Hartford's streets whisper tales of dreamers and believers, where my guest O's life is a canvas depicting the stark contrasts of isolation and fame, authenticity and artifice. We begin our journey with a poetic homage to Cool Que, Hartford's fallen star, and swiftly navigate the vibrant yet daunting pathways that have sculpted the indomitable spirits of local artists. Amidst the relentless pressures of the music industry, we converge at the crossroads of personal identity and cultural heritage, unraveling how the roots laid down in youth can bear the fruits of wisdom and resilience.
Family and faith cast long shadows on the wall of O's upbringing, painting a portrait of transformation that transcends the boundaries of Hartford to the serene avenues of Bloomfield. The church's bell tolls not just for spiritual balance but as a beacon guiding one through life's tumultuous streets. Listen closely as O recounts the soundtrack of his life—a symphony of music and cinema that has underscored his evolution from street-smart kid to a man of substance, while his narrative pulses with the heartbeat of confrontation and adaptability.
In the fabric of our community, we weave threads of hope and ambition, offering a salute to the minority entrepreneurs who craft their destinies with tenacity and vision. The episode culminates with a look towards the horizon, where collaboration and innovation promise to breathe new life into Hartford's legacy. Join us as we celebrate the personal victories, the strength found in independence, and the small yet significant triumphs that keep the spirit of Hartford not just surviving, but thriving.
Follow our IG & Twitter for live updates @LFTGRadio
Hartford's streets whisper tales of dreamers and believers, where my guest O's life is a canvas depicting the stark contrasts of isolation and fame, authenticity and artifice. We begin our journey with a poetic homage to Cool Que, Hartford's fallen star, and swiftly navigate the vibrant yet daunting pathways that have sculpted the indomitable spirits of local artists. Amidst the relentless pressures of the music industry, we converge at the crossroads of personal identity and cultural heritage, unraveling how the roots laid down in youth can bear the fruits of wisdom and resilience.
Family and faith cast long shadows on the wall of O's upbringing, painting a portrait of transformation that transcends the boundaries of Hartford to the serene avenues of Bloomfield. The church's bell tolls not just for spiritual balance but as a beacon guiding one through life's tumultuous streets. Listen closely as O recounts the soundtrack of his life—a symphony of music and cinema that has underscored his evolution from street-smart kid to a man of substance, while his narrative pulses with the heartbeat of confrontation and adaptability.
In the fabric of our community, we weave threads of hope and ambition, offering a salute to the minority entrepreneurs who craft their destinies with tenacity and vision. The episode culminates with a look towards the horizon, where collaboration and innovation promise to breathe new life into Hartford's legacy. Join us as we celebrate the personal victories, the strength found in independence, and the small yet significant triumphs that keep the spirit of Hartford not just surviving, but thriving.
Follow our IG & Twitter for live updates @LFTGRadio
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Speaker 3:It's your boy, elliot Carter, reporting live from the motherfucking gutter. It's a special guest. It's a special guest today in the building we got my boy.
Speaker 4:O, here with me. What up? Salute, live to the gutter. What's going on? How you feel about Kanye's new shit? I ain't even listen to Kanye's new album.
Speaker 3:I didn't even know. The new one didn't come out yet, but that was uh. This is gonna be a song off his new album right here.
Speaker 4:It's alright, it's alright, I don't Kanye. I don't really listen to Kanye. I do listen to Kanye, but I don't listen to Kanye. I listen to when he talk. People need to listen when he talk, cause he not crazy. Okay, he elaborate. I like his movies, I like his music, though Everybody think Kanye crazy. But Kanye's not crazy. Kanye got a method to his madness.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely. I definitely feel like there's a method to his madness, there's a uh, there's a science to his approach.
Speaker 4:He's seen a lot he knows a lot, he's been a lot and he's brought elbows with a lot of people. Yeah, for sure, you know what I mean. He's been around the world, he know, he know. For sure, for sure, don't count him out.
