Several days of Saturdaze

[00:00:00] Go out to la Comin from the city where no pity is. Shell. Shell. Somebody need to do a song for la. Straight up. [00:00:13] Hello, my name is Elaine and I'll be your tour guide through South Central Los Angeles. Look, count my nose. Smoke up. I'm from California. Where you from? So what? I'm from California. California. California. California. This is Los Angeles. Well, where we going? West. Work? Yeah. [00:00:34] Mic check, mic check. One, two, one, two. [00:00:48] I need my. Where's my drink at? [00:00:56] And I'm back. How is everybody doing? It's been a while. [00:01:00] It's been a while and I understand. I've been gone for a while and you've seen the, the Power wars pop off. You know, Series one or whatever you want to call it, the first annual, you know, reigning mvp. Like I did a phenomenal job doing Power Wars. Currently they have. Well, nah, when this drop, I think Power Wars 2 would be over. You know what I mean? That was between my boy Radus. Riders Live Dolomite. Too much game Dolomite. You understand? [00:01:33] Compton's Finest. And then you got Smash. Big Smash. He'll explain all his L's later. Okay? And I thought, look, in all honesty, I feel like it was a very tough decision for me to make personally. Now I wasn't a judge. I didn't get to judge anything. But personally. And in my opinion, I opin. I shared my opinion. Well, not with everybody, but I have opinions for each and every round and I thought, I thought they did phenomenal. You know what I'm saying? Like to follow up off of what, you know, Smash and King German myself did, I don't think anybody could have matched the, the, the. The same type of energy. If you hear that AC on, I can't do nothing about it. N. It's hot outside. [00:02:22] But no, it was, it was, it was a good, it was a good matchup. At this time, I don't know who has won power wars series two. I don't know. [00:02:34] Shout out to 12 Cal. [00:02:36] Last time I spoke to 12 cow, which is part of the reason this episode has legs is because I'm piggybacking off of one of his episodes. Sparked an idea in my head. But when I spoke to 12cow, he said he wasn't, he wasn't a judge. So I don't know who them got to judge, you know, who, who's going to win or not. But we're here now. You know, there's no Power wars going on with, with me currently. I'm. I'm just putting out some great Content. I know it's been a while, but sometimes you gotta sit somewhere and handle some other type of business or. Nigga, I would just fatigue, just tired, just feel like dropping nothing at the end of the day. I think my latest episode was what my boy JT shout out to jt, you know what I'm saying? His interview. That's life, you know? [00:03:25] But right now, we gonna talk about, man, when I tell you this is a great episode, man, I want to share with y' all, because it's the same day, just a different life. [00:03:38] Hear me when I say this again. It's the same day, just a different life. And every Saturday tells a story. [00:03:46] Yeah, it's one of those Saturday episodes. One day, but many versions, you know what I mean? So that the Saturdays that made us, man, it wasn't nothing but a journey through life one Saturday at a time. Let me tell you, it was beautiful, man. It was beautiful. [00:04:04] But Saturday morning as a kid, top tier, top notch. I mean, what I'm sharing with y' all is this is pure several. [00:04:16] Just several different Saturdays, man. [00:04:18] But as a kid, I think you've heard plenty of people say this, but Again, check for 12 cow. Latest episodes. 1 of his latest episodes, he mentioned cereal, and he also mentioned one of my favorites, which is Cinnamon Toast Crunch, right? Didn't he? Didn't he? If he didn't, then he should have, because that is a top three cereal of all time. But you know what was cracking in the 80s and the 90s when it came to cereal? Frosted Flakes. [00:04:47] That was very popular back in the day. One thing that I did do as a kid, this was pertaining more towards school, though I didn't do it that much at home because they actually had a graham cracker cereal that I end up getting convincing my mom to buy. But in elementary, what we used to do all. Not just me, you know, not just me, but we didn't have that many. We didn't have the best selections of cereal when it came to the. The cereal bowls at school, right? I remember they had Kellogg's, you know, just regular Kellogg's, not Frosted Flakes. They had Rice Krispies, right? So they had it off the back. You got two cereals that needed to add sugar to it, right? [00:05:35] Raisin Bran. Those are the three that I remember the most, right? There could have been another one or something like that. Maybe even Cheerios was up in there somewhere. [00:05:48] But I do know for sure that Kellogg's not Kellogg's Frosted Flake, just a regular Kellogg's with the chicken on there. Remember? Remember they had like this green and red chicken and it was. That was Kellogg's, right? It was just called Kellogg's, if I'm not mistaken. [00:06:06] And then you had Raisin Bran. And Raisin Bran is we gonna have to talk about as a black community. I think Raisin Bran might be a black cereal, but we'll get to that at another time. [00:06:21] And then of course, I said Rice Krispies and it was the plain Rice Krispies I used to crumble up. [00:06:26] We used to get graham crackers at school. I used to crumble up my graham crackers and put them in. [00:06:32] It's some real jail shit if you really think about it. Prison shit. We didn't even think about that at the time because we didn't know what was going on behind the walls. But when you think about it now, that sound like some prison shit. We used to crumble up the graham crackers, put it in our cereal and eat it. [00:06:51] That was, at least. That was at my elementary. I can't speak to everybody else's, but at my 97th Street School, aka Charles Barrett, that's what we was doing. [00:07:03] But he mentioned cereal in his episode and that's the real thing. And we always went to go find the biggest bowl. If you go back and watch Friday, watch what bowl Craig grabs out of the cabinet. Okay. We all strive to find a big ass mixing bowl because we're going to eat cereal. You know, Froot Loops is up there too. You know, I don't, I don't care for it now and I haven't cared for it in a long time. But FR Loops was a thing, you know? [00:07:32] Yeah. Cartoons and cereal. Cartoons and cereal was a real thing. That was a match made in heaven right there. [00:07:40] You know, Saturday mornings was top tier, top tier. As a kid, you had to get your morning dosage of cereal and cartoons together. It