We at the mall

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Go out to la Comin from the city where no pity is. Shell. Shell. Somebody need to do a song for la. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Straight up. [00:00:13] Speaker A: Hello, my name is Elaine and I'll be your tour guide through South Central Los Angeles. Look, count my nose. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Smoke up. [00:00:20] Speaker A: I'm from California, where you from? [00:00:23] Speaker B: So what? [00:00:24] Speaker A: I'm from California. Cal, California. Cal California. This is Los Angeles. [00:00:30] Speaker B: Well, where y'? [00:00:33] Speaker A: All? [00:00:33] Speaker B: I just realized the Fox Hills Mall is one of the only malls in LA that's still like popping, right? It is all. Every spot is booked. This is a fully alive living mall. And I think a big part of it is cuz they have the Target in here, they have the Best Buy. They have like a little doctor's office in here and like it could be a one stop shop, right? The parking is. If you know how to park here, you're good. I'm not telling you where to park. Okay, fine. Just go straight to the roof of Bark by Target. All right? Stop telling people unless they're from la. But like I just know real everywhere. Like the delamo is dead. The South Bay Galleria is dead. The Glendale Galleria. I have, well, I have never been there a long time. [00:01:25] Speaker A: I don't know. So you notice how he said that? You know the Target and the Best Buy is attached to it. Shout out to 12 cows. Shout out to King Jern. King Jerm had a special request that we, you know, kind of talk about the mall culture between back then and now. And 12 Cal actually has a. He actually has a mall episode where he talks about going to the mall back in the 80s, which that was dope. Cause in the 80s I can only. I was always attached to an adult because I was a kid in the 80s, you know what I'm saying? I didn't, you know, I didn't turn 10. I didn't get to double digits until 92. So up until then I was actually just going to the mall and it was with my mom. We used to have the Hearthon. We used to have a mall called Hearthon Mall. And that motherfucker been shut down since I was in high school. They shut down back in high school. My. And it's. The building's still there. Nobody ever did that. Shut down. I was in. I was in high school from 97 to 2001, right. And that shut down, I want to say when I was in the 9th or 10th grade and. But that building has been there ever since. I think the only thing that they opened up was a county. It was some county or something like that. But yeah, that used to be a mall he mentioned the South Bay Galleria, the Llama Mall. You also had what you got. You got the. You got the Groves, you got the Beverly Center, Crenshaw Mall, you know, and then of course, you got our most famous. Our most famous mall is Fox Hills between Fox Hills Mall and the Llama Mall from back in the day because the Llama was a huge ass and still there, don't get me wrong. But old, the Llama Mall shut down. The new one is cracking, just more upscale. This like some. Something out of. There's a part of it that look like it could be in Miami or some shit like that. It's money over there. But yeah, no, when you think about it, Amazon killed them all. I think. I think 12 Cal mentioned that in his episode to me, Amazon killed them all. Meaning you can go online and see what you want to see. You ain't got to stand in line. The Jordan things used to be a thing. The Jordan line. Or not even just Jordans. I'm just saying that because when. Whenever he dropped one of his signatures, niggas stood in line for him. But it wasn't just Jordans, you know what I'm saying? There was. There was other shoes out there that. That caused. Cause, you know, caused some issues where they had to start passing out. What do they call them? Damn, I forgot what they called. But anyhow, niggas stood in line for shoes going to the video game store, you know what I'm saying? GameStop or KB's Toys. See, I listened to 12 Cal and he said by the time that he was going to the store as a teenager, he wasn't. He was too old to play with toys. Totally agree. Totally agree. By the time I got to. By the time I got to high school, maybe a little, maybe after the ninth grade, because I was still heavy into wrestling up until, like, I want to say the 11th grade. 