Speaker 3:Yeah and um. So you're born and raised in Hartford.
Speaker 4:Born and raised in Hartford at uh, at age eight I moved to Bloomfield. About four years. I'm from the Blue Hills area. Rest in peace, my boy cool Q. Rest in power. Good brother was a tragedy. No rapping then. But um, ingy way, yes, sir, the Ingy way, the only way Up the ways, one of the ways, finally, blue Hills baby. Um, uh, can we give a five minute, um, yeah, absolutely Five minute, one minute silence for me and Q, please? All right, thank you, that's Ingy way, man, my boy Q cool Q. Go check him out on all streaming platforms YouTube, facebook. I only know his Facebook page, but if you go type in cool Q you'll get him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think um. I got him tagged Timothy Rose.
Speaker 4:Timothy Rose. Yes, yes, he was, he was. He was the next one up.
Speaker 3:I got him tagged on the Instagram, so y'all could uh just tap into the Instagram and uh look for him from there. All right, right, right, right, right, All right. So talk to me about life in Hartford, Growing up in Hartford, growing up in Connecticut, how it's been for you and some of the some of the struggles and the challenges that you face growing up in Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 4:Well, you know, when you were young you were naive To certain things. Growing up Hartford, for the most part, was fun, like I told you, sorry for I didn't shout out the cool Q, sorry. Um, he was asking about. Um, I grew up eight years. I grew up from. I grew up, like I said, I'm from the Blue Hills neighborhood, um West Euclid Street. Um, I grew up there about. I was born in 78.
Speaker 4:Um I I moved me and my mother used to live with my grandmother. Um, my father was always around but my father used to be doing his thing. You know if you get what I'm saying. Yeah, absolutely. Um, my father ended up getting saved. Getting saved and changing his life. You know what I'm saying. So he gave her all that street and that's what girls, whatever else he was doing, extra curricular activities, he gave that up. He married my mother. They had a sister.
Speaker 4:We moved her, but before that we moved to Bloemford, I believe Persian Park neighborhood On the other side of Blue Hills by Coventry Street. We moved over there and that's where life began. I mean, life started a little bit at Hartford, but like, as far as like being like, it's like moving from like Brooklyn to Queens. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, from another city, right? So I'm the new kid in the neighborhood, so I gotta adapt quick. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, absolutely, I didn't have all the necessary skills at the moment, but, um, like LOX, living off experience, you get acclimated hands on. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, thanks, like, like, like, for me, I didn't like my father's side of the family.
Speaker 4:They dig deeper than my mother's side of the family. Okay, because only on my mother's side of the family. They from Alabama, um, um, uh, greensville, alabama, by Mobile, montgomery, all that, um, it's my aunt, my grandmother, my aunt's son and my father and my mother. That's my, that's my side of the family up here In Hartford on my mother's side. Okay, so me and my father is the men of our family and my mother's family. Okay, because only three females, yeah, one of my and my cousin, and on my father's family they from South Carolina, okay, georgetown, sanford, around that area. So, which is my father's part of eight Hailing from down south, both sides, right, so my father's a part of eight brothers, four sisters, eleven of them, or twelve of them all together. You know what I'm saying, so you can imagine when they came down here. How does? Yeah I mean, for lack of a better word, you know that's the her side of my family.
Speaker 4:So growing up Hartford, I had a balance. You know, I always went to church. So you know that always kept me spiritually grounded, you know, let me say one thing if you don't, if you don't, first and foremost, if you don't, uh, how can I say this? Uh, I believe in the higher power. So everybody, certain people, believe in higher powers, but they put different names to it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so I don't want to, like, put a label, put a label on it, like, for me personally, how I was raised up. I'm not religious but spiritual. I'm a follower of Christ. That's me personally. So that's the Bible, the Bible Me knowing the Bible stories and whether the metaphor is true, that helped shake my life to music. I got both parents in my life. They wasn't always together. I got both parents, like I told you, but my parents, respectfully, didn't raise me. They sheltered me, clothe me. They did what parents are supposed to do keep me away from certain things. But music influence and music music really influenced my life and movies, not being a follower, but taking the good, the bad and throwing the ugly away out of me.
