Slim Burna was born in Essex, England to Patience Halliday and Ezekiel Halliday. He grew up in Port Harcourt, with a family full of girls and has three siblings with a step-sister Francoise who is older than him by nine years. When Slim Burna started singing his friends gave him the name "Slim Burna" meaning the "slim bone that burns". Some of his past songs were “Whatz ur name”, “Is 4 u”, “I like to move it”, “Kpasima” and “Highness Madness”.