11th, 12th grade. I didn't continue to watch wrestling like that out of high school. It was like watching here and there. But like, when I was really into it, when it was called the wwf, when it was the Federation, before it was the entertainment. Yeah, I was, I knew the storylines and like that. I was. I'm. I'm back there when, When Hulk and, and, And Macho used to fight over Elizabeth. You know what I'm saying? So that's. That's my, you know, that's my origin story. That's my beginning error right there. Right? But by the time we got to. When they started Drafting and stuff like that. The tail end of my career with wrestling and shit. But Blockbuster, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm adding Blockbuster. Not saying that it was. It wasn't attached to the mall, but it was not. It wasn't too far away. It wasn't too far away. It was always a Blockbuster or a Hollywood Video somewhere near that fucking mall, you know. And going to the mall, y' all heard me say on the episode before, I used to catch the 40. The 40 bus used to go all the way to the. There was some other buses I had to catch. Cause I stayed on the east side. So I had to catch some. Some bus to get to that bus stop where you can get on a 40 and take that all the way to South Bay Galleria. South Bay Galleria was a solid ball, you know what I'm saying? They had. Oh, e. What was it called? EB Electronic Boutique. That's another place where you can buy video games. I bought. I bought Ice Cubes, War and Peace. I bought the Nation Riders, Rip Riders CD and the Damu Rider CD from there. And I bought Knockout Kings. So back then, I was big on buying. I. I'm again, I'm like 12 cow. I didn't have money like that. I mean, I had money at one point. I had my own money when it came to, I want to say, 11th and 12th grade when I started getting summer jobs like Clean and Green Magic Mountain. I bought my own Dreamcast with my one. My own money. That was a hundred dollars at the time. That was a lot, though. But, yeah, I got a. I got a Dreamcast. And then, like I said, I bought my own Knockout Kings, Nationwide, Rip Riders and Damu Riders cd. Yeah, and Ice Cube, War and Peace. I bought that. But, yeah, going to the mall was. That was it. And it was usually a Saturday type of thing, you know what I'm saying? That's the one place where multiple kids from various schools can meet up at in one location, you know. Now for the fellas, that's giving you opportunity to go holla at some chicks that you, you know, you either go and get their number because we didn't have. We didn't have the Internet back then. The Internet back then. When I was in high school, only thing that I could remember was the. They used to have all the stats and from sports and you can get to, you know, save images and shit like that if you wanted to add it to your Black Planet page. Shit. But yeah, so we didn't have any platforms back then. You know, because the platforms didn't pop off till my college years. That's when we had catch 20. What was it called? Catch 21 or some like that. MySpace, Facebook wasn't popping like that. What else? Black Planet. We talked about that we had aim. And these are all not. I'm not talking about in order, but these are the shit that came up later on down the line. So when we at the. When we at the mall. 12 Cal is right again. A lot of us didn't have money. So we did a lot of window shopping. Although, you know, we did have. Especially when it came to the summertime. Because summertime is what. That's usually when you go school shopping. You're going back to school shopping before you go back to school. But summertime was a thing. Cause now you're going to get summertime clothes. So, you know, we was going to stores like Eddie Bauer and that was expensive back then. Eddie Bauer had some shit. I had two pairs of Eddie Bauer canvas shoes. I stayed with the Eddie Bower polos or T shirts, you know what I'm saying? My brother had a pair of Eddie Bauer jeans that I used to wear that was wearing. But we was all wearing baggy jeans back then. Do you remember Pac wearing them? Baggy ass. Carl Kai fits. I'm not saying I was dressing like that, but it was some jeans damn near almost big like that. But Eddie Bauer was a thing, you know, Tommy Hilfiger, Fubu, Miyoshi, Mecca Academics, Nietzsche or nyc, whatever you want to call it. We had a lot of different, you know, clothing brands and stuff like that. And that was all at the mall. Unless you knew about the spots downtown for the cheaper, you know, or the Garden of Swap meet. But any. And. And the rumor was, you know, the swap meets had the knockoffs or they had the ones that fell off the truck. So, you know, I didn't. I didn't care. But we did do tag check in high school. But yeah, we going to the mall and we going to the mall, we don't have a lot of money. Usually when we're sent to the mall with money we already got damn near almost the exact change or a little bit over of what we about to go get. It's gonna be a hat, it's gonna be some shoes. And the shoes was like a trophy walking through that. You know what I'm saying? Cause gonna want