“Broke mean you ain’t got no money. Debt means even if you get some money, you always gotta give it to another mother———,” said Earthquake. “So I was in debt for a long time and it took me a while to get out of debt.”

He says that gambling beyond his means and taking care of his then-wife played a huge role in racking up so much debt.

“When I got married I bought a house right next door to Jamie Foxx — up the street from Jamie. I used to tell my ex-wife all the time, ‘Listen this n—a got an Oscar. We just got a dog named Oscar.’” He said, “‘‘We got to slow up on this spending baby. Once we blow, I’mma put us here’ and she never understood.”