Maybe I'm Dreamin'

"Some say that I'm a dreamer cause' I talk about it often"- Common

Ever since I was a youngin' people have been telling me what to do with MY life. Thats nothing new with most people though. I mean, I can understand why they would tell me. They're much older and wiser(or so they think) and they've experienced more than me. So when I became extremely fascinated with computers no doubt my fam' would start telling me to work with them. Don't get me wrong now theres alot of money in that industry, but sadly over the years my heart has fallen into another area...Hip-Hop.

Hip-Hop has been influencing every thought I have ever since I turned to BET and saw 50 Cent rapping. I know what your thinking...but what 12 year old kid didn't like Get Rich Or Die Tryin'? I didn't stop there though I became a G-Unit groupie. I started fiending for the music and soon various Hip-Hop websites introduced me to Nas, Rakim, Jadakiss, Kool G Rap, and many others. Here I am 4 years later a Hip-Hop Head...who would of thought?

With that being said the thought of sitting behind a desk fixing computers or whatever makes me sick. Knowing that my fam' wouldn't support me if I up and told them I wanted to become a rapper or maybe a Hip-Hop magazine writer(or whatever) makes me ill too. Wanna' know what just makes me wanna' choke a chicken though? The fact that 20 years from now I might look back on my life and say "what if" I took that chance and made a mixtape...or "what if" I took that chance and changed my major to journalism. Knowing that I could be in a place where I felt like I actually belonged. I mean isn't that the point? I don't want to be that guy that could of made it. I want to be that guy that my kids look up to and say "Yo, man my dad was a real MC" or "My dad changed Hip-Hop".

If I decide to chase my dreams then homie don't pinch me and wake me up. Let me sleep...cause if sleep is the cousin of death my dreams died along time ago.