Nostalgia and New Beginnings Part 2

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This episode is a continuation of the friendships and memories that shape our identities as we transition from St. Louis to Houston. We share anecdotes about our shared past, what we miss most about home, reasons for leaving, and reflections on love and community. 

 

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• Sharing personal stories of connection and disconnection
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
What's good y'all?
This is Trench the TrophiesPodcast, coming live from Mad
Artistry Studios.
I'm your boy, ant, and I'm herewith my people, monte Corleone
and Unique Artistry.
Come follow us on Instagram,facebook and everywhere you find
your favorite podcasts.
Alright y'all, welcome back.

(00:27):
Welcome to Trench the Trophies.
It's your boy, ant, andeverywhere you find your
favorite podcast.
Alright y'all, welcome back.
Welcome to Trinches to Trophies.
It's your boy, ant, and we'rehere to give y'all another
dope-ass, motherfucking episode.
So today we're going to talk alittle bit more about us, right,
I feel like before we get toodeep into the topics and
everything that's like superdeep as far as the media and all
that bullshit we may touch on alittle bit you know what I'm
saying, but let's talk a littlebit more about us.

(00:50):
let's go back to our hometownand, if you ain't already got it
, if you just now tuning in, weare all from St Louis, missouri,
however you reference the city.
You know what I'm saying.
We, all come from thosestomping grounds and not East St
Louis, cause that's the thingLike.
Every time I tell somebody I'mfrom St Louis, right, they like,

(01:12):
oh, east St Louis, no, no, no.
Those are two different things,no disrespect, but they're
definitely two separate cities.
You know what I'm saying?
East St Louis is technically inIllinois, while St Louis, you
know, is on the other side ofthe bridge.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
You have to tell them it's the city of St Louis.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Because no, not from the east, no disrespect to east
side.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Definitely got fam on the east side.
For sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
But it's not the same .
But no, it's definitely not thesame.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
So, like for me, technically it's definitely not
the same.
So, like for me, technically, Igrew up in the county right, so
I definitely was born in NorthCity and then I moved to the
county as a youngin' and grew upthere in Ferguson.
So I spent most of my timethere and then I moved around
you know what I'm sayingdifferent sides of Ferguson,
spanish Lake, hazelwood,dalewood, capital Park, like all

(02:10):
different parts of whatever youwould call St Louis.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
That nigga was a hood hopper.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I mean, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
That was my trench right, that was one of my
trenches.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
We moved around a lot .
We relocated quite a bit.
You know what I'm saying.
Yeah, we relocated quite a bit.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, I grew up in U City and then, like my dad, he
stayed right off Riverview,right there where Riverview and
Broadway, so kind of like Dayton, but it was across the street,

(02:45):
so it was like North City.
You know what I'm saying.
So you know, I grew up in kindof both places, but mainly in U
City.
And then when we moved, wemoved to St Ann.
So then I grew up in St Ann, Ihad my you know middle school
and high school in St Ann.
So then I grew up in St Ann, Ihad my middle school and high

(03:07):
school in St Ann, but then, no,we went back to North County.
We went back and then I went toBerkeley and I graduated from
Berkeley orBerkeley-McClure-South.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, man, that mo used to be a tongue twister,
McClure-South-Berkeley which.
Mcclure, you went to that moused to be a ton twisted Bruh.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Mcclure South.
Berkeley, which McClure youwent to Berkeley, mcclure South.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I used to hate that which McClure you went to?
Because I went to regularMcClure and Hazelwood East.
So it was like, because I saidI went to Hazelwood East, which
one Hazelwood East?
Oh, okay, you went to McClure,regular McClure, right there off
270 Regular McClure.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
But that was they fault, because they put they
just At first it was Berkeley.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, and then they put All the F-bass.
And shit on there.
Yeah, trying to be.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Politically correct and shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
My youngest years.
What I can remember, I Grew upin the county but then I was
always in my grandma's house onweekends in the summers over
there in Bay it wasn't no partof the whole ring.
I used to go to St Matthewsthat school over there, Over

(04:21):
there on Ring man I rememberthat's my oldest memory Is in
that school.
This nigga wanted my lunch.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Go eat your cone.
Like for real, though, like.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's crazy and I'm straight Thinking about that.
At that age I had to be like mydaughter, age Like four or five
, because All I remember Is dude, this light skinned dude,
little kid, said Then give meyour lunch.
I'm like, nah, I hit him.
This dude, this light-skinneddude, little kid said then give
me your lunch.
I'm like nah, I hit him withthe tray and I remember his
mouth was bleeding, that's it.
And I hit him with the traywith the food that's it.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
That's all I remember and I remember.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I remember my sister.
I shouldn't be laughing.
For some reason I had left outof my classroom and looked in
the hallway and I looked out andI seen my sister getting
whooped by the teacher.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh yeah, that used to happen back in the day, though
that used to be acceptable backthen, for sure, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
That's what I'm saying, but it was crazy.
For some reason at that time Iwould look out the door and see
that you know what I'm saying.
But yeah, so that was a regularthing growing up there at St
Matthew's School.
Then I went to learn more inthe county, graduated from E.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
That's when I met this nigga Bro.
It's so crazy, bro, becauseit's like when I came to E,
because I always been like anigga who was cool with
everybody.
But I ain't roll with a certainset of niggas.
Like I got niggas who I've beencool with since, like
kindergarten, that I call on,you know what I'm saying.
That's been my niggas forever.
But at the same time it's likewhen my nigga linked up, it was
like, damn, this is the nigga Iwas rolling with.
Like me and this nigga used touh, go to multiple lunches.

(06:00):
We used to nigga and just bekicking it at a nigga lunch,
just chilling, bro, hiding fromsecurity guards and shit.
That shit used to be funny bro.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Shout out Steve Harvey, and I think he passed
away though.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Did he Damn?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I don't want to put that on.
I don't want to put that on inthe atmosphere.
I hope not.
We used to do the same shitthough.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Shout out to the Spartans.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
We used to skip lunch Dog, my partner.
This dude went to school Everyday With nothing in his book bag
.
That did go to no class, bruh.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
But I used to do that .
Sometimes I can't even talkshit Like I was Bruh To be so
smart.
My ass was so stupid, bro, itwas just doing shit Like nigga I
would.
I would legit go to class Withnothing, would have pencils and
books and notebooks In my locker.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Bruh, I just wasn't Paying attention bro Bruh like
was doing Dumb shit.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And that's how they knew.
That's how they knew that wewasn't gonna be successful.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, that's how they knew.
I ain't gonna lie.
I used to piss teachers off,bro.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
You went to class with nothing, bruh.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I don't.
I learned the same as thesemotherfuckers.
Yeah, that shit was different.
That's all I could have.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I just didn't give a fuck.
That was my problem.
I just didn't give a shit, Bro.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I don't learn like them.
I cannot sit up there and watchyou teach and me follow along.
I can't do it.
So that's why I got put inalternative school.
When they put me in alternativeschool, I was amazing.
They gave me a packet and saidfinish it by the end of the
semester.
Bet.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Bet I got you Bitch, fuck you talking about.
I got you Last week.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
I'm on it so it was at your own pace, yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I remember that I ain't never.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I have homies and that shit.
That's the type of environmentI thrive in, like that.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Like move at your own pace.
Type shit I feel like a lot ofpeople.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Would have Tech like environment.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
That was the fucked up part With school, bro.
They didn't take into accountthat other people learn
different.
They just taught you One setweight.
You know what I'm saying?
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Man shout out to whoever All the niggas who went
to North Tech.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
North Tech was like Luxury school, though Niggas who
went to North Tech Was likeyeah, I get off Early on
Thursdays and shit.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Niggas was like yeah yeah, yeah, I get out of school.
You had to be, you had to havea good Like GPA and shit, yeah
yeah, you had to be on your shit.
You couldn't be a me student.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Nah, nah, you couldn't be Fucking around and
didn't expect to go to NorthTech.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Nah, they was like hell.
Nah, he been in ISS 15 timesthis year, bro, I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
But the thing is they made ISS cool, because all the
kids that you kicked into thedead shit was in there, so you
was kicking it with everybody inthere and then the teacher
ain't really care.
The teacher was just like chillout y'all.
You know what I.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
And the teacher wasn't a teacher.
It was somebody that they hiredto babysit kids.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
It was a substitute.
Yeah, it was like a teacher'saide, like some shit like.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, we had fun with that.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, that shit was cool.
Though.
That shit was cool All right,but see, we talk about school,
right, and I think that's dopeBecause I feel like growing up
in St Louis that's one wayniggas classified you right.
If you met somebody somewherethey'd be like what school you
go to, or what school you wentto, Even as a grown-ass person.
They'd be like oh yeah, yousuch and such, what school you

(09:12):
go to?
You went to what school?
What high school?

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Because they're going to judge you.
Oh, okay, okay, they were goingto judge you if you went to
Central, or if you went toNormandy or you went to Vachon.
You know what I'm?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
saying but I went to Pattonville.
However, it was a lot ofmotherfuckers that went to
Pattonville.
You know what I'm saying like itwas adverse yeah cause they was
busting, they was bustingeverybody else out from, out
from the city.
You know what I'm saying.
So I was.
I was going to school witheverybody.
You know what I mean.
And plus, shout out to my niggaLayton.

(09:46):
He opened up I think it'sLayton's Ramen here in Houston,
that's what's up.
Yeah, I got some bro.
It was pretty good.
You know what I'm saying.
So shout out to him.
He went to Pattonville.
You know what I'm saying.
A lot of my homeboys that I kickit with.
They wasn't no lame niggas ornothing like that.

(10:07):
Like I was in a popular crowd.
You know what I'm saying.
So it was like I don't know, itwas some lame motherfuckers.
But you know, like it wasn'tlike that Most people would be
like damn man.
You, that most people would belike damn man.
You went to Pattonville.
All that soft Nah motherfuckersjust getting put up on lockers
every day and type shit.
You know what I'm saying.

(10:28):
Like getting their ass whooped.
It wasn't like it was like acity school.
Well, I ain't gonna say like acity school, because
motherfuckers did not get shotup.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, so coming out to East.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Because I know you came out there in like what like
your sophomore year.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
My junior year I came out, oh so even older junior
year.
So you had a little you knowwhat I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
an older age, yeah, to kind of decipher the
difference in people fromdifferent schools and their
mentalities, yeah, so what was?
How was it coming out to East?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It was.
I mean, it was definitelydifferent, in a way Like Coming
from where.
Yeah, so I, you know, I wasgoing to McClure before I came
to East, so I went back andforth.
I went McClure, east, mcclure.
You know what I'm saying.
So at McClure it's definitelymore diverse, probably like

(11:30):
Pattonville is.
It's definitely a a good amountof white folks in there, like
it ain't a whole lot, it's like20 or something like that.
And then, but you still gotlike the other people, it's
Mexicans and there's Asians inthere, some Pacific Islanders
and you know I'm saying it'ssummer, everybody sprinkled in
there, but definitely a lot ofniggas.
You know I'm saying, um, I saygoing to east was a lot more of
where I came from and not whereI was.
East was definitely a little bitmore gritty.
You had a lot more shit goingon.

(11:51):
I remember it was niggasselling guns and shit in the
bathrooms at East.
I was like, oh, that'sdifferent.
It wasn't different from how Igrew up, but it was different
from my school experiences, forsure.
I was like, oh, okay, cool howI grew up, but it was different
from my school experiences.
Yeah, for sure, you know whatI'm saying.
So I was like oh okay, cool,cool, cool Cool.
So like I just saw niggasmoving a separate type of way,

(12:11):
like on what they was doing, soit was.
I mean, it was for me, it madeit more comfortable to be me in
school.
That's probably the you wasable to adjust.
You was able to adjust.
You know what I'm saying.
I adjusted easy Cause like themwas my people, like I met hella
people I fucked with.
Cause I'm like Alright, that'show I move.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
So so, monte, what about you, though, cause I wanna
know this tape you coming fromthe U-City To the county area?
What was your Mindset With thatOn the type of people you might
encounter?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
So it was hard because I had to make a choice.
So I grew up in U City and Igrew up in pretty much like Big
Mama's house, so all my cousinsand my aunties, everybody in one
house, right.
So we fight.
You know what I'm saying.

(13:03):
That's where we grew up and inthis street that we grew up on,
like it's, had real gangsters onthe street, right, you know I'm
saying so.
I grew up around that.
Then we go to the county and mymom's like you can't bring that
type of attitude out here, so Ican't really.
I I knew how to throw my handsand all that, but I couldn't do

(13:25):
that out there.
So I had to pretty much, Iguess, not make friends.
But I guess that made me alittle distant from people and
people wanted to be my friend,which was cool.
But when we got into stuff, bro, like I really couldn't throw
them hands.
Bro, like I you know what I'msaying I was gonna get in
trouble.
Yeah, bro, because my mama wasbro, like you could ask one of

(13:48):
my homeboys, bro, I wouldn't.
It wasn't like I wouldn't fight, but it's like if I had to yeah
, you know what I'm sayingoutside of school it's different
, but if I had to, because I getin more trouble, I would have
to for real.
Let a nigga hit me in the facefor me to fight.
Or like say, for instance, meand you, we partners, we go and

(14:13):
we fight at school.
Your parents like, oh, Iunderstand, we'll put you on
punishment for three days.
My mama like, boy, y'all hadsome punishment for three months
.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
But why was it so much harder for you, your
punishment?

Speaker 1 (14:28):
I don't know because, I broke the rules bruh, but I
get what he's saying.
I don't know if you rememberthis, bruh, but when we was
going to school, I used to be onpunishment all the time.
Nigga, I was on punishment formonths at a time Like couldn't
go outside, Couldn't do this, Ijust had to sneak outside.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
So you got to try to do everything right, bro, why?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
do you feel it was so excessive with you?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
You think it was?
Your mother's I mean, I thinkshe didn't know what to do with
me, so she was trying to keep meaway from all the outside
influences.
But I have to ask her.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
You know what I'm saying, and we were raised by
females, so for that, theytrying to be hard on their sons,
they trying to teach us.
You know what I'm sayingBecause I didn't really pay
attention to it.
My homeboy who got onpunishment for three days, he
was on punishment from his dad.
You know what I'm saying.
He was raised by his dad, sohis dad put him on punishment

(15:20):
for three days.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, but that probably hit harder for them
three days disappointing yourdad on some shit Shit.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Me ain't care, he was like nigga, he was back
knocking at my door like what'sup, fool?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
So that's what I was getting ready to say then.
What do you feel it has donenow?
What do you think that kind ofparenting in that way, in that
moment, has done?

Speaker 1 (15:40):
I feel like if you don't provide context for your
kid, and whatever your approachto parenting is because I can't
say that one thing works overthe other, because I think that
different things work fordifferent kids.
However, I will say that youshould always be context, you
should always let your kid knowwhat's going on and why it's
happening, and that's whatprovides the lesson that you're

(16:01):
trying to teach them.
It's not about them being onpunishment or how many licks you
get them when you whoop them.
Whatever your method is, it'swhat comes around.
That.
Are you talking to them?
Are you letting them know thatI don't approve of this for this
way?
This is my boundary, this iswhat I expect of you.
These are all things that, andthen those things have to be
repeated.
You know, I'm saying and itmight have been done to me, I
also might have just been abadass kid, like I don't

(16:23):
necessarily remember the contextof those things.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
However, and that's why I think my shit came in.
I was like in your city sheknows that I'm finna get into
some shit, you know what I'msaying.
So it was more like bro, youbetter stay out of trouble, you
know what I'm saying, don't begoing up in this place fighting
and shit.
Bro, you better stay out oftrouble.
You know I'm saying don't begoing up in this place fighting

(16:46):
and shit.
Yeah, so I think that's whereit came from, but I don't know,
bro, like I don't know, why thepunishment was so severe dog I
mean I feel like I feel like itfit the crime.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
I mean, I feel like I ain't gonna say it didn't fit
the crime, I just feel like itwas void of all the shit that it
came with.
Like all you gonna do, all I'mdoing is staying in the house
cleaning up shit I was gonnahave to do anyway you know what
I'm saying?
Like shit that I was expectedto do anyway.
So it's not really constructive.
In a way, you're just removingme from all the things.
So what's happening is you'rebuilding resentment because I'm
being removed from the parties,I'm being removed from going to

(17:17):
the movies, I'm being removedfrom all these things and you
feel like it's building mycharacter.
But if there's no lessons beingtaught during that time, then
it's not effective.
You know what I'm saying.
So those things, but those arethings I learned as an, as an
adult.
You know what I mean.
I'm not.
I didn't flipped it, I didn'twent to therapy, I didn't deal
deeper to some of those things.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
So but to answer your question, bro, like I to um,
how I felt coming from U-Cityand going to Pattonville.
I don't know, thinking back onit, I probably was not afraid,
but I was kind of like I don'twant to talk to nobody.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
I don't want to do nothing wrong I ain't want to do
nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know what?
I'm saying I ain't want to beon punishment bro.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
You feel like it puts you in a box.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Kinda, yeah, Kinda, but then I started fucking with
people that I was getting introuble with.
So hey, oh so hold on.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
That's always what happened.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
I never hold on because this one thing that I
don't know how to even call it,bro, but it was kind of like it
brought me back to who I wasright.
So my best friend out of all ofmy best friends, bro, this is
the number one nigga, bro.
So I met this dude in likesecond grade.

(18:44):
You know what I'm saying, Idon't know.
It's like we just was cool, youknow what I'm saying.
So I think I went to uh, thatwas in u city.
So I went to patentville and,lo and behold, this nigga taps
me on my shoulder and was likewhat's up bro?
I was like, oh shit, what's upbro.
So that that uh, like oh shit,what's up bro, so that that that

(19:07):
kind of brought my shit backthough, like, but that's, I
think that's when I startedgetting into trouble too.
You know what I'm saying,because we was doing some shit
at school and we met otherniggas doing some shit, so we
was all doing some dumb ass shit.
I had to approach it waydifferent, though.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
That shit.
If you think about it, bro, Idon't think we trip off of it
day to day when we movingthrough life, but all of those
motherfucking memories that youbuilt and we just talking about
school, don't even think aboutgoing back before that or after
that.
Technically, what was you doingaround your neighborhood?
Because sometimes them wasdifferent sets of niggas.
Your friends at school wasniggas who might live 20, 30

(19:48):
minutes away, versus the niggaswho live on your motherfucking
street.
You know what I'm saying?
That might be a different setof niggas For me.
When I was going to school,they sliced our motherfucking
street in half.
There was niggas who lived atthe top of our street.
They went to a differentmotherfucking school and the
niggas that lived at the bottomof the street went to a
different motherfucking school.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
I remember that that's stupid as hell.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
But that's what happened, bro, you know what I'm
saying.
Like niggas, they would dividelike county lines or like zones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yup, Iremember when they that shit up.
But those types of memorieslike built you, you know what I

(20:27):
mean, yeah, and you think aboutthat shit as a kid.
Like for us, I don't know abouty'all like for me, I had weird
ass motherfucking boundary so Ihad a uh curfew, but my shit was
like 8, 30, so, nigga, even atlike 9, 10 years old, nigga, I
was riding my bike five milesaway from the goddamn crib on
some shit, like me too, but whenthose street lights come on,
boy, y'all had better be in thehouse.
Nigga was pedaling fast and shitBoy what.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
I'm like they just came.
They just came on, motherfucker.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Motherfucker.
Look, it was traffic.
I was running across the street, motherfucker.
They all for hellers.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
We still trying.
They just came on.
Yeah, we saying that shit for15 minutes.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Are you thinking about it, bro, Nigga?
You might as well enjoyyourself.
You might as well have enjoyedwhatever you had going on.
Nah, because the ass woman wasthe ass woman.
Yeah, it was coming, it wasgaudily, I wasn't going to get
no ass woman.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
It was just like.
Even so the disappointment thelecture Punishment whatever you
don't want to go through that.
You about got time for thatshit.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
My mama girl.
That's dope, though, likeanything from y'all.
Childhood you feel like, likeyou feel like was a turning
point that might have turned youfrom, maybe, a seemingly
innocent kid.
That was like, boom, now I'm onthis path, anything happen for
y'all.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I mean, it was all the shit that I was saying in
the hood, bro.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
But anything significant like all right.
So let me I'll share with y'allmine.
So, growing up, I was always akid that was technically in like
special programs or whateverright.
But my parents broke up when Iwas like second, second, third
grade and then, for whateverreason, I couldn't even tell you
what the actual switch was, butI became increasingly more of a

(22:05):
fuck up Each year after that.
So I knew like it wasn'tnecessarily like something that
like broke me down, but it wassomething like damn nigga, it
affected you.
Yeah, it affected me in a way.
Whatever happened at that pointI just was like, yeah, fuck all
the the extra shit that theytrying to have me do, I'm just
finna be on whatever the fuck Iwant to be on.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, my cousin was like in my eyes because he
brought it to my attention as akid.
He was like the leader of theBloods and shit.
So I kind of wanted to be likehim.
So I was doing little stupidshit and I don't I ain't never
say or ever heard somebody say Iwas doing it for attention,

(22:47):
because I don't think that'swhat I was doing.
I just wanted status, I guess.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, but kind of what I got, though Certain
motherfuckers look at me likeyeah, that ain't don't fuck with
bro, Like yeah, oh, I can seemy was a multitude of things as
far as like my shift andchanging points, because it

(23:13):
brought different sides up, butlike me being, I guess, more
ruthless and not caring, no morewas when I got jumped for the
first time.
And really when I got jumped, Igot jumped literally for no
reason, because I got mistakenfor somebody else.

(23:38):
I ain't going to say their namebecause I still fuck with them.
I still fuck with them, I stillfuck with them.
But long story short, I had gotjumped by three niggas, but
that made me more, I guess,ruthless because really I got
jumped for no reason, just offof mistaken shit, and then it

(24:01):
wasn't the first one, really Igot jumped for no reason just
off of mistaken shit, and thenit wasn't the first one, yeah,
but when did they realize, nigga, it wasn't the person that they
thought it was, they didn'tcare.
I hear that Because that was thething too, because what
happened was earlier that dayLong Street Short.
They got their ass whooped andI was there.
You know what I'm saying.
So they probably thought I waswith them.

(24:22):
You was.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
No, I remember you right there.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
If it was first off.
I don't believe in jumping, andwhen y'all got to ask them it
was two on two, so when I got tojump it was three on one.
They got another nigga.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Niggas always sorry when they lose, though, so they
get the.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Like I said, little did they know.
They jumped me from my cousincrib Stupid.
Yeah, that was dumb Like theycame right outside.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
That was dumb.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Anyway, that was a changing point for me as far as
like being more ruthless,because it wasn't no fair ones.
Like I said, at that point, Iwas always uh, uh under
impression even though that wasuh, uh naive that it should be
always a fair one.
So that was, that's whatbrought the ruthless side out of

(25:13):
me, like nah, ain't no fairones.
I heard niggas, I heard jumpyou, regardless if it's just you
and it's three, uh, but I'mstill not with no jumping shit.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
That shit like you gotta turn your mic, because
your mic ain't like ours and yougot the actual talking.
Just turn it.
Just put it out this way, butturn it towards you, yeah you um
there you go.
That motherfucker sound likechamp.
Why motherfucker?

Speaker 1 (25:41):
rocky, this nigga here dog.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Hilarious bro, I love my train thought oh shit, all
right, no, that's cool.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Uh, so what I was thinking about transitioning to
was kind of similar.
Well, I wanted to hear y'allstory.
So I can't remember if it wason the last episode, but I
remember Monte gave us somestory about how he kind of
transitioned down here, right.
So one I want to talk about his, his transitions once he got
here.
So, like, what is Houstonsignificant for you in your

(26:15):
journey?
And then, unique, I definitelywant to hear your story on how
you landed here in the firstplace.
So I would love to hear, like,wherever you want to start in
your journey and thentransitioning to Houston.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
For me there wasn't a lot of opportunity in my field,
should I say in St Louis, butthere's plenty of opportunity
here in general.
So, um, in St Louis you wouldhave to know somebody, um, that

(26:47):
knows somebody to get in a goodplace of a job, or pretty much.
You know what I'm saying.
So I didn't know too manypeople, you know what I'm saying
.
I wasn't networking and talkingto people, you know.
So when I got here, it was waymore opportunity and I remember
saying when I was searching fora job, I was like, man, I just

(27:10):
want to make this much, that'sall I want to make.
And God blessed me with justthat, you know.
So I was able to get a jobmaking what I wanted to make.
So COVID happened.
And then, once COVID happened,I found a job that paid me more
but also said hey, we don't fireduring a pandemic, we hiring

(27:34):
people because we're trying tohelp.
Once I got that job, theypromoted me to a position where
I felt like nobody can take thisaway from me.
After that I moved to anotherjob where I'm at now making way
more than I ever thought I would.
So, overall growth for me isthis a city that, if you try,

(27:55):
you're going to get some out ofit.
And if you got some, you knowlike, like me, I'm creative.
So when I got here, I know likeme, I'm creative.
So when I got here I did a lotof creative shit.
I made a studio in my garageand shit.
And a dude that I met that wasalso from St Louis.
I was able to go to a show ofhis and he let me know like bro,

(28:17):
you can do shows down here,like that, you can do it in St
Louis Louis.
But man, when I did a show inSt Louis it was nothing like
what I saw here in Texas, butlike it was people out there
bobbing their heads and stuff.
Niggas in St Louis ain't evenwant to want to look you in the
eye, they like man, I ain'ttrying to feel your shit, you
know.
so it kind of felt like way morelove.

(28:37):
It's also way more love now.
You right, because it's waymore love down here.
You right, because there's waymore love down here, because I
remember the first, I would saythe first month that I was here.
I accidentally bumped into thisdude and I kind of turned
around like damn.
He was like oh, I'm sorry,brother, I was like all right,

(28:59):
all right, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
It's like it killed every I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
It killed every ounce Of anger in you.
But he apologized and you cansee he meant it.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Yeah, but at St Louis , but no, you're not gonna get
there, it's not gonna be likethat we finna we finna, we finna
throw down Real quick, causethey gonna look at you Like
nigga, you hit me.
Yeah, even the mug and shit bro.
You know, coming from St Louis,bro, it's natural you cut
somebody off you looking intheir car like man, you cut
somebody off here.

(29:27):
You look at them like oh damn,they don't even care.
They definitely be looking intheir car.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Sometimes that shit pisses me off.
I will say, like it's half andhalf, because niggas down here
do be shooting and shit.
You know what I'm saying.
Niggas be getting killed on thehighway and shit.
So let's not paint the wrongpicture.
But you know what I'm saying.
I definitely feel like,depending on what side of the
city you on here, yeah,definitely, but for the most
part, niggas ain't on that.

(29:55):
People just drive how theydrive.
Opportunity.
They're going to cut you up.
You know what I'm saying.
They feel like you're drivingtoo slow.
They're going to get up aroundyour ass.
That's just how they be.
But Unique.
I want to know how you get here, bro, because definitely, we
see Monte was able to build oncehe got here, transitioning from
job to job.
That's what you meant byopportunities, right, bro?

(30:17):
You was talking about jobopportunities.
I meant anything, dude, but youfeel like artistically there's a
lot of opportunities, that'swhat job is A lot of
opportunities.
Okay, okay, that makes sense.
Unique what you got, what'syour transition or what's your
journey, I guess.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Why or how I ended up down here?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah like how you ended up in Houston?
Because we call this our trophy, right, you know?

Speaker 3 (30:39):
because we call this our trophy right.
It was all a mistake.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Oh wow, all right, ladies and gentlemen, insert the
phrase, here he goes.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
This was not supposed to happen.
Somebody hand me the airheadthis wasn't supposed to happen.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
This wasn't my first choice.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Appreciate you my boy Now speaking, the real it was
Now speaking for real, though itwasn't my first choice because
I, you, my boy.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Nah speaking the real it was.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, nah, speaking for real, though, it wasn't my
first choice because I wasgetting ready to get out the
Army and, um, my ex at the time,uh, if it was left up to me, I
would've went back to Seattle,because I like the diversity out
there.
I got tired of seeing us.

(31:23):
I got tired of seeing us,honestly.
You said too many niggas thenigga, you know what I'm saying
but a certain type of blackperson.
You get tired of being aroundthat type of environment and
that type of people all the time.
So when I got out and got intothe Army and was able to travel
a little bit, it opened up myeyes.

(31:43):
And then, when I got out andgot into the Army and was able
to travel a little bit, you know, opened up my eyes.
And then when I got to Seattle,that really opened up my eyes
to diversity and also just theclimate is very green and lush
and the air is different outthere for sure, Like you smell
the fresh you know what I'msaying fresh air.
But she didn't want to be outthere because it rained a lot

(32:04):
too.
I ain't going to lie, yeah, soI ain't.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I hate the rain bro.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Yeah, so I'm not too mad at people for having that
type of preference.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
I hate being wet in my clothes bro.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
That shows you also the mindset that I had too,
because I was like I Pick whereyou wanna go.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
You pick.
Yeah, what niggas out hereReally doing that and like 23,
24.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
And actually Talking about Taking care of the girl,
like, not just like.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Look, I had a kid on the way.
You know, I had my son on theway too.
Yup and so.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Definitely an admirable move sir.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
We was in Texas already, so we came out here
November 2015 to visit forThanksgiving Mm-hmm, my auntie,
and my sister-in-law was downhere too.
That's when you decided to move.
That's when we decided to move,because you remember what it
was, what we came outside of ourkid's godparent's house and it

(33:11):
was like 1, 2 in the morning,yep, and it was feeling good out
like right now, and we was likewhen we was leaving, yeah, and
so we was like because we fullyexpected it to be cold outside
because of the time of year.
It was Because we you know whatI'm saying expecting to where we
from, Like man, it's going tobe freezing.
It was like 70 degrees.
We was like we can do this, Ilike this, I like this.

(33:32):
So, ever since then, we movedthe next year, November 2016.
I've been here ever sincethat's crazy bro.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
That date is wild to know.
Yeah 2016 is how long ago, bro.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
That's so funny because when I came outside, bro
, I had a hoodie on.
I took that mug off.
I called everybody bro, it'sstill hot, it's November For
real.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
It made you fall in love with it.
It made you fall in love withit right then and there.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
But that's one thing I feel like is a good selling
point.
You think about the weatherhere.
Yeah, they get some rain andsome hurricanes, but you think
about the hurricanes, bro,they're just like bad St Louis
thunderstorms.
We done had thunderstorms thathad broke niggas' trees down,
destroyed pools and shit fencesand shit so.
I feel, like it's the samething here, it's just you add in

(34:22):
the flooding and shit.
They don't have basements.
For that reason, you know whatI'm saying.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yeah, it's been getting bad with the flooding
back home too, though, latelyman, it's been getting stupid
across the board.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Mm-hmm, Shit my cousin, it's snowing in the
desert man.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
When I moved down, that's Tornado Alley, and then
they got hit with a tornado.
We ain't got hit with no damntornado yet.
Certain parts of the city have,but where we choose to live is
technically not Houston too.
I told him that, though.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
But what about you, bro?
Where has Houston brought youmy dude?

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I feel like for me, houston was a complete flip.
It was funny because somebodywas asking me earlier how long
I've been here.
I was like about four years.
They're like oh so, like youknow, right around the pandemic
I said literally days beforethey announced that mug, I moved
here.
You know like it was.
It was the craziest situation.
The reason, right right broughtit with me my fault, right, you

(35:19):
know what I'm saying um, but Iremember because st louis, I
knew, I knew it was becoming theend of the road for me.
It was like I had alife-changing year in 2018.
You know I'm saying cat endedup being homeless.
You know, moving around hadsome homies who definitely
looked out for me during thattime and and that resulted in me
getting my own spot downtownfor a minute.

(35:41):
But as that year kind ofprogressed, I had been talking
to Unique, who was down here inHouston already.
He was like bro, ain't nothingthere, ain't nothing there.
And he really been talking that.
Talk for years before that hewas like bro, you need to move
down here.
Bro, look, you got to give acontext too.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Nigga we on the game, we on Call of Duty type shit.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
We on Call of.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Duty and I'm over here talking to this nigga
through the headset Because I'mlow-key, venting about some
other shit I'm going through too, but I'm on the headset.
Man, I'm really also being alittle selfish.
We're like come down here andsee this.
Come see this.
Yeah, but like I'm also becauseI'm trying to get my brother

(36:25):
down here because of what I'mgoing through and I know there's
going to be somebody I can leanon and me being candid, that
was my way of trying tocommunicate that without saying.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
It's big words like candid.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
So come on, man, don't be getting on my
vernacular boy, get on your ass.
It's big words like candy.
So come on, man, don't begetting on my vernacular boy,
get on your ass expeditiously, Imean.
But that's what it was.
So that was my motivation forKing Udari too.
So what really was it?
Though I think it was that?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
I mean, I think it was opportunities, kind of like
what Monte said I was tellingsomebody.
It's really the explanation ofBig Fish, little Pond.
I knew that in that city Iwasn't growing.
You know what I'm saying.
I kind of had hit some of theheights that I was trying to hit
and I didn't really see my lifegoing in the direction that.

(37:19):
So I feel like I needed to hitthe reset button and I thought
relocating would definitely be agood opportunity to do so.
I guess I was right.
You know what I'm saying.
So from taking Unique's adviceto actually just kind of
following my path, once I gothere it transitioned into me
meeting my wife, me getting ajob that has saved me in

(37:40):
multiple situations you knowwhat I mean and then it's
actually positioned me to beright here right now you know
what I'm saying Recording thispodcast in a comfortable
situation, and I think beingable to say all of those things
and all the good stuff inbetween right, getting new cars,
getting a dog moving into acrib, right Like all the good

(38:01):
stuff that has happened since Imoved here has been dope.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Let me ask you y'all this question real quick.
You feel me, so do y'all.
What decision have y'all madein your life that you feel has
affected you to this day, goodor bad?

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Man a lot for me Like just one good one.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I know it's probably multiple.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, for sure, like I think.
I think deciding like man,that's hard dog, because I'll be
getting in the same situation.
I'm going to go though.
I'm going to go though.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
I'm going to go, though, because this is where
I'm going with it.
Had I stayed single, I probablywouldn't have been down here
when I got out.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
So the domino effect, from that would y'all have came
?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Yeah, I don't think I would.
I don't think I would have hadthe idea he didn't come here
because, like, coming from wherewe come from, I feel like we
have a.
We initially have a smallmindset right, unless you have
somebody that broadens that foryou.
Like, coming from that smallcity, you don't really think
about like kind of broadeningyour perspective, unless it's
with sports or something likethat.

(39:21):
So for me, having a friend likeyou who had been well traveled,
or at least it's trying to be,you know what I'm saying like
allow me to kind of step out todifferent areas and do different
things, which led me to goingout the country and all this
other stuff that's connected tothat.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
So, yeah, what's up what you got my?
I see you over there cooking.
Bruh smashing that candy Bruhbashing that hoe that's affected
you To this day, to this day.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
I can't really think about nothing that's really
affected me to this day, otherthan getting Stupid ass credit
cards when I was young.
But Financial literacy Yep, butPlug it For real, something
that, okay, I can say this Doingshit to get locked up in jail.

(40:18):
I ain't never did no hard timeor nothing like that, but I
definitely been in county doingshit to get locked up in jail.
I ain't never did no hard timeor nothing like that, but I
definitely been in county forlike 60, 90 days.
I don't know man, I was justdoing shit.
You know what I'm saying.
I ain't really care aboutbreaking the law and I was just
having my way with life.

(40:39):
But as far as mentally, alwaysthat shit's going to always stay
with me, bro.
Being confined in a room, notbeing able to come out when I
want to come out you know whatI'm saying being fed when I
don't want to eat, all of thatkind of mentally, bro, like that
, that ain't where you want tobe.

(40:59):
So that that's a like thatain't where you want to be.
So, yeah, that's one.
That's one.
That's one to hit.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
That's a deep one though, bro.
Yeah, that's definitely a deepone Because I feel like, all in
all, I would have to say alsojust that grittiness of St Louis
, like where we grew up at, kindof that hard energy that we
kind of taught to put on,because coming down here it
makes you evident like I thinkunique said it best when we had

(41:26):
went back to st louis, back inwhat, like 21, we had, we had
took that trip back to st louis.
He's like nigga.
You stepped outside themotherfucking smoke shop and
then your face changed like yourwhole demeanor look different
up here than they do down here.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
It's here it's a lot more of a relaxed environment Up
back home it's a little bitmore tense.
You know what I'm saying.
As soon as I touch feet off theplane, I'm hitting the switch
when I get back home.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
But like I said last time, the city has gotten way
better dog.
Definitely it's not how it usedto be.
I guess they got new investorsand stuff like that.
They got new shit in St Louisand they building shit to where
it looks nice.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
It's a reverse white flight, huh.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
That's what it is, huh.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
That's what we're going to call the investors.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Huh, I mean, that's what we gonna call the.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Avengers.
Huh, yes and no Cause.
I feel like and it might beblack.
I feel like everybody Movingaround.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Shit me, it might be Nelly.
That's you, man.
What Might be Nelly and Jaquan?

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Jenna and Jaquan and Jason.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Who, mr Tatum?
Mr Zero, mr Emos, jenna andSaquon and Jason.
Who, mr Tatum?

Speaker 3 (42:43):
Oh, mr Zero, mr Emos.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
You hear me, mr Toppings.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Hey man shout out.
Shout out, mr Tatum.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Shout out, jason man, shout out on that championship.
I hope y'all do it again thisyear.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
That boy J Tate, yep, yeah, you seen.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
You seen that?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
boy he going stupid, jalen Brown on that championship
.
I hope y'all do it again thisyear.
That boy J Tate, yep.
Yeah, you seen that boy hegoing stupid.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Jalen Brown.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Mm-hmm.
Boy we went dumb man.
Somebody said this LaMelo Ballis better than Jabba Ray.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Hey look.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
That's a good argument.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
That's a great argument.
That's a great argument to make, but I also feel like in what
you, in what you know what I'msaying.
I feel like we have.
We have the, but that's thething.
I feel like we don't have thesmall arguments.
It's like it's like talk aboutthe election, niggas, don't talk
about the small elections thatlead up to the big election.
You know what I'm saying.
What are?

(43:37):
What makes him better?
Is it his handles?
Is it his scoring ability?
What is it?
Is it his leadership on thecourt?
Like, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Like he was saying overall, because they kind of
like, they kind of similar youknow what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Josh is more explosive.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yep, but.
I will say this, but I will saythis Before Ja with the gun he
had a lot more confidence.
You know what I'm saying.
He was going in.
Now you don't hear too muchabout Ja, because he ain't doing
the same thing.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
He playing back.
He got that same dog, thoughI've been seeing it.
He still got that same dog,though I've been seeing it.
I get what you're saying.
I think he been hurt some shit.
I've been seeing it.
He still got that Same dog,though I've been seeing it.
I get what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
I think he been hurt, though he been hurt a little
bit too, yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
But Jah, but Jah Like Hungry, jah Like Two years ago,
jah man, hell yeah Jah Flat outman, alright, off them teams.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
How y'all feel about Since we on the topic, back home
St Louis sports and sportingteams.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
I fuck with it Like.
I will say like I feel like theSt Louis sports have always
gone up and down.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
I was talking about Hold on man.
This nigga said somethingBlasphemy.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Fuck the Rams he must be talking about.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
The new Rams, the current Rams, yeah nigga, not
the St Louis Rams who your.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
I don't have one.
You know who used to be my team, the St Louis Rams, but they
left, they left.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
You think all the niggas that are from Oakland Are
not Vegas Raiders?
Huh, you think the people whoare from Oakland Are not Vegas
Raiders?
Fans.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Like that cause they moved the city.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
I bet you they still Raiders fans, bro Alright.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
I get that.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
You know.
But you know what Started fromLA anyway, that's cool.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
But they decided to move and they you know what I'm
saying.
But look the way, the way thatthe way that they left Was
fucked up.
How Like the owner, bro, likehe was just like we moving.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Ain't nobody know about that shit.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
You know what was going on during that time.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
It doesn't matter.
We know about the Vegasmotherfucking Raiders for how
long We've known about this?
They just up and left bro.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
I can't blame them Because, like I said, what was?

Speaker 2 (45:59):
going on at the time I can.
What was going on at the?

Speaker 3 (46:01):
time.
As a fan, I can.
What was going on at the time,that's what I'm saying.
What it was unfortunate, thatwas when all the rising stuff
Was going on too.
That's when they left.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
That Don't Some niggas was out here destroying
and doing all that.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
The economy, they weren't going to get Any money
from that.
You think, if they're doing allthese, and who is your, who is
your consumers us and we wegonna be able to consume that
product.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
No, we ain't got no money, but you saying that as a
a fan that's sitting back andwatching it at home?
I'm saying that, a fan, as afan that potentially have season
tickets.
Did you that year no?

Speaker 3 (46:37):
but I knew somebody that did.
I don't hear it.
No, I don't.
No, alright, then I'm over here.
I'm over here Cause my lastquestion Was gonna be how many
Rams games Did you go to?

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I went to a lot.
They used to give me All typeof tickets at work, but I had
like A month's worth of tickets.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Okay, good, I'm glad you were Supporting at least
that.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Yeah, I was at the game All the time, at least that
.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
But I'm still Loyal to the Rams nigga.
So until you get a team, youcan't say fuck nobody Nigga,
you're trash Nigga you're gluey,he riding from the trenches to
the podcast.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
He ain't got a team, bro, I don't need a team because
my team left.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
At least a lot of the niggas who left from being Rams
fans end up being Chiefs fans.
Because it's right there, yeahit.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Because it's right there, yeah it's right there, I
just didn't want to ride thebandwagon.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
But I'm saying they did that because it's right
there, though they startedwinning, though I was like I'm
just not a bandwagon person.
But as far as St Louis hasalways been a baseball city
though, yeah, yeah, Regardless.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
It's Cardinals all day.
Cardinals, man and I rock withthe blues.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Fun fact Did y'all know we used to have a
basketball team?

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yes, what was it called St Louis Spirit?

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Yep.
In what organization?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
It was WNBA, wasn't it?
Huh, it was WNBA, wasn't?

Speaker 2 (47:50):
it?
I don't know nigga who was?
It.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
I think it with the NBA it was like two Indiana
teams, a Kentucky team and StLouis Spirits, because we had
one player that was dominatingbut he was doing too much on the
outside and they didn't wantthat energy in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
So that's why.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
That's why, st Louis, we be getting fucked over From
sports to music All around, andthen we wonder why we can't win,
because we also crabs in thebucket.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, like that, niggas don't want to see you win
.
What's going to change, though?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Let's talk about that , because we can't be talking
about the treasures and not talkabout the trophy, right?

Speaker 1 (48:49):
I feel like we've discussed this before, but it's
a mindset change.
I feel like you can relocatesome people.
We talked about how relocatinghas been a benefit to us, but at
the same time, you got to thinkabout how niggas had to change
it up.
You couldn't approach life thesame way either.
You came down here, youswitched up how you, how you did
shit a little bit.
You still took some of thatshit you learned from back home

(49:10):
and applied it down here, butfor the most part, you still had
to approach it with a differentmindset.
Making it personal, yeah, but Ifeel like the only way to go
back home and and fix that shitis to change individual people's
mindsets.
Like people in power, I feellike a lot of people are doing
good shit, like and we talkedabout the city is getting better
, but what's on saying so, makeit personal, though.

(49:31):
What can you do?
Like for me?
Like?

Speaker 2 (49:34):
the goal.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
The goal is to go back and, you know, open up some
type of performing arts studioor school where they can do some
things Like.
I know what the concept andidea is.
I don't want to go too deep onit, but it will definitely
provide, you know, opportunitiesfor inner city kids to be able
to use products that they maynot normally have access to use,

(49:57):
especially when it comes to thearts.
You know what I'm saying.
So that's definitely what mygoal is, but there's definitely
a lot of organizations that Iknow now that are doing some
great things that I definitelywant to partner with in the
future.
You know, I mean, shout out theman up stl organizations, stuff
like that.
Like, in my opinion, thatthat's where we start.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
We start with the people who are already doing
something, connect with them sobut, monte, I'm gonna ask you
guys answer that question too,but answer this as well with
what you wanted, with what theopportunity or whatever you're
trying to do and where you wantto go, would you rather do it
back home or do it here orsomewhere else?

(50:38):
Why?

Speaker 2 (50:41):
It all depends on what it is.
Well, I would rather start ithere, and if it made sense, I
would grow it back home, becauseI ain't starting shit down
there for you niggas.
Nah, I just bullshit.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
I mean I think you do gotta be careful.
People don't value shit all thetime.
You know what I'm saying.
People build shit, people fuckshit up.
So it's like but I would ratherbring it.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
I would rather have it at a growing city first, you
know what.
I'm saying I say people willing,people down here are willing to
support like somebody.
I bet you, somebody here thatgoes and sells their cd at the
gas station is gonna get moremoney than anybody standing on
the corner in st louis justbecause there's more people and

(51:35):
they just willing to support.
Bro, if somebody like, ifsomebody really trying to
promote their stuff, and they atthe gas station they like hey
man, listen to my music, $5.
And somebody be like man, Ireally ain't got $5.
Well, here you go, man.
They probably take it andlisten to it.
You see what I'm saying.
And down here you are probablygoing to see a celebrity.

(51:58):
You know what I'm saying.
So, driving around or something, see somebody pull up at the
gas station with a Bentley orsomething like that.
You know what I'm saying.
So you might get lucky.
And St Louis, you're prone toget robbed.
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (52:13):
You're at the wrong gas station, I mean, but you
might see a celebrity.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Why you say it like it was a question.
You probably get robbed.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Because it depends on who comes to the gas station.
I mean, it do depend.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Because I'm not saying St Louis bad People in St
Louis are bad, just certainpeople they just do stupid stuff
In certain areas.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah, man, but you can't really but you can't
really say that Because theseniggas is mobile now.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
I mean absolutely Migrate, not for real, bro, but
you can't really say that,because these niggas is mobile
now I mean absolutely, you knowwhat I'm saying so they can go
anywhere.
Migrate, right, the county.
Migrate, no, for real, bro, thecounty.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
And they smart enough to get licenses now.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Niggas move in and out.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
They can door dance their ass around, huh.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Really, hey, all across, I always say I used to
buy my guns from a 13 year old.
You see what I'm saying.
Nigga had a book bag full ofguns.
So it's just Certain people,bro, and who they raised by

(53:13):
Cause.
I don't know if his uncle waslike hey man, go sell these guns
.
Or I don't know if his unclewas like I got a whole bunch of
guns, you should have guns.
You know what I'm saying.
I don't know how he grew uplike I got a whole bunch of guns
, you should have guns.
You know what I'm saying.
Like I don't know how he grewup, but I just knew where I
could get him from.
I mean, you fucked yourself up,didn't you?
I fucked.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
With a strap.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Nigga.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Skidder, skidder, beating the shit out of his ass.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Damn Erhead Fuckin' up G4.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
It was just stuck on there.
I had to get it off, but uh, Iforgot what the fuck I was
talking about.
Now they called a tooth fairyFor that motherfucker.
I'm already scheduled For myappointment.
Since we already broke character.
Let's move to Stardepot.
Let's just let's talk a littlebit of shit.

