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INTERVIEW: David Banner Talks 'The Family Business,' Settling At 50, Working With Jill Scott, Music Industry · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
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Speaker 2: Everybody is the e j Envy, Jess hilarious. Charlamagne the
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Speaker 2: guy we are the Breakfast Club just is out on
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Speaker 2: LaRosa feeling it.
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Speaker 3: We got a special guest in.
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Speaker 1: The building, David Banner.
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Speaker 3: How you feeling.
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling so good.
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Speaker 3: Good to see you. I'd like to hear it to you.
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Speaker 1: Man, it's good, it's good. What's been going on, brother
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Speaker 1: man so much? First of all, I want to say
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Speaker 1: thank you to you all. There's a lot of amazing things,
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Speaker 1: a lot of things that are changing in my life.
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Speaker 1: I'm making a whole lot of money. You're doing great.
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Speaker 1: It's different now you know what I'm talking about. I
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Speaker 1: just shut your pockets down. You know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: Four hundred thousand fell out this man, pocket Man. That's
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Speaker 1: just changed. That's the change man. But but the thing is, Man,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you all because a lot of
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Speaker 1: times we invest our time and you all have built
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Speaker 1: a certain crowd and certain rapport with people, and to
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Speaker 1: give it to me. You know, there was a conversation
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Speaker 1: that me and Charlomagne had off off camera. I called
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Speaker 1: him before the first time I came to the show
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Speaker 1: and I was like, Bro, I'm really serious about the
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Speaker 1: liberation of my black people of black people, man, and
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Speaker 1: it means a lot to me. And we had a very,
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Speaker 1: very in depth conversation. You remember that conversation, and like
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Speaker 1: our relationship has grown since then. Bro, I was even
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Speaker 1: talking about you introducing me to your family. Bro. You
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Speaker 1: remember we had dinner. You brought your family so I
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Speaker 1: can meet them. That kind of stuff matters to me, man,
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Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of rappers don't get the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to grow. It was funny BT said something to
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Speaker 1: me when one o six and Park was still on TV.
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Speaker 1: They said, David Banner, you are one of the few
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Speaker 1: or only artists that talks about anything of substance. They said.
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Speaker 1: The ratings might not go up, they said, but they
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Speaker 1: don't drop, and we have never seen that. So for
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Speaker 1: you all to give me the opportunity to grow and
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Speaker 1: turn into you know, this, this this thing, because you
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Speaker 1: know this is sort of sad, but Prince died and
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Speaker 1: you know, as as much as that hurts me, it
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Speaker 1: did open up the opportunity for me to be the
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Speaker 1: sexiest motherfucker on this planet. And it has happened, and
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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club has allowed me to slide into that place.
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Speaker 1: We start wearing now.
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Speaker 4: The energy homegirlf on that na a CP red carpet.
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Speaker 4: That was the sexy ever energy.
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Speaker 3: You tell us.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not gonna say no name, but one
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Speaker 5: of our producers in here just randomly yelled out something.
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Speaker 3: You're like, Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: Never heard her when she said in the building that
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Speaker 1: could be literal. No, they said, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: But let me say, let me tell you something about that.
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Speaker 1: I do want to clear this up though, is that
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Speaker 1: people think that I'm joking about my admiration for black women.
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Speaker 1: I'm dead serious. And what some people are uncomfortable with.
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Speaker 1: They're not used to a black man giving admiration. And
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Speaker 1: I don't want anything from you just because I think
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Speaker 1: that you're beautiful, just because I speaking about you know
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Speaker 1: how I feel about the black woman in general. I
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Speaker 1: want anything from you, but to let you know how
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Speaker 1: I feel. And sometimes we don't believe in ourselves, and
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Speaker 1: it's hard to really think that there is a man
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Speaker 1: that really really feels that way without it having some
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Speaker 1: type of game connected to it. Because bro, I'll say
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Speaker 1: this and nobody ever noticed it. Since I've been in college,
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Speaker 1: SGA president at Southern University, I have consistently, for the
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Speaker 1: most part, outside of my actual art, been the same man. Consistently.
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Speaker 1: I have never sold our people out. I've never done
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Speaker 1: anything flaw and it's like, you know, when we do something,
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Speaker 1: they either try to make a joke of it or pop.
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Speaker 1: You know, when I came out and say I'm ready
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Speaker 1: to be married, you know, people found a way to
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Speaker 1: poke at that. I thought you said, you know, not
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Speaker 1: having any diseases, not whooping on nobody, raping nobody, not
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Speaker 1: having four thousand kids. I thought that was amazing and awesome,
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Speaker 1: you know. So for me, I am again grateful. I
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Speaker 1: do want to tell you something, though, Bro, you did
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Speaker 1: something that you'll forever have an ally. I spent close
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Speaker 1: to a million dollars on the presentation of the Godbox.
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Speaker 1: I told Black people about streaming. Now everybody's coming back
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Speaker 1: saying that me new Prince t I was right when
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Speaker 1: we told folks about how stupid the concept of streaming
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Speaker 1: was right. Everybody ran towards that. One of the reasons
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Speaker 1: why The Godbox wasn't as successful at the time because
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't let him stream it because I had just
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Speaker 1: gotten to the point where I got nine dollars an album.
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Speaker 1: Imagine that, g you go from having dollars and cents
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Speaker 1: to micro pennies, things that you can't even calculate. And Bro,
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Speaker 1: you stood up in front of the world and told
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Speaker 1: people that you believe that The Godbox was one of
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Speaker 1: the best hip hop albums of all times. Bro. And
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Speaker 1: you didn't have to do that. It was though you
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Speaker 1: put your still but still you know, and I know
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Speaker 1: how much you fight for it because I see what
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Speaker 1: you've done for me, Mike, everybody you get the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to you, being from the South, get you put us
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Speaker 1: in positions that we normally are not in, Bro. And
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Speaker 1: what people didn't understand is every time that I do
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Speaker 1: hip hop, every time that I do what people say
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Speaker 1: that we should do, I lose money. Wow. When I stay,
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Speaker 1: you know, doing the stuff that America wants young black
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Speaker 1: men or black men to do in general, I stay
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Speaker 1: getting bread. But you got to think about crooked letters,
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Speaker 1: me and ninth one. This album a death of I
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Speaker 1: mean the death of a pop star The Godbox. Bro.
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Speaker 1: I don't spent almost two million dollars of my own money,
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Speaker 1: bringing what we call real hip hop out and people
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Speaker 1: just talk about it. And Bro, you put your career
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Speaker 1: on the line and I will never ever ever and
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Speaker 1: usually we only hear the negative shit, dug. But as
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Speaker 1: a man, Bro, I was paying my own money. Billboards,
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Speaker 1: everything that you've seen for David Banner for the last
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Speaker 1: fifteen years, that's my bread. That's why you might see
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Speaker 1: me out in the streets picking up flies. I'm serious,
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Speaker 1: that's my money. You feel me? So I like to
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Speaker 1: thank y'all, you know, as a whole, and I appreciate.
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Speaker 3: All of you. You said something just now that I
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Speaker 3: stress all the time.
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Speaker 5: If you want black people to do a certain thing,
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Speaker 5: when they do it, you got to support it.
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Speaker 1: And you know these Namborghinis and Ferrari's cost I need
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Speaker 1: my bread.
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Speaker 5: You talked about it. I did see people getting on
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Speaker 5: you about this. Why now, at the age of fifty,
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Speaker 5: do you think you're ready to settle down?
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Speaker 1: All right? Peep this now this. Let me put on
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Speaker 1: my glasses for this so we can did this right now?
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Speaker 1: All right? So people talk about love languages, right. I
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Speaker 1: told a young lady this and it's shocked her. I said,
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Speaker 1: what are your what are your main love languages? What
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Speaker 1: do you see in want out of a man? She said,
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Speaker 1: I want him to be successful and I want him
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Speaker 1: to spend time. How how I'm a fucking actor, this
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Speaker 1: a top tier producer, a top tier rapper actor. I
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Speaker 1: do more than most people do in their one career,
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Speaker 1: in my five or four or five careers. When do
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Speaker 1: I have time? If you want me to be successful?
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Speaker 1: Whenning the fuck do I have time? People? Ever? Know?
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Speaker 1: People didn't notice my ten year run. Think about this, dude,
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Speaker 1: When I wasn't putting out like a pimp. I was
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Speaker 1: producing Wayne or Chris Brown or Maroon five or Quincy Jones.
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Speaker 1: Quincy Jones, I did that, okay, me and Warren Campbell ye?
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Speaker 1: Or I was acting people forget Black Snake Mown. It's
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Speaker 1: funny they think that I'm just starting this. I've been
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Speaker 1: done thirty eight films or television shows. Right, one of
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Speaker 1: the top people on the speaking circuit. Right, When do
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Speaker 1: I have time? So then if I were to get
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Speaker 1: a wife, right, she'll be at home, be an absent provider,
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Speaker 1: and then people will talk about it and raise my
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Speaker 1: kids or didn't have time with my wife? We have
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Speaker 1: to choose what it is we want to do, and
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Speaker 1: then I'm successful at it. I won so and then
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Speaker 1: the other thing that I always wonder is why do
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Speaker 1: grown people care about? Can I curse? Yeah? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: just I try. You know what I'm saying, because I
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Speaker 1: go over there sometimes, who are fucking I'm grown? And
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Speaker 1: then they don't say nothing about them white folks who
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Speaker 1: have wives and kids, thirty eight thousand children, we don't
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Speaker 1: say that, Bro. I did what people said was the
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Speaker 1: honorable thing to do. So we keep thinking that we winning.
