WEBVTT - LS Epsiode 483: E.T. Phone Mase (Feat. Maino) 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:10.319 Heavy birthday, birthday Jack, and congratulations to I got a 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.200 man O. He just told us he was getting an award. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.440 What is the big dog A ward's being honored. I 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.680 know that's right for being a renovator. There you go, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:26.080 shout out to thenovators. Our guy Mano is here with 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.760 us on lip services. Me Angela yee, I'm j G. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.440 Maguire, Shortie George, I'm Jazmine Brand. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.400 And this is my debut. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.120 It's not you've been on lip service like this is 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.200 my debut. I feel like you've been on lip service 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:46.000 since the eighties. Definitely, definitely. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:50.199 Ten years ago. I was first of all, he. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.080 Was down stairs. I was he was on service when 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.800 I was serious, back when she was first of all, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.040 come on that. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:57.920 He started me. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.920 Diverse from from the from. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.640 Ye life of controversy right there. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.480 Now, I think you would have been there anyway. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:09.640 I wouldn't say that. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.640 No, you was already like coming off. You already have 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.760 been in your controversy. We'll get into all of that today, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.000 but but honest we do call you new Mano. Yeah, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.959 and there's a reason for that because new mayno, you're 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.959 like the new improved. But you've been doing a lot 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.280 of business moves with sweet we love and appreciation. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.000 Mm hmm, that's right. You know. The thing is is 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:37.319 like I was telling somebody today, right, how that whole 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.720 new Mano things stuck and how it kind of like 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.720 helped me in other things that I got going on. Right, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.360 So now when people see me in the street. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.840 No, you know why because Mano was definitely like a 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.560 bad Yeah, you got to say it. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.240 He just said, sometimes you just got to get. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.720 The word to say in a nicer way. Sometimes you 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.040 got to be a nice He was a little hot headed. Yeah, 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.640 and now he's like now you can see in his 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:11.560 head when something happens, He's like. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:06.000 But. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.800 Do you really feel like it is a different person 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.280 because we are all growing up and we've all done 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.280 things in our past, like all of us have evolved 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:20.760 so much. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:21.000 You know. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.040 The thing about it is is just like I feel 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.880 like life is like, you know, we live and we learn, right, 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.560 and we start to develop, and we start to mature 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.679 a little bit, and then certain things just like man 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.959 like you just don't even make no sense. And then 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.119 from a business standpoint, like I fucked up so much 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.520 business early on for myself and so many opportunities, running 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.919 the money away, scaring the money away, and they would 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.080 be like, Uh, this guy can get this, this guy 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.160 can get that. But man, you can't get this because 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.119 they just might. That's what the perception was. And even 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.080 though I always was a cool magga, it didn't matter. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.799 You don't do that all the time. No, But I'm 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:06.240 just saying, even though I was always solid, it don't 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.120 matter because the perception is the reality. So they perceive 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.960 you to be like an asshole and all that, and 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.120 then don't let you. Don't let you be in a 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.520 situation where your with your music is with the music 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.160 is not as lit, because then they don't really got 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:19.560 to fuck with. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.360 You at all. I've always said that people when you're like, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:22.880 if you're. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.519 Moving where you're going, I get nervous. Come around. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.440 But no, but even just when you said all of that, 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.960 just thinking about like and now I forgot what I 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.480 was even talking about, because just because. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.160 Saying about how we you know, we we developed and 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.240 and I would messing up business and and then people 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.040 think that you be on some bullship and you don't 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.720 really be on it right right. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.240 You know, come later, Yeah, later, I do want to 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.520 talk about this EP Mainnovation innovation. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.400 See there's another thing, the new Mannovation. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.320 Because every every Monday man it would be in his car, 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.960 but in general given like motivational, like you know, things 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.320 you've learned speaking to the STA and I started calling 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.400 it Monday Manovation renovation. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.600 We'll start doing that segment up at the show, which 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.040 is another thing that you didn't help create, the help 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.560 the brand of of of Jamaine Coleman. And so then 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.560 I was like thinking like all right, I'm gonna drop. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.000 I'm just gonna drop an EP real quick, seven songs, 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.120 what I'm gonna call it. And we just came off 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.200 a man O Day this past summer, so that was dope, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.160 and I was just like, you know what mainnovation, this 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:45.240 is motivation. You know, yeah, no hesitation in any situation. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:50.560 That's right, That's what you. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.720 As just said. May O Day. The EP starts off with. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.320 Song, start off with I named the song that because 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.440 it was this new news clip, you know, when he 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.440 talked about it and how dope it was. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:09.839 President give his own dad, wasn't on your mother's birthday? 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.160 Every year on my mother's birthday, We're gonna we're gonna 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.360 go up and will go crazy, you know, and we 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.799 was lit, we were drinking, we had fun, we was eating. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.719 Everything was good. I'm sorry on your birthday and drinking. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.240 He's doing a clean and you know when you clan, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.359 you also can't have sex. 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.520 Who that that's part of that part of the clan. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.720 You can body and soul? 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:33.400 What what cleans was that? 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.719 Are you you're having sex during this clin didn't say that. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:39.600 You might have a drink. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:49.679 I'm damn y'all. Like, oh man, y'all, like the devil 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:50.479 on the niggas shoulder? 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.520 How do you come up with what you're gonna say 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.840 for your mainnovation or the things that you know when 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.960 you're in the car on the radio show right now? 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.800 How do you come up? I can't think of it 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.840 like that, because you know, it's something real life happening 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.799 every day, and I could just be inspired by something 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.440 that's happened in my life or somebody that says something 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.160 to me, or something or feeling that I have about something, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.119 you know what I mean. But most of the things, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:20.839 for me, it's just about overall. It's about overcoming to 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.240 me because I was I've been in I've been in 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.760 dark places in my life and it was like I 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.240 got here where I'm at right now, or for like 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.520 faith or for hope. You know, you can survive off 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.560 that just believing you understand what I'm saying and never 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.200 never giving up. You know. So a lot of people 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.440 be going through shit and they're like, oh my god, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.560 this is that you know. I'm gonna tell you one 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.880 right now. Like my homie today, he was like, yo, man, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.760 niggas be complaining, but they don't understand how blessed they are. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.520 Niggas be complaining to the warm people. It's like it's 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.880 like a nigga with no shoes complaining about his life 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.760 to a nigga that got no legs. Okay, said you're 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:06.400 right somebody. I was like, Yo, that makes sense. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.040 You know you were complaining. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.280 No, I was complaining. We were speaking in general. I 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:19.920 don't ever complain. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.760 Man like to argue. He enjoys it. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:29.040 Yeah, yeah, you're on the tender. He was the number 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.800 one most desirable man. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:34.480 Men. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.080 I mean, well, like superior race. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.920 Superior man can be a little toxic. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:47.560 Yeah, feel like it turns you on to argue with 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.000 a woman. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.840 To be honest, lady told me, she said, you ain't 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.000 answer your phone last night. You always answer your phone. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:08:02.280 You answer your phone. Funk that. The hands on my 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.600 chest started to stand. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:12.280 Like where you at. No, I'm just saying, like, but 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.360 that's the real thing. A guy told me that argument 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:16.200 makes his dick card. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:17.640 I understand that. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.200 This guy cauite a long time, and I was like, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.040 I started cussing him out. He's like, oh. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:31.720 Yeah, talking like that. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.960 But but here's the thing. It's not for everybody because 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.319 it's like certain people I don't want to argue with. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.680 It's like you huguing with me. I ain't ever even 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:47.520 speaking to you like you gotta have some type of 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:56.520 strong light for that person or yeah, strong lust of 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.040 dude like you's sexy. But you're talking to me crazy 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.640 like that put me in place. Come over here and 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.320 tell me that he talked to me like that person 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.160 said in my face, you're talking all that crazy ship 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:13.679 like that he loves he toxic girl said, you said, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.320 I said, you know why you're talking talking to me 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.760 all crazy like this. I said, you said, you wasn't 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.360 talking like that when I see She said yeah, because 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:28.560 I had dick in my face. I said, I said, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.200 say what you said? She said, yeah, I wasn't talking 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:33.520 like that because I had dick in my face. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:44.880 Oh man, you certain verbagees like drives a nigga like 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.520 the verbage though, because certain verbagees is intoxicating. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:51.959 You get me going with the verbage. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:53.520 And dick in the face. Did it for you? 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:03.720 You know what I'm saying. 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.680 And I do want to talk about back to Mano Day. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.400 How was that for you to have your own day 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.840 the first time you did something in Brooklyn and bed 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.400 Stuy and so many people can and it was a 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.800 full day of activities. There were people of all ages there, 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.000 so many people came out to support, Like, what were 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:23.000 you thinking when that was? 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.200 That was? That was super major for me because it 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.920 was like, not only was it my mother's birthday, which 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.280 you know, I got a chance to kind of you know, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.800 celebrate her on her birthday not being here, but now 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.520 we could really give back to the community. So we 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.480 had Metro plus out there, you know, signing people up 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.400 for healthcare. We had uh, you know, sommer medical you know, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.280 doing you know, uh blood pressure checks and stuff like that. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.959 You know, had the stage for the local artists. You 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.760 got we got food, you know, we got games. Then 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.440 you got the stuff for the little kids, like the 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.280 real rides and stuff like that. So it really was 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.560 my vision to really have like an open like it 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.280 was like two and a half blocks, you know, on 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.199 a Friday, to really just have all that stuff going 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.800 on at the same time. And it went off. It 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.280 was It was major because it was like no issues, 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.280 no problems, and were dead in the middle of the hood, Like. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.920 Could you ever imagine you having your own dad? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.760 And they had that huge banner up for like two weeks. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:25.040 Just for no reason. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.240 The traffic jam was crazy. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.520 Yeah, yeah, it was good, and you know, everybody came 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.240 out supported. My guys came through. But you know, like 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.000 you say, if I could ever imagine, I could have 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.440 never imagine even being here, to be honest with you, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:44.000 to even be doing nothing, you see what I'm saying, 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.800 Like I ain't never I never had no vision for 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.920 my life, like many many years ago, like I thought 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.320 I was just going to be, you know, nothing special, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.480 you know, like because I didn't grow up in the beginning, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.640 you know, thinking like that or even fit like that. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.920 You know your mom my mom will be like you 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.600 could do anything you want to do, But I'm outside, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.280 we in these guns and drugs and stuff like that 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.920 and in and out of trouble. So now I never 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.760 felt like I was gonna be shit. I ain't had 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.880 no value for my life. So when I did find 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.320 music and all that, that's when I was like, man, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.640 this feel good, living feel good. So I ain't never 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.960 cared about living until I had an opportunity to live. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.439 When did music start? 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.280 In prison? But how like you, that's what I say. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.720 You're listening to me, this is what I say. How 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.520 I'm a nigga that never rapped before, never was in like, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.600 I'm a super fan, but I was never being an 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.520 artist or being in a music business was never a 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.520 part of my dream, never part of my plan. So 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.800 now when I'm in prison and I'm getting into trouble 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.080 and we ain't caught up in the whole cutting shit 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.200 and all this and being in the box for years 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.840 and stuff like that, It's a Friday night and I'm 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.600 listening to the dudes beat on the gate rapping, and 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:03.320 I'm going, damn, I'm gonna write me around tomorrow just 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.240 out of just out of bought them just to do it. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:06.959 And I wrote me in my first rhyme, and it 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.520 was just like yo, man, I'm sitting in the cell 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:09.360 and it's like, hell. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:24.240 Now, yeah, but you know I ain't gonna tell. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.680 Yeah. So I was like I started to like doing 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:32.400 and I was like, man, this is passing some of 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.240 the time away. I wake up. I start to write 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.839 a little rhyme and ship like that, and then I'm like, damn, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.480 this is cool. Before I know what, that day went by. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:46.240 You know, I'm doing time in the Sahu twenty three 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.720 hours locked in ship, so fuck it, let me start. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.160 I had a brand new hobby. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:53.920 I turned into hustle. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:58.520 Yeah, hecle spread. You know, I don't want to ask 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.080 you to even Like when you listen to your lyrics, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.439 a lot of things you do relate back to being 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.079 in jail, being in prison. What do you think are 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.959 some of the things that are just really ingrained in you? 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.400 Because ten years is a long time, and so there's 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.400 certain things that you do or say or talk about 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.120 that it's really like, these are things that are just 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.440 in me because of the experiences that I've had, and 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.160 this comes from that time of my life. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.360 Man. I probably a little everything, a little bit of everything, 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.400 just getting up every day. Like I was telling my 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.920 son about having initiative, and I was saying about some 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.240 like sometimes you forced to have initiative. You forced to 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.640 be motivated even when you don't want to. Like I 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.400 was in prison and I was getting out the box 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:41.600 and it was like, yeah, you gotta work in the 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.120 mess hall. I was like working what mess hall? Nigga, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:45.440 you gotta work in the messoll. I ain't working in 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.760 a mess hall. Okay, cool, lock yourself. You ain't coming out. 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.920 You're gonna keep locked. Now try it again in another 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.960 fourteen days. All right, what you want to do, I 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.640 won't work in a messoll. If you don't work in 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.320 the mess hall, you're gonna be locking you down again 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.360 this the days. So you forced to do things that 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.280 you don't want to do, and then you learn how 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:10.760 to use that as as like part of your your character, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.160 like getting up so like I used to have to 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.640 get up at four thirty five in the morning, You're 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.320 going to mess off sometimes, right. So now when I 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.040 came home and had a child and his mother like, yo, listen, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.000 you gotta come pick him up by about seven in 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.520 the morning, that was already instilled in me. Right, So, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.320 like if I could get up for these crackers every 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.200 day and go slave in the messof and work in 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.320 the fucking clean pots and sit on the line and 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.520 be all face fighting with niggas because they want the 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.840 bigger piece of cake, right yeah, face fight, slive me, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.800 you'll want this cake, and back of right behind you, saying, 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.280 listen to the next cake. This is all you're gonna get, niggas, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.880 right allas, Like nigga, what you talking about? Like if 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.600 I'm doing all that, I can get up because it 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.520 was instilled in me, It was forced to be instilled 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.080 in me. Certain lessons. You gotta you gotta find a 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.080 lesson a certain things, you know what I mean. I 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.160 was doing things that I didn't want to do, and 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.400 so I learned how to just say fuck it, let 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.040 me do what I have to do. So when it 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:09.920 was time for me to apply that to the street, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.080 I was ready. I'm gonna get my son, no problem, 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.200 no argument. I'm waking up, no matter what I got 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.280 to do, five thirty six in the morning, waking up 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.240 to pick him up, just to take him around the corner. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:20.200 Because she just didn't want to. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.000 Do it right, and she wouldn't make you do it. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:23.640 Absolutely. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.800 Yeah, So Jill taught you a lot of lessons, Angela. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.720 Have you heard the story about him getting beat up 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.240 in kindergarten and the lesson he learned behind that. Yeah, 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.080 this is an important story because. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:37.640 You got to go home. 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:38.800 He's funny. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.040 So let's talk about it. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:43.400 Like what they're talking about. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.680 Talk about this tough guy right here, this tough guy, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:48.920 little jam comen. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:50.840 I keep saying it. 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.480 I can see it in the bathroom. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.760 I don't think I'm just came came home. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.760 It was crying, but he was Okay, you got beat 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.520 him in the bathroom up in the bathroom, Yeah, yeah 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.120 with your whole boy. I told your mom. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.920 Know what happened was I was in the bathroom playing 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.280 around and the dude playing around, Yeah, playing around in 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:11.960 the bathroom. Not you. First of all, you're on blowing 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.359 in the bathroom. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.040 Supposed to be in the class, right, you know you 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.199 got to ask to go to the bathroom. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:19.800 Yeah, first or second grade. And and I don't know, 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.679 he was play fighting and he put me in a 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.080 in a in a he put me in a there's 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:33.760 some type of sleeping and he made me cry, right right, 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:40.359 So so so now my man, my man Gary for 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.080 my block, was in the bathroom or he just walked 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.520 into something and he saw that. You see me cry, 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:50.159 see me cry. So now I'm home. Later, get to 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.400 knock at the door, my mother at the door. It's 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.320 it's my man Gary, he said, Miss Lanett, I just 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.440 wanted to let you know that the boy in school 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:01.560 made your man cry. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:03.520 In the bathroom. 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:05.920 Why was he tell her that? 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.840 Because this is the time I understood why I didn't 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.680 understand always growing up, you got to understand like my 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.960 mother and them, like growing up, like my father, if 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.400 anybody was like I had a problem with a kid, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.600 he would go get the kid to make me fight. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.480 Like my mother was strong. It was hard on. Don't 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.119 you come back in his house crying, pussy footing and 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.280 all that. Somebody say something to you or do something 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:31.960 to you, put their hands on you. Better stand up 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.359 for yourself because you gotta raise black men to be strong. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.840 And she understood that I'm sending my boys out into 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.080 a ghetto right and they might not understand what it is, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.439 but they'll get it later on. So and I was 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.359 oldest boy, so I was like, I gotta go get it, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:48.919 like I can't be in crying. So I got my 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:49.640 ass with for that. 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.240 Yeah, crying just for crying. 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.000 That's what I'm saying, Like if I if I came 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:59.399 home crying or like taking a loss is not a problem, right, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.240 this not fighting back? 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:10.280 Yeah, I was in the first and second grade. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.680 I was like, it all makes sense now, you gotta give. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.560 Me a pastimes. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.840 You know, many times my mother or my father would 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.040 would be outside with me and we would be fighting 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.720 other kids up the block, down the block, around the 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.520 corner behind the building, like like outside not getting in it. 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:30.439 Go ahead, go go? 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.040 Did you do that with yourself? 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:32.480 I can't. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:33.640 It's a different time. 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:38.440 I know. I can't. Yo, I can't. You listen, my 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.240 father would go get yo's to this day, it's one kid. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.960 I mean he's grown now. My man advanced. I had 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.720 more fights. He was like my archie enemy. I have 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.800 more fights with him than anybody in my life. We 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:52.760 would be we would hang together and then get mad 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.680 at each other, fight club, fight, just fight over anything. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.320 One day he's snatched a cookie out of my hand 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.240 and ran with it, and I chased him down and 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.160 fought him from a Lexington up green. Oh it wasn't. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.639 It was a principal, right, don't take my cookie. 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:12.600 He snatched it and he brought it back. I smacked 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:13.919 him and then we just started fighting. 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:16.160 He was back and forth. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:18.640 It was back and forth. We want something. I want something, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.439 but my father will go get him. Say come on, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:22.320 let's go. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.000 So you guys, cookie back. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:26.400 Cookie fully in. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.840 What I'm saying, I can't, I can't. Can't you got 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:40.560 the cook This This is this is small preteen issues. 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.840 This is ten eleven year old kids together. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:45.640 It was him being disrespectful by. 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.440 Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like he did that right, 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:51.359 and now I gotta fight and I always got to 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:52.200 fight him. 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.880