JDnG

Days gone by
L’Venice “L-Dawg” Jackson had grown up a child of hip-hop, barely now 19 years old, he had been rapping as long as he could remember. In Elementary and Middle School, his friends had called him Freestyle because that’s what LD would do. At recess, after lunch, after school… whenever, wherever, whatever, give him a beat and he was bound to give you tight lines. When he was 14 he started at Madison Park High School. Madison Park was an all black school in nearby Roxbury, MA. That’s where LD met Gulleas (pronounced Julius). All of the kids there knew Gulleas as “G” and so that’s what L’Venice came to know him as. “G” was a charismatic guy and he and LD quickly became friends.
It turned out that Gulleas always wanted to make beats and LD always thought of himself as a prominent, up-and-coming rapper; so it seemed that the two new friends had formed a match made in heaven. And indeed the two were inseparable. They spent all their time together, whether...