I WANTED TO BE LIKE NIPSEY AND NEXT THING I KNOW I'M CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERY
Crenshaw's Own Smokeone aka "SMOKE", an up and coming artist of Big U's, shares his journey from working the streets to going away for 4 years and having to wake up everyday in jail ready to go to war/ Smoke tells about his first day in the prison yard and seeing the dude next to him stabbed and thinking "man its like this?" Smoke explains how once he got out he made a vow to leave the hustle of the street and be the best rapper he could be. Today he and close friend D5 make up the rap duo OSBS and taking a different path. They were friends of Nipsey Hussle and still see him as their mentor and roll model to this day.