"BOOM BOOM BOOM" booms across the city. Kareem had a gun in his hand. He was riding in a car with three other black guys, one of whom screamed out, "T.S.K. UP PUSSY!!!" Kareem smiles and continues to let out shots at anyone he sees. He's not missing many shots anytime he goes on a drill, and he knows to not miss since there's always a reason, this time being the death of Brandon, a guy Kareem has only seen once or twice, but regardless, he was still T.S.K. and the cousin of Kareem's close friend Sdot, who was the guy screaming "tsk up pussy." They spun the block back one more time before the police got there and dropped Kareem off.
As he goes inside his small home and tiredly walks through the house, seeing trails of white powder across the table, passing the bathroom, and seeing his mother there vomiting, he goes to his room like it's nothing. After all, this is basically a daily thing. He opens up the first draw by his headstand, seeing many small containers of weed, rolling it up with some stray rolling papers he had in his pocket, slowly smoking it away, and going to sleep. The next thing he knows, his alarm goes blasting off, which sadly for Kareeeeeeeeeeeee Kareem takes a shower and gets ready, picking up some weed carts and weed bags. walking out to the bus stop and seeing Sdot smoking a spliff on the curb, not caring about any of the other kids at the bus stop. Sdot stands up to dap up Kareem, with him and Kareem meeting eye to eye with both of them being 6'0. Sdot tightens his durag with one hand and hands the spliff to Kareem, and they smoke it together until the bus comes. Sdot steps off the bus first, saying, "Yo bro, let's hit the trap after school, you not doin' nun, we got the C.H.S.'s thot pullin up," with Kareem smiling, assuring his friend he'll be there, and walking off to his first class anatomy/physics. He walks in and sits at his desk, puts his hoodie up, and puts his earbuds in, listening to "Finer Things" by Polo G, up until he feels a tap on his shoulder and turns around to see a girl.
"Hey, your kareem is right. Aaliyah said you were a trap," the girl says. Kareem looks at her and recognizes that she's just a thought that comes to the trap once in a while, although they haven't fully met. Kareem looks up at her in his seat and says, "Yeah, do you need carts for 25 spliffs for 10?" The girl looks at him and smiles, saying, "I need a cart." Kareem quickly goes into his bookbag, takes out a cart, and sticks it into the girl's hands fast enough that no one in the class would notice the girl going into her purse, getting a 20 and a 5, and giving it to Kareem. Kareem picks her up, saying, "What's your name, by the way?" Curiously, the girl responds smiling, saying, "Trinity, nice to meet you." While dapping him up and going to sit down for Kareem, the school day happens in seconds, although there is something to be spoken for. On the bus ride, Kareem and Sdot were smoking in the back and heard something hit their window. They looked up to see a dark-skinned guy with freeform dreads and a blue tee scream out with a cart in his hand, "We're smoking, Brandon!" Sdot thunderously stands up and puts his mouth shut, saying, "DROP YOUR ADDY PUSSY." As their bus continues to move, taking a left, and the other guy's bus keeps going straight, Kareem, looking somewhat irritated, says to Sdot, "Who the hell was that?" Sdot responds by pulling up his pants, saying that he's always sagging. Saying, "Bro, it's that nigga cam, bro, he stay talkin shit but don't get it in or shoot."Kareem looked at Sdot, saying, "Yo, bro, I'll handle it for you if you need me." Sdot, furiously and in a serious tone, says, "Nah, I'll handle that nigga." They then feel the bus stop, and they both stand up, get off the bus, and go to their separate homes to get ready to go to the trap. Kareem walks through the door, seeing the same crack residue and his mom asleep on the couch. He quietly walks into his room and lays his bookbag on the bed, taking out all the carts and weed he didn't sell and putting them in his dresser drawer. There, Kareem takes a shower, puts on a new set of clothes, and runs down to the trap a few blocks down, seeing Sdot and next to him a ma who is around 5'5 and quite fat with a patchy white goatee and sunglasses, who Kareem knows as Amir, a man whose word means everything to TSK. Amir looks at Kareem and says, "Where have you been, little nephew?" in a loud yet calming voice. Kareem walks up to him happily since usually Amir isn't seen often unless he's collecting money for the people that sell weed for him or doing a drill. Kareem picks up Amir and Sdot and says, "Who else is here?" Sdot replies with his right hand on Kareem's shoulder and the other holding a cart, saying "some bitches named Trinity and Aaliyah" and pointing at Trinity and Aaliyah.
Kareem walks up to the girls with Sdot walking behind him as Sdot talks to Aaliyah, and Kareem goes up to Trinity. Kareem says, "Yo, what's up? I didn't think I was going to see you here." Smiling charmingly, she looks up to him and says, "Yeah, I know right." For the next hour, Aaliyah and Kareem talk, although most of the time Kareem is listening and Aaliyah is talking, until Kareem hears the words, "AYYE LIL NEPHEW, COME OVA HERE." Kareem looks up to see Amir on top of a staircase jogging up to meet him as Amir starts to walk, and Kareem speeds up to catch up to him. Amir then says, "You got that, bro?" Kareem knows what Amir means, and shock rings through his spine. He goes into his bright red hoodie pocket and takes out a few rolls of cash and hands it to Amir as Amir proceeds to count it and stroke his beard, giving off about a quarter of the money and giving it to Kareem, who quickly counts the neat stack of money to see the $400 in his hands. He rolls it up and puts it in his pocket, daps up Amir, and then "WHAM!" Kareem runs down the stairs to see what happened, being a little nosey and seeing Sdot standing up with a gun on the floor and Cam from school on the floor. Sdot yells, pulling up his pants, "So what's up then?" and then puts his hands up, preparing for a fight. Cam stands back up, wiping his blood with his forearm, and sets up Sdot kicks the gun away, and the two start to circle each other when suddenly Cam throws a hook with Sdot jabbing before the hook could reach him, and from there Sdot picks up momentum, not letting Cam swing back until Cam trips under his own foot and a strong "oooh" fills the air as everyone is recording and laughing. Cam stands back up and runs away with his hand behind his head due to the pain he felt from falling. The night passes normally, and Kareem walks home, this time listening to "Friday Night" by Edot Baby.
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The King of Rap
General FictionKareem is a 16 year old who currently lives a gang life but trying to make it out by persueing music 18+ TSK: the street kings