Anderson .Paak

And so, um, I got to talk to him and he told me how proud he was of me and how he wanted to be a singer too.

And I learned that he was like on the gong show and they, they, they were audition and he had a group and he was, he wanted, he had big dreams too.

Yeah, I mean, there's times, you know, I have my moods and everything.

I've been called moody, and there's a lot behind the smile.

And I did an interview recently with a rapper named Nori who pointed this out.

He said, usually people like that,

that you know they have that smile and they've been through all this crazy stuff they're trying to protect their peace and I think that's probably what it was um me having this how I am now is there's a part of it that's natural but there's a part of it too that's like uh I feel like um defense mechanism a coping mechanism that I have from the things that I've seen things that I've gone through and um my peace is important for me the things that uh

that I do were kind of like escapism, I feel like, for what was going on in my reality.

When I think about me going and watching the TV and learning how to dance and then learning how to play drums and moving on to everything that I'm doing now, it's always that kid that was running to his room and getting away from the craziness, I think, and creating my own world.

Music was that.

Music was that.

And the smile is just, you know, thank God my mom got me some braces because...

The smile wasn't always this nice.

It was coming at you in 4D.

So she was like, we got to get a grip on that.

Somebody said my teeth are like the Temptations.

Everybody wanted to see me.

So back then, it was tough.

I got them braces on, and then it was a long process.

It just happened like this.