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The song also talks about how people did not want him to get out and how they hate him for being able to do that as heard in the lyrics “They love me when I was stuck and hated when I was departed”. While Meek used his friends and families gang affiliation to get out, I was able to use the large sneaker culture that surrounds the Hip Hop/Rap world in a large way to still have roots in my hometown, but open new doors for myself and my family. I finally felt as if someone who was in a similar situation to which I was in had the same mindset as me don’t let where you’re from become your personality, have it drive you to want better for yourself and to simply just get out. The fact that Meek took his story and talked about how he where he was raised, and how it impacted him, but it drove him to get better and to get out of that situation that he was born into. It was never a negative voice on it either, always talking about how it was their life and how they loved it.

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Majority of the music that I was used to hearing was full of talk about loving drugs and alcohol, having sexual relationships with tons of different women, gang affiliation and murder.

I always kept my opinions on music to myself as I had seen multiple fights break out on the back of the bus, due to disputes on whether Tupac or Biggie was the true king of New York City rap, but when I got goosebumps due to the lyrics “I was on my grind and now I got what I deserve fuck n****” I had to speak up to figure out what the song was, as I finally felt the music that I had always been around hit home.

On this day I heard Meek Mills Dreams And Nightmares on the school bus while I was heading home from Billingsville Elementary as a normal 10 year old. However, I never felt any connection to the music that I was constantly surrounded by until Halloween 2012. Every artist from Ice Cube and N.W.A of Compton, to Biggie and Tupac from New York City, even the works of the Louisiana legend Lil Wayne. Growing up in East Charlotte every day you heard rap no matter where you went.