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For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
I was already writing poetry, so I transitioned from writing poetry a cappella to writing over beats, and it was way more exciting to me that way.
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'