was, it was lovely. It was a over. It was, it was overpowering of dopamine, nigga. You know what I'm saying? Waking up and watching. Because the Saturday morning cartoons was just for Saturdays. [00:08:03] Real talk. [00:08:04] We wasn't watching those same cartoons during the weekday. During the weekday, they had weekday cartoons. Tiny Toons, Batman X Men, you know what I'm saying? Bobby's World, Garfield. [00:08:18] They, they had, they had a lot of weekday cartoons, but then they had the weekend cartoons. And we know the weekend consists of Friday, I mean, Saturday and Sunday, but for the most part is the bulk of it was this. [00:08:36] It was pretty much Saturday, you know what I mean? So that was key. That was key, right there. Was to. [00:08:44] You gotta combine those two. You can't do one way out the other. You know, waking up on a Saturday morning as a kid, nigga, no responsibilities outside of gotta clean up that house. And it wasn't every Saturday, you know, so for the people out there that's not used to that type of content. Let me explain something. You might hear a lot of black people say this, but what they never mentioned was it wasn't every Saturday. You want to know why? [00:09:13] Because your parents didn't want to clean up the house every Saturday. [00:09:18] Maybe the grandparents, that's a different story. But the parents, hell no. Because especially if your parents at the time is in 8, early 30s, late 20s, early 30s, they still outside. [00:09:32] Friday night was a thing. [00:09:34] And Saturday night nights, we'll get to that, though. [00:09:38] Riding bikes. [00:09:40] Absolutely. GT dyno. Everybody didn't get those. And I didn't get one till later on. [00:09:47] And I think mine's a used too. I don't think I got one out the gate. You know, mountain bikes, you know, had. It didn't matter which bike you had. I mean, you know, you would bump up the popularity list if you was on the GT Dyno with the pegs. See, that's the thing. You had to have the bike accessories, too. N get the pegs. You know what I mean? Get the pegs. And I remember certain niggas used to get different handlebars or some shit like that. And that was the thing. We really was kid mechanics. Cause we used to take apart and put back together bikes, you know. And it wasn't that. [00:10:30] I wouldn't say that we had a passion for it. I think we just had a passion for the bike culture in general. Just riding around, you know, you had the pegs in the back, you had your homeboy on the pegs in the back, you know what I'm saying? Some of us was dangerously riding bikes. And having niggas on the handlebars, that was the thing before niggas got too palsy, you know what I'm saying? But the handlebars and the pegs, like, was. It was a thing. [00:11:00] That sounded crazy, though. [00:11:02] Handlebars in the peg with no context. It sounds crazy, but in regards of a bike, nigga, that's what I'm talking about. It was a thing. You had to have the accessories, the stickers that go on the bike and everything like that. GT Dinos was a thing, man. So the bike riding culture, you know, as a kid was top tier. Man, just playing outside in general, you know. And then what's not talked about a lot is the street lights. You know, you might hear some. Some people say, hey, man, N played outside relentlessly. Like parents. Some parents never knew where you went. You had a full fucking journey through that Saturday. And your parents did not know where the hell you was at. But all they, you know, what they did know is some kids did have to check in from time to time. Maybe, you know, a little strict where them niggas had to check in every hour on the hour, you know, and if they didn't check in on it every hour on an hour or slip up, niggas got in trouble and stayed in. Like, nigga, we went to home prison a lot. You know, punishment was a thing back then. Punishment don't mean shit nowadays. But punishment back then, yeah, that meant a lot, my nigga. Because when N came to your door, and it's even worse when your parents answer the door. You know what I'm saying? No, I think it depends. Like, if you answer the door, that's kind of crucial too, because you gotta look at nigga dead in his face and say, I can't make a big dog. And then what makes it even more worse than that is when something is cracking like, nigga, we got. Hey, we got nine. [00:12:40] We need one more. So we could hoop or we got this many so we could play football or we going to this place. We're going to the skating rink. We going over what you call a house. He got this. And it's like, nah, I can't go. Because you was either up at school, something like that. [00:12:58] And it was. I think mostly it was that he was just up at school when got on punishment. It was school. It was a school thing, you know what I mean? [00:13:07] Got their ass with dating, finish they chores. So that wasn't really, you know, you're gonna get your. That punishment is instant. But as far as, like, you know, you trying to hide that progress report or try to get home before that phone call happened, or delete that message. If your parents work the swing shift and your parents arrive at 10 or 11 o' clock at night, you in the bed still up. [00:13:33] Cause you wanna hear them play the messages on the phone. And then when you realize you actually did delete the message, nigga, then you good. Stupid ass. They gonna tell your parents anyway. [00:13:48] But remember the Saturdays that there's a couple of what I like to call. And I know there's an instant craze right now with the whole backroom content and the backroom movie. [00:14:03] But there was backroom Saturdays though. [00:14:06] Yeah, they are backroom Saturdays. And what I want to. How did they describe that? Like if you don't know what the whole backroom story is theory content is, then you need to go on TikTok, IG and or maybe even Twitter and type in backrooms and then go, go, go do the history of that, right? [00:14:30] And I think a lot of 80s babies have been attracted to the backroom content because some of the content has like a vintage nostalgic feel to it, you know what I mean? [00:14:44] But we had some backroom type Saturdays. [00:14:52] And what that mean is some Saturdays niggas is like gone. Maybe a family trip or. [00:15:01] And what I mean a family trip that's usually like n went over their grandparents house for the weekend or some niggas did fly back south or to the east for the summer or some shit like that. [00:15:14] Just something different where it's not your typical Saturday, you know, the cereal not hitting, the cartoon's not hidden, nobody at home, you know, or maybe it was that