"I loved the fact that my parents got divorced. I loved the fact that one parent was poor and one parent was middle class. I love the fact that I grew up half in the hood, half in the suburbs. I love the fact that there was white people and Spanish people in my family. I love the fact that I had down south real dirty dirty niggas in the family. I love the fact that I had Uptown, crazy, intellectual, real Brooklyn, real heritage Black Masons in my family up North. I love the fact that I had a wild grandmother from The Bronx. And I love the fact that I got an old crazy white trash auntie that used to sit me on the porch in the trailer and her father used to teach me how to fish. Everybody says that this country's full of hate but all I saw was a country full of love."
- Shock G, aka Humpty Hump, from Digital Underground in this month's
Elemental Magazine. According to the article: "His maternal grandmother is half Pakistani and half Hindu while his maternal grandfather is half Jewish and half Puerto Rican. His paternal grandfather is half African-American (suspected Haitian descent) and half Bajan (Trinidad) while his paternal grandmother is half African American (West African descent) and half Irish."
Shock, I feel u completely.
Posted by: Kahlil Digitalx | July 06, 2011 at 01:59 PM