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Sango Type Beat with Sango
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This week I am joined by one of my favorite producers, Sango. We talk about growing up in Michigan, his journey to Seattle. How sneakers played a part in his life. His claim to fame buying fakes and how Michigan shaped his fashion sense. We also connect on his visits to Brazil how he embraces cultures. How that all ties into his music and where he has been able to take it. Plus much much more.
Where to find Sango:
Socials: IG: https://www.instagram.com/sango_/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SangoBeats
Site: https://sangobeats.com/
Podcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/myfirstkicks
Intro Music by The DoppleGangaz: https://thedoppelgangaz.bandcamp.com/
Outro Music by Gordon Bombay: https://thegordonbombay.bandcamp.com/
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Transcript
Intro and Podcast Origin
00:00:15
Speaker
What's good, everyone? Welcome back to my first kicks. Yo, this is an absolutely crazy episode. I went, you know, shout out Defunk. All right. I'm high. I'm high. Shout out Defunk, because if it wasn't for him, this would not be happening, you know, from a tweet, a tweet.
00:00:37
Speaker
This now we are cool and it's let me let me just say welcome to the podcast angle. Thank you He knows funny about that tweet. He didn't tag me. No, he didn't I had to search for that. You did? I searched my name because I wanted, I was trying to figure out what, like a search single, new album, and I wanted to see if like any blogs picked it up or like, just like, you know, there was nothing bad. Pretty much no one was really saying about it. And then I saw that comment and it was, it wasn't even bad. It was like, it wasn't, he didn't say like, yo, yo, I was trash. He was just like, He's like, yeah, skips, yeah. It doesn't even matter. Like, yeah, that means when somebody says, I'm gonna skip the song, that means like, it's probably not, it's not like they don't like that.
Music Memories and Missed Shows
00:01:18
Speaker
Like the song is just like, probably not their flavor of it, you know what I mean? So I just responded all trolling, you know? That emoji, and I looked down, I remember I looked down at my, cause you know, it was really funny, is immediately when I saw that response, I sent it to Julian, who I took with me to the show, and I was just like, yo, single just responded to me.
00:01:36
Speaker
And then he's just like, what? And then me, because me, I'm this opportunist. Anytime somebody, if anything happens, I'm gonna be like, yo, kid, you want to hop on the podcast? So once that happened, and I was just like, because to be honest, North Volume 2, I don't skip any of the songs. I even don't even skip the fucking skit, the, the yeah you know, the interludes either. I'll be like, I'll be, you know, grow patient all the time. You know, yeah even the, the I, the eyes the ah I I had to, I had to call his wife,
00:02:04
Speaker
to to that shit? I don't skip any of that. yeah all All that stuff was from um a live show. i was in brook I was in Brooklyn. I did a show in Brooklyn with selection. and um they are my so They recorded my whole set, but I did like a speech yeah and stuff. and I just took parts of my mix that was recorded and used it on my album. you know so One, yeah I'm tight. I didn't go to that show because I think I was trying to.
00:02:29
Speaker
That's the one. At the Brooklyn Mirage. Yes. That was in 2022. And I think it got sold out, right? It was sold it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why. It was a lot of people though, man. It was brooklyages just a lot of people there. And first of all, it's impressive if you could sell that out by yourself. It's like multiple people would sell that out. Well, I mean, I don't know how.
00:02:52
Speaker
So there was one time I was trying to go to a selection show in Vegas, and they did the Day Club out there. Day in Vegas. Like the festival? No, no, no, no, no. There's a Day Club in Resorts World. I was staying at Resorts World. Oh, OK. I know what that is. And then the night before, it was. It was like a Bryson Tiller type thing. No, it was, what's his name?
00:03:16
Speaker
Zed was DJing. And then my girl was like, oh, we're going to go. So we go. And then I see that like on the thing, it was just like tomorrow, ah selection. And I was just like, we got to go to that. that Never happened. Yeah, actually the last time I played in Vegas was was I've only played the last two times I played in Vegas. It was with selection. Like they have these events out there.
00:03:41
Speaker
Selection has it like so the sound. yeah Selection and the sound, they have a big fan base in Vegas. For sure, for sure. But, you know, we're going to segue
Sneaker Culture and Fashion Influences
00:03:49
Speaker
right into the question. The question is, what's your first kiss with that first person things is you absolutely need to have? And every time I ask that, you go, need it to have? like You missed you miss a lot of lot of outside conversations you needed to have. Because there's a difference between, I'll be real with you, this is like a difference between like shoes that you just bought and like or sorry, shoes that were bought for you when you were a kid. right And you're like, I just had no choice. like i' i like I'm a kid, I'm not gonna choose a pair of LA gear, because I want them. right you're like You're a kid. So my first pair of shoes that I remember owning, like visually, like, oh, these are my shoes, was a pair of LA gear. But the first pair of shoes that I could have, like I was dying. like My brain was about to burst, was these um these fake bathing apes.
00:04:41
Speaker
it' what they didn't They didn't exist. I thought they were real. hu But I bought them on this Chinese website. It was fake. Was it pick your shoes? yeah
00:04:53
Speaker
I haven't heard that website since 2009 or 8. Yeah, bro. Straight up. I probably have multiple tabs on. Pick your shoes, probably one of the tabs. Another tab is a layout, a MySpace layout that I'm trying to mess with. You over here with the HTML? Yeah. It was all HTML encoders? HTML. The other tab was IMeam. I was downloading it like unreleased, like Lil Wayne. Bro, oh my gosh.
00:05:22
Speaker
Pick your shoes was definitely, a I was trying to get like a Vissu jeans and red monkey jeans for like the low fake. No, but there is monkey crooked on the jeans. They were a pair of skates to skates. They're all blue, patent leather. And they were the cause version because he had the collab caused in a lab with babe. So I'm not even sure if they're real or not, but then I feel like they're not even real. I feel like that never happened. and never yeah
00:05:54
Speaker
Bro, and I was a bro, you know, I'm influenced by Pharrell and Thrivetoons and all that stuff. And that's when I was like, I started skateboarding in like 06. And I still skateboard now, but not like I used to. I actually got injured crazy, like bad, like, you know, but... You're not out here hitting trade flips? Nah, I might hit a little very kickflip rat, you know, in the driveway or something like that. There you go. Yeah, but...
00:06:19
Speaker
But yeah, that's my first pair of shoes I needed to have. These these all pillar ah all but black and blue pair of Bay the Nape Skatesters. Did you get them? Yeah, I skated them too. And then how it's not like it made up like and you can't skate though. yeah ah but I burnt through the to my my left.
00:06:41
Speaker
Like, bro, it's like patent leather. like not' not they They say skates too, but they're not for skating. Not for skating. So I ended up buying. I ended up, um the second pair, to extra credit, the second pair I got was a pair of ice creams. There you go. yeah shout out Shout out Compton as Terry.
