What was ReaL

The energy shift the major different from this album and my first album can be narrowed down to one album dropping that shifted every thing That album was get rich or die trying When that album dropped it hit like drill music in the streets and changed the.energy outside my first album was Targeting how superficial things got an less authentic but when get Rich or die trying hit and I was only 20 an outside all of a sudden everybody was extra tough and gangsta anybody who got shot back then starting rapping and even those who wasn't gangsta thought it was cool to all of sudden be in the streets and thats what you had to do to get a deal. I come from a big family my grandmother had 14 kids And some of those kids had a lot of kids so everywhere I went I was pretty much family. My big cousins that was really in streets told us young that i done did everything already so you anit got to do it. I had the opportunity to kind of see like both sides of the streets the negative stuff that would happen but also the positivity of organizations too I grow up around og's that a keep it real with you and not try to send you off so that's the gangsta energy I was around as a shorty When my big cousins would talk and tell stories about being locked up some of them was locked up with larry Hoover and even if they was in a different organization they only said positive things about him stoping beefs stopping riots and even introduced me to the blueprint book he wrote so I was always like the youngin who heard all the OG conversations so I knew the history of the streets that I probably wouldn't have necessarily known If I was just around people my own age all the time . So when the gangster energy that was coming out in the music and being performed didn't match that reality of what was gangsta. it just seemed exaggerated and it wasn't real to me so my second album is What Was Real featuring my cousin GP