![]() That the man born Ermias Asghedom possessed the resilience to overcome the post-traumatic stress of urban warfare and build a positive, productive life is a blessing. And just below that, by his right temple: god will rise. They overlooked his discipline, underestimated his focus, miscalculated his capacity to hustle and motivate, to study and model self-empowerment and “get it straight up out the mud.” Even though it was written right there on his face: prolific. Blinded by low expectations, many mistook this tatted-up Slauson Boy, who repped East Africa as hard as he did the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips, for your average aspirational street entrepreneur. Most of all, he deserved more life.įew recognized the audacity of his vision until it began to unfold. Even his own neighborhood slept on that man. Not just in the sense of his being a “slept-on rapper,” although he was that too-especially outside of Los Angeles.
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