Baron Davis
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446 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 1 Jan
Baron Davis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I understand like a lot of things because I've I've had to understand me through other people, understand me through other situations, you know, and more so like. take my agendas, take my selfishness, and put that shit to the side because I've always tried to save somebody or bring somebody along, you know what I mean?
And whether that is to my detriment, why I kept getting hurt in the league or whatnot, I just kind of wouldn't trade how I did this for anything because I learned so much about myself. I learned so much about the person that I was as a kid. I can relate to that kid now. I can communicate to that kid now. But also, I want to help solve problems. You know what I mean?
Because a lot of it is creativity. I keep going back to that, is you escape. If it wasn't for basketball, basketball is art. That was my art. I could escape. I was all imagination. I was all dreams. You know what I mean? It didn't matter who it was. If you want to hoop, cool. You know what I mean? If we watching basketball, cool. So that was like every day.
you start living in this tunnel, you know what I mean?
Yeah. You know, LA, LA drugs, gangs. It was at the height crack at a crack epidemic. And, you know, my parents fell victim to that. It wasn't,
you know it started like oh this was great like i'm just a normal kid get a lot of toys hella spoiled you know what i mean and then it was like nothing eating you know eating out we only had a fry and skillet we only had like uh one blanket and a heater we had you know all our got pushed out and you at the park it was like you went from like
banging on drums and having all these toys to literally nothing. And you blame it on the system or you blame your parents for their lifestyle and the partying. It's like I never had a relationship with my dad. I never understood him, you know what I mean? I felt like he had good energy, you know what I mean? He was always smiling and shit, but I knew nothing about him. Outside of like, who knows?
This is what he do. He'd come around every blue moon, you know what I mean? Once or twice every two or three months. But because he wasn't there, it wasn't like I needed him. You know what I mean? And so like, it was normal for me. It was normal for me to be the kid. To be on your own, to be self-sufficient.
Oh, it was crazy. It's like the whole neighborhood.
You know, I remember I learned, my mom taught me how to catch the bus at like four years old, and she was a beautician, she worked in the salon, and I would catch the bus at four down, you know, like she, I learned a lot, everything was good, I was a mature kid, I had a lot of love, and I like, I had, I did not want for anything, and then it went from that to like nothing.
Fast. As like, you know, you five, you know, you six, seven. I'm getting kicked out of school in third grade, you know, for cussing out teachers and shit like that. And it, you know, it's just, you're just forced to, you're only around adults. You know what I mean? And like, the adults are dominating everything. all of the time in the day and the lifestyle. And the kids, we go outside and play.
Sometimes they would go out, they got kids, they wanna do they thing. Where the fuck do you drop some kids off? At the park. And so that's how I got good at basketball too. I would be at the park, you playing at the park at like 11, 12 o'clock at night. And so that's kind of like, I got used to that.
But I knew like, all right, the car over there, you know, outside, you know, pull in, drop us off in the park, then pull outside the park, park across the street from the park next to the industrial spot where cops can't really jam you up, you know what I mean? So that was that. That was like a lot of, it was just a lot of like,
being in weird ass situations and figuring out how to make the most of it. But you don't know, as a kid you don't know. It's like shit man, I think it's cool. I'm at the park, it's 11 o'clock, it's dark, it's just me and my sister and maybe two other kids.
Yeah, you, and I had a great childhood, because I still got to be a kid, like the opposite side of that was my grandparents, a lot of love, my sisters, my friends, like we played a lot, but like you, like you were covered. Your parents said, whatever's going on in the world, we're gonna make sure Dan can just see what he needs to see until the world opens up. My shit was like, boom.
All right, what's all this? And so now you gotta figure out, who do you trust?
Man, one wrong turn, I'm a kid, right? One wrong turn, I'm kidnapped. One wrong turn, you know, I'm somewhere else. You know what I mean? Like, anything can happen. One wrong turn, I could have been in a gang. Wrong wrong turn, I could have drank or smoked something that I shouldn't have. And so it's just... It was just tough because this world has opened up.
Now you gotta figure out, okay, who do I trust? Who gives me a feeling of being safe? Why is this person trying to help me? So then you playing Russian roulette with all these different situations at eight years old.
It has a huge impact, I think, because you don't feel... Like my grandmother's love, the most incredible love in the world. My grandfather's love before he passed away, the most incredible love in the world. But when I start thinking about it as an adult, it's like those are your grandparents. They never told you about their life. They never told you about their past.
They just made it safe for you to wake up, go to sleep. get mad at you for not cleaning, you know, just the little things. But, like, they didn't, they weren't connected to a little kid growing up, listen, now hip-hop and all, like, you know.
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