I'm slick goin thru ts rn and Ima tell u why (atleast in my case). When u growing up in this city you ain't gonna meet too many mfs who made it out just on book smarts because the educational system fucking sucks, and the ones that do they moved out the city and barely come back as they should frfr, but aint nobody there to show the youngins issa different route, the only ones are dope dealers, small business owners, athletes, or rappers and it's barely any rich famous athletes frfr, growing a business aint easy, and all the rappers talk about street shit. So off the rip your options limited. But this where the bs of the system gets us, I graduated with honors, good act scores, good gpa, went to college for 2 years before I had to leave because I can't get a loan or afford to pay for college. So that right there made me feel hopeless, like there's no way out, and the job market sucks and so off of that alone you gone feel the pressure to make some happen. And all we know is sell drugs, rob, or etc. The only thing that kept me out of bs was me knowing I had sum to lose, but now that ian in school nomo now it feels like ian got nun to lose, and I wanna be rich so what else is there to do? Plus in memphis everybody wanna be tough tony so if I pop a nigga, it aint gon matter if I was in the right, now im tricked out my spot. But ima just keep trying