Know my Glory, but don't know my story

Just had a little something on my mind to share with all 2 and a half of you that read my blog. lol. All praises going to the Lord for all of my recent breakthroughs. It has truly been a long hard fought road. My mentor Cheese hit me up the other day to congratulate me on the love MTV had been showing me and he said something that was so real. He said just think about all of the hours and hours and days and years and years of honing your craft that it took to be ready for that 6 minute interview. I flashed back to the day I dedicated my life to pursuing this dream, if people only knew the sacrifice! The loan money I still owe to Sallie Mae because I choose to spend my disbursement check on monitors and not Books. The parties I missed out on because I had a beat to finish. All of the hours studying my craft. All of the trial and error it took to learn how to chop a sample. The creative growth that you fight to maintain year to year. The relationships that suffered due to so much time being allocated to music. I decided long ago that if I was going to do this I was always going to keep my musical integrity and my integrity as a person. I'm not perfect by any means, but I'm proud that in the end I have maintained both. That makes it all that more rewarding. I think I'm ready to take my place as a major player in this industry now. Still have a long way to go and so much more work to do, but I feel like I'm ready all the way around. Talent wise I was ready seven years ago. If I would have made it in the game at that time though... it would have been pure disaster. My mind wouldn't have been ready for all of the trials and tribulations of this industry. I think the Lord did me a great service by making me work so hard for every single thing I've ever gotten in my career. That makes me a lot more appreciative and humble knowing that at any moment what he giveth he can snatch away. Typing all this because I have a show tomorrow and I'm up burning DVD's of my video "Hello" to give to the fans! lol. The grind never stops. Prophet Bar tomorrow! ME and the band gone KILL. So any way, just sharing my random thoughts with yall. Until my next blog-----