In this episode of We Legit 16: Stories & Hustle Podcast, I share my real journey from Long Beach to building my clothing brand and business from the ground up.
This is more than just a story it’s about entrepreneurship, discipline, and what it really takes to start a brand with no blueprint.
I break down:
* How I started my clothing brand from scratch
* The mindset needed to build a business while working a job
* The struggles, setbacks, and lessons along the way
* Why discipline matters more than motivation
If you’re an entrepreneur, creator, or someone trying to build something bigger than yourself, this episode is for you.
This is the real story behind We Legit LLC.
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Yo-yo, yo, welcome to another episode of the We Legit 16 story
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and Hustle podcast. Before I get into today's
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episode, I would like to be honored to be recognized and the
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entrepreneur of impact of 2026 competition.
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Every vote, every view, every purchase and every listen has
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helped push the movement forward.
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Just to let y'all know, we legit still building now for today's
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episode is going to be a little different.
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It's going to be the man behind the hustle, my story behind
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business. People know the brand, they know
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the merch, they know the podcast, they know the hustle.
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But tonight I want to talk about the man behind all of it.
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That part people don't always see the weight behind the
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smiles, the pressure behind the consistency, the story behind
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why I keep showing up. A lot of people tell me Marquis,
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talk about yourself a whole lot more.
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Let us know the man behind we legit.
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Honestly, this episode is long overdue because before the
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clothing brand. Before the podcast, before the
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interviews. Before the content clips and the
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merch drops, there was a young man from the east side of LBC
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trying to figure life out. Growing up in Long Beach taught
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me a lot. It taught me survival skills.
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It taught me how to read people. It taught me how fast life can
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change. It taught me discipline before I
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even knew what discipline really meant.
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The city gave me a gift. My family gave me values, my
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environment gave me awareness, and every lesson from that
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season still lives inside me every day.
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I still move today, but I'm being real.
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The turning point in my life came later.
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There was moments where I realized I had given up on
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myself to something that didn't fully see my value.
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I remember sitting with that disappointment, feeling stuck,
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always asking if it was really all life had to have for me.
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And in that moment, something shifted.
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That disappointment didn't break me, it built me.
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That was the moment we legit stopped being an idea and became
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a mission. A mission bigger than clothes,
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bigger than business, bigger than podcasting.
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It became about legacy. It became about ownership.
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It became about building something nobody ever take away
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from me. So tonight I'm taking y'all
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deeper into my story. The pain, the pressure, the
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family, the loneliness, the lessons, and the purpose behind
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everything I'm building. This is the man behind the
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hustle. Now let's get into today's
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episode. I'm going to get into my roots.
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My roots is basically growing up in Long Beach, CA.
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The origin of my story is my grandfather, Big Eddie was from
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Nashville, TN. He got into some situations out
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there and from what was told to me.
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He was put on a plane and shipped to California wherever
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place he chose. I had a uncle that was in the
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Navy that was in the Korean or the Vietnam.
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War. So I had two relatives of here
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at this time. So that's the basis of how my
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grandfather came to Long Beach. My grandmother, Gee Hood, she
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originally is from Detroit and then she migrated from there.
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To Long Beach. And that's how.
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My dad came about on my dad's side, my mom's side, great
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grandmother came from Arkansas and a great grandfather.
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Clay County, I believe, but they rap being alone, they rap Little
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Rock. Then they eventually migrate to
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California and. That's how my origins of
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California came about, me. I don't know how my parents had
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met, but I know I came into play in the spring of 1988 and one
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thing that I. Remember in them early years?
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I don't really remember too much about them early years in the
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80s, wives. I remember everything from about
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19 to 91. And I was 2 years old when my
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sister came into play. Only thing I could tell you
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about growing up I seen a lot good and bad.
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A lot of violence, lot of homies, a lot of that on.
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I wouldn't call it a toxic environment, but the environment
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of how I was at that time of being down, being real, being
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stomped down and being on 10 toes as you know is the current
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theme right now. So with that being said, certain
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things was installed in me. I felt like as a kid because
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it's like I couldn't. I remember my dad telling me
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things like I couldn't be soft. I couldn't be.
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Can be no punk and all kind of stuff, so it's certain things
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that I just had to stay grounded through it all.
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And those little bit of things that he told.
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Me when I was in elementary school before he went away.
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It resonated with me as growing up Long Beach.
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It's everything to me. As I said in my last season on
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the previous episode, I went to school.
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I had Nintendo. I hung out with my relatives all
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day every day. And then even with growing up, I
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was never bored. I had a bike.
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Me and my uncle would go riding bike trails in Long Beach every
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day when I got out of school and we used to have races on Who
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Will Win coming back. So quality time being spent.
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Dad wise here and there, but the only vivid memory I have is when
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he took us to the park and he was spinning us around.
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And no, I can't remember what The thing is called.
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A merry go round, a little spinning thing.
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You know, we put pull people around you just swing, swing,
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swing. He did that with us.
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Me and my sister used to have us ride in the front seat with no
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seat belt. Used to have us hang with him.
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We hung with my his mother and met a lot of that side of the
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family. Everybody was together at that
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time. But you know how you know how
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the world usually works? Everybody's close in a late
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teens and early 20s. But once life really starts
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happening, people just, you know, fade away.
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And it's not a bad thing. You know, it's really like, as I
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had always said, some people mature faster than others.
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My bad. Some people mature faster than
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others. Some.
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Want to party? Some want to mature.
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Some don't want to be around that nonsense.
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They want to raise their kids in a better environment.
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And you know, it's like you got to think about your future
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because you never know how things going to turn out.
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So East side of Long Beach is all in me.
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It's on the shirt. I don't know if you can see it
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from here, but it's on this chain and it's what I represent.
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This is a grey, the blue edition of the snapback hat, and it's
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the Navy blue custom Long Beach Finest T-shirt you did.
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So Long Beach is like and in other people's minds, Snoop Dogg
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is from there. Of course, he put it on the map.
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But besides Snoop Dogg, Nate Warren G, we have the IP
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Records, Long Beach Poly, of course, we produce a lot of
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superstars, actors, all different genres.
