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WDSDS TOO · BTG For President

• 0:00
  Go out to la.
• 0:02
  Comin from the city where no pity is. Shell. Shell. Somebody need to do a song for la. Straight up.
• 0:13
  Hello, my name is Elaine, and I'll be your tour guide through South Central Los Angeles. Look, count my nose. Smoke up. I'm from California. Where you from? So what? I'm from California. Cal. California. California. This is Los Angeles. Well, where I remember one time, this young lady, and I'm not gonna call her name because I'm almost certain she's gonna see this podcast or at least a clip. She came over and she had a bikini on. She said she was gonna get in the pool.
• 0:45
  Let's just call her Sabrina. 20 minutes later, Sabrina, come on. You getting in the pool? No, I'm gonna get in later. All I hear is somebody say, hey, man, throw Sabrina ass in the pool, bruh. We go grab Sabrina. One grabs her by her arms, the other grabs her by her feet. And she's like, put me down, put me down. But then I realized that she couldn't swim. And so we throw Sabrina in the pool. She went under the water, stood up and came up cussing.
• 1:09
  Sabrina, you deserve better than that. And I know your name, not Sabrina, but whoever you are, wherever you are, just know I would have been against that.
• 1:21
  And I'm lying. I definitely would have helped through your ass. And I got damn water. Sabrina. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Because 12 Cal had another phenomenal episode, and he had some things on his episode that I had never heard of. And then he had some things that shit we did as well. His generation basically passed down and filtered down some shit that we did. You know, the whole eyelids and stuff like that. Now, the one interesting one was the roly poly. Okay. And I hope I'm not getting the game mixed up. I'm gonna get back to Sabrina in a minute.
• 1:57
  But 12 Cal, you mentioned this unique style of baseball that y' all used to play, where you would hit the ball and run the first base, where wherever the ball ended up is where the opposing team had to throw the ball and touch the bat with the ball. We play unique games like that. Not now. I didn't play that one. We didn't play that. Okay. I can honestly tell you that might be y' all thing. Either I. I can't necessarily say the south, although this was maybe created in the south, but that was. I'm gonna say that this is exclusive to his neighborhood or his region. Right. That one is different. And we played stuff similar to that or just as creative.
• 2:47
  But I wanted to do a remix as we usually do. And I wanted to share a couple of things that we did. Now, I do have a Sabrina like type story.
• 2:55
  Okay, I do. And I told this before on a podcast, but I'm not sure if I went in depth about it on how I popped a, you know, it wasn't a firecracker. It was one of those poppers. Remember the poppers that you used to pull apart? And it was, you know, somewhat similar to a firecracker.
• 3:14
  You, you, you 1. You could pull just straight. No, I think you pull with both ends. You pull it out, right? It has two strings on the end. You pull it, pop. Boom.
• 3:26
  And I just. So hot. I just so happened. I don't know what told me to do it, but I did it. And I popped it in front of this girl's face. Her name was Tasha. She stayed in the same apartment building. She was a little bit older. She was super cool, super sweet.
• 3:40
  Just being doing kids, you know. I popped it in her face. I popped it in her face. My. I don't, I'm not sure why I did that, but I did that. And I felt so bad and I was scared, so I, I, I planned on running away.
• 3:53
  I didn't stay, I didn't stay away that long. But I did run. I got up out of there. I left the crime scene.
• 3:59
  Now, I don't remember her having any permanent damages in her face or anything like that.
• 4:06
  It could have been just a shock value because I would have remembered if I actually, if I actually did some, you know, crazy harm terror. But for the moment, it was crazy where I, you know, I popped that thing in her face and it caused a big commotion. You know, all the kids outside and stuff like that. I ran away.
• 4:27
  I ran away 12. I felt so bad, man. Shout out to Tasha. And that's her real name too. And I have no worries about her listening to this podcast since I moved from that area. I haven't seen. I forgot what Tasha looked like.
• 4:39
  But yeah, shout out. Now, he did mention a couple of games that they played. Now, these particular games was either super creative or they could have gotten yourself hurt. So his particular episode, and you know how we do this, you can check out the remix all you want, but you need to go to the original content to understand the context of this episode.
• 5:00
  So what you want to go do is go check out we did some dumb 12 cow podcast.
• 5:07
  And then you come back to we did some dumb shit too, and now you can tie it all together.
• 5:13
  I may have mentioned this game before. And the reason why this one was kind of dangerous because we went a lot of places where we wasn't supposed to go to. Like, we was inside the. My middle school at the time, Pio Pico. We were on top of. They were.
• 5:28
  It was.
• 5:30
  It was a new school that was attached to elementary, right?
• 5:37
  And so. And then they was doing, like, upgrades and stuff like that nice school over there on the west side.
• 5:44
  And we used to play. We played an exaggerated running. We called it Running man, but it was an exaggerated hide and go seek. And this is how I know you had to be. You had to be born in the 80s, raised in the 90s, to.
