He said that he draws strength from the support he now gets from his community and those who have forgiven him.
"I know what type of forgiveness one can get from a community and what that means for an artist. You can draw a lot of strength from that. Knowing that your neighbours or those around you want you to win does something for you that you can't find in any book or song. Your community builds you."
Of course, it hasn't been easy to rebuild that trust and the star told Mo Flava on The Drive With Mo Flava & Masechaba Ndlovu in January that after he came out of prison, it took him a while to convince the people around him to trust that he was changing.
He said that he knew one of the ways to prove that he was changing the direction of his life was to go back to school.
"Finally, I matriculated. It was hard but I did it. I had to memorise a lot of the words and I'm constantly spelling things wrong. Even to this day, I have a real problem with that. If you read some of the things I write, you'll probably find a lot of mistakes in there."