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Prince, Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, with Jamaican and Asian roots, my journey has always been driven by passion, purpose, and growth. I began my entrepreneurial path in 2011 as a DJ, performing across the country and eventually taking my talents international by 2017.
In 2019, a major health setback shifted everything. That experience led me to discover natural, herbal remedies and sparked a deeper understanding of holistic healing. During the 2020 quarantine, while travel paused, I began working with High Frequent tea, an herbal supplement company that played a key role in educating and inspiring me on the power of natural herbs.
As I applied that knowledge, I started helping close friends and family improve their health—and the impact was life-changing. That feeling of helping others pushed me to go even further.
Today, I’m the founder of a juice bar dedicated to educating the community on healthier food choices and raising awareness about herbal solutions to support and reverse health challenges. Our location at 455 Cedar Lane in Teaneck, NJ is also home to High Frequent tea, bringing together nourishment, knowledge, and healing all in one space.
Yo, what it do, y'all? You know what it is, the voice of the culture. And today, I'm in T-Nack, New Jersey. And I'm proud to be where I'm at today because I'm on Cedar Lane with a very special brother who has recently brought something to our community that we've basically been lacking a little bit. And health is wealth. And um this brother right here is definitely changing the game, he's changing the community, but he's also changing the location and the dynamics where we're at. So without further ado, I gotta I'm very, very happy. Without further ado, I gotta introduce my man Prince, man. The owner, CEO of this wonderful juice bar. And I'm gonna let him tell you really the dynamics of this juice bar because it's bigger than just the juice, man. So let the people know what's really going on here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so um, one, what's up, y'all? Um, Prince here. Uh, this is Yayo's Juicery. We are also incorporated with um High Frequency, which is an herbal supplement company. Uh, one of our main goals is to give the community a better alternative to the food that we have out here. Everyone knows right now where we're at, which is America. We know what they're doing to the food out here. Right. So I want to give people a better alternative, but still make it fun for the community. You know what I mean? Like we're still gonna have our cakes, we're still gonna have our patties, we're still gonna have some pasta, but we're gonna mix it up and make it to where it's non-dairy. Everything in here is non-dairy. Okay. So there's no chicken, no beef, no egg, no cheese, no bread, none of that. Um, we're trying to eliminate the mucus as much as possible. Mucus is what feeds every single illness out here. Wow. So that's a part of my job. And um, the reason why I say it's a part of my job is because when I got introduced to herbs, it was it was something that was eye-opening to me. Because I had no clue of this side of the health space. Um, I got sick. Okay, COVID. But this was before COVID was a thing, so I didn't know what I had. Okay. You know what I mean? So during that time, um, I had a good friend of mine, which is the CEO of the um the business that's also here as well, high frequency, um, she gave me some teas. And I just drank it because I literally thought I was gonna die. It was that bad. Yeah, like I haven't I haven't eaten any food in two weeks. Um, I had no sense of smell. I could barely go up and I could barely get up and use the bathroom. Like I was that weak. Like, if I was to get up right now and go to the to the fridge right now, right, at that point in time, I would have to literally prepare myself, like mentally. Right. Like I already stand up. I'm gonna take my little breath. I might hold on to this right here, then go open the door, take a breath again, because at that time I had asthma as well. So everything that I'm doing, every little movement that I'm doing, I'm running out of breath. So at that time, she gave me the tea, and within a day and a half, I've been trying to reverse what I had, which I didn't know what it was. I've been trying to reverse that for two weeks straight.
SPEAKER_02What was you taking prior though? What was you using to reverse?
SPEAKER_01I was taking a bunch of stuff from CVS, bright aid, basic bullshit vitamin C gummies, Benadryl, Tylenol. I was just doing anything that I thought was gonna fit. I was eating a bunch of oranges, saying I'm gonna get my vitamin C, you know what I mean, things like that. And um, nothing was working. I lost a lot of weight. Um, I was weak as hell. But literally, I took it, she dropped it off for me in a mason jar. The company that is now high frequency, it wasn't, it wasn't that back then.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01So she had it in a mason jar with a bunch of what I thought was just a bunch of leaves on the bottom. So when she did that, I'm just like, all right, I'd known her for all my life. So I'm gonna take it. And what out what else do I have to lose? So you didn't did everything else. I did everything else that I thought was gonna be beneficial. I went to the doctor one time. They told me they ain't they know what to do with me. They they um they pretty much gave me, I don't even remember what they gave me, but they gave me something that just made me throw up even more. So I knew that I wasn't gonna go that route. So when I did that, she gave me a schedule. She gave me two mason jars. She said, drink it at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock, and 5 o'clock. I drank it, stayed in bed. I didn't do anything else. Drank water and that tea. By the next day, I woke up. When I woke up, I'm going to use the bathroom. I finished using the bathroom, wash my hands.
SPEAKER_02But how was your how was your strength at the time when you got up? Because I know you said earlier.
SPEAKER_01I'm about to tell you. Right now, I get up, I use the bathroom, I wash my hands. Now I'm realizing that that I didn't have to think about going to the bathroom. So I'm like, hold on. Now I'm moving around, I'm looking at myself in the mirror, like, nah, like something's going on. Like I feel like I'm pretty much back to normal. So at that time, now I'm calling her because I'm like, what the hell was that you gave me?
SPEAKER_02Because this is in a 24-hour span.
SPEAKER_01This is, yeah. I would I would say at very most 36 hours. Because yeah, I would she gave it to me that morning, and the next day that afternoon was when I got up to use the bathroom.
SPEAKER_02Excuse me, how did you sleep that night?
SPEAKER_01Um, I'm not even gonna lie to you, I don't remember. Okay. I I really don't remember. I'm pretty sure it was it was just average. Um, especially back then, I wasn't really sleeping that good. That's why I wake up in the middle of the night, probably watch some TV and go back to sleep. But um, I don't specifically remember how I slept that night. But um, next day, I stayed in bed, went to the bathroom, like I said. Now I'm realizing, like, wow, I'm feeling better now. Now I'm curious as to what's going on. Like, how did, like, I just what happened was she FaceTimed me and seen my condition. She, I told her my symptoms, and from that point, she just put something together. So in my mind, I'm like, I spoke to you for five, ten minutes, and you just put something in a jar and you just give it to me, and then I'm good. Like brought me back. Yeah, like you gotta explain this. Because she's prior to that, she was on Instagram and she's ranting, but she's talking to her friends, family, the followers, and all that, but she doesn't have a big following, it's nothing like that. She's just doing her own little thing and giving her own testimonies. So from that point on, it um now I'm calling her every day. What about chicken? So, what about I can't have chicken? So, what about if I if I do macaroni and cheese? What if I do this? What if I do that? I'm trying to figure out what can I eat, what can I not eat. Because she's breaking everything down to me, like, yeah, you got a lot of inflammation and need to release the mucus and just breaking everything down. So now, fast forward, COVID hits, I DJ. I used to DJ all across the world. So at that time, when COVID hits, I can't travel no more. Right. So now when I'm calling her, everything is going downhill for me financially. But when I'm calling her, everything is going up for her. Because every everything that she's ranting about online, now people are asking her the same questions that I'm asking her.
unknownWhat about?