to see what you got. You don't want to put them on though. You already got your fresh kicks on though. But you not ending. But for some Some were smart and they water flip flops. And then it's like I'm just gonna wear it, you know and then switch over when I get the shoes. But for the most part, if you came out that foot locker or that foot action with a pair of kicks, that was it. He was a man for sure. You, I mean but you had a lot of competition because was some certain, certain was getting sent dropped off because like me, I don't remember getting dropped off at the mall a lot. It may had happened a couple of times. I may even got picked up from the mall a couple of times. But the ratio was nasty. My, I done caught the bus way more. We even had some bunk malls too. Like Stonewood Mall in Downey. That Downey is a whole nother city on, on further east southeast and that. I mean but it had the home for the homegirl worked there. And niggas went to different malls just to go see the different girls. Just think about it, you know, we, we gonna. And it was again, we didn't have social media so we just, it's just a known thing. This is what we do. We go to the mall on Saturdays and it ain't even every Saturday. It ain't even. It really ain't a lot. Like I would, I, I would like to talk to a, a board of people that say how many times they went, how many times do you think they went to the mall A year? Because I didn't go to the mall. There's probably a month or two that I didn't go to the mall on the bus. It would. Because you know, especially, I mean, I don't know we went to the mall a lot but I just. And then you got to pick though, like I said, our most popping mall, our most famous mall. The one that you'll see random celebrities in and stuff like that. That's going to be the Beverly center and Fox Hills, those two malls. Maybe South Close Plaza. But I didn't go to that until I was an adult and that was in like OC But South Coast, South Coast Plaza got some up in there. You know what I'm saying? That's a big ass mall. I've only been in there like once but they got some up in there and it's over there and ain't you're not catching the bus today. You need a whip and your mama not taking you way over there. I'm talking about all my inner city kids was getting dropped off at that one at all. But Beverly center you can catch the bus to the Beverly Center. That's a mission, though, because, you know, that's Beverly Hills area right there. So catching that bus from what to Beverly Hills, That's a motherfucking mission right there. But it was all worth it because that was more of our high class is like the Grove. The Grove and the Beverly center, which is not too far from each other. That's high class, you know what I'm saying? High class shit that they got over there, you know, you don't spend big money. But then I would say the three. The three. Oh, let's not forget about the west side Pavilion. The west side Pavilion was one of those malls that was in a cut, though. Everybody, everybody remembers the west side Pavilion. The west side Pavilion was a low keyer, my nigga. Because it wasn't really a popping mall. It's a. And it's not a big mall at all. Like, you can get from one side of the mall to the other literally in a matter of maybe a minute or two. [00:13:37] Speaker B: It does. [00:13:38] Speaker A: You go. You go straight from this side to the food court. But they used to have, again, they used to have, have wore, wore kicks out here. So it's like you tried your best. If you couldn't get them with your grandparents or your parents on this day, like you couldn't get the J's here. Snuck to the west side Pavilion to see if they had them. But it was chicks over there too. Cause you talking about Beverly Hills, Century City area and stuff like that. So those are different type of girls over there. Except for the ones that, that came from the hood that caught the bus over there. But for the most part, nigga, a lot of those kids went to high schools like Venice, like Venice High, Louisiana High, you know what I'm saying? Those high schools over there probably Palette. Well, Palisades had their own little area, but just over there, Beverly Hills High and like that. Yeah, the west side Pavilion was low here because it was. It was right there. You right there in, in west side Pavilion is like right there basically in Century City slash Beverly Hills. It's right there, you know what I'm saying? So that's out the hood, you know what I'm saying? But west side Pavilion ain't too far from ucla, you know, but you got the Beverly center and the Grove, that's further, like up north, like, like north northeast of like Beverly Hills and shit like that. It's over there and it's uppity. It's uppity right there, you