Rich Homie Quan regrets smoking a blunt next to his kid

A while back, Rich Homie Quan was caught on video smoking what appeared to be a blunt with his son right next to him. At the time, people were justifiably pretty upset that Quan would smoke around his children. Now, in a new interview , he admits he regrets the incident, while making sure folks know he doesn’t smoke around his kids anymore. Peep the conversation below.

The image-conscious Quan, who disputes that it was a blunt he was smoking around his son, says the infamous video presented him in a light he didn’t appreciate. “I just wanna let people know man… that’s not the image I want people to see me as,” says Quan, who dropped a video for his Back to basic single, "Gamble"ust the other day.

He continues, “That was just one of them moments, you know what I’m saying? I just want people to realize I’m still human, you know what I’m saying? And a lot of things are just mental mistakes, you know what I mean? Like, at that time I was 23, 24. Not saying—age has nothing to do with it—but at the same time, I didn’t ask to be put on this pedestal that society put me on. So if I make mistakes, just please forgive me and just realize it wasn’t intentional, I wasn’t doing it to hurt anybody.

“But moral to the story, I learned from that. I don’t smoke around my kids anymore. You know what I’m saying? I don’t think nobody should do that. But you know, growing up man, where I growed up at, that was normal. And I’ma just be real with you, you feel me? That was normal. And I know everybody who has something bad to say about it—come on man. Can’t be a hypocrite. That’s all I’m gon’ say, that was normal where I growed up.”

Despite how “normal” Quan says it is for adults to smoke around children, he makes it clear he’s left that habit in the past. “To make a long story short, you don’t got to worry about that no more. ‘Cause I’ve grown from that. I’m not that same Rich Homie no more.”