Life
Growing Out of the Hood with Dot
Today’s guest on the show is Dot.
Dot grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn in the early 80s and I met Dot at his eye wear boutique a few blocks from the Barclays Center. I’ve known him for a few years and I knew he did some time upstate but I didn’t know for what or for how long.
I asked Dot to share his story on the podcast and boy did he ever. Dot is the nicest person you’d ever want to meet (cliche I know) but his story of overcoming himself as well as life’s obstacles just moved the heck out me.
Dot talks about growing out of the hood but not in your stereotypical urban way. He just talks about it. He doesn’t glamorize but he does tell a compelling story.
I’m outta here, enjoy the talk.
Links to the Stuff they Talked About
- Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All
- Steven Spielberg
- Hype Williams
- Mad Rapper
- Calvin Klein Jeans
- British Walkers
- Suede Fronts
- Stick Up Kids
- Spofford Juvenile Center
- Rikers Island
- Boogie Down Productions – Love’s Gonna Get’cha
- BMW 3 Series
- 40 Below
- 36 Chambers
- The Purple Tape
- Beanie Sigel – Feel It In The Air
- Donald Goines
- Iceberg Slim
- The Spirit of a Man: A Vision of Transformation for Black Men and the Women Who Love Them
- Clinton Correctional Facility
- Sancocho
- 67 Burger
Section 3 – Coming Soon
This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.
Happy Holidays good people!
In this episode I sit down with my younger sister Delilah to play New York Said Shuffle. NYS Shuffle is a Q&A game that allows me to ask my guests an assortment of question in a less linear way.
In this episode Delilah and I talk about tasty alcoholic beverages, fun with the family dog, growing up as siblings, becoming a dialysis technician, eating healthy and love in your twenties.
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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/
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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
Artwork by Rame Loves Life
- 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
Artwork by Rame Loves Life
Most important lesson?
- Don’t take nothing for granted
- If you have an opportunity, take it
- Shoot your shot and believe in yourself
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Keep Up to Date with Leo
Show Notes
- A Refined Tone – Mic Test
- Talking to Bluster
- Rain influencing Leo’s Mood
- Growing up in Washington Heights
- Mad Hills and Parks
- A Nice Diverse Community
- Being a Wild and Curious Kid
- Playing with Fire and Getting Torched
- Kids say the Wildest Shit
- Biting Cousins
- Drawing anything in Motion
- Leo was the Weirdo of the Crew
- Had a Producer Vibe to Him
- Getting Lost in the Uptown Caves
- Dark Days (Film)
- Lenape Indigenous People
- Finding Arrow Heads
- Manhattan Center For Science and Mathematics
- Dominican Republic
- Super Curious and Embrace Diversity
- Don’t Questions Yourself
- Knowing the Difference
- Utilizing your Cultural Microscope
- A Child of Immigrants
- That’s how New York is…
- Fraunces Tavern
- Long Before You Got Here
- “You’re not going to Christopher Columbus this shit…”
- Art is a Time Cheat and Cheat of Time
- How do we preserve New York history?
- Retna
- BlusterOne
- Shepard Fairey
- The Peralta Project
- Christies Auction House
- “We can all enjoy colors…”
- Whitney Museum
- Andy Warhol
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jackson Pollock
- Diego Rivera
- Frida Kahlo
- Problems, Solutions and Lives
- Demystify the facade of the art world
- Spiderman
- Marvel
- DC Comics
- Infinity Wars
- Two Cents on Black Panther Movie
- Soul II Soul
- Marcus Garvey
- Being a Social Scientist
- Breaking Comfort Zones
- Culture Shock
- Knowledge of Self
- Clark Atlanta University
- Sullivan County Community College
- University of Southern Mississippi
- Full Sail University
- Amon’s Story
- OutKast
- Creativity is Problem Solving
- Seeing the Sight Unseen
- No Point or Purpose to Life
- Empowering the Disenfranchised
- Meeting his Ego for the First Time
- Jim Rohn – How To Handle Your Ego
- Losing loved ones
- “Having cried yet but I want too…”
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Creed
- Ready to Cry
- Terrible Memories
- Real Life is Not Instagram
- It Ain’t All Good
- Get Flipd
- Hard Dopamine Hits
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ICP’s Curator-at-Large Isolde Brielmaier talks Inaugural Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography
Sean Corcoran, Curator at the Museum of the City of New York talks Collecting New York’s Stories
Maurice Malone on 35 Years of Excellence in Fashion & Denim Design
2019 Year End Wrap Up
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John “Crash” Matos talks Graffiti, Message, Medium and a Responsibility to History
Lady Pink talks Wild Style, Mentoring Young Artist and The Art of Rebellion
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