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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ EPISODE _31_ HOST LATONYA MICHELLE LITTLEJOHN · DA CREW Podcast

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Good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to another episode
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of Delay but not Denied the podcast. This is episode number thirty one for
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season two. Tonight, we're gonna do something a little different. I have
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a special guest joining me tonight. We're talking about hip hop and we're talking
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about shoes and whatever else may come up. So without further ado, I
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would like to introduce to you mister Rico, Little John. Hi, how
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are you good? It's been good going on with you, Chiller. So
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listen, let me ask you, when did you first fall in love with
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hip hop? Oh? Let me let me think. Let me think about
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when I was like twelve or thirteen when I first saw run DMC. Was
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that your, like, your favorite group at the time. Yes, Then
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once hip hop started growing started, you know the various other rappers, Big
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Daddy came, you know, Heavy Denon Boys, I can go on,
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and when it came when it comes to like the beginning of hip hop started
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out of New York Bronx mmm, and once it started growing, it was
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all about New York right then went out West Coast. Favorite West Coast artists
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oftentimes ice Cube. Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying, Snoop
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Dogg. And you know that's basically you know, my favorite hip hop artist
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is and will forever be Tupac God risked his soul. You know, he
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started as a dancer, but digital yeah, I know, I remember,
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yeah, dancer then the actor, well, actually the rapper than the actors,
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right. But you know his original name was mc New York because he
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was I remember saying that in one of his uh like stories about his life
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or biography or what have you. Born in New York, raised in Baltimore,
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then he moved out. How has hip hop influenced your life? Hip
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hop influes my life. The way I dress, the way I you know,
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any way I talk something. You know what I'm saying when I started
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out, where you're talking, where you dress. It's just the way you
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carry yourself. You know. That's what hip hop is. Rap is a
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part of hip hop. A lot of people get that confused. A lot
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of people think rap is hip hop. No, it's a part of hip
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hop. Okay, I will say that. I know that there's like different.
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I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but there's a
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difference with in my opinion, the difference between a lyricist and a rapper like
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like as far as like Tupac, I consider him like a poet in the
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way that he delivered his messages. I feel like there was a message in
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most of his songs, even the ones where he was being messed. There's
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a lot of a lot of things that he does. As far as the
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message getting across, Yeah, he got across good information, good advice.
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Yeah, you know what I'm saying to me, it was good advice,
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good message. Some like basically us as us as black people, we need
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the more to focus on more ourselves as black people, come together black people.
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You know that's what my take my thing from. So you know,
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I am an R and B head from top to bottom. Like you know,
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Bobby Brown has a real special place in my heart. Like I love
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it man uhsher. But if I had to be born in any era of
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music, it would have had to have been the sixties. I love the
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Temptations. How do you feel like R and B has influenced hip hop?
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R and B is influenced hip hop? You know there's more rappers now trying
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to sing? Yeah, you know it started back when he did. He
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said, check out Rico Little John on the podcast You Go Brother. A
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lot of rappers now are trying to be singers. You know, they're saying
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what it is now Instead of getting their R and B artists to sing hooks,
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they're doing it themselves. Right, It started back and hip hop started.
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You know, a lot of guys would have you know, a little
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you know, a little song and they would just sing the chorus. Well,
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do you feel like it's it could be said that they don't actually get
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the singers to do these hooks out of respect because like most of our R
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and B, like our Charlie Wilson's and you know, even though he's doing
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like the theme song for B MF, that that is not how that man
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lives his life. That goes as a respect factor because you know he started
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the band, right, Absolutely, these young rappers once my agent, you
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know older, they know who the band is, right, and that's a
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respect factor, you know. That's that's like, look, I respect you.
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Could you please be on my you know song? Like it would be
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an honor, right, you know, It's it's an honor for one of
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that Yeah, yeah, you know to come on and bless a song,
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you know, and I think all singers like when we came up. You
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know, it's an honor for these rappers to you know, I'm gonna put
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so and so my song because I grew up listening to him, right,
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you know what I'm saying. I grew up listening to Bobby Browns, I
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want him. Sorry, I grew up listening to Usher. I want him
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on the song, or I grew up listening to you know, Like I
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said, Charlie Wilson Rond, you know it's I feel like the nineties is
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the last of a dying breed. I don't think we've had any good music
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since the nineties. Like, you know, I do love Usher. I
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love that he just came out with a new album. However, nothing will
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compare to Confessions. Nothing, just like nothing. That's like with Michael Jackson,
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there was nothing to be compared to Thriller. You know what I'm saying.
