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Busta Rhymes

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“I think the biggest addiction for me out of all of it. was to be able to say To my father I wanted to be able to experience the day, not knowing if it would ever come. But it was a serious, serious thing. Like I used to write this shit on my wall and just on a piece of paper and I would stick it on the wall. And it would say one day. I'm going to Get a deal, a message contract, I'm going to come home with so much fucking money. I'm going to be able to tell my father I told you so. That's all I wanted to be able to do. And I wrote that shit and put it on the wall. And I would look at that shit every day. And there would be days still when he would tell me I got to come to work. And I would look at that And I would see him outside in the And I walk out that fucking house and I would be mad as hell. And”
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“The graffiti shit, I was cool with it, but it was really when that situation happened with me and C. Brown, that's now when I found that I was able to get the feeling of when I was this little boy dancing for my parents and they company. And at the same time I was able to have that spotlight on me being the rapper guy. So it's like all of this shit became the thing that I started to grow. Not only this appreciation for it, but But I started to grow addicted to the shit.”
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“There was nothing more important than knowing how to do something that was a representation of hip-hop. If you was a graffiti artist and you was fucking dope. You became something that was like on a celebrity status level. When motherfuckers started putting graffiti on clothes, and everybody that was involved with hip hop or some kind of representation of hip hop became some sort of celebrity. So for me, that's why I wanted to learn how to do everything in hip-hop, because I still didn't know what I wanted to do. The DJ shit, complicated. The breakdancing shit, I ain't like the fucking bruises I was getting all the time. You know what I'm saying?”
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“That's what it was first. That's what I was saying I wasn't thinking about being no rapper in, but I knew what that feeling felt like. And I always wanted that feeling. And that feeling started in the crib. And then it translated into me. Trying to get that attention in the classrooms, which turned me into a jokester in the class, so I would do shit to get the attention of the crowd from the class. It became like this class clown dude and that would get in trouble and shit. And then it translated from that into me break dancing and doing all of this hip-hop shit. Because I loved hip hop and I was starting to see what was being created as a movement and what was being generated as an interest that was taken over. Like, it didn't matter what else was cool at the time when hip-hop started to really become that shit.”
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“They get to drinking a little bit. Sometimes they're so entertained by each other's company, they forget to send us to bed at 9 o'clock. They playing music and shit and I used to have to do things. I would try to creatively come up with ways to avoid being sent to bed at nine o'clock. So when they playing music, the first thing that I would always get into doing is Reenactments of Michael Jackson and from the Jackson five and James Brown dance routines. So I used to do that shit and I was nice with the fucking split and spinning around and shit and just keep carrying on. I'm doing all type of shit for hours until I literally would be sweating through my clothes. It was so entertaining that sometimes the The whole company that was there for my family, my mother and my father, they ended up cheering me on and rooting me on to continue.”
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“Yes, I needed it at that moment. I'm going to tell you something. It actually happened before that. To want to be an MC happened in that moment. The addiction to entertaining people, and that shit happened when I was like seven, eight years old, maybe even six, six years old because where it started for me initially was, you know, at the time, and particularly like I was saying how the neighborhood was back then and how he was raised and our house back then, my mother and my father Know, we had to go to bed at nine o'clock on a school night. On a weekend, when we was that young, we might be able to stay up until about 10 o'clock, but we still had to go to bed by a certain time. When my mother had company like my father and they had like family and friends or you know they just had their little grown up get together.”
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“It's all of the above, but the first thing for me was the addiction. the reaction that I was getting from the people and I was seeing it and how it felt. In real time. And Just looking at the fact that I came up with something. In my crib by myself, in my bedroom, That was fueled by a determination of wanting to defend myself like a fight. A lot of the I don't think I might have said it like this. I've said it before, but I don't think I've said it a lot. I don't know if it would have been, I had the same desire to want to be in hip-hop. I had the same desire to want to rhyme. DJ, but I don't know if that moment didn't happen. I don't know if I would have pursued being an MC. At that time, it probably wouldn't have happened.”
