Came a long way from da dope game Part #1

1998 was the year my life would be changed forever, Just moved back to Philadelphia from willamisport PA. I was suppose to stay in Williamsport to start my high school basketball career, but the universe had other plans. My long time girlfriend moved back so I was in a situation where I was about to make a very important decision that would ultimately change my life forever. I was always a very good kid never getting into any serious trouble, I just wanted to play basketball and kick it with my girlfriend, so when she moved back to Philadelphia I was crushed, I had to figure out how I could get back to her and when my mom told my aunt she wanted me to move with her to Philadelphia I was excited things looked really good and I was going to be able to reconnect with my love both of them, so I packed up hit the road not knowing or caring about the circumstances that I’ve just put myself into, instead all I could think about is being with my mom and being a family. My mom was a heavy crack user at this time in our lives, but recently she was released from prison and she was clean from using crack and working she was really ready to be a responsible parent and I was ready to be that All American son. Our prior experience didn’t go to well, I met my mom when I was 12years old, I had never seen her a day in my life before then and let me tell you, it was love at first sight. She was the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen and when we embraced we cried in each other arms for a hour, that was my first love. After the embrace things become more real, it was time to leave and I told my dad I didn’t want to go he was confused, and he asked me you want to stay here? My mom was living in a one bed room crack house in Frankfort projects that wasn’t even hers it belonged to her friend, my mom had the couch, I didn’t care if we had to sleep outside I wasn’t leaving this woman’s side. After awhile I could see that this wasn’t the best situation for me, I ended up missing a whole year of school and picked up a habit of my own weed. When we both realized it would be best if I returned back to Williamsport with my Dad we got the news he had been arrested I wouldn’t see him for the next 4 years of my life. I’m back in Williamsport living with my Grandmother but it was clear she wasn’t in any condition to look after me so I moved with a couple of her friends she knew from the neighborhood in Philadelphia living with Mr. John and Ms Debbie was a blessing because it actually gave me structure something that was missing from my childhood and with that structure I excelled. I left all that behind to try it again with my mom and I had faith that she had her head on straight, I was wrong again and this time it would be more damaging to my life than I could ever imagine. My Mom would stay out for days sometimes weeks at a time I would be going from crack house to crack house looking for her and when I would find her I would be cursed out by her and made to feel like I was the one that did something wrong. As the months went on I’ve been spending time with my girlfriend and basically she moved in I didn’t know that spending this must time with her would change me into the man I am today. My mom stared stealing my tokens for the bus for me to get to school so I’d be home with no way to get to school for that week, and it would become a on going thing so I said to myself I’m not doing this again missing a whole year of school was out of the question, I started kicking it with my downstairs neighbor smoking weed listening to music and he was much older than me but he didn’t mind me hanging around so one day he asked me why I never go to school and I told him what was going on with my mom and her stealing my tokens for the bus he said, Mick you gotta get your own money and I didn’t quite get what he was saying until he explained it, he showed me how he made his money and I wasn’t convinced that I was in a bad enough situation that I had to sell drugs. That’s when I got hit with the new, my girlfriend was pregnant, I lost my mind went into a panic and started smoking cigarettes not knowing what to do or how to be a father.

I couldn’t let my son go through the struggle I was faced with so I started selling drugs and it was a heady to say the least. More bad new my mom told me that she was moving out to live with her boyfriend and she didn’t know what I was going to do if you could see the look on my face when she told me that you would be able to feel my pain, so now I’m being abandoned again but this time I have a girlfriend and a baby boy to look after so it was no more going to crack house to crack house looking for my mom that stoped and my education in the streets grew. My mom moved out and me and my girlfriend moved to her mom house to live in her basement, I was furious and frustrated at this time and I had to make something happen. Do you believe in magic,

Dope boy magic Williamsport here I come

I went back to Williamsport with one intention triple my money and that’s what we did me and my right hand Reem my cousin, more like a brother though he had the players and I had the connect so off to the races we go. It was a hell of a time we started see more money than we could possibly count every thing was going great

Money was being made every one was eating and that’s when basketball because secondary and making money was necessary.