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With Usher, he's not trying to chase Confessions. Yeah, and I
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think a lot of people want him to. A lot of people want him
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to. That was his highest highest you know, paid that it was the
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highest. It was like, I don't know, quadruple platinum or whatever,
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whatever, diamond or whatever. Yeah, it was up there. Once you
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get that record, that that that record that people were like, yo,
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this is the record. A lot of artists will Okay, I'm gonna chase
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their record again. But you can't. Right once you have a good record
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out, you have to go on and move on, evolved, keep them
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all. You can't keep chasing that that one record. And the crazy thing
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with music today for me is, you know how like when we were growing
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up, we watched old videos of how our parents and our ancestors used to,
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you know, listen to the Four Tops and the Temptations, and they
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had these different dance moves and we looking at them like, okay, y'all
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have lost you'll mind. And then we come about and we come up with
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all of these different dance moves, Like I actually heard that there was a
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dance move to the percolator. I'm still trying to find out. I mean,
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but when our parents see our generation, they were like those dance moves,
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What do I come up with that? That's crazy? And so now
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with our kids they're doing dance. It's like really, and it doesn't even
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look like dance. It's just like it looks like they're having convulsion. And
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it's just like the music. The music is trash. I know, you
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like ratchet music. I just get it as a as a female because I'm
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like, why did you put that out? Really? Why as a female?
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As a female, you can do anything? Now as a female,
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I Love, Queen Latifah, Salt and Pepper, Little Kim, Lauren Hill,
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and Foxy Brown. Those are my you can't get mm hmmm. He
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was hitting Mitt with me with some of it. I mean, that was
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my girl. When it came to how she said, yeah, yeah,
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I mean I love Eve too, but I think I like her more as
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an actress. But what I was getting at and parental advisory. You know
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how Little Kim was nasty right right, I mean she set the tone.
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She set the tone for nasty. But you know where that came from.
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Biggie was like, you know, I've seen it. I've seen it.
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It's been done something different. Yeah, let's let's let's, you know,
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do some difference, do something different. Un Lets you know, be more
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sick here. You know, we're going to talk about things that Queen Latifa's
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the lawn hies, you know what I'm saying, the money Loves never talked
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about. You know, they were on that Women's Live, women's rights,
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women's Black women liberation, right, Little Kim to get another direction, right,
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and what I took that that that direction and it's like nobody followed Lauren
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Hills right, Quel teeth right them Ony Love what I'm saying, what happened.
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They took Lauren Hill when they took Little Kim, and they just pu
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because now Little Kim's lyrics are like, you know, just they initially were,
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they were the blueprint at one point, but now but now now she's
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PG. Thirteen compared to what we're here because like Sexy Red, she has
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me clutching invisible pearls, like I'm like off because the stuff that comes out
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of her mouth, I mean not sukie. I mean, they're their their
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level of what they consider sexy is pornographic. To me, it's past.
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It's past pornographic. And and it's sad that sex sells in the way that
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it does because women can't just come in with a hot sixteen and just take
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it and do something with it. You have to have their sixteen is so
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elementary that you know, my nephews can write a yeah sixteen sixteen bars and
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put a good beat behind it, get to get chant behind it, and
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they can say anything they want, they can do anything they want, and
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it's it. And it's getting younger. That's my thing is it's getting younger
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and it's getting more crazier. Right, It's weird like, you know,
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we thought with the music that we listen to growing up in the day,
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that we had something to say. And now these kids out here with booty
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holes being brown and just weird stuff like that, and like and this is
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that the women are going much harder than But it shouldn't even have to be
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that way. We should be in a place now where a woman can go
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in confidently and rap about being a mother, being a wife, building a
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brand and owning a business or what have you. It doesn't have to always
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be sexualized. Yeah, and it seems like even from generation to generation it's
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always going to be sex sells. It is. And you know, how
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do you think came up? Is like once Luther Campbell to our crew,
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kid, you know what I'm saying, yo, what we can do?
