Rip made his life learning as a self-taught student. When his parents made him go to school for science he started working at an arcade restaurant. Rip's motivations are that he loves to be humble and caring. His story started off being a wheelchair user. He moved to Kentucky for more opportunities. His parents were born in Huntsville, Alabama where they were rocket engineers. He had a girlfriend named Jessie Brown but they broke up due to how far away Kentucky was.