BloodPop，Bloodpop® (born Michael Tucker), previously known as Blood Diamonds,is an American musician and record producer. Michael Tucker was born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Tucker studied jazz guitar in middle school, went to Kansas City Art Institute, adeejayed art school parties (2007), Cody Critcheloe mentored him in Tucker's parents' basement for a month straight, learning how to produce and how to write music, using the free one week trial version of Ableton, studied video editing in Vancouver for three years, made Soundcloud instrumentals under Blood Diamonds, and signed with Transparent Records and OWSLA, and relocated to Los Angeles.