WEBVTT - LS Episode 486: What's a Friend? (Feat. Da'Vinchi) 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:04.120 Ms lip service. I'm Angela. 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:09.520 Ye, I'm Gg Maguire, I'm Jeordie, I'm jazz Renee. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.480 Yes you are, ye you listen. We were having such 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.520 a great conversation because, first of all, you know, I 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.079 already automatically love anybody from Brooklyn, and Dvini's from Brooklyn 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.959 like me, and we met before at Nati's wedding. We 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.000 were both at her wedding, by the way, one of 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:26.320 the most amazing weddings. 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:27.360 Yeah, it was really nice. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.920 Didn't make you think about your own. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.199 Definitely, definitely, Yeah, but I don't think I will be 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:33.720 that extravagant. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.319 It was. I mean, it was nice. It was at 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.120 the same regions in Atlanta. It was it was a beautiful, 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.160 beautiful ceremony. I remember right after it happened, you talked 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.200 about it for a minute. Yeah, it was. It was great. Yeah, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.159 and it was like I always wondered what guys are 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.360 thinking at weddings, Like you know, as women, we automatically. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.800 Don't catch the bouquet. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:59.800 Well, guess what the it. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:01.960 Wasn't a real day, Yeah, actually. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:04.080 Didn't. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.720 Yeah, she might actually get married. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.840 She cut the bouquet, and then there was those y'all 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.720 talked about it already, so it's not a big deal. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.440 But you were super cool, so I could see why 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.000 it was fun for her to work with you on BMF. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.680 So that was nice shout out. I was like, oh, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.800 he's nice, because sometimes, yeah, you can meet somebody and 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.560 be like I don't even want it. But he was 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.200 super cool, so I appreciate that. Yes, and I saw 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.319 you were at the next game court side recently. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.479 Right, that was my first court side game. What Yeah, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:34.839 it was just crazy. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.760 Not the Nets to Brooklyn. 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.120 I mean, the Nets is not really Brooklyn, Jersey. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.280 The Nets is Brooklyn, definitely. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.479 No, it's Brooklyn now. But I'm just saying, but it's 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.880 been Jersey, New Yorker, you know, like the next is 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:47.960 like that's the Yankees. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.320 The Nets is like the Nets side seats at the 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.640 next than it is to get court side seats at 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.840 I love my Nets though, but it is a hard 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.720 thing to get them next court because that team has 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.560 been around for so long. So how was that for you? 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:01.880 I saw everybody was there too. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.960 Oh yeah, no, it was great, Honestly, I was I 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.920 was like a little kid in the candy store. I 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.040 was like, I was sitting down shout out to Julie 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.480 because Julie is the one who hooked me. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.440 Up with the tickets, but. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:18.440 Everybody called Juliet to Julie had the last name. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:21.160 It was dope. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.239 Like I'm just like sitting there and looking down and 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.839 you see Spike Lee, you see Tracy Morgan, you see 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:27.480 Emma Roberts. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.040 I'm like, yo, this is like crazy. Like everybody was there, you. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.320 Know, And I was like and sometimes being in that 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.600 position because this is like so new, I'm like, damn, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.160 like do I really like I really like here with 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.600 these people? Like like when Spike Lee he was leaving, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.720 he said what up to me? I was like, yo, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.760 like that's Spike Lee. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.079 Yeah, he'd be at them gay. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.839 When when Cat Karl Anthony Towns. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:50.880 Like he just came, he was like, Yo, what up 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.720 my boy? I was like, yo, bro, this felt like 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.200 you ever seen the show Entge. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.960 Yeah, of course, Like that's like I felt. I was like, damn, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:58.600 this is crazy. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:02:59.919 You know made it. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.640 Man, what's been your most surreal experience? You would say, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.280 because you've like managed to I mean and well deserved, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.080 been in amazing positions, and I want to say, like 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.800 starting with grown ish up to where you are now. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:16.280 It hasn't been what has it been like seven years? 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.040 That's not like a super long time. And I feel 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.080 like you are like so much. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.320 I appreciate that man, And that's honestly, that's all about 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:24.919 the grace of God. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.280 Shout out to God for that. And I just I 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:29.079 just try to be a. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.600 Servant and do my due diligence because I know if 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.240 I act up, you know, someone else to take my 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.000 position for sure, because nothing. It's really God that I'm 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.680 in this position. But it's the most surreal moment. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:41.920 Honestly. It's just. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.480 I think when I was working with fifth, like I 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.560 was like, Yo, no, you're working with fifty. I was like, Yo, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.520 this is crazy. Like when we took a private jet 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.600 to Detroit the film and like I'm sitting right here, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.720 fifty is right there, and I remember the whole time, like, Yo, this. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.080 Is really is really my life. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.640 Like I used to like the fifty was like such 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.920 an icon in my house and my oldest brother we 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:08.760 used to call him like twenty five cent and just 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.240 the way he influenced our culture so much, you know, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.400 like everyone wanted to be fifty. I'm like, yo, this 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.440 niggas right here. And then I started doing an instant 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.320 story and I was like, yo, its first time, Jess. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:20.720 I'm like, you know what, I'm trying to be cool. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.480 And then he hopped in my story. He just randomly 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.600 cameround me and I was like, yo, bro, this was 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.880 like crazy. I think that was like a moment that 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.760 had me like and I remember one time someone also 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.479 my boy hit me. He was like, yo, bro, guess 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.279 who followed you. I was like, oh, he was like Drake, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.599 I said, stopped fucking playing. He's like I was like what, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.040 And I looked. I was like, yo, like that's crazy. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:51.440 That's so fun. Does he still follow you? 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.719 The fact that Drake. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.400 He was like, let me not post not like us, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:09.520 because I'm not. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:09.280 Even if he was to following the fact that he Yeah, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.000 I'm like, just like, people can say what they want. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.200 But with witnessing a living legend like the records that 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.760 he broke rap wise, it's like his numbers are not 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.520 comparable to anyone else in a rap Kindergary. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.599 It's crazy how people are like down playing him and 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.360 counting him out and have so many things to say 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.039 when he really did accomplish a lot. But it just 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.200 shows that. Yeah. I mean, he's broken all kinds of 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.920 records and still shows that people be brought and Dick 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.520 from the right. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:39.560 Team Drake and I'm still team Drake. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.400 I'll go too concert any day. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.560 People really down playing them break. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.880 You know, I think everybody still realizes that Drake is Drake. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.880 I just think with that whole attitude, I think that 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:54.279 they have that time. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.600 You know what I'm saying, Like, realistically, you win some 0:05:58.760 --> 0:05:59.279 you lose something. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.920 But I don't think that that discredits Drake for who 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:03.360 he is now. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:10.400 People don't trying to count him out because Pop on 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.240 tour next month and it's still going to. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.920 Be absolutely but think about people he was super cool 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.239 with that was like you know, and we've seen it happen, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.479 like you saw the Toronto rapt this day, like he 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.400 can't get on the mic for a year because you 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.320 know whatever, But well no, because of who was it, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.760 DeMar DeRozan. He said something about him because that was 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.800 his friend. But then you know, I guess Drake like 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:37.360 went at him because he's dancing, yeah at the concert, yeah, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.880 crip walking to not like I mean, but it's like. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.720 Not like us just do that to you though, you know, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.400 what I'm saying. And I'm a Drake fan as well. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.000 Right, it's a good but I ain't gonna lie. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.919 I Like, if Drake was my man and like we 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.039 really chill, we go out and we party, and his 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.240 opposition made a song that was like a bop like this, right, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:10.400 I would not be Okay. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.280 It's not loyal no more. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.240 Bro, if I rock with you, even if you're wrong, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.040 I'm still your back, Like you know what I'm saying. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.560 But I'm gonna tell you closed doors, Like, Bro, you 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:15.880 got you. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.920 But I'm never gonna like that. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.320 But what are you both people? Because a lot of 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.520 people did you know what I'm saying? It's I think also, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.640 I was say, in the industry, friendship is a like 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.040 you might think you're friends with somebody, but it's an 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.720 industry friendship and friendship, right, And that's true. Like, I 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.240 know there's certain people if I wasn't if I was, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.200 like you know, in fact, that's gonna run my coffee shop. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.000 They don't give up, they won't give a fuck about me. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.960 Like to keep it real, you know, I would friends. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:45.280 I know. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.160 You know that's funny because Drake does have a song 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.480 called no Friends in the industry. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.480 Right, no friends in the industry. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.120 It's hard to really see people really be friends in 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.920 the industry. You know, friends is a term that's. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.560 Just throughout there, like in America. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.920 Yeah, my friend. You know, people need to use more 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:08.480 words like associate that you're not my associate. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.200 I like. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.480 With somebody, but I don't feel like they're on that 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.240 level for me to be like this is. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.600 My friend, because see, your friend really cares. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:23.960 You know. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:25.800 I like to say my homegirl. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.120 Okay, homegirl, homegirl, like a friend you think so? 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:30.520 Yeah? 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:31.880 Yeah, I don't think so. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.360 You know, like there's more than a friend homegirl. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:35.959 I think it's you're saying less. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.600 Oh you're saying its more friend. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.280 I think the word friend is deeper than home. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.160 Homegirls like bro like you can't to my crib, like 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:44.960 that's my home. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:46.280 Look at it. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:51.000 I take I take a friend so serious, but your 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.760 friend is like friends. I feel like friend is like 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.880 you didn't been in my house and we are really 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.520 like tight. You know you know my real name, yeah 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.559 type time. People can't read that. It looks like a 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:10.880 different lage. It is probably shout out to my parents. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.719 They on there to G. G. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:19.120 Maguire legally, changed the Da Vinci middle name. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.560 Yeah, I was born with no middle. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.480 Names but no middle name, but you like, okay. We 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.400 were trying to figure it out earlier, trying to change 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.319 his name to j elect legally like. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.040 Electronica. Yeah, he was thinking. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.480 Yeah he did that. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.080 What made you legally change your name to da Vinci? 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.920 Just middle name? 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:41.280 Didn't. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.840 I didn't have a middle name, so my first name 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.199 is nothing is just so instead were just like I. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.520 Was like, you know what, let me give myself a 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:54.720 middle so you made it legally middle Yeah. How is 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.360 it when people that knew you growing up want to 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.480 call you by like your you know, your first name? 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.160 Does that bout you know? How some people get trying 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.720 to act like I know him, know him, that's. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.760 My homeboy, Like I know that, but that's aj Like 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.520 I just like I like Aje. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.800 I'll just tell them like bro in public, just just go. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:15.000 You know. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.360 For me, I don't like when my family called me Gig. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.880 I don't call me that. Don't I'm still coffee like, 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.240 don't break Yeah. But I also don't like when I 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.240 meet a guy and I'm like, oh, my name is 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.280 Gig whatever And then a couple of days or weeks 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:30.840 go by and he learns it, and now you want 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.640 to start calling me coffee night, like you know, know mely 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:32.800 like that. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.240 If I introduced to you myself as GG, then we're 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.400 gonna stick with GG facts and you probably can you 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.760 pronounce it right anyway, so don't even try. How do you, yeah, 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.199 how do you make that transition when you're with somebody 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.920 like seriously to be like you could call me by 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:46.040 coffee when. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.280 It really gets to that point. What's that point? Like love, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.480 like really together, like it's really a thing. And then 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.560 still don't call me that. You know, I was with 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.360 your friend for fifteen years he still called me gg. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:01.280 I mean twelve, it is. But the thing is, it's 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.520 been it's been mispronounced. Like for instance, my daughter is 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.959 twenty eight years old. I've known her grandparents for thirty years. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.520 Them people, good girl. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:11.120 Thank you girl. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:18.360 Youm people still call me cafe. Their whole family. They 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.480 have that, his parents, the sister. They called me and 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.760 I answer. He's like, hey, I answered the cafe out 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.920 of respect. I've never corrected them. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.640 They've been calling me cafe for thirty years, and my 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.360 cafe okay, but it's coffee. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.600 And when you read it. You know, people don't really 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.400 know how to pronounce it, so we just stick with 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.600 where you're from. I'm originally from Philly. The name is 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.280 Hindu Coffee. Ooh, I'm saying a lot. Let me know, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.400 yeah a f I oh that's cute. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:50.720 Yeah, I like see. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.840 I like it sounds like cofee, like coffee, just with 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:56.560 a French accent. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.320 Now, I tell you talk about being on Broadway and 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.320 playing the character of Lust, and you said that was 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.080 nothing like who you really are, right right, Yeah, But 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.480 I do want to say I feel like for you 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.200 growing up, didn't girls always like you even aside from 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:13.600 all of. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.080 This, Yeah, yeah, for for sure. 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.720 Like I was, I was like I didn't have a 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.719 well when I went to high school. High school was 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.880 tough because I got I sent to Florida with my 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.720 father because I was getting in trouble. So I got 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.200 the rested when I was thirteen, and I was like 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.400 a juvenile the linkud. So I was just doing bad shit. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.360 So when I started living with my pops, I went 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.440 to all Way High School and over there, it was different, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.440 Like girls were saying stuff like yo, like I would 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.520 date you, but like my parents were like hanging to 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:41.200 both of us. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.040 Right, Dad, that's crazy. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:45.600 Friend. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.000 I was kind of like he was kind of like damn, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.480 Like I'm in a different environment and it's like and 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.640 then you would like talk to him like some girls 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.600 like they have a conversation with you, but then they're 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.040 just like it's like gotta be like low key if it's. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.480 You know, like yeah, yeah, it was just weird. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.440 It was like yeah, and I was like, then people 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.600 really still live like this, and that's like I didn't 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:08.560 know like New. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.120 York was not really like that at all. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.439 Yeah, it's such yeah exactly, but it's like there's places 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.600 like and I was in the area in Florida that's 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.440 not like Miami Orlando, Florida. That was like middle of nowhere, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.160 like it's the south right, you know what I'm saying 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:22.559 to where it's just like you go to the wrong 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.480 area that you. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.679 Might see blacks only, like. 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.120 Yeah, but basically like it was like certain like it 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.800 was in the central like the middle, like but like 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.079 the Horse Capital like you see, like it was it 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:37.800 was how. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.600 Would your dad have people at home a white girl 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:40.120 or your mom? 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:40.920 My parents did? 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.040 We don't care about that, Like it's like them being 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.280 you know, they're not from this country, like they never 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.560 raised this in our group, our family, which is so mixed. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:53.720 It's like it I think this concept of racism is 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.880 so big in America, which it makes a lot of 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.120 sense as to why, because it's systemic racism and what 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.160 happens with you know, transit learning, slaves, trade. But the 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.440 whole like racism is just a social construct that's not 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.560 a real thing, Like black and white people are basically 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.160 the same thing, like our skeleton, Like from our skeleton alone, 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.640 you can't tell the difference. This whole thing is just 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.240 it's just a political gain And honestly, it was just 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.000 used to justify the hainus crimes it was doing black people. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.760 So they're trying to make white people feel better by 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.040 pinning them against us and saying, oh, we're biologically inferior, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:29.640 we don't feel pain, we don't do this, we're a 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.000 beasts where this and that and all these different things 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.800 are justified. But at one point in America, black and 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.360 white people was also teaming up together and trying to 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:38.760 destroy the elite whites, you. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:39.240 Know what I'm saying. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.040 So we were buddies and the elite whites was like yo, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.440 we need to stop this. Like if they come together 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.680 like we're done so then like you know, the whole 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.080 concept of whiteness and blackness started coming out of that, 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.200 and they started making the poor white people be like, no, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.720 you're still better than the blacks because they definite. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.760 They started making them own us. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.400 But it's just like but it was just a game 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.680 being played just to keep this ship in order, you 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:02.200 know what I'm saying. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.640 So it's like, but some countries, like we. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.280 Don't look at it, like like my mom wouldn't care 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:08.320 if I brought a cricket home. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.200 I mean, you know, it's because in Haiti, I feel 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:10.920 like there's a son. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:12.120 I can't bring no cricket home. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.160 I take that. Yeah, but anything any color, they won't care. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:18.560 You know. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.600 It's interesting because in Haiti, I feel like there's a 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.360 lot of colorism. And we've always heard about the issues 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.080 with Haiti and dr you know that's facts. Yeah, and 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.800 I feel like there's a lot of colorism there, like 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.440 when it comes to people feeling like oh, darker skin 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.040 and lighter skin. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.920 You know, So that's true, that's rue, It is there, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.120 But it's just like you have different classes of like 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.960 like usually the most popular story. It's not the ones 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.440 from like the educated people, Like there's some just like this. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.760 There's a lot of educated people in this country, but 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.320 that's not the story that get told. Like for instance, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.960 a lot of times when European see black people, you know, 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.240 they have this preconceived notion about us based off the 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.120 interviews and the TV shows and. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.720 People people all over around the world, right, but exactly 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.760 to your next door neighbor, and they're white, they have 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.840 this notion of you based off what like the media 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.800 takes a percentage of black people, make that seem like 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:12.480 it's the majority. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:12.840 Right. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.920 You can't speak English, you know, we can't do this. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.160 And they have certain people that don't even know anything 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.400 about politics talking about certain political issues, and people are 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.120 looking at it like, oh my god, my god, these 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:23.880 black people are ignorant. But it's like, no, you asked 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.600 the right nigga that question, and that's what goes right exactly. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:27.720 You know what I'm saying. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.160 So I just think, like, so even the colorism over there, 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.800 it's just that ignorant story is just the story that's 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:33.240 being told. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.920 But some people are just way more educated above that. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.280 My parents are, like they're educated so it's like certain 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:40.640 things that was like that I've been hearing. 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.560 I'm be like, what bro, Like, that's not even bro. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:43.760 It's just he wasn't. 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.960 Raised properly because I just think I taught in Washington 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.760 Heights for a little while when I was in college, 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:52.200 and Washington Heights is a neighborhood that's it's like predominantly Dominican. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.640 And there was one Haitian kid in the class that 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.200 I have him, yes, and when I tell you, they 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.200 gave him hell, Like I used to be like, I 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.200 just want to like help him, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.200 because it was really tough for him because he was 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.760 the only black kid in the class. And I didn't 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.760 really realize because I'm from New York, so you know, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.000 we like, I know, in Detroit. I don't think Detroit 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.480 has like a big Dominican or it's not really like big. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.679 It's as far as like outside of black Detroit. It's 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:19.639 a lot of mixed people. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:20.040 Yeah. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.440 Yeah, and there's like Mexican Town and stuff like that. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:23.920 It's a lot of Mexicans. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:24.240 Yeah. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.240 But I didn't realize how bad like that was until 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.199 I was in this school teaching and I saw how 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.879 badly they treated this kid, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:43.159 And so that's honestly, but unfortunately they learned that, you know, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.880 that's like I learned behavior said. They hear it home 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.040