SPEAKER_02But are they asking her because of the COVID? Not to cut you off, but are they curious because of the COVID?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because everybody's getting sick. We, we, we, everything's getting shut down. Basically, now everybody's double backing back to her. Now we in Okay, I got you. I find it. So now everyone, people are getting um, people are getting um the uh the shot and all of that stuff, and now it's to the point where other people are trying to figure out how to reverse their illnesses, and they're trying to figure out what's going on. So now when she's doing all of that, I'm still calling her. I'm still asking her a bunch of questions, we going back and forth, but it got to the point where she's like, listen, you gotta come over here and help me. Like, I can't be on the phone, like I'm I'm I'm busy, like I got orders. So I'm like, all right, yeah, I'll come through and help. Came by and help, and I see a kitchen full of just herbs and just just natural organic herbs. I've never been around anything like that before, and she's just like, yeah, mix this together, weigh this, make sure it's this amount of grams, blah, blah, blah. And we're doing everything together, but now I'm intrigued.
SPEAKER_02She's getting these herbs from them.
SPEAKER_01Where is she getting them from? Yeah. All right, so that that could be a whole nother conversation too. Okay. Because we Jamaican.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01So we have a lot of family back home. We got we got different connections and stuff.
SPEAKER_02I had to ask that for the coaching, because the culture would know where is this stuff coming from? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01Nah, definitely, definitely. And it's very accessible to the general public, too. You just gotta do your research. With her, that was another thing, too. When I went into her living room, like literally, this whole wall, let's say we're in her living room, this whole wall. Her living room is about this size, too. Books. One old thing, high blood pressure, um, diabetes. Like, it's just a bunch of books. She's like, Yeah, I read that, I read that. Like, she read probably 80% of the books that's in there. So she's she's she's teaching herself on how to do these things.
SPEAKER_02Teaching herself, and as she's learning, and she's also teaching to the people.
SPEAKER_01Damn, that's dope. So now um now I'm helping them. Fast forward now, the world opens back up. I'm going back to DJing and all that, but now I don't drink anymore. I lost 60 pounds, no, no working out. This is straight off of eating correctly because now I'm around like-minded people. Now I'm around the people that that are eating right. Now I'm around the people that will see me with a cup of Hennessy and say, nah, we're not doing that. You know what I mean? Like it will be people that I'm around where when we're waking up, oh, we're going for a walk. It's those type of things. So now I'm in.
SPEAKER_02Different motivation.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because we're originally from Brooklyn. So coming out to Jersey was completely new to me.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01But now it's more so refreshing to me. Because it's like it's a whole new environment, and I'm actually feeling good. I'm feeling better. Prior to that, I would be in events and I'm DJing. People would take pictures and they'll be like, Yeah, I'm gonna send you the picture. I don't want the picture. Because I'm 215 pounds. What? Title I weight.
SPEAKER_02You 215 pounds.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was the biggest I ever got. 215.
unknownShh.
SPEAKER_02Jam, I'd have never known that.
SPEAKER_01Me neither.
SPEAKER_02And that's just from lit garbage living. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Eating, eating, um just kind of eating on the running because you you're DJing, so you're traveling, so it's not really you get eating.
SPEAKER_01Five o'clock in the morning, drinking, they're giving the DJs bottles, the lifestyle that comes. The lifestyle is fun, but overall, it's not fun. It's really not. So now, while I'm here in that type of space for like a full year, now when I go back out there, now I'm looking at everybody like, yo, y'all bugging. Like everybody's bugging to me. My peers, everyone that I grew up with, people that I introduced the lifestyle to, now I'm looking at them like, nah, we gotta, we gotta stop this. So I kind of leaned off of that, and I'm now I'm working for her company because now her business is up now. Working for there, and randomly, um, she's like, Man, I'm tired of this being in the house. Like, I need I need my house to be a home. Right. At the time, she was doing a wellness retreat in Jamaica. So she's in Jamaica, and the realtor is hitting her up to go check out property. When she goes to check out property, when they're calling her to check out property, she's not around. So she calls me. Like, all right, can you go check out these spots or whatever? Cool, no problem. I go check out the spots. This was one of the spots. Matter of fact, this is the first spot. Seen it, it's just a big triangle. This was a cleaners before this. Yeah, it was. Downstairs was a trash basement, like nothing done. It was it was just dirt, pretty much. But I'm looking at the space, I know what she has back at the house. So I'm visualizing everything, like, yeah, this is the living room in here mentally. So now I'm looking at all of that, and I'm like, yeah, I think it's a good look. She comes back, closes out on everything. Now, at that time, she's like, it's probably too much space, and it's on a main strip, see the lane. She's like, I'm not trying to sell dry tea out here. It's not business not gonna be booming like that. So, me jokingly, I'm like, if I was you, I'd do a juice bar. So her response back, like, she's a very jokey person. So she was like, You should do it. You should you should do the juice bar. So I'm mixing the blends and everything, I'm taking it for a joke. I'm just like, yeah, whatever. A few days later, she's like, Man, I'm thirsty, man. Like, if we had a juice bar, it would I wouldn't be thirsty. So now she keeps throwing it out there, just throwing it out there. But like I said, she's joking around. Other people are around, other workers are there, everyone's laughing. So I'm just I'm taking it as is too. A week later. So, what you gonna name the juice bar? So I'm like, yo, what the fuck? Like, I don't know if she's playing or not, but I'm gonna get a book and I'm gonna just write down everything that I would do if if I was to do a juice bar. Because ultimately I did want to do that. My original thought process prior to all of this was to have a juice bar in Brooklyn, but it to be open 24 hours to give people like me a better alternative 24-7. Because we used to always go to a spot right after the parties called Peppers, 4 o'clock in the morning, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, it don't matter. They open at all times. And they always got food. Jerk chicken, oxtail, fish. They got everything. So I wanted to do the same thing, but a healthier version. In my mind, I'm just thinking Brooklyn. I don't know nothing about Jersey. I don't know nothing about T Neck, nothing.
SPEAKER_02Yep, not just T Night, brother. See the Lane.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm I'm uh I'ma I'ma get to that.
SPEAKER_02Get very clear. See the lane.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'ma get to that. So now, fast forward, I um I'm in Jamaica with her, and we're talking about it. But now I'm talking serious. And everything that I'm saying on a serious note, she's responding in a serious note. So I'm like, yeah, I'll name it this. I'll name it Yayo's Juicery. I would I would do this, it'll be all organic, it'll be this. And she's like, I like it. And I'm like, wait a minute. I think she's dead ass too. Like, so now I gotta really step up to say, you know what? It might have to be Jersey. My goal was straight Brooklyn. I'm still BK. I'm still BK. I'm not thinking because of the essence. Because of the essence, because of the um, I'm familiar with everything out here. I don't know anything about over here.
SPEAKER_02And you can kind of get away with being 24 hours out here. You can't, you can't really, you can't do that at all out here. Yeah, yeah. I noticed that too. They're not they're not even in, you know what I mean? But the 24-hour thing is very valuable because you got brothers getting over work at a certain time, brothers or work, going into work. Like, so I understand that. Then that'd be amazing if you could have done that. But go ahead. I mean, I mean, out here.