• 6:02
  To understand a game like this, because everybody. Nobody had any ego when it came to this game. And I'm explaining why.
• 6:10
  So y' all all know how hide and seek works. Somebody is it, they count, everybody scatters off, runs everywhere, and they go hide, right? Do we ever really remember who wins the game?
• 6:22
  You know what I'm saying? Is the last person, right?
• 6:26
  Like, how awkward is it when y' all play is eight? It's eight kids.
• 6:31
  One is looking for the other seven. He catches. He catches six. And now he's just looking for the last one. And the other six are just snickering and laughing because they may know where Lil Johnny is at, right?
• 6:45
  Nah, this. We. We. We kind of elevated the game. We took it to another place. We called it Running Man. And you want to know what the crazy part is? They're coming out with a movie about this. Almost.
• 6:57
  Almost 30 years later.
• 7:00
  Almost 30 years later, they're coming out with the game that we created when we were younger, when I was in middle school, we called it Running Man. Literally, we called it Running Man. And this was back in, I want to say, the early 90s, late 80s, early 90s.
• 7:16
  And what we would do is.
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  I'm not sure how what the process was on us picking who was. Who was going to be it, right? But it really didn't matter because when that person found another person, that person was it.
• 7:29
  And we play with neighbor. We play with kids throughout the neighborhood, obviously our everyday friends.
• 7:37
  And we had a massive running man game one day where my older brother played my older brother and my younger brother on my mom's side. We're all seven years apart at some part, at some time during the year. We're seven years apart.
• 7:50
  He was playing Running Man. His friends was playing with us. My younger. He. My. My. My. My youngest brother, Corey, ended up being the last one. He was a small. He Was a small kid, you know what I'm saying? So we talking about. We talking about a kid that's like four or five years old that's climbing on top of middle school rules and stuff like that. Like. And don't get me wrong, you know, it's not like they was way. It's not. We had buildings, we had auditoriums and stuff like that. We wouldn't climb it on that, but we just climbing on the classes, you know, where you could. You could jump off. You might hurt your ankle a little bit, you might shatter your ankle if you land the wrong way.
• 8:36
  But it wasn't so high up to where it sparked fear or something like that. You weren't afraid being to the edge. Cause you didn't mind jumping off a little bit.
• 8:45
  But Running man was just that. Running man is a game where the.
• 8:49
  Whoever gets caught turns into.
• 8:52
  They're it. And they have to go find. You have to go find everybody to the point where you just got to hope you're the last one. If you're the last one, that means everybody's coming after you. You know what I mean? And we did kind of it. It was kind of. How do you get this done? Because we didn't regulate it to just one area. Even though we used the middle school grounds. We also used the neighborhood, which was kind of cheating because we used to hop backyard fences and. Yo, we used to do bad shit.
• 9:24
  My hand, I.
• 9:26
  I was hopping a brick wall and. And successfully landed my right hand in some cat shit.
• 9:35
  And I had to go home, wash my hand. I was sick, okay. That shit, it bothered me for the rest of the day.
• 9:41
  But we was. We used to climb bricks, brick walls, fences, all kind of shit. We was inside the.
• 9:48
  They was doing H vac on the weekends. We was. Man, we had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. But the thing is, we was going to a lot of restricted places. And that right there was dumb in itself.
• 10:04
  What else did I do when I was dumb? Also while I was at that school, in middle school, it was a Friday night.
• 10:12
  My mom used to work late for majority of my childhood. She had the. She had the swing shift to the. Basically like 11 or midnight, right?
• 10:26
  So while I was in school, by the time I got out, I didn't realize it until, you know, until I was an adult, but when I was younger, I didn't realize that by the time I got home from school, my mom had just left maybe an hour or two ago, right?
• 10:42
  And it was a Friday night.
• 10:45
  And this particular class that I, that I had in middle school, the teacher had, they had tickets to a UCLA soccer game.
• 10:54
  Now, mind you, this was before I even knew about ucla. I was not. I knew about UCLA because I knew about UCLA basketball.
• 11:05
  Joshua Wiseman, FaceTime of course I would get a, of course I would get a call in the middle of my. And I knew that. And I knew that call was gonna come too. Let me go ahead and, Let me go ahead and do it. Joshua Wiseman My bad. That's work right there. My clients be calling me daily anyhow.
• 11:29
  So yeah, this particular teacher had tickets and.
• 11:35
  But they did pass out.
• 11:38
  What did they pass out?
• 11:41
  It wasn't a field trip slip. It was, it was a different type of. I needed my mom's signature and I forged it.
• 11:48
  And I forged it because we didn't go on no bus. It was a gang of us that went in like a car, a couple of cars or whatever, and the teachers was responsible. And I ended up watching a UCLA soccer game, right? Got back late because I think we left right after school. Got out of school around three something, two or three something and shit. I didn't get back till about maybe 9 or 10 or something like that. It was late because let me tell you what happened. I got snitched on by my boy Mike, who stayed upstairs, got back late. I beat my mom home. That's the thing. And the whole time I'm nervous.
