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NYC native Bobbito García is a visionary creative who has put an indelible footprint on multiple urban movements.
During the 1990s, the legendary air personality was one-half of the “Stretch and Bobbito” program on WKCR. The duo introduced the world to an unsigned Nas, Biggie, and Wu-Tang, as well as an unknown Jay-Z, Eminem, and the Fugees. The total record sales for all the artists that premiered on their platform exceed 300 million. In 1998, the Source Magazine voted them as “The Best Hip Hop Radio Show of All Time,“ and in 2023, they were inducted into the NAB Radio Hall of Fame.
As the progenitor of sneaker journalism, García penned his landmark Source article “Confessions of a Sneaker Addict” in 1990, then in 2003 became the critically acclaimed author of Where’d You Get Those? NYC’s Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 (Testify Books). He also wrote the foreword for A History Of Basketball In Fifteen Sneakers (Workman, 2023), the introduction for Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (Rizzoli, 2015), and contributed an essay to City/Game: Basketball in New York (Rizzoli, 2020). In 2005, ESPN’s “It’s The Shoes” series, hosted by Bobbito, became the first show on the subject in broadcasting history.
A former professional basketball player in Puerto Rico, García performed in the groundbreaking Nike “Freestyle” commercial.
In 2007, the brand released seven co-designed Air Force 1 sneakers bearing his name. The voice of EA Sports’ popular NBA Street video game is also a world-renowned DJ, who has spun World, Soul and Jazz music at Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage, and the Smithsonian (DC).
As an award-winning filmmaker, García has directed Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC (PBS, NETFLIX), Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives (SHOWTIME, NETFLIX), and NY Times “Critics’ Pick” Rock Rubber 45s (Smithsonian African American Film Festival 2018 official selection). Transitioning to TV, he also directed eight “SneakerCenter” episodes for ESPN+.
The documentarian’s photography has appeared in campaigns for Nike, has been licensed to Foot Locker and Patta for apparel, and has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York as well as multiple international galleries.
A founding member of the Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop Culture Council and a 2018 Wesleyan University “Distinguished Alumni Award” recipient, "Kool Bob Love” currently produces his b-ball tournament Full Court 21™ in four continents, co-produces music for the Stretch and Bobbito + The M19s Band on 10x Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri’s label Uprising, co-hosts “Stretch and Bobbito Radio” on Apple Music Hits, and is the proud author of his children’s book Aim High, Little Giant, Aim High! and memoir Bobbito’s Book of B-ball Bong Bong!
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During the 1990s, the legendary air personality was one-half of the “Stretch and Bobbito” program on WKCR. The duo introduced the world to an unsigned Nas, Biggie, and Wu-Tang, as well as an unknown Jay-Z, Eminem, and the Fugees. The total record sales for all the artists that premiered on their platform exceed 300 million. In 1998, the Source Magazine voted them as “The Best Hip Hop Radio Show of All Time,“ and in 2023, they were inducted into the NAB Radio Hall of Fame.
As the progenitor of sneaker journalism, García penned his landmark Source article “Confessions of a Sneaker Addict” in 1990, then in 2003 became the critically acclaimed author of Where’d You Get Those? NYC’s Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987 (Testify Books). He also wrote the foreword for A History Of Basketball In Fifteen Sneakers (Workman, 2023), the introduction for Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (Rizzoli, 2015), and contributed an essay to City/Game: Basketball in New York (Rizzoli, 2020). In 2005, ESPN’s “It’s The Shoes” series, hosted by Bobbito, became the first show on the subject in broadcasting history.
A former professional basketball player in Puerto Rico, García performed in the groundbreaking Nike “Freestyle” commercial.
In 2007, the brand released seven co-designed Air Force 1 sneakers bearing his name. The voice of EA Sports’ popular NBA Street video game is also a world-renowned DJ, who has spun World, Soul and Jazz music at Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage, and the Smithsonian (DC).
As an award-winning filmmaker, García has directed Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC (PBS, NETFLIX), Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives (SHOWTIME, NETFLIX), and NY Times “Critics’ Pick” Rock Rubber 45s (Smithsonian African American Film Festival 2018 official selection). Transitioning to TV, he also directed eight “SneakerCenter” episodes for ESPN+.
