RZA: Selling Socks Was My Hustle!

And then when you go and watch our Hulu series, The American Saga, right? You get to see like this group of men weren't always on the same page, wasn't always trans with each other. And I think the biggest thing that I learned by picking the TV show on Hulu is that there's other kids across America in a similar situation. So there's a scene where my character... It's a soundtrack to life. Right, but not just that, I'm talking about like... There's other kids that are hearing this, that they can resonate, this makes sense to them. Yes, or live in it. So to get my first drum machine, I have to get it by illegal means, right? And think about how many... It's totally horizontal. But think about how many people... Think about how many people need something to do something but don't have the means to get it. And some may cross the line. At the end of the day, the way I really got my equipment, right? I definitely try to do any way to get it, but I didn't get it by stealing it, right? I had the hustle. But you wanted it though, you didn't just want to get it for saying, I got it, you want it, because you wanted to do something with it. I wanted to use it. Right, that's a difference. I sold apples, oranges, newspapers, socks. I'm one of those socks guys. Have you been to New York back in the days? Socks, Nipsey Hussle was a socks motherfucker. You see dudes walking around selling socks. No, seriously, you buy them... It's just the way you said it. Yeah, he was. I wonder if he was a sock nigger. I didn't say that. Rims was a sock nigger, I love him. No, socks, whatever, because you're bombed out on 25th Street. You get maybe... You can get a dozen for 30 bucks, right? And then you can sell them at 10 hours a pack. So you get a dozen packs for 30 bucks with six in a pack. You go uptown, right? And you sell them for $10 just for the whole pack of socks. But you gotta find a neighborhood that needs socks. You just can't go in a neighborhood that got a lot of socks. But anybody... You can't sell... But most people... You can't go into a sock to most people... A sock in a You can't do it, sir. You can't do it, sir. Uptown, usually people go uptown to buy their... Close, high-end clothes. No, no, no, no, no. You go uptown to get... No, you get drugs from uptown. Oh, drugs. Although I could get a Herloud with a drugs uptown, bring it back downtown, sell it for $200. Yeah, it's just saying like in a whole uptown, they had the best race or any drug you ever needed. But then you can buy drugs... Now, you could buy an ounce uptown, right? And sell it downtown, or even take it back to Staten Island, you're gonna triple your money. Triple. Easy. So, Staten Island's three... You can easily triple your money. Like, the Village is two? Yeah, like that. And if you go out of state, you may five times it. And that's where all the New York motherfuckers coming down to DC and Virginia. Exactly. But socks, you buy downtown. And take it uptown, because the drug dealers are fly, they gotta have clean socks. They gotta clean socks all day. And so now they're buying the socks for $10 that you paid $5 for. That was my hust. You... Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh. ["The