I Wasn't Disciplined At All. As Good

My Grandmother Always Told Me How You Start Is How You Finish.

I Learned Hard Lessons In Life; I Had To Because I Had So Much Happen: My Mother Died My Sophomore Year In High School. The Next Year, Same Day, My Brother Dropped Dead. Two Years After That, I Got Married Because My Girlfriend Got Pregnant. The Year After My Wedding, My Father - Who I Had Only Recently Met - Died.

My Girlfriend Rhonda, Who's Now My Wife, I Graduated From High School, She Got Pregnant. My Grandfather Said, 'you've Got To Do The Right Thing.'

People Like Rumors. They're Going To Say Things Like, 'you Was At The Club With Lil' Kim, And You And Kanye West Got Into A Fist Fight.' You Can't Get Upset. You've Got To Keep Hope Alive.

Every Time You See A Black Romance It's Over-the-top. There Always Has To Be Extreme Hostility Between The Sexes. He Has To Cheat. She Has To Show Him How Independently Strong She Is, Not Just As A Woman But As A Black Woman.