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move away from you because they

think that they're gonna

catch what you got.

They think they're gonna get

poor if they get to know you.

I was just always

searching for something.

I didn't like my

life at home, so I

wanted to have a

family somewhere else.

I tried to find a new family.

People that I hung around

was in the same

situation that I was in.

You went on like you

was going to school,

but in reality, we was in the

area, but not in the classroom.

We stayed around the school,

but not actually in the school.

And eventually, people do

find out, but after a while,

you get lost in the system.

When I went to school, they said

we wasn't gonna be anything.

They said, we're

gonna be statistics.

You're not articulate.

You don't know your ABCs

and the simple stuff.

And my mom always said, so

they read better than you.

Who's the fastest

in your school?

I said fastest at what?

She said, running.

Who run the fastest?

I outran everybody.

My mom says, there's things that

you do better than that person.

I said, but momma, they

don't talk about that.

Your day will come.

My goal wasn't to be the

president of the United States.

My goal was to be the

baddest guy that I can be.

We just basically

looked at school

as being no fun, no action,

and if you do catch us there,

it's gym where we get

to play basketball.

We could just do

things that we thought

was more important than

reading, and writing,

and science, and history.

I stopped going to school

because people were

kicking my ass.

I just walk around the

school 'til school is over

because I didn't wanna

get my ass kicked.

One day, these guys

came around me.

Three or four guys.

They pinned me up against

the wall and they say, hey.

Yo.

Got any money?

I said, no.

So the guy says this.

He said, uh, do you

wanna fly with us?

And I didn't know him.

It's a kid, 10 or nine.

I'm saying, OK.

So I'm helping these

guys to this building.

This is like an

abandoned building.

And I see a box,

and it's pigeons.

And pigeons are flying.

I said, what the hell.

Now I know there's

a place to hang

out with birds and these guys.

So I said, OK.

I'd rather be there than be

in school and get bullied.

So I went back to the coop.

I said, need me to

do anything for you.

They said, yeah.

And he took me robbing houses.

And... Whoa.

And he didn't give

me much money,

but he bought me clothes.

He bought me clothes.

There are a

number of reasons, I think,

why he kind of

embraced the thug life.

One of which is, if you have

a community of people who

are watching your back, then

you're going to be protected.

And now he's buying the

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