 Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. Y'all already know what it is. Welcome back to another rendition of the 85-Song Show. Black excellence. Black and straight. Hey, J.O.W. This is what I'm gonna do this time. What's up? I'm gonna introduce them individually because this lady right here, her introduction needs to be longer. And I need OG Marquel who's just sitting right here. Yeah. To give her the proper introductions because I feel like people be asleep. She been cooking for the whole family since she was 13, 14. Yo, the whole family. I don't know how you know. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Do the honors for me. Introduce this lady we got on the couch. Right here we got Miss Janessa. The master chef of Cafe Bourbon Street. And she like, like Carlos said, she been cooking for the family since she was like 15. And that's the moment I knew I needed to keep her in my life. So you see how I lean back. I wanted the intro to be loose. Yeah, cause she does it all man from the top to the bottom. I actually went down to that establishment Cafe Bourbon Street. And tell them. I ain't to be played with. He came, pulled up, you know, worked and did stuff. I'm trying. When you coming back? Look, they still talking about them shrimp. I did. The streets is still talking. We need you back. They said my egg rolls. Magnificent. You kind of came up with a new menu item. What that is. I hear about that. Remember? You ain't hear about my egg roll bites. Nah, I hear about the bites. I'm a good outside. Yo. We got the old camera. Nah, man. We just wanted to make sure we brought y'all in here and highlight the excellence that y'all doing in the community. Y'all providing the great service, good food, delicious food. And y'all been holding it down all through this pandemic, man. So we want to make sure we highlight some of that. So let's get into it. Tell us what inspired you. How you got started. All of that. We got to run it. Yeah. Yeah, like we was in college, bro. And we had started doing meal delivery from home. You know, she was a chef. And I was always a hustler. Now, that's a hell of a combination, right? Yeah, yeah. You put a chef in a hustler to get up. And you go get some sandwiches. I didn't want to do that first. What you wanted to do? I don't know. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do. I went to culinary school. I wasn't for sure with myself. Like I knew my food was good, but I didn't really have enough confidence in myself to know that everybody else would like my food. And he was like, hey, this shit good. That's what you need. You got to have somebody to say that every now and then to affirm what you're doing. This shit good. This shit fat. So I mean from there I basically went and booked us a catering that she ain't know nothing about. Came home and was like, hey, this is what we got to do. We got to do it. It was like a little catering event. It was called Gifts and Girlfriends. And I think I whipped up like some pasta or something like that. I can't really remember what it was, but after that then we had like multiple bookings after that. So I was like, well, I guess this is what we doing. This is what I was going to ask you though. You might see this and be like, I want to go to culinary school. So give me the run down of what an ordinary typical day of culinary school is. Because the people who ain't never been, they just in there cooking and eating food all day on the phone. That is a part of it. You got to taste what you make and make sure you're doing it right. But it's still like real classes, math and nutrition. Psychology. We had to take real courses. It wasn't just I know, right? Because that was the whole reason why I wanted to go to culinary school was to do what I really do. How many times did they make you cook breakfast? I feel like you should have to cook breakfast every day at culinary school. You know what? We didn't really do breakfast like that. That's bullshit. We didn't really do breakfast. It was like Asian cuisine, Spanish European, other like different cuisines. But it weren't really breakfast. Why don't we open up a black ass culinary school? Facts. That's a good idea. You got to cook breakfast when you get there. Then you got to make your lunch. You got to make your lunch. For yourself and these two people. Then you got to cook. You got to cook three times a day. Grits and bacon, eggs, all that. That's like a staple. Then we're taking off points. You know you cook them goddamn eggs first. Grits too loose. Look at these loose eggs. They're like soup. They ain't mixed. For real. She was amazing before she ever touched culinary