“I was the rocker Black chick at my school,” Craft says. “There were other rocker kids of color, but, like, not necessarily Black rockers of color. … Also what happened to me a lot growing up is — and even from my own family, like Black family — they hated that I always wore black and they'd always be like, ‘Stop listening to that devil music.’ I'd always be called an Oreo.”
After high school, Craft knocked around a couple of colleges (Tyler Junior College and the University of Texas at Tyler) before finding a new home and the student life she craved at the University of North Texas.