Growing up in San Francisco was a good experience for me and helped prepare me for what I’m doing today; little to my knowledge at the time. The Bay was the place that taught me the business of hustlin’ and grindin’. Out there, it wasn’t about looking fly or anything too superficial, it was about surviving and getting yours by any means necessary. I remember having a bucket for a car out there, but it was getting me from A to B, which is all I cared about. As long as I was driving to pick up money from making a beat ...
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