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So learning that and seeing Snoop Dogg as a kid make it from
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a city where I'm from in the back of my mind, even at a young
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age, I can always feel like, you know, if he can do what I can
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do. But I just didn't have that
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grind and grit yet. I wasn't focused on anything
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because minds, I'm a kid and when his album came out, I was
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only four or five years old, So I remember like yesterday, him
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coming out. So I always hold Long Beach dear
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to my heart every day on everything I learned from that
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age, brains to pops going away. I keep all that with me in here,
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always in here, because without them, I wouldn't be where I'm at
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right now. That's the lesson that I learned
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growing up in Long Beach. I can say a whole lot more, but
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I don't want to get too descriptive on certain
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situations, so I'm gonna keep it thorough.
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As far as my family, I had a typical family BBQ, drink, smoke
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some indulge in illegal activities, some indulge in
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positive activities, some was trying to make it the best way
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they can. So, you know, it's like you live
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and you learn with life. There's no script and you learn
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the best way you can. So family dynamic wasn't bad.
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It's just, you know, certain what I'm noticing as getting
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growing older, that certain eras offer certain things.
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So within those eras that they grew up in, they dealt with it
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the best way they could. We took pictures, we went to the
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beach, we went to the park, we was at barbecues, we went down
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to Bixby Park. But anybody that's from Long
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Beach, we don't call it Bixby Park, we call it Cherry Park.
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We go down there every 4th of July, set up a spot BBQ for the
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4th of July and everything. So to make a Long story short,
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that was our family time moment. We celebrated birthdays.
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We will play old school music. My grandmother loved playing
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oldies, so that's why that's where I got my old school music
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from and DJ ING and knowing how to choose certain music to have
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it run together is from her. A whole lot of playing Tonk,
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Spades, hearts, Domino's, all kind of stuff.
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But when things would get really rowdy and they have adult talk,
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I couldn't be in the midst of all that.
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So I had to go in the room and deal with the younger cousins
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because one, nobody in my age range for me to hang and kick it
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with. So I had to hang with the
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younger people. So and it still kind of resonate
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with me to this day on relating to people younger than me.
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So what people would be like? Well, how you able to interact
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with younger people, but you're older.
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I've been dealing with this my whole life.
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So you did. This is what came out of it.
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And then I would touch on street culture.
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I never understood the street culture until I became a
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preteen. Long Beach is like a beautiful
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city. We got east side, West side,
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north side, downtown. There's no such thing as a South
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side. We just call it downtown.
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I come out to East Side and to me it's all family, everybody's
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kin to some type of way and far as the West, some people was
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originally West side, then migrated to the east, then the
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ones that's from the north migrated out there for better
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life. So St. culture wise, it's a all
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blue city as everybody know. But even know that it's
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sectioned off by sides. Everybody is kin and knows
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somebody in a roundabout way, whether if it's a cousin, a
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sibling going to school with one another, you know, it's like
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it's one of those cities where it's like everybody's a huge
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family. But certain things happen in
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certain eras that establish a difference, a separation and it
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still goes on to this day. So next I will speak on
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neighborhood lessons. Neighborhood lessons I learned
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was stand on your, stand your ground.
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Stick to whatever it is that you said.
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If you could say it once, you can say it twice.
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Don't do nobody wrong because karma.
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Don't skip a beat. And also be you the best way you
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can and know how, because when you try to imitate and be
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somebody that you're not in my era growing up and before my.
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Era. That was known as being fake in
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a poser, and you'll get exposed immediately.
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Today's time, from what I'm seeing, is cool.
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I can't rock with it, but it's cool.
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I don't understand it, but those are neighborhood lessons that I
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learned growing up. And don't take no lift from
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anybody because people got miles and they're going to run it all
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day. But everything stops when things
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get serious, whether it's a physical and it's always when it
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gets a physical matter or as a fist fight, that's when that
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whole, oh, I was just playing. So that right there contests a
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person's mental along with the physical because everybody signs
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each other up to see what they can do to one another.
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But those was the lessons that I still hold true in value to this
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day. And the number one that I have
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forgot to mention was not to be a tattletale.
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Cause being a tattletale, even though it occurs all the time in
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today's era, but my, my era, an elder that was a no, no.
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Even your elders and your family knew it's a no no.
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So I don't know what happened from then to now, but it seemed
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to be acceptable. But that's a whole nother, a
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whole nother story and concept on that.
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And then we're gonna touch on survival mindset, living in Long
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Beach in a greater LA area from the early 90s all the way up, I
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would say to the mid 2000s. When you go outside, I don't
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care what it is that you doing or got planned for that day.
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You're going to deal with so much.
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You don't deal with people try to get over on you, scam you,
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bangers, prostitutes, police, It's just a whole lot you.
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There's no guarantee if you're going to make it be alive that
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day. People that was from these eras
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and I'm not just speaking from olden times.
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I don't even speaking up to now today, even though the
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internet's involved. But if people will listen and
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watch this episode, they don't know what I'm talking about.
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You can be fresh to death. You can have a whole good vibe.
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Soon as you walk outside, it's on and cracking until you make
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it back to the crib. You can have no job and have a
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full-fledged story of so much activity to where it's like you
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burnt out just from one day, no cap.
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So survival mindset, you got to be mindful where you're at at
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all times. You got to know where you're
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going. You have to know what territory
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you're heading into and you have to know who you're dealing with.
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Now my mindset even still to this day that even though I'm in
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the South, I'm in Tennessee, but I still have that mindset.
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I can't let go the paranoia of people do stuff.
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So I understand that the culture and where I'm living at is
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different from what I'm used to. But I can't shake how I was
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raised and what was going on. Because it's like you being nice
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to me and everything, you being courageous on all this other
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stuff. I, I understand, but in the back
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of my mind it's like, are you going, you know what I'm saying?
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It's like, is he going to do something or because that's just
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what I'm used to. I'm not used to genuineness in
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all factions. So for me, I'll always have this
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survival mindset. It kept me all the way up to
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this age of 38. And I had a recent birthday on
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the 24th, but a March. So it's like a lot of people
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that lacks certain mindsets then make it up to this age.
