WEBVTT - Conversation About the Hood 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.520 I remember when I was young, I had a phone 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.400 bill at the age of three, So the hustler was 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:07.800 always put into me from a very young age, where 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.280 when I got old enough, I was putting what you 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.840 do in kids names too, is what you do? So 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.919 did you ever get mad at your parents and cut 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.840 off their phone privileges? I'll check my level is good. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.600 Kings just don't even want to talk no more. Yeah, 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.640 but as soon as we're doing it right, the nigga's 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.680 gonna jump right in the middle and get mad like 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.040 we didn't ask him his opinion. Hey, we're ready back there. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.240 That's when you know we're in the pocket. Then. Yeah, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.960 Sometimes it just gets so compelling that you can't be 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:48.360 compelled to resist. We're talking. See, it's exactly how it worked. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.240 It is. You know most people podcast King the Engineer 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:54.840 don't talk. I don't know. I've been watching one where 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.320 they really do talk. Well, let's see, uh, I was 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.120 watching who was the engineer for the really Idiots podcast? 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.399 Don't get me lying because don't talk? I thought it 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.240 was the girl with the computer and stuff. I thought 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.480 she was engineering. Now we got the diddy of engineers 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.399 all up in the audio. Yeah, You're like should not. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.240 You're like, oh no, that's you who should And I 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.160 was talking about that's a good point. All up an audio, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.959 all of that song. This must be an l a 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.679 music thing. No, no, it's quite a big deal, the 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.000 source of awards in New York with sug coming on. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.280 If you don't want show producers all up in the 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.520 videos and all that ship. So you got under stay. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.000 I was probably gonna lockdown when it was playing at Yeah, 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.000 so I didn't see no TV at that time. That's 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:41.920 good to know. Now I'll go since you came home. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.000 It's because you know, usually engineers be behind the scenes. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:50.920 But we ain't tripping over Sugar juxtapost here all up 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.040 in the audios and he's all the videos and I ain't. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.680 We ain't tripping. We're not like death row. We're letting 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:06.840 you seine. Yeah, no ceilings, glasses, l O. See my 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.480 boy Pete for me. I gotta Pete brought a player, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.720 a special player through the spot. We we started late, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.600 but we're on time, so we're gonna make this motherfucker happen. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.520 Glad to be here, man it. Yeah, I go by 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:28.320 q um just hereque for a little bit. Que one letter. Yep, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:33.120 just real quick qu that's solid. Okay. So I was 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.720 asking Pete like, right, like, what are we gonna do 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.079 with this podcast? Because I don't think most people understand 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.400 with no ceilings and Pete does, but he like, we 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.200 never talked about how are we gonna do the podcast? 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:50.959 So my focus point was always having conversations, right, um, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.840 about Pariah's in the community, you know, in the culture, 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.320 or things that are very polarizing, you know, topics that 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.840 we don't want to talk about. So some of the 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.400 some of the future shows are you know, abusive husbands, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:16.640 um snitches, um nuns, all of these different ideas and 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.520 having conversations just talking to people. It's never really an interview, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:28.800 it's just really conversations. So I feel like and I 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.399 think Pete brought you here because we both are from 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:36.800 the hood, and I guess are our past were different, 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.720 right how we went about it. It's also like in 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.960 knowing to you guys fairly well, it's a lot of 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.280 what drew the interest to me for the conversation was 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:57.000 really just the individual perspective, like your take and I 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:02.360 think in general, like like like your specific like your 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:08.360 gang is a little anal anomalous to like compared to 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.400 a lot in l A and that you're pretty small 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.840 and you all seem to like have a like a 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.240 money making machine. There's a lot of people seems like 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.800 they're just kind of they're hanging out. Well, I mean, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:26.440 so the thing about gangs is they everybody's gangs come 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.080 together differently, you know what I mean. Like, um so 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.640 the concept that my gang is more of an anomaly 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.479 or my homies is not right. Um, I guess we 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.480 are to be a seven Street nigger. You do. At 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:42.839 a time, you had to be a part of the 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.440 economic system. You had to get some money. You couldn't 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.480 be a broke nigga from the hood. That was just 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.880 like a joke, Like you couldn't do that. Um. Like 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.960 you talked about like South Sides culturally being really about 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:59.240 their super culturally, so comparatively, that must mean that relative 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.680 to some other crews that aren't so much of their 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.839 they have other agendas or other priorities. Maybe. Well, I 