June 26, 2025 • 15 mins
Chuckie Taylor opens up about his remarkable journey across three continents in this candid conversation about identity, family, and cultural adaptation. Born in Boston to a Trinidadian mother and Liberian father, Chuck's early years were split between American neighborhoods before ultimately being sent to live with his father—who would later become Liberia's president—during his teenage years.
With refreshing honesty, Chuckie describes himself as a "hip-hop baby" who grew up listening to Wu-Tang Clan and Black Moon while also connecting to his Caribbean roots through steel pan and calypso music. When trouble arose in Florida, his mother made the life-altering decision to send him to war-torn Liberia, where he faced the dual challenge of reconnecting with a largely absent father and navigating an entirely different cultural landscape.
The cultural shock proved immense. From being dubbed "the American chicken" to learning the intricate protocols of communicating with African elders, Chuckie found himself adapting to survive in an environment where layers of hierarchy separated him from even his own father. His reflections on parenting philosophies—"the African mentality is that the child is born to serve their parents" versus his belief that "a parent is to serve his child"—reveal the profound perspectives he developed through these cross-continental experiences.
What makes this conversation truly illuminating is Chuckie's ability to articulate the nuances between different Black cultural experiences—American, Caribbean, and African—highlighting diversity often overlooked in broader discussions. His subsequent journey to Trinidad to connect with his maternal roots before returning to America demonstrates a perpetual search for belonging that many with complex cultural identities will recognize.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to grow up between worlds? Listen now to this fascinating exploration of identity, adaptation, and resilience across cultural boundaries, and share your thoughts on how our backgrounds shape who we become.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This call will be recorded and subject to
monitoring at any time.
To accept this call, press 5.
To block this call, you maybegin speaking now, Yo what's
going on, Chuck?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
we're recording.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Okay, before we begin I need to clarify.
Lftg Radio meets the definitionunder Program Statement 1480.05
as News Media Press andsubsection 540.2 states.
Representative of the newsmedia means person whose
principal employment is togather or report news.
(00:38):
Further Program Statement5264.0883 states inmate may
submit telephone numbers for anyperson they choose, including
numbers for courts, electedofficials and members of the
news media.
Let's begin.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Talk to them, tell the people what's going on with
you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
First, I'd like to thank LFTG Radio for their
ongoing efforts.
I believe those efforts helpedto bring about a resolution to
my inability to have reached outto the news media.
Again, I'm open to dialogue andmaking myself available to any
questions that anybody may havein order to garner this very
(01:28):
important support that I'mseeking from the public today
and in the future.
So the floor is yours.
Talk to me Any questions youhave.
I'm here to answer them,brother.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, we're going to save the questions for the
interview.
You know, I just want the worldto get a feel of.
You know who Chuck Taylor isand you know your time in
America and you know just how weended up here today.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Okay, well, a lot of people don't know I was
originally born in Boston, massDorchester, specifically Born in
St Margaret's Hospital.
I come from a first, I'm afirst.
I'm a first generation American.
Excuse me, my mom is fromTrinidad and Tobago, big up to
(02:21):
all the Trinidadian massive.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, I'm Trinidadian , shut up.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh yo big ups.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Big ups?
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I was raised under the culture, played steel pan,
listened to Calypso and so GoBlue Boys, super Blue, yeah.
So my dad, he went to school inBoston Bentley Business College
.
That's where the two of themmet.
After he got his degree inBoston Bentley Business College
that's where the two of them met.
After he got his degree ineconomics, my mom decided to
stay in the States with me andyou know she got remarried,
(02:50):
married my stepdad, my pops fromTrinity, and we moved to a
couple of places.
I lived in Mattapan for a while.
I got, I used to have family inJamaica Plain and High Park and
then we later moved down toFlorida.
But you know it's crazy becauseyou know, being Trinidadian, you
got people from the West Indiesthat have moved all over the
United States, especially theEast Coast, and I grew up on
(03:13):
hip-hop like everybody else.
I remember those times going toBrooklyn to go see my Aunt
Hazel and them glued to theradio, you know, recording the
sounds of Roxanne, chanté andthe Real Roxanne and all the
rest Biz, markie and Doug EFresh and the rest you know.
