Metta World Peace

I think the great thing about my reputation is being from Queensbridge.

You know, the greatest rapper of all time, Nas, is from Queensbridge.

Mobb Deep, hip-hop from MC Shan, Roxanne, Shante, myself.

And we're also the biggest federal housing project in America.

And when you come from the biggest federal housing project in America, you learn a lot.

you know um you're under more scrutiny a lot of things is happening in these communities when you can make it out because there's so many traps uh violence weapons drugs and when you can navigate your way through that that says a lot that's the biggest that's what i love about my career that i was able about my life that i was able to navigate that now on the court people got a chance to see an emotional side they got a chance to see that real street side

But when people don't really know me, they know me from playing basketball.

They know me from being in survival mode on the court.

But nobody really knows me.

I got a letter from Princeton.

And I say that because in college, you get those visits, five visits, right?

Every college is sending you letters.

You know, my first year, I was averaging a 60.

That's a D, my freshman year, a 60.

I turned it around my senior, last semester, my senior year, a 95 average.

Right.

People don't really know me.

My first major was architecture.

People don't really know me.

Right.