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.440 mean I think that's in the hood period, right, Um, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.520 everybody don't know how to monetize their territory. You know, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.440 it still requires a business mind to monetize your territory. Uh, 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.880 some of my older homies, I think they can run 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.120 Fortune five businesses. They like monsters when they come to 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.880 marketing business and understanding. So it just depends on which 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.479 part of the hood you act like. Um so like 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.200 my neighborhood is a certain way because poverty was super 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:37.239 super dense like right is, people was poor, not quite 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.320 project you know, level of poverty right where they kind 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.080 of stick everybody right next to each other. But again 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.480 like in in my in my sex, and you can 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.880 buy a house for forty dollars all the way probably 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:55.560 up into ninety nine, so comparatively like to six olds, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.960 like if you go to the avs like um, like 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.760 in that part of the the hood right where you right, Um, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.360 what I took you king with boys in the Hood 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:09.719 was that if you, um, if you own Vans or Arlington, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.520 whichever where you want to call it, that same street, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:16.560 if you a couple, you know you you uh, that 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.320 would be south of Florence, you know, mean south of Florence, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.280 south of Slawson, south of Slawson between High Park and 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:30.279 Slawson right uh, behind the shopping center and Vans, that 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.719 little section that's where they shot boys in the hood. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:37.440 Those houses are peppers pepper? Yeah, peppers? Did you make 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.839 a stout peppers? But if you're in that section, I 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:48.000 think houses in hundred and undred and forty thousand. Yeah, 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.800 so again we're the poorest people that That's also where 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.960 the hustle is too. That's a big hustling thing poor people. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.800 Also is crackheads? Is people smoking crack? You know, it's 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.960 it's a different level of economic opportunity available just right 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.680 there for you to take advantage of. Versus if you 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.840 go on the west side. The further you start going west, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.640 it ain't as many crackheads because it's like it ain't 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:16.000 really for poor people. That's why you don't really hear 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.600 a lot of stories of super wealthy you know, west 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:24.000 side drug dealers, like not the further you start getting west, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.720 it's not a ton of them because the poverty is different. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.520 Once you start passing normity in the hood, right, you 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.120 gotta kind of be on the east side of the 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.200 one tim That's where you know at Los Angeles, you 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.080 know Hoovers. Once you get to where the Hoovers is, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.240 you started coming into poverty. But the further you go east, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.960 you come to Watts, you know, you Linwood you know, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.880 like Compton that it's a different type of poverty, so 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:52.080 the opportunities is more available. That's what you know, people 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.360 on cracking and poor people you know, tending to live. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.680 So I think I get the concept. So my hood 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.239 is more of an anomena in theory because it's small. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.760 But I think on the East side that's most games. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:09.640 Well that's for sure, that's true. It doesn't and it's 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.280 different than l a like and I don't know Oakland anymore. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.640 Like I lived up there in the early two thousand's 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.680 and there wasn't like you have down here, like generational 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.560 type of like entities so to speak. You know, it 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.640 was like six seven guys that know each other. They 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.040 were out doing their thing, and they might have given 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.280 themselves a little bit of a name to their crew, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.679 but it wasn't like other people were trying to join 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.760 over the course of years and years and years. I mean, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:41.400 like the only names are like outfits. I even remember 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.000 from up there will be like a corn Assassins, which 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.720 I don't even think was like representative of all of acorns. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.960 It might have been so that a corps ship and 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.439 uh that's in the movie because the movie with Queen 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.280 Teeth and that's a real that's a real project. Yeah, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.880 that's a real project. That's that was like one of 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.840 the first new projects because right around the corner from 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.600 there on, Mandela's like what looks like what you've seen 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.960 and watch like the older square beat up like that 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.280 Acorns is on like ade line seventh. It's like a 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:18.480 it's much nicer looking facility business projects. So to that point, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:21.280 I think, again, it depends on which hood you at, right, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.760 So it depends on the hood itself. The hood is 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.160 kind of the opportunity. I don't know if it's as 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.800 I don't know if it was ever as many smokers 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.760 that lived in you know a trade as smokers that 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.240 lived in Watts. Yeah, And I think you know, when 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.720 you're looking at the dynamics of you know, the set 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.480 or the gang, you're