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This is one of the most interesting characters to come across the sports landscape over the last 20 years.

Meta Sandofford Artest used to be MetaWorld Peace. Used to be Ron Artest.

Thank you for this session of South Beach Sessions. West Coastal. Really nice to see you in person.

Yeah, absolutely. It's good to be here. You know, I changed my name to Meta World Peace in 2011.

Then I got remarried after my first marriage, I took my wife's last name, but I still go by Metalworld peace. Okay. All right. But, yeah, my wife's last name was Sanderford. And obviously, my other last name was Artes. So she was like, you know, women should have, she said, you know, women should have the right to have their last names be taken. I said, you're right. I agree. My friend Ricky Williams

did the same thing. He did Eric Myron. So I didn't introduce you incorrectly, though. Did I?

You did, but, you know, I would rather met a world peace. You're a man of many names, though.

I know. For a while, forgive me for forgetting what the panda name was when you were in China, but you changed your name legally there too. Did you not? No, that was just like a story that kind of took its own legs. People just made up stuff. The pandas friend actually, my daughter loves pandas. So she loves pandas so much. I said, you know what? I want to be around my kids more. So I'm always trying to find a reason to be around them. So I launched a brand called the Pandas Friend because my daughter loves Pandas. And when the story came out, people said I changed my name to Pandas Friend. Well, but this is the thing with you. There are so many stories out there about you. Lots of stories. So let's start here. What do you like about your reputation and what don't

you like about your reputation? People who haven't met you who are just surmising things based on what

they think. I think the great thing about my reputation is being from Queensbridge. You know,

the greatest rapper of all time, Noss is from Queensbridge, Mobb Deep Deep, hip-hop from MC Shan, Roxanne, Chantay, myself.

And we also are the biggest federal housing project in America.

And when you come from the biggest federal housing project in America, you learn a lot.

You know, you're under more scrutiny.

A lot of things that's happening in these

communities. When you can make it out, because there's so many traps, violence, weapons,

drugs, and when you can navigate your way through that, that says a lot. That's the biggest,

that's what I love about my career, that I was able, about my life, that I was able

to navigate that. Now, on the court, people got a chance to see an emotional side. They got

a chance to see that real street side, right? But when people don't really know me, they know me

from playing basketball, they know me from being in survival mode on the court. But nobody really

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