Photography by Amon Focus

On a rather beautiful day in the Lower East Side, Rame and I caught up on life. In this episode Rame shares a few stories of growing up in The Lower, his experiences as a stick-up kid, skating, graffiti, being on the run, life in Cali, getting shot, life as vegan and what is new with his art.

Enjoy,
Amon

Keep Up With Rame

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rameloveslife/
Purchase Prints: https://rameloveslife.bigcartel.com

Show Notes

• RAME Love Life Movement
• Growing up in the LES (Lower East Side)
• Alphabet City
• A, B, C, D what does it mean?
• Old New York & New New York
• Delancey Street
• Jimmy Jazz
• Dunks
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Kids (Film)
• Kids Film Trailer
• Tompkins
• Washington Square

 

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• PhD Crew
• “I wanna be up everywhere.” RAME Quote
• The illest Mom
• What did you want to be when you grew up?
• Misconceptions about graffiti
• Bomb only
• Dark side of life
• Everyone wants something they can’t have
• Drinking
• Stick up kid
• My loyalty is to my team
• Target
• Feed the wolves
• Snitch
• Rikers Island
• Everything is about respect
• Product of your environment
• “I would have been dead by now.” RAME Quote
• Reading
• Time

 

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• Do you believe in God?
• Mashed potatoes
• Harif Guzman
• Whittier, California
• Western Union
• No Cash App
• Guns, money, & the deed

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• LA County Jail
• Gangs & segregation
• 1-2-3 violations
• Resident
• Yankee Fitted
• Happy to see the NYPD
• Cooper Union
• Being VEGAN
• Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons shares secrets of being a ‘happy’ vegan by Lisa Flam July 21, 2015 (Today.com)
• Russell Simmons Part 1: Backstage, Booze and Spirituality – Mike Tyson: Bite the Mic with Peter Rosenberg
• Café Himalaya
• Sacred Chow Vegan, NYC – Greenwich Village, NYC

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Most important lesson?

1. Don’t take nothing for granted
2. If you have an opportunity, take it
3. Shoot your shot and believe in yourself

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Keep Up to Date with Leo

• Instagram
• SOALife

Show Notes

1. A Refined Tone – Mic Test
2. Talking to Bluster
3. Rain influencing Leo’s Mood
4. Growing up in Washington Heights 
5. Mad Hills and Parks
6. A Nice Diverse Community 
7. Being a Wild and Curious Kid
8. Playing with Fire and Getting Torched
9. Kids say the Wildest Shit
10. Biting Cousins 
11. Drawing anything in Motion
12. Leo was the Weirdo of the Crew
13. Had a Producer Vibe to Him 
14. Getting Lost in the Uptown Caves
15. Dark Days (Film)
16. Lenape Indigenous People
17. Finding Arrow Heads
18. Manhattan Center For Science and Mathematics
19. Dominican Republic
20. Super Curious and Embrace Diversity
21. Don’t Questions Yourself
22. Knowing the Difference 
23. Utilizing your Cultural Microscope 
24. A Child of Immigrants
25. That’s how New York is…
26. Fraunces Tavern
27. Long Before You Got Here
28. “You’re not going to Christopher Columbus this shit…”
29. Art is a Time Cheat and Cheat of Time
30. How do we preserve New York history?
31. Retna
32. BlusterOne
33. Shepard Fairey
34. The Peralta Project
35. Christies Auction House
36. “We can all enjoy colors…”
37. Whitney Museum 
38. Andy Warhol
39. Jean-Michel Basquiat
40. Jackson Pollock
41. Diego Rivera
42. Frida Kahlo
43. Problems, Solutions and Lives
44. Demystify the facade of the art world
45. Spiderman
46. Marvel
47. DC Comics
48. Infinity Wars
49. Two Cents on Black Panther Movie
50. Soul II Soul
51. Marcus Garvey
52. Being a Social Scientist
53. Breaking Comfort Zones
54. Culture Shock 
55. Knowledge of Self
56. Clark Atlanta University
57. Sullivan County Community College
58. University of Southern Mississippi
59. Full Sail University 
60. Amon’s Story
61. OutKast
62. Creativity is Problem Solving
63. Seeing the Sight Unseen
64. No Point or Purpose to Life
65. Empowering the Disenfranchised
66. Meeting his Ego for the First Time
67. Jim Rohn – How To Handle Your Ego
68. Losing loved ones
69. “Having cried yet but I want too…”
70. Akeelah and the Bee
71. Creed
72. Ready to Cry
73. Terrible Memories
74. Real Life is Not Instagram
75. It Ain’t All Good
76. Get Flipd
77. Hard Dopamine Hits

Chopped cheese is the name of the game because the youth said so! What’s up good people welcome to the New York Said podcast, I’m your host Amon Focus.

This week I headed to Metropolitan High School out in the Bronx to talk to some of the kids in the Beacon Youth Program. I was asked to talk about Podcasting. I kept it simple, I showed them the audio equipment but I said the best way to learn about podcasting is to record one… So we did.

If you’re a long time listener to the show then you’re familiar with the card game I created called New York Said Shuffle, if not then it’s simple. New York Said Shuffle is a game where I have the guest shuffle a deck of question cards that I created and then they answered them.

In this episode I played a lightning round with the students. I asked each person in the group one question each and then they flipped the tables then interviewed me.

This is a light fun episode which I really enjoy. Shout to Leo of SOALife for making this episode possible.

I’m out of here, enjoy!

About Beacon Youth Program and Metropolitan High School

1. Metropolitan High School
2. Beacon Youth Program

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Show Notes

• New York Said Shuffle
• The Metropolitan High School
• Bronx, NY
• Beacon Youth Program
• Soundview, Bronx
• “I don’t do nervous” Jylese Torres
  Musical Interludes
• Dream Vacation in Wakanda
• Tokyo, Japan
• Africa
• Melanie (Student)
• Arianna Reyes (Student)
• What is Love?
• Alicia Roman (Student)
• Bitter or Sweet?
• Unexpected
• Speaking to who?
• What are you going to be like when you turn 75?
• Who is Amon’s mentor?
• Leanna (Student)
• Batman
• Justice League
• What do you not understand about grownups?
• Parents just don’t understand…who said that?
• What advice would you give your parents?
• Diamond (Student)
• Ariel Reyes (Student)
• Bodega Sandwiches
• Chopped Cheese
• The Cult of the Chopped-Cheese Sandwich, New York’s Most Enigmatic Icon by Justin Bolois
• Yellow Bodega down the Block
• Antarctica
• Dreams interpreted
• Rick and Morty Cartoon
• Madison (Student)
• American History
• James Madison
• Morning  or Night? (We know The Host is Night Person)
• One time for coffee?
• One time for mocha latte
• Isiah (Student)
• Pineapple on pizza?
• Mya (Student)
• 3 Wishes
• So, $1,000,000 is not enough?
• Aladdin Movie
• Gucci
• Target
• McDonald’s
• Louis Vutton
• Everything free for who?
• Mr. Leo
• What are you afraid of?
• Wait the host is dropping his government…
• Favorite word
• Eat for free
• Hip Hop to instrumentals
• T.I.’s new album
• Dime Trap
• Quincy Documentary Trailer
• “Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done…” Quincy Jones Quote
• “Make It Happen” Amon Quote
• New York Said Merch
• New York Said: Volume Two – Photography by Amon Focus
• Travel
• What is your purpose in life?
• Put Me on Podcast

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This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.