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I used to wear a shirt and Tide to work every day every day because that is what
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my teacher Dr Isaac Gregs at Southern University instilled in me you wear certain TI work every day because you
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are not a student you must be distinguished as the teacher the teacher wears a tidee but I noticed about five
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five six years ago my competition was the guy in the hood who had on the $200 pair tennis shoes who had on the $150
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pair jeans and he had all he had the nice fancy cars and and I noticed the children was
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starting to be some of my band students I was starting to lose them to those guys so I said to myself one day I said
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you know what I'm going to go out and buy myself a pair of those tennis shoes couple pairs of those jeans some of them
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shirts you know next time I get me a car I'm going get me a nice car man put me some pretty rims on it everything you
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know and uh I noticed that the kids were like wow I'm Sur you doing with SH I said why I can't
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wear these shoes then I pull up with the car when got a nice car put some rims like Mr Rollins what you doing you must
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be selling drugs no I'm selling education I I went to I went to college I got a degree here's my degree right
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here this is what a enables me to do this they like so I could go to college and get a call like that like he's like
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man my friend got a call just like that my boy he on the corner he he got what how he get that what he why he go to
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work every day he don't work you know what he do I'm like but I bet you he can't just ride around whenever he want
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to I bet you he can't just go wherever he want to go without looking over his shoulder I bet you he can't he you know
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what I'm saying he can't go in this neighborhood and that neighborhood you know I bet you can't pull up to the
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police station and uh he was like you can't pull up to the police station in that car like that I know the people
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gonna hack you up I was like no they won't oh Mr R they going to hack you up I know they going
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to hack you up I said I tell you what after the practice to day you and I going to take a ride all right all right
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so I put him in the car we rolled to the police station and we rolled up to the police station and we pulled up in front
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of the police station and got out the car and hung and sat on the car and we just
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talked and all of the police officers passed us by and said how you doing sir how you doing spoke sir how you doing
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everything's okay with you guys yeah everything's fine yeah it's one of my students and such such you know yeah oh
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and then we got in the col like damn man they a tell us nothing they didn't tell
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us one thing Mr L what's you must know him I said no I don't know him I said it's the man in which you behave I'm not
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in the hood and I'm not a thug and I'm not trying to sell drugs and I'm not trying to poison your mind you know I'm
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a loyal upstanding citizen I go to work every day I can work and get what I want
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and you can do the same thing and the next week that kid started coming back to Van
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practice