So I'm a hip-hop baby.
I grew up in that era, you know, alongside the reggae, calypso
(03:35):
and soca.
So, you know, multiculturalismwas always.
It was always, uh, somethingthat was big in my family.
Uh, from there we moved down toFlorida and, you know, my
passion for hip-hop grew as well.
My era is the Onyx, the BlackMoon, helter, skelter, wu-tang,
shout out, you know, to that erathat was a big time and moment
for me in my life.
(03:55):
Before I moved to Liberia, youknow, my parents always made it
their business to sort of get mein touch with my roots.
My mother used to always makesure I made it down to Trinidad
every now and then for thesummer, and my first trip to
Liberia was when I was aboutseven or eight.
My second trip was in 1992,when my father reconnected with
(04:20):
us and my mom deemed itnecessary for me to get to know
my father a little better.
Us and my mom deemed itnecessary for me to get to know
my father a little better, andat that time the war had pretty
much cooled down and we had justwe left just before Octopus War
.
This was a major offensive thatwas launched by MPFL at that
time.
But I grew up like everybodyelse, you know, real passionate
(04:40):
about hip hop.
I studied a little martial artsgrowing up, just your typical.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Just your typical American kid.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, okay.
So how old were you when youmade the transition to move to
Liberia?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, that was around when I was about 16 or 17.
A situation occurred and, outof loyalty for my friends, I got
entangled in this situation.
My mother deemed it importantfor me to not, you know, face
the same story that most youngblack males face by being
incarcerated, and she decidedthat it was time for me to go
(05:22):
live with my dad.
And that's exactly whathappened.
That's how I made it down toLiberia.
I made it there because of thatparticular situation.
I was a juvenile at the timeand an unfortunate circumstance
took place and you know, we wereraised not to betray friends.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So the unfortunate circumstance that took place,
that took place here in America.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, it took place in Orlando.
Okay, you know I was arrestedwith other groups.
Some of my friends andunfortunately you know, a friend
of mine, you know refused tostep up and accept.
You know the responsibilitythat he should have and you know
, as I said, we were raised notto betray friends.
The only viable option at thattime that we saw was my mom saw
(06:11):
was to start anew back in Africa.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So that's pretty much how I made my journey.
Okay, and that was when youmade the permanent move to
Liberia.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Absolutely, absolutely.
Was your father in office atthat time?
No, no, the war was stillongoing.
He was.
He still had rebel headquarters, mpfl, in a place called Bowen
County, jibanga, and that'sexactly where I went to go to
(06:41):
school in Ghana for some timeand, you know, I moved around a
little bit in West Africa untilthe elections took place.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Okay, so how was your relationship with your father
growing up while you were inAmerica?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, again, my old man left to go back to pursue
his dream.
You know, interestingly enough,my mother always tells me this
story and it's a true onebecause he confirmed this One
day.
He got up before I was born andhe says listen, I'm going to be
president of Liberia.
My mom was like listen, charles, you know, go back to sleep.
You know you're dreaming.
That's never going to happen.
(07:19):
He says, listen, I am.
And he had that vision in hishead the entire time.
So His sole goal was to returnback to pursue that dream.
You know so I grew up around anindividual and groups of people
that have pursued theirpassions aggressively, despite
the odds.
And if anybody knows MrTaylor's story, they'll know
(07:43):
that he overcame great odds inorder to accomplish his dream.
But you know, his dream and hisvision was his own.
I never really connected withmy dad outside of seeing him at
15.
I remember him coming downtwice for Christmas.
So, you know, for a moment inmy life I faced an absence, like
most young black males did, ortheir parents, except in this
(08:05):
instance, my father wasn'tincarcerated or on drugs, but he
chose to pursue his dream andvision over raising a son.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, understood, yeah.
So when you got to Africa at 15, 16, how did your relationship
begin to develop with yourfather?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It was a cultural shock.
You know it's complex andsometimes, you know, brief
interviews can't really cover it.
A lot of people have encouragedme to sit down and write a book
, to pursue a literary projectthat would be able to address
all of these nuances andcomplexities.
