This was very informative and I loved it. If someone would have had those words for me when I was growing up maybe I would have done something different when I was younger. The streets of St. louis r nothing nice as u know being frm the CHI. Some don't have a choice because there is no other choice that presents itself. This so-called thug life was passed down like a badge of honor, I was "generations" if you know what I mean. All of this may sound like an excuse but it was a reality to me and is to so many others. One question, with this knowledge r u beating the concrete trying to reach the misguided and lost? Knowledge is worthless unless it can affect a positive change in the ones that u r speaking of. As-Salaam Alaikum Ahki