I don't share my life experiences too often but I figured I would share this story because it's one of the earliest memories I have.

22 years ago I was 3 years old. My little brother and I started our house on fire. We ran under the beds and the smoke detectors didn't work. The entire apartment complex was on fire, and our parents woke up and we were hiding. My little brother @tylerfuckingkearney ran out to his mom and got out .. I was too scared because I thought I was in trouble, everybody got outside (Tyler wasn't old enough to tell them I was under the bed still.) I stayed under my bed, and I wasn't coming out my dad ran back into the building and somehow knew I was under there and I remember him saying

"Jake if you don't come out right now we are both gonna die in here"

My father would have stayed in there with me until the end. My dad got me out and suffered 3rd degree burns and was in a coma for 2 months, and was permanently scarred and nerve damage, and is unable to use his left hand for the rest of his life.

Sometimes I don't understand why things happen the way they do, I think about this day alot because it's literally the most tramatic thing I experienced as a child, and it changed my father's future, truthfully I always blamed myself for this even still today, my father always told me I was a baby and he shouldn't of left a lighter out like that and he never once blamed me, I feel I was always a smart kid and I think my guilty conscience subconsciously haunts me because I knew better.

After becoming a father myself, and losing my first son on xmas Eve, sometimes I wonder if that was somehow the way it was mean't to be, like if my dad lost me how we he of lived the rest of his life? Would I have ran into a burning building to save my son yes of course would have and would do anything to get my son back.

I can honestly say my dad did, and he recieved a heroic thing and was all over the news it was a big story. My 2nd son was born on St Patrick's day, it drives me insane sometimes with the dates of my children, the moral of the story is

Everything Happens For A Reason

Tell It How It Is (Hate Still)

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Wanna Be Rappers

Shooting Stars

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Drop in the Ocean ft Bagginz

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Roll wit me (used to this remix)

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