know, celebrities over there. But Fox Hills Mall South Bay Galleria, Crenshaw Mall and the Llama was our four in rotation, you know what I'm saying? The llama mall was a big ass mall. The Llama had one of the biggest malls out here that was big. Especially when they created the new. They had the new one while the old one was still open. So they connected the two at one point. But I don't think the old one is up. I gotta go check. Unless they did some renovation. But the old one was dope, man. Like going to the mall back in the day when especially the themes. My going to the mall in the winter time, you know what you're gonna get. You gonna get a lot of Christmas shit, dog. It was Christmas themed out, you know what I'm saying? Halloween not as themed out. But they did have the. The stories where they had the costumes and shit like that. And niggas used to go trick or treating. If you wanted to be on the safer side, you go trick or treating at the mall. It ain't like going in a neighborhood, but it was an option, you know what I'm saying? Like a lot of moms can go take the little ones and go to a safer environment and. And they used to do trick or treating at the mall. Used to. The mall used to be a part of the community. My. It used to be a huge part of the community. Especially with the. You can't forget about like the food courts always had either a rallies in there. Every mall had hot dog on the stick. Pause. It was just that lemonade fire and eat corn dogs. Okay. At the end of the day, the Sbarros pizza had that. The Ms. Fields Cookies fire. Ms. Fields Cookie. I hear you 12 cow. Cause I'm an oatmeal raisin guy myself. But they had. They. They had some. Oh my God. They macadamias. They. They chocolate chip macadamias. Oh my lord. And they chocolate. They regular chocolate chip cookies. You used to get a dozen for. I don't know. I forgot the one thing. The other thing, they used to have vintage stores back in that like Sam Goodies, My Hunt, Tower records Tower. Remember used to go to the mall to go listen to the music. You could listen to the album before you bought that. That was. Or used to get the. Remember used to go buy the. For like myself who tried to experiment and rap. We used to go get Love the ones that used to come out with the single. And then it would have the single, the edited version of the single and the instrumental. Used to give us the instrumental. You Know what we did to that instrument? Wrapped on it. We rapped on it. We went to the mall to go get. Or we went to the record store. We went to a record store, we went to the mall to go get it. You know what I'm saying? Sam goodies. Sam Goodies, 12 Cow and Tower Records, it was a thing. They used to have this big ass bends bin of CDs and DVDs and old movies and that was on discount and stuff like that. Again, you got to go to the mall for this Crenshaw Mall, one of the most dangerous malls you can go to because that's right there down. Look, the blood, the, the. The Jungles is right up the street, right up the hill, okay? You got the Jungles right there. That mall is shared between the jungles, BPs, all them Crenshaw mafia. And then they share that with the six zeros, you know what I'm saying? So you got these bloods up here, you got the cribs down the street, you know what I'm saying? And it's like. And, and it's. And it's that borderline. They get Crenshaw. That, that Crenshaw is the, is the borderline. Once you cross Crenshaw, you start going. Now don't get me wrong, you got the Jungles on the left. But then once you. Basically, once you pass La Brea, you start going into much safer areas because you got Covert City behind that. You got the. You got the COVID city stairs or whatever. And then you got cover city. You keep going west, you're going to go into the motherfucking water. So it's like after you pass Crenshaw going west, you pretty much going to safer zones, you know what I'm saying? But if you, if you own that Shaw and you going, you going. And you in that area and you going south, that's where you're going to run into some shit for a very fucking long time. But the Crenshaw mall was dope. The Crenshaw mall was our black mall. That was the HBCU mall right there. That's when you're going to see. Because it's you. You represent the. That I told you that. The Bloods and the Crips basically share that mall, which is, you know, you got the Jungles right there. You got the six 0s down the street or whatever. You also got Crenshaw High school. You also got Dorsey High School. Shout out to my sugar, she went to Dorsey. Shout out to my nigga Keon, he went to Crenshaw. You know, I got friends on the Crenshaw side. I got friends on the Dorsey side, but I'm from Fremont. We rivals with both of them niggas. Okay, but, you know, Marcy, or