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And it'd be a trip for me because sometimes I'll be
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strolling on social media. I see guys that's no longer here
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and I'll be looking at their kids and the the women they had
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kids with. And it's just be a trip.
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That how you can have a certain mindset as a teenager, a late
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teen in your early 20s and you'd be thinking like Dang, like this
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all life have to offer, but you never know how your life would
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turn out as you grow older. And I always think about that on
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a daily with them people that are not here because they never
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got to see how things is going to turn out for them because
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they live life so young and fast.
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So it's like, you know, damn if you do, damn if you don't.
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And for me, the street that taught me discipline.
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After my dad went away, my mom moved us out to the desert.
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I never understood why she did it.
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But as I grew older and moved back to the city and middle
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school around the 7th or 8th grade, I kind of see why she did
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what she did. Because if she would have raised
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us in the city, there's no telling how I would have turned
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out. There's no telling how my
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sisters would have turned out. So even then, she was looking
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out for our best interests back then.
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We just didn't realize it. So she was thinking long term as
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we was thinking of short term because we was only children.
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So how I learned this discipline was learning and seeing what I
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seen as a youngster, then going and intermingling when my dad's
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side of the family in Long Beach here and there.
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Then being around the youth. I went to Franklin Middle
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School, I went to Renaissance, and at Renaissance we had an
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influx of people from Compton, Watts, Los Angeles and Long
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Beach, San Pedro and Wilmington. So you have a big, diverse
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mixture of a whole lot of stuff. Oh yeah, and Carson.
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And all that in one school. The school's not that big.
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It's off 8th and Long Beach Blvd.
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We hung out on the corner. There's always tension flying
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with the ones that's older than us.
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Us as freshman's coming in, we not knowing what's going on, but
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stuff is going on. It's racial tension, it's pure
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violence and it's a whole lot of territorial going on all sides
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of Long Beach in the mix of this.
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So it's a lot to really think on a daily and you have to be
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mindful on who you dealing with, how you interacting with them
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and being cordial at the same time without being
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disrespectful. Because mind you, this is the
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early 2000s that I'm talking about.
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But I was outside before 2001. Thing that always stood with me
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was be who you are, say who you going to be and all this other
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stuff and you have any issues, deal with it right then and
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there. And if you said something, if
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you could say it once, you can say it twice.
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So that stuck with me too, all the way to now.
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But the way that I am is considered throwback.
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And. How it is in today's time, it's
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different. I understand that it's
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different, but I still hold those core values and which
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makes me what I feel like a stomp down, but it's still
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throwback. But the younger generation
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respected. It's just not used to it because
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it's not what they grew up seeing.
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They seen something totally different and they had the
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Internet. So discipline at an early age
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helped me to be who I am today. And then with me growing up in
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that era, there's a lot of black and brown conflict.
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So it was riots, murders, robberies, all kind of stuff in
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that era and a lot of people are just now coming home or been
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away since then all the way up to now, might be gone for a
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lifetime all day. So it really is a trip on how
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you live life in a certain era. You make choices in a certain
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era, but you don't think about the long haul in the situation
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and then bam, you dealt with the situation.
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So it's like it's a lot that I got to deal with.
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And then after all that, society changes on you inside and on the
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outside. So it's like you got to change
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everything and adapt to how the world is because you can be
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living in the 80s, but you got to keep your same mindset from
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the 80s or 70s or whatever era that you love and familiar with.
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But you got to adapt to how times are changing.
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Still keep your core values, but know how to adapt.
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Next, what the city taught me about identity.
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Like I had said, Snoop Dogg became the first person out the
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city to be recognized. And then of course he brought
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Warren G and Nadal. I won't say he brought them, but
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those 3 core values. So that right there lets me know
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that if they can make it in music, then I can make it doing
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something. Now you got Willie McGinnis,
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Mark Carrier, Herschel Dennis, I believe his name.
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He was a running back before Bush came into play.
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So you have football players that came out of Polly Long
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Beach. Really.
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You had James Jet that had to show Disney star Cameron Diaz.
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She went to Polly. So you have a lot of culture and
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my city is known as an international city.
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So identity is pretty much all on you on how do you want to be
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who you are and how you want to represent yourself and don't
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have to be about St. culture. But at the end of the day, he's
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still a man and you got to know how you want to be known and
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whatever reputation you want to portray or however you want to
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be, just be that because that's what the city taught me and my
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early dreams in life. I wanted to be a professional
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wrestler because I was a fan of wrestling in my early years
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past. Time went on, I grew into like
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in sports, I played football, basketball, my main sport was
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football. So after the wrestling thing
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died out, I wanted to be a professional football player.
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But my high school years was all over the place and once
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structured. So that dream kind of died out
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when certain things didn't pan out.
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And I don't want to get too descriptive on it, but a whole
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lot happens. So it just didn't pan out.
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So from there, I wanted to become a graphic designer then
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because I took a class in high school on graphic designing on
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Photoshop and Final Cut Pro back then.
00:25:23
And all that stuff that I learned back then I'm utilizing
00:25:25
right now. So there's no telling on what it
00:25:28
is that you learned in school. You may eventually use it as you
00:25:34
grow older. So that it was my early dreams
00:25:40
and now I'm an entrepreneur college grad and I don't had
00:25:46
jobs in my career field is working with juveniles.
00:25:50
So what I wanted out of life was to be successful stability and
00:25:59
be able to do what I want to do. And even back then in high
00:26:03
school, that's what I was pretty much working towards.
00:26:06
So as life went on and being teenage, learning things on my
00:26:13
own with no guidance or anything like that, I just learned how to
00:26:18
navigate and adapt. I had a lot of people that gave
00:26:21
me advice all the way on this journey to my uncles, my mom and
00:26:26
dad side to cousins, older guys in the neighborhood, females,
00:26:34
relatives and friends. A whole lot of people if they
00:26:38
ever see this episode, I hear this episode, just know that I
00:26:44
had always listened to y'all. It's just I move on my time and
00:26:49
that's how I've pretty much been navigating life this whole time.
