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Gatekeepers, Bobby Lee and Int'l Cruisers - #80 · The Grounded Show

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Yo, we're back again, episode eighty. Different little vibes. You know
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what I'm saying. We're trying to stay up with the times with some old
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men, so we gotta, you know, tap into what the kids is
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doing nowadays. So we uh, you know, we're just trying to get
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our content game up. I feel like the audio is there, you know,
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we just need to come off a little more sexy. Hey, yo,
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but hey, it's facts man, speaking of the cool kids. Man,
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Buffalo bitch ass. Yo. I hate the rig talks of the NFL
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because there's some stuff that just doesn't make sense that be going on. And
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one of those things is like the Tampa Bay game where they had a time
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out left with the Lions in like deep field goal territory and they they even
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call the time out and just hit the clock right now. Yeah, it
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was crazy, bro. Man. I don't want to I don't want to
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attack you, Quincy. But the most I've scene of that was that the
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year that the New Orleans had the flood, Bro, and they won the
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Super Bowl. That was some of the most questionable play calling, i mean
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refereeing that I've ever seen in my life in the playoffs, Bro, that's
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exactly why I said the Ravens are gonna win. It's the story. Bro.
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Every year there's some kind of story. But did you hear the news
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story about the referee they got for the Ravens and Chiefs game. It's like
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anti Ravens, so the script is to make the Chiefs win that game.
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Real, Yeah, it's like one of the worst referees to ref against the
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Ravens. You know what's funny to me? And this is kind of like
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off topic, but it ties into the reference thing. It's like there's such
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a human element to so many things that are supposed to be like, you
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know, just based off facts or whatever. And like a big example obviously
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is like the government and things like that. Another thing that's been coming up
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a lot is like gatekeeping with like the Cat Williams conversation on the Shannon Sharp
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podcast. I heard Bobby Lee speaking on it on a podcast recently to Bobbyle
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the comedian, And I feel like the gatekeeping thing is kind of funny because
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I don't even really see it as Gatekeeping's just whoever has the power they're going
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to put people on that they like, you know what I'm saying, And
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if you're not one of those people that they like, then you know,
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your shit out of luck in that situation. I don't look at it like,
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oh, you know, this is like some kind of malicious thing,
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which definitely is in some cases. And there's obviously, you know, specific
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cases that different things happen for certain reasons that we don't know, but in
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most cases, it's like, bro, like, look at it this way,
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us three do a podcast together. If one of us got some kind
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of deal or hook up to work with, like a company that does podcasts
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or stuff like that, the first people we're gonna put on is the people
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we do in a podcast with. Somebody will look at that and say they
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gatekeeping us. We look at it like we already know these people, We
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already work with them. We already know that they're going to have the work
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ethic and it's gonna work hand in hand, you know. Yeah. I
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mean a lot of people talk about the gatekeeping thing, but I mean one
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of the things we learned quickly is it's not what you know, it's who
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you know. I mean, that's in everything you know in fact, like
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not just entertainment, like you know, that's just normal trying to get a
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job like, you know what I'm saying, you may be the most qualified
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candidate, but you know, nobody in the building. You know what I'm
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saying. And it's just it's not gatekeeping. It just kind of is what
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it is. You know. Yeah. Fact that was one of the things
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I believe it was talking about too, is like when you're getting to a
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certain level, certain kind of money, more hands are involved, more people
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have their hands in the pot. You got to fit into that structure.
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And if you don't want to fit into that structure, which he was saying,
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he's one of those people that doesn't like to be and like those you
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know, stadium shows and those you know, big things that people are doing.
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He's like, the reason, he says, the reason he's been successful
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is because he's kind of just stayed in the lane that he feels comfortable and
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he's been able to have longevity and make a lot of money, do the
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things he wants and even though he has that knock against him that he don't
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have that special you know what I'm saying, Because when you're a comedian,
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that's the thing, like you need a good comedy special and it needs to
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be hilarious. You know, you got to have a good hour where it's
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like classic, you know, quotable lines and everything. But he don't have
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that because that's not really his desire motivation, And it brings up an interesting
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thing of like being lazy versus picking your lane and finding the piece in it,
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you know what I mean. And obviously there's like a lot of extremes
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on either end of that spectrum, and even like in the spectrum, but
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there's a big confusion with people, I feel like where it's like it I
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always go back to the jay z and Nas thing, you know what I
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mean, Because that was a big argument back in the day. Who's better
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jay z or Nas? Who won the battle jay z or Nas? And
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people always brought up things that didn't have anything to do with the music.
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And my point of view was always like, bro, we're looking at this
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as a music thing, and it's an opinion at the end of the day.
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But when you talk about music, you don't bring in who's got what
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wife, who has a record label, who made a deal for this amount
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of money? You know what I'm saying, Like that has nothing to do
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with the merit of the work, you know what I'm saying, That's something.
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Yeah, that's something with the It doesn't really tie in too much to
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the gatekeeping thing, but just from the point of view of when people kind
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of want to put somebody in a box, like with Bobby Lee, like
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they were. Bert Kreischer was basically calling him lazy on the podcast. You
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know what I'm saying, Like, you're like, why aren't you less lazy?
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Basically you know what I mean. And Bobby Lee was looking at it
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like, I'm not lazy, Bro, I just don't want to be in
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the circles that you're in. And you view that as a step up.
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You view that as like a Holy Grail type thing. I don't view it
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that way. I view it like I'm doing what I want to do,
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what I like to do. I'm successful at it. I think it was
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original, Bro. I love everything that he's in. I think it's so
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original the way he doesn't Bobby Lee, you're talking about, Yeah, and
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it's kind of like what he was saying. You know, he knows what
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he brings to the table, he knows he kills it, and you know
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that's enough for him. And there's so much like uh, and this kind
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of leads into a quincy situation now like that he's kind of adjusting into,
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you know, having more on his plate. That it leads into that where
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it's like some people don't want to have more on their plate. Some people
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they don't want to have that situation. And that was something that Bobby Lee
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was saying, like he scales his lifestyle in accordance to how he wants to
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work. You know what I'm saying, not that he's a broke dude,
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or not that he's somebody that's not making money, because obviously he's making money,
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but you know, he's maybe not making you know, these extra five
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hundred thousand, extra whatever because he's choosing to be in the environment slash mind
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state that he wants to be in. You know what I mean, what
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do y'all think about that? That's exactly was going on me right now.
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I literally just had that conversation. In these last forty eight hours. I
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was presenting an opportunity, and this opportunity always start I wanted back in the
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day, and then now I'm just like, I don't know if I want
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that today. Like where I'm at with everything I have set up, it's
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literally making a sharp right turn in the lane that I've set up since I've
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gotten back, and I thought about it for a while. I'm like,
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well, you know, why just do it just because it's there rather than
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being the right time for it. So I did not take that opportunity,
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and I'm so glad I didn't. Like and everybody I'm telling, like my
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wife and my family, it's like, yo, like in such a good
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place with what I have set up and all the things I'm I'm like progressing
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in in my life outside of my job. For me to give all that
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up just to one hundred percent beyond my job again, like I don't know
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if I want to do that, And that right there was one of the
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pretty one one of the biggestcisions I had to make in a while, and
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I'm happy with it. Like I'm not the second guessing there or anything.
