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1 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 0.5763 | Alright /RD-NAME-1/ um, | 2.1610 |
3 | | 2.4830 | how long have you lived in DC? | 3.6777 |
4 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 4.7582 | I've been in | 6.3469 |
6 | | 6.7043 | the DC and Maryland area | 9.3696 |
8 | | 9.6817 | for at least I wanna say- | 11.9964 |
10 | | 13.0805 | I say all my life. | 14.0312 |
12 | | 14.2170 | /What am I now/ thirty-seven? | 15.4010 |
14 | | 16.2059 | /Then/ thirty-seven years. | 17.2953 |
15 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 18.6297 | How long have you specifically lived in the | 21.0148 |
17 | | 21.3870 | DC area? | 22.1233 |
18 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 22.2794 | <ts> um, I was born in DC, stayed /here/ til I was five. | 26.3128 |
20 | | 27.1290 | Uh, grew up right across the line | 29.3820 |
22 | | 29.6822 | in Maryland | 30.3465 |
24 | | 31.2681 | til I was eighteen. | 33.2015 |
26 | | 33.8814 | Um, moved back to DC when I was | 37.5751 |
28 | | 37.6563 | I wanna say | 38.3526 |
30 | | 38.5607 | twenty- | 39.3051 |
32 | | 40.0975 | twenty-five. | 40.8898 |
34 | | 41.5221 | I stayed there for another | 43.0314 |
36 | | 43.9285 | four years | 44.7749 |
38 | | 45.5252 | and then move | 46.4176 |
40 | | 47.0899 | out of Upper Marlboro. | 48.3593 |
41 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 50.9169 | [Mm-hm.] | 51.3571 |
42 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 50.9979 | [/Yeah/.] | 51.3662 |
43 | | 52.4696 | But always been back and forth. | 54.1544 |
45 | | 54.4986 | Always | 55.1028 |
47 | | 55.3082 | been in DC always | 56.8569 |
49 | | 57.8533 | traveling through DC. | 59.0859 |
51 | | 59.6102 | That was where most of the fun was at. | 61.0988 |
53 | | 62.0845 | That's where uh, | 63.1112 |
55 | | 63.5132 | all the homies used to | 64.5532 |
57 | | 65.7542 | gang up and everything. | 67.0302 |
58 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 68.0485 | Tell me about | 68.7008 |
60 | | 68.9569 | um, | 69.4183 |
62 | | 69.8013 | what you remember elementary school. | 71.2494 |
64 | | 71.7462 | What elementary school did you go to in DC and tell me about it. | 74.0605 |
65 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 74.7568 | E- elementary school, I went to a Maryland ele- elementary school. | 77.6182 |
67 | | 78.0504 | [My el- es-] elementary school was /RD-SCHOOL-3/ Elementary. | 81.1341 |
68 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 78.1127 | [Oh, okay.] | 78.8331 |
69 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 81.3943 | And stayed right there off of um, /Suitland/ Road. | 83.7832 |
71 | | 84.5035 | Which was only probably like four miles from DC | 89.0742 |
73 | | 89.9873 | actually. | 90.5833 |
75 | | 91.6933 | And uh, | 92.4176 |
77 | | 93.3061 | tell you the truth, it was- it- it was really- | 95.5406 |
79 | | 96.1714 | it's no difference between | 97.3666 |
81 | | 98.3816 | uh, Maryland | 99.3550 |
83 | | 99.7142 | and DC schools. | 100.8788 |
85 | | 101.1149 | Different lingo, | 101.8402 |
87 | | 102.7849 | a couple of different things, | 103.9476 |
89 | | 104.1495 | you know but | 104.9419 |
91 | | 105.2020 | people basically the same. | 106.4495 |
93 | | 107.3750 | <laugh> | 107.8537 |
94 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 108.3167 | Give me an example of the different lingo. | 110.0735 |
95 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 111.1700 | Uh, | 111.9023 |
97 | | 112.4786 | we use | 113.2879 |
99 | | 113.5191 | the word young | 114.3675 |
101 | | 114.7409 | a lot. | 115.1222 |
103 | | 115.2811 | <laugh> like, | 116.6377 |
105 | | 117.0860 | New York people use the word yo, | 119.2229 |
107 | | 119.3390 | or son. | 119.8672 |
109 | | 120.5208 | Actually them little cats nowadays they- | 122.8699 |
111 | | 123.0019 | they saying son | 124.2025 |
113 | | 124.8228 | which came from | 126.0753 |
115 | | 126.6368 | you know, New York I think | 128.2816 |
117 | | 128.5337 | I wanna say but | 129.4750 |
119 | | 130.0984 | You know like, what's up, young? | 131.3230 |
121 | | 131.5551 | Know what I'm saying? | 132.5035 |
123 | | 132.9250 | Ain't nothing, yo. | 133.6213 |
125 | | 134.4437 | That's life though. | 135.2100 |
127 | | 136.4866 | You know some of the words, um, | 138.3119 |
129 | | 139.3972 | uh, go go lingo. | 140.7698 |
131 | | 141.7383 | You know that was used a lot | 143.0869 |
133 | | 143.7548 | when talking about | 144.7308 |
135 | | 145.1126 | you know, | 145.5300 |
137 | | 146.0611 | that particular | 147.1051 |
139 | | 147.7578 | form of music. | 148.8263 |
141 | | 149.5547 | You know like, | 150.2720 |
143 | | 150.8393 | pockets and sockets and- | 152.8756 |
145 | | 153.8659 | and stuff like that and cranking. | 155.6265 |
147 | | 155.9549 | You know, | 156.3775 |
149 | | 156.5952 | people | 157.0274 |
151 | | 157.7009 | in other areas don't really use | 159.5898 |
153 | | 160.3221 | those terms when they talking about music. | 162.4471 |
155 | | 162.5832 | <laugh> | 162.9553 |
157 | | 164.3092 | I'll say. | 164.7972 |
158 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 166.4742 | How would you describe go go music? | 168.1229 |
159 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 169.3395 | Go go music | 170.6173 |
161 | | 170.8854 | is | 171.9654 |
163 | | 172.3741 | basically a beat | 174.1069 |
165 | | 174.2350 | a constant beat. | 175.3675 |
167 | | 176.6093 | And um, | 177.5813 |
169 | | 178.3781 | <ts> | 178.4902 |
171 | | 178.6182 | I don't know it just | 179.7628 |
173 | | 180.1990 | kind of goes through you. | 181.3790 |
175 | | 181.8570 | Once you hear it you really can't stay still. | 184.2341 |
177 | | 184.9024 | The congos is one of the main | 186.6192 |
179 | | 186.8193 | uh, instruments played | 188.3329 |
181 | | 188.7374 | that | 189.1027 |
183 | | 189.4737 | you know everybody will | 190.4462 |
185 | | 190.7343 | come to hear. | 191.4552 |
187 | | 192.1870 | And uh, also | 193.4476 |
189 | | 193.6169 | just to hear | 194.3902 |
191 | | 195.1336 | their name, | 196.0616 |
193 | | 196.3781 | their neighborhood | 197.3994 |
195 | | 197.6947 | being basically shout out or put on the tape you know like, | 200.8894 |
197 | | 201.0375 | it'd be a whole crew of dudes just go to put they name on the tape. | 204.8979 |
199 | | 205.3835 | Buy the tape, | 206.0478 |
201 | | 206.1771 | and ride around so they could just hear that particular name being | 209.4710 |
203 | | 210.0349 | shouted | 210.4991 |
205 | | 210.7272 | all night. | 211.5476 |
207 | | 211.7809 | <laugh> | 212.3092 |
208 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 212.7894 | [<laugh>] | 213.2936 |
209 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 213.1696 | [So] you know what I'm saying the go go scene was um, | 215.8348 |
210 | | 217.2847 | it- it w- it was a really fun scene. | 219.2074 |
212 | | 219.5257 | You know, females | 220.9057 |
214 | | 221.0745 | and different things that you've seen, | 222.5038 |
216 | | 223.0806 | different things that used to go on in a lot of the clubs | 225.7459 |
218 | | 225.9459 | you know being a youngin actually getting /in/ them drinks. | 228.4831 |
220 | | 229.5408 | You know I mean, | 230.6894 |
222 | | 231.0215 | that- that was- that was it. | 232.4188 |
224 | | 232.7183 | You know, | 233.2130 |
226 | | 233.3986 | I mean once you got old enough to be into go go, | 235.4876 |
228 | | 236.3332 | it's like, | 236.8105 |
230 | | 237.5097 | I don't know, it was- it was just tight. | 239.4511 |
232 | | 239.7188 | It was going to every night, | 241.0314 |
234 | | 241.1486 | you know what I'm saying like dudes to go | 242.8094 |
236 | | 243.4137 | certain clubs you know what I'm s- it was- it was a every day thing almost and whenever the- | 247.7899 |
238 | | 248.7854 | whenever the jont was over, | 249.8414 |
240 | | 250.6783 | Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday or whatever | 253.3915 |
242 | | 253.5408 | you was going. | 254.0901 |
244 | | 255.1936 | Save your little money up, | 256.2981 |
246 | | 256.5302 | get in the club, | 257.2382 |
248 | | 258.0949 | party in that jont. | 259.0554 |
250 | | 259.9570 | meet girls from all kinds of neighborhoods. | 262.0780 |
252 | | 262.2776 | You know what I'm saying | 263.1380 |
254 | | 263.3754 | holler at dudes that you knew. | 264.6560 |
256 | | 265.9206 | So. | 266.3648 |
258 | | 267.0491 | It was just a tight scene, man. | 268.4737 |
260 | | 268.5978 | It was a beautiful scene. | 269.5391 |
261 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 272.0846 | Ah, okay. | 272.9290 |
263 | | 273.8414 | Have you ever had any altercations at a go go before? | 276.4159 |
264 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 276.6440 | <ts> Oh yes indeed. | 277.8165 |
266 | | 278.5328 | Indeed. | 279.0411 |
268 | | 279.7934 | And I wasn't even with a crew. | 281.0844 |
270 | | 281.8396 | <laugh> That's the whole thing about it. | 284.6689 |
272 | | 285.3772 | I wasn't even with a crew I mean most of my altercations came later on in life. | 289.7060 |
274 | | 290.3888 | You know dudes getting a little bit too drunk | 292.6138 |
276 | | 293.7556 | and we got into a little squabble. | 295.4169 |
278 | | 296.4248 | My cousin got knocked out. | 297.8494 |
280 | | 299.1393 | I got snuck | 299.8436 |
282 | | 300.4119 | but I ain't get knocked out. | 301.4683 |
284 | | 302.5008 | Uh, | 303.3012 |
286 | | 303.4092 | that was one. | 304.1936 |
288 | | 304.6498 | Another time, things got squashed real quick. | 307.1162 |
290 | | 307.8405 | This dude | 308.5805 |
292 | | 308.8010 | I guess he thought I was by myself, and um, | 311.5182 |
294 | | 312.1918 | he wanted to | 313.1522 |
296 | | 314.4728 | I guess uh, | 315.4613 |
298 | | 316.2736 | make space between him and me even though we're in a club and it's | 320.0846 |
300 | | 320.2287 | like | 320.5969 |
302 | | 321.3452 | not really a lot of room whatsoever. | 323.3862 |
304 | | 324.1998 | And uh, once he seen uh, all the peoples that I with | 327.4172 |
306 | | 327.4973 | he w- | 327.8066 |
308 | | 328.6110 | he uh, | 329.1884 |
310 | | 329.5555 | kind of walked away. | 330.4115 |
312 | | 331.2442 | You know I wasn't one to start nothing in the clubs and everything I was chill. | 334.8579 |
314 | | 335.7275 | I was just | 336.0757 |
316 | | 336.1837 | came to party, | 337.0001 |
318 | | 337.2162 | get my drink on. | 338.0286 |
320 | | 338.6769 | Freak a little bit. | 339.5036 |
322 | | 339.9215 | You know what I'm saying, so I could | 341.2713 |
324 | | 341.4874 | leave | 342.0368 |
326 | | 342.9881 | in one piece. | 343.6708 |
328 | | 343.9486 | <laugh> | 344.4648 |
329 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 346.3589 | How do you um- how would you describe how people talk? | 348.7536 |
331 | | 349.2602 | You know specifically in you know DC and the differences between DC and Maryland. | 352.9232 |
332 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 354.4759 | Um, | 355.5044 |
334 | | 356.9130 | It's just particular words being used. | 359.0980 |
336 | | 359.6275 | I mean- | 360.2715 |
337 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 360.2598 | Like give me a word that someone in DC would normally use and someone in Maryland doesn't normally use. | 365.5862 |
338 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 367.8485 | Tell you the truth, | 368.8965 |
