[21 Savage] Book I Of When It Rains, It Pours.

01| "Here we are face to face,"

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS.

""When it rains, it pours .. living in the A you never know what you might get. you could get shot at any time for doing absolutely nothing. I was sent to Juvie at a young age, I was taught that was the price we paid because we lived in this thing called life. When it rains, it pours.. you're taught you never let your guard down and be careful who you trust. if a nigga catch you slipping then you deserve to get fucked up. so I learned, don't spill. When it rains, it pours men don't cry. crying shows your weak and weak niggas deserve to die. so I learned, don't be weak. When it rains, it pours.. Love is a bitch, and only stupid niggas fall in love. I never really had anybody show me love after my brothers broke me in to the game and taught me the rules of life, the rules of living as a trap nigga, the rules made up by some bitter nigga but that was all I knew. I knew I probably wouldn't see pass the age 18 like some of my niggas. so when my eighteenth birthday come around and I'm still alive.. it'll make a nigga happy. But, then again my birthday wasn't nothing but another day of the year. When it rains, it pours.. with living in the streets it ain't easy. I didn't choose my life it was given to me. and one question that stuck with me was "if I wanted to live and die in this game?" it didn't matter to me because I don't anything to live for. never had anything to live for because I knew what it felt like taking lives from people. In this thing called life, in this beautiful thing we call life we do not choose our life it is chosen for us because when it rains it pours, we're all alone in the inside."

- From yours truly,
SAVAGE, a real nigga.

"26,27,28,29,30 ready or not here I come."

In Atlanta Georgia, Summer of 06' while parents were out working their 9 to 5 jobs, kids who were allowed to go outside were out getting in trouble. Shayaa Bin Abraham was one of those kids. It was around 12 o'clock in the afternoon and his best friend Larry was still in summer camp so he was alone.

Since he refused to be called Shayaa, people knew him as Bin. That day Bin was walking around throwing dice in the air. He didn't want to go home because it was a full house. Bin grew up living a life of crime. Mainly because that's what his brothers taught him. He never got the opportunity to actually know his father until two years ago when he was released from prison. Which was the around the same time Bin came home after being released from the detention center.

He got caught robbing a candy store for his brothers only at the age of eight and was sentenced to serve two years in a detention home for troubled boys. Anything his brothers wanted him to do, he did it. Because, he knew if he didn't he wouldn't be considered cool and his brothers would disown him. His brothers - Chresanto, Cyril, Ricardo and Elijah were the leaders in their fathers gang BX21.

Everybody knew them, and every little boy in the hood wanted to be them and/or a part of the gang. Expect that wasn't what Bin wanted, well he really didn't know what he wanted because he never had to choose. He had to do what his brothers told him to, no matter what. Their mother, Cynthia tried her best to keep them in church but when she went to work the boys terrorized the city. That broke her heart but it didn't change anything. Every time she spoke on something they did, she would get hit by their father Santo. Although he was smart enough to not leave any visible marks on her for the world to see, Bin saw it.

His father would tell him it was okay though, that was a way to show your love for a woman and he believed it.

Walking around his neighborhood, Hyde Grove he was passing the dead end when he saw this girl in skates riding around the loop, reading a book. Bin ducked behind the bushes before she could notice him staring at her. Bin watched as her curls bounced as she spinned around in her pink and blue skates.