Jerone Black perhaps fits the bill better than any other rapper out there

Hailing from the streets of Alief, Texas – on the southwest side of Houston – Black has lived the life that defines “Street Dude.” His story includes a period as a drug dealer, as a father of seven children from five different women, and of periods in-and-out of jail. But his story isn’t one that’s only filled with a series of questionable decisions – it’s also filled with redemption and triumph and, currently, of a man trying to show young people on those same streets that there’s a way to make it in this world without breaking the law … and that’s through music.