I wonder why I’m living how I’m living. Why have I been in this position for twenty three years in my life? With my family suffering from low income and my area’s history of gang crime. Gang culture was in my blood and in my heritage it was only a matter of time before I would join a gang. Since the day I was born my family has struggled finically trying to pay my school fees and most people I know are either drop outs or in prison serving a life sentence for either armed robbery or murder. It has been almost three years since I dropped out of university because of my family could not pay my university fees, since then I have been sobbing at home trying to educate myself on the internet but I never quite benefit from studying at home because of my uneducated family, people and the surroundings around me. My life has always been a struggle since I was born, and because I live in this type of atmosphere where gang culture is constantly around it was almost certain you would have some sort of offence or criminal record.

I wonder why I’m living how I’m living? As I was on the internet supposed to be studying, a new and promising talent show caught my eye called hip hop’s finest rapper immediately I was intrigued by this. This talent show wanted good rappers. The reward for winning the contest was one thousand pounds and a record deal to be singed to Young Money Entertainment. Immediately I thought to myself this is a chance for me to start rapping again after I stopped three years ago. This was a golden opportunity for me to fulfil my dream to become a rapper. As I read through the article it said the competition will start in one week, so I decided to call I my friends Darren and CJ to tell them I will be auditioning for this talent show and I will start rapping again. Darren and CJ were in disbelief and thought I was playing a joke on them but after five minutes I finally convinced them it was not a joke, I am certainly not a mind reader but they were not convinced I was going to win the show and get the record deal so this was my chance to prove to them and the world I have talent.

As I have not rapped in years writing the lyrics is going to require a lot of effort, time and thought for me to produce an exceptional and meaningful rap verse to win the contest. To win the contest I would need some key elements to win like good punch lines, confidence and meaningful lyrics, this was what I took to preparation when I was rehearsing for the contest.