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"BR COULD NEVER BE REPLACED!"

Growing up in Baton Rouge is a challenge, he says. Even though the city is so small, it is too much to get into. So many hoods, gangs, wannabe gangsters-just a lot of evil spirits for real. Sure, it's like any other urban city in the South, but the experience is simply different. BR could never be replaced. Don't get me wrong, he says; that would always be home for me. Like my family, the food, and the crawfish, that's all still a part of me. I feel I had more fun as a child in BR than in my adolescent years. Just because, you know, I was more Nivea and innocent in a lot of situations that would normally make me mature faster. I don't know; sometimes I take that as a good thing, Brian

Growing up, I remember staying with my mom a lot. I was a "mama's boy" at an early age. I vividly remember staying in these apartments on Ave.

J.; that is where I can say I had a traditional childhood.

Like riding

bikes, meeting friends, and playing hide and seek, that was fun now that I reflect. During that time, I was introduced to music, mainly rap, by all my family. My mom, uncle, and cousins were all in this rap group called

'BloodyBatEnt.'

As a kid, I

always heard their music playing or them freestyling on a beat. So, after a while, it became love for me. Before I knew it, my mom was helping me with my very first song, 'I'm Da Best.' As time went on, I entered my first talent show at my elementary school.

Which I won, he says. The next talent show was more serious. I had all my cousins and friends perform with me.

We had choreography and practice leading up to the event. I remember my mom and late godmother Alexis giving us critiques to take home the win. We eventually won the talent show, taking home one of the biggest trophies I have ever had. I gained a lot of confidence from those few wins, and it pushed me to pursue further. Before 13, I had a feature with The Club Banga King, 'Level'. If you are from BR, you know he was a huge part of the culture. So, I was very thankful for him to do a song with me and mentor me. "After that, I started to get invited to perform at people's birthday parties and all kinds of other stuff," he says. I could remember going to school, and my classmates would sing my songs. On the inside, I was grinning, but on the outside, I couldn't show that to them.

In my second year of middle school, I joined the marching band.

We took trips all over. From Washington, DC, to Epcot. We performed for a veteran memorial, where we met a veteran who was 104 years old. I even did a pageant before, he says. It was a pageant hosted at my middle school (Park Forest) for young boys and girls.

The experience was dope; I did like 3 different rounds.

Presence, performance, and questions. All my family and friends were there watching me, so I had to do my big one, he said. I ended up winning the contest, and that year ended up being one of my best in middle school. I had become homecoming king prior and won prom king later the same year.

Brian "Tha Yungin" Payne when he was about 4 or 5 years old. Wearing a Chevrolet jacket, vintage Tupac Tee, and a Jordan headband.

Fun Fact: His nickname is Choo

 

DREAMS TO REALITY

"I just knew I wanted to be creatively amazing." - Tha Yungin

Desmond "Big Dump" Hardnett uploaded this picture the day he passed on May 4, 2018 The author talks to Brian about his ambitious dreams of becoming a rapper, actor, designer, entrepreneur, and film director. Meeting NBA YoungBoy at a young age and discussing childhood

experience(s) in Hometown; Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Many dreams graced my mind growing up. I wanted to be a rapper, actor,

designer,

entrepreneur, and film director. My options were so open, he said. I just knew I wanted to be creatively amazing. I was just so filled

with so much hope and inspiration. Not to mention, I was surrounded by so much talent and motivation. It was so right to dream big. During the 2016 era, my late stepfather 'Dump' introduced me to the new artist he was managing at the time. He always bragged about how his new artist was going to be the biggest thing ever. It

happens to be who we now know as 'NBA YoungBoy'. I believe Young Boy was about 16 or 17 when I met him. He had on some black and white Nike Air Max 95 sitting under the tree on what we called 'Hardnett Lane'. We had just come from school. Me and my little brother 'Dee' were already listening to YoungBoy music prior but meeting him in person was different. To some people, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Over time, I became one of YB's biggest fans. We were so close

to him to the point he had our dog in

one of his first videos, 'Bandz'.

 

 

Within a year, he released '38 Baby, which would change his whole career. I was proud of YB back then, but I don't think I understood the level of success that was really heading his way,

he says. The next thing I remember is my stepdad 'Dump' bringing me with him to New Orleans to shoot one of the

videos for the song 'Untouchable' off the 'Al YoungBoy' album. YB had just been released from jail and success was awaiting. That day was fun; we were chilling playing the game, riding around in an all-black Range Rover. I loved to see how YB was getting bigger and bigger by the day. It was motivational for me to go

bigger, he said.