one friend that you wanted to kick it with that day and that nigga was not there, you know, or just one of them boring ass Saturdays. And like I said, if a get on put on punishment and he went into, he went into popular kids, it kind of fuck up the vibe a little bit. It can depending on what type of Saturday it is. [00:15:46] And we had some of those, man, you had, you know, you had one of those Saturdays where it was born. Then you also had those summer Saturdays, nigga, where that sun is out an extra, extra couple of hours, you know what I'm saying? So that kind of pushed the street lights back. Even though niggas, that streetlight rule on a Saturday, on a Saturday night might not hit as much, you know what I'm saying? Like it ain't that strict unless your parents go out. [00:16:19] Hey, let's not talk about. No, we gonna talk about it. Let's talk about, let's talk about the Saturdays where you went over your cousin house because your parents is going out. Your parents is going out Saturday night and they about to leave, they pick a house, you know what I'm saying? But you can go over your cousin's house or your cousin can come over there, nigga, you know what that mean? Unlimited video game playing, nigga. Unlimited video watching n Yo&TV. Well, I mean it ain't no Yo&TV raps on that late. [00:16:54] But at that time we did have mtv. We had other channels too. Hell, even The. The Playboy Channel. [00:17:03] If you had to chip you. Hey, if you had to chip in your. [00:17:11] In your cable box, niggas had it to ship. They need you. Didn't have to go back and forth. Remember, we had to change the channel back and forth to give a nanosecond of clearness, even. What's that? [00:17:27] Cinemax? I think it's Cinemax. And I want to say it's another channel, too. I can't really think of. They used to have soft porn on there or whatever. But that's what. That's the type of content that you get when your cousin is coming over. [00:17:39] Cousin or cousins come over, nigga. Unlimited video game playing, unlimited wrestling, or all wrestling, depending on how Southern and Southern California you are. Wrestling. [00:17:53] All kind of. [00:17:55] You know what I'm saying? And then, you know, we'll. We'll talk. We. We gonna elevate in. In a. In a few, though. But that phone call. You wait on that phone call. Cause they gonna check on you. You know what I'm saying? They gonna check on you before whatever they doing. They might have gone to the club back then. The clubs was big back then. Going to the clubs in the 80s and the 90s was different, right? [00:18:15] So they gonna call you just before they go on that motherfucker. And they definitely gonna call you probably a little bit before they about to leave. So now, you know, y' all gotta get shit together. Cause y' all got toys and shit everywhere. Y' all got action figures everywhere, my nigga. [00:18:29] So my question to y'. All. What did Saturday feel like to you, you know, when you were, you know, I don't know, anywhere between 8 and 11. [00:18:42] Say that. You know what I'm saying? [00:18:44] What did. What did those Saturdays mean to you? Now let's go to the next one. Oh, we talking about the teenager Saturdays. [00:18:52] Oh, my God. Talking on the phone was a thing. [00:18:56] Talking on the phone was a thing. But also catching the bus to the mall. Catching the bus. [00:19:02] You know, some of y' all niggas was privileged and y' all got y' all parents to drop y' all off and don't. And I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not hating. [00:19:11] I had to catch the bus majority of the time. But there was a few times I got dropped off by somebody else's parent. [00:19:17] I'm not sure if my mom ever dropped me off at the mall. If she did, it was one of those things where she dropped us off. But, you know, we'll find our way Back we used to catch the bus all the way to the South Bay Galleria. [00:19:30] For y' all that don't know, nigga, that's about a Solid hour. [00:19:35] Solid 45 to an hour ride on a bus. Bus is. You gotta get your transfer. My. No, well, yeah, well, it depends on where you catch the bus at, you know what I'm saying? You might have catch maybe one or two. [00:19:48] But if you can get to an area where, and that's if you walk in or if you stay near an area where that main bus goes there, then you got it. My. You got it. I remember my brother and his homeboys, they. But they all went to Hamilton. I went to Fremont at the time. And then they just caught express bus to Knott's Berry Farm. At the time, I didn't know the directions, I didn't know where what part of Knott's Berry Farm was in. All I did know is that it wasn't near la, was near where I stayed at, you know what I'm saying? And we took the express bus and that got on the freeway and now that I think about it, I'm not sure which one it got. I think it may have been a night. It could have been a 91 freeway for all I know. Because I know Knightsberry Farm is off the 91 Freeway. [00:20:35] And yeah, we caught the bus all the way to fucking Knott's Berry Farm, my nigga, you know, we just catch the 40 bus all the way to the South Bay Galleria, caught the bus to the Crenshaw Mall. [00:20:48] I think we may have. I think we may have caught the bus there. There's a low key mall and when I say low key was very low key. [00:20:57] Not that it was like a secret gym or anything like that, but we did have a homegirl work there and we went there just because we knew like they had Foot Locker and shit like that. You know, Stonewood Mall, that shit was in Downey. And what a lot of people don't know like Downey, we don't acknowledge them, you know what I'm saying? But it's still a city within our city. [00:21:24] And yeah, I mean, nothing special about the mall. That motherfucker was just a long strip. It wasn't. [00:21:30] It wasn't. No, you couldn't make no left or. No, you made a left or a right. You went right into a store. [00:21:36] That's exactly how that was built. Was built like a long ass lowercase L, you know what I mean? [00:21:45] But it was the mall, you know, also house parties, house Parties was key as a teenager. And that was both Friday and Saturday night, and a Friday and a Saturday night. That's two different type of parties. [00:22:00] That's two different type of parties. Cause you waking up the next day to two different type of days, nigga, you either waking up on a Saturday morning after a party, are you waking up on a Sunday after a party? And your ass might got to go to church if your mama make you, you understand what I'm saying? Or if your granny go. [00:22:18] But you know, house party, I mean, as a teenager out