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We can talk about this, But you know, if it wasn't for him,
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we couldn't talk about They couldn't rap about what's going on now because he
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basically was banned. Absolutely, Yeah, parental advisory stamp was because of him.
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I do know that he went to court to fight for free speech.
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He went to court, he got arrested. It shows for the right to
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speak for you know what I'm saying your free speech, you're you're you're a
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member for you know, to speak whatever you want to speak, you know
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what I'm saying. And he took he took it, you know, took
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it on the chin and like I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna fight.
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You know, he has to have that respect factor that it wasn't for him
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to our crew, a lot of these rappers wouldn't be where they are now.
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True, what do you feel about this whole freak nick thing that's coming
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about now? How do you feel? I watched the documentary last night?
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You did already? Yes, yes, I watched the documentary and then it
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wasn't he watched it without me. It wasn't bad. You know, it
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was basically I was started. You know, college kids in Atlanta from the
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DC area. You know a lot of those kids couldn't afford to go back
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home during spring break. What they did just came together for a pendic.
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You know. That was just basically these colleges in Atlanta getting together, you
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know, coming together as black people having a good time. And the thing
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was when it got to a point where it got you know out there,
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you know, we have those bad apples of course that came in m and
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once the bad apples came in, you know, once you put a bad
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apple in a bunch, bunch, the whole bunch, because you know,
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once you see that bad apple, oh no, I don't want that.
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I don't want this basket. It's got a bad apple in it. The
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rest of apples can be good, yeah, but once you see that bad
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apples might as well be tainted. This is tainted. You know at Atlanta
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and what ninety six when the Olympics came, you know, that was that
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point and Tom where you know, freak Nick was bringing a little revenue in
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Atlanta, but you know the Olympics will bring revenue right to Atlanta, right,
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So when you're in that place of government, you know of bacon laws
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and stuff, you're gonna sit back and like, look, we're gonna be
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the center of attention. We got the Olympics coming, We got the weed
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out these things, right, And that's what they did. I know a
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lot of people were worried about the whole freak New documentary coming out because,
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let's face it, a lot of people, a lot of people was living
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life care free, and you know that that that was a time and place
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that a lot of people have things change and and things in your life change.
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I mean we may have some some some pastors and evangelists, they might
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have popped up on the freaknik and change. You know what I'm saying.
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We can't stay the same. We're going to write something about it. You
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have to grow. You have to grow. Yeah, you gotta grow.
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You're gonna die because you know you're not going to go to school. Have
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these friends from elementary high school eventually grow them some of Yeah, and like
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you said, you have to involve, you have to move. Yeah,
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you know what I'm saying. And that scared that that documentary kind of like,
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yeah, it scared a lot of people, like am I gonna be
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on that video? Yeah? Am I gonna be? You know in the
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place where I like, you know, I should have done it. The
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thing with us as a people, we don't believe that people can change.
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We we put people in a box of if you were a prostitute thirty years
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ago and you've changed and given your life to Christ. Now when we bring
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you up in conversation, this is the first thing we're gonna think about it,
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you still was a whole I mean it don't matter. On a good
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Wednesday, you was on your back, I mean, and that's all You're
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gonna be known. And sometimes down the line you I'm gonna get my life
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right, right, You're gonna have somebody to come up. Hey, wouldn't
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you? Didn't you? Right? So you know, but listen, I
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want to redirect the conversation and talk about shoes. I want to talk to
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you about Jordan's. My first question is why Jordan's, why Jordan's well being
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that from that error of seeing magic m m Bird, Isaiah, you know,
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come come in and they did that thing, you know, but they
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were up under one shoe that was conversed and no one, absolutely no one
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Jordan came in had their own sneaker with the name of it. You know
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what I'm saying. And we all know who Jordan is. We all know
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who Michael Jordan. You know, we wanted to be like Mike. I
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wanted to be like Mike the whole little Yeah, yes, drove me up
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the wall because man, the fire gravity, yeah, you know, and
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you're seeing that he's got these particular shoes on being being that young boy looking
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at this man basically you know, and stay in the air for at least
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three or four minutes before yeah so and before coming down, you know,
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doing things that YO couldn't have no ordinary man do it, but superman,
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you know what I'm saying, Because they were like, this guy is Superman.
