Allah The Creator for bringing me into the physical form at this precise moment in history.

My Mother & Father for raising me.

My Mami & Papi for having me.

My Queen, Eden, for standing by a Brother through it all.

My East-Lo Peoples: Dal, Will, Crow, E-Smiff, Raquel and the whole Dog Pound Posse, Derek, Diane, and the tribe (Tiffany, Daniel, Derek, Jr., and Devon), La Novas (best pizza and wings in the Lo and anywhere else, PERIOD!)and all the Brothers bleeding on that East Side concrete

My Chicago Connects: Lynne & Lisa, Pretty Tony, Frank Nitti, Rickey X., Mario, Yah’kira, Seven, The Abstract, Ali, Malik Yusef, Kendall, Mad Peace, Quincy, Tina, Darnell, Mike Gomez, Juan B., all my former comrades from 5 West and 5 East, Home Run Inn (best pizza in the Chi), all the Brothers from North Ave & Austin all the way out to 87th & Stony, and my cousins still holding it down from 147th to 155th St.

My UVA Army Brigade Clique: Jeff Vaughan (those late night sessions paid off), John Green (Col’ Housin’) Stewmeat, Suber, SoulChild, Tuck aka 8th Street Black, Will Patton, Mike Brown, D-Jones, Scojack, B-Wil, Yndigo, Nikki, Leslie, Frank Moyne, Amp, and everybody from the IFT, Lick-Phi, LDD set.

Coast-to-coast: The whole Gaines-Jones family, the whole McCall-Hakeem family, the whole Lit Ex Massive, Unspoken Heard, Midnight Fusion, everybody on WBBS, RedSpice (Red Siren & DivaSpice on the cipher), B-More, Al Saunders (peace for guiding a confused youth through some difficult years), HU/B-15 Crew, Jessie at Cup-o-Dreams, Kelton & Kim.

ONE LOVE