Cousins!

Our forever President Barack Obama is known for demanding critics and naysayers to put some respect on his name following his often viral clap backs, but what we‘ve recently learned is that that back in the day he was straight up serving punches!

Barack revealed within a recently released episode of his podcast with Bruce Springsteen that he had once broken the nose of his childhood friend for calling him out of his name, reports Blavity.

“Listen, when I was in school, I had a friend. We played basketball together,” Obama said. “And one time we got into a fight and he called me a c**n.

He goes on to say that his actions were brought on by pure reaction to the harmful slur.

“He might not even known what a c**n was,” Obama states.

“And I remember I popped him in the face and broke his nose. And suddenly blood is pouring down. And it was just reactive.”

Obama recalls, “I explained to him — I said, ‘Don’t you ever call me something like that,'” Obama said. “‘I may be poor. I may be ignorant. I may be mean. I may be ugly. I may not like myself. I may be unhappy. But you know what I’m not?’ I’m not you.'”

📸: Associated Press