They started as kids from West Philly just trying to make it out. Drill rap, and the pull of fame and money, left nearly a dozen dead, and others in prison for decades.

"His friends are always laughing with him, asking him how he got me to name our daughter that," Jules told Newsweek.

Nathan Kapongo knows it won't be easy to achieve his pro football dream. Kapongo, 24, who lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo until he was 15, knows he's a long shot to make an NFL team. Of ...