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“Getting to it. I'm just trying to help with. I'm setting it up with the proper prerequisite. Cool J is a three part man. Jam Master J is a three part name. All of the guys from the fat boys, Prince Marquie D, Cool Rock Ski. Them dudes had three part names, right? I changed my name to Chill O. Name is so fucking terrible. I know I'm sorry, Name was terrible. And you know what's so crazy? I kept that name for a long time because I really thought it was the shit because I felt like. Kill O Ski Bro Terrible I know it's terrible but I really was proud of like I got a three-part name like my favorites and if you want to be like your favorites you got to do the shit that is a replication of your favorites and then I destroyed Charlie Brown so bad that At the end of that night little battle, that”
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“It just made me more confident, more cocky, more charismatic. And that's when the whole bust of rhymes rhymes Things started to happen. My name wasn't even Buster Rhymes at the time. I had a fucked up rap name at the time. My name was terrible. My name at the time. I had two I had my name from being a part of the 5% nation of the gods and earth, which that name was cooler. That was Lord Tahim, right? But somehow I abandoned that. To become Like the rappers that had three part names, right?”
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“I was listening to a bunch of LL cool J shit. Because at the time, LL was battling everybody on record. You know what I'm saying? He's battling Kumo D, battling Ice T, battle, you know, he was the one that was trying to take everybody's head off. And I was like, yo, I want to come like LL so I could tear this boy head off. So I ended up doing my shit and somehow. Went for me beatboxing to him. for him to me telling him, yo, why don't you do a beat for He was like, oh, you got raps ready today? Like, just do a B. Let me just try something. So he did the And I started off the rhyme on some calm shit. And then when I started to get into the disrespect lines, that's when the whole thing just started to happen on its own. My frustration and then me seeing the people reacting to my shit. The way that I wanted them to.”
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“And I couldn't understand it because I'm like, yo, I'm here to support you right now. I'm giving you the beat and the whole shit and the fuck you're doing. Long story short, that was the day. I said I, I'ma go home. And I'm going to write a rhyme tonight. And I'm going to come back tomorrow. And I'm going to fucking disrespect In front of everybody the same way he disched me up in front of everybody. And the next day I came to school, I waited all day, I ain't tell nobody shit. We got back in that same yard. Nice big crowd the next day. I started beatboxing for him again. Like, is the exact thing happening the day before? So we go in and I'm doing what I'm doing, and everything is cool, and nobody ain't got no clue because I didn't say shit to nobody about having raps ready. And the crazy shit is when I wrote my rhymes,”
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“Was 12. I was 13 now. And I'm saying to myself, From Brook The mentality back then was everybody from Long Island was pussy. You know, it's the suburbs. It's the green grass. It's the flower beds. It's the nice houses. We come from concrete jungle. We come from projects. We come from struggle. I'm looking at this dude and I'm just looking at him like, I'm going to fuck you up in two seconds because you were pussy to me, but you disrespected me in front of all of these people. And if I don't do something, then they're going to look at me like I'm a pussy too. I'm getting ready to do something stupid. The rhyme stopped. Like he was done Everybody was picking him up, and I ain't want to look like a sore loser, even though there was no battle. He just chose to diss me for no reason.”
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“He's doing his rap shit to my beatbox or whatever, and I'm keeping the beat going for him. Everything was smooth in the beginning. Like, you know, he was just rhyming, everything was cool, and he's sounding good. And then I probably like a good 30, 40 seconds into it, he just started disrespecting me. So I'm beatboxing for him and he dissing me and I'm kind of like... Torn between Should I punch this dude in his face or should I just keep beatboxing and not be the party pooper of the party energy that we have in here?”
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“That's the new kid from Brooklyn. Oh, that's the new kid from Queens. Oh, that's the new kid from Bronx. That's the new kid from Staten Island. So me being one of the new kids from Brooklyn, it created this talk. The rapping thing is happening. Charlie Brown was like the guy. He was like the number one rap dude in school at the time. So one day I'm coming out of the school And we get in the schoolyard, and you know, some of the kids waiting on the school buses, some of the kids is waiting to see the football game or the basketball game after school. It was like a cipher that was formed in this particular day, and it was a big one. It was C brown rapping and two other kids. C. Brown was getting most of the shine. I walked over to the cypher and I started beatboxing, right?”
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“We now finally get a chance to experience what it's like to have us be in school where you have periods, different periods and classes. And you're in one class for 45 minutes to an hour, then the bell ringing and then you switch. I got the hallway action. Everybody talking shit. Go to the next class. You flirt with a couple of chicks on the way to the next class. So all of that interaction is starting now. Puberty kicking in crazy. 13 years old, 12, 13 now. You starting to get your hormones moving different. Obviously, you're going through the stage in your life now where you want to impress everybody. You want to be the cool guy in school. So Whenever you came to Long Island Was a thing.”