The documentarian’s photography has appeared in campaigns for Nike, has been licensed to Foot Locker and Patta for apparel, and has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York as well as multiple international galleries.
A founding member of the Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop Culture Council and a 2018 Wesleyan University “Distinguished Alumni Award” recipient, "Kool Bob Love” currently produces his b-ball tournament Full Court 21™ in four continents, co-produces music for the Stretch and Bobbito + The M19s Band on 10x Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri’s label Uprising, co-hosts “Stretch and Bobbito Radio” on Apple Music Hits, and is the proud author of his children’s book Aim High, Little Giant, Aim High! and memoir Bobbito’s Book of B-ball Bong Bong!
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00:00what's good peoples back for another edition of my friends are better than yours
00:15today is a different version because the guy on the screen is not really my friend
00:23but i have known him for about you know two months now so he's working his way up
00:29but let me stop um for those tuning in for the first time um my name is big said industry co-sign
00:36i've been doing this for too many years but i recently started my series my friends are better
00:41than yours because i'm sick of speaking to celebrities and people that don't really care
00:47about me so i decided that i'm going to turn it turn it and make sure that it's about people that
00:52i respect for what they've done what they're doing and things of that nature and even though
00:57barbita garcia is not really you know who he seems to be i decided that since nobody else
01:03wanted to talk to me today i would talk to him but anyway
01:07that's a great start as it is but uh i want to introduce barbita garcia for those that don't know
01:17grow up because this man is a legend um i'll let him give a little brief intro because if he does an
01:24intro we might be here for about an hour because he's done so much over the years but we will get
01:29into some of the things he's doing now so that way as y'all said we can give him his flowers because
01:34that that's what the purpose of this is is to acknowledge you know the great people that i've
01:39met in the years and some that um i just happen to come across like you know barbita but anyway um
01:46barbita welcome to my friends are better than yours hilarious name for a podcast being only only you
01:54would come up with that what's up big sad man you know i've known you for a long time we play ball
01:58together we've done industry stuff together um currently i'm an author of the memoir of babito's
02:05book of b-ball bong bong i'm also a tournament director uh founder global creative director of
02:12the only 1v5 tournament that exists in the world or in sports history for that matter it's called fc21
02:19i do it in 30 international locations worldwide and um you know i uh people may now may know me as
02:27a dj from clubs and events they might know me as a radio show host uh with stretch in the 90s and
02:34then more recently on apple music hits um people might know me for you know sneaker culture have a lot
02:40of firsts in that space um but i'm also a filmmaker i directed three documentaries doing it in the park
02:48pick up basketball nyc stretching bobito radio that changed lives and uh rock rubber 45s was my last
02:55joint in 2018 and um you know ultimately though i'm a ball player and that's uh that's what drove me to
03:04write a memoir about that world um because you know i already wrote a book titled uh where'd you get
03:11those new york city sneaker culture 1960 1987 about that work that world and my place in it and um
03:19and uh yeah i mean you know i'm music i'm new york josewood igua but you know tried and true to
03:30the foundation i'm a ball player first and foremost so you know i feel like the the the memoir really
03:36speaks volumes about my experiences my passion uh and how that sport has uplifted me for decades
03:45in a way that i can't can't describe any better than what i wrote in the 216 pages it's available
03:51in bookshops worldwide you know if you want to go to the mom and pops it's at word up in new york
03:57in washington heights it's a tailing company in brooklyn uh e14 in oakland moves music in atlanca
04:04de la playa in los angeles i can go on and on you know always gotta you know how we rock
04:09support the indie businesses you know when we were both in the music industry i mean i just used to
04:15law i left but you know my whole role there was to try to raise up the names of the up-and-coming
04:22cats you know nas biggie wu-tang big l uh with stretch on the radio show and that's what i'm
04:28trying to do here um as a as an author you know advertising all that just trying to trying to get
04:39the people on an even plane you know so that we're not all focused on the big box and corporate world
04:46definitely because that's not who we are no doubt now i know i have limited time with you and like i
04:52said we can literally be on here for like seven hours and still not get to anything that you've
04:56done so what i want to do is since you have a new book out now i want to focus on that because i know
05:02you've done so many things and i want to know like what what was the reason for you doing this book
