[NOISE]
Crazy.
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I like the sound
of this motor man.
>> Yeah.
It runs real good.
>> So,
you live in East L.A.?
>> I live in Torrance.
>> What's that known for?
>> Low riders and gangs.
[LAUGH]
>> Low riders and
gangs, I like that.
Real easy living.
>> Where we headed now?
>> Back to Baldwin park
where the rest of
the car club's at.
Just have a little
barbecue, see some cars.
Hang out with the family.
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>> Well,
riding's my life.
I've been in it since
I was ten years old.
>> Yeah.
>> Since 1982.
I've been a member.
>> Yeah.
>> We have our meetings
once a month so we try
to come out here and
grill, bring our
families and
you know see what's
cracking, what's up.
>> You know the thing is,
is that
growing up in America
you follow hip hop.
>> Right.
>> You watch movies, you
always see low riders but
I never got to ride in
one like going down
the freeway in L.A.
doing my thing,
now I get why people
enter lowriders.
Cuz you get in and
you feel like
you're a kid again.
>> Yeah.
>> You remember riding in
the back of your
parents' Lincoln,
>> Yep.
>> like that just big
>> Yeah.
>> sofa couch.
>> Yeah.
Exactly
>> It's fresh, man.
>> Of course it's
an art form bro.
Everyone has their own
style and this is us.
We grew up to this, this
is our lifestyle bro.
>> Yep.
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>> In the 30's,
40's, 50's,
they had what were called
cigarette dispensers.
You would put your
cigarette in here, and
as you're driving, you
would actually open it
and it, and it would
light your cigarette,
and you smoke it
while you're driving.
>> These cars are like
time machines.
You get in,
these dudes are bumping
tunes from like,
the 60's and 70's.
It's beautiful to see.
>> What up man,
big Redwood chillin
right here.
Hot ass day,
Southern California,
chillin with my brothers.
Techniques Car Club,
you know what I mean.
It's what we do
on Sundays man,
we bring the family out,.
Have a couple beers,
everybody's cool.
Cook up some good
meat for the kids.
You know what I mean?
It's all love, man.
We can't just have
anybody in here.
>> Yeah.
No hooligans [LAUGH].
>> And there was a long
time when there was
you know, the whole era
of the car club wars.
>> Yeah.
>> Unfortunately,
there's still that
stigmatism that's
leftover and.
They associated
low-riding with
gang-banging, and all
this other stuff, but,
we're all just
working guys dude.
We ain't just a bunch of
knuckleheads out
here y'know.
>> Yeah.
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What'd you marinate
the short ribs in?
>> There's a little
bit of lemon and
some cilantro, and
some secret stuff
going on right.
>> Secret stuff?
You wanna break me off
with some of the secret?
Just, to know?
>> That's the secret.
>> Yeah?
Some Bud, some Bud Lite?
>> That's right.
You know man?
>> Cilantro.
Paprika.
Tumeric.
>> You got
a little tumeric.
>> Some garlic powder.
>> Yeah, onion salt.
>> Some granulated onion.
>> Yeah.
>> You
can't flavor
the meat too much,
because the meat is
the flavor, right?
>> Yup.
Exactly.
>> You need to tell me
some of your secrets.
>> What I do with
the short rib
to tenderize it.
Beer will tenderize it.
Anything carbonated.
I like to use like a Dr.
Pepper
>> Yeah.
>> or Cherry Cola.
>> Yeah.
>> Tenderize it
over night.
>> Cherry Cola.
>> Definitely.
Definitely.
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[INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE].
>> You didn't get
a tortilla or nothing?
>> No, you know,
I'm Chinese, man.
I just eat rice.
[LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH].
>> The short rib?
>> Yeah, [CROSSTALK].
>> It's just hanging
out there, here.
>> [LAUGH] [INAUDIBLE].
>> Share some of it.
>> [INAUDIBLE]
give him a piece.
>> I got tons of it,
I got tons of it.
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[LAUGH] I love it,
I like this.
Yo, so,
I want to ask you this.
It's definitely not to be
sensational or whatever.
He was telling me about
like the car club wars.
Like how did that happen?
>> It was a sad
time in low riding.
If you disrespected
another club,
they're gonna get you.
They're gonna catch
you on the Boulevard,.
>> Yeah.
>> Pull you out of
your car, and beat
you down right there.
And jack up your car.
Bumper jacks, crow bars,
whatever they had.
Back then, the guy riding
shotgun had a shotgun.
>> Yeah.
>> I say, the person
sitting in the passenger,
passenger seat now.
Is my kid.
I said and
that's a little girl or
a little boy, and
I don't need nobody
shooting at me.
>> Yeah.
>> Or doing something to
me because of old beefs.
>> Yeah.
>> Since then,
everybody's got
respect for everybody.
>> Yeah.
Well people learn to
respect from the war
most likely, you know?
>> You had to.
>> Cuz you
wanna avoid that.
>> We fought for
that respect.
>> Yeah.
>> We fought for
that, but one day
you gotta grow up.
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A lot of people
don't talk about it.
It's a black
iron low rider,
you know what I mean?
We had to go through that
to get where we're at,
you know.
But we've done it now,
it's in the past.
And our kids will be able
to do this the rest of
their lives with
no problems.
>> Yeah.
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[SOUND].
Things ain't always
what they seem.
You see low riders
affiliated with gangs,
and you know, that shit
definitely happened.
But that shit doesn't
tell the whole story.
This is something that
people really
live since birth.
They're not trying,
either.
They're not like
people going to
vintage stores trying to
like, adopt another era.
Like, this lifestyle
has pervaded them, and
they've held onto it.
And for
me to come here, and
be taken in for a day,
it's life changing shit.
From East L.A.,
to Persian L.A., to here,
this is just
people living man.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Watch for the real,
all right?
Fresh off the boat
with Eddie Huang.
We out.
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