“My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.”

“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.”