Jonathan Davis was born on April 10, 1970 in Harlem, New York. He later moved to (Jamaica) Queens as a child. Famously known from "Check the Rhime", he mostly resided at Linden Boulevard. His father was from Montserrat, a British territory in the eastern Caribbean.^[1] His mother is an African-American woman from Alabama. His sister, Gwen, is eight years his senior. He attended Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan, New York. He converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed.^[2] The Q in Q-Tip's stage name stands for Queens, the borough of New York City from which he hails. ^{[citation needed]} In an interview with Martha Stewart he revealed that he got his nickname Q-tip during his childhood because he was skinny and had big hair.

Q-Tip is a resident of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.^[3] He is the cousin of both Consequence and Dres from the hip hop group Black Sheep.

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