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Speaker 1: Look at the shit that we say about good people.
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Speaker 1: You'll make me not want to fuck with you no more.
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Speaker 1: You tell kids what to do and what the right
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Speaker 1: thing to do, and then they do the right thing,
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Speaker 1: and you still talk shit. That's why I tell these rappers,
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Speaker 1: do what the fuck you want to do, because people
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Speaker 1: are gonna criticize you regardless of what you do, no
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Speaker 1: matter how good you are. Bro, you ain't never heard
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Speaker 1: of that negative besides me getting to fight with them cops,
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Speaker 1: that's the only thing. And when that happened, I was
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Speaker 1: protecting black people. So we act like we're winning. We
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Speaker 1: act like we got all of these leaders, and then
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Speaker 1: when you do have the people that do the right thing,
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Speaker 1: that's how you do them. I was there was this
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Speaker 1: documentary last night that I went to being first on
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Speaker 1: the call Sheet, and I was watching Denzel's portrayal of
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Speaker 1: Malcolm X right and it hit me, and it hit me, bro,
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Speaker 1: because I was thinking about, like, how many Malcolms. You know,
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Speaker 1: how many Betty shabez Is we have in current time?
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Speaker 1: And we always talk about Marcus Garvey and Martin Luther King,
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Speaker 1: but there's people that I like them to this day.
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Speaker 1: I give you a great example. As much as people
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Speaker 1: revere Killer Mike, you and I know how long Killer
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Speaker 1: Mike has been doing it. We know that most Black
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Speaker 1: people don't even know his real group. They don't even
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Speaker 1: really know why he's popular. And so the fact that
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Speaker 1: he decides to come back to our community is a
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Speaker 1: blessing because he probably shouldn't because of the way that
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Speaker 1: we treated him. I was producing. I produced Mike on
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Speaker 1: the what his first mixtape or the second mixtape? Right,
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Speaker 1: So I've watched how hard he work and he had
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Speaker 1: to go to another community, and Bro, that's happening in
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Speaker 1: me now. Like I had one of my mentors, Bro,
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Speaker 1: he told me, he said better. You always get in
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Speaker 1: a position of power and then you throw it all
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Speaker 1: away for your people, and then you have to go
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Speaker 1: somewhere else and build it all the way back up
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Speaker 1: to come back and give it back again. And people
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Speaker 1: are not really being reciprocal. I do what I do
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Speaker 1: by the grace of God, and I do what I
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Speaker 1: do because I truly, truly love my people. But what
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Speaker 1: I am not is stupid. So to answer your question
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Speaker 1: really quickly, is that I have a library, extensive library,
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Speaker 1: and I write in the pages of my books to
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Speaker 1: my unborn children. I tell him right now, I love you,
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Speaker 1: and I don't even know you. I love you so
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Speaker 1: much much that I couldn't pick my mother and father.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't pick your mother and father, But I can
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Speaker 1: pick yours. So I will make sure that I do
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Speaker 1: that with honor. I will make sure that I will
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Speaker 1: take my time, because right now the only thing that
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Speaker 1: I'm focused on. Bro. You know where we're from, dog,
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Speaker 1: I'm from Mississippi. There's no way in the fuck I
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Speaker 1: supposed to be here. I bent time. So the thing,
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Speaker 1: if you notice, man and all of us in here
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Speaker 1: are successful in a way that most people are not
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Speaker 1: every story that you read of substance, whether it's in
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Speaker 1: the Quran or the Bible or the tour, is really
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Speaker 1: about what you are willing to sacrifice. I wanted seven children,
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Speaker 1: I wanted a few rappers. I want to be married.
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Speaker 1: But usually if you want something that bad, you have
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Speaker 1: to sacrifice that other thing that you wanted the most.
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Speaker 1: But the cool thing is when I do fire and
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Speaker 1: she don't have to want for shit, my kids won't
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Speaker 1: have to be able to go to their football games.
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Speaker 1: I'll be able to take years out to make sure
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Speaker 1: that they are right. So I just hate what people
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Speaker 1: say because I love black folks so much and I
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Speaker 1: can't act like it don't bother me? Nv it does?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 4: I was going to ask you did the marriage conversation
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Speaker 4: bother you? Because it's kind of backwards for people to
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Speaker 4: be upset when you're accomplished and you can devote that time.
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Speaker 4: They're like, bro, So you don't like they made it
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Speaker 4: almost like a They made it not almost. They made
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Speaker 4: it a negative thing for you to say, I'm ready
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Speaker 4: now because I can devote the time and energy.
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Speaker 6: How did that make you feel?
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Speaker 1: And I'm doing superhero movies? How are you gonna be
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Speaker 1: out here. Y'all know that don't work with my job.
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Speaker 1: You fucking with my money? Why are you doing that?
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Speaker 1: Because I look, sweetheart, do me a favor. I know
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Speaker 1: you're used to gazing at mortals, closed eyes, about the
12:41
Speaker 1: closest you're gonna get to God. Okay that happened. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so insane.
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Speaker 6: Man, I'm feeling the carpet vibes.
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Speaker 1: I get it.
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Speaker 6: It don't stop, baby, But I think, but I think
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Speaker 6: with you.
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Speaker 4: People are so used to like people saying things for
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Speaker 4: clickbait like whatever, which hasn't ever been you. I don't
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Speaker 4: know how people confuse that because I feel the energy
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Speaker 4: like you mean what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying. Since I've been in college
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Speaker 1: at Southern, I stood for the same thing. You've never seen,
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Speaker 1: no flaw in me. I'm not saying that I won't
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Speaker 1: make a mistake.
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Speaker 3: You don't speak enough.
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Speaker 5: I want, I want, I want, man, I've always wanted
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Speaker 5: many to be out there more.
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Speaker 1: What the reason why is? Because they just killed my ass?
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Speaker 1: Like like the real truth is and and Charlone may
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Speaker 1: not know you understand this because we have a personal relationship, bro. Now,
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Speaker 1: ain't the time to be talking. We are at war war,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't come here for that. I'm gonna stay
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Speaker 1: on family business and so y'all know, but we are
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Speaker 1: at middle war. You can't name an outwardly strong, vocal
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Speaker 1: black man in the last three years, and and and
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Speaker 1: and I've been very sick. That was the reason why
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Speaker 1: I took time off. I had gotten sick. I think
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Speaker 1: God set me down, bro, because if I would have
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Speaker 1: been in the banner that y'all knowing love, that would
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Speaker 1: have killed me. I'm for sure. I mean, we know
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Speaker 1: they We now know corn Tail pro really existed. You
13:58
Speaker 1: can go and get it in the foules. The United
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Speaker 1: States government will send it to you what they did
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Speaker 1: to us. So we think that those people and those
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Speaker 1: things don't exist social media and so love. What I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you is to get that from the people that
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Speaker 1: you fight for and love. Do you know how bad
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Speaker 1: that hurts? Gonna look at that the last picture that
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Speaker 1: you've seen the pop look at that look in his eyes.
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Speaker 1: Look at Malcolm X his last picture, look at Martin
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Speaker 1: that got this looked like damn. That's what we get
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Speaker 1: from us. I expect that from them, but to get
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Speaker 1: it from the people that you care about, you fight for,
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Speaker 1: and that you that you really really because I could
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Speaker 1: be in much better places if I would shut my
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Speaker 1: motherfucking mouth. But it's hard for me to be in
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Speaker 1: this position of power and not speak for my people,
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Speaker 1: not stand for my people. But what I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: be no more is broke. I'm putting me first for
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Speaker 1: I do anything. So the reason why I don't talk
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Speaker 1: more bro is because I've talked about the same thing
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Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years and we haven't done anything.
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Speaker 1: If you really think of whether it's Elijah Muhammad, whether
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Speaker 1: it's It's it's it's Malcolm for the most part, get
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Speaker 1: your own shit, shot with your own people, believe in,
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Speaker 1: love yourself, grow your own food. It's not the hate
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Speaker 1: of white people. It's not because that's something that I
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Speaker 1: haven't said. I wasn't gonna say it, but I will
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Speaker 1: say it. So y'all have something exclusively for you all
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Speaker 1: is I honestly don't even hate or have a problem
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Speaker 1: with white folks no more. And I'll tell you why.
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Speaker 1: I learned that there's a finite amount of energy in
15:32
Speaker 1: the universe, right, and so whatever you spend your energy on,
15:38
Speaker 1: you only have so much, right, So if I only
15:41
Speaker 1: have one hundred percent and most of my life is
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Speaker 1: spent on talking about how they have oppressed us, what
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Speaker 1: they've done to us, then fifty percent of your energy
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Speaker 1: is gone that could be used for attraction of love
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Speaker 1: and money and knowledge and information. What I know now
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Speaker 1: is I know what they've done to us. So it's
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Speaker 1: like if you go and kiss sarattlesnake, would you be
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Speaker 1: mad that that rattlesnake bit you in the mouth because
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Speaker 1: you know better. So if you know historically what they
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Speaker 1: have done to you, why would you keep going over there?
