i'm saying i ain't really understand life i ain't really understand um they counseling shows like
missing out on money i never understood that i just was living for the moment when i was like
uh we gained since we that's what it is everybody know what's up but then down the line it's like
you gotta change this [ __ ] for real like like i got kids i got seven kids
it ain't hard to be different it's all about being stand out you're good you're good you don't listen
to people you know what people say you know if you know you different you gonna stick to it stick to
it everybody's not gonna like you and everybody's not gonna dislike you so if you be different
what that mean uh growing up in chicago already made me like that though
like before the violence was super what it was it was just like it's like city of the
game so then it's like i know a lot of people who's like feisty grimy i know people who got
real love genuine love so it's like i learned to growing up and i'm always cautious everywhere i go
you got the right people around you and the good people around you they're going to tell you every
day like oh yeah you're good i'll give you nice night even if you ain't doing nothing are you nice
you're good you should be doing this it depends on who walking around yo where's critical best
credit but the same time while they're saying that they still gotta tell you how good you
you goody good stick to it it just it just depends on how you move how you carry yourself
like you say you you're in a strip club every week something bound to happen because they're studying
you throwing money yeah right world change it's like everybody want a name everybody won't clout
like all the girls want to expose the guys the guys want to treat the girl i don't want to lose
the one who got me focused you see what i'm saying yeah cause she can make me unfocus out here like
she'll be like [ __ ] i'm just running wild so wow oh when i go through stuff yeah so like when i go
through like life experience outside go to studio and be like you get off my chest instead of going
outside and doing some dumb man [ __ ] you know that's like my my therapy for real people say do
something different don't do nothing what you know cause if you do something different that means you
sound like somebody else you don't get somebody else a chance to take your style that you already
had i'm saying so basically just originality keep i always felt like that i'm saying just dropping
music even before it got big when i put on youtube it was like back then 10 000 was a lot of views
back then when he was getting like 10 000 views and it was like naming us in the top 20 in chicago
i knew i had a chance and so it's important i used to pay attention to everything like i used to sit
tv and watch tv and be like yeah i ain't gonna never be like this i was like i ain't gonna never
be rich like this and had a lot of doubt and i'm saying i was coming up i'm saying i was raised
and my mom ain't doing a bad job it's just the environment we was in right just had it like i'm
like we gonna never be none right that's the mask that i had i want to be one of them story they'd
be like oh yeah dirk you used to be with them but yeah he fell off nah once you rap you gotta invest
i'm saying and you gotta invest too well as rap stop you would still be rich sale
social media's the biggest [ __ ] ever like it's the biggest [ __ ] cause you can really like
show people how you dress you can show people how you talk how you speak
you can show people how you like cars like you can really show off who you is on them
from like the part of atlanta like call the west end that's going to be more important to me than
other places because that's where i come from but it's just anybody who coming up i want to
say less fortunate because a lot of people don't make it from the side of town that comes from like
majority of the people from my side of town live with their mom like oh it is 40 live or
that moment still no one never really just made it out my neighborhood like and a west end the whole
west end which is like where i'm at i ain't really never been there i want to show them that it can
be done because i ain't never thinking to be the only thing i think is like being a big dog boy
i know that's what a lot of them think because that's what they see that's all i ever seen
but now they seeing a whole rapper now their mindset just even just that i rap now just
wanted this one avenue for them to know that it's something different out there than just
what they see every day i know like i got a couple of dudes who look up to me going to
school and stuff but they see me like so they like probably like i don't got to go to school
i could be in the hood i could sell drugs but like here now that [ __ ] ain't easy like you know they
can see the glitter the glass the glam and the money the cars and the clothes when they don't
see that they back roll like prayers and sentences and like but [ __ ] and i'll be going with it like
the streets ain't nothing to play with like i know like i'm in the street for real like
a lot of the raptors are appealing like they really don't know either like no i said like
i know like i've been out here for a long time and i'm young and have another church like you know
you always got another choice i don't care nobody say he's always no choice but your other choice
mike can't put no food on the table like no i'm saying like every time you kind of class is bad
like give me give me passage to go to the gym to skip players like my teacher like just go to
the gym like if you'll never come back to my class i'm gonna give you a c your passion that was like
night like all the way up the ninth grade you know like middle school [ __ ] bad fights or
stay suspended for doing something damn like i i don't ever say i'm a product of my environment i
just say i was a product of my environment at the time i said like mama don't got no jobs she kind
of broke no i'm saying like ain't really nothing to eat you know you like to be fresh you know you
like to do little stuff you want to go places but mama ain't got to 20 or 30 dollars on the weekend
like 10 11 but when you walk out the door ain't nothing hey gambling here they selling drugs
here they rob in here they like so it's like we walk out that door you in the world like
you gonna adapt to it or i've been i've always been the one to adapt to my environment like
my message to the youth is like you're gonna do the crime be prepared to do the time
i'm saying that's the main thing i try to scratch it you know what i'm saying about
this ain't the way to go i'm saying because everything got an answer to it and i'm saying
you're gonna man up and do it man up in that's the consequence and that being said just don't do it
my words to like a young dude going through it gonna take his life and especially if you look up
to me like listen to a couple of my songs you know i don't even act like sound like none of that i
ain't never thought about killing myself like you know today is just today tomorrow is always ahead
and i was young i racked up a couple of feelings like three or four different cases so then
i think i tried for our people three or four different cases at one time like some drug
charge gun shot you know typically young you don't do stuff i initially only supposed to be
locked up like six to nine months but in the process of being in there and stuff like that
i ain't gonna turn that to two years i don't think i could do tests on my life
on the way to prison like you got to be a man like it's man up time remember whether
you scared win or lose like stand up for yourself and say respect go a long way
on the street in jail whatever just carry yourself like you demand respect and respect other people
ain't gonna have a hard time about 10 [ __ ] like when i get out bro i'm just going to wrap no i'm
saying like everybody like you need to rap like you got the image like i know you can rap like
what [ __ ] would be rapping about you really be doing like but i'm like you know damn me i ain't
a rapper but you know sometime like in a whole you locked down 24 hours ain't down to anybody right
around me no no i'm saying so i wrote a couple rats and stuff but i left all that [ __ ] in them
before i ever thought about rapping i just always have a passion for music
i'm a real fan of me like rap music it's important for me to come back but i don't
really like saying come back because like i never went nowhere like i know these kids i know the
families i know the moms i've been around them i ran in and out some of their houses a lot of
i even played on the court with a lot of them before so it's different for me it's not just
like coming back it's like his neighborhood a part of me like this is my neighborhood
probably always a safe space part about basketball i like is it takes your mind off everything when
you playing basketball you're trying to shoot your shot you focus you're trying to shoot
your shot you're trying to make sure you dribble right ain't really thinking about it outside work
and i kind of cling on anything that can take me outside the world for a minute main lesson i
learned maybe in this part or even in this area is like mine my business i apply that to my everyday
life i see what i don't see out here but i don't hear my plan is to bring as much opportunity to
the area as i can well when i grow up i didn't really have that many opportunities it was either
this or that like i want to make a way where it's a lot of opportunities you can have options
you