Street Verses

Born in Dallas Texas 1984 as Jason Crump raised as a Compton CA native life was in a crossroad seeing how a country boy was introduced to the big city life. As I came of age the streets that would soon claim the lives of many close friends that caused life to change. By the age of nine years old I found myself fi ghting for respect & in years to come fi ghting for my life! Yet life was moving in to high gear by the age of 12. I would have lived in fi ve different cities only in a matter of 2 years. My mother & step father did the best they could to remove me from the trap that many refer to as the hood! In their mind it would help me have a better life yet I always found my way to the trap (the hood) of the fast pace city life not knowing I was running straight for a brick wall. MONTHS later I became a father of two and a husband. Now with the focus of God and seeing life for what it is-a blessing. I have put the former things behind me with a passion to help others so they wont waste their lives as I once did . . . I am truly a man now. I hold a job and live through the struggles everyday with the hope to see the next day by Gods grace. I know he did not give me all these for nothing so I feel so blessed that I was chosen by God to do His will-to mentor people! I am now a father of three lovely children (Jeremiah Jason II and Leilani) and being a family man has made a turn around.