Rio
“I’m just a hustler, you know? I want to see Russell Simmons money. I want to see hundreds of millions.” There are born hustlers. Folks that do what it takes to survive on the streets. Folks who might try to get ahead a little bit by using what they got, and maybe what others got, to get by. Then there’s Rio, a hustler’s hustler. Times got hard on East Oakland’s Rio, and he took refuge in the streets. He hustled to pay tuition, hustled in school, was stabbed, shot at, hit by a car … but there was always music. “It was the way I passed the time while I was on the street. It was my diary. I could write a song in, like, 15 minutes; just accessing my mental rolodex.” Always into music, but economics was the college grad’s major, and it’s the way he lives life. “Only a fake person would tell you they want to be in the ghetto.” In a flow, Rio spit “I’m Marty McFly, I’m ahead of my time …”
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