those different meetings and speak
my mind.
Barbarin: Did you learn a lot in
those meetings?
Buck: I learned a lot, there’s orga-
nizations that meet that we don’t
know nothing about…discussing
plans on how they think the com-
munity should be… people voting
on how they think your life should
be. And what’s crazy is that some
of those people don’t even stay in
those communities.
Barbarin: I can relate to this
because people have New Orleans
culture magazines and are not even
from the city or don’t really be
involved in the community.
Barbarin: So…where is Trelly?
Buck: Trelly everywhere (laughs)…
Trelly is in New Orleans…Trelly is
being Trelly…
Barbarin: Are you a single father
raising your kids, because I know
you have kids prior to Trelly and I
know their mom is from New Or-
leans but I always see you with the
kids based on your posts?
Buck: My first 4 kids I had to raise
because they mom was in and
out of jail, everybody knows that
story so I had to be the man and
the father that my kids needed me
to be…I had to be that person. As
time went along, they seen the fire,
everybody was saying Ooh Buck
your baby mama down bad… and
all this made her get it together.
It gets better, and when I got with
Trelly, she tagged along and helped
me.
Barbarin: Well that’s good because
you really don’t find men that step
up like that, they usually just leave
the burden on the mother or the
grandmother. And with daughters,
how do you maintain their hair?
Buck: At one point I was going
to try and do it and now I just get
their hair braided and it last for a
while.
Barbarin: What’s the dynamic
between Ro and Trelly, do they get
along… how is their relationship?
Buck: Ummm yeah they are better
now, everything start off rocky so
yeah their cool. They started off cool
to tell you the truth…it was mainly
me being sneaky, still tryna get some
from Ro and all that kind of stuff,
getting caught and all that and me
admitting it… so that just made it
hard for her not trusting me… she
was like fuck that nigga and ten after
a while they realized it wasn’t each
other, it was me.
Barbarin: But you took ownership
though…
Buck: Yeah I admitted it.
Barbarin: As far as Trelly, she has
her own business and I see that you
helped her out, did she always have
a passion for doing hair?
Buck: Well she don’t even do hair…
she just started. She just wanted
to do something…I was like you
need a business. I started with tryna
create something, lotion, baby oil
and perfume and went to tryna sell
that…with her name on it, then
we got phone cases and the fabric
store and that actually did good.
We learned how to make fur phone
cases, then after that we started
clo