# @ovo40 on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CHoGVRXHpur
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27802534-ovo40-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-11-15T21:30:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Noah “40” Shebib ٤٠ (@ovo40) — https://gondola.cc/ovo40

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I was blessed to grow up in a community where we had a home base. A very notorious and legendary place called “The Garage” it was just that. A garage in an alley way. We went there to hoop in the alley, smoke, drink and do shit we prolly shouldn’t of been doing at that age. I showed up there at about 11 and prolly gained access for the first time at 12 or 13. It was a community that looked out for each other, and we kept each other safe. It spanned generations and that’s what was so special about it. Guidance from elders. I remember Stro 1 used to cuss me and lecture me about smoking weed when I was 12. He didn’t make me stop but he made me understand what I was doing. The consequences and my realities. Inside those walls were life lessons and tbh... Hip Hop. The Garage introduced me to graffiti and rap music on another level. The older heads would school us and teach us about what came before. I was always a student in that place, albeit not for all the right things but none the less it was music and art class of the highest degree. Every Saturday was the RB at midnight. The “Roach Blunt” was rolled at 12 every Sat so if you were in the hood you could pull up with whatever you had and “troes” (throw in) on the massive COVID unfriendly RB for the week. To take it a step further in true garage fashion were the 2nd generation RBs... So Saturday’s RB roach went in a jar  until there were enough for a second generation RB. What messed up kids we were wow. But the lessons I learned will stay with me forever. The experiences,  the sense of community and love we had. Hip Hop really was the factor that tied it and us all together. That was the driving force to me. I could tell endless stories about this place. Ones of triumph and ones of tragedy. But none the less it is my roots and most likely a lot of the reason why I am here today. Forever grateful for the energy and magic that was “The Garage”. #Sandman #Rezinman #Poise #Stro1 #FernDaBurn #ArtChild #Ren #Bacon, Kane #Wysper #Merz #Freaze #Jameuli #Judge #Har #Skill Diller, Nadman, Porker #P2K #Lou #Bubba #Gangpar #Meeger #Shauna #LumpLump #Geebo #Deebo #Eeebo #SimSimmer #Batchman, Stanky #LW #JJ #Weirzy

RIP Holly💔

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weirzy, wysper, batchman, deebo, poise, artchild, merz, freaze, jj, geebo, gangpar, simsimmer, lumplump, eeebo, bacon, lou, ren, har, stro1, jameuli, judge, sandman, p2k, rezinman, bubba, shauna, ferndaburn, lw, meeger, skill

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