theyself. no problem. anthony: please explain this policy. you know, no hats backwards and no pants hanging down. what is that? william po monkey seaberry: you re right, that s right. if you don t like my rules, don t come. anthony: what are the rules here? no rap music. william po monkey seaberry: no. nobody likes that bumpa bumpa bump . i don t like that. it gives me a headache in the brain. i love all blues. all of it s good to me as long as it s blues. anthony: good r&b? william po monkey seaberry: that s right, that s right. anthony: but no rap. william po monkey seaberry: no, no. anthony: never, even if i have kanye west wants to rent out the place, are you gonna rent it to him? william po monkey seaberry: yeah, i d rent it to him. anthony: oh okay. just in case. william po monkey seaberry: so i ain t got time to work with them and keep down all this old bullshit, if you ain t come for a good time stay away from here. anthony: words
africans, and it meant wicked or disorderly, to dance, or a place of shelter. jook joints started as plantation community rooms during slavery times. they went on to become the small, private, african-american run bars, clubs, and lounges. first, in rural areas, then in towns and cities. where workers could dance, drink, party, and gamble, as a respite from the hard labor of delta sharecropping, tenant farming, house service, and segregation. they were often condemned by church leaders as houses of the devil. william po monkey seaberry runs this place, as he has since 1963. and he makes the rules. how long has this been a business? william po monkey seaberry: i ve been in this place 58 years. i m 74. anthony: how did you get into this business? william po monkey seaberry: i just got into it. something i liked to do. and everybody come here enjoy
good one. scholars have suggested the word jook came from the gullah, descendants of enslaved africans, and it meant wicked or disorderly, to dance, or a place of shelter. jook joints started as plantation community rooms during slavery times. they went on to become the small, private, african-american run bars, clubs, and lounges. first, in rural areas, then in towns and cities. where workers could dance, drink, party, and gamble, as a respite from the hard labor of delta sharecropping, tenant farming, house service, and segregation. they were often condemned by church leaders as houses of the devil. william po monkey seaberry runs this place, as he has since 1963. and he makes the rules. how long has this been a business? william po monkey seaberry: i ve been in this place 58 years.
i m 74. anthony: how did you get into this business? william po monkey seaberry: i just got into it. something i liked to do. and everybody come here enjoy theyself. no problem. anthony: please explain this policy. you know, no hats backwards and no pants hanging down. what is that? william po monkey seaberry: you re right, that s right. if you don t like my rules, don t come. anthony: what are the rules here? no rap music. william po monkey seaberry: no. nobody likes that bumpa bumpa bump . i don t like that. brain.es me a headache in the i love all blues. all of it s good to me as long as it s blues. anthony: good r&b? william po monkey seaberry: that s right, that s right. anthony: but no rap. william po monkey seaberry: no, no. anthony: never, even if i have kanye west wants to rent out the place, are you gonna rent it to him? william po monkey seaberry: yeah, i d rent it to him. anthony: oh okay. just in case. william po monkey s
from here. anthony: words to live by. well, thank you, sir. i love your place and thank you for having us. william po monkey seaberry: well, you got to come back again. anthony: oh, i surely will. william po monkey seaberry: i ll find somebody to get naked with you. anthony: uh-oh. john currence: there s a promise. william po monkey seaberry: okay, dj, you can kick it back off. dj: a bad girl. don t forget about it, come right here. anthony: thursday night is family night at po monkeys, mostly locals, a mixed bag. the music is classic r&b and pre-disco soul. the attitude loose. just familiarize yourself with those rules and there won t be a problem. in the cities of the north where i come from, in some ways, we ve been able to buy ourselves free from our past. new arrivals pour in with no memory of the ugly parts of our history. we can afford the luxury of the new. we can live in comfortable bubbles or apartments high in the sky. in many ways more separa