with a nd to her own journey from kansas city and the working class block where janelle monet robinsonugs came, crack in particular came it ruined a lot of families. >> monet's own father, mike cam now sober was lost for most of monet's childhood. >> if i am the perfect father she might just be regular. but, since i was who i was, since i had, the, downfall that i had, it caused her to move forward. say i am never going to be look that. so it worked out for the positive. >> you think that's true? >> i think that my parents were examples, some times, good examples, some times bad examples. >> her ma teternal grandmother mate tr the matriarch. >> when you say good is love. my grandmother, remted that every day. >> she says her grandmother taught her at value. >> came from share cropping. >> she made something out of nothing. >> that's why, janelle monet decide early on to honor her roots through her style. >> i wanted black and white to be my uniform. i wanted people when they saw me in a tux or black and white to remember that this is where i come from. i come from a mother and father w