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So my issue though, you know, I will go and say that
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Michael Jordan gave a lot of Black children and children of all races someone to
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look up to. However, that man don't like his fans. I have
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an issue with it, Like if it wasn't for us putting money into buying
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these Jordans or going to these games. And you know, when his father
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passed away, he chose to do baseball in honor of his father. And
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we all know that that flock. But our love for Michael Jordan took us
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to from the basketball court to the baseball diamond and he still don't like us.
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So how does that make you feel to know that you spend your hard
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earned money for these shoes that only come around it was so often, and
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this man don't like you. You know what I'm saying. And this is
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this is me when I was growing up seeing those shoes. And you have
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two brothers abundant, you know, you have your parents back in the day.
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It's just like, you know, if I wanted a pair of shoes
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like that, they got to get My brother's a pair of shoes right right.
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And at the time you're looking at three hundred dollars. Yeah, and
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back in those days it's hard to come by, come by, right,
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even though your parents had good jobs. You know, those three hundred dollars
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could go to go towards something else, yeah, something more or so me
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my brother Carlos now mars Is, he's not a Mars is not a sneaker
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head like that. You know, he's a Jodan fan up and down,
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you know what I'm saying. But me and Carlos brother next to me,
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we're we're sneaker heads. You know, I don't care about you know,
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ever meeting Jordan's I don't care about you know this, that and the third
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about him. You know, I wanted to shoot. I wanted to put
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those shoes on my feet, right and when I got a chance to wear,
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I can afford to get that sneakers or whatever I wanted. You know,
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being a sneaker head, you ain't you really it's about that that that
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that love for that sneaker that you always wanted as a kid growing up.
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You know what I'm saying. Once you got that, that grail, that
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shoe, oh man, you got it so for me, like you know,
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you you were my introduction to Jordan's. And being that I have feet
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the size of the baby's, it's not hard to buy me. It's not
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shoes or whatever, but because you got it made as the person with small
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feet, yeah, you can. Basically I wear kids shoes. Yeah,
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saying hey, it's you know, you basically can get you know, you
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wear size you know you were a kids you mm hm, and you basically
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ain't gotta pay grown person person. Yeah right. Jordan's have like numbers like
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threes and yeah it's all from one to right now it's twenty see so twenty
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seven, okay, you just have too many? You know that I can
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you know, I you know me personally, I have the love for the
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threes, the eleven's, twelves and the thirteen's and one of my four favorite
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Jordan. So my question is how do you know which is which? Like
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they have you know, the different designs, the different designs of them,
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and if you like you, if you're like me and you're like a certain
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pair, like I said, the three eleven, twelve to thirteen, you
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know what they are after those one? You know, after that, you
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might like a pair of fourteen, you might like a pair of sevens.
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But majority of people that I know, well, they're mostly three eleven,
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twelve thirteen. And you have a lot of kids now, a lot of
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men now are going for the ones, which I don't. I don't care
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for it because the way they feel is like you have flat feet and you
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know. Yeah, So you know the ongoing conversation that we've had with your
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massive shoot collection, not as massive as my brother Carlos, but I have
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you know, I've had yeah, I've had yeah, yeah, because Carlos
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is a true sneaker head through and through. The most I've ever had,
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okay, one fifty pair, you know. Yeah. But what my question
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was, you know, we used to talk about what happens when the love
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for buying shoes fades away, and I know you said you wanted to pass
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them down. We're not really well the thing is with that, you know,
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shoes deteriorate. You know, I have I havel shoes that's older than
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my daughter. I know you do. Yeah, they deteriorate and might be
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passing the love, not really the shoe. I passed the love to my
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nephews, you know, Dion, my son, you know, but you
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know he's not really a sneaker head, but he knows, you knows,
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you know, just the love for the shoes. Just the love for you
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know, not just Jordan's. You have Lebron's, you have Alan Iris,
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you know which I like the questions, you know, it's just a love
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for the shoes and just passionate information along to you, your nephews, your
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son, your daughter, nieces got one for you. You woke up in
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the morning, there was no more music, no more Jordan's. What would
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you gravitate towards commas? Which already because listen the way you had me up
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in what's that comment book store, Tangle Webb, It would be comics.