SPEAKER_01If you could do that out here. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be amazing. That would be crazy. I mean, never know. This is a this is only the beginning for me, in all honesty. Like a lot of people see what it is that we got going on, and I don't think anybody understands how much I have planned and I have in store for what I'm about to do. But I'm gonna get back to the story. So, boom, fast forward, she's like, all right, let's do some contracts and let's really get the top half, I get the bottom half. Because her, her, her half is um, her business is strictly online. Now I sell the products up here, but it's mainly that's where everything is booming, straight online. So she doesn't have a physical store. She never did until until now. So fast forward, all of this come into play. This is 2020. She can she was joking about it in 23. We started, we started making it um, we started taking action in 24. We caught a flood in here. So everything that you see in here was done twice. We had a flood in here, everything was flooded out. So we had to break down everything, gut it all out, and redo everything over again. So now, fast forward, we open up in 2025, February 22nd, 2025. Now I'm gonna get to what you were just talking about. So we opened, we have the grand opening, but now it's only Brooklyn people. I still don't know anyone in T-Neck. When we downstairs working for high frequency, we're only downstairs. I'm not going outside, I'm not chilling, I don't know anybody over here. I don't care about it because I'm not thinking I'm gonna have an actual shop here. I'm I'm I'm at work. You know what I mean? So at that time, I'm not, I didn't know the history of Cedar Lane, I didn't care. It didn't, this was just a place that I make. Open up shop and let's get money. Open up shop, um, increase my education on in the health space and go home. That was my goal. So we open up, but when we open up, everybody from Brooklyn comes out here. So it's packed out. It's literally like 150 people in here. So and Cedar Lane. On Cedar Lane. And then what happened prior to that too is on the day of my grand opening was was a good friend of mine. Was it his service? He passed away. So everyone that left the service came over here. But the last time that I seen him, we knew that he had an illness, and he just kept saying, like, I gotta come check you. I need some juices and I need this, and I so that was more of a push for me as well, because now I'm realizing that we we need help, but we don't know where to get the help from. Because if we go to the doctors, they're gonna tell us whatever, they're gonna put us on whatever medication, and then whatever happens, happens. You know what I mean? So after my friend passing, everyone comes, shows up. But now the people of T-Neck, now they're seeing a big, they seen a bunch of black people out here in the front, the back, on the inside, everything's packed out. They never seen in here before because prior to all of that, for about two, three years, we had this covered. So nobody even knew that we was downstairs. So now we just one day we just open, lights on, you see the action, you see the decorations, you see everything, you see everything well put together, and now you just see a bunch of people in there. So now we had it on that Saturday. On Monday, that's when it got to the history. On Monday, people from T-Neck, now they're coming in, like, yo, well, y'all have something here every Saturday? Like, what was that? Like, what's going on here? Every single person, not every single person, but a lot of people will come in, they'll open the door, like, are you the owner? I'm like, Yeah. And it's just like pure shock. Like, they didn't understand. But for me, I'm thinking they looking at me, I look young. So they might just see uh, or just a young dude doing something, but it just kept happening. But they like, we need you here, you better stay here. And I'm like, why you keep saying that? It was just a constant thing, literally, for about like a month and a half, two months. So now you getting school too. Why? Yeah, now I'm trying to understand, like, uh, like, why is everyone saying that? So now I meet a customer. When I meet a customer, she got a straight attitude. Everything about her is an attitude. She's like, what kind of patties are those? Vegan. And she just, everything about her is an attitude. But for me, I'm like, I'm in a new city, I'm in a new town, I'm gonna break her. So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna feed into what she's giving me. I'm gonna break her. So I'm just like, yes, you wanna try it, I'll give you a free sample. Blah, blah, blah. I'm going back and forth with her, but I'm not breaking her. She gets on the phone, she starts talking to her son. And she's like, What? I'm at the store, I'm coming, I'm coming right now, whatever, and and make sure you take the Benadryl. Blah, blah, blah. So when she gets off the phone, I said, What happened to your son? He's sick? She was like, Yeah, he got a cold. So I pour a ginger shot, and I was like, Yeah, give this to your son. So she said, How much is it? So I said, nah. Give it, give it to your son, it's on me. Okay. Takes it, thank you. Takes it, goes about her day. It dawned on me for a while where I'm like, what's up with her? Because everyone in T-Neck was fairly pleasant. Right. So for me, it was just like, I don't understand that, but whatever. The next day she comes in. She comes back, now she's with her mother. She comes in, different tone. And she's showing her mother, like, yeah, this is the guy, blah, blah, blah, whatever, whatever. So I'm hitting up with the same thing. I'm like, hey, what's up? How's your son? Right. How's he doing? And she's like, yeah, he's good. Still got a little attitude, but it was, it was. You see it fading away. I was seeing it fade away. But now I see the mother, she's just looking at me. She's not taking her eyes off of me. So now somebody ordered product, which is downstairs. So I went downstairs.
SPEAKER_02What was their nationality?
SPEAKER_01They were black. I don't know like where specifically, but they were black. Okay. So now when I'm coming back upstairs with the product, she sees me in the hallway. When she sees me, she's like, When you have a chance, can I talk to you? Like, okay. So in my mind, I'm like, she's about to come with some bullshit. Like, I know it. So I finish um taking care of the customers over here, come to the side. And she was like, I really want to apologize about yesterday. But she was like, I just didn't understand what you were doing here. So I'm like, okay. I'm not understanding what you're saying, but she's trying to understand like what you're doing here. And she was like, it's just amazing to see that you're really doing this, that I had to bring my mother here. So now the mother's still looking at me. She she did not take her eyes off me. She's just, she just, her eyes just gazed in. So now she was like, my mother had a shop on Cedar Lane 22 years ago. She was like, they rushed her out so fast that she moved back to matter of fact, they moved, uh, she's Guyanese. She said her mother moved back to Guyana and did not come back because of how they treated her how much pressure.
SPEAKER_02And how they made her feel. They put her on Cedar. Like, you're not wanting. You're not supposed to be here.
