Full Name: Perry Thomas Borja
Nicknames: Pure P, Zodiak, P
Birthday: 1971.11.12
Birthplace: Oakland, California
Height: 5’3″
Religion: Christian
Family: Parents, 5 older brothers, 2 older sisters
Hobbies: Buying/watching DVDs
How he describes himself: Crazy about music, crazy about movies, crazy about YG, crazy about work, a fun person, and a neat freak.
Perry was born in Oakland in 1971. As far as we know, he’s half-Chamorro, half-Japanese. When he was sixteen, he was shot by a gang member while walking out of a store in a bad neighbourhood (the way it was described sounds like he wasn’t directly involved, just in the wrong place at the wrong time). He dropped out of school and spent a year recovering from his injuries, then was sent to Guam to live with his relatives and finish high school. There, he started going to clubs, writing music and designing graffiti.
Guam didn’t have much of a hip-hop scene at that point, and Perry is widely regarded as a pioneer of that genre. Some rappers and DJs currently active on Guam credit him for teaching them and paving the way for them. Back then, he was known as Pure P and had a hip-hop group called the Raggedy Boyz. He was well-known enough on the island to do a TV commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken (for which the Raggedy Boyz became the Kick Buckets).
At least up to 2004 or so, Perry still performed as a DJ on Guam. He’s also known as Zodiak, and works with two other Guamanian musicians as the “Zodiak crew”. He’s released two tracks as Zodiak on a Guamanian music compilation.
Perry and Sean both graduated from JFK high school on Guam, and knew each other in the early nineties. They produced an album for Korean hip-hop group Honey in 1995, and Perry moved in with Sean on Guam before the beginning of MF Family. This is when he was recruited – after Keep Six flopped, but before Jinusean’s debut.
He went on to write hit after hit for the label, in addition to training some of the artists (notably GDYB, Lexy and Teddy). He’s also the producer for all the albums released by YG Entertainment and can be heard on many of them, either singing, rapping, or doing back vocals. He released a solo album in 2001, but decided not to appear on stage anymore around 2003 – probably so he could focus on all the producing/songwriting he does for YG, but there might be other reasons.
good work, i like your studies. so tell me, where does perry work now, and has he been composing most of BIGBANG’s Jap. Songs??
Perry is currently back in Korea after spending some time in the States. He’s been composing some of Big Bang’s Japanese songs as well as writing most of the English raps and translating various songs to English (not only Big Bang’s, but also 2NE1′s “Can’t Nobody”, Taeyang’s “I’ll Be There”, etc.).
Will he release his next album?
I don’t know him or anything, but I really doubt he has another solo album in the works. He’s been working as a producer and songwriter for many years and hasn’t shown any desire to release more solo stuff.
I love YG…how can I write/produce for YG?
perry is my uncle..the youngest in my dads family..havent heard from him for a while now….but he’s not half japanese..hehe he’s full chamorro..moms chamorro dads chamorro. just thought u should know.
Thanks a lot for the correction. :) We’d actually gotten that information from interviews and profiles that were published in Korea back when Perry released his solo album there – a lot of sources said either that he was half-Japanese or that his grandmother was Japanese. Anyway, we’ll update his profile!
he ‘s from modesto ca. not oakland we grew up with him….Projects
Perry was also known as DJ Kid Kutt in the mid 80′s… from Modesto California.
Omg I can’t believe I met him when I was young!!! He was related to a neighbor of ours and visited them when i was younger and my sister took a picture with him! :)
I remeber drinking and clubbing with Perry almost every weekend and some weekdays in the early 2000 was able to most of yg family back then. And I remember se7en when he was just starting. Last time I seen Perry was at the airport sometime in the mid 2000s …
can anyone tell me his e-mail address? pretty please!
thank you for help me to khowing PERRY
Hey it’s Maesia Rana’s daughter I think we have met before when I was a baby I’m 12 now and I really like your music. My mom always talks about and she thinks you were a great friend back then and I was wondering if you could reply back to our emails we’ve sent you and a mailing address for a fan club whatever something like that. But I want to send a little book I made for you and Big Bang. I really hope you see this I will be waiting for a response. And thank you for your time of reading this sorry it’s long. Sincerely, Maesia McDonald