Desiigner overcame a lot to get to where he is today. When he was only 14 years old, he was shot in a terrifying moment that changed his life forever.

"I was a bad kid. I was a hardhead," he admitted to Rob Markman for Genius. "I was in the streets doing dumb s***, I got hit [by a bullet] in my hip. It wasn't serious. I was in the hospital 10 minutes, 30 minutes—but it was just that moment that really said, 'Yo, mind your business.' When that happened to me, I knew I wasn't supposed to be there. I always had a voice in my head that said, 'Don't do the bad.'"

He didn't go into detail about the event but does say it changed him. At that point, he made the decision to get out of the streets and go into the studio to pursue his music.

"[Being in the streets] wasn't working for me, so I was like, you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna sell my talent," he said (via MTV).

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