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''' Omar Campos-Ertel, also known by his stage name, AwkWord-O, is a Mexican-American hip hop producer and lyricist. Omar was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, on June 11, 1978, to Molly Ertel and Francisco Campos Inchaurregui. His mother was from New Jersey and mostly of German descent, and his father from Cuernavaca, of Spanish and Mexican-Indian descent. He moved to San Diego, California, along with his family at the age of 9, less than a month before turning 10. Omar's parents divorced when he was 12, and his step dad moved his new family to his hometown of Spokane, WA, where Omar still resides.

He first fell in love with hip hop at the age of 12, when he heard M.C. Hammer on the radio. He would soon loose interest in commercial rap, after discovering acts like N.W.A., Ice-T, Compton's Most Wanted, The Geto Boys, Public Enemy, and Boogie Down Productions. By the time he was 13, he had produced and recorded two solo albums, and three group albums, with him writing all the lyrics. He used a small, hand-held tape recorder with a built-in microphone, his stereo, and a Casio keyboard. He would first make the beat, or borrow one from one of his favorite rap tapes, and then play it back on his stereo while holding the tape recorder to one of the stereo speakers and rapping into the built-in mic.