--bout to um--
- Start driving, bro. - I've been taking--
I've been teaching him how to drive,
just going around and everything.
Does he like it?
Like to drive?
He likes driving.
I don't know if he likes driving with me.
- OK. - Why not?
- Well, because-- - You're a little critical.
Well, I'm trying to--
I'm trying to prepare him for every situation.
So I had him actually drive to school.
He has a permit now.
So I had him drive to school in the morning.
So you're coming out, you're making a right-hand turn
onto busy traffic.
You're crossing the railroad tracks.
You're making a left-hand turn.
You're going through two or three school zones.
And you're looking at all these different things.
So I mean-- and he--
I'm about, hey, man, stay in the middle of the road.
And he likes to--
Veer a little.
He doesn't see the cars coming on this side,
so he's kind of over on the shoulder a little bit.
I'm like, man, you're going to--
and I told him.
See, the thing about it is, I told him.
I said, hey, man-- because to me, going from boyhood
to manhood is changing from I try to these things
have real consequences.
Right.
You accidentally not get this right,
you're on the side of the road in the tree or something.
You know what I'm saying?
So you got to get this right right here.
And I mean, I told him, everybody else is doing it,
but you got to get this right. - Yeah.
If you need some pointers, man, look, let Tank,
let Martell come over here. - Man, Tank can drive.
Tank been whipping that thing forever.
I ain't going to lie to you.
Have you ever put him in a driving school
or, like, racing or something? No, I'm serious.
Martell, for real.
I need to, man.
I know, yeah.
He's been able to drive since he was, what, two?
Right, three or four-- something like that
Hey, man, them kart racers-- the F1?
Yeah.
Well, where is this stuff at though?
[LIPS VIBRATE] Germany.
- Oh, yeah. - France.
- I'm serious. - Italy.
Tank has always been able to drive.
When he came in there and whipped
that Power Wheel into that little parking space like he
was drifting.
I'm like, how are you drifting in a Power Wheel?
When he was driving, he was driving Macy.
And Macy's sitting in the passenger
seat of the Power Wheel.
And he backed up and put his hand over.
I said, boy, that boy hell.
I know that you-- you had him driving the Goldwing.
Oh yeah.
I had him driving the SLS--
yeah.
I mean, I want him to get experience in all cars.
So I'm driving him in different cars and the truck.
I want him to able to handle himself, I mean, backing up.
I mean, shoot, you taking--
you teaching Miles how to drive now?
Yeah, Miles start-- he's really good.
What was y'all first car that y'all drove
or learned to drive in?
I had a 1984 Honda hatchback.
You know what I had?
I had big speakers in the back.
The car I learned to drive in was
my grandfather's pickup truck.
I used to-- I started driving at 12.
My grandfather let us drive on the farm down in Virginia.
So I'd have to go feed the goats and everything,
clean out the goat pen, and he'd have me drive the truck.
It's like 53 acres. We'd just drive around there.
Gotcha.
No, I would of--
I mean, I was buying cars.
At an early age?
Yeah, I bought, like, 11 cars before I was, like, 16.
I used to buy them and sell them and stuff.
And so I had-- my first car was a 1982--
Where'd you learn your driving is what he asked,
not how many cars you had and your business.
He said where'd you--
I was saying, I just took my car.
One weekend, I just took my car.
It was 4th of July weekend.
What car?
It was an '82 Malibu.
That was the first car, like, you learned to drive in?
'82 Malibu.
I don't know about learning to drive,
but I just took it and went to drive around the city.
Remember that? - No, you-- wow.
During the fireworks?
No, I don't remember that you did
something illegal like that.
I stole my own car, but my dad was like, no, you can't drive.
And he would--
Oh yes, I remember that.
I was like, I'm going to be driving.
I got this car. - It's your car.
- It's my car. - It's his car.
- It's my car. - That is crazy.
Man, I made the hardest turn.
That mother was almost on two wheels.
I remember that.
Yeah, coming down Telegraph onto that.
- For the fireworks. - Yeah, dog.
That was before Marshall--
Marshall used to turn the lights on the inside of the car.
So people can see him?
So people could see that he was in there.
To shine on people.
He said-- look at him.
But did it work?
You see that face.
- Hey. - Did it work?
You see this Detroit dude.
We did that.
We used to ride around up and down Jefferson Avenue, Detroit
with the lights on, like, no, no, no, no,
no, it's not just a nice car.
Yeah, yeah-- yeah.
Ballin' as hell.
That's crazy.
That is crazy.
What if our kids be just like us growing up?
Yeesh.
Oh.
- Yeah, that'd be good and bad. - That'd be good and bad, yeah.
- That'd be good and bad. - I want them to be better.
That was good and bad because we straight now.
- Yeah. - You know what I'm saying?
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