340 | | 369.2932 | it's really no difference because | 371.3144 |
342 | | 371.5074 | Maryland, outside of Maryland | 372.9554 |
344 | | 373.7965 | like, | 374.1246 |
346 | | 374.5568 | I know- | 375.1129 |
348 | | 375.3972 | You have Baltimore, Maryland | 376.7979 |
350 | | 377.5595 | but | 377.9596 |
352 | | 378.6159 | Baltimore is a whole nother | 380.7792 |
354 | | 381.8494 | place to us you know what I'm saying we don't really affiliate ourself with Baltimore, Maryland it kind of stops at | 387.5840 |
356 | | 388.4537 | you know uh, what do you say, like Greenbelt or something like that, anything that was past Greenbelt off of BWI to me was | 395.6151 |
358 | | 395.8076 | considered Baltimore. | 396.8289 |
360 | | 397.3243 | And I know their words are | 399.0491 |
362 | | 399.1651 | totally different than ours um, | 401.2025 |
364 | | 401.4714 | growing up in- in DC and growing up in Maryland | 404.1767 |
366 | | 404.6849 | everybody in Maryland was affiliated with somebody in DC, mostly your family, | 408.7840 |
368 | | 409.3123 | was from there | 410.0766 |
370 | | 410.2167 | you know. | 410.6849 |
372 | | 410.8607 | I mean, at one point | 412.2136 |
374 | | 412.4417 | anybody in Maryland | 413.7676 |
376 | | 414.5519 | was- li- lived in DC. | 416.6293 |
378 | | 417.1091 | It's like once you got money in DC once your people got money in DC they would move to Maryland and when you got /two/ houses because you know it was lot of- | 423.7814 |
380 | | 424.7671 | a lot of apartments | 426.3238 |
382 | | 426.5079 | in DC. | 427.6292 |
384 | | 427.9966 | And that's who used to live around. | 429.1393 |
386 | | 429.8574 | And was like | 430.5898 |
388 | | 430.7831 | particular places in | 432.1878 |
390 | | 432.7440 | you know | 433.2402 |
392 | | 433.5844 | uh, | 434.2247 |
394 | | 434.3808 | what do you call it? | 435.0808 |
396 | | 435.6173 | This side of Maryland. | 436.5578 |
398 | | 437.0992 | You know, I mean come on, you go walk down the street and be in DC coming from Maryland on Pennsylvania Avenue once you pass | 443.5742 |
400 | | 444.1837 | you know, Southern Avenue | 445.7171 |
402 | | 445.8765 | that's DC. | 446.7685 |
404 | | 447.5093 | And um, | 448.3160 |
406 | | 449.8316 | you know, I mean they | 450.8721 |
408 | | 451.1362 | really didn't get along cause anybody that's from DC that stayed in DC and | 455.8276 |
410 | | 456.5519 | was in DC their whole life | 458.4848 |
412 | | 459.2772 | really didn't consider Maryland being | 461.9953 |
414 | | 462.6280 | an affiliate. | 463.3373 |
416 | | 463.4964 | <laugh> But | 464.2070 |
418 | | 464.8330 | you know I mean | 465.8823 |
420 | | 466.8231 | i- it's- it- it was really no different to me you know what I'm saying growing up from my | 470.7936 |
422 | | 471.2932 | perspective /in-/ and- and- and my | 473.4034 |
424 | | 474.4519 | you know uh, things that I went through with it | 476.7729 |
426 | | 477.0731 | you know what I'm saying like I lived in | 478.8691 |
428 | | 478.9992 | Suitland | 479.4845 |
430 | | 480.1197 | and my grandmother lived in Southeast at the time we used to be over that jont every day. | 484.1130 |
432 | | 484.3175 | You know what I'm saying, sit outside, | 485.9863 |
434 | | 486.3425 | my uncle | 486.9628 |
436 | | 487.4282 | sitting there you know what I'm saying watch him drinking beers and just talking | 490.4376 |
438 | | 491.0859 | you know what I'm saying, | 491.8632 |
440 | | 492.0143 | and that was back in the day. | 493.2410 |
442 | | 493.4842 | And they would use words like chump, | 495.1050 |
444 | | 495.6172 | you know what I'm saying, sucker, jive turkey, and all of that shit, you know. | 498.4946 |
446 | | 498.7987 | Oh I cursed, I'm sorry. | 499.9244 |
448 | | 500.7288 | My bad. | 501.0610 |
450 | | 501.1810 | [<laugh>] | 502.1255 |
451 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 501.4852 | [Oh you're] good, you're good. | 502.6958 |
452 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 502.8258 | /?/ | 503.1459 |
453 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 504.3985 | Oh, okay. | 505.1959 |
455 | | 506.2406 | So um, | 506.9352 |
457 | | 507.7013 | you're- | 508.0494 |
459 | | 508.1935 | what | 508.4295 |
461 | | 508.8938 | part of Maryland- Where do you live at now? | 510.4885 |
462 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 511.3149 | I live in southern Maryland now. | 513.6803 |
463 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 514.6777 | In southern Maryland, [okay.] | 515.8783 |
464 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 515.8062 | [Yeah.] | 516.2104 |
465 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 516.0984 | [So] how long have you lived in Southern Maryland? | 518.0873 |
466 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 518.2566 | I been in Southern Maryland | 519.7725 |
468 | | 520.9779 | since like two thousand seven I wanna say. | 523.8272 |
469 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 525.2491 | Two thousand seven? | 526.3037 |
470 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 526.4576 | Yeah. | 526.9523 |
471 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 528.9668 | Are you married d- | 530.0165 |
473 | | 530.3847 | single, divorced? | 531.3411 |
474 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 531.5132 | Married. | 532.0372 |
476 | | 533.1459 | And that's when I moved to | 534.5113 |
478 | | 535.1308 | um, | 535.7095 |
480 | | 536.3967 | southern Maryland. | 537.0567 |
482 | | 538.1975 | Moved in with my wife. | 539.1179 |
484 | | 540.9708 | Been /ever there/- | 541.6203 |
486 | | 541.8684 | been there ever- | 542.9089 |
488 | | 543.0810 | ever since I married her. | 544.1303 |
490 | | 545.5061 | Had kids and everything they grew- | 547.4150 |
492 | | 547.5042 | they growing up in southern Maryland. | 548.9256 |
494 | | 549.7206 | You know | 550.1606 |
496 | | 550.3496 | I mean, | 550.7749 |
498 | | 551.2580 | it's quiet out here. | 552.1365 |
500 | | 553.4842 | It's real quiet. | 554.2006 |
502 | | 556.0534 | Ain't too much happening. | 557.1121 |
503 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 559.1389 | What do you know about mumbo sauce? | 560.6571 |
504 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 561.9974 | The band? Or | 563.3700 |
506 | | 563.5021 | the food? | 563.9554 |
507 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 564.9868 | Tell me a little bit about both. | 566.2354 |
508 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 567.4051 | Uh, I know the band. | 568.8971 |
510 | | 569.6061 | I never seen 'em | 570.5808 |
512 | | 571.4682 | you know live | 572.5802 |
514 | | 572.6728 | but | 573.0315 |
516 | | 573.2491 | they did have a song, | 574.4296 |
518 | | 574.7057 | I think they | 575.4781 |
520 | | 575.6382 | have a song called Welcome to DC. | 577.7311 |
522 | | 578.4727 | /That/ I used to listen to on the radio like they used to play it on ninety-three point nine, ninety-five | 582.8753 |
524 | | 583.8964 | and um, they were pretty cool, I know one of the dudes actually went to Suitland and /??/ | 589.8524 |
526 | | 589.9445 | the high school that I graduated from. | 591.6612 |
528 | | 592.7177 | Um, | 593.4444 |
530 | | 594.4906 | as far as mumbo sauce on the chicken | 596.6088 |
532 | | 597.8333 | uh, | 598.5933 |
534 | | 598.9939 | that | 599.3072 |
536 | | 600.1704 | particularly is a mystery I don't know what (laughing) | 603.9534 |
538 | | 604.1775 | a [mumbo sauce is] but it's just so good. | 606.8978 |
539 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 604.3376 | [<laugh>] | 605.4949 |
540 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 607.4030 | And | 608.0470 |
542 | | 608.4327 | When you get a five wings with fries you get mumbo sauce | 612.1624 |
544 | | 612.6546 | on the ketch- I mean mumbo sauce on the chicken, mumbo sauce | 615.8178 |
546 | | 616.3576 | on the fries sometime, salt, pepper, ketchup. | 618.2468 |
548 | | 618.8467 | You know what I'm saying with a half and half. | 620.3034 |
550 | | 621.1210 | At any | 622.0414 |
552 | | 622.7618 | you know | 623.3671 |
554 | | 623.6061 | carry out. | 624.2341 |
556 | | 624.4585 | You know what I'm saying it's a difference between a Chinese restaurant and | 627.5805 |
558 | | 628.0294 | a carry out, carry out got like American food | 630.9548 |
560 | | 631.2389 | but | 631.6629 |
562 | | 631.7524 | you know Rucker's Subs | 633.2324 |
564 | | 633.6692 | you know they sell Chinese stuff but you know what I'm saying you don't really | 636.9948 |
566 | | 638.3566 | indulge in that too much but | 640.2255 |
568 | | 640.5336 | you know what I'm saying like when you get that- | 642.4665 |
570 | | 643.7404 | that five wings with fries, three wings with fries, any number of wings with fries, salt, pepper, ketchup, you know what I'm saying, yeah you doing something. | 651.0330 |
572 | | 651.8533 | I don't know what it's made of | 653.4181 |
574 | | 653.6942 | or what | 654.2184 |
576 | | 654.3785 | but I know | 655.2913 |
578 | | 656.4927 | all- | 657.3034 |
580 | | 658.5216 | it's- it's- it's- | 659.4683 |
582 | | 659.6942 | it's like four or five different | 661.3990 |
584 | | 661.6243 | kind of mumbo sauces. | 662.7448 |
586 | | 663.3011 | You know what I'm saying, one of 'em's sweet, | 664.8698 |
588 | | 665.2980 | and there's like- | 665.8022 |
590 | | 665.8783 | there's bright red another one that's like a dark red. | 668.6603 |
592 | | 669.0450 | It's not as sweet. | 670.1095 |
594 | | 670.7457 | Sometimes they make it into like a- a | 672.9548 |
596 | | 673.1228 | barbecue-ish | 674.0725 |
598 | | 674.2086 | type of mumbo sauce so it depends on which jont you go to. | 678.2064 |
600 | | 678.9505 | You know what I'm saying, who- who- who- who making the- the mumbo sauce but | 682.4001 |
602 | | 683.3805 | it's like a necessity. | 684.4703 |
604 | | 685.3827 | <laugh> After you taste it you don't- you don't want just regular fried chicken anymore. | 689.6487 |
605 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 690.6063 | <laugh> | 691.3837 |
606 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 691.7749 | But it's bomb though. | 692.6695 |
608 | | 692.9994 | That jont bomb. | 693.6434 |
609 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 696.8144 | Ah, okay. | 697.7718 |
611 | | 698.9834 | Um, | 699.5941 |
613 | | 700.4201 | I wanna aks you about your neighborhood when you | 702.4383 |
615 | | 702.6263 | lived in DC? | 703.5788 |
617 | | 703.8869 | Has it changed? | 704.8154 |
618 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 705.3716 | <ts> | 705.4997 |
620 | | 705.6157 | [Uh-] | 706.3040 |
621 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 705.8278 | [Um can you] describe it at- what- w- how you remember it | 708.4663 |
622 | | 708.9305 | from now- I mean from then til now? | 710.8385 |
623 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 711.2436 | [Um-] | 712.1676 |
624 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 711.8318 | [To how it] is now? | 712.6082 |
625 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 713.4378 | The neighborhoods I stayed in- | 715.2138 |
627 | | 716.0630 | I actually visited my neighborhood that I | 718.7843 |
629 | | 719.4566 | was- was born in because I didn't know too much about it. We | 722.7073 |
631 | | 723.3436 | moved away from there before I was | 725.8328 |
633 | | 726.5463 | able to you know go out, | 728.5312 |
635 | | 728.7393 | meet friends and- | 730.1820 |
