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INTERVIEW: Common & Pete Rock On Respect For Hip Hop, LL Cool J, Kendrick, Jennifer Hudson, New Album + More · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Morning everybody, it's the j Envy, just hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
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  Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special legends
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  Speaker 1: in the building. Yes, and we got the brother Common
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  Speaker 1: and the brother Pete Rock. Well, I'm feeling, man, this
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  Speaker 1: is breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: This is a beautiful day man for us to like
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  Speaker 3: have a new album and just be together creating music.
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  Speaker 4: Man, I ain't gonna front. I was last night.
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  Speaker 3: I was just like taking things in like, man, it's
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  Speaker 3: spent some years of making music, ups and downs, and
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  Speaker 3: to be here like just releasing new music and the
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  Speaker 3: fact that some people niggas see me on the street,
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  Speaker 3: like yo, when that new pet Rock joint coming out
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  Speaker 3: of that, I ain't had that in a long time.
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  Speaker 3: So I ain't gonna front. I'm feeling like just blessing
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  Speaker 3: on a high, man, just a spiritual high.
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  Speaker 1: You be on the street, and this is how hip
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: hop is. If you try to battle Common in anything
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  Speaker 1: on the street, it don't matter if it's dancing, if
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  Speaker 1: it's rapping, if it's graffiti. He is to the four.
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  Speaker 5: And he participated, He participated in a don't matter.
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  Speaker 1: He is spending on his back, like I know it's
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  Speaker 1: back hurt.
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  Speaker 4: After that, Yo, my team be tripping because we was
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  Speaker 4: in the prison. Man.
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  Speaker 3: We was, you know, doing some prison work, and this
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  Speaker 3: girl wanted to battle me and break dancing. And the
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  Speaker 3: girl was like, Yo, she could break dance. She's gonna
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  Speaker 3: get you. I was like, okay, So she started doing
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  Speaker 3: her little poplocking.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I went down and there some windmill.
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  Speaker 3: It was like it was like, you ain't gonna let
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  Speaker 3: the girl in prison be too, and I'm a competitor.
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  Speaker 6: The new album is The Auditorium of All One, produced
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  Speaker 6: entirely by by Pete rop Up. Why why is King
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  Speaker 6: s theter to cover for this project?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to once we got the title the Auditorium,
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  Speaker 3: we wanted a dope a dope theater and a dope auditory.
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  Speaker 3: We heard about different ones and I looked at king Theatre.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody from my team sent sent it to me Nicole,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, Yo, that's it. And I was like, man,
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  Speaker 3: are they gonna fit it within the budget? And for
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  Speaker 3: a second I called I called my my agent, Mary
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  Speaker 3: who books my shows, and I was like, yo, can
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  Speaker 3: you help us to get King's Theatre She was like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going there, Tom, I'm gonna get it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get it. I talked to them and then
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  Speaker 4: I went up there. Yo.
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  Speaker 3: I went up there on my own, just went knocked
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  Speaker 3: on the door like hey, y'all, you know, we want
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  Speaker 3: to shoot a cover.
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  Speaker 4: Me and Pete Rock and the dude.
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  Speaker 3: The security let me in and was like talking to
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  Speaker 3: the person like, yo, comment is right here, asking me
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  Speaker 3: could I get So it ended up yo, charlam Mane.
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  Speaker 3: It ended up being like, man, this was divine order
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  Speaker 3: because you know when we was taking those pictures and
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  Speaker 3: it said King Theater, I was like, this is dope
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  Speaker 3: and this you know, they've had like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: historic it's in Brooklyn, they had a lot of historic
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  Speaker 3: performances and Diana Ross reopened that spot and actually your
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  Speaker 3: failure wife was lived around that area, so it was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of tie ins and even just shooting the cover,
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  Speaker 3: Pete and I was like, man, we ain't shot an
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  Speaker 3: album cover in a minute where you're going through that
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  Speaker 3: experience of taking shots and just you know, it was
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  Speaker 3: it was dope, man, so so so salute to the
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  Speaker 3: King the Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you get back together? Hey, how do
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  Speaker 1: y'all decide to do what album? What was that conversation, like,
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  Speaker 1: what do y'all meet your world's meeting and say, let's
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  Speaker 1: do this.
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  Speaker 2: We've been wanting to do it since, you know. We
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  Speaker 2: did the ice Cube joint and then we did the
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  Speaker 2: Sol Survivor album for Loud when I was signed Loud
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  Speaker 2: and he wrapped on the joint with Nori and Pun.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm skipping a whole bunch. But we met in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety right.
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  Speaker 3: Somewhere around the night because I ain't come out to
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  Speaker 3: ninety two, so around then in the early nineties, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's when I, you know, start traveling, moving around doing
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  Speaker 2: promo tours. Somehow we linked up when we met and
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  Speaker 2: I ate his mom's cooking because he brought me to
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  Speaker 2: his crib, and you know, it was it was history
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  Speaker 2: from there.
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  Speaker 6: Brow did you ever catch any static for producing?
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  Speaker 3: Not really, not really, but you know, yo, but Pete
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  Speaker 3: was one of the at the time. He was really
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  Speaker 3: one of the only producers that was open to doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Even even my great brother know I Di didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to get involved just because you know, it just was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of a lot going on. So man, Pete
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  Speaker 3: was like I've been saying that rhyme out for a
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  Speaker 3: minute and Pete and I reached out to Pete and
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  Speaker 3: he was like, he took me out to Mount Vernon
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  Speaker 3: and he said it was me in black thoughts. He said,
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  Speaker 3: I was heated at the time, but you know, but then.
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  Speaker 2: You answered the question turned to calm him down, like
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but I was. I was in the state
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  Speaker 3: where I just wanted to man. I was like, damn, man,
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  Speaker 3: I got this like this much. I was ready to
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  Speaker 3: get get back at it and uh, get back at
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  Speaker 3: Q but uh, you know, it's all love now, so
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  Speaker 3: I ain't. I ain't dwelling too deep into it, but
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  Speaker 3: I say that, man, he gave me that beat and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Yo, this beating, this is this is
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  Speaker 3: what I need for this song. And that was the
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  Speaker 3: first joint we ever did. Just went made it in
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  Speaker 3: Robbo's basement, his guy's basement. I was like, man, this dude,
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  Speaker 3: he came through for me. We've been brothers ever since.
