My Dear Friends of Inked In the dark the darkest days of a federal prison in Miami Florida there was a boy and a mother the mother was selling cocaine things turned when she was arrested little did she know she was two months pregnant voila my name was Hunter Brown County what’s the word work.
I’m based out of New England Boston to be exact my background’s a little bit different than everybody else’s I was born in federal prison in Miami from there I moved to uh Freeport Bahamas to live with my maternal grandmother I moved back to America Brooklyn New York to be exact with my.
Maternal grandfather and I just been out there they raised me ever since my grandparents and stuff they came from Haiti you know I’m trying to say so coming out here making it work or whatever they came up here they would be an American eyes you know I’m saying living in Brooklyn having uh then the the actual culture in the house also the.
Two mixed into each other and then you know the basic you know humans you know Hood struggles like you from you in the middle of poverty trying to make it out so everybody get a hand on whatever whatever it takes to make it work I have a really good family like I have a great family I won’t even say no I can’t even play like that you know we got our ups.
And downs but a lot of my decisions as of right now in my life and who I am today is made on my own I got grew up faster than I should have you know what I’m saying I got involved in adult things and I just had to complete whatever I started you know what I’m trying to say so I kind of got you know I buried myself into certain things and.
It took me a while to get out of it and I’m still dealing with a circumstance right now where I’m slowly getting off the streets and you know I mean like 32 years old it’s like I’m thankful that I’m able to you know I’m trying to say that I have an outlet that I have uh the people in my corner the fact that I’m able to be an Inked.
And follow my career and make my family proud and all that make my daughter proud you know what I’m saying well you know right now I’m kind of in a Redemptive space you know my grandfather passed away so I felt as though I’m a patriarch as far as the lineage of my last name so I feel like I have an obligation and I owe it to my family to.
Change so I’ve been getting arrested since 2002 since I was 11 years old I caught my first case September 11 2002. I wasn’t learning a lesson for real I was just going to court learning the law fighting the case doing what I got to do and just kind of just continuously staying in the same you know in the same spot of.
Insanity you get what I’m trying to say we moved to Atlanta after that and then um my car I had a situation at 14 years old you know um and um that’s really where I started writing music like in 2020 I got arrested in Brooklyn literally leaving my old.
Neighborhood for a gun the next week why Clips called me to go to his house like I’m talking about the Dynamics like that whereas like I’m in jail in vic Memphis is sending me all my books in jail but that’s like my brother oh so I got two people on my phone list and I called them both on one day and.
They both was in the studio with Kanye but I’m sitting in prison facing life so you got to look at the Dynamics and you got to sit at some point you realize God is talking to you you gotta really like sit there and really analyze your situation and be like yo I can have this so I can have that I had a glimpse of what my life could be.
And what my life was I was doing both at the same time the first time I saw a tattoo I was in my uncle’s friend Ronnie from Brooklyn like with tattoos and goatees and like you know this is the 90s you feel me uh Tommy Hilfiger jackets wave caps you know what I’m trying to say baggy really outside like I’m talking about posting.
The building all day long being always shooting dice all day I’m up there kicking it with them like you know that’s what I seen they all had tattoos like that but I wasn’t in touch with my tattoos at that time the thing about me is like I was small I was young I looked I looked younger than anybody else but um so I did more than everybody else.
Before everybody else so it was I was like one of the first people with tattoos type you know like I was one of those kids like you know what I mean when I got my first tattoo it was this one right here and um don’t ask me what it says because I don’t want to get him publicity but I’ll.
Never cover it because it was my first tattoo it’s like whatever and it’s a Memory you know a lot of us go to prison or jail or come back get like wet you know what I’m saying you got nothing but time to do that so like you know like you know how it goes when you get a tattoo and your man just like yo I’m not why you would have got that.
All right I’m about to go get all right cool it was so funny because like we was in jail and like people were like like we would draw like stencils and like to go in each other’s cells and like steal a tattoo and get it before the other because they’re like I’ll be like yo this is crazy but like it was like it’s fun though you know what I mean like.
Just to watch it like oh that’s dope that’s one thing I see that like you know like don’t like really never hate on like that when they see a good tattoo they always compliment you can always get you’ll always get a compliment you don’t you don’t gotta know nobody oh my God that’s beautiful you know what I’m saying so I like I think it’s dope.
