You must be very young because this is common knowledge. He never hid his past for a reason. To basically be a cautionary tale for the kids so they dont end up where he went and hope to all the folks who fukked up to never give up despite the odds against them. I know this because as kid I remember my grade school playing a video and it was him talking about his life. He went to prison for a murder in Baltimore. It was a street fight or something like that. But he turned his life around in prison, got his degree, and became an actor. Real shyt