Barcia, what they used to call her at school, went to a predominantly blood school. My nigga Keon and Lavelle and DJ and. And. And. And Candace and all my. All my. All my friends from the block or. Or from middle school. Some of them ended up going to Crenshaw, you know what I'm saying? Which is predominantly Crips. And they all share this mall, the Crenshaw Mall. Now, since then, the Crenshaw Mall has been, what, partially torn down or something like that. [00:20:32] Speaker B: They. [00:20:32] Speaker A: They building some over there, if I'm not mistaken. I think they supposed to be bringing a Costco. Maybe. I. I could be making up some. But I follow a. On, damn, what's my name? I'm not paying him no justice right now. But he has great content. And I follow him on Tick Tock and ig, but I can't remember his tag name. But he keeps up with all the local information. And he recently talked about the Crenshaw Mall. If I find that information, I throw that in there before I'm. Before I'm done. But yeah, the Crenshaw Mall, That's. That's our hb. HBCU Mall right there. That's our. That's. It's dangerous, though. Like I said, it's dangerous. And caught the bus to the Crenshaw Mall. Maverick's flat is right down the street for y' all old heads And. And where. And. And where baby boy And. And. And. And what you call a. Line them up and at the park and socked him in it. They. That was right down the street, too. South Bay Galleria. That was a solid one. But it was. It was in the neighborhood where, you know, and that's closest to the. Closest to the water. But, you know, Torrance is one of those. Torrance is a beautiful city in the fall. Beautiful city in the fall. But the police department don't really mesh with the black culture. You know what I mean? If you understand what I'm saying? And then, you know, like I said, Fox Hills Mall. Legendary Fox Hills Mall. The Fox Hills Mall is just a landmark. They change it to some West Westfield bullshit. We'll never call it that. So if you look up, you can look up Fox Hills Mall, and I still think it'll pop up. They're gonna say it's called something different, but at the end of the day, it is still called the fight. Just like we'll. We'll never call it. The crypto is always be called staples. Staples in Fox Hills Mall will always be a staple pun. So yeah, Fox News Mall, that's just some legendary didn't happen up there. Smush Parker was. Got booed, you know, like we with Smush Parker, man. But you heard him how he. You know, after Kobe passed away, that started to on him. And I understand some just like we never with each other then it's up forever or whatever. But you know, you gotta understand that Kobe is well respected and loved out here. So any type of slander bomb first or whatever. But Smush is really on that. Nah. Till not until death do us part. It's forever. It's up. But even before then, we just. We always thought Smush was a cool player, but he just. We didn't with Smush like that and Smush, he. He pretty much. He noticed. He noticed. You know what I'm saying? He did know there was a. There was a large part of the fan base out here that said Smush was cool. But then it was another side that was like, no, we don't fuck with you. Won't fuck with you like that. But you would catch a lot of Laker and Clipper players walking through the Fox Hill mall from time to time. You know, you got to catch them and stuff like that. Yeah, man, it's different. And I think Amazon was the reason for a lot of the mall action to die, you know, and it's because people could just sit up there and just get the shit delivered to them. They don't have to go out. They don't have to. They don't have to take that risk to say, hey, I drove all the way here and they don't even have these shoes in my size. I mean, even though you can call and stuff like that, but you know, I don't think you just going to the mall just to get one thing. I think if you was going for the most part, we never did that. I didn't know some of us did. Some of us smart enough to do that and some of our parents were smart enough to do that. But going to the mall wasn't just the main objective. We went to the mall as. As boys. We went to the mall to go see the girls. So see if we can get some numbers to come back home and talk to him on the phone. That's what was trying to do it for. And we just wanted to be Outside and we away. It was. Going to the mall was like going to another country. My. Because it was so far away, and it was far away from your parents to be like, I'm not either. Either I'm taking you or. Yeah, I'm either taking you or I'm picking you up. I'm not doing both. I'm not doing both. And some parents, like, I'm not doing it at all. Y' all gonna have to catch that bus. And for a lot of us