But I will say that I had todeal with the cultural shock or
(08:49):
moving into a different aspectof black culture, because
there's diversity in ourcommunity that often isn't
appreciated, you know.
So we have the black Americanexperience, we have that
Caribbean and we have thatAfrican experience.
And I can remember, you know,going back and being faced with
that and acceptance, but in partresistance, you know so they
used to call me the Americanchicken.
(09:10):
An acceptance but in partresistance, you know so, they
used to call me the Americanchicken.
So you know, dealing with that,dealing with the trying to learn
those cultural nuances andaspects of Liberian society
under a war environment, wasdifficult.
And again, dealing with aself-determined individual whose
focus and goal was to pursue adream he had wanted his entire
(09:31):
life.
Pretty much adult life wascomplex within itself.
You know, dealing with a personwho embodied leadership and had
to do so in order to surviveand to meet the organization's
objectives.
So parenting wasn't the firstthing on his list.
Let me just say that Understood.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, it sounds like it would be a lot, you know,
moving from Florida to Africaand, you know, just experiencing
the different cultures outthere.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh yeah, and just imagine, oh yeah, and just
imagine they're just sociallyacceptable norms in various
parts of the world.
But just imagine, liberia isdifferent, ghana is different,
nigeria, all of these socialnorms vary and so oftentimes,
(10:29):
you know, dealing with elders,the African mentality is that
the child is born to serve theirparents and you know there's
some cultures, that aspects oftradition that need to be
embracing, others that need tobe questioned or reformed, if
you ask me.
In my opinion, you know aparent is to serve his child and
push forward a bettergeneration.
And so, just dealing with thosecultural nuances, oftentimes,
(10:49):
when issues were to occur, youhave to get an elder who can
advocate on your behalf, who youknow is that of that age group
or peer group of your parent, tobe able to actually have a
breakthrough.
This was some of the things thatI faced and I had to learn the
hard way.
So, yeah, it was different man,but, like I said, uh, you know
a lot of these nuances.
Uh, really require you requirea literary work, a memoir or
(11:14):
otherwise, and it's somethingthat I've been seriously
considering.
It's just that no decentauthors have come up with it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
In order to really take on a project of that
magnitude, because I really wantto create the world and draw
the picture for the world onwhat I was facing.
You know it's only after youare involved in a dangerous,
complex situation that youreally understand the dangers
that you face.
At that moment, you had to liveand survive.
You know, pulling back now, Iunderstand the level of danger
(11:47):
that I was surrounded by and themindset that I had to develop
in order to, you know, to dealwith the stress and the anxiety
and the goals, the successes andfailures that came along with
everything.
It was intense, it was intense.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It was intense.
Yeah, going back to somethingyou just said you know about the
cultural shocks, do you thinkyou could come up with like what
the biggest cultural shock wasto you, immediately moving from
America to Africa?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It was learning how to communicate with the elders.
It was learning how tocommunicate with the elders.
It was learning how tocommunicate with the elders what
could be considered to berespect and disrespectful.
Um, that was pretty much it,because when you know when most
of the decisions rest upon anelder's decision or a leader's
decision, you have to figure outhow to be able to get that
message across.
And there were so many layersto having access to my father,
(12:48):
even being the child of a rebelleader or president.
That was the biggest shock.
And you know it's crazy becauseafter the war, I moved to
Trinidad.
I moved to Trinidad, you know,because I really wanted to
experience Trinidadian cultureand I wasn't really interested
in moving back to the States.
So, you know, I remember I goton the phone that day I'm
(13:10):
leaving Nigeria, I'm on my wayback to Trinidad and Tobago, and
I didn't even know where I wasgoing to stay.
But I knew that I wanted to bein that space.
Yeah, and I had to connect withfamily.
But the difference in that wasthe minute the phone call was
received by my cousin Nats.
She was like listen, my home isopen to you.
(13:31):
I ended up staying in San Juanin a place called San Juan,
behind the Kwesi there.
Later on I ended up moving to aplace called Caranage and I got
family in Beatum Arima, allover Trinidad.
So it was a great experience.
I had the birth of my daughter,you know, a young baby that
changed my life.
