Kenna didn't decide to make music his career until college, when he realized that the more standard route of formal education wasn't the right one for him. Teaming up with high-school friend Chad Hugo of
The Neptunes, Kenna set to work making demo tapes. One of these eventually made its way to Atlantic Records, and then to
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, who had recently started his own imprint on
Geffen/
Interscope. Durst was impressed by what he heard and gave Kenna the go-ahead to make his own album.