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Soundtrack To My Life: Shawn Stockman & Public Enemy Pt.4

6 May 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube interview segment from 'Soundtrack To My Life: Shawn Stockman & Public Enemy Pt.4' (uploaded by Chris Collins). The speaker delivers a first-person monologue about childhood: they describe themselves as a dreamer who would stand on a stoop and look beyond the blocks, recall that although they grew up poor their experience of the neighborhood was beautiful rather than tragic, and credit their parents for a happy childhood.

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So how would you describe yourself as a kid? I was a dreamer. My eyes looked beyond my neighborhood. I remember waking up at seven in the morning when nobody was on the street in the summertime and there would just be this little stoop like on my stairway. And I would stand up on the stoop and just look beyond the blocks. And when I was young, three blocks for me was like miles away. So I would just kind of look. I guess I always felt like there was a world out there. I don't have sob stories about the ghetto. I know a lot of people hear about the bad things that happened in the hood, and they did. But I thought it was beautiful from looking from my innocent eyes, my block shined. Everybody has their different perspectives and experiences in the hood, but mine was beautiful. We were poor.
But it didn't matter. Like, I was a very happy kid and I had a great childhood thanks to my mother and my father.