I grew up with Machel in La Romain until his first album "to young to Soca" came out and then he moved to Siparia, Santa Floria.
I can tell you he has a great brother and great parents, they use to take us in the swimming pool almost every week where is Dad works.
But Machel is a real idiot and thinks he is above the law (which he is in T&T)..
But he has a large ego.
I remember him going Presentation after he moved from by us and the guy would pass us straight like he didn't know us, he use to get beat up a lot.
We had a football game against Pres once and the girls from our school (Tech) was hitting him real clout, he was a punk and only now he acting bad because he have all these body guards around him.
His brother Marcus use to play in his band, he is really cool.
His mother is the reason for Machel success, he really pushed that kid.