09/11/2026
25 years ago today, I woke up about this time at my auntie‘s house in Shoreview. Not looking forward to that days reality; The funeral of San Francisco Bay Area Hip Hop Legend;
Ronald Fields aka .
I get dressed and I’m about to leave to walk down the hill to the funeral parlor across from the Opera House, and my auntie says, Averi, come in here and look at this, I go in her room and we see the actual second tower get hit. And the actual live footage of the event was horrible because it was people jumping off the building, on live TV. It was surreal.
We start buggin”. So I leave and head down the hill and notice there are no planes ✈️ flying in the sky. I’m in hunters point at the time, right by the airport so planes are a normal occurrence. It was so weird not to see any planes in the sky.
And just for reference, this is a time before social media, and quite frankly before cell phones.
I get to the funeral and we’re all smoking and drinking grieving and processing this reality of the Nut being gone, on top of what just happened with 9/11.
The funeral takes place, beautiful ceremony, everybody comes outside after the ceremony and everyone is definitely shocked because of what happened with 911. And one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in San Francisco was Cougnut had a horse drawn carriage carrying his coffin, that was gold trimmed, we all followed behind it down 3rd Street and that was before the T line was built, this is when third Street was just one big open street. And I’ll never forget being behind the carriage from Newcomb to Paul, the procession of bosses and players doing doughnuts and dippin old schools.
And when we get to the burial and the dinner, a huge Malay broke out with some of the biggest Samoans I’ve ever seen in my life and Baldhead Rick was in the middle of it breaking it up.
Jesus what a day. I remember getting home and crying like a baby. I felt so bad for Taco, Cellski, Trav, Leo J, SB, the whole UNLV at that time. RIP Cougnut and The victims of the 9/11 tragedy 🎭
You will never be forgotten. 9/11/26