Speaker 3:So when you say your parents, then raise you. Who raised you Outside?
Speaker 4:The streets Music, my deac. That's like listening.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:sure, Listening to the music, knowing I don't want to be a part of certain things, or I do want to be a part of certain things.
Speaker 3:So music had a heavy influence, heavy, heavy, from young, on your behavior and your culture.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, yes, like my father, you know, is it different from somebody telling you you know, do this when something happened, from you being here and Zoom, and you being in that situation, yeah for sure, like never say you're going to do this or not, cause you don't never know what you're going to do in a situation, certain situations you just don't want to be in. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Certain situations.
Speaker 4:But that's what I'm saying. Like my father always said, if somebody bigger than you do something, you hit him or pick up a stick. Mm-hmm, you feel what I'm saying. When it comes down for somebody doing something to you, you're not thinking about picking up no stick, or you know what I'm saying. You got to, I had to have things, I had to be physically in certain situations to be like man. This is not going to happen to me again. Yeah, I'm not going through this again.
Speaker 3:You had to go through it, Right? That's what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 4:Living off experience. So that's what I say. Like I got raised like that. Okay, you know what I'm saying? Like, not saying like my parents did what they did for me. They did what they could my mother, my aunt, my father. He showed me how to get money. You know what I'm saying, mm-hmm? Because? And with females too, raising, raising, raising kids they only could do so much. They only could do so much as far as raising, they could discipline you all day and yell at you and spank your butt and all that. But you need a man like daughters, like men that got daughters. You need to be in a like too, because it's real out here, females is getting kidnapped, all females is getting raped, females is getting trafficked, females getting abused. And there's a lot of us I don't care what color you is A lot of men. If you were a man, okay, what color you was, man, stand up and protect these women out here, cause if it wasn't for these women, you know what I don't like each.
Speaker 4:But when people get mad about I'm not knocking nobody's situation how they grew up, but people would tell my mother my father was just an act. Listen, man, if it wasn't for your mother father, no matter what, you wouldn't be in a situation where you're going through what you're going through and they're good about.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a fact, don't be.
Speaker 4:No, my mother, this, my mother, that Maybe sometimes that's the case where it shapes and moves the kid's life. But other than that, like, don't use no excuse. But back to your question. Hartford was all right, hartford was rough, hartford could be scary. When you're young, that's the one thing that people should teach they cares about.
Speaker 4:Growing up is fear Especially. That's why I say back to religion or spirituality if you got a higher power or you believe in the Lord Jesus or God, you shouldn't fear nothing. You feel what I'm saying and I know two part. One said no, no self-destruction. I think it was heavy deed. I said I shouldn't have to. Oh, it was Kumodi. He said I shouldn't have to fear another black man and that always stuck with me.
Speaker 4:Why do people fear Like you shouldn't have to fear. I understand you should be fearful, but you should be aware. Of course you should, but I shouldn't, I shouldn't. You know black people are oppressed black people and I know you, being from the city, and you know the stories of gangs. You know Bloods and Latin kings and oppression and how gangs are started so that people wouldn't be oppressed but they wouldn't be somewhere else. We are press ourselves and we, like man, we doing them people jobs for us. You feel what I'm saying? We doing them people jobs and they sitting back letting it go down, and then you get caught and you do all the time. So you do a crime, say a person who's a life, that's two lives lost because one person in jail and one person dead. Who wins? Nobody but the people that's orchestrating playing the field, probably the strings. Yeah, man, it's just about awareness, man.
Speaker 3:So, from an outsider coming in, from someone from like Pennsylvania or someone from New York or Jersey moving to Connecticut, moving to Hartford, what's some advice you have for them?
