“They so never judge a book by its cover so why don’t you open me up on the Southside of Englewood is where I grew up.Is it gang banging or loyalty I am going ride for my homie,cuz in this street we all we got so I die for my homies, and I bet you don’t even have a clue. how it feels to be youngest in the house and gotta make sure the bills ain’t overdue.we got the same goal just different path I thought I could get my family out the hood by reading books, my homie wanted to be a cook, but you can’t eat was in his kitchen so if you want to taste you gotta get a sniff.its survival of the fittest and over here we all just trying fit in. And my homies ain’t trying to go to school cause that calculus and algebra weren 't buying them clothes
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C.O is from a neighbored where only the strong survive, ENGLEWOOD. He likes like the average Englewood male, skin color the same as peanut butter,an afro the same texture as wool with the gold patch on the right side. To him, the gold patch represented his favorite animal, the lion.People sometimes compare him to a predator:he walked slow and motionless and always scooping out his environment with a blinking face. he wasn’t tall nor short at, 5’11 he was the average height for a male. C.O didn’t always realize it but he was a leader, being nonchalant this gifted he had with people was covered. C.O realized this gift only a few weeks ago when he convinced his cousin, Marquise, to get back in …show more content…
The fights were just like any brother rival, they would express how they felt with their fist then moments later their back joking around.They would never let another person take advantage of each other.Trouble making came from both parties, one person would suggest doing something stupid and the other would follow up not thinking of the consequence.When they dreamed it was like they were connected, they had the same dreams and goals, to get up out the struggle. something that stuck with C.o was a memories of him and marquise when they were younger they would be seating on marquise’s porch as the watched the D-Boys (drug dealers) drive by in fancy cars Marquise would always say “Folks, one day that 's going be use driving and the best cars, with a big house and we gonna be doing it together.”They were young but they felt the struggle, they set one goal for themselves: to be rich before they were 25. marquise wanted to be a rapper and C.O wanted to be a basketball player. They dreamed like every other kid in the hood.Now they were 18 years old and 25 seemed to be approaching quick, they both were not on the path to be rich. The summer leading to C.O’s Freshman year of college he wants sure if he wanted to go. he knew that if he
C.O is from a neighbored where only the strong survive, ENGLEWOOD. He likes like the average Englewood male, skin color the same as peanut butter,an afro the same texture as wool with the gold patch on the right side. To him, the gold patch represented his favorite animal, the lion.People sometimes compare him to a predator:he walked slow and motionless and always scooping out his environment with a blinking face. he wasn’t tall nor short at, 5’11 he was the average height for a male. C.O didn’t always realize it but he was a leader, being nonchalant this gifted he had with people was covered. C.O realized this gift only a few weeks ago when he convinced his cousin, Marquise, to get back in …show more content…
The fights were just like any brother rival, they would express how they felt with their fist then moments later their back joking around.They would never let another person take advantage of each other.Trouble making came from both parties, one person would suggest doing something stupid and the other would follow up not thinking of the consequence.When they dreamed it was like they were connected, they had the same dreams and goals, to get up out the struggle. something that stuck with C.o was a memories of him and marquise when they were younger they would be seating on marquise’s porch as the watched the D-Boys (drug dealers) drive by in fancy cars Marquise would always say “Folks, one day that 's going be use driving and the best cars, with a big house and we gonna be doing it together.”They were young but they felt the struggle, they set one goal for themselves: to be rich before they were 25. marquise wanted to be a rapper and C.O wanted to be a basketball player. They dreamed like every other kid in the hood.Now they were 18 years old and 25 seemed to be approaching quick, they both were not on the path to be rich. The summer leading to C.O’s Freshman year of college he wants sure if he wanted to go. he knew that if he