And the E. Smoke is the winner of Rhythm and Flow Netflix's awesome rapper reality

competition show and he's yet another powerful MC from LA.

He knows a lot about music theory from his mom.

He knows what it means to be a teacher because he works in public schools, but he also

knows a lot, of of course about the streets.

His brother is a blood.

And D-smoke?

Well, I'll let him explain.

Were you, I mean, let's go back to the, I mean, were you ever in a gang? I mean, were you ever in a gang?

Did you ever get tempted or sort of try to get brought into something?

Okay, so my older brother is in a gang, like an official Inglewood gang, right?

I'm from a crew.

What is his set?

His set, he's a blood. I just put it that way. He's a blood. Well, he's from Inglewood families. So my

oldest brother, Ron, and people get it confused because I have two older

brothers. My oldest brother who's 11 years older than me, Ron, he's from

Inglewood families.

And he's been, like, when pops was locked up for us,

it was between the ages of four, like three and nine.

For him, it was like 14 and 20 you know what I'm saying so it's a

different set of years so you know he's outbanging we doing our thing pops comes

home you know throughout when I was young of course you can't escape the culture so by nature of him being there I'm exposed to it.

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