 Motherfuckin' places please. Mama used to tell you before you used to go in the store. Don't touch shit. Don't touch shit. Man, come on, bruh. You know what I mean? I got some 50 cents. 50 cents. I keep bringing this up, man. When we was kids, M&M's was 50 cents. Even for some M&M's. Mama told you she ain't have no money. You had to wash that cashier later. It was gonna be hard for me as a black person. You remember when you asked your momma for 50 cents? And she said, I ain't got no money. And you said, mama, but you got... Stay out of my goddamn business. Who'd your parents work when they had... Who'd your folks work when you was little? It was 27 with three baby mommas. Is that shit starting to make sense now? Facts. Facts. We're out to get drunk. Ask your momma the wrong shit. Why you got four baby days? She got quiet. It's too real. It's too real. Ready to talk about this shit? Let's do it. All right, babe. Before we even get started, though, we got to let them know. The black market is... I seen an old white man on the stock market with one of them, so I knew they was making money. So I'm trying to bring some of the money blessings up here. Somebody like the money blessing insane. Welcome back to the black market. I'm your host, Carlos Miller. What y'all show presents. This is what we call the black market, man. You know, we got the black excellence spotlight. And we was on TV being excellent as hell. You feel me? Right. And then we had on these dope ass, custom made leather jackets. You feel me? It was like a one-on-one, a one-on-one, and a one-on-one. And people were like, where we can get them shits at? Who made them? So I had to go get the man himself who put that dope shit together. My man. He was sitting with us. D-Raw, welcome to the trap, man. Thanks for having me, bro. How you doing? Man, I'm doing great. I got all your info right here. So something, something. I know everything, bro. Everything in here. Your baby mama name right there. If you don't want to talk about it, I just go to your birthplace. Chicago, man. Yeah. Let me try. First of all, you got to get much love to Chicago, man. Oh, yeah, man. Much love to my hometown, Chicago. Hell, yeah. I had a show in Chicago not too long ago. And then one of the, one of the, you know, one of the gangs was like, be funny as hell. And I was like, am I in the gang now? And he was like, hell, yeah. You know you got a good show when a nigga wants you to be in the gang with him. I ain't gonna say which gang. What part of Chicago, man? Both sides. Well, you can see, not both sides, but west side and south side, just between, you know what I'm saying? My grandparent and my parents. And then we, you know, moved down south after that. Chattanooga, Tennessee. Yeah. Shout out to Chatt. Not to Chatt. Yeah, man. Not to Chatt. Yeah, shout out to Chatt. That's up his way. He from around there. Are you okay with that? Yeah. Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, yeah. Ain't nobody over there. Yes. That's the city. So, man, how you get your started in the fashion business? Because I feel like you're supposed to be up there. Man, sure. Well, my background is in an auto body. We did auto body and painting. I was on the Pimp My Ride, the MTV vibe. You know what I'm saying? You know, my shops. And, you know, nowadays you can pretty much get whatever you want in a car. Cars come pretty much standard unless it's an old school. Oh, now you're talking my language. So, you know, we was doing that. And that kind of slowed down around my way in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And basically, everything kind of transitioned for me, man, I closed my shop and by me having a background in leather and textiles and how things go together and suede and skins and all that. So, niggas don't be knowing about textiles. Excellent. Yeah, so we just transitioned that into Houston Leather & Imports and it's the third year at it. Yeah. It's blessed to meet you. Yeah, it's been up ever since. Nah, man, I got a half a dope shit and when I seen what you were making by hand and putting that shit together, I was like, I got to have me something. You know, I don't know a couple pieces of bags and jackets and shit like that, but like the attention to detail is what really stands out. And it don't look like nothing that you can go by. No, the art is in the details, bro. And it's quality, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, the art is in the details. There's no cap on it. It's premium pieces, all cut and sold pieces, all one of one. It's like we made the pieces for you guys. They were all matching, but they were all different. Right. You know what I'm saying? So it was... I know you didn't even know that that's what I was getting them for. I had no clue, bro. Yeah. I had no clue. It's just when you want to drop them off and see just put them on the show and it's been up ever since, bro. Man, that's what's up, man. I was like, when you first started with the cars, man, what type of shit were you doing with them as far as like with the letters and the custom shit? Well, with the jackets or the cars? The cars. The cars, man. Back in the day, we were one of the first shops to put a rear-view mirror inside the... Excuse me, sorry. Rear-view camera. Put a rear-view camera inside the tag, the backup camera. Like what, standard nowadays? Yeah. Who was one of the first shops to do that? Who was one of the first shops to put the Gucci and Louis actually in the whole interior Christian Dior should have suede inside the interiors and things like that. So it just, you know, it had its wave. It lasted probably about 15 years. It was a good run. But I knew it was something better for me. Yeah. And I always had one of the varsity, the traditional varsity style jacket. I seen they had been changed in like 30, 40 years. They was all the same. Yeah. I remember back in the day the eight