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  Speaker 3: And this came about because man, it was a lot
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  Speaker 3: like last year, I really like understood how important hip
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  Speaker 3: hop is and how like valuable people still like how
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  Speaker 3: much people still value it like that. I think it
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  Speaker 3: was going to like all the hip hop celebrations like
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  Speaker 3: going like this the fiftieth year. I remember being in
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  Speaker 3: a Yankee Stadium and I performed at that show. It
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  Speaker 3: was NAS and Lauryn Hill, E PMD, run DMC, Man,
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  Speaker 3: Mob Deep, BT Joe like it was. I stood in
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  Speaker 3: the crowd for like five hours. I never did that
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  Speaker 3: at a show, stood in the crowd and just watched.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, man, and saw like the Yankee
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  Speaker 3: Stadium going crazy over all these songs, everybody from Ice
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  Speaker 3: Q to Mob Deep to Little Kim, and we always
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  Speaker 3: enjoying it.
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  Speaker 4: And it made me it just it reaffirmed that, man,
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  Speaker 4: this this music is still valuable to people.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, damn, you know people are paying
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  Speaker 3: attention to the lyrics even more, like because I've done
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  Speaker 3: certain I've done.
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  Speaker 4: Music and people don't even know I put the music out.
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  Speaker 3: But when I get on to do a freestyle of
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  Speaker 3: SOMETHINGE my homies hitting me up about Yo, you heard
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  Speaker 3: Jay Cole on this, or you heard you know like
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  Speaker 3: or you know of course the battle with Kendrick and Drake.
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  Speaker 3: They like, YO, listen to these lyrics. To me, it
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  Speaker 3: just felt like it feels like hip hop is alive
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  Speaker 3: in a new way right now.
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  Speaker 4: So like I'd always wanted to connect with Pete, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know it would be a whole project. I said, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: let's see what's up?
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  Speaker 2: You do? You knew?
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  Speaker 6: How did you know? Pete?
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  Speaker 2: Because I was like, nah, we're doing that, yeah, straight up,
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  Speaker 2: Boguard Bully like yo, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean but he delivered on the.
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  Speaker 6: Your production is so stellar and it's still soul stella,
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  Speaker 6: And I was wondering, you have these beats in the
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  Speaker 6: stash or did you make these purposely for common in
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  Speaker 6: this past.
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  Speaker 2: I had some in the stash and maybe made some recently,
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  Speaker 2: but they were all done. And then you know, I
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  Speaker 2: just took a whole bunch and start sending it to him.
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  Speaker 2: Well he came to the crib for us. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, he sat down and I started playing beans.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, yep, yep, yep, that one, that one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but he also was sending it. But you also was
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  Speaker 2: sending me records too like that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a process that you know, I haven't been
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  Speaker 3: a part of in a minute where where like I'm
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  Speaker 3: sitting down and the producers like got the record and
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  Speaker 3: he finding us what.
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  Speaker 4: He's about to sample for me.
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  Speaker 3: Pete was sending these these records and I was like, yo, yo,
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  Speaker 3: that's it right there, you know, like loop that and
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  Speaker 3: and to be a part of that process, it's like
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  Speaker 3: a creative thing. I feel like that's how you can
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  Speaker 3: come with a sound. And it was even bigger than
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  Speaker 3: just us like just making music to be hones. As
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  Speaker 3: soon as I got the piece crib, we started talking
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  Speaker 3: about life, you know, and that and that, and that's
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  Speaker 3: something that's like in the in the process of being
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  Speaker 3: artists and creating together. It's like you need to be
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  Speaker 3: able to like be connect as human beings like and
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: like man, we were talking about therapy, life, you know, children,
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  Speaker 3: and it was just like, man, I'm in that. You
• 8:07
  Speaker 3: sometimes you just know when you're in the right place.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's energy. Energy.
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  Speaker 3: Energy is like and that got intuition is one of
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  Speaker 3: the most like underrated things. And I was like, as
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  Speaker 3: soon as I was at this crib, I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna do an album like and and I felt
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  Speaker 3: like we both.
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  Speaker 4: Would put our heart and souls into it.
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  Speaker 3: And I was noticing that his sound was fresh, it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't liked.
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  Speaker 2: No, I just took what we did from back in
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  Speaker 2: the day and just kind of mixed it in with
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  Speaker 2: what's going on today, you know, and we want to
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  Speaker 2: we want to rock with the young.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask, you know, the celebration last year,
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  Speaker 1: of the fiftieth celebration, it seemed like it made people
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  Speaker 1: respect hip hop again, and not just the newer artist
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  Speaker 1: the older artists. Well, because I'm seeing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the ogi's back on tour and I'm seeing this show
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  Speaker 1: sold out, people, have you guys with.
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  Speaker 4: This that bro I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was on that LL Force tour with the Roots
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  Speaker 3: for a second, and I did different cities.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, Yo, it's people here like coming in their outfits,
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  Speaker 3: like celebrating this music and El's doing like songs that
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: ain't even hit, like hits from his album like one
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  Speaker 3: nine hundred l and people rocking to it. Us shit
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  Speaker 3: was dope, and that like all that was. I agree
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  Speaker 3: that we celebrated the culture. And what made me feel
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: good was like we celebrated ourselves. We ain't have to
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  Speaker 3: like wait for it, wait for somebody else to determine
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  Speaker 3: what this was. It was like, man, we celebrating ourselves,
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: and it just to me, we ain't know when we
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: were Like when I first started rhyming, I ain't know, like, damn, man,
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  Speaker 3: could I could be rhyming? I'm fifty two years old,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm rhyming like and I'm still and I
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: still feel the love of what is that I have
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  Speaker 3: for this culture? And I didn't know when I was
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: nineteen rapping. I'm like I was thinking, like by the
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: time I'm thirty, man, I might not be able to
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: do this right. We just didn't have any blueprints of
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: people who had evolved and grown in the in the
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: industry to be able to find out how to exist
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: and in so many genres of music, they do it right.
