You hear most rappers claim to
have started from the bottom... well, some literally started from the bottom,
but some lie; you know why? There's that (street) credibility that they command
by manifesting how real their struggle was.
In fact, it's nice to look at
yourself in the mirror, at how far you've come, against all odds, how you broke
out of an "everyday ponseh" social position to climb up the social
ladder and create that "mom, I made it" moment for yourself. Fulfilling
feeling, right?
Well, here too, almost every
young person wants to claim that G or even OG sort of status, but
unfortunately, most of these kids are ashamed of the struggles thereto. I see
folks don't wanna do odd jobs not because they ain't rewarding, they just hate
to be seen wearing overalls.
Skinny for instance worked as a
security guard for years and I never saw him in uniform. He'd rather don his
jeans, Jordan shoes, Gucci belt, uniform in a Nike backpack, to be worn only at
his station, but doffs it the minute he closes.
Wish me luck in trying to make
him overstand that respectability of what he does is not in what he does, but
how he does and values what he does.
In the meantime, respect concrete
to all who have been there, done it, or are still doing it and remain proud of
their blue-collar (waacha raahasu) values, for some paper pusher that you envy
also thinks it sucks to be him. Yalna sutura yaaga.
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