Sad Boy Loko (legally Mario Hernandez-Pacheco) is a rapper from Santa Barbara, California.

Sad Boy started freestyle rapping at the age of 13. His friend, Chico, introduced it to him at an early age influenced him to record songs on a laptop using beats that his friends produced.

Once he realized that people outside of his crew were also listening to his song, it influenced him to make a Career out of telling more of his stories through music. ^[1]

He states in a interview he was approached by a friend on his birthday weekend who knew a guy who was in direct contact with YG, he brushed it off as a joke at the first glance.

He thought it was too good to be true, and started drinking as it was around his birthday.

A short period of time after this he gets a FaceTime call from YG. Within a week Sad Boy was invited to the studio.

The black-brown beef collaboration between Sad Boy and YG started as an effort to unite the streets regardless of Race and ethnicity. Sad Boy has talked about how the movement they created helped unite the two communities.

Sad Boy Loko's parents immigrated from Mexico to Santa Barabara. His father worked in construction and his mother worked in housekeeping. He is one of six siblings; he has two younger brothers and three sisters. ^[1]

He has three children, two of whom are tattooed on his right arm.

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He got his first tattoo when he was 14-15 years old.

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He has "I'm still here" on the left side of his head; the phrase is the single that helped him get noticed in which he tells a story about getting stabbed four times.

He also has his nickname on the right side of his head.

Sad Boy Loko was sentenced January 15, 2020 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to Felony Assault and street terrorism. He struck a plea deal with prosecutors in December 2019 to avoid a trial on his original charges of attempted murder and robbery.^[17]

According to prosecutors, in the early-morning hours of July 23, 2018, near the Cacique Street footbridge, Pacheco was with two minors and another adult male when they attacked and stabbed a 19-year-old victim after stealing his backpack, which contained drugs. The victim suffered a 15-centimeter stab wound to the top of his head and a fractured skull. “Sadly, because of the code of silence followed by gang members, the primary adult assailant and stabber remains outstanding in this investigation,” prosecutor Kim Siegel stated in Pacheco’s sentencing report.^[17]

Pacheco had been held in Santa Barbara County Jail without bail since his arrest on August 3, 2018.

Those 15 months of time served will count toward his prison term.^[17]