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: Like I mean, I'm a I'm a big jazz head
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: and it's a it's a jazz drummer named Roy Haynes.
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: It plays in his.
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  Speaker 3: Nineties, you know, and I want to I feel like
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: we now feel believe that hip hop can you can
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: be however old and just creating if the music is good, young, old,
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, just create great music.
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  Speaker 6: I had a discussion with LL recently and he said
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: he had to learn how to rap again, so so common.
• 10:35
  Speaker 6: Do you ever feel like that we're rapping, Pete. Do
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: you ever feel like that with production?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I feel like that. Well, I'm always at it,
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: but you know there's times where I'm you know, I
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: don't want to make beats, but when I do feel it,
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: it's in my fingers and I'm ready to go. But
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: you know I have that feeling, I go through that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely, I've been through it, like and now. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: that was one of the reasons that I started, like
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: getting into acting was like because I started studying acting,
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: but the reason I pursued it even more was because
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to be making music when I ain't
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  Speaker 3: really feeling it, and I got to find another way
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  Speaker 3: to a creative outlet but also another way to survive
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  Speaker 3: and get out there. So acting was one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: And it was times when I came back to rap,
• 11:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what do I say? I remember I was
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: talking to Tarik to Black though, and he was like, Nigga,
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: you didn't put out albums just rap, just rap, and
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: it kind of reminded me man just MC. So like,
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: gradually I started getting better and getting better at my
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: craft and going back to mceing and hearing other MC's, like,
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  Speaker 3: that's always inspiring. That's always been the thing. When I
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: when I heard naves come out of like oh Biggie,
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  Speaker 3: or you know, you hear ghosts in these cats, You're like, damn,
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: I gotta rhyme Andre three thousand. So I mean, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying that at that time, that was always it,
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  Speaker 3: and now I still enjoy that, like I'm hearing some
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  Speaker 3: Kendrick or Earl sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I'm like, damn, I want to rhyme.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: But you know what, you know the thing with ll
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: if you really think about LLLL I called him one
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  Speaker 1: of the foundin fault, right, he give you that early
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  Speaker 1: and you would know this. Of course, the rhyme skills
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: and the Gilliens was a lot different, right. It was
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: more I don't want to say elementary, but it was
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: elementary sound versus and then it changed.
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  Speaker 6: With the nineties. Sound is more modern to even this.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: But the eighties was so he would LLL had to
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  Speaker 1: teach himself how to do it a different way because
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: he would have sounded in the ages.
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  Speaker 2: Still.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So the fact that he had to do that
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  Speaker 1: and had the knowledge to say, look, I can't go
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  Speaker 1: like that means a lot that is. Do y'all ever
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: have to do that with the way you make beats?
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: Because some of the kicks in the stairs, when you
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: hear them old records, you'll be like, damn that sound old,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Like did you have.
• 12:45
  Speaker 6: To don't I don't like?
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: I like, yeah, nage, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Classic? Anyway it sounds more.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: Classic answer that. You know, I keep my ears tuned
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: to everything you even if I don't like it, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, I'm still listening. I'm like, Okay,
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: how could I incorporate what I do with this new way?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. And that's I've been working
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  Speaker 2: on that, working on it, working on and then here
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  Speaker 2: we are.
• 13:09
  Speaker 6: And then when I hear it. There's certain new artists
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: that I want to hear on your production. The rhapsodies
• 13:14
  Speaker 6: I like him, the symbols, the Russell and Kendrick Cole Like,
• 13:18
  Speaker 6: I'm like, that's what something they need?
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  Speaker 3: That man, that would be like to hear them, dudes
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: on that you did something for Kendrick before Butterfly, But man,
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: to hear them dudes like the symbols and like you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Like, shout out to him, Man, these.
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  Speaker 3: Beats, man, I feel like that's the combination. But that
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  Speaker 3: the one thing what you said Envy that I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I do hear sometimes is you could hear take
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  Speaker 3: a producer from that it's started in the nineties, and
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  Speaker 3: you can hear they sound and it still sound like
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  Speaker 3: the nineties. The thing that Pete that I noticed was like, Man,
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: them snaires and kicks feel fresh, like it's something even
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: it could be a break that I've heard before, but
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  Speaker 3: it's something about what he's doing to that break and
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  Speaker 3: what he doing to that sample.
