I guess on my end, I just gotta keep working harder. I feel like they might pass me up and go with a Vic Mensa or whoever else. So I just feel overlooked, and not so much underrated. was something I was going to pursue with or without a TV show.

I feel some kind of way about it because they may just look at me as, 'Oh, he's just this reality star,' when it's not that at all. Outside of that, there's certain festivals and there's certain big jams that I feel like I should be on when it comes to Chicago that I don't get on. Now, it's good because I have the leverage over a lot of artists by me being on TV, pushing my dreams, and people see that, and respect that. What bothers me honestly man is just the notoriety of my music because you have so much distraction in a way, as far as just speaking from Chicago. So hopefully, by me leading by example, you have more people that will follow. I can't put my life and my career at risk, but I can speak on it to help, and start a change. I could still go to the hood, but I can't hang out there because there's too much going on. It wasn't even really just from a Chicago standpoint, because it's going on everywhere, but with Chicago being one of the most violent cities, I had to speak on it from my experience. And then, you can't even run to the police no more, you know what I mean? So it's all messed up. Everyone got something to prove when it shouldn't be that.

I have to speak on it because I got friends, and I got family that's getting murdered. So it's either you're going to be a product of your environment or be a stand-up guy to speak on what's going on. The killing rate out in Chicago is getting out of hand. Before I put this project out that I just dropped, I wanted to touch bases on what was going on because I feel like that was the only thing that was missing, you know what I mean? I was like, 'Man, I had to put something out for the city.' It was too much going on. A lot of people when they see me perform or they're hearing my music, they usually get the cool smoker's vibe or that cool turn-up.

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