5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | I am from Jacksonville, Florida, also known as Duval County. |
0:05.6 | Okay. |
0:06.6 | It's a great place. |
0:07.6 | Okay. |
0:08.6 | It's a city that has challenges like everyone's city. |
0:12.6 | I grew up in the inner city. |
0:14.4 | And ultimately, I just learn how to hustle there. |
0:18.4 | You know, I always have had to put myself in position where if it's something that I want, you know, |
0:23.8 | I've had to go earn it myself and go and get it. |
0:26.5 | And from my early age, you know, I just have always had something. |
0:30.4 | You know, I've always had something I was selling, something I was doing to provide for myself |
0:35.8 | and help my mom, my family. |
0:43.0 | You know, always I pride myself on never doing anything illegal, you know, so I've been able to do what I had to do, and, you know, and I was able to pass down temptation to do things |
0:47.3 | that may have landed me in wrong spots because I knew where I didn't want to be at. |
0:51.3 | You know, I knew the things that I didn't want to put my mother through. I knew I wanted to be a good example for my little brother and my nephew. |
0:57.3 | So with all that being said, I always challenged myself to think outside the box and find |
1:02.6 | promising ways to not only just earn income, right, but just provide opportunity and just |
1:08.3 | be a good example. |
1:09.9 | So like I said, you know, I grew up in Jacksonville, |
1:13.1 | graduated, you know, not anything spectacular as far as a student go. I had my challenges like |
1:18.1 | everyone else. Where'd you go to school? I went to Raines High School. Okay. The Raines High School. |
1:22.5 | Okay. So I went to Raines High School. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So I went to Raines High School. You know, like I said, I wasn't any standout student or anything, man. I barely graduated, right? And, you know, but at that time, my grandfather had a conversation with me and I remember it, you know, like it was yesterday. He just set me down and said, you know, I'm proud of you. And he said, you know, you have two options. You know, if you get out here |
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