Kidada's father is African-American, and also has smaller amounts of English, Scottish, and Welsh, ancestry (some of his African ancestors were from the Tikar people of Cameroon). Kidada's mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent). Her paternal grandparents were from South Carolina and Mississippi, respectively. Her maternal grandfather was born in New York, and her maternal grandmother was born in Dublin, Ireland, of Eastern European Jewish origin.