EARLIEST MEMORIES: 1974 #truestory

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]All right, I got one for you. Earliest memories.

[00:00:03]My earliest memories is like I remember back to like 1974.

[00:00:10]I remember um living in Detroit and being on uh we lived on Ward. It was like the corner of Compass and Ward.

[00:00:21]And uh I remember uh I remember that whole block.

[00:00:27]And then I remember when uh I went to elementary school. Uh I went to elementary school at Monnier, m o n n i e r.

[00:00:37]In Detroit. My teacher's name was Miss Vance. She was real nice.

[00:00:42]I didn't know what the [ __ ] school was.

[00:00:43]I thought them [ __ ] was dropping me the [ __ ] off for real.

[00:00:50]My oldest brother always told me, "Yeah, we we found you under a rock and decided to keep you."

[00:00:55]And I said, I thought it was Here Here we go.

[00:01:00]Birthday in kindergarten was like, "Oh well, I guess I'll see never see y'all again." My older sister sat in there with me till I could uh get my bearings together.

[00:01:11]>> [laughter] >> And they put me in school a year early, so you know what I'm saying?

[00:01:16]Uh when I graduated from school, I'm the class of 1988. I was supposed to graduate in '89.

[00:01:21]Uh and uh Yeah, they put me in school early.

[00:01:26]My mom said cuz she was tired. She was ready to get this [ __ ] over with. So in all my classes, I was the youngest. I went to high school freshman year, I was the youngest person in the whole school.

[00:01:35]Nobody knew that [ __ ] Then I had to remember uh how they did it, like I didn't even know what the [ __ ] my birthday was. I mean, I knew when my birthday was, but my birthday to my family was different than what my birthday was in school.

[00:01:52]>> [laughter] >> My birthday is December 19th, but in school my birthday was December 1st.

[00:01:58]At first, I didn't know I didn't know we had to write a book when I was in third grade.

[00:02:04]I gave up the beans cuz I I I couldn't keep track of the lies. That's another thing I learned about lies.

[00:02:13]Um Like my pops say, if you keep your [ __ ] straight, you ain't got [ __ ] to straighten out.

[00:02:18]And a lie is it takes too much energy. It it What do they say the worst enemy of a lie is the time and a bad memory. You know what I mean?

[00:02:29]So, uh yeah.

[00:02:32]Memories, man. Oh man, I remember mine.

[00:02:35]You know, I remember my pops uh putting a mattress in the basement and we shooting at it with a [ __ ].22 rifle.

[00:02:44]I knew how to do all that [ __ ] before I was five. Um eating cabbage. I used to love cabbage.

[00:02:51]I'm going to talk about cabbage and peas and spinach, too, cuz I ain't really like spinach and peas till I was 20.