Outlawz Rap member E.D.I. MEAN talks about growing up in New York and then moving to California and getting involved early in the hip hop game through his childhood buddy , Tupac. EDI shares how he had brushes with the law and how people around him were there to get him back on the music path. He breaks down his trips to Clinton penitentiary to visit Tupac and how that experience and the stayed with them and motivated them to do what they needed to not end up there.He talks about how after Tupacs death the group moved ahead and was working with Death Row Records and Suge Knight. After a series of hit albums with the Outlawz, EDI has continued to make his own music and release his own tracks and collaborations through his production company.