Speaker 4:My business, my business. And another thing, whether it relates or don't relate, the streets, not everything. Like you know, I tell certain people that's hustling and get you a job, but it'd be so hard for them to transition because you know the longer you be in certain situations, even if you want to. But Hartford is a nice place, like, especially in the spring or the summer. You look down certain streets and I'm really talking about like, like Garden Street. If you look down Garden Street, coming up from the avenue and you see how, like, when the spring is changing autumn, hartford is a beautiful place. Hartford is a beautiful place. It's not enough to do Hartford. That's the problem. It's not enough to do Hartford. It used to be. It used to be. We have Maaz and Richardson.
Speaker 3:And what happened? Why do you say it used to be?
Speaker 4:It got. You know what Justification bro yeah and I'm and it ain't like. You can't really see it how you see it. Justification it was too many Hartford was popping back then bro yeah Clubs, and then you're younger so you have much to do, but then, like it was like when they stopped the club in downtown you know what I'm saying? About 10, about 15 years ago, 10 feet between 10 and 15 years ago. That's when things changed. I guess it was a, it was a changing of the guards, for like that's when the grown up clubs happen and the button ups and less violence and stuff like that. But that's when it kind of happened. You got to go really out of town or go to, like, the comedian club, or you got to wait for a show or something to really have fun, or go to Bridgeport, something, go. Just it ain't in Hartford, it's not in Hartford. Only time you have fun in Hartford, you having to cook out or you playing spades or somewhere, or you outside. So how was it, ma, you travel.
Speaker 3:Yes, where was your latest adventure?
Speaker 4:Well, south Carolina. Okay, what was going on out there? I went for funeral my. Was it a funeral? No, it wasn't a funeral, it was a get together. I never met my father's mother. She died. My grandmother. She died when it was like seven. So I've been home before back there, but I never met her side of the family.
Speaker 4:Okay, you feel what I'm saying. It was kind of like a family reunion. It was a family reunion. Yes, it was, and it's. It was a good experience. It was a good experience, like my, my, my grandmother's side is just as deep as my father's side of the family. Okay, like they got a whole street. That is just I forgot what they call it a neighborhood, but it's just. Like mostly my family live on that street. Yeah, same different houses, one long street. They got the church in the cemetery where my grand, where my grandmother was buried, and a couple of other, my people. So that's the last place I've been before that, okay, I mean the last place I've been. Where's next? Right now, I want to go on another cruise. I ain't going to lie, but I ain't really pressed to go too many places. I want to, but because you know we're all crazy right now. So I ain't really trying to be caught outside of United States like that, but I do want to go on another cruise, yeah.
Speaker 3:Just mind your business. That's it. That's it. I ain't mad at you. I ain't mad at you. What's your day to days? Look like Busy.
Speaker 4:I work with you, of course. So I'm going to start from nighttime, you know, seven o'clock, get ready to go to work from eight to four, from eight to four, you know, I do landscaping two in the morning. So sometimes, if the weather's right, I'm getting two hours of sleep and I'm up at eight and I try to get back home around to try to be back in the bad by four, but that don't always work, you know. So that's what my days is, just just keep on moving. I said, yeah, facts, facts, facts. I'm trying to rest and rest it now because of the weather change.
Speaker 4:Well, other than that, busy man, busy married, no, soon to be, soon to be, I got a lady I've been with about 19 years, oh yeah. So I know, I know when y'all see that you're going to be like why you ain't married, but you know there's a time and place for everything. You know what I'm saying. So I used to be running the streets, playing around, messing with, you know, just doing what men do. Yeah, got a girl at home. You got a couple of shorties out. You running the street, you know, hustling a little bit. So you know that type of life, but you know.
Speaker 3:So what made you after 19 years? What made you say this is the one she always been the?
Speaker 4:one. She always been the one I as a, as a conglomerate, we both had. First of all, I wasn't ready. Okay, like I said, I was, you know, doing me running around and you know street nigga. But when the job came, down the whole bed with the last bed, she helped me down all three beds. I mean I did like three scale beds, four months, three months, my feet, you know what I mean. She left me one time. Got her back, though, but she helped me down.
