David Ducros, rap singer, during the filming of his first clip «One Mic». Tremé

I Was born November 15,1993. My stage name is Big David; I’ am American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. Throughout my early childhood, I was a witness to the many lives that were lost and victimized by the streets. My life changed July 20.2002 after witnessing the death of my mother. I began rapping as a way to cope with the passing of my mother. By the time I was 16 I had began to work on my first mixtape as well as recording and mixing my own music. On September 24, 2010 officers acting in the undercover capacity attempted to detain me in an unlawful fashion after I struck a plain-clothes officer. I was brutally kicked and beat by as many as 3 or 4 officers. After being struck in the head with a gun, which lacerated the top of my head I was handcuffed and stomped in the head while in handcuffs. Doctors concluded that I suffered a concussion as a result of the brutal assault. After many court dates and trials I was adjudicated for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer despite the fact that I was the one who was assaulted due to the cops suspicion of me distributing narcotics. Narcotics were never found. I received 6 months of probation. I want to disseminate the injustices of my community. I have faced many impediments and have come to discern that in this day and age an oppression of our people is very much prevalent. We have been oppressed for so long that bigotry has become deeply ingrained into our minds and we remain ignorant to knowledge. Throughout my life I have remained strong allowing me to endure without despondence. Many of us cannot acknowledge the obstructions that are the foundation of an oppression but as I have said in my song Nas 1 Mic Remix, «I swear to God dope money got brothaz riding round in a member see we at war and the hood is hiroshima see they got bombs that they dropping on un but these brothaz dont’ see it yea they plotting on us cant’ put us in chains so they put us in cuffs in these underdeveloped neighborhoods brotaz call a jungle the government dont’ care about us we living a struggle». David Ducros