05:08how long did it take you like like like like why should we go pick it up well those are three
05:15separate questions and let me try to approach each of them uh why should people pick it up um i
05:22you know it's the very first book of its kind there's never been a latino voice raised on hip-hop
05:30who's simultaneously embedded in new york city playground basketball culture so what you get
05:39with the book is like an insider's view and with a lens that's unprecedented but also in a language
05:49that if if you don't care about basketball you could feel and understand what the essence is
05:59but if you are a ball player or if you're you know somebody who loves to watch this book is like
06:06i mean i use hip-hop slang i use b-ball slang i'll break into spanglish at times and so
06:13you know it's it's really written in the manner that that i i don't know any book even close to it
06:20you know uh bones malone's uh who's a dear friend of mine a contemporary uh in terms of like you know
06:28pushing forward hip-hop slang into the literary space uh i feel like he's like the progenitor
06:35i've come a little bit after him not that far after him then after me and bones and scoop jackson
06:42you know who was a legendary uh columnist and contributed to slam magazine um you know i feel
06:48like the three of us are particular in our way and that you know we were able to fuse like the
06:54you know the proper english with like the hood words that heads would only know if you're from
07:02that community um so that's one reason why you should read the read pick up the book uh but you
07:11know it took me seven minutes to seven minutes seven months seven months seven months to write it
07:18about seven months to design it you know it was conceived of in 2023 so it was a quick turnaround
07:23um in terms of having it out uh hit you know hitting bookstores worldwide last week
07:29so you know that's that was a tremendous journey right there just being super focused and i'm trying
07:36to make sure that you know everything was correct i did a lot of research fact checking which is like a
07:44lost art form but you know if i mentioned that bruce king was the leading scorer in the country
07:49in the 1970s you know and he was playing ball at the goat like i fact checked that i went to the to
07:55the school's sports information department yes he indeed led the nation in scoring all right cool i
08:00can say that because i remember hearing that in my childhood but back then like it wasn't like i was
08:05i had the access to you know to to the records as i do now so you know i make a lot of claims in my book
08:14i detail a lot of history the other reason why people should pick it up is because it's not just
08:19my memoir it's like the history of new york city playground basketball from 1960s to to the present
08:24which again is unprecedented um you know there was there's been phenomenal books that have really uh
08:33you know unveiled what's going on but i feel like the way i did it was a little bit different and a
08:39little broader but then also a little more dissected so it's i mean it's it's a dope project
08:45man i'm very proud of it said very happy to be here talking to to you about it too because the last
08:50time i saw you was in harlem and uh there's a whole chapter about strictly that neighborhood period and
08:57it's and its contribution to the sport globally even you know what happened on the asphalt there and
09:04how it affected the pros so yes you know it's a lot it's a lot man it's a lot it's a lot to try to
09:11fit into 216 pages but i think i did it actually i don't i don't i don't know if you remember where
09:19we met exactly and if i'm correct it was up at riverbank a nike event
09:25sometime in like 1944 i don't know but um no no no in 94 95 nike had the city attack campaign which
09:36i had a heavy role and i was uh uh i was a voice of it you know i was doing radio ads
09:43yeah i did a we did a 1-800 number um i was the voice when you called up the phone number
09:48you know 1-800 yoke or whatever it was nyc yoke you know you would hear my voice me and duke tango
09:55were part of that uh the legendary announcer from ebc at rucker park um i was on camera you know i was
10:02i was hosting events i was location scouting for them i was casting you know ball players for their
10:08for their print campaign i was doing everything for nike and wyden and kennedy
10:11that was in 94 95 anyway so we had the three on three and that was the first time that nike had
10:16ever uh produced a tournament they had sponsored tournaments but they never produced their own
10:22tournament and the three on three was the first of its kind and what they were trying to do was
10:27trying to marry like for people to think of new york think of basketball and think of nike like
10:34that was like the holy trinity in their in their in their eyes so i played a major role in that i was
10:39on a mic uh at riverbank for the three on three if that's what you're talking about because i also
10:44played in the riverbank tournament uh brothers united uh over the years but i think we probably
10:50met at the nike event though yeah because i remember like um because i was definitely cool
10:55with jerry erasmus at the time and yeah i was also i was doing celebrity i was doing celebrity
