Roosh Williams (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images)
When I was doing stuff in the rap world, it was eat what you kill. I learned how to hustle, and I learned to go out and get something for myself. It was very difficult. Any revenue I generated was a direct result of me doing it and me figuring it out. Sometimes you fall flat on your face when you’re learning how to do something, and sometimes you have success. I went through those processes. There were a lot of my classmates who were younger—I don’t want to say law school chewed them up and spit them out—but I saw some people have a change of heart or realize, “I don’t want to be in law school after all.” But for me, it confirmed that that life progression I had made was correct. It’s kind of a maturity thing.
— Roosh Williams, a recent graduate of the USC Gould School of Law, commenting on how his experience in the rap world helped him during law school. Prior to pursuing a legal education, Williams was a well-known rapper in Houston, Texas, and even cracked the Top 40 on the iTunes rap chart back in 2015. Williams plans to practice entertainment law after he passes the bar exam, and he already has a job lined up with a firm in Los Angeles.
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