here, it was pretty dangerous. Pretty dangerous. Fucking dangerous at that, you know what I'm saying? Because you affiliated out the gate. If you're not born into the gang culture, are heavily influenced by the gang culture, you was definitely. You are you. [00:22:39] You are automatically an affiliate. Now. [00:22:43] Some gang members from different gangs will give you a pass. Even as an affiliate, you'll get. You'll get it. You have a better chance of getting a pass as an affiliate than another gang member. But you being a total stranger in somebody else's hood don't make it any safer than the nigga that is recognizable from a enemy's hood. No, they gonna. They own one. They trippin'. But you taking that R. It was more of a we didn't trust and believe. I didn't feel like being fucked with, and I got tired of asking. Answering the same fucking question I've been answering since I was a kid, you know what I'm saying? Where you from? You know how many times I had to explain to niggas where I was from? How many times I just. Until you get to the point where you just started brushing niggas off, you know what I'm saying? And for some niggas, that's not. That's not a smart. That's not a smart idea. But yeah, it got a little. Got a little dangerous, you know what I'm saying? But you took that risk because you knew these girls was going to be there. [00:23:51] You know, sometimes you got excited because seeing the girls that you see Monday through Friday and seeing them on a Friday night or a Saturday night, they. They acting different. You gotta have some content to come back to school with, you know what I'm saying? But not only that, you was really in a game. If you attended house parties that was thrown by girls or niggas that was from a different school, you know, going to a different school party or going to another different school was like going to another country for us, you know what I'm saying? Especially if you play like if you play sports you and. And I like I said I went to Fremont. Me playing against a school called the Kennedy High or Southgate, you know, I mean you got the Crenshaws, you got the Dorsey's, you got the manual arts, you got the lock height like highs is our rival. [00:24:50] But it didn't matter which school that we play. We lit them was formed, you know. And remember we a lot of us. I mean in the. [00:25:01] In the 12th grade, some niggas not alive. And it also depend on which school you went to. [00:25:09] But it wasn't a lot of I was driving. You know, a lot of did get there driving permit and very few had cars stepped their game up when they got a car in high school. That was crazy. [00:25:21] That was crazy. Your crush is a little different. Some get it. Some get their first crush in middle school. I actually got mine in elementary. I remember Tiffany. [00:25:34] I ain't seen Tiffany since. But no, some get they. They crush in. In elementary. Middle school in high school is is different because now it's like. [00:25:46] It's like it's pressure. [00:25:48] It's a lot of pressure my and emotions is going on. You know what I'm saying? Like the. [00:25:54] Because other like your crush too. [00:25:57] And she might like some other and you might not even be on her radar. That's a crusher right there. That is a crusher right there. You know what I'm saying? In high school can take that. You know what I'm saying? [00:26:09] Girls too. We knew about y'. All. [00:26:12] I used to talk to. I used to talk to certain crushes and. And I used to know the real deal. I used to know who she liked, you know what I'm saying? I know and I know how much she liked these served niggas, you know what I'm saying? That was the best part. When you knew. When you knew school dances was a. You know. You know, it was. It was. It. It was okay. We prefer the house parties more, but the school dances was. Was all right when you had the winter formal. Well, winter formal I think that was in middle school. If I'm not mistaken. Winter formal was in middle school. In high school we did have like a couple of events. I forgot what them shits was called though. [00:26:55] I forgot what it was called. [00:26:57] But you know, outside of prom, that is outside of prom, which is prom season. I didn't been to two champagne parties this year. [00:27:06] And that was another thing that I want to bring up too was. Was the champagne parties. It's different now, man. [00:27:13] And the Champagne parties was only on Saturdays. That's when problem was Saturdays, because you're gonna wake up Sunday morning talking all about it. Saturdays, the champagne peasies, right? [00:27:25] Usually the girl would throw the champagne party, you know, now it's like that shit, like a unisex type of thing. Now niggas is throwing the champagne parties, too? Nah, they champagne party was not in my Rolodex. And then even my prom date, I'm not. I got. I would ask her, but I don't think she necessarily had it. Yeah, I think she did have a champagne party, now that I think about it, it was over at her house, you know what I'm saying? So at my house, my nigga, my shit was dead as a doorknob. Like, the homie drove and he came and picked me up. And then we went to go. We went to go pick up our dates after that. So it was like, I ain't never want no champagne party. My mama made sure I was safe and gave me a hug and kiss. And then we backed out of the Dr. Driveway and we started headed. Headed further southeast. Let's go pick up our day. Go pick up our dates. [00:28:22] Yeah, champagne parties was crazy. Now, they. They ridiculous now, like, is overdoing it. Like, some of these champagne parties is costing more than weddings. And. And, you know, that's like, your chances of staying with your prom date is slim to none. Saying so are spending crazy money not just on the champagne party, but on the cars that they drive. [00:28:43] Look, call it hating. I'm just saying, y' all and y' all wasting money at this point. I went to. I went to prom in a Chrysler 300M, huh? [00:28:51] Yeah, at the time, it was popping, but I didn't go in a limo or I ain't going no Bugatti, but you know what I'm saying? [00:29:00] But back to it. We talked about the mall trips, talk about the crushes and, like, that being in the neighborhood was the thing, too, with teenagers, you know what I'm saying? Like, we. We still not too far away from being a kid. You know, we still are kids. Technically, we're just older kids, but niggas want to go hoop, you know? And you know what? It's almost a slight different. That kid. That child never leaves. You understand that? I don't want to speak for the. For the. For the women, because they can give