SPEAKER_01She said that she purposely never used to come on Cedar Lane. That one day she decides she's gonna walk through Cedar Lane, seize this shop, sees me. So now when she comes in, what I think is an attitude, it's her in shock. Like, she's looking around, she's seeing everything is well put together. She's just like, she's not understanding, like, like how is he here? So now when she brought the mother over, she was like, don't let them do what they did to me. And I'm like, all right, but I still, that was like my first time of really understanding like what it, what Cedar Lane is. What C Lane is. What Cedar Lane is. So for me, um, I think I have the energy, the strength, the mindset. You think or you know, because I believe that you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because you could have definitely played the game opposite of what you played it with her. You know what I'm saying? And something that you did that was very key and important was you gave her something for free. A lot of people don't understand that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You gotta give sometimes. It's not always just take, take, take. Yeah. And you gave something that was like, oh, hold up. He gave me this and it worked. Yeah, yeah. To the point where let me call my mother. Yeah. You see the cycle of just if you would have charged her, she might have came back still because of the situation. Yeah, but the fact that it was for free, yeah, that stayed with her.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know what I mean? And I bumped into you guys on Instagram because that's how I found all of it. Because I juice, and Rob, you know, he can tell you. Yeah, I was heavy, still is not as heavy, slack, because it it's a work. Yeah, but you know, I got a great support system that helps me do that. You know what I mean? Of course, of course. But um, I was like, yo, but I I couldn't find y'all. Like, yo, where you at? Where you at? Yeah, right. I'm like, yo, where's it at? So now I'm bored. I mean, you know, when I'm coming through, I'm but I'm I'm not on foot, I'm in the whip. So I'm just kind of, man, where's it at? Where's it at? Where's it at? Where's this juice bar? And you keep coming up. So now I start following because I want to see what y'all doing, but I never came in. And honestly speaking, the first time I came in was that day that I met you and we talked.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know what I mean? But I was already following. Yeah, and I was like, yo, that's dope. And me being a kid from Bergen County, I used to walk up and down these streets when I was 15, 16 years old. They, yo, coming through here at three o'clock in the morning from a shorty house that we met, and you won't see the land, you can stop, brother. Yo, why are you up here? What do you mean? I'm coming from all people's house. How old are you? Like these so to see a black young man that's doing a healthy, when I say healthy, I just don't mean healthy. I mean look around you. I need everybody to understand. We're not in no mom and pop shit. You know what I mean? It's work that's been put in here. It's blood, sweat, and tears. You know what I'm saying? So we as a community seeing that, me personally, it was like, yo, I gotta talk to my man. I gotta kick it with him. I appreciate that. I need, I need my culture to understand what's going on. Because I listen, you may can't find them, but I'm gonna I'm gonna lead y'all to him. You know what I'm saying? So that's a blessing within itself. And I want to say congratulations, King, for that. Thank you. I salute you for taking that. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Because a lot of people shots to that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, shots to that. Yeah, because a lot of people ain't gonna take that, man. They go shots to that, man. Yeah, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01I appreciate it. Y'all's over there too. Right behind you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I needed that. Um I mean, so the to be to see that yo, I'm so I'm still so happy to see y'all see you here. I'm happy to be here. I'm I'm I'm fortunate that the community is supporting you like that.
SPEAKER_01I see it on the gram. Nah, they really do. That's one thing I will say. Like, for what I've seen, the first week that I opened up here and I'm seeing the traffic, I was like, damn, this is gonna be tough. I really said that. I was like, I don't know if I need that. You saw the traffic. I I seen the traffic, but it wasn't the traffic that that I thought it was gonna be. So for me, I'm like, how am I gonna pull this off? But I just kept turning to what it is that I said that I'm gonna do. And I was like, I'm gonna market, I'ma market this crazy to the point where whoever's close by, they're gonna figure out where we're at. And even when you just said that, that gave me goosebumps because those are the things that I was plotting on. Like if you're not familiar with over here, if you're not on this strip, if you don't come on this strip, I'm gonna I'm gonna make you figure out where we're at.
SPEAKER_02And even if you're driving, you're not gonna listen. See the lane is show, you see it. We all know the traffic. So it's not like you just bolt me and be like, it's not going, you know what I mean? Unless you catch this light and you look in here, okay. But I'm gonna tell you one thing that you got over a lot of people. See, because our community, we love to gossip and talk bullshit. Oh, it's no parking. No, they got a big-ass parking spot in the back. So it's like me when I come here, I'm not thinking about parking on C the Lane. I'm going straight to the back. And but you got the back door entrance. Yeah, right. So you killed them from both angles. So that was very smart, too, as well. And business, business-wise, you know what I mean? Because you got people that's parking back there that not maybe didn't come down C the Lane. Yeah, yeah. What's that? It's a juice. Oh, let me, because then Rob put me on to go, yo, you can go through the back. Yeah, damn, the back. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So let's talk about we here now. You know, people are stepping in, people are stepping up, people are reposting. That's how I saw this spot. Somebody reposted. And I saw that locked in. And I said, damn, like I said, I couldn't find it, but we're here now. So where's your mind at now? You you're hearing the feedback from the community. We happy that you're here. Now, I can tell just by sitting next to you, you always keep that going. You're always thinking of, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. What's the next journey? I'm on the boy, you got the books in here. You got the you got a little bit of everything for everybody.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Um, how do you put how do you push that on people who may not be into reading these things? Because you know nowadays everybody just wanna go to chat GT and just, oh, this is Google. Yeah. You need these type of books, bro.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Your body remembers the truth about diseases and healing.
SPEAKER_01And and the author of that is the um the owner of high frequency. She wrote two books. This is one of the books that really put me on together.
SPEAKER_02Shout out to her. You see the book. Shanikwa, you know what I mean? Your body remembers the truth about diseases and healing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because they tell us that a lot of illnesses are irreversible. And that book explains why that's false. That's the first book. That's the first book that I've read in years. And that's what changed my whole concept of what it is that I gotta do. Because I could, I could, I could travel, I could go to Jamaica right now and DJ, but it's just like ultimately, what am I what am I giving back to the people? With this right here, it was breaking down. Like, why like we are not the same. Literally, we are not the same. So if if we have an illness and we go to the hospital, they can't, they they can't give us the solution the same way they'll give another race the solution. Because we're not the same. The melanin is completely like it's completely different. So we can't take the same things that that other people take. And it's not against any other race, it's just like you ever seen in the middle of February, you see certain, you see a certain ethnicity and they're running around in shorts in the middle of January. And how do we look at them? Like they're bugging. Right. Because we are not the same. We can't do what they do. And they can't do what we do. Exactly. So this breaks down so many things on on such a on such a level that it made me open up my eyes because, like I said, my grand opening, one of my close friends passed. Um, my mother's ill. I have other my father had two heart attacks. You battled. Yeah, I battled. I I done had kidney issues, had asthma, had um, I had a lot of things going on with me. You had kidney issues. Yeah, I had kidney stones. I was, man, I had some episodes, man. Had liver issues, I was drinking crazy. Like it was, it was, we all went through our things, but the main thing that I realized is that every time that I look for a solution, it would be I would be put on some sort of medication that's a band-aid. It's a band that's just gonna put a band-aid over it. So for me, it's like when I'm in this space now, it's like, nah, we want to get to the root. I want to get to the root, but not only do I want to get to the root, I wanna be myself and get to the root with other people that look just like me. That don't have a clue just like me. Because at one point in time, I was just like anybody that's clueless that comes in here, that has no clue about any of this that I do. That was me at one point too. So I wanna, I'm not gonna change the way I dress, I'm not gonna talk any different. I'm gonna make people know that I'm I'm you. And if I could do this, why you can't do that? You know what I mean? So it was, and it was more so because every time I went to get checked on, they just feed me a bunch of big words. And I don't understand, but at the same time, I'm I'm just nodding my head, like, okay. And they're like, yeah, take this because 17 milligrams of this, well, da da da da da. And I'm just like, okay. I don't know what he said. I don't know what he said. But he looks professional. He's got this fake cape on. He got the cape on. He's saving us. He got he got the notepad, right? And he got the computer. So yeah, he knows what he's doing. So for me, it was it was like, nah, I I need to be able to, even if I don't have the answers, I'll figure out the answers.