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“This is what happened. I wasn't rapping yet. I was only break dancing, I was only popping. And I was DJing a little bit, and I was messing around with the graffiti. Wasn't rapping yet. So when I moved to Long Island, I meet Charlie Brown. meet mystery and the What ends up happening is In this junior high school now, they got like these lip sync contests. They got rap contests.”
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“They brought their kids from Brooklyn to Long Island, from Queens to Long Island, from the Bronx to Long Island. So we left the neighborhood, which is the hood we was raised in. We left the hood to come to the suburbs and still be around a bunch of kids from the hood. You know what I'm saying? So the same shit you was running from, we found a way to do the same shit in these nice neighborhoods now. And here we come as the generation terrorizing these beautiful neighborhoods. We fucked these neighborhoods up.”
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“My mother didn't say all right enough of this shit? You got to get you out of here. That's when she took me from Brooklyn and brought me to Long Island. When I got to Long Island, that's when I met Brown. C Brown from Leaders of the New School, Dink OD from Leaders of the New School. Milo was my mother's sister's son, so he's my first blood cousin. But before we brought in Milo, it was and even before we brought in Dinko, it was me, Dinko, and another dude named Mystery. Mystery was hustling in the street too, but where we went to Long Island now, a lot of other families was thinking like my mother.”
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“The DJ thing to me though I never really got good at it to be the DJ. I was able to do it, but I was never nice enough to become the superstar DJ. And at that time, The DJ was super important because all of the groups had the DJ name, so the grandmaster flashed in the furious fob Jammaster J run DMC like the DJ was always the solo. It was like he was the big So I couldn't, I'm not really the technology dude. You know what I'm saying? So all of Equipment shit like it was just a little complicated for me. actually became an MC by accident. And the interesting part about that was that I caught two charges selling crack by the time I was twelve. And fortunately, the laws was different, and I was a minor, so the I ain't seen no serious trouble, but I was definitely on my way to getting into some serious trouble. I”
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“I wanted to rap. I wanted to make music. I wanted to break dance. I wanted to do all the shit that hip-hop. Consisted of. Like I became the embodiment of hip-hop and it was the thing that was my excuse to not go to work.”
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“And that started to slow down. Dad was like, okay, y'all ain't going nowhere this summer. You coming to work. Do I want to go to work? No. Going to be an electrician? No Do I want to be fucking pulling BX cable through Sheetrock? No. Do I want to be hammering nails and then bang my fingers? No. Do I want to see rats and fucking roaches crawling over my shoes and my timberland boots? And I don't want to do none of that. And I'm watching kids riding up and down and Papa Wheelie in on the bike. Music playing outside, and I can't do that shit. I used to be super angry at that shit every day with my father.”
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“And we would go and we would break dance out there with the young kids that was from England. And, you know, we had our style of doing shit from New York. And we were some dangerous little motherfuckers now. We was getting busy. We was making it happen. We twisting up and popping and all of this shit. So it was something where we just became a part of this breakdown community and they was always looking forward to seeing us. We would go out there like three, four times a week. Other people, promoters, they would see us. They started to book us to come in their clubs. Obviously we're too young to go in a club. So they would let us come perform 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and then we would have to leave immediately. So we made a little money that way, get a little 10 pounds here for a show, a little 20 pounds there for a show. But these are the things that we grew around when I was around all of this.”
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“We was breakdancing, and I had these cousins that used to name Samantha and Michaela. They used to take me in Val. They used to take me to these little clubs because they used to bring us to this little area where it wasn't called a downtown area, but there was an area like a downtown area in the Morkam area and in the Preston area and in a Black Pool area.”
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“Started a little younger than that, but right around 12 is when it got serious, I would say like around 10 years old was when it started. 12 is when it got serious because my mother used to send us to different countries every summer with my father just so we could be able to explore what it was like to live in Jamaica for a summer with the family. Same shit with England. My mother would send us to England. There was one summer we came out here. I was like 10, 11. Brother was younger than me. He's like seven. I'm staying in Markham them time and Preston. And we went to Karate School here. We went to primary school here.”
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“Was disgusted with that shit because we working in these nasty fucking buildings with rats and roaches running around and shit and I took childhood time for me because I wasn't able to be outside and play. That's really what I wanted to do.”
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“Father was a licensed electrical contractor. So he used to force me to come to work, his way of keeping me off the street was bringing me to work with him because He had his own Company as a licensed electrical contractor.”
