Anderson .Paak

But I didn't know that he was actually going through rehab, and my mom was trying to get him help through AA, and he was estranged.

She didn't know where he was, and she was telling me, you know, he was on drugs and everything, but she felt like she was going just as crazy just trying to get him off.

She would be chasing people down, trying to find him, doing all these things.

And everything just came to a head that day, and, you know, we left, ran out the house, and...

My pops ended up getting arrested and sent to prison for years after that.

But it was around that time that she told me, your pops had a very different life than a lot of people.

He came up in Philly.

He got kicked out the house when he was a teen.

This is in North Philly in the 70s.

And he was a kid out there trying to raise himself and somehow got into the military early and

Just grew up in a different way.

She always told me he was really a beautiful person and a great dad.

It was just when he got addicted to drugs, he just really turned him into someone different.

He couldn't win that battle.

She told me about that, how they met and everything.

It was crazy because even though she went through all that stuff with him, she never said anything bad.

Yeah.

And, you know, after she got back on her feet, she was just like, all right, we've got a new chapter now.

You know, we're going to move out of this house and I'm going to get back to work.

And son, let there be example.