 Man, you ready to jump this shit? Can we start? Hey, man. Open it up. Open it up. Yes, sir. What are you? You don't know what it means? What I mean, the market is open. The black market is open. That means there's a black money. That means there's a black people in here. That means, hey, come get it. Come get it. Come get it. Welcome to the black market. First of all, first of all, first of all, man, we got, man, us, them, respected bro, sit here with us today, and we're going to get right into it, because we got a whole lot of stuff to talk about. Do. So you say y'all started in his apartment? Yeah. I'll let Jared. Man, so, Jared. Introduce yourself. First of all. I'm Jared Patterson. This is my business partner, my brother, Jason Hawkins. I've got 100% of respected roots right here. Respective roots is a brand where you do a whole lot of things that we're going to get into, but primarily, we are a natural grooming line created for everybody that has skin in here. So people ask, who can use it? It's for everybody, but the main reason is because there weren't products for our people, for our skin, for our hair types on the market, right? So everything that we do is natural. We stay plant-based. We got everything from body wash, soaps, hair moisturizers, beer, conditioner, body butter, which is our number one selling product. Cold wash for your beard, and we brought gifts for all of you guys. So before we get out of here, we got gift baskets, and if I knew all of y'all would have been here, we'd have bought more, but I think we got you covered. You know where we at? You can always come back. All right. What are you smelling like? Man, that's what... That's what we're smelling like. That's what gets us hooked. Yeah. If you get that coming. Yeah, you know, you need to, you need to, you know, let's smell real trough gloves. They smell real trough gloves. Yeah. So fragrance is big, man. If it don't smell good, I like we like to talk the example. The first thing you do when you wash your clothes is what? It's that one. Put them to your nose, right? So if it don't smell good, you're not going to wear it. That was a big issue, because products that was natural, they didn't have a good smelling fragrance. Sometimes it's very, very earthy. So like my brother, Jason, was saying, man, it started out a necessity. My family has a big culture of natural products. My mother rocked the hot top fade in the 80s and all of that. Your mama had one? She had one, man. She used to do all the natural medicine and natural oils and that kind of stuff, which was the inspiration for that first product, the beer conditioner. Hell yeah. So the beer conditioner is all natural, man. Shea butter. All black people love shea butter. Yeah, that's why I was messing with the little body butter. Like, yeah. My bad. I just, you know, I get excited about black product. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the theme for everything, man. We got oils, beard oil, hair oil, rose hip is the main oil in there. Yeah. You want to be put together before you get through all them products, Los. Man, that's one of the ones right there. Yeah, man. Fragrance is amazing. Bring you back to life right here on the set. He can use all these together, right? Absolutely. He messed around in his beard catcher on fire. Two, four different things. You just use the beard oil. Don't touch the body butter. So that's actually a real popular question, man. People want to know, do I use the beer conditioner first or the beer oil? Yeah. Really? My preference is to use the oil last as a finisher. Okay. Use the oil first and then the beer conditioner. They are natural products, right? Okay. So you're good. I'll see y'all put the candle out right here. You ain't going to catch it on fire. You ain't need to do that. Right, right, right. We appreciate it. I ain't do it. Who did? Sure, I like it. Spray it on there. No, no, no. I got the body butter in the beard oil. That's plant-based, too. It's going to burn a long time. No. Yeah. It's dope. The culture, man. I do want to take a second to thank you two brothers. Marcus was just up here, awesome brother. We just always passing each other in the city of Atlanta. What you guys are doing for the community is amazing. I don't know if you realize it or not. I'm sure people are telling you, but sometimes when you end the doing, you don't like us. We moving so often, man. The people that tell us, we love what you're doing. I'm like, man, I'm just working. Right. So thank you guys for having your nose to the ground stone, being pillars in this community. Yeah. What you've done, you know, being on TV, man. The same spirit that we see coming through that television is here right here today, man. So thank you probably 10 years, 15 years, looking back from now. You know, you might be hosting a talk show wherever you want to take your career. Whatever you want to do. Remember, we was over on Maro, man. So thank