00:26:53
So the visuals that I'll be showing on clips and stuff, 11th
00:27:00
and Martin Luther King was known as bedrock growing up.
00:27:03
So that was my first address. So that's why I have it on
00:27:06
certain graphics to represent where I'm from, the city and a
00:27:11
particular area, area where I'm from and my first address and
00:27:15
low riding, that's the West Coast thing.
00:27:17
So LA, you know, they do it on Broadway Crenshaw.
00:27:21
I show it on some of my TikTok lives.
00:27:23
The the low rider I posted on my stories on social media with
00:27:27
Facebook and Instagram. So I like low riders because my
00:27:31
dad low ride and it's a West Coast culture.
00:27:34
The West Coast energy is always library.
00:27:37
You know what I'm saying? When I came down to the South,
00:27:39
they couldn't understand my energy because it's so different
00:27:43
from what they're used to. But how I am is how I am and
00:27:48
with it, you know what I'm saying?
00:27:50
So I'm a say what I want, I'm a do what I want and I'm feeling
00:27:55
whatever I'm feeling at that moment.
00:27:57
And not only that's the West Coast of me, but that's the
00:28:00
Aries in me too. So if I could say it once, I
00:28:03
could say it twice with no problem.
00:28:05
So that's how I've been living life.
00:28:07
Ain't never had no problems, no issues.
00:28:09
And everybody pretty much got the gist of what it is.
00:28:12
And why these visuals is still live in my brand is because it
00:28:20
raised me. It grounded me, and it's
00:28:24
something that I can't shake and that I'd like to display it
00:28:28
through the brand because a lot of people can relate to it.
00:28:31
You know, people from Long Beach, they know about 11th and
00:28:34
Martin Luther King in the 80s and early 90s and all that.
00:28:38
And there was just a lot going on in society at that time.
00:28:42
It's so many stories on stuff that I can't really get into,
00:28:47
but the people that was there know what I'm talking about.
00:28:50
So that is why I pray so much to the city because even though
00:28:58
certain days was bad, I had a lot of thoughts of like, you
00:29:05
know, just that's just not it. That's not how life supposed to
00:29:10
be. I'm just not feeling it.
00:29:12
But you know, I just in them bad days, I learned a lot.
00:29:18
So it's like I can't knock it. It made me to who I am today and
00:29:25
everybody seemed to function with it.
00:29:26
So I can't really get mad at that.
00:29:30
So the next segment we're going to get into family influence and
00:29:35
father lessons. Now I'm going to talk about my
00:29:40
dad influence. My dad influence is only short
00:29:44
because he wasn't there in that long.
00:29:48
He spent about two years as an adult in society and he was gone
00:29:52
for a long period of time. Then he came home in 2019 and
00:29:59
his influence was, you can say negative, but it was he was
00:30:09
living in his era. So I can't get mad at a person
00:30:12
that's living in the era. So it's like, should I judge him
00:30:17
for not being there or be like a he was living a certain
00:30:23
lifestyle and it is what it is and he learned the game late on
00:30:30
how to change and all that other stuff.
00:30:31
There's nothing wrong with it, but he learned at the end of the
00:30:34
day. So with me, it's like as I was
00:30:39
growing older, seeing certain things on what was going on and
00:30:43
all that other stuff, and I still communicated with him from
00:30:47
the 4th grade to all the way up to his release and letters and
00:30:51
stuff like that. So I want to say he raised me in
00:30:55
there, but we always had communication and stuff like
00:30:58
that. So I can't really say too much
00:31:03
negative, but it's like, I understand what he'd be saying
00:31:10
to me because he had confessions with me on certain things and
00:31:14
all this other stuff. And he is my #1 fan of this
00:31:17
podcast and he kind of understands and likes what I'm
00:31:22
doing. It kind of put a smile on my
00:31:25
face because I'm not used to having my dad around and calling
00:31:31
and all that stuff. Even though he been out since
00:31:33
2019. I'm just like not used to that,
00:31:36
you know, a lot of people that didn't grow up with their dad,
00:31:38
they kind of understand, you know, it's kind of like
00:31:40
something to really get used to. And but it's not the negative
00:31:44
though. And the low rider memories.
00:31:48
Now I wasn't around when he actually had a low rider, but I
00:31:53
just like the culture because it brings everybody together.
00:31:57
And then LA well, LA culture Long Beach saw the same thing.
00:32:02
Everybody want to floss on one another.
00:32:04
Everybody want to have the flies with everybody want to do
00:32:06
something they never do, never done try to do it, I'll do the
00:32:10
next person. Oh, I'm got this custom.
00:32:12
So even it's like that with our fashion, you know what I'm
00:32:14
saying? Like everybody trying to outdo
00:32:15
one another. That's why everybody outside of
00:32:18
the LA culture love what we do because we so authentic and
00:32:22
everything that we do. Lopes, hat, shirt, chain, all
00:32:30
that. Even with all this, they ain't
00:32:33
never seen that like this before.
00:32:35
And I'm the first one in my family to do any of this stuff.
00:32:38
So I'm learning as I go and they watching me and I know they're
00:32:42
proud of me 'cause they be watching from a distance.
00:32:45
So I'll be seeing y'all and I appreciate what y'all be doing
00:32:49
and I understand that y'all don't know how to respond to
00:32:51
what I'm doing, but just know that I do be seeing what y'all
00:32:56
be doing. And then all that of growing
00:33:00
out, growing up in Long Beach, the greater LA area, and in
00:33:04
Lancaster, CA, I still was disciplined and the whole time,
00:33:11
even going to school out of discipline, even playing
00:33:14
football, discipline, regular life discipline.
00:33:18
My mom just had to show me things once or twice.
00:33:21
I pretty much got it. I was disciplined at a young
00:33:23
age. So a lot of people then
00:33:25
understand me then, but as time went on they seen I was very
00:33:31
structured at that particular time.
00:33:34
And that's just DNA written. And you know, how he moved was
00:33:42
very reckless. He wasn't a crash out, but he
00:33:47
was just a fan of the lifestyle so.