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  Speaker 4: Even the scratches.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I was like, Man, Pele, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why, but these scratches feel fresh to me, and
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: they like we've been heard scratches on records, but it
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: was just I guess the rhythmic of it. I don't
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: know what you've done sonically.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes I think of DJs like Jay Rock shout
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: out to beat junkies and Jay Rock and had him
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: scratch on on yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And now when you heard the Drake and Kendrick Beef right,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: that feel you to be like, I want to get
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: back into it, because you were the type that they
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: used to throw shots at you all the time. Shots back.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I do.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: So did you feel like did he give you that
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  Speaker 1: that that feeling of I want to jump back into this.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to think about it. I didn't want
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: to get in the battle because that battle.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: But I was I was already enthused about writing, just
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: because I've been hearing like like I said, like whether
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: it was Cat sending me J Cole a freestyle or
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: just you know, the rhymes I was hearing. I'll be
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: going back listening to stuff we like, from Brand New
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: Being to you know, to Tribe.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: I was listening to A Daylight a lot.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: So I was in the spirit of, like, man, I'm
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: going to write, and I'm gonna write. I'm referencing things
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: in the rhymes that ain't like I talk about stuff
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: that some people might not know, and that's what we
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: used to do in hip hop.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: So when I heard the battle.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: I was more like man enthus and kind of like
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: what it was to me one of the greatest battles
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: that ever exists, the greatest.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: I might have to agree. I do feel like because I've.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Been through some experiences and heard certain songs that means
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: so much to me that I probably ain't been able
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: to give it up. It's like when people be like
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: Lebron or Jordan's. You know, it's like, because I grown
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: up through Jordan's still, but I recognize that Lebron is
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: right there.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Chicago's get mad at me for saying that Ron is
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: right there.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: But that being said, I would say, if I'm just
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: being purely true, I do think it was the best battle.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: But because of the back and forth that they and
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: the way they were delivering records and how great the
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: records were, and I want to say, as an MC
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: like that was a real battle. It wasn't like just
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: as soon as it started somebody had won. Drake was delivering,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: and he was delivering, and then Kendrick just came and said, yo,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I got this, and and did deliver something just to
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: the greatest, not only this song songs and hip hop
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: to me, like meet the Grahams and and not like
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: us it's just classic songs. But I ain't Drake. Drake
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: was not like just sitting down. He was fighting. It
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: was a heavyweight fight. And I saw something you said, Charlemagne,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: it was it was true, Like it was like obviously
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: the people that are like, oh yeah, you know that
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: ended Drake, that that really can't in the in the man,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: you know, like you said, that was just allowed some
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: people to maybe feel whatever they were feeling, to say
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: what they wanted to feel about him. But that man
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: established a lot in his career and and people still
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: go go out and see him. Just in this battle,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Kendrick just prevails man and brought the people together. So
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: he just won.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: That's the party.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: And this might be a dumb question, but did you
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: really have the day dream or dreams that you described
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: on dreaming on the new album, because it sounds so vivid.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Well, I actually some of those dreams definitely happened.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: And that's one of the things that for me, Like
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: people come to me in my dreams, especially like people
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: that have transitioned have left and passed on. Like that's
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: why I talk about my cousin Adela, who died in
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: a motorcycle accident in Brooklyn two thousand and nine. Yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: he come, Yeah, he actually used to ride motorcycles. Well,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: but God bless his soul. Like and all these people,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: doctor may Angelo, they have come to me in my dreams.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: But this I was like, let me just be like,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: because I've been in the MC space.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Like I was like, let me be.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Clever with it and talk about printing and talk about
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: these and just play with the words of it, but
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: also keep the spirit of like what dreaming is and
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: when people come to visit you in your dreams.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Did y'all have a discussion about that? That inspired?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Okay? Because I told him, have comes to me in
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: my dream Troy comes to me in my dreams. You know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: everyone I lost, from family members to friends. You know
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, they come to me. And I take
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: that as a sign and that they're watching me and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: there got eyes on me.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like, you know, the ancestors speak to
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: us in different ways, and I definitely believe. And even
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: though I don't even always remember all those dreams, I
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: still like remember the visits. And then you know, for
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: me to talk about Nelson Mandela when prison couldn't break
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: them me And you know, when Malcolm's talking about Islama
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Lakem here in the window saying Islama Lakem, I'm thinking
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: about that that by all means necessary, by any means necessary.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Picture where he was in the window like all those things. Man,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I was just I wanted to give it up for
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: people who've inspired me. It was almost like a tribute
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: to the ancestors, but in a good way. And not
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: everybody was gone either. Like y'all seen Bay, I'm talking,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Those same dreams. I just wonder what are they trying
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: to tell us? Are they just letting us know, Hey,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: there's something else after this or move according to.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Feel I feel like I feel like like they definitely
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: are letting us know that something is, something else that exists,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: is deeper than just this human level. And my mother
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: always be talking, man, she say a prayer to me
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: and be like, from the heavenly rams. So I feel
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: like from the heavenly roums that our ancestors can come
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: to us in our dreams. You know, that just may
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: be one way they communicate.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: You know the.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Record when you produce Troy right, what was the mindset
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: back then, because usually people didn't do records like that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: It was even hard records. It was club records, it
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: was party records, it was street records. But you did
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a record as a reminisce, as a dedication record. What
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: was the mind framing? What was the labels feeling of
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: putting that record out of all because that's one of
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the most classic records out there.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna start off saying I was depressed. You know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: I was really depressed because you know, we lost on
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a block general too. He was like, he taught me
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: how to fight, taught me this to me, and so
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: when we lost him, like, oh so when we lost him,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you know, the whole community was was was crazy. So
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I went somehow found the strength to go dig through
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: records and I found this record and listened to the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: whole thing. And when I listened to the whole thing,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I got emotional, start crying, and I said that was
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: a sign to say, yo, try to do something with this,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And so that's what I did.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: And I heard these elements in the song, and that
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: drove me to make the beat Man, you know what
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. And when I heard that, Sacks knew it
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: was it. That was it. I was like, no, hook, no, nothing,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: just rocked that horn. Did cel have that that lyrics
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: already done?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: And he just all he did was like change a
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: few things, but he I can't. When I gave him
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the bad Or. He had the lyrics, but he just
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: changed some few.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Things to come into the word trow.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: How did you feel when you first heard that acronym
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: that's like you reminisce over you.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: That was real clever of cl for him to come
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: up with that title. You know what I'm saying, That
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: was that was crazy to spell out my man's name
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and how that title is. It's this magic was happening
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: for us, Bro, you know what I'm saying, Like everything
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: was coming together.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And did the label want that record out at first
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that they knew what it was because it was yep.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Because when we finished it, Charlie Brown was in the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: studio a couple other homies and we listened to it
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and we crying like this is I had to leave
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the room, Bro, because the music was it was it was.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It was that touching.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That song still does that to people, like people remember
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: their parents, their grandparents, their loved ones when that song
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: comes out. Remember so we hear that he like Jesus.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: And we're thirty three years old.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: And he'll being talked about it. Marvel Dad, I'm grateful.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: For you know, we don't give you credit for to
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: p rock Man always putting dark Skin brothers in the
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: pop that title Come on, come on?
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Can you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: At some point?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Coming?
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: You know what I don't give you back?
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Then you can't live? Can we leave heavy?
