Young Jerry, whose real name is Atemnkeng Jerry M, was born on January 20, 1990, to the Mbeven family in Kumba, Cameroon. He spent his childhood in Fiango, a well-known neighborhood in the city. Jerry was raised by his mother, Akamin Beatrice M, a renowned seamstress known for her unique tailoring and fashion design skills. It is said that Jerry picked up many of these skills by assisting his mother in her career.
Jerry’s educational journey began in Fontem where he attended classes one through three at Catholic school Buh-Lekh. However, after his grandmother passed away, he returned to Kumba and completed his primary education at Fence School Kosala, a Catholic school. He then continued his secondary education at CCCHS, Cameroon College of Commerce High School. After obtaining his Ordinary level certificate, he left to attend CCAS Kumba, Cameroon College of Arts and Science, but failed and was asked to repeat the lower sixth. Instead, he decided to take the Advanced Level Exams while attending CCCHS Kumba.
Despite not having the best results as a science student with just 11points, he was able to be admitted in the University of Buea to study Microbiology. However, due to missing studies and failing many courses, he had to take extra credits and an extra year in order to obtain his BSc degree.
Music Background
Young Jerry Started his Music Carrier quite early when he in in secondary school in the days of walk-man were he use to record his study note and replay them for the purpose of learning. His learning routine was to record a full page of note after listening to it for over 3 times he will then take out the cassette and then listen to music either from the radio station if there was an ongoing hip hop music or from his “self-re-recorded” hip-hop songs on tape.
Quality music was hard to get as one would need to pay at-the-time big some of money to let the dj record a mixtape or an album of quality music in the “disco-tech studio” as such when he grabbed a rap mix of American rape artists like 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Snoop and Papoose he couldn’t let go the feeling that he needed to become a rapper but with the lack of music schools and the taboo circled amongst music artists he had to choose to study science in school.
Literature in secondary school was great…I understood, enjoyed and love the chills when reading poetry, taking notes of the figure of speech, the rhyme, the wordplay…I knew exactly what I had to be doing at my pleasure time – Young Jerry said
In the early days of his music carrier his music weren’t as original as one can easily figure with his accent and lyrics today, this was because he was in love with American rappers and wanted to sound like them in his music; hence utilizing their accent, slangs and flow. Good thing he found his style early and today as we all know he is mastering and on a steady paste distributing his arts.