00:33:51
It's like talking to. Him, I see a lot of me in him,
00:33:57
which I never knew. And then hearing how my
00:34:00
grandfather is, it's like that generational thing.
00:34:03
It's just like, Dang, this is really a trip how we all the
00:34:05
same, which is different because we grew up in different eras and
00:34:09
we live and grow up differently. But that core DNA written is
00:34:14
like extinct, like the same. And it's really a trip to see it
00:34:19
in real time. And you know, per usual, I
00:34:24
learned a lot of lessons from my grandmothers and elders on how
00:34:28
to treat women, how to be an adult, respectful and respect
00:34:34
elders. To this day, I still do not
00:34:37
curse in front of people that's older than me.
00:34:41
And that's pretty much was installed in me at a young age
00:34:43
too. So you can might be a year older
00:34:46
than me, some months older than me automatically.
00:34:50
I'll give you that respect for just because you're older than
00:34:53
me, I might not agree on everything that you're talking
00:34:55
about, but just off the RIP, I'll give you that respect.
00:34:59
And how love was shown was gifts, food, birthday parties,
00:35:07
celebrations. That's pretty much how love was
00:35:09
shown. It wasn't really spoken much,
00:35:12
but actions spoke louder than words.
00:35:14
So that's how love was given back in them days, letting us
00:35:17
watch Power Rangers cartoons, let us go outside and play, let
00:35:24
us go to the beach, let us, you know, just being kids really in
00:35:30
the 90s. So that's how love was shown.
00:35:33
Let me ride with them to the store or whatever.
00:35:36
Just ride around, you know, it's just like, that's all, you know,
00:35:43
love was Shawn back in them days.
00:35:45
And maybe a trip how like how you grew up, you can remember
00:35:50
all them things, but as time goes on, it's like, Dang, you
00:35:57
really don't know how good you got it.
00:35:58
But as per usual, people grow older, they have their own
00:36:02
lives, they do what they want to do.
00:36:04
And it's just like, you know, everybody's living catch up on
00:36:08
more and more. But you know, we're going to get
00:36:11
back to it. So this will give y'all a lot of
00:36:17
invest in how I am. So you understand the roots, you
00:36:23
understand how I grew up, you understand my not so much
00:36:26
lifestyle but my mindset. So life before we legit now
00:36:35
coming into adulthood. Now when I graduated, well, I
00:36:39
ain't really graduated from high school.
00:36:41
I dropped out my senior year. I went to adult school and got a
00:36:45
GEDI got a job working at a grocery store.
00:36:49
Then eventually I got into real estate and end up getting my own
00:36:52
place. Then from there, I had lost a
00:36:56
place due to the real estate market crashing.
00:36:59
So I had to move back in with my mom, which I hated and I was
00:37:03
just hating life. It's hard to move live with
00:37:06
somebody after you had your own like 3 months after high school
00:37:10
I had my own place. So I was doing a lot at a young
00:37:14
age and a lot of people didn't understand the hustle and the
00:37:20
structure. I didn't even understand at that
00:37:22
time in O 6. But it was good to have that
00:37:27
experience early on. So as you can see, as time went
00:37:31
on, I learned from each lesson as time went on.
00:37:36
And then all through all those times, you know, I learned
00:37:40
routine, I learned work ethic and jobs that I had, I learned
00:37:45
how to stay focused. And I never really tripped off
00:37:49
getting promoted because as long as I got paid, I know how to
00:37:52
manage the dough flow. And as long as the raise came
00:37:54
into the mix, I know how to manage the dough flow.
00:37:57
So that's how I pretty much structured myself from my late
00:38:04
teens all the way up to now. And as I said last season, the
00:38:08
first business I really want to do was on a laundry mat.
00:38:12
But at that time I didn't really know anything about business.
00:38:16
I had no education in it. The Internet wasn't nothing like
00:38:20
how it is now. I think at the time we only had
00:38:23
Myspace and then you had like the little phone apps, you know,
00:38:27
like Mocospace and photo chatter, some something I can't
00:38:32
remember, you know, we had them Boost Mobile phones.
00:38:35
So that's they weren't even apps.
00:38:36
It was like a website on the phone.
00:38:37
So it was like different, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:41
So that's how I couldn't really get into what I need to get
00:38:46
into. And I wasn't thinking about
00:38:49
going to school for business. I want to know think about going
00:38:51
to school period. I just want to get a decent job
00:38:53
and just, you know, live. But as you grow older, your
00:38:57
mindset change certain things you want to have and you know,
00:39:00
you got to make sacrifices and life changes to get what you
00:39:04
need to get. So that came with working long
00:39:09
shifts, getting off late, you know, feeling unseen because you
00:39:13
know, it's like I had a job with my peer groups.
00:39:17
They didn't have jobs or nothing like that.
00:39:19
They was out doing what they was doing.
00:39:22
So some of it was good, some of it was bad.
00:39:25
So with my mind said, you know, I had a parent that's already
00:39:27
been gone for years called a life sentence in 94.
00:39:33
So my whole thing was not to be like that.
00:39:38
That's what my grandmother's installed on me, not to be like
00:39:41
that. So even though society is saying
00:39:44
if you're not doing what we're doing, you considered an
00:39:47
outsider or outcast, but it's like, alright, I'll be all that.
00:39:52
It's cool, you know, I ain't really tripping.
00:39:54
But as time went on, the ones that indulge in a lot of that
00:39:58
stuff and the ones that didn't indulge in a lot of that stuff,
00:40:03
they're, they're really realizing that they seen the
00:40:06
vision. Of what was going to go on
00:40:09
beforehand because I had experience of it with a relative
00:40:13
or parent. So and some people might had
00:40:16
that parent in their life, but still chose to do follow the
00:40:19
same footsteps that generational curse.
00:40:22
So you got generations of people in and out those institutions,
00:40:28
whether it's state, county, federal, juvenile, mental, it's
00:40:33
a consistency in that. So me seeing that, it's like I
00:40:39
had to make a change the best way I can.
