Naquan Homes and Kemali Green

Recorded March 9, 2021 Archived July 14, 2021 31:57 minutes
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Kemali Green, CHS staff person, interviews Naquan Homes about his childhood expeiences, his family and his goals for the future.

Participants

  • Naquan Homes
  • Kemali Green

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Outreach

Transcript

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00:01 My name is Lee, Kuan home. I was 26 years old. I know, kamagra from Rikers Island today.

00:08 Icon Cinema, okay, so let me start with this. So, when and where were you? Born in Brooklyn, Kings County?

00:26 What? What year was that? 94-94?

00:33 Where did you go out on Flatbush house that you eat? Do you want to talk about one moment? That sticks out?

00:50 I when I was 13, I got in trouble for like robberies that we did. I got locked up for it. I ain't going to juvenile what? They got to go to court for. I went to trial and I'll beat it when I turn 16. Even more rough. I've been in and out of jail from 2000 to the 2021 last time around last time. Alabama now.

01:30 Lotion at Target.

01:36 Garcia. My mom. My father used to stay on Flatbush by all by The Good. Hope restaurant. Not too far from KP. All right, so you measure your mom. So, what's your relationship with you? What is your relationship like with your mother?

01:58 That's my best friend. I'm a mama's boy. So and I'll do my mom's wishes. I was little, I ain't have a pop. So I had to step hops that Ben. If he needs to them since I was born and he still there now.

02:10 So what what's your, what's your favorite thing about your mother?

02:14 How we explain also like we when we go out and hang out, like go to the movies, go out and eat. We have fun before I turn 16 after she got robbed.

02:27 Cartoon cartoon. And in your relationship with your father. He eat he wasn't really around at all. It wasn't at all. I don't know who he is, but he passed away when I was 10, but he wasn't at all. For me is my step upstairs.

02:45 Got your salvation with the step-pa's.

02:50 Okay.

02:55 What's your favorite thing about the stepfather?

02:58 You know, you smoke weed. That's why do I play video games? Have a good time?

03:15 Yeah, so, I don't know. I'm kind of interested about about more social. What's one of your favorite things about growing up in Flatbush.

03:23 Wow, that's a lot of things about Flappers. I like about it.

03:28 It means more new females out there, new alien you, alright? Brooklyn Jersey cuz I was getting trouble out there Brooklyn. So she said, new start, come to Jersey stock, price article yesterday and they said Flatbush was the place where they have the most back the rent in, New York.

04:00 Long, I don't know about that. You I've been out of jail since I was 16.

04:06 Not seen in recent times because of coronavirus. Are they trying to say came from black Africa Africa, then it came from Allentown. Need to make a mile. I would have came. Describe what the Wiz came out of a laboratory or, you know, if it was like me. So it's a lot of people talking about that talk. So how is covid-19 impacted your life. I call it when I was a boy.

04:43 I'll clean cars & Co he was coughing but I ain't know. He was sick. I'm still playing with it. I know it, I get sick. I mean, I mean Rush facility. I couldn't breathe. I felt like I agree time. I told my lawyer, he told the judge the judge so I can let him go. I want to go out of state. So she ate it all the time. I've been locked up for I put all my time off. Parole time. Go home to my mom's and he still trying to keep me in here, but it ain't going to stop me or breaking you out here. It's going to make me feel man who I want to be.

05:17 I'm definitely going home. You serious? Like I can't smell or taste nothing at all. I'm going to see if she's going up. I see you're with him to the hospital. I won't be what facility. Is there doing? Nothing that gave me all the time, though. I don't know what time though. You can't take me to take me to brush. My hair over to the hospital.

06:04 Stop. I want ice cream, man. Coming home today. Trying to do the Old Town known. Well, you only turn up all the time of doing things. Your fever down. No, nothing. No, I can't take all the Tylenol. So, so when you got to the hospital in Bellevue,

06:42 Yeah. When did it happen 2020? No, I was like probably around November.

06:59 I don't remember. I think I was too far back, April June. So, I came over here. If I came over here, worried about you.