Speaker 4:She's a good lady, not really a background. You're not gonna hear her name in the streets. You know she's a mother too. She got a son and a daughter. That's her daughter's um, what up smurf, what up man man? Her daughter's 26, 27. Her son is like 24 25. You know I'm sorry, um, but I've been with her 19 years. But me not playing around, like as far as muscle other girls yeah, serious, and stuff like that. I've been good for, like I want to say, eight, nine years, okay, so I'm playing around. I went to the mall and picked out a ring and stuff.
Speaker 4:You know a lot of people be trying to pressure when you're getting married, when you know I'm saying when the time is right, like I ain't getting married because you want me to get married. Yeah, you doing things on your own and when it's right, you know I'm saying and I gotta make sure that she the right one, because certain things I believe in she ain't with, like Christmas, I don't believe in Christmas and I don't believe in these holidays. She do. You know I'm saying and, and if I get married, then I'm trying to tell her now that mean you gotta come on a common ground, because if I'm, yeah, it's gonna be some type of compromise. If I'm on a spiritual level and I believe in God and he's first in my life, then I can't let what you got going on affect me and what I'm doing. You know I'm saying yeah, for sure, I'm not trying to be selfish with you, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna still buy a ring and I'm still gonna put the ring on her finger, but the wedding ring I'm gonna hold. That.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna hold that and what's the what's the point of you holding it?
Speaker 4:the like I told you we got to get that compromise right. Okay, now, maybe, before we go forward. Okay, we got to get that compromise right. Okay, that's all. That's all so once I get the compromise right, then you'll give it to her, the wedding ring we're gonna yeah, okay, you're gonna get the end of, you're gonna get the engagement ring, yeah, but oh, I got a set.
Speaker 3:That's why I'm saying yeah, no, that's what I mean. Like the wedding ring. Yeah, once yet. Once she gets the compromise, once y'all get it and y'all agree on it, that's when she'll get the other half yeah, okay, that's when I'm always work on it.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna work on, I'm gonna work on the wedding and all that stuff, but between that time I'm gonna be, um, we're gonna be building, okay. I'm saying, yeah, I'm me, I'm a person that's, I'm aware and I'm aware and I'm woke, I ain't sleep, bro, you heard, and I'm trying to uh, uh, my girl, she just I be trying to. I can't push, like I said, my beliefs on her. Yeah, at least be trying to spark her interest, if that makes sense. No, I'm sure, spark her interest a little bit. She younger no, I'm gonna order to me by yeah, okay, well, she gonna be like it's just a couple of months, but she was born in December 77. I'm born March 20, march 78, oh yeah, so like four months. Yeah, you feel me, but it's real loud here and a lot of people sleep out here. Yeah for sure, wake, wake up, is in your face and don't act naive. And if you got questions, ask them shits. You feel me, man, I don't want to go to he. We're gonna take our time nah go there.
Speaker 4:I'm saying like I'm saying like certain, like Santa Claus and all that shit yeah, go to your kids about no Santa Claus talking about this for the kids. Do you have kids?
Speaker 3:no, okay, if you had kids? No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't, no, santa.
Speaker 4:Claus, that's, that's what I'm talking about me and her, she talking about my kids. I'm telling I made a joke with her daughter. Her daughter came over to cook the other day. I'm like she like my daughter named Smurfs. She like, uh, it's not fair that you not doing Christmas. And I said I was talking in the kitchen because I told her today my kids would be celebrating Christmas. So she was like, uh, it was like the next day and I ended talking to my girl daughter and she was like I was like I told you my kids ain't gonna be celebrating Christmas. So my girl daughter, like this kid, celebrate Christmas. I was like you're not a kid, you feel what I'm saying, man, you a grown ass woman, you're a girl woman, but I did celebrate Christmas. My girl is just mad because it's a abrupt change.
