I was born here, and I pretty much grew up in Pennsylvania, like a small, you know, it's like a small town city called Bafflin and stuff like that. It's about like 40 to an hour outside of Jersey, yeah, lived there for a while. Then I lived in Kentucky and also went to school there. So that was a bit of a change. Also lived in Georgia, Massachusetts, but then I moved back here to New York and yeah, everything's been going good.

My mom, mainly me being born, like the late nineties, and being from New York. She exposed me to a lot of that stuff, like that culture and stuff like that. Basically just wearing like all like, you know, she's, she's kind of like rough around the edges and stuff like that. Like not trying to sound bad or anything, but, she's a city slicker. So she's not currently living in New York right now, but she still is going to carry that New York aesthetic with her everywhere she goes. My mom, she's very family oriented. So she would, even though we moved, an hour away from the city, she would always want us to see her cousins, her sisters, her aunts, you know, stuff like that. And keep us always back and forth with them. You know what I'm saying? Ialso , I watch movies, there's TV shows, and just the way that my mom talks, like we have like a certain slang that we talk and, that's just how it was brought up. Like, it's like a, our own little language and stuff like that, that you just know where you're from. So that's always like good to have. And I always respected my mom for that, for keeping that, intuitive with us and stuff like that. She's great. I salute my mom in a lot of ways that for keeping us, keeping us in the loop with New York. If you know, you know, the way that we drive, the way that my mother drives is, it's like a bat out of hell. Like she is flying, she's zipping, she is swerving, all lanes, busing U turns. That's how you know that she's, she's, she's from New York. It's kind of like, small road rage. Like, a little bit of road rage. That's how she drives. Even though the speed limit says 15, she wants to go 50. And she's hawking the horn. She's crazy with that. I'm a little bit more cool and casual with it though. I love to drive. I mean, wherever I'm at, whether I'm in the city or visiting or traveling anywhere that I'm at, I still have that small little road rage, but I like to keep it calm, cool, collective. You know, I carry a little bit of that spirit water with me.

Before I actually lived here, I was actually staying in Massachusetts with my girlfriend at the time and she got a great job back out here. And I was like, “Hey, I'm actually from New York too, so we should actually, let's do this move together.” And that's what motivated me to step out my comfort zone and move back to the city and stuff like that. It feels different after coming back. Before it was just normal, regular, regular stuff, everyday life, wasn't really, you know, just the basic, average, chop, chop, chop, like, 9 to 5 type thing, like, I can't really explain it. But, just living here, now there's like purpose, now there's like, I didn't know the opportunities that New York had to give.

Oh god, I don't even want to talk about that. How did I used to dress before was basically, I was like, basically, I was just only comfortable with what a male should wear. Basically just being biased on the whole thing on male should wear this and a female should wear this and I really wasn't being open to different types of forms of style that can express how I really want to express myself. Which is, pretty sad and stuff like that. I would just dress comfortable on whoever was whatever city I was in at that time, however, like that normal average male address. Me being living in Kentucky at the time, like an app, the average white man would be wearing a flannel, a hat, regular jeans, and maybe some tennis shoes or some sneakers, or anything like that. Maybe try to throw over a jacket. It's very simple, very basic.

Before coming here, it was more of a just discovering who I really am and trying to find my niche. Sort of like trying to find what I'm actually good at, what I'm actually talented in and stuff like that. I worked in a warehouse. I can't really show my style coming into work. Because we have to wear a certain type of uniform, and can't really express yourself with that. I didn't have to impress anybody, didn't really have a factor in my life at the time, especially back then before coming here to the city now.

I wasn't really focused on the whole fashion scene at first. I was just really just focused on money. Especially living here, it's definitely expensive. Comfortability became more comfortable. And that's when I started, you know, “Oh, I have a little bit of money. Let's go shopping” or something like that. Or looking one of my friends and stuff like that, I'm looking at what I got on while I'm shopping, and I'm also looking at these other people, what they got on. I'm like, they look totally different from what I'm wearing. I want to dress like that. I want to pop like that. I want to give off that. I'm, I'm, I'm actually from here. I'm not just, I'm not a tourist. I'm not, I'm from here. I want to give off that, that aesthetic that I'm actually at. I'm actually a New York native. I love it here. It's my city.

If you're, I feel like you have to carry so much confidence, you want to carry a huge amount of confidence because you want to feel like you're the biggest stepper in the room. For the most part, whenever I'm in a room, I feel like I'm the biggest stepper and I want. I'm not saying I'm an attention seeker or anything like that, but if eyes are on me, then I know that I'm doing something good and that boosts, my whole confidence to a whole new level and stuff like that. New York requires a lot of confidence and then also it takes a lot of different places if you have a confidence in New York City.