December 20, 2023 • 38 mins
Hartford's streets whisper tales of dreamers and believers, where my guest O's life is a canvas depicting the stark contrasts of isolation and fame, authenticity and artifice. We begin our journey with a poetic homage to Cool Que, Hartford's fallen star, and swiftly navigate the vibrant yet daunting pathways that have sculpted the indomitable spirits of local artists. Amidst the relentless pressures of the music industry, we converge at the crossroads of personal identity and cultural heritage, unraveling how the roots laid down in youth can bear the fruits of wisdom and resilience.
Family and faith cast long shadows on the wall of O's upbringing, painting a portrait of transformation that transcends the boundaries of Hartford to the serene avenues of Bloomfield. The church's bell tolls not just for spiritual balance but as a beacon guiding one through life's tumultuous streets. Listen closely as O recounts the soundtrack of his life—a symphony of music and cinema that has underscored his evolution from street-smart kid to a man of substance, while his narrative pulses with the heartbeat of confrontation and adaptability.
In the fabric of our community, we weave threads of hope and ambition, offering a salute to the minority entrepreneurs who craft their destinies with tenacity and vision. The episode culminates with a look towards the horizon, where collaboration and innovation promise to breathe new life into Hartford's legacy. Join us as we celebrate the personal victories, the strength found in independence, and the small yet significant triumphs that keep the spirit of Hartford not just surviving, but thriving.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All eyes is on me and so no lies, won't hold my
tongue.
Don't cry for me.
I don't have no friends.
I ain't with the voters.
They ask toaster, hit you withthe, flip it over, be a nigga,
use a big ol' goofy.
(00:21):
Will you go virtual?
I'll see that lane you gon'give it.
On the poster LaFerrari F8,laferrari Roaster.
I turned 10 bricks in the 12ththen burst out a growth spurt.
He gon' do some shopping later.
I'ma need some dough first.
I just got some hair in a ghostand a ghost hat.
Yeah, yeah, out of here.
Your boys been at growth fair.
(00:42):
I seen them out with a every 10.
Like I don't know her.
I can't do no features, but youknow you're best at no sir,
Party's nigga on Earth.
I'm not really from Earth.
We don't down now I want I letoff their call first.
Laferrari, my own work with avideo call work.
I can't hear that money calling.
I'll fix up the first ring.
What you gon' charge an old manfor them?
(01:04):
Pussy, you gonna hurt me.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I just out all my stone homes, boots, all in a
shirts up.
I just out all my ghetto homeswho turned into influences.
Shrinky old.
Fuck that bitch and leave onCalhoun.
She fuck.
Baps it out her closet's highthe tail.
She got on easy up.
I got mold with me.
Bump out the feds man.
I got foes with me.
You got goofy switch.
Before I do that, I keep somehoes with me.
I still fall my gun when I'm inCali.
(01:27):
Nigga, this your city, why youdeal with my bitch.
I got like we fucked these hoesbelow sitting, straightening it
from Reign on like Calhoun.
Maury Took her out that cheapshit.
Took it to Ferrari.
Never tell her sorry, just callher Ferrari.
I'll sit with this.
Cue me link.
You think she was Cardi.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
She got a big gang leaders with me all the time.
I don't know who I fuck.
Last night I got all the timers.
I don't know who them hoes isman.
They all mine.
Bro, you tell me who them hoesis man.
They all.
Fine, I got that hood again.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's your boy, elliot Carter, reporting live from the
motherfucking gutter.
It's a special guest.
It's a special guest today inthe building we got my boy.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
O, here with me.
What up?
Salute, live to the gutter.
What's going on?
How you feel about Kanye's newshit?
I ain't even listen to Kanye'snew album.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I didn't even know.
The new one didn't come out yet, but that was uh.
This is gonna be a song off hisnew album right here.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's alright, it's alright, I don't Kanye.
I don't really listen to Kanye.
I do listen to Kanye, but Idon't listen to Kanye.
I listen to when he talk.
People need to listen when hetalk, cause he not crazy.
Okay, he elaborate.
I like his movies, I like hismusic, though Everybody think
Kanye crazy.
But Kanye's not crazy.
Kanye got a method to hismadness.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, definitely.
I definitely feel like there'sa method to his madness, there's
a uh, there's a science to hisapproach.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's seen a lot he knows a lot, he's been a lot and
he's brought elbows with a lotof people.
Yeah, for sure, you know what Imean.
He's been around the world, heknow, he know.
For sure, for sure, don't counthim out.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah and um.
So you're born and raised inHartford.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Born and raised in Hartford at uh, at age eight I
moved to Bloomfield.
About four years.
I'm from the Blue Hills area.
Rest in peace, my boy cool Q.
Rest in power.
Good brother was a tragedy.
No rapping then.
But um, ingy way, yes, sir, theIngy way, the only way Up the
(03:31):
ways, one of the ways, finally,blue Hills baby.
Um, uh, can we give a fiveminute, um, yeah, absolutely
Five minute, one minute silencefor me and Q, please?
All right, thank you, that'sIngy way, man, my boy Q cool Q.
(03:53):
Go check him out on allstreaming platforms YouTube,
facebook.
I only know his Facebook page,but if you go type in cool Q
you'll get him.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, I think um.
I got him tagged Timothy Rose.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Timothy Rose.
Yes, yes, he was, he was.
He was the next one up.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I got him tagged on the Instagram, so y'all could uh
just tap into the Instagram anduh look for him from there.
All right, right, right, right,right, All right.
So talk to me about life inHartford, Growing up in Hartford
, growing up in Connecticut, howit's been for you and some of
the some of the struggles andthe challenges that you face
(04:30):
growing up in Hartford,Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Well, you know, when you were young you were naive To
certain things.
Growing up Hartford, for themost part, was fun, like I told
you, sorry for I didn't shoutout the cool Q, sorry.
Um, he was asking about.
Um, I grew up eight years.
I grew up from.
I grew up, like I said, I'mfrom the Blue Hills neighborhood
, um West Euclid Street.
(04:53):
Um, I grew up there about.
I was born in 78.
Um I I moved me and my motherused to live with my grandmother
.
Um, my father was always aroundbut my father used to be doing
his thing.
You know if you get what I'msaying.
Yeah, absolutely.
Um, my father ended up gettingsaved.
(05:15):
Getting saved and changing hislife.
You know what I'm saying.
So he gave her all that streetand that's what girls, whatever
else he was doing, extracurricular activities, he gave
that up.
He married my mother.
They had a sister.
We moved her, but before that wemoved to Bloemford, I believe
Persian Park neighborhood On theother side of Blue Hills by
Coventry Street.
We moved over there and that'swhere life began.
(05:38):
I mean, life started a littlebit at Hartford, but like, as
far as like being like, it'slike moving from like Brooklyn
to Queens.
You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, from another city, right?
So I'm the new kid in theneighborhood, so I gotta adapt
quick.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, absolutely, I didn't haveall the necessary skills at the
moment, but, um, like LOX,living off experience, you get
(06:00):
acclimated hands on.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, thanks, like, like, like,for me, I didn't like my
father's side of the family.
They dig deeper than my mother'sside of the family.
Okay, because only on mymother's side of the family.
They from Alabama, um, um, uh,greensville, alabama, by Mobile,
(06:22):
montgomery, all that, um, it'smy aunt, my grandmother, my
aunt's son and my father and mymother.
That's my, that's my side ofthe family up here In Hartford
on my mother's side.
Okay, so me and my father isthe men of our family and my
mother's family.
Okay, because only threefemales, yeah, one of my and my
(06:44):
cousin, and on my father'sfamily they from South Carolina,
okay, georgetown, sanford,around that area.
So, which is my father's partof eight Hailing from down south
, both sides, right, so myfather's a part of eight
brothers, four sisters, elevenof them, or twelve of them all
together.
You know what I'm saying, soyou can imagine when they came
down here.
(07:05):
How does?
Yeah I mean, for lack of abetter word, you know that's the
her side of my family.
So growing up Hartford, I had abalance.
You know, I always went tochurch.
So you know that always kept mespiritually grounded, you know,
let me say one thing if youdon't, if you don't, first and
foremost, if you don't, uh, howcan I say this?
(07:29):
Uh, I believe in the higherpower.
So everybody, certain people,believe in higher powers, but
they put different names to it.
