Sir Mix-a-Lot

Anthony Ray was born on August 12, 1963 in Auburn, Washington. He was a fan of hip hop and started rapping in the early 1980s.\n', '

Growing up Ray\'s mother worked as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) at the King County Jail making 6 or 7 dollars an hour. While living in the Bryant Manor apartments on 19th Ave and East Yesler Way, Anthony Ray started school at Roosevelt High School, near the University District, when the Seattle Public School District was in the throes of what would be a 21-year experiment to integrate the school system. Students were bused from their neighborhoods to schools at the other end of the city. From 1978, when the busing program started, to 1999, when it was shelved, minorities carried the burden of busing, piling onto buses from the South End and the Central Area that were headed for predominantly white schools in the North End.\n', '

Ray said he knew that…