 

Brian Payne, also known as Tha Yungin, is the CEO of Dworld, an

apparel company. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 19, 2003. He graduated from high school in 2022, following a recent

move to Houston. He launched the brand in 2020, our it sained traction by 2022. Despite his lack of prior fashion experience, Brian has always had a strong sense of style and a passion for luxury. Before becoming interested in fashion, Brian worked as a graphic designer, art director, and photographer/videographer for several years. Brian is currently studying film and radio at Texas Southern University, with a focus on clothing and textiles. He also has been the creative director of the DWORLD brand since September 2020. He provides further details about his goals and aspirations for the next mission. I aim to instill a new culture centered on DUMPWAY that is motivated by an integrated strategy. Certainly, I would like to style the individuals who inspire me, and I want the brand to encourage them just as much. The mission is running from just one quote that I think could resonate with a lot of people. 'Takeover the World'.

Top, $300 by Jean Paul Gaultier.

Pants, his own. Shoes, SISO by Nike. Accessories, his own.

Flashback to May 4. 2018. my stepfather was fatally shot in his neighborhood. "It broke me," he says. It was a melancholy period for everyone involved. Mother, siblings, and relatives. Adding to the problem, 1 was only a few days shy of finishing middle school. What hurt was knowing he would show up with a big smile on his face. I'm currently in my third year of college, and I am aware that he continues to be pleased with my accomplishments. I will always be thankful to him for teaching me the importance of chasing dreams and putting in hard work, it is inspiring to be around YoungBoy, a fellow Baton Rouge, Louisiana native like myself, who is achieving remarkable success at a young age by reaching "I on the Billboard charts and setting records. Lately, my attention has been on establishing my brand and launching it successfully. I have been working on

"for a couple of months. He says he is about to experience his third release. I aim to do something unique with this compilation. Perhaps 1 should consider adjusting my marketing tactics or seeking fresh ideas, but! I understand that success in fashion often involves experimenting with different approaches, so I am open to all possibilities. He said he envisions himself owning his main store, ideally in Houston, in the future.

 

So, my name is Miracle, and I'm here with Brian. Welcome, Brian. I have a few questions for you about your life how your childhood was and everything about your biography. So, number one question.

How was it growing up in Baton Rouge? Growing up in Baton Rouge, at least, I would say, was difficult. I just feel like it's a challenge, growing up. It would help if you had a certain mindset to,

like, navigate out of

Baton Rouge because I feel like some

people could get stuck there and with their mindset out there, they really won't get past. So, yeah, it's just a mindset thing.

So, is it the hood? Yeah. Basically. I guess most people you see would say it's the hood, very it's in a very deep, deep south of

America.

So, yes, pretty hood, a lot of wildlife, a lot of seafood. It's just yeah. It's very

country, hood, all of that. Okay. But is there any

way the hood, like, affects your life negatively or positively.

Yeah. I feel like the hood made me who 1 am. It gave me a lot of

suce smans. " ost ossiedl made me chensn the disser things. So, like, going up from the hood, you know, you don't

really see as much as you would in Houston.

So we come out of Houston seeing, oh, this is a big city, a lot of different spaces, and everything is just far out. If you've been to

Baton Rouge, everything is just a small little city. Everybody

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so it's like, you know? Thats cool. So, my

second question, did your mom really used to rap?

Was your mom a rapper? Yes. Mom used to rap, from the youngest I think I was about 5 or 6. I could remember her, my uncle, all of them were in, like, a group. So, they made music a lot of times, and 1 always heard them playing, like, beats or

freestyling or something like that.

So, yeah, that made me kinda want to start doing it myself. So, your mom inspired you to go into rapping or your family basically? Because you said, everybody basically does music.

So, who inspired you to do music? I just need one person.

Yeah. Basically, for one person, it would have been my mom because I looked up to her, and then I liked her music. I would like, anytime I hear her songs, to sing them like they were mine.

So, I feel like she was the number one person that inspired me to do this. So, my third question, do you remember your first song?

Yes. I do. My first song was called I'm the best. My mom helped me make that song. That was a song i made when I was about 6, but I ended up recording it when I was about, like, 10 or 13.

 

So how's life been for you lately? Life has been life, I guess, you could say. Recently, as of yesterday, ! recently lost one of my great aunties. And then.

like, 2 months ago, I lost my godmother who was

very close to me. That really affected me.

And then in November of this year as well, I lost my grandmother on my father's side. So it's just been a lot of, you know, trying to heal, grieving, a lot of emotions, really. So my life has been a roller coaster, basically. Yeah. So I'm sorry about that,

So any recent regrets? Only regret I really have 1| really don't have too much regrets, but one that would have recently would be not checking up on the ones I love the most, who's not here with me now. So it'd be like, I could ve done more or, you know, maybe change the outcome of what it is now. That's probably really my only dream.