00:06:58
Speaker
Mm-hmm. That shoe. That used to- It's funny because Terry was named from Compton. No, he wasn't. From Long Beach. Look, you've got to blame- Listen, this is back in the day when they were calling black people urban. So, you got to blame Ben Marcher for all of that. Oh, yeah. Man, it's crazy to think about all the shoes I've owned while I was skating. And that might have been my best. That probably is single-handedly my best.
00:07:27
Speaker
run of shoes I've owned when I was skating a lot. And they were all fake. Besides one pair, I had a pair of real shoes. They were the PB Herman SBs. R.I.P, my pair. R.I.P. Oh, you had a pair? Of course, bro. Got them off of eBay for like $70 or something like that. And they still live in, did they still?
00:07:51
Speaker
Did they still live in it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I still have the insoles and I put them in there. The insoles are crazy. Yeah. Because you had to. Pee Wee Herman in the fucking chair. Yeah. But I currently have the insoles in a pair of dub tap vans. OK. So the vans with the bones on the side, it's got like the X's on it.
00:08:13
Speaker
that I kept the insole for that because I got bad arches, so I'm just like, yeah, yeah it might as well. Also, the dude that sold me those did not include the insoles. And I was just like, all right. But I killed those working at Dylan's candy bar. like I got like milk and milkshake all over them, and it was a wrap after that. It smelled terrible. You can't clean that type of stuff, man. You got to get it professionally clean. Yeah. I'm trying to think, bro, that era, I had a pair of Cyrus's.
00:08:36
Speaker
D3s? I forget the name of the, my cousin and I, we shared every shoe. We were the same size. And yeah, it just felt better. Like, you felt like you had more shoes. You shared. Like, yeah, he even probably wore my boots. I'm the only child, I never got that. Oh yeah. I had a pair of eye paths.
00:08:55
Speaker
ah Definitely had a pair of DCs. I don't even remember the name of the shoes. I remember the colorways though. But probably my favorite pair during my skating era was those
Regional Fashion Styles
00:09:07
Speaker
babes. And I skated them to the sock.
00:09:13
Speaker
Straight up, bro. Yeah, you gotta define another. but i so was like I think my sock was sold. Yo, I hope at one point a like on ah on another tour, because it's definitely not probably gonna happen on this tour, once this drops, somebody pulls up to you and is like, yo, I got these for you.
00:09:27
Speaker
And you got the they gift you a pair of fake. Yeah, yeah I have to like Google at the Google. I think the base is the black and blue. They're of all, all, bro. And the people looked at me in the high in high school. Bro, ah bro it was like I swear in my high school, I was the first first guy with a G shock for sure. I was fake um pressing Supreme shirts. You were fake person. Yeah, I had to go yard print to I was like printing go yard print and stuff.
00:09:56
Speaker
That's crazy. That's crazy. Bro, you go to like, you go to like Office Max and you just print it out and you just iron it on, bro. So I would like print like Goyard pattern and like stitch them. Like not stitch like or like it's like a printer paper. Yeah. And I would iron it and then like print another one and iron it and then like line it up.
00:10:18
Speaker
and put it and do it all over the shirt. Like not all over the shirt, but like huh like a good mass of the shirt. That's crazy. I never even thought about it like that. Like the Supreme, I had like Supreme printed on my bra. I was doing a lot of different out bra wanted it, but I couldn't. i'm bro umm I'm from like the middle of like Michigan, bro. like Oh, you did this in Michigan? Yeah, this is when I was living in Michigan. I live about an hour and a half from Detroit. So going to Detroit was a mission, but also going to Chicago as well was a mission. So we had to self-sustain. There was one sneaker boutique that I ended up working at that had everything, but they weren't. What was the name of it?
00:11:00
Speaker
ACK, Burn Rubber is, we always went there as well. Premiere Skate Shop is another one we used to go to. We still go to Premiere the homies. Premiere, be my homie. So yeah, yeah, bro. I grew up, that was my, that was like, 06 to like, 2010 was like, just like my peak shoe era. Not saying like now is, I mean, now it's different though. You're an adult and your style is like, your style, but like as a kid- You also need to make your own shirts now. Right, yeah, yeah. I went from printing, yeah, I went from printing.
00:11:36
Speaker
That's crazy. It's always been in me, man. Like, as far as like what I wanted to do. But like, yeah, bro. Like, I feel like when I got those pair of shoes, I felt like I was, I started my, I began my It fit it fit my my vision. I was like, I want to play the part and look the part yeah when you see me. like This is who I am. like Everything has to like make sense like from head to toe. What influenced you or who influenced you to to be that like go that way?
00:12:09
Speaker
um Bro, well, that for real, like for real was like, it's funny because like, sonically, I wasn't, I'm not as influenced sonically with my music. yeah For real, I'm more of like a Timbaland Jay Dilla type of like producer, like when it comes to like influences. I am influenced from a for like ne the Neptunes, but like,
00:12:27
Speaker
Aesthetically? Yeah. Like even like somebody like Tyler the Creator who's super influenced by Pharrell. Yeah. I mean, well, Pharrell has nephews everywhere, bro. Right. Like that's unk. Yeah. That's unk for real. but And I think at the end of the day, like when I saw what how he was putting pieces together and his like his relationship with Japan and ah Japanese like artists and like oh designers and then seeing his like see him bring that back to hip hop culture. yeah And then like, you're the cool, you're like not the odd kid in school, but like,
00:13:04
Speaker
cool and cool enough still, like you're like not weird, but like you are if you get to know you, like the person who I am. So it was weird, bro. Like I still, should I still wear my G-shocks, bro. Like I wear things for like, like, like from young me. yeah Like there's like, there's like always, I always have to. You were saying, you know, you weren't able to get everything. So now that you have the means, you might as well, right? Yeah, and my wife too, like we were on the same page. Bro, I met her, ro she was wearing a pair of Etnies. This Mexican girl would hang around at skate parks wearing Etnies and like DC shoes. That's fire. Bro, we grew up together, you know what I mean? so like so like we're We're kind of the same person, but like
00:13:47
Speaker
yeah Obviously, like we have different tastes, but like at the end of the day, I feel like if she lived my life, she'd be doing the same thing I'd be doing. yeah you know so Yeah. I mean, that's fire. that's fine the look you talked about That's crazy that you brought that up because me and my my Discord, shout out my Discord, yeah but we were talking about um like
00:14:09
Speaker
who's like the biggest ah out of like the sons, the the kids of like kids of yay or like kids of Pharrell. oh yeah Like just recently thinking about that. But I definitely think with tyler tyler Tyler. Tyler definitely as far as Wayne is thug, as far as future, it might be um probably Uzi. I was going to say Uzi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, even like Who would you say like, as far as sons, a Jay-Z and an Oz? Is it J Cole? I mean, I was gonna make a bad joke, but I was gonna say your old Drew nothing. Just because he sounds like Nas. Who is Drake's? Who is Drake's? Who did Drake get his game from? Everybody. Yeah, so is Drake- He's everybody's. I mean, look, I think maybe I would say the first person that he was trying to be was Fonte.