11:01basketball events so i think i brought a couple of people i can't remember the exact detail because of
11:05course it was a couple of years ago yeah yeah we're talking 30 30 years ago bro yeah no doubt i
11:11mean fat joe fat joe showed up that day um rosie perez who's a dear friend of mine showed up showed up
11:18that day um i don't remember oh curious george was there that's curious george uh you know i mean
11:25george and rosie those are dear friends of mine so i'm more than likely brought them you probably
11:29brought fat joe i don't know um yeah like sadat x like i said it was a couple of people because i was
11:33doing celebrity games at the time and yeah i know the nike had didn't have the access that they do
11:39now or that they've accumulated over the years but because i was doing celebrity basketball and because
11:44of my connection with video music box i was already doing celebrity basketball games so it made sense
11:49yeah yeah yeah so so dot x had a nice game too a lot of people don't know he was a straight up ball
11:56player uh prior to being you know internationally known as an emcee i mean he he had he he was a
12:03star at salesian high school in new rochelle uh he played uh d1 at in louisiana uh didn't work out
12:13and then he transferred to hunter college i believe that's where i met at hunter college yeah and he was
12:17playing d3 at hunter college yeah um and then he went on to be a coach at riverside church yeah you know
12:24he's he's he's he's spent his time at ball he's he's official left-handed and coincidentally like
12:31we were supposed to talk last week but then he ended up getting a show so he's definitely on the
12:35bill for my friends are better than yours let's get back to you so like of course growing up in new
12:42york and and because like you're like in the intersection of everything new york sneaker culture
12:49basketball hip-hop like how how are you able to and i'm going to get into your league in a minute
12:58but because we're talking about basketball in new york specifically i want to know like i i know it's
13:03easy to get into those things because it's right there but how did you get so entrenched where you
13:09were able to thrive like in each and every one of those and a couple of other things but like for
13:15somebody to be able to be entrenched so much for so many years is still a feat so how are you able
13:22to like actually get into it and not only get into it but stay in it and thrive i mean yeah i think
13:29that's a tribute to my hard work my ethic um but you know what i what i wrote about in my memoir
13:35babito's book of b-ball bong bong is truthfully like basketball is the starting point that's my entry
13:44and and getting the fever to be a ball player the best one i could possibly be that's what ushered me
13:52into to caring about sneakers that's what taught me about hip-hop you know all my my teammates you
14:00know we were trading cassettes or you know records or whatever you know layup lines you know that's
14:07that's why i was really getting entrenched and i mean i i think i would have hip-hop and the
14:12sneaker stuff would have happened anyway just as a new yorker but ball was like a little bit ahead
14:17of the game you know if we look at all the classic silhouettes for hip-hop the chuck taylor
14:24the pro cast 69 or the puma clod that did a shell toad or nike air force one i mean those are
14:29all ball sneakers that were made cool by ball players first and foremost and then they trickled
14:35down into the hip-hop heads right and so you know the the baggy shorts that's that's ball players
14:42you know um i mean a lot of hip-hop heads try to dress like ball players i mean that's that's what
14:50nike coined sports lifestyle you know it's like the whole world tries to dress like ball players
14:56um so we're a very influential community in more ways than one and um you know but in terms of me
15:03excelling in each that was just uh i think just me just approaching it in a way that i did just with
15:13hard work and you know put myself in the right place at the right time it's not like i was just
15:18in the right place at the right time i put myself there i created my own good fortune you know i was
15:25reliable i was i was courteous i was considerate i was loving i was you know i mean i have a lot of
15:31qualities that it's not me saying this being a self-aggrandizing like people tell me that you
15:37know jerry erasman you mentioned for nike he told me one time he's like yo bob like you force our hands
15:44like literally he was like the head marketing person at nike for basketball he was like we can't avoid
15:51you you're a hip-hop legend with your radio show you're you know you you wrote the first article in
15:57media history on sneaker culture you wrote the first book you hosted the first tv series on
16:02sneaker culture period like first first first the first sneaker boutique that was highly curated
16:07me so i got like every first basically in sneaker culture and nike wants to be down with the
16:14sneaker heads they want to be down with the basketball players and they love hip-hop so it's like i'm like a
16:19natural i mean i was you know they haven't messed with me in a long time but you know it's like
16:26for the time that jerry was there like he really he really connected with me and we knew each other
