 It's got chicken, spinach, tomatoes. Oh, where? Got it. Oh, what you eat? Basil pesto. No chicken. Basil pesto? No chicken. No chicken? No chicken. What you got against chicken? I got none of these chicken. I don't really trust them. I don't trust them. No chicken. No brother. I eat chicken. I eat chicken. I just don't like it. You gotta clear it up. I love these chicken. I got chicken. They come in the car. Okay. You stop eating pizza. Man, I just do the cheese. Splunks? They don't ask for pineapple. We got a problem. Pineapple should be on pizza. There you go. That's some great... We got it though. We want some pineapple. Hey man, welcome back to... There you go. Bob, you serious about your pizza? Bob got a whole group dedicated to not putting pineapples on pizza. Where you gonna catch so much hell for this one right here? Welcome back to the 85 South Show. Black excellence. We talking about pizza today. Because we got black-owned pizza on us in here. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. It's black-owned. Black pizza on us. Yeah. Because the pizza's black. No, no. No, I'm saying like... Because it's like if you're a black person and you have a dog, then your dog's black. Right, okay. So since this pizza being made by black people, it's black pizza. It's black pizza. That's gonna be the name of my shit. I got the name Bob up here with me today from Edgewood Pizza. How y'all living, man? Welcome to the trap. Thank you for having me, man. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Tate is in the all black. Yeah, I gotta be. This cool strapping young man right here. This Bob. What's up, Bob? How you doing, man? Y'all welcome to the studio, man. Appreciate it, man. You know, this is the black excellence spotlight. And we know y'all got some excellent things going on over there on Edgewood Avenue. Tell me more about it. Let the fans know. Let the followers know. Give them a rundown, Bob. Yeah, the rundown. Because I got the info right here, Bob. You can't have nothing from me. I know all about that. Somebody put the code in. Man, put the one, two, three, four, five. That's a very secure couple. Yes, it is. Nobody will ever guess that. Fifteen years strong, man. Really? Yeah, Edgewood. 2006, man. 2006. A lot of great things. Nobody was there other than Javaology. Coffee shop. Yeah. We moved in. We stuck there. We hung in. We're still there. That's what's up, man. They say you came down through the hood and, you know, hired people from the neighborhood, man. Why not? You hired me, man. Yeah, man. You hired me, man. So you from Edgewood? I'm from Fort Ford. How did that happen? My mama told me to get a job. Trying to be in the street. She was like, nah, man. That ain't it. You got to get your job. Went down to Edgewood. Saw Bob. Bob was on his one-man restaurant and stuff one day. He was taking the order, making the food and delivering the food. It's back in 2008. For real? Yeah, two years after he bought it, 2008, man. He pulled up on my block. I was like, hey, yo, Bob, what's up with the job? Man, come tomorrow. Got a job just like that. Bro. Just like that, friend. Why you take him serious when he hit you with, hey, bro, what's up with the job? It was him and a whole bunch of kids on the block. Right. They all needed something to do. Why not? Yeah. So I took them all in, passing out flyers, getting the business up. This would be the perfect opportunity for me to ask you what you think about the situation in Atlanta with the water boys? Yeah. I deal with them. I was a flyer boy. Oh, right. For him, I used to do the flyers. We weren't making that money. The flyer boys. They could get some money out of the water. That seemed better. I wish I was making a dollar out of every flyer I passed out. You know, they're trying to shut it down, though. No, no, but they started, you know, they got a new spot now. Oh, okay. They took over that old lady that got gunned down. Oh. What was her name? It's called, hey, H-E-Y. So what they're doing right now is they bring people to different areas and they bring them to work. I actually had a young kid named Quinn working there. There's another kid that was working for me, but he's not working right now. But they got a spot now. It's called H-E-Y. And they're doing pretty good. That's dope, man. Shout out to the water boys, man. Don't let nobody knock you off. Yeah. Oh, they got a spot. They got their own water. They got their own bottled