00:15:12
Speaker
So. Which is crazy because I feel like they would have made a song or they have they made songs. Yeah. But like today, I don't know, man. I don't know. It's a different question. That's a different podcast. Yeah, it is. I wonder. I wonder about this. This is a post-podcast conversation. I'm in love if Drake had Hello, Knife Wonder Beats.
00:15:30
Speaker
Yeah, that he would be sick, bro. You would think, you know? Yeah. I mean, he did take the conductor beat. he did He did the conductor beat. ah And then Little Brother has a conductor song now. And I do feel like it is kind of similar. Like, I definitely think when he has a beat like that, that Drake is like,
00:15:47
Speaker
Yeah, let me get in my fonté bag. Let me go fonté glow, fonté glow. Yeah, exactly. But I listen to your music. you're like You're literally one of my favorite producers. Thank you, bro. Appreciate that. Yeah. So that's what I'm saying. When I texted you, when you gave me a number, I was like, this is insane. You don't understand. But I wanted to get it so you know I always get flowers on this podcast. but So ah let me just straight say, because I didn't get to say it when when we met. ah you know like In 2020, obviously, world was fucking going crazy. yeah But you, like, listening to your music, I don't know if you did you read that message, but listening to your music, it brought me home. I mean, we talk about I'm half resilient and like hearing, you know, Hosea, I feel like I say it wrong. That's how you say it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. they say the ah The R is like, it's not, it's like an H in Brazil. Yeah. And then like just hearing your take on just like mixing the Afro beats and all that, like it was like a fresh, like a breath of fresh air in terms of just like,
00:16:47
Speaker
bringing it back to me that these there's a There's like, I feel like i when I do this podcast, and I feel like I'm such in such a niche yeah of of, I'm niching a niche. And so, so that like, I do wanna connect sneakers to everything, right? And so when it came to you, I would be like, you know, I'm making these playlists, I'm doing this podcast, I'm listening to music. im Obviously, when I get dressed, you know, I'll either I'll put on, you know, your boiler room or something like that and be like, yeah, all right, now let's go. yeah But I don't know, like,
00:17:18
Speaker
You don't understand that like that is such a hard
Music Accessibility and Cultural Impact
00:17:23
Speaker
thing to find. And I feel like now, with music being so extremely accessible, people definitely take a step back of trying to find that music. But you've been able to be like, yo, I'm going to just do what I want and go crazy. Literally, yeah. Bro, that's my M.O., man. I think a lot of it comes from like where I'm from as well, like you know growing up in Seattle and michigan and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Shout out to GR.
00:17:48
Speaker
We're going to talk about Grand Rapids. I've been like trying to stamp that on the map because it's like it's a super important place within like within art and within art, rap, within movies, sports. But um growing I felt like growing up in those places, I was kind of isolated culturally a bit, where all I knew was my cities. And like obviously, our cities, all like they have our own culture. yeah But I was so eager to know about other things. And that's like an internal decision I made. Yeah. And I think it's hard yeah now. It's hard to find now. I don't think there's a lot of people because of the because this is what I've been saying. I think I feel like I realize it or maybe I'm just.
00:18:28
Speaker
I talk myself into believing it too much, where it's like, we've now opened the world so much that now we are super closed in. People don't want to be like, I want to try this. Yeah, try this. Or you can take somebody and go, yeah. takes it like We were just talking about that fusion food. right People be like, man, nah. If it ain't just straight Jamaican, I'm only going to eat. like you know like they't know They'll like put it in their own little box of like, it has to be this way. Why are you changing so much? yeah um So it's like hard.
00:18:57
Speaker
to like push people out of their comfort zone of being like, I mean, look, sneaker culture has been this whole thing where people just want, oh, we got to gate keep it and keep it. Not not everybody's into sneakers. We've got to, you know, like I think that just it's become that with everything, you know, and music and music, express especially. I mean, anything I feel like anything that um you can take offense to when it comes to like having a conversation like it's up for game like what you eat like yo we beefing if you don't like this you don't like that what what you don't like pancakes and syrup and okay now I'm okay i'm like wow you're like you're angry at someone cuz they don't like you're not even they're not even like you know what like they're eating it you're not yeah
00:19:42
Speaker
ah or like music, obviously that's, you know, people have lost lives over that. Definitely art as well, like much more like less on the, like this type of thing when it comes to art, like visual art, more like you stole it type of thing. You know, it's not like I'm a better artist than you. I've never seen like, I'm a better painter than you, like like two artists beef, because they can paint better. It's more like,
00:20:08
Speaker
you're like taking my style. yeah And like, or you like you're like, you're a government designer. Oh, you design like me. You use the same filters ah as me when I take photos. I got a photo pack, a filter pack, and you're stealing my photo, like my filter pack. And like, I get that to the few homies but not leaked. And I've seen that stuff. yeah I've seen people like beef over filter photos. yeah or photo filters and like like packs or like somebody will like make like a, they'll scan their own textures in the graphic design world. And then like, they're giving their gyms out and like, they're not getting love. Bro, anything that's art, and anything that can be created, you can you can debate it and and get heated over it. Like I've seen engineers get mad and like red in the face over mixing. Like, no, that's not what you do. it this is This guy doesn't know what you're talking about. Like you gotta listen to her. Like she's been mixing stuff forever.
00:20:57
Speaker
you know was like You've been in the studio when that happened? Bro, I've been on the phone with people and like like you're like trying to get two reference tracks yeah and like you don't know which one to pick. It's for the artist to like like mix and master your song for.
00:21:11
Speaker
and this is like I don't know, okay, what what's the best song? And and like there is no best song as far as like, it's like all a saw like all taste. yeah it's awesome You know what I mean? yeah yeah Exactly, subjective. so So yeah, man, I mean, to kind of hone back in on the on the topic of like, just being so...
Midwest and Seattle Style Influences
00:21:34
Speaker
territory or what we like. It's just nature human nature, bro. you know so yeah that But yeah, Grand Rapids and you what's the sneaker, it was like what was it for you? The is obscure. I do wonder about the style in the Midwest. We're fly. I mean, look at like you know um Virgil.
