Silence Is Over
06:00AM ET November 4, 2009
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff
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Shyne finally broke his silence and spoke to the media following his release from jail. In his native Belize Shyne spoke to students at his former school about avoiding the pitfalls he dealt with as a rapper.

"As Shyne, I think they want to hear what I have to say and what I do have to say is not, 'listen man I am on a gangster roll.' No listen, look what gangster roll got me. Look where it led me. And I am not telling you what to do because I am not a preacher and I am not everybody's father but I am exhibit A of what's going to happen if you don't stay in Wesley College, you dig. If you don't go to that sixth form, if you don't try to go to the university you're going to spend the rest of your life in the cooker or you're going to be in the grave. That is what this is about."

"This is not about any type of romanticizing. No, this is about me, this is about them, and hopefully them learning from me that listen, I don't want to make the mistakes that he made but if you do make a mistake you can transform that mistake. That is what a mistake is, not continuing to hit yourself in the brick wall but understand this is a brick wall, I ran into it, let me tear this wall down, or let me just go a different direction."

This is truly how you turn a negative into a positive. Governor Patterson, give this man a pardon.