Actually it was your best point because you know how to survive for real.
While everyone else is soft as fukk.
I would never trade away when I was fukked up.
I got to much game and a plethora of skills from the shyt.
Plus, it was another death star in my life and it actually helped on a level nuffin ever will come close to.
I would not trade the experience cause it solidified I factually was a great person and most importantly a survivor.
Only the real really make it.
Art Barr
This.
My worst experiences made me who I am today. From growing up on 79th to,leaving home at 17 and basically being on my own struggling since then, to catching a case getting a felony and not being able to get a decent job, etc....
I wouldn’t trade growing up in the hood for shyt cause that shyt builds character, makes you tough, and in my opinion makes you smarter. I work in corporate America now and 90% of these nikkas have no street smarts/common sense smh
Being on my own since 17 taught me independence. I basically had to thug it out for years and been in so many fukked up situations that I feel it’s literally nothing I can’t handle.
Getting locked up might have been the best thing that happened to me cause it humbled me and made me realize selling dope was not a long term career option. Made me tighten up and I figured out a way to get my record sealed and now I’m making decent money in some corporate shyt.
Wouldn’t change nothing in my past cause it made me who I am today. It’s something beautiful about the struggle once you come out of it.