Royce Keys

And he goes...

none of this shit matters your mom's sitting front row to there tonight and just like after the match he you know he pins me and he's just he he taps me on the chest and you know my mom's nickname was Nita and he goes this was for Nita and I just lost lost it just lost it but um everything that's happened to me whether it's just like

being shot, losing my mother.

I've had guns pulled on me, knives, guns jam up in my face where I shouldn't be here.

All that has shaped me to be here.

And I think to myself, there's somebody out there in this big world that if I tell them my story,

it could help them.

I didn't have like, I didn't have an outlet of people to, to talk to growing up because like I said, like talking to a psychiatrist or, you know, just, you know, what it was looked frowned upon of, it was like, get up, smile, go, go do your thing.

Like, you know, you're, you're fine.

You know, like,

Yeah, and go.

Like me being 6'3", 270 pounds, like obviously I cry.

You know, I cry.

That's good.

And I tell my kids it's okay to cry.

Makes you stronger.

Some people need that.

And if I would have had that growing up, you know, it would have made me feel better at times.

It took me years to talk about this, and I still get choked up about it.

Like, I eat lemon cake thinking of my mom.