It's been a long time coming.
The earliest writing I recall brewing up was in 1st grade. My school had something called 'electives.' Every Friday, if we behaved, we were able to go to an 'elective' for a certain period of time and do whatever that elective was about. I always picked the sport class and we'd play whatever sport or game they had set up for the day, but for whatever reason, one Friday, I wasn't able to go and instead had to go to the art class. They taught us how to write a poem and showed us the "A, B, A, B" rhyme scheme. I was immediately hooked. Poems, short stories, lyrics, and whatever else came to mind - I just stayed writing. This evolved into spoken word, hip hop, scripts and novels. Life be life-ing and the Leo mind is a strange place, so eventually I ended up with over 30+ stories and the most developed one was maybe 25% done. Please believe every single one of those stories is fire, too! 😂😂😂 I also had multiple apps, video games, clothing ideas, art, CGI, and just tons of really dope artistry that was nowhere near complete. I don't know when the idea of TEBH first came to mind, but in 2023 I was writing another story and decided to tie it in with The Euclid Boys Home. As I had done 30+ times before, I stopped the original story and started working TEBH full time. I recognized what was happening and had enough. I decided that I would only work on this one story until it was done. I stole a concept I had received from corporate America and decided that I would work exactly 60 minutes a day on it — specifically from 9pm to 10pm. At 8:59 I could be doing anything else but at 9:00 I would be writing. At 10:01 I could be doing anything else, just not working on the story. And then when I decided this, something weird happened ... every single day I would get a download for a different part of the story. I wouldn't even be writing. I could be at work, in the shower, eating, driving or anything random - and an idea would just drop in. A full idea. Not a concept. Actual detail. Full names. Bios. Entire events. Even the actors who would play them. It was nuts! And it would happen every single day. A literal download. I didn't have to brainstorm. It was not breadcrumbs that led to something extravagant. No. Just the whole download. Til this day I feel that I had a co-author on this project. I cannot take sole credit for major parts of this story because something or someone was feeding me ideas once a day, every day, for months at a time. And then it stopped. And I understood. "Ok, my turn." And I finished the book. The first draft was finished around January 2025 but I for sure mean the first draft. I hired a proofreader and they sent it back with dozens of red lines on every single page 😂😂😂 I fixed the typos and formatting errors which in turn opened up more 'canvas' to create with. I spent the remainder of 2025 getting the final draft done, and in December that's exactly what happened. No turning back. No excuses. I went into promo mode and focused on logistics as I refused for this to be another dope story sitting on my desktop. And now here we are. March 3rd. All love to energy and the creator of that. You the goat! Shout out to my child. They're little so they have no clue what's going on but good times are ahead! I locked in because of you. Thank you! Big thanks to Virgo Girl for being a dope inspiration personally and artistically. Truly my muse. You're my BFF. Shout out to the town. I'm going to make you proud. Thanks to the proofreader! My first draft was horrible lol
Thank you to everyone who has since come in contact via social media, and shout out to everyone who will join us on this path in the future.
I'm proud of this book.
I'm in my bag.
Watch this.
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