english my freshman year first semester and i had this professor named dr ana westbrook and he introduced me to. real black history you know in the literature were and i was reading a lot of maya angelou and likes to hear and then. you know realize that a lot of ass stuff was some of that sort of things that i was listening to. hip hop erat so our re i started reading a lot of larry from j. cole jay z. makani eight you know and i would say you know this is the same as the things that are marine in class. you know been better motor rap because that's where i grew up or enough fell in love with it in a deeper sense so i read their stuff and i would say to myself you know what like i can do this you know so i started writing i will share my poetry or my ras what i want column our cousin avon he was going to be doing at the time and a couple more friends from back home and they. you know they found love with it but i didn't really believe them because i know that i'm their friend and i needed if i was bad i don't think it would be like you know conny just some straight trash right so i would