Yeah this is what bugs me out. If you're not going to college and learning how to properly transition into an adult and you're just on tour as a rapper wilding out, you're really in an extended adolescence.
Going to college and living on campus, completing classes, interviewing for jobs and what not forces you to grow up in ways that not going through it doesn't.
Imagine having a mother addicted to crack in the crack era, all the men in your family getting taken down by the feds or dead or in jail for crimes and you're just a high school dropout looking to find your way after you move from Baltimore to Oakland, why wouldn't you fall in with the wrong crowd and be extremely misguided?
People make it seem like he was Javaris Crittenton (
Javaris Crittenton - Wikipedia) who was in the NBA playing for the Lakers with prime Kobe and then joined a gang while in the league