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  • Genre:Hip Hop & Rap
  • Year of Release:2022

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When I was staying in California

This was about 2013-2014

I was like 11 or 12 at the time

It was when I had first moved there

Anyways, my grandad Papa Charles he sent me this poem

He gifted it to me I think it was either my birthday or Christmas

The poem he sent was called "If" by Rudyard Kipling


I recommend it to everyone listening

Especially the young men listening

When I got it you know as a 12 year old boy

I was thinking to myself what the fuck is this shit man

I'm just tryna get to my fucking

My 2k I'm just trying to get to my muhfuckin new sneakers and shit man

You know what I mean

I was confused as hell when I saw a poem in the box along with my other gifts so

I asked him I was like "yo what's the poem for papa"

And he says "just have man

And make sure you read it every year at least one time

And as you get older it will only make more and more sense

Every time you read it"

I heard him

Even when I was younger

I always listened to the wisdom my elders had bestowed upon me

And I still do

Shit now more than ever


Even though I was paying attention to the message

He was trying to send still I was like "whatever you say pop"

But I did read it every year

Atleast one time

I'm 20 now and I still got my whole life ahead of me

But the poem makes more sense

I still am deciphering it everyday but I get it more and more each time

And you know I don't want to spoil

For the ones who are actually going to read it but

The first few lines of it read

"If you can keep your head

When all about you are losing there's and blaming it on you"

It really puts me in the mind of that iconic Bruce Lee quote

Where he's talking about being water

And after the opening line

The poem continues on by listing a whole bunch of challenges

That we all go through in our lives on a daily basis

And at the end of the poem it says if you are able

To keep your head through all of that then you will be a man

So in my journey of being the man that I want to be

I try to be water and I try to keep my head

And through the grace of GOD I've been able to keep my head

Through the grace of GOD I'm able to realize how strong he made me

Through the grace of GOD I'm able to be grateful for all of the things

I must endure to get me to where he wants me to go

I say all of that to say this that poem is the greatest gift

If not the greatest gift I've ever received

Cause everyday I'm trying to keep my fucking head

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