Out of the Mouth of Babes "Our Future Leaders"
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In this enlightening and empowering podcast, we delve into the minds of the next generation—the brilliant and dynamic youth who hold the keys to our collective future. Join our host, Kevin Handley Sr., as he takes us on an inspiring journey through conversations with young visionaries, activists, innovators, and changemakers from around the world.
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Out of the Mouth of Babes "Our Future Leaders"
S2 EP.1 Pt2 - Fashion, Music, and Hoops: Embracing Individuality Through Personal Style and Passion
Have you ever wondered how your fashion and music tastes reflect your personal journey? On this episode of Out of the Mouth of Babes Duo Edition, we share our evolution from high school fashion club members to confident thrift store aficionados. We champion personal style over brand allegiance, recalling how our shared love for affordable fashion has shaped our individual wardrobes. Our conversation naturally flows into the world of music, where we break down the barriers of musical stereotypes. From our steadfast devotion to Outkast to our surprising admiration for country tunes, we celebrate the eclectic mix that now defines our playlists.
But the episode doesn't stop there! Our love for basketball also takes center stage as we discuss the sport's impact on our lives, from the camaraderie of team play to the importance of staying true to oneself. We reminisce about games at Clear Creek and the enduring life lessons basketball has taught us about authenticity and commitment. Join us for a lively chat that blends the worlds of fashion, music, and sports, and discover how these passions inspire us to embrace individuality and express ourselves unapologetically.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Out of the Mouth of Babes Duo.
Speaker 2:Edition.
Speaker 1:Alright, today I kind of want to start us off with a little bit of talk about fashion and music and kind of find ourselves in that big sphere. I think I'm going to start with my own experience with fashion. I would say I definitely started out a little. I'm going to say bummy, but it wasn't great, I can't lie he was rocking the athlete drip like the. Nike hoodies, something simple. I always liked this. It wasn't necessarily bad, it was just kind of plain. A little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Speaker 2:I was too lazy to really do anything else when I think of like a college athlete, that like that is that kind of fashion.
Speaker 1:I was kind of Nothing wrong with it, there's nothing wrong with it. But like you see, like I got a little this on now, a little Kanye, this on now, a little Kanye type. Yeah, you know a little Kanye type, but like you too, like I mean, look, you got a little jersey on and a little white, like you kind of put it on today too. I ain't gonna lie. But yeah, I think that's something I really decided to work on through this like summer really, because I, before this, like I really it's not that I didn't care about my appearance, but I really just decided like I care more about other things, but I had always like had a um how to put this? A desire to kind of get into that sphere. It always like interests me and like kind of something I was always interested in doing a little bit and I think that like getting into, I really enjoy it and it's some amount like love, spending money a lot, obviously, but I think I like to get the cheapest things. I ain't going to lie.
Speaker 2:Hey, Goodwill is where it's at. If you're not shopping at Goodwill. You need to start. As a teenager. Shop at Goodwill, your local thrift stores. That's where you find the best stuff. If I'm honest, all right bro listen.
Speaker 1:This the best stuff. All right, bro, listen. This right here, this shirt, walmart. This right here, it's a sam's glove. And then the shorts I got on. I got on some jean shorts. Right now you can't even see them, but I got jean shorts on and those are also from walmart, like trust me, you can look good, and whatever. And like I got some new balances on, I got them for like max maximum, like 150. I don't even care about them that much, it's not what you wear, it's how you wear it.
Speaker 2:If we're being what you match, like, sometimes it's not even.
Speaker 1:You don't have to have super expensive things. They don't gotta have Gucci or Prada or like all that to look good, like to see. Yeah, like it's. It's just nonsense, but kind of the brings to our next topic.
Speaker 2:I was kind of going to music well, hold on, let me talk about okay. Okay, you want to get into fashion a little bit. Let me talk about my fashion, because I at least personally think I was putting that on, since at least sophomore year. What'd you think?
Speaker 1:You yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, you do this year. Overpass me, I can't even lie.
