Rapper Kent Jones was born in Tallahassee, Florida on April 14, 1993. He was very young when his family introduced him to music. He learned to play drums from his aunt before beginning to take formal music lessons during which he learned to play the piano and the Hammond organ, and studied music theory. Later, he started developing an interest in jazz music.

Jones later moved to Miami, Florida and started working with record producers and songwriters Cool & Dre. He then signed a record deal with their label Epidemic Records and got to collaborate with the likes of Fat Joe, The Game, Currensy, Queen Latifah and Busta Rhymes. Cool & Dre introduced him to DJ Khaled in 2015, who eventually signed him in a joint venture record deal to his own label, We the Best Music Group and Epic Records.

Jones released his first mixtape titled "Tours" in July 2015. "Don't Mind", which contains lyrics in French, Spanish, Japanese and Haitian Creole, was later released as a single off the project and went on to become his biggest hit. The song debuted at No. 63 on Billboard Hot 100 and has so far peaked at No. 8 on the chart.

Turns out, the track almost didn't make the cut to the mixtape. "It almost didn't even make it on the mixtape. Well, I got the tracklisting from the guy who does my artwork and then Dre and Khaled sent me the tracklisting and the track wasn't on there. So I hit up Dre and asked him what was going on. It was that song and another song. The other song really didn't make it, but that one we had get something done sonically on there. So Cool mixed down the entire 'Tours' record. So we had to go back in and fix it. Once we got it back to Dre, that's when it just made it," he explained in an interview with Vibe.

Of why he insisted to have the song on the record, he said, "I'm gonna be real with you. When I made it, I thought it was a good song with good rhythm. I was saying some stuff. It wasn't until I took the record up to Orlando. My brother at 104.5 DJ D-Strong was taking a listen to some records and he came across that one. D-Strong told me it was a hit. But I enjoyed making it. The day I made it, because I made the beat and everything in one day, it was before I went on the road. At one point I was like, you know maybe the people will respond to it differently. Now did I expect it to go as crazy as its going? Of course not."