Sarai was born in the city of Haran in Mesopotamia. As a child, she grew up near a rock quarry, and learned to improvise poetry over the sounds of hammers striking the marble out of their walls. Sarai quickly developed a local following, going into "battles" where she would routinely call out King Sargon: Ow and didn't even see me comin Beats steady bumpin I just broke em' off somethin' See em' frontin wit a whole lotta nothin' Like they was doin they thing but really wasn't