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Barely a week after his deportation back to his home country of Belize, former Bad Boy rapper Shyne paid a visit to a local school over the weekend to advise students to stay in school and stay out of trouble.
According to 7 News Belize, Shyne gave his words of wisdom to the entire Wesley College student body on Saturday (October 31) along with Professor Charles Ogletree, a mentor to US President Barack Obama.
"I came up on the streets with guys that gang banged and were into criminal activity and those tools never worked," Shyne revealed. "Those tools, you either end up spending the rest of your life in prison or sleeping in a grave for the rest of your life. But with the tools that you are getting here as far as education is concerned, that is the ultimate tool and with that tool you can transcend any situation because I am just like you, you dig."
"I grew up on Curassow Street. When I was coming up we didn’t even have toilets," he continued. "But one of the things my uncle Finnegan and my father Prime Minister Barrow implored upon me was education, education, education, education. And I didn’t really get that, I was like, ‘yo well education whatever.’ But as I came up, my music, being Shyne and being able to go from Curassow Street and United States and sell millions of records, the only way I was able to do that is because I used to be at my uncle Denys’ house and I used to be in the corner reading a dictionary"
"I was very into my English. I would fail my other classes but when it came to English, I would pay attention. And if it wasn’t for that, I would have never sell any records. I wouldn’t have been able to call Jay-Z on my Iphone and I wouldn’t be able to live the life that I live and so education is very important," he added.
During his eight years behind bars, Shyne converted to Judaism and changed his name to Moses Leviy. The rapper revealed that his conversion to the religion wouldn't change the content of music that he plans to record in the future.
“I would like to make that type of contribution, that kind of Marvin Gaye contribution, you dig, but at the same time we curse, at the same time life is violent, life is troublesome sometimes so don’t expect my music to be sanitized," Shyne divulged. "I am just going to talk about what’s going on in the world.”
Shyne also hinted that signing to a record label in the United States may not be one of his priorities.
"People sell tens of millions of records outside of the States. Quite frankly the Euro is stronger than the dollar right now," he explained. "So I will make far more money in Europe and in Japan and throughout the world than I would make in the States.”
7 News Belize added that Jay-Z might be visiting Shyne in Belize before the end of the year.
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