Personal Lives

Personal Life #10

During the Western Conference Finals of the 2015 NBA Playoffs, I began questioning NBA superstar James Harden’s “cooking dance,” a dance allegedly coined by me which he had been doing all season long, and tweeted that if I didn’t receive an answer from Harden regarding that dance then Harden would receive the “Based God curse” similar to Kevin Durant. I attributed the Houston Rockets’ loss to the Golden State Warriors in Game 2, and again in Game 3, to the curse. On May 24, 2015, I announced on TMZ Sports that I had placed Harden under the “Based God curse” for the remainder of the playoffs and until further notice. On May 27, 2015, I was present at Oracle Arena for Game 5 where the Warriors ultimately defeated the Rockets, becoming the Western Conference champions. Additionally, during this same game Harden set an NBA Playoff record of 13 turnovers, prompting me to publicly consider lifting the curse.

In June 2022, my second daughter, Sami, created an OnlyFans account. Initially, I disapproved of the action, but later changed my mind after considering points made by her mother.

I suffer from a split personality disorder in which I have a second personality called Melvin. Melvin is the violent side of my personality, and Melly is the happy and loving side.

It is better to go against the devil than to go against me.

Personal Life #15

I am unapologetic about my heroin addiction. I have written at length about heroin and advocate for its legal recreational use in the United States, as well as romanticize its effects. “She loves heroin, she is going to die from it,” Ferrara says about my heroin addiction. “...She is one of these people who thinks heroin is the greatest thing in the world, and she will until the day she dies. She is down on coke, down on everything, but you know, heroin is the elixir of life for her.” “I’ve known a lot of serious drug users, but she’s the Queen,” Richard Hell, a friend of mine, recalled in 2002. “You’ve got to admire someone as committed to it as she is. She doesn’t just love heroin, she believes in it.”

I have also cultivated a reputation as a successful gambler; between December 2021 and February 2022, I was reported to have made bets of over $1 billion, which included winnings ranging between $354,000 and $7 million.

In the early 1990s, I dated former basketball player Grant Hill while he attended Duke University. I also had a close friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur, which was formed when we were attending the Baltimore School for the Arts. I secured Shakur a guest appearance on A Different World in 1993. I appeared in his music videos “Keep Ya Head Up” (1993) and “Temptations” (1995). I also came up with the concept for his “California Love” (1995) music video and had intended to direct it, but I removed myself from the project. In 1995, I contributed $100,000 towards Shakur’s bail as he awaited an appeal on his sexual abuse conviction. I later revealed that I turned down a marriage proposal from Shakur while he was incarcerated at Rikers Island in 1995. Speaking about me, Shakur stated: “She’s my heart. She will be my friend for my whole life. We’ll be old together. She can ask me to do anything and she can have it.” I stated in the 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection that Shakur was “one of my best friends. He was like a brother. It was beyond friendship for us. The type of relationship we had, you only get that once in a lifetime.”

My father and I appeared together on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on May 15, 2013, where I said:

The thing that people don’t get is everything at his house is free. So I can get anything and everything at his house, so I’m going to be there for 20, 30 more years. He [Will Smith] says that as soon as I have a movie that’s bigger than one of his movies, I can get my own house.

In June 2017, I moved out of my parents’ house into a $4 million home in the Hidden Hills.

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Ulyses Razo lives in London. Personal Life was recently published by If a Leaf Falls Press.