looking at again how that person 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.840 runs this business. And like you said, like some folks 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.160 could go out and run a fortunate five hundred company. Um, 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.760 some folks diversify, you know, So crack again is going 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.959 to be a cheap jug. That's how you can easily 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.520 exchange money. You're gonna have a lot of transactions. You're 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.880 gonna be able to stack your money up in a 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.840 in a quick way. And you look at some of 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.520 the other gangs that are running around even to this 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.360 day now human trafficking. You know, they find some way 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.079 to find it. They will find a way to get 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.080 their hustle and get their money up. Right, let me 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:18.040 ask you a question, how many crackheads do you remember 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.160 in Orange County? Not in my part of Orange County. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.920 Basket pushing crackheads, not in my part of Orange County. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.839 But like there's been in general in Orange County, it's 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.400 not happening. Like like even if you go down there 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.959 now right, you're gonna see some of that stuff downing Fortune, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.320 You'll see some of that stuff. Maybe there's a lot 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.240 of there's a lot of you, but you have a 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.719 lot of method comes in there. But it's still it's 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.880 not really crack. It's been methy right, Okay, So like 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.600 what I'm saying, so prime crack right when it was 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.240 street sales, like you don't remember a ton of of 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:57.160 of crackheads and HB or Newport Beach. No, that was 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:02.880 that's that's power country, Okay. So right in in in 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.280 the Bay and the E p A and Paalo Alto. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:11.480 Do you remember, Uh, yeah, do you? Did you ever 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.360 sail Grt? No, I never did. I actually I never 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.160 actually got into the game at all, which was, you know, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.200 crazy because it was around me. You know, it was 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.480 in my neighborhood, it was in my family. Um. But 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.400 just like you said in regards to those folks that 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.760 could run Fortune five companies, I just looked at the 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.280 money exchange and I said, I could do the same thing. 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.880 I can make that same money, are more without the risk, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.240 you know. And and I tried to talk to people 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.640 a lot in regards to those that may want to 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.800 get into the game or they're flirting with the game, 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.840 and we talked about like, hey, what's what's the reason 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.640 for this gang that you want to jump into, right? 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.560 Is it for to figure out a way to bring 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.240 level up your money, you know, to bring resources to 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.120 your community. Can you do those same things in a 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.559 more effective way? Takes the rest away? And so that's 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.560 kind of what I look at. What was weird is 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.960 so like when you were comparing like gangs or or 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.640 or neighborhoods in the Bay Area and in hoods in 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.040 Los Angeles, it's always a belief that it is this difference, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.360 right because l A has cribs and bloods, but the 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.840 Bay Area has the same gangs. Right, even if they 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.120 don't have a title, whether or not they identify themselves 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.240 under a banner or you know, color to associate their 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.000 you know, affiliation, they still have the same gangs. These 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.400 guys right in this hood grew up together, and they together, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.040 and those guys grew up in that hood and they together, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.240 and the class comes into this fight of you know, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.840 most of the time it's a resource issue or pride issue. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.440 We talked about this right in the hood. Pride is 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:58.040 like the the most valuable stock the way like to me, 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:04.280 and I wasn't really like that shoulder shoulder with a 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.680 lot of people in Oakland at that time, but enough 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.240 and they kind of get the sense, like I don't 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.200 know when, like it probably would be like that when 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.080 you say, like in l A really like the mid 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.240 to late seventies where lines really kind of started getting 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.280 drawn and names were really kind of put onto certain areas, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.640 but it would where were where. It was kind of 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:33.080 like in that Generation one, an organic establishment of whose 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:37.360 where so to speak by name, It seemed more so 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:44.400 like it was always Generation one up there all the time, 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.960 like you might have still lived there, but the older 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.360 guys were the older guys. Well, I mean, I think 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.319 the hoods in l A are definitely branded. L A 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.120 in general is branded really well compared to the rest 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.720 of the country. But I mean that's the us A 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.440 talking to like the community, right, we're in Hollywood, We're 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.160 in the media mecca, you know, and branding it it's 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.040 across the board, so it doesn't just hit within the gangs. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.000 It hits across every every aspect. And the only other 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.200 cop to me, it's like Chicago, where like you know, 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.680 for sure there's like, you know, some big factions that 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.400 are and some of that has to do with history. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:22.960 Some of that has to do with the amount of 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.280 years that they were able to be established before you 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.000 came over to l A, because l A is kind 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.480 of a younger city in that regard in terms of 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.320 gang culture and just in terms of people period. But yeah, 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.400 the reason and I agree with you, that's part of 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.960 the reason that the brand of what's happening here in 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.320 it's kind of simplest explanation, became big because it is 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:48.760 the home of all, you know, Hollywood media and films. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:53.240 I'm sure so. But also I mean just being a 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.920 hood nigg in l A. There is a like it's 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.520 a costume as a it's a uniform to be a 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.600 hood in the get in the left, whether you want 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.040 to wear it or not. You can go somewhere and 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.120 everybody don't know you from a hood in that left. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.800 It don't matter which one you're from. Right, there's a 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.760 whole uniform completely right you. You know, whether that's you 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.800 could be in l A nigga or Southern California nigga 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.680 for Halloween. It's easy and it don't matter where you 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.240 at around the rest of the world. You mean, they'll 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.960 be like, oh, that's that West Coast Southern California ship 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.960 and up top right when you go to the Bay, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:36.200 it's not like that. There's no uniform, right you the 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.680 average Bay Area person, if you if you're talk about 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.360 somebody from the hood, you don't really pick it up 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.640 until they talk. If you know the movements certain things, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:50.320 if they flamboyant, you could tell. But just there's no 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.760 uniform and it's smaller, but like, yeah, they're going up there, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.320 like well, there's distinctly a way that Bay Area people dressed. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.680 But I think it's not exclusive to Bay Area. That's 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.600 the thing, Like, what's what's the most bay Area article, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.960 what's the what's the most bay Area article in the hood. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.960 You can wear that, Okay, that's some Bay ship. Yeah, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.360 I mean that's it's gonna be. Nothing's gonna be exclusive 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.840 to the Bay Man because they just kind of yeah, 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.480 I mean that that white t. To me, what stood 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:28.800 out at the time was those fucking jackets, those north 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.560 face no, the puffy jackets, like yeah, yeah, but those 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:37.560 those came out from by Moore. That's the Baltimore, Chicago, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.440 New York all this guy. So like, I don't in 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.440 the Bay I don't know if there's anything that stands out. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:43.840 And I was like, I don't think people to wear 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.800 them anymore. No, But I mean you knew who they 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.840 were at that time in that moment because they had 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:55.200 that well because they're right. Yeah, but you couldn't take 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.520 that sign uniform from that hood to any other hood 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.160 in California and they would I excuse me, to any 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.760 other hood outside of California and they would be to 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:11.359 identify like, Okay, this person is from a Bay Area hood, right, Um. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.639 The culture is not exclusive fashion wise, the culture is 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.880 exclusive language and lingo wise. Where you listen to a 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.920 Bay Area nigger from the Bay Area hood talk, you're 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.440 gonna know right off the rip he's from the Bay. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.200 If he's talking, he from the hood, You're gonna be like, Okay, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:33.440 he from the Bay. From cars, that's a Byrey thing. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.879 They have a certain style about how they style cars, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.240 and the cars that they choose are very much of 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:44.159 representative of Bay Area hoods. Um, and he might be 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.640 right Again, I don't think it's just a lack of exposure, right, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:53.720 I think, Um, the easiest part of branding, right is 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:58.000 the outfitting of something, you know, the pain job. For 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.960 me that that's the easiest out in it, I mean 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.600 of a brand, right, So to be a hood and 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.200 in the l A. Everybody, you could take that outfit 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.000 to anywhere around the world and they're gonna be like, oh, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:16.119 he must be from l A. From the West. So again, 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:20.480 these are all great business moves, right, you know, that's 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.920 that's that's that's from the hoods of Los Angeles. So 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.760 even in his particular situation, like what you're saying, like 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.639 he might be somebody that went a different direction. Everybody's 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.399 going the same direction, right, everybody is you know, the 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.120 product is irrelevant, the product that seems to get way 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.720 more credit than it deserved. Like everybody can't just sell 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.560 rocks in the hood. You really, Like, I was talking 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.439 to my barber. He asked me a question. It is 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.119 sounded craziest here. I almost went to calling racist and ship, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.920 but he was like, he said, gee, like out of 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.800 hooked up a lot of people with birds and ship, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.760 Like I got people hooked up through my people's right. 