Iyanla: Fix My Rapper's Remorse

Iyanla: Fix My Life

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At 21 years old, Tab Virgil, Jr., a.k.a "Turk," had it all. He was a famous rapper with the up-and-coming group Hot Boys, alongside megastar Lil Wayne. His albums were going platinum, money was abundant and he had fallen in love with his new girlfriend, Erica McClain. But only two months after meeting Erica, Turk's life fell apart when he was involved in a shootout with police in his home, leaving two officers wounded. Turk ended up spending eight years, eight months and 16 days in a federal prison for the crime. Erica remained loyal, putting her life on hold as she patiently awaited his release. In fact, Erica was so committed to standing by his side that she visited Turk every week throughout his sentence. Today, four years after Turk's release, he and Erica are now married with twins. Turk, however, still suffers from severe paranoia, stemming from his run in with police, and a fear that his former acquaintances are determined to get revenge.

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0:00.0	Let me tell you who I am.
0:02.0	I am a survivor, a teenage mother, a welfare recipient, and a woman.
0:08.0	I am a teacher, life coach, minister, lawyer, and author.
0:13.0	I've had my share of breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs.
0:18.0	I did my work and put my life back together piece by piece. I am I
0:23.0	am I, Yonla Van Zand, and I am here to help you do your work. Relationships are the
0:30.4	cornerstone of life. They are the place that we go to to find comfort, connection, companionship.
0:39.5	Relationships are also the places that we go to to act out whatever it is that we've
0:47.1	learned in life about ourselves, about love, about life.
0:53.2	This is the story of a rapper,
0:56.0	Hot Boy Turk from Cash Money Records.
0:59.0	We had national success.
1:01.0	I went on to sell gold on my solo project,
1:04.0	sold platinum on the Hot Boys project.
1:07.0	But his success was cut short at 21
1:10.0	when he was involved in a shootout with police.
1:13.6	So I wound up going to trial, I found guilty they gave me 120 months in the phase.
1:19.6	And I had to stay in jail until from 2003 to 2012.
1:25.6	His girlfriend, Erica, waited for him even though they had only been together for two
1:30.3	months before he went to jail.
1:33.3	Even though he went to prison, I was there with him mentally and a lot of things that
1:37.3	affected him, affected me in the same way.
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