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Speaker 1: It's stupid? Right, So what I do now is I
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Speaker 1: understand who and what I am dealing with, and now
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Speaker 1: I concentrate on love and attraction and building what I
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Speaker 1: want to see for my people. Because the powerful thing
16:28
Speaker 1: about that I always talk about this, the powerful thing
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Speaker 1: about the Black Panthers. People thought it was the black
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Speaker 1: fist and the Afros. It wasn't it was food. They
16:37
Speaker 1: took care of people's children. And then on top of that,
16:41
Speaker 1: I look alsome.
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Speaker 4: I remember we were speaking, Wait, do you feel like
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Speaker 4: the pushback came mostly from women or men?
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Speaker 6: On the marriage conversation I.
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Speaker 1: Actually have to say that something happened recently that I
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Speaker 1: don't want to talk about, and black men stood up
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Speaker 1: for me. They really really stood up for me. Like
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Speaker 1: like my family called me and said, man, go look
17:03
Speaker 1: in the comments, bro, like black men are saying like
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Speaker 1: he the one that always stands up. He was the
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Speaker 1: one that was at Katrina. He was the one that
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Speaker 1: when this happened, and that why are we doing this
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Speaker 1: to him? You know? And what I'll say about the
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Speaker 1: black woman is that my resurgence is because of the
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Speaker 1: black woman and their love and admiration for me. And
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Speaker 1: usually it's just one person. See, we don't read the comments.
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Speaker 1: T Payne taught me this like, and that's somebody that
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Speaker 1: I have love and admiration for. He is one of
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Speaker 1: the premier people in our culture and we should treat
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Speaker 1: him better. I just want to say that shout out
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Speaker 1: to Ali Sidik too, one of my favorite comedians on
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Speaker 1: in the whole wide planet. Bro, that's my hommie, that
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Speaker 1: that we should just make sure that we do better
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Speaker 1: with treating each other, you know, and respecting each other.
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Speaker 1: And a black woman has done that for me. It's
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Speaker 1: just a lot of loud negative voices. It's one to people.
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Speaker 1: And what I will say is is, you know, black
18:05
Speaker 1: women will tell somebody asks up about that. David Banner
18:08
Speaker 1: and I just have to find a way to group
18:10
Speaker 1: those people together. And I've started a company called Banner Vision,
18:14
Speaker 1: my my movie company. We're about to do sci fi
18:17
Speaker 1: movies and I'm really really excited about it. And it's
18:21
Speaker 1: funny because I want to do a movie that's similar
18:24
Speaker 1: to Love Jones and the people people will say, David Banner,
18:27
Speaker 1: I thought you were doing sci fi. I said, well,
18:30
Speaker 1: isn't Black Love in the media right now science fiction?
18:33
Speaker 1: Because we damn sure don't see it.
18:35
Speaker 3: That's my wife's favorite movie, you know, Jones.
18:38
Speaker 1: And I really want to do it with Jill Scott
18:40
Speaker 1: because like, I want a different body type. I want
18:43
Speaker 1: a different type of sexy. Jill Scott is sexy in
18:47
Speaker 1: a way that beautiful, Oh my god, just like all
18:51
Speaker 1: even And it's funny. We just talked about Mississippi and
18:53
Speaker 1: Philly before we came on, like shit from Philly, but
18:57
Speaker 1: she got that Mississippi. Oh and you know, just just
19:02
Speaker 1: on the loan, don't know. I should see if she
19:04
Speaker 1: wants me to talk about it too late. I'm actually
19:06
Speaker 1: helping her with an album right now. That's all I
19:08
Speaker 1: can say that dope, Jill Scott. And it has been
19:12
Speaker 1: one of the most eye opening because I only really produce.
19:18
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, people that I love or
19:20
Speaker 1: care for or like young artists that I really believe
19:22
Speaker 1: in music is taking a lot away from my spirit,
19:26
Speaker 1: So why go back. It's the business of it. And
19:31
Speaker 1: because we have gone into streaming, it's forcing the more
19:35
Speaker 1: talented people out because as a business man, it don't
19:38
Speaker 1: make no sense for me to spend all the money
19:39
Speaker 1: that I spend. Most people don't spend money on music.
19:42
Speaker 1: Watch this. I want you to really think about this.
19:45
Speaker 1: This is crazy. Hold on right all right, here we go.
19:49
Speaker 1: They have taken away American society and we have allowed
19:52
Speaker 1: them to do this. Have taken away any hustle that
19:56
Speaker 1: we can do and becoming a millionaire or a billionaire.
19:59
Speaker 3: In a life and talk about that all the time, especially.
20:01
Speaker 1: When you be like music. Right. They tried to take
20:05
Speaker 1: away movies, but they were still making a lot of
20:08
Speaker 1: money off of that, So they think about this as
20:11
Speaker 1: much as they went to war about movies, they had
20:14
Speaker 1: just done the same thing to music. They had just
20:17
Speaker 1: taken all of the money. They take it, they took
20:19
Speaker 1: the foundation, they put AI on top of it. They
20:22
Speaker 1: were trying to do the same thing to music, I
20:24
Speaker 1: mean movies and white folks like, nah, we're still making
20:26
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Y'all can't do that to us yet. Dope,
20:29
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying to sell dope, but anything that
20:32
Speaker 1: we could do to make money and catch up with
20:34
Speaker 1: them they've taken away from They have taken it away
20:37
Speaker 1: from us, and we run right behind them and let
20:39
Speaker 1: them do it. Every time Family Business New Orleans on
20:41
Speaker 1: BT plus, it's very important for you to watch. My
20:44
Speaker 1: name is David.
20:45
Speaker 5: You know, I forgot what we were talking at that
20:47
Speaker 5: one time, but you say this constantly, and I'm paraphrasing.
20:50
Speaker 3: If you want me to be me, you gotta support me.
20:55
Speaker 1: You hit me with that one, cuz I actually feel
20:57
Speaker 1: that with my own team, it's like I'm forced to
21:01
Speaker 1: be dealt with. Bro. I have that same energy of
21:06
Speaker 1: a Muhammad Ali, like I want to be free. I
21:10
Speaker 1: don't want to start stuff with people, but I want
21:12
Speaker 1: to be able to speak freely. And the only way
21:14
Speaker 1: that I can speak freely is either I got a
21:17
Speaker 1: lot of bread or the people are really really behind me,
21:20
Speaker 1: the real truth and we want to admit this. Bro,
21:23
Speaker 1: you know, folks, or walk away from me. Bro. When
21:26
Speaker 1: I was sick and you knew about it, bro, didn
21:28
Speaker 1: nobody come see me. I was up in the North
21:31
Speaker 1: Georgia Mountins by myself, and people left me up there.
21:34
Speaker 1: And I think God allowed me to be in that
21:37
Speaker 1: valley to really see that not even what you perceive
21:40
Speaker 1: as being positive is before God. The movement ain't before God.
21:45
Speaker 1: Helping black people ain't before God. So let me sit
21:48
Speaker 1: you out here and show you what this feel like
21:50
Speaker 1: alone and the crazy thing y'all. They still didn't find
21:53
Speaker 1: out what was wrong with me, Like I got hold
21:56
Speaker 1: of my blood pressure, my cholesterol, all of those things
21:59
Speaker 1: sleep at me and all of those things, and they
22:01
Speaker 1: still don't know. So God was like, okay, put something
22:04
Speaker 1: before me again. So I'm putting nothing before me and now,
22:07
Speaker 1: and I say this especially to you all, love, please
22:10
Speaker 1: listen to me. I'm very serious about this. What I
22:13
Speaker 1: found out in my valley is people treat you exactly
22:17
Speaker 1: how you treat yourself. I was being a martyr, so
22:22
Speaker 1: all black people brought me was death. My son got killed.
22:26
Speaker 1: This happened. The police did this when I became about opulence.
22:30
Speaker 1: Now people bring me money if people know. Like when
22:33
Speaker 1: Erica Bad walk in the room, I don't care who
22:37
Speaker 1: it is, it could be the nigga's nigga for nigga.
22:41
Speaker 1: He stand up straight because she treats herself. She has
22:45
Speaker 1: a standard for herself, whether it's the way that she eats,
22:48
Speaker 1: whether it's the way that she thinks. I saw Erica
22:51
Speaker 1: do something that was so powerful one time. She I
22:54
Speaker 1: believe she pulled the vibrations. She did the vibrations to
22:58
Speaker 1: get all the negative energy whoever came before her. Let
23:01
Speaker 1: me clear out the whole stadium. She played positive vibrations,
23:05
Speaker 1: high level vibrations. She said, let me clear this ship
23:07
Speaker 1: out before I get started.
23:09
Speaker 5: And so like man for me, see, we got to
23:11
Speaker 5: overlook in the room right there in the middle of
23:13
Speaker 5: the center, and.
23:15
Speaker 1: Y'all get ready. Man, y'all might as well go ahead
23:17
Speaker 1: and get me whole section. I'm about to tell you
23:20
Speaker 1: motherfucker mouth out when y'all see what's under here. When
23:25
Speaker 1: I decide to show my abs and my chest, I'm
23:28
Speaker 1: gonna come up here just for that. It ain't gonna
23:30
Speaker 1: be for nothing that you can see. I mean, if
23:34
Speaker 1: you want, are you sure you know?
