The chip comes home, and a whole new New York.

0:33B: Let’s go!

0:34A: Wait, yo, whoa, flip the camera. How you feeling? How you -- oh, I got you. I got you, I got you. Like this, like this. Boom, just like that. How am I feeling? Yo, how you feeling? I’m feeling like New York needed a win. I’m not from New York, but I feel like New York been in a slump. I’m from Philly, and I feel like -- Yo, shout out Philly! Yo, shout out Philly! Yo, shout out Zombieland, you know the vibe. I feel like New York needed a win. East Coast needed a win. How are we feeling about this Knicks win? Dude, we love this. Hell yeah. Does it mean anything?

1:19B: I just moved here just now.

1:21A: From where? Uh, North Carolina. All right, welcome, man. Welcome. It’s a good time to be here. Can I ask you how we’re feeling about the Knicks win? What does this mean for the city?

1:38B: I mean, our lives are gonna change.

1:41A: I hope.

1:41B: I hope.

1:41A: You hope? Yeah. I feel like I feel like it’s a morale boost. I feel like the city needed a morale boost. This is New York.

1:47B: I agree.

1:47A: I feel like people were forgetting this New York. People were forgetting. They need a wake-up call. How do you feel about the Knicks winning tonight?

2:42B: They won, babe.

2:44A: I don’t follow sports, but it sounds fun.

2:47B: I’m lit about it.

2:48A: Let’s go. Y’all are, y’all are big Knicks fans?

3:57B: Knicks and 5.

3:59A: Nixon, that’s not so. That’s not a yes.

4:01B: Nixon five.

4:03A: So what what does it mean then? The Knicks are won tonight. What does that mean?

4:06B: Nixon five. That means that the curse is broken.

4:12A: The curse is broken.

4:12B: The curse is broken.

4:14A: It’s a whole new New York, huh?

4:15B: It’s a whole new New York, my nigga.

4:16A: That’s what I’ve been saying.

4:17B: It’s a whole new New York.

4:18A: I feel like New York needed a major win. I’m not gonna lie. I feel like New York in a slump.

4:21B: We needed this. The city needed this. The state needed this. I think the world needed this. Nixon five.

4:28A: Nixon five. Fucking out here.

4:29B: Think about it. All the fun that’s about to come. The fucking Spike Lee shit in Fort Greene. The fucking parade. He doing a -- he doing a -- he’s celebrating in Fort Greene. He already said it.

4:43A: I don’t even know.

4:43B: That’s what I’m saying.

4:44A: Okay.

4:45B: We lit. It’s turned the fuck up. I’m not even from here.

4:48A: Where you from?

4:49B: I’m from Baltimore.

4:50A: Okay. Well, you feeling New York City?

4:52B: No, I’m feeling -- I love New York, and I’m happy to be here. Let me tell you, I got off the motherfucking Amtrak and watched the game on my phone.

4:59A: Uh-huh.

5:00B: So I’m very happy.

5:01A: I believe you.

5:03B: And it’s exciting. The curse is broken. It’s a great thing for basketball.

5:07A: Yup.

5:08B: It’s a great thing for Puerto Rico.

5:09A: Uh-huh.

5:10B: You know?

5:11A: Why’s that? Why’s it a good thing for Puerto Rico?

5:13B: Because Towns is Puerto Rican, I think. He might be Dominican or Puerto Rican. I think he Puerto Rican.

5:17A: I don’t know nothing about basketball. I’m not gonna lie.

5:19B: That’s crazy.

5:20A: This week is the most hype. They came back 30 points. I said, damn, I’m a basketball fan again, ’cause 30 points is crazy. 30 points is crazy. I said, New York needed a 30-point comeback, ’cause folks feeling like 30 points is impossible.

5:30B: Listen.

5:30A: New York needed somebody to show them possible’s possible.

5:32B: We needed to feel something. We needed this. Where’s this going?

5:38A: On my YouTube. I still have a channel called We Them Media.

5:40B: Okay.

5:40A: And so I’m trying to get people and their reactions to this moment. And I agree with you. I think New York’s gonna understand. It’s New York.

5:45B: Yeah.

5:45A: I feel like from here, not from Philly.

5:47B: Okay. Okay.

5:47A: But I have a lot of respect for New York culture, New York music.

5:51B: Like, this is the new New York. This we needed this.

5:54A: They needed this. I’m gonna say they needed this.

5:56B: We needed this. Do you live here?

5:58A: No, I don’t live here.

5:58B: Oh, see, I live here.

5:59A: You can say we, but I feel some people say wouldn’t say say you’re we. How long you been here?

6:04B: I’ve been here for several years. Okay.

6:06A: Okay.

6:07B: I’m not saying I’m a New Yorker. I’m not a New Yorker.

6:09A: Yeah, but we needed this regardless.

6:10B: I live here. I fucking pay taxes here. I have a community here. I care for my elders here. I’m an artist here.

6:17A: Okay. What kind of art you do?

6:18B: I do visual art, photography, analog image making, all that cool shit.

6:22A: Okay. Shout it out.

6:23B: Yeah. So shout out to motherfucking Robert Blackburn. He’s a Black man who started a printmaking workshop in the ’40s, which was unheard of. He was a Jamaican man from motherfucking Harlem. I just finished a fucking printmaking residency program where they invite you in and they teach you printmaking. So shout out to Etching and Taglio. Shout out to Catherine. Shout out to Essie. Shout out to Nancy. Shout out to Jasmine. Shout out to the master printer. Shout out to the motherfucking print shop because that experience changed the trajectory of my motherfucking life.

6:50A: Okay.

6:51B: Shout out to motherfucking New York for those kinds of opportunities for artists from all over the world. Fuck yeah.

6:58A: What’s your socials? What’s your website?

7:00B: I’m Shan. I’m Shan Wallace. My Instagram is _yoshannixon5. Shout out to Baltimore. I love my city. This was a great motherfucking win for the motherfucking city. We mother -- oh shit, my motherfucking Pittsburgh niggas right here. Okay, okay, okay. Knicks in 5! Knicks in 5! Knicks in 5! Knicks in 5! I love sports.

7:28A: You love sports? Yeah. So what does it mean the Knicks just won?

7:32B: We really tried really hard, and really to come this far was really big for us.

7:38A: Hell yeah. Big shout out to your friend here. It’s very nice to meet you. Very nice to meet you. Museos.