Pi'erre Bourne

Jenks was raised in Columbia, South Carolina.^[4][5] His mother is a second generation immigrant from Belize.^[4] Growing up, he would spend his summers with his grandmother in South Jamaica, Queens, which led to his interest in East Coast hip hop.^[4][2] He is related to Mobile Malachi, a Belizean Kriol reggae artist and musician.^{[citation needed]} He is also a cousin of Papoose.^[3][6] Inspired by his uncle Dwight who was a rapper and graphic artist, Jenks first began making beats when he was in elementary school, using FL Studio on his uncle's computer.^[4][2] His stage name was inspired by the Kenan Thompson All That sketch "Everyday French with Pierre Escargot" and the 2002 film The Bourne Identity.^[4] While in high school, he formed a rap group with his friends called The Bourne Ones^[4] and posted music on Imeem.^[3]

After graduating from high school, Jenks studied graphic design at Winthrop University for a year before dropping out.^[4][7] After dropping out from Winthrop, he lived with his grandparents in Queens, and then with his father in Greenvile, South Carolina, working various retail jobs.^[8][7] At 18, his uncle encouraged him to go to school for music and Jenks moved to Atlanta to study sound engineering at the SAE Institute.^[8][4] Because the institute did not have dorms, Jenks lived in his Cadillac Escalade for a period of time.^[6][4] While in school, he met and began collaborating with DJ Burn One, who encouraged him to create his own instrumentals and not rely on samples.^[4][9] He also met and became close friends with TM88 and the son of L.A. Reid, a music executive at Epic Records.^[7][10] He interned for a week at Hustle Gang Records before working as a full-time engineer at Mad Studios in Atlanta.^[1][9] While working at the studio, he met frequent collaborator Young Nudy.^[8][9] In 2015, Jenks began working for Epic Records as a sound engineer, leaving a year later to focus on his own career.^[8][10] In 2016, Jenks began releasing a series of mixtapes titled The Life of Pi'erre, named after the Kanye West album The Life of Pablo.^[11]

Jenks met Playboi Carti in February 2017 after Carti recorded a demo using Jenks' "Wokeuplikethis" instrumental.^[9] He produced the Playboi Carti song "Magnolia" in March 2017, which peaked at 29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.^[1][12] In September 2017, he signed a record deal with Interscope Records and launched his own imprint label, SossHouse.^[6][10] In the spring of 2018, he helped produce a number of songs on Kanye West's album Ye, but did not receive formal production credit.^[4] He produced the May 2018 Travis Scott single "Watch", featuring Kanye West and Lil Uzi Vert.^[13] Playboi Carti's album Die Lit, which Jenks executively produced, also released in May 2018.^[14] On May 8, 2019, Pi'erre Bourne and close collaborator Young Nudy released their collaborative mixtape titled Sli'merre.^[15] On June 21, 2019, he released The Life of Pi'erre 4, his debut studio album.^[16][17] In July 2019, Bourne worked with Kanye West on production in West's album Jesus Is King.^[18] He earned his first Grammy Award for his production work on the album at the 2021 Grammy Awards.^[19] Jenks debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Producers chart on March 25, 2020, due to four production credits on the deluxe edition of Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake.^[20] On June 19, 2020, Jenks released a deluxe edition of The Life of Pi'erre 4.^[21]

Jenks produced the Drake song "Pain 1993", which released in May 2020 and debuted at number 7 on the Hot 100 on May 16, 2020.^[22] Jenks released his second studio album, The Life of Pi'erre 5, on June 11, 2021.^[23] The album was entirely produced by Jenks and includes features from Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, and Sharc.^[23] Jenks produced the Lil Wayne song "Cameras", which released on January 14, 2022, in the re-release of Wayne's Sorry 4 the Wait mixtape.^[24] On September 2, 2022, he released his third studio album, Good Movie.^[25] On February 24, 2023, Jenks released "IG", which he initially teased in 2018, as an official single.^[26] The song was the first single for his Grails EP, which featured re-recordings of fan-favorite snippets and was released on April 14, 2023.^[27] On November 13, 2024, he released Sli’merre 2, his second collaborative album with Young Nudy.^[28] On June 6, 2025, Pi’erre released, "Blocs", the lead single to Made in Paris, his fourth studio album.^[29] Made in Paris released on June 27th, 2025.^[30]

Jenks has cited Wiz Khalifa, video game soundtracks, Dipset, G-Unit, Kid Cudi, T-Pain, J Dilla, Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, and Kanye West as inspirations for his music.^[8][4][2] Jenks has called West's career as a rapper and a producer as an influence.^[8][2] Alphonse Pierre of Pitchfork described Bourne's productions as "beats that pair airy video-game melodies with classic trap drums".^[31] He is well known for his producer tag, "Yo Pierre, you wanna come out here?", sampled from an episode of The Jamie Foxx Show.^[32][12]