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: He was very talented and coming up with names. He
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: gave his name, gave Pete, gave me well his brother,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: my cousin, Floyd, gave me Pete Rock. And he have
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: taught me a lot about like bridges and songs, you know,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: like just how to structure a song a hit song.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And then it stuck with me. You know what I'm
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: saying because he was the first one to notice my talents.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: He was like, yo, you got something. But he's saying
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to bring that.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Out, He's saying, who is still that that that black black,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: like that black pride.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Like as a as a as a chocolate confidence?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: For me? Yeah, oh, I mean you know what I'm saying,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Like I had the talent, you know, you know I
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: thought I was decent looking as a as a black man. Yes,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I just rolled man.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we come from that era. We come from the
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: black and proud you know, like even when I listened
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: to you know, on on a God, you know, like
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: you say that there's a god in the spirit of you,
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: And I was like, damn. You know, growing up we
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: had the five percent teachers. We constantly heard that, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: it felt good to hear it, because we don't hear that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: No man man.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: The more and more I understand why we greet each
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: other as God like in peace when we say peace,
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: God like. I first received that just through hip hop
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: because of the five percent Nation and New Yorkers like
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: brought that to us and we were just saying it,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: and I liked it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Just because it felt good.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: But the more I understand how much God is in us,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: it's like it should be said, and we need to
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: acknowledge that. And even you know, you can look in
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: the Bible and it talks about you know, the God,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: that Christ being in you, you know, and you being
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: christ like or you know that we year are all God.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, when you start putting together a lot
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: of thoughts about spirituality, almost all of them teach you
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: that the Creator is in you too, and you one
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: with the Creator. So I love that I got that
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: from hip hop and got even more of an understanding
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: because I grew up going to church, so got even
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: more of understanding what it is through you know through
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: putting that together, and now when if I'm at church
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: or if I'm around people who are like really like
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: into just religion, I still can approach them and express
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to them to God and them.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: You know, you got a lie on that song you
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: said my testimony came from all the testing.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, on that a little bit. Man.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I feel like anything that really can talk about from
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: a pure and like a place that resonates it is
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: because I've experienced some things in life, and you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I experienced things like we all do with that human testing.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: That thing of going through.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Things is what allows us to really connect and and
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: that's why I could tell a story I didn't even know,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Like when I first started rapping up, I wrapped about
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: abortion in one of my songs early on, and this
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: dude came up to me and was like, man, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: decided to have my child because of your song Retrospect for.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Life with Lauren Hill.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: And my point is, like I was telling him that
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: was my testimony and me telling what I had been through,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: and it affected him enough to make a decision with
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: his wife to have a child. And I'm just saying, like, man,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: we got to go through things to have a testimony
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: that that really means something and resonates. I ain't saying
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: you go out there to try to suffer, but you know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: life gives you things, and it's the way we deal
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: with it and overcome it and move through it, and.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: What builds character that will allow us to be Like Yo.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: When I'm sitting down with people, they listen because they
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: know I've been through something, you know.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: So that's the testimony.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Do y'all think people respect the legacies that you two
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: guys have put out? Like I look at other genres
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of music, right, and they respect the elder men right,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the young to the old right. And I'm just remembering
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: as the best thing about it is, I was such
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a young DJ that didn't know too many people. So
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I remember getting the common Wax. I remember getting the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: record it said remixed by Pete Rock, and I remember
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: what that feeling meant. I remember when no disrespect to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: run DMC, where they fell off a little bit and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: then they did down with the kids, and I remember
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: all of that. Do you think people understand the legacy
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: that you guys have built and put into this game?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: We would want them to understand because we put a
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: lot of hard work into you know, because when they
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: when I didn't run the MC, you know what I'm saying,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: It was like, Damn, I'm gonna bring these dudes back.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: They were trying to come back, that nothing was hitting
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then I had to convince Russell and Lea
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and that I could do this. I'm the man for this,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: and then had Jams j with me. He came to
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: my crib. We worked on it and got what we got.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: So hopefully that's a story that they could listen to
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: and learn from and understand the legacy of what we
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: did to make it what it is today. And so
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: even the video, everybody was in it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It was one of the most videos. Yes, sir, Easy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Easy, he was in it. Rest in peace.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: You know what that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: Record work because they weren't trying to be anything except
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: for what they were at the time, which was Kings
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: of the Game. Yes, forefathers of the game.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You know, I was I was in the clouds because
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe I just did this, you know what
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like brought them back from what was the album?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Back from hell was the I'm that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: They weren't messing with each other at the time it was.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: It was thinking, I just remember that.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: And who wrote that?
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I think, did you write that for?
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Who wrote that?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Somebody for for Down to King?
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the album was Down with the King.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but as far as writing, I have no idea.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Somebody wrote that from wrong?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't want to go back to honor God
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: because you know you got Jennifer Jennifer Hudson on the record.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: How is it asking your lady for a future? And
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: does she charge you?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Well, let me say this, it was definitely.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: It kind of just came pure because I was playing
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: the record and I had the rhyme and Peter sent
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: me the beat and I loved this beat and then
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I thought it was Aretha Franklin, a sample from Aretha Franklin.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: And I asked p and he like, na, that ain't
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Aretha Franklin. And Jennifer heard and it was like, man,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: that is incredible, Like that's out of all the beats
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I was playing, and She's like, that's that's my favorite, right,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: and it's just man. I was like, damn, this kind
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: of give you that soul for Wretha. Jennifer played a
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: wreatha in a movie and I can tell she was
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: inspired by it.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I was like, yo, I'm I'm gonna get her to
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: sing on it.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: But I first, after you know, I had the verses
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: in the subject matter. I wanted PJ, who is an
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: incredible artist and writer. PJ is super dope.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's from North Carolina. It's just super dope. But
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I had her write the hook. And then also I
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: was like, I want Jennifer to sing kind of what
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: the sample is doing.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: And I was like, what's up? You want to do that?