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Yeah, I mean I think for me, I just feel like, do
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what works for you, Like I feel like anybody and everybody should always be
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doing what works for them. Like I remember when I was dead broke and
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you know, working on music. I couldn't even afford to go to a
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studio. But people that were around me was like, yo, if you're
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not going to the studio, you're not serious. But for me, I
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was like, bro, I played a long game, like I'm let me
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get my money right so that I can do it myself, you know what
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I'm saying. And now fast forward, you know, I got a studio
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on my crib, you know what I'm saying, And those same people that
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were saying you're not serious about music no longer do music at all, you
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know what I'm saying. So it's like, yeah, what made me successful
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to somebody else doesn't mean it's it's you know, not successful to you,
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and vice versus. It's like, do what works for you because at the
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end of the day, you know, I wanted to have a peace within
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my life, whether I was getting it music or not, you know what
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I'm saying, and financial stability, and that's what I've attained. So like,
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I don't know, I just feel like, at the end of the
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day, you gotta do what you gotta do for you. Yeah, I
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mean, at the risk of sounding like the barefoot guy at a music festival,
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success is a construct of the time that you're in, you know what
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I mean. Like success today might not be success in fifteen years. Success
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today is not the same like even like what you're saying, Quincy, there's
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major artists now that they just record at home, you know what I mean,
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Like that's not even a thing anything that will produce. True does everything
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on this iPad and he's never used anything other than that Ninth Wonder for the
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last I don't know how many years he's been producing on the iPad iPad.
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I'm sorry, I don't know if I don't remember if it's Ninth Wonder a
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mad lib. I know it's one of them for sure, but I know
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Ninth Wonder was one that he was on the Fruity Loops wave for a long
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time. For people that don't know, Fruity Loops is like a music production
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program where you can just kind of program an instrum mento in there and it's
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all virtual. But a lot of musicians use it because obviously it's a cheap
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and easy way to put together an instrumental without having to get musicians, you
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know, people playing, and basically to be able to do it on your
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own. And it's always been looked at in the industry and back in the
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day, it was looked at in the industry like kind of like amateur entry
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level, like you can't really produce records on fruity loops because it's not like
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one of the high end programs. But now you see a whole bunch of
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people. You know, most people use fruity loops when they do production nowadays,
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you know what I mean, especially like in hip hop and stuff.
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And you know, going back to the success thing, like fifteen twenty years
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ago, you would have been cooking up in fruity loops. They would have
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look at you like you was a fool, right, And even though when
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you think about three six Mafia, bro, it's random, but they have
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a studio in their house. Juicy J did and the song that they want
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to grammy for, they did it in that studio, you know what I'm
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saying. Like obviously they had to set up different than what all studios is
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like because they got a bit bigger budget. But it's still a home studio,
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you know what I mean. And it's funny, man, because going
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back to the music, like you was talking about Quincy right now, I'm
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really big into production. I'm trying to do my own thing as far as
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like producing my own records, mixing my own records, mastering my own records.
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So I can release stuff without having the constrain of what you're talking about,
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Quincy, budget because at the end of the day, music is super
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expensive to make if you're doing it quote unquote the right way, you know
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what I mean. And if you don't got legit five g's extra month to
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do your music, you're not going to do it the way that is quote
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unquote right. So you got to get creative and you got to figure out
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ways to still make music, still put something out for the people that's tapped
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in that are fans, but also not be able to kind of lean on
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the excuse of the money, not lean on the excuse of oh, I
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don't have this resource or whatever. So you got to kind of figure out
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a way to do it. And it's the same thing in every industry,
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same thing in every creative endeavor that anybody does. And you can't get too
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caught up in like what everybody else is saying as far as like, oh,
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what you need to do or how you need to do it, because
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it's, like you said, Quincy, a lot of the people that's going
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to tell you you're doing stuff wrong or you got to do it this way
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to do it right, they're not doing anything anyway. So it's like those
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people are always going to say something. And that's the thing about people online,
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the comments all that stuff, even though people come in at Bobby League
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like oh, you're a lazy comedian or whatever. You know, it was
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the interviewer, but it's also been a sentiment that they've brought up to him
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before as far as like the way he operates, and it's like, Bro,
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he's a successful guy. He kind of does stuff on his own.
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And he was talking about Kat Williams in the same breath that I was kind
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of talking about him. Podcasts, Yeah, and he's monetizing all of them
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and they're all big, you know what I'm saying. And he was saying
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that he wishes he was like Kat Williams in that sense of he's so free
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and he can go on a podcast and say that and you know, still
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have his career not have to worry about anything because he's not trying to be
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cool with any of these people anyway, you know what I mean. That
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was kind of like my thing when we were talking with Jari. He had
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great points, and the way I was looking at it was from that point
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of view, It's like I'm not really so caught up in exactly what he
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was saying. I was just I enjoyed the idea that he could say it
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and say in a freeing way where it's like you can check him, you
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can say he's lying, you can say whatever you want. But at the
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end of the day, he said whatever he wanted and nothing changed in his
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life, you know what I mean. He just said it and he kept
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it moving, right, And that's kind of like the thing in those kinds
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of situations, those kind of people, And that's like something myself that I
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strive for, just in business, everything I do, with my music,
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everything. I don't want to ever be strapped to something where it's like I
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can't do things the way I want to do because I want to. I
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don't want to ruin my situation. It's like, my situation is my situation.
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I create myself situation. So whatever I want to do, I'm gonna
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do. I'm gonna do it the right way, and I'm gonna work hard
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at it, but I'm not gonna do it in the construct of what somebody's
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telling me. I have to do it, And you know, right,
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even with the music, bro like a lot of the stuff that I've been
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doing on my own. A lot of people from the beginning of when I
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started making music, a lot of the stuff that I've done on my own,
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people have told me like, oh, like you sequence ago, you're
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not doing it right. Oh, you got to do it this way.
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Oh if you don't do it like this, You're never gonna do this.
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But a lot of the success that I've had musically has been stuff that I've
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done right here in this studio that I'm in right now, which is at
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my house, you know what I mean. I converted the garage into a
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studio and here is where I do appreciate it, and here is where I
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do pretty much all my content, and I do some of it outside.
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Obviously, I have people that I collaborate with, people that I link with.
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But at the end of the day, what I'm doing is what I'm
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doing, and I'm the only one that cares about it that much that's going
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to be doing it night and day, you know what I mean. And
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the people that listen to my stuff and the people that you know, support
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my music and everything. I've never ever had anybody reach out to me and
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say, hey, this is the quality on this doesn't sound like that one,
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or Hey did you record this in the studio? Or you know what
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I'm saying. Like even like the content that I've put online, a lot
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of the stuff that performs the best is stuff that I shot on my phone.
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I spent thousands of dollars on videos setting up different things, studio sessions,
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you know, or instrumentalists, you know, people that play instruments,
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engineers, produce all the stuff. But at the end of the day,
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the stuff that I'm doing myself is what's connecting with my audience because it's me
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and that's who I want to connect with. People that like me and like
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what I'm doing, you know what I mean. That was one thing that
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is funny. Man. One of the dudes that we were working with in
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Atlanta, Quincy, of the dude that we don't work one of the dudes
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we don't work with anymore, he gave me a great tip. Bro.
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He was like, whatever you gonna do, that's gonna put you on That's
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what they're gonna expect out of you. So you gotta be real conscious of
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what you're doing if it aligns with who you are. You know what I'm
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saying, And I always I always took that advice and I always kept it
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in my forefront because it makes sense. Bro. It's like a lot of
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these people. And it's funny because when we're on social media, you always
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see different posts when you're scrolling in Instagram, TikTok or whatever, posts that
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are viral just for being viral. Like the post itself is like a little
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video and said how I got a million views on my reel or whatever.
