My father was born in 1950. I was born 42 years after that (aging doesn't begin until you reach the age your parents were when they had you, this is telomeric science)
Anyway, he is an Italian man, pessimistic-skeptic by nature (think Tony Soprano's mom)
At 8 years old he took me to see the Up In Smoke Tour, to this day I've yet to see a better show
My father would take me out on hustles nightly, we'd hit the department stores in New England area, north of Boston - I had a collection of athletic apparel second to no other, as well as a huge collection of FUBU the 05 jerseys, and a lot of the city collection
He'd listen to my CDs with me which were mainly Dr. Dre production family tree and nothing else
Eventually I began reading 50 Cent's book 'From Pieces to Weight'
I'd relay pieces of the story to him
He'd tell me that 50 Cent was a Julliard trained actor
When I see this,
And think about it in combination with his fast tracking into the television production industry
It's hard to shake this image