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since I played that clip can we talk
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about the the the that moment that you
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had to sell crack ah yeah CU When you
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brought that up I was like what and then
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you left us on that Cliff aner what were
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the circumstances like where were you at
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in your life so I was about for 14 15
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mom was really deep in her addiction
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really deep in her addiction and it was
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just her and I you know that the the two
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stable people that I had in my life
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which was my grandmother passed away
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when I was 13 right so she was like a
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safe haven for me and then my bonus
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father my stepdad who she was married to
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at the time they decided to get a
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divorce right and so then my mother and
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I for the first time we were thrown into
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a life together with just she and I
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and she just she wasn't available yeah
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and so much so I didn't didn't know
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whether my mom was going to make it or
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not yeah you know what I mean and so I
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really felt like I really got to go out
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here and figure out how to gain some
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security some safety right and how to
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just build something for myself that no
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matter what happens I'mma be okay word
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so where I come from we didn't have
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doctors and lawyers that you could look
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to and go oh I'm going to go for that I
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need something immediate we had the
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hustlers M they had W ofh they were also
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Street CEOs they had businesses they had
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sub shops they had barber shops nail
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salons shoe stores and I was like yo I'm
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trying to have that come up right and I
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was like I'm that kind of personality I
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mean once I put my mind to something I
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know I can make it happen and so just
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being steeped in that environment I was
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like that's G to be my way out you know
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was doing that was doing that you know
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and I mean it was you know when you're
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when you're immersed in an environment
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like that you you you're not you're just
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there that's just what it is right and
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even though I went to Baltimore school
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for theart now you have to remember I
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wasn't the only one at Baltimore School
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for the yards who was hustling oh no
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yeah people hustle in high school but
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was Pac hustling not at that time not at
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that time no because Pac wasn't Pac
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wasn't from Baltimore yeah you know what
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I'm saying and so um yeah he didn't he
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didn't get into that what what level
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were you a boss or I feel know you I'm
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14 yeah you a king P J wish I I was
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trying I was trying you're trying it I
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was trying it okay didn't quite make it
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did you get robbed I would have robbed
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you if you I got robbed I
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listen listen I I am lucky to be here
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today I talk about it in the book I talk
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about two instances and and they were
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don't even get me started those were
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just the two most extreme instances that
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I had but yeah I got robbed wow yeah is
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that what what made you quit uh that
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well I'd have probably the second time
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uhhuh you know when I was like okay this
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isn't meant for you there was this is
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actually a signal coming your way that
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that you not Built For This mhm and so
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and I would have to say once my mother
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found out cuz she found some leftover
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product in my room that she thought I
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was using okay right and then she heard
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from through the gra Vine that I had
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gotten you know robbed in Cherry Hill
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and Cherry Hill mind you is like it's a
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peninsula one way in one way out of the
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projects right and she was like what the
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and she was like you getting up out of
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here cuz I had gotten a scholarship to
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North Carolina School go for the yarts a
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very small one but I auditioned and they
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wanted me to come but I wasn't going I
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was going to stay in Baltimore and just
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keep trying trying my luck in the
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streets and my mother got me the hell up
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out of there she was not playing with me
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so I would say that she probably saved
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my life how long did how long did your
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uh dope Dyan career last would you say
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maybe about maybe about two years two
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years two years two years that's a lot
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of surviving yeah it two years two years
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what what do you say to your kids about
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that oh I I told my kids everything so
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i' I've been told them that story see
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that's how I set up like listen when I'm
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telling you something I'm not telling
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you something just to tell you something
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and let me tell you why I'm telling you
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this I lived it's like oh okay Mom yeah
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so when I tell you watch your back
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Willow when I tell you I need you in
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o' this is why you know and and so your
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kids go okay you not just trying to
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parent me like that parental just trying
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to strangle me stuff I was like no no no
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there ain't nothing out here for you
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Willow after 11 mhm yeah ain't nothing
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at w yeah you know what I'm saying so is
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there an age as a parent that you think
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is best to share when did you share with
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the both of them these parts of your
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life you you kind of have to you kind
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each child is different M you know what
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I mean and so it just depends on on that
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particular child but I think with Willow
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and Jaden just the both of them at the
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same time but they were they were kind
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of young I think Jaden might have been
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14 and then J Willow was she two years
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younger than Jaden yeah so yeah this is
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saying we at a whole tour yo this is so