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It's like, all right, cool, you're reaching people with this, but
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you can't convert that into anything most of the time, especially like if I
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put out a video and say, hey, this is how I got my
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video to X amount. All right, cool, But are they gonna listen
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to my music just because I'm telling them I got this viral? You know
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what I mean. And it's something me and Quincy was talking about off air
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before where it's like you see a lot of these celebrities, you see a
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lot of these people online. They're getting these numbers and you're getting enamored by
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the numbers, but the numbers don't necessarily translate into dollars. Like Jari's a
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great example because his online presence isn't like amazing for where he's at professionally,
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you get what I'm saying, Like, it definitely doesn't match up with what
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he's actually doing, but he's so focused on the reality of the situation that
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he's making the right moves and even though people aren't necessarily looking at it,
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or you know, you're not looking at his page and saying, oh my
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gosh, bro, he's on or whatever best belief he's putting in the work,
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you know what I'm saying. And even with this podcast, something we
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were talking about before we got on, it's like, how do we get
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this to the point where we know, I mean, to the position that
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we know it should and could be because of what we're doing, the type
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of content that we're talking about, the vision that we have for it,
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aligning what we're doing with the quote unquote outside appearance, slash the exposure,
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you know what I mean. And that's something that's like super hard to navigate
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nowadays because back in the day, it was, you know, a team
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of ten people doing what each one of us are asked to do individually.
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Now you know what I'm saying, and it's even overwhelming. Joe was talking
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about it earlier, like he's more of like an extra overted person in real
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life. You know, he'll go out there and meet people, introduce himself.
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He's a likable guy. People mess with him. But when it comes
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to online, it's like it's not that same thing and they don't translate the
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same way, and you got to figure it out, and you almost got
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to be damn near a social media manager just to get your Instagram or whatever
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to the place you wanted to be. And it's like we're not all on
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that type of time, right, Yeah, that's damn sure, because I
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know I'm not when it comes to the social media bro. I tell my
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fantasy all the time. Man, if it wasn't for the music stuff,
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I probably wouldn't even be on it, you know what I mean, just
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because it's I don't know, it's impersonal for me, you know what I'm
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saying, Like I don't keep up with people on it like I used to.
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I just kind of now I'm on it for sports and music basically,
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you know. So yeah, I know it's a different it's a different room
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for sure. I feel that, man. And even like for me,
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I'm like super just to myself, I'm real comfortable just being alone just in
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my thoughts and stuff. So the social media thing is even more challenging for
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me because I don't like, I don't even want to be consumed by you
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know, I don't even care to you know what I'm saying. I don't
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even care to comment, I don't care to whatever. Like it's like I
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don't expect nobody to be keeping up with my stuff, so I'm not keeping
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up with their stuff. But then at the end of the day, I'm
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an artist and I'm still trying to reach my audience as an artist and trying
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to kind of marry those two things where it's like, how do I present
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my art in a way that it's satisfying to me as a person, you
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know what I'm saying, Like when I walk away from my phone, I'm
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happy with what I put out, you know what I'm saying. Because the
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social media thing to me is like inherently against my nature. So it's like
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a lot of the things that I do on it, I already feel like
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I'm compromising myself by doing it, you know what I mean. And it
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might be a too like a thing where I'm reading too much into it and
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I'm putting more stock on it than I should. But that's just how I
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feel, you know what I mean. Like the social media thing, to
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me, there's a lot of you know, things that could really feed into
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bad vices, and a lot of stuff there that even for me, it's
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like I look at it, like, bro, I wouldn't care if somebody
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posted this, So why was somebody gonna care if I posted it? You
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know what I'm saying, Like if it came across my feed, I'm not
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even gonna look at two seconds of it, you know what I mean.
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So it's just like a weird little struggle with it. And then it has
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to be weird the other way too, like for the people that really do
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care, when they're spending all this time and really checking up on it and
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looking at the numbers, and you know that that gotta be real disheartening too,
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because it warps the way you're thinking, you know what I mean,
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It makes you think that, you know, it puts you in a mind
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state where you think people are against you and they're really not, you know
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what I mean. Something I've talked about before about the support it's like sometimes
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we take people not supporting us very personally, but it's like dog, like
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you know, how you get wrapped up in your own life, you know,
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it's how to apply that to other people. It's like, that's why
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you got to figure out a way to really do something that's really going above
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and beyond for somebody to say, Yo, this is bringing joy to me
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and it's bringing happiness to my life. So I'm gonna carve time out for
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it, you know what I mean. You gotta win and you gotta win
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people over for that. And I think, like you know, when I
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did it, it was more social media was just starting. So you know,
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there's an algorithm of social media, but it's an algorithm for real life
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too. If you see certain groups of people and every time you see them
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trying to put you onto something and you don't really care about it, and
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then it comes to day where you're trying to put them onto something, they're
22:04
going to reciprocate that energy, you know, And same thing as online algorithm.
22:10
You don't show anybody love online. You don't wish them every birthday,
22:12
you don't like the pictures. When you drop something, they gonna not do
22:17
it just for that exact reason, Like you don't like my pigs. They
22:21
don't show me love how much I like this ship. Yeah, that's a
22:25
funny thing too, cause I'm the type of guy that, like, I
22:29
don't care about my own birthday, So I'm not gonna I'm not even keeping
22:33
track of people's birthdays, you know what I mean. Like, it's just
22:34
not a thing in my world. You know, like obviously my kids,
22:37
my wife, like my family, like people that are close to me,
22:41
you know what I'm saying, Like I'll make an effort to at least wish
22:44
them happy birthday whatever. But if it's not like a you know, a
22:48
group of like you know, ten people or less, Bro, I'm not
22:51
gonna wish you happy birthday. Like, it's just not the thing I do.
22:55
And a lot of people take that super personal birthday thing. For some
23:00
people is like they'll base their whole relationship with you off of how you treat
23:06
them on their birthday. Bro. And I've seen it with some people people
23:11
and it like, to me, it's like it's so crazy because if you
23:15
could see it from my point of view, this is not even in my
23:18
realm, and it's such a non factor that if you could understand that,
23:22
you wouldn't take it. Like if I'm trying you, you know what I
23:25
mean. It's like even though you know, and to always laugh about it
23:27
in the office, Like when Jim was trying to get Phyllis and Stanley to
23:33
cover for him while he had the other job, and he's like, come
23:36
on, we're friends, and he's like, we're not friends whatever. It's
23:37
oh, you know. Stanley was like, whoa, so when's my birthday?
23:41
And he's like Jim's like, oh, that's not fair. When's my
23:44
birthday? And Stanley's like, I don't know, we not friends, you
23:47
know what I mean. And it's like that same kind of thing. It's
23:49
like, bro, like you not even tuned into what I'm you know what
23:52
I'm saying, Like what I got going on? So why are you taking
23:56
it offensive when I'm not tuned into what you got going you know what I
23:59
mean. But that's why I'm so intrigued by, you know, as an
24:04
artist, by the new fans and the people that actually appreciate me just for
24:11
the music. Like I'm very intrigued by that in comparison with people that know
24:15
me outside the music and how they react and because like, don't get me
24:21
wrong, like I'm not expecting you to like the music just because you know
24:25
me not at all, you know what I'm saying. But I am intrigued
24:29
by those people that have no ties to me, that are looking forward to
24:33
the me. Like having fans is actually really dope, you know what I
24:37
mean, because it's like we don't have you have no reason to like me,
24:41
but because of the content that I put out, and you like the
24:45
content that I put out, And that's dope, you know what I mean.