16:32from our childhood you know i mentioned jerry i met jerry in 1980 81 you know i wrote about that in my
16:38book too yeah well you you you just you just said a word that i had on my list of questions to ask you
16:45because despite what i think people consider you a legend and you know that's a big title to to lay
16:56on anybody and i know that it's used like spirit like it's used so much these days oh it's out of
17:02control it's become meaningless when people say it like it's just like oh he's a legend he she's a
17:07legend it's like yo like okay can we hold off on saying that exactly but but you're actually a legend
17:14because like like you say i mean even i mean even if you take away basketball and you take away
17:19sneakers you're still bobito from the bobito and stretch show at a time where hip-hop was literally
17:26bubbling up and exploding no doubt and you were part of that yeah you didn't contribute you were part of
17:32that so how does it feel knowing that you know and and luckily for me i know people like you
17:39ralphie daniel like people that's just been in the game that have done their things that the outside
17:44world looks at in amazement and not to say that i don't look at y'all in amazement but knowing you
17:50is different than admiring you um i hope i said that i hope i said that correctly yeah no i get it i
17:57get it you're like like i'm your i'm your homeboy we play ball together we bug out you know we've broken
18:02bread over the years i haven't seen you in person in a long time but that's has nothing to do with
18:06you i don't even live in the city no more you know like so but
18:11in 1998 the source magazine voted me and stretch as having the best hip-hop radio show of all time
18:20in 2023 the national association of broadcasters voted me and stretch into their radio hall of fame
18:27now with or without that you know every dude who was locked up
18:33in pesaia county jail patterson county jail rikers the tombs i mean all those dudes was writing us
18:44letters and you know for years after you know i was getting like approached by people yo when i was
18:52when i was locked down but you helped you you know you were stretched you held me down we look
18:57forward to thursdays so right there like just with that insular community you know we we were able to
19:05uh inspire them give them hope you know look forward to coming out so that that's the starting point
19:11so forget like the big accolades let's talk about like the you know to keep it low and then when it
19:16comes to like nas biggie wu-tang you know big l company flow uh fuji's jay-z um mob deep you know
19:31eminem these are all people who were like unknown yeah or they were up and coming mo in most cases
19:38completely unsigned teenagers with like no contract no agreement just trying to get on and we putting
19:46them on the radio letting them smash and getting like accolades and and and building that initial
19:53audience and so for that i guess you know people look at me and stretches as hip-hop legends and i
20:00and i accept that i accept that i i i'm humbled by it but also like yeah i feel like yeah we earned
20:06that you know because it wasn't easy we won from 1am to 5am on a weekly basis on thursdays that was not
20:13an easy time slot and guess what we didn't get paid to do that either i did the radio for 12 years
20:19on a volunteer basis in an attempt to try to uplift hip-hop artists so that they can get exposed
20:27and so you know it comes back when i get those accolades i'm like yeah like i might have earned
20:32that you know so if you want to call me a hip-hop legend you know i say yeah cool when it comes to
20:40sneakers as i'm already mentioned i have a lot of firsts so it's undebatable that i mean people call
20:47me an icon in the sneaker space and it's funny because i only own five pairs of sneakers
20:52i'm not a collector you know i've been a historian i've been able to push the the push forward the
20:59culture and expose it you know and nurture it but that's not where i'm at now as i approach my 60s
21:06i mean you know look for those who are in their 60s are still you know online and waiting for
21:12sneakers and all that other stuff cool props to you that's just not where my head is at but i mean
21:17yeah in that world like kind of like carved out a little legendary space there too um basketball i even
21:26have more than five pairs of sneakers you know basketball i wouldn't call myself a legend you know
21:32but i feel like i've been able to contribute uh to the to the sport in a in a way that's that's been
21:41really um honest and authentic uh and loving for decades you know uh i did the first documentary on
21:50pickup basketball in new york city it hasn't been hadn't been done before hasn't been done since
21:55doesn't need to be done again it's like i nailed it um that was my film doing it in the park pick up
22:01basketball nyc um you know i contributed i did the world's first uh publication um specifically
22:09based on outdoor basketball it was called bounce you know i did that for six years um and i got my
22:18now i got my tournament fc21 1v5 30 international locations all the winners from around the world come
22:26to new york to the goat aka rock steady park on 99th and nash damn every august you know to determine