kids, that's just how we got down. Like, yeah, like, and. And it'd be something random as hell. And you gotta be fresh, ready. [00:25:02] Speaker B: What. [00:25:04] Speaker A: You know, the pressure of. Sometimes it's not planned. Like, you know, Friday night, it's not planned. We probably came from a house party. Friday night, we sleeping in a little bit. But then my nigga Keanu hit me. Be like, hey, you want to roll with me to the mall? I'm about to go to. To the Eddie Bauer store. We not just going to the Eddie Bauer store. We're not. We're not. Because after we get that Eddie. After we go to the Eddie Bauer store, we gonna walk around before that. Then we're going to walk to the store. We're going to scope the scenery out. We're going to see if it's worth staying longer. We're going to go in there, he going to get the shoes, he going to try them on, he's going to bag them up, and then we're going to walk around a little bit more, especially if it's popping, you know what I'm saying? Don't forget, there's some malls had the. Had the movies attached to it, you know what I'm saying? So that was a plus thing. See, we from la. So eventually they had to alter the way we was having fun in that. We was deep in that because South Bay Galleria. South Bay Galleria was the one mall that had the movie theater in there. I think the Llama had one, too. I can't really remember it, though. Salvador Galleria had a movie theater in that. We've seen Baby Boy. Baby Boy in that. And then. Or did we go to Magic? I forgot. I forgot which movie theaters we went to. I want to say it was South Beto, but yeah, baby. We went to go see Baby Boy the year. I mean, the day I graduated from high school, the night I graduated from high school, we all went to go see Baby Boy that night. Like, everybody. Crenshaw had the Magic Johnson theater right next to it. But it's right next to it. It's not in the mall. It's right next to the mall. They call that the rave or something now. Unless they change it again there. And then. Fox Hills. Fox Hills didn't have no movie theater, actually. Down the street is the Howard Hughes center. And it's like an outdoor. It's an outdoor mall. They got some over there and they got the movies. So the Bridge. That's what the. The generation after me, you started going to the Bridge. They wasn't going to the mall like that. They was going there because you had the movies there. And they. Like I said, they had a few stores out there too. A shoe store over there. I forgot what it was called, though. It was dope because they had a basketball court in there. They went viral a couple of times. So, yeah, like, we went to the mall to go buy something and to go see. Go see niggas, you know. The one thing that did stand out was the toy thing because, yeah, I never. I was too old to go to the. To the. To the mall to go buy me a toy because I wasn't playing with toys like that. Although it was crazy that when once he said that, the first thing I thought was, we do go back, though. We go back as adults to go get those toys that we wanted as a kid that we never got. And that's crazy. And we call them collector's items now. So those action figures and those. Those sports cards and shit like that, we go back and get them. Like, there's grown men on the Internet right now with the Iron man mask, you know what I'm saying? There's grown man. Like, I'm even seeing Shout out to my wife. She's gotten into puzzles, you know what I'm saying? And then my daughter has gotten into Legos, and I'm starting. There's a whole community of adults that's fucking collecting Lego, building them and putting them in. In glass cases and shit like that. So we do go back, though. Like, we grow out of it, but then we end up going back as adults, chasing that childhood high, which is, I think, is dope. But that was the thing, though, you know, when. When, when. When 12 Cal mentioned the difference between all the malls he went to Mall of the Marriott, Mall of America, Lenox Mall, and then a mall that's from his hometown is like, all. All the mines are from my hometown. But all of them are different because of the area. You know, they got a Century City Mall, that mall. They got it to Lucid. They sell looses that they sell Teslas in that, you know, I'm saying you can't imagine the jewelry places that's happening. They do have a movie theater up in there, you know what I'm saying? They got Tesla robots and shit walking around like it's money over there is. It's. It's a Jewish area, but it's. It's heavy money over there. You know the Century City Mall, Big as mall, Big ass outdoor. It's an outdoor mall used in a motherfucker. You got to pay for Barstow. That's how expensive it is. You got to pay for parking at the, at the, at the Beverly Center. You