Malcolm's parents were recreational drug users when he was a young child. Both parents became addicted and his father overdosed when Malcolm was 9 leaving his mother to raise a rambunctious young boy through adolescences. The stress of having to work to sopport herself and her son was too much with the added element of her own addiction she became a shell of what she used to be. She currently resides in a government run facility and has lost most of her will. His apartment, if you can call it that, is located in the worst part of Chicago.