Brought up in a log cabin in the city of Chicago, Matt comes from meager beginnings. His father was a sharecropper and his mother, also a sharecropper.
"There wasn't a whole lot of sharecropping work to be done within a major city back in the 70's and 80's, so our parents frequently sold us into prostitution. To be honest,...
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Brought up in a log cabin in the city of Chicago, Matt comes from meager beginnings. His father was a sharecropper and his mother, also a sharecropper.
"There wasn't a whole lot of sharecropping work to be done within a major city back in the 70's and 80's, so our parents frequently sold us into prostitution. To be honest, I'm not sure my father really knew what sharecropping was. Any time I asked him about it he'd go into a drunken tirade, usually aimed at the IRS or some government organization."
Sometime during his youth Matt became a fixture on the often violent underground badminton circuit.
"Badminton back then was not the accepted sport that it is now." recalls Matt "It was done in back alleys and basements and viewed much the same way dog fighting is now. Matches were attended by hoodlums, vagrants, punks and people basically just looking for somebody to stab."
His career looked promising until he was sidelined by a complete lack of ambition.
"Why get out of bed?" he asks "You're just going to end up back there at the end of the day anyway."
That brings us up to date.
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