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: She was like yes, yes because she was excited to
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: do it. And uh, you know, ain't no charge. It
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: to be a fair exchange, I'll do do something.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: You know, no.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: I give you.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: You know, I want to ask to you know, how
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: do you deal with the criticism? Like you you you've
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: dated women in the industry that was and sometimes people.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Go at them.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? Being their man? But
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you also know that this is the entertainment world.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I try to do my best. Do my
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: best too.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: When I'm like in a relationship, a partnership that is
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: with somebody public which has happened up, it's I just
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: try to make sure we stay as sacred as possible
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: with us, and like I try to build, make sure
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: we build together and have our own like foundation, because
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: once people start talking, it can it can distract you,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: it can get you off, it could discourage you. But
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: if you got the foundation and know what y'all purpose
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: to do, you know, And that's I guess any relationship.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: But for me, that's what's been like dealing with the
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: publicity of the stuff. And you know, you feel something
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: if somebody attacking somebody you care about, you love, you
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: want to you're gonna defend them.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: You want to defend them.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: But you know, I try not to get caught up
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: too much into what people talking about the relationship, especially
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: if it ain't true, and if it is true that
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: it wasn't.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Supposed to be out there like that. So we got
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to result at within the house.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Like if somebody criticizes her show, for instance, right and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: then you got to do an interview, it's like it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: Got her colm and got a great roster.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I would never talk about it, like, you know, so
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: how do you deal with that because you might just
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: want to say, you know what, I ain't like what
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: he said. I'm gonna talk to him later on so
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: how do you deal with that? But then you also know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: like this is the entertainment industry and I gotta let
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it go. But people, you know, I always say people
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: sometimes people think common is sweet, right, and I know
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: common and sweet.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: On stage and then walked in the crowd smack somebody
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: and did not stop freestyle.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: That was back there, like we said, light skinning, just
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: go back down.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: How do you deal with that part of it now?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: But for me, man, like when people criticize your work, man,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: you can't really take that too personal.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Like I get criticized all the time.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: You know, I got called out for wearing crochet, you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: like I just you got to know who you are,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: and like if you put out like I put out music,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: people like, man, this what is this?
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Like I can't take that personal. So I apply that
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: with her.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Like if somebody's talking about her show, they don't like
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: the show, I understand, you know, that's what they that's
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: what they feel. But if somebody get in disrespect her space,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: that's a different thing. Like just like it's different than
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: criticizing on you know, the work we do than it
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: is like disrespecting the space of a person. So that's
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: how I feel, but the show is doing excellent, bro,
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: So I'm happy for her and I'm grateful she on
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: the hood.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: How do you feel when you look back at the
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Electric Circus Time come? Because I think about like, you know,
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: people ask the lots about the shiny suit. What do
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: you look when you look at Circus Time? What do
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: you think?
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: I think?
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I think Electric Circuits was like it was a big
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: step from my career in a way that those people
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: didn't receive it at that time. You know, as an artist,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: you gotta go places just out of courage and being
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: truthful with where you are to have a career in
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: a way, because if I kept doing the same thing
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: after a certain period, people are like, Okay, that's just
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the same thing.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: But because because I've had.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Like the ups and downs and it's not been always
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: accepted or popular, I think people will understand that that's the.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Ebbs and flows of life.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: And I look at you know, sometimes people come to
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: me about that album and be like that's my favorite
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: album you did or or they felt they'll be like, man,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: that album grew on me eventually. I remember Primo told
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: me that, like we was on tour Gang Start. He
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: was like you know, I ain't like that album, but
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: when you started performing it, I was into it. And
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes that's what art is. Everybody ain't
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: gonna love it. At one point, I used to didn't
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: like Jimmy Hendricks. My cousin used to play them and
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I'll be like, man, why you playing this? Don't be
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: playing that? And then eventually like I'm working at Jimmy
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Hendrick studio, I'm listening to Jimmy Hendrick's music and I'm like, yo,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: this John is amazing. See he got some amazing music.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: So I feel like some people can grow into it.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Some people will never like it. I was a mere quest.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Love hit me about a few years ago when they
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: put it as one of the best like albums that
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: was underrated and blah blah blah. Like see, I told
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: you so, you just gotta you just gotta put music,
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: put the music out that you truly feel.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: I was talking more about the clothes, because you brought
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: it to Crochet. What did the Queen Eric Well? I
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: heard that had you dressing like that? Because I love
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: when the internet, this new era finds old stuff and
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: that's what they.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Say, well, see this is this is the thing Erica
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: is very influential, but not influential enough to say, dressed
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: like this and I.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Would do it. I'm a man like, I'm I'm gonna
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: put on what I like. Everybody may like as they want.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: When your lady be like, oh you look good, feel
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: good about that. But I am not going to my
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: lady like is this one right?
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Or that?
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, I might ask that, but nobody's gonna say, yo,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: where this wear this? And and she you know, that's
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: a powerful woman. She's amazing, incredible human being too and
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: just man, just one of the greatest. But as far
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: as dressing me, no.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: Not the record I love when the new album the
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Auditorium Shytown do it? Wow, are you talking about an
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: actual woman or is that a love letter to the city,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: because because in a way, the whole album feels like
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: a love letter to Chicago. But on that particular song,
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: is that a real woman or the Chicago?
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm actually going between a particular woman and
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: just like just rhyming and and it is love to Chicago.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: I kind of felt like within the writing of it,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: I wanted to do all those things. And I'm glad
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: you said that because it was the album for me
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: does have the love letter to Chicago and a love
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: letter to hip hop the way we love and with
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Pete being from New York me being from the shop,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I got.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: To bring my Chicago to Brooklyn.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he had yeah originally on that on that
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: record he had he had simple being saying Brooklyn, do
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: it Brooklyn.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: I was like, Pete, I love Brooklyn. I love Brooklyn,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: New York York. You know I live in Brooklyn. But
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: now bro I'm representing Chicago all day. So there that
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: is a love letter to to Chicago. But also like
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of referencing a woman like, you know, like
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: she knew me from the city, knew I was witty,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: knew I had power and maybe some sense lie fitty.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, how do you how do you tap into that
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: Chicago energy all these years later? You know you've been
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: all over the world. How do you tap into that energy?