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.760 You know a lot of times brothers burn him. And 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.679 I was telling him to get a kilo of dope. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.800 Is like trying to ask the average America to open 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.679 up their own business, Like you're setting them up to 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.120 open their business. You think that business gonna be opened 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.600 up twelve months. No, you think every dollar coming in 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.159 they know how to save it and make sure they 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.480 budget for the month of parent And he was giving 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.240 them out front. Yeah, so he knew somebody that needed 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:32.080 a street dealer, and he knew the street dealers that 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:36.760 needed to connect. But the problem is the the misunderstanding 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.280 that the buyers weren't walking out with the full purchase 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.879 price and doing the transaction. No, hell no, you mean 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.359 just sellers know, the buyer, the one who would show fired. 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.159 It was no cash to transact, that's my question. He 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.320 was so he got they got burned waiting further the 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.080 cash to come back happened like they got robbed or 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.399 something like. No, no, it was literally just us. You 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:06.240 know the deal, the transaction didn't work out. Well. I 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.960 think it's a confusing that that people want to steal 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.960 and it's like, no, they don't know how to run 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.200 this business. Like, bro, to have a fucking bird of dope, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.400 you know, a thousand Grahams thirty six ounces. Lord knows 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.000 if you took that ship and somebody you know rocked 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.040 it up, that ship is fifty six. Bro. You actually 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.879 need to have a location. Yeah, Like you cannot be 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.760 driving that ship to where you think you're settling that 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.400 every day you risk your chances. You need to open 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.480 up a location, which means you need to be able 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.640 to put the house of somebody name. You gotta put 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.160 the bills of somebody name. You still gotta go out 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.679 and market it. You gotta promote it, you gotta advertise it. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.000 You gotta get publicity. Smoker's gotta talk about your ship. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.399 You gotta give free rocks away for other smokers to 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.480 talk about your ship. You have to run a business. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.240 The average person who might in the hood, who might 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.480 get front of the bird, feel me, he's going to 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.480 go to somebody else who sells dope. I'm black man, 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:07.919 you know, get this off of me. So it's like, 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.240 imagine if we gave the average American person right a business. 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:17.119 Here's a McDonald's bro. They're gonna lose that motherfucker in 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:21.720 a year. There's no chance because again, if you don't 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.680 know the discipline and sacrifices it takes to run a business, 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.520 to me, you're not gonna be successful. The people who 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.719 I knew were selling dope and good at it, they 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.720 could run any business. The only difference in the hood. 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.960 You're just educated about dope more than other things. You 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:43.120 gotta understand, like particularly that that that my hood right 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.920 that she was talking about, Like they're talking about making PCP. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.119 PCP is a really different process. Like I had a 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:53.880 p chemistry in high school and they a green yard 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:57.359 reaction is like a experiment that you get in the 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.479 in the class and it's not more than it's like 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.560 five teachers to tend students. That's how dangerous it is. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.280 You got a bunch of niggas who ain't educated past 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.760 the fifth grade level trying to do a green yard reaction. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:12.919 That makes the PCP. So that's why houses is blown up, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:17.240 That's why niggas is dying. They're not educated on what's 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:22.960 going on. So it's easy, like the information about you know, 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:28.040 selling dope is easily and at that time more available 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.280 on how like it's more people in the hood right 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.480 that could teach you how to rock up a bird. No, 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:36.399 they can explain to you, teach it to you. You 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:39.280 can get educated on that. Who the fund can they 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.960 go talk to about opening the McDonald's. That person was 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.640 not living where we was living. They're not gonna live 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:47.679 if you own the McDonald's and the King of Han 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:51.200 shopper center right there where we're at, you for sure 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:53.560 ain't for living in the house that costs fifty dollars 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:58.119 around the corner. M Yeah, So I think Pete, like 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:00.199 I'll be like I said, I noticed, we always talk 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.159 and use somebody to me that has vested interest in it. 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.879 You had experience in it. But I think there's an 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:09.639 underlying unbelief, disbelief and it's not just you. It's Head, 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:13.480 you know, DJ Head, Tom Salace. It's a couple of 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:17.240 people that have to have this believe like they don't 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:21.240 believe exactly as advertised, Like it's like no, I gotta 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:24.440 be it can't be that. It's like, yes, that is 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:29.840 specifically that the education or what you're exposed to. It's 0:23:29.960 --> 0:23:33.000