Legal Crack: The Candyman's Journey

0:00 Welcome to the Living the Dream Podcast with Curveball, if you believe you can achieve. Welcome to the Living the Dream with Curveball Podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate and inspire. Where I interview guests that teach, motivate and inspire. Today, I am joined by singer, songwriter, the maker of that legal crack, and we're going to be talking about what that means Mr Amdia Menweka. I've been knowing Mr Menweka for a while, been trying to get him on the show, glad to have him here.

0:45 So we're going to be talking to him about everything that he's up to and going to be up to. So, Amdia, thank you so much for joining me today. Appreciate you having me on there Curveball. Hey, why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself? Well, as you say, my name is I'm dm and wecker, or to a lot of people who buy pecan candy from me, the candy man or mr mcwecker the candy man when I'm doing music. But basically I'm just a guy who trying to leave, who trying to leave it better than it was when I came here.

1:30 Basically, if I can put it in a nutshell, Currently I'm doing music. Of course Curtis was talking about the League of Crack Pecan Candy. That's why he didn't say Pecan Candy, but he was saying he was going to talk about what legal crack is. Which legal crack is? They call it pecan candy that I sell and basically they call it legal crack because once I put a hit of my pecan candy, it keeps them coming back. Hence it was a joke that they started saying I put crack in the pecan candy. That's why they're getting addicted. And it changed. It changed from the joke of crack was in the candy to them calling it legal crack and I adopted the name and I ran with it and that's what everybody mostly called my candy non-legal crack, and I've been selling it for a while and actually about to hook up with my friend Curtis and start shipping some out there so he can start selling it in his store.

2:27 Yes, I told him he needed to. And I remember when I first met Amdia he was telling me about his candy and I knew about pecan candy. So I was like, yeah, you know, I like it and stuff, but you know, sometimes it could be too hard. And he was telling me, oh well, I make chewy candy too. I'm like for real Chewy pecan candy. He let me taste it and he got me hooked too, even before it was called Legal Crack. Yeah, yeah, he was hooked way before the Legal Crack thing, yeah, so tell us how you came up with the name Omdia Manweka.

3:08 Okay now the name I'm Dear, manweka. Okay now the name I'm Dear. It's an acronym, but it started off as two separate words OM is um, the channel of monks and DIA. I was in uh, it was. Dia was in a West African book, a book called Names West African Names. One time that I had and I was looking at the book and I always just liked the DIA. For some reason I just liked the deal and I don't know me being me messing around. One day, I don't know how, I came to the conclusion of putting O-M and D-I-A together but I ended up putting the channel amongst with the West African name, per.

3:53 The book was saying D-I-A. I put them together and it became Amdia, so Memweka. A lot of people think it's not true, but it's a very true story. I had no intentions on having a last name at all. Like people were like what's your last name gonna be? And I was like I don't need a last name, I'm just gonna go by. I'm D, you know. So. One night playing. I'm just going to go by. I'm D, you know. So. One night playing Scrabble. Because I used to play a lot of Scrabble and people didn't never want to challenge me because every time they challenged me on the words that I put on the board they would lose because what they didn't know.

4:39 Since I was a kid, I always love reading dictionaries, so that's why I knew all a lot of words that you don't even normally see on a regular. So if a person sees it for the first time, they're going to swear that's not a word. So I had the letters to spell out Mimweka. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to spell, so I just put M-E-M-W-E-Q-U-A down on the board and the host said nobody would challenge, because everybody was always scared to challenge, because every time they would challenge a word they would lose. When I put it down, they were looking at it.

5:19 Everybody did the normal. You're going to challenge them. You're going to challenge them. I ain't going to challenge them. I'm always going to lose. No one challenged them. So when the game was over, they did what they normally do when they don't challenge they ran straight to the dictionary to go look up to see if the word was in there. Now, every other time prior to Milwaukee, they go to the dictionary. They see the word. They were like uh-huh, see, that's why I'm on a challenge this night. They didn't see me and Weka in the dictionary. So now they were saying, oh, you got us, you got us, you got us. And I'm like, no, I ain't got y'all, that's a word for real. And they was like, man, that's not no word, it's not in the dictionary. So, me being me, I was like, eh, it ain't got to be in the dictionary to be the word.

