Amen.[He] was talking about people acknowledging me for things I do; I don’t need people to praise me for that. I don’t need people to praise me for that. You know, God know what I do and the person that I do it for, they know, and that’s the only thing that matters. I ain’t trying to win no popularity contest. When you somebody popular, you gotta have tough skin cause you never gonna be perfect to everybody. You never gonna be able to satisfy everybody. All you supposed to concentrate on is the people that love you and care about you. I think it brings joy out of people to knock people down. Don’t nobody care about what AI does for the community. The story is when AI does something that they think is wrong. That’s the big story. That’s the story everybody want to read. And as bad as it is, that’s the way it is. It’s an evil world. I just want kids, and adults, to just learn from my experience and know that it don’t matter what you do, how good you do, how many peoples lives you touch, how many good things you do, you know, people still gonna still throw shots at you. And it’s something you gotta take. You gotta learn how to have thick skin and I’d be lying if I said those things didn’t hurt, cause they still hurt. I’m 34 years old. People been throwing shots at me since the first time I went to jail and it never stopped. I never got used to it, but I’m just better now. It don’t hurt as much, but it still hurt. But those guys being up there and knowing that I had an impact on their life and they can say that I had an impact on their life: that’s everything to me. And not just one person that I touched, it was two. And hopefully I can continue to touch more lives.
Video of this moving speech can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYmObmEY6cY