Speaker 1:But you have a different kind though. That's the thing. That's why I really appreciated our fashion. It went different ways, but we have an appreciation.
Speaker 2:This guy puts it on almost every day.
Speaker 1:Can't even lie. That's the thing. I kind of built upon what I got in the summer. Then I have kind of just grabbed some little new items. When I have time I'll go stop at a Goodwill or some or a Walmart and grab some. I'm like, oh, that's cool, I could match this and this. And I grab it and match it, and then I find stuff that I already own I can match with that and that's how you make it. But this guy right here, like he said, he's been putting it on for a little bit. Like literally since sophomore year he's been mixing and matching.
Speaker 2:Me and him I think it's important to mention me and him are both part of the fashion club at our school where I'm the photographer and, like you know, setting it up. We haven't done an issue. We need to do an issue. Yeah, we haven't done an issue this year.
Speaker 1:But if you're a Richmond student right now, get on Gabby DeMont. She's the one that needs to do it right now. She needs the one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well, I mean, we could do it too.
Speaker 1:Oh, but we do need new and young students, like we do want them to come out and like people that actually want to be there and like get into fashion and like get in pictures, not just people that are like are there, don't just sit there. Yeah, like be there to be there which. But yeah, I mean that's actually one of the reasons why I actually got into fashion, because, like I always like had a little eye for it.
Speaker 2:I was like yeah, zay, come in here. I was like, come in here and do this one.
Speaker 1:I came in there and I saw everybody was dressed up. I felt so out of place. I was like, oh shit, everybody put it on, and I did not put on the next time either. But I was still thinking about it.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, that valentine one that was tough yeah, but that's when it started, though, literally like that's what it started, because I was like I started having ideas like, oh, I can match this. All right, this could look, this could kind of go with, like you know what I mean. Yeah, all right, do we want to do it on that? Yeah, let's, let's kind of dabble in real quick.
Speaker 1:I think music, my taste has gotten so much better because of this guy I can't even lie, my taste used to be, so this guy's one of the best music tastes in the game.
Speaker 2:His taste was not bad. No, no one has bad music taste.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it doesn't exist. What's your music taste? Gold, trust me.
Speaker 2:Gold. I just listen to everything. I just listen to everything. I don't think I don't like there's no such thing as gold or bad music taste. It's just like what it's getting out there and like finding stuff that you like. Like, hold on, we'll talk about this later, actually, but yeah, it's not really about having good taste, it's just making sure you find stuff that you like, because I mean, I like some stuff that I know for a fact that like he ain't going to like it.
Speaker 2:Kev ain't going to like it. Kev ain't going to like it, but I mean, I like it. And I don't care what other people really think. And that's really how you're going to find, like you know, good music and other people are going to you might put someone on by accident.
Speaker 1:I mean, he put me on music, I put him on music. But I think that was another thing, like find music, like diversify my music taste. When I came into like Richmond, like when I came into Richmond, oh my God, it was all rap, like that's because when I lived in Cincinnati, like that was all I was really around.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 1:This is rounding, that's all I was around. I like the music, like, don't get me wrong, I still like it. But I've really diversify my taste and, like bro, lately it's been jazz. Jazz is tough, bro. I I knew jazz was good. Have you watched whiplash? Nah, is it something I need to watch? Yeah, it's something you need to watch okay jazz. All right, I need.
Speaker 2:I'll get on to that I I kind of like what we were talking about earlier. It's and with your talk about sensi, I was surrounded by people who have really different like my dad has been to a. Both my parents have been to a million different concerts of a million different genres. Like my dad listens to people from like Billy Strings to Goody Mob.
Speaker 2:Like it's a wide variety of music and I just find I like from listening to their music growing up and then you know finding my own stuff and you know man, you know Ghetto.
Speaker 1:Boys I didn't know who. Ghetto Boys. I felt like I don't know. I probably shouldn't say this, but you like?
Speaker 2:out-black me.
Speaker 1:I was like dang you know, you know everything, like shoot. I think I need to get on that now. But yeah, I think that's different. Yeah, it's something I gotta, I gotta venture out into, but like that, not I 90s rap Like, okay, I've been listening to that.
