“I wasn’t looking for a career, I was looking for a way to clean up – a way to escape the drug thing,” he told the Times. “It was going to kill me and I knew I had to stop. In firefighting training was discipline I needed. We ran every day. I wasn’t drinking or smoking or doing the stuff I usually did.”
I can’t recall a single curse in his tunes.
RIP Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
“I wasn’t looking for a career, I was looking for a way to clean up – a way to escape the drug thing,” he told the Times. “It was going to kill me and I knew I had to stop. In firefighting training was discipline I needed. We ran every day. I wasn’t drinking or smoking or doing the stuff I usually did.”
I can’t recall a single curse in his tunes.
RIP Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
A few of his songs are a little "explicit" though.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Rip on em all I want, I cannot imagine growing up like most have, with 60% or more of their community growing up without fathers or a solid familial environment. The fact that any of the rappers and their ilk amount to anything is incredible. Rest in Peace, Coolio!
“I wasn’t looking for a career, I was looking for a way to clean up – a way to escape the drug thing,” he told the Times. “It was going to kill me and I knew I had to stop. In firefighting training was discipline I needed. We ran every day. I wasn’t drinking or smoking or doing the stuff I usually did.”
I can’t recall a single curse in his tunes.
RIP Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
You really think he said "thing"?
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
“I wasn’t looking for a career, I was looking for a way to clean up – a way to escape the drug thing,” he told the Times. “It was going to kill me and I knew I had to stop. In firefighting training was discipline I needed. We ran every day. I wasn’t drinking or smoking or doing the stuff I usually did.”
I can’t recall a single curse in his tunes.
RIP Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
You really think he said "thing"?
Sure, I mean how many guys from Compton fought forest fires?
OK, he mighta said “thang”.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
In the words of Monte Walsh......"you can't have no idea how little I care".
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