24:48
Like I can appreciate that, like I can. I have no hard
24:49
feelings by you know, only following like like certain fans and like people are
24:56
actually engaged with Like I don't followed a lot of people because it's like you
25:00
were an acquaintance at a certain time in my life. Like there's and I've
25:04
accepted that there's no reason for me to even fool myself into thinking that we're
25:10
friends, you know what I mean. Facts, Bro, I don't followed
25:11
like I think it was like six hundred people, and I'm still like I'm
25:17
still feeling the effects of it, just from the point of view of how
25:21
but hurt people got over it, and like even as they keep figuring out
25:26
that I followed them, Like as time goes, and it's kind of like
25:27
the same thing you said, Bro, if I met you one time three
25:30
years ago at a random event, and I met you through somebody that I'm
25:34
not even really cool with. It's like, Bro, I do not care
25:38
what you got going on in your life. Dog, I don't even know
25:41
who you are. Like some of these people don't even know their real names,
25:44
you know what I mean. Like I'm not enamored with just seeing what
25:47
people got going on and stuff like that. And I don't even like stuff
25:51
popping up in my feed that I don't know who they are, what they
25:53
you know what I'm saying, Like I don't like that kind of stuff.
25:56
And it's funny, like you said, you know, these people have like
26:03
not a sense of entitlement, but it's just kind of like online they do
26:07
where it's like, you know, they feel like you owe them something with
26:12
that follow or whatever the case is. And it's like, Dog, this
26:17
is not this phone thing, Like it's such a crazy concept to me,
26:21
just because it's not even a real world. It's kind of like just like
26:23
a world in our heads that opens up when you open the phone, you
26:27
know what I'm saying. And it's like I don't know, man. I
26:32
always always have a hard time going back and forth on the social media thing
26:37
and just kind of figuring out my footing and my place in it, because
26:41
a lot of times I feel like I don't have a place in it,
26:44
you know what I mean. There's a lot of entitlement, man. There's
26:48
a lot of way people, a lot of people who feel the way that
26:53
you must respond and interact with them. That's just annoying. And that's why
26:59
I makes a break some relationships. If you didn't respond to something or react
27:03
the way they wanted you to on an electronic digital platform, it affects the
27:11
personal, real life relationship and that's just that's just dumb. But it's something
27:15
that's part of this generation. Yeah. I had a conversation with somebody that
27:19
was like telling me how like a few years ago, they would get like
27:25
four or five hundred, like you're cutting out, you sound like you're like
27:27
walking in the woods, and you keep hiding behind the tree, like you
27:30
know what I'm saying, Like you're talking and then you're hiding behind the tree,
27:33
and then you're talking again and you hide behind the tree. Does it
27:37
does it sound better? Does it sound better? Now Yeah, yeah,
27:40
Okay, I was having a conversation with somebody that basically was like, you
27:44
know, a couple of years ago, they would get like, is it
27:45
still cutting out? Yeah, It's like it's like it just drags out at
27:49
the end. LA, that's crazy because I've been sitting in the same position
27:53
no time. All right, I'm talking. I know, it's just that's
27:57
weird. But yeah, I mean basically they would you know, they used
28:02
to get like five hundred likes in the picture and now it's down to like
28:04
maybe like eighty ninety. And in their mind, they've you know, basically
28:08
concluded that like a certain amount of people don't mess with them no more,
28:11
blah blah blah. And I'm like, bro, the algorithm is different,
28:15
Like, you know what I'm saying, The algorithm has shifted to present way
28:19
more ads now than your post. Like, and you're in your mind,
28:26
you've really convinced yourself that so many people don't like you anymore, when in
28:30
reality they probably haven't even seen the post. Fact and kind of like you're
28:34
saying, the ads and also Instagram is promoting stuff that gets a lot of
28:40
plays right now, you know what I'm saying. The stuff that people are
28:42
commenting, sharing all that stuff, like that's getting priorities. So that's why
28:45
even you're seeing a lot of stuff with people you don't even follow. Like
28:48
a lot of times I go out my thing and it's like I don't even
28:52
see people I follow until I get down like halfway through, you know what
28:53
I mean. Going off of what you said too, Quincy, you know,
28:57
like I got like three thousands the followers on Instagram. Sometimes I'll pull
29:02
up a post and I'll check the insights and it'll be like accounts reached fifty
29:06
one, you know what I mean. It's just like, bro, I
29:08
got three thousand something people that chose to follow me, and most of them
29:12
are music people, because, like I said, a lot the people that
29:15
I followed, they unfollowed me. So those are people that I know for
29:19
like that I know for real real life I've met and stuff like that.
29:22
So all the people that follow me really is just people that don't know me
29:26
that follow me for the music. So even the people that are following me
29:30
for the music, looking for the music, they're not even getting my content,
29:33
you know what I'm saying. And then you get into this like little
29:37
rut where you're like not a rut, but like you get on this wheel
29:40
where you're like, Okay, let me try this kind of content, let
29:41
me try this kind of let me change the look this way, let me
29:44
do this that way. Oh man, this one works, so let me
29:45
copy this one. And then before you know it, you're not even worried
29:51
about like the original content that you're making. You know what I'm saying,
29:53
You're just chasing that quote unquote good video that's going to give you that exposure
29:59
or whatever you're looking for or and it's you know, it's a reason why
30:03
you know, we've been talking a lot lately about just really pushing more like
30:07
real things, like real events, real connections, you know, just things
30:12
that are actually going to be feasible and there when the algorithm changes again,
30:21
you know what I'm saying, it's gonna last through it. Yeah. It's
30:26
funny, man, because I've mentioned it on the podcast before too, where
30:29
it's like, if you, as a person, anybody that's listening to this,
30:33
just think about how many times you actually think throughout the day, I
30:38
wonder about Blank, I wonder if they're doing well today, let me call
30:42
them or let me reach out or whatever. We all do it every once
30:45
in a while. But when you really think about it, and you think
30:48
about it as far as like days of the month thirty you know, regular
30:52
month, thirty one days. How many of those days, how many minutes
30:56
in that month are you spending genuinely thinking about somebody? I was worrying about
31:00
their well being, you know what I'm saying. And even those people on
31:03
that you are doing that with, it's a very short list. It's probably
31:07
the people you live with. It's probably your significant other, and my direct
31:11
family exactly, sometimes my friends, but most of the time I keep up
31:15
with my friends in the chat, so I just exactly they're all right,
31:18
So I don't really wake up wondering if they're okay unless I'm really concerned about
31:23
one of them. Exactly. It's not a big list, no matter how
31:26
cool you are with your friends, Like exactly what you said, unless it's
31:30
something going on that you specifically know and and and you know it's in your
31:34
forefront of your mind, you're not just thinking about them. You know,
31:37
you're not just saying, oh, man, I hope this guy ate today,
31:41
you know what I'm saying, Like, you're not thinking about stuff like
31:42
that so for you to think somebody else is thinking about you that way is
31:48
like it just doesn't make sense, you know what I'm saying. Far fetched,
31:51
it's definitely far fetching. Like so many people spend so much time just
31:56
worrying like what am I doing for other people not to accept me? When
32:00
it's like, dog, these people are not even thinking about you, you
32:04
know what I'm saying. They already made up their mind on if they're gonna
32:07
mess with what you're doing or not, like a long time ago. And
32:09
it just that's it, bro Like, you know, we get so caught
32:13
up and making supporters out of the people around us, and it just it's
32:17
not a it's not a good game plan. It's not a feasible thing,
32:21
you know what I'm saying. I think we've all run into that. And
32:27
it's the same thing as someone trys to shove a Ponzi scream or what's it
32:32
called a pyramid scheme down your throat. You can't shove any think down.
