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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You ready for consetti. But we sounded like, hey, wal.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, well you know what that means, hey man,
let's get back to it.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome back to the black market, let's get to.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The bell means that mean it's money on the floor.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That means it's money to get.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Bring it.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We love us and money and prosperity and things of
that nature.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Means to grab my one sheet to let them know,
lookig you a camera.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Tell them who we got in here with us today?
You know your day one?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes, Hi, I go by the name of Flaka. I
am an entrepreneur. I have my own brand, me and
your host and yeah, all around creative.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
All around creative. Now give them the backs story. Tell
them about your history with the A five South show.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Wow. So it's so crazy. I'm lowkey like a day one.
I've literally I met you guys back in twenty sixteen.
When you guys were in this it was like a
small little area of brick wall.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yep, that was Steve Harvest Studio. You was an individual.
Well that go all the way back before the brick wall.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That was Steve Harvest. Oh that was the brick wall
studio came after.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
After and then oh, my goodness, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Studio, that's that's literally the ground.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah yeah, so I'll just watch you guys grow like
from like I said, they won't watch you guys grow.
And I'm so proud of you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It's just so amazing to see them. I just came
through the amazingness of you guys. Just the growth. I
just love it. It was so pure and organic and just
you guys being yourselves, and it just grew to an.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Empire, the whole empire. Yeah, we're sitting in the whole
studio right now, whole studio surrounded by greatness. What you're
bringing up today?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
So today I brought my brand called Stay Positive. It's
about living life, staying positive, not laying negativity, getting away
and following your dreams. So it's basically I promote positivity
through closing.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's what's up. I'm digging. I'm digging the fits.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You like that? Yeah, whatever you want you have on
the table for real? Yes, yes, even this little fuzzy Yes, yes,
that's that's one of my Everybody loves that one.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Everybody go gradsy for that. That's cheek.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, you know, he loves a good fuzzy hair.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
So it was nice, nice and fuzzy for a most Definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
What's some of the inspirations behind some of these things?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
So my grandma, I love her so much. She's always
been a positive person. She's the most positive person to
this day that I've ever met in my life. Like
you going hilt out to Grandma, shout to Grandma, and
like when I'm going through stuf, She's like, yo, you know,
you gotta stay positive. And also what people know a
lot of people don't know about me is I was
a nurse aid for like eight years. I love science.
(03:05):
I love anatomy. I just like taking care of people.
I love like people in general. And because I love
science so much. Okay, so bear with me, like we said,
bear with me now, Okay. So in the atom, it's
a nucleus ouse actually, I gotta tell you so. So
it's the nucleus and within the nucleus there's protons, neutrons,
(03:28):
and electrons. And within that the protons they only are
in the center and they focus on the protons and
neurons so they stick together. The electrons exactly, electrons is
surrounding them. It's negative energy surrounding them. So even though
they're positive. The negative energy is always surrounding them, but
they never interact, and if they ever do, the positive
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protons are heavier and mess so they crush the negative energy.
So that's how I got it. I know that's so
corny and like nerdy and gee, but.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's I know.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But I'm able to follow because I just took a
chemistry you did.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Were talking about protrons.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know neutrons is neutral.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Neutral, They don't they don't hurt nobody. They just absolutely
to be outside. Just don't yep, exactly, go right back
when the lights for lights come on.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
On the block. Yeah, look, where can they go support?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And where can they get some of these flash items
that you brought.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You can't take none of this with you?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, okay, you got it, you got it. They can
follow me flock of land, or they can go on
stay positive ink dot com, Stay Positive i n c
dot com to support the movement and the brand.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now I've seen you from Jersey. Yes, you got to schedules.
We got Jersey. I know.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
People they all gonna come all.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's what's up.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They they love for in my family, their their comedians
that they would they would pull up.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I've never seen no Haitian commedi Oh yeah, except for like.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Three my family the only own restaurant there. So if
you didn't catering Jersey, it is a Haitian soul food yep.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, and we plugged in all over.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
We got y'all. We got y'all.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Tell Flocker Center, please do what brought you to Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, honestly, my mom, when I was younger, moved down here,
So why.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Do you make that face? Like, honestly, no.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Not even that, not even that. You know what it
was the reason why, you know, the reason why behind it.
We were down here. It was out of our control.
So it's just like, that's why I gotta stay positive.
But yeah, I was I was young, you know, it
was out of my control and we just came down
here and made the best out of it. And I
love it here. I'm so happy. I'm so happy I
(05:45):
live in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm glad you said there because at first she was
like memory.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Like, oh, that's why I came here, But no, I
was young, me and my mom and my brothers and
we just came down here and it's beautiful ever since.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
What's your journey been like with you know, being a
young creative black woman starting a brand, a business.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Exactly the journey. The journey's been ups and downs, allyops
and all around. But what I can say is that
it's taught me a lot about entrepreneurship. And I'm, like
I said, I'm thankful for Atlanta because coming here, I
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feel like Atlanta's the black mecca. It's the Wakanda of
the South. So I'm just thankful to be in the
I guess, yeah, like the the mecca of the blackness.
So I'm just happy about that. But I'm learning so much,
And like I said, the journey's been ups and downs
and just a learning process, especially being a black woman.
(06:51):
Like in my space, it can be hard because you know,
it's a man's world, corny as it seems like I
feel like with certain things. But his perseverance, standing in
ten toes, down standing on business, Yeah, yeah, consistency, you know,
boundaries and yeah, all that that's important.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You got you gotta you gotta establish your boundaries.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
People will do anything.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Try you, they will the right.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What advice do you have to the young black creators
who may who may be watching this the future.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
What would you say to them for the future, I
would say stay consistent and don't look around what's happening
around you and the people that's having around you, because
they all had a beginning and yours is just the start.
So I would just tell them to just stay consistent,
keep up the work. There will be hard times, but
they don't last forever. They might last longer than you
want to, but they don't last forever. And just stay
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focused and stay true to who you are.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Grandma would be so proud of you. Grandma would be
so proud. Let them know where they can go and
support and shop.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah. So it's stay positive, ink that stay positive, I
n C. And also I want to tell you about
I had a pop up shop in Ghana. Okay, yeah,
so my pop up shop it was amazing. So yeah, yeah, honestly,
have you ever been to Ghana? No, you need to go.
Please come in December.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
For two years.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Please please listen to Chigo because it's amazing and it's
so funny. There there capital which is a cry it
It literally is the original Atlanta. Let me explain. Let
me so literally, they got they got the support, they
got the random people when you pull up to the club.
Wherever you are, you got random people tell you where
(08:45):
to park, you got the scammers, you got the supporters,
you got the the blackness, of course. But it's just
I was there, and I stay in my stay a
couple of weeks, A.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Couple of weeks, not a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
A couple of weeks. I just felt I just felt
so at home. Like when you I feel like every
black black American should go to Africa, and I I
was never one of the I'll be honest, I've never
wanted a type of said I want to go to Africa,
but when I was there, I didn't want to come back.
It just it just makes you feel like your home.
Like it's just like an inner body experience that tells
you that you're home. And it's just everywhere around you
(09:20):
just see like beautiful blackness, like just gorgeous people like
you know, we're we're just we're beautiful, you know what
I'm saying. It's just like seeing that that all around you.
And then like I said, you have like a anybody experience,
like you'll just be somewhere and just like wow, like
we really were like yeah, like we're really here. Yeah.
So it was with ten other uh streetwear brands reached
(09:44):
out to and they were all like, amazing, and they're
the streetwear there is. It's it's amazing. That's so it
really felt, it really felt amazing to be there and
everybody there are just they're just so welcoming.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Really, so let me ask you this, you were in
you were in Ghana and you having this anybody experience.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yes, I do something. I don't know what it was,
but it activated something and it was just so powerful.
And Two, I would also suggest to kind of be
like a do like an educational day. Go to Cape Coast,
go to I forgot the tower. I know, I mean
(10:35):
the castle, the white the white castle, but that's the
one and done thing on the point of the return door
with the slaves. It it can really mess you, mess
you up, like, but it's it's good to know. I
would never go back to that castle game, but I
needed to go there and just seeing how where we
come from and just going different parts of a cry
(10:55):
uh just yeah, just just seeing and living and being
in the food you like. No, see, I'm not a
spicy girl either, so I can tell you some places
where they don't have the spice because ganis they'll say
you something's notice spicy and your tongue will fall off.
But you would like, I think you like. Pull out
Beach Club, get their chicken burgers. They're not spicy at all,
(11:17):
and see the nice views of the beach. Get you
a little drink because everything is there. Our dollar bill,
our one dollar is point seven eight, so one hundred
dollars a thousand dollars a thousand cities of their money
is only seventy eight dollars of our money a thousand cities.
It's only seventy eight dollars of their money. That's why
(11:37):
I sit in my stay. I was getting at Airbnb's
for like fifteen dollars a night and you can live.
