Anderson .Paak
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And my mom deals with, you know, being an orphan and growing up.
Right.
She didn't know anything about her Korean culture, you know, and we grew up black in a black household.
And I didn't know about anything about Koreans, anything.
When I found out my mom was Korean, I just took it as something I could tell to people and make me exotic.
How old were you when you found out or when you realized she was Korean?
I was about like...
I think she was telling us this when I was about 10, 11.
When we started sitting down, she started telling us her story.
And she wouldn't always do it, but she would open up sometime, you know, and she was like, yeah, I'm adopted.
You and your uncle, we were found.
And this and that.
We'd be like, what?
That's crazy.
And okay, so we're Korean.
Okay, I'm mixed.
Nice.
I'm about to tell everybody.
You know, my pops went to prison when I was around six or seven, and I saw him.
He was a twin.