32:37
So if they're not welcome inment or ready for it, regardless of what it
32:43
is, in fact, it's gonna be reacting to the same way. Yeah,
32:46
and we can kind of wind down with this, it's kind of like
32:50
being a salesman. Even like they always teach salesmen, you do your pitch.
32:53
If you don't hook them, move on to the next one. Why
32:57
Because they're not gonna spend X amount of time trying to convince that one person
33:00
when they can hit seven other people in that time and maybe, you know,
33:05
maybe get three out of those seven or two out of those seven,
33:07
but instead of spending that same time just trying to get one person, you
33:10
know what I mean. And it's like that kind of salesman mentality in that
33:14
sense people should apply to what they're doing. It's like, all right,
33:16
I'm presenting this to you, you're not the person that likes it. I'm
33:20
gonna keep it moving. Yeah, it's good approach. But yeah, man,
33:24
I know last week we were talking about, you know, Quincy was
33:29
just kind of get us settled in coming back from the cruise and everything,
33:30
and we were just kind of touching base period. And but aside from that,
33:36
we were talking in the chat about some little stories that he had about
33:39
the cruise and like little interesting things, and we kind of started, you
33:44
know, expanding on it, but we wanted to save it for the pod
33:46
so you know, Quincy, you want to go ahead and just kind of
33:50
give you your breakdown of your experience on the cruise. I know it was
33:52
like a different kind of crowd and that kind of led into, you know,
33:57
the thought that you have with it. Yeah, yeah, sure.
34:00
So like prior to this, looking cruises too, like how many days where'd
34:04
you go? Because a lot of people like knowing cruising for uh, what
34:08
line you used? Where'd you go? How many days? All that stuff
34:12
got you? Got you? So yeah, prior to this cruise, I
34:15
had only been on Carnival and I do have one schedule for Royal Caribbean.
34:20
But this cruise was with MSc, which is a Italian based cruise line,
34:25
and it was a seven be around for a while. They're fairly new.
34:30
I know that they're fairly new to the US. I don't know how long
34:34
they've been established, but I know that I got on a flight a couple
34:37
of years ago and this this older white guy had mentioned it to me.
34:40
And then the fiance has found this boat like on a TikTok and so you
34:45
know she was able to set it up. But this was a seven day
34:50
cruise went to Cayman Islands. Jamaica, Bahamas and Cozamo, Mexico. And
34:57
like I mentioned before, it's an Italian based cruise line, so a lot
35:00
is real quick just to give me a backstory on the cruise. MC Cruises
35:06
is a Swiss global cruise line based in Geneva with operations in Naples, Genoa,
35:12
and Venice. So actually Swiss, but they're set up in Italy.
35:15
Yeah, and they actually started in nineteen seventy in Italy, but they're based
35:21
out of Switzerland, got you. And so as of recent I think they've
35:25
kind of started to sail out of the US. I left from Miami,
35:35
and so you know, with that being said, a lot of the patrons,
35:39
a lot of the guests on the boat were were European based, and
35:45
so you know, before I get into that, huh they were hometown for
35:53
that. Facts, Yeah, big facts. What I will say though,
35:58
before I get into that, was the experience was amazing, super organized.
36:02
I mean we were on the first day, we were on the boat by
36:06
noon drinking already like they How do you compare it to Carnival, which that's
36:08
been the You've been on multiple Carnival cruises, so how do you compare it
36:12
to that? Aside from the culture shock, I guess you could call it.
36:17
Everything else was better. The only thing, yeah, the only thing
36:22
I would say probably isn't better than Carnival. It's just the aspect of Carnival
36:29
is you know, more American based, so like the music is a little
36:31
bit more American based, Like the music on MSc was basically like global.
36:38
So you know, you had a little bit of everything, which is okay,
36:42
you know, but that to me didn't really face because I usually bring
36:45
my speaker anyways and do my own thing, you know. But aside from
36:49
that, food was better, organization was better. The experiences as far as
36:57
like you know, excursions, options and all that kind of stuff was better.
37:00
All of that kind of stuff was better. But as far as Carnival,
37:04
you know, being like the fun cruise, Like if you're looking for
37:07
the fun cruise, yeah, you'll probably still have a better time on Carnival,
37:13
but everything else, like for me, this was a great relaxing vacation,
37:16
you know, but getting to the you know, the other stuff,
37:22
the nitty gritty of it, you know, you have to like thankfully,
37:29
we kind of prepared ourselves mentally for it because, uh, you know,
37:32
my fiance is a type a like to the max, like she prepares everything.
37:38
So she had did her homework and looked it up and found out that,
37:42
like, if you aren't familiar with MSc and the European culture, you
37:45
will get familiar on the boat. And you know, with that being said,
37:49
you know, it was just very different, you know, because the
37:52
culture, you know, and the way people are over there is just a
37:57
lot different from the standpoint of like, uh, they have tunnel vision,
38:00
you know, they have tunnel vision. It's like, you know, they're
38:04
not worried about the people around them. You know what I'm saying. If
38:07
we're getting in an elevator, if I'm standing at the elevator and they walked
38:10
up, they're running inside that elevator, you know what I'm saying, it
38:14
doesn't matter, Like that's that's that's in their mind. It's like, you
38:17
know, a situational awareness. Yeah, there's no situational awareness exactly. And
38:22
I say that with all due respect because again I don't know the culture there.
38:28
Maybe the culture there is like that, maybe that's not considered disrespectful,
38:32
you know what I'm saying. I know that for me, I had to
38:36
hold my tongue a couple of times, you know. But you know that
38:40
was the only part or aspect of it that I didn't enjoy was just you
38:45
know, the like I said, that cultural difference of the people that you
38:51
know, I was kind of around like, so when you look for like
38:52
a communal aspect when you're doing something like that, like do you enjoy like
38:58
meeting people that you didn't know, like maybe sitting around somebody, and are
39:01
you doing something like or is it more like what you're's saying right now,
39:05
where you're just more wan than like a common courtesy? Both really both.
39:09
I mean, the main thing was the common courtesy. I feel like that
39:13
is just the natural thing. But again, like I said, it's natural
39:15
for me, I don't know what's natural in Europe, you know, or
39:19
Spain or whatever. But I also and this kind of goes to a con
39:23
for MSc for me because I didn't even think about that aspect of it.
39:27
Lester, When I'm on a cruise and I'm drinking and I'm having a good
39:31
time and everybody around me is doing the same thing, I have absolutely no
39:35
problem talking to a stranger and sparking up a conversation. That's me though,
39:38
you know, my fiance. She looks at me like I'm crazy when I
39:40
do it. But I enjoy that, you know what I'm saying. On
39:44
MSc, I wasn't really able to do that because a lot of them don't
39:46
even speak English, you know. So it's more your own vibe type thing.
