The Tracks

Weekly I go to the 'Windows on America' club here in my city. (At least I go when I can, usually once a month or so.) This club is usually occupied by 4 or 5 regular people and then maybe a few more that aren't regular but like to come and just listen to us speak English. We talk about everything from politics to life in Ukraine, but always and most definitely the conversation ends on the topic of food, which is a common denominator to everyone everywhere. This week at the club we had a new guest who had just arrived back home in Ukraine from Detroit for the first time in 8 or 9 years. His name was 'Dre' as in the rapper, Dr.Dre. Dre is originally from Ukraine, Ivano Frankivsk, and while in Detroit his job was 'husteling cars', not people, not drugs, not the poker table...but cars. While Dre refused to speak English half the time, the other half of the time his perfect northern accent was dominated with words like 'straight up', 'bling', and 'keeping it real'. When the club was finishing, Dre gave me makeshift business cards with his name and number on it, including a message of love and peace for Ukraine. It looked like this;
Andre S.
364857
'Keeping it real for the brothers and sisters living in the world'