When I found out my mission is bigger than me and fuel for other people, it made me happy.
It take a lot of courage for a street dude to stand up and be like, alright, I'm about
to say something good.
I'm about to say something positive.
I love my fans and I'm appreciative for them.
I'm gonna get them what they want, but at the same time, I'm still going to go in there
and I'm going to do what got me here, which is follow my heart with this shit.
It get cold in the Midwest.
Detroit, Chicago.
It really get cold.
We got drives called Coats for Kids.
We got drives where we get kids books and stuff like that.
Me and Chance, we already was kicking it and talking outside of music.
You really got to be helping the community out there to know that these people need books
and coats.
Any rapper ain't just gonna say that.
We see him do it.
So that hit me instantly, because I done got kids books and coats.
I'm like bro, the perfect person to throw on this song.
I pray often.
Sometimes I just talk to him, like have a conversation with him.
That voice of wisdom that's in my head, I feel like he feeds that wisdom.
My grandma used to scare us and whatever, telling us about hell and all this.
"Y'all be good, y'all listen to me, or y'all gonna go to hell."
"You're gonna burn up."
We ain't want that.
So we were like "We gotta love God, I ain't trying to go there."
So that's how I started.
Then as I got older and started learning and reading and doing my own research, that's
when I'm like "Okay, I know what's what."
I say I motivate the trenches, because they see how far I got.
Now you see other dudes from my city from the trenches coming up.
I don't want to just run a city no more, I want to take it higher.
I want to do more.
Work with record labels an industry artists.
We don't think we could get this far.
Because all we wanna do is run our city.
Once that happen, once we got our city on lock, we feel like we good.
We can act Hollywood, we ain't got to do nothing else.
If I'm just the only one winning, and if I'm the only
one on top, if I fall off, I can't call on nobody.
But if I put 10 people on and help 10 people get in position and I fall off, I need somebody
I got 10 people to go to.
Everybody, it's just a circle, nobody can ever die.
We all helping each other bring each other up.
Somebody was trying to get somebody executed.
They came to Jesus about it.
Jesus said "Okay, whoever is not guilty of no sin, throw the first stone."
That go on a lot with us in society too.
We be like "Oh, you're doing this."
But we be having our own problems.
Who am I to talk?
I go spend 50.
I ain't even used to have $50 to spend.
Now I'm just going to spend $50,000 and just go about the day like that shit was normal.
Niggas is out here just shooting shit up, killing motherfuckers.
Like that shit is normal and not worry about no consequence.
We need help.
Because we're all doing shit without even thinking, bro, like not even caring about
the consequences.
But I ain't know y'all there because I am too.
Maybe we could help each other.
In Detroit we claim hood, we don't got gangs.
We would be in somebody else's hood.
Somebody come up to us "Y'all gotta go, y'all on the wrong side."
We not about to let nobody talk to us like that like "What?”
Next thing you know, from there, it could go anywhere.
Now we into it and our hood's into it.
But the shit's all dumb though.
Ain't no money involved, ain't nobody get hurt.
It's really senseless.
“They lock your body, but they can't lock your mind up."
When I first heard that, I'm like "What the fuck is you talking about, bro?
My brain is in here too."
As I was doing my bid, I figured out what it meant.
What it mean is okay boom when I wake up, I'm going to go to the chow hall, I'm going to
go work out.
No.
You know you're going to do that.
Let your mind go to the outside world.
I'm going to go get my license so I can go look for a car.
I'm going to go get a job.
I'm gonna stack up for this or that.
That's how you're letting your mind be free.
I get a certain amount of money and just go to buy something.
I ain't tripping, I spent it.
But at the end of the day, that's $50, $60 thousand.
I just do that type of shit because a lot of times, because I know a lot of people that
be going through it.
The money ain't even going to me.
I don't be trying to save everybody, but I just be trying to help who I can help when
I can.
I want this bear, because this bear been through something.
You see his ear bit off, his face got gashes in it, his mouth is dripping blood.
He done actually had to survive.
But a lot of people ain't been on no missions, or really went to go do something where it
went completely wrong.
And your man's done got shot up in front of you, and you gotta pick him up and take him
to the hospital or police pulled up and you're all locked up, or something like that.
This bear done been through something.
I done been through something.
I made it to college.
That was me getting the ball.
I fucked it up and got locked up.
That was me fumbling it.
When I came home, I told myself I was going to take this serious.
So I'm getting the ball again.
Did the field goal with the Louis kicks.
I'm doing this shit in style.
Now I'm winning, now I'm about to look good doing it.
When I first came home, trying to rap, everybody said I would lose.
"Man, you better go get a job.
What you trying to rap for?
You just got out of prison, ain't nobody about to take care of you or do nothing for you."
They said I would lose and I got to winning on them.