EST Gee was a college football player...

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MoveForward said:
How in the fukk do you get caught with 100k in cash, one single brick, a chop, and a pistol? At a hotel? Did this fool think this sh-t was a music video? I still can’t believe people think carrying a strap with weight is effective in 2021. All that sh*t does is enhance your charges. Get caught with a brick, you may get a chance to take that 5 and get out in 3.5 with a drug treatment and good time. Now he’s facing a min of 10 and they got a nice amount of bread that he could’ve left for his family while he is away.
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My question is why was he doing this when he’s in the spotlight and much more money is there to be made going straight with Gee?
 
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...who went to private school, graduated high school on time and got an invite to the NFL Combine...

This is part of the issue I've said over the last few years that I have with The Culture. The glorification of the streets over other aspects of Black Culture, this dude could talk about a number of different parts of his story but it's drugs and shootings track after track...

I've mentioned this in the past, so I'll say this again to be patently clear:

This doesn't invalidate the street experiences he did have, and of course I do think he's had experience. What it does though is invalidate his "lifetime of hustling" and running the streets imagery he's portrayed on wax and in interviews...

There were dudes in high school who played sports who got into affiliating with aspects of the streets but the successful prep athletes are never the ones who are in it deep. The amount of high school aged cats who in it deep are a minority anyway, but the ones who go on to play in college have a certain amount of time and commitments to make to achieve that success...

So you're not doing nothing outside on any real level AND maintaining all your commitments and responsibilities to be a successful prep athlete with scholarship offers, let's put aside the fact a teenager isn't gonna have the wherewithal or emotional advancement to juggle being equally successful in both...

So he wasnt doing anything outside that was noteworthy as a teenager...

Alota dudes get in college and start moonlighting or get introduced to the streets. This dude went to two different universities because he transferred, not because he was kicked out or expelled or anything like that. So he wasn't putting in the same energy outside that he was on the field and in his academics, and when he finally dropped out it was voluntary but not before a Combine invite...

So dude's story is pretty obvious, he wasn't quite good enough to make The League and likely had already been dabbling around so he enhanced his contacts outside and went that route...

I just wish we were more honest about our roads to success. And yes, because of my own story, I dont view cats who "come of age" in the streets at college age or later as the same as those who were with it and active younger and devoted entire periods of their lives to it, don't give a damn how much money cats touched...

I'm 5 years older than fam but at the same age homie was perfecting his crafts to go to college, I was working on dropping out and fukking around outside. At the same age he went to college I'd already been in prison a year, when fam got his Combine invite I was yet again fighting another case...

Gee makes decent music, a little redundant but he's pretty good. But here's another rapper added to the list of late bloomers and dudes who aren't as authentic as they portray...
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most of the blame falls on the fans to be honest.

the front is for the fans and it's the fans who demand it.
 
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Master Teacher said:
Marvin Harrison was an elite athlete his whole life way better than est gee and people talk about him like J Prince

you not a street nikka, so you can't check anybody

if nobody from kentucky is calling him out or people who know him are calling him fake, how can you make any assumptions

the nikka really don't rap about shyt other than basic hood shyt anybody can do

anybody can sell drugs, anybody bust a gun and kill someone or rob someone

you don't need any type of special pedigree to do any of this shyt you just have to want to do it

Blace Icewood is the Detroit 2pac and he from a suburb called southfield, his pops was a big time dope dealer so he was raised in the game
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He just became a rapper so we don’t know if anyone from Kentucky will call him out yet.
 
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Most street nikkas start off playing football when they younger. Why are yall acting like this is some great big revelation?

Yea the college thing I guess but when did football nikkas start getting labeled as soft?

Thats where most nikkas meet they homies and future gang members as youngins. On the field....literally.
 
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I’m not sure what the issue is or where the confusion comes from?

He stated in interviews that his family was in the game\streets but he tried to stay away and focus on sports.

He got to college, came across a plug and got to work.

Got kicked out of school for selling from what I remember weed. Continued to supply, saw rappers rapping about his life and felt that he could do the same.

A few mixtapes and an album later, here we are today.
 
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