4.4 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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As the investigation begins, iO explores Billy's journey to New York City.
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0:00.0 | I grew up in the East Village in Manhattan in I was born in 1985 and I came of age really |
0:11.8 | in the early 90s in an era of crack and the city was dead broke. |
0:22.1 | I grew up with a mom who was a single, very outside the system human so we never had |
0:30.7 | any money and my whole block was low income housing. |
0:34.9 | I was born opposite a 700 person men's shelter. |
0:40.8 | On the corner was a group home for boys which was like a stepping stone to their future |
0:46.1 | life across the street. |
0:47.8 | On the next block was the Hell's Angels headquarters. |
0:51.9 | So you have this confluence of wildness and poverty and crime and the police called |
1:01.0 | our block the asshole of the universe because it was just the meeting point, the conjunction |
1:07.2 | of every shitty crazy and same thing that could happen. |
1:11.3 | But the East Village, you know, we were two blocks from CBGB's which is the birthplace |
1:16.0 | of punk music. |
1:17.8 | The Jammish Abasquez studio was on the next block and Nan Golden, who's my godmother, was |
1:23.5 | around the block. |
1:25.2 | So they all came there to make weird avant-garde movies and make no way of music and make punk |
1:30.5 | and make strange paintings and do cocaine and sell whatever weird shit they wanted to sell |
1:37.6 | and reinvent their identities and I was just trying to figure out how to have a play day. |
1:44.5 | They chose to be there and I was born there. |
1:52.4 | When I was a little kid, it was just me and my mom. |
1:55.6 | We were a team and I could find her. |
1:59.9 | I could reach for her. |
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