Share my screen with you guys really quickly, and then I want to deep dive into it. Kathy, Mr. Tastebuds tells us the LAPD responded to the shooting, but he said there’s not much they can do. It was a random drive-by by people he didn’t even know. He describes it this way. He lives in a neighborhood he says is a bad area with good people. Today, Jamel Paxton was honored by the city of LA. He is better known perhaps as Mr. Tastebuds. They basically gave it to me for all like having tenacity and all the things that I put into work.

I opened my own restaurant with no funding. Everything I’ve done from scratch for myself out of pocket. His restaurant in the heart of South LA, the neighborhood where he grew up, where he has dedicated his life, and where he almost lost it. Let me tell you something. There’s two things that I’ve learned automatically from this particular situation. What’s up, Mika? Two things that I learned automatically from this situation. Number one, you can’t go and open up good. Open up nothing good in the hood, bro. That was his first mistake. His first mistake is thinking that he can fix people by continuing to invest into the hood.

That was his first mistake. We all make that big mistake. I made that mistake earlier in my entrepreneurial career. I thought that, you know what, I could buy up the block, I can change the hood, I’m going to give people jobs, I’m going to give back to the community in that way, and I’m not saying that you can’t give back to your community or invest in your city or give new opportunities. Right now, my biggest thing is setting up a scholarship fund, so where I can yearly give tuition assistance for people that decide that they want to go to college here in Detroit, and then they also commit to five years after graduation to actually live working and playing in the city.

So those are some of the criteria. There’s other ways that you can give money, but plenty have tried and plenty have failed, including myself. Plenty have tried and plenty have failed, including myself, to give back, to go in, open up a business in the hood and all of that stuff, and they don’t want to see you in. They looking at you as a lick. They’re like, man, fuck what he talking about. I like his Carto. It was the first time in my life, the first time in my life that I felt like that I needed to have a gun.

That was when I got my pistol, my CPL. I went and got my CPL because it was the first time in my life that I didn’t feel safe. First time and time. What do you mean you didn’t feel safe? Well, honestly, I felt having to close up, I had to switch up my patterns, what time you close, you know, paying attention was going on outside, getting cameras all around the building, all of that stuff. Over that little bit of money, wasn’t worth it. Just wasn’t worth it. It’s just not, it’s not a conducive thing.

You know what I’m saying? I don’t want my daughter even having a work in there and stuff like that, or coming to assist me and stuff, because it’s just like, yo, anything could happen. At some point, somebody can set me up. You know, that’s when I had to start driving regular cars. I couldn’t drive the big car no more. I had to drive regular cars because you know, you start to become a little bit of a target. And it don’t even matter about whether or not you really, you know, what your situation is.

The only thing that matters is whether or not they want that money. And so his first mistake is that that’s number one. The second thing that I’m noticing about this story is I don’t believe that he didn’t know them. You telling me that you the man, you missed the taste buzz or whatever it is, Mr. Tasty Squeeze. Sorry about the messing up of the name. I don’t remember exactly what he said. You telling me you just the Tasty Squeeze. You missed the Tasty Squeeze and don’t and they just randomly just start drive by shooting you.

Get the hell out of here, bro. He probably a good guy. He probably a good dude. He probably doing the right thing. He probably on top of it. I don’t think that nobody should be having a life trying to be taken away from him. However, I don’t believe that. I don’t believe that. Jeremy Rodgers says, Anton, what car hurts the most feelings when you pull up? Um, I don’t think that I’ll tell you the honest to God truth, Jeremy. When I pull up, people don’t get mad. They show love. Most people, most people, well, everybody, I mean, if somebody is mad, then they just keeping that in the inside and they’re not projecting it to the outside.

But in real life, ain’t nobody tripping. Ain’t nobody tripping. Ain’t nobody ever messed with my cyber truck. Don’t nobody mess with my cars. None of that stuff. I get love. I’m telling you, most people are happy for me. Most people are happy for me. I don’t, I don’t experience it. Detroit is a really cool city, bro. Honestly, it’s a lot of love. It’s a lot of unity. It does have its crime and stuff like that, like everybody else. But I, I’ll project too much positivity to people. I shake everybody’s hands. I make sure that I show love to everybody.

Don’t nobody, nobody had on me. Is the Porsche still the favorite out of the fleet? They all different. I love them all for different reasons. Um, I like the Porsche because I like to drive. You know what I’m saying? I could really, really drive. I like the sound of the flat six with the, with the turbo chargers on it. Um, it’s a car that’s really low to the ground. I love my cyber truck. I love the 96 Impala, but it drive different. It’s the, it’s the big, it’s a big car to go a little different, you know, it get a different type of reaction.