6:01 I said, it's a word that I made and it's going to be my last name. So it's a real word. It's just not in the dictionary but it's a real word. And that's how the last name, mweka, came, because I actually took Mweka and made it my last name, because it was sounding cool to me like I'm Dill Mweka, I'm like man, that sound kind of cool, that sound kind of dope. You know what I'm saying. Even if it don't sound cool and dope to nobody else, it sound cool and dope to my ears, which is the really the ear that matters the most, because it's going to be my name. So I changed it to I'm dear man, welcome now.

6:42 I always had a thought process, even as a kid, because my mom would tell people that in a minute, I think, when I was like in kindergarten or the first grade, maybe the second grade or something. I came home from school one day and told my mom I ain't like my name and I wanted to change it. So changing my name was always in me. But a certain situation came up that presented itself for me to go ahead and change it, because I actually changed my name to help somebody else out. Now I changed my name during my unfortunate period of incarceration and I had this guy you know he was an Islamic guy, muslim, and he went to change his name. And he went to change his name but the state of Florida came up with something about you couldn't some kind of rule or law that was coming up with during that time, about you can't change your name.

7:31 And the guy was asking me what could he do about it. So I was working in the law library at the time. So you know I did some research on it and I was telling him I think I found something that I can get you, you know, on appeal. You know you can get you on appeal, you can get overturned and you'll be able to keep your name. But of course I understood he didn't really want to do it, because in prison that ain't like the most welcoming place for people who are actually filing motions and stuff. So they was going to probably come down on him or something, and so he didn't want to mess with it. So I was like, well, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and file a petition to change my name and of course they're going to deny it because of that rule which gives me the opportunity to, you know, appeal it, and I'm going to fight it and we're going to win.

8:22 I say, and I just take the flag. You know what I'm saying, because that just was me. And I really wanted to, because I didn't, I didn't, I don't know. I really wanted him to be able to keep his name because I was like, I found a way that I know you can win. But I understand, because when we up in here, this is not really about rehabilitation. It's about wanting us to be recidivistic and come back. But that's a whole different story for a whole other time, but that's the fact of the matter. So of course they don't try to bring you know, and if you try to change stuff and challenge stuff, they're going to bring some heat on you. So I took the heat. I went, filed a petition to make my name I'm DM in Weka.

9:03 Of course they ruled against it. I got into the appellate court and ended up winning, and so now people was able to change their names. You know that was back like in 96, 95, something like that, but that's how I ended up changing my name. I ended up changing my name. Although I always wanted to change my name, the opportunity actually became presented to me because of somebody else who was going through something, and I found out a way that they could actually win and so I just put myself out there at the test market and so now my name is Amdielman Weka, and I honestly can't remember what the other guy's name was, but he was able to keep his name, and then people there after that they was able to change their names and you know they could keep Because, you know, I.

9:59 I mean, I understand why they were trying to create the rule, but at the same time it was a silly rule to me and I was like man, come on now, y'all already trying to strip us of everything, although some of us made mistakes and put ourselves here, and some of us ain't did nothing because there's so many people incarcerated that they even did the crime. But I understand, you know we put the ones of us who put ourselves in here. I understand y'all ain't trying to make it all good and stuff for us, but at the same time, come on now, our name change. So you know that's how that came about, though. So since 1996, I have been I'm DMM welcome and OMDIA I, I.

10:39 I even turned it to an acronym, which means one man doesn't individually achieve. Yeah, that's a good one right there. So as much as you want to or even if you don't want to, I understand you know kind of tell people about your incarceration, what got you there and how you bounce back and what you learned you know from your incarceration. All right. In a nutshell, my own stupidity put me there. I call it my own stupidity because I allowed my anger to get the best of me and then, my anger getting the best of me, I ended up shooting somebody. Now, for the record, I'm not going to say he was no saint or nothing that I ended up shooting.

11:27 I'm not bragging about it because I'm just saying the person that I ended up shooting, he wasn't no saint, he was all in some small kind of stuff and that's how it really ended up happening, because he kind of thought he had a sucker, as they say, in the streets and you know. So, you know, tried to play me some kind of way and all that. And again, it still didn't have to get to that point. You know what I'm saying. It actually should have been. Even if it was anything that should have happened, it should have just been a fight. And I'm going to say, on my part, he would have deserved the butt whooping that I was going to give him Because, like, and I'm going to say on my part, he would have deserved the butt whooping that I was giving Because, like I said, it wasn't like he was no saint and he did open the doors with laid down the wrong path of me getting so angry I shot him.

