So from my perspective, it was the best thing that could have happened to me." A music teacher at Eckstein Middle School introduced Ray to the possibility of a music career. "But from my perspective, I didn’t have the luxury of living in a neighborhood where a good school was. "I’ve heard things like, 'Forced integration is not good,' 'I want my kid to be able to go to school in our community that’s why we moved here' – all those things I totally understand," he said. But for him, the experience offered respite from the projects. Ray said he knew that some North End residents didn't want black kids bused into their neighborhoods. From 1978, when the busing program started, to 1999, when it was shelved, minorities carried the burden of busing, piling onto buses from the South End and the Central Area that were headed for predominantly white schools in the North End. Students were bused from their neighborhoods to schools at the other end of the city. While living in the Bryant Manor apartments on 19th Ave and East Yesler Way, Anthony Ray started school at Roosevelt High School, near the University District, when the Seattle Public School District was in the throes of what would be a 21-year experiment to integrate the school system Guns N' Roses member Duff McKagan and actress and Charmed star Rose McGowan also went there. Ray was a fan of hip hop and started rhyming in the early 1980s. Growing up, Ray's mother worked as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) at the King County Jail making 6 or 7 dollars an hour. Anthony Ray was born on August 12, 1963, in Auburn, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, and grew up in Seattle's Central District.
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