Shaquille O'Neal

But most of us were teenagers.

I remember working for $12 a day.

I remember working for $16 a day.

Making a dollar a thousand.

I remember catching 1,000 chickens for $1,000.

And the most we would catch because we were a young, small crew was 16,000.

After working in the fields and making $5 a day.

So that's $16 plus the $8 or the $12 that I made.

And my uncle blowing the horn and me and my brother going out there because our crew was mainly our cousins.

So now that's $28.

$28 back in the 70s, I don't know if y'all noticed, I don't want to break it to you, was a lot of damn money.

Me, Spanky, Lanny, Eugene, Arnell, Robbie, Bernard, sometimes...

$28 was a lot of damn money.

It was about eight of us.

But the oldest one, we were all, for the most part, Arnell was the oldest because he a year younger than my sister.

And to go from making $28 to $1,000 a day or $5,000 or $10,000,

He was the oldest.

We had like two dudes like within their 20s.

If you can't appreciate that, that's why I appreciate everything I get.

But most of us were teenagers.