This is the intro for the article. Aim for 200 to 600 words.
1. Born and raised here. Got expelled from school here . Sold drugs here. Got caught doin a bunch of dumb shit and went to jail here. Been through the mud here. Got a police record here. Almost gave up here. Then I figured it out......... now I got the 🔑 to the city here.
2. Hov is the Jordan of your generation. Drake is the Lebron of my generation.
3. I went to work late and missed out. But Grandma told me: “In 10 days you’re kicked out. Never went to Sunday school, I skipped out. And then went to the mall and got draped up and tripped out. I used to listen to Bon Jovi and hang with my aunt Rosie. Then she calls the cops on me. Crack in my socks runnin’, my neighbor up top sold me. Nowhere to run now, “thanks a lot homie.
4. A lot of artists are afraid to be themselves and afraid to tell people what it really is.
5. I tried to run away from home before the ass beatings. All I wanted was some clothes but It’s tax season. I love it when they black but they act Rican. A pastor think that I’m half black and half demon. What the f*** is she tryin’ for? what’s mine is yours. What’s yours is mine and I’m down for it, we ridin’ for it. We wanted this a long time ago, what you aim for’?. Goddamn, you let me down again, way to go.
6. I've never been into artists promoting drugs.
7. I mean the food gone, ain’t nothing left this year. We done ate that s***. Funny how they told me to stack this year. Now a n***a gets colder than central air. And your momma should abort you and left you there, damn. I need a message. Where the gay b****es when I need a ménage?. She said she got porn to take that I needed to watch.
8. Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every aspect, the storytelling abilities, lyrical ability, honesty. You can hear it in my music that I'm heavily influenced by that.
9. When you told me that you loved me boy I know you meant it. You suck the soul out of my body with your own intentions. Now I’m stuck inside life of prostitution no discretions. And all you do is beat my ass and leave me slowly breathless. But we don’t have the type of bond we used to have before. But I ain’t mad at all I just wonder if you recall when I laid in your arms and you used to sing to me like.
10. It’s amazing how i teach him all about life, and in return he teaches me what life is all about... (when referring to his newborn)
11. Show me how to be fearless often. I need real guidance, I ain’t scared of options. When life was blurry, you made it clearer. And God forbid if you died now. I know that I’d be well taken care of. I know you’ll be there waiting for me.
12. I've always tried to stay away from doing remixes to songs that were popular, because too many people do that. But that's something the fans want to hear, me over those type of beats. So I do it for them.
13. You thought I was finished, you thought it was over. You thought I retired, you thought I went fishing with Kobe. Ni**a, I’m still as the illest considered as one of the coldest. Still, I put a part in a rapper head like Moses. I’m throwback like I’m Motorola. But hoe, I’m cooler than a cup of yogurt.
14. Honestly, I started playing the pause game right after the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. That's around when pauses really started.
15. You finally got some paper couldn’t wait to get it. And it doesn’t really matter ’cause you’re still lame. No matter how much cake you got, it wouldn’t make a difference. I’m tired of all you rappers wantin’ free verses. The f*** up outta here this how I make a living’. I dive up in that pussy like Jamaican ni**as. I spend all of my dollars on some Laker tickets.
16. When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
17. And don’t nobody give a f*** when you starving though. They don’t answer me when I’m hollering though. Try to cancel me like The Cosby Show. Until I put them hands on them like Rousey though. I got a hundred fans waiting in the lobby line. Taking shots like it’s party time. Hands up ain’t nobody got to die. I just got four rings like the Audi sign.
18. I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.
19. I did some things I ain’t proud of, but I never leave your side. Okay, I never leave your side. You had some s*** you were going through and you ain’t even cry. So if I take advantage of you, you won’t be so nice. You told me next time, there won’t be any next time, look me in the eye. And I gave you a chance even though you not my type.
20. He walked into the same store on the block. Just so happen to be the same exact store that got robbed. What a coincidence. That s*** is just as weird as I thought. The clerk rang him out and said, ‘That’ll be $18.25’. And then he held that hundred out with the red number written on top. And then everything stopped.
21. As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.