When I was there for like a month last year,
I spent eight hundred, just eight hundred US dollars in
total for the month. Well that's took so I was.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Just shopping and food and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, but I'm just a girl there. So you know,
when I'm out, I'm getting drinks, I'm getting the stuff.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm just a man.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, we're just a man.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Your father at ain't.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's been like a thousand for a month, one thousand
and fifteen hundred for the month.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Okay for a month. I ain't staying no much.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Until Okay, I'm just saying I.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Can't go nowhere and stay for the month.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm telling you, it's it's so much like Atlanta. It's
so much like Atlanta. It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm gonna go check them out.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, just for two weeks. I'm going at least two weeks.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
At least two weeks because that's the longest.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I'm a don't know, I'm a three day and I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm telling you you're not. You're not gonna if you
go in December. You're not gonna want just leave three days.
I heard it's too eventful. It's you don't get any sleep. No, see,
they're five out four hours behind.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You had me until you said that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Now, but it's so much fun. You'll be having fun
and then you look up this party.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I am oh baby, I am old is going to
bed now.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you're gonna love it there. Yeah,
but I think you're like.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
All right, well you have done enough for selling me
on between Yeah, most definitely tell them where they could
shot with you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, so please please shop with me at stay Positive Inc.
Dot com. Stay Positive I n C. Follow me on
my socials block of LAMB F l O c k
A land like a piece of land, Uh, Stay positive,
I n C. And I also have a new show
that's coming out tomorrow called Flockers World. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
What's the concept?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So the concept is really, I really just got tired
of seeing certain shows. Of course, not all interviews and
of course like that because you know, I love me,
I love me some eighty five South Black, you know,
and I really appreciate you guys. Even when I I
was looking at the certain interviews. I love how you interview.
(13:52):
There's some people who don't look like us, acting us.
What are your top five rappers that are don't that
are alive? Jay z To? Is that third?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Just I was just tired of seeing those hearing those questions.
So what I did is, because I do know like
certain people that are artists, I'm just like, you know what,
I'm gonna come up with my own show that's nostalgic
and that's fun, and that just shows a different side
of these these artists and not just redundant questions like,
(14:21):
for example, like I'll ask somebody like if you are
on my show, I would ask you like, were you
ever the line leader in third grade? Like just random
fun questions that me either they said I was too tall. Yeah,
I would always be in the back and they would
have me cut off the light and close the door
because they said I was tall. So I'm just like, yeah,
(14:43):
I was grown people, I'm not gonna hope you I was.
I was like an average probably like eighteen year old
little board of grown man in the fifth grade.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah. So I was just like, let me.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Just I never got no special privileges.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
See, And that's that's the stuff I want to talk
about on my show.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I used to get put my desk used to get
put out the door.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
She look at you.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Now you know that one student, It was like, not bad,
but his desk was like right there.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
By the teacher.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I spent a whole semester like the teacher desk space,
like her desk is this way.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
My desk was literally right there.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And then once I got grown and I realized it
wasn't because I was bad. It was just the most
entertaining person in the class. And she wanted to make
sure that she could get those free laughs.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
So then like once she moved my little desk right there,
she thought I.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Was her personal assistance. So I used to have to pass.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Out papers and ship and then like get my candy
lass because she would like hook me up on the stand,
no special privileges, and then like I would run across
the school to drop some off at one of her homegirls.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Or some little sticky note. I ain't know the teacher
was homegirls. So I got grown. I'm thinking this official
school business.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
But I had made three four trips back and forth
passing notes, stopping by the library, getting the projected.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
So it wasn't like I was having fun at all. No,
no special privileges exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So it's just like see like stuff like that, Like
you see like that one question brought that out. It's
just like certain things that maybe your fans never knew
about you, and it's just funny, you know, just something
That's one thing.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I've been real selfish, but I don't be sharing a
lot of my personal with these people. I just let
them make up their own line so then when the
truth come out, they didn't look dumb as.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That's the thing, Like I tell all my I guess
that super personal family stuff off like I don't. I
don't touch that I touched like like stuff like we
just talked about. Like it's just really cool stuff that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Give me give me another one.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Let's see, I'm still thinking about school. So that's all
I'm thinking about. School was a fool? Did you ever?
Did you ever eat the cafeteria pizza in.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
The morning in the morning, I didn't. I wasn't a fool.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I wasn't a fan of a breakfast pieces. My favorite
breakfast would probably be the cinnamon role they had.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
These cinnamon rolls were in Mississippi, like we had.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Like our food was hitting different because we actually had
like black ladies.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
From the community's lunch ladies.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Like every school we always had the black lunch lady,
except for like in middle school, we had this one
white lady.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
She was cool as hell.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Oh we had yes, now she was on the hot side. Yeah,
like this big old glasses and she was friends with
Miss Hosy May and she used to make sure I
got extra slice of pieces.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Bro uh man. We had some dope ass lunch ladies
as school.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Chicken ten today chicken tend today. The whole school district, Bro, everybody,
everybody trying to come up with an extra dollar to
get them extra three chicken today.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Were crazy in the back with the f a big
deep fry from.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
People used to like, you know, people bring their lunch.