Speaker 4:When I found out the truth, like I always had questions, she was like why you? Just, I wasn't. I didn't know. No, yeah, I know. When you know something, man, if I tell you the stove hot, you want, you want to still touch it? Hot me, hot, you know what? Hot me, yeah, thanks. But I can't, man, you can't make them drink, you're thanks. So I'm not man. I believe in hell, in heaven, and I ain't kind of gonna have and I'm not gonna help for no woman. You heard, I'm not gonna have with nobody but my soul. If that's the case, if God willing, I go. If you believe in that type of stuff, you heard so does the 26 year old have kids?
Speaker 3:no, none of them have kids.
Speaker 4:No, she live by herself. She got a job. She's doing all right. Her birthday was just passing. I gave her a card. I said I'm proud of you because most of her friends got kids and you know how that. You know you celebrate birthdays. Yes, I do. I celebrate life. Okay. New years, mother's day, father's day, I celebrate that. No, bad times, thanks giving the Christmas, columbus day, 4th of July, none of that shit.
Speaker 4:Juneteenth no, because Juneteenth is it's a history behind. Juneteenth is it's something else. It's something else between Juneteenth which I don't really like. I can't remember right now, so I'm not gonna put it out there. Okay, like all that black Friday shit, I'm not doing it. That's the days the slaves were sold for cheap. I'm not with all that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like you gotta like, if you know really how the United States and it's bigger than us, man, it's bigger than us we program. I mean the world is programmed and I advise y'all watch them. New two TikToks, scary, creepy TikToks. Yeah, I mean they lied to you about a lot of stuff the moon and the firming man and going out of space and Antarctica and all type of stupid shit, like you know. I mean it's not in your history books. It just told you what they wanted you to hear, man, and it worked. It worked.
Speaker 4:This is a system that was going on since 18, 18, 19 okay, it was like 103 years, sort of. In 18, like 1803, no 70, I was born in 78, 1805, 1805 they wrote, they wrote um, they wrote the curriculum for people you know. The only reason they got school is to make you work as citizens for the people that got the money. That's the only reason they got school to make you um compliant and not question nothing. That's why they made schools. I believe you feel me. So what are you doing right now? Thinking on the box podcast to take off open doors? I believe me, you're doing a thing you know. I'm saying take off, bro. I appreciate it. Take off, man. I appreciate. Shots out to it and the gutter right live from the gutter word.
Speaker 3:Live from the gutter word, word. Thanks. Also shout out to uh Brumel Cycling Fitness. Uh, my man, randy Brumel, he got a bike shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah what up man?
Speaker 3:uh man, randy Brumel, he got a bike shop. Uh, alan Harwinson, let me give you all the address.
Speaker 4:Right now we need you on here cause Ray is smart. Ray know that financial talk. Yeah, he be talking his shit, Ray, definitely talk.
Speaker 3:Let me give you all this addy. Okay, here we go 21 Burlington Road in Harbenton, brumell, cycling Fitness. Randy's been a staple in the community for more than two decades and he's repairing all of your local bikes and fitness equipment. He also has fitness accessories for sale. Give him a call at 860-6010-855. That's 860-6010-855. And also want to give a shout out to Hold on? Also want to give a shout out to. Also want to give a shout out to Peace, peace, peace. So I got chest players word 1020 Farmington Avenue.
Speaker 3:No, that's Burlington. That's Burlington. 1020 Farmington Avenue, burlington, 06037. That's Taino Chest Club. And yeah, it's $5 a day, $20 a week, $200 a year. If you don't have $5 to go participate for the day, just tell them. Lftg sent you, they'll let you in. And yeah, it's for beginners, intermediate, advanced chest players, anybody looking to learn the game or just advance on your strategy and learn more. Y'all go shout out Taino Chest Club. You play, yes sir.
Speaker 4:Ok, that's for sure. Yes, I do. My father taught me when I was young. So how long you been playing? So say about I was 45. Just say about 30 years. Yeah, yeah, nice. I mean he taught me the moves and the you know I figured out the rest.