12:15 But you know I'm glad I didn't kill him. I would be lying if I said that wasn't my intentions at that moment. But I'm glad my intentions didn't get fulfilled, you know, because it shouldn't have never got. My anger shouldn't have never drove me that far to where I ended up shooting. If anything, it should have just been a fight. Some people might say it shouldn't have been that. But nah, because what led up to it? He deserved a butt whoop, he deserved that. But he ain't really deserve to get shot unless he would have been threatening my life, and really and truly he wasn't really threatening my life, it was just I allowed my anger to get the best of me and some issues that I thought wasn't in me was still there.

13:05 So it presented me the opportunity to realize what I thought wasn't there was there and I was able to work on it. So you know I have a better control of that anger that got out of control that day and led me to do that. Plus, it has also allowed me to actually help some other people because I've been seeing them in situations since I've been out. You know people I'm close to or stuff. I can see where their anger about to take them somewhere and I'll present to them my story. I say, look, you don't want to end up like me. My anger took me to the penitentiary. I don't want to see you allow your anger to do the same thing to you, and I can see that from live experience of what I would be.

13:48 So I'll be presenting a different alternative to them and stuff like that. You know, um, but yeah, it was my anger. I didn't have to shoot the guy, but it ended up. I, you know I didn't have to even want to have the intent to kill him, but hey, we all make our mistakes and stuff in life. So when I did go to prison, you know, I just looked at it as well. I put myself in the position, but I'm going to make the best of it. So I wasn't a royalty prisoner or nothing like that. Hey, actually, to me I was rebellious, but I was rebellious in a good way, from the standpoint of I rebelled against allowing myself to adopt a prisoner's mentality or inmate's mentality, etc.

14:42 Is one of the leading causes of people end up recidivistically coming back because all they're thinking of themselves is an inmate or a criminal. And so they start saying, yeah, when I get out I'm going to do the same things and stuff like that, especially with some of the things they would try to do the guards and the institutions try to do to you, because it's set for you to try to prove a point to them, like you can't break me. Because one of the mattress that used to go through in the prison, through a lot of people's minds I used to hear them say, is that, yeah, they can't break me, I'm going to go back out and do the same thing. But they didn't understand. That was really the game plan. To make you so mad, to show them you can't straight me up, you can't do nothing, I'm going to still be the same person when I come out.

15:28 And being the same person when you come out, a lot of them was coming back in. Some of them were doing 10 years after they just did five years. And here I did one going on my second year and some of them coming back, and I'm like, man, you just did 10 years and now you back a year later. Man, you just did 10 years and now you back a year later. You did 5 you back. But I started understanding the mentality that a lot of them was having, because they adopted there was an inmate. They adopted there was a criminal. They adopted what the prison system wants you to adopt mentally so that you can, 9 times out of ten, recidivistically come back. So I rebelled against that because the whole time I was like, oh, I was stupid and put myself here, this ain't the place to be, and I know when I get out I'm going to make sure to tell any and everybody this ain't the place to be and I'm not coming back, which I haven't been back.

16:22 I got out in 1997. It's 2025. I've never been back. I kept that promise to myself but while I was in there, like I said, I made the best of it. I ended up working in the law library, which I learned. That makes you an enemy, because that's why I tell people. You might have a lot, you might disagree, but I went through the prison system. So that's why I tell people. You might have a lot, you might disagree, but I was like I went through the prison system, so that's why I speak like this about it. I knew it's not designed to rehabilitate you because of the things I was going through Working in the law library. It gave me the opportunity to help people with their cases and stuff and I was noticing that, you know, the system had an over-sentence.

17:04 A lot of people, like people had some people would come to me. They asked for their medical. But because the system is always trying to burn people, because they know a lot of people don't know nothing, they don't be knowing the pleas they be signing, they don't be knowing this, that and other and judges and stuff sometimes send sentence you to what they want. Because in my case I went to trial and I lost the trial but the sentence that the judge gave me was still too much, the actual. It was too much based off of me and although when they gave me the sentence, in my mind I thought it was right, because you know, I said I shot somebody, so you know, but I was the first time a friend, I had no record or nothing like that.

