When 2 Chainz raps about his past as a hustler, he's not exaggerating. In his new memoir, The Voice in My Head Is God, out now, the rapper, 48, writes candidly of the years before he rose to fame in Atlanta's bustling music scene. The Grammy winner (real name Tauheed Epps) was raised primarily by his mother while his father was in and out of prison. "No matter what my pop said about my mom raising me, we never held it against him," 2 Chainz recalled. "We were always too busy moving forward. We knew if we weren't moving forward, nobody was coming to save us.