*In a new episode of Million Dollaz Worth of Game, Tyrese discusses his fake childhood disability and his discontent with actor and “Baby Boy” co-star Ving Rhames.
Tyrese revealed that his first acting role involved his mother, Priscilla Murray Gibson, making him and his brother pretend to have a disability to obtain government assistance for their family, Complex reports.
“My mama made us go to Social Security building and play retarded,” Tyrese said. “Straight up, government cheese. That was my first acting gig,” he added.
“I never shared this shit publicly in my life,” Tyrese continued, before turning to the camera to say: “Hey, you can’t arrest my mama, n***a, she gone. Fuck outta here, government. We passed the window of opportunity.”
Tyrese said he was 8 years old when his mother plotted to scam the government to feed her kids.
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“I’m like 8 years old and she said, ‘This what we gon do,” he recalled. “She said, ‘We gotta go into this county building and if y’all end up doing this, we gonna get $760 a month. And your mama could use this, I’m here, we in the hood, I’m working and trying to keep up. This for y’all. You got your two sisters, your brother.’”
Tyese explained that his mom, who passed away in 2022 from COVID-19 and pneumonia complications, told him to make his performance believable.
“Mom said, ‘When we get up in here, she said, delay your answers,” Tyrese shared. “She didn’t say, ‘Play retarded,’ she didn’t say use the word, but she was just basically like, ‘We gotta go up in there and believe that y’all got some issues.’”
Elsewhere in the interview, Tyrese expressed his strong dislike for Ving Rhames, attributing it to the intense realism of Rhames’ performance in their 2001 film “Baby Boy,” directed by John Singleton. Tyrese portrays the son of a single mother and he was triggered during scenes depicting her relationships with men, specifically Rhames, who played ex-con Melvin, a boyfriend to Tyrese’s mother.
“I was not acting in Baby Boy,” Gibson told Million Dollaz Worth of Game cohosts Gillie Da Kid and Wallo, Vibe reports. “That ni**a Ving Rhames definitely triggered the sh*t out of me. I don’t like the ni**a to this day,” he added.
“I run into that ni**a to this day. I don’t give a f**k where we at, what clothes we got on, what we doing, what event — it could be the Golden Globes — I see that ni**a across the room I be like, ‘Man, fuck that ni**a back there,’” Gibson said.
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Meanwhile, on Sunday, Tyrese received an honorary doctorate from Leaders Esteem Christian Bible University, which is located in the Woodlands, Texas.
“Hey guys, I know there’s a lot of sad stuff going on in the world but this is not a funeral,” Tyrese said in a clip posted on social media. “This is a graduation. My office hours are now from nine to three. Dr. Gibson.”
In one video, Tyrese said, “We’re all being honored as being a doctor today. I want y’all to make some noise for yourselves. I think one of the things I have to say is I’m so grateful to the lord Jesus Christ.”
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