Visible Lives by Hardy James Earl & Dean Terrance & Bennett Clay Stanley

Author:Hardy, James Earl & Dean, Terrance & Bennett Clay, Stanley [Dean, Terrance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2010-05-04T23:00:00+00:00

DJ: This is DJ and you’re listening to Da Spot. I’m back with my special guests Raheim Rivers and Mitchell Crawford, the country’s—if not the world’s—premier Black male couple. Now, you have two children in total?

Raheim: Yeah. Our son, Raheim Errol the Third, is twenty-one; he’s getting his master’s at NYU in aeronautical engineering. And, our daughter, Destiny, is eleven; she just appeared in the Broadway musical, Billy Elliot.

DJ: Now, Raheim the Third is your biological son…

Raheim: Yup.

DJ: And Destiny is adopted.

Mitchell: Yes.

DJ: Given your public lives, there must be added pressure and stress on all of you. How do you balance the personal and the professional?

Mitchell: There’s always going to be stress and pressure—you just have to make them work for you.

Raheim: Like my pops says, “Take it half a day at a time.”

[Laughter]

DJ: Half a day at a time?

Raheim: Yeah. You’re usually asleep for close to a third of it and spend almost another third just keeping your balance, getting from point A to B.

DJ: Who is the king of the castle?

Raheim: Depends on the day of the week.

[Laughter]

Mitchell: And the time of day.

[More laughter]

Raheim: No one rules the roost. We are a team. So there isn’t this tug of war over control. And we know each other, we know who should take the lead in something, and don’t trip about them doing it. That’s a mistake some male couples make, that somebody has to be the boss, the man….

DJ: That, like our boi Joe says, “Somebody’s Gotta Be On Top.”

[Laughter]

DJ: Let’s go back to the night y’all met. Give us the when, where, and how.

Mitchell: We met at Harry’s bar in the Village.

DJ: Get out! I don’t remember seein’ y’all there.

Raheim: Probably because we never went back after that night.

[Laughter]

DJ: You remember the date?

Mitchell: June 5, 1993.

DJ: Really?

Raheim: Yup.

DJ: Wow. How do you remember that exact date?

Mitchell: How could we not?

Raheim: Turns out it’s also our son’s birthday.

DJ: Sweet. So, if you remember the exact date, you gotta remember the first time you saw each other. [Pause] Now, see, y’all should’ve seen the look they just gave each other. Like it was yesterday, huh? [Pause] See, now they’re noddin’ and grinnin’ like crazy, done got even closer, and holdin’ the other’s hand tighter. A’ight, let’s hear it.

Mitchell: I spotted him coming into the bar.

DJ: You remember what he was wearing?

Mitchell: A green cap, green-striped form-fitting shirt, and khakis tucked inside his Timbs.

DJ: Day-um! You had him on ex-ray!

[Laughter]

Mitchell: I did.

DJ: How ’bout you, Raheim?

Raheim: Light brown shirt, brown sandals, and stone-washed jeans that fit him perfectly.

DJ: Ha, we know what you was after!

[Laughter]

DJ: How long after did y’all know this is it?

Mitchell: Three or four months.

DJ: Did it just sneak up on you?

Raheim: Hell yeah. I didn’t go looking for it. I was too busy bein’ a Mac, just tryin’ to get me some. I wasn’t even thinking about fallin’ in love. Even when I was all in it and it was staring me in my face, I tried to wave it off, ignore it.

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