All of the cars get a different type of reaction from different type of people. If I want to, if, if, if you want to drive down the street and people like, oh man, you know, I love that car. A 96 Impala is for people from a certain era that understand that car. They had to be outside. They knew what it was like when a dude pulled up in the 96 or oh four Mercury Marauder. You know what I’m saying? That’s for a different demographic. The Porsche is for people that undistruly understand cars. They know that it’s the ultimate driver’s car.

You know what I’m saying? It’s not going to be the thing that’s the most flashy, the most visible. The women, they like the Mercedes, they like the S-class. They want to be big dog. You know what I’m saying? They like the lights inside of it and all of that stuff. The cyber truck is like, I’m here. Everybody got to pay attention. You got to, you know, they all different cars and you like them for different reasons and you drive them based off of how you feel. Um, you know, at that particular time. So it just depends.

It depends on what feeling you look, you’re going for. The ones that I like having the most because I drive the least is probably the 96 Impala. The 96 Impala is that, is that deal. You pull up in the 96, everybody paying attention because it’s too clean. It’s too clean. And people like, man, I want that car. It’s too clean, bro. It’s clean. I do like BMW. I love BMW. Let me continue to get back to this story. I just watched myself almost get killed in something that I built. Sharing this surveillance video with NBC four from Tuesday morning before noon outside, Mr.

Taste buds soul food on Manchester Avenue. Jamel heads to his car when another car approaches and shots are fired. How many gunshots were fired? I can’t even tell you. I just heard the shots and clicks and I just knew that I ain’t supposed to be right there. Basically, I just ran. I had to run. I know to get out the way. I’m not dumb. You know, I’m from South Central LA. I know what happens since spending time behind bars or, uh, doing stuff that you’re not supposed to do. Jamel Paxton has become a local entrepreneur.

I started from like a taco card in my front yard. He’s not just trying to serve signature dishes. Probably something you never tried. My oxtail burrito. He is trying to inspire. If you don’t stand for something, you fall for everything. And now a close call in the neighborhood he loves. And I believe, like, there’s no such thing as bad days. It’s only bad situations and how you think about it. But it will not stop his dedication to doing better, including opening a recreation center this coming Sunday, still believing in this neighborhood as a place to grow, learn and thrive.

How does he put this random shooting as he calls it in perspective? Well, Jamel Paxton is a religious man and he believes there is a plan for him. But he says he tells people right now, they are living in survival mode. And Kathy, he says you can’t live in survival mode when you can’t be happy because you’re always worried about something that’s going to happen. And that’s why you should move. That’s the exact reason right there why you should move. You cannot be out here looking over your shoulder every, if you don’t have peace, if you can’t sleep at night, if you worried about somebody breaking in your car, if you worried about whether or not somebody is going to catch you slipping, it’s time to go.

It’s time to go. You got to go, bro. You don’t know the type of peace that it feel when you could just go to sleep and you’d be like, Oh, you ain’t always like this with the one eye open like that. It’s time to go. It’s time to go, big dog. I’m not about to sit here and wait for nobody to get me. I ain’t opening up no recreation center. That’s the city’s job. That ain’t my job. I’m not doing it. He making himself a target. He making himself a target. And if somebody says he’s a former street dude, he know what’s going on.

I agree. I think he know exactly what’s going on. But at the same time, at some point, you got to let that shit go. How old is too old? Like how old at what point do you outgrow the environment or the circumstances that you’re around? And you’d be like, you know what? I got to move a little bit different. How old is too old? Like I’m just not waiting no more. I’m not waiting nobody to find me. I’m not putting myself in that position. I don’t want to do none of that, bro.

Trying to save the hood, man. They don’t like you. Don’t even know you. 25 40s. How old? I seen a video of Charleston getting into it with a dude. I was trying to stand on Crips or something like that. And Charleston was like, man, I don’t give up about nothing that you’re talking about. Get on out of here. Bounce. How old is too old? I ain’t running. I’m just not going. You know what I’m saying? I ain’t even gonna be in there. If you’re still in your late twenties and early thirties in the hood, you’re doing it wrong.

Yep. He walked out. GMO out on 5G. As soon as I graduated, I was out. Must’ve probably outgrown a hood mentality. But like Hendrix said, you killed my cousin in 94. F your truths. People hold grudges. [tr:trw].

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