 I got kicked out of elementary school for flagging. They kicked us out. We was coming in without flags. This is at Nacu Hennessy. Wow. They sent us home. Did you finish school? I got my GD. Hey flowers, let's talk to him. He ain't never had to prove that I was gangster, not real. Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. But how does a guy from Houston, cause I asked these niggas this man, I asked, shout out to ALD 300. I asked certain, cause there's gangs here in Texas. Bank of L.A.C. Yeah, but you got guys here in Texas. I brought guys from L.A. I asked the guys from L.A. How can the guys in L.A. Do they take the guys in Texas serious? No, I can be real with you, you know, to me, being from the outside looking in, you know, that's my spot right there where I come in with it. When a L.A., a person from L.A., my cousins being from L.A. as well, come to Texas and see somebody saying they some type of gang affiliated, it's not the same, it's not the same. I'm being real, that I feel like they look at it as a different whole scenario, because they're not from those hoods that the people are, my cousins are from. They've been coming down here ever since I was, and I'm old now. So when you say it's not the same, what do you mean? Meaning they didn't give them the same respect. I'm telling you, my cousins, when they came from L.A. to down here and we would go to Shreveport, this was a long time ago. Because they looked at it as generic. They mimicking L.A., they mimicking us. Because it originated in L.A. So how do a guy in Houston, Texas that was from Fifth Ward end up being affiliated with anything to do with Crippen? Man, a long time ago. See what it is, is, well, like, it's a guy named Sam Brung-Hoover to Houston. Okay. I'm a Hoover. You know, we don't, we don't, we don't just follow the creeps, like I say. So, Sam Brung-Hoover to Houston. And so from there it branched off. This was a long time ago. From there it branched off. So if you didn't come from that branch, you know what I'm saying? For the most part, if you didn't come from nowhere up under him, you don't know, like, you're not, you know what I'm saying? Not officially. Yeah, you're not official. Is Sam from Houston or is he from L.A.? I don't know that. Okay. Yeah, I don't know that. I just know that history. Yeah, cause there is a definitely, you know, from three stripes to all this, three stripes is, his video looked just like yours. You know what I'm saying? Like when you, he wearing this and he's in that, he's in Motri, Georgia. What influenced you to be a Grip? And how old were you when you got into it? Nah, my daddy, he didn't feel like it was nothing, but my dad always told him to be a leader. So all my homeboys are Bloods. So I was raised to be different. So I became a Grip in Motri. I see it in my songs all the time. All my niggas are mango red, but we chasing the green. I'm the only Grip in my organization. And y'all friends with them? Cause I always thought when you Blood and Grip, you're not supposed to be friends with each other. You're supposed to be like enemies. Nah, that ain't how it started out. In the beginning, in California, Bloods and Grip started out to go against the police. You know what I'm saying? It was a branch off the Black Panthers. That's the same thing Payback said, but somebody else said something different. You got, you get, you fade OG, these folks begin to fade history. They don't be going to the lane and talking. But okay, Grip started and then they started Blood because you know, you start anything, you always gonna have somebody hating and try to start something to be in competition with. Grip was the first organization, you know, and then it became Blood and then they went against each other. But you've got Crips that go against each other. You got, you got Slots and Amp right here. And you got Hoover Street and they rivals and they killing each other. And then you got 83rd Street, which they trade Ganchi Crips. They all like, that's how it is in Cali. Yeah. You know, like, like I've seen these guys fly in and do interviews and it's like. Nah, I see the Blue Bandana go through a lot of sys. So you would get it confused if you don't know. Like, like let's say we in the club with anybody, we know what kind of crypto he is by their hand signals and shit. Oh, you can really, you can really tell the average person will never know. I'd have been, I just was in a show with B-King and you know, it was from Rollin' 60s on the other side and them niggas was banging. We ain't even, no, we ain't even let it be known. But it could have started a whole what at the show. Yeah. Just cause these niggas banging on this and they rolling 60s. Wow, that's crazy, man. Why did you, why did you. Why didn't I? Well, no, no, no, no, no. Why did you join the Hoover's? And how old were you? I was in elementary school. That young? Yeah, I was young. My mama was Hoover. Okay. So like, I was kind of like born into this shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? I see. It wasn't in a nice place. Right. And it was going down like that. Okay. I just didn't know how, cause some people. I kicked out of elementary school for flagging. They kicked us out. We was coming in with our flags. This is at Nacu Hennessy. Wow. They sent us home. Did you finish school? I got my GD. Hey flowers, let's talk to them. Look, I ain't never had to prove that I was gangsta, not real. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. One on one.