TantrumKnows – The University of Life

A lot of you already know pieces of my story. Six prison terms taught me lessons I wish I’d learned sooner. I’ve been home a little over ten years now, heading toward eleven—and I’m using every hard-earned lesson to help the little homies see another way.

I’m not proud of the years I lost. I’m proud that I came back with a purpose. The streets can make prison and death look like a badge of honor, but I know what that road takes from you—and what it leaves your family carrying.

If my truth helps even one young man pause, think for himself, and choose a different future, then sharing it matters. The next generation doesn’t need to repeat our mistakes. They need somebody willing to tell them the truth.

I’m here to do my part. Never give up. Never settle. TantrumKnows.

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🌀🎨 **HOLD UP… IS IT THE PICTURE MOVING, OR ARE YOUR EYES PLAYING TRICKS ON YOU?** 👀😂

They say art is supposed to make you feel something… but I think this one might make you dizzy! 🤣

🔥 **BE HONEST…**

Does this look like the picture is melting, shaking, or coming alive?

👇 Tell me what YOUR eyes see!

#TantrumKnows #OpticalIllusion #TattooArt

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5-hour flight. These are the only seats left… 💀✈️

Where are you sitting, and what’s your plan to survive? 😂👇

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How many different ways can you ?

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One night, I scrolled through my phone and realized how many people I could call—but how few I could count on.

I remembered answering their calls. Making time when I didn’t have any. Standing beside them when nobody else would.

Then I thought about the times I needed somebody… and how quiet that same phone got.

That hurt. Especially when you keep making excuses for people because you love them.

I’ve lost friends I still wish well. But wishing you well doesn’t mean I want you back beside me.

My loyalty still means something. I’m just learning to give it to people who show up for me, too.

Who else learned that lesson the hard way? 🧡🍊

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🌊 WHAT IF HUMANITY’S BIGGEST LIE IS THAT WE WERE EVER SEPARATE?

I’ve seen people kill over colors, hate over race, fight over religion, and turn against their own families over politics.

When did being RIGHT become more important than being HUMAN?

Now think about something that completely changed how I look at life.

Imagine an ocean. 🌊

What if that ocean represents one universal consciousness, one source of existence, and every human being is a wave rising from it?

Some waves are big. Some are small. Some are peaceful. Others are destructive.

Every wave has its own journey, its own experiences, and its own lifespan.

Now here’s the part that really got me thinking.

What if that wave is what we call a SOUL?

What if we’re not separate consciousnesses, but individual expressions of one greater consciousness?

Think about it.

The ocean doesn’t just CREATE the wave. The wave IS the ocean, temporarily taking a different form.

For a brief moment, that ocean experiences existence as YOU. Through your eyes, your struggles, your happiness, your pain, and your decisions.

And when that wave disappears, the water doesn’t die. It was always part of the ocean.

Maybe that’s what our souls are. Temporary individual experiences of something eternal.

I’m not claiming this is proven. But after studying religions, spirituality, and near-death experiences, this possibility makes more sense to me than ever.

And here’s why it matters.

Christian. Muslim. Republican. Democrat. Black. White.

We’ve become so busy defending our differences that we’ve forgotten our shared humanity.

How can we preach love while celebrating someone else’s suffering? How can we pray for peace while cheering for war?

You don’t have to believe what I believe. That’s not the point.

THE POINT IS THAT WE DON’T HAVE TO THINK ALIKE TO RECOGNIZE THAT EVERY LIFE MATTERS.

Maybe we’ll never agree on everything. But disagreement should never be an excuse to forget someone’s humanity.

Because if we’re all waves in the same ocean…

WHY ARE WE DESTROYING EACH OTHER TRYING TO PROVE WHICH WAVE MATTERS MOST? 🌊

— TantrumKnows | The University of Life

Where experience is the teacher and truth is the degree.

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I miss these days!

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TantrumKnows – The University of Life

We don’t live in a perfect world. We live in a world of fake people, real problems, and a broken system.

I know that because I’ve lived on both sides of it.

I’ve been the kid who didn’t understand why life was happening the way it was. I’ve been angry. I’ve made bad decisions. I’ve spent years behind walls watching people come and go, watching families break apart, watching good people make terrible choices, and watching terrible situations change people forever.

But somewhere along the way, I realized something:

You can’t change where you came from, but you can decide what you become.

I spent a long time surviving. Now I’m trying to build.

I tattoo. I create. I teach. I tell my story. I try to reach younger people before they make some of the same decisions I made. And every day I’m still learning how to become a better man, father, partner, friend, and human being.

I don’t pretend to have everything figured out. Far from it.

I just know that after everything I’ve been through, I refuse to let my worst chapters become the ending of my story.

The world might be broken in a lot of places.

That doesn’t mean we have to stay broken with it.

Sometimes the biggest act of rebellion is healing, growing, taking responsibility, and becoming somebody your younger self never thought you could be.

I’m still becoming.

— Tantrum

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Talent

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