22:32who's the best one-on-five player and um you know i've been doing that for like 13 years now and and
22:39that's that continues to grow and you know i'm just grateful i'm grateful that i can give back i'm
22:44grateful that i can inspire grateful i can motivate you know if you follow me on social media like i'm
22:49constantly like just yesterday i was like dribbling downhill and then dribbling uphill i mean it's like a half a
22:55mile hill hill like crazy steep and i'm out there sweating you know and i'm approaching my 60s but i
23:02still want to be the best ball player i can be so that that motivates a lot of people out there like
23:06dad like yo you know bob is out there you know it's 100 degrees out like yo let me stay in shape and let
23:12me try to you know work on my game too whether they 17 years old or 57 so um you know i feel like i
23:20contribute how i can to basketball as well um and uh it's that's that's what really makes me tick
23:27you know let's rewind a bit because you mentioned the full court 21 yep and there are some people here
23:33who may not understand the concept so could you explain the concept and the concept that you do
23:39have is something that's not being done and could you explain like why you had that concept and
23:44no doubt now no doubt so uh in 21 whoever has the ball
23:52everybody else on the court is on defense guarding them there's no teammates there's no teams there's
24:00no coaches very inclusive you know you roll it to the park there's a five on five you're like yo
24:06who got next you got to wait till the game is over you roll up to the 21 yo who got the high
24:13are jumping in and so there's no other game like that there's no other game like that that that
24:21that involves so much competition and and um you know strategy and and so uh i got a shout out my
24:29brother manny maldonado who runs the chosen nyc uh tournament for for youth he invited me to a run
24:37that he had in harlem at the boys club and he was like yo before we play five on five we're gonna
24:43warm up with a game at 21 i got amp because i love playing 21 ain't gonna pass no ain't gotta pass
24:48nobody he was like yo we're gonna run a full court i was like wait what because in my whole life we
24:53always play at 21 half yeah and depending on the neighborhood you know you might be like you're no
24:58outs or if you was in philly there's no fouls they call it roughhouse you know yeah yeah so you know
25:06every neighborhood got their own set of rules and that's what pickup is there's no set rules right
25:10so we're playing 21 full court back every time the the ball changed possession we went the opposite
25:17direction i was like yo this is this is wow joe and then the light bulb went in my head like
25:22you know everybody doing five on five tournaments three on three one on one you know so i was like yo
25:27let me do a 21 ain't never been done period in the history of the sport so and that's what i like
25:33doing said i like doing stuff that no one else has done before so i started in 2013 you know and
25:40currently you know outside of the international locations in new york we do queens we do the
25:46bronx we do brooklyn you know we did staten island before um we do this summer we do we come bringing it
25:54to to kingdom we're doing a partnership with kingdom yeah you know bring it to harlem and then then
25:59you know always final you know the final is always at the goat aka rock study park so you know and
26:04that's what that's the park that that nurtured me that's where i grew up so that's me paying homage
26:09to earl manigault you know the legend that the park is named after and uh yeah man i'm very proud go
26:15to fullcourt21nyc.com for more information or if you want to play register you go to fc21 all world on
26:21on social media my personal handle is cool bob love k-o-o-l-b-o-b-l-o-v-e and that's across the
26:30board blue sky threads twitch um threads facebook instagram youtube patreon you know it was like
26:40there's so many oh my god yeah cool bob love anywhere you go cool bob love.com if you want to buy my new
26:47book bobito's book a b-ball bong bong a memoir of sports style and soul go to cool bob love.com
26:55and then from there you can either buy it online or you can see the mom and pop stores that are all
27:01bipoc owned black indigenous people of color owned and you can go support those shops if you want as
27:08well because that's how we do big said definitely definitely i just want to is there anything else that
27:16you would like to talk or mention because like i said i know you have limited time and i don't want
27:20to take up too much of it because like i said we could be on here for days and still be able to like
27:25go back you know so many times so many so many years nah nah i'm good b i mean you're you know i have a lot
27:31of other projects in the works um there's a video game that i'm going to be announcing uh but i can't talk
27:38about that yet because it's not you know it's not they don't they're not they haven't launched the
27:44campaign yet but you know some of your viewers might remember me from nba street volume two
27:48for ea sports i was a voice of that that sold millions and millions of copies that's a legendary
27:54video game you know if people want to call me a legendary video game announcer cool you know