23:36
Speaker 3: It was funny when you was like, I want you
23:37
Speaker 3: to listen to this love Lord, I'm listening found on
23:48
Speaker 3: this too.
23:48
Speaker 5: You said, I saw you in the interview said black
23:51
Speaker 5: people don't take care of our ol g. So you
23:52
Speaker 5: don't want to be an og in the black community
23:54
Speaker 5: because we don't take care of our elders, we don't
23:57
Speaker 5: take care of our leaders.
23:58
Speaker 3: I tell agree with you.
24:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, but you can't help it if you and said, well,
24:04
Speaker 4: what else you're going to be because you're there for a
24:06
Speaker 4: lot of people.
24:07
Speaker 1: Well, the thing is is that it's cool. But I'm
24:09
Speaker 1: telling you that I don't want it, so you can
24:11
Speaker 1: get that energy to somebody else. Don't give me my
24:14
Speaker 1: flowers and keep your fucking flowers. I can't spend or
24:17
Speaker 1: eat flowers. I want your money and your attention. I
24:20
Speaker 1: want the same thing you give white people. Give me
24:22
Speaker 1: your money and attention. If you're not giving me that,
24:24
Speaker 1: I'm not an og. I said this in that same interview.
24:27
Speaker 1: I was I was debating one time and I said,
24:31
Speaker 1: do you all do black people think I'm the antithesis
24:33
Speaker 1: of Trump? And they said, yes, I do the opposite, right, Okay, well,
24:37
Speaker 1: then that means I should have as much money from
24:40
Speaker 1: the black community as Trump gets from the white community,
24:42
Speaker 1: if you love me that way. But we say one
24:46
Speaker 1: thing and do the other. Oh we want positive music,
24:49
Speaker 1: but you don't pay for positive music. Oh we want
24:51
Speaker 1: a leader, but you don't take care of your leaders.
24:53
Speaker 1: And that same clip it was crazy. I don't know
24:55
Speaker 1: if you saw this. It went sort of viral. They
24:58
Speaker 1: put that part where they said, I don't want to
24:59
Speaker 1: be OG. I don't want to be an og because
25:01
Speaker 1: you don't take care of your eldest. Then they cut
25:04
Speaker 1: to I believe Malcolm X's daughter and somebody asks her,
25:07
Speaker 1: do you think that the black community took care of
25:10
Speaker 1: your family? And she said, I don't believe so, So
25:14
Speaker 1: why would I want to be something? Why would I
25:16
Speaker 1: kids want to be a king when we allowed the
25:18
Speaker 1: other one to get killed? Kids don't. That's one of
25:22
Speaker 1: the reasons why I'm so fly. That's one of the
25:23
Speaker 1: reasons why I want to You know, I'm whipping it
25:25
Speaker 1: for Riris, and I'm whipping the Lamborghinis on purpose because
25:29
Speaker 1: when kids usually see somebody conscious, they broke. I don't
25:33
Speaker 1: want to fucking be broke. Why we don't have to
25:36
Speaker 1: we give everybody else our disposable money, even if every
25:40
Speaker 1: black person gave this is this is something I'm gonna try.
25:43
Speaker 1: Me and you we're gonna talk about this. Think about
25:45
Speaker 1: how powerful this show is. Right and I say, here
25:48
Speaker 1: go my cash app. My name is David Banner. I
25:50
Speaker 1: want to shoot a seven million dollar movie. Let's raise
25:53
Speaker 1: the money right now on the breakfast club. Right now,
25:56
Speaker 1: here go my cash app. I ain't fucking gotta go
25:58
Speaker 1: through nobody else. I'm going to the fucking people. That's
26:02
Speaker 1: true power. But are we willing to really do that?
26:06
Speaker 1: Because most of it comes from self hate. I don't
26:09
Speaker 1: believe that I'm shipped. So how dare David Banner call
26:12
Speaker 1: himself a god? How? How dare David Banner look that
26:15
Speaker 1: fucking good? That you know what I'm saying? My wife
26:19
Speaker 1: and my daughter and all the women around me really
26:22
Speaker 1: want to have as much sex with him as they
26:24
Speaker 1: possibly can, but I don't know if it's possible.
26:26
Speaker 6: The way he just looked at me, I was like,
26:27
Speaker 6: what is happening?
26:28
Speaker 1: Right?
26:29
Speaker 4: I'm not sweating, I just it was it was intentional, intentional.
26:33
Speaker 6: Look it it's a piercing look. I'm like, you know
26:36
Speaker 6: what you're doing, but.
26:38
Speaker 1: But doesn't that feel But doesn't that feel good? Serious?
26:41
Speaker 6: It's very intentional thinking about it.
26:43
Speaker 1: It's intentional and what I what I would want.
26:45
Speaker 4: To do pass I think I'm glowing, but that's ah.
26:51
Speaker 6: Another conversation.
26:53
Speaker 3: Another know she's single too.
26:54
Speaker 1: She went to an HBCU.
26:55
Speaker 6: She's Emmy, can we can we not? Let's go back right?
27:00
Speaker 1: Why? Why?
27:04
Speaker 6: Stuff like that.
27:05
Speaker 1: She went to Delaware State. She got her degree.
27:07
Speaker 2: She's very bright, has her own she already invested in real.
27:10
Speaker 1: Estate, got a couple of properties.
27:13
Speaker 3: It was gonna make a hard putting that on them.
27:16
Speaker 1: It's great, that's what I did. So listen, I put
27:25
Speaker 1: I'm very intelligent.
27:26
Speaker 6: She's a go get them.
27:29
Speaker 1: I'm not square. She partied. She get dressed, so I
27:33
Speaker 1: put cologne here, put cologne here, cologne here and here,
27:38
Speaker 1: so that when somebody hugs me that they can go
27:41
Speaker 1: they put their nose right there. You know what I'm saying.
27:43
Speaker 1: When I shake somebody's hand. Learned this when I was
27:46
Speaker 1: at Southern and Business class that everybody has a four
27:49
Speaker 1: point zero so at the time, that's when they put
27:51
Speaker 1: resumes on paper. Sometimes the quality of the paper is
27:56
Speaker 1: the difference between you getting that job. And I remember
27:59
Speaker 1: my ex girlfriend and told me, she said, you know
28:01
Speaker 1: why I called you back. I said why? She said,
28:05
Speaker 1: because I smelled your black ass. For the rest of
28:07
Speaker 1: the night. I could now. I took baths and I
28:09
Speaker 1: could not wipe your scent off of me.
28:12
Speaker 3: Man, like a pipples more than the record.
28:20
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Actually, I can bind sense now
28:23
Speaker 1: because I don't want to smell like anybody else. So
28:25
Speaker 1: depending on where I go and what time of day,
28:27
Speaker 1: it is like one of the things that y'all and
28:30
Speaker 1: I really need y'all to watch this. I'm going to
28:33
Speaker 1: bring masculinity. I'm going to bring masculinity back to high fashion.
28:39
Speaker 1: I'm going to bring masculinity back because sometimes people make
28:42
Speaker 1: us feel like being what God made you be is
28:45
Speaker 1: oppressive to somebody else. It's not. It's because I love
28:48
Speaker 1: black people, don't mean I hate white folks. Just because
28:50
Speaker 1: I love being a man and love being honorable, don't
28:53
Speaker 1: mean that I'm taking any space from anybody else who
28:55
Speaker 1: don't feel the same. So for me, all of this
28:58
Speaker 1: stuff that I do is intentional. You know, I want
29:01
Speaker 1: to be like when I told you I'm making sci
29:04
Speaker 1: fi movies. I want to be a superhero for my people.
29:07
Speaker 1: And instead of with most black people I see who
29:10
Speaker 1: are actors do, I don't want to take it away
29:12
Speaker 1: from the community. And that's what family business helped me do.
29:15
Speaker 1: I came. Family business blessed me to be able to
29:18
Speaker 1: get my like of pimp fans back without compromising my spirit.
29:22
Speaker 1: So I'm about to gather all the black folks up
29:25
Speaker 1: and I'm taking them with me. Think you lost them though, well,
29:28
Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't say I lost them, But
29:31
Speaker 1: what I can say is that I didn't make enough
29:35
Speaker 1: material that would bring me back in a way that
29:38
Speaker 1: was familiar to that because it was hard, Like this
29:42
Speaker 1: is the real truth, and we got to be honest
29:44
Speaker 1: with each other. I make fight music better than just
29:46
Speaker 1: about anybody on this planet. That's what I'm great at.
29:49
Speaker 1: Spiritual music, fight me, that's what that's what I love,
29:53
Speaker 1: and I'm actually great at it. And it's almost like
29:57
Speaker 1: a wizard because I bet you nobody ever noticed this.