do too. Beverly center, the big ass mall too. But that one has changed so much, you know what I'm saying? They used to have an Eddie Bauer and the Timberland store up in that, you know what I'm saying? We didn't wear Timberlands like that, but we, we did buy them. We did buy Timberlands and that was the one store we had to go to. I don't know any other Timberland place in LA outside of the Beverly center. And I'm not sure if it's still there, but yeah, I mean that was basically what it is. It was basically a showcase for young between less middle. It was middle school and high school, though. You know, saying middle school and high school, you just. Because we didn't go every weekend and we was outside hooping house parties and like that. But it's nothing like the a good day ice cube style. But for like a teenager, a good day with would be to catch a bus to the mall to go get a fit if you don't have enough for the fit. Because that's normal. That's normal. My. A lot of families wasn't like that. But you would go get those shoes or you go get that one, that one main piece, you know what I'm saying? Old Navy. Old Navy with those Old Navy fleece or those Gap fleece. Those Gap sweaters. Yeah, yeah, Aeropostale, you know what I'm saying? Shit like that. Like, niggas wore that shit back in the day, bro. But going to the mall to go get that motherfucker priceless and y' all get back. Let's just say y' all go. Y' all go in the morning, y' all leave about 10 or 11. That's a good time to leave for the mall. You gonna get there in about an hour, 45 minutes to an hour on a bus max, right? You on a mission. By the time y' all get back home, it might be like three or four or something. That's enough for y' all to go play the video game a little bit, even go outside a little bit. But you own if there's a house party that Saturday night, you not really on no outside action like that. The only outside action is going to the mall, you going back and you basically taking your whole fit. This was the fun part. Y' all come back from the mall, y' all split up, go home. One of y', all, we gonna. One of y', all, we leaving from, you know, somebody's house. So whoever house we leaving from, we gonna take our fit over there, you know what I'm saying? Either we're gonna be already dressed, our gonna take turns using that, that one bathroom to get dressed and the ironing board and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, that was it and all. And then off to the house party, you know what I'm saying? But shout out to King Jerem. Shout out again. I can't tell you much about the mall life in my single digits, you know what I'm saying? Just being dragged along as a kid, I have nothing for you, you know what I'm saying? I could just tell you that the mall was very seasonal, you know what I'm saying? From the time that I was a kid to a young adult. And then once Amazon kicked in the door like that, a lot of shit changed, bro. Just like when it came to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, that was a thing too, you know what I'm saying? Going to a Hollywood Video or going to Blockbuster, I think you can even look this up. I'm not even gonna say I got the proof or the numbers on this, but I can guarantee you they grow. They highest grossing days was probably Fridays, and then after that, Saturdays for sure. Maybe Thursdays after that Saturday, you know what I'm saying? Cause I think you had like a day or two to keep it or some shit like that. Two days or something like that. But yeah, but just like we had Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, then you got Netflix. Killed the game. Killed the game because they had a bad catalog that the Blockbuster and Hollywood Video didn't have. So then, like, when you think about the mall, yes, the. The big thing about the mall was it had multiple stores that you can go to. Then you go to, you got outlets. Don't forget about the outlet malls. Those are different. You usually go to the outlet malls with your grandparents where they're gonna buy you a gang of, you know what I'm saying? Gonna buy You a gang of. You can go to the Citadel. You know the ones over there in Palm Springs, where the other ones at? There's a few other ones, you know what I'm saying? They. They take you there. That's where, you know they got the name brand. But for is that's on discount, you know what I'm saying? Your prayer, your parent, your grandparents used to go crazy on you, you know what I'm saying, with that? So shout out to the grandparents. I used to take you to the outlets and. And go get, you know, whatever you needed. The Nautica. The Nautica and shit like that. But again, once that online version started to pop off, niggas started to get lazy and sit in that house