People used to sell their lunch just to be able
to get.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Extra chicken tenders.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Bro, I'm talking about big sewing, not chicken sell their
Oh man, it was so bad. At high school, they
made a rule where you could like on chicken ten today,
nobody even knew, like what chicken tend today was.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I think it was Wednesday. But some days they had
like a random Chicken tend today word to just get
around school.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
And then they had this rule whereas like you can't
run to the cafeteria no more.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You know what I mean. And then it's like people
will running and then the principal you standing in the hallway.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So then like when they get to the cafeteria, he'll
like make them stand there and watch everything they run out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Oh it was the best. He'll make them wait, yeah,
He'll make them wait till like so it was like
ten minutes left, and then they got to try to
get their food and eat right quick. That's horrible, oh man.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Then the principal, he was a big man, even a
big old stump.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
He used to he used to hang everybody up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And if he ever caught you with like some snacks,
he was taking them ships and do.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
It for him.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You coming to come to my office at the end
of the day and get them. And then you get
to the office and here like, oh I ate that.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
See was all for him, man.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
But I think he used to do it on purpose.
Like we was in middle school. He used to like
people like leave school like you.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Know, like right there at the end, and then like
run to the store and there try to run back
and catch the bus. And he ever caught you coming
back to try to get back on the bus, he
would take your ship.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Take he would eat, and he'll make.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Sure you missed it. Make sure you missed the bus.
That was hater. That was a hater.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
He was hat like I'm telling you, like he was
like thinking about this, like that whole story, like how
your fans would never know about man.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Chicken tend today was big and then it wasn't even
like it was a big meal. It was just like
chicken tenders mash potatoes and like a roll and they
had like this this sweet ass like sweet and sour sauce,
barbecue sauce.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What's your dip sausage?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Whatever?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
That knock off dipping sweet and sour was that she
used to hit so there hit man, but we had
the real breaded chicken tenders.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That she used to cause him the ones.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
All I I remember, I remember, I remember my lunch
late to this day. Missus Valencia. She had a go
to She had a hot ponytail and it was like
kind of like down to her back. She was big
ladies and everybody loved Miss Valencia and she rolled. She uh,
she's substituted for the the busses too.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
She is just working for the whole school.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
She did the scooping and everybody love Miss Lyncia. And
she sometime you catch your you catch your on on
the buses on whatever route. And we used to love
and Miss Valencia. If our if our bus yard wasn't there,
Miss Lynency, I said, come on, baby, let's go. So
she would scoop scoop the you know, she would give
you extra big scoops on the uh at lunch and
then a couple of hours later when.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
The best lunch late. The ones who knew your mom, Yeah,
because they knew you was home.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
They can just look you.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
The ones who like they don't let you slide here
forget your lunch money.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh, don't even act like you don't know your number.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
It's actually looked like that. Go ahead, baby, gotta let
me sly with.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
They tried to get me like that. They would not
give me free lunch.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
They tried to make it seem like we had paper.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, that's a y'all.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I ain't getting no free lunch. But then you know
it's worse than free lunch, reduced lunch.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It is they'll give you something from the back from
three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
No, not that, like when you have to pay the
price for reduced lunch.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It'd be stupid, like an ug nass amount, like your lunch.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Be like thirty five cent or some shit seventeen cent
for prefer like came up with this ship.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I'll never get with my reduced lunch. They we would have,
like literally reduced like we would we would not have
what the other kids have. I'm like, how am I.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
When you can't pay for this? I literally my mom, like.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I am I supposed to be like I have reduced lunch.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
It's not my fault.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
The grilled cheese with one piece of bread, That's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Or a Peter butter and jelly and it's not great jelly,
it's apple jelly. And put it together. You don't know
what type of bread they're gonna put it on, and
probably the bread in the front, you know, the front
loaf of the bread. Put it two together, and then
that's that's what you got reduced lunch.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
My cousin, like my cousin, had this friend and like
her cousin was like the lunch lady that you see
once she found that out.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I had free ring milks.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Juices all that I used to whatever excuse you used
to have to tell them to get a juice for lunch,
that was my excuse.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Every year. I was like, yeah, I got in the air,
my hear something the messing with.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I need a grape juice with mine, my sugar.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Get a load.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Look, I really appreciate your flocker coming through driving and
having these good quality products.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Thank you doing your things. You know you always welcome
wherever we are.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yes, yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, the black market is wide open come on, come on,
let's I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I got wheels on