water, man. It's worse out the street. And go get a job, man. I wish I was selling some water, making how much money they making. You know what I'm saying? They catching, right? You know what I'm saying? They out of the way. They ain't trying to be in nobody. You know what I'm saying? They out of the way. They out of the way. They doing nothing crazy. They just trying to be on the corner said some water. Look them boys, you think money's down. Bro, did you ever think when you yelled out, hey Bob, what's up with that job? Did it last this long? Nah, hell nah. Nah, man. And then he called me his little brother. You know what I'm saying? I been rockin' with him for almost 13 years now. Yeah. So it's lovely, man. You know what I'm saying? He helped me out a lot. So you graduated from college. Yeah, he put me through my first year at college, man. Fucking out. You gotta say your life basically. I just said, I tell this man. I tell this man this all the time, but he will not take the credit for it, bruh. Bruh, he never will not take the credit for it. He's not going to accept a little credit for that credit for it, bruh. He really wants you to stop bringing it up. I bought my first, I bought my first car off his paycheck. See, now you're giving too much. I've done so much. I'm speechless. Off of people. It's not just me, though. He do it for a lot of kids, you know what I'm saying? He's after my brother. You know what I'm saying? He's a good dude, man. He makes a good piece, you know. Bob, when you get the sauce from on the pizza, bruh, you usually don't see a whole lot of black people in the pizza industry. No, no, no. When I first bought the spot, I mean, I got it for a lick. Okay. $5,000. Anybody got any piece of spot that they can sell? How are you doing? $5,000 experience. I used to work in Dublin, though. I'm doing $5,000 of lunch now. For real? Oh, yeah, yeah. When she sold it to me, she was going through a hard time. Real hard. She was just smoking crack. All the laces on here. Yo, she was. She was. Really? She was, yeah. Wow. This story's getting blacker by the end. You should have told me I would have put that in the nose. He bought a pizza spot from a lady on drugs. Coming up next. White lady. A white lady. White lady, too. Wow. Is this public info or just a video? I mean, it's good, here, brother. So in the hood, she was there. She was through a gun. Man, you came through. You really did hit a lick. It didn't take you the longest time making a profit. Once you bought a sign and did the parking lot, it was all a profit. Yeah. That's what's up, man. So you finally got to take a crack at the pizza business. Those. Damn, that's cold. Yeah, she gave me the sauce, the dough. She showed me how to make pizza. All this for $5,000. Well, $2,500 a week, because I had to keep her there for two weeks so I can learn how to do the shit. So you bought the restaurant from her. Yeah. She showed her how to run a payment plan. She's worked for you for two weeks. This shit is amazing. Please tell me some more of this story. Did she ever show back up and like, give me five hundred more dollars? She's actually doing good. She's in Tennessee. Shout out to that lake. Yeah. And whatever you got for sale next, I want some. So she showed you the whole game. Oh yeah, she showed me the whole game. Just put this up, because there ain't none of this shit on there. Yeah, so I mean, we stuck it out, you know. Yeah. It's hard, but hey, I know how to deal with people. That's what's up, man. I don't care who you are, man. You can be rich, you can be poor. I know how to deal with people. So you're not from America? Huh? No, I'm from Eritrea. Shout them out, bro. East Africa. Yeah, I'm looking at that camera. This is a East African camera. That's your East African camera? They like that perspective for some reason. Nipsy's from there too. Yeah, yeah. Tiffany Haddish. Yeah, her too. Yeah, exactly. A lot of people shout out to the whole community. Yeah. Been here since 82. It was a good year to come here. Yeah. A lot of shit in Oregon. It was important. Hung out with some white folks. Then moved to LA. Then to Florida. It's a lot of movement. Huh? It's a lot of movement. Hell yeah. Why not? Shit. I don't know. You go where it's at. I don't know where the money at. Yeah, you came over here. You wanted to see the whole fucking America. Why not, too? Yeah. That's what made you stay in Atlanta, though. Opportunity here for black