Speaker 3:Yeah, my pops taught me how to play too, you being a chest tournament.
Speaker 4:Yeah I be. I want to play you, but I don't know. I think you better scrape me. Real bad man, yeah, we.
Speaker 3:We can play. We can play after this matter of fact.
Speaker 4:I know you. I know you're being a chest tournament man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, every playing in the chest tournament is heavy Mm-hmm For sure. All right, so what you be doing in Connecticut, what you be doing in Hartford, what you be doing with your free time?
Speaker 4:Just to be outside After I work. I'm outside chilling On Goddard Street or Up the Way or somewhere, but now I was like I don't be outside like that. Um, changes, bro, Changes, peace to my boy Brooke man, um, my boy Brooke, my boy Brooke moved to Uh, jersey, I believe, jersey, yeah. So you know, if I come outside and nobody around, I'll go back in the house. Man, I don't got no problems in the house now. You feel me? I go watch YouTube or just chill. I'm doing something Trying to save some money, man. I ain't be trying to out here wasting money, but If there ain't nothing popping, man, I'm going back in the house. Man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I ain't mad at you, you feel me. I ain't mad at you Fucking um when restaurants you fuck without here. Give me some restaurants to review.
Speaker 4:Okay, um 778.
Speaker 3:778 is already reviewed. We did them. They got pretty good reviews.
Speaker 4:Shots out Gabe. Um yeah, gabriel Mickens, yeah, shots out Gabe. Um Uh, take uh, just a twist on Blue Hail's On the corner of Booth Bay and Blue Hail's by the gas station. Shots out to my boy, shaquille Shat. What up, he's no poor restaurant.
Speaker 3:Okay, just go with, just a.
Speaker 4:Twist, just a Twist on Blue Hail's, okay, um, breakfast, I don't want to say dinner, but breakfast, breakfast and lunch. You know, chicken wings and rice, um, salmon, yeah, things like that nature, yeah, okay. Shots out to the Jamaican restaurants Paradise on Blue Hail's. Um, yeah, I did. Paradise restaurant I just burnt my mouth on a Jamaican B-Pati yesterday from Golden Crust on the Avenue. Shots out to y'all because your B-Pati's always hot. Yeah, my boy, leon, thank you for buying that for me. Um, other than that, bro, I don't really like to go out and spend no money. That's my girl department, scott, they got a bunch of them. Okay, I fucked with Scott's on Blue Hail's. Okay, or Main Street, depending on, because they got Scott's on Main Street. Got the Stoopies on Thursdays.
Speaker 3:Okay, when they could catch that? Yeah, we definitely gonna go check out Scott's. Yeah, get your soup.
Speaker 4:Get your soup. They don't serve no jerk. They serve jerk chicken wings, but no jerk put and no jerk chicken. You gotta go to Main Street for that. Probably to another Jamaican restaurant, Okay, oh. Shots out to Head Over Berries. Go check them out when they at On Blue Hail's, Across the street from Carlos, on the corner of Burnham and Blue Hail's Avenue. Head Over Berries Shots out Miss B, that's, if you want your nutritious fruit bowls and fruit bowls with the Aki. Yeah, Aki Aki, and they do smoothies. I'm not with them. Okay, yeah, you know. Shots out to the Chinese restaurant too. Wei Main, Wei Main Chinese. Shots out to the whole Blue Hail. Shalimar Roy's S, Mr Pizza, Jimmy Sandra Bali.
Speaker 3:Shots out to the whole Blue Hail's neighborhood All right, so let me ask you three questions real quick. Of course, best pizza you can allocate.
Speaker 4:I ain't gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. It used to be Mr Pizza T. I made all them changes. I like Joey Garlix. Joey Garlix, we Angel and the Moorlard out work one day you ain't getting a. Nah. Joey Garlix Pizza Village in Bloomfield. Shhh, shhh, shhh, shhh, and I'm going with Burger Piecing in. Okay, on Barbecue Street.