637 | | 730.9163 | and- and- and- and just do stuff. Like we used to live around Southview. | 734.3391 |
639 | | 734.9994 | Southview really didn't change too much other than up the street | 738.9073 |
641 | | 739.9790 | uh, before you hit like Wheeler Road | 741.8851 |
643 | | 742.2680 | they put some townhouses there which weren't there whatsoever. | 745.3147 |
645 | | 745.7629 | It used to be | 746.6149 |
647 | | 747.1955 | wood- | 747.5837 |
649 | | 747.7038 | wooded area. | 748.4851 |
651 | | 748.7082 | And my father used to | 749.9048 |
653 | | 750.9385 | j- uh, go out and hunt | 752.7633 |
655 | | 753.4997 | squirrels | 754.4881 |
657 | | 755.1537 | in that jont, you know what I'm saying, come back home and make like squirrel hats. | 759.0003 |
659 | | 759.6357 | And I used to be pressed for the- for- for him to go like that, you know what I'm saying, you going to get some squirrels today? | 764.5725 |
661 | | 765.1070 | He like, yeah man so I can make some hats, I need to skin 'em and- and- and make like these | 769.1750 |
663 | | 769.4491 | Daniel Boone looking hats | 771.3552 |
665 | | 771.9514 | with the squirrel tail hanging off. | 773.5981 |
667 | | 774.3325 | Um- | 774.9528 |
669 | | 776.1026 | uh, Savannah Street was actually the name of the street that I was born on. | 780.0719 |
671 | | 780.9981 | And uh, | 781.6608 |
673 | | 782.0226 | they started knocking down the houses and putting in townhouses and everything. | 785.7483 |
675 | | 786.1417 | It's a lot of stuff that really | 787.4564 |
677 | | 787.7384 | really changed in DC from what I used to know from when I used to | 791.2561 |
679 | | 791.8616 | kind of like roll around, like we used to | 793.8480 |
681 | | 794.4868 | just squad up on- | 795.8194 |
683 | | 795.9474 | on- on a Thursday and a Friday and just ride around DC all day. | 799.8625 |
685 | | 800.4908 | We in the car, you know what I'm saying, and we smoking, we drinking or whatever just listening to | 804.5277 |
687 | | 805.0021 | like | 805.2102 |
689 | | 805.3022 | old music, | 806.1866 |
691 | | 806.6909 | rap music, | 807.5553 |
693 | | 808.0275 | rack of go go, you know what I'm saying, any one of the | 810.4486 |
695 | | 811.0981 | /unintelligible/ | 812.8589 |
697 | | 813.0951 | um, | 813.8164 |
699 | | 814.6743 | <ts> Backyard, Junk Yard, | 816.8313 |
701 | | 817.5236 | uh- uh, Chuck, | 818.9202 |
703 | | 819.8139 | you know, even older bands, Petworth, | 822.3911 |
705 | | 823.0754 | um, | 823.7407 |
707 | | 824.1239 | like, | 824.5121 |
709 | | 825.0895 | when I was coming up, | 825.9059 |
711 | | 826.2661 | you know what I'm saying around that time I even had a band myself. | 828.9954 |
713 | | 829.8317 | Um, | 830.4304 |
715 | | 830.6013 | it was a rack of bands like, | 832.4062 |
717 | | 832.5742 | any | 833.0476 |
719 | | 833.9229 | anywhere you went | 834.7913 |
721 | | 834.9994 | you know what I'm saying, any neighborhood had least like four or five bands coming from it you know what I'm saying there's a lot of talent in DC, you know what I mean, it- it- it- | 842.4200 |
723 | | 842.7414 | it doesn't get exposed | 844.0147 |
725 | | 844.4582 | a lot. But these youngins /out/ this jont man be tight. | 846.8953 |
727 | | 847.2395 | You know | 847.6597 |
729 | | 847.8437 | I used to play with a band | 848.9883 |
731 | | 849.0855 | called uh, Superior Groove. | 850.6365 |
733 | | 851.6267 | Um, | 852.2190 |
735 | | 852.8673 | used to stay around Simple City | 854.7894 |
737 | | 855.1216 | um, | 855.8789 |
739 | | 857.1065 | <ts> | 857.1945 |
741 | | 857.4827 | uh, used to play at | 859.1190 |
743 | | 859.3395 | this | 859.7477 |
745 | | 859.9158 | club off of Division Avenue, I forgot the name of the jont. | 863.3536 |
747 | | 864.1550 | But uh, | 864.7923 |
749 | | 865.3675 | you know, | 865.8117 |
751 | | 866.4693 | that- that- that- that was my- | 867.9179 |
753 | | 869.0625 | my scene | 869.7411 |
755 | | 869.8788 | right there. | 870.5391 |
757 | | 871.7557 | And actually I felt | 872.7010 |
759 | | 873.0415 | a lot more comfortable | 874.4482 |
761 | | 874.6743 | being with a band | 875.9823 |
763 | | 876.9954 | that was from- actually from DC versus a band that I played in Maryland, you know what I'm saying we played a lot of Maryland spots but | 883.6557 |
765 | | 884.2679 | you know that DC had just that raw- | 886.3821 |
767 | | 887.1865 | that raw sound you know what I'm saying, them dudes was just raw you know. | 890.9425 |
769 | | 891.2336 | They went hard | 891.8443 |
771 | | 892.3581 | you know what I'm saying it was like, | 893.5395 |
773 | | 893.8908 | this who I am, I'm down to die for mine | 896.1214 |
775 | | 896.7534 | and ain't nobody about to change that. | 898.4942 |
777 | | 898.6022 | You know what I'm saying, I'm from DC ain't nobody gonna /chump/ me. | 900.8473 |
779 | | 901.2875 | Period. | 901.5676 |
781 | | 902.1759 | You know | 902.5452 |
783 | | 902.9162 | that actually was- | 903.7659 |
785 | | 903.9139 | it was- it was- it was kind of- | 905.2185 |
787 | | 905.4867 | that was a good feeling right there. | 906.5632 |
789 | | 906.9593 | You know them kind of dudes got your back. | 908.5745 |
791 | | 909.1696 | <laugh> | 909.4389 |
792 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 913.4596 | <clears throat> | 914.1956 |
794 | | 914.8174 | Tell me about um- | 915.7699 |
796 | | 915.9459 | tell me about your parents. | 916.8739 |
797 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 917.9109 | Uh, my father- | 919.0514 |
799 | | 921.3777 | my father | 922.2861 |
801 | | 922.6263 | um, | 923.3356 |
803 | | 924.8793 | he grew up in- in DC. | 926.7778 |
805 | | 927.0495 | He was uh, | 927.7975 |
807 | | 928.5022 | a DC dude and actually my mom | 931.1040 |
809 | | 931.5836 | was born and raised in DC also. | 934.2621 |
811 | | 934.4862 | They met on Savannah Street and they was together- | 937.1421 |
813 | | 937.7437 | I think Dad met Mom when she was like | 941.3626 |
815 | | 942.5872 | I wanna say | 943.6352 |
817 | | 943.8157 | fifteen, sixteen. | 945.3304 |
819 | | 946.1220 | Dad was like | 946.8944 |
821 | | 946.9984 | eighteen, nineteen or something like that. | 949.0554 |
823 | | 950.0158 | And uh, he | 951.7258 |
825 | | 952.1981 | grew up around | 953.7468 |
827 | | 955.4636 | um, | 956.2182 |
829 | | 957.3497 | <ts | 957.4217 |
831 | | 957.6378 | ah what is the name of that place? | 959.2866 |
833 | | 960.5151 | Right there off of uh, | 962.7789 |
835 | | 963.9179 | Suitland it's like the bottom of Suitland | 966.6472 |
837 | | 966.8113 | Parkway. | 967.5113 |
839 | | 968.2479 | Right before you hit | 969.2364 |
841 | | 969.9139 | East Capital | 970.9024 |
843 | | 971.8868 | Street. | 972.2588 |
845 | | 972.6952 | Um, | 973.4035 |
847 | | 974.5253 | <ts> | 974.5973 |
849 | | 974.6974 | it's a- | 975.0054 |
851 | | 975.1136 | it's a big name um, everybody b- uh, Barry Farms matter of fact. | 978.6989 |
853 | | 979.2635 | Dad was a Barry Farms cat. | 980.5715 |
855 | | 981.5458 | And uh, Barry Farms is one of the hoods you know what I'm saying that's basically known in DC. | 986.0879 |
857 | | 987.0335 | Southeast side. | 987.9419 |
859 | | 988.3581 | You know, | 988.9448 |
861 | | 989.0545 | one of them | 989.6758 |
863 | | 990.6192 | like, yeah you gotta be hard to live in | 992.8123 |
865 | | 993.1216 | Barry Farms | 993.9820 |
867 | | 994.6463 | type of jont. | 995.3396 |
869 | | 995.6988 | Dad was no nonsense. | 997.0834 |
871 | | 997.9718 | You know | 998.4625 |
873 | | 999.2376 | the thorough dude | 1000.2123 |
875 | | 1000.9384 | you know. | 1001.3624 |
877 | | 1001.6027 | Kind of like showed me things as I got older | 1004.1799 |
879 | | 1005.2813 | you know. My mother | 1006.5062 |
881 | | 1007.4346 | she was smart. | 1008.2710 |
883 | | 1008.6192 | I mean just real smart, she was a dietician | 1011.5525 |
885 | | 1012.3021 | and she also was a florist | 1014.2830 |
887 | | 1015.1594 | um, | 1015.7994 |
889 | | 1016.9095 | damn near | 1017.6668 |
891 | | 1017.9419 | you could say she was a scientist also. | 1019.7526 |
893 | | 1020.6632 | You know she just did a lot of things, she- she- she put a dude on. | 1024.0323 |
895 | | 1024.3338 | And that was | 1025.2736 |
897 | | 1025.4199 | where my smart side came from. | 1027.2346 |
899 | | 1028.4182 | You know what I'm saying, and I remember them just- | 1030.5780 |
901 | | 1030.7679 | you know I grew up in a two parent house | 1032.4812 |
903 | | 1033.2209 | and it was real cool, father was never home for real. | 1035.8480 |
905 | | 1036.4927 | You know he was out doing his thing. | 1037.9778 |
907 | | 1038.2172 | You know what I'm saying, he couldn't shake- shake the beast | 1040.2610 |
909 | | 1041.0169 | that every man got basically. | 1042.5366 |
911 | | 1043.2548 | You know | 1043.6775 |
913 | | 1044.1149 | kind of got of age and- and | 1045.9237 |
915 | | 1046.0877 | understood the way that he flowed more. | 1048.4238 |
917 | | 1049.7421 | You know when I was young I just was pressed to be with him all the time. | 1052.7552 |
919 | | 1053.5517 | But uh, he used to make me be with my mother. | 1055.2940 |
921 | | 1055.6265 | You know what I'm saying it was, stay with your mother, stay with your mother. | 1057.5994 |
923 | | 1058.5392 | But um, he was uh- | 1060.0859 |
925 | | 1061.1075 | he was a challenging dude. | 1062.3355 |
927 | | 1063.3286 | A great dude though you know what I'm saying, he showed me by- a lot of things by example how he just | 1068.4539 |
929 | | 1069.2617 | you know, would fight | 1070.1395 |
931 | | 1070.7868 | and come out of adversity and everything. He had uh, | 1073.0508 |
933 | | 1073.9624 | dropped out at um, the seventh grade. | 1076.0237 |
935 | | 1076.5736 | You know, he didn't know how to read. | 1077.9575 |
937 | | 1078.7681 | He uh, | 1079.4021 |
939 | | 1080.2768 | got to a certain age I think in his forties and I guess he just got tired of it you know what I'm saying, and started um, | 1086.3061 |
941 | | 1087.4956 | taking classes on reading and everything. | 1089.4995 |
943 | | 1090.0625 | And see he also was a uh, martial artist. | 1092.9708 |
945 | | 1094.0361 | Um, he love guns. | 1096.1375 |
947 | | 1096.4479 | <laugh> | 1096.8159 |
949 | | 1097.0641 | The dude had a rack of pistols. | 1099.1300 |
951 | | 1100.2029 | Um, | 1100.8456 |
953 | | 1102.3988 | he w- also was in church, he was a minister. | 1105.1341 |
955 | | 1106.6827 | Uh, | 1107.4960 |
957 | | 1108.2122 | but just uh, all around like, lovable person like, everybody loved my father. | 1113.2706 |
959 | | 1114.0744 | You know. | 1114.4912 |
961 | | 1114.9256 | And in the house you could see why. | 1116.4596 |
963 | | 1116.8054 | You know he was a quiet dude but he worked hard. | 1119.3680 |
965 | | 1120.2292 | You it was one thing he installed in me, that work ethic. | 1122.6365 |
967 | | 1123.8202 | And um, | 1124.5176 |
969 | | 1125.9660 | you know | 1126.3295 |
971 | | 1126.4935 | just | 1126.9103 |
973 | | 1127.6874 | was one of them dudes man, you know what I'm saying, that you just love to be around. I miss that cat. | 1131.9213 |
975 | | 1132.9955 | He got killed in uh, two thousand six I wanna say. | 1137.3421 |
977 | | 1139.0658 | Yeah, two thousand six he actually uh, | 1141.5443 |
979 | | 1142.4265 | got killed in a car accident. | 1143.8585 |
981 | | 1146.7149 | Lived three days after it, | 1148.0050 |
983 | | 1148.3508 | and uh, perished after that. | 1149.8094 |
985 | | 1150.9532 | My mom | 1151.6581 |
987 | | 1152.7132 | like I said just smart. | 1153.9958 |
