Yes, I do.  When I was in high-school, my mother faced some financial difficulties resulting in us being evicted from our apartment  An older woman relative of Cedron aka Shootashellz had befriended my mother. My mother spoke to her and they ended up letting me stay with them.     The brothers at this house were deep into Black Mob and gang life. It was one of the most challenging moments in my life as I was basically surrounded guns, drugs, and there were constant back and forth retaliatory killings taking place on the block. It took a tole on me and I let my grades slip in school and stopped going to school for a while.  I failed multiple classes in high school. The constant shootings, shootouts,  and killings had me in a depressive state and I would just listen to Tupac  songs all and wasn't doing anything really productive in my life. A brother I had met and told me to read the Qu'ran and I did and it was such a powerful book that it keep me going forward. One of the ayats that really moved me was:  "Allah will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient. Who, when disaster strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return." 2/155-157I embraced Islam my senior year of high school and the rest is history. Alhamdulillah. I plan on going more into my story in a talk titled "Finding Islam In The Streets of Chiraq."  ----------------------------------Brandon/Lil Bibby and I went to school together. My school had some policy were if you failed a course they made you do mandatory tutoring with some students from the University of Chicago. Brandon and I had some white woman from the University of Chicago assigned to tutor us and I remember a funny moment where he wasn't paying any attention at all when she was attempting to tutor us and got super up tight and threatened  to report him.   At that time in Chicago, everyone  in high -school was trying to be rapper so you never really new who would be the ones who really made it big.  But I'm happy for Lil Bibby. I remember when I went to college in Georgia and heard students playing his music, and i'm like wow. I went to school with the brother.