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: You know I used to go I used to like
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: because when I first moved from Chicago moved to New York,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: then I would be New York l A and go home.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: I used to just go home, rent cards and just
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: go around to be with my homies, like just let's
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: sit down and watch the game, Let's go to this bar,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: let's do it like That's what I did in the
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: in the early two thousands. Now in my life, I
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: got so many things going on there. I got a
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: school called Art in Motion in Chicago, which is an
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: art school, and then I also had a Common Ground Foundation,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and we got something called Free to Dream. All those
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: things are happening. But to be I'm gonna be real
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: real with you, Like having a lady that's from Chicago
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: allow me to go home and just be home, and
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: I hadn't did that in a while, where I was
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: just like going home and just being around my loved
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: ones and didn't have no work to do, and that, man,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: ain't gonna front. That helped me with this album because
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: just going to your roots, you gotta always like recharge.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: And replug and plug into them roots.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: No matter how much you've elevated, you still gotta go
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: to them roots. And just I mean, to me, growth
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: is about starting and growing from the roots. So me
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: going back to Chicago all these times just for regular shit,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: it just, man, just helped me stay rooted in what
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: I do and who I am. I'm referencing certain Chicago things,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, that's what I used to do. That's
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: what I did on Resurrection. That's what I did. I
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: wasn't trying to like because I seen the world. I
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: wasn't because I seen the world. I was referencing other things.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: But to be able to go back home and reference things.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: We used to do that a lot of hip hop.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That's how I knew what Queens was about because what
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Nives was talking about. I knew what what Brooklyn was about,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: because what Jay and Biggie was talking about. Knew what
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Hollan was talking was about because of your dim set
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: and all them guys. So yeah, so I feel like
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: that's what I wanted to give to Chicago. Again.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: That sounds like you might get married. Like that sound
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: like you're building a real foundation.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I mean this is definitely with all
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: due respect to all the women I've dated, you know,
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: because they all it's all love. But this is a
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: really healthy and beautiful relationship, bro. And like I'm just
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: doing my best key God first and communicating. Taking all
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: the stuff I've learned as a as a human being,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: the failures I've had in relationships from on my responsibility.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: I'm taking that, learning from that, growing from it, using
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: all the therapy, all the all the you know, understanding
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: that man, let me enjoy moments. And also this life
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: is about trying to not trying, but creating happiness and
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: creating joy and creating love and and like embracing the
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: grace that exists.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: So this is somebody and it's something man.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: You kind of when you're with somebody who's from where
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: you're from, it's a different kind of connection to that's
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: that's something else.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: But I mean, she's from where I'm from.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Spiritually, she's from where I'm from from like from where
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: we geographically come from the shot and you know, just
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: from where I'm from as a person.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Like one of the.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Things that I felt was before we even started was together.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: We were doing this movie and this security guard said
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: to me, he was I came to the set. He
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: was like, man, you and Jennifer Husson two are the
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: coolest celebrities I ever met.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: I was like, for real, He's like, no, y'all real cool.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: And he was like, she just bought this ice cream
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: for all these people here on the set. And I
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: was like, man, I just like people to treat people good.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: That's probably home too for me. So yeah, I mean
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: she is she she there.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: You seem the happiest.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: You want to get mad? Sounds like to me.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, if I'm going to get married, it's to her. Wow,
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: that's simple as that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: And I see Pete Rock smiling every time you talk
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: about her.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: You might know something we don't know.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't like it. I like it
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: to see them, you know what I'm saying together If
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: it makes me feel good.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Talk to me about the three wise men that visited
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: you visited you on the record?
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Wise up?
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Who do those three wise men represent?
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: I was really when I wrote that, I was thinking,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: three wise men came to visit where I've been. They
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: brought gifts with the south Side blend. I wanted these
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: wise men to have like all the the godly attributes
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: that you hear about three wise men.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: I wanted them like because I mean, I really was
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: writing that because a lot of people that I've met
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: that are some of the most enlightened and spiritual people
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: are real niggas, you know, and they real people, real men,
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: real black real women. And I was like, man, it's
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: depth to these human beings. So I wanted the wise
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: men to not be perfect. One of the things I
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: feel like I'm a big I'm heavy into like New
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Testament scriptures, so like I don't read that and just
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: be like, oh man, these people weren't human beings. And
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I wanted to bring the humanity to three wise men,
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: like these are people. They be bringing me Hennessy and
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: bringing the wisdom, you know, and bringing the scrolls and
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: telling me yo, and that I said. The third gave
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: a mirror and told me to remember me. He's just
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: telling me, y'all, remember who you are. This mirror I'm
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: giving you so you can remember who you are.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I felt that was important for that, So I just
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: made that Hennessy. I reference Hendency. On another one, there's
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: a guy with like, well, I can I enter the
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: gates of heaven smelling like Hennessy, So Hennessy, Hennessy might
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: as well respond to me, what's up that happen?
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: Listen, Pete, you know this is a very vintage, you
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: know sounding album, even the length of the records, right,
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: and it's the verses and joints verse. Did either one
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: of you ever think you know, maybe we should shorten
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: the records to be like this new era. I'm glad
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: y'all didn't, but that of a cross your mind in the.
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: Studio, it's usually now we noticed that it's like people
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: when they're making records, it's really only two verses, too
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: many fifty second records, right, But when it's a group,
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: you may here more than two versus.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: But I think it was just two verses and we did.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: You did three on on this Man's Arms, a couple
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: of couple of joints, choice Loansome. But it's now it's like,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: that's that's what we did. We have a choice now
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: to me, two or three.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: I think, man and making songs like you gotta just
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: go with the feeling like James Brown.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: And was just boom. Them records was long.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: And then some of them super hits from the Motown
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: was like two minute records. Like when I'm writing verses,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like this, this song don't need to be that long.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: So I kind of we approached more than anything.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: I believe when we was making this album, we was like,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: let's make something that we really feel like, man, god
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: in this music, Let's create that's let's just create and receive.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: That, and then I ain't on front.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I was like thinking about albums like only Built for
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Cuban Links, or or thinking about like Midnight Marauders and
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: Maine and Greedy and the Balloon Mind stayed paid in full,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: like I want album Illmatic obviously albums that I was like,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: let's make an album where people can listen to the
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: whole album and it got a sound and we hope
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: that it could be classified as a new classes.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Well, hip hop all rules, absolutely yes, because James Brown
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: said like they were rules to the music business right,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: or to music or how to make music, and he
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: mentioned like Beethoven and all them type of dudes, and
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: he said he defied all of that because they were
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: following the rules. He wasn't. And so you know, in
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: hip hop, I feel like we're just doing what we want,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: what feels good to us. You know what I'm saying,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: whether it's two verses, sometimes you hear one long verse
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: and the record is over, you know what I'm saying
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: with a little bit of a hook, and you know
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: it's free. You know this, this hip hop shit is
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: like free.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I got a hip hop head record SEEO Smooth and
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Pete rock. Whatever happened to the group.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: To scrolling Pains? Man? You know, with two different.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: People, y'are cool with each other.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Now, well, I can't say that.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I never seen y'all perform together. And I always said, damn,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: that would be for Fitty. The year Annivers read Everybody
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: coming Back, I was like, it would be amazing to
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: see Troy on stage.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Sule or I feel the same way. But you know,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: some things just can't happen. You know, it is what
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: it is. It's not It's just life, bro, you know
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: I just got a couple more questions. You only got
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: one rap feature on this project, and that's that's a
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: pause plug one from Daylight. Why why is that?