• 12:27
  This is the 90s, we don't have.
• 12:31
  This is late 80s, late 80s, early 90s. We don't have cell phones, you know what I'm saying? And we got house phones. So I could have been caught that way, right?
• 12:43
  Here's the crazy thing.
• 12:45
  I'm not sure where my little brother was at this whole time. That was the crazy part. I don't know where my older brother. Did he stay with us? Yes. But that's a whole totally different story. Cause he was with us. He was on and off with us. And it's not like he really thought too much of it, you know what I'm saying? So I don't know where my little brother was at.
• 13:06
  Remember, we all seven years apart.
• 13:08
  So I end up going to the soccer game, get back before my mom get home. And then I just remember I was just dog tired. And you know, as a kid, especially on the weekend or when you're on vacation, I could sleep until 12 o', clock, 12 and 1 o', clock, like on something, like some of my vacations between middle school and high school, some of, some of my days didn't start till 12:12, 1:00 clock. Right.
• 13:35
  So that wasn't the normal. But my mom came in there, she seen that I was sleep not I'm knocked out.
• 13:44
  I hear Mike come to the door asking if I can come outside and play. Right? That's we still in that era.
• 13:52
  And she was like well basically she, she basically told him like well no, he's still asleep. And then he was like oh he must be still tired because they got back late from that event the snitched on me without knowing that he snitched on me. And she was like what event?
• 14:08
  And then she ended up telling them and yeah, sure enough I got it. I got in trouble for it. I'm not sure what the.
• 14:14
  What. What the sentence was, but I did, I did get. I did get in trouble. Cuz I didn't tell my mom that I was going. That's. And that was the main thing that I didn't tell her I was going. And I also forged your signature. Was it. Which wasn't new. Anything new, you know what I'm saying?
• 14:29
  Looking back at it, forging your parents signature got to be one of the wildest things because we just learning how to do writing cursive like our look crazy, right?
• 14:41
  Speaking of my older brother who was seven years apart, he came up now what you call it? 12 cow came up. No, I got. I gotta let you listen to this episode. I don't want to give it away but I just want to say this 12 count my brother used to make a.
• 15:00
  Is not necessarily a flamethrower. Right. Because it wasn't consistent. But let me tell you what my brother used to do. And I'm not sure how he invented this.
• 15:09
  He used to get whether it was beer cans or soda cans in perfect shape, right.
• 15:16
  We would literally just go look for empty cans that wasn't smashed up or we would just go buy a 12 pack of sodas or you know, the whoever drunk beers, hey get these beers. Sometimes we would have our friends go get like just a couple of their dad's beers and pour them shits out and that's a no no. Like back then they were serious about their beers. They, they, they Budweisers that was popular back in the 90s and shit like that. But it didn't matter. You can go get a Pepsi can, Coca Cola can, whatever and a beer can. And what he would do is he would cut open the top and the bottom of them, right?
• 15:59
  Like let's just say four of them, four or five of them. He would cut the bottom and the top. And then the last one, he would cut the top off. And then the back part, he would just poke a hole through it like.
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  Like the size of a dime, right?
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  He would get some duct tape. You needed duct tape. And he would tape all of them together, right? He taped all of them together, stacked them on top of each other and taped them towards the top and the end to the top of one and in the other one. So you just got this long, like these long soda cans put together.
• 16:34
  He got some lighter fluid and he put it inside the can. He washed it around. So there's this lighter fluid all through the cans.
• 16:43
  And then get a lighter and he'll light the back of it. So this is somewhat similar, somewhat similar to 12 cows episode. And it used to make this or whatever and flames used to go out a little bit. But it made this like type of noise.
• 17:03
  We was fascinated. If you want to ask what's fat? You know, like, I'm not no arsonist or nothing like that. But fire to little kids was intriguing. The way it looked, how warm it was and stuff like that. People remember how people used to play with the lighters and they would just move their hands through the. The fire. You'd be like, damn, these know some magic or whatever. No, them just had some rub skin. Eventually that started to burn again. I don't. I hate. Well. And that was just an invention he came up with. I'm not sure what you want to call that shit, but some other dumb shit that we did. And nobody could better tell the story but him. But he's not here. I don't want to call him right now. But my brother set my afro on fire. I had all kind of juices and berries in my head at the time.
• 17:55
  I took great pride in my little afro. And I was probably like three, three or four years old when he did this shit. I was at my granny house. He was playing with my granny's lighter. My granny and my. And my grandfather smoked cigarettes at the time.
• 18:08
  I'm sitting up there watching wrestling on a Saturday morning as usual. Wwf.
• 18:14
  And he decided I walked past a lighter. Now he did it on purpose at the same time. He really didn't have to because I was so close to the lighter that actually he actually put it near my head more than I was just near him, right?
