Dave East, current rapper and former basketball player, had a very strange path to immense success. In his song, “On My Way to School,” he talks about how he was fighting for his life even when he was just walking to school. Many of us cannot relate to this because we cannot even fathom being scared for your life. Seeing homicides and mother’s crying was regular for him and that is what made him so eager to succeed. His teachers would tell him that he wouldn’t amount to anything, and that made him hungry to prove them wrong. So, he earned a basketball scholarship to Towson. He dropped out due to being caught with marijuana a few too many times. He decided rap was the path for him, and he was right…
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