By DMX
The darkish trip of a boy who turned a guy, the fellow who grew to become an artist, and the artist who grew to become an icon. A expertise for rhyme kept his existence, however the demons and sins of his prior proceed to hang-out him.
This is the tale of Earl Simmons.
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This is what's up? This is where the in-crowd is? Okay, fuck it. I'm gonna do what y'all are doing. But after a few more sips of vodka, suddenly I had to lie down. I thought I was tired. But I wasn't tired, I was drunk. That was okay, because once everyone at the party thought I was asleep, then I got to hear the dirt, then I got to hear what was really going on. All I had to do was put my ears on radar, and I had a method for that: First, you have to close your eyes to block out any distractions.
In the middle of the night, while I was still in the bed, she'd just pull my covers up from the bottom, sit on my back, and just wear my behind out. Before I even knew I wasn't dreaming anymore, I would feel the hits on my ass and the back of my legs. If I had b e e n sleeping on my back, then she'd hit me in the chest. "Ma, stop . . Please . . I can't breathe. No, Momma, no. " And that's exactly what she did. After she was done, she'd call a cab, tell Bonita to look after Shayla, and we'd go to the hospital so they could put me on a breathing machine.
The only thing I could do was come out to eat and get some water. I stayed getting water. Being punished at home was worse than Andrus because this was home and I knew my sisters were right outside the door doing whatever they wanted, probably laughing at me the whole time. I was so bored, I r e m e m b e r spending whole afternoons just sitting on the floor studying the cracks in my wall. I knew exactly how all of the paint bubbles looked because I made them look like faces. W h e n I got tired of that, I used to peel the paint off my ceiling.