• 18:30
  And my whole. He, he. I had. I had that good. Whatever sprays that they had in the 80s came with a lot of flammable.
• 18:39
  Okay. And he put that damn lighter next to my head.
• 18:47
  Whole fro went up in flames that beat my ass.
• 18:52
  He was trying his best to get those flames out.
• 18:56
  Yes, true indeed. True indeed. Let's keep it with hair. My younger brother, seven years apart, remember this influence? He started to see niggas go to school with Nike logo parts in niggas heads. You gotta go to a special barber. Especially in the 90s, you gotta go to a special barber for that. My nigga special barber for that.
• 19:16
  And he didn't. My mama never took him to a barber to put a Nike sign, a Nike check sign in his head. Now, you know, back in the day, we had the Stephan Marbury Grandmama part in the middle. We had the Mike Tyson one, you know what I'm saying? Then we had like, we did the parts. We did, we did the, the, the, the diagonal part on the side. Like we did some parts back in the day. If y' all didn't know, back in the day when got haircuts, we got the parts.
• 19:43
  Got the three parts on the side. Like the three, three Adidas stripes on the side, you know, like, go shout out to Big Daddy Kane, you know. But we, we got some parts in our head.
• 19:56
  My brother just felt like he was influenced that day. He thought he was a creator. He took one of my mom razors, one of my mom leg razors, and he carved a Nike sign in his head.
• 20:09
  It wasn't the best, but he attempted it.
• 20:13
  We did some dumb shit too. 12 cal.
• 20:18
  He mentioned one of his childhood games. I mentioned one of these games before too. Throw up tackle.
• 20:24
  And now you say, what is throw up tackle? Well, throw up tackle. 12 cow is like suicide, you know, this is where a lot of kids, especially in middle school, got in trouble with their parents coming home because how they arrived to school versus how they came home from school, two totally different situations.
• 20:44
  And we came up in an era where we wore uniforms in middle school, you know, again, which I will share again, which I've shared so many times on this podcast.
• 20:57
  A lot of our, the way we live, the way our. The way of life, including school, sports and stuff like that, was tied around the gang culture.
• 21:09
  And one of the solutions to countering gang culture, violence and issues and stuff like that was doing uniforms so cats wouldn't come to school looking. Looking all crazy, wearing F13s. Used to wear the Raider jerseys, right? You know, we got the, the Raider, the Raider nation. A heavy population of them is. Is Hispanics. They love the Raiders. But we have a gang out here called Florencia 13F13. We had a, we used to have a, a cornerback, a DB from the University of Miami.
• 21:47
  Philip Buchanan, he used to wear 31 when he played for the Raiders.
• 21:54
  I remember we played the Dolphins one season and that jumped around that back for a pick six.
• 22:00
  Go look that up 12 guy somewhere. I forgot what season that was. Anyhow, Philip Buchanan, what they used to do to represent their game, they used to go get the Philip Buchanan jersey and flip it inside out so it say 13, but throw up. Tackle man.
• 22:19
  It's one of those things where if we had a football, that was a luxury because nobody had money, you know what I'm saying? Some cats got allowance, but for the most part nobody got money. And then even with their allowance, they use that to buy the pizza Loco. The little personal pan pizzas.
• 22:36
  Shasta. Not Shastas.
• 22:38
  Not Shastas. Fantas. Fantas.
• 22:42
  All that was just crazy Sugar, you know, because some was too good to eat the county food, which was lunch tickets.
• 22:52
  So he used to get money. I used to buy their lunch. And I think them pizza logos was like $2,250 or something like that. Hot chips. Hot chips was crazy back then.
• 23:01
  The Cheetos and so we didn't, we didn't have money.
• 23:07
  It wasn't like sandlot where them all did what they had to do to piece up to go get a baseball, right? They, they put all that money together, go get a baseball, they hit the over the fence. Then they went to go get or they lost the bar, something like home run or something like that. And then what you call it, went to go get his father's Babe Ruth signed baseball to play because they didn't have another ball and they had already scraped their money go get the ball that they already lost.
• 23:36
  So we didn't have that. So what we did was at Bethune. I went to Bethune middle school, Mary McLeod Bethune Middle School. That's off of Broadway in 70s.
• 23:48
  Oh, what is that? 76. Not 76, 79. No, six. I forgot. I don't know. Anyway, I was off of Broadway or something between Broadway and Maine.
• 24:02
  And on the weekends they would have soccer tournaments.
• 24:06
  So they would have gallons of water and juice and shit like that. And they didn't do a good job with cleaning up. And sometimes we will see a gallons of milk cartons out there. Maybe that was just from the trash or something like that. And what we did was we would smash the gallon of juice or milk or water and that would be our football. And what we would do is we would throw when it came to lunchtime, we would throw it up, sometimes will catch it, sometimes put it down and let it fall on the ground and a grab it. But you had to run from one end zone to the other end zone, which was basically from one side of the one fence to the other fence out there where we was at.
