He was born Reginald Yaw Asante Ossei to fashion designer Ricky Ossei (Saint Ossei), in the United Kingdom but came back to Ghana while still very young and grew up at Kumasi and Accra. Reginald attended Achimota School, Accra, Ghana.

He started his music career by first attaching himself to the Hip-Hop movement in the early 80’s as a dancer. He gained much prominence and fame even while still a dancer throughout the 80’s. In the early 1990’s, he was in the UK with a group known as PLZ (Parables, Linguistics, and Zlangs). In 1994, he finally realized that the music platform in London was not so much in his favor and he decided to return to Accra to explore the grounds in his own home. Fortunately for him on his return, he was greeted by a whole generation of people grooving to African-American rhythms, completely influenced by the same features of hip-hop that he knew all too well.

Without much ado, he started the hiplife movement that same year in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Reginald Ossei soon came up with an innovative idea which gave birth to the hip-life or Kasahara genre of music – a combination and blending of hip-hop beats with authentic phat production and true African dialect; the Akan language of Twi. This is what he once said about the creation: