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1	ATL_int_01	1.0768	Okay.	1.6027
3		2.0306	S- uh, /RD-NAME-3/ here,	3.7733
5		4.1342	and I'm the interviewer, and I'm- well,	6.6193
7		6.8396	I'm with, um,	7.8193
9		8.9020	Mr. /RD-NAME-1/. Um,	10.2167
11		10.5570	/RD-NAME-1/ can you give us	11.6552
13		11.8206	your full name?	12.6760
14	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	13.0923	Uh, /RD-NAME-4/.	14.3864
15	ATL_int_01	14.7164	/RD-NAME-4/, and	16.0775
17		16.2176	we are now about to conduct this	18.2430
19		18.4028	somewhat interview conversational piece for,	21.1391
21		22.1548	uh,	22.7168
23		23.1860	a good bit of m-	23.9697
25		24.1553	time.	24.6451
27		24.9428	So	25.4877
29		25.5564	without further ado let's, um,	27.1883
31		27.2510	get all the way into it.	28.5106
33		29.6552	Mr. /RD-NAME-2/	30.5097
35		30.8087	/RD-NAME-1/	31.3037
37		32.0564	don't you got a stage name,	33.3506
39		33.4317	um,	33.9589
40	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	34.0002	Yeah, DJ /RD-NAME-4/. You already know what it is, man. [DJ to] the world, taking over the world.	38.7112
41	ATL_int_01	36.8396	[okay.]	37.2934
42		39.0927	World take over DJ. Okay.	41.2237
44		41.3440	Nah, that's- that's real real cool,	43.0665
46		43.2676	you know.	43.7213
48		44.1441	Um, I'm	44.9278
50		45.1959	probably gonna be segueing to a bunch of different stuff if that's cool with you.	48.8809
51	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	49.2470	Yeah, that's fine.	49.9183
52	ATL_int_01	50.0667	Okay, cool, cool. So, um,	51.7372
54		54.0739	what's your race or nationality? What do you identify as?	57.1918
55	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	57.3671	Um, most days I'm a Mexican, but- [uh],	59.7646
56	ATL_int_01	59.5068	[<laugh>]	60.6256
57	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	59.8526	[<laugh>]	60.1306
59		60.5225	[no], I'm a African American.	61.9854
60	ATL_int_01	62.0885	Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. And, um,	64.8211
62		65.7491	what's your age?	66.6668
63	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	67.0381	Twenty-seven years old.	68.7897
64	ATL_int_01	68.9804	Cool, cool, cool.	70.1147
66		70.3828	Um,	71.1923
68		72.0997	and	72.7390
70		73.7018	where were you born?	74.4442
71	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	74.9753	Decatur, GA.	76.1560
72	ATL_int_01	76.5994	Decatur, GA. [Okay.]	78.5586
73	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	78.0069	[Yes, sir.]	78.7957
74	ATL_int_01	79.0484	So, um,	80.0266
76		80.5989	is it cool to assume that you been living in Georgia	83.1510
78		83.2851	predominantly	84.1407
80		84.2217	your whole life?	84.9556
81	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	85.1670	I have.	85.9132
82	ATL_int_01	86.2792	Great, great, great. Okay, so, um,	88.9087
84		91.0793	growing up in Georgia,	92.8773
86		93.3413	you know,	93.8501
88		93.9824	let's start with maybe	95.7440
90		96.7957	middle school or something like that. What was, um,	99.6807
92		99.7597	growing up in middle school in Decatur, Georgia or wherever	103.1257
94		103.2804	you was in Georgia in particular?	104.9546
95	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	106.0528	How was it growing up in middle school?	107.7387
96	ATL_int_01	107.7312	Yeah, what school you went to?	108.8009
97	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	109.0430	Um, I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Middle School.	110.8618
98	ATL_int_01	110.9851	[Okay.]	111.4254
99	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	111.0679	[U- um],	111.9220
100		112.9757	uh, I would say, you know, life in there was- was cool as a African American male. Um,	117.8621
102		118.3983	I'd say it was more not tailored towards, uh, I wish education just in school-wise would've been a little more,	125.0221
104		125.5016	um, I guess hands on. We would've learned a lot of more.	128.5783
106		128.9134	Um, we-	129.5395
108		129.6854	I wouldn't say-	130.6664
110		131.3830	I definitely wouldn't say we were passed along, but we could've been, uh,	134.7587
112		135.4599	you know, ha-	136.2178
114		136.6922	<exhale> what is the words? We could've been	138.7442
116		139.0638	tightened down on a little more, but I think we still got good knowledge and understanding.	143.3366
118		143.5790	Um, a lot of real world situations came in at the time.	147.2382
120		147.5527	Um,	148.2281
122		148.9448	just going to the middle school that I went to, /and it/ made people kind of look at things in life differently.	153.7535
124		154.2436	Um,	154.8004
126		155.2645	but it w- it was- you know, we weren't- it wasn't the hood, but it was majority African Americans.	160.6200
128		160.8932	Um, so it was like the a- it was like the middle class. The middle class at that point in time was-	165.4909
130		165.8105	I'd say was still around in the early two thousands. Um, now it's kind of fading to more	170.6762
132		171.0732	either poverty or rich. Um, I'd say that was probably the last days of the middle class. So,	175.6207
134		176.0421	um,	176.6579
136		176.7603	m- like I said, it was just kind of being a middle class African American,	180.4297
138		180.6978	you know, you had a lot of people who went e- either way, either they went up to the upper class or they went to the lower class.	186.2544
139	ATL_int_01	186.5895	Mm.	186.9710
141		187.5265	That's- that's very very interesting cause	189.7950
143		190.4756	I be feeling that way sometimes personally	192.7957
145		193.2546	just from my life like, dang, maybe like	195.2795
147		195.8208	almost ten, twenty years ago, things looked totally different than the way they look kind of right now.	201.4238
149		202.1108	[Um],	202.7764
150	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	202.1507	[Yeah, that quick.] Correct.	203.3058
151	ATL_int_01	204.4039	and I didn't know that that's how	205.9034
153		206.2792	it was rocking over in /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Middle.	208.6303
155		209.0943	M- so	209.7130
157		209.9760	was that school kind of, um,	211.6052
159		212.1710	fairly new at that time?	213.9239
160	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	214.1302	[Oh, no.]	214.6767
161	ATL_int_01	214.2642	[Or has that] al- always been [around?]	216.0378
162	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	215.9141	[Nah], that school was very old. Uh, that sc- /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Middle School's been up, I know it, probably since like the sixties at least,	222.0945
163	ATL_int_01	222.3163	[Wow.]	223.0381
164	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	222.4400	[maybe the seventies.] So yeah, that school is very old. Um,	225.5115
165	ATL_int_01	225.6198	Mm-hm.	226.1044
166	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	226.7231	Yeah, definitely was a aged school.	228.4812
167	ATL_int_01	228.8525	Okay, but, um, you left	230.5834
169		231.2331	old ass /RD-SCHOOL-3/ School to end up going into like	234.3743
171		234.4673	new facility /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School?	237.3671
172	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	237.8157	Um, well I w- originally /went in to/ /RD-SCHOOL-2/ because /RD-SCHOOL-3/ wasn't built at the time.	241.9802
173	ATL_int_01	242.1658	[Mm-hm.]	242.5370
174	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	242.4030	[Um], so when I did go into high school, yes, I went to /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School.	245.8213
175		246.1255	Um, it was a brand new facility. I would say, um,	249.0681
177		249.2898	it definitely was a new vibe. Uh, we had a- we had a interesting principal when I first started,	253.8218
179		254.0936	a man by the name of Dr. /RD-NAME-2/.	255.9188
181		256.3416	Um,	257.0290
183		257.1024	definitely he- he kind of	259.1567
185		260.0293	embodied what now I wish that more of- of the b-	263.3573
187		263.8780	the educators would have kind of	266.2895
189		266.7329	went towards. Um, I do understand, you know, he was very tough, very, uh, strict in what he did.	272.1452
191		272.5061	But now just being a- a eld- not a elderly man cause I'm definitely not elderly, but being a older man, I kind of see where his message was going at the time,	280.0838
193		280.4189	kind of just tried to get our heads on straight. Um, we did a lot of different things that most schools in DeKalb County didn't do.	285.7590
195		286.1250	Um, it was because of the fact that I do see now too as well, um, when I first started /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School,	291.5373
197		291.9291	it was actually, um, only ninth and tenth graders there.	294.3523
199		294.7442	So he was able to handle a less amount of kids. He didn't have the typical	299.6563
201		300.1770	a thousand,	301.5072
203		301.6708	fifteen hundred high school in DeKalb County. He maybe only had	305.3006
205		305.7182	three to four hundred kids that he could control.	308.0266
207		308.3720	Um, and it kind of- it started off as good because the majority of the people that I know that did last,	313.4248
209		313.7550	um, that started from the beginning, you know, are doing something with their selves.	316.9413
211		317.3177	But then, you know, it just kind of got-	319.4972
213		320.1726	that whole thing seemed to get- kind of got washed by the wayside, and it just kind of turned into the area	324.6516
215		324.9610	more than just the greatness of the school.	326.5490
216	ATL_int_01	327.1213	Wow, okay.	328.5278
218		328.6429	See, um,	329.4105
220		329.9711	it's been a while since I personally been	331.8325
222		331.9243	back to /RD-SCHOOL-3/, almost probably about ten years now.	334.7093
224		335.1636	[So]	335.5114
225	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	335.3723	[Mm.]	335.6117
226	ATL_int_01	336.0278	I w- I would defer to you f- as far /as/ knowing,	338.7243
228		338.9099	you know, how the kids and that culture	340.9413
230		341.4362	is over there right about now.	343.3528
231	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	343.9356	Um, yeah. I actually- because I DJ as well, um, I work actually with, uh, one of the	348.5227
233		348.6826	g- uh, she was a previous coach over there, Coach /RD-NAME-2/.	351.5080
235		351.8379	Um, I actually DJ a lot of the, uh,	354.0381
237		354.6723	talent shows, and, um, I've actually done some things for the basketball team,	358.4102
239		358.8536	um,	359.5084
241		359.8023	music-wise. So I do still go up there occasionally. I haven't been up there maybe in about a year or two now,	364.6474
243		364.9104	um, but just kind of keeping my ear to the streets. Um, I have friends	368.2603
245		368.5387	who have kids who are,	370.3329
247		370.6165	um, at /RD-SCHOOL-3/ High School, and, you know, they just kind of said the culture's just completely different	375.6626
249		376.0184	from-	376.4300
251		376.5393	they didn't- they don't- but of course they wasn't there to know what our culture was. But them telling me the culture of what it is now,	382.1885
253		382.5598	it's completely different from how it was when I was in school.	385.4154
254	ATL_int_01	385.8227	Mm.	386.1424
256		386.3538	Okay.	386.8848
258		387.4918	Just to, um, segue away from the school system for a second,	391.3020
260		391.7351	um,	392.4775
262		393.5588	tell me a little bit	394.8323
264		395.6521	about	396.1574
266		396.4203	your parents. Like where were they born and raised?	398.5895
267	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	398.8937	Uh, my mother was born in Cleveland. My dad was born in	402.4152
269		402.7709	Detroit. Um, both of them met in Cleveland,	405.2753
271		405.6826	and they moved down to Atlanta.	407.2603
272	ATL_int_01	407.7655	Okay, that's what I'm talking about. So	409.8949
274		410.5548	they was up in there living the good life up in Cleveland and Detroit,	414.5801
276		415.3535	and they came down to old	417.1618
278		417.9558	Georgia.	418.6467
279	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	418.9368	[ATL.]	419.6118
280	ATL_int_01	418.9834	[Or-]	419.1993
281		419.6472	or was the good life-	420.7708
283		420.8562	was it that- that good of a life up in Cleveland and	423.4570
285		423.5694	Detroit cause I know it's- it's kind of different	425.8635
287		426.3688	all around.	427.0803
288	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	427.1713	[Um],	427.6935
289	ATL_int_01	427.2257	[Did you b-]	427.7309
290		427.8070	did you ever ask about that?	429.1825
291	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	429.3938	I mean, I've asked. My parents are divorced, so of course I can't ask questions that- for them to be together so much.	435.1006
292	ATL_int_01	435.1223	Mm-hm.	435.4803
293	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	435.6001	Um, but from what I was told, I mean, Cleveland is just very cold.	439.2195
295		439.4979	[Um, it did] not have a lot of progressing things going on at the time.	443.4031
296	ATL_int_01	439.6886	[<laugh>]	440.1166
297		443.4361	Mm.	443.6434
298	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	443.7012	Um, I think they came down in like the late eighties, mid eighties,	448.4044
300		448.8684	maybe- maybe even early seventies, probably like	451.7144
302		452.1939	in the eighties some time, /though/.	453.5382
304		454.0796	Um,	454.7756
306		455.3025	and when they came down, Atlanta, Georgia was jumping. Um, Freaknik was just about to get started, you [know, the kind of-]	461.1881
307	ATL_int_01	460.5266	[/Ay/, okay.]	461.4665
308	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	461.5387	the- the times of Atlanta. It was nice and hot. The prices of living was cheaper.	466.0486
310		466.3992	Um, there were more jobs here. So that's kind of really w- it w- it- what it really was.	470.5600
312		470.8745	Um, they kind of get n- wanted to get away from their family members, so	474.0027
313	ATL_int_01	474.2450	[Mm-hm.]	474.5647
314	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	474.4100	[they started] something brand new.	475.7144
315	ATL_int_01	476.1785	Ah, digging that.	477.2495
317		477.3250	So, um,	478.0950
319		478.5127	you got any plans on	479.9357
321		480.1007	what you gonna do with your	481.3998
323		481.4794	family life as far as	482.9610
325		483.0236	staying in the area or branching out	485.1262
327		485.2448	from here?	485.6624
328	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	485.7347	Um, I would definitely say that I'm looking into branching out. Um, I'm currently a	489.8579
330		490.2033	single man, so I'm not	491.8686
331	ATL_int_01	491.9511	[<laugh>]	492.3430
332	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	492.1935	[worried] a- so much about family life at the moment.	494.6270
333		494.8436	Um, when that situation does come, um, of course I don't think I would definitely want them in this area.	499.5752
335		499.9722	Uh, definitely the- the- the- the	501.3167
338		502.5952	East Atlanta area has definitely become a	505.0751
340		505.2762	not so great area to raise a child.	507.7341
341	ATL_int_01	508.1622	[Mm.]	508.4559
342	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	508.2075	[Um], so I would say raising a child-wise, I'd definitely go	511.6526
343		512.0253	to another area. But, um, at that moment I don't have those issu- I don't have those type thoughts. So,	517.0957
344	ATL_int_01	517.2813	[Mm.]	517.6526
345	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	517.5185	[um], family-wise, just it's something that's not really in my head at the moment.	521.0076
346	ATL_int_01	521.2860	Nah, cool, cool, cool.	522.6214
348		522.8792	Feel the same exact way	524.0186
350		524.5758	<laugh> even though I do got a girl, still,	526.6793
352		526.8715	you know.	527.2369
353	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	527.2674	Right, until- yeah, until other responsibilities are placed in.	531.2578
354	ATL_int_01	531.3105	Definitely, definitely.	533.1932
356		533.5954	What you call it again? Um,	534.9978
358		536.3744	how about siblings?	537.4970
360		537.6774	Do you have any?	538.4095
361	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	538.8375	Um, I have stepbrothers. Um, all of my brothers are older than me. My dad had previous kids,	543.5163
362	ATL_int_01	543.5612	[Mm-hm.]	543.8672
363	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	543.7671	[um], before he had me.	544.9509
364	ATL_int_01	545.0946	[Mm-hm.]	545.4008
365	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	545.3015	[Um],	545.9614
366		546.2351	three brothers, uh,	547.6629
368		548.6270	all of them are actually- well two of them are f- college football coaches, and one works	552.9101
370		553.3071	in- uh,	554.2506
372		554.5033	for the airport's	555.9019
374		556.2446	aviation- some of the stuff with flying the planes. I- I don't know the exact title.	560.4569
375	ATL_int_01	560.8075	Oh, okay.	561.4731
377		561.5815	And what's your, um,	562.5591
379		562.6880	relationship with them?	563.9139
381		564.0287	Cool? Not so cool?	565.1473
382	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	565.6474	Um, it's- it's alright. We have a relationship. Um, they're a lot older, so of course that b- uh, builds a rift in one.	572.3486
383	ATL_int_01	572.5113	[Mm-hm.]	572.8523
384	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	572.7972	[Um], and then because of just family issues, how years go down the line, pe- of course people build rifts for so many other situations.	579.1907
385		579.6083	Um, but it's still all love. I still definitely love all of 'em.	582.5729
387		582.9067	Um, you know,	583.7316
389		583.9430	whenever they need me, if they know they really need me, they can get in touch with me. But,	587.3510
391		587.7274	um, just kind of how family life is. Like I said, I'm so worried ab-	590.7042
393		590.7887	I'm not so- I'm so focused on	592.8045
395		593.2737	what I got going on, the fact that they got they own lives in another state doing other things, um,	598.4023
397		599.1757	you know, we just all individuals right now. They have a closer bond because they share the same	603.3557
399		603.6857	mother and father, and they around the same age. Me, who's being the only child by my mother,	608.0410
401		608.4019	um, and raised like a only child, I kind of just more to myself.	611.6088
402	ATL_int_01	611.9542	That makes a lot of sense. I can dig that.	614.1699
404		614.6442	Let's see. Um,	616.1084
406		616.5209	back-	617.0310
408		617.1545	going back to the school thing, um,	619.3295
410		621.0979	I guess more so	622.1806
412		622.4281	high school. How did you get to school?	624.7689
413	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	625.6594	How'd I get to school? Um, well	627.4640
415		627.7630	because technically th- the area that I lived in was never /RD-SCHOOL-3/ area,	631.4223
416	ATL_int_01	631.5092	[Mm.]	631.9011
417	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	631.7625	[um], so	632.8659
418		633.1752	it was close enough where I could get there in a short amount of time,	637.2934
420		637.6079	but it wasn't-	638.4479
422		638.5153	that wasn't my school I was supposed to be in.	640.7581
423	ATL_int_01	640.9231	[Mm.]	641.2582
424	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	641.1705	[So] typically, um, my beginning years, um,	644.2790
425		644.3763	friends kind of- uh,	645.9538
427		646.2528	I was always a- I would say not a cool kid, but I always had friends who d-	649.7681
429		649.8658	were in the right place at the right time.	651.7218
431		652.0311	Um, kind of had, you know, people start picking me up	654.4277
433		654.4980	and taking me to school.	655.6440
435		656.0255	Um, I wasn't never too far /cau-/ f- of some days moms would pick me up and take me.	660.4647
437		660.8242	Um, once I got to about like the tenth, eleventh grade though, it was just about time to take MARTA.	664.9695
439		665.2582	[Um, I took] MARTA for I'd say maybe	667.7986
440	ATL_int_01	665.5257	[/??/]	665.9719
441	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	668.4998	all of my eleventh grade year.	670.3559
443		670.7271	[Um], and then, uh,	672.6039
444	ATL_int_01	670.9231	[Wow.]	671.2788
445	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	672.9428	tenth grade- I mean, excuse me, when I was a senior,	675.0463
446	ATL_int_01	675.1175	Mm-hm.	675.3817
447	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	675.3931	of course I did what every senior in high school does. I got me my own car and-	678.6554
448	ATL_int_01	678.7520	[<laugh>]	679.6594
449	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	679.1542	[n- <laugh> and] it was on from there.	680.7731
450	ATL_int_01	680.8762	Okay. That was a pretty	682.4384
452		683.0107	good question then cause I n- I don't know. I- a lot of people just be like, oh yeah, I just took the cheese bus.	687.8816
453	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	688.1755	Uh, I mean, I t- I	689.3032
455		689.4661	t- I took the cheese, but the cheese was m-	692.1299
457		692.1900	was more in- like when I was younger, [like middle school] and high school.	695.9594
458	ATL_int_01	694.5061	[Definitely.]	695.1462
459		696.0989	[Mm-hm.]	696.4779
460	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	696.2720	[Actually] in middle school I could walk to /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Middle school, so I never really had to take the cheese, but,	700.8344
461	ATL_int_01	700.8800	That's [convenient.]	701.7016
462	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	701.3652	[yeah, the cheese] was just elementary school pretty much.	703.8141
463	ATL_int_01	703.9482	Nice, nice. Um,	705.5155
465		705.9795	did you have any, um, favorite subjects or-	708.8823
467		709.4893	or some subjects you didn't like	711.1747
469		711.3595	as much?	712.1188
470	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	712.1856	Um, I was always a social studies and science person. I love social studies and science, knowing about the history	717.4330
472		717.7424	and knowing about like, uh, you know, the	719.9336
474		720.7675	p- t- stuff with plants, life,	722.8504
476		723.1649	um, you know,	724.0105
478		724.4075	biospheres, uh,	726.4492
480		727.0820	different- the rainforests, deserts. I've always just like interested in stuff like that. Um, language arts,	732.5162
482		732.7726	I mean, I can read very well, but I just wasn't the-	735.4691
484		736.1548	I didn't like the literature that they had us reading, so [I think that's more what made] me didn't like language arts.	741.4176
485	ATL_int_01	738.8702	[Mm.]	739.9641
486	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	741.8249	Um, and math, I just never- never been the best at math, so	746.3348
487	ATL_int_01	746.5601	[Mm.]	746.8860
488	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	746.6475	[it wasn't] my favorite subject, but,	748.3250
489		748.5673	hey, I got B's and C's, so I got [enough to pass.] (laughing)	751.7161
490	ATL_int_01	750.7726	[<laugh>]	751.6079
491		752.0513	Yeah, that's more than enough, for [real.]	753.6185
492	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	753.5343	[Right.]	754.1131
493	ATL_int_01	754.1800	Let's see. Um,	755.5727
495		757.3088	this says friendship group. Is there a group of people	760.4126
497		760.7323	you hang around	761.6294
499		761.7944	with	762.2326
501		762.6644	or whatever?	763.2057
502	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	763.8296	Um, yeah. I had multiple g- groups of friends. Actually, um, like I said, I was a-	767.3159
504		767.4317	kind of a	767.9911
506		768.0996	g- a cool kid or whatever you could say. Um,	770.6803
508		771.3505	I would play baseball, so I had a baseball, um,	774.4698
510		775.4274	clique of folks that I hung around with. Um,	778.0208
511	ATL_int_01	778.1262	[Mm-hm.]	778.4900
512	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	778.4178	[as] well I just had some folks that I knew since middle school,	781.2366
513	ATL_int_01	781.4996	[Mm-hm.]	781.8244
514	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	781.6440	[um], and kind of guys that I grew up with. I had that group of friends.	785.2015
515		785.4954	I had a group of friends that were just associated with the neighborhood that I stayed in.	789.7114
517		790.1548	Um, and then I would say I kind of just met friends organically throughout school.	795.1804
519		795.6135	Um, so I had many groups of friends, but I would say the main people were the people who I played baseball with	801.1288
521		801.5104	and the ones who I grew up with from the middle school.	803.9285
523		804.2430	to the high school.	805.0459
524	ATL_int_01	805.6079	Uh, cool, cool, cool. I guess, um,	808.0999
526		808.1675	you know, other than baseball, what would y'all do together?	810.7740
527	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	812.0049	The middle school friends?	813.2732
528	ATL_int_01	813.4073	[Uh, /unintelligible/]	814.5518
529	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	813.5722	[I mean, the- talking about the baseball] friends?	815.0726
530	ATL_int_01	815.2994	middle school, high school a-	816.8432
532		817.0060	and- [and the- uh],	817.9739
533	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	817.4999	[Oh, just what] we would do.	818.5772
534	ATL_int_01	818.7422	[yeah.]	819.1237
535	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	818.9916	[Um], I mean, we would kick it. We would chill. I have a group of friends, um, especially during the summer time, like we played baseball, so	825.4537
536		825.7888	literally we would kick it and watch baseball, the Braves, um,	829.1851
538		830.0203	uh, the whole day then get on the video game and play a while,	833.2840
540		833.6088	um, go outside, you know,	835.4171
542		835.8657	/it's-/ just enjoy the- enjoy the sunshine of course when we were younger.	839.5366
544		839.7789	Um, once we got older, it start more of going to different places	843.3557
546		843.6496	versus just being outside. But when we were outside in middle school and stuff- I mean, when we were in middle school,	848.1595
548		848.5308	you know, you could just be outside, and you could find anything from	851.4859
550		851.5599	playing a sport to	852.8809
552		853.6233	kicking it on somebody's porch to	855.8094
554		856.5931	doing a billion things. Um, once we got older, like I said, it was more	859.8502
556		860.1838	going to the movies, going to the mall, uh,	863.4335
558		864.1553	you know, different hang out spots, um,	866.4534
560		866.8246	more than anything.	867.7321
561	ATL_int_01	868.0414	Nah, definitely,	869.0356
563		869.1860	definitely feel you on that.	870.8500
565		871.3862	Let's see. What about, um,	873.1185
567		873.6444	your first job?	874.8664
568	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	875.6346	My very first job was at Red Lobster. I was a bus boy. The Red Lobster on /RD-ADDRESS-2/ Road.	881.4644
569	ATL_int_01	881.7635	[<laugh>]	882.6798
570	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	882.0264	[Um, I] graduated high school,	884.6906
571	ATL_int_01	884.7679	Okay.	885.2526
572	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	885.4087	and, uh,	887.1912
574		888.5287	it was just pretty much time for me to get a job. I had certain situations going on in life,	892.6550
576		893.0313	um, where I needed some extra dollars in my pocket.	895.7522
578		896.0152	I got my graduation money from high school. I was able to stack that up, get ready to go to college.	900.5626
580		900.9376	So I worked, um, the summer of-	904.7323
582		905.2634	what was that? Two thousand eight at Red Lobster on /RD-ADDRESS-2/ Road.	907.7729
583	ATL_int_01	908.1699	Oh, cool, cool, cool.	909.6908
585		910.2889	So, um,	911.2427
587		912.5884	we talking about /RD-ADDRESS-2/ Road.	914.4750
589		914.6322	We talking about /RD-ADDRESS-3/.	916.3198
591		917.0726	You know, this some	917.9279
593		918.0576	born and raised type of stuff.	919.9636
595		921.7321	Do you feel like, um, that East Atlanta area	925.3088
597		925.5099	have a,	926.2936
599		927.2062	um, particular type of dialect, and you can possibly tell	931.2470
601		931.5460	who's from that area when they talk?	933.5207
602	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	934.4694	Um, I would say maybe because I've been here my whole life, m-	939.1295
604		939.1966	I can't	940.0311
606		940.5518	because it sounds normal to me.	943.0000
607	ATL_int_01	943.1490	[Mm-hm.]	943.5563
608	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	943.3965	[Um], but I would definitely say that when I go to other states,	946.9282
609		947.1190	definitely people can tell that I'm from the South,	949.7419
610	ATL_int_01	949.9585	[<laugh>]	950.4380
611	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	950.1183	[um, particularly] Atlanta. People [can kind] of really tell especially how- when, uh, you say Atlanta,	954.2739
612	ATL_int_01	951.7612	[/??/]	952.1030
613	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	954.7276	[um, people kind] of know that, alright, he's from Atlanta if he say it like that.	959.0056
614	ATL_int_01	955.3295	[<laugh>]	956.1905
615		959.0571	Uh-huh.	959.4812
616	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	959.5249	Um,	960.3344
618		960.9634	now,	961.5562
620		961.6636	this side of town versus maybe like the west side, the south side, or the north side,	966.2275
622		966.6925	I don't think it's a difference. Um, I just think the person may be more a little different versus the way they talk.	972.1295
624		972.5214	Um, the west side do kind of got a real slang, hood	976.4797
626		977.2530	very like,	978.3461
628		980.3606	uh, real h-	981.4017
630		981.7542	typical African American	983.8047
632		984.1553	stereotyped /would/ of a Black man would be in Atlanta.	987.3369
633	ATL_int_01	987.3446	[<laugh>]	988.9592
634	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	987.8368	[Um],	988.3714
635		989.2891	[that's how they're- that's] the what- what sh- what people on the TV shows,	993.1907
636	ATL_int_01	989.5216	[/You think so./]	990.2493
637		993.2749	[Mm-hm.]	993.5497
638	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	993.5001	[a] lot of times, that's kind of what that more portrays.	996.9125
639		997.1600	That side- now not saying that side hasn't built, um,	999.9428
640	ATL_int_01	1000.1438	[Mm-hm.]	1000.4480
641	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1000.3243	[great] people because shi- u- shit, the f-	1002.6393
642		1002.8919	previous mayor of Atlanta,	1004.2943
644		1004.6191	um,	1005.3255
646		1005.8153	[Kasim Reed, he] went to I think Mays High School.	1009.0466
647	ATL_int_01	1005.9166	[/?/ /okay./]	1006.8749
648		1009.2734	[Mm.]	1009.5570
649	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1009.3611	[Um], it was one of those high schools on the west side, so not to say that they don't have, you know,	1013.8865
650		1014.2165	very prestigious people, but at the same time, the typical person from there	1018.0510
652		1018.4635	has a very hood, slang, country dialect.	1021.3095
653	ATL_int_01	1021.5879	Real heavy, right?	1022.5263
654	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1022.6139	Very, very.	1023.4337
655	ATL_int_01	1023.5523	I- I- I think that's very very famil- um, interesting	1027.1291
657		1027.3765	because	1028.2234
659		1028.3039	I done did a few folks	1029.7061
661		1029.8063	from the East Atlanta area,	1031.3967
663		1031.9364	and, um,	1032.9366
665		1034.2448	you're here born and raised. I'm here born and raised and stuff like that,	1037.5342
667		1038.0034	but I don't	1038.7201
669		1039.0243	necessarily think I have the most	1041.3307
671		1041.4379	Atlanta,	1042.2814
673		1042.5237	you know,	1043.0198
675		1043.1114	dialect in some- certain people eyes and stuff like that. When I go out of town,	1047.1419
677		1047.7348	or if I'm just around certain people, they might be like,	1050.2354
679		1050.6994	where you from? I'm from Atlanta.	1051.7911
681		1052.8377	/What/, really?	1053.6781
682	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1054.0906	[Right.]	1054.4206
683	ATL_int_01	1054.2195	[<laugh>] I'm like, yeah, nigga, what the fuck?	1056.0859
684		1056.5456	[But, um],	1057.4056
685	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1056.6557	[Hm.]	1056.8370
686	ATL_int_01	1058.1623	I d- I- I- I get what you're saying with the west side,	1061.2886
688		1061.3569	you know, not to stereotype, but it do seem like, you know,	1064.3582
690		1064.8635	theirs come out a little bit more	1066.7712
692		1067.2197	than others	1068.2251
694		1068.8541	at times and stuff like that. What do you- what do you even think,	1072.0346
696		1072.1370	just if you had to	1073.3435
698		1073.8693	take a stab at it, is the reasoning	1075.7175
700		1075.8157	behind	1076.4665
702		1076.6470	all of that?	1077.1728
703	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1077.9153	Uh, I mean, I-	1079.0105
705		1079.0749	the- the level of income. The west side is typically the poorer place. Um, [the original-]	1083.6086
706	ATL_int_01	1083.0125	[Mm.]	1083.5424
707	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1083.9308	the original projects of Atlanta, the Bowen Homes, the	1087.3903
709		1087.7705	Fourth Wards, Mechanicsville, all that stuff is the west side of Atlanta, or a least where the west side of Atlanta begins to start.	1094.4149
710	ATL_int_01	1094.7758	[Mm-hm.]	1095.0852
711	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1094.9099	[Um],	1095.4977
712		1095.9359	so a lot of that poverty	1098.7097
714		1098.9933	raised a certain amount o- a certain a-	1101.4461
716		1102.1009	type of people. Again, the east side	1104.0034
718		1104.5396	was more	1106.0798
720		1106.5593	middle class than the west side, uh,	1109.2506
722		1109.5084	so you had a c- a few more people who-	1112.0334
724		1113.0904	who I would say went more proper, took the business route a little more, [um, saw a little] more life, saw a little more outside of two-eighty-five	1120.1909
725	ATL_int_01	1116.9793	[Mm.]	1117.5485
726	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1120.4230	at a earlier age than versus the west side people.	1123.4480
728		1123.7316	So the west side people were typically	1125.7321
730		1126.1703	like I said, just the more hood, the more-	1128.4337
732		1130.1338	the more that way because there's just- that's the m- that's the p- that's the pri- uh, cost of living around there. It was a lot of hoods, a lot of projects,	1136.3658
734		1136.7112	a lot of	1137.6393
736		1139.7996	crazy stuff going on on that side of town.	1141.9636
737	ATL_int_01	1142.6081	That's- um,	1143.4691
739		1144.6601	that's interesting that you said the- the two-eighty-five thing cause, um,	1148.5720
741		1150.3044	um, somebody	1151.2000
743		1151.2712	sent me, um,	1152.4595
745		1152.7276	a couple of tracks of their music,	1154.4895
747		1154.7215	wanted me to engineer it and whatnot.	1156.6395
749		1156.8870	Um,	1157.4300
750		1157.4300	Um,	1157.5149
751		1157.5149	I said I'll check it out.	1158.5575
753		1159.1078	Really didn't have time to, but I l- I let him know.	1161.3026
755		1161.4113	But, um, as I'm checking out the music,	1163.6191
757		1164.9276	um, I'm giving	1166.0427
759		1166.1169	them my little feedback	1167.2839
761		1167.3973	or whatever. And basically	1168.7791
763		1169.4531	word for word this is what I said.	1170.9844
765		1171.6701	Checked out all the tracks,	1173.2839
767		1173.5159	and they sound good.	1174.6605
769		1174.8976	You're talented.	1175.7057
771		1176.3502	My only critique from you	1177.9073
773		1178.2063	from what I heard	1179.2065
775		1179.6602	is that	1180.2222
777		1180.8667	it sound like you haven't spend a day outside of I-two-eighty-five.	1184.4022
778	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1184.8508	Mm.	1185.2890
779	ATL_int_01	1185.7324	<laugh> And bruh laughed. He was like, appreciate it. I'm- I'm tryna work on that,	1188.9586
781		1189.2834	you know.	1189.7170
783		1189.8126	But, um,	1190.5775
785		1191.2117	which it's nothing wrong with that,	1192.7069
786	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1193.3702	[Right.]	1193.7438
787	ATL_int_01	1193.4867	[but, you] know.	1194.2110
788	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1194.8452	We- we just in Atlanta, I think because one,	1198.2635
790		1198.6141	um, I think it's the Mecca right now of African American	1202.1908
792		1202.5053	urban culture.	1203.5623
793	ATL_int_01	1203.6977	[Mm-hm.]	1204.0487
794	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1203.9190	[Um], so we feel that	1206.6183
795		1206.8214	because it's like a- it loo- it seems like it's a melting pot which it is	1211.1967
797		1211.4325	a melting pot of so many places down here in Atlanta.	1214.1083
798	ATL_int_01	1214.2488	[Mm-hm.]	1214.5553
799	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1214.4486	[Um],	1215.1447
800		1215.5056	people feel that if you can- if you s-	1218.3966
802		1219.1442	if you sound like what's hot- what's Atlanta quote unquote hot,	1222.9956
804		1223.2740	then you s- then you'll- it'll be what the rest of the world, like it'll be what /it-/ whatever,	1227.3096
806		1227.6705	which we have to understand especially as people who are doing, uh,	1231.2989
808		1231.4690	uh, art	1232.2888
810		1232.5363	cause that's what music is. You just being creative and doing your art.	1235.5665
812		1235.9738	Like	1236.3966
814		1236.6699	your art gotta be bigger than that. You don't want just	1239.9438
816		1240.2480	the people in- /insi-/ i- in Atlanta to buy your music even if you say Georgia,	1245.0622
818		1245.3560	you have people across the world just- I mean, I understand that folks maybe like the Migos	1249.8505
819	ATL_int_01	1249.8970	Mm-hm.	1250.1910
820	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1250.2218	and Future, um, but they have a style that they kind of created on there.	1254.1182
822		1254.6183	And I wouldn't say that some of it hasn't been	1256.7631
824		1258.4491	/?/	1258.6536
826		1258.7596	a t- stolen, or	1260.6183
828		1261.1854	copied a little bit from other people,	1263.0322
830		1263.2461	but their style and their flow is their own and that's kind of what-	1267.1184
832		1267.9124	they're the more Atlanta-	1269.5262
834		1269.8407	they're the originators right now sadly enough.	1272.2007
836		1272.4585	[Um],	1272.9431
837	ATL_int_01	1272.7833	[<laugh>]	1273.5515
838	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1273.5876	Future has his own lane. [Uh, the Migos] have their own lane.	1277.7263
839	ATL_int_01	1275.6682	[/??/]	1276.2137
840	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1277.9893	T.I. has their- his own lane.	1279.8660
842		1280.2372	Um, I'm a-	1281.3921
844		1281.6035	OutKa- well, people don't really go to the OutKast [lane too much these days.]	1285.2215
845	ATL_int_01	1283.8243	[They don't, but they-] that's as Atlanta as it [gets.]	1287.0725
846	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1286.9797	[Right], [because the- right, and] Kilo Alis and the Pa- and well not Pastor Troy cause he's definitely not Atlanta. He's more g- he's Augusta.	1293.9851
847	ATL_int_01	1287.3303	[/unintelligible/]	1288.6914
848		1294.1838	[Mm-hm.]	1294.5360
849	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1294.3872	[Um],	1294.7894
850		1295.0781	but those originators from- originally from Atlanta, that's kind of where-	1299.1034
852		1300.0572	because you- you do see it where Future, you know, th- hi- he kind of- it's more musical.	1304.9797
854		1305.2478	He has a lot of great production. He has a lot of great beats. He [raps on so many different] things. Right,	1310.5878
855	ATL_int_01	1308.6543	[Dungeon Family.]	1309.8684
856	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1310.7528	because he gets if from that Dungeon Family,	1312.6811
857	ATL_int_01	1312.7413	[Mm-hm.]	1313.0651
858	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1312.9183	[from] the Kilo Ali days, from the days when Atlanta was more,	1316.6961
859		1317.0003	um,	1317.5777
861		1318.8822	I would say it was definitely lyrical, but it was definitely a vibe. It was a beat. It was a feel.	1323.8613
862	ATL_int_01	1324.0589	Mm-hm.	1324.3811
863	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1324.3886	Um,	1325.0008
865		1325.5923	and even	1326.3620
867		1326.4561	to go all the way down to the Migos, um, they still now are definitely even more progressing.	1331.3410
869		1331.6490	They have that young urban culture.	1333.7938
871		1334.2269	They got that kind of	1335.5959
873		1335.6604	already swag with them, but you can see now that they're getting a little older, they're making more music,	1339.9279
875		1340.2321	it's becoming to sound more	1341.8922
877		1342.1088	musical, more instruments, more- um,	1345.5412
879		1345.9794	more thought out than just trapping out the bando.	1348.5934
880	ATL_int_01	1349.0678	Nah, I- I- I definitely definitely agree on that.	1352.1702
882		1352.7683	You know,	1353.3580
884		1353.5475	um,	1354.2377
886		1354.8976	I like to say,	1355.8295
888		1356.2110	you know, people been /Atlantanized/	1358.0001
890		1358.2321	for real for real, especially just	1359.7994
891	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1359.8384	Right.	1360.1274
892	ATL_int_01	1360.3305	all over the world.	1361.4479
894		1361.9893	Do you feel like, um,	1363.7629
896		1365.3406	the influence of the music alone	1368.5358
898		1369.2370	is affecting,	1370.3764
900		1371.0106	you know, the people around in the area that talk this way, or do you think it's the people around this area talking of- this way that affected the music	1378.5780
902		1378.9131	to be	1379.4170
904		1379.7057	in that type of	1380.6441
906		1381.1751	space?	1381.9485
907	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1382.3919	Um, I definitely think that how the people are	1386.1233
909		1386.5564	affected	1387.4845
911		1387.9124	the music because that's really what this area is.	1391.5871
913		1392.0254	But I think that when it comes to music,	1394.8869
915		1395.2942	it's more of what got pushed more	1398.4946
917		1398.7627	than certain things. It's not that there's other people in Atlanta	1402.3769
919		1402.6811	who are not making trap music that are great artists, that make great music,	1407.1962
921		1407.5984	but it's not getting that constant radio push. It's not getting that constant,	1411.6804
923		1412.0310	uh, you know,	1412.7271
925		1412.7918	videos and things like that. Um,	1414.9492
927		1415.3757	which at this point in time now so understandable cause it's- it's almost like it's- it's function is-	1420.2119
929		1420.5625	is already placed in our head that	1422.4585
931		1422.7266	that's what we- that's what we gonna enjoy.	1424.8423
933		1425.0802	We get	1425.5726
935		1426.0624	sucked in by the TV and all the stuff.	1428.7472
937		1429.0617	Um,	1429.7216
939		1430.3919	so it's kind of that.	1431.8369
941		1431.9116	I will say that words are very powerful,	1434.7575
943		1435.0462	um, and especially in African American culture,	1437.5829
945		1437.9696	um, we tend to-	1439.9326
947		1441.4123	<ts> we tend to move towards people who give strong words,	1445.2998
949		1445.6335	um, whether it be	1447.0256
951		1447.3556	a Martin Luther King, a Malcolm X, a President Obama,	1450.6862
953		1450.8770	a Future,	1451.6748
955		1452.0254	um,	1452.6647
957		1453.0875	whoev- if- if y- if- if we can feel your words, that's kind of where the group of the people go from even Earth, Wind and Fire.	1460.0104
959		1460.4524	People really felt those words, so	1462.7894
961		1463.1193	that's the kind of words that the people	1466.0361
963		1467.4437	of the times are d- are- are-	1469.2689
965		1470.1594	are moving towards, so that's what the times look like.	1472.7631
966	ATL_int_01	1474.4027	Wow.	1475.0678
967	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1475.4325	It was a lot of love- think about it, in- in the seventies and eighties, it was a lot of love music,	1480.1449
968	ATL_int_01	1480.3697	[Mm-hm.]	1480.6759
969	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1480.4388	[so] of course there was a lot of more love. Don't get me wrong, seventies and eighties had its time with	1484.6652
970		1485.0209	the drugs and, you know, a lot of crazy stuff going on,	1488.3709
972		1488.5925	um, just with- especially with this time in America.	1490.8456
974		1491.1756	But it was-	1492.1397
976		1492.5522	killings were going on, but it was a more peaceful time. You didn't have to worry about,	1496.3713
978		1496.7270	you know, uh,	1497.4540
980		1497.9283	a nine- a nine year older-	1499.8346
982		1500.2729	a nine n- excuse me, nineteen year old going into a church, going [into-]	1504.1758
983	ATL_int_01	1503.9235	[Ah], [yeah.]	1504.6385
984	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1504.3975	[shooting] up a concert, doing- you know.	1506.3760
985		1506.5874	Now you did have some crazily racially based things,	1509.5541
986	ATL_int_01	1509.5575	Mm-hm,	1509.8687
987	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1509.8789	um, that [were-]	1510.9956
988	ATL_int_01	1510.5663	[t-]	1510.7313
989	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1511.3912	you know, we- we do understand that that's what the times were, and it- it definitely isn't right. But	1516.4645
990	ATL_int_01	1516.5522	Mm-hm.	1516.9595
991	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1518.1449	I just think that thi- these times are more violent because of things like that. It- i- it's- it's the music. It's the s- it's the different things like that,	1525.2937
993		1525.6237	um,	1526.2424
995		1526.7941	when it comes to that much.	1527.8562
996	ATL_int_01	1528.4439	So, um,	1529.3757
998		1530.1646	you know,	1530.7936
1000		1532.0671	you got a interesting, um,	1533.7427
1002		1534.5264	job being a DJ,	1536.2625
1004		1537.5824	and you got those feelings of what you feel like	1540.4336
1006		1541.3551	how the music could affect people and what you like to listen to and	1544.9023
1008		1545.4128	what they might	1546.1365
1010		1546.2184	ha-	1546.5769
1012		1546.6490	like to listen to. But I guess	1548.6028
1014		1549.0669	I don't know. I don't wanna assume,	1550.4280
1016		1550.8353	as a DJ	1551.9438
1018		1552.2738	it's not about what you like or listen to.	1554.3638
1020		1554.5038	It's about what	1555.3917
1022		1555.5670	the people who-	1556.5699
1024		1556.6753	what	1556.9487
1026		1557.3251	supposed to like or whatever. What's your thoughts on	1559.5000
1028		1560.2058	just that in particular?	1561.5257
1029	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1561.7805	Um, interestingly enough,	1563.3973
1031		1563.5520	I'm very biased when it comes to DJing.	1566.1491
1033		1566.4739	Now don't get me wrong, I do understand that there are certain songs	1569.7169
1035		1569.9644	that, um, just because they're hot they need to get played.	1572.9947
1037		1573.2937	But,	1573.7931
1039		1573.9732	I- whe- when I DJ, my goal is not to make you really listen	1578.3811
1041		1578.7730	to the song so much. I want you to dance. I want you to feel the vibe.	1582.6502
1043		1582.9750	So	1583.6232
1045		1587.1859	I would say	1588.2583
1047		1588.5883	the songs that are like, uh, s- for example, there's a guy named SixNine out of New York.	1592.6291
1049		1592.8714	He's has a very hot song, but I've probably maybe played that song	1596.4378
1051		1596.7008	once or twice ever in my life.	1598.6652
1053		1598.9023	Um, and the two times that I did play it, I didn't get the vibe. I didn't get the feel.	1602.8091
1055		1603.1390	Um, so I just don't play it anymore.	1604.9333
1057		1605.2993	Uh,	1606.0830
1059		1606.5934	and now, if there's a special request, or someone needed it, and they were paying me, of course I would play it.	1611.3973
1061		1611.7943	But I just feel that	1613.1090
1063		1614.1092	just because as- a-	1615.4600
1065		1615.7694	we have a responsibility as a DJ to kind of curate what's going on	1620.3773
1067		1620.8465	in the music culture. So if I constantly keep playing it,	1623.7375
1069		1624.0107	that's the only reason that people are remembering it. [Like]	1626.4495
1070	ATL_int_01	1626.3305	[Mm-hm.]	1626.6422
1071	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1626.7227	there's certain songs that-	1628.1767
1073		1628.4241	I mean, because especially Atlanta, we party from Monday to Monday.	1631.9442
1074	ATL_int_01	1632.2496	[Mm-hm.]	1632.6207
1075	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1632.2675	[So] if you go out one night,	1634.2952
1076		1634.5633	you- you listening to s- music the next night, you on Instagram the next night,	1639.1197
1078		1639.4548	and,	1640.2367
1080		1640.3260	uh, you done went out let's say a night after that as well too,	1643.3616
1082		1643.6761	and then the other night you was working, and you was listening to the radio,	1646.4551
1084		1646.7218	and every single night, you heard w- it just happened to be one song in particular,	1650.9547
1086		1651.2125	um,	1651.9137
1088		1652.1921	you're gonna constantl- that song is gonna get stuck with you [regardless of] how-	1656.7640
1089	ATL_int_01	1655.8846	[Mm-hm.]	1656.2463
1090	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1657.6714	regardless of how much you don't want it to or n- on- or not. If you constantly listen to it,	1662.4598
1092		1662.7176	you will remember the words. You will remember the melody. You will remember the flow,	1666.4954
1094		1667.0677	and it's either gonna stick to you one way or another. You either gonna like it, or you're gonna dislike it. Most people,	1671.6138
1096		1671.8767	because it's all a similar flow,	1673.7070
1098		1674.0164	like it, so	1675.1249
1099	ATL_int_01	1675.3724	Mm.	1675.7797
1100	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1675.9240	if we sit up here and constantly keep playing the BS, then	1679.8565
1102		1680.1143	[eventually]	1681.0166
1103	ATL_int_01	1680.1315	[<laugh>]	1680.5525
1104	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1682.2024	BS is what's gonna run. So that's why	1684.7635
1106		1685.0213	like I d- I- I personally- like I have no Famous Dex.	1688.1303
1107	ATL_int_01	1688.4345	[Mm.]	1688.8057
1108	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1688.5943	[Um], I don't- I n- I ta- I have one Famous Dex song, that Pick It Up I think is actually pretty [dope.]	1692.9135
1109	ATL_int_01	1692.7161	[Okay], I [like that.]	1693.5284
1110	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1693.3156	[Um],	1694.1199
1111		1694.3932	I don't have many XXXTentacion. I have him on the Roll In Peace track.	1697.9597
1113		1698.3702	[Um],	1699.1211
1114	ATL_int_01	1698.3930	[/??/ good] on [that.]	1699.5459
1115	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1699.4124	[SixNine], I don't. I- like I said, I have the one song of his,	1703.0058
1116		1703.2533	the Gummo, um, even though he has Billboard tracks.	1706.0942
1117	ATL_int_01	1706.2179	[Yeah.]	1706.5530
1118	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1706.4241	[Big] shoutout to them, you know. They're making money and doing whatever they should do in their crowd.	1711.0682
1119		1711.3878	Um,	1712.0065
1121		1712.3365	Billboard has to do with a lot of	1714.0607
1123		1714.2184	people that are not African American,	1715.9545
1124	ATL_int_01	1716.2535	[Mm-hm.]	1716.6248
1125	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1716.3824	[so] when it comes to that, you know, hey,	1718.6317
1126		1718.7218	that mean white people is loving your stuff. That doesn't mean our culture is loving your stuff.	1722.3103
1127	ATL_int_01	1722.4443	Mm-hm.	1722.8825
1128	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1722.9238	Um,	1723.4497
1130		1724.0890	so, like I said, I feel that	1725.9489
1132		1726.1860	I- I- I feel like I'm gonna play what's gonna-	1728.3360
1134		1728.5938	what I enjoy	1729.4858
1136		1730.0913	[when I play] music. I- sadly enough, I'm very biased.	1732.7171
1137	ATL_int_01	1730.1302	[Mm.]	1730.4675
1138		1733.1089	Sadly enough, very biased. Um,	1735.3105
1140		1736.9383	Childish Gambino	1738.4748
1142		1738.6707	and	1739.3822
1144		1739.7225	CyHi the Prynce are both	1741.4703
1146		1741.9498	Atlanta artists,	1743.2608
1147	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1743.2719	[Mm-hm.]	1743.6498
1148	ATL_int_01	1743.5273	[probably] more so East Atlanta [artists],	1745.8050
1149	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1745.7796	[Mm-hm.]	1746.1762
1150	ATL_int_01	1746.4391	but when I listen to 'em	1747.7534
1152		1747.8437	and hear 'em talk,	1748.9022
1154		1749.2786	I don't really hear,	1750.5985
1156		1750.8408	you know, that Atlantaness. I'm- I'm hearing like some New York type of stuff coming from CyHi.	1756.9285
1158		1757.2481	Childish Gambino, I'm hearing just some	1759.1300
1160		1759.7333	extra left field, that don't [even sound] like a nigga that coulda possibly	1763.1605
1161	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1761.1446	[Right.]	1761.4745
1162	ATL_int_01	1763.3410	been around the same trap area as some of these other people.	1766.6716
1164		1767.3044	What's your- what's your	1768.5111
1166		1768.6102	thoughts on that or just to elaborate more on that?	1770.8929
1167	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1771.2763	Uh, again, I think it's m- it is the- that melting pot thing, and it's- and it's for us- us to understand that	1776.8980
1169		1777.2071	music is so much bigger. Like that is what's pushed on us.	1780.9849
1171		1781.2788	There are-	1782.3409
1173		1782.7792	you can listen to the radio right now in Atlanta, and there are probably at least five Migos songs played in a hour.	1789.5732
1175		1789.9083	If [it's not a-] if it's not a Migos song, it's a song featuring a Migo.	1792.8870
1176	ATL_int_01	1790.0991	[<laugh>]	1790.4122
1177		1793.2685	[You gotta let me] check for [real /??/.]	1795.2690
1178	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1793.3458	[S-]	1793.8872
1180		1794.7173	[Right, and- and] I mean it's- it's t- it's	1796.3663
1181		1796.4739	probably gonna be like that. So	1798.2992
1183		1798.8303	when you have artists who are from Atlanta who sound different,	1802.8917
1185		1803.1804	they just don't get that respect because	1805.8924
1187		1806.5884	that's n- that's not what's being pushed. That's not what these big labels- because that's o-	1811.0829
1189		1811.3149	that's the only reason your songs get honestly in rotation in- in hip hop which a lot of folks don't know.	1816.3353
1191		1816.6137	It's coming down from these labels. These labels are paying	1819.1504
1193		1819.3911	top dollar to these r- uh, radio exec companies	1822.5879
1195		1822.7529	to the top DJ's, and the top DJ's are just sending the music out to their crew,	1827.1443
1196	ATL_int_01	1827.4176	[Mm-hm.]	1827.7939
1197	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1827.6289	[and] they're playing the stuff. But it's these- it's the- the m- the Migos tracks, the Cardi B's tracks,	1832.8710
1198		1833.1701	the w- Future tracks, the whatever is hot at the time.	1836.2636
1200		1836.9596	And typically tracks like the- uh,	1839.3557
1202		1840.4229	the Childish Gambinos and CyHis where it might be more	1843.7485
1204		1844.1661	lyrical or might be more eclectic,	1846.8148
1206		1847.4077	there's just- that's [not what] the [companies are tryna fund.]	1850.1661
1207	ATL_int_01	1848.4337	[/??/]	1848.8256
1209		1849.2896	[/unintelligible/] This what's playing on /nine forty-five/ right now.	1852.5622
1210	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1854.1553	Um, this is actually Jacquees. Tha- actually this guy's actually literally from the same street	1858.3147
1212		1858.7581	that, uh, was the same main street I was on- that I grew up on, /RD-ADDRESS-4/.	1863.0670
1213	ATL_int_01	1863.3454	[Oh wow.]	1863.8558
1214	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1863.5395	[Um],	1864.1858
1215		1864.6601	m- so I definitely love the fact that, you know, he's out there. Um,	1868.6081
1217		1868.9071	he has a- he's been very talented since he was a kid actually,	1872.6193
1219		1872.9751	um,	1873.5732
1221		1874.6803	with his singing. So, um,	1876.7478
1223		1877.2530	I definitely love the fact that that's a guy- like I said, I literally	1880.2331
1225		1880.6081	p- saw him	1881.6368
1227		1881.7009	at a wing spot when he was	1883.3974
1229		1883.9856	thirteen, twelve years old with a group of other guys around, you know, singing to females,	1888.6756
1230	ATL_int_01	1888.7839	[Mm.]	1889.2530
1231	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1888.9746	[him just] singing happy birthdays and stuff like that. So, um,	1892.0062
1232	ATL_int_01	1892.1609	[That's tight.]	1892.6189
1233	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1892.3134	[I definitely] love seeing that because I know	1894.3765
1234		1894.6395	that's he's on a larger scale right now.	1896.5007
1235	ATL_int_01	1896.6348	It's tough for a singer out here right now	1898.5537
1237		1898.6621	I would think.	1899.3299
1238	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1899.8403	I would think it is too. I just think it's a- more about the content in what you singing. Um, a lot of- a l- you have to kind of	1905.8403
1240		1906.0259	still be hip hop. You gotta still sing about	1908.9957
1241	ATL_int_01	1909.2793	Mm-hm.	1909.7021
1242	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1909.8825	sex, murder, drugs, and guns, [you feel what] I'm saying. [You can't] really-	1914.2172
1243	ATL_int_01	1912.3972	[S-]	1912.8045
1245		1913.4644	[Yeah.]	1913.7635
1246	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1914.6039	nobody's really singing about love anymore because love is so-	1918.2940
1247	ATL_int_01	1920.0573	Mm.	1920.4337
1248	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1921.1504	love is so- is so	1923.1482
1250		1923.2239	cliche r- now.	1924.4797
1252		1924.7271	So many people are falling out of love.	1926.9905
1254		1927.2380	You got the whole gay thing, so you- you know, that's a whole different type of love,	1931.9491
1256		1932.2842	um, so many divorces,	1934.1197
1258		1934.3967	and it's not cherished anymore. It's kind of more like,	1937.3201
1260		1938.1811	alright, I'm more focused on my money or more focused on my life and my goals than-	1942.8471
1262		1942.9109	than	1943.5418
1264		1943.7996	being in love because being in love	1945.8825
1266		1946.7576	doesn't seem to get people far these days, /it/ doesn't bring [people happiness.]	1950.4801
1267	ATL_int_01	1949.6397	[<laugh>]	1950.1656
1268	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1950.7843	What brings people happiness is money,	1952.4586
1270		1952.7267	[and]	1953.4021
1271	ATL_int_01	1953.0979	[Mm.]	1953.5052
1272	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1953.9795	m- sadly enough it's running the world, so that's what's running	1957.1194
1274		1957.4700	music. That's what's running businesses.	1960.0053
1276		1960.3198	Um, that's why you don't get a lot of, you know, just	1962.7637
1278		1963.1998	people	1963.8270
1280		1963.9456	giving out- I mean, think about it. Sprint charges you literally-	1967.2066
1282		1967.7635	or Comcast, or these m-	1969.2627
1284		1969.3585	people, you feel what I'm saying, literally hundreds and thousands and thousands of dollars,	1973.2633
1286		1973.5005	and they never say, hey, you know what? You payed your bill sixteen months in a row	1977.6650
1288		1977.9734	on time	1978.8921
1290		1979.1396	no matter what. You know what? The least we can do is this month, we're gonna give you fifty percent off.	1982.9484
1292		1983.2268	This month we gonna take them- the- you know, [take it off.]	1985.8202
1293	ATL_int_01	1985.3922	[Mm.]	1985.9491
1294	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1986.1656	Because if the- if it was a love thing and if it was appreciation for me-	1989.6341
1296		1989.8094	[us doing business together],	1991.3613
1297	ATL_int_01	1990.0029	[Mm.]	1990.8767
1298	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	1991.5727	that's what would happen. Because that's what you would do business with anybody. After so long,	1995.8713
1300		1996.0723	you gonna be like, hey, you know what? Boom.	1997.8460
1302		1998.0419	But that's not what	1999.4855
1304		2000.2279	this country's built off. It's built off of- it's built off of money. It's ran off of money, so	2004.6451
1306		2004.9596	if it ain't making dollars in they eyes, it just don't make sense. So-	2008.1909
1308		2008.6859	and love don't make dollars.	2010.1966
1309	ATL_int_01	2011.1040	Oh man, just some-	2012.4342
1311		2012.5424	it was a lot of ways I coulda went with that, but	2014.8354
1313		2015.0726	I'm- I'm gonna	2015.8905
1315		2016.0569	go down this lane with it.	2017.5164
1317		2018.2279	Love dollars-	2019.5465
1319		2019.9383	but how do you feel about,	2021.3871
1321		2022.2790	um, your experience within the Black community when it comes to business and clients and	2028.1759
1323		2028.6864	patronizing them service-wise and I guess	2032.0259
1325		2032.7426	as far as them paying	2034.3409
1327		2035.0730	like how they wou- I guess pay Georgia Power with the rent or	2038.5003
1329		2039.0210	some of these other people that might not really definitely don't have no type of love for them. What's your	2043.5104
1331		2044.2980	[thoughts?]	2044.7278
1332	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2044.3680	[Um],	2045.0360
1333		2045.1043	I would just say we are very brainwashed in that sense on who we pay	2049.3203
1335		2049.5832	and the services that we allow. Um, it's kind of funny. Again on /RD-ADDRESS-4/,	2053.4951
1337		2053.8148	there are multiple	2054.7337
1339		2054.8168	fast food restaurants, horrible restaurants. I hate the f- hate that.	2058.0412
1340	ATL_int_01	2058.4134	[Yeah.]	2058.7171
1341	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2058.4555	[But] there's one restaurant that's a Chick-fil-A on there,	2061.2219
1342		2061.4638	um, and that Chick-fil-A has probably got the most business	2064.3454
1344		2064.7011	probably out of anything on /RD-ADDRESS-4/ in all honesty. Probably even bigger than the grocery store. That Chick-fil-A might bring in the most [business.]	2070.9125
1345	ATL_int_01	2070.8754	[Damn], [/??/ I know-]	2072.8820
1346	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2071.7890	[Um], yeah, you know, it- it [could- the grocery store might] be because it's the grocery store. But that Chick-fil-A probably brings in the most business,	2078.6294
1347	ATL_int_01	2073.8256	[<laugh>]	2074.8619
1348		2078.7377	[Mm-hm.]	2079.0780
1349	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2078.9130	[and] they have	2079.6709
1350		2079.8494	excellent service there.	2081.2692
1352		2081.4961	Now don't get me wrong. There's sometimes where,	2084.2582
1354		2084.6088	you know, situations happen where, you know, this- just situations in the area that it's in.	2088.9589
1356		2089.5312	But it's all about a choice cause it's a mind set.	2092.5371
1358		2092.8567	Those same people that's working in that Chick-fil-A	2096.3665
1360		2096.8356	are the same people that's working in the Taco Bell across the street. There's no difference in really	2101.1600
1362		2101.4333	the hiring process or the, you know,	2103.6915
1364		2103.9596	the qu-	2104.2859
1366		2104.4224	the qualifications you have to have.	2106.3815
1367	ATL_int_01	2106.4691	[Mm-hm.]	2106.8300
1368	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2106.7424	[But] because of	2108.3201
1369		2109.0522	how that standard of how that restaurant is ran,	2112.5155
1370	ATL_int_01	2112.6857	Mm.	2113.0827
1371	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2113.4075	people	2114.2376
1373		2115.2790	only expect certain stuff from that.	2117.6189
1375		2117.8762	So if we kind of held their own- our- their own standard to our own businesses and stuff like that.	2123.1506
1377		2123.5153	And a lot of things folks gotta understand, you feel what I'm saying, that	2126.5469
1379		2127.9338	yes, i-	2129.0114
1381		2130.0463	if we don't spen- if we don't spend our own dollar back, it doesn't matter	2134.2380
1383		2134.6453	how much money we spend with the other folks because eventually we will be wiped out.	2139.3358
1385		2139.6657	And that's kind of what it seems like they want us to do. And that's why a lot of Afri- well i- sadly enough,	2144.4644
1387		2144.7480	a lot of African Americans with money,	2146.7175
1389		2147.0114	they go move into another a- neighborhood because	2149.8715
1391		2150.0932	the amount of money that's being recycled in a Black neighborhood	2153.7164
1393		2154.1031	ain't nothing because the few Blacks that got a little bit of money,	2157.2120
1395		2157.5007	they go to the white areas. They go to the- the north side of town to spend their money,	2162.1860
1397		2162.6397	the s- uh, you know another side versus,	2165.1970
1399		2165.5204	you know, us kind of saying, hey, let's build something on this side	2168.9233
1401		2169.1656	and keep the money spending in our own neighborhood.	2171.3878
1402	ATL_int_01	2172.2062	Wow.	2173.0981
1404		2173.4384	You brought that shit	2174.3855
1406		2174.5258	all the way down.	2175.5007
1408		2175.6245	<laugh>	2176.8464
1410		2177.4689	And I mean	2178.3557
1412		2179.0208	from what I seen, it- it looks to be true	2182.1246
1414		2182.4494	I mean I guess	2183.3297
1416		2183.6957	I don't know. Chick-fil-A got some good branding when it comes to that cause	2187.1575
1418		2187.2385	everybody just know a Chick-fil-A got some good ass service.	2189.9845
1420		2190.3093	But I mean,	2191.0466
1422		2191.8612	they real consistent with it,	2193.3822
1424		2193.7482	um,	2194.4494
1426		2195.1248	so it's not- you don't think it's more of a issue that the Black business	2199.2790
1428		2199.9441	need to go above and beyond even more? Or is it the fact that	2203.9701
1430		2204.1336	the-	2204.6397
1432		2205.2017	the ec-	2205.7244
1434		2205.8542	the- um,	2206.7103
1436		2206.8370	they-	2207.2496
1438		2207.4026	Black people are setting the bar too high for other Black people	2210.8717
1440		2211.3203	as far as	2212.3411
1442		2212.7536	they service and stuff that they don't even give that same type of consideration	2217.1966
1444		2217.5368	to the white	2218.2504
1446		2218.3934	or,	2218.8211
1448		2218.8946	you know, other [categories?]	2220.1185
1449	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2219.4586	[I think that] we do kind of hold	2221.8973
1450		2222.2324	in our heads for whatever reason other	2224.4546
1452		2224.6711	businesses to a higher standard because there are businesses in	2228.2066
1454		2228.4593	the East Atlanta area where-	2230.2999
1456		2230.6144	um,	2231.3001
1457	ATL_int_01	2231.6442	Mm-hm.	2232.0721
1458	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2232.4897	where, uh,	2233.6601
1460		2233.9798	Black businesses- where they are thriving. Um, there's one in particular, a seafood spot. It's actually a house	2238.7939
1462		2239.0363	that they turned into a restaurant called Wats Crackin,	2241.6503
1464		2242.0266	um, on Candler Road.	2243.9329
1466		2244.1739	[It's a Black businesses that] brings in lots of money. It's constantly bunking from when it's open to when it's closed.	2250.9022
1467	ATL_int_01	2244.2203	[/inaudible/]	2245.3505
1468		2250.9538	Mm-hm.	2251.2683
1469	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2251.4539	And	2251.9685
1471		2252.2533	because they give out /goo-/ g- good quality,	2254.4958
1473		2254.7021	you know, there is a wait time a lot of the time but [people understand] that	2258.6449
1474	ATL_int_01	2257.1858	[<laugh>]	2257.6653
1475	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2258.8408	because of the amount of people	2260.6557
1477		2260.8980	[that are there], right, and the quality of the food, the amount that they give you, the pricing is decently priced.	2266.5010
1478	ATL_int_01	2260.9338	[And the quality.]	2261.8951
1479	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2266.7639	Like sometimes there is a wait,	2268.4588
1481		2268.7991	and- but people still line up for it every day.	2271.6090
1483		2271.8977	So who's to say why can't that be	2273.9999
1485		2274.3196	on every Black business? Why- you know, from seafood to-	2278.1143
1487		2278.4804	to burgers joints to breakfast spots to-	2282.3458
1489		2282.8047	uh, we can have our own Italian spots. We can have our own Mexican spots.	2286.1855
1491		2286.4382	There a lot of	2287.2169
1493		2287.3998	you feel what I'm saying, there are	2288.3149
1495		2288.7428	o-	2288.9027
1497		2289.3048	we- Chinese food ain't no secret into what is- is cooking. Like	2293.4436
1499		2293.9076	i- half of it's n- probably not even real	2296.3669
1501		2296.5989	chicken half the time anyway,	2298.3660
1502	ATL_int_01	2298.5825	[Yeah.]	2298.8610
1503	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2298.6650	[and all] it is is a different seasoning, chicken, and some rice.	2301.9699
1504		2302.1710	You know, they have different lo meins and vegetables and stuff like that, but	2305.6034
1505	ATL_int_01	2305.9746	[Anybody.]	2306.4850
1506	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2306.1860	[we-] right, we can cre- we can do that. I n- I have a partner actually that went to high school with me,	2311.2322
1507		2311.5003	him and his dad own a Mexican restaurant.	2313.6039
1509		2313.9029	Um, and it's a very successful res- Mexican restaurant.	2316.6186
1510	ATL_int_01	2316.6461	I'm about to say, [we don't even] know who's actually behind there cooking that stuff. [/??/]	2319.9596
1511	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2317.1188	[Uh],	2317.4229
1513		2319.6296	[right], [exactly, and lo- a- l-] I- well, the Chinese spots, a lot of 'em-	2323.1399
1514	ATL_int_01	2320.4443	[<laugh>]	2321.1764
1515	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2323.2979	how they have it set up in Atlanta, you can see who's cooking it,	2326.0598
1516	ATL_int_01	2326.0813	[Mm-hm.]	2326.3943
1517	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2326.3456	[um], cause the- how that open	2328.0630
1518		2328.1495	format is, but	2329.3875
1520		2329.7124	I mean, like I said, it's a Mexican restaurant. It's nothing but African Americans that work there. [They make]	2333.8615
1521	ATL_int_01	2333.5057	[<laugh>]	2334.6812
1522	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2333.9638	[good money], great money.	2335.3875
1523	ATL_int_01	2335.4391	Yeah.	2335.8774
1524	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2336.9587	So like I said, i- it's more of a mind thing, man. We kind of	2340.5007
1526		2341.4494	will- i- i- i- it's- it's a mental thing. We- we hold other businesses to a higher standard,	2346.7637
1528		2347.1555	and we don't wanna give ours the benefit of the doubt.	2350.0259
1529	ATL_int_01	2350.5106	Mm.	2350.8354
1531		2351.1499	[Okay.]	2351.6810
1532	ATL_se0_ag1_m_05	2351.2376	[C-]	2351.4129