989 | | 1154.6120 | Lovable. | 1155.1014 |
991 | | 1156.6292 | Crazy as hell. | 1157.6559 |
993 | | 1159.1385 | Uh, | 1159.7491 |
995 | | 1160.3147 | raised two boys, two girls. | 1161.9284 |
997 | | 1163.5199 | My siblings. | 1164.2115 |
999 | | 1164.4598 | I'm the youngest. | 1165.1292 |
1001 | | 1166.5138 | And um, she just | 1167.8216 |
1003 | | 1167.9546 | put a lot of- lot in us. | 1169.4037 |
1005 | | 1169.5285 | You know, | 1169.9498 |
1007 | | 1170.0871 | how to | 1170.4462 |
1009 | | 1171.1156 | stand tall for yourself, make a name for yourself. | 1173.4267 |
1011 | | 1174.4996 | You know, | 1174.8689 |
1013 | | 1175.3596 | wake up with a purpose. | 1176.3660 |
1015 | | 1177.5408 | It's like, there's no purpose for you to be here if you don't have a purpose to wake up. | 1180.3250 |
1017 | | 1180.6101 | <laugh> | 1181.0487 |
1019 | | 1181.5987 | Basically. | 1182.1480 |
1021 | | 1182.4011 | Have something on your agenda. | 1183.8518 |
1023 | | 1184.6355 | Or something on your plate | 1185.5710 |
1025 | | 1185.8636 | you know what I'm saying, every single day. | 1187.5629 |
1027 | | 1188.2057 | You don't just get up | 1189.0613 |
1029 | | 1189.3052 | and just lounge, and you know, there's no space for you in- in the world | 1193.8892 |
1031 | | 1194.0812 | for real, you need to | 1195.0920 |
1033 | | 1195.8679 | not be here | 1196.6665 |
1035 | | 1197.5658 | if you don't have | 1198.6520 |
1037 | | 1198.7805 | some type of purpose or some type of meaning | 1201.2095 |
1039 | | 1202.0714 | or- or want. | 1202.8207 |
1041 | | 1204.2305 | Every day. | 1204.7291 |
1043 | | 1207.8095 | Yeah that's my lady. | 1208.6474 |
1045 | | 1208.7893 | She's still living. | 1209.4680 |
1046 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1211.9591 | Mm okay. | 1213.0896 |
1048 | | 1214.0663 | Sorry to hear about your | 1215.1623 |
1050 | | 1215.4273 | father. | 1215.9340 |
1051 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1216.3140 | Yeah. | 1216.8633 |
1052 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1218.4198 | What um- | 1219.1292 |
1054 | | 1219.6935 | Did your sisters grow up in DC? | 1221.0723 |
1055 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1221.7373 | Uh yeah, my sisters- | 1223.5550 |
1057 | | 1223.6614 | my two sisters and my brother grew up in | 1226.2947 |
1059 | | 1226.9478 | in DC. My brother graduated from | 1229.2549 |
1061 | | 1229.8694 | I wanna say /RD-SCHOOL-2/. | 1231.2214 |
1063 | | 1231.7846 | My two sisters I think they graduated either from /RD-SCHOOL-2/ or /RD-SCHOOL-2/. | 1235.5281 |
1065 | | 1236.4409 | Not really sure if they even graduated or not. | 1238.6532 |
1067 | | 1239.1009 | You know times was wild back then. | 1240.7914 |
1069 | | 1241.8510 | <ts> Um, | 1242.5936 |
1071 | | 1243.5844 | they could probably tell you a lot more | 1245.4647 |
1073 | | 1245.7315 | than I could. | 1246.4984 |
1075 | | 1246.6625 | Especially in that era | 1248.0235 |
1077 | | 1248.6752 | when uh, DC was the best, it was the best back in the day. | 1252.6053 |
1079 | | 1253.6508 | Nowadays it's uh, it's a little | 1255.4152 |
1081 | | 1255.6546 | crazy out there. | 1256.5666 |
1083 | | 1257.8358 | Um, | 1258.4958 |
1085 | | 1258.6604 | my brother taught me a lot of stuff. | 1260.2963 |
1087 | | 1260.7499 | You know, he was a DJ, | 1262.1472 |
1089 | | 1263.2281 | he was a young entrepreneur. | 1265.1344 |
1091 | | 1265.5157 | You know he was a | 1266.6741 |
1093 | | 1267.5209 | worked for um, | 1268.5689 |
1095 | | 1268.8553 | a car | 1269.6090 |
1097 | | 1270.2208 | dealership back when he was in his twenties as a manager so he just had money. | 1274.5375 |
1099 | | 1275.3028 | And when we lived in Maryland he used to just come home with | 1278.0514 |
1101 | | 1278.9824 | all types of females and | 1281.5517 |
1103 | | 1282.2822 | all kinds of | 1283.5146 |
1105 | | 1283.8560 | vicious gear and gold chains and all of that stuff you know, he kind of like inspired me, I just wanted to be with that dude all the time. | 1291.5048 |
1107 | | 1292.2200 | My sister, one of my sisters you know, she was- she was wild you know. She had | 1296.7021 |
1109 | | 1297.4424 | four boys. | 1298.3198 |
1111 | | 1298.9320 | She moved back to DC, she used to live off of B Street. | 1302.0012 |
1113 | | 1302.2096 | And that was kind of wild | 1303.4110 |
1115 | | 1304.1913 | cause um, | 1304.9193 |
1117 | | 1305.4947 | dude she was married to was a crack head. | 1307.9227 |
1119 | | 1308.7900 | And um, | 1309.6820 |
1121 | | 1310.3683 | he was uh, | 1311.1087 |
1123 | | 1311.5077 | a abuser. | 1312.2569 |
1125 | | 1313.3976 | I used to go over there and stay from time to time, I never wanted | 1317.0997 |
1127 | | 1317.3344 | to stay but they used to make me kind of like stay, and I never spent the night. | 1320.6806 |
1129 | | 1321.3657 | But they would take me over there just to be with my sister to kind of like you know what I'm saying I guess break the monotony up from her | 1327.1303 |
1131 | | 1328.3588 | husband doing | 1329.3692 |
1133 | | 1329.7903 | crazy stuff. | 1330.6415 |
1135 | | 1331.7366 | And he just | 1332.4991 |
1137 | | 1332.6897 | recently | 1333.2262 |
1139 | | 1333.9324 | passed also, that was | 1335.3200 |
1141 | | 1336.0560 | wild. | 1336.5215 |
1143 | | 1337.7273 | Yeah, I never got to | 1338.7825 |
1145 | | 1339.0188 | really tell him how I felt about him. | 1340.8428 |
1147 | | 1341.7010 | <laugh> He sent me a request on Facebook, I ain't even accept that jont. | 1345.0969 |
1149 | | 1346.2287 | Then I heard he was- he was | 1348.0375 |
1151 | | 1348.2149 | dying. | 1348.8509 |
1153 | | 1349.5981 | I was like, Eh, I should go on | 1350.9990 |
1155 | | 1351.2251 | Facebook and re- | 1352.1489 |
1157 | | 1353.3323 | get his uh, | 1354.1126 |
1159 | | 1354.3786 | accept his friend request. | 1355.6376 |
1161 | | 1356.1741 | And just holler at the dude just ask him, you know what I'm saying like, | 1358.7498 |
1163 | | 1359.7265 | you know just, | 1360.5692 |
1165 | | 1360.6708 | what he was thinking back then, you know. | 1362.3377 |
1167 | | 1362.7766 | But | 1363.1402 |
1169 | | 1363.5480 | you know, when you on crack | 1364.5987 |
1171 | | 1364.8692 | I guess | 1365.5696 |
1173 | | 1366.7458 | you ain't really thinking about too much. | 1368.3898 |
1175 | | 1369.4856 | You know. | 1369.9336 |
1177 | | 1370.4964 | I guess he was a recovering crack addict but it- at the end it- | 1373.4105 |
1179 | | 1374.0666 | it caught up to him | 1374.9267 |
1181 | | 1375.8665 | and shut his body down. | 1377.0279 |
1183 | | 1378.0300 | Kind of wild. | 1378.6019 |
1185 | | 1381.5337 | /Yeah/. | 1382.0604 |
1186 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1384.6193 | What um, | 1385.2139 |
1188 | | 1385.5915 | what kinds of traditions can you remember growing up | 1387.9235 |
1190 | | 1388.7835 | with your family? | 1389.5727 |
1191 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1391.1509 | Um, one of the biggest traditions that we had | 1394.1720 |
1193 | | 1395.1024 | was our family | 1397.3501 |
1195 | | 1397.8643 | cookouts. | 1398.5737 |
1197 | | 1399.2622 | And our family reunions. | 1400.7385 |
1199 | | 1401.3281 | We was sitting on- When my father bought the house in Maryland, | 1404.1433 |
1201 | | 1405.0034 | you know | 1405.5885 |
1203 | | 1405.9343 | like- | 1406.3077 |
1205 | | 1407.0884 | me I really couldn't | 1408.6134 |
1207 | | 1408.6977 | tell cause it was just a house but seriously you know people looked at us like we jai made it. | 1414.1033 |
1209 | | 1414.8863 | You know what I'm saying, four bedroom house | 1417.1958 |
1211 | | 1417.7202 | uh, had a pool in the backyard. | 1419.5556 |
1213 | | 1420.0951 | And we was sitting on like a acre and a half. | 1422.4292 |
1215 | | 1423.1036 | So, | 1423.7023 |
1217 | | 1424.0573 | you know we would take up the whole block | 1426.2913 |
1219 | | 1426.6815 | with nothing but cars, cars in the front yard, cars parked in the backyard and everything. | 1431.7310 |
1221 | | 1432.3482 | And like | 1432.8796 |
1223 | | 1433.8933 | at least | 1434.5841 |
1225 | | 1434.7558 | I wanna say about a hundred people used to show up. | 1436.9807 |
1227 | | 1437.1442 | You know, all family members. | 1438.5463 |
1229 | | 1439.1226 | And we used to do that | 1440.2293 |
1231 | | 1440.4143 | every | 1441.1133 |
1233 | | 1441.2972 | single | 1442.0902 |
1235 | | 1442.3000 | summer | 1442.8001 |
1237 | | 1442.9172 | at least two to three times. | 1444.7076 |
1239 | | 1445.3207 | You know for a big | 1446.6287 |
1241 | | 1446.9108 | um, family reunion. | 1448.5335 |
1243 | | 1449.0948 | As far as our cookouts we would always have cookouts cause dad had paper, you know what I'm saying. | 1453.4400 |
1245 | | 1454.0449 | He had a good job he used to work for Blue Plains | 1456.5028 |
1247 | | 1456.7195 | in DC. | 1457.3701 |
1249 | | 1458.2360 | <ts> Which was a sanitation plant. | 1459.8015 |
1251 | | 1460.4446 | And um, at that- | 1461.2702 |
1253 | | 1461.7403 | at- | 1461.9692 |
1255 | | 1462.0959 | at- | 1462.3126 |
1257 | | 1463.1792 | those points in um, | 1464.4559 |
1259 | | 1465.1617 | in time and everything you know what I'm saying he used to bring home a- | 1467.6482 |
1261 | | 1468.0978 | a pretty good dollar | 1469.0298 |
1263 | | 1469.2342 | until he hurt hisself, he hurt his back in a accident. | 1471.8012 |
1265 | | 1472.3870 | And then he um, couldn't | 1473.7483 |
1267 | | 1474.3817 | work it anymore. | 1475.3587 |
1269 | | 1475.8614 | But uh, | 1476.6401 |
1271 | | 1477.6968 | those | 1478.5401 |
1273 | | 1478.6954 | times um, we used to have | 1480.8794 |
1275 | | 1481.3278 | little get togethers at our house | 1483.0651 |
1277 | | 1483.7354 | after church. | 1484.6661 |
1279 | | 1485.2123 | You know um, | 1486.3855 |
1281 | | 1487.0150 | I had a church over in Landover | 1489.0136 |
1283 | | 1489.4880 | called Wayside Holiness. | 1490.9391 |
1285 | | 1491.5167 | And uh, at- | 1492.5427 |
1287 | | 1492.7389 | at | 1493.0087 |
1289 | | 1493.1640 | any point | 1493.7526 |
1291 | | 1493.8671 | I don't know whenever Dad felt like it he would go get some crabs, | 1496.8224 |
1293 | | 1497.5512 | go get some chicken, you know what I'm saying, put some stuff on the grill and everything. | 1500.9113 |
1295 | | 1501.7492 | And uh, people would just show up from the church and just you know, | 1504.6036 |
1297 | | 1505.0001 | congregate, | 1505.5408 |
1299 | | 1505.6501 | have a good time. | 1506.4880 |
1301 | | 1507.1788 | You know, | 1507.5882 |
1303 | | 1507.7674 | everybody's sitting around talking about | 1509.6927 |
1305 | | 1510.2335 | good old times and | 1511.7895 |
1307 | | 1512.2978 | you know, he was a musician, they used to talk about music, | 1514.9671 |
1309 | | 1515.2462 | you know, new material that they wanted to do. | 1517.7682 |
1311 | | 1518.8474 | All kinds of stuff so those were s- | 1520.9280 |
1313 | | 1521.0874 | the traditions that we had. Um- | 1523.3207 |
1315 | | 1524.3097 | <ts> | 1524.4037 |
1317 | | 1524.6817 | Uh, | 1525.3763 |
1319 | | 1525.7076 | he would always decorate the house and everything for Christmas, you know regular stuff, Christmas, Thanksgiving was always good. | 1532.1305 |
1321 | | 1532.8745 | Uh, my birthday- | 1534.2234 |
1323 | | 1535.0830 | my birthdays were events | 1537.3110 |
1325 | | 1537.5193 | at the time, before | 1539.0848 |
1327 | | 1539.8014 | uh, him and my mom actually split. | 1541.8686 |
1329 | | 1542.6382 | You know I remember one time uh, my fifth | 1545.1235 |
