I'm from Boston, born and raised in Boston. I'm 29. Uh, currently I work at a robotics company. What those people do over there at the company, I work on my hands and I just be helping them build stuff, assemble things, the roboticists and the mechanical engineers and those guys are on a whole entire other level. I do think it's cool how they want to make the integration from AI to the physical world, to the robotics realm, how they're trying to, fuse them together. I think that's really cool. I think that aspect of is cool. However, I do think it's a little scary how fast these things are moving. I got lucky because I was working in operations before, and they needed an operations guy. So they just called me so as of now, I don't do any of the stuff that they're doing, let me just say that they do like genius work, I do very much hands on and assembly. Like, if they need me to, fix something or help with one of the robots or lifting things, I just do, I pretty much do a lot of blue collar, simple work, simple work.

I'm just always in New York because. Most of the times I'm in New York is because I have work, because I get asked to do, like, a casting, or I get asked to, shoot, or I get asked, to style or something, or help with wardrobe and things like that, so, I go back and forth a lot. Which is why I'm just, and then as of recently, some of the time I've been back in New York, has been just so I can get out of Boston and other times I've just had work like this most recent time.

I can honestly say when I was younger, like smaller, my parents, when they used to go out together, when they used to go to like parties together, they always used to be dressed in the most beautiful African garments. Cause my dad's Nigerian and my mom's Haitian. So he would just bring my mom out to parties and they would be wearing matching attire. And it would just be like, sometimes it was extremely sparkly or sometimes it was just beautiful just colors, like sometimes they're both you want purple and then other times my mom and him will wear white or they'll wear blue like it was the way that they was able to coordinate with each other. I always used to hated by it and then, as I started getting older, I started to see my dad had crazy style. Like when he was, when he was younger, he had a flat top. He had all the crazy windbreakers. He used to wear Paisley shirts, silk shirts, you know what I mean? With his dress pants and his little, his little loafers. He used to look, he used to look really cool, leather jackets, long leather trench coat.
Like he used to look really cool, honestly. And my mom also was just always well put together. And I remember my mom told me this one time and I'll never forget it. She was like, "if you're going to go outside, look like something", and I was like, "Oh, that's, that's important." Yeah, once that happened, I started to figure out that I had to look like something when I went outside, it started to also influence me as well. So I had to understand, I had to learn how to put it all together. And then once it went from there, once I like left, you know, the, the outside influences and being around and like, you would see certain people, I grew up in like a small little neighborhood and I would see certain people that would be dressed a certain way and I'd be like, "oh, that's so cool."

With Nigerians, Nigerians and most, and a lot of West Africa really, Nigeria specifically, it's a lot of bravado and a lot of presentation. So with the garments, it's either some, even if it's like a bland one piece, you can see ribbing and the piping on the neckline and on the pocket lining. And then even just on the shoulder or the pretty much, it's like a cape that they throw over it. Like you can just see how they drape themselves in these masterful garments and these beautiful colors. And sometimes the silk that they sew onto the neckline is just, it's very vibrant, like it shines in a certain way. So with, yeah, I can only speak as a Nigerian. We believe we're the best, so that's how we just present ourselves. So yeah, that's like the best way I could like put it. When I wear traditional things, I feel closer to my dad. And then the second thing is I feel cool. I don't know. In my head I feel like, this is where I come from.

Then you start listening to music. And once I started being able to pinpoint certain eras of music and tie it to certain eras of fashion, then I started getting into like, ASAP Rocky and Kanye West and Pharrell and Kid Cudi, even to some degree Young Thug and the way that they dress, like, I don't want to particularly dress like them, I'll probably emulate some aspects of their style with Young Thug, I know it's the utmost confidence, like, no one can tell him anything. It's a lot, a lot of color. It's a lot of, draping, a lot of color, a lot of draping, a lot of like, you know, there's like special hats, like sometimes, you'll see a fit that's all one color, and then the hat is an extremely different color.

So, I'm glad that I can embody those things in this way.