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It would be you know, the action figures. When you grew up Now,
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I grew up on the g I Joe with Them, the thunder Cats.
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Who else? I grew up on Super Friends? What other cartoon?
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I grew up on Transformers? Me either me either, me either. You
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don't know the different about the shoes you're talking about? You don't know the
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difference about the shoes Travita. With that said, it's just just a love
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for you know, with certain pairs. Because what okay, so here's the
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question, He's going to get some shoes. I like shoes. I them
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a lot, But being that I have spinors, difpity, there's certain things
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that I can't wear. But if I ever found a pair of these and
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a size for the mine holy grail of shoes? Are those the space jams?
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These are the Concords. I thought the space jams the holy Grail,
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These Concord Levins, these are the holy grails, sneakers. I'm gonna tell
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you why I thought the space jams were. It was because when you try
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to get them the first go out, and you couldn't the level of disappointment
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in your face every time you heard even the song a song where it's mentioned
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I walked past the DVD right and I wound up getting them anyway. So
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your children, your children made it even more funny for me, because you
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know, Deontay is a die hard little Wayne saying, and I know that
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there was a song where he said something about some space jams, and every
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time Deontay heard that song. He looked at you and laugh because he knew
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I mean, like from the gun laughing. But these right here, there's
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a concord elevens. These are the Holy Grail sneakers. You know what I'm
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saying. These right here shut down malls. These shut down you know,
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even boutiques. It basically shut down. This shoe has caused a lot of
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problems. The shoe game has been the years has been dangerous. I've seen
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shootings and malls and fits, and which is why they went to doing the
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raffles. Now that do the because that's more state right, Okay, but
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still but dangerous. You're still dangerous because you still have guys in the cut
37:07
waiting on you to come out, so you At times this shoe had guys
37:15
walking out with security. At one time, I remember they will walk you
37:20
to your car. I'm not gonna lie. There was a certain point in
37:28
our relationship where I was like, man, God, please give this man
37:32
something else to like cut, because you know, I'll go out, you
37:37
know, early in the mornings or sometimes I have you had friends that did
37:44
like those sleep people will actually be at the store, in front of the
37:49
store, camping out. A certain shoe. I've never liked anything el but
37:54
in my life enough to do that. I mean, you know how I
37:59
feel about out an Usher concert. You know, I was wanting to go
38:04
to Vegas and experience him at Vegas or whatever. And I do believe that
38:10
if he ever goes back, I'll have my time for though. But like
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the love that you have for a shoe, why couldn't you have Like do
38:22
you see yourself? You're about to be fifty next month, I mean in
38:28
less than fourteen days, you're gonna be fifty. Do you see yourself as
38:32
a fifty year old man still collecting shoes. I've fallen back a lot since,
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you know, ever since COVID, right, falling back like every now
38:50
and then, because right now, Jordan's pushed so many shoes out that if
38:58
you go one Saturday for a shoe, by the time that that Saturday to
39:01
the next Saturday, something else between that that week will come out. And
39:07
even like I should have wait, something new will come out, something you
39:12
know, Jordan will yeah, he'll put out and you're like, yo,
39:16
you know I didn't have Basically, you know, why didn't they do this
39:22
like a time, Yeah, and I would have gotten this, you know,
39:30
instead of this shoot. But you have people that will. You know,
39:35
it's got to a point now that Jordan has has been just pushing out
39:37
shoes, pushing out shoes, pushing our shoes to a point where people can't
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who can't afford it. People could, but you know you're gonna lack on
39:46
something, you know what I'm saying, Lack on a light build, lack
39:51
on the Waterville, or lack on a car fayment sometimes green for a shoot.
39:58
And I've seen it, mighty, I swear, I swear on me.
40:02
We've we we've come alone with because brouh there there was a time,
40:14
there was a time where I mean I can sit and laugh about it now
40:19
where you would be like do I get this shoe or do we eat?
