Deante’ Kyle

Because I know, like, the thing we talk about here in America a lot of times, we'll accredit locks to, like, the Caribbean, for sure.

What are some of the natural hair expressions that you've seen come out of Africa when they would come over here?

Yeah, that's hard.

Yeah, the first set of locks that I had, a Haitian lady did them for me.

And we was just like, this is my homie, like one of the homies, auntie, like one of my best friends growing up was Haitian.

And I was growing my hair.

I was just growing it because my hair grows so fast.

I don't really like, I don't like keep going and getting my hair cut.

She's like, let me twist your hair.

And I was like, all right.

And then it's like, oh, man, like, next, like, three months, like, I used to just go over there, like, once every other week and still keep it maintained.

For all I know, I got full-blown locks, and I'm just out here thugging it.

But then it was, like, an intentional thing after that.

It was, like, the first set was just kind of, like, I'm outside for real.

Like, I ain't got time to maintain no haircut, no nothing.

But after a while, it was, like, even when I would cut my hair, I would always go back to get locks.

Like, this is probably my third set of locks because it's, like...

I would be like, man, my hair back up.

That's my look.

Like, that's how I feel the most confident.