When did you realize you had to start moving different/grow up fr out here?

[OnlyOneBoss]

My grandpa sat me down and told me all I’m inheriting from him, my dad did too a while ago and I realized I really had to switch it up they both old as hell now

And I moved home and I thought my mom was just sick, but she told me the doctors gave her 3-5 years man, I can’t keep seeing her going to work everyday and act like shyt okay fr



Like I’m really not some bogus ass nikka out here I really have folks relying on me, and some folks giving me REAL assets that I’ll have to care for sooner than later really brehs I’ve been in my bag way harder lately I can’t stay on the same bullshyt I was on you feel me?

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

10 years ago. I was around too many people taking chances with their freedom. The last straw was my friend asked me to borrow MY car so he catch this dude slipping because he didn’t want to use his motorcycle.



I can’t list all the fukkery former friends and acquaintances were involved in. I just knew I wanted better for me and my children so I did shyt the hard way. It sucked for years and I lost friends but it was worth it in the end.

My Pops legit told me around that time “you can’t keep living like this”. He was there for me after my first shoot out 16 years prior to that. shyt had me stressed.

 

[Paper Boi]

when i got my first "real" job that i couldn't fukk up or fukk around on non retail/food service. it definitely changed me.

then again when my dad passed away when i was in my early 20s. honestly the first time i ever saw my dad dealing with his mental health issues in my teens too..

 

[boxfullofjoel]

when I started repeating the same conversation about my life the year before. I got out of NYC.

 

[SunnyD]

When I was 14 after being evicted. I was still a kid but I realized I was either going to kick life’s ass or let it kick mine. Times were hard. .and my mom had next to no help. I’ve been a hard worker ever since. I’ll also never have a problem with eating humble soup because of it.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Dropped out of college. Everyone in my crowd was a dropout and the smart/bored types who didn't apply ourselves, lazy, acted real superior and dismissive around other people.

Didn't take too long in that lifestyle to look around and see that pretty soon I would be locked into that path. End up as a bartender in a college down working for $5/hr plus tips smashing college girls and thinking I was living the life until I got too old to pull them and too old to do anything else. Friends would come back talking about doing adult shyt in real jobs while I was living an extended childhood.

Finally got certed up and moved on. About 10 years later I had the "there but for the grace of god go I" encounter when we're all out downtown for happy hour and I run into one of my boys working as a bartender. He was still in great shape but when he saw us and you saw that dead eyes look he gave us you know he had regrets.

 

[Spectre]

When my peers were having the same basic conversations over and over. It’s like they just wanted to be comfortable. See people live small lives and then pass it down

Deep down I wanted more. Way more. I don’t know how I was gonna get there but I knew had to move different and take every better opportunity that presented itself

 

[ba'al]

Like I’m really not some bogus ass nikka out here I really have folks relying on me, and some folks giving me REAL assets that I’ll have to care for sooner than later really brehs I’ve been in my bag way harder lately I can’t stay on the same bullshyt I was on you feel me?

That's what up breh. Better man than me. My folks use to hit me with that "Do you have any Mcdonald's money." or "I got mine gett yours." type of talk when I was a youth. So when they get old and frail I'm giving them that same type of energy. I love em dough, mayne. But they getting tossed into the shadows realms (Old folks home).

I swear to god, both my parents bragged about passing no tangibles on to their children like it was a damn virtue.

"I got mine get yours."
Me: Ight bet when ya'll get old and frail ......

 

[AQz]

More or less when I found out I was going to have my first kid.

I was doing good for me at the time already, but I had to step it up and think for the fam. Never looked back.

 

[prime]

When i was 17 and people who was living the same lifestyle as me was either dying or doing football numbers in prison

 

[ba'al]

More or less when I found out I was going to have my first kid.

I was doing good for me at the time already, but I had to step it up and think for the fam. Never looked back.

I hear a lot of brothas say that. I even witnessed it for myself. One cat I use to hangout with was the class clown. Was the type to never have pen and paper in class. Smoking weed all day. Typical nikka shyt. This guy had a jit and end up becoming a nurse a few years later and living right. I met dude again after returning from the military and this guy was a whole new person. I always moved differently from most cats but some guys really go through this metamorphosis.

 

[CopiousX]

That's what up breh. Better man than me. My folks use to hit me with that "Do you have any Mcdonald's money." or "I got mine gett yours." type of talk when I was a youth. So when they get old and frail I'm giving them that same type of energy. I love em dough, mayne. But they getting tossed into the shadows realms (Old folks home).

Actually, my parents were a little bit worse than not giving me an inheritance. They obviously believed in a "get your own" mindset but what irritated me is that they'd play mind games with it.





They would recruit my help(money) in purchasing property or pursuing thier next half azzed business venture, but when I called them on the finances and getting the portion I loaned to them or getting some equity in their latest failed business attempt I would get this response....

 

[ba'al]

Yeah, I feel for ya breh. Especially if they playing minds games. "A man's enemies will be the members of his own household."

Actually, my parents were a little bit worse than not giving me an inheritance. They obviously believed in a "get your own" mindset but what irritated me is that they'd play mind games with it.





They would recruit my help(money) in purchasing property or pursuing thier next half azzed business venture, but when I called them on the finances and getting the portion I loaned to them or getting some equity in their latest failed business attempt I would get this response....

 

[KBtheKey]

Once i realized that I wasn't gone have anything nice unless without working. I would say I'm the exact same as i was 8-10 years ago, I just acknowledge more beneficial priorities now and somehow I've become more articulate. I sometimes read through old conversations i had years ago and be like wtf type of shyt was I on?

When i understood making rap music is more than just drugs, bytches, and blind threats to imaginary opps. Opened my lyrical ability up to full potential.

When i understood why the old heads in the hood would always big me up kuz i don't try to be on the block just to be there. One of my OGs always tell me I'm like a big brother to him kuz i handle my business and stay out the way, but i still find time to slide through sooner or later. I make sure I pay attention when someone who been there done that tryna tell me sumn good.
When you got things going good for you, you don't have to be tryna make sure people know you still be outside. Ain't nothing Kool about that.
And if anybody wanna act like you switched up Kuz you got plays to make and your own life to live, fuk em. Sometimes i don't even pop up in the hood when i want to if nikkas ain't talking bout hopping in the studio or having a lil freestyle session.

So now I'm all about handling my guaranteed income, making sure the crib straight, and putting down some fire ass bars. All this came to me within the same 1-2 year period. Could've been a product of my environment, but i just happen to usually be around people that believe in my decision making as much as or more than I do.

 

[Womb Raider]

When I was 24 years old and got fukked over by someone I was looking out for. Spent way too much time in a toxic friend group that ultimately cost me all of my high school friends. I'm good now, I have 2 degrees, on my way to another, about to start a good job, and am in the process of leveling up my car and home. But the fact that I lost pretty much all my homies giving them my last is something I'll never forget and made me realize I have to protect and love myself FIRST.