Wayne Swanson

So I'm going to say this because how important Auburn Avenue is to me personally.

Like what came out of when people say they from here or they come here for a reason and Auburn Avenue don't come up in a conversation, I half want to be like, you ain't shit.

You ain't really about shit.

Because you just want to use black to get up.

But you had to know what Herndon and them did.

I take people to the Herndon house and be like, nah, it's still behind Morris Brown College.

You want to really know what's going on with Atlanta, why we can do and move the way we move.

It's because of them cats.

And then Maynard, what he did.

And we was feeling that in New Jersey.

My dad loved that shit.

He was like, now we got to have a business because Maynard Jackson did this and you going to Atlanta.

You went to school there.

So you were originally from New Jersey.

New Jersey.

My grandparents from Georgia, they moved to New Jersey to great migration.

So we'd come every summer.

I knew I was moving back as y'all got lizards.

I just knew as a kid, I was like, I'm coming here.

Cause they got lizards.