Yeah, so I don't want to, like,put a label, put a label on it,
like, for me personally, how Iwas raised up.
I'm not religious but spiritual.
(07:50):
I'm a follower of Christ.
That's me personally.
So that's the Bible, the BibleMe knowing the Bible stories and
whether the metaphor is true,that helped shake my life to
music.
I got both parents in my life.
They wasn't always together.
(08:10):
I got both parents, like I toldyou, but my parents,
respectfully, didn't raise me.
They sheltered me, clothe me.
They did what parents aresupposed to do keep me away from
certain things.
But music influence and musicmusic really influenced my life
(08:33):
and movies, not being a follower, but taking the good, the bad
and throwing the ugly away outof me.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So when you say your parents, then raise you.
Who raised you Outside?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The streets Music, my deac.
That's like listening.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
sure, Listening to the music, knowing I don't want
to be a part of certain things,or I do want to be a part of
certain things.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So music had a heavy influence, heavy, heavy, from
young, on your behavior and yourculture.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yes, yes, yes, like my father, you know, is it
different from somebody tellingyou you know, do this when
something happened, from youbeing here and Zoom, and you
being in that situation, yeahfor sure, like never say you're
going to do this or not, causeyou don't never know what you're
going to do in a situation,certain situations you just
don't want to be in.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, absolutely Certain situations.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
But that's what I'm saying.
Like my father always said, ifsomebody bigger than you do
something, you hit him or pickup a stick.
Mm-hmm, you feel what I'msaying.
When it comes down for somebodydoing something to you, you're
not thinking about picking up nostick, or you know what I'm
saying.
You got to, I had to havethings, I had to be physically
in certain situations to be likeman.
This is not going to happen tome again.
(09:40):
Yeah, I'm not going throughthis again.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You had to go through it, Right?
That's what I'm trying to tellyou.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Living off experience .
So that's what I say.
Like I got raised like that.
Okay, you know what I'm saying?
Like, not saying like myparents did what they did for me
.
They did what they could mymother, my aunt, my father.
He showed me how to get money.
You know what I'm saying,mm-hmm?
Because?
And with females too, raising,raising, raising kids they only
(10:07):
could do so much.
They only could do so much asfar as raising, they could
discipline you all day and yellat you and spank your butt and
all that.
But you need a man likedaughters, like men that got
daughters.
You need to be in a like too,because it's real out here,
females is getting kidnapped,all females is getting raped,
(10:29):
females is getting trafficked,females getting abused.
And there's a lot of us I don'tcare what color you is A lot of
men.
If you were a man, okay, whatcolor you was, man, stand up and
protect these women out here,cause if it wasn't for these
women, you know what I don'tlike each.
But when people get mad aboutI'm not knocking nobody's
(10:51):
situation how they grew up, butpeople would tell my mother my
father was just an act.
Listen, man, if it wasn't foryour mother father, no matter
what, you wouldn't be in asituation where you're going
through what you're goingthrough and they're good about.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, that's a fact, don't be.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No, my mother, this, my mother, that Maybe sometimes
that's the case where it shapesand moves the kid's life.
But other than that, like,don't use no excuse.
But back to your question.
Hartford was all right,hartford was rough, hartford
could be scary.
When you're young, that's theone thing that people should
teach they cares about.
(11:23):
Growing up is fear Especially.
That's why I say back toreligion or spirituality if you
got a higher power or youbelieve in the Lord Jesus or God
, you shouldn't fear nothing.
You feel what I'm saying and Iknow two part.
One said no, noself-destruction.
I think it was heavy deed.
I said I shouldn't have to.
(11:45):
Oh, it was Kumodi.
He said I shouldn't have tofear another black man and that
always stuck with me.
Why do people fear Like youshouldn't have to fear.
I understand you should befearful, but you should be aware
.
Of course you should, but Ishouldn't, I shouldn't.
(12:05):
You know black people areoppressed black people and I
know you, being from the city,and you know the stories of
gangs.
You know Bloods and Latin kingsand oppression and how gangs
are started so that peoplewouldn't be oppressed but they
wouldn't be somewhere else.
We are press ourselves and we,like man, we doing them people
(12:28):
jobs for us.
You feel what I'm saying?
We doing them people jobs andthey sitting back letting it go
down, and then you get caughtand you do all the time.
So you do a crime, say a personwho's a life, that's two lives
lost because one person in jailand one person dead.
Who wins?
Nobody but the people that'sorchestrating playing the field,
(12:50):
probably the strings.
Yeah, man, it's just aboutawareness, man.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
So, from an outsider coming in, from someone from
like Pennsylvania or someonefrom New York or Jersey moving
to Connecticut, moving toHartford, what's some advice you
have for them?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
My business, my business.
And another thing, whether itrelates or don't relate, the
streets, not everything.
Like you know, I tell certainpeople that's hustling and get
you a job, but it'd be so hardfor them to transition because
you know the longer you be incertain situations, even if you
(13:29):
want to.
But Hartford is a nice place,like, especially in the spring
or the summer.
You look down certain streetsand I'm really talking about
like, like Garden Street.
If you look down Garden Street,coming up from the avenue and
you see how, like, when thespring is changing autumn,
hartford is a beautiful place.
Hartford is a beautiful place.
It's not enough to do Hartford.
That's the problem.
(13:50):
It's not enough to do Hartford.
It used to be.
It used to be.
We have Maaz and Richardson.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And what happened?
Why do you say it used to be?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
It got.
You know what Justification broyeah and I'm and it ain't like.
You can't really see it how yousee it.
Justification it was too manyHartford was popping back then
bro yeah Clubs, and then you'reyounger so you have much to do,
but then, like it was like whenthey stopped the club in
(14:21):
downtown you know what I'msaying?
About 10, about 15 years ago,10 feet between 10 and 15 years
ago.
That's when things changed.
I guess it was a, it was achanging of the guards, for like
that's when the grown up clubshappen and the button ups and
less violence and stuff likethat.
But that's when it kind ofhappened.
(14:42):
You got to go really out oftown or go to, like, the
comedian club, or you got towait for a show or something to
really have fun, or go toBridgeport, something, go.
Just it ain't in Hartford, it'snot in Hartford.
Only time you have fun inHartford, you having to cook out
or you playing spades orsomewhere, or you outside.
So how was it, ma, you travel.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yes, where was your latest adventure?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Well, south Carolina.
Okay, what was going on outthere?
I went for funeral my.
Was it a funeral?
No, it wasn't a funeral, it wasa get together.
I never met my father's mother.
She died.
My grandmother.
She died when it was like seven.
So I've been home before backthere, but I never met her side
(15:37):
of the family.
Okay, you feel what I'm saying.
It was kind of like a familyreunion.
It was a family reunion.
Yes, it was, and it's.
It was a good experience.
It was a good experience, likemy, my, my grandmother's side is
just as deep as my father'sside of the family.
Okay, like they got a wholestreet.
That is just I forgot what theycall it a neighborhood, but
(15:59):
it's just.
Like mostly my family live onthat street.
Yeah, same different houses,one long street.
They got the church in thecemetery where my grand, where
my grandmother was buried, and acouple of other, my people.
So that's the last place I'vebeen before that, okay, I mean
the last place I've been.
Where's next?
Right now, I want to go onanother cruise.
(16:19):
I ain't going to lie, but Iain't really pressed to go too
many places.
I want to, but because you knowwe're all crazy right now.
So I ain't really trying to becaught outside of United States
like that, but I do want to goon another cruise, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Just mind your business.
That's it.
That's it.
I ain't mad at you.
I ain't mad at you.
What's your day to days?
Look like Busy.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I work with you, of course.
So I'm going to start fromnighttime, you know, seven
o'clock, get ready to go to workfrom eight to four, from eight
to four, you know, I dolandscaping two in the morning.
So sometimes, if the weather'sright, I'm getting two hours of
sleep and I'm up at eight and Itry to get back home around to
try to be back in the bad byfour, but that don't always work
(17:07):
, you know.
So that's what my days is, justjust keep on moving.
I said, yeah, facts, facts,facts.
I'm trying to rest and rest itnow because of the weather
change.
Well, other than that, busy man,busy married, no, soon to be,
soon to be, I got a lady I'vebeen with about 19 years, oh
(17:27):
yeah.
So I know, I know when y'allsee that you're going to be like
why you ain't married, but youknow there's a time and place
for everything.
You know what I'm saying.
So I used to be running thestreets, playing around, messing
with, you know, just doing whatmen do.
Yeah, got a girl at home.
You got a couple of shortiesout.
You running the street, youknow, hustling a little bit.
So you know that type of life,but you know.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So what made you after 19 years?
What made you say this is theone she always been the?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
one.
She always been the one I as a,as a conglomerate, we both had.
First of all, I wasn't ready.
Okay, like I said, I was, youknow, doing me running around
and you know street nigga.
But when the job came, down thewhole bed with the last bed,
(18:19):
she helped me down all threebeds.
I mean I did like three scalebeds, four months, three months,
my feet, you know what I mean.
She left me one time.
Got her back, though, but shehelped me down.
She's a good lady, not really abackground.
You're not gonna hear her namein the streets.
(18:40):
You know she's a mother too.
She got a son and a daughter.
That's her daughter's um, whatup smurf, what up man man?
Her daughter's 26, 27.
Her son is like 24 25.
You know I'm sorry, um, butI've been with her 19 years.
But me not playing around, likeas far as muscle other girls
(19:05):
yeah, serious, and stuff likethat.
I've been good for, like I wantto say, eight, nine years, okay
, so I'm playing around.
I went to the mall and pickedout a ring and stuff.
You know a lot of people betrying to pressure when you're
getting married, when you knowI'm saying when the time is
right, like I ain't gettingmarried because you want me to
(19:25):
get married.
Yeah, you doing things on yourown and when it's right, you
know I'm saying and I gotta makesure that she the right one,
because certain things I believein she ain't with, like
Christmas, I don't believe inChristmas and I don't believe in
these holidays.
She do.
You know I'm saying and, and ifI get married, then I'm trying
to tell her now that mean yougotta come on a common ground,
(19:47):
because if I'm, yeah, it's gonnabe some type of compromise.
If I'm on a spiritual level andI believe in God and he's first
in my life, then I can't letwhat you got going on affect me
and what I'm doing.
You know I'm saying yeah, forsure, I'm not trying to be
selfish with you, but I'm gonna.
I'm gonna still buy a ring andI'm still gonna put the ring on
her finger, but the wedding ringI'm gonna hold.
(20:09):
That.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'm gonna hold that and what's the what's the point
of you holding it?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
the like I told you we got to get that compromise
right.
Okay, now, maybe, before we goforward.
Okay, we got to get thatcompromise right.
Okay, that's all.
That's all so once I get thecompromise right, then you'll
give it to her, the wedding ringwe're gonna yeah, okay, you're
gonna get the end of, you'regonna get the engagement ring,
yeah, but oh, I got a set.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
That's why I'm saying yeah, no, that's what I mean.
Like the wedding ring.
Yeah, once yet.
Once she gets the compromise,once y'all get it and y'all
agree on it, that's when she'llget the other half yeah, okay,
that's when I'm always work onit.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'm gonna work on, I'm gonna work on the wedding
and all that stuff, but betweenthat time I'm gonna be, um,
we're gonna be building, okay.
I'm saying, yeah, I'm me, I'm aperson that's, I'm aware and
I'm aware and I'm woke, I ain'tsleep, bro, you heard, and I'm
(21:11):
trying to uh, uh, my girl, shejust I be trying to.
I can't push, like I said, mybeliefs on her.
Yeah, at least be trying tospark her interest, if that
makes sense.
No, I'm sure, spark herinterest a little bit.
She younger no, I'm gonna orderto me by yeah, okay, well, she
gonna be like it's just a coupleof months, but she was born in
December 77.
(21:32):
I'm born March 20, march 78, ohyeah, so like four months.
Yeah, you feel me, but it'sreal loud here and a lot of
people sleep out here.
Yeah for sure, wake, wake up,is in your face and don't act
naive.
And if you got questions, askthem shits.
You feel me, man, I don't wantto go to he.
(21:52):
We're gonna take our time nahgo there.
I'm saying like I'm saying likecertain, like Santa Claus and
all that shit yeah, go to yourkids about no Santa Claus
talking about this for the kids.
Do you have kids?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
no, okay, if you had kids?
No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't, no, santa.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Claus, that's, that's what I'm talking about me and
her, she talking about my kids.
I'm telling I made a joke withher daughter.
Her daughter came over to cookthe other day.
I'm like she like my daughternamed Smurfs.
She like, uh, it's not fairthat you not doing Christmas.
And I said I was talking in thekitchen because I told her
(22:32):
today my kids would becelebrating Christmas.
So she was like, uh, it waslike the next day and I ended
talking to my girl daughter andshe was like I was like I told
you my kids ain't gonna becelebrating Christmas.
So my girl daughter, like thiskid, celebrate Christmas.
I was like you're not a kid,you feel what I'm saying, man,
(22:52):
you a grown ass woman, you're agirl woman, but I did celebrate
Christmas.
My girl is just mad becauseit's a abrupt change.
When I found out the truth, likeI always had questions, she was
like why you?
Just, I wasn't.
I didn't know.
No, yeah, I know.
When you know something, man,if I tell you the stove hot, you
want, you want to still touchit?
Hot me, hot, you know what?
(23:14):
Hot me, yeah, thanks.
But I can't, man, you can'tmake them drink, you're thanks.
So I'm not man.
I believe in hell, in heaven,and I ain't kind of gonna have
and I'm not gonna help for nowoman.
You heard, I'm not gonna havewith nobody but my soul.
If that's the case, if Godwilling, I go.
If you believe in that type ofstuff, you heard so does the 26
(23:48):
year old have kids?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
no, none of them have kids.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
No, she live by herself.
She got a job.
She's doing all right.
Her birthday was just passing.
I gave her a card.
I said I'm proud of you becausemost of her friends got kids
and you know how that.
You know you celebratebirthdays.
Yes, I do.
I celebrate life.
Okay.
New years, mother's day,father's day, I celebrate that.
No, bad times, thanks givingthe Christmas, columbus day, 4th
(24:12):
of July, none of that shit.
Juneteenth no, becauseJuneteenth is it's a history
behind.
Juneteenth is it's somethingelse.
It's something else betweenJuneteenth which I don't really
like.
I can't remember right now, soI'm not gonna put it out there.
Okay, like all that blackFriday shit, I'm not doing it.
That's the days the slaves weresold for cheap.
(24:34):
I'm not with all that.
Yeah, like you gotta like, ifyou know really how the United
States and it's bigger than us,man, it's bigger than us we
program.
I mean the world is programmedand I advise y'all watch them.
New two TikToks, scary, creepyTikToks.
Yeah, I mean they lied to youabout a lot of stuff the moon
(24:55):
and the firming man and goingout of space and Antarctica and
all type of stupid shit, likeyou know.
I mean it's not in your historybooks.
It just told you what theywanted you to hear, man, and it
worked.
It worked.
This is a system that was goingon since 18, 18, 19 okay, it was
(25:17):
like 103 years, sort of.
In 18, like 1803, no 70, I wasborn in 78, 1805, 1805 they
wrote, they wrote um, they wrotethe curriculum for people you
know.
The only reason they got schoolis to make you work as citizens
for the people that got themoney.
(25:38):
That's the only reason they gotschool to make you um compliant
and not question nothing.
That's why they made schools.
I believe you feel me.
So what are you doing right now?
Thinking on the box podcast totake off open doors?
I believe me, you're doing athing you know.
I'm saying take off, bro.
I appreciate it.
Take off, man.
I appreciate.
(25:58):
Shots out to it and the gutterright live from the gutter word.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Live from the gutter word, word.
Thanks.
Also shout out to uh BrumelCycling Fitness.
Uh, my man, randy Brumel, hegot a bike shop.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah what up man?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
uh man, randy Brumel, he got a bike shop.
Uh, alan Harwinson, let me giveyou all the address.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Right now we need you on here cause Ray is smart.
Ray know that financial talk.
Yeah, he be talking his shit,Ray, definitely talk.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Let me give you all this addy.
Okay, here we go 21 BurlingtonRoad in Harbenton, brumell,
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cycling Fitness.
Randy's been a staple in thecommunity for more than two
decades and he's repairing allof your local bikes and fitness
equipment.
He also has fitness accessoriesfor sale.
Give him a call at 860-6010-855.
That's 860-6010-855.
(27:30):
And also want to give a shoutout to Hold on?
Also want to give a shout outto.
(27:55):
Also want to give a shout outto Peace, peace, peace.
So I got chest players word1020 Farmington Avenue.
No, that's Burlington.
(28:16):
That's Burlington.
1020 Farmington Avenue,burlington, 06037.
That's Taino Chest Club.
And yeah, it's $5 a day, $20 aweek, $200 a year.
If you don't have $5 to goparticipate for the day, just
(28:37):
tell them.
Lftg sent you, they'll let youin.
And yeah, it's for beginners,intermediate, advanced chest
players, anybody looking tolearn the game or just advance
on your strategy and learn more.
Y'all go shout out Taino ChestClub.
You play, yes sir.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ok, that's for sure.
Yes, I do.
My father taught me when I wasyoung.
So how long you been playing?
So say about I was 45.
Just say about 30 years.
Yeah, yeah, nice.
I mean he taught me the movesand the you know I figured out
the rest.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, my pops taught me how to play too, you being a
chest tournament.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah I be.
I want to play you, but I don'tknow.
I think you better scrape me.
Real bad man, yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We can play.
We can play after this matterof fact.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I know you.
I know you're being a chesttournament man.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, every playing in the chest tournament is heavy
Mm-hmm For sure.
All right, so what you be doingin Connecticut, what you be
doing in Hartford, what you bedoing with your free time?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Just to be outside After I work.
I'm outside chilling On GoddardStreet or Up the Way or
somewhere, but now I was like Idon't be outside like that.
Um, changes, bro, Changes,peace to my boy Brooke man, um,
my boy Brooke, my boy Brookemoved to Uh, jersey, I believe,
(30:12):
jersey, yeah.
So you know, if I come outsideand nobody around, I'll go back
in the house.
Man, I don't got no problems inthe house now.
You feel me?
I go watch YouTube or justchill.
I'm doing something Trying tosave some money, man.
I ain't be trying to out herewasting money, but If there
ain't nothing popping, man, I'mgoing back in the house.
(30:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, I ain't mad at you, you feel me.
I ain't mad at you Fucking umwhen restaurants you fuck
without here.
Give me some restaurants toreview.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Okay, um 778.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
778 is already reviewed.
We did them.
They got pretty good reviews.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Shots out Gabe.
Um yeah, gabriel Mickens, yeah,shots out Gabe.
Um Uh, take uh, just a twist onBlue Hail's On the corner of
Booth Bay and Blue Hail's by thegas station.
Shots out to my boy, shaquilleShat.
(31:16):
What up, he's no poorrestaurant.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Okay, just go with, just a.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Twist, just a Twist on Blue Hail's, okay, um,
breakfast, I don't want to saydinner, but breakfast, breakfast
and lunch.
You know, chicken wings andrice, um, salmon, yeah, things
like that nature, yeah, okay.
Shots out to the Jamaicanrestaurants Paradise on Blue
Hail's.
Um, yeah, I did.
Paradise restaurant I justburnt my mouth on a Jamaican
(31:47):
B-Pati yesterday from GoldenCrust on the Avenue.
Shots out to y'all because yourB-Pati's always hot.
Yeah, my boy, leon, thank youfor buying that for me.
Um, other than that, bro, Idon't really like to go out and
spend no money.
That's my girl department,scott, they got a bunch of them.
Okay, I fucked with Scott's onBlue Hail's.
Okay, or Main Street, dependingon, because they got Scott's on
(32:10):
Main Street.
Got the Stoopies on Thursdays.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Okay, when they could catch that?
Yeah, we definitely gonna gocheck out Scott's.
Yeah, get your soup.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Get your soup.
They don't serve no jerk.
They serve jerk chicken wings,but no jerk put and no jerk
chicken.
You gotta go to Main Street forthat.
Probably to another Jamaicanrestaurant, Okay, oh.
Shots out to Head Over Berries.
Go check them out when they atOn Blue Hail's, Across the
street from Carlos, on thecorner of Burnham and Blue
(32:40):
Hail's Avenue.
Head Over Berries Shots outMiss B, that's, if you want your
nutritious fruit bowls andfruit bowls with the Aki.
Yeah, Aki Aki, and they dosmoothies.
I'm not with them.
Okay, yeah, you know.
Shots out to the Chineserestaurant too.
Wei Main, Wei Main Chinese.
(33:03):
Shots out to the whole BlueHail.
Shalimar Roy's S, Mr Pizza,Jimmy Sandra Bali.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Shots out to the whole Blue Hail's neighborhood
All right, so let me ask youthree questions real quick.
Of course, best pizza you canallocate.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I ain't gonna lie.
I'm not gonna lie.
It used to be Mr Pizza T.
I made all them changes.
I like Joey Garlix.
Joey Garlix, we Angel and theMoorlard out work one day you
ain't getting a.
Nah.
Joey Garlix Pizza Village inBloomfield.
(33:41):
Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh, and I'mgoing with Burger Piecing in.
Okay, on Barbecue Street.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, best restaurant in Hartford.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I can't tell you that .
I can't tell you because I'mnot a.
I can't tell you bestrestaurant in Hartford.
I can't tell you because I'mnot a.
Like, I told you, I'm not arestaurant eater.
So, yeah, I mean because I go,I won't even eat sometime, bro.
Yeah, I have to.
I smoke and I work my applecider, yeah, I feel you, I'm not
(34:18):
like one of them dudes, likepiece of my boy kill, excuse me.
Corey, excuse me, he gotta eatin the morning.
My cousin Chang's, he gotta eat.
My boy Leon, they just gottaeat.
Y'all gotta eat.
I'm thirsty man, I'm all heavy.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
I won't eat all day and thencome home and eat.
You feel what I'm saying?
(34:39):
I work too.
You know what I'm saying.
We eat, so I really can't.
That's up in the air, bro.
That's up in the air.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
All right, last one Best Chinese food.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
I don't like Chinese food, but I can tell you this.
Only reason I don't like it isbecause I grew up on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sayingthat's all I don't.
It ain't nothing wrong withChinese food.
I like they teas though we'llget you a tea for me.
But best Chinese food, I'mgonna say.
My girl said Red Star or Mane,and Nelson has the best chicken
wings.
The best general tie that I getis I gotta give you the name
(35:16):
later but it's a Chineserestaurant downtown by.
Is it Chinese restaurantdowntown?
The only Chinese restaurantdowntown.
On the side going down towardsMarcus Street, they got good
Chinese food and number oneChinese.
It's gonna be number oneChinese.
(35:37):
No, star Chinese.
Star Chinese on Main Street isthat's in Hartford Hartford, off
of Duns River.
Okay, I know what you'retalking about.
That might be like if peoplewanna get Chinese food that they
wanna go pick up, they're gonnamost likely go there.
Yeah, I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Okay, since you got any businesses, anything you
wanna shout out?
I?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
miss.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Any of your homies businesses anything got going on
in Hartford Connecticut.
You wanna shout out before wewrap it up?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Shout out.
I'm not shout out to allentrepreneurs.
Mainly minorities, yeah forsure, mainly minority
entrepreneurs.
Like I said, gay, miss B Shatand the phone stores vague.
(36:42):
Shout out to you, o'shane.
If you happen to come acrossthis where you at brother, I
need you.
Bro.
That's the phone man, you know.
Just shout out to all blackbusinesses, man.
If you doing something on theside, shout out to people like
you doing your podcasts.
And if you just doing something, that ain't that you your own
(37:06):
general, you're your own boss,man.
Shout out to you, man, that'sall you know.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah for sure.
Shout out to the entrepreneursand the self-made business
owners out there.
Absolutely y'all tap in man.
It was a great episode with myman O.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
This wasn't enough.
This wasn't enough.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I need more.
Yeah, nah, you definitely.
You definitely see a lot morefrom O.
We gonna invite Randy and myman, Maine, and see if we could
get a group thing going withRandy, maine and you.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Yeah, shout out to my boy too.
Man Brother Knowledge, man, hehad to watch his daughter, man,
you know yeah, yeah, yeah, weall gonna lock in, we gonna be.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
y'all could expect a lot more from O Maine.
And yeah, that's it man.
Oh, shout out to the previousguests.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I'll be listening, I'll be in tune.
Shout out to Ease previousguests.
And yeah, I'll be listening toy'all while I'm at work, man,
Y'all be helping me get throughmy day, man.
Thank y'all.
Man.
Shout out to the life and thegutter.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, absolutely, man Shout out Gascar.
We gonna have some merch comingsoon.
So, yeah, I'll look out for themerch We'll have.
We should have some sweatsuitsand everything like that Life
and the gutter.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah, life and the gutter sweatsuits.
Life and the gutter sweatsuits,I'm with it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I'm with it, yeah we should have that by season two.
So what, what, what, whatWithin the next four or five
weeks?
Yeah, yeah, I'll tap in, butyeah, episode 13, Serrat, Salute
y'all yeah.
All eyes is on me and so no lies, won't hold my
tongue.
Don't cry for me.
I don't have no friends.
I ain't with the voters.
They ask toaster, hit you withthe, flip it over, be a nigga,
use a big ol' goofy.
(00:21):
Will you go virtual?
I'll see that lane you gon'give it.
On the poster LaFerrari F8,laferrari Roaster.
I turned 10 bricks in the 12ththen burst out a growth spurt.
He gon' do some shopping later.
I'ma need some dough first.
I just got some hair in a ghostand a ghost hat.
Yeah, yeah, out of here.
Your boys been at growth fair.
(00:42):
I seen them out with a every 10.
Like I don't know her.
I can't do no features, but youknow you're best at no sir,
Party's nigga on Earth.
I'm not really from Earth.
We don't down now I want I letoff their call first.
Laferrari, my own work with avideo call work.
I can't hear that money calling.
I'll fix up the first ring.
What you gon' charge an old manfor them?
(01:04):
Pussy, you gonna hurt me.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I just out all my stone homes, boots, all in a
shirts up.
I just out all my ghetto homeswho turned into influences.
Shrinky old.
Fuck that bitch and leave onCalhoun.
She fuck.
Baps it out her closet's highthe tail.
She got on easy up.
I got mold with me.
Bump out the feds man.
I got foes with me.
You got goofy switch.
Before I do that, I keep somehoes with me.
I still fall my gun when I'm inCali.
(01:27):
Nigga, this your city, why youdeal with my bitch.
I got like we fucked these hoesbelow sitting, straightening it
from Reign on like Calhoun.
Maury Took her out that cheapshit.
Took it to Ferrari.
Never tell her sorry, just callher Ferrari.
I'll sit with this.
Cue me link.
You think she was Cardi.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
She got a big gang leaders with me all the time.
I don't know who I fuck.
Last night I got all the timers.
I don't know who them hoes isman.
They all mine.
Bro, you tell me who them hoesis man.
They all.
Fine, I got that hood again.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's your boy, elliot Carter, reporting live from the
motherfucking gutter.
It's a special guest.
It's a special guest today inthe building we got my boy.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
O, here with me.
What up?
Salute, live to the gutter.
What's going on?
How you feel about Kanye's newshit?
I ain't even listen to Kanye'snew album.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I didn't even know.
The new one didn't come out yet, but that was uh.
This is gonna be a song off hisnew album right here.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's alright, it's alright, I don't Kanye.
I don't really listen to Kanye.
I do listen to Kanye, but Idon't listen to Kanye.
I listen to when he talk.
People need to listen when hetalk, cause he not crazy.
Okay, he elaborate.
I like his movies, I like hismusic, though Everybody think
Kanye crazy.
But Kanye's not crazy.
Kanye got a method to hismadness.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, definitely.
I definitely feel like there'sa method to his madness, there's
a uh, there's a science to hisapproach.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's seen a lot he knows a lot, he's been a lot and
he's brought elbows with a lotof people.
Yeah, for sure, you know what Imean.
He's been around the world, heknow, he know.
For sure, for sure, don't counthim out.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah and um.
So you're born and raised inHartford.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Born and raised in Hartford at uh, at age eight I
moved to Bloomfield.
About four years.
I'm from the Blue Hills area.
Rest in peace, my boy cool Q.
Rest in power.
Good brother was a tragedy.
No rapping then.
But um, ingy way, yes, sir, theIngy way, the only way Up the
(03:31):
ways, one of the ways, finally,blue Hills baby.
Um, uh, can we give a fiveminute, um, yeah, absolutely
Five minute, one minute silencefor me and Q, please?
All right, thank you, that'sIngy way, man, my boy Q cool Q.
(03:53):
Go check him out on allstreaming platforms YouTube,
facebook.
I only know his Facebook page,but if you go type in cool Q
you'll get him.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, I think um.
I got him tagged Timothy Rose.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Timothy Rose.
Yes, yes, he was, he was.
He was the next one up.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I got him tagged on the Instagram, so y'all could uh
just tap into the Instagram anduh look for him from there.
All right, right, right, right,right, All right.
So talk to me about life inHartford, Growing up in Hartford
, growing up in Connecticut, howit's been for you and some of
the some of the struggles andthe challenges that you face
(04:30):
growing up in Hartford,Connecticut.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Well, you know, when you were young you were naive To
certain things.
Growing up Hartford, for themost part, was fun, like I told
you, sorry for I didn't shoutout the cool Q, sorry.
Um, he was asking about.
Um, I grew up eight years.
I grew up from.
I grew up, like I said, I'mfrom the Blue Hills neighborhood
, um West Euclid Street.
(04:53):
Um, I grew up there about.
I was born in 78.
Um I I moved me and my motherused to live with my grandmother
.
Um, my father was always aroundbut my father used to be doing
his thing.
You know if you get what I'msaying.
Yeah, absolutely.
Um, my father ended up gettingsaved.
(05:15):
Getting saved and changing hislife.
You know what I'm saying.
So he gave her all that streetand that's what girls, whatever
else he was doing, extracurricular activities, he gave
that up.
He married my mother.
They had a sister.
We moved her, but before that wemoved to Bloemford, I believe
Persian Park neighborhood On theother side of Blue Hills by
Coventry Street.
We moved over there and that'swhere life began.
(05:38):
I mean, life started a littlebit at Hartford, but like, as
far as like being like, it'slike moving from like Brooklyn
to Queens.
You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, from another city, right?
So I'm the new kid in theneighborhood, so I gotta adapt
quick.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, absolutely, I didn't haveall the necessary skills at the
moment, but, um, like LOX,living off experience, you get
(06:00):
acclimated hands on.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, thanks, like, like, like,for me, I didn't like my
father's side of the family.
They dig deeper than my mother'sside of the family.
Okay, because only on mymother's side of the family.
They from Alabama, um, um, uh,greensville, alabama, by Mobile,
(06:22):
montgomery, all that, um, it'smy aunt, my grandmother, my
aunt's son and my father and mymother.
That's my, that's my side ofthe family up here In Hartford
on my mother's side.
Okay, so me and my father isthe men of our family and my
mother's family.
Okay, because only threefemales, yeah, one of my and my
(06:44):
cousin, and on my father'sfamily they from South Carolina,
okay, georgetown, sanford,around that area.
So, which is my father's partof eight Hailing from down south
, both sides, right, so myfather's a part of eight
brothers, four sisters, elevenof them, or twelve of them all
together.
You know what I'm saying, soyou can imagine when they came
down here.
(07:05):
How does?
Yeah I mean, for lack of abetter word, you know that's the
her side of my family.
So growing up Hartford, I had abalance.
You know, I always went tochurch.
So you know that always kept mespiritually grounded, you know,
let me say one thing if youdon't, if you don't, first and
foremost, if you don't, uh, howcan I say this?
(07:29):
Uh, I believe in the higherpower.
So everybody, certain people,believe in higher powers, but
they put different names to it.
Yeah, so I don't want to, like,put a label, put a label on it,
like, for me personally, how Iwas raised up.
I'm not religious but spiritual.
(07:50):
I'm a follower of Christ.
That's me personally.
So that's the Bible, the BibleMe knowing the Bible stories and
whether the metaphor is true,that helped shake my life to
music.
I got both parents in my life.
They wasn't always together.
(08:10):
I got both parents, like I toldyou, but my parents,
respectfully, didn't raise me.
They sheltered me, clothe me.
They did what parents aresupposed to do keep me away from
certain things.
But music influence and musicmusic really influenced my life
(08:33):
and movies, not being a follower, but taking the good, the bad
and throwing the ugly away outof me.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
So when you say your parents, then raise you.