07:32 So how did that make you feel? I was tight and I'll just sit in the old boy like a couple weeks ago before all this shit happen. I'm not, unfortunately. Y'all just a couple weeks ago. He wasn't sick.

07:50 You got a good relationship with him.

07:54 Cuz I was cuz I was 16 University.

08:00 Heavy.

08:03 So not did you?

08:07 How was your loved ones affected by covid? Covid-19?

08:17 Okay, so

08:23 You want to talk about a person or name a person that?

08:28 Motivated you the most.

08:33 Cashews, how do you mod motivate you to the wheels fall off?

08:39 I'll have to go. Stacy. Was there, every step he left, you know about another top piece. I gave my number. Wait, what? Why why do that? That's stupid. She left me when I was up there. I said, I go out. There, you are. So, so, how long was you with that? Have female two years?

09:03 And and how long did it take her to to leave to 2016?

09:12 And on.

09:14 When he was in that moment. How did I make you feel when it happened? Are you feeling? Are you? All right. I'm coming home soon. I can get back to me. I won't say no to you as King of Prussia.

09:31 I hate that.

09:37 So do you have a new person that you told me? No. It's a new one. I got now. I'm in jail are named Shania. Somebody gave me on the outside and I know she bite her right? So fucked up you hard? I almost over her. Like why, why the fuck up?

09:58 Scott always, right? Is that I want to be a part of my story. But right now I'm trying to like, without I mean in person I met on another while FaceTiming all that shit. I ain't seen you in person yet, but she was in my mom's annoying. You got one of them. Give her shots yet. She is my mom going to like her more when she came over to like growing up. Have a lot of people move in with us because they really have place to stay and my stepfather.

10:58 Play family law, blog world with sun, and all that. I'm let him live with that. He lives in sleep and sleep in the same room. You have a better. Have my back is always, right? And then he passed away. 2012, Tacoma Uncle cuz I grow with him. So he died. It hurt me cuz I was close to them. What was his name, Jason?

11:22 What was your favorite thing about Jason? You can sing you can ride. So yeah, but don't get back to the house and situation, you know, I noticed your interview, but you don't I think we feeding off each others. Like you know, what? We how we relate. But yeah, so my mom always bring people that. I remember one time. It was a homeless lady the laundromat and she had like kids and she was going through something and my mom. And then I'm coming in the house and it's a woman sleeping and I'm like

11:58 You know who she is, but I'm not my business. Was my who she is because I'm a good family money, but then I don't know what they're going to do with the money. So sometimes I'm like, I'm going to McDonald's buy some food. I don't give you no money to go. Buy some crack yourself with this moment. You are okay and give it to anybody the money because I want to support, no habits. No bad habits. You know, I like it was a moment while I gave somebody money before.

12:43 For food and I seen it the transaction after what they did with the money. So give it to you on the Block. So after like you don't know, I ain't wait to see what the, where the money went. Like. I was busy and I know, you know, just watching to being observant that I haven't. But I think that that shows a lot about the character that you get back and you help people and it looks like it runs in your family just like, just like me. Like my mom is like that but I will only say sometimes it's a double-edged sword, like sometimes if you helping a lot of people, which is great and it's in our nature, but, you know, I feel like we got to make sure we, you know, we helping myself at the same time at my mom's told me told me, I like people try to help myself.

13:43 I always have it. So I just got home myself to help other people.

13:55 You like to give up like no, I got a cool. That's cool. Yeah, it does. It's ironic that, you know, we we met each other today, you know, and you know, I see a lot of similarities between us.

14:08 Yeah, so, what was your favorite thing about? You know, the the female you in a relationship or not?

14:15 Personality personality personality.

14:20 Are stuck on total times. I was thinking to myself, if she the one or she ain't the one, you all know, I don't know yet. I got it. I got to test the waters. So where you want an island with before, the visitors were taken away due to covid-19 12 years.

14:46 Wow, right now, I like pie for weeks in.

14:52 For Wheaton my jail time. Can I drop all my time? My parole time so I can go home and that's the stupid thing. I ever did in my life. I think I messed up because now, but I will state. I got no time. I got to start all over again.