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“Absolutely, I was trying to prove them wrong. I was so determined to prove him wrong that it forced me to excel. Because the more that he wanted me to do what he wanted me to do.”
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“It's because I have this thing with a crew that there's a collective Enjoyment that we're getting from doing this music shit.”
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“As long as it was productive and it kept me away from the trouble in the street, that was relieving for her. You tried to talk to him at the time about some rap shit. He was like, I don't want to hear that shit. That shit is a bunch of bullshit. And you wasting your time with that shit. As I used to talk. You know what I'm saying? Now at that time I didn't respect it and at that time I felt a way I felt real fucked up about that because it was just like, I could be doing some real bullshit. Like, I'm actually still one foot in. Because I'm not, I haven't succeeded at this. This shit don't make me no money. I do this shit because I love it. Like, I just love it. So when I'm able to do shit that I love with my friends and with my people at. I'm entertained by doing it with them.”
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“It was all that mattered. It wasn't about what I thought it was about what he thought. So I always started to feel like in having the comparison and seeing the contrast between that and how supportive my mother was for the shit that I wanted to do, like, you know. First time I got some pussy, I could come tell my mother. I could sit down and tell my mother about how that felt. You know what I'm saying? I could sit and tell my moms about. know my first wet dream or some shit. I could talk to my moms about the music that I'm making in the studio with my crew leaders of the new school at the time and I could come home and I could play that shit in the house. I could turn up this shit. Just as long as I could do, just as long as I did what I was supposed to in the house, my mother was with all the other shit.”
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“Yeah, I think my conflict with my father, it started to happen more and more because You know, obviously, um, The lack of a parent's presence has an effect in different ways, right? And as a son, I don't know what it is, but I just think instinctually. Boys cling on to their moms more. I don't know if that's always the case, but in most cases, that's usually what it is. I think my father's personality is Was a little conflicting for me? With the way my personality was and the contrast of my father's personality. as opposed to my mother's personality It drew conflict for me too, because my father, he wasn't as interested in the shit that I wanted to do or that the shit that I was interested in as a child. Like he always was more serious about Whatever he felt was best for my future?”
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“Moms wasn't cool really with that side of the family like that. My father's side of the family wasn't really rocking with my mother's side of the family like that. So if that rotation didn't happen in the visits, we didn't get to enjoy that. We missed our dad. We get an opportunity to see him, you know, once a week, once every two weeks or sometimes once a month they beefing with each other.”
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“Of course, you know what I'm saying? Because there was things and there was other family that obviously On my father's side, cousins and kids from the neighborhoods of the cousins. Part of Brooklyn or Queens at different areas of New York that we would go, that we had friends The family and with the neighborhood friends that we met through our other family and other cousins and Of that nature in a different neighborhood, we wouldn't get to see these people until dad came together.”
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“Started with the two of them that morning. You know, my father would get to the house and then my mother wouldn't even let us go and we would look and see him in the front of the house from the window. And my moms would just be on some bullshit.”
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“Definitely changed because I I couldn't figure out how to find my The behaved kid that I was, even though I was still getting into shit. The bullshit really started once my mother and my father got a divorce. The misbehaving really started picking up. The disrespect started to pick up and intensify. The anger was just a lot more. Overwhelmed me more because I was justn't happy with my situation. And then I wasn't happy with The way that I was directly impacted by their beef. So like There would be times when. If my mother and my father wasn't getting along Fresh discrepancy between the two of them, say like the day when my father supposed to pick up me and my brother because I only got one younger brother say he supposed to come and pick us up on this day in particularly for his visitation weekend. If an argument”
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“It was disastrous for me because, like you said, you can't really ever wrap your head around that as a child. You don't know how to. Conceptualize that Obviously, there were things that I was able to do and it was enjoyment I was able to have when I spent time with my father that I couldn't get when I was with my mother. There was things that I was always able to get as far as nurturing and being cared for and being babied for my mother that I couldn't get for my father. And obviously divine order is mother and father to make baby, right? So I definitely didn't want to lose neither one of them.”
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“Instead of selling the drugs, instead of selling weed, instead of stealing this and taking that, and so they were so happy to see we found another way. They wanted us to do that so the more we did that If we started to show them the indication. As we were making progress, that we weren't continuing to be productive. Now it felt like you was pissing off two sets of parents. Already pissing off my parents because I'm with them in the street. Now they see me doing this music shit. They like that shit. They proud of me. So if I'm not doing well in that, now I'm disappointing them too.”
