Sometimes your life won't turn out how you plan it.

It turns out how you work for it, how you wake up and you chase that dream every single

morning.

It's what you give your time and your energy to that takes you to the next level.

You see, I witness the death of my mother, the death of my grandfather, the incarceration

of my father, and still I stood because when I walked in those projects, I realized

one thing, I realized this and my dream never lived on it.

I realized that everything I ever dreamed of lives in the sky, and I must jump every

single day to go reclaim what's mine, and that's royalty.

You see, many of us believe that just because our father was a drug dealer and our uncle

was a drug dealer, that that is our life and that is our forever, but I want you to know

something.

That is only a lesson to show us to be something more than what they thought we can be.

You see when a family tree is dying, all you have to do is take care of the roots, and

if the roots is too dead to bring the tree back alive, you plan another one.

One king and queen, I'm sorry, but we live in a generation today where you're going

to have to grow up right now.

You're going to have to be phenomenal in everything you do because everyone in the world is chasing

great.

And what they do when a man is going to hunt for a house for a hour and you haven't even

started the engine yet.

The best kids come from the bottom.

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