Williamson was born in Salisbury, North Carolina to Lateef Williamson and Sharonda Sampson.[131] Lateef was a football defensive lineman at Mayo High School in Darlington, South Carolina who was a 1993 High School All-American and had committed to NC State before transferring to Livingstone College.[3][131] Sampson was a sprinter at Livingstone and became a middle school health and physical education teacher.[131] She named Williamson after the biblical location Mount Zion near Jerusalem, taking her grandmother's advice to name him "something extra special"
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