Eric Thomas

This ain't for everybody.

I started getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning.

It's like, yo, you're going to have to get up a little bit earlier because you didn't finish school.

You didn't take care of your business.

So you can't get up the same time another man who gets up who handle his business.

So you need to get up at 3 if you're going to catch the greats.

You got to get up at 3.

You got to go to bed early.

This is why I said I never drank or smoked because the men in my life who did it were extremists.

I had an uncle who died of cirrhosis of the liver.

You know, I had other uncles who drank, and my father, bless his heart, but he was strung out on drugs for about 14 years.

And I was just like, yo, E, you can see that they don't know how to do it casually.

Like, they ain't social drinkers.

Like, they ain't social on something.

They taking it to a whole nother level.

And so for me, it was like, E, you gotta discipline yourself.

You're not going to die if you never know what alcohol tastes like.

But if you taste it, you might have the same experience they had.

So you just got to discipline yourself.

You know, I do vegan most of the time.