• 24:54
  And that was from. Basically that was from one end of the block to the other end of the block but inside school grounds.
• 25:01
  And this is like 15, 20 niggas against one.
• 25:07
  So you got. And I remember my homeboy Charles and Charles ended up being a great football player in high school. Him and Eric, Eric went to Grambling. I'm not sure where Charles went afterwards, but these, these niggas was great football players in general. Like, I mean Eric went to Grambling. I'm not sure what position he went for at Grambling. I'm not sure. I don't know if it was running back or something. Charles was nice. Charles was nice at playing football.
• 25:35
  And I remember we, we ripped Charles his neck part. We ripped. He tore that shit apart. Cause that's what N was doing. We was pulling on your clothes and, and it was tackle.
• 25:46
  This is not tag or anything like that. This was a full on tackle. So now you getting on top of your clothes getting ripped, you getting grass stains in your, in your, in your pants. We wore white shirts and blue, blue pants.
• 26:02
  Grass stains, dirt stains.
• 26:05
  You smell like outside. And your got either got holes in it or it's ripped or it's just, you know, is, is. It's fucked up, you know. But we did that, we did that throw up tackle, niggas got injured because we have no pads. This is all.
• 26:23
  It's crazy.
• 26:26
  One thing I did as a kid was y' all know those big steps you. There's like big steps. There's like three of them, two of them. These are, these are like a step. These are like two small steps put together.
• 26:39
  I made big steps, right? I had a homeboy named Kareem. He stayed down the street from me and he had one of these.
• 26:47
  His mom had one of these apartments. I forgot how she looked. But man, that's not important.
• 26:53
  That's crazy.
• 26:55
  But Kareem stayed upstairs.
• 26:58
  So there was two apartments downstairs and then there was two apartments upstairs. But to get to the two apartments upstairs, it's kind of like remember diamond apartment where she stayed in and remember where Melvin was at, whatever his name was. I forgot his. Was his name Melvin? I forgot. Anyway, the Nick, when he followed her home, where he stood at, there was A door right there. So you had to get. I don't know, you got buzzed in or if you had to have a key, but it wouldn't just open like it was.
• 27:28
  And so what? And then there was a set of stairs, but they were smaller stairs. And then there's like a Runway going towards the sidewalk.
• 27:38
  And there were like two big steps going to the sidewalk. I decided to take my bike. I don't know if it was my bike or somebody else's bike, but it was a mountain bike.
• 27:49
  And if you don't know how to balance a bike, like, you see it all the time now, these. These people that ride bikes on these mountains and these trails and shit, they know how to climb shit with these bikes. They know how to go down with these bikes. They know the speed, the tempo, all that shit. They professional. I wasn't a professional at the time. I go down these two steps, I slam on the brakes. That's a no, no.
• 28:13
  That's a no, no. Because now and I. And it was front front brakes.
• 28:19
  Now, we did have. We did have bikes that had back brake. When they created the back brakes for bikes on those GT Dynos, my nigga. And we used to hook slide, yo. We used to dog type. But we. We. We knew how to change inner tubes.
• 28:33
  We knew how to put the back wheel back together. We used to take apart because we. And we used to put pegs on them. Oh, if you ain't got any marks on your shins from those pegs. Yeah. So before pause.
• 28:47
  Rode on the back of bikes. Wrote on the handlebars. As long as you had pegs or you had a handlebar, it was. You was able to Uber around the city, right? And those peg. That was a game changer because niggas, that's how that. That was.
• 29:03
  That was gang shit right there. Those pegs. We had pegs on the front and a back.
• 29:09
  Yeah, ask about us, nigga. Who was outside. But this was a mountain bike. Front brakes slammed on them. Coming down that first big step.
• 29:19
  Timber.
• 29:20
  Tim Burr. And I fell directly on my chase. I didn't even hit my chin.
• 29:27
  Everything went straight to my chest.
• 29:30
  12 cow. I lost my voice for at least a couple of minutes. Scared the dog. I didn't think I was gonna ever be able to talk again.
• 29:38
  And not. That was my first time getting the wind knocked out of me. I couldn't. I couldn't talk. I was. I was gasping for air and I walked my ass home crying. I was scared. That hurt. Hurt. I could not talk. I couldn't get no words out. I was. I was barely getting air in my body, and it was bad. It was bad. Now, this one right here, I don't know the origin story of this. I can't tell you the generation for this, because prior to this, it was spin the bottle, which I did play before Spin the bottle. And y' all know the rules to spin the bottle. The bottle spins.
• 30:17
  And, you know, if the tail end or the top end of a bottle is pointing between you and the young lady, y' all go somewhere, typically to a closet, so nobody can see. Cause we was all shy. Some people did it right then and there, But y' all would kiss and fondle a little bit if y' all really liked each other.
