 an awakening about life man because going through that situation as being an innocent black man and the thing you love the most in life rap is the thing that not just taken away but they used that to convict him you know and he could have came out and said man I hate rap I don't ever want to do a song again I don't ever want to be nowhere near rap but he did he didn't we asked him about that when we interviewed him is how angry are you at society for being for taking away your youth from you my question to you is why you were in prison were you angry because anybody in the right mind wrongly convicted would be angry out of their mind while they're in there and if you were how long did it take you to get over it? Initially I was I was very angry initially yeah we so Mac when he came on how big was that for you like man? I had a I put a post up man and I was watching him because I didn't see him until he came joining us on the tour yeah and it was happiness for me but it was hurt watching him he was standing there and it was doing the soundcheck and you standing there as a person and like man I still just did 20 some years and he innocent and he looking around at this arena and you I'm watching him and I videoed him like and took a picture and I put it up there you understand y'all know was probably going through his mind wow this he was in the same position 20 years before yeah and it was taken from him because he was a rap artist and now he back on the stage and he just and I'm looking at him like and and it was still concerned to me because you know when I got to really be rounding me was Mardi Gras time and it's so much go on doing Mardi Gras and you go to feel and protective of him because I saw him and he was out and he was relaxed but I could see you understand you're not used to the outside of all these people yeah when it's tough when you first come home and then you a known person correct this one coming that one coming and I'm watching them and I'm like you know I said man I gotta go about them go my move go down by my mama so you gonna be alright and he's like I'm trying to get used to it I said don't force yourself don't be in these crowds like that and to see him now like cold and he laugh or you stop by my house but he still go through it and hurt me man to watch you know you know to watch him you know sometime and we round each other and we don't live too far from each other you know but the things to watch him discover things now man it's such a beautiful thing like he hit me one day in this Mac right you gonna get mad when I said he hit me it was like yo they got this conservative conservatory area man bird conservatory man that's a nice trail you can go walking on and if the usual me would have been like say bro that ain't gangsta don't call me to go walk on a bird trail but then I'm realizing like he had 20 years where he didn't see couldn't walk no worry about feel free air at all and and and it just shows you now where is he his life is open in my mind to Sam you appreciate every little thing or something that but I'm going to do it because this dude appreciating discovering the walking trail we from the hood we have no walking trails that he appreciates it and it's like you know you got to look at it and you feel and then when you look at him because I could respect some dudes that you know even myself what I went through you know did what you did you know I'm saying you got to stand on it I stand I gotta deal with it you know but I'm looking at him like and I do didn't do that and it's like he got a just to life 20 some years he went in everything old black and I he got great great you know and you you take pride in having great because I'm still here you understand you understand because what we our generation we went through to be still alive come on man humble how much has he changed how much has he changed from the person that you remember other than the things that affected him during prison and getting used to but how has he changed as a person the person that you remember him I honestly his change you won't see it because I could still write and I call him on the phone and the jokes we have with each other you know I'm saying we joke and laugh about it but then the change that I do see is he's quick to teach now okay you know like yes sir because I was looking into this that and that and that you know because if this go on that that that I'm like no I didn't know that let me check into it and he's more or less and he has a drive right now like he's shooting a video somewhere yeah yeah yeah early in the Mac yeah yeah he's he has a drive man where and he and it's crazy and I hate to say this that way because that brought it on he's more talented now he plays the the keys you see him I see him he has a and he hasn't an awakening about life man because going through that situation is being an innocent black man and the thing you love the most in life rap is the thing that not just taken away but they use that to convict him you know and he could have came out and said man I hate rap I don't ever want to do a song again see ever want to be nowhere near rap but he didn't he didn't we asked him about that when we interviewed him is how angry are you at society for being for taking away your youth from you my question to you is why you were in prison were you angry because anybody in the right mind wrongly convicted would be angry out of their mind while they're in there and if you were how long did it take you to get over it I initially if I was I was very angry initially okay you know but I deal with anger differently differently I deal with it internally you know I tried and I try my best not to display anger okay I just kind of deal with it in really and it's painful but I'm not a big religious person but I do pray and one of the things and most important things I prayed for a while incarcerated was I prayed you know just to not be black-hearted I didn't want to be bitter you know what I mean knowing that you're an innocent person and when we heard his story that somebody actually came up and admitted that they did a crime and they didn't do anything about it see murder I'm sorry Corey Miller because he may he may show that person went and let you know to admit to that and they just didn't want that man and and that and that's the parts of the racial society and justice system that it still exists because the way he where he was at that's one of the most out of over the same time any parish slide out man it's one of the most racial places like my youngest daughter lives there and when I go there I go straight to the house and come on back yeah we on boss talk one-on-one