people. Wait, it's endless. They think we just can't go out here, man. We can do anything. You walk down the street and go to the city hall. Be standing in your hood and just yell out. Hey, what's up with that job? Yeah, for sure. And get one. Start making it. How about a piece of restaurant room and white lady on drugs for five days in a row? I got it. I should show you the house. It paid off in two increments. Two increments. That's what's up, man. Yeah. What's the matter? That's what it is, bro. But that's not your only business, you know, venture, though. We got a new restaurant. I'm opening up Call Handle Bar. It's a bicycle-themed bar. So basically, it's just a cater to people that might see bicycles. Not only on bicycles, but it's also a bar, restaurant, something that I'm going to do. You know, because a lot of people right now, I mean, I don't know if you know this, but back in the days, African-Americans in America had only two ways of going to places. They either had to get on a bicycle, get on a train, or a bus. That's three. That's three. Yeah. I'm high, but that's three. That's three. Yeah, sure. Okay. Well, they had three there. Yeah. Three. All right, bet. Yeah. So you're going to bring the Handle Bar to life. I'm sitting here thinking, though, right? So you got Edgewood piece, but you're going to open one in West End. So will the Edgewood pizza in the West End be Edgewood pizza or West End pizza? Probably Edgewood pizza. Yeah, you know I had throw in Edgewood out there, so people know. I mean, you know, actually, to be honest with you, majority of my customers are in this area. So they're going to know. But this Atlanta, if you do that, you're going to have to say Edgewood pizza, but it's in the West End. Because then you're going to be like, bro. He's like, Edgewood, right? I did order. No, you ordered it in West End. Bro, what the fuck do you time that, bro? This Edgewood pizza, bro. I still got down West End. Yeah, true. You had to put a disc label there, so. West End pizza. We're working on that. That's what's up. So you're going to have the Handle Bar. It's going to be a place to ride the bikes in the bar. Oh, yeah, yeah. Inside the bar. Oh, yeah. Bro, I'm actually building them right now. No, it's being built right now. His name is Ben. He's building that. It's going to be, you're going, well, we're only going to let people that have certain bikes to park it inside. Oh, yeah. You've got to have a fly bike. You've got to have a fly bike. You can't make my walls look bad. That's real. I don't know. Yeah. Because what if I'm real passionate about the bike? Like, you showed me a bike. Really dope enough to be in here. What the fuck do you mean? Man, that was a dope bike. That was a dope bike. I'll take that bike any day. Exactly. I'm going to hang it in my bag. Have a bike beef. Yes, sir. That's what's up, man. I'm going to get with y'all. I got a few themed bars I might want to open. Like what? The Titty Bar. Sounds like a good bar. It is. Guess what my theme is going to be? What? My little slogan. What? A great place to hang out. A great place to hang out. I got it. Let me get this check. Let me get this check I might invest. Come on. You know, shit. Might get somebody to give us five grand. We need more than five grand. We don't need it. Even with the West End, like the landlord there, he hooked me up. He's paying for half my, well actually, 70% of the build-out. Wait a minute. You got some luck. I'm a hustler, man. I was in corporate. I know how to deal with people. What were you doing in corporate? I worked for Starwood hotels. I used to work for the W hotels. Okay. I know how to talk to people. Shit, clearly you do. You got people giving you businesses on consignment. Free training and shit. All the reproductions. What the fuck? I don't even know. Man, you want this? I'll pay for the remodel if you're taking it. That's some real game right there. I don't know what the hell you learned that to Starwood. You got to start coming up here. You got to start coming up here more, Bob. There's some shit that you know that I don't. How you negotiate? Negotiation. I think it's divorce though. You got a real calming voice. You probably just be saying shit and people believe you. Just smile it. What's that smile? I'll stay smiling. They don't give me shit. Dollar for dollar. I got to earn every fucking thing that I have. Ain't no handouts. Rough. I'm living in the 40s over here. I