Benjamin David Goldberg, also known by his stage name Token, is an American Rapper known for his viral song and music video, "No Suckah MCs", and for overcoming a language disability with the use of writing, poetry, and Hip hop. ^{[3] [17]}

Born and raised in the state of Massachusetts, he grew up in the town of Salem with his parents and an older sister. ^[3] Since a young age, he had a learning disability where doctors and analysts told his parents that he would never be able to process language and long words. According to the doctors, his brain doesn't have the ability to process words like normal people. He went from therapist to therapist who told them about the issue. ^{[3] [12]}

He decided to work relentlessly on his writing skills and learning how to be in command of the English language which resulted in keeping a journal. The activity of writing in his journal led to the discovery of poetry, which ultimately led him to the art of rapping. ^[12]

The art of Hip hop became therapeutic.

At the age of ten years old he started recording himself over beats that he had constructed on GarageBand. This became a part of his self-therapy for his inexplicable violent eruptions at school and at home. When a friend found the songs in Token's computer, he suggested that Token release them via YouTube. ^[3]

After the suggestion of his friend, he decided to put out some songs up on twitter using the moniker, BDG.

He dropped a song of him rapping over the beat for Lil Wayne’s “Drop the World” featuring Eminem.

The positive comments led him to discover his gift for the world, and to make the decision of doing it for the rest of his life.

Yet, he also received negative comments from his schoolmates who had found the song on the internet.

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He would rap with the older folk would also tease him, but it would not stop Goldberg going back for more.

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His stage name is less of a play on his

race, he says, and more of a nod to a general sense of otherness.

“The whole idea of Token is being ‘the only’ — it’s about feeling different”.

^[3] While in the process of honing his discipline of being a dedicated rapper, he met his collaborated, Colin Mitchell who went by Composition.

The two would record music together and handout CDs at various places in the neighborhood.

They would sometimes find the CDs in the trash bins.

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Of those CDs, one of them found its way a to producer named Jon Glass.

He got the CD from the same barber as Mitchell who had left a few there.

Glass became a mentor.

Nearly every weekend, Goldberg and Mitchell would go to his studio in Danvers and learn about songwriting and structure, engineering, and recording software.

Glass held them to academic standards, too, threatening to cut studio time for poor performance.

He’d dole out personal advice about, say, what to do when someone cut a diss track aimed at them.

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Around this time Token released videos on YouTube as part of a way to market his music. His mom helped him build a makeshift recording studio in their apartment, securing their landlord’s permission to add a wall to create a room off the kitchen. By the time Glass found him, he already had a healthy fan base online. ^[3]

In October 2015, Token released a video as part of a contest for No Suckahs MCs.

After writing the songs in about a day, he decided to make a video for the contest using the song he had written.

The video is Token walking through the Marblehead

neighborhood while rapping at the camera.

The video quickly garnered up to 115,000 views after about an hour.

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In January, 2016, he released a follow-up video called "Still No Sucka MC's".

As of November 2019, it has 1.7 million views on Youtube.^[20]

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