• 30:37
  Well, we turned the heat up on that bitch. Okay.
• 30:41
  We added one of our childhood historical top five games of all time in the community with a little freaky twist on it. Yes, indeed. We took hide and seek to hide and go get it. Right? And hide and go get it consists of, yeah, we touch and we kissing and stuff like that. We not going no further than that. Now, some people were. Some other kids were probably more advanced.
• 31:05
  But I kept it. You know, I kept it on rookie mode for myself, you know what I'm saying? I had a lot of respect for the young ladies back then. I didn't try to do anything more than I needed to do or whatever at that time. I was just a little happy that I was getting that type of action right. But, yeah, hide and go get it. That's when this is. This is a modified version. You got to have some girls to play this game.
• 31:30
  You have to. And we did. And sometimes in most cases, it was balanced. You know, you got about 20 kids.
• 31:39
  You know, if at the bare minimum, you got at least have seven to eight girls, or, you know, hopefully they have more than the boys, but that's what it was. And in some cases, we used to get caught on purpose. This was the only game that we got caught on. Oh, my God. You got me.
• 31:56
  You got me. Come give me a kiss. Yep. I didn't go get it. That was different. It was different. Back then.
• 32:01
  We also played a game.
• 32:04
  I don't necessarily want to call it stupid, but it does look stupid. We used to play a game called chess, where we used to just sock each other in the chest until one person gave up. You know what I'm saying? And then we advanced it years later to body. And body is rapid fires to the chest. Both sides going, see, chess is just, I get to fire off and hit you in your chest. And then you fire off and hit. It's kind of like the slap game.
• 32:33
  We did that, but then body is just. We just rapid fire chest shots or whatever. I don't know how cast did not hit each other knuckles. But yeah, we did that. We did chess and then that chest turned into bodies. So all it was is just. Was Paul if needed. But we was tenderizing that chest. Socking up. Yeah. Knuckle prints. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
• 33:01
  What else we did? Oh, you know what was popular when I was in middle school?
• 33:07
  Dodgeball at the school. I don't remember us ever playing dodgeball outside of PE but when we did that was like a treat. Remember back in the day, elementary or middle school where in elementary mostly for this kind of like the duck, duck goose.
• 33:26
  What was it? 7Up? 7Up or something like that.
• 33:31
  And a person used to go around and if they touched you, they had to chase you around. You had to run back to your seat and they had to try to catch you before you got to your seat.
• 33:43
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 33:46
  It was games like. It was games like that. Those was a treat, you know, they'd be like, put your head down. And I used to. People, we used to cheat because we used to see who foot it was or whatever. Or we used to just wash their feet and as soon as they. Oh, that's what they. They used to put your thumb down. They used to put your thumb down and then you had to chase them until they got back to their seat. And if you caught. If you caught them before they got to the seat, then they had to continue to do it. But if not, then you had to do it and then you walk around the classroom and then you just put somebody down and then you run, et cetera, et cetera. So sometimes those are. That's a dangerous ass game running that class. Why you running in the classroom?
• 34:28
  Yeah, but sometimes when we go to PE it was exercises and stuff like that. And then we would have, you know, play basketball, volleyball. We did a lot of different stuff. But the one thing that we loved the most was dodgeball. And we used to play with those handballs and those handballs in the face. Them hurt and they'll break skin. If you didn't have no good lotion, no moisturizer, that shit was going to break your. If a nigga.
• 34:58
  If a nigga throwing that Yamamoto in the ninth inning and that motherfucker hits you in your face or it's. Or barely, like, like, if it don't make like Crazy impact. And it just.
• 35:11
  One of those things where it's just.
• 35:15
  It'll break your skin. Just put it like that. It'll break your skin if it catches you the right way.
• 35:20
  But that shit hurt. It hurt.
• 35:23
  And they used to roll out. They used to line us up on each wall. And what separated us was the.
• 35:32
  He used to extend, like, a rope or whatever. And we was on the basketball court in the basketball gym. But you would be against that wall. We would be against this wall. He'll blow the whistle. He'll put the balls in the middle of the. Like by the rope, and you have to run up and go get him, and niggas will back up and.
• 35:48
  Yeah, I don't remember winning any games, but I remember being like, one of the last ones. And those motherfuckers hurt, though.
• 35:56
  Dodgeball used to hurt, bro. Dodgeball, pillow fights, shit like that. That shit used to hurt. And pillow fights was an underrated fight. And they just made that a professional sport not too long ago. But dodgeball was it. Some niggas had. Some niggas had Tommy John surgery. Tommy. Tommy. Is it Tommy Gun John, whatever that shit called. Niggas had surgery on their arms for doing that. I remember. I remember a. He broke his arm because somebody. Backpack was on stage, and he stepped on the backpack, failed, broke his shit. And that was during dodgeball, too. I remember that. God damn. He broke his shit.
