Who Am I?
I can’t change nothing if I don’t change my self. I grew up in a rough world. I was born in the early nineties when crack hit DC so hard. From when I took my first step I was around drugs and violence. I couldn’t run from it because I lived in it. When I was little, I stayed outside because I didn’t have no curfew. I saw a lot of bad activity when I was young that made me think I could do the same thing. I didn’t go to high school because the school I attended was by two neighborhoods that didn’t like my neighborhood – it was enemy territory. So I didn’t go at all. I mean [I went] two times and then I was done because I was afraid that I was gonna die. My parents thought I was lying, so they didn’t transfer me. So every morning they put me out the door and tell me go to school. I just went in a house we called the Trap House. That’s where all the big boys hang at, and plus they made me feel like I was family so I felt like I was at home. So the streets is where I been before I got shot. I had an opportunity to leave and better myself but the street was my father so I thought that’s where I needed to be. I got shot when I was sixteen years old. I got shot in my back and the doctor told my family I wasn’t going to make it. I could have died because the bullet was a pinky away from my heart. How I see it, it changed my life 360. I could have died in the emergency room, but somehow I made it through and I made it to see 18, thank God. I've changed since I got shot. I don’t take life for granted no more. I shouldn’t have been taking it for granted in the first place.