00:40:41
And then I had a relative that I had stayed with until I got my
00:40:45
apartment and he used to give me a lot of life lessons and tell
00:40:48
me a whole lot of stuff and how to change the family dynamic.
00:40:51
You know, I had a uncle named Joe RIP.
00:40:56
He was on infinite influent infant, infant influential, if I
00:41:02
pronounce that correctly. In all this too 'cause he gave
00:41:05
me a lot of words of advice, Cone Daddy gave me a lot of
00:41:09
advice. He gave me a hard life lesson
00:41:11
when I was 18 and ever since then I still keep that
00:41:17
conversation in the back of my mind on decision making and what
00:41:20
I need to do. So all that was being taught to
00:41:25
me in my early 20s, but I didn't leave California till I was
00:41:31
about 26. Going on 27.
00:41:34
It's pretty much 2015 now when I graduated college, you know, I
00:41:38
was trying to get jobs in California, but it just wasn't
00:41:41
rocking for me. So at that time I was thinking
00:41:43
like, Dang, you know, I think it wasn't meant for me to be out
00:41:45
here like that. So I went out of state, went to
00:41:48
Arizona, Vegas. It was cool, but it I just want
00:41:53
to dig in it because they was trying to have me out different
00:41:56
areas and they weren't really rocking wet at that time.
00:42:01
So, but as life went on, I was at the my, I was living with my
00:42:09
grandmother and this commercial came on there and they said the
00:42:13
California dream is in Texas. And they said in Texas, you
00:42:16
know, if you come here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:42:18
I looked at that. I was like, let me look.
00:42:20
Into that I went check the Internet out.
00:42:23
I seen that they had jobs and stuff like that in Texas and I
00:42:28
was like, OK, so I live, did my research and I was like, OK, I
00:42:33
can do this. It looked cool out there.
00:42:36
So I went to Amarillo. A buddy of mine, we drove out
00:42:39
there, I passed the test and everything.
00:42:43
Then they said they'll call me back.
00:42:45
They never did. So then I applied for another
00:42:51
gig working with kids and they hit me up, had a phone
00:42:57
interview, everything was cool. All I had to do was go out
00:43:00
there, pass a psycho psychological test.
00:43:03
I was in there. And ever since then, it kind of
00:43:07
changed my life and how my thought process or how it is
00:43:10
being around kids, working with kids, I'm not the curse how to
00:43:13
be like a role model to somebody younger than me in a different
00:43:18
situation. So even working with kids, it
00:43:21
kind of structured me in a different way to how to interact
00:43:27
with people younger than me. And it still works to this day.
00:43:31
So younger people I can relate to because it's like I
00:43:35
understand how I was growing up and you know, it's like I can't
00:43:40
get mad at how they're living their life because sometimes it
00:43:45
just wasn't taught. So like I said, them same
00:43:50
generational curses will keep on going and going until somebody
00:43:54
change it. So that's how my journey have
00:43:59
came about coming down here to the South and how the we legit
00:44:06
thing came about was, you know, I didn't get promoted when I had
00:44:11
transition from Texas to Tennessee and I'm I didn't get a
00:44:15
promotion 1 badder, better one even tripping.
00:44:18
So the Nipsey had passed recently in that time frame and
00:44:25
he said how he got into the business world was he sold
00:44:27
shirts. And what I was doing, it was so
00:44:30
easy. So I was like, I'll start me a
00:44:33
business. I'd be like my second job, just
00:44:34
give me something to do. And I was looking at websites on
00:44:39
how to build a clothing T-shirt store and I was like, OK, I
00:44:47
didn't have no idea, but I like stuff with glasses because, you
00:44:49
know, I wear the logs and stuff. So I go into the stores I was
00:44:53
looking at like designs. I can't rock, but I can't rock
00:44:56
with this. So I realized, you know, it's
00:44:58
like I can't relate how to style it change.
00:45:01
So I was like. What in the Hank I come?
00:45:04
Up with and I was just sitting there thinking.
00:45:06
I was like wheel and shit and. It was nothing to it or anything
00:45:10
like that. It's just wheel legit.
00:45:11
It was just something different. And then I told a cousin of mine
00:45:16
I used to live with the whole blueprint.
00:45:19
And he was like, man, that's kind of cool.
00:45:20
And he said, kind of go along with how you been rocking, you
00:45:24
know, from your late teens all the way up to the age that I was
00:45:30
in my early 30s. So the concept was like.
00:45:37
I've been legit for. Years, you know what I'm saying,
00:45:40
But I still hold values as a man because, you know, it's like I
00:45:46
don't fall for a whole lot of stuff because I know my history,
00:45:50
I know my background. So it's like it's kind of hard
00:45:53
to as in society, you know, St. society, you know, get over on
00:45:57
me, you know, so I'm not really pushed over and if you did get
00:46:00
over on me, I just let it happen.
00:46:03
So it wasn't like just something I wasn't really thinking about,
00:46:08
you know, just certain some things just have to happen.
00:46:10
You know what I'm saying? Can't control everything.
00:46:13
So I came with the concept and all that other stuff and then I
00:46:18
just sat on it. Then the pandemic happened.
00:46:20
Then I got into a relationship and this girl was talking about,
00:46:23
you know, business or whatever. And I had told her my concept
00:46:27
and she was like, you know, you got a good concept and you know,
00:46:31
you should really. Put some effort into, you know
00:46:36
what it is that you about to do. So I listened to her.
00:46:41
I was like, you know what, I'm gonna give it a shot.
00:46:43
So I did my research on everything.
00:46:47
My brother made two designs for me, paid them for it, and then
00:46:55
we're about to launch, but we had no equipment.
00:46:59
So I'm learning, watching YouTube videos, learning how to
00:47:03
do this and that. And then I just wasn't like
00:47:06
ready. Like I had got the LLC in August
00:47:09
2021, but I just wasn't ready because when I do stuff, I want
00:47:13
everything to be like in order. So I sat on it again.
00:47:19
Then on trials and tribulations and relationship, things happen,
00:47:23
you know, and it just didn't work out.
