...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...
Dugg from my hood everybody know Lil homie Certified. Where u read that dumb ass shyt at?