15:09 Can I play my Protime next next month on the 23rd. So cuz sometimes people like, you know, they'll plead guilty. And then sometimes it's the way you could take some things back. I'm not sure about that. That's why I don't know what I got to do by Max out and next month on the 23rd. And like you said, you could go home to your mother at this time.

15:47 No damage we going on. This is crazy lot of people dying and I don't know, I don't get it. Somebody this year 2021 going to be a hell. Do you say that? And it is Robbie, with Dodge closest Kroger store. 500,000 people was passed away from covid-19. In America has a half a million at the house with me. Then that's a lot of people and kiss the kids. No lights or like elderly and people that are older people. All the people that have like pre-existing medical issues with some kids, did some very young people died, but that's not the majority of people that passed away.

16:37 Jordan's older people's 6050 Avenue, diabetics, high blood pressure, you know, cancer different disease.

16:51 Speaking to kids. Do you have any job?

16:55 I know if you answer that before I even get it, I don't know. Right now I get in trouble too much. I ain't trying to be driving the kids out there and look at me as a stupid pops cuz I'm in jail and I don't want that right now. I don't need that. Imma get it though, but I don't need it right now that you know because of you know, your incarceration and every set of ism that you making a conscious decision not to have kids cuz you don't want them to go through that. But what made you think about that? I told you my headlights are going to be home for that. Kids want to be home. And this this is the last store right here, after I go home. I ain't come back to this no more. I've been here since 2016, I owe my birthday from 17 or 8:26.

17:50 Oh, my green, bean Jam from 1726. I'm not come back and do more. I want to State. I want the one time. I did five years up there. I'm not doing this no more his life. While, I mean, it's over quiet for that. This, I know how I get in trouble. I'll be in my stupid dumb people. If I don't be around. Nobody won't get in trouble. No more and yet you being a jersey. I'll be free man. Not worried about, I'll be home my family. That's what counts.

18:34 You a Brooklyn Nets, man. Yeah. Well, I believe Berkeley 2019 when I came home. I was in the shelter and the shelter took his over there at, like, 10 of us. Didn't know they gleefully, because I was on the phone with the game right now. The female golden jewelry. She don't know that I got money. They pocket and it showed it to you already.

19:34 Black so-so talk about that. So so you know, so so, why did Perot put you there?

19:42 Call about family house or I'll be late. I can't go there cuz they smoke weed. I don't want throw to come to the house and see anything that ain't supposed to see. So I was like, nah, I'm going to shelter homeless shelter. I go there and my mom doesn't know what's my mom's house, but she was in Jersey. So the to avoid coming back to jail when you have a home to go to sleep into eating.

20:18 Was that, was that the first time you being in the shelter, crazy, doing all types of agency by the backing from getting out. That's all know what's going on in the housing in like the shelter system in in New York City is pretty crazy because New York suffers from a lot of chronic homelessness.

21:15 And it's, you know, she really is a big problem. So,

21:19 You know, sorry that you had to experience that, but I know like you said, you ain't going back, you got no worry about.

21:26 Where was that shows? If you don't mind me asking 24 to Atlantic, Ave.

21:38 My uncle's was too loud. So I know that. Yeah, I know. I know nobody with big eyes, Castle. Just looks like something else, right? Crazy over there.

22:14 Big Highway AM radio. How do I get to highway right here on the road is a men's shelter, shelter shelter. He wouldn't have married chick sit together in the shelter. Now, there's a band show at Milaca with a bunch of dudes already identified as a woman who probably going. Well. I just want to face. I don't smile regular men and women shelter. Do they have

23:14 Men and women but it was a family show. All of your family says they got man and woman together.

23:25 I remember I was in the Bronx wrong. It was a bad experience to get Bronx. And crazy thing is I started working right by that shelter, when I got older and I was like, Wow, crazy.

