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His father was a Marine for 20 years and came here as a teenager from Belize.

"He's sharing things gradually, we're not asking directly," his father said.

Hit-Boy also has a dual source for his suffering: his exploitative label deal and his father’s roller-coaster ride through the criminal justice system.

He attended the University of South Carolina and graduated from its law school, just like his father.

But not from Orange, whose city fathers have long cast it as a slice of small-town Americana free from big-city problems or national issues.