When 2 Chainz raps about his past as a singer, he’s not exaggerating.
In his new memoir, God’s Word In My Headout now, the rapper, 48, writes candidly about the years before he rose to fame in Atlanta’s bustling music scene. The Grammy winner (real name Tauheed Epps) was raised primarily by her mother while her father was in and out of prison.
“No matter what my pop said about how my mom raised me, we never went against him,” 2 Chainz recalled. “We were always busy moving forward.
At a very young age, 2 Chainz learned to be independent, selling drugs in middle school and entering juvenile detention as a teenager.
“I started selling packages with my mother when I was young,” he wrote. Yes, I have a mother. I was still young, but my maturity level was very mature.
Keep scrolling for more revelations from 2 Chainz’s memoir, God’s Word In My Head:
2 Chainz Testified To A Lot Of Drugs As A Child
2 Chainz remembers seeing “three or four drugs” when he was young, “a few” that happened when he was “young.” The first happened “at Christmas time” when both his parents were at home. Her mother and father were both arrested, and her dog did not survive the encounter.
“I never saw my dog, but I knew he was dead, and my pops believe the cops did it,” 2 Chainz wrote. “That hurt me more than all the chaos. Toom Toom was my dog. My ***ing dog, and my best friend.”
2 Chainz Started Selling Drugs In 7th Grade
2 Chainz started selling marijuana when he was in middle school. “My pops sold work, so I started selling packs with my mom when I was about 12,” he wrote. “Selling packages seemed like a family business, and it felt as natural as going to school.”
He continued to work through high school but eventually quit when he decided to pursue music full time.
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Why 2 Chainz Has No Regrets About High School Weed Arrest
2 Chainz’s career as an active player ended his freshman year of high school when he was caught selling marijuana in the school parking lot. He thought he had failed, but later that morning, two police officers came to his history class and accused him of selling drugs. He denied it, but police had surveillance camera footage of him wearing a jacket with his brand inside. When they picked it up, they found weed in the pockets and took 2 Chainz to jail.
He ended up spending about a week and a half in jail, missing the SAT – which he had to take to help secure a college basketball scholarship.
“I regretted everything until the day the Alabama State basketball coach, John L. Williamshe shouted very quickly and said: ‘Listen, we heard what happened. Don’t worry. We’d love to have you down here. We’ve got the full ride for you. Come visit us next week and check us out.’”
2 Chainz took him up on the offer and liked what he saw, and eventually decided it was best not to attend one of the schools that required his SAT score.
“That’s how I ended up in a place that would open up my butterfly personality and my musical interests,” he recalled. “That’s where I would meet my wife, who would become the mother of my three beautiful children. The saying that everything happens for a reason is true if you believe it. It took everything that happened to end up in Montgomery, Alabama. And now, looking back, I don’t regret it at all.”
The Arrest That Sent 2 Chainz To Juvenile Arrest
While 2 Chainz’s arrest in high school growing up ultimately didn’t cause him much trouble, other arrests during his teenage years led to a much larger sentence. When she was 14, she found drugs for the third time while living with her mother and her then-boyfriend. At the time, 2 Chainz was selling crack and soon realized he had left “about 10 crack dimes in a diaper” in a cup he left by his bed. The police finally found it and arrested him when he missed a court appearance (after not getting the warrant because he was staying with his friend after the shooting).
“They came to take me out of school that day when I was in the tenth grade, and that’s when I went to juvenile detention,” he recalled, noting that his stay in prison helped him improve his basketball skills, which eventually earned him a scholarship. “I became a hoop star at Juve Kobe Bryant.”
2 Chainz went on to say that these incidents affected the “foundation of his family” and meant that he “needed to make a lot of amends” with his mother. “We still have a ways to go, but we will get there,” he added.
