Jason Tom's father as head chef owned a Chinese cuisine restaurant in Honolulu, and was a theatre production muralist in China who survived through the Chinese Civil War I, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War II, and World War II.

Jason Tom's father instilled in him listening skills for the spoken tones of Cantonese Chinese, discipline in art, reading, and mathematics. Jason Tom describes his father's teaching style to be like that of a "boot camp," and a "war zone" that taught excellent tools on resilience.

Jason Tom failed first grade at Kaimuki's Liholiho Elementary. Despite that, his favorite memory at Liholiho Elementary was when his teacher played  1989's Moonwalker on video cassette. He loved the "Badder" scene, kid version of Michael Jackson's 1987 song "Bad."

In 1989, Jason Tom was six-years-young, and he recorded his "beatboxing" techniques on analog audio cassette tapes up until 1993. Jason Tom's first music cassette "beatbox" recording was of his rendition of "Badder," performed by his tongue's "inward k snare," him scat singing the synthesizer, and singing the chorus.

Upbringing wise, Jason Tom's mother played a pivotal role in helping him learn the ABC's, and how to read through colored alphabet blocks. Jason Tom describes his mother's teaching style as a hands on kinesthetic, visual, and audible approach.

Jason Tom honed his reading with his Stan Lee's Marvel comic book collection of the Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Iron Man, and Uncanny X-Men. He honed his drawing and writing when he self published his own comic books from 1989 to early 2000s.

Jason Tom completed primary education at Liliha's Kauluwela Elementary, and completed secondary education at Nuʻuanu's Kawananakoa Middle School, and Downtown Honolulu's President William McKinley High School.

In higher education, Jason Tom completed the Freeman Foundation China Study Abroad Scholarship in an intensive Mandarin Chinese program at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and earned his associate in arts in Liberal Arts at Kapiʻolani Community College.

He further enrolled in some "Music Business," and "Audio Engineering" classes at Belmont University's Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, and Honolulu Community College.

Music wise, Jason Tom's mother played a key role in exposing him to music on vinyl records. Jason Tom watched countless hours of Michael Jackson on television, music concerts on VHS, and DVD.

The musical instruments Jason Tom had was a 1950's Jaymar 25-key toy piano, a children-sized Chinese lion dance drum play set of a tanggu drum, drumsticks, and cymbals. As a child of the 1980's, he attended the Chinese New Year Festival annually at Honolulu's historic Chinatown Cultural Plaza, and he replicated the Chinese lion dance drum patterns and sounds with his voice. As an adult it had become a tradition that he performed beatboxing for the Chinese New Year Celebrations.

In fourth grade he sampled an ipu, and "my dog has fleas" on an ukulele. In seventh grade his band teacher picked the "tuba" for him to try, all the while he cultivated his beatboxing behind closed doors.

In Jason Tom's earlier years, his beatboxing was rarely heard. His beatboxing got more challenging to be kept hidden from being  overheard when on two separate occasions, his high school freshman English classmate in 1997, and contestants at a California judo tournament in 2002 were wowed by his beatboxing. Those two incidents sparked an interest for him to present his beatboxing to the world by giving it a "spotlight," and came out of his shell from stage fright.