If you could confront your absentee parent, what would you say? Compton, Calif., musician Garren had a lot of questions for his father and used a familiar video format to get some answers.
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In the tone of the viral #HurtBae video, Garren confronts his father in a video titled โ#FatherlessBae,โ an emotional video of reconciliation and questions. The rapper simply wants to know why his father chose a life of being a gangbanger and jail.
โI grew up that way. My friends was in it. We were all buddies, so we all stuck together,โ Garrenโs father tells his son. โIt was fun. It was exciting. I just kept going with it.โ
As a child, even when his father was released from jail, Garren says, he and his siblings were the last to know.
โYou chose the streets as a priority, in our eyes,โ Garren says in the video. โOn the times that we did find out that you were out [of prison] we was knowing after your homies. You were on the block hanginโ out. You werenโt coming straight home when you got it.
โEven on my birthday, I remember seeing you. You know, it was my birthday; Iโm looking for you and you should be looking for me, or at least calling for me.โ Garren adds.
Garrenโs father says that he didnโt realize he wasnโt being a good father. Garren says he wanted to let his father know that he almost walked in his gangbanger shoes, just because he looked up to himโeven though he knew that the lifestyle wasnโt something he should be involved in.
โI was going to commit to a Blood neighborhood. I was going to do it because I looked up to you and I knew I would get some stripes like, โYo, Iโm a gangbanger too! Just like my pops,โโ Garren says.
Watch the video below:
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