Rich Kidd

Rich Kidd
Rich Kidd Ontario Native
Background information
Birth name	Ritchie Acheampong
Born	(1987-04-28) April 28, 1987 (age 29) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Hip hop
Occupation(s)	Record producer, rapper
Years active	2007-present
Associated acts	Drake, Busta Rhymes, Frank n Dank, Redman, Raekwon, DMX, Talib Kweli, Kardinal Offishall, K-os
Website	richkiddbeats.com

Ritchie Acheampong (born April 28, 1987), better known as Rich Kidd, is a Canadian hip hop recording artist, record producer and film/video director from Toronto, Ontario. He is a two-time nominee for the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year as a solo artist, garnering nominations at the Juno Awards of 2013 for The Closers and at the Juno Awards of 2014 for In My Opinion.

In 2013, he formed the project Naturally Born Strangers with collaborators Tona and Adam Bomb. That group's debut release, The Legends League Presents: Naturally Born Strangers, won the Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015.

Acheampong was born in Toronto, Ontario, to parents Elizabeth Acheampong, a warehouse laborer, and Morgan Acheampong, a taxi driver. Both are of Ghanaian descent. He was raised by his parents in Scarborough, in the city's east end. At age 3, his family moved to the suburb of Mississauga and frequently within the city. When his parents divorced, he and his mother moved to a subsidized housing area in Erin Mills (west Mississauga), locally known as the Ridgeway complex. He graduated from Loyola Catholic Secondary School and was also a graduate of The Remix Project; an educational youth program for music, art, and business.

Rich Kidd began producing music as a teenager and received his first production credit at 19 years old for rap artists Frank n Dank's "Get Right Song". In 2007, he released the first of an annual compilation series called We on Some Rich Kidd Shit currently composed of six volumes and featuring nearly 100 artists. In 2007, he produced four songs on rap artist Drake's Comeback Season mixtape.