SPEAKER_02It's funny that you said that because you talk about he had the look. And then you just, you know, you also talked about yourself. You're not changing who you are. So that makes it even better. You got the look. His hat's backwards, he's got on likes. He, yo, I can talk to my brother. My brother's gonna give me some raw, good information. He's not just gonna give me information to keep coming back purchasing. He's giving me information to coming back to say, yo, I got better.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And it's not, and it's and it's definitely not, of course, this is a business, but it's not all the way money for me. There's people It's not a gimmick. There's people that have been in here that say they want to detox, and based on how they respond to me, I'm not selling it to you. We talked about that. I'm not selling it to you. Because you're playing around. And then when when you're playing around, I'm gonna take your money, and then you're gonna bullshit with my product or the or high frequency product, and then you're gonna come back and tell me that it don't work, and I'm here every day. So instead of me doing that, nah, keep your money, and when your mind is correct, then you come back and do this. Because I know it works. It worked for me. So it's it's not, it's not, it's not a it's not a it's not ultimately a money grab for me.
SPEAKER_02Well, see, on that side of the game, I gotta respect that because at the end at the end of the day, the average motherfucker is gonna say, I got bills to pay, I got rent to pay. So why am I gonna turn turn him down?
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna get it anyway. I'll figure it out. I'm gonna get that money anyway. 100%. I don't I don't need that type of money. I'll get it.
SPEAKER_02It goes back to when we was hustling, they said all money ain't good money. You know what I'm saying? All money ain't good money. Yeah, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01I strongly believe in that.
SPEAKER_02And like you said, if you're gonna waste my time and then you come back talking or run around talking about, yeah, I went over there to ya, and then he gave me some shit. He charged me X, Y, Z, and I'm out here, it ain't working. Yo, because that's what we do. Let's just keep shit around. And then, you know, he's gonna tell somebody, she's gonna tell somebody, yo, I heard it ain't really working. Yeah. You ain't working because you didn't let it work for you. You just did it for a couple of days and you didn't really follow the steps.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, your mindset gotta be right with it. It's not just about the illness that you're dealing with, it's the mindset, too. If you don't believe that it's gonna work, it's probably not gonna work. Because you already told yourself that. You already told yourself that. And when you tell yourself that, you're not gonna put in the work that you're supposed to, because you already don't believe in it. So, it's over. I'd rather keep your money.
SPEAKER_02Keep it. Yo, I admire you for that because honestly, brother, like I said, we live in a time and a day where it's rough out here, but it ain't gonna be that rough for me.
SPEAKER_01Nah, man. I got I I rather my sanity. And like I said, I'm here extremely often. This ain't something that I started and I built, and I just said, here, somebody else controlled that, and I just deal with payroll or something. I'm here. So if I'm gonna be representing what this is, which is what I built, I want you to know that it's real, it's authentic. If at any point in time, there's been times where he's coming on his seventh-day detoxing, and he's like, Yeah, I'm feeling like this, I'm feeling like XYZ. We're gonna talk it out. We're gonna we're gonna have an understanding. And if there is an issue, I'm gonna figure it out. So that's my whole thing right there. Like, I just wanna be authentic to the people that's out here. And it's and it's coming from a genuine space, because like I said, it was times where I've been ill, or family members have been ill, and they didn't get the answers.
SPEAKER_02Now, with that being said, the journey of life takes you in different places. Your dedication to this is not you're not chasing a dollar, you're chasing awareness. Of course. You know what I'm saying? Difficulty with us in our community is we don't we don't all chase awareness. We chase a fast turnover. Oh, it ain't happening. It ain't, oh man, he just talking, or he just this or he just that. Does those type of bullshit conversations continue to keep motivating you?
SPEAKER_01Does the conversation motivate me?
SPEAKER_02Um I'm gonna say this, give you a little thought. Me, I if I start something, I gotta finish it. Like it'll beat me up if I don't finish it. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? So from just talking to you, like, okay, I'm gonna show y'all, better than I can tell y'all.
SPEAKER_01This this idea that is now Yayo's juicery, this idea started in 2022. Nobody knew about it until 2025. Because I was that focused on I have to complete this. Once I knew, like, all right, this is what we're doing, paperwork is signed, and this is how, this is what it is, I had to, I couldn't half-ass it. Even at the time, there was a time when we had the flood in here. The um, the countertop wasn't even here. I was literally laying on the floor in tears. Because I'm like, damn, I might not be able to do this. Because everything that you see in here was everything flooded out. The walls. The only thing I didn't have in here was like the actual equipment, the refrigerators and all of that. But the ceilings, the walls, the floors, we had to rip up everything.
SPEAKER_02And what caused the flood, if you don't mind me asking? Did they have something wrong? Because I never really seen C Lana be flooding.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um, so we were doing over the roof, but the people that did over the roof, they never checked the weather. So they ripped up the roof and it rained that night. So I'm at the gym around the corner, and I just happen to forget something over here. I run over here, and I as I'm getting what I'm getting, I'm like, yo, why does it sound like it's still raining in here? Doors are locked. I'll open up the back door. I'll show you the video after. When I say I was in here in tears, because I'm like, how am I gonna pull this off? Like it's over. It's completely over. But I was, it was just tunnel vision. I was like, nah, I gotta, I gotta do this. Because a lot of people in Brooklyn, they like, why are you saying in Jersey? And even for me, it was just like everything that I know, everything, everyone that I know, that's Brooklyn. I don't know anyone out here. Still to this day, except for the people in T-Neck, but I didn't, I wasn't familiar with anything over here. So everything that I consider home was in Brooklyn. My family's in Brooklyn, everything's in Brooklyn, friends, family, everything. So for me, I'm like, I was out here for two years, and then this happens, there's no way I'm gonna give up. I can't, but I came too far. I came too far, but not only was that that hurt me, but it was also a blessing because it made me revamp everything in here. Your favorite, um, what was your what was the drink that you said was your favorite?
SPEAKER_02Um purple rain.
SPEAKER_01Purple rain wouldn't have been here if I didn't have that flood. Root awakening wouldn't have been here. Midnight Lemonade wouldn't have been here if you ain't have it. So it made me revamp and really sit back and and try different things and figure out the benefits if I mix this fruit with this vegetable, or if I mix this fruit with that fruit. You know what I mean? So it was certain things, even the labeling, all of that. I did all of that in the time when we had the flood. Because now I got more than enough time. And it was more of a blessing too because I was rushing because someone was coming. You wanted to catch that. Well, but when the flood happened, I was like, this is actually a blessing because now it's giving me more time to perfect what it is that I'm trying to do. I would say eight of those flavors I created after the flood. So it's actually a blessing. Gift and a curse. Yeah, super gift.
SPEAKER_02Super gift. And you know what? It's crazy because no one would ever thought that even took place in here. See what I'm saying? People don't see the. I think that's the thing about life. People don't see the but the what goes on behind the cameras. You just see the storefront, the lights, the thing, the duh, the du. But you know what? It's you in here crying. Yo, this shit flooded out because of an ignorant situation.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's it's it's it's a challenging um business to keep up because it's it's it's way more than just putting juice in a bottle. It's um it's customer service, it's cleanliness, it's representation, it's patience, it's um, it's numbers. You gotta, you know, the numbers. You gotta make sense. Man, it got it has to make sense.