1331 | | 1545.5731 | birthday | 1546.3425 |
1333 | | 1546.8007 | when uh, we first kind of like /walked and/ g- got to the house | 1549.9522 |
1335 | | 1550.7125 | you know Dad had | 1551.7875 |
1337 | | 1552.1689 | all the bells and whistles | 1553.6009 |
1339 | | 1553.8244 | going, you know what I'm saying, I had | 1555.2142 |
1341 | | 1556.3015 | uh, | 1556.8166 |
1343 | | 1556.9106 | like four or five eight foot tables | 1559.8631 |
1345 | | 1560.2882 | in the backyard all in a row I mean filled to the top | 1563.1250 |
1347 | | 1563.4397 | you know what I'm saying with nothing but gifts. I got at least | 1566.1552 |
1349 | | 1566.6007 | like a hundred, two hundred gifts that year. | 1568.8487 |
1351 | | 1569.4375 | Uh, we had ponies. <laugh> Dad got the ponies out. | 1573.5877 |
1353 | | 1574.2949 | Uh, | 1574.9611 |
1355 | | 1575.4394 | it was | 1575.9749 |
1357 | | 1576.1425 | one of my m- | 1576.6739 |
1359 | | 1576.8999 | most memorable uh, moments. | 1579.7613 |
1361 | | 1580.0719 | One of my most memorable birthdays actually cause uh, | 1583.1532 |
1363 | | 1584.6636 | we had a dog | 1585.4409 |
1365 | | 1586.1269 | named Duke | 1586.7496 |
1367 | | 1587.1570 | that got out and chased | 1588.4063 |
1369 | | 1588.6993 | the freaking ponies around the house and we had to call the- | 1591.5353 |
1371 | | 1592.1819 | he called the pound on him and got rid of him on my birthday. | 1595.6632 |
1373 | | 1596.0746 | Which was sad, | 1596.8386 |
1375 | | 1597.6074 | but | 1598.0857 |
1377 | | 1598.3350 | you know we had ponies and | 1599.7412 |
1379 | | 1600.5710 | I had to open at least about | 1601.8550 |
1381 | | 1602.1459 | a hundred fifty to two hundred | 1603.4131 |
1383 | | 1603.7565 | <laugh> presents so it kind of | 1605.7880 |
1385 | | 1606.3276 | buffered my um- | 1607.6036 |
1387 | | 1608.9285 | my pain. | 1609.5779 |
1389 | | 1610.1957 | I [would say.] | 1610.7763 |
1390 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1610.4328 | [<laugh>] | 1610.8170 |
1391 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1611.2421 | <laugh> | 1611.3821 |
1393 | | 1611.9616 | That was- that was some good times. | 1613.3473 |
1395 | | 1614.3091 | That was some good times, man. | 1615.6703 |
1397 | | 1617.6201 | And uh, | 1618.2659 |
1399 | | 1619.4145 | I don't know man it was just- | 1620.7851 |
1401 | | 1621.7498 | he used to hunt a lot. | 1622.7758 |
1403 | | 1623.2173 | That was- that was something else. | 1624.8506 |
1405 | | 1625.3809 | You know he never t- I never was able able to go with him hunting. | 1628.2299 |
1407 | | 1628.7409 | Cause I guess he just didn't think that I was mature enough for it but | 1631.6594 |
1409 | | 1632.3351 | you know, that was one of the things that uh, he | 1634.5016 |
1411 | | 1634.7918 | used to do all the time. | 1636.1611 |
1413 | | 1636.5740 | And just to get with his g- hi- his mom | 1638.9829 |
1415 | | 1639.1627 | and his brothers | 1640.3440 |
1417 | | 1640.8509 | and bring everybody to the house like, Dad kept the family tight. | 1644.0070 |
1419 | | 1645.0542 | And um, | 1645.8289 |
1421 | | 1646.3336 | when we moved away from the house, | 1648.0668 |
1423 | | 1648.6636 | that's when it all kind of stopped. | 1650.1351 |
1425 | | 1650.4756 | I mean he still kept his brothers tight and his mom and everything but | 1653.8970 |
1427 | | 1654.5714 | just as far as everybody from the family I'm talking about people from South Carolina, North Carolina, | 1659.3842 |
1429 | | 1660.0133 | Tappahannock, Virginia | 1661.7587 |
1431 | | 1662.1156 | from everywhere used to come. | 1663.3622 |
1433 | | 1663.9182 | And those was just some good times, man. | 1665.7454 |
1435 | | 1666.8736 | Very good times. | 1667.9176 |
1436 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1669.5849 | Do you keep the- um, any of them traditions live- alive | 1672.8795 |
1438 | | 1673.9832 | with your own family? | 1674.8458 |
1439 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1675.5622 | Um, | 1676.3471 |
1441 | | 1678.2274 | my cookouts | 1679.1007 |
1443 | | 1679.3719 | that I have, | 1680.1119 |
1445 | | 1680.7425 | when I have money to. | 1682.0546 |
1447 | | 1682.2140 | I don't have money like my father do but | 1683.9635 |
1449 | | 1684.4663 | you know I would throw something at the house and have all my cousins | 1687.4707 |
1451 | | 1688.0442 | you know that I grew up with | 1689.2623 |
1453 | | 1689.6997 | the ones that can- | 1690.7584 |
1455 | | 1691.1549 | can come, | 1691.8589 |
1457 | | 1692.5746 | I would do that. | 1693.3471 |
1459 | | 1694.0461 | Um, | 1694.7614 |
1461 | | 1695.2356 | I really- | 1695.9060 |
1463 | | 1696.0490 | stopped really doing Christmas | 1698.0315 |
1465 | | 1698.6038 | all like that so I didn't carry that on but I- I- I try to do it at least with the kids. | 1703.1319 |
1467 | | 1703.8862 | And um- | 1704.6384 |
1469 | | 1705.9681 | um, my mom | 1707.0174 |
1471 | | 1707.8607 | actually has a cabin | 1710.1326 |
1473 | | 1710.8650 | in Virginia | 1711.6621 |
1475 | | 1712.1539 | from a time share that we all go to, all my brothers and all my sisters and everything. | 1716.2170 |
1477 | | 1716.9814 | you know and I- I keep that part tight still visiting my grandmother, still keeping my brother- | 1721.4667 |
1479 | | 1722.6358 | me and my brothers tight, and my sisters | 1724.7054 |
1481 | | 1724.9220 | and everything, make sure that I checked up on them. | 1727.0680 |
1483 | | 1727.4482 | That's like one of the things I know my father like- | 1729.3326 |
1485 | | 1729.4810 | every single day we used to go over my grandmama house and see her. | 1732.5344 |
1487 | | 1733.2170 | You know. | 1733.6064 |
1489 | | 1734.4556 | And um, | 1735.2822 |
1491 | | 1736.0919 | you just sit down and talk with just brothers and everything I- I keep that up | 1739.6358 |
1493 | | 1739.8934 | as much as possible. | 1741.0052 |
1495 | | 1741.8432 | You know. | 1742.2898 |
1497 | | 1742.8500 | I st- I still don't hunt. | 1744.2939 |
1499 | | 1744.9673 | Um, | 1745.6113 |
1501 | | 1746.1732 | I haven't /tooken/ my sons- taken my sons | 1748.3805 |
1503 | | 1748.5698 | hunting or anything like that. | 1750.0045 |
1505 | | 1750.4460 | That's one thing I would like to do. | 1751.9100 |
1507 | | 1752.9394 | Kind of crazy that my daughter | 1754.3538 |
1509 | | 1754.6330 | is the one that wants to go shoot guns and shoot at stuff. | 1757.7783 |
1511 | | 1758.5530 | <laugh> | 1759.9673 |
1513 | | 1760.7288 | But um, | 1761.5729 |
1515 | | 1762.3353 | you know, | 1762.8217 |
1517 | | 1763.0384 | I keep those that- that type of stuff going | 1765.2304 |
1519 | | 1765.8997 | from what I remember. | 1766.8752 |
1521 | | 1767.6750 | And uh, just the | 1768.7670 |
1523 | | 1768.9953 | fun times, | 1769.8218 |
1525 | | 1770.4218 | you know. | 1770.8965 |
1527 | | 1771.2721 | Always smiling. | 1772.2227 |
1529 | | 1772.6835 | That was- that was- that- that was Dad. | 1774.3145 |
1531 | | 1775.2751 | Always you know | 1776.5177 |
1533 | | 1777.0409 | talking, joking and everything. | 1778.5587 |
1535 | | 1779.3190 | I'm a lot like him. | 1780.1056 |
1537 | | 1781.5345 | Yeah, I miss that dude. | 1782.7465 |
1539 | | 1783.2267 | A lot. | 1783.5854 |
1541 | | 1784.5879 | I miss him a lot. | 1785.2959 |
1542 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1787.4423 | What part of DC was your dad from? | 1788.9717 |
1543 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1790.1851 | Southeast. | 1790.8064 |
1544 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1791.3064 | Southeast? | 1792.0424 |
1545 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1792.0299 | Yeah. | 1792.6099 |
1546 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1793.4483 | And your mom? | 1794.0451 |
1547 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1794.2535 | Mom was from Southeast also. | 1795.8600 |
1548 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1796.1011 | Southeast? | 1796.6625 |
1550 | | 1798.0849 | Okay. | 1798.8595 |
1551 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1799.1926 | And my grandmothers used to beef. | 1800.6420 |
1553 | | 1800.7786 | <laugh> | 1802.9246 |
1555 | | 1804.0076 | That was funny. | 1804.6657 |
1557 | | 1805.1971 | And they were old. | 1805.9983 |
1559 | | 1809.2083 | <laugh> | 1809.8750 |
1561 | | 1810.4877 | Even in church. It just- it was just funny. | 1812.9611 |
1562 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1813.5330 | <laugh> | 1813.8210 |
1564 | | 1815.0181 | Where does the rest of your family live at? | 1816.5100 |
1565 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1817.3398 | Um, we're all spreaded out now. | 1819.3428 |
1567 | | 1819.6493 | My sisters | 1820.5282 |
1569 | | 1821.2488 | live in uh, | 1822.1942 |
1571 | | 1822.8594 | Landover. | 1823.5887 |
1573 | | 1824.4658 | I got a sister in Virginia. | 1826.1191 |
1575 | | 1826.9850 | My brother actually live in Landover. | 1829.2536 |
1577 | | 1829.9363 | I got another sister lives in um, | 1832.3561 |
1579 | | 1833.8902 | <ts> | 1833.9802 |
1581 | | 1834.1191 | uh- | 1834.7527 |
1583 | | 1834.9816 | uh, where's that? | 1835.8932 |
1585 | | 1836.3878 | Like | 1836.7025 |
1587 | | 1836.9723 | Clinton area. | 1837.9523 |
1589 | | 1839.6223 | Another sister she just moved back to Southeast. | 1842.6343 |
1591 | | 1843.9920 | Um, | 1844.6174 |
1593 | | 1845.3503 | I had found out I had two more sisters from my father | 1847.7579 |
1595 | | 1848.2076 | when I got uh- when I turned eight years old. /And/ kind of showed up to the house on the front door. | 1852.2109 |
1597 | | 1852.8283 | Like, hey open the door, w- | 1854.0383 |
1599 | | 1854.4552 | we your sisters, and I'm like, nah, I only got two sisters. | 1857.4241 |
1601 | | 1857.9350 | They're like, yes it is, | 1858.9446 |
1603 | | 1859.0754 | so it was kind of like a shock. | 1860.4244 |
1605 | | 1861.1479 | But um, they | 1862.1399 |
1607 | | 1862.3958 | grew up in DC also. | 1864.3092 |
1609 | | 1865.4207 | Yeah. | 1865.8621 |
1611 | | 1866.2423 | And now we're just- | 1867.3746 |
1613 | | 1867.9072 | we're just scattered. | 1868.5499 |
1615 | | 1868.9986 | You know, I mean we're not that far from each other. | 1871.4961 |
1617 | | 1872.2850 | Southern Maryland, | 1873.2930 |
1619 | | 1873.6965 | uh, Clinton, | 1874.8405 |
1621 | | 1875.0495 | Landover, | 1875.9120 |
1623 | | 1876.0387 | it's only twenty, thirty minutes, you know | 1878.2574 |
1625 | | 1879.1535 | from each other | 1880.0037 |
1627 | | 1880.4996 | driving, so. | 1881.3795 |
1629 | | 1882.1959 | I start- stay- | 1883.1732 |
1631 | | 1883.5898 | I stop past my sister house on- on my um, | 1886.0873 |
1633 | | 1886.7058 | ways home | 1887.3351 |
1635 | | 1888.3654 | from work. | 1888.8027 |
1637 | | 1889.3300 | You know I pass it every day- every day. | 1891.0346 |
1639 | | 1892.0986 | You know my brother | 1892.9399 |
1641 | | 1893.7991 | he comes over | 1894.7764 |
1643 | | 1895.7979 | and um, | 1896.6113 |
1645 | | 1896.8484 | I stop past his house also | 1898.3527 |
1647 | | 1899.1224 | a lot. My other two sisters I don't see that often but we- we | 1902.2167 |
1649 | | 1902.4170 | make sure we communicate. | 1903.6277 |
1651 | | 1904.2810 | Make sure everybody good. | 1905.3560 |
1653 | | 1905.9540 | And my sister in VA, I don't really get to see her whatsoever. | 1909.8046 |
1655 | | 1910.4014 | It's actually uh, a surprise. | 1912.5772 |
1657 | | 1913.1740 | You know it's a blessing when I get to see her. | 1915.0134 |
