You can rise from humble beginnings.

Shawn Carter was raised in Marcy Projects, located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N.Y.  He grew up in a single parent household and was a high school drop-out.  For a brief stint, he peddled drugs in the streets to earn money.  In regards to his past, he states, “The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t have the things

you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed everyday of your life and you’d do anything to lift that burden.