That was the most time I’d ever spent with my dad in that way and it taught me so much about myself. He ended up staying with me for two or three days. Him and his girlfriend came over and I cooked dinner. It was the raggediest got-damn suitcase I ever seen. He showed up to my crib and he had a suitcase with him.
He stayed on brand til the very end, for better or worse. There was a girl he was seeing that lived around my way. I would see him here and there but I didn’t really get a chance to really know him until the last couple years of his life. My dad was just ‘that’s my dad.’ It didn’t occur to me as a child that my parents were also children. Growing up, my mom was just my mom, I didn’t realize how young she was. My parents were very young when they had me. I just gotta suck it up and figure this shit out. I want to be in my son’s life and be present. And from that point on I said I can’t be the way my father was. When I was growing up all I ever wanted was music…. I never even saw myself having kids to be honest. Phonte Coleman on reconciling with his father before he passed.
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In the edited quotes below, I have culled some of the gems from some of the over hour-long conversations. It’s why the tagline is ‘Dad as we wanna be,’ because this is fatherhood done their way. So, for the next 50 episodes or so I got some of my favorite MCs, producers, DJs, comedians and actors to open up, laugh and shed tears about the varied experiences with fatherhood and their relationships (or lack thereof) with their own dads. Related editorial 5 Ways Killer Mike's 'R.A.P.