00:21:55
Speaker
For one, yeah like his style like he's from beach for Chicago. ah Kanye, yeah um chris people like Chris Smokes in Detroit. um Many people, like you know we're fresh. Should we wear these Cartiers? That's us. excuse You know, that's us. um oh I feel like at the Midwest style, in terms of streetwear at least, it's a mix between, I wanna say like old school pimp,
00:22:24
Speaker
like it has an old school pimp base. Cause Chicago and Detroit and Cleveland and St. Louis, they're all pimp cities. Like a long time ago, they all, everybody left from the South has and went up and then was pimping, you know, box Chevy's and all that stuff. So in essence, like in the like from the sixties and seventies, that was like that. hu So like me like wearing a mink in today's age is normal in Detroit and and not maybe not Chicago, but in Michigan, we'll wear a mink, bro.
00:22:54
Speaker
You know what I mean? Or Ava Rex jacket. yeah And I'm not sure, because sometimes you see a crossover, like Ava Rex is like a big thing here. It is a big thing here, yeah. And Pelly Pail. But like- A ball jacket. A ball jacket, yeah. I'll give you like a glimpse of like the shoe game of me growing up like from like maybe like 13 or like 18. And all the shoes I saw consistently.
00:23:19
Speaker
polo boots with the strap, with the buckle. with a buckle that's yes and they were And they would, ah guys would slit, this like might be this might be a Michigan thing, they would slit the the seams of the jeans, so they lay like this, ah front and back. Yeah, I've never heard that. Front, they lay on the laces in the back, like, yeah, they like split down the seam. That's crazy. Heli Hansen shoes. Heli Hansen shoes, yeah. ah Creative Rex, we was wearing Creative Rex heavy.
00:23:45
Speaker
Never. I couldn't do it, man. Palladiums. We were at Palladiums. Palladiums, yeah. ah play yeah creative rights I never owned a pair. You know, we got to talk about the most embarrassing pair of shoes you own. OK. Mine. Oh, man, egregious work, bro. Oh, I can't believe I i can't believe i i thought that I knew I was doing. What was it? And I wore, like, Skatewear. Bro, I was tripping, bro. Oh, man, never again. But Creative Rex with, like, a. No, no, no they're worse than worse, bro. I'll just say it, and I'll i'll tell you. OK, so.
00:24:23
Speaker
ah will I wore, I wore, bro. I wore Toms. Oh my God. Like you was trying to, you was getting fits off in Toms? Bro. Or? I tried it for a summer. Toms and Skinny Jeans or something like that? What, or Toms? Bro, I was...
00:24:46
Speaker
Oh, bro, I remember one of my outfits I was wearing, bro, I had a crew shirt, like not crew neck, like crew, like yeah escape, like KR3W, had a crew shirt, hu and I had like some um jit like denim jeans, like some skate denim jeans. I order them, I always order everything from Skate Warehouse, like that was my bag, CCS Skate Warehouse. CCS, shout out CCS. And then- I'm an active guy. Oh yeah, for sure, yeah.
00:25:11
Speaker
so I was like, all right. I was wearing Jordans. I had like had like my Jordan 1s era while I was skating Jordan 1s. I was like, that's crazy. and Let me not do that ever again.
00:25:22
Speaker
But like I was like, yo, I see a lot of people wearing toms. My wife was like, um you sure? I was like, yeah, I see everybody wearing them. And they're comfortable. And like I like the message. It was like it was very tumbler. That was a tumbler era type of fit. So I was getting off toms with jean shorts and t-shirts. Looking back, it doesn't, bro, toms are crazy. Were you DJing then?
00:25:47
Speaker
I was making beats more so. Oh, okay. So now I've seen you up there being like, but I started DJing, I started DJing when I was like 20, like 19, 20. I was like, no, that was probably like a year before I started DJing really. It was egregious bro. Go back to Michigan, like Heli Hansen shoes. yeah ah um Probably our biggest Our biggest thing that that I know that is a thing, our biggest thing is what that is a thing. Black Timbs. Black Timbs. All black, like all black. Black Timbs. Six inch Timbs. Black Timbs, bro. Black Timbs with what, a Carhartt beanie? Yeah. In a Carhartt, in a and a brown paper bag, zip Carhartt.
00:26:30
Speaker
That was our thing. wow We was wearing Carhartt, because for it's for from Detroit. right yeah But we all had factory jobs. right yeah And a lot of it, bro, you would wear a Carhartt jacket with the factory on the back. And we would just wear it to like to wear it out. like yeah like You know what I mean? I got a job. I got a job. yeah So like wearing, like like pulling up with like boots and a Carhartt jacket and like some sweats, going somewhere is hilarious. Because you're working like Second Shift.
00:26:58
Speaker
Like, you get out at like nine, and then you're like, where yo, where what where are we doing? You're not even gonna change, you're just going straight from the shift to whatever you had with Trebini on, you know? That was a thing, that was a look, but Black Timbs was a thing. How, but like, working in a factory, like everybody had a factory job? Bro, the Midwest, bro. it's like It's like, if you didn't have a factory job in the Midwest, you either were like from the super suburbs, huh or like,
00:27:24
Speaker
like you just didn't need to work or like you just was a badass kid and like was just in the streets yeah and didn't have a job. But you brought work for Amway, like all types of jobs, bro. me Made cereal, Kellogg's.
00:27:43
Speaker
making cookies, make baby oil. shall um Shut up, shut up. It's like a viral tweet too. yeah yeah yeah I was like, I revisited that tweet. Oh, I said to mental, I was like, man, it's crazy, man. I released my first album in the baby oil factory. They had me like, man. Bro, I got headaches in that fact. I had to quit because the smell was too crazy. Yeah, it's got to be. like I'm at like you're the baby oil machine. Bro, it's like, wink.
00:28:07
Speaker
like splashing everywhere. You had to get like new shirts every week. Oh man. Yeah. Cause that's just stains. Yeah. But long story short, our, our, our Midwest style is very functional to begin with. Cause it comes out of like work where it comes out of like, I'm surprised that like red wing boots weren't like going crazy over there. We wore though, we wore red ring boots, but it was more like the white dudes. It was like the preppy, it wasn't the street dude, we wouldn't, the street wouldn't wear red, they would wear it. Tims. Forming. Yes, and the funny thing is, you would see people wear Tims, and all I said is, the mecca of all style in America is New York. I just think that we just take things from New York and make it our own. I feel like the Pelle Pelle thing, that's like a New York thing we made on our own.
00:28:56
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um even like I even feel like even wearing Cartier is like like, it's a French thing and like we take what we can from other culture, but like it's like how we wear it yeah and how like obsessed we are with it. Because I feel like there's no other city in America other than Atlanta that loves Amiri and department gallery department like they love it.