you a better description on a Saturday mornings. I just. Speaking for the fellas, you know what I'm saying? Mostly. [00:29:36] But as a kid, like I said, you waking up early on yourself, like by yourself, I say, on yourself, by yourself. [00:29:47] And getting up and again on the search for that perfect cereal bowl and shit like that. As a teenager, my nigga, as a teenager, a lot of us on a regular was sleeping until 12, you know what I'm saying? Somewhere between 12, one o' clock was getting up on the Saturday late. Cause they just wanted to sleep in. We is tired of getting up at 6, 6:30 in the morning, getting ready to be by school by 7:30, you know what I'm saying? Like is tired, bro. [00:30:19] We're tired. [00:30:22] But yeah, I mean that kid, that kid never leaves. You might wake up in the morning, breakfast already been cooked about. [00:30:30] Breakfast has been cooked about two, three hours ago, you know what I'm saying? You can smell it. But you just in bed being lazy than a, you know what I'm saying? Don't get me wrong, those Saturday cleanups is still a thing. It's just not as much, you know what I'm saying? You're not a kid anymore. So depending on how many siblings you got in the house, plus yourself, it's not like you got toys and laying around, not like you've been jumping on furniture and like that. As a teenager, you probably going to your room a little bit more. Your privacy is a thing now, you know what I'm saying? So you just gotta make sure the motherfucking dishes is clean and that trash is taken out, you know, a little bit more slick on trying to hide that progress report and things of that nature. So, you know, you picking up a little bit of game. Now my question to you again is who was you trying to impress on Saturdays, nigga? [00:31:20] Now we get to the young adult stages. [00:31:23] Shit. [00:31:24] Just finished talking about it with your parents. [00:31:27] That's the clubbing in the lounge. [00:31:30] That's the club in the lounge years right there. As the young adults, we talking about a solid, we Talking about solid 18 all the way to, we talking about at least all the way to like, let's just say 25, that's a safe one. 18 to 25, you know. And I say peak years, peak years is definitely between the peak years is definitely between 21 and I would say 21 and 24 peak years, clubbing and lounge years, you know what I'm saying? [00:32:06] Now this is. [00:32:08] The house parties are different. The house parties are more laid out like a club in a way, you know what I'm saying? [00:32:16] It's a little bit more mature. Backyard boogies is a thing, you know, I, I, I know that's Special, That's a specialty we have out here in la. I'm pretty sure there's backyard boogies in every different state in the country. But out here we specialize in backyard boogies as a specialty. Now house parties, like I said, a house price is a little bit different. Is throwing house parties and, and, and, and, and they dorm rooms, apartments that they got had two or three bedroom apartments, but eight roommates. [00:32:53] Like I get. Like again I mentioned the dorms, you know what I'm saying? You running through the dorms and shit like that. At least that first, that first year or two, you running through them dorms because first year, that's all experience, you know what I'm saying? Like you, you 17, 18 in the college dorms. Whether, whether you attended the university or not, whether you attended the JC or not, whether you attended the Cal State or not, niggas was in n. Was in those dorms, you know, niggas in Paris, no niggas in dorms. That's what, that's what was going on, you know what I'm saying? [00:33:32] At this point, do your friend, do you still got the same friends from elementary, that's another thing. [00:33:38] On them Saturdays, how many friends did you keep from them past Saturdays? [00:33:44] Do you still got your, your young age friends, your elementary friends and middle school friends from those Saturdays? You still got your teenage Saturday friends, your young adult nigga, your young. Because now we talking about these niggas is blood and blood out. [00:34:03] I get into a fight, you got to help me. Regardless, that's what it was. Now we talking about girlfriends, we talking about relationships, we're talking about the, the beginning of like not even a tutorial because the tutorial would be teaching. But this is like, this is the origin stories of hearts being broken, emotions being tampered with. [00:34:28] The way you look at life is being shifted at this point because now you did you dealing with hot asses, you dealing with hot pans. That's what the older women used to call a younger woman, the hot pants, right? [00:34:43] You dealing with niggas with egos, you know what I'm saying? Broke niggas at that. We used to have to pay. [00:34:50] What was it? Nigga? It was free before 10. Find you a club or party promoter, get close to that person, be friends and shit like that. Get your name on that list. Okay, this is the. Get your name on that list error. This is the dating era. This is the, the origin story of your dating error. See that shit? In high school, we don't count, you know, you could have had a girlfriend or a boyfriend in high school. That shit ain't nothing as. That's the, that's the, that's what they call that shit the puppy. The puppy love stage and shit like that. Now when you get to college, you got these raven hormones. [00:35:29] They go on both, both genders, okay? [00:35:33] And they're free. [00:35:35] You're free. You're away from your parents. Some of you is in a whole different state than your parents. Some of you is in a different city, you know what I'm saying? Like you're away from your parents. No matter what, your parents will have to drive and get to you for the most part, right? I don't know too many people who parents stayed around a corner from their university, but this was, this was, this was key. This was. [00:36:02] And around this time we got the, got the car clubs or we got the. That was free. Doing free advertisement for all kind of different products. Had the Snickers Monte Carlo. [00:36:17] No, did like that. Had the Dr. Pepper, Nissan Maxima, you know what I'm saying? No. [00:36:25] Was putting Lamborghini doors on Ultimas. [00:36:30] Yeah, was all the way. We was influenced by hip hop so much. [00:36:36] Did the most when they got they fafsa, when they got their financial aid check, got their finance. Some of these niggas took, took out loans. The young adult, this is where you up your credit right now, brother, is when y' all started taking out those loans. [00:36:55] Took out those loans and