My first time shooting a gun, I was like 13.
I was shootin' it with my neighbor that had a shotgun.
And like for Fourth of July, they was hella country ghetto type shit.
Like, we were poppin' firecrackers.
My dad was in the yard like, “Look at these Akátás."
"These idiots shooting a gun."
"They’re bringing down the value of the whole neighborhood."
And once he went in the crib or whatever, I started bustin' the gun, like ... I went,
"Hey, bro, can I see it?"
Boom.
I was staying with my grandma, a one-bedroom townhome.
Like nine people in that motherfucker.
That's just how it was.
You had roaches and ants.
We used to have to close the cereal box and really put that shit down so it wouldn't be
roaches and ants inside that shit.
On my street, we had nigga name Hollywood.
He used to have like fake-ass Gucci.
They sold all the hottest, fakest shit you could find.
When I was growing up, if a nigga had a face tatt I couldn’t even look him in the eye or something
'cause he was a real crazy-ass nigga.
Now a nigga got a face tat.
Oh, he's a Hypebeast, Soundcloud-ass, internet-ass rapper.
It's like all the little suburb skate kids tryin' to take all the gangsta shit and make
it weak.
I ain't no Joe Budden:
"If. A. Nigga.
Hated. Call. Him. Maxo. Kream."
Hell nah.
I just remember when I was coming up it was like storytellin'.
A lot of ... more content.
I like more real shit.
You could do whatever you wanna do.
You wanna do drugs?
Hey, do it.
But be real about it.
Just keep it 1,000.
Keep it 100.
Nigga talk about some, "I get the dope on the boat."
"I get the dope on the boat. I got the dope in my coat."
"I met the plug with three kilos.”
Nigga, how the fuck you?
Where?
Niggas talkin' bout they got a zip of Xans.
That shit don't even make sense.
Ooh, he gonna be mad.
Yeah Imma tell you.
So my dad, he Nigerian.
He a trick.
And he was tricking off some females, had 'em in the hotel room.
And some niggas ran in trying to rob him and I don't know what he was thinking.
"Hey, hey, don't shoot, don't shoot."
He put his hand in front of the gun.
They blew his shit.
I remember I just come home from school.
He had like a cast on.
But it was a hole in his hand.
I was like ugh.
I just asked him, "Yo, what happened to your hand?"
He like, "I broke it."
When I said Sprewell Spinners, I don't mean them ugly-ass shoes Ron Artest wore in the
All-Star game and tried to get a deal.
I'm talkin' 'bout like the actual "We ridin' spinners, we ridin' spinners."
It be like on dubs.
You stop and the rims keep spinning.
LimeWire was pretty cool as long as you downloading music.
It's when I try to download Grand Theft Auto III.
I tried downloading on a normal CD-ROM.
I didn't know what the fuck I was doin'.
And that's when the computers fucked up.
And my dad used to use his computers for his business.
You feel me?
My Uncle Main, he was a casual crackhead.
Like he go and smoke at work and hop in the normal crowd… just blend in, just have the jokes.
But my other uncle, he's a motherfucker, man.
But I remember my first time just seeing it, seeing what the fuck was going on.
Watching my uncle smoke it?
Like, damn, bro.
You trippin'.
So me and my brother Madu and my cousin Lindo and my little baby brother Josh used to always
wrestle.
Since Josh was the little nigga, he was the cruiser weight.
Him and Lindo.
We used to do all the moves on them niggas and shit.
But my little brother Madu was strong.
He tried to put me in the torture rack, but I way bigger than him.
That nigga dropped me on my neck.
Fucked my shit up.
But we used to always do that shit.
Break windows, break tables, break chairs.
We used to wrestle like a motherfucker.
I'm gettin' calls from my mama but I just think she's being nosy because I'm putting
this shit on Snapchat.
So I get over to the hotel, she's still callin'.
I pick up.
On the phone I'm hearing water splashin' in the house.
She's like, "It's water in the house."
I'm like, "Stop lying.”
I look on the news, they got airplanes that's under the water.
You don’t hear me.
Airplanes.
Under the water.
It was crazy.
I got family all through Houston.
So it was my
family plus more family and friends and shit like that.
People trying to get to my people getting stuck.
Basically it was like a no-fly zone where my mama was.
They was lettin' boats come in.