school. It was natural. It was natural. I've been cooking like you said. In the black family when they trusted you with the food. Like Thanksgiving dinner I was 16 made all everything for the whole family. The turkey, the ham, the dressing, the mac and cheese everything. What is it like owning a business with your life partner? Your better half. Your husband. Your wife. Old boy. Old girl. I will say it's brought us closer. It has. I know for some people it might break apart a relationship. You don't send that nigga home. I sent him out of the kitchen. I'm like you got to cook out of here. You cook out of here. You cook out of here. I have sent him out of the kitchen. You got to get out of here. Honestly it's brought us closer together because we've had to go through so many trials and tribulations and stuff to figure things out and of course we butt heads. We don't agree with everything but it just makes us stronger. Boy are you a strong man because every man can attest just hearing your woman voice all day. All day bro you have to wake up. Go home. Bro! What the game's the body doing? Look look look. What's so cool about it is I work outside, she work inside. They don't even have to hear her even more because she be yelling at you. Come in here! What's the point of me working outside? You keep calling in! Oh my God! One of our team, matter of fact two of our team they always make fun of me because they hear me call him You better stop doing that because what if somebody help her before you get there? I need some onions over here and nothing they can have. Nick she talking to me! When she say babe she not talking to the rest of you. Working with her bro is like what it is I think the reason why we work so well together because we able to figure out what we good at and what we not. The reason is we opposites in that area like the stuff I'm good at she ain't so good at the stuff she good at I ain't so good at and by us knowing that and following the rules that's why we able to the business brings us closer versus like when we first started oh we was because we was trying to do everything because she the chef and you the hustler and once she respected what I did for the business and we trusted each other with those areas it took off I hope you are ready for this because I'm about to ask you all an interview question let's say for instance someone's never had your food tell them why they should just look right there in that camera and tell them one reason why they should have your food we serve real new all this food by real new all this food by real new all right that was fun oh my god some company should serve her and honestly you know everything is made from scratch I mean you tell them why they should have first of all the shit delicious everybody plate they serve in place down there family. I'm talking about, you know, you get your box. Your box is heavy. It's definitely worth the price of admission and whatever, whatever kind of palate you have, whether you are picky or you eat anything, they got some over there you want. I had, I had took some of the little wings to the crib, my little, my little chick over there, she just eating the wing. I was like, you don't want no more. She was on just chewing the bone. But you can't have nothing nice around. So, you guys had them bourbon joints. Tell me, y'all got a nice thing going on. Thank you. And y'all got some, the employees are dope. Oh, yeah. And y'all, y'all got the coldest spot over there. For real, as far as location. Okay. Thank you, man. Holding that little corner pocket down. Yeah, that little corner pocket, right? When you get them over there, they trap. They ain't got no way. There you go. If she got to buy something, they gonna face her. What's your favorite menu item that you serve? Both of y'all. Your personal. Personal? The chicken and beans. Yeah. What you like? What's your favorite? Top 10 on the date, man. What's your Monday food? My Monday? We ain't open on Mondays, but let's go. What you eat on Monday then? On Mondays. On Mondays. I'm probably a chick-fil-a. I mean, promote chick-fil-a right now. On any given day, I got to go with the pool boy dog. Yeah, the pool boy fight. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the pool boy fight. But the pool boy rattle, you can't use really hard to catch. They like to do it every day. They be like a celebrity. Yeah. It's like to make rip. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nah, hold up, hold up. I know, I know. We just had to pause it for a minute. But yeah, but you know, like pool boy, bourbon ranch fry, that's what I was like, bro. Summer coming up, y'all got any secret menu items that might be available when the weather break? I heard y'all been, you know, my damn brain storm in a new look. We gonna bring the hot and old in the back. You gonna bring what? Yeah, you don't know about the hot and old. We got a hot and old burger. It's a pool boy. This house actually meet straight from New Orleans. Yes, fire. People been begging for it, man. And we bring that live on a summertime. People begging, wait. Man, look, hey, I don't know where it's going, bro. I don't know what it is, whatever they be coming through. When y'all going to do like a big crawfish boy for all the customers or something, we open a restaurant. Yeah, a restaurant. Okay, so you see how I tell them about the restaurant? Yeah, man. So right now I'm actually working on the blueprints and all that with the architect, but it's coming real soon, real soon. Once we have more space, then we're gonna crawfish. We're gonna do like a little special day out to summer, you know what I mean? When we do a crawfish, bro. Y'all still available for like events and stuff? People still can reach out. Well, I'm gonna say not yet. Like we just kind of started doing it because how we're set up with the food truck, a lot of the days that people want us, we're operating on those days. And we don't want to never take away from the customers, you know, our regulars who come and all that stuff. So we don't want to mess up the operating days, but you know, we are working on it. Yeah, it's about to be lit. Y'all ain't pulled up with the truck at the night. It gotta wake up in the morning. Man, usually when they come through, they bring the whole set up. This ain't no cap in my wrap. They serving some good shit over there. Thank you. I'm talking about this shit good. That's going to be the name of my restaurant. God, something to eat. This shit good. We got no menu. I'm just going to pull up. That ain't no menu. What you want, nigga? Something to eat. Nigga, open up that box. Nigga, y'all ain't straight chicken, right, cork? Everything, everything. Okay, appreciate that. Nigga, just get something to eat. It might be a sandwich. It might be too weak. You want something to eat, though? We ain't trying to fill you up, bruh. I'll pull up. I want you to be full when you leave. I'll pull up. You just trying to get you something to eat. I like that. You want something to drink? We got a little something, and then we got a little something. And then we got a little something there. Oh my God. That's the big shit. Yeah, okay, okay. I'm talking to you. I'm liking that. It's going to be crazy. Yes, I can see you. Bruh, you know, I'm full with it. I know all the little tricks that don't nobody even discuss. I bet you they ain't teach you this at culinary school when you cook in the balloon. You're supposed to leave that restaurant, though, and you got to pull up. If you cook in there with a fork, you ain't got to just make toast your bread. You go, I go two. I make an X. I put one in. I go in, in, in. You told your bread to eat, breathe, hold it. If I got a knife, you know what I do? What you do, dude? I got you. Guess when the red strip come up? When? Right before you bite the sound. You don't, you don't, you stay on there. Okay. They didn't teach me that. Now look, call us on the tape. Look, look, when she met me, she did not fuck with Belon. No, I ain't gonna lie. I put her on. My first time even belonging was like 2020. Yeah. I put her on. The pandemic hit. We had to remember they ain't had nothing else. I said, baby, let's get that Belon. And she said, what? I said, why? Bro, you do. Did you cook it? Yeah, he did. Left the red strip on. She was mad. Take the strip off. I'm like, yo, chill. No, no, you don't. If you take the strip off, it'll never get done. Yeah, bro. It ain't gonna never took this off. Yeah, yeah. Hey, it's something about that red strip. And you got to eat them sounds within four minutes of cooking. Shit. You got to eat them behind. Yes. What? Do you toast your bread? I'm gonna see this how hood and project I am. I make two. I got one toasted, then one just soft bread. One night, one night I made up. Yeah. Okay. I can't even keep the Belon in front of me. I go in there. It was good. I only had one piece of Belon. He had some. He had like some bougie Belon. This was like boy's head. It was, um, what was it? Y'all speaking on something real important right now. I got to look right here at this camera. Bruh. What? There's a lot of couples out there that's going through it. My nigga, make your girl a sandwich. Yeah. Yes. It's the little thing, bruh. Valentine's Day shit coming up. You are absolutely right. Make