. >> three or four time now you have given us your montra, peace, love, positivity. your back story as i do, those three things could have been bitterness, resentment and anger. >> yeah. >> they weren't. >> they aren't. tell me a bit about your back story and how it turned out to be about peace, love, and positivity and not three other characteristics? >> i think -- man, just kind of getting into it like growing up. both of my parents were addicted to alcohol and narcotics. my father specifically did crack cocaine. he is 62 years old now. he's been clean for a few years and doing well now. back then he wasn't a part of my life. having a black father and white mother, the father wasn't there, being raised by my mother. my brothers and sisters from other black men that my mother had them with, it was like a weird kind of place to grow up in my household specifically and seeing like my brothers in the streets and selling crack and hustling and getting locked up and shooting and, you know, guns and doing all this crazy stuff. and i, you know, i held guns. i run around wi