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guess ya couldn't wait till i debut it huh?
editing came out cool, it was a favor for some lovely grad students that needed a subject to video short on,
i guess my legend preceded me because they hit me up at right here and i agreed, seeing as it was a good cause
and da continuation of someone's education.
what you see there is 100% real talk, no phoney gimmicks, no frontin, etc. im glad this video shines a light into my
dominican heritage NT likes to mangle, and my dear mom dukes, im da only person she's got and vice versa.
its sad to see k-steezy throwing shots at someone who basically shares da same hispanic immigrant background as he does
but yet thinks im some how "selfish"? lemme tell you something break it down for you real quick mr. columbian,
my mother been in this apartment since i was born in 1983 and at da time married to my father, i am their only child. they went thru a rough patch
and he split when i was 4 years old, ever since then my mother made sure since she was raising me by myself that i grow up to
be da best person i can be.
i couple of years later when i was 6 my father caught a fed case, and instead of my mother dropping that dude and finding someone else
(she had every right to since she was still young) she made sure i went to see my dad at least 3 times a month in a federal prison for 12 years,
because she ALWAYS wanted to make sure i knew who my dad was, learn from his mistakes from da streets, and gain wisdom from having a father
figure....
fast forward 11 years and my pop is scheduled to be released early from da feds because of good behavior, but because he was merely obtained residency
and not his citizenship, ICE was already processing his deportation papers, i cried a lil because in da back of my head i thought me and him would be able
to catchup on da years where he lost seeing me grow from a adolescent to a young man, and salvage da lost childhood i never had with my pops.
i was 17 when my pops finally came out da bing, he told my mother to follow him back to DR and leave to NYC. my mother considered it since she
missed my father and asked me "Edwin tu cres que te puede quedas solo aqui?" (you think you can stay here in NYC by yourself?) and instead of
being a *** hole and lying or thinking i could take on more then i could because of foolish pride i told her da truth "no mami no puedo, no se que voy haces
sin ti" (no ma i can't, i dunno what id do without you) so she told my father that she couldn't leave me behind just yet because i wasn't ready, so i couldn't
gotten my apt by myself years ago but i declined because A. even though i was already working and finishing up highschool, i can't cook, and frankily
i'd miss my moms dearly because i dont have brothers or sisters, so i would've been here lonely.
what my mom did is told me "edwin cuando tu tas ma viejo and tenga mas responsibilita estoy vas haces tuyo" (Edwin your older and you can handle
da extra responsiblity this apt will be your)
like i said in previous thread, a cat like me knows exactly what i got going on for myself, i dont owe money, i dont have kids, i aint married, i have money just
chilling because as much money ya think i spend i got cake for rainy days, i got cake to eventually take out my jesus, i got cake to get da RIGHT car
i want, all while not having to sacrifice who i am, and what i wanna do in da process.
and k-steezy, for da record b, my mom always tells other elder hispanics about me and is so proud of me because i turned out smart, in school, working,
and da most proudest thing she says is "Edwin tu NUNCA te bebites un biberon regalao" (Edwin you NEVER drank a free baby bottle) there's a certain
amount of PRIDE of never living off da govenment. so you can talk "down" to me, but guess what duke? i never lived off da government, never begged
for anything, even spent a SINGLE food stamp, because my moms taught me da value of HARD WORK.
every piece of nike rubber, jordan stitch, mitchell and ness jersey, new era fitted was gotten with da sweat of my palms, so da next time you wanna talk
about selfish, think about EVERYTIME you asked your mother for a pair of kicks while she was taking government money to just keep da lights on
and put food on your plate. ite b?
hmph.
Bruh...that's the whole thing though...you seem proud if what you've achieved...which is what exactly?....I'm not taking shots because somehow someway I always felt like I could Relate to you and many other cats that been through a similar struggle, seeing this video kind of struck a nerve because its obvious you are making your moms life uncomfortable, fam she doesn't look happy at all, is trying to kick some grown sense into you, telling you to get a car and telling you to at the very least not buy any more shoes, "este apartamento Es muy pequeno para todo esos zapatos" yet you still disobey her and do what makes YOU happy!...we all know to any Hispanic mom rasing a boy in the hood dolo, all it takes is for you to graduate high school and not deal drugs and you are already a succes in their eyes, we both know our bar for success in our parents eyes where we are from is set so much lower, difference is that we should know better and set that bar higher, instead it seems you are content with her standard of success and seem afraid to set your own....I want to say I'm not taking shots at you fam....I swear I'm telling you the things I should be telling some of my childhood friends who unfortunately think exactly like you, except you at least were smart enough not to knock up some hoodbooger....kudos to that.
As far as me being 18 and harassing my moms for every pair of 12's that dropped while I was on Medicaid and buying lunch with food stamps, I'm guilty of it, can't eem deny that, but I was 18...the hell did I know, I just wanted to be that fly kid in high school....glad I grew out of that and can make much more logical decisions and perhaps I still want to be "that fly dude" now, but I do it at my own expense, my own money...without sacrificing anything or anyone for my luxuries
