It’s not about being scared it’s about being smart you know what I’m saying that’s
how people survive. Being smart. The toughest guys get killed 'cause they too tough.
Always somebody stronger than you harder than you. It's no such thing as "I’m the toughest ever."
It was the winter time you know and it was just a bunch of killing.
Know what I’m saying?
A lot of senseless murders. It made me think about we don’t really got snow.
We got red snow.
We don’t have happy winters. On Christmas people getting killed.
It's just a bunch of negativity. Ain't really nothing positive at home.
People look forward to the winter. That’s one of my favorite seasons.
I like the winter just 'cause I like getting fly.
Wearing Pelle Pelle's and Timberland boots and shit like that.
Winter is one of the most festive times of the year.
But, in Chicago it’s nonstop violence. So you may be getting ready for Thanksgiving
and your son may die two days before Thanksgiving.
Or you outside standing on the block, don't nobody care 'cause it's Christmas.
They gonna kill you.
We grew up in poverty stricken neighborhoods. We always looked up to
the guys with the nice cars, the toughest dudes in the neighborhood
who got the guns, who run the neighborhood.
Who giving back in maybe a negative or a positive way.
You can't really judge a person just because of the lifestyle they live.
'Cause they may give back in a positive way. The kids may look
forward to seeing him everyday 'cause they know that's how they gonna eat.
Yeah I remember as a kid being sleep two in the morning. I stayed on the first floor.
I was hearing everything. So you going and waking up for school and you don't got a
alarm clock. You hearing shots. You may be leaving out the crib and see somebody getting shot.
Threaten me I'ma take you serious. I'ma act like you really wanna kill me.
That's how I’m alive today.
Every time I leave out the house I feel like somebody wanna hurt me. Somebody wanna do something to me.
People all over the city, people that don’t even know me probably
say they gonna do something to me.
So you gotta take that in mind.
It was on the news and everything. Somebody told 'em, "You wanna go to the candy store?"
"I'm 'bout to go buy you some candy."
They was on they way to the candy store and he killed him.
A lot of dudes not really gangsters. They just jumping
out the porch. They hearing rap music.
They not really street dudes. They wanna be street.
They wanna live our lifestyles. So they don’t know the code. They don’t know the rules.
They think they can just go out there and be cowboys.
"Oh yeah I shot at you. Bang bang. I shot at your house." But you killed his mother. You killed his sister.