40:22
It came to that point of I know, I know, and again I
40:28
have never liked anything enough to jeopardize my stomach. But now it's like this
40:37
shoe came out a while back, and I guarantee you it's gonna make it.
40:42
It makes it. It's gonna it's gonna make it. Yeah, it's
40:45
gonna make its way back. You know, it's you know what I'm saying,
40:47
It's been retro so many times, it'll make its way back. Just
40:51
like when the space came out the first time, I just had to wait
40:54
for the next go around. So let me ask you, when they come
40:58
out again, will they look exactly like how they look now? Not really,
41:02
because the first time they came out on the back, you see the
41:06
four or five. The last time they came out hit the two three.
41:09
Oh and this last December they had the same shooter came out, but the
41:20
white part was leavel instead of this material. Okay, that's like a cloth,
41:25
this cough material. Yeah, it's cough material. Now. The one
41:30
that came out December past the summer, it was all level, top,
41:34
all level, and they had the jump man it was gold. The two
41:38
three on the back was gold. You know what I'm saying. I did
41:42
a little research and it costs less than twenty five dollars to actually make a
41:52
ten Yeah, I'm just yeah, the material. Yeah. So with that
42:00
being said, getting a shoe, a standard shoe that will last to test
42:09
the time, would you would you still spend like two what like two eighty
42:17
for a shoe knowing that it costs less than ten dollars to make Since I've
42:23
gotten older. No, I wouldn't, no, because it's better things to
42:30
spend with two eighty and a pair of shoes that will last either six maybe
42:34
seven years. Right then it starts to deteriorate, and that's two eighty gone
42:40
right now, says some older It's like, you know, I kind of
42:44
like pick and choose what I want now, you know what I'm saying.
42:47
It's not like when I was younger getting that one. Yeah, when the
42:52
next week come out and getting that one heat what I'm saying, like you
42:53
said, contemplating on like get to eat or just get paid. I'm thankful
43:01
our lights have never been off ever. Now, Like I said, I'm
43:06
older and I'm like, yo, it's just a circle now. And I
43:10
just you know, if I didn't get that the first time, if I
43:14
didn't get that the second time, I'm gonna get it in this run.
43:17
If not, I would wait till the next go round because they're coming back.
43:22
That last question. Do you think that they'll ever make some orthopedic jays
43:28
because y'all get y'all look getting out, look, look, look, look
43:32
which come to show they can they can? Would you bind? No?
43:39
Why not? No? Because when I'm in my sixties seventies, I probably
43:45
won't be thinking about wearing tying up shoes. You're gonna go with the bell
43:52
crawt. The bere crowd is slipping, you know what I'm saying. Take
43:57
me now bending over and the time shooting. No you sixteen seventy years old,
44:02
Hey, I want whatever's coming. Well, I just feel like since
44:07
we tied Doonta and Danser's shoes, by the time we get that age,
44:12
maybe they'll you know what grandkids would do that before they will, you know,
44:19
unless we get more than k because she ain't doing it. But you
44:27
know that's that's just with me. Now there is more than your shoes.
44:31
You know, started collecting you know, action figures and stuff. You know,
44:37
I've been doing that for a long time. The shoot and I'm a
44:44
masked a couple of grails, holy grails, you know. Like I said,
44:52
I've gone more than now to collecting bench and stuff for like action figure
45:00
and stuff, because now that lasts longer and by the time you know,
45:07
they can be if they're not ripped open out the plastic. And you know
45:13
how I feel about stuff like that. I'm not about to buy an old
45:16
cabbage Patch from nineteen eighty something and keep it in the box. I'm not
45:23
about to do that. I'm gonna open it. I'm gonna see if it
45:27
smell like baby powder, like the ones from when I grew up. And
45:32
that's just gonna be that. But for that comics, you know, coming
45:37
to grown a Mask. You know, if you found that first issue of
45:45
a certain character, hey, there were some living on down the line.
45:51
Well listen, mister little John. I want to thank you for stopping by,
45:57
thank you for hanging out with me. Most importantly, I would like
46:04
to thank you for supporting my podcast. You know the hood ins and outs
46:14
of things I've been dealing right, and you know that the podcast gives me
46:19
peace. And I appreciate you for even when we're not connecting, you always
46:28
share my podcasts and like my flyers and right to me as a husband to
46:36
support you, because you know, if I don't, who will? That
46:42
is true. You know, if I can't be your number one fan,
46:45
who will? You know? If I'm that one fan? You know you
46:51
got a fan. You know you got to you know, fan club president.
