Morgan was born in Brooklyn on the 10th of November 1968. He grew up in the Brooklyn's Marlboro Houses, and Tompkins Houses. Morgan is the second of five children of a homemaker, Alicia (nee Warden),[1 as well as Jimmy Morgan, a musician who quit the family when Morgan was just six years old. old.His father named him Tracy in honor of his platoonmate and friend who went off to Vietnam with him , and was killed in action days later.The victim of bullies when he was a kid, Morgan attended DeWitt Clinton High School. In 1985, when he was 17 during his senior year, Morgan learned that his father was suffering from HIV from hypodermic needle use.His father passed away in the month of January, 1987 at the age of 38.Morgan was married to his partner Sabina at the time and left high school just four credits less than his diploma in order to care for his ailing father. Morgan was living on welfare and selling crack cocaine, but with no success [8]. But, he started earning money from the streets performing comedy after his best friend was killed. He told the news in 2009: "He would say to me, 'Yo, Tracy man you should be performing comedy.' He was killed a week later. And that for me, that was like my Vietnam. As I started to achieve I was suffocated by a feeling of guilt about my own survival. Why I made it out and some guys didn't. "Morgan started his career as a stand-up comedian and was able to make enough money to move to Riverdale from his old, shabby home close to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
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