NKOTB was marketed as a hip hop boy group, but their image was squeaky-clean. Wahlberg got involved with a lot of crime when he was starting out on NKOTB. Eventually, he gravitated more towards crime than music. But he eventually had a change of heart, as he explained in a 2009 interview for the book Celebrity Biographies – The Amazing Life Of Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon. "As soon as I began that life of crime, there was always a voice in my head telling me I was going to end up in jail. Three of my brothers had done time. My sister went to prison so many times I lost count. Finally I was there, locked up with the kind of guys I'd always wanted to be like. Now I'd earned my stripes and I was just like them and I realized it wasn't what I wanted at all. I'd ended up in the worst place I could possibly imagine and I never wanted to go back," he said.
Once Wahlberg drifted away from crime, his older brother Donnie used his connections from NKOTB to help him get back into music; he would go on to form Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. The group performed hip hop and rap music and eventually reached platinum status before they broke up in the later '90s. We now know Mark Wahlberg as an A-list Hollywood actor.
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