30:01
Speaker 1: There was hardly ever a fight at any David Banner show,
30:04
Speaker 1: and people didn't notice as violent as my music was
30:07
Speaker 1: because I willed that power response, were responsible, I might
30:10
Speaker 1: get your job broke. And right when I felt that
30:13
Speaker 1: spirit or somebody's about to get their fucking head buss
30:15
Speaker 1: calex on twenty twos, calm your black ass down and
30:21
Speaker 1: get mood or something like that. You know what I'm saying,
30:23
Speaker 1: and I believe great DJs do the same thing. Be
30:25
Speaker 1: honest with me, bro, you can feel it. Yeah, you
30:27
Speaker 1: can feel right about to get pregnant white before they
30:31
Speaker 1: about to get their head bust and if you are
30:33
Speaker 1: a responsible person, right before motherfucker about to get cut,
30:38
Speaker 1: your move to something else.
30:39
Speaker 4: If you care to the ladies, do you feel like
30:42
Speaker 4: your intention and like your commitment to like black people
30:45
Speaker 4: in the black community who you keep seeing like the
30:46
Speaker 4: love waivers. I know you dealt with like mental health
30:49
Speaker 4: things and you talked about like no one's immune to
30:51
Speaker 4: mental health issues. Do you feel like your want to
30:54
Speaker 4: serve a community that you never get to that goalpost?
30:57
Speaker 6: Like is do you feel like that fucks with you,
30:59
Speaker 6: like that fucks with the man to her?
31:00
Speaker 1: All right, do me a favor ask ask the question
31:03
Speaker 1: for me in one sentence, so I can so I
31:05
Speaker 1: can I can give you the answer in the proper way.
31:09
Speaker 4: Do you feel like your love and commitment to the
31:11
Speaker 4: black community and affects your your mental health?
31:14
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, affects my money, affects my relationships. I was.
31:21
Speaker 1: I was. I fell in love once with a woman
31:26
Speaker 1: that wasn't one hundred percent black, but she didn't look black.
31:30
Speaker 3: And doctor Humal would not have approve.
31:33
Speaker 1: But I'm not that that part I don't worry about
31:35
Speaker 1: because we live our lives for other people. Only thing
31:38
Speaker 1: I give a fuck about is being happy. You know
31:40
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We live our lives for outside people.
31:43
Speaker 1: But you know, and to be honest with you, I
31:47
Speaker 1: probably should have stayed with her. I'd have been a
31:49
Speaker 1: lot happier. But I cared too much about the perception
31:54
Speaker 1: of what my people thought, and I shouldn't have done that.
31:57
Speaker 1: I should have just did what was best for me.
31:59
Speaker 3: That we was talk you that lesson did not care
32:01
Speaker 3: about what people think so much.
32:02
Speaker 1: Well, that and the fact that you know, like after Katrina,
32:06
Speaker 1: as much work as I did, people left me alone.
32:09
Speaker 1: I was almost broke. You know. People didn't realize that
32:12
Speaker 1: I had play during that time. I had the number
32:14
Speaker 1: one rap single and I never go back and look,
32:17
Speaker 1: I never ever promoted my album because one thing I
32:21
Speaker 1: didn't want to do is ever make people. I didn't
32:23
Speaker 1: ever want people to think that I was using the
32:26
Speaker 1: movement to make money. So I never cross collateralized. When
32:31
Speaker 1: I talked about if I came to talk about the people,
32:33
Speaker 1: I talked about the people. If I came to get money,
32:35
Speaker 1: I came to get money. And what I even found
32:38
Speaker 1: out is a lot of my rapper friends would push
32:40
Speaker 1: me up there so I could do it and lose
32:42
Speaker 1: my career, and they went and got money. You know
32:44
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, I heardful.
32:45
Speaker 2: It was that because I heard you mentioned money a lot, right,
32:48
Speaker 2: and you sacrificed a lot of.
32:50
Speaker 1: Money by twelve million dollars I counted it. And you
32:52
Speaker 1: feel like.
32:55
Speaker 2: People didn't come and help you, People didn't come and
32:58
Speaker 2: protect you like they should have, because I I hear
33:00
Speaker 2: it in your voice so much, like you feel like
33:02
Speaker 2: you sacrifice this. But at one point it seemed like
33:04
Speaker 2: damn I had to struggle. I was fucked up and
33:06
Speaker 2: nobody helped me. Is that what I'm hearing from David Ben?
33:09
Speaker 1: Not no more because God got me in, not no more.
33:11
Speaker 1: But before God got me in a way and all
33:14
Speaker 1: of those pain is nothing but to push you in
33:16
Speaker 1: the right direction, That's all it is. And again, my
33:19
Speaker 1: blessings don't come from man. They come through man, but
33:22
Speaker 1: they come from God. So like, yeah, it hurt me
33:25
Speaker 1: because even think about this, I just learned this concept.
33:29
Speaker 1: Watch this. When we bless somebody, right, our ego leads
33:34
Speaker 1: us to want to get that blessing back from them,
33:37
Speaker 1: specifically from them, But if they had the power to
33:42
Speaker 1: do that, they wouldn't have needed your blessings in the
33:44
Speaker 1: first fucking place. So the thing is, I don't even
33:48
Speaker 1: want my blessings back from the people that I get
33:50
Speaker 1: it from because it blocks God's ability to give it
33:53
Speaker 1: to me. So, like I'll give you a great example.
33:56
Speaker 1: They could have gave me the money back, but there's
33:58
Speaker 1: not too many artists that comes from generation that I
34:01
Speaker 1: come from that would even garner the respect of your
34:04
Speaker 1: fans for me to be on this fucking platform. Think
34:07
Speaker 1: about my homies that came up that so so many
34:10
Speaker 1: millions of records more than I did. They can't even
34:12
Speaker 1: come up here even if you wanted them to come.
34:16
Speaker 1: God blessed me to actually even still be here. So
34:21
Speaker 1: all of those things, Think about that when I did
34:23
Speaker 1: what I did for Katrina, that made me bigger than
34:25
Speaker 1: a rapper. It may have not manifested in money, but
34:29
Speaker 1: it did manifest in grace and protection. When I lived
34:33
Speaker 1: There's a certain city that I lived in that when
34:36
Speaker 1: I left that city, I realized the type of motherfuckers
34:39
Speaker 1: that I was around, and I didn't know they was
34:42
Speaker 1: that level of They were real killers, and they kept
34:47
Speaker 1: me away from all of that because they respected what
34:49
Speaker 1: I did as a man. You can't buy that shit.
34:53
Speaker 1: You can't get honored, bro, You can't get respect, bro.
34:56
Speaker 1: That's what I love so much about Nipsey. As much
34:59
Speaker 1: as he was a his money, honor you knew him.
35:02
Speaker 3: Honor was first, bro.
35:04
Speaker 1: Honor was first. So as much as envy as it
35:07
Speaker 1: did hurt me, look at the man that I am
35:10
Speaker 1: right now, I wouldn't have been who I am right now.
35:13
Speaker 1: Like my my, My, my Asian natural pathic healer, he
35:18
Speaker 1: told me something. He said, your ability to love, to
35:23
Speaker 1: love is in direct proportion to how much pain you
35:27
Speaker 1: have experienced. So the deeper and the more you've been hurt,
35:31
Speaker 1: the more capacity you have to love. But our ego
35:35
Speaker 1: makes us not want to love because we have been hurt.
35:39
Speaker 1: But actually that's like us saying I don't want my
35:41
Speaker 1: arms to hurt while I'm doing this extra set. No,
35:43
Speaker 1: we gotta make it has to hurt and envy. If
35:47
Speaker 1: they knew how to treat themselves, then nine times out
35:51
Speaker 1: of ten they would know how to treat me. And
35:53
Speaker 1: if they knew how to treat me, they wouldn't need us.
35:57
Speaker 3: That's what I always say.
35:58
Speaker 5: I don't I don't judge anybody based on God's not
36:01
Speaker 5: gonna judge me based off how other people treat me.
36:03
Speaker 3: He's gonna judge me based off how I treat people.
36:05
Speaker 3: That's a that's it.
36:07
Speaker 4: Who was who was leading your team and stuff around
36:09
Speaker 4: the time when you were doing all Katrina stuff because
36:10
Speaker 4: you didn't have people in your ear like you should be
36:12
Speaker 4: promoting the music, and like, what was your pushback to
36:14
Speaker 4: them at that time?
36:15
Speaker 1: Well? No, I mean I am such. This is the
36:17
Speaker 1: crazy thing about me is that people are afraid of me.
36:21
Speaker 1: And I didn't know how afraid people were of me,
36:25
Speaker 1: because the thing is, bro, if I hadn't put my
36:27
Speaker 1: hand around your neck, why you're worried about it? You know?
36:30
Speaker 1: And so I think a lot of people were afraid
36:33
Speaker 1: to tell me a lot of things, and I always
36:37
Speaker 1: say that, let me know, just tell me I made.
36:39
Speaker 1: I'm a big old bear. But if you say it
36:42
Speaker 1: to me and I know that it's good. Like we
36:44
Speaker 1: done had a couple of calls. Well we didn't talked
36:46
Speaker 1: about it. Eight bro, you might not need to do this.
36:49
Speaker 1: I remember I was going on CNN and a friend
36:51
Speaker 1: of mine who works at Apple, he called me and
36:55
Speaker 1: I told him what I was about to say on CNN.
