Autobiography of Johnny Lawson

Johnny Lawson
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

It all started December 20, 1980 on a cold winter Evening At around 6:30pm in a rural small Town In South Carolina where my mother gave birth to a 8.3lb boy the third of six kids five girls and one boy me being the middle child whom she named Johnny Lawson. Two Years later 1982 at the age of 2 we moved to Far Rockaway Queens NY. Where we lived in a two bedroom apartment. At that time my mother had 4 kids but only two of us she took me and my younger sister and left my older two sisters in the South to live with Her Mother and Father whom is also my Grandparents. My Mother at the time was Dance party Machine she love Earth Wind and Fire, Ojays, Buddy Miles, and Parliment Funkadelic she was a party girl and having all 4 kids moved with her would’ve hinder her Partying.

After living and attending school in Queens for 8yrs we moved back to South Carolina in 1990. I enrolled in school in the south and that’s when my life was about to change. My Elementary years my Mother got Married and had my last two siblings of the six. I was always the man of the house cause I was always the only boy.. My step father was cool but I had a lil attitude so I never accepted him as my Step Father so I never listen to him. I got close to My Grandfather whom taught me how to pray, my manners and respect, how to fish, mow the lawn all the mans duties. I also Got close with my Uncles and Cousins whom taught me about the streets, smoking my first joint, drinking my first beer and the ladies. So I was stuck in between the Good vs the Bad. But all Both taught me how to Be only a God Fearing Man.

By the time I turn 14 in 1994 I was going to school playing baseball and basketball for the Middle school team I was first team in both sport. I was blessed with great talent won several awards my mother still have in her china cabinet to this day. I was doing great in sports so it gave me extreme popularity not only in school but in the neighborhoods as well. So I used to get gifts such as cash from the neighborhood drug dealers.

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