17:52 So in florida they had a certain point system and you scored to a certain amount and that's what they got to sentence you to, unless you was an habitual offender or if you committed a crime so heinous that the point system could be thrown out. Well, I didn't fall under neither one of them categories, even though somebody might say, well, you shot somebody that could be as heinous that's not considered heinous under. They're so heinous that you could just throw the point system out. I was a first-time offender, so I ended up getting the over sentence and I learned all that when I went to prison and was in the law library and so that's where my other rebellious part of me came, not trying to be a troublemaker, but I was like okay, y'all want us to in this society, y'all want us to abide by the laws and the rules and if we don't, you know we have to suffer consequences and stuff like that.

18:51 But I was looking at it from the standpoint that the courts always have this thing called procedures of conduct or procedures of rules and stuff like books that you know that rules and regulations that they're supposed to abide by, right, but most times they wasn't. And I know for, particularly in my case, because the judge didn't abide by the rules, because the judge used emotionalism. You know what I'm saying. That's why I be telling people. You know what I'm saying. When I hear people saying it's the only system I got, I say that's a sorry thing because you got to think about it. When you're looking at judges and stuff, they're saying you're honoring all that because you're wearing a robe.

19:33 How do I know you are an honorable person? How do I know you didn't over sentence somebody like the judge who over sentenced me when he knew he was sentencing me too much? And how I know that? Because here, six months later, working in the law library, I learned that my sentence was too much and I'm like okay, you are a judge, so that means you done went to college, law school, all this. You been doing this for years so you knew you was over sentencing. Here I find I know you know this because six months later I done learned reading y'all rules and stuff. So you do the emotionalism to sentence me because you was mad because I wouldn't take a plea that you wanted to give, a plea that was really more than what I scored out to.

20:21 Because in the end, even going to trial and losing, the most they was able to were supposed to give me was three years. They exceeded that sentence. The plea that they were coming to me exceeded the three-year sentence. And all this is known by the judge and the district attorneys, because you can't tell me, y'all don't know this stuff. And here I just in six months in prison in a law library I learned all this, so y'all knew all that. So that's the blatant disregard y'all have of your own rules and regulations. So that would make me a rebel. As far as working in a law library when I was finding out people was over sentenced and all that, I was getting them back in court, and I was getting them back in court.

21:03 From the standpoint of listen, I accept my sentence, and I accept if you give anybody else a sentence in here if they did something wrong. What I cannot accept, though, is that y'all not going to follow y'all rules and regulations, but y'all want us to do the same thing in society. If we don't follow the rules and regulations, we have to suffer consequences. But y'all don't follow the rules and regulations, we have to suffer consequences. But y'all don't want to follow your own rules and regulations. And you just want to just say, well, he's supposed to be sentenced three years, I'm going to give him seven, or I'm going to give him ten, or I'm going to give him fifteen, and wonder why a lot of people don't trust the judicial system, because, no matter what you try to say, that's human beings, and all human beings have some kind of infallibility to them.

21:49 All human beings are subject to being a human at some time. So whether you wear a robe or a uniform, whatever, that's what people get messed up at. You forget that that person that is in that uniform or whatever ain't nothing but a human, just like you. They can make mistakes. They can be human just like you. They can make mistakes, they can be judgmental like you, they can lie like you. And all that People be thinking because you wear certain outfits. You are supposed to be so honorable, but I have the mindset of how do I know you are honorable just because you got that uniform or that on? I've had good experiences with judges and officers and stuff in life. But I've had good experiences with judges and officers and stuff in life, but I've had bad too. That's why I look at it.

22:30 I look at all human beings as a human being. I don't look at your titles, I don't look at what you wear or nothing like that. I say because that what blinds us? We get caught up in titles and stuff and we forget that's a mere mortal human being, just like us, so they can still mess up too and make mistakes. So don't just think because a person has a certain position, they are just automatically an honorable person. You have to see their actions and stuff like that. You know what I'm saying. But so, like I said, I learned that. That's why, when I say rebel, I'm saying I wasn't a rebel trying to cause problems in prison. I wasn't trying to be fighting people, trying to fight gods and all that.