36:57
Speaker 1: If I would have said what I said, I would
36:59
Speaker 1: have probably we had the biggest standing ovation in history
37:03
Speaker 1: from black people. But it would have been the last
37:04
Speaker 1: time I would have been on public TV. Yeah, I'd
37:07
Speaker 1: have been done. And he said, Banner, we need you
37:09
Speaker 1: for the long run. We don't need you for a
37:11
Speaker 1: short term. So as much as you want to get
37:13
Speaker 1: on there and say it, you done.
37:16
Speaker 3: If you do it so and you've always been like that.
37:18
Speaker 5: You've always been the person to say, man, y'all, we
37:20
Speaker 5: talking too fucking much, and I'm talking so far much.
37:22
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's let's build schools, let's let's shoot the
37:26
Speaker 1: movie like That's where I'm at now, you know. And
37:29
Speaker 1: it's funny. Selo wrote a song and he put my
37:32
Speaker 1: name in it cause I told Celo. Selo called me
37:34
Speaker 1: one time like Ben, not ready to get back on
37:36
Speaker 1: the front line. Shit, better stay your ass in Vegas
37:39
Speaker 1: and get that damn bread. You can send some money
37:41
Speaker 1: to the front line. But like and that that was
37:43
Speaker 1: the name of it. Sound the goodie myself front Like
37:45
Speaker 1: Danny Barnan told me, you know what I'm saying. I
37:47
Speaker 1: told him, like, bro, no, we're the only people that
37:50
Speaker 1: put our generals on the front line. Don't nobody in
37:53
Speaker 1: the army. You can't even speak to a general, you
37:55
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So so for me love to
37:58
Speaker 1: be honest with you. I had I had a great team,
38:01
Speaker 1: and I had great people. But I'm so driven sometimes
38:05
Speaker 1: that people are afraid to just tell me to sit
38:07
Speaker 1: my ass down somewhere. And too a lot of that
38:10
Speaker 1: came from fear. I'm grown enough and been through enough
38:13
Speaker 1: therapy now to say that the David Banner that I
38:17
Speaker 1: am now, I would beat the living shit out of
38:19
Speaker 1: the old David Banner. Because if you think about a
38:22
Speaker 1: komfu master or martial arts master, you barely ever see
38:26
Speaker 1: them mad. The fuck they got to get mad for
38:29
Speaker 1: being angry is ignorance, because if I know how to
38:32
Speaker 1: snap your neck, I can snap your fucking neck and
38:34
Speaker 1: it's over with. Keep it moving, not talking a whole
38:36
Speaker 1: bunch of shit.
38:37
Speaker 5: You know, I want to talk to you, talk about therapy.
38:39
Speaker 5: You know I love therapy. You know I love just
38:42
Speaker 5: being on a journey of healing. And I saw you
38:44
Speaker 5: say you had to overcome some mental health issues, and
38:46
Speaker 5: physically you've always pretty much kept yourself together. What made
38:49
Speaker 5: you realize you had to get it together mentally and emotionally?
38:55
Speaker 1: Bro this last time I went through it. Now the
39:00
Speaker 1: first time in my life that I thought that I
39:02
Speaker 1: may not come out of it, like I've been through
39:06
Speaker 1: a lot. Dog People don't understand about people. These kids
39:11
Speaker 1: say they want to be famous, but imagine coming from
39:15
Speaker 1: the streets and where we're from, like we don't, we
39:20
Speaker 1: don't allow people in. Like y'all know this. I didn't
39:23
Speaker 1: smile the first fucking two years in my career. The
39:26
Speaker 1: Mississippi album Days, Fuck you. We don't smile where we're from, y'all.
39:30
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this really happened to me. So
39:33
Speaker 1: ten years old, I walk in the house, I'm playful.
39:37
Speaker 1: My dad said, come here. He said, what the fuck
39:40
Speaker 1: you smiling for? I said, huh. He said, I pay
39:43
Speaker 1: all the bills and I ain't happy. What the fuck
39:46
Speaker 1: you happy for? Damn, And I don't think I smiled
39:48
Speaker 1: again till I was twenty one. Jesus, like Jackson, Mississippi
39:53
Speaker 1: was the murder capital of the United States when I
39:54
Speaker 1: was growing up. It's just that we was in the South,
39:56
Speaker 1: so we didn't get the sexy looks, and that ain't
39:58
Speaker 1: the thing to be proud of. But it took me
40:01
Speaker 1: a while to understand that my happiness is my freedom. Like,
40:06
Speaker 1: that's the reason why I correct people now. I'm not
40:08
Speaker 1: gonna let nobody around me who not happy. I don't
40:11
Speaker 1: want people around me that's not getting it. They don't
40:13
Speaker 1: have the same type of drawl because you have energy vampires.
40:17
Speaker 1: But bro, what I realized is that if I didn't
40:22
Speaker 1: get on top of it. There's a book that I
40:25
Speaker 1: read that they said that your mind is like a garden,
40:29
Speaker 1: but the weeds, just like a garden, grow faster than
40:32
Speaker 1: the fruit. So every day I got to put a
40:35
Speaker 1: new thought in my head. I have to read something,
40:38
Speaker 1: I have to stay on it because it's just so
40:40
Speaker 1: much negativity man. And then I realized that I didn't
40:44
Speaker 1: like myself. You know, I was hard, too hard on myself.
40:48
Speaker 1: I didn't give myself grace. And this dude told me
40:51
Speaker 1: one time, he said, God has forgiven you, haven't you
40:53
Speaker 1: forgiven yourself? So I forgave myself for the things that
40:57
Speaker 1: I did, man, and I really love no life. I
41:00
Speaker 1: started loving me. This may say it sound strange, but
41:03
Speaker 1: I date myself. Now. I date myself. I take care
41:07
Speaker 1: of myself. That was the reason why I went and
41:10
Speaker 1: bought the cars and all that kind of stuff. Think
41:12
Speaker 1: about all the money that I made, and I ain't
41:14
Speaker 1: had shit. Everybody else that didn't walk work a quarter
41:18
Speaker 1: of how hard I worked had all this shit. My
41:22
Speaker 1: third and command had more cars and shit than I did.
41:24
Speaker 1: Not that it's about cars, but I just realized that
41:27
Speaker 1: I was doing for everybody else and not me. Government
41:30
Speaker 1: was coming. So once I started loving myself, Charlemagne and
41:34
Speaker 1: I realized that if I didn't get control of it,
41:38
Speaker 1: that I would be in a place forever. Because think
41:41
Speaker 1: about this, bro, You can even be in a jail cell,
41:44
Speaker 1: you can be at war, but know that you maybe
41:47
Speaker 1: could get home if you hate yourself and your mind
41:52
Speaker 1: is the prison. Bro. That's really hell. I gotta get
41:57
Speaker 1: about that motherfucker. And I'm not playing with nobody. I
41:59
Speaker 1: don't care if it's my mother, my cousin, anybody who
42:03
Speaker 1: fucks with my mental health or my well being. I
42:05
Speaker 1: got to get at you, well, leg you do therapy.
42:09
Speaker 1: My mentor David Moody. He owns one of the most
42:14
Speaker 1: successful black construction companies in the United States, and I
42:20
Speaker 1: had I had a mentor. It was actually a woman,
42:24
Speaker 1: and she came to me one day and she was like,
42:28
Speaker 1: I can't do nothing with you no more. And I
42:29
Speaker 1: was like what, and she said, you need a black
42:33
Speaker 1: man in your life. And so this right after my
42:35
Speaker 1: dad died. She introduced me to mister Moody and it
42:37
Speaker 1: was crazy. We went and ate at a States spot
42:40
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. LL COOLJ was in there, and so mister
42:43
Speaker 1: Moody was like, I love ll cool J. And I
42:46
Speaker 1: was like, let me go get ll get to get
42:48
Speaker 1: him my autograph, like I know LLL and I ain't
42:50
Speaker 1: know ll for shit. And I walked up said what's
42:52
Speaker 1: up LLL, hoping that he knew me. It was like batter.
42:55
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, like dog would you come take
42:57
Speaker 1: a picture from me. He took the picture and then
42:59
Speaker 1: missed the mood. Became my mentor and he was really
43:02
Speaker 1: open to me. And it's funny. I was talking to
43:05
Speaker 1: my publicity team and this is something that I want
43:07
Speaker 1: to say, and y'all tell me if it's the same
43:08
Speaker 1: with y'all. I didn't talk to my homeboys about the
43:12
Speaker 1: ship that was going on with me, Like I just
43:15
Speaker 1: recently had a conversation with my friends about anxiety. I'm like, dude,
43:19
Speaker 1: I've been in the streets, tough, tough. Why the fuck
43:22
Speaker 1: am I having anxiety about ship that's not life threatening?
43:27
Speaker 1: It made me feel soft. I'm like, what the fuck
43:29
Speaker 1: am I tripping for? I was on a really big
43:32
Speaker 1: show recently and had a fucking anxiety attack. Me, dog,
43:36
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't tell y'all, but I had
43:43
Speaker 1: a straight out fucking anxiety attack. But then I realized
43:47
Speaker 1: how important it was for me to have a better
43:49
Speaker 1: team because I was doing too much shit, bro, you know,
43:53
Speaker 1: And I wasn't talking to my friends. And mister Moody said,
43:56
Speaker 1: they're not your friends if you can't talk to him,
43:59
Speaker 1: because in the streets and Jackson, you don't trust nobody.