SPEAKER_02It has to make sense now.
SPEAKER_01And then I'm I'm on the side where I'm trying to do everything organic, everything all natural. We getting herbs from Ghana, we getting, we getting things from Jamaica, we like.
SPEAKER_02This shit ain't cheap. Let's just be clear. I need the culture to understand that. But you know what? One thing I learned with this journey of being healthy is it's it is pretty expensive. But we'll sit here and we'll spend, you know, $10 on some garbage. Not only every day, all day.
SPEAKER_01Very true. But not only that, we're gonna pay for it anyway.
SPEAKER_02You either gonna be sick or you're gonna be healthy.
SPEAKER_01Hospital bill is not cheap. So for me, I'd rather spend $30 on a on one meal as opposed to going to McDonald's or something and getting the five for five or whatever it is that they got. I'm not doing it. Especially when you know the history of like what they're doing. Like I forgot which one of those big industries, but it's like 54 ingredients in the chicken sandwich.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I was watching that. And now and now they're putting it in our face and they kind of telling us, and we still. We're still doing it. We still go. Because it tastes good, but it's addictive. Well, it's like just like drugs, but once you take that first hit, you're chasing that hit.
SPEAKER_01I wouldn't even say it's I I wouldn't even say it's like drugs, it is drugs. Yeah, it is drugs. And I would say that because what they're putting in you. I've told this story many times. I went to Dubai one time, they held me in customs for three hours, and it was all over Doritos chips. Because of the ingredients in the back, the guy looked at me, he said, take a picture of this. I took a picture, he said, Now go into my country and look at the same chips. And I was like, okay. I didn't understand what he was talking about. He was like, This is this is drugs to us. So don't bring this back into my country. But go into my country and check the chips. I took a picture of the Rito's chips out here. I took a picture of Doritos' chips over there. It was two lines for their ingredients. It was a paragraph for ours. Same flavor. Same everything. It was nothing different.
SPEAKER_02You just come.
SPEAKER_01So it is drugs.
SPEAKER_02You just crushed me. I gotta front because I'ma be honest. I'm out. You're being Doritos? I'm killing a bag of chips. I'm mixing. I'm keeping it a buck, yo. On some hot shit. I'm mixing. Doritos. And then I'm lying to myself, and I'm saying this to the camera because I need everybody to understand, let's be truthful about what we're doing. I'm mixing unsalted with Doritos. Pump faking the whole time. I'm gonna get the unsalted chips, but I'm gonna put my Doritos in it just to get a like, yo, you're defeating the purpose of the unsalted chips, you stupid motherfucker. And I can say this about myself because this is what I'm doing. And a lot of us are doing that. We guilty, we all guilty of that. You know, we go get a bunch of Chinese food and get a diet soda. What the fuck is a diet soda gonna do when you got all this garbage? Like you lying. Like people kill me with this diet's diet, I'm gonna get a diet soda with it. But you got a whole shitload of garbage. So you think the diet soda is gonna help you? It's sweet as hell, but it says zero sugar. Okay. But you just ate gallons of sodium and fried and we all done it. And I still do sometimes. So that's why this, you know, this episode is very important, not just for everybody, but for me as well, because we're getting up there in age.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And that plays a factor too. Our body's not recovering like it was when I was 20. Sometimes it's like, oh shit, I might treat the ankle. The ankle might hurt for two months.
SPEAKER_01I took a shot of liquor this past New Year's. It put me down. I ain't the same. I ain't the same. Because your body. A body know, like what you doing.
SPEAKER_02What are you doing? We don't do this no more. Yeah, well. Let me ask you this, man. The course of this journey that you've been on, personally outside of the business, does it is it all about, and I'm asking you your personal opinion. Is it more so willpower or is it more so I don't I don't really want to do it, but I'm gonna try it. With this? Yeah. Nah. Just the whole journey of striving to eat healthy, because the transformation is strive to eat healthy, is it ain't easy.
SPEAKER_01I battle with it. It's a it's a perspective, I would say. Okay, thank you. That's why I'm asking you that. To me, it's not really that that difficult. It's all about where you go. It's a little bit more challenging as far as where to go, but they got some dope spots out here, especially in New York. I give you a listing or something. Yeah, but New York is the melting pot. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? They got some stuff in Jersey too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they do, but you gotta search. Yeah, like you gotta search, but not also search, even with you trying to do it on your own by gathering little things. Like, I'm gonna use myself, for example. Everything I talk about is really about me. I can be do pretty well during the course of the week. Yo, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I'm a dumpster. Just call it what it is.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna get you some midnight lemonade. Keep talking about it.
SPEAKER_02I'm saying, I'm I'm a dumpster, bro. You know what I mean? I'm smoking. You need to detox that out right now. You know what I mean? Um, and the sad part about, I'm uh, you know what I mean? I'm doing all this, you know what I mean? And I need to, yo, this right here, I'm gonna call this the crack cocaine of the game. Because this thing right here, see, I did the ignorance shit, and I'm gonna keep it real with you. I mixed this bullshit with alcohol, I mixed it with alcohol that night. Yo, listen, we gotta be honest with what we're doing, and this is what this is this is the truth.
SPEAKER_01And you know what's crazy? Honestly, I don't necessarily mind that because like I said, I DJ as well. But when I DJ, when I do parties, especially in Brooklyn, especially in Brooklyn, I do not DJ unless there's a wellness bar. So I make I I I bring forth a situation for them, and so far people have been loving it. So we have the regular bar where you can get your Hennessy and you this and you that, whatever, whatever. But right beside there, there's gonna be a Yayo's juice bar right there. So it's a wellness bar and then the regular bar. There's been plenty of people that will go get some Hennessy and mix it with one of these. And in all honesty, I'm not mad at it because I would rather you do that than you go to a bar and get a Long Island iced tea or whatever, and then you see that little spray gun that they spraying that pineapple juice or whatever, where's that coming from? Is that pineapple juice? Is that orange juice? Is that sprite? We don't know what it is, and we don't know how long it's been sitting in that bucket, and who's cleaning that bucket? Who's checking to see anything about it?
SPEAKER_02And the many times it was used that night.
SPEAKER_01How many people are using it? So for me, if you're gonna mix liquor with that, I'd rather you do that than go mix it with some some other crazy brand.
SPEAKER_02And that's respectful, you know what I mean? And I appreciate that. That's why I had to be honest about it, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01Because it's only steps. We gotta take steps. All of this, this is not something that I started and I just went cold turkey on everything. You know what I mean? Like it took me a while to say, you know what, I'm gonna stop drinking as much. Now I'm gonna drink once a week. Now I'm gonna drink once a month. Then after a while, it's like, you know what, uh, I'm good. I don't need that. I don't need it. You know what I mean? Or I'll take a shot here and there. But like, we human.