39:51
It's definitely more of like your own unless you're in with them, unless
39:59
you're exactly exactly Yeah. So I mean, other than that, had a
40:04
great time. You know, there are some differences with you know, Carnival
40:08
MSc that they both had the pros and cons. From what I hear,
40:13
Royal Caribbean is probably my happy medium. I haven't been on Royal Caribbean yet,
40:16
but I will be in March. Yeah, I've only been on Royal
40:20
cruises and obviously I don't have nothing to compare it to. But I've always
40:22
had a great time and I've never had any complaints. Yeah, I'm looking
40:25
forward to that one. I really hope it'll be a dope vibe. But
40:29
yeah, I enjoy Yeah. Man, when you was talking about it originally
40:32
and even when you talked about it now, it just really right away gave
40:36
me that let that idea of being at Disney because when you think about,
40:40
it's kind of the same crowd, a lot of international people. And every
40:45
time I be at Disney, I gotta be on my Wentworth shit, you
40:47
know what I mean. Like you got to kind of get your like your
40:51
gully on a little bit because, like you said, bro, like nobody's
40:54
gonna be courteous, So you got to kind of be a little cutthroat with
40:58
the way you move especially, you know what I mean. And that definitely
41:01
adds like an extra layer of like you're on and even Disney is the same
41:07
thing. It's a vacation vibe. Bro. You don't want to be on
41:09
some like let me make sure somebody don't cut me in line? You know
41:15
that kind of vi because it happens to Disney all the time. Bro.
41:16
We be in a line the person behind us the whole time. And you
41:21
know Disney lines, Dog, you're talking about thirty to like two hours.
41:24
You know, thirty minutes to two hour lines. Bro, you got somebody
41:28
behind you for like thirty minutes, and then you know, on minute thirty
41:32
one, they get in front of you in the line, right, and
41:36
it's like and you gotta check them, and you gotta literally move them and
41:39
get it from like, no, Bro, you've been behind me this whole
41:42
time. Get behind and most of the time they don't even speak English,
41:45
you know what I'm saying. They from Europe, they from South America,
41:49
they from Asia, they from anywhere. You know, they coming from different
41:52
countries, and they do not care. Bro. It's like, this is
41:54
my experience. I don't care who's here, and you got to kind of
41:58
be cutthroat about it. And that extra layer. My wife always says,
42:02
I don't like going to Disney, and it's like, it's not that I
42:05
don't like going to Disney. Is that when you're the man of the family,
42:07
you going with a different mentality, you know what I mean. Like
42:09
protect you protecting your pack, You're carrying all the bags and stuff. You
42:14
making sure everybody's good, you know what I'm saying. So it's like it's
42:16
expected exactly, so you're not really like just hanging out, you know what
42:21
I'm saying. Like, especially Bro, when the kids was a small dog
42:23
and we had that double stroller. Bro, oh my gosh, I get
42:29
PTSD from that. Bro. I will bro if I had like a kid
42:32
now, I don't know, Bro, I might for that shit, Bro,
42:37
I might got to throw them into Oliver Twist Home. You know what
42:38
I'm saying, I'm not trying to deal with that again. But yeah,
42:45
man, I feel like that is kind of like I kind of equated a
42:49
little bit to like New York culture too, Like as far as like the
42:52
tourists and stuff, it's like they're just kind of in that mindset of like
42:55
I'm here to do what I'm here to do. If you lacking bad for
43:00
you, I'm gonna get my stuff done. And if you don't say nothing,
43:02
you know, because that's another thing that I know, I don't know.
43:06
I want to hear your take on the two Quincy. But like in
43:08
Disney, when people are like that, once you check them, they're you
43:13
know, most of the time right away they already know they back off.
43:15
It's it's almost like they're waiting for you to check them, you know what
43:19
I mean, They're just trying to see how much they can get away with
43:22
exact that That bothers me too, because it's like, you know you're doing
43:24
something wrong, Like you know what I'm saying, Like you step back because
43:28
you knew you was doing something wrong, but you still did it. You
43:30
know what I'm saying, like why I got to check you for you to
43:31
to not do something wrong, Like exactly, Bro. They got to a
43:36
point by like day three, Bro, like I would hit the elevator and
43:38
I was standing right in front of the door, like I want somebody to
43:40
jump in front of them. Yeah, you know what, I think?
43:44
This is like difference too. It's like you do you bring up Disney and
43:47
I get it, But at the same time, we're the home team,
43:51
you know what I'm saying. When you go to New York, you sit
43:53
New York people, they're the home team. So I feel like I'm Quincy's
43:57
ship those people because of where that shit it's from, they were the home
44:00
team, so they got that extra kind of battery in the back to act
44:06
that way, you know what I mean. And so I think that gives
44:07
a little advantage if it's like, oh, this is this is my hood,
44:10
you know what I'm saying, Like the tourists come here, but they
44:13
don't claim it's their hood. They just act like they're in their hood.
44:16
But it's people. When you actually go into people's environment where they feel super
44:22
the most comfortable, they're gonna be brave. I'll tell you one thing,
44:25
broy probably was like thirty thirty five black people in that boat max, out
44:31
of what fifteen hundred three thousand, at least three thousand. Yeah, yeah,
44:36
it was not that many, bro. The few that we did run
44:38
into, we were just joking. Bro. We was like, yeah,
44:40
man, it's a lot of salt. No Pep owned his mom tunes out
44:47
from Norwegian seven days and I'm looking forward to two months you said, Yeah,
44:53
March sixteen. Where you going mother in law's birthday, seven year birthday,
45:00
his entire fam, my entire fam. It stops in the British Islands,
45:02
the Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, in Mexico. I
45:07
think five stops out of the seven days. Yeah. Yeah. Cruises are
45:12
dope, man. We talked about it before, but it's such a like
45:14
care free vacation, you know what I mean, Especially like I said,
45:17
like whenever you're like the head of the household, a cruise is like heaven
45:22
dog because it's like you can kind of let go of a lot of that
45:25
like having to take charge things, because it's like they got the itineraries,
45:30
they got the food, you know, they got the buffaced out foods,
45:34
so you don't even got to worry about who wants what. It's like,
45:36
bro, we're gonna get the table. Y'all gonna get whatever the hell you
45:38
want. I'm gonna get whatever the hell I want. We just eat.
45:42
You know, everybody do their thing. You don't got to worry about,
45:45
you know, at least for me, because I got kids. I don't
45:47
got to worry about the kids getting into nothing crazy because you know, they
45:50
got the little areas and stuff, and they got people monitoring all the time,
45:53
so it's like super chill. That's just like to me, it's like
45:57
the old fool. You can play some beer punk, some bean bags they
46:01
had. I'm definitely afraid of flying, so if I don't gotta fly,
46:07
I'm good on that. But you're not afraid of the waters of the ship,
46:10
not at all. You're not at seed. You never had rough seas,
46:14
even I did one time. I had a cruise one time that they
46:17
didn't let us get off on one of the stops because the water was too
46:22
long. But all right, so one time I'm in like that Grand staircase
46:27
shit, you know, the probably the main staircase in the middle of every
46:30
cruise ship where like all the pictures go down everybody And if you looked out
46:36
the windows on the right side of that, the boat was tilted sideways that
46:39
it was just water all the way up to the top. Windows are wanted.
46:45
That's how bad it was. Like, these are the roughest way I've
46:49
ever seen. Like when we were eating dinner, I had to go to
46:52
the end of the table because not one person at the table could see the
46:57
water is just going like this in the window in front of them. Yeah,
47:00
Like it was the most insane. That's why I'm like, some people
47:02
hate flying because that's a lot of what I heard that day. But you
47:06
can deal with, like with rough winds and waters like that. Yeah.
