What It's Really Like Being A Street Dad | Albee Al Gets Honest

He grew up without a father. A kid telling him "get off my dad" at six years old changed the direction of his entire life — and everything about how he shows up for his own kids. 4K Albee sits down with Esteban to talk about taking his daughter on her first date at 14 to show her how she deserves to be treated, sizing up which birthdays he'd miss while facing serious time, his youngest son's relationship shifting after 3 years away, and what it feels like to want to pick your kid up from school — but know that doing it could put them in danger. 🎙️ Listen To The Full Interview: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 About The Rap Dads Show: Hosted by seasoned TV producer and author Esteban Serrano, and executive produced by the legendary Sway Calloway, The Rap Dads Show celebrates the most significant role in the lives of your favorite rap stars — fatherhood. Subscribe for new episodes every [DAY]. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMECODES: 0:00 Cold Open 1:14 Welcome to Rap Dads — Meet 4K Albee 1:29 His family: "a gang at home" 2:11 Taking his 14-year-old daughter on her first date 3:18 Why dads need to be their daughter's first love 4:22 Going hard — because of his kids, not in spite of them 5:09 God prepares you for your mission 6:11 "I never had no father" 6:51 "Get off my dad, get your own dad" — the moment that changed everything 7:36 Why the Rap Dads platform is personal to him 8:34 The scariest moment in fatherhood: facing life in jail 9:41 "I won't catch her 8th grade graduation, but I might catch high school" 10:22 Telling his kids he was "in school" — and his 5-year-old saw right through it 12:05 On the run: he gathered all his kids and told them the truth himself 12:32 His son tried to stay tough — then called crying 13:55 "I talk to my sons how I talk to my homies. I'm raising men." 15:34 "She was my dog before you" — keeping co-parenting solid 18:13 Spoiling them vs. teaching work ethic 18:20 Setting his daughters up: hair, lashes, businesses 19:46 "They spoiled? F*** no." — why he lets them bump their heads 21:03 Participant or contributor — make money off what you love 21:51 Generational wealth and how other cultures do it 23:34 His older son: "He's a better version of me. I just let him float." 24:34 His youngest son's relationship changed after 3 years away 25:59 How the pandemic affected his youngest son socially 27:03 Being a rapper AND a street guy in the same city 27:28 "My reality is your worst nightmare" — why he can't pick his son up from school 29:26 "If you're old enough to ask, I'll tell you" 30:31 Going to pick his son up from school — nervous for the first time ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEYWORDS: 4K Albee, Rap Dads Show, black fatherhood, hip hop fatherhood, rapper dad, growing up without a father, breaking the cycle, generational trauma, generational wealth, fatherhood podcast, incarceration and fatherhood, street dad, co-parenting, raising daughters, raising sons, millennial dads, dad interview, NYC rapper, hip hop interview, father son relationship, father daughter relationship #RapDads #4KAlbee #Fatherhood #HipHop #BlackFatherhood #RapperDad