1659 | | 1915.4753 | Any chance that we get. | 1916.7016 |
1661 | | 1917.8351 | You know. | 1918.2112 |
1663 | | 1918.7712 | Make sure that- that actually happens. /Well/ she's a | 1921.5753 |
1665 | | 1922.8629 | she- she- she stay rolling. | 1924.2213 |
1667 | | 1925.5375 | She don't touch down too much. | 1926.8655 |
1669 | | 1927.3973 | She'll come up here for a hot | 1929.0896 |
1671 | | 1929.3062 | minute. | 1929.6169 |
1673 | | 1930.5910 | You know what I'm saying like, | 1931.6579 |
1675 | | 1932.8555 | sh- | 1933.7209 |
1677 | | 1934.7481 | sh- just out of the blue. | 1936.2548 |
1679 | | 1936.9035 | Like, yeah I'm in town, | 1937.9990 |
1681 | | 1938.2565 | yeah I'm leaving town. | 1939.1859 |
1683 | | 1939.4174 | Like, damn yo. You ain't even | 1940.9707 |
1685 | | 1941.8128 | call nobody <laugh> /Let me know/. | 1943.4207 |
1687 | | 1943.7802 | I just came through to see such and such, and now I'm gone. | 1946.4601 |
1689 | | 1948.2982 | I'm like, aight. | 1949.1216 |
1691 | | 1949.3733 | <laugh> | 1950.0395 |
1693 | | 1951.4416 | Yeah we- we stay close though. | 1952.7701 |
1695 | | 1953.5140 | You know. | 1953.8942 |
1697 | | 1954.8683 | We keep in touch. | 1955.6616 |
1698 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1956.8262 | Are you the oldest, middle? | 1958.2732 |
1699 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1958.4408 | No I'm actually the baby of the bunch. | 1960.4235 |
1700 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1961.1440 | You're the baby? | 1961.8634 |
1701 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1961.8716 | Yeah [yeah.] | 1962.7136 |
1702 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 1962.3253 | [How were you] treated differently? | 1963.5925 |
1703 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 1964.1729 | Uh, | 1965.5995 |
1705 | | 1966.8025 | I got a lot of everything | 1969.7854 |
1707 | | 1969.9254 | that I wanted. | 1970.7266 |
1709 | | 1971.1599 | I wasn't a brat | 1972.1900 |
1711 | | 1972.4610 | cause I didn't want for much. | 1973.9037 |
1713 | | 1974.6479 | Um, I had two nieces | 1976.4219 |
1715 | | 1976.5568 | that I- I grew up with. | 1977.9248 |
1717 | | 1978.8471 | You know and we was inseparable. | 1980.7683 |
1719 | | 1981.6390 | It was just | 1982.5470 |
1721 | | 1982.8121 | us. | 1983.4089 |
1723 | | 1983.7523 | Um, | 1984.4083 |
1725 | | 1985.2005 | I used to get beatings every day. | 1986.3001 |
1727 | | 1986.7252 | <laugh> Cause I was just | 1988.4216 |
1729 | | 1988.5524 | a hyper | 1989.2268 |
1731 | | 1989.5865 | kid | 1989.9422 |
1733 | | 1990.9204 | you know. But | 1991.9657 |
1735 | | 1993.3443 | I guess you know | 1994.6564 |
1737 | | 1994.8363 | just to have my older siblings | 1996.9173 |
1739 | | 1997.2574 | always watching out for me. | 1998.6635 |
1741 | | 1999.3625 | Like my sister made sure that I went to school. | 2001.4372 |
1743 | | 2002.1707 | My brother made sure I ain't get picked on or nothing like that. | 2005.1641 |
1745 | | 2005.6996 | My other sisters made sure you know what I'm saying I was- I had a little bit of gear. | 2009.4839 |
1747 | | 2010.1236 | You know, I wasn't soft. | 2011.5052 |
1749 | | 2011.9753 | It was- | 2012.2165 |
1751 | | 2012.5271 | it was making sure I was- I was- I was good. | 2014.5085 |
1753 | | 2015.2262 | So I had | 2015.8622 |
1755 | | 2016.3708 | these | 2016.9062 |
1757 | | 2017.1392 | people in front of me you know what I'm saying that were older | 2019.8084 |
1759 | | 2020.7785 | that I- I used to | 2021.8425 |
1761 | | 2022.2663 | be with all the time you know what I'm saying, hang around and- and learn things from. | 2025.7245 |
1763 | | 2026.4807 | I guess that's where I get my little- | 2027.9808 |
1765 | | 2028.6157 | you know what I'm saying the way that I move and | 2030.1650 |
1767 | | 2030.7494 | move about | 2031.3789 |
1769 | | 2031.6895 | you know, chill, laid back. | 2033.1243 |
1771 | | 2033.3136 | They wasn't rowdy or nothing like that. | 2034.9568 |
1773 | | 2035.8111 | They was just real cool and knew a lot of people. | 2037.8958 |
1775 | | 2038.7011 | You know. | 2039.1139 |
1777 | | 2039.4749 | Respect, | 2039.9829 |
1779 | | 2040.3578 | you know what I'm saying, my brother taught me how to respect my- my peoples a hundred. | 2044.1266 |
1781 | | 2044.2737 | You know what I'm saying, especially my father, my father really wanted a dude to play with anyway but | 2048.4104 |
1783 | | 2049.0616 | you know. | 2049.4496 |
1785 | | 2050.2429 | Just in case I | 2051.1682 |
1787 | | 2051.9405 | got slick | 2052.5414 |
1789 | | 2052.6640 | one day or something like that you know what I'm saying, my brother would jump on me before my parents did. | 2056.8783 |
1791 | | 2057.8389 | So. | 2058.2523 |
1793 | | 2058.6168 | You know I learned a lot from- | 2060.0720 |
1795 | | 2060.5298 | from just being with them. | 2061.7479 |
1797 | | 2062.5818 | You know what I'm saying, how to handle myself, | 2064.2258 |
1799 | | 2064.6432 | how to be on the streets of- of- of DC. | 2066.9445 |
1801 | | 2067.7580 | You know cause it's- | 2068.9148 |
1803 | | 2069.2214 | it's always a certain code anywhere that you go. | 2071.3861 |
1805 | | 2072.7379 | And a certain amount of respect that you have to show people | 2075.1987 |
1807 | | 2075.7955 | in order to | 2076.6988 |
1809 | | 2077.5871 | receive respect. | 2078.4907 |
1811 | | 2079.3325 | You know that's one of them things he uh- he put in me. | 2081.6712 |
1813 | | 2082.5671 | You know what I'm saying, | 2083.2538 |
1815 | | 2083.8301 | so. | 2084.2661 |
1817 | | 2085.3875 | That's- that's the difference that I see. | 2086.8509 |
1819 | | 2087.0226 | And my mother just | 2088.0426 |
1821 | | 2088.2133 | had a lot of time, | 2089.2573 |
1823 | | 2089.9506 | you know cause she didn't have to worry about my older siblings, they were all grown. | 2092.9972 |
1825 | | 2093.7193 | You know, | 2094.0780 |
1827 | | 2094.2507 | moving out the house, uh, had they own stuff going on in school, | 2098.2251 |
1829 | | 2098.6012 | had jobs, whatever so me and my mom just had a lot of one on one time so | 2102.6912 |
1831 | | 2103.1520 | she could focus on- | 2104.1746 |
1833 | | 2104.8197 | on me a lot. | 2105.7677 |
1835 | | 2106.2095 | You know that's why I was | 2107.3984 |
1837 | | 2107.9153 | so damn smart when I was younger. | 2109.4313 |
1839 | | 2110.2125 | Like I was- | 2111.1159 |
1841 | | 2111.2835 | I was very intelligent. | 2112.5874 |
1843 | | 2113.2918 | It kind of like went south when she l- | 2114.9350 |
1845 | | 2115.1825 | uh, left and | 2116.1104 |
1847 | | 2116.6254 | um, | 2117.1214 |
1849 | | 2117.7413 | you know, Dad | 2118.6227 |
1851 | | 2118.8994 | was going through his things | 2120.2565 |
1853 | | 2121.1517 | but he let me uh- | 2122.2909 |
1855 | | 2123.9026 | he let me out. | 2124.5199 |
1857 | | 2124.7365 | He let me out the door. | 2125.6902 |
1859 | | 2126.9778 | I guess you could say I was a little sheltered. | 2128.7518 |
1861 | | 2129.2914 | You know. | 2129.6838 |
1863 | | 2130.6362 | <laugh> My mother was kind of overprotective of me. | 2133.5149 |
1865 | | 2134.5697 | But um, like I said when she um- when she rolled out | 2137.5549 |
1867 | | 2139.0224 | it was like no holds barred, it was just me and pops up in the house. | 2142.2877 |
1869 | | 2142.8116 | Dad had his females, I had my females, | 2145.2943 |
1871 | | 2145.9399 | and uh, he ain't really trip off of me being in the house as long as I checked in with him and let him know that I was still alive. | 2152.3034 |
1873 | | 2153.0454 | You know, I was out there just doing me. | 2154.9829 |
1875 | | 2155.9775 | Me and my squad. | 2156.9335 |
1876 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 2160.5515 | Let me aks you this, um, | 2162.2156 |
1878 | | 2163.2424 | <ts> | 2163.2996 |
1880 | | 2164.0763 | What about your aunts and uncles? | 2165.4211 |
1881 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 2166.7741 | Um, | 2167.4981 |
1883 | | 2168.2551 | my aunts and uncles. | 2169.5484 |
1885 | | 2170.2825 | Most of my aunts | 2171.3519 |
1887 | | 2172.3141 | that I remember, I had two, | 2173.9098 |
1889 | | 2175.7408 | they were um- | 2177.2573 |
1891 | | 2178.7533 | <ts> | 2178.8923 |
1893 | | 2179.1049 | they were | 2179.6730 |
1895 | | 2180.1349 | in | 2180.5003 |
1897 | | 2180.7452 | church | 2181.2725 |
1899 | | 2181.7876 | all the time. | 2182.4996 |
1900 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 2182.8912 | Are they from DC? [Or-] | 2184.5672 |
1901 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 2184.1012 | [They are] from DC. | 2185.9665 |
1902 | | 2186.6408 | They're from DC All of the- all my- my- my immediate family and | 2191.0148 |
1904 | | 2191.6359 | most of my extended family | 2193.5706 |
1906 | | 2193.7668 | grew up in DC, I mean the ones that | 2195.8310 |
1908 | | 2196.4074 | you know are from like | 2197.4416 |
1910 | | 2197.5969 | Tappahannock and | 2198.9462 |
1912 | | 2200.0957 | West Virginia and all that other stuff you know what I'm saying, they didn't | 2202.8058 |
1914 | | 2203.1532 | they only came through at uh- | 2204.9861 |
1916 | | 2205.8891 | at uh, events that we had | 2207.8920 |
1918 | | 2208.0269 | like at the house and everything but the ones that I saw all the time like, | 2211.3656 |
1920 | | 2211.8296 | all of my family went to the same church. | 2213.5791 |
1922 | | 2214.6215 | You know what I'm saying, we was in that church from the start. | 2216.6326 |
1924 | | 2217.4023 | You know, established like nineteen sixty-something, most of the people in the church | 2221.7188 |
1926 | | 2221.8864 | seen me grow up. | 2222.9410 |
1928 | | 2223.9274 | Uh, | 2224.4588 |
1930 | | 2224.9329 | I used to see | 2225.7014 |
1932 | | 2225.8608 | both of my aunts every Wednesday, every Tuesday, | 2229.1718 |
1934 | | 2229.3243 | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, | 2230.5179 |
1936 | | 2231.1760 | Friday, Saturday, twice on Saturday, and Sundays, | 2234.2499 |
1938 | | 2234.4910 | revival times, | 2235.6409 |
1940 | | 2236.1314 | all of that. | 2236.6710 |
1942 | | 2237.1697 | Most of my uncles | 2238.3183 |
1944 | | 2238.7597 | were street dudes, one of my uncles you know what I'm saying, he was locked up | 2242.0585 |
1946 | | 2242.8691 | and got out, he was straight hood. | 2245.0375 |
1948 | | 2245.3175 | <laugh> Straight hood. | 2246.6991 |
1950 | | 2246.8095 | Straight /chill/. | 2247.7108 |
1952 | | 2248.4254 | You know, um, | 2249.7854 |
1954 | | 2249.9378 | my other two uncles | 2251.1927 |
1956 | | 2251.8467 | one of 'em just drunk a lot, | 2253.5104 |
1958 | | 2253.9204 | and the other one he was like uh, a playboy. | 2256.5015 |
1960 | | 2257.1905 | You know. | 2257.6769 |
1962 | | 2258.0203 | And uh, | 2258.6629 |
1964 | | 2259.1975 | they used to | 2259.8078 |
1966 | | 2259.8977 | get along. | 2260.5476 |
1968 | | 2260.8747 | Him and my fathers they always used to squad up. | 2263.2209 |
1970 | | 2263.3518 | My last | 2264.1407 |
1972 | | 2264.8069 | uncle that I used to see all the time that stayed with my grandmother that got out of jail, | 2268.7282 |
1974 | | 2269.3904 | he didn't look like the rest of 'em. | 2270.9851 |
1976 | | 2271.7666 | Uh, | 2272.5473 |
1978 | | 2272.6740 | I guess he was from | 2273.9739 |
1980 | | 2274.2028 | some | 2274.8200 |
1982 | | 2275.0244 | a- a- uh, another | 2276.4224 |
1984 | | 2276.6840 | person, not my grandfather that I | 2278.4813 |
