PART 29: Mini Biography, Vol.9
In this, Vol.9, of the Autobiography of Freeze Flame. It was Red's chance to Move On and start over. With Set backs decreasing, and Milestones on the Rize, inspiration was not hard to find... Watch, read and learn how Red began to escape from the negativity in his personal life...
The Autobiography of Freeze Flame:
Vol. 7: Early 99 TIME TO MOVE ON
It was Mid-January 1999, by the time Young Red's Intermittent sentence was winding down. His weekend sentence was ending, and with that brought the end of some severe restrictions on Red's freedom. A sentence imposed triple probation ended, leaving only two probation orders to complete... His scheduled treatment requirements were ending too, leaving the requirement to be fulfilled on his own..
It was during these sessions that Red was submersed in entertainment magazines, Hip Hop in particular. He was constantly reading The Source, XXL, and Murder Dog to name a few... Keeping up to date and in touch with the music the helped save him from a life of crime and living in the street, this only fueled his passion for the music industry, and his motivation for building a company from an idea, into something much more...
By the end of January, Red Brown was back at it again, out in the streets with his people of the time, looking for something to do with his new found freedom and lust for life... It was late one night shortly after his latest sentence was completed that Red and another young companion, also struggling with legal issues, were simply walking when the Police stopped them and began to question there motives and reasons for being out so late...
When Red came to a realization, his young friend having similar troubles, he started thinking of better ideas, a way to school the next generation to his way of thinking and of how he changed his focus from street crime to Music scene... Simply by sharing his stories. His friend was grateful that night, however, they never crossed paths again...
Due to Red's taste and passion for Hip Hop music, his living situation had grown volatile. At the time of his sentencing he was ordered to live with his family. At the completion of the sentence Red and his father had an argument about this topic with ended with Red being asked to leave the house. It was a couple days later when he returned, and they worked out a deal. Red needed to leave, and his parents were moving out of the city...
Red, recently having started his final semester of high school for the year, had a choice to make, where was he going to live and was he going to finish high school? He decided that he would stay in school, especially after causing such a fuss to get back in... that meant he needed a new place to live...
It was time to begin the search. Red started to search for an apartment, he was tired of shared accommodation, it only ever ended badly for him. He was able to find a small bachelor apartment in the basement of a house, in Toronto's West End... Parkdale! One of Red's favorite neighborhoods for some reason, just full of life, and different cultures of people... and everything was so close...
The streetcar ran right past his front yard, he didn't have a front window... or a front door. Stores were close by, laundry, etc... school was walking distance, to Red's standard anyway. He had a bus pass, and a hidden apartment... He was in his own place and focusing on his future plans, or his master plan... Red had many plans, they all seemed to lead back to Music at some point...
First and foremost, Red's focus was on himself... he was determined not to quit, not to go back or get set back... meaning; Keeping his freedom at any cost. Music, was the next focus, and went right along with the first, mainly, because music was Red's personal saviour to some degree... Hip Hop music was Red's mental strength.
In 1999, Red's final year was upon him, and he saw it as an opportunity to move on. Move on from his past, from being a high school student, and a criminal on probation... though many months from that point, he was looking up. On one hand, he was close to completing all of the above, but he understood that there was a long road ahead...
It was the middle of February when Red finally moved into his new apartment, and although he felt isolated from damn near everything, he was proud to be out on his own again, back in school, and looking for a summer job. His parents moved away sometime in March, Red was busy with school, they were busy with packing, he was notified after the fact...
Far from his old neighborhood, Red felt rejuvenated... he liked the solo crew after being around such a large group of "friends," over the years... he wasn't so much watching his own back from people close to him now, just looking over his shoulder to see what was close by...
He continued to read his magazines, and buy Cd's like crazy... his focus was the choice he made, he began to study those albums as an architect rather than just listen as a fan. He was able to appreciate different styles, of the melody,beat, lyrics etc... where people around him chose to either hate or criticize everything that wasn't in a certain category...
Red's free time increased as time went by; he had transferred his probation to Parkdale as well, and his PO was pretty lenient, letting Red's appointments go to every couple months, rather than twice a week...
Red wasn't in hiding, but he wasn't looking for the old crew anymore, the long late night walks had changed to different neighborhoods and hall ways... Red was off the grid of everybody who had once known him, but out in the open to meet the new team that was in search of a visionary...
Outside the school, on lunch break and whenever, Red would join a new found group of guys, who had similar interests... every once in awhile they would break out in cypher, freestyle for minutes at a time... something Red always enjoyed... Spontaneous Hip Hop from the top of the head.. to a beat boxer with a homemade style... Under ground to the fullest...
This was all fuel to the FIRE of Freeze Flame!
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