44:01
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is. So I had always
44:04
Speaker 1: been I had always been taught to not talk about
44:09
Speaker 1: it and just hold it all in and y'all, this
44:12
Speaker 1: is very personal. My Cortisoll levels was so high that
44:15
Speaker 1: it was eating my body up. Like that's how stressed
44:19
Speaker 1: dress I was, man, And it was killing me. And
44:22
Speaker 1: so Mster Moody said, just talk to your friends. And
44:26
Speaker 1: I called up my five tightest homeboys and it was
44:28
Speaker 1: crazy because it was like they were waiting on me
44:30
Speaker 1: to talk. I was like, my toughest homeboy, one of
44:32
Speaker 1: my toughest homeboys he from Tusa, Oklahoma. I called him.
44:36
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, b bro, you ever had an
44:38
Speaker 1: anxiety attack? He was like fuck yeah. And like now
44:42
Speaker 1: we talk and it's crazy because everybody trip, I'll be
44:44
Speaker 1: on the phone with my home But I love you, dog,
44:46
Speaker 1: I love you with all my heart. Brother to talk
44:48
Speaker 1: to you later because we don't know if they're gonna live.
44:50
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, bro, So I had to
44:53
Speaker 1: do it, man. And because I'm outwardly tougher than most people,
44:58
Speaker 1: I can say stuff to these children that most people
45:00
Speaker 1: are scared to say, Like I can say I had
45:02
Speaker 1: an anxiety attack. That won't stop me from choking you.
45:06
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. That won't stop me from
45:07
Speaker 1: putting these legal But no, man, I'm grateful to God though,
45:14
Speaker 1: because think about it, that now draws us closer. I
45:18
Speaker 1: tell y'all this, this happened to me. It was like
45:20
Speaker 1: either the bass player or the guitar player from Earth
45:22
Speaker 1: Wind and Fire. He said he changed his religion because
45:25
Speaker 1: of the Godbox that album. So I thought about it.
45:30
Speaker 1: With so much music being out back in the day,
45:33
Speaker 1: we remember what was number eight on Michael Jackson's album. Now,
45:36
Speaker 1: it's so much music we don't but think about it.
45:39
Speaker 1: If you are the person that helps someone to become conscious,
45:44
Speaker 1: they'll never forget you for the rest of their life. Bro.
45:46
Speaker 1: You helping me with that album. Bro, I will never
45:49
Speaker 1: ever forget you for what you said. Bro, this man
45:52
Speaker 1: got on TV when you and Joe Buttens was rating
45:56
Speaker 1: the albums and you put the Gudbox on there and
45:59
Speaker 1: they took it off because Joe Ones had never listened
46:00
Speaker 1: to it. And I went in in front of him
46:02
Speaker 1: about it. I'm like, no, it's like I'm independent that
46:06
Speaker 1: and look whatever, Ruth, But I will never ever forget
46:09
Speaker 1: you for that. So imagine if I'm the man that
46:13
Speaker 1: allows someone to become conscious, or you the person that
46:16
Speaker 1: teaches someone to tie their shoe, or someone who teaches
46:20
Speaker 1: somebody how to ride a bike. That transcends all of that.
46:24
Speaker 1: So for me to stand up as a man and say, yeah, y'all,
46:28
Speaker 1: I'm all of these things, but I'm also not perfect.
46:32
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all saw that clip, that clip
46:34
Speaker 1: with super viral, this young lady asked. She said, David Benner,
46:36
Speaker 1: you got it sew together and I stopped it. I said, no, baby,
46:39
Speaker 1: I'm a wrecked. She was like no, She couldn't believe it.
46:42
Speaker 1: She was like no. I was like, yeah, baby, And
46:44
Speaker 1: I'm only telling you that I'm a wrecked so that
46:46
Speaker 1: whenever you become a wreck, you know that you can
46:48
Speaker 1: still get up, put on some clothes, and keep it
46:50
Speaker 1: moving every day. So when y'all see this, when y'all
46:54
Speaker 1: see me vibrating, when y'all see me talking to shit,
46:57
Speaker 1: it's because I am healed and I'm gonna do everything
47:00
Speaker 1: that I possibly can to be a consummate example of
47:03
Speaker 1: what a man looks like in America. And I hope
47:05
Speaker 1: that I make y'all proud.
47:07
Speaker 3: And part of that healing is telling your story.
47:09
Speaker 5: Because you know, when I first started about dealing with
47:11
Speaker 5: anxiety and depression, I.
47:12
Speaker 3: Didn't know my father had been dealing with it his
47:14
Speaker 3: whole life.
47:14
Speaker 5: When I started telling my story back in like twenty eighteen,
47:16
Speaker 5: my father told me that he was going to therapy
47:19
Speaker 5: two and three times a week, that he tried to
47:21
Speaker 5: commit suicide, that he was on ten to twelve different medications.
47:24
Speaker 5: But you know, when you're from the South, they give
47:25
Speaker 5: you what they call crazy pills.
47:26
Speaker 3: Man, take these pills. Take these pills.
47:28
Speaker 5: But imagine if he would have told me that when
47:30
Speaker 5: I was younger, I would have known exactly what I
47:32
Speaker 5: was dealing with.
47:32
Speaker 3: So that's why you're telling your story.
47:34
Speaker 1: It's so powerful it is and family business on BT plus, I.
47:42
Speaker 5: Want to ask you one more cousins for you go,
47:44
Speaker 5: what's more treacherous the music industry Hollywood?
47:47
Speaker 3: Are the streets?
47:50
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely not the streets. I think the streets.
47:52
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's clear, and that's what
47:56
Speaker 1: I tell people this all the time. My preference is
47:59
Speaker 1: Mississippi white people. And they say, why if a Mississippi
48:02
Speaker 1: white person loves you, they will die for you. If
48:06
Speaker 1: a Missississippi person doesn't white person doesn't like you, they'll
48:09
Speaker 1: try to kill you. Unlike you're living up here next
48:12
Speaker 1: to a white person and working with them every day
48:14
Speaker 1: and they smiling in your face, and then it's time
48:16
Speaker 1: for you to retire, your pension gone the industry, and
48:19
Speaker 1: they've been smiling in your face all the time. At
48:20
Speaker 1: least I know what it is, you know, and I
48:25
Speaker 1: the streets, and it's so funny, man, I fell into
48:29
Speaker 1: believing that this construct that we call the music industry
48:34
Speaker 1: and the movie industry that is any different. It's no difference.
48:37
Speaker 1: It's suppressive. It's built for you to fail. And that's
48:41
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why, like a lot of people
48:43
Speaker 1: get mad at me because as a producer, think about it,
48:45
Speaker 1: I probably lost twenty thirty million. I'm one of the
48:47
Speaker 1: top producers, and I never put out an artist. And
48:50
Speaker 1: the reason why I never put out artists is because
48:52
Speaker 1: I care about human beings and I know the game
48:54
Speaker 1: is about throwing thirty five people lives on the wall,
48:59
Speaker 1: and you have to become callous in order to do that.
49:02
Speaker 1: That's the reason why hustlers do so good and in
49:06
Speaker 1: the music industry because they've done so much on the
49:08
Speaker 1: streets that they've already become callous. So being callous and
49:12
Speaker 1: this shit is easy. You know what I had to
49:14
Speaker 1: do out in front of my grandma house. In front
49:16
Speaker 1: of my fucking grandma house. I had to serve my
49:19
Speaker 1: fucking uncle. How you think I give a fuck about
49:22
Speaker 1: this music shit? That shit is? He I care about people.
49:28
Speaker 1: If I fuck with you, I mean it. One of
49:30
Speaker 1: your friends that I whisper in your ear and tell
49:32
Speaker 1: you who it is. I had to tell him, you
49:34
Speaker 1: might have to rethink our friendship because I'm serious. If
49:38
Speaker 1: I say I fuck with you, I mean it. So
49:40
Speaker 1: if you come in town, it ain't that you got
49:42
Speaker 1: to check in with me. But I want to see
49:44
Speaker 1: my friend. I'm excited. I really think we homies. I
49:47
Speaker 1: don't throw that shit around, bro, So for me, I'll say,
49:51
Speaker 1: at least you know what the streets are. It is
49:55
Speaker 1: what it is. You know what it is and ain't personal.
49:57
Speaker 1: Let's keep it moving. I do like about the movies
50:02
Speaker 1: is that usually as an actor, if I step on set,
50:06
Speaker 1: my check there and so it is what it is.
50:10
Speaker 1: I might not get much on the back end until
50:11
Speaker 1: I'm able to negotiate at that level. But I noticed
50:14
Speaker 1: amount of money. I can run with this money, and
50:16
Speaker 1: I'm gone. It ain't personal, you know what I'm saying.
50:20
Speaker 1: But what I will say is that I plan on
50:24
Speaker 1: being one of the best actors who ever touched the screen.