23:12 I was focused on wanting to go home. But I was a rebel because I was learning that y'all over-sentencing people or y'all giving people sentences they weren't supposed to have, or y'all the carousel people into signing plea bargains that they should have never signed, and I'm helping them get back in court. But what I found out? That made me an enemy? Because the institution didn't like that. Same way, they didn't like I made them have to keep the GED program open, because I used to help two of the students up in there, but they didn't want us to have GED and all that because, like I said, it's not about rehabilitation, it's about recidivism. They don't want you to learn or nothing like that. So they shut the GED program down and I had to fight to get it back up.

23:55 But I got it back up, which made them definitely didn't like me up in there. I wasn't really that liked by the penal institution because I was helping people, which I felt good about. That from the standpoint of I would rather you not liking me for doing the right things than you like me for doing the wrong stuff. You see what I'm saying. So I never felt bad that the institution was against me because I was like I'm not doing nothing wrong. I'm in the law library learning about the law, learning that the judicial system and stuff can burn some of these people, so I'm just helping to correct wrongs.

24:37 So if that makes me an enemy to y'all, then that's a good thing, because I'm not doing nothing wrong. Now, if I was in here fighting, doing drugs, you know, trying to rape and all this kind of stuff, y'all be patting me. That's what y'all want me to be an animal up in here. But I was rebellious against becoming an animal because I felt I made a mistake. I put myself here. I ain't blame nobody. I wasn't running around saying I was a victim of the system, even though I was from the sense of they over sentenced me, but I wasn't going around, oh, I'm a victim, and all that. No, I was stupid and I got myself with him, but I made the best of it.

25:20 I learned some stuff, I helped some people and when I got out I was able to use my experiences to share with people. So it's trying to point them in a direction and not go there. So that's why I got this mentor. You know I call her a mentor. You know she one time was telling me when I was telling somebody about I have been a prisoner, she's like Ooh. One time was telling me when I was telling somebody about I had been to prison and all that, she was like ooh, I'll be ashamed, I would never want to tell anybody I've been to prison or nothing like that. And I told her well, I'm not ashamed about it, I'm not proud, it's not like it's a proud thing. Oh. I'm proud, I'm trying to present to the people I'm banned, oh, I've been to prison. No, I tell the opposite to people because when I tell people sometimes they are shocked they be like you don't even look like you've been to prison, or I can't believe that and I'm trying to show them because it's an image that they always try to present.

26:12 That's why most everybody was like you don't even look like a prisoner. And my response would be what does a prisoner look like? Because I've been to prison, so apparently I do look like a prisoner look like. Because I've been to prison, so apparently I do look like a prisoner. But I get what they're saying, because they try to present this image to society of what a prisoner is supposed to look like. And I was just like no, a prisoner can look like anybody. Any one of us can make a mistake and get locked up. You know what I'm saying. I said well, I share the story with them because I show them. Just because we make mistakes don't mean we have to be defined by our mistakes or we live stuck in a stuck pattern by our mistakes.

26:55 You know, we make our mistakes, we learn from them, we elevate and we rise. Well, I learned from my mistake, I elevated and I rise. So, like I said, I use it Even with some of the young dudes around here. You know, because I got some things I'm going to be doing working with the youth. But I be telling them about, man, you don't want to go to prison, and I share my prison story with them and I be telling them. See, you got certain individuals who come out here and glorify it to you and they're doing it injustice, because they're giving you a glory report and it's looking beautiful to your eyes and the impressionable young mind that you have. So you will have some thoughts that, yeah, I need to go to jail or go to prison because it's fun.

27:41 But I be telling them ain't nothing fun about that, Ain't nothing. When you there, your goal is to get out, so you can't let your mind crack and you got to make the best of it. You know which is unfortunate. You got to make the best of it, but you got to do whatever it is to come out with your mind intact and don't return. But I let them know that ain't the place to be. I'm not even out here trying to sell no great tales about it. You know what I'm saying. I let them know. This ain't the place to be. Change your mind frame. And that's why I'm trying to work with them, Because this week that's coming up, I got a young brother trying to work with him because this week just coming up I got a young brother, finna, be working with me.

28:26 You know he got himself in a little trouble a little young dude, you know, caught up and he went to this little group home thing and I think he spent like and I know he was in there for at least six months or something like that. You know, he out now and his mom and them and all of them, they always buy candy from me and his mom and them and all of them they always buy candy from him. And his mom was talking to me about it and she was like, you know, her son was saying like he was wondering if I could have a job or something for him so he could make some money and stuff for the summer. And I told her, yeah, I could do that for him, because I was looking at it from a standpoint of he could work with me. You know I could try to, you know, put good stuff in his head and one of the reasons why he reached out to me because I always did talk good to him, so I guess you know he was looking at like I'm an older guy, Like some other older guys was like being like a bad influence on him.

