What? What is it that allowed you to go from, you know, be in the man, all these workers, three floors,

you know, that, to I got a table but I'm still going for

two main things one is when you're born poor you automatically acquire the ability to live with doing bad. It just

comes natural for you, right? And the other one was something you have to develop, the suppression of the ego.

You know, so once I suppressed my ego and said, I'm gonna go back on Hunt 25th Street with that little table and sell

t-shirts and people might laugh or they might say look what happened to death and

that happened but when you have a purpose in your heart,

you ain't gonna be saying, I knew what I was gonna be able to do.

So everybody knows how to do good, but everybody

don't know how to do bad.

You have to suppress the ego then you have to suppress the

then you can get out of a bad situation you can get out of a bad

with situation this is the ego that kills us

dapper Dan is hip-hop personified. He's Harlem personified. He's hustling personified.

He's a fashion legend who had a three-floor custom tailoring business in Harlem in the 80s where he could make you

anything you wanted. Louis Vuitton suits, Fendy car seats, Gucci bags,

stuff the labels didn't make and wouldn't touch, but DAP knew how to get that

fabric with those highfalut and labels all over, it sliced that stuff up, designed something

new, and serve a clientele that the European fashion houses didn't even care about.

By the way, they were the flyest people in New York City.

The people who were building early hip-hop style. People like Eric B and Rock him, L. L. Kool J.

Mike Tyson and Alpo Martinez, one of Harlem's biggest dealers.

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