my brother and I were a bit wilder,” Major said. “We were doing your average hood kid stuff. Older guys in the neighborhood would send us to the store with a list of stuff to pick up. I never got caught, but one of my cousins did. That kind of scared me.”
