![]() So that always left a sour taste in my mouth. And sleep in that same bed that you been sleeping in and use the same dishes and the same covers and you know where everything is at. The kids are taking they finals right now. You know what I mean? Cause college is like - Christmas is coming up right now. So that always left a sour taste in my mouth, the way that house got snatched from us. All this time, I was away in school, really powerless. So she just panicked, left the house, and they came and foreclosed the house. There's no way she's ever coming up with that type of money. That's $3,200, please, we need that right now. ![]() She gets a letter in the mail basically saying it hasn't been made in four months. So the agreement was he'd make the mortgage payments. The agreement was that he would make the mortgage payments while he was gone, cause you get separation pay, extra pay for being overseas away from your family. He had got assigned - he assigned himself - to go to Thailand. This thing failed." And so by the time I went away to school, to New York to come to college, my first semester at school I got a call from her saying that she got a letter in the mail and the letter basically was saying that she was four months back on her mortgage payments, which my stepfather was supposed to be taking care of. MUHAMMAD: Discovered the world and your placement in the world.ĬOLE: Right. I really became a loner and real introverted and like, you know? My mother, it was a place for her where this marriage that she probably wasn't - absolutely wasn't - supposed to be in in the first place, she watched that deteriorate. All these memories associated with adolescence was in this house. I got my first beat machine, made my first beats, wrote my first song, first girlfriends, first crushes, made the basketball team, got my first jobs, learned how to drive. You know what I mean?ĬOLE: When I moved away to college - mind you, that's the house that I started rapping in. It was just a real nice home that felt like we really was barely in there. And then we moved to Forest Hills Drive, which was a life-changing experience for me, cause I got my own room. And they got married, combined their two $30,000 incomes and we've just entered another tax bracket. And then my mom would eventually meet her boyfriend who would become my stepfather. But compared to that neighborhood it was amazing. It's a little different over here." Like, "I gotta walk with my shoulders up in this place." And it was just like - it really showed me, like, OK, the world is more like this, and not like that place you was living at.Īnd from there we moved to this house on Lewis Street, which was this really tiny house. You know what I mean? And then this neighborhood was like, "Oh!" You know what I mean? Like, "Oh, this - OK. Cause I was like four - maybe four, five - and I remember what the other neighborhood was like, which was, like, safe. That neighborhood was like a reality check for me. This is just the hood on wheels, you know what I mean? This is like - so from that neighborhood, which really woke me up. ![]() But when the divorce was final, we had to move from this military base to, like, this real, real rough neighborhood, this trailer park - and not like Eminem 8 Mile. I would have to give y'all a very long backstory that I like to give, but we don't have the time.īut, basically, I didn't grow up - my pops - my parents got divorced before I was of conscious age. So that title is the address of a house that I lived in - the last house that I lived in in Fayetteville, North Carolina - from age maybe 11 to 18. MUHAMMAD: Why did you decide to do it at the end of the year versus just going into 2015?ĬOLE: Oh, the date. Forest Hill Drive.ĬOLE: 2014 Forest Hills Drive. So we all just trying to get, you know - we all trying to get there and if I can help, I'm honored to do that. Because I did appreciate the quality of that last one, and I feel like - you know, I'm slept on myself, brother. It makes me feel proud to even - to be that.
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