WEBVTT - The Johnny Dang Episode 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:05.720 G Gett boys, it's back and reloaded all in your mind. Yeah, 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.520 now deep throating. This is for the streets, the reel, 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.680 the railroading, the distant franchise, the truth, the scapegoating, and 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:14.960 they ain't knowing we speak the truth, so they ain't 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.280 quoted because we wrote it. The North South East Coat 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.640 g B B for keeping your head bobbing it ain't 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.000 no stopping and wants to be try head by then 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.480 the system is so corrupt they throw the rock out 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.240 of their heads and then blame it on us. Don't 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.800 get it twisted on code and me dancing for no 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:40.680 buttament biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces in the building. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:43.920 Collectively we are the ghetto boys. He loaded, reloaded with 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.360 another episode of information and instructions to help you navigate 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.800 through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio, Houston's 0:00:52.960 --> 0:01:04.800 King of Bleeding Johnny Dang wanted dove that Johnny dangerous, dangerous. Yes, man, man, 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.280 it's a pleasure to have you on the show. Appreciate that. 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.200 It's being my honor to be here. You know, a 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.440 big deal. It's really real nice. Appreciate no, thank you, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:20.840 John How does one get from Vietnam to the States, like, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:25.720 how are you from Vietnam? Yes, from Vietnam. How how 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.840 were you when you came to the state. I came here. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.679 Nothing that they says when it was that's the Resurrection album, 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:35.440 when it was it's Honestly, sometimes I sit back and 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.920 think it's really his dream come too, you know, because 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.560 when it came from Vietnam number one in English, I 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:49.800 talked like, hang, well, I think speak well now, but still, 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.680 you know, that's the most problem I have when they 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:56.080 just came from Vietnam, be getting language. I didn't know you. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.880 You you only have been here since ninety six, because 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.160 that's around the time I actually met you for the 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.000 first time. And yeah, You're English was chopped up, but 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.799 was trying some funny ship. I said, Johnny, how did 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.639 you How did you get the name TV? Johnny? He said, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:18.600 I used to sell on TVs. He's probably bullshit, but 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.720 he said that though. Actually, um, they came out when 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.239 I was here. I got the side in the flat market. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.760 Like I. First I went to work. I learned how 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.360 to make jewelries. Of course, no ship for sinsmon, and 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.080 my first salary was five dollars for first sinsmon. Wait wait, wait, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.440 hold on, hold on for the first six months. No, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.680 you made five hundred a month, or you made five 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.560 hundred and six months in sinse months income? Who paid you? 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.880 Who paid you this salary? Um? Actually I was happy 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:56.040 to get that salary because back hair, back man, back home. Right, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.520 when you learn how to make jury, you have to 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.519 pay for the people who teach you you. But now 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.880 I came to learn how to make jelry. Ain't got paid. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.360 I was so happy. It was super And then that 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.760 my first money I ever make it my life since 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.799 I grow up in Vietnam, like twenty two years or 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.480 I never ever make money, you know how it was 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.760 in Vietnam. So you didn't come from a life of 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.600 privilege in Vietnam, No, I crow, I wouldn't know electric city, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:31.919 no power in my village. Goddamn electric city, crazy nights 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:37.160 have a whole village? Duck? Yeah, So did did your 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:42.040 home have like dirt floors? Dudd floor? And then we 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.839 build I my in my house. It's what built by 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.960 the month. You know the month. Insteade of bridge, you 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.920 the month and stack it up with the palm tree 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:58.520 and stack the mouth to be a house. It's a movie. Yeah, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.960 that's because that I've worn ninety tree and nine. The 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.440 ward church finished between sal Vietnam and Northetnam time he 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.200 was born in ninety three. I'm sorry to seventy three 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:19.880 Badan nineteen seventy three, I was exactly, and the vietnames 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:25.719 were finished in nineteen seventy five, says So from seventy 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:31.799 five two about um ninety six, that's very tough years 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:37.320 for Vietnam because the ward you know, just finished, and 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.240 it's really tough for us as a kid. Your father 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.640 and grandfather was in the jury business, right, Yeah, My 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.760 grandfathers were in the jewlior business, but they if well, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.599 you know, when Vietnam devised sal Vietnam and North Vietnam, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:02.080 my father and my father families war on the Salvietnam eyes. Okay, 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:06.040 so there was this jeweler, but like before nineteen seventy five, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.040 so they lost everything. They lost everything when it was happened, 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:15.240 and uh, my father's would sal Vietnam office US, so 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.800 they put him in yail for ten years. So from 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:23.880 seventy five nineteen seventy five, he wasn't here until eighty 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.520 five and then he scared it because when he was 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.680 when he they don't have a centen days right when 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.920 they put all the shoulder in the prison is no 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:39.400 dream And this was the Americans to the Nam the 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:46.159 North vietname sal Vinam. So that so my father escaped it. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.800 He's kept prison and crossed the sea. You come to 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:56.360 American who sided America take in the war South? My 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:01.960 my father's side. That's why American UH sponsor for a 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.760 lot of sal Vietnamese soldier to bring them here. That's 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.400 that's one of the reasons why we have a one 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:13.920 a pretty big Vietnamese community. You know, did your dad 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:19.360 steal with us? Yeah? Yeah, my dad still like right here, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.039 right here. Of course he took in the whole like 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:29.560 almost two weeks on on the small boat without food 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:34.280 and drink. He almost the whole boats almost dies city 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.400 three people in small boats when he's get to Vietnam 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:43.599 of the mega two weeks, no food, no dring, they 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:49.320 all they all almost died. Crazy but lucky he megan. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.600 And then it took him almost eight to ninety ten 0:06:53.680 --> 0:07:01.159 years to UH to bring us to us a you know, yeah, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.159 and where is your mom when all of this is 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.359 going on? That's I'm saying my mom. We have five 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.679 brothers in family, so my mom just in the village, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.840 in the village and raise us in then them, No, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.400 see you passed away two years ago concert. Yeah, well 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:24.160 I'm sorry bro, thank you man. So, so your sisters, 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.960 I know your brother at least I know at least 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.560 one of your brothers who's in the in the game 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.400 with you, Brian. Yeah, but what about your other siblings. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:37.720 My I have five brothers. We are on injury business. Yeah, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:43.000 injury business. Actually, when I started in Flame Market and 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.280 then uh, my two brothers they went to Texas A 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.760 and m he studied there and my artist one is 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.280 doing now. But when I started, get a little bit 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.080 more busy, open the shop, get more customers. So I 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.560 need to help because when people call me on the phone, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.840 I did not know how to answer. So I told 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.760 my brothers just come and help me, you know. So 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.360 we all started together. How did you learn English? But 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.240 it's just practice and just talking to people over and over. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:17.320 Did you go to school or take some courses of 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.520 what I took a couple of course when they went here. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.920 I have a basic English in Vietnam when I when 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:29.320 Bigot finished college in Vietnam, you know, and I studied 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.839 with grandma very very basic but not speaking we should 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.199 do like I don't know even know what their name is, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:43.120 just so really generous when I finished, I even Vienish 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.000 college and I don't know what to do with it. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.880 You went to college and you came to America and 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.280 you did well. Johnny appreciate and the and the coolest 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:02.280 thing about you about Johnny bro is like he kicking 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.240 in you know what I mean, Like he donates to 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.960 my football team, and like he like just all kinds 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.720 of little ship that you don't know the Johnny do 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.560 he do man, And he played the ship out some 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.360 golf and he will gamble on the golf course. I 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.199 love Johnny Man. He's a good dude. Man Chlotte, I 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:23.400 just bust. John ain't got to go. We're back and foreign. No, 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.960 we we had better a lot of challenge. Sometimes the 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:33.680 moment tends to be about that part I made on 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.520 your Yeah, yeah, we do a little bit bad at 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.200 my shop because in front of my shop now I'll 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.200 be able to put it in on the roof, I 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.920 don't know, and in front of the shop I'd be 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.679 to put that gold butter didn't that so mens cat 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.800 face came that luke a little bit bad. That had 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.760 to be a yards they're not how ye may be 0:09:51.920 --> 0:10:02.280 like twenty love Like oh damn Danny, when did you 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.640 open your first shop? That was it in the market. Yes, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:11.880 it wasn't King flat market. And then I have a 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.600 second one in the coal they go cold flat market. 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.199 It's also it's not the shpic actually, just one table 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.760 to be repaired Jewelrys. That's why I got the name, 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.640 like TV repair. Yeah, hey man, you got the hell 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.079 of the story. Go back to the TV repair. Did 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.440 you actually repair televisions? No? Really did you get TV? 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.760 Johnny just from like being in front of the camera 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.520 all the time. The reason they got TV because when 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.160 I have a the table on in the flat market 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.079 to be repaired. So with the name, so the t 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.520 Brevis name from my being Vietnam's name Torn d and Vietnam. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:53.080 So my father just created a name. Yeah like TV 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:59.400 that ton dead. Yeah, that's that's that's your name just 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:04.960 because twining my room name. My I D name is 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:10.840 still twine Dang. Yeah, so your father combined his name, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.960 the family name with the country. My name is Torn 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:29.040 t R. E U a n t my. But the 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:33.439 funny thing is when I first I opened the flat market, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.600 but TV repair right, and then way when I opened 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:42.200 second one at Sawtow, so it would TV repair too, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.040 so they called TV too. So bo Boy just confuted 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:54.959 thinking that to repair TV repair it's actually TV juy repair. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.400 But it with TV repair, so they're thinking I do 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:03.280 repair to TV. They call it, hey, do you repair TV? 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.160 Here is they know, sir, this TV juy repair? But 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.080 when when did you drop the TV? Because I haven't 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.360 heard you. It's still TV Johnny. You still you still 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.640 referred to as TV Johnny. I mean, do you prefer 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.600 to yourself as TV Johnny Johnny that that? I love 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.040 the TV Johnny because it's real popular back then. But 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.160 when I got the biggest open the shop in Galaria, 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.040 I feel like it looked weird to put TV jewelry 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.120 in Galeria. You know. That's why I chanced out the 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:41.360 name Johnny. Dang and Coles like more corporate. A lot 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.120 of people know like scoff, A lot of like oh O, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.679 G know the TV jurry. Yeah, but that's that's they 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.800 called me t V Johnny all the time. In the back. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:57.920 I just call them the Johnny Dangerous Man. How does 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:03.400 one get into the jewelry bus this number one in hustler? 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.960 Of course I did um. Honestly, the most success I 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:14.560 had just because the business size business I mean like 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:19.240 to do good business. That's I believe. That's of course. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.439 Then a walk car do real solid is good business. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.319 Not bringing me a lot of success. You know, how 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.280 do you get to them? Damage wage from them? A 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.440 reasonal I buy it from the broker when I just started, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:41.479 because when they started, I buy very small kin tank carras. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.080 But now question did you did you take out a loan? 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.320 Did you get a loan? We do? I do, of 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.760 course we have to get a lan. But they have 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.440 two kip lawn Right when I started, I do the 0:13:55.559 --> 0:14:01.960 longline in community loan like community community, we do long together. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.360 Let's say yeah, let's say you, me, you Willy and 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.360 me to your us. We put a thousands. So this 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.800 month I have three thousand, and next month he had 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.520 three thousands, and the month after you have three thousand. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.680 You know, we do pull together and each month is 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.880 person have that lawn, so it will do twenty person. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.920 So each month I got twenty thousand's and we paid 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.320 back a thousand a month and next month you have 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.400 twenty thousand money. So that's kind of lawn it no insurence. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.400 We just have each other brilliant. So we you go 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.720 to put on an invent. So I opened like if 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.800 I want to create hundre thousand, I opened five different 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.400 lines like that friends. So I'm the I'm the host. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.040 First time I have hunt a thousands, you know, because 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.320 twenty group, so each person only spent a thousand five 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.760 group like that, So I have a hundred thousand to 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.680 be on for the capital business capital, and the next 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.880 month would be the second guy who have a hundred thousand. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.280 We just rotate like that, right, and then you just 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.040 pay back. If I have a hundred thousand rights, I 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.760 pay back a thousand a month, but I pay five group. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.880 So every month I pay back five thousand, but I 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.760 have a first hundred thousand to do business without pay 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:34.800 It's just like a lot. It's just community loan. Yeah yeah, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.120 old school, you're not like banking. But you have to 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.240 be like just together. But one day to the whole 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.920 part and and don't pay back. That messed up the whole. 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.120 So so how did you win the people's trust? Harder 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.400 for you to be the host. How did you win 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.880 your your friends trust and what you're doing business also 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.400 with family, what they're also investing. Yeah, I kind of 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.240 friends and they just just trying. I think. I guess 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.160 it's just traditional. That's kind of man. We've been half 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.840 long time, even back back then the Vietnam. So when 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.200 we generate like that, people know. And then I started, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:18.560 which is small. Let's say, oh, it started with a 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.640 five hundred dollar a thousand dollars, so as a friends, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.840 they just with a thousand dollars, you know. So when 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:30.320 you when you get to America and you start selling 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:35.640 jurry and stuff, what's your living accommodations? Like