00:29:19
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They love it near and dear, bro. I mean, right now we're getting Hellstar. Hellstar is all over the place now. But yeah, Atlanta's got that, like, that. They have a style. Atlanta has a style. You can tell now. The super tight jeans, you know, that's, and like the, bro, the Balenci, they love, I think Balenciaga and tight jeans is and ah is an Atlanta look. yeah It's like a why the YN look. Like the why and like like the scammer YN look, you know what I mean? like You gotta have the, the um the ski mask on, not the ski mask, but the- The Pusheisti. Yeah, yeah, the Pusheisti. Bala Kava, or are you saying it? Yeah, I was gonna say that. I was gonna go Call of Duty on it, Bala Kava. But I did it, I did it. But that, it's like, yeah, the way that you've traveled, you've been to office these days?
00:30:07
Speaker
A majority of them? I've never been to Alaska. OK, so but all connected states. Yeah, and the Dakotas never been to the Dakotas, never been to. And so you have your manager be like, you just got booked to the Dakota. Yeah, I've never been to Idaho either in Montana. But other than that, yeah, yeah, for sure. But obviously, you know, growing up in Seattle as well, their style. Their style.
00:30:35
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is much way, way more West Coast. Yeah, I would think so too. But also you got to dress for the rain too, so it's a lot of like. Yeah, so our things, I feel like one thing, you know what? Gorp course is. Yeah, bro, I was just about to say that. That, bro, we all started to dress like unks. And like, unks, bro, my uncle, my family, we always been like, it's hiking. Everybody goes hiking. There's like, you can hike in the city. There's a crazy trail in the city in Seattle. Really? Like, yeah, it's Seward Park.
00:31:05
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That's fire. It's like in the middle, like you can, it's like this out outdoorsy city. So like, seeing people wear like Arcterix and like, that's from like Vancouver, specifically North West, like Northwest brand. And people are like still in it and like, you know, I'm just putting my Arcterix on like, you know, Carhartt and like, or not Carhartt, well, yeah, Carhartt in the Michigan and like ACG. Yeah, all that stuff. All that stuff is like,
00:31:28
Speaker
I kinda wanna blame like um kind of blame Instagram now, and like the feed, and like when people do like the get ready with me things, and like TikTok, and like like style, isn't like it's always gonna be regional, to like it it has to, be because we live places.
00:31:48
Speaker
But like it's now, it just like music, it's all globalized now. right And then like, you could be like, Ross saw somebody in Brazil with Buffs. They're in Brazil wearing Buffs because they like listening to Sada Baby. And like, Babyface Ray. They're just fans, they're just fans. And then, oh, I watched a video. I gotta find out what those are. hu You know what I mean? Because in Brazil, they wear like Oakleys.
00:32:12
Speaker
And like, just in Sao Paulo, like in Rio, I don't know what they wear, but... Nah, yeah, I was gonna say, I don't know. i Sao Paulo is more city-centric, so Rio's like, yeah. Yeah, Surfer Town. Yeah, you there or you in the the mountains? Like, my my whole family lives in the mountains, so like, you know. Like, there's a shoe, I remember... The canner? No, no, no. There's a Nike SB that they did, a collection... The color.
00:32:36
Speaker
They did a collection and the collections with a bunch of Brazilian artists It's like four or five and it was like they like my grills if I ever get a chance oh I need to I need to cop them, but there's like ah any pair oh like like painters or it was like I don't know like they gave they gave them the dunks It was it was artists like paint painters. Okay. Okay. okay good So they gave them they gave them like it's like four dunks and it's called like the EMB collection something like that and then I And this was like the height of Nike SB. So. Or like 2010. Yeah. And I remember being on the forums and being like, I need these. So I call my my cousin and my broken ass Portuguese. I'm like, can you get these for me? Can you please get these for me? What's What's the Portuguese? No, no. Cause he's like, he's like, you gotta understand. I live in the mountain.
00:33:29
Speaker
And for me to get to the the the skate shop in the city, it's going to take me four hours. And I was just like, I'll pay you, bro. Like, it just goes. But but yeah, i've I've been there a bunch of times and I never like that. Everybody's just in Havana's and it's crazy or their barefoot. And then, yo, and this is like you go to like Sao Paulo and they're wearing shoes. Yeah. I mean, everybody wears like sandals, junglers, but like.
00:33:54
Speaker
I mean, bro I can tell you this story because I think you're going to find this funny. ah So I mean, I don't like slippers. I don't like I don't like sandals. I don't like I'm from New York. bro Yeah, exactly. We'll do that. So my mom takes me a recipe to my aunt, but my aunt died died ah back in 2011. And no, that's 2011. 2008, I think it was. And and I'm just about to graduate ah high school. What year did you graduate your high school? 2008. 2008, okay. No, 2004, I'm wrong. 2004, there we go. 2008 is, I think I graduated college, so. Okay. All right. I'm dating myself, my bad. Okay. It's all good. yeah I date myself, too. Okay. In 2010. So, I got the, I begged her for a pair of hyperflights, and hyperflights are like, they look like elf shoes, they're like the,
00:34:46
Speaker
They were like, I'll send you, I'll show you a picture. But they were like, they had this like gel. You remember when there was like Kevin Garnett's with the two straps? You remember those and the big things on the side? Yes, the big bulky joints. Yeah. So at the same time they dropped hyper flights. Those were like, yeah. Yeah, they dropped hyper flights where they looked like a tap dance shoot, to be honest. All patent leather, and I got these two bubbles, they're bubbles on the side, right? Man-bitch. They're big, yeah. They're like man-bitch, they take up half the shoot. And so, I go to Brazil, and everybody's just like, oh, my cousin is just like, yo, we're going to, we're going to phone with you guys, I'll fut your ball. And I'm like, all right, yo, we out, we out. So we go, and everybody's just like,
00:35:27
Speaker
You're wearing shoes? And I'm like, yeah. And then everybody's just barefoot. So I'm out there and then and I'm feeling left out. So I go, all right, let me try to take these shoes off and try to do it. Yo, one foot like step on the ground, my feet were killing me because there's nothing but rocks and they don't feel it. Their feet are just built to just be like. Their feet are just built that. Bro, you get like calluses. Yeah. Every day outside. Every day outside. We got soft feet, bro. yeah We softies. but But I was very curious of like.
00:36:00
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ah what How does Brazil inspire you so much like when you went there? like Was that first time? like I need to know because that shit is crazy. As an American, I always tell people, like when i when I go to Brazil and i and I work with Brazilian artists and I'm like like making Brazilian influenced music, I do that knowing that I have a whole culture behind me.
00:36:25
Speaker
that I'm leaving to um kind of like temporarily to build with another community and bring them near to mine.
Cultural Exchange with Brazil
00:36:37
Speaker
So people in my community can see what they're doing.
00:36:40
Speaker
because there's more of us and less of them doing it. yeah But I want other people to know about what they're doing, which is in Brazil. it was like Because i my my whole rule is that like i'm when I'm in Brazil, I'm in Brazil as a visitor yeah forever. like ah I'm not from there. yeah But also, I can get work and I can be booked there and I can speak the language and be with my peoples there. and It's cool, but i'm for um I will forever be.
