MaxBundles
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Same.....6th grade. Could smell the smoke from Brooklyn.
6th grade in Brooklyn. Remember it like it was yesterday
Same.....6th grade. Could smell the smoke from Brooklyn.

It wasn't until that Saturday that I realized that I hadn't bought The Blueprint yet.

brehs in here. “I was filing for social security that morning”I was a Sophomore in High School. I woke up that morning and was pretty stoked that Jay-Z's Blueprint album had been released and I was going to go get it after school. As I headed to second period, I overheard two teachers talking about a plane accidentally hitting the WTC in the bathroom. I thought I misheard them and asked one of them and they said it again. I walked into second period and my math teacher had a TV on and he and my classmates were all watching. Then, time stood still, as the second plane hit. That's when everything got scary. The Pentagon got hit next and then another plane went down in PA. We watched TV in every classroom for the rest of the day. Some kids were kneeling down and praying. Some were crying. Some had their moms/dads/etc. come get them. We were especially scared because Knoxville isn't to far off from Oak Ridge where the atomic bomb was produced. That night, I didn't sleep and just stayed up and watched the news. The next day at school we started getting back to business, but all everyone could still talk about was the attacks that occurred and it was still fresh in everyone's mind for the days to come.It wasn't until that Saturday that I realized that I hadn't bought The Blueprint yet.

The blueprint just reminds me of 9/11 especially when I hear "ain't no love in the heart of the city"![]()



not understanding its significance while my old white teacher was shook. Took me a few years to finally understand why she was
during that time.