1986 | | 2279.1582 | never met. | 2279.6855 |
1988 | | 2280.1065 | You know what I'm saying, not my father's father. | 2281.5944 |
1990 | | 2282.3139 | But uh, they never ousted him whatsoever everybody was tight. | 2285.1725 |
1992 | | 2285.9858 | You know. | 2286.3251 |
1994 | | 2286.5376 | And like I said we used to go over in Southeast all the time, | 2289.1043 |
1996 | | 2289.8159 | You know, and see my uncle | 2291.0013 |
1998 | | 2291.4031 | there with my grandmother. | 2292.4046 |
2000 | | 2293.2834 | And how they used to converse with each other it was so | 2297.0661 |
2002 | | 2297.1884 | funny. | 2297.8301 |
2004 | | 2298.0713 | Like, | 2298.5373 |
2006 | | 2298.8397 | you | 2299.3589 |
2008 | | 2299.5960 | wouldn't even think that they was like | 2301.3933 |
2010 | | 2301.9995 | <laugh> mother and- | 2304.0105 |
2012 | | 2304.4983 | and son. | 2305.1278 |
2014 | | 2305.7736 | It- <laugh> it was just funny. | 2307.6216 |
2016 | | 2308.3978 | It- it was real funny but they were really protective of they- uh, grandma- [uh], | 2312.2828 |
2017 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 2312.1847 | [Give] me [an example.] | 2312.9660 |
2018 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 2312.4177 | [of grandma.] | 2312.9690 |
2019 | | 2314.8797 | Uh, can I be explicit? | 2316.1223 |
2020 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 2316.6333 | Yeah. | 2317.0298 |
2021 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 2318.2356 | Like, | 2318.6650 |
2023 | | 2318.8856 | you know what I'm saying, we sitting in the- | 2320.5533 |
2025 | | 2321.2045 | in the living room | 2322.0325 |
2027 | | 2323.2524 | and uh, my uncle, we sitting there | 2325.3534 |
2029 | | 2325.8398 | and my grandmother and him be watching TV. | 2327.8199 |
2031 | | 2328.1669 | And grandma'd turn, | 2329.2416 |
2033 | | 2330.2067 | and | 2330.8729 |
2035 | | 2330.9629 | the word nigga used to be | 2332.3159 |
2037 | | 2332.5379 | used a lot. | 2333.5107 |
2039 | | 2334.0339 | And grandma'd be like, | 2335.0395 |
2041 | | 2336.1063 | I /don't need to be/ watching this nigga. | 2337.3531 |
2043 | | 2337.6208 | <laugh> | 2338.0214 |
2045 | | 2338.3831 | And <laugh> my uncle would be like, | 2339.8898 |
2047 | | 2340.3914 | my nigga turn on which ever you wanna see. | 2342.2221 |
2049 | | 2343.0244 | I'm about to go out smoke a cigarette. | 2344.3282 |
2051 | | 2345.0254 | Ah that nigga always going outside, | 2346.9199 |
2053 | | 2347.4042 | smoking cigarettes and everything, I'm like, | 2349.2042 |
2055 | | 2349.9869 | Grandma, | 2350.6628 |
2057 | | 2350.9076 | like, Grandma. | 2351.8921 |
2059 | | 2352.1582 | Even though she went to church she- she- she was- she was jacked up. | 2355.9527 |
2061 | | 2356.1459 | <laugh> | 2357.5402 |
2063 | | 2358.8121 | It used to just make me laugh all the time how they used to just sit there and talk to each other. | 2363.8465 |
2065 | | 2364.3059 | And like yeah, I would never talk to my mom like that but I mean they were so close, | 2368.4356 |
2067 | | 2368.9837 | they just had that type of relationship. | 2370.7681 |
2069 | | 2371.7154 | There was a lot of niggas thrown out there. | 2373.3874 |
2071 | | 2374.3763 | All the time. | 2375.0576 |
2073 | | 2375.8505 | <laugh> | 2377.0425 |
2074 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 2379.8381 | Tell me [about your cousins.] | 2381.0235 |
2075 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 2380.2053 | [Yeah.] | 2380.6417 |
2076 | | 2381.9988 | Uh, my cousins | 2383.6805 |
2078 | | 2385.4436 | it was | 2386.0450 |
2080 | | 2386.3962 | one particular cousin that I grew up with, | 2388.5782 |
2082 | | 2389.7543 | that was my homie. | 2390.7783 |
2084 | | 2391.0528 | That w- that was my dude. | 2392.3407 |
2086 | | 2392.5376 | He was like my brother. | 2393.5056 |
2088 | | 2394.1517 | We was around the same age he had me by a year. | 2396.5824 |
2090 | | 2397.3821 | Uh, he grew up in DC but then they moved away cause his father was in the Air Force. | 2403.1670 |
2092 | | 2403.6900 | So they moved to Virginia. | 2404.8608 |
2094 | | 2406.0582 | And um, | 2406.8009 |
2096 | | 2406.9842 | he used to- | 2407.6974 |
2098 | | 2408.2721 | we used to spend the night over each other house every weekend. | 2410.6579 |
2100 | | 2410.8229 | You know he'd come over my house, | 2412.4189 |
2102 | | 2412.9569 | we sitting there, we playing Nintendo or whatever have you, you know what I'm saying just out, | 2417.0024 |
2104 | | 2417.1149 | being with my father, doing yard work, | 2418.9442 |
2106 | | 2419.2383 | all that. | 2419.6534 |
2108 | | 2420.2016 | You know we were really close. | 2421.6225 |
2110 | | 2422.1227 | And uh, he had another little brother. | 2424.5335 |
2112 | | 2425.3015 | And he had two- | 2427.0364 |
2114 | | 2427.5473 | three sisters | 2428.2619 |
2116 | | 2429.0746 | actually at the time | 2430.3519 |
2118 | | 2430.4690 | before they had moved over | 2432.1347 |
2120 | | 2432.4114 | to um- moved up, um, | 2434.0346 |
2122 | | 2434.3981 | Virginia. | 2434.9061 |
2124 | | 2435.9893 | But, uh, they went to the same church we did. | 2438.4118 |
2126 | | 2439.1185 | I had another g- uh, girl cousin, | 2441.0823 |
2128 | | 2441.3713 | she used to come through all the time with my aunt. | 2443.3137 |
2130 | | 2443.9470 | Like our house was the house | 2445.5808 |
2132 | | 2445.8576 | to be at like | 2446.5760 |
2134 | | 2446.7516 | everybody | 2447.4103 |
2136 | | 2447.9011 | no matter what | 2448.6625 |
2138 | | 2449.1481 | it wasn't a day | 2450.1645 |
2140 | | 2450.5477 | that went past that we wouldn't get | 2452.0218 |
2142 | | 2452.1709 | a visit from | 2453.1235 |
2144 | | 2453.6716 | at least a uncle, | 2455.0446 |
2146 | | 2455.5342 | one of my aunts, | 2456.6156 |
2148 | | 2456.9036 | uh, some of my- you know what I'm saying, one of my cousins, one of my aunts uh, daughters or so. | 2461.9806 |
2150 | | 2462.7416 | You know what I'm saying, every single day somebody was coming past that jont. | 2466.0358 |
2152 | | 2466.5909 | Just to see my father and my mother you know what I'm saying, sit down | 2469.1496 |
2154 | | 2470.0554 | daddy pull out the guitar, | 2471.3327 |
2156 | | 2471.6839 | and they get to singing, | 2472.7163 |
2158 | | 2473.2698 | you know my father sung, and he was like I said he was a musician, | 2476.1724 |
2160 | | 2476.8210 | and I would just sit there and just | 2478.3537 |
2162 | | 2478.9338 | watch and look | 2479.9396 |
2164 | | 2480.1951 | and listen. | 2480.9135 |
2166 | | 2481.5272 | Matter of fact my whole family always been in- in music | 2484.3901 |
2168 | | 2484.5724 | you know what I'm saying we was | 2485.5238 |
2170 | | 2486.1891 | most of the population in the- in the choir. | 2488.4295 |
2172 | | 2490.0809 | Uh, my brother | 2491.2304 |
2174 | | 2491.5604 | he played drums for the church and he also had his own band | 2495.1144 |
2176 | | 2496.0307 | uh, with my cousin who played keyboard who's a beast on them joints. | 2499.9758 |
2178 | | 2500.4175 | Got another cousin that | 2501.7746 |
2180 | | 2501.9662 | played drums when my brother wasn't there, | 2503.8181 |
2182 | | 2504.2173 | which was my aunt's | 2505.4839 |
2184 | | 2505.7197 | uh, | 2506.2477 |
2186 | | 2506.8585 | son. | 2507.3747 |
2188 | | 2508.2901 | Um, | 2509.0724 |
2190 | | 2509.6365 | the keyboard player at my church was my cousin married into one of my- | 2514.6885 |
2192 | | 2514.9653 | my | 2515.2527 |
2194 | | 2515.7742 | aunt's daughters. | 2516.9343 |
2196 | | 2517.6688 | Uh, the bass player wasn't | 2519.9784 |
2198 | | 2520.7501 | a family member but you know him and my father were so close and they played in all the bands together and everything. | 2526.4407 |
2200 | | 2526.9303 | You know you might as well say he was family. | 2528.7557 |
2202 | | 2529.2044 | Like that church was- everybody was family. | 2531.4768 |
2204 | | 2531.9291 | You know what I'm saying. | 2532.5198 |
2206 | | 2533.4778 | And uh, | 2534.1698 |
2208 | | 2534.6007 | you know it was | 2535.6757 |
2210 | | 2536.5128 | two particular- | 2537.4369 |
2212 | | 2538.5671 | two particular families in that jont. | 2540.5095 |
2214 | | 2541.1588 | Actually three. | 2542.0335 |
2216 | | 2543.0374 | And um, | 2543.7931 |
2218 | | 2545.3646 | you know my aunts and my uncles they used to make sure they came to church | 2548.6588 |
2220 | | 2549.1485 | My grandmother, my aunts- un- uncles never really showed up unless | 2553.1983 |
2222 | | 2553.4538 | you know what I'm saying, grandma made 'em. | 2554.6528 |
2224 | | 2555.1690 | Like if one of my aunts or something like that was- | 2557.2233 |
2226 | | 2557.5958 | was preaching, | 2558.1652 |
2228 | | 2558.7240 | you know they would show up | 2559.6014 |
2230 | | 2560.4642 | and everything but | 2561.3317 |
2232 | | 2561.7378 | you know. | 2562.2578 |
2234 | | 2563.4674 | Like I have a rack | 2564.6009 |
2236 | | 2564.7659 | of cousins. | 2565.9899 |
2238 | | 2566.3199 | Extended cousins, you know what I'm saying, first, second, | 2568.8477 |
2240 | | 2568.9664 | third cousins and everything they used to | 2571.1643 |
2242 | | 2571.9466 | just m- | 2572.3884 |
2244 | | 2572.9525 | make sure they just came past the house you know what I'm saying. | 2575.5016 |
2246 | | 2575.6506 | Chopping that wood w- with pops | 2577.2293 |
2248 | | 2577.8502 | and my moms. | 2578.5526 |
2250 | | 2579.3403 | Mom would cook | 2580.0243 |
2252 | | 2580.3088 | /They'd/ be sitting there, they /wouldn't leave/ about ten, eleven o-clock at night | 2583.4487 |
2254 | | 2583.6296 | every day. | 2584.1310 |
2256 | | 2586.4146 | So yeah, family was tight. | 2587.8781 |
2257 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 2589.0223 | Um, | 2589.5279 |
2259 | | 2590.0387 | back to the- to the go go music, | 2591.6087 |
2261 | | 2591.9759 | give me your five, your top five go go bands of all time. | 2595.2945 |
2263 | | 2595.8305 | And why. | 2596.3467 |
2264 | DCB_se2_ag3_m_03 | 2596.8470 | My top five bands | 2598.8480 |
2266 | | 2599.0768 | of | 2599.8219 |
2268 | | 2600.9145 | all time would be | 2602.4684 |
2270 | | 2605.3369 | Northeast, | 2606.1564 |
2272 | | 2607.8434 | Backyard, | 2608.7528 |
2274 | | 2610.1388 | Junk Yard, | 2611.1508 |
2276 | | 2612.6773 | Chuck, | 2613.0605 |
2278 | | 2615.6894 | and | 2617.1467 |
2280 | | 2618.3360 | one more, | 2618.8760 |
2282 | | 2619.3897 | Lissen Band. | 2620.2252 |
2284 | | 2622.0293 | And why? | 2622.9573 |
2286 | | 2624.6120 | Junk Yard had that Southeast crank, | 2626.9909 |
2288 | | 2627.9009 | where | 2628.4582 |
2290 | | 2629.6039 | it was just | 2630.6492 |
2292 | | 2631.1685 | this | 2631.8124 |
2294 | | 2633.0487 | sound and- and | 2634.9380 |
2296 | | 2635.7096 | them beats that came through | 2637.6670 |
2298 | | 2638.4663 | and it was like raw. | 2639.9775 |
2300 | | 2640.6536 | You know. | 2641.1309 |
2302 | | 2642.2677 | Uh, | 2643.0331 |
2304 | | 2644.0346 | just a total different sound from | 2646.4720 |
2306 | | 2646.5678 | the other | 2647.1851 |
2308 | | 2647.2968 | four that I named. | 2648.7782 |
2310 | | 2649.5656 | Um, | 2650.3313 |
2312 | | 2652.2744 | Lead talker, | 2653.2157 |
2314 | | 2653.7751 | one of the best, | 2654.6532 |
2316 | | 2655.5207 | and they was one of the | 2656.9273 |
2318 | | 2657.2146 | bands that came out | 2658.2906 |
2320 | | 2658.8271 | when uh, go go first was in the scene. | 2661.1285 |
2322 | | 2662.5258 | Um, | 2663.3205 |
2324 | | 2664.9313 | well you know after you know all the- all like Chuck Brown and | 2668.6901 |