00:37:06
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a cousin, not of not a sibling. yeah You know what I mean? So, when I'm there, my root my with those rules, it's literally about connectivity, community, and like and like respect, yeah and always bringing something to the table. like Something. Physical, actually, sometimes too. Like, yo, I got some headphones. Yo, the homie, I appreciate you looking out. Last time, he got some headphones. they like you know and You bring a gift?
00:37:35
Speaker
It's fire. You know what I mean? Shoot, I brought a MacBook charger last time. I was out there like, you know how much it costs to get one of these? And it's not even that expensive in the States. But with that being said, how I'm inspired is just how f the world of Brazilians are. Because they're in a continent where everybody speaks Spanish around them.
00:38:00
Speaker
and then like They're one of the biggest countries in the world, population-wise, and size, and it's so diverse. And people don't even realize, when you go to Brazil, when you think about Brazil, you're missing 10 different other states that you don't even know about. You just know Sao Paulo or Rio. And maybe, Belo Horizonte, you're like Salvador. Maybe. And then when you're thinking about that, you just- Nobody's going to Brasilia.
00:38:27
Speaker
nobody want to yeah yeah but it's like folkk full on cultures, full on sounds, food, ethnic ethnic makeup, yeah it's crazy. So when I'm there, I'm just like a student and I'm inspired by just like how, ah like how like proud Self-pride, bro. A lot of times, coming back home to the States from Brazil, I don't see a lot of pride in city pride. I do see it sometimes, like, yeah, I'm from New York, yeah. But I'm talking about every single other person is like that. I love Rio. I'm from Rio, I never leave. I'm from Sao Paulo, I'm police stuff, put up all these, you know what I mean? They're on that. Or even Flamingo, people should be like, yeah, I'm Flamingo, and you can just go heavy. I mean, I'm Fosco.
00:39:14
Speaker
But like- I love flamingo, yeah. Are you a real one? Are you a real one? I'm a real one. That's what all the men in my family are, Vasco. This is not Fluminese. Fluminese? How you say it? Yeah, Fluminese. Yeah, Fluminese. They is Fluminese. I'm like, bro, them jerseys is horrible, bro. Them jerseys is bad. This is crazy.
00:39:31
Speaker
But the Fogo got some decent jerseys. But the logo was trash. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm speaking as a Flamingo fan anyway, because Flamingo, bro, Flamingo logo fire. Flamingo logo's fire. Corinthia's logo kind of fired too, but we didn't talk about them either. Corinthia's logo's fire. No, no, no. That's the one that had the bad plane crash, right?
00:39:47
Speaker
No, that was Campinas. No Palmeres. Yeah, Palmeres. Yeah, that's crazy. yeah there's a Now, welcome to my first and Brazilian soccer league. Yeah, yeah exactly yeah man. But to ask you a question about Owen, what led you to that? but Yeah, I was going to ask, like how did you come about funky music. Right, because I couldn't even hear any music. um You know, I'm from um from Michigan, we make we're re known for like techno and like electro music, electronic music. And I've always i've always loved that sound. So when I heard it, I had to like do my research and I found out it was Brazilian and I was like, okay, I i got it.
00:40:26
Speaker
go online and find somebody that that can help me make this stuff. yeah So I found this guy named, um his name is Allison, but he goes by DJ Kojak. okay ah He doesn't even make music anymore, bro. He's like one of the most legendary humans ever, bro. He's not even from Rio São Paulo, he's from like from the south, like Porto Alegre. Like from the south-south.
00:40:45
Speaker
talented dude, he put me on all these likes drum kits I can use, and he was like, yo, like I'm trying to sample like R and&B. So I'm talking about, I sent him samples, like just classic set R&B songs he can sample. So it was like an exchange, like I said before, like you come with something. yeah A lot of times, you hear something as an American.
00:41:02
Speaker
They're like, oh, I want to steal this and do it forever. You know what I mean? Like, this is mine now. And now I get the credit. That's why I sell people like when if if this is their first time here, like Bali Funk and they're like our funk karaoke. They're like, oh, it sounds like Sango. I'm like, no.
00:41:19
Speaker
This sound existed, bro, in the 80s and 90s. Yeah, exactly. Like we talk em about. I understand, though, because that's the American effect. And that's why Brazilians and all other other countries get like offended because of they don't get the credit because they don't have... That's why you have Anita now kind of going hard in the paint. Right. Like, it's harder to love it like as far as like some people are like, well, she's not this, or like she's doing that. She's singing in Spanish, you know? She's putting on. Right, yeah. Regardless. Yeah.
00:41:46
Speaker
you know about Brazil because of her, at least. She's doing her part. And then like you'll see somebody like The Weeknd, she's working with The Weeknd now and like straight, straight gutter like Sao Paulo funk. yeah Just straight up all of our over a pop beat and it's working. So it's like, that's the goal. The goal is to like- I got to add that to my yeah Apple real quick. Yeah, exactly. And like the main goal is, like bro, like people always want to talk about, like oh, we got to get keep the sound. Yeah, true. But like also, we want to make money. yeah We want to get out the gutter, bro. We want to make it. you know So i mean like just be honorable with the sound when you're working with it. And I feel like ah feel like that's never going to be true in a lot of cases.
00:42:29
Speaker
but there's enough people out there that will keep it true. right yeah you know I mean, as long as you're one of them, like you yourself, you know? I feel like it is it's not the majority, sadly and not sadly enough. But when we're around, we're around and we're like in like we're making decisions behind the... behind like behind the behind the scenes. um I'm actually working with one of the biggest artists in Brazil, a rapper, Becca, BK, for real. I know you put me on to him, because he was on... not and Was he on North? No, he wasn't on EMI albums. No, but I know you have a song with him. His producer, Jonas, JX, is on the Dye Senior 4. Yeah, yeah, yeah. so I know there was something that led me to his out his last album. Yeah, well, I was actually tagged as a main artist. Yeah. you know Which is, he doesn't do that, you know? so But he respects my music and stuff like that, so it's it's love. So so like working with somebody like him, it's like a stamp because like
00:43:32
Speaker
He's in it trying to just make his music. yeah He's not trying to make a particular sound. He got one song on there, bro. I gotta remember it, but that shit go crazy, bro. I gotta remember it. One song, I think I listened to it made alone that year that it dropped, that album dropped.
00:43:48
Speaker
that when like, it was like, I think I i think i hit like 10,000. Was it a drill beat? Yeah, I think it was like a drill beat. Yeah, cause he was going off and I was like, this is crazy. Yo, he's dope, bro. He's like, he's he is the biggest rapper in Brazil, in my opinion. I think as far as, um Well, I wouldn't even say biggest, bro. It's like he's beyond that. He is the he is the most genre defining. And as far as hip-hop goes, he's Brazilian hip-hop. He is like what it what it means to bru to be Brazilian hip-hop. Yeah. For sure. I mean, yeah we're not going to have a house of nice M.E.C.s.
