every time I come back here to the
islands to Oahu Honolulu where we used
to live I always make sure that I take a
day I'd go by myself and I go visit all
my old haunts so today I went by first I
visited my grandfather in my
grandmother's grave then I went by my
old high school then I went by my old
middle school and all the places I used
to get in trouble all the places I used
to get arrested was a victim when I was
14 years old but I'll show you where we
slept it's a three story apartment
efficiency building and I lived right
there on the first and then we were
forced off the Island of Hawaii to move
of all places we had moved to Nashville
and we lived in a little motel and I was
trying to remain as positive as I could
and it's crazy because life is so ironic
and so unpredictable
that's the place when we were evicted
from and that's where we came home and
it was a mission noticing
and we were forced to move off the
island because we couldn't afford to pay
the rent going through it stay strong
keep pushing through cuz again on the
other side is a little something better
cuz I'm living proof of that cuz years
later I am sitting right outside here
get your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
on and you swing away I slept in the
bedroom there's a one bedroom efficiency
I slept in a bedroom my parents left on
a pull-out couch in the living room and
every day I still walk out he must be so
cool to live in a place like that I I
hope one day you know I can live in
something like that a week of living
something like that no I wanted to be
something and it was important to me to
be something it was it was important to
me that I didn't fail if you are out
there and you're struggling and a lot of
you are and you're struggling to make
ends meet struggle and pay the rent you
know when you go eat at a restaurant you
gotta look at the prices first before
you actually look at the selections I
know what it's like I've been down that
road and that [ __ ] is hard it ain't easy
but I'm telling you that if you're going
through it
stay strong have faith keep pushing
through I've said this before and and
I'm living proof of it is that on the
other side of your struggle is something
good on your other side of your struggle
is something better on your other son
you're on the other side of your
struggle
some sort of success so keep pushing
through if you're struggling whoever
lives in my apartment you're going
through it stay strong keep pushing
through cuz again on the other side is a
little something better cuz I'm living
proof of that because years later I am
sitting right outside your apartment
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well when that didn't happen for me I
went up to the Canadian Football League
I played up there I got cut from there
flew back down to Miami
my old man was living in Tampa mm-hmm I
said I called him at midnight when I
land I said you got to come get me on
the way back up to Tampa I said God you
know let me see how much money I got I
pulled out my wallet
opened it up I took out a 5 a 1 and
change and that's why we have 7 bucks
7 bucks per