23:42 Yeah, so

23:46 But let's be clear. So you do want to have kids but right now is not good. What is the right time when I go home? Hopefully get my shit together just some money up and do what I was just on the tickets woman and the kids and my family. I'll be okay for my show your number right? There was no you gave me. I said 83 kids. You heard what I said 8383, I sent you the number.

24:23 Do you have siblings? So you only child?

24:30 Do be a good TV show. I got a little busy right now. At 14. He can keep me when I was little everything. I did, he's doing in the house. I'm trying to stop at the newest with some bad habits. In 2 hours. You will be going to be at the dead or in jail. I told him I'd choose me. Life alone. A Long Beach used. Ultralights. You got to use.

24:59 Henderson lawn mowers, getting upset. I let your mom. I'm going to take care of him. I'm going to go home and he don't. Listen. I'm going to break both his legs. Are you going to work with arms? You won't be able to dance. No more. I don't have broken them. Young Brooklyn guys, like to dance. So alright, that's it. So if you got it, you got to get together.

25:24 A all is well. How many how many sisters you got one? She's a baby at all of us. I made sure she protecting all the time. My momma always got her and her mom keep her around you.

25:42 My brother's ID badge, sometimes, June 11th.

25:51 11.

25:53 So growing up. Did you have a lot of responsibility because you was over this?

26:00 You can say, is all the Burger Kings in my sister came at a time. When can you tell me when locked up? So he's like, they really didn't know me when I was in town. They know me a little bit when I was locked up, most of my time, born, when you was in prison, A Whole New World from 2011. When I came home. I just didn't know who I was to run for me.

26:49 I'm like that. So horny 57.

26:55 So how long did it take them to, you know, become evil around you went when you came home from the 14?

27:04 I had the flu while he was on your way. I used to play with her before I throw around.

27:10 Do you remember where I was?

27:13 You speak of the young people in children, if you had a message to your future kids, like I should say 10 years from now, the kid is is listening to this interview. What would be some words of encouragement or anything that you know, you want to say?

27:31 I say stay in school.

27:33 Don't be like me cuz I was a bad one $42. Little get in trouble and kick me out of school when I was sixteen and I don't want to know what happened in Oakland. So they listen to his interview. I want them to know, always be wise wiser to do be smart about it.

27:55 Yeah, I noticed you.

27:58 You think you mentioned that the 816 few times? So I know you said a lot of things went left, when you turn 16 and Lost City robbery by the only mention it because you said School, whose kid is that like like being kicked out of school. Did you miss school? Did you want to go bad? I tried to go back to school when I got locked up again, or not locked up. I was getting out of jail from 16 to 26. So it's like

28:44 I'll come right to the school, right? 21 in jail. I was up top and I ain't get my GED.

28:54 Joshua.

28:58 Yeah, so when you got incarcerated at a young age.

29:04 And so did you go to school while you was incarcerated like at 16? 17 18?

29:17 Okay, okay.

29:19 Joshua.

29:23 So do you, do you have a relationship with any of your grandparents great-grandma, I'll talk to her stuff. She still alive. She likes. 78 is what she healthy.

29:39 Great 78 and my grandpa and the all new jersey everybody else in Brooklyn. So with your great-grandmother was she born this is going to keep telling the truth.

29:59 King County of bloodline runs deep in my mom's need my great grandma grandma. My aunts my cousins, my little brothers, and sister day is going to King County to

30:14 Do you think your kids will be born in Kings County?

30:17 I don't know. I only want Jersey no more anymore. So we got out of the hospital. I plugged it. Like twice. It is crazy though. I went to the beach and the rain came. That was no name. It was some hell, that's what's hurting by going pizza store, but I'm going to the store if you want a piece of pizza and get the car going, to rain, right, rain, at least it wasn't, right? And it was hell coming out no more.

31:14 Dial Home Jersey. That's her name is as New Yorkers. And I guess you know, hopefully when you taking the kids on the beach in the future, you got an umbrella with you. So I'll make sure I carry that with me on browser.

31:37 You got any other words that you know, you would like to your listeners to know about you or about anything in general?

31:46 Okay, so

31:51 Yeah, so I guess that's a wrap.