29:11 From what I was understanding, I guess he was looking at me like an older dude that's not trying to tell him in the right way. So I figured if he worked with me for the summer, you know, because I'm going to be teaching him how to become an entrepreneur and stuff like that and have him under my wing and, you know, point him in the right direction and put him in a position to make some legitimate money. But he ain't got to be out here trying to go sell dope and stuff like that and on a slick it's like a challenge that I'm doing. It's like a challenge that I'm doing. It's like my own self-imposed challenge of okay, if we want to really save our youth, then we got to actively start doing stuff. So I'm like if you see me trying to help a young brother for the summer so he can make money legitimately and teach him how to grow up to become a business owner and stuff like that, it got another brother too who reached out to me.

30:07 He said, man, if you got anybody else, send them my way, because he want to have one under him. When others see another brother working with me, they might want to go take some other young brothers under their wings too and work with them and show them how to make money legitimately or teach them how to be a business owner and stuff like that. That's what I'm working on now because, like I said, I try to use all my experiences for my bad ones to try to make sure these youth, especially the ones who I have the opportunity to really talk to and I see they want to listen. That's why I don't subscribe to that philosophy about the young don't want to listen.

30:47 I'm like, yeah, you got someone to listen, we just have to be willing to talk. Of course you got to be smart, but sometimes they might not want to hear. But if you see somebody, they got a lot of that receptive out there and they want to hear. But if you see somebody, they got a lot of that receptive out there and they want to hear good stuff from them and they'll gravitate to you. So I'm working on that for the summer, so that's part of my unfortunate incarceration to do some fortunate stuff with. So I share my stories and a lot of the dudes be like man, I can't believe you went to prison, I can't believe you shot somebody and all that. I say, nah, don't take the story I'm sharing with you as a story of bragging or for you to go running around like rah, rah, rah.

31:35 No, I'm sharing this with you because I'm letting you know I know what it's like. I know what it's like, I know what it is, I know what it feels like to be out there and stuff like that. You know, because that's how I ended up shooting the dude, because it was kind of like a delayed how would I put this Delayed some delayed stuff that was still in me from being out there trying to be a so-called wannabe gangster and wannabe you know what I'm saying Caught up in that wannabe gangster phase but, so that's how that part of me that wasn't in me I thought wasn't there, no more was there, and that's how I ended up going so far and shooting that guy that night, but went through it overcame and now I'm trying to use it to the best of my ability to try to help others to keep from going to prison.

32:29 Absolutely, and we got like about 10 minutes left. But I want to get into your music so we can let the listeners know you know. So talk real quick. You know how you got into music and what you got out there and how they can listen to it. All right as far as music. I got into doing music by way of inspiration no, by way of inspiring somebody and they came back and inspired me Back in the 80s, me and a friend of mine we was calling ourselves rappers and stuff like that. So we used to have this thing called rap school and in rap school we had some guys like a dude named Tomiko Brock and Fat Daddy, which is his name, brian Banks, some dudes like that, but Tomiko Brock was the name I called him with because later on in life he was still doing music and recording and stuff.

33:23 You know, I wasn't doing nothing, I wasn't thinking about music or nothing like that. I said so. So when I walked up in there selling pecan candy, tomiko brock had seen me and they had like this, um, rap legends thing on and they had run dmc on there. So he started telling everybody in the room see how run dmc or rap legends to them people. He was like that man right there and my partner bug juice. He said those are rap legends to me. He said because them cats taught me how to rap. And you know everybody was like what, what, what? So from that he would ask me what I'm doing with music and he told me at a studio, at his house, and that he always wanted to see me do music.

34:04 I had no intentions on trying to do it or nothing like that, but he kept pestering me and kept pestering me, and not in a bad way, he just really wanted to see me put something out. So, for the fun of it, I just decided I'm going to go to your house and record a song this is how I had it in my mind Carter song and then it's going to be out the way. You're going to finally see me be the recorder song and that's going to be that. But his whole thing, like he told me, he said he knew I was clowning at first just to appease him. He said, but he always knew that if he get me to come to the studio and I start recording, I was going to end up getting serious. And his plan worked. So it went from playing around and then I eventually made a song about the candy that I sell Pocon Candy and we called the song Legal Crack, put the song out and people were loving the song and I was like man.

