StaHHr: “Big Words Don’t Equal Bars” (Full Convo CTC Show Ep. 178)

yeah no it's dope though that you got a little bit from everything i just think that's wonderful because it just it helps makes us make us complete people in the long run you know what i'm saying um so go back to atlanta like 92 93 94 because You're speaking on the Atlanta that I knew about when I was up in CT and everybody was trying to get to.

Like in 96, no, no, 98, 99, my man was down in Atlanta.

He just moved down there.

He was like,

yo, you got to come down, fam.

He was like, it's

jobs.

Houses are good.

You can get a good job without a degree.

That's that and the third.

And like...

I was dancing a lot of house and hip hop at the time, 93, 94.

And my man went to Morehouse, come back and be like, we all, serious thing, we all wanted to go to Atlanta.

Cause that was like the,

And it was too late.

I got to watch like Outkast from the beginning.

And for me being from the South, I'm like, they are lyrical.

And I was just like, this is the best thing I've ever heard.

Cause I, I, always liked the you know the a shot what's your name i mean i kind of like always like liked that i like kind of made the the hairs on the back you know those goals you know what i mean i just always i just liked it because it was just so okay okay

you

know what i mean so because again i wanted the blackest experience that i could have because i grew up in such a a very white suburban area so once i read malcolm x's autobiography and i realized well i was the mascot too you know i was the mascot too yeah you know and i'm thinking oh we're the same and then you know middle school hits and what i say i have my moment like they made make sure i knew that oh you're black and you're different yeah

I had one of those.

I mean, we got to talk later because I did the suburban school thing, too.

And for me, it was also a challenge because I didn't quite fit in with some of the Black kids.

I mean,