When you're growing up, your elders, your brothers, whoever it is, they tell your men don't cry. Be a macho man. They tell you. Walking up and down these streets was no joke growing up. You know, you're a member of a gang. There are certain things that you have to do for membership. I was stealing, I was cheating. Just doing what I always had done. And to be honest with you, we went in there just to kind of have fun. The type of thing never realizing how I was going to pull us in and change our whole way of thinking and our mentality. I don't ever remember as a child, ever someone saying, look, there is hope. And because of it, because I lived without any hope, I lived the way I did.