Should have thrown this up with the Life Has Just Begun video but didn’t get a chance to read it in its entirety ’til just now.
Read: First Day Out Of Prison by John Forte
“It’s 5 a.m.,” I said.
“Nope. It’s 5:30,” he corrected me.
“What’s the difference?” I muttered, knowing that I couldn’t leave the premises for at least another two hours.
“My alarm is set for 6:30,” I told him.
“I don’t care about that,” he said. “You have to get up now.”
“Why?”
“Because you’ve been counted for the last time. And you have what the rest of us want—the chance to get outta here. So you can’t just lie there, waiting for your alarm to go off. It’s disrespectful. Get up and get ready to go.”
Tee was right, dead right.
Also: The recently recorded freestyle / studio video for Homecoming with Talib Kweli & John Forte