(13:51):
And when I came back to theStates I actually came to pursue
music, a book and movie dealand otherwise.
I had ideas on fashion.
I saw the waves that Game andJay-Z and them were making and I
saw a blueprint, especiallyDiddy as well.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, I understand completely, but we'll circle
(14:28):
back into that and we'll givethe people more of who you are
the next time you call.
I appreciate your willingnessto continue to participate and
use LFTG as the platform tovoice your opinion to the people
.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, I appreciate that, man Listen.
Salute to the LFTG audience Bigup our respect.
Same to you, elliot man.
You know this means a lot.
Man, men behind the wallrespect you a great deal,
brother.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Absolutely.
You know and let them know,I'll continue to be the voice of
the feds and contribute howeverI can.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's a fact.
Peace King.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Peace.
This call will be recorded and subject to
monitoring at any time.
To accept this call, press 5.
To block this call, you maybegin speaking now, Yo what's
going on, Chuck?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
we're recording.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Okay, before we begin I need to clarify.
Lftg Radio meets the definitionunder Program Statement 1480.05
as News Media Press andsubsection 540.2 states.
Representative of the newsmedia means person whose
principal employment is togather or report news.
(00:38):
Further Program Statement5264.0883 states inmate may
submit telephone numbers for anyperson they choose, including
numbers for courts, electedofficials and members of the
news media.
Let's begin.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Talk to them, tell the people what's going on with
you.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
First, I'd like to thank LFTG Radio for their
ongoing efforts.
I believe those efforts helpedto bring about a resolution to
my inability to have reached outto the news media.
Again, I'm open to dialogue andmaking myself available to any
questions that anybody may havein order to garner this very
(01:28):
important support that I'mseeking from the public today
and in the future.
So the floor is yours.
Talk to me Any questions youhave.
I'm here to answer them,brother.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, we're going to save the questions for the
interview.
You know, I just want the worldto get a feel of.
You know who Chuck Taylor isand you know your time in
America and you know just how weended up here today.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Okay, well, a lot of people don't know I was
originally born in Boston, massDorchester, specifically Born in
St Margaret's Hospital.
I come from a first, I'm afirst.
I'm a first generation American.
Excuse me, my mom is fromTrinidad and Tobago, big up to
(02:21):
all the Trinidadian massive.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Okay, I'm Trinidadian , shut up.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh yo big ups.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Big ups?
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I was raised under the culture, played steel pan,
listened to Calypso and so GoBlue Boys, super Blue, yeah.
So my dad, he went to school inBoston Bentley Business College
.
That's where the two of themmet.
After he got his degree inBoston Bentley Business College
that's where the two of them met.
After he got his degree ineconomics, my mom decided to
stay in the States with me andyou know she got remarried,
(02:50):
married my stepdad, my pops fromTrinity, and we moved to a
couple of places.
I lived in Mattapan for a while.
I got, I used to have family inJamaica Plain and High Park and
then we later moved down toFlorida.
But you know it's crazy becauseyou know, being Trinidadian, you
got people from the West Indiesthat have moved all over the
United States, especially theEast Coast, and I grew up on
(03:13):
hip-hop like everybody else.
I remember those times going toBrooklyn to go see my Aunt
Hazel and them glued to theradio, you know, recording the
sounds of Roxanne, chanté andthe Real Roxanne and all the
rest Biz, markie and Doug EFresh and the rest you know.
So I'm a hip-hop baby.
I grew up in that era, you know, alongside the reggae, calypso
(03:35):
and soca.
So, you know, multiculturalismwas always.
It was always, uh, somethingthat was big in my family.
Uh, from there we moved down toFlorida and, you know, my
passion for hip-hop grew as well.
My era is the Onyx, the BlackMoon, helter, skelter, wu-tang,
shout out, you know, to that erathat was a big time and moment
for me in my life.
(03:55):
Before I moved to Liberia, youknow, my parents always made it
their business to sort of get mein touch with my roots.
My mother used to always makesure I made it down to Trinidad
every now and then for thesummer, and my first trip to
Liberia was when I was aboutseven or eight.