35:02 I was like, wait a minute here, maybe. So I ended up doing a couple of more Candyman songs. I got a song called Legal Crack, which M-R-M-E-M-W-E-Q-U-A. Mr Mimweka Da D-A, and then Candyman you type that in, you can pull all my music up. I got three different legal crack songs. One is called Legal Crack, which was the first song. The second song was Candyman. Candyman, which is a play on NWA's Dope man, but I'm flipping it like I'm the Candyman, the legal crack dealer. And the other one is called Candyman Rock With Me, which that's my favorite of the three, like the Candyman the League of Crackdilla.

35:48 And the other one called Candyman Rock with me, which that's my favorite of the three. So it went from there and people was liking them until I just started making more songs and more songs, and so now I'm like I'm not going to say I was. I'm not going to say I would push my music like I should. When I first started in 2018, I was really pushing, but then I got lackadaisical with it and my own worst enemy got in the way, which always used to get in the way in life for me on certain things. But now I'm officially not over it, but I'm back to putting my music. I got a song that I just released called Y'all Address on May 11th. It's a true story song. It's a true story about one day in May May of last year, when a guy who saw a woman that was very dear to his heart looking absolutely stunning in a yella dress and the great thing about this song somebody got me to make this song as a birthday gift for a woman that he liked, that he actually saw in the yellow dress, and he wanted me to create a song to recapture that moment, to give to her for a birthday gift.

36:49 Well, I created the song we presented to her on her birthday. She loved it. You know what I'm saying. She was happy she never had a song made about her in life and the thoughtfulness that the guy thought of to actually have a song made for her to be a birthday gift, which is a beautiful thing. You know what I'm saying. That's like you know. I don't know if anybody else ever did that before, could have, but I know in this scenario, to me it was so beautiful because I'm like man that's really thinking out the box. You know what I'm saying. You got a song and then you got the perfect person to do it because, hey, it ain't bragging if it's truth.

37:29 Lyrically creative, I can't really be sometimes in this life. He came to the right man. If you ever go anybody who's listening to this, you go listen to Yellow Dress. You are listening to a true story about a guy who saw a woman that's very dear to his heart looking very stunning in a yellow dress and they are now dating. That makes it even more beautiful to me that I created something that actually helped a couple to begin. You know. Yeah, that's beautiful man and there might be some people out there that want to link up with you.

38:13 Man Might want to be mentored or you to do a song for them. Throw out your contact info so people can keep up with everything that you're up to. All right. Well, if you want to contact me by phone, just like I say my number in my legal crack song 225-385-2734. That's my phone number. Email I got a Gmail, so it's mrmenwecker at gmailcom. M-r-m-e-m-w-e-q-u-a at gmailcom and all my social medias are basically Facebook is well, it's either Omdia O-M-D-I-A Menwecker, or you can type in Mr Menwecker the Candyman.

38:56 That's my music artist page on Facebook. Instagram is my name Omdia Menwecker. Or you can type in Mr Manwecker TikTok. The same thing, mr Manwecker the candy man. So basically you can find me, type in I'm Dillman Wecker or Mr Manwecker the candy man, or, if you want to call me, 225-385-2734. And make sure to go check out your address y'all, because you're going to really love it. Yeah, man, y'all go check out that song. That song is hot. If you need anything, you know any candy, you know any Mr Mowatka's cooking contact him, hook up with him.

39:37 I really like the things that he is doing. Man, keep up the good work and you know, you guys make sure you follow me on your favorite platform. Visit www.337 or Curveball337.com. So Curveball337.com. For more information on the Living the Dream with Curveball podcast. Thank you for listening and supporting the show and, mr Menwerker, thank you for trying to make the world a better place and thank you for joining me. Well, I appreciate you having me. I'm very proud Cause you know we go way back, so I know you know what I'm saying. I've been watching the evolution of you, so I'm very proud of what you're doing.

40:19 You always been a go-getter. I'm very proud of what you're doing. You always been a go-getter, you always been a manifester and keep on. Keep on living your dream and helping people live their dreams. For more information on the Living the Dream with Curveball podcast, visit wwwcurveball337.com. Until next time, keep living the dream.