2326 | | 2669.3819 | uh, EU and all them dudes, | 2671.6490 |
2328 | | 2672.2201 | you know, | 2672.9172 |
2330 | | 2673.5612 | Class Band, you know what I'm saying it was a rack of bands back then but one of the ones that I remember when I was growing up. | 2678.9345 |
2332 | | 2679.7770 | You know with Heavy One, | 2680.6770 |
2334 | | 2681.4284 | and Winko, | 2682.1124 |
2336 | | 2682.6844 | you know what I'm saying them pockets that they used to | 2684.7918 |
2338 | | 2685.1271 | play. | 2685.4304 |
2340 | | 2685.8934 | And just the scene you know what I'm saying when you went to a | 2688.2801 |
2342 | | 2688.9445 | a Junk Yard show, | 2689.9898 |
2344 | | 2690.7007 | somebody was gonna fight all the time. | 2692.2180 |
2346 | | 2692.7655 | You knew that | 2693.3469 |
2348 | | 2693.5425 | but | 2693.9452 |
2350 | | 2694.2237 | you know what I'm saying it was just a different type of party. | 2695.9373 |
2352 | | 2696.8154 | Uh, backyard was a uptown band | 2699.2651 |
2354 | | 2699.4567 | from Northwest | 2700.3313 |
2356 | | 2701.2182 | and their sound was just totally different. | 2703.7939 |
2358 | | 2703.9233 | Buggy and Sauce had | 2705.5263 |
2360 | | 2705.7221 | a different type of | 2707.0999 |
2362 | | 2707.4159 | them pockets and them sockets and | 2709.1759 |
2364 | | 2709.7294 | the music section | 2710.8067 |
2366 | | 2711.4536 | you know | 2712.0416 |
2368 | | 2712.5024 | was | 2712.9081 |
2370 | | 2713.1157 | just- | 2713.5984 |
2372 | | 2714.7708 | I don't know man it was just- made you move and the- the particular songs that they | 2718.6557 |
2374 | | 2720.0766 | choo- chose to | 2721.3673 |
2376 | | 2721.7333 | you know, | 2722.2213 |
2378 | | 2723.0425 | play you know what I'm saying it was almost like a- | 2725.0488 |
2380 | | 2725.6342 | it was just like a top forties band you know what I'm saying, you do cover music. | 2728.5169 |
2382 | | 2729.5580 | and their own material that they made you know what I'm saying there would be a whole nother | 2733.6877 |
2384 | | 2734.3902 | type of- | 2735.2422 |
2386 | | 2736.6376 | type of- of- of- of sound whole nother type of | 2739.9318 |
2388 | | 2740.1075 | scene and places they used to have. | 2742.3101 |
2390 | | 2742.7790 | They used so bring some- some nice chicks. | 2744.6736 |
2392 | | 2745.0531 | Ah, I can't r- forget about Essence either. | 2747.1498 |
2394 | | 2747.9055 | So that's actually six. | 2749.3809 |
2396 | | 2749.6830 | Like, | 2750.0764 |
2398 | | 2750.2844 | I have a lot of | 2751.1306 |
2400 | | 2751.7213 | top ones you know what I'm saying, a lot of the- the young bands out there was some of my favorite bands to actually go see also. | 2757.3161 |
2402 | | 2757.7419 | But those are the most | 2758.7831 |
2404 | | 2759.0085 | you know what I'm saying the names that you would | 2760.3975 |
2406 | | 2760.5907 | actually remember, like you could ask anybody about those bands | 2764.0126 |
2408 | | 2764.5022 | and they'll be able to tell you something about 'em. Northeast | 2767.0247 |
2410 | | 2767.4931 | was considered more like | 2769.4036 |
2412 | | 2770.4323 | a Maryland band for some odd reason | 2772.3588 |
2414 | | 2772.6835 | or something. | 2773.2369 |
2416 | | 2773.4232 | You know what I'm saying cause a lot of Maryland dudes like from Landover | 2776.1232 |
2418 | | 2776.8504 | and uh, Suitland and all them | 2778.7131 |
2420 | | 2779.1670 | you know what I'm saying, they used to go see them. | 2780.9189 |
2422 | | 2781.4767 | But | 2781.8500 |
2424 | | 2782.7912 | that | 2783.1478 |
2426 | | 2783.5096 | sound right there was totally different, the pace | 2785.9167 |
2428 | | 2786.5766 | you know | 2787.1153 |
2430 | | 2787.4707 | was totally different. | 2788.6320 |
2432 | | 2788.8650 | Like, it | 2789.5264 |
2434 | | 2790.2274 | was kind of crazy how | 2791.4860 |
2436 | | 2792.2390 | you know the speed of what they playing | 2794.6830 |
2438 | | 2795.1357 | would actually make you move different | 2796.7163 |
2440 | | 2797.4933 | and put a- | 2798.3160 |
2442 | | 2798.6002 | a whole nother | 2799.5296 |
2444 | | 2800.5640 | perspective | 2801.4011 |
2446 | | 2801.6034 | to the sound that you getting and just uh- | 2804.2110 |
2448 | | 2805.0732 | Their music section was ridiculous they had a lot of | 2807.7501 |
2450 | | 2808.7186 | you know, | 2809.2418 |
2452 | | 2809.5026 | music that they- | 2810.6199 |
2454 | | 2811.1151 | They were almost like rappers | 2812.5094 |
2456 | | 2812.6850 | to me. | 2813.1214 |
2458 | | 2813.3981 | Cause | 2813.8888 |
2460 | | 2814.2603 | some of the parts in their songs were just, | 2816.7202 |
2462 | | 2817.4443 | you know, it was- was like- | 2818.6737 |
2464 | | 2818.9185 | And the way they were formulated was just totally different, they was like one of them put together bands to me. | 2823.3569 |
2466 | | 2824.2137 | Um, | 2824.8830 |
2468 | | 2825.8704 | Essence is one of the bands that I remember, | 2828.4960 |
2470 | | 2829.1114 | you know from the- from the early days. | 2831.1283 |
2472 | | 2832.2033 | They were just | 2833.0708 |
2474 | | 2833.6312 | like some of- you know what I'm saying, to me was like one of the pioneers. | 2836.9467 |
2476 | | 2837.6811 | And uh, their sound was more of a classy sound, like a more grown up | 2842.6639 |
2478 | | 2843.3958 | type of crank | 2844.5159 |
2480 | | 2845.2823 | you know, | 2845.8383 |
2482 | | 2846.0699 | and it was like, it'll put you in a whole nother | 2848.6792 |
2484 | | 2849.2114 | mind frame when you in there. And they always had like | 2852.2846 |
2486 | | 2852.5429 | bad chicks too like, you would love to go see- | 2855.4415 |
2488 | | 2856.0249 | see Essence cause they always brought | 2858.2495 |
2490 | | 2858.8349 | you know what I'm saying, some of the best chicks out, you know what I'm saying. | 2861.9135 |
2492 | | 2862.4058 | Them chicks that was like, actually on money but | 2864.7384 |
2494 | | 2864.9406 | you know what I'm saying, they could dress. | 2866.2659 |
2496 | | 2866.9310 | And they just smelled good all the time <laugh> stuff like that. | 2870.8904 |
2498 | | 2871.4172 | Um, | 2872.1463 |
2500 | | 2872.3768 | Chuck Brown | 2873.3933 |
2502 | | 2873.8935 | the originator. | 2874.8242 |
2504 | | 2875.7774 | You know, | 2876.3388 |
2506 | | 2876.7141 | I didn't start going to see Chuck until I got older. | 2879.5666 |
2508 | | 2880.3399 | So he would bring like a lot of the older crowds | 2882.9559 |
2510 | | 2883.0374 | but | 2883.4212 |
2512 | | 2883.9534 | his | 2884.4934 |
2514 | | 2885.1827 | mix of jazz | 2886.4227 |
2516 | | 2886.9815 | with that go go beat, | 2887.9948 |
2518 | | 2888.2923 | man it'd just put you in the zone. | 2890.4902 |
2520 | | 2891.4268 | It was nothing like it. | 2892.4114 |
2522 | | 2893.0340 | First time I ever seen him was at the Carter Barron, | 2895.4553 |
2524 | | 2896.0195 | in a outside show, it just the love that he get. | 2898.5729 |
2526 | | 2899.0014 | You know what I'm saying, even white people | 2900.3400 |
2528 | | 2900.8853 | used to come see Chuck, you wouldn't really see the- too many white people coming to see Backyard and Junk Yard and stuff like that that wasn't really they scene but | 2907.6935 |
2530 | | 2908.1991 | it was so universal with Chuck you know what I'm saying, anybody could come and- | 2911.8499 |
2532 | | 2912.4299 | and- and look- | 2913.0566 |
2534 | | 2913.2511 | look at uh, Chuck. | 2914.3460 |
2536 | | 2915.0233 | See Chuck. | 2915.5555 |
2538 | | 2916.0823 | Lissen Band | 2916.8806 |
2540 | | 2918.2164 | <ts> that was just a part of- | 2919.1424 |
2542 | | 2919.5149 | part of my life at- you know what I'm saying, when I was in my twenties like, I followed them | 2923.1832 |
2544 | | 2923.3695 | consistently. | 2924.0655 |
2546 | | 2924.8011 | And they had brought a new sound | 2926.8544 |
2548 | | 2927.1959 | to go go which was like | 2929.1134 |
2550 | | 2929.2464 | a smooth type of | 2930.9202 |
2552 | | 2931.7849 | R&B type of | 2933.7593 |
2554 | | 2933.9349 | funky | 2934.7492 |
2556 | | 2935.1802 | ass beats | 2936.3473 |
2558 | | 2937.0285 | and | 2937.6685 |
2560 | | 2938.2738 | you know the music section when they had the horns and everything, man they used to just | 2942.4701 |
2562 | | 2943.1326 | put you in that zone and just the party that they created | 2946.2911 |
2564 | | 2946.4923 | you know what I'm saying, nobody was in there fighting nothing like that. | 2949.4406 |
2566 | | 2949.8930 | It was more like the grown, the sexy type scene man, it- it was a | 2952.6913 |
2568 | | 2953.3964 | lot of times- | 2954.4084 |
2570 | | 2955.6581 | good times we had | 2956.7701 |
2572 | | 2957.0631 | with that band. | 2957.8401 |
2574 | | 2958.3722 | And I knew the- | 2959.2344 |
2576 | | 2959.5340 | we knew the lead talker so we used to get our names up on the- on the tapes, CDs and everything. | 2965.2443 |
2578 | | 2966.0532 | And uh, | 2966.9531 |
2580 | | 2967.4385 | that was a ritual. | 2968.2847 |
2582 | | 2968.5402 | You know what I'm saying like, every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday | 2971.4508 |
2584 | | 2972.1430 | and Sunday | 2972.9377 |
2586 | | 2973.2180 | we were | 2973.7609 |
2588 | | 2974.0429 | going to see | 2974.8051 |
2590 | | 2975.0062 | Lissen. | 2975.5274 |
2592 | | 2976.5351 | You know. | 2976.9565 |
2594 | | 2977.9507 | So. | 2978.4841 |
2596 | | 2978.8980 | I mean you could find something that you liked about | 2981.2340 |
2598 | | 2982.1443 | all the bands you know what I'm saying, any band that you went to go see. | 2985.0996 |
2600 | | 2985.4455 | How they- | 2985.9883 |
2602 | | 2986.6163 | how they ride the beat, you know what I'm saying, how the congo player | 2989.4963 |
2604 | | 2989.9637 | you know what I'm saying was- you know what I'm saying, you got tight congo players you had some congo players that was jai like /weak/ but you'll go | 2995.4887 |
2606 | | 2995.6483 | to you know what I'm saying, see the drummer | 2997.3513 |
2608 | | 2997.7680 | cause the drummer was tight. | 2998.8324 |
2610 | | 2999.3273 | Or the lead talker was vicious and the rapper was vicious or something like that you could always find something | 3004.7715 |
2612 | | 3005.3623 | out of some band that you like. | 3006.8274 |
2614 | | 3007.1733 | And it was just our music you know what I'm saying, it wasn't like | 3009.8182 |
2616 | | 3010.2866 | rappers come in and having a DJ in the background or something, this was a live band. | 3015.1675 |
2618 | | 3015.6739 | You know, it ain't too many people | 3017.1640 |
2620 | | 3017.9942 | to this day out there doing it like that unless they like on tours or stuff like that like rappers you know what I'm saying, they got their DJs and stuff. | 3024.5678 |
2622 | | 3025.2388 | But you know, you had a percussion section, you had a musical section, you had a horn section, you had the front line, | 3030.5186 |
2624 | | 3031.1636 | you know, bass players, guitar players, you know everybody playing a part. | 3034.7505 |
2626 | | 3035.3731 | And everything was just tight, | 3036.6891 |
2628 | | 3037.0868 | you just sit back and just listen to these dudes. | 3039.7067 |
2630 | | 3040.4252 | Vicious, and I'm a musician myself anyway so you know I had a- | 3043.6715 |
2632 | | 3044.3420 | a- a certain respect | 3045.8428 |
2634 | | 3046.4976 | for | 3047.1217 |
2636 | | 3048.0317 | the bands that came- | 3049.0945 |
2638 | | 3049.6708 | came up. | 3050.2094 |
2639 | DCB_se1_ag3_m_01 | 3052.8680 | Mm-kay. | 3053.5623 |