 I know these people's stories. I know about Pusha T saying, yeah, I grew up in a two-parent household as well. I know about Jada Kids being like, yeah, I grew up in a two-parent household as well. Just cause you grew up with that structure don't mean, what's Pusha T favorite thing to rev about selling cocaine? You know, you basically, you come from a place where I interviewed from Mr. Servo to all these guys, man, Silk the Shocker, you know, I mean, and just looking at how it was down there coming up, you had your mother and father and all, and I think that's big, you know, when I start to look at the situation, but it ain't just everything cause you have a lot of people that make it regardless, you know what I'm saying? But for you to have that, and then they still together now, right? Still together, they been married for over 40 years. Awesome. That's big, man. That's huge when you come from that. Just explain to me, coming up as a kid in New Orleans, how was it for you? How was it? So I didn't realize that we lived in a war zone because inside the walls of that house we had, we had a little small town house, you know what I'm saying? Like not anything big or lavish at all, but it was so filled with love and structure that I didn't realize that outside of this house, man, it's a trap house across the street, one house to the right, it's, you know, police tape cause people getting murked and people getting shot all in the neighborhood. Like, this is considered a place where, you know, people with money definitely don't live around here. I never realized any of that until I moved away and went to college because when I moved away, I was, you know, in a different environment and now when I would come back home, I was like, ooh, it feels different when I come back home than what I'm used to up in college, you know what I'm saying? My daddy, blue collar worker, welder, you know what I'm saying? My mom's social worker. So they, I just saw him wake up every day, make an honest living, go to work. My pops worked an hour away from our crib. So he had to wake up at four in the morning and drive an hour each day just to get to work welding in a hundred degree heat, New Orleans heat, you know what I'm saying, all day, every day. And by the time he'd get off of work, like 10 hours later, he coming back, he making it in time for my baseball practice, for my basketball games, you know, still doing this stuff. My pops used to be the dude who wanted to tape everything, video everything. So this wasn't in the era of smartphones and all that. So my daddy had like a big news camera, you know what I'm saying? And he that he's sitting in the stands, players. Yeah, he's sitting, he's sitting in the stands and he, he capturing all the memories for me. So now when I look back at all my high school games, I'm like, dang, I got this on tapes because my daddy, after working 10, 12 hours, you know, dirty, dicky outfit on from welding all day, making it in time because he prioritized that. Like I just seen that's what was normal to me. So that's how it was coming up. It was like a combination of that. And also my life turned out different than a lot of my peers because the school system in New Orleans is not the best. It's set up to where you supposed to go to your district school. Of course. And if you don't have a lot of money, if you live in a poverty stricken area, your district school is trash a lot of times. The district schools that I was supposed to go to, they were, they were not, they were not conducive for raising young black men and women in a, in a loving place that also was academically rigorous. You know what I'm saying? It was just, it was dysfunction and it was like, get it how you live. You know, we're going to have a couple of shining stars that's going to emerge from here, but for the most part, the bar is set really low. That's, that was all my schools, right? But I never went to those schools because my daddy, when I was in kindergarten, they had a school all the way across town by Tulane University and Loyola University. It was called Audubon Montessori. They realized that like that right there, that type of education is free because it's still a public school, but it's also going to show David. That's me, you know, my name is David. It's going to show David a different side of life than what we can provide for him over here, where we live at in the East. They had to drive you to school every morning? The first of all, he had to camp out in a tent overnight to have a chance to enter a lottery to get me into the school because so many people want to go to the school. Right. So there was like the first 100 people have a chance to get into this school. My daddy camped out the night before in a tent on the side walk and he was number six in line. They had a line down the block. You heard me? Like a line to get in heaven or something. It was like, yo, people trying to get here. My daddy got there so early, got me a spot. I hit the lottery, you know what I mean? Hit the lottery, got in that school. That school, that changed my life because I went there from kindergarten to eighth grade. And every day, although I'm living in one type of environment, I'm going to school with black students, white students, Asian students, Hispanic students. I got to walk past million dollar houses. The type of houses that Drew Brees lives in the type of houses like Anthony Davis will be living in when he was playing for the Pelicans. And I got to pass all this up every day. It's on the same block as my school, you know what I mean? This became normal to me to where it's like, oh, I'm not intimidated by white people. I'm not intimidated by other ethnicities thinking they smarter than me. Y'all have more money than me back then. But I was in gifted classes, you know what I mean? So I'm seeing as a young kid like that analyze certain things. Yeah, like the whole the whole concept of idolizing material possessions, like that was that was dead to me. By the time I was in middle school, I was like, man. Yeah, your parents got money so y'all live in this big fancy neighborhood. But when we get in the books, I'm doing better than you in school. You asking me for help. You trying to copy off my paper, you know what I mean? Like it's life experiences that show me like, I'm lacking in some areas. Like maybe having the money or having the exposure to certain things in life. But I'm not lacking when it comes to like, God gave me something special and I got to figure out what to do with this. And that's something special was just always my brain and my and my ability to like lead with love wherever I go. I got a question real quick because I see the things that your dad sacrificed and did so that you could have a better, you know, education and life and so forth. Where did he get that job to do that? How was he raised? What do you know how sometimes parents tend to because they didn't have I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that my son, my children have a better life than what I did. Or maybe he saw his mom or dad did the same for him. So he's doing the same for you. I'm just trying to figure out where is the way did it go? Yeah, you know, in the black community, we often talk about trying to break generational curses. You know what I'm saying? I was blessed that at least two or three generations before me in the black community, we just had we had generational love. And we had, you know, generational structure because where did my daddy get it from? He got it from his mama and his daddy. That's my grandparents. They were married for 66 years. So they had that same structure. Same structure. My grandpa's still living, you know, 93 years old. My grandma just passed away a couple years ago. Beautiful, beautiful relationship. Like when you grow up, when you grow up around that, they get passed down. Right. So so that's important. I got it. That's important. But also you got a lot of people who like I'm a fan of hip hop before I'm an artist, you know what I mean? I grew up listening to rap my whole life. My daddy listen to jazz music. So, you know, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, you know, all them brothers, Nat Adderley, all that. But me, straight rap, my whole life, straight rap. With that being said, I know these people's stories. I know about Pusha T saying, yeah, I grew up in a two-parent household as well. Imagine every player's aiming coach right. Master recipes on the stove light. I know about Jada Kiz being like, yeah, I grew up in a two-parent household as well. I'm B.I.G. prodigy, DMX and pun. Killing niggas for fun, nothing ill of the sun. Just cause you grew up with that structure, don't mean, what's Pusha T favorite thing to rap about? Selling cocaine, you know what I mean? It's not a guarantee that just cause you grew up with that structure that you're not going to stray and depart from that. Jada Kiz, I saw his daddy do an interview. His daddy was like, yeah, we had him in private school. You know what I mean? So when I was hearing what he was rapping about, I was like, where you saw all that at? We had him in private school. So sometimes people get in the rap game and they hallucinate.