SPEAKER_02Let me ask you something. Now, once did you talk about exercise? Yeah, yeah. Um, because people say you gotta exercise too. Like, I exercise and lose weight, I ain't gonna front. Yeah, yeah. I was 190. Okay, rode a bike, and Rob can tell you, I rode a bike only because I was in a situation where I lost my license. So for 90 days, I'm down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I started riding a bike in McKay Park. I bought a bike from a good friend of mine. I was doing at least 30 to 40 laps a day in the heat in the middle of the summer, yeah, riding to his house, asking him, yo, bro, where can I start recording the podcast? And I lost the weight. You know what I mean? I wasn't, you know, juicing, but I did change my food. You know what I mean? I stayed away from red meat. Okay. Um, once again, on the weekends, his foot, you know, with the fellas. Yeah, you know, a little crazy. You know what I mean? But I did see the change. Like I had the doorway closed. I saw the change, and that was the most amazing thing, you know what I'm saying, about it. You know what I mean? So, what about exercising?
SPEAKER_01Um, I definitely incorporate exercising. Um, in all honesty, as of lately, I haven't, but that's just because I've been so busy. But I'm completely all for exercising. Like, especially summertime, you're gonna see me at the park over there, you're gonna see me by Don, a different breed around the corner. Like, you get uh um I get active too. I'm very much into into um into that space when it comes to exercising. You got to. I mainly do um calisthetic stuff. I don't really go crazy with the weights and all of that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm not in. I was riding a bike and I was doing suicide now. Yeah, I was riding a bike and doing suicides and jumping rolls. Yeah, exactly. I ain't trying to lift weights and all that. I can do all I'm not. Um yo, it's 2026, man. And I don't talk about what we're gonna do, I talk about the accomplishments. What's the accomplishments as the year continue to roll out, man? For Yaya's juicery, man.
SPEAKER_01Yayo's.
SPEAKER_02Yayo's juicery, sorry.
SPEAKER_01Um what's the accomplishment? What am I trying to accomplish? We don't well what are you striving?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um because you had some events. You've been having events. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Giving giving us the food, which was dope. You know, I missed it unfortunately, but I heard some great things about it.
SPEAKER_01It's gonna be more. Um, we're gonna start. See, with me, I'm I'm a little different where I don't put it out there until I already know that it's in motion. The one thing that I will say, um, with the food events, we've been doing it, like I would say, I would say roughly twice a month. Um in due time, I want to do it every weekend and then gradually go.
SPEAKER_02Why why why did you feel like you should start doing that?
SPEAKER_01Um, to give people more options. Thank you. That's why that's why I had dad. Yeah, give people healthier options. Um, it's very important for people to um, I feel like I'm responsible for that in this neighborhood. Like there's a lot of people that would just pass by and they just have questions. And it it makes me understand that I now have a responsibility, whether I ask for it or not. That's dope. So for me to experience situations like that, is for me, it's like, all right, I gotta figure out how to do more. Does that put pressure on you? Yeah, but in a good way. Okay. So it motivates you. It drives you. No, it definitely drives me. I mean, it's a lot of things that drive me. It's it's like even I'll I'll use Nate, for example, right now. Nate, Nate is someone that works here. And at one point, he's a boxer. Um he's a fighter, very good fighter. And during his training, he's like, I need you to be my nutritionist. I didn't sign up for that. But for me, it's just like I know a thing or two, so this might be something that I is it gonna be a challenge for me? Because now he's putting, he's putting his body on the line. Yeah. So now that's my responsibility. That could either make or break him. I could, I could put him on a plan that gives him a horrible night. And then that's on me.
SPEAKER_02Yo, it's the food I ate. Okay. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That's something else you talked about that was major, that you, you know, you wanna, you're telling us, yo, we can still eat, we can still enjoy the food. Let's talk about that for a second, because a lot of people think, oh, I gotta just, I can't enjoy this, I can't have that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so when you when you think of the concept of, let's say, let's use chicken. If I was to go buy chicken right now and I just slap it on the grill and have you eat it, it's gonna taste like trash. Because there's no seasoning or anything. It's just it's just chicken. That's the same exact concept with chickpeas, with lentils, with mushrooms, with cabbage, with Brussels sprouts, with all of these fruits and vegetables, that's the same concept. So if we season it the correct way, we can still have enjoyable food. And then when we think of the concept of even, like, let's say chicken, there's something that I that I say extremely often is you could go anywhere in the world right now and there's chicken. Really think about that. We could go anywhere in the world right now and there's chicken. And we're eating it every day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My question is, my question is, how? How are we killing off all these chickens and it's available 24-7, seven days a week for decades? So what we eating?
SPEAKER_02We talked about that too, Wolf Camel.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So that was one of my things. Every time that I'm thinking about that jerk chicken that I love, because I'm Jamaican. I I love jerk chicken. Can't you can't tell me, especially if I'm out there in Jamaica, I'm, but we gotta think of the whole concept like, yo, what are we, what are we really eating, especially out here? What are we really eating? Where did that chicken come from?
SPEAKER_02Where's all these chicken?
SPEAKER_01Where how the hell is we got all these chickens? You know what I mean? Every restaurant, every restaurant in here got chicken on this strip alone. You go to Hackensack, same thing. You go anywhere. There's never a chicken drop, there's never a chicken season. Every corner. Every corner. You see how there's watermelon season? There's never chicken season. It's just here at a bunch of.
SPEAKER_02Now we got seedless watermelon.
SPEAKER_01See what I'm talking about?
SPEAKER_02How does it reproduce? How, how, right? Because I watched my father, we had a garden growing up, and he was heavy on, you know, planting and growing. So now it's like, I'm looking at it, you got seedless watermelon? How does the hell are you?
SPEAKER_01How? How? But people look at it in a different light because it provides convenience. We're going into a world where everything and everyone is lazy. Everyone just wants something real fast. Even when you look at Instagram or something, if we don't catch an interest in the in five seconds, five to ten seconds, nobody's looking at that one-minute reel. It has to be appealing in the beginning. So everybody just wants that go, go, go, go, go. So as much as we know that seedless is garbage, a lot of us are still gonna consume it.
SPEAKER_02I feel like a lot of us be lying to lying to ourselves. And I'm gonna say that about myself sometimes. I'll be lying to myself sometimes. I mean, I ain't doing seatless watermelon. Let's be clear, y'all. We ain't doing that. But, you know, like I said, unsalted chips with Doritos. You're lying to yourself, chant. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know what I mean? So, um, I gotta ask you this, man. And this is very, you know, I wanna say it in the right way. Would you wanna ever franchise it or would you wanna just stay where you at? Because some people feel like when they, oh, I wanna, I wanna have multiples. And I feel like sometimes that takes away from the essence of where it started at. You ever had that one rest? I'm gonna use Sylvia's in Harlem, no disrespect to her. When she was that little hole in the wall, it was crazy. But then when she got in the supermarkets, it got yeah. Not going to Sylvia's to go eat. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Where do you find yourself with that?