you, brothers. Thank you all for coming. Thank you all for creating this product, man. Let people know where it's available. People are going to be watching and want to know they're going to want to smell the body butter and the oil that want the whole kit, man. So where can they pick it up? Yes, sir. You can purchase our products online at respectiveroots.com. We started out as an e-commerce business eight years ago. But we also have stores in popular malls like Lenox Square, the gallery in Houston, Pentagon City and D.C. We're very hairy, populated in our areas where our people live. What's the next step where y'all want to take the brand to? It's unlimited. Because we have two sides to our brand. We have the non-for-profit, which is our respective Brotherhood Initiative, where Jared and I go into the high school, specifically APS, where we work. And we work with the Phoenix Academy there with, you know, led by Principal Yusuf Mohammed. We go in there and we work with our young African-American males, 9th grade to 12th grade. Specifically, we teach them life skills. Things that we know they're not learning in school, things we know like to have financial literacy, how to deal with conflict. Instead of using aggression, how to use your head. Show them how to start a business. And entrepreneurship is one of the things that we teach. So it's a 15-week curriculum. Outside of our for-profit side, we've established the groundwork to what it is. And what we're doing now is trying to scale our business even more. But also being trendsetters in the industry, teaching people, because there's so many other people who's trying to make products of their own. And they really don't know what to do outside of making their products. And a lot of fields, though, the apex is going to the shelves of big-box retailers. You see what I'm saying? We chose opposite of that. We were invited to go to some of the top big-box retailers that you guys know of. And we went, we listened to their stories, but it didn't appeal to us. As I mentioned to you, we're 100% owners. And we don't have no desire and we're not sell-outs. We don't have to. Oh, well, check this out. It's just crazy that there's such a small world. You've got a whole line of plant-based products. I got a partner right there. Everything he do is plant-based. That's actually it. Man, that dude right there. Great, you got some of this? Yeah. He's hitting it. I know if he uses it, it's really plant-based because he's going to look up all the ingredients. Yes, sir. He comes and visits at Lenox. I don't know how many times he done been through. Yeah, because he's a shopper. He's an avid shopper. He shops everywhere he goes. Everybody that support, man, we appreciate. It's not only him, but you know, all you guys, just for having us on the show, we appreciate that. That's what this whole platform is for, man. It ain't just about us, man. We got to open it up to everybody in the community and, you know what I mean, let people know who is dope amongst us so we can support. We glad you kept it independent, too. Like you said, they buy up all the black brands and then everybody get mad because it ain't the same product because they making it for a bottom line instead of making it with a purpose and a reason. Yeah, but if they want to buy it, sell it to them, then start another. A lot of times you can't do that. We got to get our own, we got to get our money out. We don't knock any other brands who've taken that step, you know what I'm saying? Because we also understand the process and the urgency sometimes. You know, when you're an entrepreneur, Bro, you're going to have your highs and lows. You see what I'm saying? And you're competing in the market that is saturated with thousands of people who are trying to put something in the marketplace, right? So a lot of times when somebody's brands, they offer this money, you know, maybe $50 to $100 million. They see that because they, you know, their products are on these shelves that they big box retailers. And they may be moving 40, 50 million pieces, $40, $50 million globally, but they only receiving like $8 million of that. Those big box retailers is taking out. We opened up carts and malls. We get 100% of everything. I see what you're doing. I like it, yeah. This is a lot of stuff. We're showing our people how to do it. And a lot of times, you know, we all heard the saying, you know, all money ain't good money. So we've been approached many a times and we still say the same thing. Sometimes you've got to turn it down. The power is in saying no. So look, I know some people are going to be watching this and they're going to want to reach out about the program that you spoke about for the young men. So where can they look up more information about that? Yes, sir. Please go to rrbhi.org. That's respective Roots Brotherhood Initiative. You'll learn more about our mission, what we're doing, our initiative with the kids, how we