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Ronald Price (Successthelight)
This story starts in Chicago, October 27th 1993. I was born premature to my mother Traci and my Father Oscar.
My mother wrote stories, poems and quotes since she was a girl growing up in Englewood.
My father on the other hand was a band geek, who eventually evolved to one of the west-sides most re-known DJ's known as C-Dog.
I started writing in September of 2002 after seeing the 8-mile movie at 8 years old, at this time we lived in the Humboldt park neighborhood. We lived north outside of our summers in Englewood until I was twelve. After my parents broke up we moved with my aunt on 80th and Evans, then my father passed. I was in 7th grade.
We moved over East Chicago on 80th and Saginaw, then eventually on 80th and Colfax one block over. I started gangbanging, having sex, smoking and most of all free styling. I battled people on the block and jumped anxiously into ciphers.
Up until this time I only wrote long verses without hooks. I graduated elementary school and because of a teacher recommendation I enrolled in Lindblom, where I also battled school emcees. I won because of my punch-line only style, which developed before writing. I hated the fact that every emcee I listened to or ever heard from little dude down the street to Eminem only had four good lines in their verses at the max. I thought why not have strength in every line instead of having transitional and "set-up" lines wasting a bar. By this time the smoking, gangbanging, and other stupid things I grew up doing caused me trouble with the law and trouble at home which lead me to be transfer to Bowen High School. I met Lo-Kee through a mutual friend named Abi. I did my work in Bowen, but with increased writing time because Bowen wasn’t a challenge. I began spitting in every lunch period. I battled and ciphered until I was recognized by my class as the best rapper in school.
Meanwhile Lo-Kee had already made his musical foundation deeply rooted in the school.
Word around school was that Lo-Kee and I should battle, but we didn’t know each other. We were excited yet lackadaisical about real competition since we both assumed there wasn’t any.
Abi told Lo-Kee and I the same message saying “I know somebody that can beat you”. We battled an intense two rounds before security broke it up because the energy was so high. Lo-Kee could actually Spit! We talked shortly afterwards and he invited me to be a part of his group Automatic and I told him I would see first so we arranged to meet him and Twon after school in the computer lab. I heard some of their music.
And now as it is I am typing my bio for the Automatic Page 3 years later.
Right now I go to Chicago State University.
