China Mac

About

Raymond Yu (born February 5, 1982), known professionally as China Mac, is an American rapper, entertainer, activist, and former gang member.

Yu was born and raised in Brooklyn to Chinese immigrants, from Hong Kong. He moved into a group home at the age of 8. Yu joined the Ghost Shadows gang when he was 12. In his teenage years, he would partake in freestyle rap battles with other kids at the juvenile detention center.

At the age of 18, Mac was sentenced to three years in prison for gang related crimes in 2000.
On November 9, 2003, Mac was involved in an altercation with MC Jin at a bar in Chinatown, Manhattan, where he shot Jin’s acquaintance, rapper Christopher “LS” Louie, in the back. Mac later went on the run for over a year and was apprehended in Seattle, Washington when he tried to leave the country with a fake passport. In prison, he was nicknamed “China Mac” by the Makk Balla Family gang. He was released on parole in November 2013 and founded the Red Money Records record label and a pet store with the money he saved up while in prison.

Mac returned to prison for an…