My second trip was in 1992,when my father reconnected with
(04:20):
us and my mom deemed itnecessary for me to get to know
my father a little better.
Us and my mom deemed itnecessary for me to get to know
my father a little better, andat that time the war had pretty
much cooled down and we had justwe left just before Octopus War
.
This was a major offensive thatwas launched by MPFL at that
time.
But I grew up like everybodyelse, you know, real passionate
(04:40):
about hip hop.
I studied a little martial artsgrowing up, just your typical.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Just your typical American kid.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Yeah, okay.
So how old were you when youmade the transition to move to
Liberia?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Well, that was around when I was about 16 or 17.
A situation occurred and, outof loyalty for my friends, I got
entangled in this situation.
My mother deemed it importantfor me to not, you know, face
the same story that most youngblack males face by being
incarcerated, and she decidedthat it was time for me to go
(05:22):
live with my dad.
And that's exactly whathappened.
That's how I made it down toLiberia.
I made it there because of thatparticular situation.
I was a juvenile at the timeand an unfortunate circumstance
took place and you know, we wereraised not to betray friends.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So the unfortunate circumstance that took place,
that took place here in America.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, it took place in Orlando.
Okay, you know I was arrestedwith other groups.
Some of my friends andunfortunately you know, a friend
of mine, you know refused tostep up and accept.
You know the responsibilitythat he should have and you know
, as I said, we were raised notto betray friends.
The only viable option at thattime that we saw was my mom saw
(06:11):
was to start anew back in Africa.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So that's pretty much how I made my journey.
Okay, and that was when youmade the permanent move to
Liberia.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Absolutely, absolutely.
Was your father in office atthat time?
No, no, the war was stillongoing.
He was.
He still had rebel headquarters, mpfl, in a place called Bowen
County, jibanga, and that'sexactly where I went to go to
(06:41):
school in Ghana for some timeand, you know, I moved around a
little bit in West Africa untilthe elections took place.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Okay, so how was your relationship with your father
growing up while you were inAmerica?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, again, my old man left to go back to pursue
his dream.
You know, interestingly enough,my mother always tells me this
story and it's a true onebecause he confirmed this One
day.
He got up before I was born andhe says listen, I'm going to be
president of Liberia.
My mom was like listen, charles, you know, go back to sleep.
You know you're dreaming.
That's never going to happen.
(07:19):
He says, listen, I am.
And he had that vision in hishead the entire time.
So His sole goal was to returnback to pursue that dream.
You know so I grew up around anindividual and groups of people
that have pursued theirpassions aggressively, despite
the odds.
And if anybody knows MrTaylor's story, they'll know
(07:43):
that he overcame great odds inorder to accomplish his dream.
But you know, his dream and hisvision was his own.
I never really connected withmy dad outside of seeing him at
15.
I remember him coming downtwice for Christmas.
So, you know, for a moment inmy life I faced an absence, like
most young black males did, ortheir parents, except in this
(08:05):
instance, my father wasn'tincarcerated or on drugs, but he
chose to pursue his dream andvision over raising a son.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, understood, yeah.
So when you got to Africa at 15, 16, how did your relationship
begin to develop with yourfather?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It was a cultural shock.
You know it's complex andsometimes, you know, brief
interviews can't really cover it.
A lot of people have encouragedme to sit down and write a book
, to pursue a literary projectthat would be able to address
all of these nuances andcomplexities.
But I will say that I had todeal with the cultural shock or
(08:49):
moving into a different aspectof black culture, because
there's diversity in ourcommunity that often isn't
appreciated, you know.
So we have the black Americanexperience, we have that
Caribbean and we have thatAfrican experience.
And I can remember, you know,going back and being faced with
that and acceptance, but in partresistance, you know so they
used to call me the Americanchicken.
(09:10):
An acceptance but in partresistance, you know so, they
used to call me the Americanchicken.
So you know, dealing with that,dealing with the trying to learn
those cultural nuances andaspects of Liberian society
under a war environment, wasdifficult.
And again, dealing with aself-determined individual whose
focus and goal was to pursue adream he had wanted his entire
(09:31):
life.
Pretty much adult life wascomplex within itself.