47:09
Facts, my brother's like that too. He's like scared of the water.
47:13
And we always had that debate because it's like, Bro, something happens to
47:15
the boat dog that thing going down so slow, Bro, and there's so
47:20
many people here and they's played you know what I'm saying, It's kind of
47:23
like, bro, like you're almost guaranteed to be all right, you know
47:27
what I'm saying, Even like I have this like irrational thing, like it's
47:30
like an irrational comfort when I fly to Puerto Rico, because it's like I
47:36
know, a lot of the time we're over the water, so if something
47:38
happens, you know what I'm saying, Like, it's a stupid land,
47:43
it's a stupid thought. But it's like, bro, dog flying to me
47:46
is so unnatural. Bro, I mean shit, we don't got wings,
47:50
bro, So that flying ship dog, as much as as much as I
47:54
can avoid it, I will. Like that's even part of the reason why
47:58
I don't got my passport, bro, Like I have no desire to go,
48:00
Like I do have a desire to see certain things, Like I definitely
48:05
want to see the Coliseum, you know. I want to see like a
48:07
whole bunch of life. Yeah, mat to beat you, Like, I
48:09
want to see a whole bunch of like historical sites and stuff. But I'm
48:15
like, I'm so scared of flying that the thought of I've been to like
48:19
on a cross country flight, and that's like already too much for me,
48:22
you know what I'm saying. So Like, if I'm if I am to
48:25
do these international trips, bro, I gotta be loaded in money so I
48:30
could do it like the most luxurious way possible, so that I'm not scared.
48:35
Bro. You know what I'm saying I have no no, no,
48:38
no hesitation to say that I'm the biggest pussy on an airplane. Bro.
48:44
When I get on a plane and there's any kind of turbulence or anything,
48:47
Bro, I'm tearing up. I'm holding the things next to me come hard.
48:52
I'm thinking about everything I've done in my life. I'm wondering if I'm
48:55
ever going to see the light of day again. I'm thinking about my kids,
48:59
my wife, my family, the things that I haven't been able to
49:01
do. Dog, I am going nuts that whole time, Bro, But
49:06
you don't understand I hate flying with a passion. It's crazy because me and
49:09
Quincy been on a few flights. And at that time when me and Quincy
49:13
was on a few flights, like I went to LA a couple of times.
49:16
I went to Dallas. I mean, Bro, I took mad flights
49:20
in like this like five year period. But every time I was deathly afraid.
49:25
Bro. Like, I only did it because I knew I wanted those
49:30
experiences. I knew I couldn't live my life that way being so scared.
49:32
Dog. But I was scared, dog. I was super duper duper scared
49:37
dog. I figure definitely had those type of flights in my life. Yeah.
49:43
Man, we went to Dallas. The Dallas flight I'm talking about,
49:45
Bro, there was mad turbulence, Like it was turbulent to the point where
49:50
they was giving out free drinks on the flight, like to calm people down,
49:52
you know what I'm saying. And that flight actually ended up being super
49:57
dope because I was actually randomly sitting next to some NFL referees and they were
50:02
just talking about about to rig all of the games yo in fact now,
50:07
but they were just like telling like more like behind the scenes type stories and
50:12
stuff like I don't really remember too much because everybody was drinking. And you
50:15
know what I'm saying, it was a joke. I was shot white over
50:16
twenty nine yards. We're going to hold them back, yep. Bro.
50:20
It's crazy stories about like players that you know, got caught with drugs,
50:25
but like something happened where they were able to kind of like sweep it on
50:29
the rug and nobody found out. You know, different things that happen at
50:31
different parties and things that. Bro, it was crazy, crazy stuff and
50:35
it goes back to what we was talking about at the beginning, like these
50:37
people are just people, bro, and whatever. You know, whatever inclinations
50:42
they have, they're gonna lean into those inclinations. And like, you know,
50:46
like I said, like there's a there's players that have had situations that
50:51
we just never hear about because they got the right people in place that are
50:53
gonna conceal it. And then there's other players that rub people the wrong way
50:57
that as soon as they mess up dog, they read need to blow their
51:00
whole ship up. So it it goes back to that thing again. Bro.
51:06
It's like, I mean, pretty much everything we've been talking about today
51:08
has really just been like the differences in people and like how people do what
51:13
they do and how it you know, they're just gonna do what they do
51:15
regardless. Bro. That's That's just what it is, man. At the
51:20
end of That's one of the things too. Like we like to talk about
51:22
it a lot, and it's something that we we enjoy conversion about. And
51:25
I'm the type of person I like talking about stuff like this, but it's
51:29
not something that I really think about like in my daily life, you know
51:32
what I mean, Like as far as like worrying about other people think and
51:36
stuff capitalism and communism. Yeah, but when we even talking about and he
51:43
just came out of nowhere, like jayde and Smith Oh yeah, but yeah,
51:50
that sh it was funny, man, Like yeah, and treatment,
52:00
yeah, that ship is so funny man. It's so funny too, like
52:04
even the dynamics in the group chat, like it even goes back to what
52:06
we're talking about. Like sometimes you'll write something, bro, and it'll be
52:09
like a day and a half before anybody responds, and you're like, all
52:13
right, so fuck me right, you know what I'm saying. And it's
52:15
like we got that honesty now, Bill, after all the years it had
52:20
in this chat, Like everybody's like, hey, talk about that ship facts.
52:25
And it's funny because, like you said, Bro, when you start
52:28
a chat, it's like everybody's responding to every single everybody. Anybody. Yeah,
52:32
if they're not if they're not going to write something, they make sure
52:36
they react to the message. You know what I mean. It's like everything
52:38
has a reaction. Bro drinking Central Ceiling and I was like, wow,
52:43
okay, song is cool. Well Bro, it's so funny, dog.
52:52
And it's even like you know what happens when you like, say a joke
52:55
or something like when you're playing Call of Duty and somebody else talked at the
52:59
same time or something, and it was like that was that moment is just
53:01
forever gone. Sometimes bangers Dog like the jokes like, yo, it's so
53:07
funny. Even like one of the jokes that I put in the chat today,
53:10
it just lined up perfectly and it just worked out. And I would
53:15
have been so hurt if it didn't line up the way it did because I
53:16
just felt like it was such a slapper dog. No, I'm like that
53:22
too. I'm the kind of guy like if I'm telling a story, I
53:24
don't tell a lot of stories, but then if everybody cuts me off and
53:28
I don't get to finish my story, like yo, everything I said will
53:30
not make sense unless I say the rest of this, Like no one's ever
53:36
gonna hear the rest of this. I'm like quick, I gotta hear the
53:39
facts. The worst thing is like when you and it's like inadvertent, like
53:45
when you build up a story so much because of the interruptions or whatever,
53:49
and then finally when everybody's ready to hear it, you're kind of like,
53:53
if you put it on this stage, it ain't that good of a story.
53:55
But if it was like a throw, you know, a throwing story.