Who raised you Outside?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The streets Music, my deac.
That's like listening.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
sure, Listening to the music, knowing I don't want
to be a part of certain things,or I do want to be a part of
certain things.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
So music had a heavy influence, heavy, heavy, from
young, on your behavior and yourculture.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yes, yes, yes, like my father, you know, is it
different from somebody tellingyou you know, do this when
something happened, from youbeing here and Zoom, and you
being in that situation, yeahfor sure, like never say you're
going to do this or not, causeyou don't never know what you're
going to do in a situation,certain situations you just
don't want to be in.
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, absolutely Certain situations.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
But that's what I'm saying.
Like my father always said, ifsomebody bigger than you do
something, you hit him or pickup a stick.
Mm-hmm, you feel what I'msaying.
When it comes down for somebodydoing something to you, you're
not thinking about picking up nostick, or you know what I'm
saying.
You got to, I had to havethings, I had to be physically
in certain situations to be likeman.
This is not going to happen tome again.
(09:40):
Yeah, I'm not going throughthis again.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You had to go through it, Right?
That's what I'm trying to tellyou.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Living off experience .
So that's what I say.
Like I got raised like that.
Okay, you know what I'm saying?
Like, not saying like myparents did what they did for me
.
They did what they could mymother, my aunt, my father.
He showed me how to get money.
You know what I'm saying,mm-hmm?
Because?
And with females too, raising,raising, raising kids they only
(10:07):
could do so much.
They only could do so much asfar as raising, they could
discipline you all day and yellat you and spank your butt and
all that.
But you need a man likedaughters, like men that got
daughters.
You need to be in a like too,because it's real out here,
females is getting kidnapped,all females is getting raped,
(10:29):
females is getting trafficked,females getting abused.
And there's a lot of us I don'tcare what color you is A lot of
men.
If you were a man, okay, whatcolor you was, man, stand up and
protect these women out here,cause if it wasn't for these
women, you know what I don'tlike each.
But when people get mad aboutI'm not knocking nobody's
(10:51):
situation how they grew up, butpeople would tell my mother my
father was just an act.
Listen, man, if it wasn't foryour mother father, no matter
what, you wouldn't be in asituation where you're going
through what you're goingthrough and they're good about.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, that's a fact, don't be.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No, my mother, this, my mother, that Maybe sometimes
that's the case where it shapesand moves the kid's life.
But other than that, like,don't use no excuse.
But back to your question.
Hartford was all right,hartford was rough, hartford
could be scary.
When you're young, that's theone thing that people should
teach they cares about.
(11:23):
Growing up is fear Especially.
That's why I say back toreligion or spirituality if you
got a higher power or youbelieve in the Lord Jesus or God
, you shouldn't fear nothing.
You feel what I'm saying and Iknow two part.
One said no, noself-destruction.
I think it was heavy deed.
I said I shouldn't have to.
(11:45):
Oh, it was Kumodi.
He said I shouldn't have tofear another black man and that
always stuck with me.
Why do people fear Like youshouldn't have to fear.
I understand you should befearful, but you should be aware
.
Of course you should, but Ishouldn't, I shouldn't.
(12:05):
You know black people areoppressed black people and I
know you, being from the city,and you know the stories of
gangs.
You know Bloods and Latin kingsand oppression and how gangs
are started so that peoplewouldn't be oppressed but they
wouldn't be somewhere else.
We are press ourselves and we,like man, we doing them people
(12:28):
jobs for us.
You feel what I'm saying?
We doing them people jobs andthey sitting back letting it go
down, and then you get caughtand you do all the time.
So you do a crime, say a personwho's a life, that's two lives
lost because one person in jailand one person dead.
Who wins?
Nobody but the people that'sorchestrating playing the field,
(12:50):
probably the strings.
Yeah, man, it's just aboutawareness, man.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
So, from an outsider coming in, from someone from
like Pennsylvania or someonefrom New York or Jersey moving
to Connecticut, moving toHartford, what's some advice you
have for them?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
My business, my business.
And another thing, whether itrelates or don't relate, the
streets, not everything.
Like you know, I tell certainpeople that's hustling and get
you a job, but it'd be so hardfor them to transition because
you know the longer you be incertain situations, even if you
(13:29):
want to.
But Hartford is a nice place,like, especially in the spring
or the summer.
You look down certain streetsand I'm really talking about
like, like Garden Street.
If you look down Garden Street,coming up from the avenue and
you see how, like, when thespring is changing autumn,
hartford is a beautiful place.
Hartford is a beautiful place.
It's not enough to do Hartford.
That's the problem.
(13:50):
It's not enough to do Hartford.
It used to be.
It used to be.
We have Maaz and Richardson.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And what happened?
Why do you say it used to be?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
It got.
You know what Justification broyeah and I'm and it ain't like.
You can't really see it how yousee it.
Justification it was too manyHartford was popping back then
bro yeah Clubs, and then you'reyounger so you have much to do,
but then, like it was like whenthey stopped the club in
(14:21):
downtown you know what I'msaying?
About 10, about 15 years ago,10 feet between 10 and 15 years
ago.
That's when things changed.
I guess it was a, it was achanging of the guards, for like
that's when the grown up clubshappen and the button ups and
less violence and stuff likethat.
But that's when it kind ofhappened.
(14:42):
You got to go really out oftown or go to, like, the
comedian club, or you got towait for a show or something to
really have fun, or go toBridgeport, something, go.
Just it ain't in Hartford, it'snot in Hartford.
Only time you have fun inHartford, you having to cook out
or you playing spades orsomewhere, or you outside.
So how was it, ma, you travel.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yes, where was your latest adventure?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Well, south Carolina.
Okay, what was going on outthere?
I went for funeral my.
Was it a funeral?
No, it wasn't a funeral, it wasa get together.
I never met my father's mother.
She died.
My grandmother.
She died when it was like seven.
So I've been home before backthere, but I never met her side
(15:37):
of the family.
Okay, you feel what I'm saying.
It was kind of like a familyreunion.
It was a family reunion.
Yes, it was, and it's.
It was a good experience.
It was a good experience, likemy, my, my grandmother's side is
just as deep as my father'sside of the family.
Okay, like they got a wholestreet.
That is just I forgot what theycall it a neighborhood, but
(15:59):
it's just.
Like mostly my family live onthat street.
Yeah, same different houses,one long street.
They got the church in thecemetery where my grand, where
my grandmother was buried, and acouple of other, my people.
So that's the last place I'vebeen before that, okay, I mean
the last place I've been.
Where's next?
Right now, I want to go onanother cruise.
(16:19):
I ain't going to lie, but Iain't really pressed to go too
many places.
I want to, but because you knowwe're all crazy right now.
So I ain't really trying to becaught outside of United States
like that, but I do want to goon another cruise, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Just mind your business.
That's it.
That's it.
I ain't mad at you.
I ain't mad at you.
What's your day to days?
Look like Busy.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I work with you, of course.
So I'm going to start fromnighttime, you know, seven
o'clock, get ready to go to workfrom eight to four, from eight
to four, you know, I dolandscaping two in the morning.
So sometimes, if the weather'sright, I'm getting two hours of
sleep and I'm up at eight and Itry to get back home around to
try to be back in the bad byfour, but that don't always work
(17:07):
, you know.
So that's what my days is, justjust keep on moving.
I said, yeah, facts, facts,facts.
I'm trying to rest and rest itnow because of the weather
change.
Well, other than that, busy man,busy married, no, soon to be,
soon to be, I got a lady I'vebeen with about 19 years, oh
(17:27):
yeah.
So I know, I know when y'allsee that you're going to be like
why you ain't married, but youknow there's a time and place
for everything.
You know what I'm saying.
So I used to be running thestreets, playing around, messing
with, you know, just doing whatmen do.
Yeah, got a girl at home.
You got a couple of shortiesout.
You running the street, youknow, hustling a little bit.
So you know that type of life,but you know.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So what made you after 19 years?
What made you say this is theone she always been the?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
one.
She always been the one I as a,as a conglomerate, we both had.
First of all, I wasn't ready.
Okay, like I said, I was, youknow, doing me running around
and you know street nigga.
But when the job came, down thewhole bed with the last bed,
(18:19):
she helped me down all threebeds.
I mean I did like three scalebeds, four months, three months,
my feet, you know what I mean.
