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Acknowledgments

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Big shout outs go to my people in the Chuck, Charleston, South Carolina keeping it real! It’s like a little Brooklyn: The people...the flavor; Walterboro, and the Low Country Dirty South. Courtney, I love you, find your niche, exploit it, and be successful! Deb, you’re beautiful inside and out. And you’re a wonderful mother. Devantae I love you and miss you.

My family in New York, mom, dad rest in peace. I miss y’all! My sister Sharon. All my family and people in Brooklyn, Bushwick Projects. Barry Jones, Curtis, T, Jimmy B, Craigstee, Mike-Mike, Sly, Bilal...Bobby, Sha-Born, Latif: Salih from Haiti. Monrobia Dutch, Jami Delaware, Hanif, RIP. Big Hamid from Jersey, Dex from Bushwick New York, David Green...thanks for keeping me grounded.

Cousin Drew, the brothers who trained with me. Remember, bob and weave. Bob, Kafi, Cocky, Styles, Shaheed, D-Lo, Citi, and Big D. To my brothers on lockup everywhere, and of course, Writa'z BLOC, Mic, Ra, Black-Art Goals, Chastity Adams; Ghostwriter Inc, and G, Polow Don, Rich Behavior Entertainment, Jessica Wren, and of course, Wahida Clark. Peace, and Love.

That brother that be writin' all the time, you know him! ~Dean Hamid~