Oochie used to go by Big Sexy, and he was known for his dance moves. He created a web series to promote peace in the city through dance. He dropped the “Big Sexy Slide” in 2014.
Juddy’s birthday party was reminiscent of those packed basement-style juke parties that many young and old Millennials frequented back in our heyday. Although juke parties in Chicago go back for decades, Juddy’s party specifically touched on the 1999 to early 2000s era of the juke party.
As Juddy twerked in front of him on the dancefloor, Oochie opened the engagement ring box. When she turned around, they shared a look. Then Juddy said yes.
Their engagement video went viral on social media, and popular Chicago media platform What’s the Word TV shared the video on its Instagram page.
The Oochies met in 2015 through mutual friends. They were teenagers, both growing up in Austin on the West Side. The pair hit it off as friends first. They remained friends for the next few years but were sneaky linking, meaning they were together on the low without a title, they said.
They fell out of touch for a few years but got back in contact with each other in 2020, reestablishing their friendship and confiding in one another. Juddy had a child from a previous relationship. They had their first child together, a baby boy, in November 2020.
They’ve been in an official relationship since April 2021, and currently live in Iowa.
The Oochies describe their love story as “ghetto” because it’s not the typical boy-meets-girl kind of story, Juddy told the TRiiBE during a phone interview on Feb. 9.
“A ghetto love story is a story like ours. It’s not perfect by a long shot,” she said.