Under pressure from his father, Bronson briefly enrolled in the Art Institute of New York City’s culinary program. I went out, bombed, rolled around smoking weed, listened to rap music, stole paint and did ill art on walls,” he says. “I’d never really completed anything in my life until now. But he says he lacked discipline, dropping out of school and falling in love with hip-hop and graffiti. After their divorce, he worked in his father’s restaurants and played football at Bayside High School. He was raised an only child by a Muslim Albanian father, a restaurateur, and a Jewish “free spirit hippie” mother (both also amateur musicians) in the diverse, working-class Queens neighborhood of Flushing. That Bronson has done anything at all with music is still a wonder to him. Party Supplies, Action Bronson & Black Atlass, ‘The Light In the Addict’: Exclusive Song Premiere “People feel like they know me - I’m the laidback guy you want to smoke with,” he says in his thick outer-borough accent, looking like a 1980s wrestler, wearing a green jacket over an orange shirt and black shorts.
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