Anderson .Paak

What did that feel like?

I mean, on one hand, it was crushing because my mom is... It would just kill me to know she was in prison.

She was not a violent person, the sweetest person, no criminal record.

So I was just always so worried, like, what's going on in there with her?

And I hope she's okay.

And then on the other hand, she was just so...

positive and optimistic and strong that it made me want to get my stuff together and just keep going and um she was very just like yeah man I'm gonna be all right you know um I'm worried about you guys more so like you guys you know do what you guys have to do don't worry about me and so um

And at the same time, I thought I was going to be like signed by then.

Like before that, I was making mixtapes.

I was DJing.

I had my own like demo that I was selling at school.

Couldn't nobody tell me I wasn't going to be right out of high school, like signed to Jay-Z, you know?

Yeah.

So there was still a part of me like, okay, I'm still going to try to do this, but my world's upside down and I had to move out and all this stuff.

So right after I graduated high school somehow and I was like, all right, I'm going to go to LA.

I'm going to make the move, going to try to do my thing and I'm going to take some meetings.

I had a manager at the time that was taking me around and my two older sisters were taking care of my little sister and I pretty much was off into the world after there.

And I did a bunch of stuff.

I went to Atlanta.

Yeah.