Speaker 2:I've always listened to Outkast Everyone knows like Outkast, but like. I went into like I would listen to every album. Andre 3000 Like a lot Like Big Boy, andre, all of it. I would even listen to some of Big Boy's stuff. I'm not a big fan of like Some of his newer stuff, but like he's he's still good, he's like one of the greatest rappers ever.
Speaker 2:But it's like being in that sort of stuff, like it's just, it's so awesome to just find something and just be obsessed with it for like a month and then you move on to the next thing, and I mean you still have all your stuff.
Speaker 1:You know about it now I think also, like I think kind of going along with what he was saying, like talking about, like not, or way, way earlier he was talking about being a man and stuff, like I think that was something that kind of helped break that like stigma for me, because I used to think like oh, I'm a man, like, oh, I'm a black man in America, I gotta listen to rap and like that's because that's what you see online, like that you just see, I mean black guys listen to rap, I don't know how else to say it. But I think once I like really saw like other people, like it's not just black people listening to rap, like black people listen to everything, and I think that was something like and when I would listen to music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if people listen to some music and that's. I think that was something that really opened my eyes. Like it was like nobody's one-dimensional, like. Everybody has something they like, something they don't like. Like, for example, I like let's just say like. I mean, for example, I like country, but I know some of the people that hate country. They can't stand listening to it. So it's like seeing that like or like says I love it so I don't like on the way here.
Speaker 1:No, I was listening to country on the way driving here but like that's the thing, like you, but I used to not like country, like I used to listen to, like the country my mom's put on, that was good, but like it was like pop. But like he put on something I was like, oh, I got my ear hold on I started because I I won't let him.
Speaker 2:If I drive him, okay, like I don't, I don't mind it. I drive him to school like I don't mind it. I drive him to school and like sometimes back from school and I put on what I want. I don't care what he wants.
Speaker 1:I don't care Every time because he be putting it on every time. I'm like hold on. I don't know if you know, on your little phone you got that little thing yeah.
Speaker 2:Shazam, yeah, I catch him a couple times I click, put it up right here and just Try to be slick about it too. It ain't slick ever, it ain't slick, nah, nah.
Speaker 1:But it's funny though, because somebody's talking to me and calling me dude, and that is not even funny, like I just tell it, like just ask. I go sometimes I be doing it. If it don't work, then I'll ask yeah, I did that the other day.
Speaker 2:It was about a feature song.
Speaker 1:A feature, it might have been Metro, I don't even.
Speaker 2:I don't fucking know.
Speaker 1:It don't even matter, but like for real I was, but old. No, I really got into old school not too long ago.
Speaker 2:Like throwbacks, like R&B especially.
Speaker 1:R&B yeah, but like Like 2000s old school or back like okay, like 90s you know what I'm saying and like even going further back like tupac and like even further back like freaking, like hold on, let me, let me let him, let him cook real quick, like r&b that is it's not just r&b.
Speaker 2:No, I'm no I'm saying like weird, that's what we're talking about right now we're talking about like old school r&b and that's just like man, like it's like the people who like created like the genre, like the genre.
Speaker 1:Like Crazy from Pasty Klein and like people I don't even know. I mean honestly, I don't even know their names.
Speaker 2:You don't know these people, but you know the songs because you found them.
Speaker 1:And like Freaking let's see, let's see, let's see, let me find a good artist.
Speaker 2:An old one or just like one. Here's what I was going to say here.
Speaker 1:Sweet Lorraine by the Nat King Cole Trio. How old is that? Can you find what year?
Speaker 2:is that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can find it, but it's old. But I swear to you it holds up it's so good. Okay, 1996 is when it got on here.
Speaker 2:Okay, I was about to say that's not that old, but that doesn't mean it's not. But here's, I think we're wrapping up here soon so.
