We begin today on the south side of Chicago in Dawes Park.

It's summertime, a bunch of teenagers playing basketball.

I got it, I got it.

Some younger kids are hanging around nearby.

They're just goofing off.

When they see a microphone, they do what kids often do.

They yell into it.

You call it out, the music, boy.

It's the kind of neighborhood we're growing up can be very hard.

Just ask the guys on the court.

Living in Chicago, it's a whole bunch like, you know what I'm saying?

You young and you black.

You got to watch your back at all times.

But at the same time, you know, you got to always just try to be on something positive

because it's going to always be something negative about her.

That's why everybody is trying to be coming to the court to do something positive or something.

Catch your name.

Yeah, my name is Deontay DeGrid Griffin.

D-E-O-N-T-E, D-G-E-G-R-A-T-E.

And Griffin, you know, that's worldwide.

Deontay DeGrid Griffin is 18 years old.

He recently graduated from high school, but not in Chicago.

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