00:44:26
Speaker
I mean, you know, that's the old era, that's the old era, you know? Model Brown and stuff, you know? I sell the toys. Yeah. No, I've said his name wrong. But like, you know, those are all Sao Paulo dudes. All Sao Paulo dudes. But like, BK is from Rio and he has a whole, he's from like, Zona Lest. Yeah. So he's different. He's, you know, actually, no, he might be from Zona, like, no, he's from Zona Lest, I think.
00:44:53
Speaker
oh Bro, he had a different whole swag. Bro, Brazil is forever, bro. Forever in my heart. They know that. I know that. I'm actually going soon. I was going to say, we're going to have to go out there one time. Bro, I will tell you that. If anybody has come out, it's you. You're from there. Your family's from there. Did you ever think that Starting I feel like yes starting this sound and being named like you are the American that is pushing this sound forward I saw a crazy tweet and they were like other there's like single might be the only gringo I can trust
00:45:31
Speaker
I said, yeah, that's fire. That's fire, bro. Put that on a shirt, bro. Put that on a shirt, yo. I know, because I had to explain it to the homies, and people are like, yo, gringo just means, like people think gringo means white. I mean, like typically, it just happens, but gringo is just somebody that's not from there. I was just going to say, yeah, you're just not from there. like Yeah, I be calling myself negringo. Negringo.
00:45:55
Speaker
like a black gringo. And they be trolling, ah you know. I think it's funny though, at the end of the day, bro, they're just passionate about their culture. no yeah for sure And you got you gotta just be on par. like If you're not, then you're they're gonna be like, get out the way. You're just here to take ah go do go do go take a picture of Sugarloaf Mountain. Go get your Christ Redeemer picture. yeah where like you Get the way, bro. You're not really here to be here.
00:46:19
Speaker
you know I did i did i did the get my Christ the Redeemer picture though. But you gotta do it. You gotta do that you gotta hit him with the... you got I was out front. This is old. This is like this is snap like snap pictures. And this is that you have to do it one time. But yeah, after that, it's like seeing the Statue of Liberty. like yeah all yeah yeah Yeah, I haven't i haven't seen the Statue of Liberty close.
00:46:41
Speaker
yeah yeah know what um I've seen it from like Jersey, as close as I got. I was like Jersey City somewhere. You gotta walk up, man. You gotta do the steps. We'll take the ferry, yeah. I know. We out next time. I've never been to a prostate building either. What? but the The only New York thing I've seen is a war trade center. Okay. Like up front. Before or after?
00:47:02
Speaker
ah After. because never um ah The first time i was i first time I ever been to New York was 2011. No, no, 2012. Okay, okay. And then, well, that was the... Was that the Brooklyn? You did that you did Brooklyn? My first show in New York was definitely in Brooklyn. Yeah. Brooklyn's something.
00:47:21
Speaker
Yeah, it was, it was in Brooklyn. I did like some ah branded event, like Reebok event. Oh, okay, okay. Shout out Reebok. What? So like, how did you transition into actually DJing? And like, what? Bro, one of my friends was like, you got to start DJing, bro. It was actually, um And I have a follow up question at me. Oh, it it was like, bro, was this guy that tried to manage me. hu He's kind of weird. He's like, he started talking about money already. Like, yo, man, so what's up with the percentage? Like, bro, percentage off the bat. I was like, Brian, ever I haven't even made money, bro. You're talking about I was in college. He was like a line. He said, well, we got to get your DJ in. He's like way older than me at the time. It's funny because like.
00:47:59
Speaker
I'd be thinking, I'd be like, yo, niggas was old. And I'm like, bro, my rule is this, if you were 40 plus, yeah but in my mind, if you're 40 plus before 2011, you're old. You was 40 years old in 2011, bro. What are you doing around me, bro?
00:48:21
Speaker
Bro, you wouldn't know it was extremely funny. That's crazy. I had a similar thought, but it was when I was on a line and somebody told me they were 35 and I was like, damn, this dude's old, bro. And I'm thinking like, damn, i I've been on the line and I'm 36. And I'm like, damn, there's somebody on this line being like, yo, this guy's mad old, bro. I know. It's crazy. ah my One of my craziest things I tell my pops, I was like, yo, pops. He's 60 now. I'm like, he pops. You're 60.
00:48:51
Speaker
I was like, man, I'm 33. And it's like, I'm still ah like, I'm still not even like, that's crazy. I'm like, yo, pops, are you 60? And like, I'm 33. Like, when I was your age, you was like, you had us. like And I was like, I'm doing this and stuff. And like, he was like, son, it's a different era. You know what I mean? Like, you know, and i when I moved 33, it was oh it actually had possibilities. Y'all are your kids on the internet.
00:49:17
Speaker
I'm like, that nah, bro, like you really 60. I'm not even like, I was like, you're 60. I'm not even 40 yet. I'm not even 40 yet. no um I don't know, I'm 50. That's crazy. You already there. Like, damn, bro.
00:49:30
Speaker
I just turned 30 something. Damn, man, you old pop. He's last, I'll troll him. Never my mom, no, I can't tell. My mom's not playing that. Can't do that, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still 21. You still 21. You got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you still got it. But yeah, my follow-up question was, what pair did you buy with DJ money or music money? Oh, man.
00:49:59
Speaker
For the first pair? Yeah. The first pair that I already sat down. Oh, I got my wife a pair of, this is not my pair, but this is just a story. ah We were dating at the time and I bought our pair of vans.
00:50:18
Speaker
that she had like that reminded her of like like along she had they're like the same type of van she had a long time ago. I was like, oh, I miss these vans. She just said it and I just bought it for her. That was like a gift. yeah like They were like $60, you know? But that was like the first, it was more my oh at my own money money. I have to struggle forever. all right But like the first like like real pair of shoes I bought, that was like, on some like yo, I got some bread now. like i'm able to I can just buy. I can just buy something I really, really want.
00:50:47
Speaker
Probably, I had to scan my brain now. Like what was on my feet at the time? Some skate shoes. The Boosenitz. The Boosenitz, bro. I bought those, like I need some new skate shoes. You gotta get, yo, the New Balance now has some fire skate shoes. there I tried them out, I tried them out. As far, I haven't skated them, but I put them on. New Balance. ah I wish Jordan,
00:51:17
Speaker
I mean, we got the RM's, we got the Nigel's, we gotta get the Nigel's. I wish Jordan would, I wish he would s SB his ni his ah all of his Jordans, like the way that he did the fours. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. i like But like the ones? Like really SB them. Yeah. like like the Like make them, like skateable, you know? I mean, they did the ones, they have they have three ones that came out and then like when you skate them, it's another shoe under it.