SPEAKER_01Um well, you haven't looked that far down the road yet. I have uh mentally, I haven't taken any action towards anything. But I think I think I think that's possible because again, that's a challenge, and I like a challenge. That would be something that I would want to do because it would be a it would be challenging more so because I want people that are like-minded to be within that space in order for me to branch out. So um, and I think it is very possible without it um without me um watering down the brand. Like even the way I go about hiring here, if we're not like-minded, if you're going on lunch break and you're going to Burger King, you might not be here tomorrow. Because we're just not in the right mindset. Wow. If I have to explain what it is that you're consuming and then you're gonna come in here and preach what I'm preaching, because I'm gonna want everyone in here to be a replica of me. So if you're gonna be preaching what I'm preaching, but then you in the car and and and you got a Big Mac, we may have an issue. I'm I'm you I mean, you gotta respect that.
SPEAKER_02You know, I'm gonna be honest. I got that's gonna be a clip. That's gonna be a clip because at the end, that's some real shit. Like, yo, you we juicing and you sitting there going to the Chinese restaurant in the car. Nah, I'm all over. I respect that.
SPEAKER_01That's being real honest. I don't want no bullshit around me. So, so so when it comes to franchising, I would love to do that. Because for one, I'm looking at it as a picture, too. I'm spreading more awareness to to to people like me.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01To Prince 10 years ago, to Prince 15 years ago, to 20-year-old prince.
SPEAKER_02To the princes of today, to the shamiks of today's, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01Even the young kids over here.
SPEAKER_02That's what I'm about to say. The young the young kids, because I'm gonna leave that alone, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01But you know, even even with them, I'm they're getting free shots of ginger when they step in here. Because I want to introduce that to them.
SPEAKER_02And they're taking that home because I have a son, you know what I mean? He's like that. Yo, dad, you've been, yo, I've noticed, you know, he'll be like, yo, you doing that, but yo, I was over here and I've been working out, and the guy he just ain't okay, you're listening. And I feel like as far as franchising a little bit with doing this, and I could be wrong because I'm not in the business, it's a little bit easier, and I'm saying this, hear me out, as a restaurant. Because John can't be at two restaurants cooking. That taste ain't gonna be the same because John ain't gonna be there, but we're juicing. Yeah. So you already know how, like you said, with homegirl, you know how much to put in there. Yeah. So you can't, you know what I mean? I ain't gonna say you can't, but you follow me a little bit. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I think one of the biggest things for all businesses is is structure, is systems. If you follow that system, it's very hard to look at look at look at the big fast food restaurants right now. Struggling. That that that sandwich that you could get in Hackensack is gonna taste the same as the one in California. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02And it's always in the smell, the taste, everything about it. And you have some real shit. Everything.
SPEAKER_01We just gotta follow. So even with me, I follow the blueprint of most of those ones that I'm against. Like, even if you look at the like look at the fridge right now, you see every color except for blue. And I'm gonna and I'm gonna create that too. But I I get every color. I want I want that to be vibrant because people eat with their eyes.
SPEAKER_02They do. They do, man.
SPEAKER_01And that's what other big establishments do. They definitely that I definitely take from those. They're geniuses. They're feeding us poison. And they know it. But they're geniuses. So I gotta, I gotta take what I can. It's out.
SPEAKER_02Yo, before we get out of here, man, I you want to, you know, you want to tell the culture anything, and you can look them dead in the camera and let them see you, man. You know what I mean? Because I think this is what you're doing is powerful, what you're doing is amazing. And the fact that you love it and you love us. Yeah. Anything you want to let the people know before we get out of here, man? And give them the address, let them know with Instagram, like, let them know, because a lot of people don't know yet, still don't know, man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So, so for one, we're at Yayo's Juicery that's at 455 Cedar Lane in T Neck, New Jersey. Um, one of the things that I really want to say, um, take your time with with converting to this type of lifestyle. If that's something that interests you. Don't try to rush it, don't try to go cold turkey. Um, that can't work for some people, but most people, they don't. Like, take it one step at a time. Don't try to rush yourself and think that you're gonna be able to do this by next month. Um, just be patient and surround yourself with like-minded individuals, and I guarantee things are gonna change for you. That's one of the main things for me was my environment. Because I it's not like I wasn't this person 10, 15 years ago. I was just around the wrong environment. So once I changed my environment, that kind of set me to where, all right, this is where I'm at, this is what I need to do. Right. Made it way easier for me. So environment is extremely important. But those people that feel like that friend is a little off, they off. They off. Leave them alone. Go somewhere else. Go go to where you're really needed. Out here, I feel like I didn't know anyone when I first got to T-Neck. I feel like T-Neck needs me. And I need T-Nick.
SPEAKER_02Bergen County needs you. Hey, let's do it. We're not gonna just say T-Nack. Let's do it. I'm gonna say Bergen County, Essence County, Passaic County. Let's do it. All these New Jersey County, Union County, we need you. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01Uh, definitely. And I didn't know that I needed them until I got here. We need each other. Right.
SPEAKER_02Give them the address, man.
SPEAKER_01455 Cedar Lane, T-Neck, New Jersey. What's the hours of operation? Uh, the weekdays, uh, 10 to 6 p.m. The weekends is 11 to 6 p.m. And we may start, not May, in the summertime, we're going to start happy hour. So we're gonna open up a little late on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We're gonna open up uh till we probably close at like 8 o'clock. Okay. That's coming real soon.
SPEAKER_02Okay. That's what it do. Yo, let them know they can find you on social media too.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Um, at Yayo's Juicery, that is Y A H Y O S J U I C E R Y. And matter of fact, yeah, Yayo's Juicery on all platforms. We got a website as well, yayo'sjuicery.com. And we hear you can place your orders. If you are not in New Jersey, we do ship as well. So um, and we ship nationwide. So if you need a juice cleanse, if you need a detox, whatever the case is, we have we have teased, tinctures, capsules for pretty much any illness, whether it's diabetes, high blood pressure, fibroids, um, what else? There are worm and parasites. Um, we have the bitters. What else we got? We got for purifying your blood, we got for circulation. Anyone that's anemic, we got iron support, we have the liver flush. Um, we got it all. We got for the nervous system. But like, I don't know what we don't have.
SPEAKER_02Yo, you heard it first. You got it. You heard it first. Listen, man, I'm the voice of the culture, man. And I'm just striving to bring to the community what we need, man. You know what I mean? I'm I'm fortunate, I'm blessed to be sitting next to this great brother. Let's continue to support, let's continue to come out, let's continue to stay healthy, let's continue to educate each other, and let's continue to keep the love, spread it, man. And you know what? At the end of the day, man, God is great because, yo, this is a blessing. Right. This is truly a blessing, and I appreciate the opportunity. And the round table will be continuing to just stopping by, showing love and just supporting, but not just supporting. Supporting is free. So, yo, throw up, repost. If you come in here, you grab something, repost it. Tell a friend to tell a friend. Just like we tell everybody, yo, you see the George, you see the 95, you see the Air Max, yo, you see the juice bar, yo, they got this, they got that. Let's keep that same energy for things that we need so we can continue to be here for these kids, for our grandkids, and everybody else. You know what I mean? And you know what it is. The voice of the culture, man. Yo, see the lane. We got a new look. Yes, sir. And we winning. Prince.
SPEAKER_01Definitely. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02Love you, King, and appreciate you.
SPEAKER_01Yo, we out of here. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_02Woo!