y' all got them, y' all got them upscale apartments down there in Marina Del Rey. [00:37:01] The rent was 3,000 at the time, all right? But they paid the rent. They build you when you left that, all right, you had a couple of room, you had roommates coming from everywhere, all right? That's why you should have took your dumb ass today and did. Some niggas did start. Some niggas did start out at. In the dorms and then graduated to the apartment. That's when niggas was working at Target or working at a fast food joint. Niggas had part time jobs. It was very rare that you had niggas working full time jobs and going to school full time. That was a struggle for the college years. Top Ramen. Part timeness, full time school, you know what I'm saying? Academic probation again. Dorm parties, lounges. The lounges. And we had to switch up our attire thanks to Jay Z and David Stern. You know, David Stern started making wear button downs and slacks or oversized jeans and shit like that because Allen Iverson was too ghetto for them. [00:38:10] And Then the clubs was like, the clubs was like, you know, too many niggas. [00:38:16] Too many niggas was up in there. So they was like to eliminate some of these niggas and bring a more upscale crowd. [00:38:23] You niggas got to wear formal attire. That, that era right there was crazy. When you seen girls up in there with the Kelly Bundy dress or the niggas or, or, or, or the, the office fucking suit jackets with the skirts or the, or the tights with the gold belt buckle. Like it was like some updated 80 shit. No lie, no lie. Niggas wore button downs. Like I have proof. I got pictures of me with. If you see me with a button down in my early, my early adult years, that was because I was the dress code. You know what I'm saying? Jeans was, it was kind of tricky. Yeah, jeans, I mean, jeans was a thing, but it couldn't just be any kind of jeans. [00:39:17] Steve Madden. Steve Madden for sure. That was the go to. That was the affordable thing. [00:39:24] Affordable casual shoe to wear was those Steve Maddens. [00:39:29] It wasn't letting you in there with no Js. I'm sorry, 12. This was a different time. They wouldn't let niggas in there with J's, you know. [00:39:38] No, no, no, no, no. Maybe later down the line. They was like, we with the 11s. The 11s can get you in. You know what I'm saying? But nah, it was, it was Steve Madden. [00:39:52] If you knew, if you knew the bouncer or if you knew the promoter, he might let you slide in with the Chucks. Might, he might. [00:40:02] But for the most part, like, nah, nigga. Cause some clubs wasn't. They didn't have that control. They could bring the crowd, you know what I'm saying? They can do their business, but we got a heavy dress code. The dress code was crazy. And then when Jay Z confirmed it, he was like, yeah, n. I'm. It's button down to me. [00:40:22] That's when it really got. [00:40:24] Yeah, that's what we gotta do. [00:40:27] So it was the excitement of freedom, man. Staying out until sunrise, my nigga. You know, out here, the clubs close at 2 o'. Clock. No matter across the board, you know, but it's the after spots. You got after spots. [00:40:42] You got going back to the, you know, going back to the dorm, that's an after spot. Or going to Denny's was a thing as the food might be average or whatever, but it wasn't even about the food. It was just, we needed somewhere to go and so niggas went To Denny's. We're gonna go to Denny's. We're gonna get this sampler platter. Does it come with wings and onion rings and mozzarella sticks or some like that? Like we're. And that's what. This is what we're gonna eat and get some pancakes, you know, Parking lot pimp a little bit. [00:41:17] You always trying to. You're trying to bag something. You're trying to go. Which was we. Which was kind of crazy when you think about it, because everybody was roommates. [00:41:28] Nobody during the college area era stayed by themselves. [00:41:32] So it's like you, you, you just hope got multiple rooms and you hope certain lose so they can stay out fishing while I take something back. You know what I'm saying? If maybe you had niggas push Crunchies on the doorknob. [00:41:48] I know. Nah, can't tell that story. [00:41:52] My question to end this one is, what was your favorite Saturday night outfit? Huh? King Jar, did you have a favorite Saturday night outfit? And it doesn't have to be like, to the T, like, what did you like putting on on Saturday night when you knew, like, I'm gonna kill these going out like this going on. Yo, we had to throw back jerseys too. [00:42:20] Maybe on another time I'd tell you what. Throw what throwback jerseys I bought. Yes, I was one of them Eastside right there. [00:42:30] The red monkey jeans, Reggie Theus King's jersey. [00:42:37] All kind of. When the throwback jersey era popped up in the early 2000s, who you think was first in line? [00:42:44] You understand? So who was you trying to. Who are you trying to impress for you, dog? [00:42:50] And then we got. [00:42:52] Then we got that era where was just trying to get money, you know what I'm saying? You. You heard me mention. [00:42:59] You heard me mention party promoters and like that. That was the whole. I never got into that. I never did. And shout out to the who because they had so much. [00:43:08] They had connections. That to me, that's one of the. That was a one type tier hustling job right there. I did. I did appreciate some. Not all. Some of the party. Party promoters. Remember Marcus with the two braids. And then what was my other. What was the SA homie name? I can't think of the SA homie name that used to. We used to go to all of his. My boy Dabby used to know him. I forgot his name, though. [00:43:34] Damn, I can't think of his name. [00:43:36] Those was like. And then of course Butter. But those. We had top tier. [00:43:43] We had top tier party promoters, my nigga. We did we did. You had to be in and out. And the thing is, the reason why I respect the party promoters is because you had to have a certain level of charisma, you know what I'm saying? Not only that, like you knew niggas, and not just that you knew niggas from the high school that you went to, but you knew niggas from every different high school in la. You knew and you knew niggas from that went to this college, that college, this college, and that the third you knew. And because you was a business mind, some niggas was more business minded than others. But this is the hustler era. On Saturdays, you know what I'm saying? You got a side hustle, you working on the weekends. [00:44:26] Did you ever get to that? Because you trying to stack money at the