(54:00):
I do want to know, though, likeon some shit, who you feel like
is most likely to start a fightat a cookout, and why, out of
the three of us, yeah, out ofthe three of us, who you feel
like will be the one to start itdon't matter, let's just say
it's a cookout, ain't?
None of us throw it.
None of us threw the cookout.

(54:20):
We just all attending thecookout.
That'd be me, you feel likeyou'd be the first nigga To
start a fight.
And why you feel like that?
Why?
What's the reason?
Like what you arguing over?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
I don't know, but like Sometimes I could argue
over some food, I ain't gonnaargue over no food, I ain't
gonna argue.
It depends If they cooked your.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
But like sometimes I can argue over some food, I
ain't gonna argue over no food.
I ain't gonna argue over nofood, it depends.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
If they cooked your shit like they cooked your rice,
that's different.
If they cooked your food likethe St Louis Eatery cooked your
rice, that's different.
I ain't fighting over no food,nigga.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Nah, that's different , yeah, See.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
How is any of it different girl?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Cause man this nigga's hot.
Nah, I feel like everywhere Igo, in certain situations people
just talk to me sideways youknow, whether it's like
condescending or just like, andI be I'm at the point in my life

(55:25):
like I'm checking that shit.
Yeah, so even if it was, youknow, condescending and they was
playing in my eye, man Talk tome like that bro, like straight
up, you know so address me asMentsumonte.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, do that, do that.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
If it's, if it's Us and we brought people with us
it's gonna be.
It's gonna be.
Why you feel like it's gonna beme?
Because he gonna be.
Ain't no, he don't want nobodyTalking to his lady.
It ain't that man.
And so we gonna be getting Afight behind this nigga, behind
her Cause, he thinking Somebodyelse Doing too much by giving

(56:09):
her a plate.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Bruh nah it wouldn't even be that much pressure.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Let me get the plate.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
It'll be on some.
If she feel disrespected, thenI got a whole Motherfucking
problem.
Yes, he touched my head when hegave me the plate, I got a
whole motherfucking problem.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
You say that shit right now, but that's far from
the truth.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I be trying to hey motherfucker, come on, Be like.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
You had enough to eat , baby.
Get your hands off my wife.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Can I help you, sir?
What's your concern for herappetite?

Speaker 2 (56:40):
sir, See what exactly would you need to be concerned
for her?

Speaker 3 (56:43):
appetite sir what exactly.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Would you need to be concerned with her appetite, sir
?
Her stomach is fucking fine.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
You need some type of stimulation for it.
I might have an appetite too,yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
I might have an appetite too, switching the
subject.
Oh, my, my, my.
So, all right, so, all right.
So, all right, I got to paintthe scenario for y'all, niggas.
So I want to ask this questiontwo ways, right?
So the first question is I mean, so the first way is us
surviving the zombie apocalypse?
That's the question, right,right, and I got two scenarios

(57:17):
for y'all.
Now take us into an individualscenario.
So think some everybody seen atleast the first season of
Walking Dead?
Nah, no, at least the firstcouple episodes.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
I've seen it, but I you know what I'm talking about,
right?
Yeah, I know Walking Dead, soput yourself in Rick.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
Grimes' shoes right.
You pretty just put yourself inthe shoes of a nigga who was in
the zombie apocalypse trying tofind his way back to his family
.
Put each one of us in thatsituation.
Who survives the longest?
Who you feel like survives thelongest?

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Me because I'm going to run the longest.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
You feel like that?

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Because I'm going to keep running.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Nigga, you got asthma .
Nigga, You're done.
I won't fear that Both of youniggas got asthma.
I won't fear that afterwards.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Afterwords Both of you niggas Got ass.
I won't feel that Afterwords.
I don't know.
I think I got y'all niggas dog.
You niggas do I think I goty'all niggas, you niggas, I
think.
I think I don't You're gonnaget.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
You're gonna get killed Trying to do too fucking
much.
Y'all gonna think that.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
That's what y'all think Now look, nah, let's flip
this though.
We can flip it like this In anenvironment not like Walking
Dead, in an environment likeDon't Breathe or those type of
movies where you can't make anynoises.
I'm dying out of all of us.
First, I'm getting cooked.
First.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
No, you're not In a horror movie, though I'm dying
first.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
I'm dying first because I got allergies.
You're saying you're dying.
I'm dying first Cause I gotallergies.
This nigga dying I'ma sneeze,he gonna sneeze.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Immediately I'ma break something, something gonna
drop, yeah it's done, I'm donebro.
Yeah, I think Ed gonna survive.
Ed survived Some shit like that.
I survived shit like that.
I'ma be dead For sure.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Or it's gonna be one of my kids, i'ma draw their
attention, just to save y'all.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
You know what I'm saying, cause I'm already.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
It's already fucked over.
It's already fucked over.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
I know we dead, so I might as well run this way and
make all the noise over here.
I'm going out like a G, justlike that one time when I was
drowning and I woke up screaming.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
This nigga sick.
You seen that.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
This nigga?
You ain't never met a niggaLike drowned like me.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Stuck his hand up and said come get me, come get me,
bro, I'm not gonna scream.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
All his hands, I'm not screaming, bro, just did
this Care to reset.
I swam to the top.
That's all that nigga did'm notgonna scream bro.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Hey, shout out to DJ For coming to get you.
Though that nigga dove in Withno hesitation.
Shout out.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Man, I don't know who saved me.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
You drowned before.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Yeah, yeah, nigga I.
I was on the On my back likeLooking up at the sky.
They was like Are you okay,everybody.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
Everybody.
What's the most traumatic thingyou've experienced as a kid?
Traumatic.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Traumatic is deep.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Hold on, hey we off, hey we off, cut it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Why you got me picturing flesh meat like that.
Nobody want to picture that bro.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Hey, but look, hey, but look, look.
The thing about it is, what'sfunny is my mama was like oh my
God, it's f***ing f*** who does.
No, nah, bro, hey, look Me andmy partner was throwing glass on
this little platform.

(01:00:39):
We was in a tree throwing glass, busting glass, and then my
cousin later on that day he wasthrowing rocks at me and I ran
through the cut, slid on thatshit and ran the other way and
busted over.
No, I didn't, it wasn't, it wasthe outside of my Right here,

(01:01:04):
where my leg is.
It's not right there, nowherein the air.
It ain't there, brother.
Nah, I was just being funnywhen I said cut, I was just
being funny.
You taking too far, I ain'tgetting my.
I ain't brushing open man.
No, no, didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Yeah, no, you heard that boy running to prisons, he,
what I ain't get my I ain'tbust it open man.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
No, no did he.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Yeah, you heard that boy.
You heard that boy Running toprisons.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
He what.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
They said that nigga Running to prison, they fighting
over who can make his bed.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
I bet he probably.
Being there bro, you know whyMoney he bust Alright probably
we out, alright, y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
We go ahead and get a real one For another episode Of
Trish's and Trophy's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
I be me.
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
We gonna go ahead and end this thing, shout out
Everybody For tuning in, we out.
Thank you.