• 36:33
  Yeah, be careful. Keep your head on the swivel, too, my nigga. And the only way you can get out, like, you can catch the ball and shit like that.
• 36:42
  I used to watch niggas lie or sneak back in the game as if they didn't get hit. If you. If you tried to catch it and dropped it, you're out. You're out of there. All right, now another game. This wasn't stupid, though. 12 Cal. This was actually a dope game.
• 36:59
  Paper football.
• 37:01
  We used to take a piece of paper and fold that motherfucker up into, like, a triangle. Not a. Yeah, like a triangle.
• 37:09
  And we used to flick it right?
• 37:12
  And. And we used to be on a desk on a middle school desk. And we go from edge to edge. And the goal. That's how you scored a touchdown, is that the football had to be like, crossing the plane.
• 37:26
  It could be just a little bit. It could be half of it, but it cannot fall off. If it fall off, then the other person gets to go or whatever.
• 37:36
  But if you did score a touchdown, then you had to.
• 37:41
  The other person had to put their hands together like a field Goal. And then we used to kick field goals with it.
• 37:47
  And we literally used to play football like that in class.
• 37:51
  So that was a dope game that we used to play.
• 37:56
  Oh, the slingshots.
• 38:01
  The Slingshots. So you've seen Dennis Diminish before. We all know who Dennis Diminis is.
• 38:06
  And he had a slingshot, but he had a. He had one of. He had the original Dennis Diminish probably had. He probably has the Michael Jordan of slingshots, right? And that was the. You know, you had the toy ones, but the toy ones was just a copy, you know, copy version of the real ones where you had to go find a perfect tree branch that was shaped like a Y, go get you a rubber band, something to put it. Put the. Put the rock in. And you had to. Yeah, that was your slingshot. This was. This was our version.
• 38:44
  We used to get soda cans. Not. Not the aluminums. The bottles. We get soda bottles, right? No matter what they were. If you got the 3 liter one. Because some of the 3 liters had the big. The biggest.
• 39:00
  What do you call it?
• 39:02
  I can't. I can't think of what you call these damn things. The tops.
• 39:06
  I can't think of it.
• 39:08
  But we used to. We used to cut them. Cut the top off, right? And leave some of the plastic around it or whatever.
• 39:16
  Go get a. Go get the. Go get balloons. Not small balloons, like medium sized balloons.
• 39:23
  A rubber band.
• 39:25
  We'll tie it on to the. What is the bottle? The. What you drink out of? I can't think of it right now. I'm old. I'm old, but y' all know what I'm talking about.
• 39:37
  And we used to put the balloon around that. Tie the rubber band around it so it could stay and then go get rocks and put them inside the balloon. Ba ba. That shit used to hurt and it would penetrate skin. Oh, you want to know some dumb shit we did? We had a rock fight.
• 39:57
  We had a rock fight at school on a Saturday after school on a Saturday.
• 40:01
  We throwing rocks at each other. We having a full on civil war rock fight. And I remember my boy Lester, who ended up going to Crenshaw, by the way.
• 40:11
  Lester, I remember he was like. Lester was like Puerto Rican, Puerto Rican, Dominican or something like that.
• 40:17
  Cool cat. And he stayed not too far away from the school. I stayed around the corner from the school.
• 40:25
  His name was Lester Cool kid.
• 40:30
  We was on opposite sides of the team. I'm not saying my. I'm not saying my rock hit him, but somebody hit him with a Rock. And he got hit in the head and he was bleeding and he was crying and he went home. He went home. Safe to say he didn't come back out that day. But we did see that knot, though. And he was bleeding, so that was dumb in itself. Because. Why? Why? And we had rocks and we was throwing the rocks that we were throwing gravel rocks, you know what I'm saying? The shit to where they would tear the. You know how they would tear the cement up and then put a new. Fresh a new batch of cement. Now cement. It sound like I said. Semen. That's crazy.
• 41:10
  Yeah. So we had a rock fight before that was out of pocket.
• 41:15
  And last but not least, unless I come up with something else, we had this could. You know, 12 Cal mentioned. And I feel like I can mention this one because I think this was universal. Everybody played the pencil game where you had a number two pencil and you had to break it.
• 41:33
  That shit used to hurt. We used to hold that motherfucking pencil because some niggas really knew how to do it. And we used to do that with spoons, plastic spoons, too. So we did it with plastic spoons and we did it with.
• 41:46
  And we did it with pencils. And now I will disagree, because 12 cows said, well, after you break that pencil, it's no good. I beg to differ.
• 41:54
  Now you got two pencils.
• 41:57
  It's just one comes with an eraser and the other one don't. As a matter of fact, technically you could have three pencils because you're gonna have the side that. You're gonna have the broken side with the eraser. Take your ass to the motherfucking pencil sharpener, which back then we had the electric ones at one point, so it sharpened it real fast. And then you have the other one, which is broken on one side and, you know, sharpened on one side. No. You've never seen two. A two sided pencil before. Yeah. Now that one pencil that you broke in half because y' all want to play this stupid game that's going to hurt your thumb.