interact with not only with our children, but also becoming a sponsor. We just had our first career fair for our kids. After the curriculum is over, we brought in about four to five different companies. IBEW, we are familiar with electoral workers here. We had local 85. Local 85. Right. So they teaching our young men trades. Right, right. So you can't take that from them. You see what I'm saying? So as they learn that business, they work within that business five, six years later down the road, then you start talking about entrepreneurship. Then you start bringing the people in. Y'all got any products that's like specifically for the ladies? All of our products are unisex. The ladies typically gravitate towards this product here, which is our hair and scalp oil. Okay. The ladies love the hair, right? This body butter, man, is great for men and women, kids, as young as two years old. They really love that product. The body wash has an amazing fragrance to it. We don't put any chemicals. A lot of ladies like how that works for them. No chemicals, no dyes, no colors in the product. And even the foam and cold wash, they use that. So my mother put me home game, really. She said that foam and cold wash that you have is amazing. I said, my, that's, you know, I didn't intend it for the ladies. Well, how are you using it? I use it to remove my makeup. She says water-based. It's very gentle on my skin. It's got olive oil inside of there, so it doesn't strip out of the natural oils away from your body, because God gave us what we need. Okay. And sometimes we get in the way, right? Sometimes we're like, oh, I got too many pimples. Let me wash my face no times a day. You wash my face off. Here goes some oil because you need some oil. As you dry your face. Right. We have problems that people are trying to fix themselves. We try to keep everything unisex. The only thing that's exclusively for men is what you see in that gold can, the beer condition. The ladies ain't trying to go to beer. There's some ladies out there. They might want it. You know what I'm saying? They might want it. I want to say this too, man, but I was just talking about our RRBHI.org. We got any golfers, man. We host the golf tournament every single year. We have a golf classic. I might not play golf, but I might pull up. Pull up, man. They'll need some shit talkers at every event. We got to have it, man. We got you. You all got that on footage, right? Carlos. Little grill talking shit. He ain't going to do nothing. We got to be quiet. Only nigga that can talk shit and whisper still. This year we partnered with Shatoi Long. That's what they're doing. It was a weekend, is that right? Labor Day weekend. September 3rd and the 2nd. We'll have a mixer the night before where everybody's participating. Midnight, we're going to do rock the range where we do some long drives. Get surprises away. It's having fun venturing out into new activities. You know what I'm saying? But still keeping our swag with what we're doing because we focused on the young men. That's the bottom line. And RBHI.org? RBHI.org. Respected Roots Brotherhood Initiative. We need more volunteers. How can people help? We bring people in from the community that relate to our young men. We just recently had a young man that retired at the age of 24. He creates NFTs. So when he came in to speak to our young men you got to see how their eyes light up. You see what I'm saying? I know the younger generation, the millennials and the generation Z, a lot of times we're talking about them. Y'all ain't listening. Y'all in title. But let me tell you, they're the smartest generations. You see what I'm saying? They need what we have to get to them so they can push forward. They're the ones who's breaking these chains. They're the ones who's pushing these barriers down. So instead of talk about it, be about it. You know what I'm saying? So that's why we do what we do. The show, man. I want to shout out to our website. If y'all want to get any of these products I know y'all love y'all Amazon some people that order in Atlanta y'all typically get y'all products the next day or in two days. So we got awesome shipping here in the city and even if you're not here we get your products in the mail same day most of the time. That's of course water on a weekend or something. Our website is RespectedRoots.com that's R-E-S-P-E-C-T-E-D Roots. Our O-O-T-S.com and we even have more products than this. A wooden pick. A wooden pick for the beard and I'm supposed to use plastic and metal because it'll snatch your beard, snatch your hair out. We have a wave conditioner. Y'all was talking to Marcus about the waves and stuff. We have a wave conditioner. That's also natural. So check us out, man. We got subscriptions so you don't have to worry about re-ordering when you out of product. So we got everybody covered at RespectedRoots.com Well, there you have it. We out of here. I love it. That's dope, man. Appreciate it.