who do 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:40.160 you live with? Where do you live? Uh? It's very 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:45.600 Uh we live with the families in one house, very 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.320 small house like farll bedroom betweense families who have tall 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.840 people in the house. The thing is, when it wasn't Vietnam, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.120 it was so poor, like super poor. So seven money 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.040 is our goal and we really a lot and didn't 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.760 spend at all. So I remember the rain, we pay 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.199 only my family because three family in one hell, so 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.720 I we really pay like two and fifty dollars for 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.080 rain and then because we stepping. We slept my floor, me, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:19.200 Kevin and Jimmy. Yeah, because only so one only our 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.359 family have one bedroom for my mom and my dad. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.520 So me, Jimmy and Kevin we slept my floor for 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.520 maybe only nine five six years in here in the 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.960 American So that's the that's the way we save money 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:39.200 because we stay, you know, in the house. So when 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.119 you were on your way up, you wasn't trying to 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.200 fake it to make it. You wasn't trying to act 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.800 like because you're in the jury business, and jury is 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:52.000 is it's connected to you know, wealth and in having things. 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:57.199 Now why are you coming up? Are you spending money 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.399 trying to have a nice car. You ain't got no 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:04.000 nice car, nothing like that from you know really because 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.920 you know, any any business you need capital units, inventories. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:15.920 So when I started, I really didn't have inventory. So inventory. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.880 So the way I'm the way I'm doing, I try 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.120 to do myselfies less you spend and whatever I make 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:28.840 it back to business that be was slowly. I remember 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:33.360 so well, so many months I work for because when 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.040 I have a shop in flat Market, right, flat Market 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.000 only opened on the weekend, but week they actually work 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:44.600 for one of the Chinese couple day doing week they 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.359 do repair because I am the jolers. So the weekend 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.920 I went to flatt Yeah I know, of course I 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.760 know how to do all this ship. So a weekday 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.240 I worked for the couple. They have a jolo business 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.399 and I don't. I did not even receive the salaries. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.520 So every weekend when they pay me, she just paid 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.880 me in go so a year that go go back 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:14.080 to flat Market to make more like name play And 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.919 how old are you at this time back in twenties, sis? 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:23.000 About twenty Sis? Did you have a girlfriend? Hell no, 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.600 Still I worked like eighteen hours a day. Come up 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.680 that money? Girlfriend is last thing on your mind. Yeah, 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.439 that's the last thing. Big away. We just came and 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:39.760 then I'm so excited to make money by started first mix. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.960 After six month after that, I opened Flat Market it's 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.720 repair shop, and then I walked. I went to work 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.280 for the Lattics. He paid me thirty five a day. 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.439 So it's it's that that's big to me, you know, 0:19:52.640 --> 0:20:04.879 big money. I was so excited. How long do you 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:09.679 sell jury before you make the purchase of a vehicle 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.040 And what's your first vehicle that you bought when I 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.359 just came, I got the Force eighteen hundred dollars me 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.000 and because I need a car to go to school, 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.679 I bought the old car. So we wrote a eighteen 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.680 car for maybe like two years. And after that we 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:32.080 went financed to one of the comedy know the senif 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:38.040 under out of car finance car you could buy that 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.920 time I realized like we need a credit. So this 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.639 semifive car at just yours. You're sharing this car with 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:51.240 your brothers. We all went to Who's in community college together, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:57.720 so we're sharing one car in the morning. But yeah, 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.679 we because we have different hour in the class, so 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.600 we are we only have one way. I have only 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.399 I can grow one way to the school only. But 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.359 after I left school lip school, I take a bus back. 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:18.280 Yeah yeah, And when is when do you make the 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.520 first big purchase? And what card? When did you buy 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.320 your first car that you can pull up in valley 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:29.399 and say, throw the keys to the very popular one 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:34.160 our bodies, Uh handa our car, that's like yeah, that's 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:39.280 that's seven man, it's big. Yeah, yeah, so you're standing 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.120 the hand of cord. When did you get to the 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.240 foreign cars? I mean, well, I guess, but the big 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.800 cars when you get to the big cars. But you 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:52.600 know the honestly, my goal is I always spend a 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.920 minimum on cars. I somehow I'm not a big fans 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:03.399 up writing expensive cards. You know. Yeah, I just bought it. 