She left me one time.
Got her back, though, but shehelped me down.
She's a good lady, not really abackground.
You're not gonna hear her namein the streets.
(18:40):
You know she's a mother too.
She got a son and a daughter.
That's her daughter's um, whatup smurf, what up man man?
Her daughter's 26, 27.
Her son is like 24 25.
You know I'm sorry, um, butI've been with her 19 years.
But me not playing around, likeas far as muscle other girls
(19:05):
yeah, serious, and stuff likethat.
I've been good for, like I wantto say, eight, nine years, okay
, so I'm playing around.
I went to the mall and pickedout a ring and stuff.
You know a lot of people betrying to pressure when you're
getting married, when you knowI'm saying when the time is
right, like I ain't gettingmarried because you want me to
(19:25):
get married.
Yeah, you doing things on yourown and when it's right, you
know I'm saying and I gotta makesure that she the right one,
because certain things I believein she ain't with, like
Christmas, I don't believe inChristmas and I don't believe in
these holidays.
She do.
You know I'm saying and, and ifI get married, then I'm trying
to tell her now that mean yougotta come on a common ground,
(19:47):
because if I'm, yeah, it's gonnabe some type of compromise.
If I'm on a spiritual level andI believe in God and he's first
in my life, then I can't letwhat you got going on affect me
and what I'm doing.
You know I'm saying yeah, forsure, I'm not trying to be
selfish with you, but I'm gonna.
I'm gonna still buy a ring andI'm still gonna put the ring on
her finger, but the wedding ringI'm gonna hold.
(20:09):
That.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I'm gonna hold that and what's the what's the point
of you holding it?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
the like I told you we got to get that compromise
right.
Okay, now, maybe, before we goforward.
Okay, we got to get thatcompromise right.
Okay, that's all.
That's all so once I get thecompromise right, then you'll
give it to her, the wedding ringwe're gonna yeah, okay, you're
gonna get the end of, you'regonna get the engagement ring,
yeah, but oh, I got a set.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
That's why I'm saying yeah, no, that's what I mean.
Like the wedding ring.
Yeah, once yet.
Once she gets the compromise,once y'all get it and y'all
agree on it, that's when she'llget the other half yeah, okay,
that's when I'm always work onit.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I'm gonna work on, I'm gonna work on the wedding
and all that stuff, but betweenthat time I'm gonna be, um,
we're gonna be building, okay.
I'm saying, yeah, I'm me, I'm aperson that's, I'm aware and
I'm aware and I'm woke, I ain'tsleep, bro, you heard, and I'm
(21:11):
trying to uh, uh, my girl, shejust I be trying to.
I can't push, like I said, mybeliefs on her.
Yeah, at least be trying tospark her interest, if that
makes sense.
No, I'm sure, spark herinterest a little bit.
She younger no, I'm gonna orderto me by yeah, okay, well, she
gonna be like it's just a coupleof months, but she was born in
December 77.
(21:32):
I'm born March 20, march 78, ohyeah, so like four months.
Yeah, you feel me, but it'sreal loud here and a lot of
people sleep out here.
Yeah for sure, wake, wake up,is in your face and don't act
naive.
And if you got questions, askthem shits.
You feel me, man, I don't wantto go to he.
(21:52):
We're gonna take our time nahgo there.
I'm saying like I'm saying likecertain, like Santa Claus and
all that shit yeah, go to yourkids about no Santa Claus
talking about this for the kids.
Do you have kids?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
no, okay, if you had kids?
No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't, no, santa.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Claus, that's, that's what I'm talking about me and
her, she talking about my kids.
I'm telling I made a joke withher daughter.
Her daughter came over to cookthe other day.
I'm like she like my daughternamed Smurfs.
She like, uh, it's not fairthat you not doing Christmas.
And I said I was talking in thekitchen because I told her
(22:32):
today my kids would becelebrating Christmas.
So she was like, uh, it waslike the next day and I ended
talking to my girl daughter andshe was like I was like I told
you my kids ain't gonna becelebrating Christmas.
So my girl daughter, like thiskid, celebrate Christmas.
I was like you're not a kid,you feel what I'm saying, man,
(22:52):
you a grown ass woman, you're agirl woman, but I did celebrate
Christmas.
My girl is just mad becauseit's a abrupt change.
When I found out the truth, likeI always had questions, she was
like why you?
Just, I wasn't.
I didn't know.
No, yeah, I know.
When you know something, man,if I tell you the stove hot, you
want, you want to still touchit?
Hot me, hot, you know what?
(23:14):
Hot me, yeah, thanks.
But I can't, man, you can'tmake them drink, you're thanks.
So I'm not man.
I believe in hell, in heaven,and I ain't kind of gonna have
and I'm not gonna help for nowoman.
You heard, I'm not gonna havewith nobody but my soul.
If that's the case, if Godwilling, I go.
If you believe in that type ofstuff, you heard so does the 26
(23:48):
year old have kids?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
no, none of them have kids.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
No, she live by herself.
She got a job.
She's doing all right.
Her birthday was just passing.
I gave her a card.
I said I'm proud of you becausemost of her friends got kids
and you know how that.
You know you celebratebirthdays.
Yes, I do.
I celebrate life.
Okay.
New years, mother's day,father's day, I celebrate that.
No, bad times, thanks givingthe Christmas, columbus day, 4th
(24:12):
of July, none of that shit.
Juneteenth no, becauseJuneteenth is it's a history
behind.
Juneteenth is it's somethingelse.
It's something else betweenJuneteenth which I don't really
like.
I can't remember right now, soI'm not gonna put it out there.
Okay, like all that blackFriday shit, I'm not doing it.
That's the days the slaves weresold for cheap.
(24:34):
I'm not with all that.
Yeah, like you gotta like, ifyou know really how the United
States and it's bigger than us,man, it's bigger than us we
program.
I mean the world is programmedand I advise y'all watch them.
New two TikToks, scary, creepyTikToks.
Yeah, I mean they lied to youabout a lot of stuff the moon
(24:55):
and the firming man and goingout of space and Antarctica and
all type of stupid shit, likeyou know.
I mean it's not in your historybooks.
It just told you what theywanted you to hear, man, and it
worked.
It worked.
This is a system that was goingon since 18, 18, 19 okay, it was
(25:17):
like 103 years, sort of.
In 18, like 1803, no 70, I wasborn in 78, 1805, 1805 they
wrote, they wrote um, they wrotethe curriculum for people you
know.
The only reason they got schoolis to make you work as citizens
for the people that got themoney.
(25:38):
That's the only reason they gotschool to make you um compliant
and not question nothing.
That's why they made schools.
I believe you feel me.
So what are you doing right now?
Thinking on the box podcast totake off open doors?
I believe me, you're doing athing you know.
I'm saying take off, bro.
I appreciate it.
Take off, man.
I appreciate.
(25:58):
Shots out to it and the gutterright live from the gutter word.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Live from the gutter word, word.
Thanks.
Also shout out to uh BrumelCycling Fitness.
Uh, my man, randy Brumel, hegot a bike shop.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah what up man?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
uh man, randy Brumel, he got a bike shop.
Uh, alan Harwinson, let me giveyou all the address.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Right now we need you on here cause Ray is smart.
Ray know that financial talk.
Yeah, he be talking his shit,Ray, definitely talk.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Let me give you all this addy.
Okay, here we go 21 BurlingtonRoad in Harbenton, brumell,
(27:09):
cycling Fitness.
Randy's been a staple in thecommunity for more than two
decades and he's repairing allof your local bikes and fitness
equipment.
He also has fitness accessoriesfor sale.
Give him a call at 860-6010-855.
That's 860-6010-855.
(27:30):
And also want to give a shoutout to Hold on?
Also want to give a shout outto.
(27:55):
Also want to give a shout outto Peace, peace, peace.
So I got chest players word1020 Farmington Avenue.
No, that's Burlington.
(28:16):
That's Burlington.
1020 Farmington Avenue,burlington, 06037.
That's Taino Chest Club.
And yeah, it's $5 a day, $20 aweek, $200 a year.
If you don't have $5 to goparticipate for the day, just
(28:37):
tell them.
Lftg sent you, they'll let youin.
And yeah, it's for beginners,intermediate, advanced chest
players, anybody looking tolearn the game or just advance
on your strategy and learn more.
