WEBVTT - BJ The Chicago Kid 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.800 R and money. 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:05.720 We are. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:12.440 We are the. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:20.040 Authority, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tank Valentine and 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.280 this is the Army Money Podcast, The authority. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.840 On all things are in by. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.000 Yeah, my my my. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.879 My, yes, real going on listen here. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.560 We we we we have a special place here where 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.360 where special people we we. We are blessed when they 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:50.120 stop by amen, when they are in the midst in 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:57.480 the presence being who and what they are. This man 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:03.920 is a fine man man the cloth Uh, a man 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:08.600 of deep soil, deep soil. Yeah, keep the name him 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:14.280 uh and and and and his gift uh speaks. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:19.120 Volumes throughout the musical universe. 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:20.119 I speak on. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:25.039 None other than as I bring guest preacher to the podium. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.280 I'm gonna use that when I go on my. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:39.920 Next to you are you man? You are brother man. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.039 I love you brother to be him man. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:43.360 I gotta shake out. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.360 Yeah. We've been doing this. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.120 A long long time, brothers for a long time. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.040 Yeah. And you know. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.080 Along with the brotherhood, you know, today I feel like, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.360 you know, we get to we get to talk to 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.000 talk about b J the Chicago kid. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.000 We get we get to we get to talk shipped. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.080 You know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.440 you you you get to say you God, damn right, go. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.320 Ahead and look who I mean it. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:25.960 Then you're damn right. Yes on who they say. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:34.000 I am multi faceted, multi talented. More importantly man, uh, 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.440 just a good brother man, Thank you man, good brother man. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:42.320 You know there's that's universal, that's not just language we talk. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.519 That's that's around the world. Very important to this thing. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:46.760 Man. 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.720 I think you are very important to this thing. Thank 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.280 you man, Thank you saying same. That's why I showed up. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:52.400 Man. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.760 I was at the Raphaels down the street, said let 0:02:54.760 --> 0:03:05.840 me go ahead and try about with in between these 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.440 episodes and Tom and Jerry Snookie get my sweat out 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.440 the first off and shout out to the cooogie. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:14.640 You. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.480 You are not getting away from here without giving me 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.839 the connect I got. 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.480 You say, let's the real, authentic o G not the 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.919 I don't want none of that new You want something 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.680 to put time in you. I want that real threading. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:38.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your lineage is crazy. If your family dynamics, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.880 it's all it's all crazy. Like you know, we we 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:44.640 we could have you here for two days. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:50.080 We can going through the. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:55.800 Levels and the progressions. But let's at least let's at 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:01.640 least touch on the beginning of of what you come from, man, 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.680 and and and and where it all started for you? 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.480 Where was a must. 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.840 I'm the youngest of three boys, both parents in the home. Yeah, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.479 born and raised in the same home that I left. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:21.919 I was born here, moving to l A. Anything they touched, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:27.680 I touched basketball, drums, bases in the house a couple 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.839 of times. With music in general, even my mom and dad. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.400 My dad, he was a choir director in this earlier 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.400 Afro real Bell Bottom days, you know that that era. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.279 And he was directing the choir with the Afro. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I still got pictures. Yeah, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.240 my dad was a choir director. My mom did the 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.640 same thing, and so they grew up in the same church. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.360 Then she went to her mom's church for some time 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.839 and then came back to that church. So my mom 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.679 was was directing choirs pretty much the whole time as well, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.960 learning how to harmonize, doing what harmony was, Knowing how 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.280 strong or how soft you had to sing that note, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.520 all of that. Like my mom taught me that in 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.760 the car. Like I remember the first time I ever 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.359 had to sing at church. She made me sing with 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.960 my brother and she was gonna have to leave, so 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.880 it was pretty much three of us. We had to 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:20.360 sing that, and she gave my part in the car 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.479 before we went into church. That was my first sign 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.160 of pressure and getting through it. Of course, I was 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.440 about six or seven years old, bro and I and 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.600 I felt that pressure of have a responsibility of a part. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.039 Nobody's singing this with you, so if you fall off, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:35.920 you're gonna make the ship rocky. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:36.520 You know. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.039 It's like I understood what the musical responsibility was for 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.120 the first time, outside of a choir or a. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.040 Group or something. It was just like us this way. Yeah, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:45.520 And I. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.240 Was like all right, and we went in and we 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.520 did it. It was amazing, man. But just little things like 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.840 that takes me back. Even playing the drums for the 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:58.120 children's choirs. Just stuff like that, it takes me back. Oh, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.920 for sure, I had gigs. I had church gigs. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:00.960 Yep. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.360 I actually when I moved to l A, I left 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.560 the church to come to LA to pursue writing and 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.679 you know, artistry and so forth, music on a different 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.440 level outside of the drums. So I left forget to 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:12.839 come here. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.480 Yeah, when you were in this church space. I mean 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.880 you talked about six and seven, already harmonized and already 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:20.760 feeling the pressure. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.280 My brothers they went on to play like for all 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.279 of the best choirs, the recordings and all like my 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.200 Scooter is Man recorded so many times with so many 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:39.120 groups and choirs throughout downloadable history. Aaron, Aaron, don't look 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.000 like it, but he the oldest. Everybody like who the oldest? 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:48.440 I was like, God, like the oldest, but he's the oldest. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.359 School is next, Scooter is next, and then I'm the 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.240 youngest BJ. So it just man, bro, like my brothers 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.680 were and still is everything to be. They still remain 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.280 big brothers, even in me being an artist, like when 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.840 it comes to like away from all this, you know this, man, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.000 they still be brothers. Just they they stayed my dogs 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.479 many just like that, and we stay locked. And was 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.320 best dressed in high school. So of course it's his 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.720 reason why I might want to be fresh every day? 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:14.080 You know? 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.000 Was that because they were able to you know, I 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.280 mean you had a couple of things. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.880 I mean, yeah, of course, you know if they left 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:27.520 too long on leave their closet open. Yeah, the reason 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.480 why girls on the body line we met some girls 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:32.160 on the body line. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:38.040 Bob's close the ship I wantuposed to iron that it 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.240 got a hole in it there. That's not. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.400 One day Scooter walked in and not I got in 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.600 maybe ten minutes before him and not knowing he was 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.640 coming straight and he caught me with it on mom 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:50.520 and daddy wasn't. 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:52.640 Mom, and daddy wasn't that. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:53.840 Yeah, it was like his hands. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:08:02.200 Yeah yeah, mano, mano, man Yeah, that dope. But but 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.920 I got it off in school. I got that fit off. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:10.200 Though I got that fit off, was it worth it? Yeah, 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.360 especially for the times you didn't have that fit. Nigga 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.000 snuck in on the Wednesday would feel like, are you 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:14.920 in shopping yesterday? 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:15.440 Huh? 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.440 It ain't Monday, nigga. Niggas nigga, you know niggas go 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.480 shopping on the weekend. So here's a new fit on 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.240 the Wednesday night. Niggas just wait to figure something matter. Yeah, 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.120 you know how it is, man. I think that whole 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.520 competitiveness from even like you know, racing to the car 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.959 with your cousins as kids. Man, that whole competitiveness it 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.480 helped us form, like, you know, that other side of 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.679 life that you don't learn in the house, you know 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.679 what I'm saying, Almost like with basketball, can struw you 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.400 if you get beyond just hooping at the park and 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.680 you really get to understand what to do to you 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.200 and understanding of what teammates he is, and what survival is, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:50.240 how to yeah, how to hold it down? Yeah, every everybody? Yeah, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.480 yeah yeah. All of that was conditioning for surviving in 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.280 this game. Is still surviving in it. Reinventing myself again 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.800 to go again and have a little bit more fun 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.600 like our heroes have done. All of that stuff has 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.439 been seasoning to have a barbecue restaurant that we're trying 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:09.760 to make not but barbecue chicken. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.120 Did you? 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:11.440 Did you? 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.520 Because I know me in church, I didn't know what 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.520 this was. You know, I wasn't even in a space 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:25.880 where it was even allowed to consider m Like I 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.120 know my older cousins that would listen to to uh 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.480 the secular, that's the word, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.199 I thought that I thought they were like, they're going 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.240 to hell. Well I didn't think they were going to hell. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.439 I thought they were I thought they were cooler. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.400 There was an interest, a curiosity. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:52.079 I was like, because I used to. You know, I 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.560 used to hang with all my street guys. But at 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.280 a certain point when my grandmother you screamed out the 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.240 rail back and you know what time it was. Everybody 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.480 on the block knew what time it was. Got to 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.679 go to church, That's what it was. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.120 Same with the sledge chiusehold and they laughed and joke. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.079 We laughed in joke too, But Nigga, we ain't let 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.360 we ain't leave that that that that portray on cacking 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.200 is still nigga passing my cutback. I mean it. The 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:21.360 cross on the corner is very important for survival for 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.600 who we are, our understanding of ourselves. While we feel 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.840 those that had the same understanding of across the corner 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.040 before us, while we felt their music so stronger than 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.920 other artists, because Nigga, that's that's us. You listen to 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.679 your uncle yo, your musical pop show, your god daddy 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.520 in another way, but some type of ken to you 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.679 and it feels very familiar, and that that helps us 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.320 with who we are finding out, who we are growing 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.719 to be, what we want more of because they had 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.520 way less than we have but still gave us way 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.199 more than we give it. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:55.240 They no pro tools, you know what I'm saying. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.240 Yeah, Yeah, they had way less than what we had, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.840 but gave more than what we give it for sure. Yeah, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.720 because imagine that bassic player fucking up all god damn time, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.320 and we recording this song today. The bass player keep 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.880 sucking up. They're like, Hi, nigga, war more nigga. We 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.360 be going in the alley right easy, my big ma 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.120 beery steak tonight. I ain't being late. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.679 You gotta be fed up, Jack. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.319 Stevie wonder whoof. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.160 Yep, yep, I can't see you, but I'm gonna find you. Yeah, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:27.760 I'm gonna find you. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.120 I hear you, I hear you. Yeah. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.240 Somebody even told me. They was like, have you ever 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.640 like they said, they know, I love so New so much. 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.840 It said, have you paid attention to how the sound 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.000 changed from before Martin Luther King? And then when he died, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.320 he said them basslines got needed them, drums can heave. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.000 Your conversation got a little different. You can hear the frustration, 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.360 the anger, the pain, even if it's a happy song 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:56.120 that Sh'S slapping now, It's like it certain things changed 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.160 music without the recognition of it changing, because it just 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.960 do something to the people naturally, and if you feel 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.040 what we feel, it's gonna change you in what you do. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.600 You know what I'm saying. The person that sell phones man, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.960 when they go back in the they hey, how you doing. Yeah, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.800 I know, I know it's some type of feeling that 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.680 it's some emotion something. Yeah, And I feel like those 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.840 things have always kind of helped translate the music differently 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.680 and help us change our creative illness in some type 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.160 of way. But I like that's why I like talking 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:26.720 to old heads. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:26.840 Man. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.520 They get you thinking with the other side of your 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.680 brain and it be the simplest stuff, you know, and 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.560 just just go of our heads sometimes. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.320 So yeah, I just because I used to watch my 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:41.800 uncle Leroy. I used to on his date night. I 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.680 used to watch him on his date night. He would 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.319 have the Blue Magic play whatever he had playing. He 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.240 had slow music. Yeah, and you know his room was 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.959 over here, but he had to walk across the kitchen 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.400 to get to the bath, so he'd be going back 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.360 and forth, robe on and he s just yeah, yeah, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.520 just watching him, amazed by him. Got his magic shave on. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:03.120 You know, you gotta get clean. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.040 You got close. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.000 Yeah, it's it's it's a bottle with some green spraying 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.320 and that's all I knows, spraying, watching them put on 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.920 clothes to d and the music in the background. It's 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.959 not music I'm I'm used to listen, used to hearing, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.560 like my grandmother know me play the James Cleveland and 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:22.920 all of that. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.280 Master This is different. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.520 He's playing the secular music. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.080 I'm like, I'm like, I'm like what, I'm like, ugly, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.679 where were you going? Got a date? I got a date? 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.280 I was like, what's that? What you listening? Though? You 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.160 know that's that's that's the music that you play when 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.080 you're on the date. I'm like, what you what you like? 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.959 What you got on? What is the clothes you wear 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:41.760 when you're going to date? 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:43.040 Oh? 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.319 Yeah? 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:51.280 The other side. And even then, it wasn't necessarily an 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.520 interest in R and B music. I was more interested 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.719 in just wanting to be like him. Yes, yes, you 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.320 know what I'm saying. I was came with that. I 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.360 was just a church. 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.800 Kid, you define everybody'd be like man like at a 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:05.959 certain age. Man, I was like, man, I really just 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.520 want to be like my post and my uncles with 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.800 a little more money, a few more options. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:10.839 But who they were. 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.120 Was it that that was it? That was it? That 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.200 was it. I couldn't wait till my uncles came in town 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.800 and just so I could just talk to him. Yeah, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.560 just talk man, what you been man? Or he asked 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.000 me what I've been doing? And I want to sound 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.360 cool saying what I've been doing, because this nigga's cool. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:28.800 You know what I'm saying, like nigga. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:29.080 Yeah. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.040 Like even when I said the clone, it's like, I 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.040 think we all love a fry flight, a fly fragrance 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.400 that kind of represent us because of that experience growing 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.240 up having somebody that we admired. It was so ill 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.000 and we knew it was like, that's a key component 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.920 to being fly, and it's about what you got on. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.520 How you smell when you walk past and be like 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.440 I feel like sometimes if a woman don't smell like nothing, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.200 I'd rather you just least smell your your hair products 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.840 or something something, but don't smell like nothing. You know something, Yeah, fly, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.040 a flower smells like something? Yes, yes, yes, And all 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:00.960 those things are from I passed. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:01.120 Man. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.160 They say, what you didn't have a lot of when 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.840 you was little, When you get money, you get a 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.920 lot of that, right, So I got a lot of 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.240 sneakers in my house, all type of you know, you know, 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.440 because yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's true. But everything goes 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.880 back to when we were kids and what what we 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.280 were attracted to, what what what? What we thought was dope? Well, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.080 we always wanted some people weat some people fifty some 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:25.920 years old, man still got stuff on that list when 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:26.440 they was a kid. 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:26.680 Man. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.200 Some guys still want that rock and sock and robot. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:30.800 Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.720 And I saw I saw the Vultron lines for sale. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:36.760 On the other thing, I'm about to buy the. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:42.480 Shield kill you. I bought a Megatron. I'm about to 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.120 buy a new Megatron that transforms on its own. I 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.080 gotta have it. I gotta have it. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.720 You did because I didn't. I used to lie to that, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.160 lie about having it. Yeah yeah, I got Nintendo. I 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:59.360 was playing punch Out all night. Yeah, killing it. So 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:04.840 you talk about your big brothers and and obviously they're 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.240 getting the gigs and all of these things before you, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.320 like they're like their God. Yeah, when when do you 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:19.160 get your opportunity to be to be a guy to 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.120 feel like you're at least kind of on their level 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:23.920 in that space. 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.520 I had to be irritating first. I had to be 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.880 very irritating. First, I'm talking about school to be like Mama, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.160 I used to call they the musicians. They have a 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:33.720 little shit over there. I'm like, I want to go. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.360 I'm saying it out loud in the room. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:35.680 I was. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.520 You know what I was on? 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:45.440 You gotta take BJ with you. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.520 I'm like, yeah, I immediately run to the room to 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.480 see what I'm about to throw on. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:52.760 How old are you at this point? 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.560 Oh, nigga? That started. That started when I would have 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.760 to say I was at least thirteen. Yeah, And that 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.680 didn't stop till he got the fuck out the house 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.280 for real, because man, his life is so much more 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.120 cracking than mine. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:08.840 But I was. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:10.760 I knew I was a cool little brother man. Like 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.399 I used to shoot dice against my brother musician homies 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:13.960 and take their money. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:14.240 School. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:15.840 You were bet with me and like, Nick, come on, 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.359 make me some money, nigga. You know what I do, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.200 nigga jump shots and dice. I shoot both of them. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.280 You know what I'm saying. That was my air force 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:23.720 warm money. My mom was like this all you get 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.320 for shoes, This is gonna get for clothes going back 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:26.440 to school. You gotta make it work. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:27.200 I'm line. Let me take this. 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.080 I'd be right back about thirty minutes. Yeah, go ahead 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.520 to go to Brander Park. Yep, we end up shooting 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.240 jumpers or shooting dice are probably both. And uh that 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.560 that was my way of like earning bread around that 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.440 time in my life. Yeah, in school, Hey, I would 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.760 be at school and be counted absent because I'd be 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.240 in the gym shooting jumpers for money. I come, I 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.119 got three fifty in my pocket coming home today, though, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:51.159 fuck it. I I deal with it with my pops. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.720 That list of all them days you went out the 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.320 house with. Some days you miss home people. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:58.840 but you deal with it when it comes. But having 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.560 a having the pop step was like that. Like uh, 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.919 like when he left directing in the church, like he 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.919 went to doing security and body Garden. Back then they 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.520 recalled the Bodyguarden Bodyguarden, like Eddie, Eddie Murphy, Muhammad, Ali, Oprah, 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.760 Winfrey Man. The list goes on and on. Every Bulls rally. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:16.720 They came through Chicago. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.400 Yeah, every Bulls rally, my daddy worked the stage where 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.440 the bulls walk on the stage. That like he would 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.600 make sure ain't nothing, nigga. I'll tell you what, the 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.199 Blues Fest, the Taste of Chicago, the Jazz Fest. Like 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:29.800 he was a part of that crew that did all 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.560 of security for that. And my dad was always on stage. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.159 So one day I'm at the Gospel Fest. It's probably 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.640 like somebody like the Kent's spirituals probably up there. Somebody 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.119 got to walk across the stage. I saw my daddy 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:47.600 grab a grown man by here and here and turned 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.760 them sideways and walk them off. I say about beat 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.159 the ship out gospel because I know Uncle Ron. I 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.639 call him Uncle Ron, like my daddy buddies all in 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.000 my right there. I know they about the dog this way, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.760 they about to dog this man on the side. But 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.040 I also said, if my daddy picked the grown man 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:11.080 up like that, I'm fucking up in school. I'm tripping. 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.000 So are you just bugging out? 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.800 Are you just hooping to gamble? Are you? Are you 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.760 going to school and hooping for the team too? 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.840 Are you just's what's crazy? I'll tell you this, this 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.679 is a real story. I went to school and I 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.320 was one of those kids that grew up in our neighborhood. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.320 Basketball was always available. I don't care if he was 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:28.560 in the alley hoop and I don't care you went 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:29.680 to the park. I don't care we went to the park. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.640 We ain't supposed to, Uh, hooping in Chicago, you gotta 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.960 go to parks that you know is the opposite of 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.000 how you grew up. You know what I'm saying. Far 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.359 as a gang wise or whatever, you notice in the 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.480 whole nother hood. You've been over here, you know this area, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:43.240 but you don't hoop at this park. You ain't never 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.359 got You ain't got out the car and been around 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.440 these niggas, and the car is just as far away 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.680 from you because it is from him. Yeah, Like, nigga, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.359 you gotta you gotta face the wolves. You gotta go 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.879