time, you really don't know why. You just know you need the money. Maybe it's just to survive. Maybe because you might have, you might have your first baby on the way, you might have your first child on the way. [00:44:41] You know this is that era, right? It's that fuzzy little gray area between a young adult and nigga 30 is knocking on the door anywhere between there. It's dangerous. It's dangerous. Cause that's the 24 to, that's that 24 to 27 get real funky, you know what I'm saying? Real funky. That means you still can go to the club, you still can go to the lounges. They different though, you know what I'm saying? Because you don't want to be the, you don't want to be the 27, 28. You don't want to be the 28, 27, 26 year old in the same club with the 2221 year olds, you know what I'm saying? That's different. The music is different. [00:45:24] That's six, seven years of just being different. That means when I was about to graduate, you was still playing hopscotch in middle school, you know what I'm saying? Maybe on your way to middle school or some shit like that. It's different. It gets different is ugly now again, hormones are still raging at that. [00:45:44] During that, that age era though, you, you pick up a little bit of game. [00:45:49] That's not saying that you know what to do, but you know how to operate your Saturdays. You know how to sacrifice some of your Saturdays to make some money, you know what I'm saying? And maybe you a. That's opening and closing in the store on a Saturday. And now you get into that Saturday night, that's different. [00:46:05] That's different. If you working for FedEx on Saturday morning and you closing at like, I don't know, four or five o', clock, six o' clock or something like that, you got, that's top tier prime time. Now you got time. You got enough time to get home, chill, take a shower, get dressed and be out the house by 9, 9, 9:30, maybe 10, because you driving straight there. You know what I mean? [00:46:32] So that's a different era right there. You, you, you might be missing it low key. You might be missing some events to get your grind on on that type of Saturdays. Just your entreprene, you know what I'm saying? You trying to get ahead at this point, but you still trying to party a little bit. Still trying to party a little bit. [00:46:49] So my question to you to wrap that up is, when did Saturday start feeling like, when did it start feeling like a day off, you know what I mean? And I tell you what, you got that parent Saturday. [00:47:05] Life went by so fast, my nigga. You just had a bowl of cereal. [00:47:10] You was just watching the MC Hammer cartoon. [00:47:13] You was just talking on the phone with your homegirl. You was just on a party line with your homies, huh? You just left that house. Party nigga started. You was pregaming in the parking lot before walking into the lounge. [00:47:30] Now, all of a sudden, my nigga, you get off of work on a Saturday night, you come home, blink, blink. [00:47:41] You had gymnastics practice. [00:47:45] You are at a Pop Warner football game, AAU basketball tournaments. [00:47:55] What the is $40 a person? [00:47:58] You start dressing up so you can sneak in, huh? You gotta get your kids up on a Saturday, feed them motherfuckers pancakes. [00:48:09] These niggas is pouring half of the bottle of syrup on one pancake. [00:48:14] This person, this motherfucker don't eat eggs. This motherfucker want boiled eggs and not scrambled eggs. [00:48:24] You gotta get there on time. They forgot they jersey. They forgot they shoe. [00:48:29] Now we gotta go, we gotta go up the street to go get you some shoes to play in. [00:48:33] Now we gotta go get you a default jersey to play in. [00:48:39] Now you gotta look, you the only one out there with a, with a compression on or with a white tee on looking stupid because you forgot. Or we gotta go get you a black tee because your team got a, got dark jerseys and we don't want you to get confused with the other team. So we gotta go run to the mall real quick and go grab you something because your dumb ass left your goddamn jers on top of the bed. [00:49:03] That's where we at birthday parties. You don't want to go. Let me let y' all niggas in on the secret. [00:49:10] We do not want to go to no fucking birthday parties on Saturdays ever. But we will because we have to. [00:49:18] But if you ask us, and we do have a choice, without any type of repercussions, we will stay home. [00:49:25] We love being men. Love me. [00:49:31] Successful black men who have been through the struggle love to be at home on Saturdays. [00:49:38] We love to be at home on Saturdays. But we knew that one or both of our parents didn't come to the game when we played. We played in total. [00:49:49] We played in front of total strangers our whole lives, you know what I'm saying? We got cheered on by total strangers our whole lives or from other people's parents or relatives. [00:50:02] You said, I'm not gonna do my kids like that. I'm gonna be at every event. Nigga, you're tired. [00:50:09] You're tired grocery shopping. [00:50:11] Hmm? Grocery shopping on Saturdays. You gotta re up for the fucking week that's coming up at both. Half. 50% of the groceries is for the fucking kids. [00:50:28] Daddy, daughter, dances, recitals. [00:50:33] Like I said, you waking up at six o' clock in the morning because y' all gotta go play a team. Y' all gotta go play the. The. In the ie Ducks. Y' all gotta go play the ie Ducks and ie. So now you gotta drive an hour, an hour back east to go play the IE ducks at 10 o'. Clock. You got to get up at 6, make these niggas a good breakfast because you think it's a fucking. [00:50:59] You know, you superstitious. So you go make. You go make them the same breakfast. Not too. Nothing too heavy on the stomach, but heavy enough to energize you. [00:51:11] And you got to get on that freeway. [00:51:14] Family outings. [00:51:16] Now you're going on vacations and. Or not even vacations. You might take them to Dockweiler beach for the weekend, do the whole glamping thing, fishing, going to the Drew League or some like that gotta do with your kids on those Saturdays, you know what I'm saying? [00:51:37] Again, depending on how old your parents is, like I said, we. I still want to go out. Now, I stay in an area where we got some amenities in my. In my. In my area. So that's. That's close to going out. At least I know I'm not too far away from my out. And that's the thing. Don't want to go out because don't want to drive all the way back. [00:52:01] We don't want to drive too far away from the house on Saturdays, you know what I'm saying? [00:52:05] So