Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Dae Bogan is a resident of West Hollywood. He is a professor at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and an executive at The Mechanical Licensing Collective, a US music rights organization. He previously worked at the intersection of mental health and substance abuse while earning a bachelor's degree in sociology, with a focus on community psychology, at UCLA. Later in life, he pivoted into the music industry and earned a master's degree in music industry administration at CSUN.