mean, that's how you take care of people, man. I used to... I posted a little thing for to feed the homeless. Where people would throw money into my cash app. Right. And I threw my cash app up there. There was about $3,000 in cash app to give a slice to homeless people on Edgewood. So sad, man. I would be wondering about they're like, what if they homeless but they not hungry? There's a lot of homeless people everywhere, man. I know it was like... What if they not hungry? What if they not hungry? What if that's like everybody giving them food? Like when all the homeless people get together, they be like, bro, they keep giving us food. We got food. We're trying to feed the money. Yeah, they want money. Yeah. They probably be like, bro, the people who live in houses just don't fucking give. They keep giving me bags of food. What the fuck? I'm gonna keep it. Yeah, that's true. You sound like Frank right now. Yeah, you sound like Frank. Yeah, you sound like Frank. Frank was a guy that... Frank been with me for... since day one. He used to work for her. Who's her supplier. But anyway... Frank, you gotta meet Frank. Frank is one of the dopest person you've ever met. He homeless? He knows how to run the whole shop. Are you fine? You got some good looking people. And he's homeless. He is a homeless dude, man. For 13 years. He don't want to live on his feet. That's exactly the point. That's what I'm saying. I know. You tried though. You know what? Help. Shout out to Frank. He's a homeless. Yeah. And you bring the best toys. What? What are you talking about, man? I'm sure he doesn't. You get anything you want from Frank. I'm sure he does. No, fuck with you. No, no, no. No, Frank. Frank, Frank, shout out to Frank. Exactly. Shout out to Darryl. Darryl's doing good right now. He homeless too? No, not anymore. Bruh. These people that he give an opportunity to, man, just from the block. Exactly. And I can't believe they don't really want him. Like, this thing has had a job for 13 years and still homeless. Like, I'm straight on work. I'm a boy. That house shit overrated. Yeah. Man, all this beautiful motherfucker, well, he won't sit up in the house. I got shit to do. I'm listening. I have a job. I'm listening. I have a job for 13 years. We don't have no taxes. Sorry, we need an address. Ain't no address. I tell you what, Bob, can I use the pizza shop address? There you go, bitch. Get my motherfuckin' income tax. Frank had 750 credit score, though. I mean, he has nothing to fuck with. Don't fuck with Frank. He don't want to fuck with Frank. He had a 750 credit score. No, for real. He had a 750 credit score. I believe it. Good. How much shit he has turned down? Sir, would you like to get this house zero down? Hell! I gotta work tomorrow. Yeah, he's good, man. That's what I like to do. That's gonna help me. He's gonna try to get me a truck. Yo, I should have brought Frank with me. No, I'm glad you did. You can bring him when you come back. You don't just show up with a nigga. Like, bro, this nigga. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's a functional man. He's a functional guy. Wow. You're a great man, Bob. You really know how to bring out the best of people. Why not help people, man? That even opens up. You get more blessing, bro. That's real. Treat people right. They treat you better. You need to be one. No, but don't get me to preach it. Don't start no church shit. I will. You gonna start preaching? No, I'm certified with paperwork. Deacon, Carla. I'm no damn Deacon. I'm a whole... Prime Minister. Prime Minister. I plan. Come on, Bob. Catch up and do your gooks. I gotta take you to Ebenezer, then. Well, they offer me the spot out here. Oh, for real? Yeah, because he's running for a senator. Told him that I'm not through right here yet. I'm right where God want you to be. I think you're killing him here. And that's exactly why he put me here. He knew that I have a certain vernacular to speak to the ones who got lost. Yeah. So all the brothers they got forgot about. They watched this. This day church. Trust me, I've seen it. Hit this weed one time for all the people who came here. I think I might hit it. I might hit it. I'm gonna run... I'm gonna run for office soon, so... Well, fuck him here. Let me try that. If you run for office, it's gonna be legal. Oh, I can... Shit, they don't have... Newport. He said... And then you have this little piece of... My man, Bob. That's it. We out this bitch. 85-7-7.