• 42:32
  Now you about to have three pencils and one of them going to be Simon's Twins pencils.
• 42:39
  So.
• 42:40
  Yes. But we had a game called rip.
• 42:44
  And what that was is if you said something stupid, if you said something stupid, that we would take our two fingers and we would swipe the back of your neck.
• 42:57
  You know what I'm saying?
• 43:01
  And we switched it from rip to like, give me that.
• 43:04
  So if you said something stupid, you're like, yep, give me that.
• 43:08
  Give me that.
• 43:09
  We Also had this shit in high school.
• 43:11
  High school that led to after high school, right?
• 43:15
  Where we had an inside joke amongst the homies. And it was called, like. We didn't call it anything, but it was like we used to say, burr, bah, bah bah. Like, if somebody was talking too much or if we was making fun of them, we'd be like, bur, bur burger.
• 43:34
  So, like, somebody. We'll ask somebody for directions or something like that, and they'll start talking and somebody in the background be like, bah, bye bye. It was stupid. It was stupid, but it was something that we made up. And we were like, my guy.
• 43:49
  We used to make up some stupid as we was, kid. Look, we have plenty of these. And we did stupid too. You know, I definitely flipped my. I tried to, but it wasn't my thing. And it used to look scary. But yes, kids used to flip their eyelids open. That was something. You know what I'm saying?
• 44:09
  I don't know. Kids was just doing shit. We did shit with the glue. We used to put the white glue on our hands and just peel it off.
• 44:16
  Yeah, that was a thing. I didn't really do much. Oh, one thing that I used to do that I was super dumb, and I did this in middle school and high school. I used to draw a lot. I love drawing. I've been drawing since elementary because my uncle put me up on drawing and I used to just draw shit. And one thing that I still draw till this day, it doesn't matter if I give. If I find a blank piece of paper, I always draw this. I draw a basketball court. I used to draw basketball courts and I used to draw eyes that used to cry.
• 44:44
  Charlotte. Ring, ring, ring, ring.
• 44:49
  Yeah. Work be calling.
• 44:51
  Work be calling. Where did I leave off at? I forgot where I left off at. Ripped the back of the neck.
• 44:58
  Oh, yeah. So I used to draw right now. This is what I used to do. This is what I used to do.
• 45:05
  I used to draw on my arms and hands like tattoos. But that shit would make me sick. I almost got ink poison.
• 45:12
  I literally used to fill up my forearm and my hands, and I would just have all different type of drawing, all different type of logos and shit on my. And we used to have JanSport backpacks. So you'll have the.
• 45:29
  Which I used to call gum bottoms, but it was the brown part at the bottom of the. You know, whether you had a blue jansport or a black jansport or green jansport or blue jam sport or some shit like that. But if you Had a white one.
• 45:43
  Normally the girls would get the white ones, but I used to draw on the brown part. And I used to just draw all kind of shit. I used to draw on everything. And I used to draw on my arm and my hands. I used to feel like, why I feel a little woozy, a little sick, and because I'm putting ink in my goddamn system with my dumb ass. So we did dumb shit, too. 12 cal.
• 46:02
  We did a lot of dumb shit in there. I honestly say that that baseball thing was very creative. I don't remember nobody. You gotta ask somebody else from la, but I don't remember anybody else playing a game like that.
• 46:15
  But, you know, some of this other shit that y' all did, y' all passed down to us, the eyelids and stuff like that, it held freeze tag.
• 46:24
  Y' all had a lot of classic games that we took in and. And carried on a legacy. And then there was some that we just morph into something else. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, hide and seek was probably.
• 46:36
  You know, that was the shit back in the 70s and then the 80s, and we turned that shit from hide and seek to hide. Go get it. That's just how it was. We did a lot of dumb shit, too.
• 46:46
  You know, I'm pretty sure there was more that I'm missing out on, but those are the ones that. That I can.
• 46:55
  Sorry.
• 46:56
  That I can actually remember. We all. We also used to play sideline pop. So if we couldn't find any grass to play tackle, then we played in the street. We played football in the street a lot.
• 47:11
  Cars on both sides, but we used to play sideline pop in the middle of the street. You can get tagged or held, but on the sideline, niggas got hit.
• 47:22
  So that's dumb shit, too. That was dumb shit, too.
• 47:27
  We might have to do a collab one together. And then we could talk about some other stuff that we did. Because that trip to Atlanta that he said, I mean, I got a Vegas trip and some other trips too, that we took in a car that I hope my kids will never, ever duplicate, but shout out to 12 cow again. You all go check out his episode.
• 47:51
  We did dumb shit. And then come check this one out. We did dumb shit, too. And yeah, shout out, see you all later.