46:54
Whatever you do, you know, whatever you do, I try to
46:58
like encourage you, push you you know you can do this, but I
47:04
wanted to see you apply first. You know what I'm saying, Like when
47:07
you when it came to your book, Travina said her you tread. Yes,
47:14
Yes, I love to see y'all do things, just like you know,
47:16
once I see you put forth the effort, I'm behind y'all facts.
47:25
You know what I'm saying. It's like when you went to when we first
47:29
started talking and you said, I would like you know, I'm adopted and
47:34
I would like to see my mother. Okay, we're gonna do it.
47:39
It's coming, but you know it took time. It took time, but
47:44
you've done it with a little you know what I'm saying, a little push
47:50
from other people in a push from me. Lord Travita about to start up
47:55
preaching, how sermon in the comments is coming? I feel it? Oh
48:00
and DD saying her too right YouTube. You know, once you did that,
48:07
I was like, you've done it, you know what I'm saying.
48:10
And he was like, I want to write a book. Okay, we're
48:15
gonna do the research. We're gonna we're gonna you know you know what.
48:19
You know what inspired me, you know what inspired me most to do my
48:24
book, though the amount of people are reached out to and asked them how
48:34
to get Yeah, just get I mean, just just to open the door
48:37
a little bit, not even open it. Unlock it, yeah, just
48:40
unlock it. You know. I turned turn theob and out. I mean,
48:45
and so many people was just like, pray about it, right,
48:51
you know, that's how we we are as a people. I hate that
48:53
about black people, you know, that's how we are. I hate that
48:58
for the simple fact of child is in trouble. Prayer but you know,
49:02
I don't know what I'm gonna do. Prayer without works dead dead dead dead.
49:07
And so my whole thing was if I'm coming to you asking you what
49:14
I need to do to get this done, then I'm putting in the work
49:20
or whatever. So I mean, the steps, the process, you know,
49:22
everything made me want to write even more because so many people, I
49:29
don't know, if they thought I was gonna take money out of they pocket
49:31
buy by them telling me what to do. Everything has everything right. What
49:37
I'm saying, you can't you can't go in there and say I want to
49:40
make if you're not. If you're the first time, let me tell you
49:44
this first time, you're trying to make a cake. You know what I'm
49:49
saying, it has instructures. Some people, you know, tweak it a
49:52
little bit, a little bit. But you know, if you ask your
49:55
mom, you know what I'm saying, she gonna tell you how she makes
49:58
it right. I'm saying, But figure out how to make it your own
50:02
right and the book your own to the point where those people that you asked
50:13
asked you right. I mean, you know I'm slow motion about everything.
50:21
What's meant for me will always find me. I do believe that wholeheartedly.
50:27
And you know that that has been the thing with me and Travited. You
50:31
know, we we have like that's my sister, like you know, she's
50:39
been closer to me than my actual my mama gave birth to and so we
50:46
butt heads like sisters. And if you're sisters, every day is not going
50:58
to be roses right, you know what I'm saying. Light new addition to
51:05
you know, can you stand the ring right? You know every day won't
51:08
be perfect right? Can you stand the right? But you know we done
51:14
got off the beaten path. But I just wanted to thank you again for
51:20
but you know, you always have that one friend in life you understand in
51:27
life. We're gonna have five people that we know. Out of those five
51:34
to be three you know that you you can count on. But it's that
51:39
one. It's gonna be there. Pick you up, true, pick you
51:46
up well listen, sir. Not trying to boot you off my podcast or
51:52
anything like that, but these good people got to go. We got to
51:58
go. I got a cat fee or something because I don't know what she's
52:04
doing, what she is she open somewhere, But anyway, I would like
52:09
to thank everybody for tuning in tonight, hanging out with the Little John's,
52:15
And as I always say before I end my shows, you may be delayed,
52:22
but what God has for you will never be denied unto you. So
52:27
until next time, good night, All things where all the blue sky, but as