27:59i mean it's it's top five i'm on like everybody's list for best ball games maybe even sports video
28:08games period so you know again i i i've just i've just been blessed be but you know um i might start
28:17in the power line uh in 2026 as well uh with a lot of ideas that i have you know for clothing and stuff
28:24cutting so but uh but yeah right now the focus is you know the the memoir and and the tournament
28:32and um i'm just y'all i'm just i'm grateful for people like you that you know you reached out
28:38shout out to my brother elijah wells you know not even knowing that we'd already knew been known each
28:44other he's like oh y'all i could connect you to upset i'm like come on be like i need you to connect
28:49to set like you know i mean like come on b like i mean that's my man so you know yeah exactly me and
28:55elijah used to be teammates i don't know if you know that well he played we went to high school
28:59together he played he was a star point guard on our basketball team so i know he's basketball as
29:04well i didn't play him but he was we played at tillery park and i actually mentioned him in my
29:09book and i have a funny story in my memoir babito's book of b-ball bong bong about the time that me and
29:16elijah was at tillery park playing ball against old badia topping okay senior not the not the young
29:25brother that's in the nba his father was nice that makes sense because i was about to say like
29:29his father was nice nice and he we played against him tillery park he crushed he crushed us he destroyed
29:35us you know yeah not that me and elijah were the best defenders but you know yeah he passed along to
29:42his son now so yeah yeah no doubt i'm proud of his son you know doing well his son got a chip now
29:48right then the pace is one no the pace is lost one of the pace is lost yeah yeah the pace is lost but at
29:54least his son went to the chip he was dead yeah he was that close so he was close close he could
29:59have stayed with the knicks and made the eastern conference finals obadiah topping you know i wish him
30:04the best i remember him said coming to games at hoops and his son tillery he used to go to all his
30:12father's games his son was at every game bro with his with with obadiah's wife he'd be on the
30:19sideline watching us he don't remember me i doubt it but you know who could forget bombita
30:25nah nah nah i mean in the tournament that we was playing in like yeah i was just a bench uh a role
30:32player coming off the bench you know yeah i do want to go back a little bit when you said about the
30:37street basketball culture i'm like you're still a legend as far as hip-hop and new york heads
30:44consider even when it comes to basketball i just want to throw that in there but um like i said i
30:51appreciate your time and i know that you you know you're so busy and you um have like you know
30:56another 17 million to make in the next month so i don't keep you from that but i do appreciate your
31:02time and your friendship over the years because as i stated um ever since we we connected back in
31:08the 90s like you know you've always been solid and i've always like admired what you've always
31:13done and like i said that's the reason why i created this platform so that way i can not only
31:18say things about you but give people the opportunity to see see them to see you themselves so that way
31:23they can understand why i respect the people that do come on this program so no doubt i do appreciate
31:28that no doubt but yo pick up pick up your um your book and social media again yes cool bob love k-o-o-o-l-b-o-b-l-o-v-e
31:39that's the handle that's the website as well coolboblove.com just go to coolboblove.com
31:45to find out everywhere you can purchase it online or at mom and pop brick and mortar shops
31:52big set salute to you keep on rocking and you know we got to do a part two because like i said this
31:56this is so much sets of you've done that i want to talk about and like i said we could do this at a
32:01later time whether it's a couple of months even if it's a couple of years we got to do this again
32:05because like i said um for the people that i acknowledge for doing things like i want like i
32:10want to give you more flowers than i'm able to give now because you've done so much and you've
32:15touched so many people and um i'm pretty sure people will and can acknowledge that so i just
32:20want to throw that out there again and i appreciate it and like i said maybe the next book or the next
32:26movie premiere or the next cartoon or whatever it is you're gonna get into we'll get out no no i i got
32:32you listen when the video game comes out yep i'll come back you know just keep that on your radar i
32:38can't again i can't mention anything about it contractually it's too early for me to say but
32:43it's gonna be a big deal i'm gonna be the voice of a big big video game but i can't say nothing yet
32:51that's okay you know but everybody this is big set the industry co-sign thanks for tuning in my
32:57friends are better than yours and as i always say if you think your friends are better than mine
33:01show me and i'm pretty sure that we are the friends or they're trying to be my friend
33:05until the next time thank you bobito and um peace out
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