DJ Akademiks

About

Livingston George Allen, (born May 17, 1991) known professionally as DJ Akademiks (or simply Akademiks, or by his stage name Lil AK), is a Jamaican-American podcaster, YouTuber and online streamer who specializes in music industry journalism. After gaining fame on YouTube in the mid-2010s, he and rapper Joe Budden began co-hosting Everyday Struggle, a daily show by Complex Networks, in 2017. He also hosts the podcast Off the Record with DJ Akademiks on Spotify.

Livingston George Allen was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, and has two biological brothers. His father was a school principal and is stated to have had many extramarital affairs due to his affluent status in Jamaican society. DJ Akademiks did not appreciate his father’s character of being away from his family, engaging in extramarital affairs and eventually starting another family, but he claims to have understood and forgiven him as he grew older.
DJ Akademiks mainly grew up under the care of his mother and his grandmother. Akademiks’s mother left him and his brother back in Jamaica and migrated to the United States, where she worked many jobs, lived in sub-par conditions, and eventually paid an American man…