Speaker 2
She keeps growing. Oh, no. So every time I look up,
Speaker 8
you got baby babies. Yeah. Yeah, I got a three.
Speaker 6
What's the, what's the young? What's the age? The young with
Speaker 3
14 11 and three. Yeah. No, no. Every time I
Speaker 2
look up, it's a damn box at the front door, because she needs something,
Speaker 4
because she keeps growing. She keeps growing. She keeps growing. Constantly. No, I'm not this. I'm not going
Speaker 6
to finish it off. Some of you, you know, very outspoken over your life, over your career, but you've silently been helping rebuild South LA. Can you tell us a little bit
Speaker 3
about that? Well, originally,
Speaker 2
I was playing, I got involved in
Speaker 4
redevelopment and
Speaker 1
stuff like that.
Speaker 2
you know, we, we, so my
Speaker 1
first project was on Slosin and Western. We
Speaker 2
brought in like a deep hole. Oh, man, we here was that. That was true.
Speaker 1
99. Yeah, 99. We started, I think we started like in 98, 99. And so we brought in the first home depot in East of the Mississippi.
Speaker 1
sorry, West of the Mississippi. In urban area, everything else was all in the suburbs, the whole deal. So we brought it in
Speaker 2
the hood, Starbucks, magic, magic when he owned the Starbucks, brought him in. I was his landlord for a while. That's dope. Talk that shit. Oh,
Speaker 1
yeah, he let you know all day. Yeah. I was his landlord. And so we just started bringing in all the different
Speaker 2
different stores and stuff like that.
Speaker 1
And it was just like it needed it
Speaker 2
because South, so doing the riots, nothing was rebuilt
Speaker 1
at all in South LA, nothing. It was just like burnt down buildings and it was just it was crazy looking. And so we just made a commitment to purchase the land and rebuild starting there. Then we just started building other projects all over the