her Belon in sandwich or whatever she was. From the heart, though. From the heart. Yes. And you a dog-ass nigga. If you don't cut it in half, then try it. Yep. Shit, love you more if you give her some chips and something to drink. Come on. Go ahead. She giving y'all some games. Come on. I had to learn this the hard way. Bruh. A sandwich. One thing about women, they always want to eat. They don't, man, what the fuck just happened? Even if they're full. The nigga who feed her, that's who going to be able to keep me. You are not lying. You, man, a lot of decisions are being made on empty stomachs. Well, a lot of relationships don't last. It's not cheating. You got to feed us. It's the eating. Yeah. My fucker, they ain't getting no nutrients. Yo, he said it's not the team, it's the eating. It's the eating. My fucker, they ain't getting no nutrients, no extra. Yo. Hey, hey. It's, I mean, it's women out here that don't even keep juice at the crib. Nah, bro. Who, who, who trying to love you, man? They can't even do it at the crib. Who want to love a mother with no juice? Hey. That's the worst shit a motherfucker can do. Hey, y'all want something to drink? What you got? Some water. What, why did y'all open me that? You made it sound like you had. What's that feeling? I got wounded. Damn. Nah, man. Hey, but look, she fired like wicked up. Whole day in the food truck working hard. She go home and cook a whole meal. That mean you holding now didn't work. You got to go harder. You talking to me too tired to do anything. Nah, I was gonna do that. You ain't working left. What do you mean? She's saying some juice when I get home. Oh, my God. Step it up. Yeah, nah, I'm just home from Carlos. I heard that. Yeah, gotta eat quap. Man, remember, don't know. Men be excited like little ass boys when they be in there cooking, man. What? Next time you cook it, just look at what your nigga doing. He wasn't standing up there. Yeah, all right. Yeah. And she fired too. Now she cook it. When she be like made of food ready, I walk in there. I'm thinking, you know, I got to fix a plate, man. A plate that ready. Stop, man. Because now you just flexing on us. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know y'all, you know, that shit don't do nothing. It's a lot of people just watching this shit. She's gangster, man. Who not even getting sides with their meal? Yeah. You gonna flex. Yeah, she be fixing them plates and all that shit. Your plate be ready. All I got to do is you. Yeah. Yep. Every time. Every time. Lucky ass dude. Every time. You get this whole life of placing, Carlos. This shit was trending on Twitter the other day about making plates. Oh. You out here living good. Damn. In a panoramic. I flexed on you for real, man. Yeah, chill out. Watch my story, bro. Nah, I don't fall niggas who living better than me. That's my story, man. You think I'm gonna let them niggas strike on me? Man, my story's body. Where you got me fucked up, bruh? Bruh. My face. I want to see you like having all the things I want. I'm hosting good plates and shit for real. Yes. Yep. Look, man, they ain't gonna hold you. Y'all keep doing your thing in the community. Let them know what they can find you so they can see some of these plates and things we talking about. I know they ain't popping on social media. All right. All right. Thanks for that nature. Follow us at Cafe Bourbon Street on Instagram. Yep. And that's ST. Yep, ST. Yeah. At MasterChefJB right there. And at OG Marquette, y'all can follow us. And as far as the food truck goes, we parked at 1318 Silver Road until the restaurant opened. So you gotta follow us so you can stay updated, y'all. Exactly. Marquette will be singing on Instagram, too. I hope y'all know that. Yeah, y'all be singing on Instagram. I'm just putting it in there. It just looked like an old singing hand. Niggas don't tell the truth. They got better hands and everything. They fucked this nigga. How about that? Hey, you're gonna hear what Edges and Baby have to say. All right. OG Marquette. Come on, come on. We can tell you that she's over at the OG Baby house. We're looking at her. We're looking at her. She be in my house. I know she be. She's like, yo, come here. With the two bros. Hey, she be. Yeah. What you doing? Edges, bitch. Liv. Liv. I hook him up. That's my dog, man. These people. I love y'all like family, man. As we all family at this point. And you know, I'll be back to my job. We got to work on them egg roll bikes. Yeah. Or change the game with those right there. Cafe Bourbon Street. 85 South. Black S.L.I.S.S. spotlight. Woo. I'll be back. I'll be back like a spy. I'm on your head like your grandma with. OK.