Metta World Peace

I was able to reflect, decompress, and then get back to things that I always wanted to do.

You know, like, I think, so when you take it back to my dad, my dad's from Philly, so I always tell people, yeah, I grew up in Queensbridge, but I'm a Philly guy.

My dad from Philly.

My dad also recorded professionally 2-in-1.

He's a 2-in-1 boxer.

And came to New York through a U-Haul.

I don't want to tell that story, but he came into the whole story.

Got to New York and, you know, met my mom, stopped boxing.

Then he had me.

He had to provide for me.

You know, I think as early as six, I remember being in the trenches.

I was suspended in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, all the way to 12th grade.

Even in LaSalle Academy, I got suspended my first year.

And so for me, it was always some type of trigger.

And these triggers were normal to us, natural.

If you're in our neighborhood, you got to get into a scuffle.

You got to fight it out.

You might get bullied one time.

Maybe you're on the other side.

You're being bullied.