As a real young kid, I just made that choice as a my spirit made the choice Whatever it is something inside of me. So then you start to try and manage everything yourself. "I was hyper concerned with the kind of image management because it's all I had left," he says about his upbringing in Los Angeles' poor neighborhood. 'We play some decent sports in our neighborhood, dude.' He adds: 'There's plenty of people that they're in those kind of rough Situations'