Well, I guess I was like about three or four years old.
My nickname, they should call me Butterball, because first of all, I'm a twin, okay?
I have a sister.
She came out like olive old, and I care like blue, it's like this big ball, you know, butter,
you know what I mean?
And, you know, I guess from, you know, baby stages up to maybe five or six or seven, they
called me Butterball.
I was born and raised in North Philly, you know, 9-Eleven, came into my projects, not
too far from Truffle Popper, as I grew older, you know, I joined a little game, we would
like the Pee Wees, like April Popper, you know, and Truffle Popper would have you.
And back in those days, it's like, you were like on your own, so Butterball grew from
one nickname to another nickname, my little gang one day's name was Outlaw, okay, because
I did everything out of the lot entirely.
So I did my love, you know what I mean?
But then I left at that point, and I got really involved in James Brown.
I mean, this guy was the start of my whole music career, that's been like one and off,
you know, I started out playing cello in elementary school when I was in the fifth grade, and
I left from cello, and I went to from cello to organ, and I left from organ and went
to piano.
And then I left from piano, and I got an older, I joined a choir, first and second tenor,
you know, in other churches and stuff like that, but getting back to James Brown, I mean,
this was like a god to me.
I mean, I even had flames, I used to pay little guys, you know, to join my group, you know,
I built the shoot, my brother built the shoot-shot box, and I made money there to, you know,
get like the microphones, well, I actually didn't make all that money doing that.
One time I needed some bread, I used to work on needs of bread, you know, like cutting
up boxes and stuff.
So this whole white guy, like, you know, he had like a baggy pants on, and he had bent
down to pick up something, and his wallet was taken out, and the only thing I saw was
me on stage, you know, and the silver and gold capes, you know, and the microphone acting
like James Brown, you know, this diva guy right here was telling me, if you use that
wallet, bingo, you know, I mean, you on.
So I tipped up on him and just took my two fingers and went, you know, and I got the
wallet.
And you know what?
This old man ran from 8th and Girard all the way to 11th, and Girard, you know, the
toss of big, big buildings, catching me, and he couldn't catch me.
I ran up 12 flight steps, you know, when I came down, he was gone.
So I went home, and my oldest brothers, you know, they, I was so excited, so I was telling
me, listen, we got the group, we got the group, we got the group, so they saw all this money,
they saw this wallet, and there was like, oh, wow, so like, there was like, well, don't
tell dad, and he's gonna find out, you know, and it's like, my dreams came true, because
I brought my brother drums, we got the microphones, my mother made the capes, gold capes, silver
capes, and you know, like, that's probably one of the most important moments that I remember
when I was a kid or a child, born and raised in North Philadelphia.