You know, dealing with a personwho embodied leadership and had
to do so in order to surviveand to meet the organization's
objectives.
So parenting wasn't the firstthing on his list.
Let me just say that Understood.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, it sounds like it would be a lot, you know,
moving from Florida to Africaand, you know, just experiencing
the different cultures outthere.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh yeah, and just imagine, oh yeah, and just
imagine they're just sociallyacceptable norms in various
parts of the world.
But just imagine, liberia isdifferent, ghana is different,
nigeria, all of these socialnorms vary and so oftentimes,
(10:29):
you know, dealing with elders,the African mentality is that
the child is born to serve theirparents and you know there's
some cultures, that aspects oftradition that need to be
embracing, others that need tobe questioned or reformed, if
you ask me.
In my opinion, you know aparent is to serve his child and
push forward a bettergeneration.
And so, just dealing with thosecultural nuances, oftentimes,
(10:49):
when issues were to occur, youhave to get an elder who can
advocate on your behalf, who youknow is that of that age group
or peer group of your parent, tobe able to actually have a
breakthrough.
This was some of the things thatI faced and I had to learn the
hard way.
So, yeah, it was different man,but, like I said, uh, you know
a lot of these nuances.
Uh, really require you requirea literary work, a memoir or
(11:14):
otherwise, and it's somethingthat I've been seriously
considering.
It's just that no decentauthors have come up with it.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
In order to really take on a project of that
magnitude, because I really wantto create the world and draw
the picture for the world onwhat I was facing.
You know it's only after youare involved in a dangerous,
complex situation that youreally understand the dangers
that you face.
At that moment, you had to liveand survive.
You know, pulling back now, Iunderstand the level of danger
(11:47):
that I was surrounded by and themindset that I had to develop
in order to, you know, to dealwith the stress and the anxiety
and the goals, the successes andfailures that came along with
everything.
It was intense, it was intense.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It was intense.
Yeah, going back to somethingyou just said you know about the
cultural shocks, do you thinkyou could come up with like what
the biggest cultural shock wasto you, immediately moving from
America to Africa?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It was learning how to communicate with the elders.
It was learning how tocommunicate with the elders.
It was learning how tocommunicate with the elders what
could be considered to berespect and disrespectful.
Um, that was pretty much it,because when you know when most
of the decisions rest upon anelder's decision or a leader's
decision, you have to figure outhow to be able to get that
message across.
And there were so many layersto having access to my father,
(12:48):
even being the child of a rebelleader or president.
That was the biggest shock.
And you know it's crazy becauseafter the war, I moved to
Trinidad.
I moved to Trinidad, you know,because I really wanted to
experience Trinidadian cultureand I wasn't really interested
in moving back to the States.
So, you know, I remember I goton the phone that day I'm
(13:10):
leaving Nigeria, I'm on my wayback to Trinidad and Tobago, and
I didn't even know where I wasgoing to stay.
But I knew that I wanted to bein that space.
Yeah, and I had to connect withfamily.
But the difference in that wasthe minute the phone call was
received by my cousin Nats.
She was like listen, my home isopen to you.
(13:31):
I ended up staying in San Juanin a place called San Juan,
behind the Kwesi there.
Later on I ended up moving to aplace called Caranage and I got
family in Beatum Arima, allover Trinidad.
So it was a great experience.
I had the birth of my daughter,you know, a young baby that
changed my life.
(13:51):
And when I came back to theStates I actually came to pursue
music, a book and movie dealand otherwise.
I had ideas on fashion.
I saw the waves that Game andJay-Z and them were making and I
saw a blueprint, especiallyDiddy as well.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, I understand completely, but we'll circle
(14:28):
back into that and we'll givethe people more of who you are
the next time you call.
I appreciate your willingnessto continue to participate and
use LFTG as the platform tovoice your opinion to the people
.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, I appreciate that, man Listen.
Salute to the LFTG audience Bigup our respect.
Same to you, elliot man.
You know this means a lot.
Man, men behind the wallrespect you a great deal,
brother.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Absolutely.
You know and let them know,I'll continue to be the voice of
the feds and contribute howeverI can.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's a fact.
Peace King.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Peace.
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