53:58
I was originally playing to be it would it hit you know what I'm
54:00
saying. Yeah, I know, I know this is a quick pivot back
54:06
to the cruise stuff, but I just wanted to kind of say this while
54:08
before we locked off. But you know, my first cruise that I went
54:13
on, I met uh this girl from some country and age. I can't
54:19
remember her name, but you know, basically I just got to talking to
54:22
her. She was just kind of telling me what kingpin, uh my back,
54:27
I'm stretching my back up Paul episode. That's exactly why I said,
54:36
king think because you just look like you about to make a decision that's gonna
54:38
fuck somebody's life. I hate y'all, man, but no, but anyways,
54:45
like so basically she told me that, like, you know, she
54:49
does the cruise things for like a year and a half at a time,
54:52
and she stacks her bread and then brings it back to her family, and
54:57
so like, you know, when I learned that about her, you know,
55:00
I kind of just started to like, you know, when you go
55:01
on cruises, you get the person that cleans your room, you get your
55:06
same waiters every night, or whatever, you know what I mean. You
55:07
get those people that you see every day. Basically, and so, like
55:12
I always make it a point to, like, you know what I'm saying,
55:15
try to get to know them for that week or however long I'm there.
55:17
And so I found out this time that, you know, my waiter
55:22
he was from Mexico, and I guess apparently the minimum wage in Mexico is
55:28
fourteen dollars a day. Shoo, fourteen dollars a day. So he said
55:34
that what he does is he does the cruises for about eight nine months at
55:38
a time, he stacks his money for his family, and then he goes
55:42
back and then he does like regular labor just to have time with his family.
55:47
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they work the cruisers. And so
55:50
then I thing to just go on cruises for a year now, Oh no,
55:54
no, no, they work them. And then so he'll do that,
55:57
and then he'll do like three months of just manual labor in Mexico so
56:01
he can be with his family and spend time with him, and he goes
56:05
back on for another nine months and that's how he brings bread into the household.
56:08
And like, I don't know, man, I just think about that
56:10
sometimes. I'm like, man, like, you know, we complain sometimes
56:14
about stupid things. You know, we'll go on vacation and go on cruise,
56:19
especially wife, his wife, his family knows when we went to the
56:22
vacation in Mexico, like every single person who took care of us on a
56:27
really good level, just genuine level. We took care of everybody always,
56:31
yeah, always everybody, every single day, every chance we got. We
56:36
didn't ask for anything without compensating him with something, because we know what it's
56:39
like, man, you know what, because they make they making real sacrifices,
56:44
man, you know what I mean, like this boat for nine months
56:47
at the time, and like just serving us and like making us feel the
56:52
poor, and like bro pay his motherfuckers everything. Yeah, fact, and
56:58
man, just to kind of like wrap it up with that, you know,
57:00
you got people like that that they dedicate their whole life to serving others
57:05
and they just keep their head down, work hard. They provide for their
57:09
family, provide for people that maybe they don't necessarily have to provide for.
57:14
They just take it upon themselves, you know what I'm saying. And those
57:17
are the kind of people you got to think about when like you're saying,
57:21
oh man, people don't support me and stuff like that. It's kind of
57:22
like your sequence, you bro. So a lot of people ain't even on
57:25
that type of time. You know, they got real things that they're dealing
57:29
with. So for you know, for you to be like, oh,
57:31
man, why isn't this person not you? You know, specifically just as
57:35
a person just saying, oh, these people ain't supporting my stuff or whatever.
57:37
It's like, dog, even right now, it's like a tough time
57:39
for people period, you know what I'm saying, just with the way financially
57:44
things are and everything. So it's you know, if it's something that you're
57:47
doing, bro, it's exactly that it's something that you're doing. So figure
57:52
out the plan, try to execute it to it for it to get you
57:55
to the level that you want to be at, not just the level that
57:59
you feel like you need to be at or whatever is going to give you
58:01
the cloud or whatever. Just try to get it to the level you wanted
58:04
to be at and make sure you're happy and comfortable, bro. And at
58:07
the end of the day, that's all that really matters. Agree. But
58:13
yeah, man, I got a new joint dropping. I believe it's February
58:16
fourth, another one that I produced mixed Master Rope performed did Everything you hear
58:22
me, and I'm just really locked in on that right now. We gotta
58:27
have a lot more music that I've done myself dropping Aside from that, really,
58:34
I'm just chilling dog anything else I want to throw in there before we
58:37
hit the Goodbye ski. Yeah. Man, got a few songs myself that
58:42
I actually wrote while I was on the cruise. I got a couple of
58:45
collapsed with sign no Lie Yes Sir Freddy's Artist to Holy Freddy Yes there.
58:52
So I got a few things working. Man. I'm super excited. I'm
58:55
finally kind of transitioning into both my jobs, doubled the income, you know,
59:01
ready to get this thing going. Like you said earlier, less you
59:05
know what I mean. This music stuff is not cheap, and you know,
59:08
I'm excited to be back in a situation where I can kind of get
59:10
back on it. So yeah, man, I'm so excited for what the
59:15
next like month, month and a half it is. Don't look like nice?
59:19
What about you, Joe? Yeah. Now, my my three goals
59:22
for this quarter, It's three things I said I was gonna do for years
59:25
now and I haven't done this. H One of them is a highly uh
59:34
disputed as far as even you needed the more. It's my con ce a
59:37
weapons permit. I know in Florida as of July last year, you don't
59:40
need it, but I feel I just want. I just want to be
59:44
legit, you know what I mean? They are benefit even traveling. You
59:46
can't travel if you don't. Yeah, there are benefits you get from having
59:51
it. I want to have those benefits. I want to have the law
59:53
wife. You and I took the class. It was very informational, like
59:57
I know every single thing I didn't know before about carrying a piece and I'm
1:00:01
glad I did that. So did that. Another thing, I always want
1:00:06
to get a motorcycle license. My father is a Harley driver, a rider,
1:00:09
and you know, we always dreamed about one day riding together. So
1:00:14
I'm not sure if you hate the idea is she's completely against me getting it,
1:00:20
but I said I'm going to get it, and I'm doing it.
1:00:22
So that's coming up next weekend. But I hope you get a chance to
1:00:25
ride, go on some trips for him. You know what I'm saying,
1:00:30
Sierra style and then yeah, my P and P. You know what I'm
1:00:36
saying is studying. I'm studying like crazy. I'm trying to get this by
1:00:39
the beginning of VAPOR. It is my cut up date, so I'll completely
1:00:43
focus on this man, and my health and working out and getting my body
1:00:46
better. So this year started off right, man. Everything we talked about
1:00:51
going into the end of last year, about starting routines and following through and
1:00:54
staying committee and staying consistent. I'm still on track. And we know we're
1:01:00
about twenty four days into the new year and they can't say I fell off
1:01:05
here. So definitely proud of that accomplishment. Facts man. And before I
1:01:10
sign this off, last thing I want to say is this, we all
1:01:15
just described three completely different situations, but we all striving, we all supporting
1:01:21
each other, and we're making sure that regardless of what all of us is
1:01:24
doing, we're all doing something and we're all getting stuff done. Like they
1:01:30
have these you know, these little memes and things online where they'd be trying
1:01:32
to like specifically say like if your friend group isn't talking about going you know,
1:01:39
going half on a condo and the freaking poor part of town, you
1:01:44
guys aren't thinking, you know what I'm staying. And there's all these little
1:01:46
things. But it's like, as long as you know the people, the
1:01:51
people you with is good people and they got good values and that they're you
1:01:55
know, keeping their head down and working hard and trying to strive for what
1:01:59
they're doing. That's all that really matters because like what we were talking about,
1:02:01
bro, at the end of the day, your life is your life.
1:02:04
Everybody happy and if everybody not hurting nobody, that's all that really matters.
1:02:07
So with that, I say, stay thin, but don't not do't
1:03:54
not do't, not do't, not not a not after acting thing ever Atta