Chicago is definitely a part of who I am
maybe Who I am the way I am from
personality to who I was as a basketball
player you know saying my toughness and
everything that comes from the city
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I'm cute Richardson right now we're
standing on 113 hosted in the Wild Hunt
it's in Chicago and this is my city
we've got to check it out show your
couple places is real here and did of my
heart very familiar during my playing
time like like it's like people would
think like my first four years and
they're like you would think like yeah
you know you living that like you're
gonna hanging out landing something no
exit meeting over my cars would already
be in Chicago and I would be on the
first thing smoking out of LA after the
eggs of being like straight to the crib
I had a touch back down I put my flag
down and beat a man in my city for a
minute
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you know see my pops came he came from
from Mississippi and he drove the CTA
train for 38 years watching him and like
like I said it's been my life growing up
like that's why I got my work ethic from
all of this stuff like he did this is
what you do cars all of these ladders
and just we go inside and we really get
to it I promise you
just watch it's about to be crazy
this is like basically every award I
ever won from lights probably six
seventh grade that's eighth grade
seventh grade all the way up through
high school college I was a junior who
won't go to junior senior some NBA
players up there to just basically
anything we got something still put away
of boxes it's about to get crazy I was
used to be just a regular basement come
down here he literally built all of this
with his bare hands like this is like a
fake town police all of this it was a
parallel there with him driving a train
for media being that in love with with
the hobby other these friends all move
change tracks how long did it take you
to do this those trains trust me they're
just you're trying so now we can go
through here and let me show y'all the
other amazing part
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the Richardson theater he built with his
hands yeah I bet that bar - I've done
everything except the floor I'm blessed
with all a blessing new acquaintance and
all the blessings that he given us we
and still govern us yes think about the
house we grew up in and in the different
situations like that it was you know not
even close see anything like this it
takes to see the house home I'll
entertain now we don't go better Oh some
families in some households when some
United kids become good at whatever they
are they treat them different you know
not my father
I'm the son he's the father and that'll
never change it was never you put up on
some pedestal you specially because you
could shoot a hoop or you could play
basketball that don't matter you're
gonna be a good person you're gonna make
the right decisions you don't do right
by people when you're gonna always be
grateful and humble when you from here
the way we are we feel like there's no
other place like Chicago what we
represent it was was harder and tougher
than any other city in Chicago you got
to be at a hoop you got to get a fight
you got to be able to be tough that's
what you have to do yep I can remember
running down the side of the sidewalk
and scraping my flesh you got a mark on
my foot when I scraped my foot on a
water sprinkler on the side of the house
playing and running me and all my
cousins all my family this is you up
right here and see there they got Friday
Night Lights losers and then they got
lights on the football this is crazy
real this is great they denote that the
community has this because it was
nothing it was just like industrial and
stuff put my first crate on this pole to
get the milk crate from the Wendy's cut
the bottom of the milk crate out and you
whooping the first time I was a dunk I
ran up on here jumped off the pole and
dunk first time of the Dunkin
and when my pops was moving the last of
the stuff out of here I had given my
brother there and it was Infiniti trucks
that I had gotten them
you know rims and all that so I guess
that's what made the guys start
following them initially so they pull
into the garage you see I was set up
where it's the separation so time they
get out of the garage and get right here
in the middle area the guys was right
there with the guns drawing on I'm
telling to get on the ground and all
that stuff like for me it just it just
lets you know that your life your family
can be touched by a - it's not just
something you watching on the news being
in Chicago growing up seeing somebody or
reading about it or hearing about it for
me that was a that was a common
occurrence not okay how much money you
got much fame you got my celebrity you
got how whatever it is like life still
happen and this is basically what my
brother got killed that
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but it's crazy still love to be able to
go go past the old neighborhood I always
do that every time I come through I ride
past the old house and just see how much
stuff has changed and how stuff looks
different and it's always funny to see
that like how cabrini-green it's
completely gone and they building that
all up and it's just the the city has
changed so much I mean it's changing in
a good way so you know I'm happy for
that we got everything we got music food
culture just exposed me to different
things from being from a tough
inner-city neighborhood to riding a
metro train and getting off about the
stock exchange and taking the train to
school and stuff it taught me about
character and toughness in and how to
overcome pain all of those different
things and made me who I am
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