00:47:25
So I was back at square one when the equipment was gone, she was
00:47:30
gone. So it was just me to myself and
00:47:34
I just rocked everything out. So that's how it turned into
00:47:41
what it turned into. But the hardest season while
00:47:47
creating all this was exhaustion because you know, I'm working
00:47:54
then I'm working on the company. So I had to learn how to do
00:47:57
that. And mind you, you know what I'm
00:47:59
saying? I'm building from the ground up.
00:48:00
So there's nobody with me to help me with like, oh, that's a
00:48:05
good like it was none of that. So it's not so much loneliness,
00:48:10
but I'm doing all this on my own.
00:48:12
To me, it's no pressure, but it's like I just don't know how
00:48:16
to navigate. So I'm just learning everything
00:48:20
on the fly the best way I can. And as far as relationships, I
00:48:24
had no business relationships or anything.
00:48:27
So I'm just doing this and just like learning as I go.
00:48:31
I had to take trust in people and learn how to balance work,
00:48:35
doing content. I had to deal with self doubt.
00:48:38
I had to deal with a whole lot of stuff.
00:48:39
Even when my numbers was low starting out, I had to deal with
00:48:42
that and I still had to come up with concepts and push this on,
00:48:47
you know, the coding brand out at first.
00:48:50
So it's like that's, that's a lot.
00:48:53
And then you know, it's like I bet on myself, didn't know how
00:48:58
long it's going to take. I gave myself four years because
00:49:00
they said it takes anywhere from three to four years for it to
00:49:03
establish. So now.
00:49:05
I'm on in May of this year is my third year selling, but I've
00:49:09
been in business since 2021, May five years.
00:49:13
And then when I transitioned from Dallas to back to
00:49:19
Tennessee, but I went to Nashville though, so Nashville
00:49:23
didn't have like a the clue on what it is I was going to do.
00:49:30
So I was like, well, I'ma just do what I was doing in Dallas
00:49:35
and you know what I'm saying? And I'ma just rock it out in
00:49:37
Tennessee. I got family here.
00:49:39
I never really been around them like that within the same city.
00:49:43
And you know, I'ma just grow this concept out the best way I
00:49:46
can. So I came out here, did it, But
00:49:51
then let's see, six months of living in Nashville.
00:49:57
I got my first magazine interview from Nashville Voyage.
00:50:02
Then after that, that was my biggest sales since I've been in
00:50:06
business. That was 2024.
00:50:10
Then that came about. I had slow periods up and down.
00:50:14
It was still new and fresh, but I kept posting.
00:50:16
I kept being consistent and everything.
00:50:18
Then as time went on, people were seeing certain things.
00:50:22
I'll start elevating to going different routes, more hats,
00:50:27
making it, changing it, jacket jerseys, having certain outfits
00:50:33
to go with what I was wearing because I'm out the 80s and it's
00:50:36
all about being color coordinate when you go outside and 1:00 and
00:50:39
just having designer stuff like though, yeah, that match,
00:50:42
whatever it was used to, whatever it was you was wearing,
00:50:46
you had to match. So that's what that was all
00:50:48
about. So all I can say is being
00:50:54
consistent, doing what I was doing and staying on top of
00:50:57
everything that I was doing. It taught me that people saw the
00:51:03
merch, the clips, then eventually as time went on the
00:51:08
podcast, but they didn't see the nights.
00:51:13
I was mentally drained, still forcing myself to create.
00:51:17
So for me, I don't like to let up.
00:51:22
A lot of people know what I'm doing because in the past I
00:51:27
always seem when people try to do something, you know, whoever
00:51:31
they told tells certain things to, they try to tear them down.
00:51:35
So it's like, I will always try not to get too much information,
00:51:44
but I give a little snippet just to see the reaction.
00:51:47
But I will always be like, you know, just staying on top of
00:51:52
what I'm doing. So that's what came about.
00:51:58
But as y'all seen, as time went on, I transitioned to a lot of
00:52:03
different things and I'm really glad that it happened the way it
00:52:10
did. You know, I got younger
00:52:12
relatives to really look at certain things that I have done.
00:52:17
You can Google me, you can Google my first and last name,
00:52:20
Marquee Carter. A whole lot of stuff will pop
00:52:22
up. You can Google wheelie jet
00:52:24
clothing. Whole lot of stuff will pop up.
00:52:27
You can Google wheelie jet 16 story and hustle podcast.
00:52:31
A whole lot of stuff will pop up.
00:52:33
So to be honest with you, making that move from Dallas to
00:52:37
Tennessee, it it really worked out in the long run and I can't
00:52:45
I had no words for how everything turned out.
00:52:47
I'm just living in the moment and it's really cool.
00:52:54
You know, when I be going certain places out here in
00:52:56
Nashville, they be giving me like a double look, but they
00:52:58
don't say nothing. So it kind of let me know that
00:53:02
they probably seem like content and surprised I'm in the
00:53:05
establishment and they face and you know, they seeing it.
00:53:09
But to hear and say, if you want to do something, put your mind
00:53:17
into it, get your mind right and stay focused and go through
00:53:21
everything. Because some people already got
00:53:25
a hard life and some people got a hard job.
00:53:29
And if you want to be something, whatever it is that you choose
00:53:35
to do, all you gotta do is sacrifice anywhere to three to
00:53:38
four years. People do that all the time for
00:53:41
other people. But this is you banking and
00:53:45
betting on yourself that you know yourself better than
00:53:48
anybody. So it's just word food of
00:53:52
thought and words of encouragement to think about.
00:53:55
So we're going to shift into pain and the purpose.
00:54:03
Now I do storytelling because people say I need to speak more
00:54:09
when people, when I get to talking, people listen.
00:54:11
I don't know why they said my grandfather was like that when
00:54:14
he taught people listen. So I guess it ran down through
00:54:19
the bloodline. But storytelling for me, I just
00:54:23
like to tell stories and let people know that whatever it is
00:54:26
that they doing, they got going on.
00:54:28
It's not nothing bad. It's just experience in life
00:54:30
that you can give to your children or younger relatives
00:54:33
and, you know, keep their generational curse from
00:54:36
happening. So Deborah, doubt yourself on
00:54:40
what it is that you did or doing because life be lifing and life
00:54:47
experience is better than no experience.