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:09.240 I just hate it. You know, two years ago I 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.600 run so the Rose Roys could not have been your 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:17.360 first big major car purchase. Yeah that was just two 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.760 years ago. Right, he had a he had A've been 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.399 riding around in the Hunter. No, he had and then 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.720 after that, after the hand car I bought in my city. 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.720 That's what I'm trying to make you too. How were 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:36.600 you when you finally bought a Mercedes Bears? I don't honestly, 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:40.000 I didn't remember. Maybe almost ten years. You bout ten 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:44.480 years in after you got the work, maybe ninety year. 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:47.960 It's a teachable moment right here. Yeah, this is a 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.000 teachable moment when you said you got here in ninety six, 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:56.000 about seven, when real song real popular, When I make 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:00.760 a lot of real we're making a lot and threw 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:04.920 a day that time I bought himself. You ain't gonna 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:07.720 make me, no, gal, I all for you so many times. 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:12.760 I love to make you one flawless diamond grill free 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:17.760 on the house. I believe, well, I want a neckclause 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:21.119 I don't watch. I don't I don't do grills. I 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.840 already got a grip. I got one too. But but 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:30.720 but but check this out. So you get to the money. Uh, 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:36.160 you you become this this huge really larger than life 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:41.440 type figure. Uh. At what point do you meet Paul Wall? 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:47.200 The business point I'm at Paul if I'm not wrong 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:53.639 lace man ninety eight, Yeah, n ninety nine. Did you 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:56.639 meet him at the flea market? No? Actually? Uh? In 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:01.639 the I met him at the shoptown. I have a 0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:06.439 shopper shout Town inside the Southtown. And then after that 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:09.760 I opened another workshop because I usually set up and 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:13.600 do order to to cut them inside garage. To the 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:18.240 point is so hot and the nick more employees. Yeah, 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.399 So I go to Shoptown and I ran the spot 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:26.639 of south Town to open the retail shop. And then 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:29.199 after that I get more busier to a grill and 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.960 I opened the workshop. It's happened real fast, and then 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:37.760 opened the I opened the spot driving the moss close 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.720 to subtown, and that's where I met Paul. And at 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:45.240 what point did you all become business partners about that time, 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:47.199 a couple of like one or two years after I 0:24:47.280 --> 0:24:51.080 met him, because back then I went the daytime, I 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:54.440 worked right nighttime from Thursday to Sunday. I went to 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:58.960 the club to promote myself flyer give away some smart 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:03.639 Amond earrings. So I went to every single club. Tom 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:06.840 So I said that returned very well. You know, you know, 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.439 he gave a little girl from ear rings man changed 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:14.600 the ship when she was born, like Johnny motherfucker man. 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:18.800 So that's the way I promote for the the club. 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:22.639 And then when I met Paul and you know, so 0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:25.400 we parted up the crew because Paul was the DJ 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:28.080 in the club and they say he make the crew. 0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:31.200 He wanted to make the crew because he started already 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:36.040 making more for somebody crew Paula was making grills. Yeah, 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:39.639 hell no for real, so basically make the crew. They 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:43.000 just kind of Paul more making impression for the crew 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:46.680 and go to the hotel because when they do retail. 0:25:46.800 --> 0:25:49.240 Right when they started with the grill, and I started 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:53.800 getting bigger may people, I started doing who sell because 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:55.919 a lot of people try to sell a crew like 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:58.760 I do. And then they said all they do is 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:02.240 take impression, bring to me, and I make the crew 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:08.480 in the hostel. Yeah, you still hold selling grills. Not 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:13.960 a lot now, it seems like that would be more 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.440 even more lucrative now since you're reaches. It's a lot 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:21.840 further now, why exactly? Back then, she's just I do 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:24.280 a lot of crew in local, but a lot of 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:30.199 different seedy like Atlanta, Saint Louis. So a lot of 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.160 people when they see the crew popular, they taken order 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:37.560 and sent to me. And I do hotel. That's what 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:40.960 the when I he spend my my workshop bigger and 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:44.480 bigg You know, I'm gonna go back to a question 0:26:44.480 --> 0:26:48.120 I asked you earlier. Where do you get those diamonds from? 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:49.639 I mean, I know back in the day you got 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:52.520 them from from a broker, but where do I know 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:55.480 you buy direct? Now, where do you go to get 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:57.760 those dims? You go in the as get those diamonds. 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:01.119 And you know, actually I have about two biggest saucer 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:06.080 one Israel's what in Israel? He bought what the diamond 0:27:06.200 --> 0:27:12.520 that manufacturers? You bought a diamond manufacturer from manufacturer directly 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.560 from Israel? Right? I buy direct from Indian and it's 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:19.679 around now. Really just skip it. Just skip out brokeer. 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:23.560 That's it, that's all it is, so so they and 0:27:23.600 --> 0:27:27.840 then the shipping is so easy nowadays too. And then 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:33.520