Speaker 3:Okay, best restaurant in Hartford.
Speaker 4:I can't tell you that. I can't tell you because I'm not a. I can't tell you best restaurant in Hartford. I can't tell you because I'm not a. Like, I told you, I'm not a restaurant eater. So, yeah, I mean because I go, I won't even eat sometime, bro. Yeah, I have to. I smoke and I work my apple cider, yeah, I feel you, I'm not like one of them dudes, like piece of my boy kill, excuse me. Corey, excuse me, he gotta eat in the morning. My cousin Chang's, he gotta eat. My boy Leon, they just gotta eat. Y'all gotta eat. I'm thirsty man, I'm all heavy. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I won't eat all day and then come home and eat. You feel what I'm saying? I work too. You know what I'm saying. We eat, so I really can't. That's up in the air, bro. That's up in the air.
Speaker 3:All right, last one Best Chinese food.
Speaker 4:I don't like Chinese food, but I can tell you this. Only reason I don't like it is because I grew up on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm saying that's all I don't. It ain't nothing wrong with Chinese food. I like they teas though we'll get you a tea for me. But best Chinese food, I'm gonna say. My girl said Red Star or Mane, and Nelson has the best chicken wings. The best general tie that I get is I gotta give you the name later but it's a Chinese restaurant downtown by. Is it Chinese restaurant downtown? The only Chinese restaurant downtown. On the side going down towards Marcus Street, they got good Chinese food and number one Chinese. It's gonna be number one Chinese. No, star Chinese. Star Chinese on Main Street is that's in Hartford Hartford, off of Duns River. Okay, I know what you're talking about. That might be like if people wanna get Chinese food that they wanna go pick up, they're gonna most likely go there. Yeah, I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Okay, since you got any businesses, anything you wanna shout out? I?
Speaker 1:miss.
Speaker 3:Any of your homies businesses anything got going on in Hartford Connecticut. You wanna shout out before we wrap it up?
Speaker 4:Shout out. I'm not shout out to all entrepreneurs. Mainly minorities, yeah for sure, mainly minority entrepreneurs. Like I said, gay, miss B Shat and the phone stores vague. Shout out to you, o'shane. If you happen to come across this where you at brother, I need you. Bro. That's the phone man, you know. Just shout out to all black businesses, man. If you doing something on the side, shout out to people like you doing your podcasts. And if you just doing something, that ain't that you your own general, you're your own boss, man. Shout out to you, man, that's all you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah for sure. Shout out to the entrepreneurs and the self-made business owners out there. Absolutely y'all tap in man. It was a great episode with my man O.
Speaker 4:This wasn't enough. This wasn't enough.
Speaker 3:I need more. Yeah, nah, you definitely. You definitely see a lot more from O. We gonna invite Randy and my man, Maine, and see if we could get a group thing going with Randy, maine and you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, shout out to my boy too. Man Brother Knowledge, man, he had to watch his daughter, man, you know yeah, yeah, yeah, we all gonna lock in, we gonna be.
Speaker 3:y'all could expect a lot more from O Maine. And yeah, that's it man. Oh, shout out to the previous guests.
Speaker 4:I'll be listening, I'll be in tune. Shout out to Ease previous guests. And yeah, I'll be listening to y'all while I'm at work, man, Y'all be helping me get through my day, man. Thank y'all. Man. Shout out to the life and the gutter.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, man Shout out Gascar. We gonna have some merch coming soon. So, yeah, I'll look out for the merch We'll have. We should have some sweatsuits and everything like that Life and the gutter.
Speaker 4:Yeah, life and the gutter sweatsuits. Life and the gutter sweatsuits, I'm with it.
Speaker 3:I'm with it, yeah we should have that by season two. So what, what, what, what Within the next four or five weeks? Yeah, yeah, I'll tap in, but yeah, episode 13, Serrat, Salute y'all yeah.