00:51:41
Speaker
You ever seen those? No, that's crazy. I must have started seeing them. That's crazy. Yeah. See, Jordan be doing that stuff though. They got to like... Like I got, I have the, it's called the L.A. to Chicago's. So on the outside, it's Laker Colorways, right? Is it like a sock? Nah.
00:52:00
Speaker
Like it's like a sock insert. No. Okay. Okay. It was a regular Jordan one. I'm thinking like was where Jordan that and then and then ah all the like Laker color. So it's like it's purple and then the chat the swooshes. So wait, as you as you skated you skated it turns into a Chicago one. Okay. sha That's fire. Yeah, I'm thinking like it was like almost I'll send you I'll send you a link. Okay. Yeah, you know what's funny though? The the most scalable shoe the most scalable Jordan.
00:52:27
Speaker
I feel like, like in terms of like build, I feel like 10s. 10s and twos. 10s and twos. I definitely agree. 10s I feel like are boots. Yeah, true. Maybe, yeah, nevermind. I'm thinking about that. And you cop the SB4s? Nah. The only pair of yours I've ever owned, I've owned a pair of ones. I've owned a pair of sevens.
00:52:56
Speaker
I'm on a pair of 11s, 12s, 14s, and 13s. You made it seem like you you said the only pair. And I'm thinking like, oh, he's about to be like, all right, yeah, I've only had this and this. No, but I'm only on one pair of each. That's the thing. I'm only on one pair of each of each of those Jordans I know off of. so But my favorite pair of Jordans I've ever owned was the first pair of Jordans I owned when I was a kid. And they were the wheat.
00:53:21
Speaker
Or there were the low Flint 13s with the Jordan written on the inside of the counter. Oh, those are Team Jordans? I don't know, man. I think it's Team Jordans. You had Team Jordans. Yeah, man. They look they look like 13s, but then they when they got the big Jordan on the side. Yeah, my mama played me. Yeah, man. I mean, thank you. but Right now, you just got you found out just now. Oh, no!
00:53:48
Speaker
You found out just now, bro. Aw, man. That's painful. ah You know the worst pair of Jordans I had, though, was probably with ah the Ferrari 14s. Really? I hate it, though. They just recently re-came back up. Why did I buy those, bro? Mad Red. Why? Because you used blood at the time, I guess. Bro, I grew up not wearing no red. It was funny. ah yeah And then you were asking me about my so my first Jordan.
00:54:15
Speaker
And also worst pair of shoes. That's what I'm saying. What I feel like is my most embarrassing shoe is the reason why I ended up switching and being like, I don't want to wear Jordans for a while is because my first pair is a pair of 15s. It joins with the quilts. It looked like quilts, you know? So I was getting clowned at every day in school. And after that, I never asked for Jordans ever again. And so it took until the Fire Red 3s in 2013 for me to buy another Jordan.
00:54:45
Speaker
no more The rule is now, no more no more Jordans one color. like No more one color bright. but like but I'm not gonna wear a all of the Head to toe, all red. I'm gonna tell your boy Don C. Chill out then. Nah, bro. for me. I'm talking about for you. For me, I'm not wearing them. These are chill. like there's It's a colorway. Obviously, it's a green theme, but it has has rhyme and reason.
00:55:11
Speaker
Bro, I had no business wearing those Ferraris, bro. very red red They were red and suede, bro. So we're at the end of the, towards the end of the podcast, right? And I asked another question where it deals with a little bit of visualization. I want you to think back to the time when you were about to get them fake ass babes, babes this, right? Now you're you behind your younger self. What would you tell your younger self as they open that box? ya lu nigo Yeah,
00:55:41
Speaker
You got what you wanted. Keep going. Yeah. Fake it till you make it. You sure did. I was so happy, bro. You sure did. What? And it looks like I got, oh, you got babes. Yeah, I got babes. See my G-Shock? Yes.
00:55:59
Speaker
Man, what? That was a hype, bro. yeah And then the the funniest thing is that like my first watch, ah my first like G-Shock type of watch was a G-Shock. It was a Casio watch that was like, yeah that looked like a G-Shock. It was like a hundred dollars. It's like the sport, the sport, you know, the awkward, you know, the mock marine, you know, I didn't care, but I was like, bro, I got to play the part, bro. I'm trying to play the part.
00:56:23
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So when you're that age, you're like, I'm not gonna continue my life, living my life until I can get these pair of shoes, you know what I mean? And a lot of our lives too, it was like the like the buffs, like we wanted buffs so much, but like we had to settle with like wires, which is like another pair of Cartiers, yeah like or like get a pair from like our older friend, like our older cousin, or like a friend that was selling drugs. And like you he go, man, he gonna little nigga man, he gonna put these on, take a photo.
00:56:51
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You know what I mean? Put it on my space real quick. It blew my mind though, like seeing people in high school with a pair of $1,000 glasses on. Yeah, at I would be like, whoa. It was a comment though. Everybody's telling drugs, bro. yeah that was like That's like Ferragamo belts out here. People would just steal them from Macy's.
00:57:10
Speaker
And then, or they would get a job and then just spend, it's one paycheck. Like you just be like, I- I've done that. Yeah. I was working at Meyers. That's how I paid for my, um my babes. Working at Meyers. I don't know. It's like Meyers like Kroger. It's like a Kroger to me. Yeah. But yeah, bro. If I'm, if I'm telling my young self, yeah, bro. Yeah. Pull the trigger on that. Let everybody know where to find you. Sango underscore on Instagram, SangoBeats.com. That's my main main website um on Twitter, SangoBeats as well. TikTok, SangoBeats, whatever. I'm not really on TikTok, but I try to be.
00:57:49
Speaker
but you know You're out not doing the Uzi dance? No, you're not going to catch me dancing with TikTok. I'm already DJing or something, but not TikTok. You know where to find me, I am, who is awesome. Also for me to follow the podcast on My First Kicks Pod. If you were listening to this, guess what? You're done goofed. Go to YouTube, My First Kicks on YouTube.
00:58:08
Speaker
Hit me up if you have my first kick story, myfirstkickspodatgmail.com. And if you're interested, I will be dropping these shirts soon, ah hopefully, when this episode drops. But don't take me for for granted on that. I don't know do what I'm saying. Kappa Sango shirt. The phrase is, don't take my word for it. Yeah, they did to take my word for it. It's gonna drop, it's gonna drop. But just announcing it now that it is coming, ah this will probably be both post-Complex Con. so If you saw me at Complex Con, shout out to you for tapping in this week. ah Thanks again for pulling out, bro. Yeah, man. Yes, sir.