At 14 years old, I read that you were hung out with some people who there was attempt on murder, convicted.

What happened?

So my uncle had just died, who was a positive influence in our life.

He died to gun violence.

My mother had just became pregnant, and my little sister was born.

My brother was already in and out of the juvenile facilities. And my mother was putting my brother in adolescence home. So my mama wasn't waiting for him to be arrested. When she started seeing behavior problems, she would put him in adolescent home. That made him even more rebellious. And he big. He's tall than big. He got a grown man body. So, uh, Mama got to work.

And she, we got the best life most kids could have in the middle class neighborhood.

So, uh, I'm the little brother sitting back watching who everybody's overlooking because of my injuries.

They don't know. I'm a mother, they don't know. I'm a dynamite.

Uh, only my uncles know who let me hang out with them.

So, man, once I got to become a kid, I was 13 years old.

I've been in a hospital, man, from 5 to 13.

So once I started playing with kids, I was a natural leader.

And I attracted good and bad children. My real friends didn't get in trouble.

The ones I went to hang with didn't live in our neighborhood.

They lived in the projects and apartments.

So, man, when I got introduced to what I called, I'm the seed of America's gangster rap culture.

A little kid who've been watching Bill Cosby, Red Fox, Fred Sanford, when my uncles get out of prison, I watch all the black exploitation films.

From Dolomite, Superfly, the mat all penitentiary so i learned criminal

activity from watching these movies watching my uncles and and once i finally got to go out into

the community imagery have already been propagated to me kid watching television kid white

so man so i'm mimicking what I'm seeing. So I've never seen a man come out of my mother's bedroom. I've also never seen a man get up and go to work. You've never seen a man come out of your mama's bedroom. You've never seen a man go to work. Yeah. I didn't know men work. I thought, were like my uncle Curtis and my Uncle Wayne, you know, they pimped on a woman,

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