Feel It In The Air/ Who You Talking Bout?
When I was younger, I got into a lot of shit. Some of that shit I can’t mention here for obvious reasons. I will discuss one piece of that shit which is shoplifting.
Around the age of 12, I began hanging out with a couple of the neighborhood troublemakers. At that time I heard stories about these guys but never managed to hang with any of them. When I did hang out them, I found that they were just like me. Young, poor, black, and misunderstood. We’d come together like Voltron in the neighborhood. It was kind of like a brotherhood.
Long story short. We did a bunch of shit we wasn’t supposed to. It mainly consisted of shoplifting or snatch and runs. Shoplifting is stealing out of a store on some sneaky shit. Snatch and runs are ran exactly how they sound. You go into a story (convenient stores usually), snatch how much shit you can, and RUN (word to Ghostface Killah).
Fortunately, I was arrested at the age of 14. My supposed right hand man and I both got caught together while shoplifting. I got caught because I came back into the store to see what the hell was taking him so long. Soon as I did that both of us were cuffed and taken in the security room of the store.
Now, this was my man! One of the few if you said something sideways about him I was two piecing you. If you fought him, you fought me. Brotherhood ftw! Or so I thought….
The security guard gave us two options. Call your parents/guardian and have them pick you up or be taken to the juvenile detention center and be dealt with there. He called his grandparents and they came to pick him up. Before they left I asked him to ask his grandparents to take me with them. He didn’t. I was well on my way to community service and a summer long juvenile delinquent program, while his grandparents just paid a fine.
A big thing on the internets is Beanie Sigel going at Jay Z. Beans feels how I felt six years ago; confused and in need of an explanation. He did all of this representing for Jay and when Beans felt like he was supposed to receive some of that back, he didn’t.
I have some advice for Beans. Stop focusing on the situation and find a way to better yourself. When my man did that shit to me [ll], I was hurt. At that moment I realized people use people to their advantage. It’s just up to you to not be taken advantage of, nahmean?
When that happened to me, I stop fucking with dude like that [ll]. I still said what up and dapped son up when I saw him. All of that other shit I used to do for him, stopped. We both went our separate ways.
This isn’t a post saying, “Beans suck it up!”. Its saying when a person fucks you over, leave them the fuck alone. I don’t agree with him throwing a diss track at Hov because this won’t sole his problem. Like he said, he needs to talk with his brother. But since his brother doesn’t want to talk to him, he should just drop it and move on like the rest of State Property.
good lesson. a ssad one to have to learn, but so true.