I know Tariq never wanted to trade on his personal pain for rap fame even though if you know even a little bit of his backstory you know it's way crazier than 95% of the rappers who do just that.

But I gotta say I do love hearing him spit from a personal perspective and would love if he did it even just a little more often.

I'm trying to think of when he ever dug as deep into his own demons on a 16 as he did on the opening verse of this 'Little Ghetto Boy' cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LGrn0L6_xE&feature=related and coming up empty.

What says y'all?

and yeah, his story is crazy. he gets kinda personal on game theory. have you heard this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcFbVsDCyI

i don't know he is one of my favorites so he really can't do wrong to me.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”