my question is, when did Saturday become about everybody else? [00:52:11] Huh? [00:52:13] Yeah, now I want to, we coming towards the end with these Saturdays. And I got one more, I got one more I want to talk about the single Saturday versus the married Saturday. [00:52:27] It kind of correlates with what I said in the beginning. But sleeping in. [00:52:33] Oh, we going now we're going back to the teenage years. [00:52:36] We not going to sleep quite till like 12. No, our internal clock is going to wake us up way before that. [00:52:43] But sleeping in to like 7 or 8 o'. Clock. Oh my God, that shit is so beautiful. It's so beautiful to sleep in that time. Date nights, that's important. [00:52:54] Date nights on Saturday is important again. You gotta go to practice on Saturdays in the morning. Shit, you gotta go to practice. You might have to go to practice on fucking Friday nights, who knows? [00:53:09] And then don't let somebody have a champagne party. That's. You have to go to champagne parties as an adult. And guess what, sometimes they might interfere with your evening because now you got to see them off to prom. And prom, that shit don't start until like seven, you know what I'm saying? So the champagne party gonna start around four or five, you know, family responsibilities. [00:53:36] Now you paying bills, you taking care of. You got to take these to Kaiser because they got allergies or some shit like that, you know what I mean? [00:53:46] That's what you got to do on Saturdays now. Relationship growth. This one you take time to reflect because Saturdays are beautiful. Saturdays is probably one of the most beautiful days in the week. It's a Saturday, man, just a Saturday. Just, just watch, just pay attention. From a Saturday that starts at like 5:30am, 5:30am to like, to like 1 to the next morning. [00:54:17] No, I would say about 11, 11:30. It's just a beautiful thing. [00:54:24] Just a beautiful thing when, when you just, you understand who you are at this point. Now you got kids now you're thinking about all this shit that you did on Saturdays. And these niggas ain't nowhere near close to that. Yeah, you outside because you got to take these to some shit that you would have wanted to do with your parents. [00:54:44] Now you doing it with them. These don't even want to be. He don't want to be no five star running back. [00:54:50] No, this wants to be a streamer. [00:54:53] This wants to stream all day Saturday. [00:54:56] He wants to eat processed food, sweets, and drink some of the most craziest sodas. You could think of eating some Takis and talking to niggas on his laptop or computer. [00:55:12] That's what he wants to do. [00:55:14] You just want to chill. You want to watch college football, you know what I'm saying? College basketball. That's what Saturdays is for. A real nigga right now. [00:55:25] That's what you want to do. You might catch a throwback movie, like one of the greatest movies of all time. Probably. Most likely top 10. Could be top five. [00:55:36] And the sandlot, you gonna see. The sandlot is gonna be on fx on a random Saturday, you flicking the channel. This is if y' all niggas still got cable or something like that. [00:55:47] And you just catch sandalwood, nigga, you just. You leave it there. [00:55:51] You leave it there. You might even take a Saturday nap. [00:55:55] You might even take a Saturday nap and wake up and it's like 5:30, but it looks like it's 12pm and it's just. It could be one of those Saturdays where it's just boring. Nothing too much going on outside. It looks great. [00:56:13] You know, there's nothing to do. You like. Man, I could. Barbecue is very important on a Saturday. For the old talk about it, we will. We'll find a reason to barbecue. [00:56:24] And the thing is, we got this type. We got barbecue weather at least 75% of the year. At least might be higher, but we got. We'll just trick ourselves. Oh, the sunlight is on. Let me go barbecue. [00:56:40] Let me go barbecue. You know what I'm saying? [00:56:43] So as we wrapping up, man, I just want to say I enjoyed these Saturdays, you know what I'm saying? [00:56:54] I enjoyed these Saturdays because Saturdays you had the Saturday sounds your neighborhood. You knew the Saturday sounds of your neighborhood. Elote, high tamale early in the morning, ice cream trucks. When's the last time you heard a great ice cream truck? Even though it has been told and that I've since learned that a lot of those ice cream truck tunes was built off of heavy racism. Okay? That's what I was told. [00:57:28] Nonetheless, it's a familiar sound, you know what I'm saying? The car wash. Car wash money had to go up on Saturdays. N is out there trying to make sure they shine up. They Mustang 5.0 with the dates, spokes, basketball Saturdays, music playing from the windows. Cleaning up Saturdays at the local park music. Saturdays, you gonna hear some poc. How long will they moment you gonna hear that? Okay, Barber shops. [00:58:05] That's all across those Saturdays. As I just finished talking about different stages, but it's still the same thing every One of those eras was sitting in a barbershop chair on a Saturday. [00:58:18] It was a beautiful thing. It was a beautiful thing. There's nothing like a South Central Saturday. [00:58:23] Nothing like an Inglewood Saturday. A Venice Beach Saturday, nigga. A Lakers playoff Saturday. A Dodger game Saturday. [00:58:31] Elite Saturdays, my nigga. Some of y' all niggas got y' all first kiss on the Saturday, nigga. Maybe y' all kid was born on the Saturday. You going into graduations on a Saturday, a wedding on a Saturday. You know what I'm saying? Did you? I don't know. If I ever lost a loved one on a Saturday, that'd be a crazy one. You ever had a championship game on a Saturday? I have maybe a life changing conversation on a Saturday. [00:58:59] Nonetheless, nigga, what was the one Saturday you'll remember forever? [00:59:06] Who knows, man, But Saturday was the thing. You gotta appreciate Saturdays, man. You gotta love them. From the bmx, the BMX bikes, to the Nintendo, the cereal, the cartoons, the boombox, the pagers, the food court, the house party flyers, the CD players, the baggy jeans. [00:59:27] Yeah, yeah, nigga. The Saturday they fell in love. The Saturday they got in trouble. The Saturday they graduated. The Saturday they became a parent. The Saturday they lost someone. And the Saturday that changed everything. [00:59:43] Seven different Saturdays. My big smash. [00:59:49] Go ahead and read in the room. [00:59:52] You know what cheating looks like in a healthy relationship, right? [00:59:56] Watching the next. Turn that off.