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“As a younger kid, right? When they started to see that this rapping thing and this hip-hop shit and break dancing and graffiti and DJing and all of that shit was something that we started to generate interest for. That's when they started to encourage us to do that more.”
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“So they did everything they could to minimize the bullshit that we would get into so we don't get killed, so we don't go to jail. So, you know, none of that shit would happen. But once they realized they didn't have a better opportunity for us, that is what they felt was the best that they could do. If we're going to do the bullshit, we got to be there to protect them and make sure that they straight and we guide them so that they could do it the best way with the least amount of bullshit.”
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“And the guys that was in the street that I was doing it with. When they realize, even though I was doing it and it was cool for us to do it, they didn't really want us to do it. When they started to see that we had potential to do other things that was going to keep us safe and keep us away from the street, a lot of the times they didn't have a better opportunity to offer us. So they made sure that they was as present as they could be to guide us through the shit that they didn't even want us to do in the first place, which was the stupidness we was carrying on with in the street.”
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“I did. I just was fortunate enough to have something like hip hop that was able to be an alternative that saved my life, changed my life, And I had some incredible people that was around me to support. Me, when I found interest and identify with my gift as to be able to Entertain people. Articulate my thoughts through song and rhyme form. Had an incredible support system with my moms. I had an incredible support system with just the other friends and family that I grew up with that was in the community. And then, last but not least, The determination that I had to want to be able to not disappoint the people that I knew that really was proud of what I was doing, good, bad, or indifferent. It was all of them. So, for example, I piss my moms off when I decide I wanted to start selling weed and selling crack, right?”
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“Absolutely because all of those things were still there. The drug dealing was still there. The shootings were still happening. The robberies were still happening. All of that was there, right? But the beautiful thing was there was a serious presence of balance. That was just as impressionable as all of the things that was the negative. Presence that was strong and that did get a strong hold on a lot of the youth in the community at the time too.”
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“The respect that you showed to that elder still warranted a certain respect from them. They wouldn't disrespect the respect that you was raised in your house to have. For your family and for them. So that respect was upheld and that integrity was defended. That was a real solid foundation that all of the other floors was built on, which eventually evolved into becoming a skyscraper for me. So I'm going to start there with the kids, and I'm going to go to the neighborhood because, again, when my parents was around, I got the same discipline from the neighbors, the hardworking middle class families, the less fortunate families that were still in the neighborhood. We all was on the same accord about discipline and respect.”
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“Kids ain't trying to listen to you tell them nothing. They'll lift up something and fling it after you or go upside your head and disrespect you because it's just a totally different. Value in the way things are done in the community. So it starts with my parents and the way I was raised in the house to have respect for my parents, have respect for my other elders, even if you wasn't my parent and also Even if it was dudes that was in the street, you still an elder, we had to respect you as an elder. In return, that same respect that came from the house? And whenever you went abroad and you conducted yourself in that manner, it would garnish the same respect and return. So even if it was a dude in the street on some street shit,”
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“Saw any of the other kids in the street. I'm giving you an example of how it really literally took a village to raise a child. Like, none of the neighbors on the block would see another child that they watch grow from a little boy into becoming a teenager or something and see that kid misbehaving and not reprimand him in the street. Even if they're not his parent. So my neighbors had permission to bust my ass if I was misbehaving. And then they would tell my mother, and if my mother felt like I misrepresented her to make another neighbor have to discipline me, that was going to get me another ass beaten. So you ended up getting two ass beatens for every one trouble that you caused. You know what I'm saying? And that shit was important because I think that as a community, that shit is something that doesn't exist anymore. You can't tell nobody else kid nothing.”
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“Honestly, I have to say it starts with my mother and my father. Mother and my father was strict. You know what I'm saying? And they also made sure that I didn't need for nothing. I was able to really enjoy what it was to be a child. I don't have to sit here and mislead people. Like I come from some poor struggle and I come from this hood shit. Like, yeah, I was in the hood. I was in Brooklyn. These flat was Brooklyn, New York, and I was in the hood with enough of the goons in the hooligans. The difference about our error and the way you mostly hear artists try to portray it now. Is even the guys that was the goons and the gangsters and the troublemakers in the street they had respect, and they had integrity and they understood what it was to have proper manners like. my As serious as she was,”
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