Lord Paper was born in Accra but hail from Mampong, a suburb of Mampong Municipal District, a town in the Ashanti Region. He completed his senior high school education at Swedru Secondary School in the year 2008 and attended University of Ghana in 2013 for his undergraduate degree. He entered the music scene 2010 after leaving his job as an actor in South Africa to pursue full-time music in Ghana (2014)). He became famous when he released his debut controversial single and video Awurama in 2016. The song has been criticised over the sexually explicit content of the music video.