ball jackets and the fashion jackets from up in New York, like the stuff Dapper Dan did and stuff like that. So I was always kind of drawn to it. And then it just kind of a light bulb went off my head one day like, no, I need to, you know, switch over the leather and start doing some cold stuff. Damn, when you said I mean, I stopped thinking like that. When you said the Dapper Dan shit, I was like, damn, we need to open up a store and just call it drug dealer fashions. That'll be hard as hell. Bring the music back. I'm thinking too hard. No, man, but shit, look at this shit, bro. People asking me, people asked about that jacket like crazy. It was, they got, we got this Facebook group, right? Okay, okay. So they posted them joints like you and shit, the shit I sent you. But look, this the type of, this the type of shit. My man, big Rob, be put down, bro. We had, we had did this promo. We went and did this promo with the Atlanta Hawks and they all gave us our own jerseys. Well, you know what our name on it and shit. Meet you going DC. Big Rob said, let me see yours. I was like, I just got it. I slid it to him and he pulled me off some way too slick. So hell, yeah, that's my, that's my partner in there, man. What can they reach you and say what in it? And stuff like that, man. I have a few different places that can be found. Instagram, Houston underscore Leathers, Facebook, Houston Leather and Imports. Or on my website, www.hustahleather and then come, excuse me, in imports.com. Well, you know, this is the black market, man. You open to doing like collaborations and stuff like that. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. I look forward, man, in the future for Houston Leathers to be the go-to brand for anything, custom, anything, fly as far as Leathers, for as one-on-one exclusives. Like, it's nobody touching me right now on this. I mean, I'm just that confident. Man, watch this. I'm about to put you in the game. J-O-N. Put that jacket on and model that shit, bro. I'm about to do your first commercial for free, bro. Grab the jacket from behind you, J-O-N. And model that shit. Model that shit, J-O-N. Model that black exclusives right there. So that's the Houston, Houston, our Leathers exclusive. J-O-N, you like that bitch? That's you? Man, sell me that jacket for J-O-N, bro. Got you, bro. Man, what you want for it? Don't say it out loud. Don't say it out loud. J-O-N need one of them, bro. That's all cutting soul. That's all handmade from scratch. We don't go through a third party. We're not dealing with a wholesaler. I have my own manufacturer, my own production. That is one of my exclusive pieces. Do me one favor. What's that? Man, we was chopping it up. Let them know all... It ain't just Leathers. No. Let them know all the other type of shit that you begin to, man. Man, we diving into belts, custom buckles. I got some custom buckles on the way for you. Right. I got a... We do custom luxury duffel bags, backpacks. Purses. Purses. Yeah, purses for the ladies. But everything cutting soul. So what separates us from everyone else? Let's say you go into a Chanel store, whoever, Louis store. You have to buy what's on the shelf. And even if it's dope, you still can't be like, yo, I like that bag, but I want it in white. I want it in green. I want to switch it up. Matter of fact, I want to take the double G's off and put my own logo on it. That's how we rockin'. Hit big rock. Fuckin' buyin' that Louis bag for Christmas, man. Get your girl her own shit. All 100% hand stitch, cowhide, ostrich, stingray, elephant. Elephant. Yeah, literally. Tell me about the frog. Stingray and eel. Anything and everything we doin'. It's all... It's whatever you can come up with. How you want to do it. That's what we can put together for you. J-O-N, that jacket hard on you, bruh. It's so good. Them a fuckin' nice, ain't it? But he's probably too. Man, he need one, man. He need that one. You can't leave with that one, bruh. Got you. That's the signature series, too. That's got my signature on it. Just like my custom. J-O-N, the jersey I got on right here. Yeah, yeah. The details on the inside. Man, stop playin'. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to coordinate. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I ain't playin' with them, bro. Came to take over. Ain't come to play fair. Yeah, that's dope, man. But, shit, I wish you much success. And I know that you're gonna go far, especially when this shit get out. It's like, this audience here is just... They go crazy for shit like this, man. And we got a lot of up-and-coming people who got, like, t-shirt lines, and, you know, they tryin' to jump it off. And for you to be able to put a legit sample in their hand, you know what I'm sayin'? A lot of people don't know that's the process of getting you... You know what I'm sayin'? So if you need somebody that can help you, that can show you some shit who been in the game for a long time, I strongly suggest you hit my man Big Rob over there, Houston Leathers, and get your shit together, get your samples together, get your customs together, whatever you need, man. We doin' that, too, bro. We are tapping into creating private label situations with other brands. Yeah. And we are the manufacturers behind a lot of different labels and a lot of different brands. We produce their stuff for them. So our name may not be on everything you see, but if it's fly, it's still your work. We're probably made it. It's still my work. So we move behind the scenes and if you want to get together and collaborate, yeah, let's do that. Hit me up on Instagram. Houston Leathers. Well, there you have it, folks. I don't have the long talk you would try to convince you. You see the products. You see what's dope. You don't have this. I do. Hit Big Rob. What more can I say, man? The black market, bitch. We out here. Thank you, bro. Thank you, bro. Oh, my God. Oh.