The mind could be your best friend of your worst enemy. It's up to you.

The first time I ever got on a mic, it just felt like that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

We laid it down every single night, man, we would break bones. We all in.

No matter what hell we were going through,

no matter what hell we were going through,

music was the salvation.

My father almost beat my mom the death several times. The state put us in bad foster home.

We were being molested and beaten.

They were getting money to take care of us and abusing the shit out of us.

Went on the streets, 76, 77, I was hustling.

I got shot, I got stabbed.

I would be up for like three days on crack and then wake up like,

let's go get some wheat grass and my man would be like,

motherfucking, you need a straight jacket.

This is when I hit below rock bottom and then I went to the higher Christian temple I said if you don't let me move in here I'm going to be dead and that's when I climbed out of the hell.

Purge myself for the drugs and the alcohol I started getting really fit.

Study martial arts as a Harry Krishna,

so I was like this fighting monk dude.

I went and did the Iron Man with a stress fracture in my foot.

Pain is gonna go away,

but the pain of giving up on something that's going to.