Paul London
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And lots of great athletes went to my high school and actresses and artists and stuff like that.
But it's predominantly white.
But we had...
quite a few black students as well.
And they were always like, everyone wanted to be their friends, right?
All the, they were like, everyone wanted to be the friends of the black kids and they were all cool and everything.
But you know, where was I going with this?
Yeah, so I was in Memphis and I got this thing and it was like Detron and I thought I was like, am I rooming with like a transformer?
Like, what is this?
And he was the coolest guy.
He was the coolest guy.
We played basketball all the time, right?
More than going to class.
Took me to his high school.
Like we watched some of his high school games because he was fresh out of high school.
He was a young kid, but it wasn't working.
And I dropped out, got on a Greyhound bus.
12 hours later, I'm back home in Austin.
The very next day, my friend calls me.
The friend that I got that bloody t-shirt for me is like, turn on the news.