Speaker 2:I want to leave with this. If you could listen to one artist just off the top of your head, if I said you listen to one artist, this is like one dimensional, but it's one artist for the rest of your life, just one-dimensional, but it's one artist for the rest of your life, just off the top of your head, without looking, without looking, without looking, just like first artist that pops in your mind.
Speaker 1:No hate, I ain't gonna lie, I ain't listen to him in a minute, but my boy, bryson, tiller, tiller, okay I listen to him too much. I had to diversify a little bit, but I love that man man, nothing, you know, yeah, but I ain't gonna hold y'all. But what about you?
Speaker 2:Honestly, I I didn't. I just thought about that right there.
Speaker 1:I don't have an answer off the top of my head, but I think off the top of my head, if I had to, I would.
Speaker 2:I would probably say you know, kind of not basic, but you know, kanye West, I do.
Speaker 1:I call it.
Speaker 2:He's got the you know newer stuff. He's got the like opium type and you know he's got way back when. He's got the R&B, he's got the rap, he's got the 2010s era like Chief Keefe features and all that stuff. I mean we're counting features too. So it's like Kanye. I hate to say it, but Drake too, you know Drake is a good artist. I can't lie. He makes some good music.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I know I ain't going around on him, but I mean his R&B stuff, his rap stuff, I mean his R&B stuff better but I, you know, I haven't forgot about it. Yeah, no, this summer.
Speaker 2:I did not listen to like a Drake song barely ever.
Speaker 1:But you love Kendrick though.
Speaker 2:I mean, but like Okay, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 1:I started listening to Kendrick a little bit after that. I was sleeping, I was sleeping.
Speaker 2:I can't lie, I was sleeping so bad this guy I swear he would like during spring of 2024, he would hate on Kendrick and just defend Drake up down left right. I didn't really like I didn't care.
Speaker 1:I kind of cared, but I didn't really care If you know that meme where it was like bro, you don't know how good, you know what I'm talking about. The old guy Unk.
Speaker 2:That was me. That was kind of me. I'm not even going to lie.
Speaker 1:I did not know how good he was. I was not familiar with his game at all.
Speaker 2:It's art, it's all art, it's all art. But I mean, if we're going to compare, like Drake to Kendrick, I think there's some art both sides, I mean, but it's just different. It's different art. It's like comparing J LeBron but Kendrick and Drake, they just hey, but one I would say. I mean, you look at Kendrick man, he's, he's definitely more like you know, pulls from more of that Old school type Drake, a volume shooter.
Speaker 1:He just shoot a lot. He got a yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm talking about you, talk about basketball stuff, it takes me a second to realize what you're talking about, Kendrick.
Speaker 2:Kendrick, kendrick, one of them guys. He, he, he. Like he don't ever play, he don't play, but when he do, it's always on. Hey, what, what would you do? Pop?
Speaker 1:pop, pop.
Speaker 2:Nah, let's not. Let's not. I know what you're talking about. Let's just not Drake and Kendrick Beef, because I didn't like.
Speaker 1:I really didn't like any of the songs that came out of it. I ain't gonna lie, cass Drake, fire, I mean, you can't listen to most of them casually though, yeah.
Speaker 2:You have to be in the beef to like that one does. I ain't gonna lie you gotta go all the way through.
Speaker 1:Alright, bro, that one's catchy when I do listen to those songs. You got to go all the way through.
Speaker 2:All right, bro, that one's catchy, that one's catchy. All right, but no, no, okay, but when I do listen to those songs, I do listen to them from start to finish. Yeah, I have to, I have to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like the start of the beef. Yeah For all the dogs. Yeah for all the dogs. No, it wasn't even on there, it was.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah, but like that was like With Future.
Speaker 1:Nobody listened to that. Yeah, I don't. I don't start there.
Speaker 2:No one starts there.
Speaker 1:Cause it.
Speaker 2:It started with For all the dogs, and then the response of Like us, yeah not like us, not like us, I don't, I don't, no yeah. No, wait no.
Speaker 1:With Future and them. That started it, and then it was for all the dogs. And then it was For All the Dogs. And then they responded Kendrick responded again. No, it started with, or was it For All the Dogs?
