I was influenced by street life. During the years when I was a teenager, I was influenced by people, places and materialistic things. The kind of people that inspired me were the ones that hung out on the street corner, dressed real nice, making money. Basically, they were hustlers.
What I didn’t know was that all of that was a negative part of my life. I really didn’t know street life can only bring death or incarceration. So I tried the street life and it was fantastic for a while. Yes, you can say I was living ghetto fabulous.
Believe me, I was not happy. I always had to worry about the police and the stick-up boys. This was a constant, everyday situation. It was depressing, living that kind of life. To make a long story short, I thank God to be here with Street Sense, writing this article today. I know if I was still living that life I would be serving a lot of time in jail or someone would have killed me.
