THE ADVENTURE BEGAN ON MAY 21, 1977, WHEN CHAD STUBBINGTON (GEMINEYE) WAS BORN IN SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA. IT WAS IN 1984 WHEN HE RECEIVED HIS FIRST TASTE OF HIP HOP: THE CANADIAN K-TEL "BREAKDANCE" CASSETTE, A GIFT FROM HIS UNCLE, AUNT, AND COUSINS KIM AND STACY. IN 1987 GEMINEYE RECEIVED HIS FIRST HIP-HOP MIXTAPE WHEN HE WENT TO A FELLOW CLASSMATES HOUSE AT LUNCH TIME AND DUBBED A CASSETTE COPY OF THE FIRST TRACKS RECORDED BY N.W.A, SALT-N-PEPA, KOOL MOE DEE, 2 LIVE CREW, AND THE WORLD CLASS WRECKIN’ CRU. BY 1988, THE COLLECTION EXPANDED AS HIS STEP-BROTHER SECURED RUN DMC’S "TOUGHER THAN LEATHER" AND IN 1989, THEIR HORIZON WAS EXPANDED HUNT WHEN GEMINEYE’S OLDER BROTHER JASON (BIGBROTHER) ACQUIRED SCHOOLLY D’S "AM I BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?" WHILE GEMINEYE HIMSELF TREKKED TO SAM THE RECORD MAN IN SURREY PLACE MALL TO SEIZE SCHOOLLY D’S "SMOKE SOME KILL". BUT A SUDDEN SHIFT WAS COMING. IN THE FALL OF 1989, THE FAMILY MOVED FROM SURREY TO MISSION BECAUSE HIS STEPFATHER HAD LANDED A NEW JOB IN ABBOTSFORD.