Ashley to be targeted. “I just don’t want her to be labelled…she’s a kid and she’s doing her work in the entertainment industry. I don’t want our experiences to mar her future. I think that, you meet people who want to exploit her father’s legacy. They use her to get to him. I’ve had people come into our lives who weren’t genuine, who were selling stories to the tabloids. Most of them not true. I don’t trust people like I did before she was born. I don’t know what the future bodes for her. Especially since the industry she wants to be involved in is one in which people do exploit others.”

Despite all the downfalls of fame that Prof. Stanford has tried to use to deter AJae, she says that her daughter’s drive remains unshaken.

“She said ‘Mom, I’m never going to be a professor. I’ll never, ever be a professor’. But teaching is still an option for her. She grew up on a college campus. Her Dad and I are really involved in social movements and civil rights and politics, he does his thing in his world. But I am very much engaged with issues on campus. She went to a school where all of the homes were intact. So, she was something of an outlier in that respect. Then, when he comes to town, she takes off for two or three days to spend time with him. Then, his lifestyle is very different than ours. So, when she’s with him everything is first class. When she comes home she has to do the laundry, do the dishes, she has to clean up. So, it’s a very different lifestyle. So, she has to go back and forth between those two worlds. There’s a major class difference between here and there.”

Ashley’s single “Just Do Me” is now available on iTunes and you can follow her on Twitter at @ARealAjae