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Calderon, Nicholas Interview 1, Bronx African American History Project
Calderon, Nicholas Interview 1, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison, Noel Wolfe, Dawn Russell
INTERVIEWEE: Nicholas Calderon
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Nicholas Calderon (b. 5/12/1986) is a rapper from the South Bronx. He is also the founder and owner of Take Money Records. He was born in the Taft Houses in East Harlem to a Puerto Rican father and an African-American mother. Because his mother was a crack addict and his father was a heroin addict, he began living with his grandmother at the age of two. He was raised in the Beekman Housing Project in the South Bronx, near St. Mary’s Park. Calderon was …