00:54:50
So if you have experience and something you can learn and
00:54:55
teach others how not to do it, or if they're going through it,
00:55:00
you know how to talk to them while they're going through it.
00:55:03
And then people respect real stories, you know what I'm
00:55:08
saying? All that fabricated stuff on
00:55:10
things you heard and you're trying to imitate what you heard
00:55:14
and seen. And it's just not.
00:55:17
It's just too animated for me. If it ain't really genuine, I
00:55:20
can't rock with it. So I wouldn't be doing these
00:55:22
episodes and all this other stuff if it wasn't for real
00:55:25
experience that I have went through.
00:55:27
So that's another thing and why I started speaking more openly
00:55:36
is because I would tell little snippets of my life to certain
00:55:40
people and I was like, Dang, you went through all that.
00:55:41
I was like, yeah, then fate is it's like I'll be talking about
00:55:45
it like it's nothing, but it's like I spent a whole lot of
00:55:48
life. But it's certain things I can't
00:55:50
talk about. But it's I've been through a
00:55:54
lot. But and then, you know, my voice
00:55:58
represents a lot. It represents Long Beach.
00:56:01
It represents we legit, they represent this podcast and it
00:56:06
represent everything that I love.
00:56:08
So I have relatives, I have nieces and nephews and younger
00:56:13
generation. So I can't be on this Internet
00:56:15
being something that I'm not. So it's just things that you
00:56:20
just got to learn in life. So that's why that's what my
00:56:26
voice represents, being genuine, direct and real.
00:56:30
I always say I'll sound like the rocks Moses walked on.
00:56:34
Then that's a fact. And people that know me or been
00:56:39
around me, they're starting to see it.
00:56:43
Even then they seen it, but I just didn't see it.
00:56:45
But I ain't see it just now. I seen it years ago.
00:56:50
But the people that know me, they're starting to see and be
00:56:53
like, Dang, he was really sad that whole time.
00:56:56
But you know, as time go on, you know the truth will always come
00:57:00
out. They will always come out.
00:57:04
Then I figure why people want to see the man behind the business
00:57:14
because I do a lot, but I don't say a lot.
00:57:17
So for me, doing this episode is something that needed to be
00:57:23
done. A lot of people got a little
00:57:25
snippet of how I am and what I represent.
00:57:28
And I'm all about authenticity and being real and I don't do
00:57:34
the drama or anything like that, the toxicness, you know, if it's
00:57:38
anything of that nature, you know, I, I exit stage left
00:57:42
because I don't, I don't do all that.
00:57:44
And you know, if you being real and genuine and let me know
00:57:49
certain stuff that's going on that I can't, I can't judge you
00:57:53
on that because you was, you know, straight up.
00:57:55
So it's like I respect that a whole lot more.
00:58:00
So that's pretty much how how I am.
00:58:05
If you come at me straightforward, you know, I
00:58:07
respect it all day every day. So I can't complain.
00:58:10
So that's how it all just came about.
00:58:14
It really came from y'all, you know, the people because y'all
00:58:17
been supporting, sharing, reposting, looking, purchasing,
00:58:22
checking out my stuff. You know, I'm saying.
00:58:24
So it kind of it boosted a lot whether you know it or not.
00:58:28
But just remember, I realized my story wasn't just for me
00:58:35
anymore, it was for anybody trying to build caring invisible
00:58:41
weight. So I'm getting ready to close
00:58:46
this out. Man, it's been cool talking,
00:58:49
interacting as per usual. But just remember why we legit
00:58:59
is bigger than clothing, bigger than podcasting, bigger than the
00:59:04
content. What the future family should
00:59:09
remember, what my community should feel me, Marky Carter
00:59:17
represents in 10 years how to be an entrepreneur.
00:59:21
Stand your ground, bet on yourself and keep going even
00:59:26
when nobody's watching. It's all about consistency and
00:59:30
being true to who you are because people respect the story
00:59:34
and the individual, then they connect with the brand and the
00:59:38
company. So I always remember that.
00:59:41
So when it doesn't matter what you're doing, you can be an
00:59:46
individual that's in a negative lifestyle.
00:59:48
But if you that be that respect goes a long way because one
00:59:53
thing I learned working with them juveniles and them
00:59:56
institutions, when you lose your respect, you can't earn it
00:59:59
again. That's a fact.
01:00:02
So I'll leave it to where it's like if people remember anything
01:00:08
about me, I want them to know that I built something bigger
01:00:13
than myself from pain, from purpose, and from legacy.
01:00:18
So with that being said, I appreciate y'all for talking.
01:00:28
This journey with me tonight, whether you watch it or listen
01:00:33
to it, just remember I really appreciate everything that y'all
01:00:36
do. A lot of times people see the
01:00:39
brand, the merch, the podcast and the clips, the interviews,
01:00:46
but they don't always see the man behind the hustle.
01:00:52
Tonight I just wanted to give y'all a piece of the story that
01:00:59
built me from the east side of Long Beach to Nashville, TN to
01:01:06
build and we legit from the ground up.
01:01:10
Every lesson, every set back, every long shift that I have
01:01:15
worked, every lonely night here and there, but every moment of
01:01:24
doubt help shape the man that I am today.
01:01:29
And if there's one thing I want people to take from this episode
01:01:36
is your pain can become purpose, your set back can become
01:01:45
strategy, and the seasons that almost break you can become the
01:01:52
foundation of your legacy. We legit was never just about
01:02:01
clothing. It was about podcasting.
01:02:07
It was always about ownership, growth, storytelling and
01:02:13
building something bigger, bigger than myself.
01:02:17
So this episode connected with you in any way.
01:02:23
Share it with somebody who's still grinding while nobody's
01:02:28
watching. Because sometimes the quiet
01:02:31
seasons are the ones building the loudest legacy.
01:02:37
And I am m.carter, the man behind the hustle.
01:02:42
Y'all. Stay focused, stay hungry, stay
01:02:47
building. 'Cause this is we legit.
01:02:51
Y'all enjoy y'all knife?