Y'all go shout out Taino ChestClub.
You play, yes sir.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Ok, that's for sure.
Yes, I do.
My father taught me when I wasyoung.
So how long you been playing?
So say about I was 45.
Just say about 30 years.
Yeah, yeah, nice.
I mean he taught me the movesand the you know I figured out
the rest.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah, my pops taught me how to play too, you being a
chest tournament.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah I be.
I want to play you, but I don'tknow.
I think you better scrape me.
Real bad man, yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
We can play.
We can play after this matterof fact.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I know you.
I know you're being a chesttournament man.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yeah, every playing in the chest tournament is heavy
Mm-hmm For sure.
All right, so what you be doingin Connecticut, what you be
doing in Hartford, what you bedoing with your free time?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Just to be outside After I work.
I'm outside chilling On GoddardStreet or Up the Way or
somewhere, but now I was like Idon't be outside like that.
Um, changes, bro, Changes,peace to my boy Brooke man, um,
my boy Brooke, my boy Brookemoved to Uh, jersey, I believe,
(30:12):
jersey, yeah.
So you know, if I come outsideand nobody around, I'll go back
in the house.
Man, I don't got no problems inthe house now.
You feel me?
I go watch YouTube or justchill.
I'm doing something Trying tosave some money, man.
I ain't be trying to out herewasting money, but If there
ain't nothing popping, man, I'mgoing back in the house.
(30:33):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah, I ain't mad at you, you feel me.
I ain't mad at you Fucking umwhen restaurants you fuck
without here.
Give me some restaurants toreview.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Okay, um 778.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
778 is already reviewed.
We did them.
They got pretty good reviews.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Shots out Gabe.
Um yeah, gabriel Mickens, yeah,shots out Gabe.
Um Uh, take uh, just a twist onBlue Hail's On the corner of
Booth Bay and Blue Hail's by thegas station.
Shots out to my boy, shaquilleShat.
(31:16):
What up, he's no poorrestaurant.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Okay, just go with, just a.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Twist, just a Twist on Blue Hail's, okay, um,
breakfast, I don't want to saydinner, but breakfast, breakfast
and lunch.
You know, chicken wings andrice, um, salmon, yeah, things
like that nature, yeah, okay.
Shots out to the Jamaicanrestaurants Paradise on Blue
Hail's.
Um, yeah, I did.
Paradise restaurant I justburnt my mouth on a Jamaican
(31:47):
B-Pati yesterday from GoldenCrust on the Avenue.
Shots out to y'all because yourB-Pati's always hot.
Yeah, my boy, leon, thank youfor buying that for me.
Um, other than that, bro, Idon't really like to go out and
spend no money.
That's my girl department,scott, they got a bunch of them.
Okay, I fucked with Scott's onBlue Hail's.
Okay, or Main Street, dependingon, because they got Scott's on
(32:10):
Main Street.
Got the Stoopies on Thursdays.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Okay, when they could catch that?
Yeah, we definitely gonna gocheck out Scott's.
Yeah, get your soup.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
Get your soup.
They don't serve no jerk.
They serve jerk chicken wings,but no jerk put and no jerk
chicken.
You gotta go to Main Street forthat.
Probably to another Jamaicanrestaurant, Okay, oh.
Shots out to Head Over Berries.
Go check them out when they atOn Blue Hail's, Across the
street from Carlos, on thecorner of Burnham and Blue
(32:40):
Hail's Avenue.
Head Over Berries Shots outMiss B, that's, if you want your
nutritious fruit bowls andfruit bowls with the Aki.
Yeah, Aki Aki, and they dosmoothies.
I'm not with them.
Okay, yeah, you know.
Shots out to the Chineserestaurant too.
Wei Main, Wei Main Chinese.
(33:03):
Shots out to the whole BlueHail.
Shalimar Roy's S, Mr Pizza,Jimmy Sandra Bali.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Shots out to the whole Blue Hail's neighborhood
All right, so let me ask youthree questions real quick.
Of course, best pizza you canallocate.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
I ain't gonna lie.
I'm not gonna lie.
It used to be Mr Pizza T.
I made all them changes.
I like Joey Garlix.
Joey Garlix, we Angel and theMoorlard out work one day you
ain't getting a.
Nah.
Joey Garlix Pizza Village inBloomfield.
(33:41):
Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh, and I'mgoing with Burger Piecing in.
Okay, on Barbecue Street.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, best restaurant in Hartford.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I can't tell you that .
I can't tell you because I'mnot a.
I can't tell you bestrestaurant in Hartford.
I can't tell you because I'mnot a.
Like, I told you, I'm not arestaurant eater.
So, yeah, I mean because I go,I won't even eat sometime, bro.
Yeah, I have to.
I smoke and I work my applecider, yeah, I feel you, I'm not
(34:18):
like one of them dudes, likepiece of my boy kill, excuse me.
Corey, excuse me, he gotta eatin the morning.
My cousin Chang's, he gotta eat.
My boy Leon, they just gottaeat.
Y'all gotta eat.
I'm thirsty man, I'm all heavy.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
I won't eat all day and thencome home and eat.
You feel what I'm saying?
(34:39):
I work too.
You know what I'm saying.
We eat, so I really can't.
That's up in the air, bro.
That's up in the air.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
All right, last one Best Chinese food.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
I don't like Chinese food, but I can tell you this.
Only reason I don't like it isbecause I grew up on it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sayingthat's all I don't.
It ain't nothing wrong withChinese food.
I like they teas though we'llget you a tea for me.
But best Chinese food, I'mgonna say.
My girl said Red Star or Mane,and Nelson has the best chicken
wings.
The best general tie that I getis I gotta give you the name
(35:16):
later but it's a Chineserestaurant downtown by.
Is it Chinese restaurantdowntown?
The only Chinese restaurantdowntown.
On the side going down towardsMarcus Street, they got good
Chinese food and number oneChinese.
It's gonna be number oneChinese.
(35:37):
No, star Chinese.
Star Chinese on Main Street isthat's in Hartford Hartford, off
of Duns River.
Okay, I know what you'retalking about.
That might be like if peoplewanna get Chinese food that they
wanna go pick up, they're gonnamost likely go there.
Yeah, I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Okay, since you got any businesses, anything you
wanna shout out?
I?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
miss.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Any of your homies businesses anything got going on
in Hartford Connecticut.
You wanna shout out before wewrap it up?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Shout out.
I'm not shout out to allentrepreneurs.
Mainly minorities, yeah forsure, mainly minority
entrepreneurs.
Like I said, gay, miss B Shatand the phone stores vague.
(36:42):
Shout out to you, o'shane.
If you happen to come acrossthis where you at brother, I
need you.
Bro.
That's the phone man, you know.
Just shout out to all blackbusinesses, man.
If you doing something on theside, shout out to people like
you doing your podcasts.
And if you just doing something, that ain't that you your own
(37:06):
general, you're your own boss,man.
Shout out to you, man, that'sall you know.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah for sure.
Shout out to the entrepreneursand the self-made business
owners out there.
Absolutely y'all tap in man.
It was a great episode with myman O.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
This wasn't enough.
This wasn't enough.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
I need more.
Yeah, nah, you definitely.
You definitely see a lot morefrom O.
We gonna invite Randy and myman, Maine, and see if we could
get a group thing going withRandy, maine and you.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
Yeah, shout out to my boy too.
Man Brother Knowledge, man, hehad to watch his daughter, man,
you know yeah, yeah, yeah, weall gonna lock in, we gonna be.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
y'all could expect a lot more from O Maine.
And yeah, that's it man.
Oh, shout out to the previousguests.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
I'll be listening, I'll be in tune.
Shout out to Ease previousguests.
And yeah, I'll be listening toy'all while I'm at work, man,
Y'all be helping me get throughmy day, man.
Thank y'all.
Man.
Shout out to the life and thegutter.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, absolutely, man Shout out Gascar.
We gonna have some merch comingsoon.
So, yeah, I'll look out for themerch We'll have.
We should have some sweatsuitsand everything like that Life
and the gutter.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah, life and the gutter sweatsuits.
Life and the gutter sweatsuits,I'm with it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I'm with it, yeah we should have that by season two.
So what, what, what, whatWithin the next four or five
weeks?
Yeah, yeah, I'll tap in, butyeah, episode 13, Serrat, Salute
y'all yeah.
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