Speaker 2:It started with For All the Dogs with J Cole yeah yeah, because they're like is it K-Dot, is it Aubrey or me?
Speaker 1:Yeah. And then they responded they were like top three yeah.
Speaker 2:Man, there ain't no top three East Des Moines.
Speaker 1:That's what he said.
Speaker 2:I mean, everyone knows we're talking to people know. It's not new, but I mean.
Speaker 1:That was a fun time to be around, though.
Speaker 2:That's not really dissecting anything there.
Speaker 1:No, no, but that was fun, that was fun. It was fun to be in, but like I'm just glad it wasn't the Endangers, though, or Drake, drake, look, he got his house is within like, but that Are we sure that someone got shot? Yeah, no, no. But like also at the same time.
Speaker 2:I'm sure that's related. Yeah but it wasn't even that deep. Nothing about that beef was deep.
Speaker 1:Nothing about any beef.
Speaker 2:I don't.
Speaker 1:I think it was all just for the media. I can't even lie.
Speaker 2:Kendrick was not on anyone's radar. Besides, I mean, he made great music, but no one was in that moment thinking about Kendrick Lamar. I agree, I ain't gonna lie, Because he I mean all of his albums are great albums, even his mixtapes.
Speaker 1:Look how much money they made for that.
Speaker 2:Oh, so much money they made by that.
Speaker 1:Oh so much, so much money man, they probably took up each other's life right after it was like up yeah, maybe I bet you, that was all planned. It worked out real well, I was tuned in, I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 2:I remember on the whole run I was in there I was in there watching the whole time I mean, dude, we would on our runs like you're talking about earlier. We would go on runs and just not come back for a little bit and we would like actually just listen to. We would listen to music on every run almost, but whenever that was like happening we were listening to those and we were like trying to dissect stuff, go off like what we saw in the media and try to find it.
Speaker 1:We'd be arguing all the time, oh we'd argue like no one's business. Like not even argue, like no one's business.
Speaker 2:Like not even like on some, like actual argument.
Speaker 1:No, we never heated this lie for, like you for that Psh. Now you're wrong, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then Clowning for no reason. True, trying to prove you to the wrong, clowning the clown.
Speaker 1:It's cool, you know what I mean, but anything else you got.
Speaker 2:Here we are, about half a year later that anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that is crazy, um, but I also just want to touch up a little bit on, uh, you not doing your sports, no more. So, okay, I took that back. You're doing swimming and all that, and you also are holding up two jobs and stuff like that. So, um, how has that transition been for you? Like, has that been hard? Like I I don't want to take away from the how hard it is.
Speaker 2:It's just so nice. Really I miss people Like I still see you often. I got pretty close with some of my cousins during you know from sports, like Callum Brady, shout out Callum Brady. But I didn't. I mean now I barely see him. I still see him, but barely, and I kind of I miss them. I don't miss running at all.
Speaker 1:I run for fun on my own sometimes, but that's the thing you do if you want to, yeah, that's nice. I think I kind of feel where you're coming from. That's what a lot of sports is for me, anyways that team aspect. The only sport that I absolutely love doing 24-7, I can do it all day is basketball. I can't even lie.
Speaker 2:No day. You know it's basketball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you know me, you know that's just what I love doing and I may not be the best on the team, just walking out, but like I think I'm pretty committed Did he cross you up though.
Speaker 2:No, he ain't crossed me up.
Speaker 1:Down at Clear Creek.
Speaker 2:I ain't never played on no basketball team, though.
Speaker 1:Okay, ireland, though Sometimes you be hooping, though I can't even lie, not even sometimes, every time Like, but I don't know, but I Fun stuff.
Speaker 2:Fun stuff, bro. You know A dress like yourself. Listen to your own music, do your own stuff for real Fun stuff.
Speaker 1:You know A dress like yourself listen to your own music, do your own stuff, be yourself.
Speaker 2:I think those are big four from just this little 20-minute session. All right, we'll see y'all later. See you guys, peace out.