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In November of 1996, at the age of 15, I was ejected from a vehicle, traveling 70-80 MPH, into a the rocky side of a hill that was blasted out to pave a roadway through it. I suffered traumatic brain injury, breaking my upper and lower jaw, breaking and losing cartilage from my nose, losing 5 teeth, and mangling my face pretty good. I was hospitalized for 15 days, and put into an induced coma for 6 days. I was not expected to live. When I lived, I was not expected to be more than a vegetable. When I was barely coherent, I wasn't supposed to get much better. Today, I make rockets for NASA. Not really, but check game.
I first got introduced to Hip Hop in Sacramento, CA in the autumn of 1999. I had recently been kicked out of my mother's home in Las Vegas, NV (where I grew up), and moved into a 2 be