a little bit more. Do you. Do you understand that you can order something right now and you get that shit either the next day, the same day. You get it the same day, the next day or two days. It's crazy. You paying for a service that is automatically. You got to get it within that two days and send this back if you don't like it. Back in the day, if you don't like that, you have to take that right back. You got the receipt. I mean, you still got to do that in some cases if you go. But if you know, you got the receipt. So, yeah, niggas had to show their true personality when they went to the mall. They had to, you know what I'm saying? I forgot to mention the gang junction. That's what I meant to bring up earlier is that the gang junction kicked in. In. In the late 90s where if it was a. If it was more than. What was it more than three, more than three or four, or something like that, or more than two or something like that, you had to break it up. So if it was five of us, they split us up like two, two one or some like that. Like we had to walk ahead of each other or on the other side of the mall a little bit or something. You could not walk in a pack at a certain point. And it was only lasted for a couple of years because now you could do whatever. But for that time period, I want to say from 90. From like 99, maybe 98, 99. They started doing that and then that. I couldn't tell you how it lasts, how long it lasted, because once we got to college that. I don't remember them doing that. But we also wouldn't go in. We also, when we got to the college years, we weren't really going to the mall for that I mean we didn't. Going to the mall was, we was going to get some and we was leaving. Now going to the mall, we did make it a thing but it's not like when we was a kid because now we no longer catching the bus, at least most of us not we either driving or we catching a ride to the mall. And don't get me wrong, we walked around and like that and we knew we was gonna see some baddies. But that wasn't like the main objective. The main objective was like let's mall and see what we're gonna get and then we're gonna hit the mall. Then we really gonna get back, we're going out. That was the number one thing we going to the mall. Steve Madden's one of them urban stores want to get some so we can hit the club or the lounge tonight and usually you're gonna walk, you gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna bump into some, some chicks and some stuff like that that might go to the college or one of these other colleges or that just work. But you know, going to, going to, going to the mall at, going to the mall at, you know 11 or 12 versus 16 and 17 versus 20 21. That's, that's three different experiences right there. Somewhat, somewhat similar but different. You know what I'm saying? The hunt is different. The experience is kind of different. You know, you might, might see some girls on every level, you might try to holla at some girls on every level, but your urge to go to the mall is different. You know what I mean? So yeah, King Germ. I hope this was cool enough. 12 cow. There's a lot of correlation up in there. But yeah, that was, I mean that's basically my, my experience with going to, to malls out here in la. You know a lot some of them shut down but everything is different now. They change out the stores. A lot of stores don't, you know, have a, a solid shelf life, you know what I'm saying? Like we, we used to get a lot of shoe stores like but you know, exclusive shoe stores, you know the, that got the J's or rhinestones this and that you'll see in videos and stuff like that. Them stories and pop up stores that artists and be going to or celebrities be going to. The don't stay long. They kind of like dispensaries. They gonna stay that long. What else? Yeah, now like, like old boy said on the video, they attaching these major brands to the, to the mall now because that's what's gonna help them keep them alive. Because if you put the targets right next to it, it's gonna take away. It's gonna take away from the mall. But you connected to the mall now. You bringing them back. And they didn't have celebrity signings and all kind of when they first opened up the, the Target, they got a Olive Garden in that. They got a barber shop in that on the second level. Yeah, they just got. They just got some. They got for every demographic in there, you know, so they gotta. I think they got a Fenty store that. That Victoria's Secret ain't going no goddamn where, you know, they gonna keep the shoe stores, you know, so a lot of them come with the House of Hoops now, you know, all kind of Hot Topic. Was a hot topic and that, like. Yeah, you know, shout out to all the malls out there though, man. Keep hope alive.