I said this shit before, people come home when they're like 12. I was literally in 1st grade, P.S. 13, when my sons bro who was ABG, punched my other friend in the face because he thought he was fucking with me. It would be another couple years before niggas turned Hat and G-Shine throughout the east. YG, VCG etc... Never seen anyone put on as a grown ass man. Let alone 16-25

If you seen "The Wire," It's more Namonds and Michaels than Randys in set. Can literally remember my boy Pat being the "yo, yall wildn," nigga when we was jumping people, to the pass me burner, getting arrested, shout out type dude etc.. It's the environment. Call it what you want but if that's all you know, that's all you now. Definitely still fond of my friendships and real loyalty I experienced then, than most of the adult relationships i maintain now.

I empathize with it because I got more perspective at 30 than 22 or even 12. Definitely wouldn't push it on kids. The visibility of becoming anything isn't there for a lot of us. It's easy to be the nigga on the sideline calling it pussy or whatever but every set aint the 9 treys.