Based out of Manhattan, New York, Skizzy Mars has been making music since he was in high school. Signed with his labelPenthouse Music. He has two Mixtapes before "Phases" but Skiz was unsatisfied and took them down from the internet. Thesetwo mixtapes were his pre recording era titled: "American Psycho" and "Kindred Spirits" Skizzy Mars attended College for ten weeks after high school, but dropped out to pursue his full time music career.