Lowski. Lowdown. Ralo.
Nov 7 · 4 min read

Three Of The Most Important Things I Learned From My Dad

Do I apply them? Mostly. I try to.


Pardon them baby ass legs. I’m tryna gain some weight but it ain’t sticking 😒. Moving on.

From day one, I’ve always been around both of my parents. Blessed to have that experience. I use to carry a cap gun because my daddy carried a pistol. He ain’t peep that. But as much as I despised when anyone uttered the phrase “you look just like yo daddy” in which I still semi disagree, I can say I carry many of his ways. My first teacher ya know. A lot of what he told me just stuck & I pick three things that stuck the most.

1. Always keep an emergency kit.

So this emergency kit was for my car. You know me. Will drive Lac & nothing else. Well, imma always have a Lac. Og 4th Ward niggas know that all that was parked at 825 was a Cadillac. Nothing else. A truck one time. & then other stuff after I joined the Navy but for the most part, we Lac. So, in this kit that he had me acquire was basic survival tools needed for your car.

  • Oil.
  • Water.
  • Antifreeze.
  • Jumper cables. “I hate for a nigga to ask me for a jump & don’t got no cables. Nigga you ain’t even got no cables?? You messed up.” — that’s verbatim.
  • A jack.
  • Spare tire.
  • Tools.

This way, you have everything that you need in case any of the common shit is inoperable at any time.

2. Keep some insurance.

I had a white Lac one time. Two days before Easter, I go to work. Around this time, I was here & there doing this & that & may have been in some neighborhoods that don’t too much take kindly to visitors from the neighborhood that I am from. 🤷🏾‍♂️

My daddy told me to take the insurance off my car because maybe a month before this incident, the car was broke down. “Why you paying for insurance on a car that you ain’t even damn driving.” Like Ian finna get my shawt back on the road. Is he crazy? Anyway, I’m at work now & they call me to the parking lot on the intercom 🤨. My attitude adjuster was in the car & I parked far. I get out there & my car is on fire.

So I call Ma & the car was at the house by the time he got there. He said, “you called the insurance company yet.”

Now you know like hell. I had just got it back on the road last week. So nah pimp. Ian even got a full paycheck yet. Man the look of niggaaaaaa he gave me made me never forget to have insurance on everything. Appliances, cars, house, my ass because anything can happen. 🤞🏾

3. ”Be 21”

Vivid memory. I was sitting in the kitchen frying chicken wings & he was just talking. I was about to go to boot camp in a lil while & I guess he felt the need to put me on some game. So once again, verbatim.

You know, you have to make your own decisions now. You a man. A young man but a man. You know, just always remember to be 21 about everything. You know what that mean? Once you turn 21, in the eyes of the law, you grown. You old enough to drink 😂. So I can’t tell you what decisions to make but know that I’m always praying for you to get wherever you going safe. I know ion have to worry too much about you after that.

In every decision I’ve made, I been 21. You can tell me it’s a bad idea but if I do the opposite, I was 21 in the decision to do so. I’m 21 in the positive decisions as well. Being 21 is being able to live with that decision & whatever it brings you.


🙏🏾 thank you. My potna. We just getting started. Be patient with me. Plair gotta stretch a lil bit.


To the people on my timeline who has recently loss someone, my condolences goes out to you. No matter the relation, I can relate. It’s hard out here. Stay strong. Keep y’all head up. We gin lean on each other. Let’s step it up a lil going into next year. All love. Always.

Willmatic.

Also one time for OG

Derrick “Horse” Cummings

B.O.S.

Two times for Willie “Cute” Hudson Jr.

B.A.Q.

    Lowski. Lowdown. Ralo.

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