50:28
Speaker 1: I'm very serious about black art. I really think, you know,
50:32
Speaker 1: as much as I love music, if people can't see it,
50:37
Speaker 1: people don't understand. One of the reasons why the West
50:40
Speaker 1: Coast popped off the way that they did is because
50:42
Speaker 1: they had an hour and a half long video to
50:45
Speaker 1: go with the music. When Snooping Them came out, Dreing
50:48
Speaker 1: them came out, what else did they have? Minister society
50:52
Speaker 1: boys in the hoods so like they had they had
50:55
Speaker 1: like they had all of that, And we really didn't
50:58
Speaker 1: believe that it was that into we saw the movies
51:01
Speaker 1: and then we had the music. Oh shit, for real,
51:05
Speaker 1: because people can say what they want to. They weren't
51:07
Speaker 1: smoking like that to Snoop came out until we saw
51:09
Speaker 1: it on the screen. It was like, yo. And if
51:11
Speaker 1: you think about the South, we still haven't had that
51:14
Speaker 1: one movie that properly depicts the South. Nope. If you
51:19
Speaker 1: really think about the South Run. I always tell I
51:22
Speaker 1: tell people this, they use us for cheap labor because
51:26
Speaker 1: we still don't have our will Smith. We still don't
51:28
Speaker 1: have our Queen Latifa. We're very close to it, we
51:31
Speaker 1: still don't have our ice cube yet. And as much
51:34
Speaker 1: as we talk stuff until we can cut a check
51:37
Speaker 1: from where we stand, then it's still in New York
51:40
Speaker 1: in LA. So like for me, that's what I want
51:43
Speaker 1: to do. I want to cut a check. I don't
51:44
Speaker 1: want to beg for DEI I want to give you
51:47
Speaker 1: the job. Mean, we ain't got to worry about them
51:50
Speaker 1: because even in the strike, y'all. And I know they
51:52
Speaker 1: don't want me to talk about this, but how daring
51:56
Speaker 1: someone tried to take away your whole livelihood, take away
52:00
Speaker 1: your likeness, show you that they want to cut everything,
52:04
Speaker 1: every tie that you have to sustainable lifelong generational wealth.
52:10
Speaker 1: They're gonna cut that away from you. And then because
52:12
Speaker 1: they give you some scraps, now we okay. Like when
52:15
Speaker 1: Tip on Tip and Ernesteine boycott at Houston's in Atlanta,
52:22
Speaker 1: I still ain't been there. I still not going back.
52:26
Speaker 1: Once somebody show me what they really really mean and
52:29
Speaker 1: how they feel about me, I ain't never going back
52:31
Speaker 1: fuck you for life forever until you show me in
52:35
Speaker 1: your efforts over time that you have changed. So for me, y'all, like,
52:40
Speaker 1: when do we start identifying? And this is one thing
52:42
Speaker 1: that I want to say about the kids. This is
52:44
Speaker 1: what I love about the young revolutionaries. They don't talk
52:47
Speaker 1: about the man, the man no Edward Jenkins who lives
52:53
Speaker 1: in one fifty six Solid Street and won't say, yeah,
52:57
Speaker 1: let's gonna get that motherfucker. Let's talk about the board member.
53:00
Speaker 1: Let's specifically go to his fucking house. That's a revolutionary.
53:05
Speaker 1: That's the ship that we should do. Family business. Say
53:13
Speaker 1: something about family business.
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Speaker 6: I've seen it. You're good, You're great in it.
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Speaker 4: Leela vershan as like I love her, love the dynamic.
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Speaker 4: But I wanted because when I watch that, and I
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Speaker 4: know before you talked about loving acting so much it
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Speaker 4: almost made you leave music.
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Speaker 6: You're not thinking about doing that again, right.
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Speaker 1: I just stepped away from music. I'm almost to the
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Speaker 1: point financially, I'm very close. I want to get back
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Speaker 1: to making music like when we made it in high school.
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Speaker 1: I can put out music and it don't really matter,
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Speaker 1: Like I can just do it from a very pure place.
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Speaker 1: I spent a lot. I still mix and master, I
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Speaker 1: still pay artists, I still pay the bass players. So
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Speaker 1: like music is expensive to make, and black people give
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Speaker 1: their money to tech company, they don't give it to
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Speaker 1: the artists. That's so stupid to me. People who don't
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Speaker 1: even care about music. This is not a shot at
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Speaker 1: any one particular company. As a matter of fact, I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to say their name on would be smarter,
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Speaker 1: but this one particular company that we give all our
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Speaker 1: money to. Right, music is the last thing that they
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Speaker 1: care about in their company. But we give the thing
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Speaker 1: that means the most to us to a company that
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Speaker 1: cares nothing about music. It's not even on their front page,
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Speaker 1: much less black artists. Music in general, they just don't
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Speaker 1: give a damn about So you're gonna give your think
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Speaker 1: about it. It's tech moguls. They don't even like music.
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Speaker 1: They wasn't cool, They don't give a shit. They really
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Speaker 1: really don't, and they get We give them all our money,
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Speaker 1: our residual income, all of these things. And what they
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Speaker 1: did that was really really smart was they gave a
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Speaker 1: lot of money to one influential or two influencial artists.
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Speaker 1: It was one pop young lady and it was one
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Speaker 1: top rapper and we all followed them, no matter if
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Speaker 1: we were going to hell or not. But to answer
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Speaker 1: a question, to answer a question directly, I love I
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Speaker 1: love music, but it hurt me. And every time I
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Speaker 1: go back to music, I'm serious, every time I go
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Speaker 1: back to music is when I get depressed. So the
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Speaker 1: music industry or the music industry, well either way, because
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell my music. I'm I'm too old to
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Speaker 1: be doing shit and ain't making no bread, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's built that way. But like
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Bro, every time I go
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Speaker 1: back to music, I start feeling that way again, and
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Speaker 1: I feel less free. So I said this in an interview.
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Speaker 1: If God is constantly saying, son, every time you go
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Speaker 1: over there you get hurt, why the fuck you keep
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Speaker 1: going over there? So, like you know, you know, Bro,
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Speaker 1: Like the Gudbox two is probably my best album, even
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Speaker 1: better than the first one. So many people jumped on Griselda, Bro.
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Speaker 1: They whole click jumped on the album for me. Bro,
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Speaker 1: I shoot, Bro like you name it, They on it,
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Speaker 1: Tip two, Chase, just everybody came through for me. Raheem
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Speaker 1: but I just feel like man like with the movies,
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Speaker 1: like I told you on the West Coast, I can
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Speaker 1: show people how I want them to think. I want
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Speaker 1: to lead this interview with saying this. I think that
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Speaker 1: black people look at freedom the same way they look
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Speaker 1: at death. Death may be better, we don't know, but
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Speaker 1: the fact that we don't know, we don't want to
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Speaker 1: try it out. So it's the same thing with freedom.
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Speaker 1: Until they know what freedom looks like. We got to
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Speaker 1: show them what it looks like. Think about our iPhone.
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Speaker 1: If you look at a not Star Wars, Star Trek,
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Speaker 1: besides teleportation, all that shit we can do on our iPhone. Now,
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Speaker 1: that's what sci fi is. It's preparing us for a future.
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Speaker 1: I said this man. It was a young black girl
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Speaker 1: who came in crying uncontrollably. Her dad say, what's wrong?
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Speaker 1: Why are you crying? She said, Daddy, are they gonna
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Speaker 1: be any black folks in the future? He said why?
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Speaker 1: She said, because I was watching the Jessons and I
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Speaker 1: didn't see any. So as much as we put out
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Speaker 1: good music, if people don't know what that looks like,
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Speaker 1: it don't matter. A bannervision. I love y'all. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Make sure that y'all go and stream and look at
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Speaker 1: Family Business. You can look at all the episodes like
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Speaker 1: we like to do, even though y'all, we need y'all
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Speaker 1: to watch it every week so we can have those
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Speaker 1: elongated stats that we need, because if you look at
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Speaker 1: it in one city, then we're only gonna get that
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Speaker 1: credit for that day or for that week. But what
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you is like put on Family Business when
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Speaker 1: your Family Business New Orleans, when you're cleaning up, and
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Speaker 1: just let it stream all day. Just do that for
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Speaker 1: me when you cook it, even if you don't watch it.
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Speaker 1: Because I'll be honest with y'all, there's some black movies
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Speaker 1: that come out. I'll pay for the ticket and then
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Speaker 1: go watch Avengers. I sneak Avengers like like I did
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Speaker 1: back in the day. I'm just being honest with you.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna get between this and the guns you carry
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Speaker 5: in the club. You gotta stop telling on yourself.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm telling them what I want you to do.
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Speaker 1: If they're gonna pay for a Bannavision and then they
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Speaker 1: gonna watch something else that up, give me the bread
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Speaker 1: what I said, Give me the bread and your attention.
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Speaker 3: Check on fight night.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's equalized with Queen Tree. I'm on that to night,
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Speaker 1: even though the night may be five years from now
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Speaker 1: if you're looking at it depends. Hey, y'all. But seriously, y'all,
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Speaker 1: thank y'all, thank you. I love y'all and it was.
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Speaker 6: Honored to meet you.
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Speaker 1: I would have flooded with you a little bit more,
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Speaker 1: but I don't want to think people people to think
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Speaker 1: that I'm just the whole jack No, no.
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Speaker 3: Smells, I'm sorry I do.
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Speaker 6: It's there.
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Speaker 1: It's the Breakfast Club.
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Speaker 3: It's David Banning.
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Speaker 1: Later, wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club.