And you wonder why, I let my life do a die, ducking the gunfire, avoiding the chalk lines.

I dare you try to mark minds.

Brandon Duncan is better known as a rapper Tiny Do.

Born and raised in southeast San Diego, a little on the tougher side.

Gangs, you know what I mean?

I grew up involved in pretty much all that.

It's just regular from where I come from.

But instead of losing himself to the streets, Tiny Dude turned his experiences into music.

I started rapping when I was around 17, 18 years old.

I love the fact that somebody rapping, writing words on a piece of paper, took people out of a terrible situation and created a billion-dollar companies.

One of my close friends, we kind of had gotten to a little rap beef.

I remember listening to his track and I hit the studio that night and then I made 9-11. It was like battling instead of us, you know what I mean, putting our hands on each other or going somewhere else with it. We went to the booth. We did what we did in the booth and we left it at that. But you know what I mean? Again, that was like the beauty in music and hip-hop. You could take frustrations that happen on the streets and go to the booth and we left it at that. But, you know what I mean? Again, that was like the beauty in music and hip hop.

You could take frustrations that happened on the streets and go to the booth instead of going to the streets with it.

But then, in 2014, Tiny Dude released a mixtape.

Fucking with this nigga kid.

He was part another class.

Same thing, Tiny Mad. Put you in the lyrics in that mixtape, Donham arrested.

I opened the door.

When I opened the door, it was like, you know, pandemonian.

Get down, get down, get down, get down, get out.

Like, police everywhere with AR-15s and just big gun.

I'm like, what the hell is going on?

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