Will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas star was forced to leave home at 5am every day because he went to a school in a \u201cbetter\u201d area of Los Angeles than where his family lived and the early start meant he often missed meals.<\/p>\nWill.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas star was forced to leave home at 5am every day because he went to a school in a \u201cbetter\u201d area of Los Angeles than where his family lived and the early start meant he often missed meals.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cSometimes I would miss breakfast and when you\u2019re on food stamps and lunch tickets, missing breakfast is not good for a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u2018I Gotta Feeling\u2019 hitmaker can understand why people trapped in poverty find it hard to get out because of the \u201cpsychological\u201d influences around them.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cThere\u2019s a family of influences that dictate behavior. In the ghetto, there\u2019s a liquor store, a cheque-cashing place and a motel. What that tells you psychologically is, get a cheque, cash it. Take a couple of steps. But some liquor and get drunk, go home and get kicked out of your house. And here\u2019s a place to sleep along the way.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you live in a good neighbourhood, you drive home and there\u2019s a bank. There\u2019s grocery stores and big houses – but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house. So it\u2019s a different system.\u201d<\/p>\n
As soon as he could afford it, will moved his entire family to a nicer area of Los Angeles. He said: \u201cI moved my mom, cousins, my uncles and my grandma. I moved them to the Valley to be near the rabbis. It was either the drive-bys or rabbis and I picked the rabbis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas star was forced to leave home at 5am every day because he went to a school in a \u201cbetter\u201d area of Los Angeles than where his family lived and the early start meant he often missed meals. He said: \u201cSometimes I would miss breakfast and when you\u2019re on food stamps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}