There was a point where I stopped because I realized like a lot of that I was paying on my body was like kind of negative like gang banging tattoos and all of that other [__] I covered my face I put Faith while I was incarcerated that’s the first time I got a jail tattoo.
And um that’s what carried me over until I came home you know what I’m saying and I feel like with tattoos and stuff it’s like you’re you’re putting these things in on your body and this is what you are like you know you exactly what you’re putting on your body and stuff like that so if you got.
4 500 killings you get back for a body or something like that and they take a picture you on the news with your face covered in tattoos with all that on it it’s easy to be labeled and [__] like that like I got tattoos on my face but all my face tattoos is like my daughter you know I mean like this is my daughter and the reason my face is tattooed and.
The reason I did it was because my daughter looks just like me so like that’s like my twin so I did it like you can have my face I’ll just do this instead you know the summer here the Roses her birthday her spiritual number on the side of my eye I just I fell in love with you when she was here that’s my baby you know I’m proud of my joy you.
Know she’s eight you can’t you can’t beat that I feel like you know my grandparents birthday is on my eyelids that signifies them making sure that they watching me that I’m doing the right thing you know what I’m saying I got the you know the Haitian flag on my neck on the other side I’m a Haitian man.
I’m very proud Zoe pound if you know you know you know things like that and just you know I just like I said one day at a time every day one day at a time I’m saying it means cut down I mean cut off has burned down houses because like when they came over there they invaded they went crazy so they went and did the.
Same thing they cut off as they burnt down houses and got that land back so you know Haitians we really really really proud you know I’m trying to say so uh stand on that yo so ironically when I got my head tattooed I didn’t flinch I really liked it so I got the other.
Side done I was like probably my most relaxing time that’s why I did the other side I want to do the top of mine too but I have hair so I don’t want to start going bald or nothing like that but shout out to Kate tax it’s my God I got my the jungles on my head which represents you know the jungles if you know you know.
You know my last name my government last name which is very important you know what I’m saying especially with my grandfather and all that because technically speaking I wasn’t supposed to have this last name because that’s my maternal grandmother my maternal grandfather you get what I’m saying about my father wasn’t dead so.
That was pretty much that you know my mom didn’t make the best choices we have like two Dynamics to like you know the family tree like I said you know I just I just go I just get tattoos as I go along the light goes on I just keep getting them and getting them yeah I’m not in a rush I got a non-profit in my neighborhood like in my.
Community and stuff like that so I’m really big in like Community work and helping you know the prison system and like the kids like that because I had a thing when I thought about it you got to think about it like this right if I’m locked up right and I have a daughter who’s watching my daughter.
Out there how would I trust you enough to watch my daughter so you know like trying to build a community amongst people to be like yo happens and it’s not how you start it’s how you finish but like in the midst of a uh you know something hazardous going on at least we have the proper measures to be able to you know facilitate what.
Needs to be facilitated at the moment while you know this incarceration is happening or while somebody’s in rehab or you know I’m trying to say oh just a financial burden or something like that like you know just little things sometimes you gotta get these kids Minds off because I remember it was me I ain’t had that I have no big brothers you get.
What I’m saying I made my own reputation I had to do my own in every city that I moved to and I went to like I’ve been to like 15 different schools you get what I’m saying so it’s like I always had to stand on some so I was like for me I had to find something like an anchor everywhere I went because you know the saying wherever you go there.
You are so I had to I had to be somebody I can be no matter where I’m at and I think I was just being yourself and I feel like you got to push that you know being smart is cool I’m smart I’m good at certain things I might do crochet [__] knows but that’s my [__] business I’ll do it I would do it all the same I.
Wouldn’t I because I’m not at the start anymore you get what I’m saying I’m in the new space so I’m enjoying this as I as I do it like I’m like a whole I’m like a child all over again because that’s something that I did while I was incarcerated was I had to do a lot of healing I remember I had to go.
Back to the most painful time of my life which really changed for me and go back to that eight-year-old boy again and re-raise that kid and let him know that everything is going to be okay and if I didn’t do that I would have been able to be here today because now I got him with me and he’s getting to enjoyed all of it you know.
Is there anything you want to say to an eight-year-old you yeah put that down badass
Hundred Round Kado’s story is unlike any you’ve ever heard before. Born in a federal penitentiary and sent to live with his Haitian parents, Kado’s life took a lot of twists and turns before he could even speak. We spoke with the rapper about his upbringing, his tattoo collection, the connection between his face tattoos and his daughter and much more in this episode of Heavily Inked.
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