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Initially I was like, man, Peter, I don't want to
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: know features. I want to do like well rock Kim
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: them did like they or you know, like I said,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: e Matic had one feature, but I was like, it
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: didn't feel like we I feel like we had created
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: a sound. Well, I didn't want any features. I was like,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: this is this is a sound. Let's do what we
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: do it. Yeah, But but what happened is that the
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: song that prostitutes from dey La Soul is O was
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: featured and he blessed the verse man, and like, first
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: of all, you know day from Dayla Soul, True Go
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Ahead passed recently, rest in peace, God bless it.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: So so they they were kind of hovering, like you know.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Daylight was one of the first groups that embraced me
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: and they put me on a record called The Business
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: and that was like life changing for me. So that's
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: my family. I was staying at Mace's crib. This this
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: is my family. So I when they when Dave died,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: it kind of it hit me. And and I was
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: also listening to a lot of Daylight and that was
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: inspiring me too because they just always been free with
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: their music. But so we we basically almost done with
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: the album. But the song that posted news is on Pete.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Pete had created the beat, but at one point it
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: was day Lives Beat. It was Daylight. They were working
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: on the album together that that Pete and Primo was
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: producing for Daylight.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Wow yeah yeah yeah, And Dave passed. So Pete sent
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: me to be and he was like, man, this is
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: this is day Lives Beat. I'm not sure.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: I just ended up writing to it and I had
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: I got the hooked idea to it and I need
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: And then so when we were about to master the album,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I like, Pete, we gotta we got to talk to
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Pas and and Paz was like, man that' said I
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: beat man.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: We that's daylight beating.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: I was like, damn, I'm gono have to get this
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: song of people like I'm gonna make you another one.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: I was like, damn, it ain't gonna beat this beat.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: And then and then five minutes later, Pete hit me
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: and said, pa said you could hide to beat. I said, nah,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: let me call Pas. I called him and he said, Yo, rosh,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: you could hide to beat, bro, And I was like nah.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: He was like, I want if it's anybody putting that
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: music out there, we want you out there with it
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: so you can hide to beat.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: And I was like, no, I want you on this song.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: And then he was like yo, I'm down. Like he was.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: He was actually about to leave New York to go
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: do something.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: He went in the studio that wrote that night, went
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: in the next morning and blessed it. So it was
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: kind of like a divine order that he was that
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: he was the MC that was gonna be on the album.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Pase because they, like I said, they influenced me a
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: lot and influenced the album.
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: How far on the road did y'all get with the Daylight?
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: What they had at least two beats that they were
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: writing too positive tell you like you know? And Dave
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: was the one that was like that one, yeah, and
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: you know, and then picked another beat and then picked
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: That we have. Yeah, yo, they I think.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: To be honest, I think y'all got because Poss played
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: me at least about four or five joints that y'all
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: got this crazy.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I'm just remembering the ones that they really went crazy.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gave him like six seven beats.
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: That's like one of them hip hop?
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: What is? You know?
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: I'm a Marvel guy, so what if?
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: What if? What if you don't pass? And we get
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: the Daylight? And produced by Premiere and Pete Rock.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was doing half he's doing you
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: know here here big Marvel dude, Like I got to
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: put that up without the new cap coming and that
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for that.
• 48:56
  Speaker 6: Oh I can't wait for that. That got me my
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: last question. You know, we saw Meth recently. He said
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: that he realized that there's a generation gap is just
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: too wide for him. He don't want to perform at
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: Summer Gym no more. You just felt like the crowd
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: was too young at certain concerts, young to certain concerts.
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: Do y'all feel that way? And do you feel like
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: there's not a home for OG's and hip hop as
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: far as not even just performing a radio as well?
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: I don't feel that way.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: I feel that, like man, music can prevail over any age.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Like I was listening to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: as a kid.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: I wasn't thinking about how old they were. I just
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: loved the music.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: And my first concert was the Jacksons and I was
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: eight years old watching them Wow.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: And my point is.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I think we if we deliver the music that can
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: touch them, they will respond.
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: And I'm a believer. Man.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: I love doing shows where people don't be really feeling
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: me and I win them over. I didn't seen people
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: frowning up at me and like like this dude, and
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: then I'm like.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: Yo, let me.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: I'm you know, I like to work the crowd like
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: and work them to so they do believe. So I mean,
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: first of all, I met anybody need to respond to
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: myth man them songs he got.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: That's my god, shout out to me.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, wedding, So I dance with my wedding. Come on, bro,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: that's what I'm so so. I mean, I think the
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: one good thing is that I feel like a lot
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: of that music is coming around again to the to
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: the youngest. I remember doing the thing at Prairie State
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: in Texas and it's your shorty had on low End
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Theory so hoodie.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: I was like, yo, I said, what you know about that?
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: He's like, man, it's my favorite album, low End Theory.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Trying and call question. I said, how did you? He
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: said nineteen. I was like, yo, he taught this stuff?
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah he I mean, whoever introduced him? That's that's his
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: music though. Now, so, I feel like if we deliver
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: music that has that soul at that time listeners, young
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: people will respond, old people respond, people will respond if you're.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: Looking for that the auditorium, vonn one is out right.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: Now let's go. I'm in a pete rock.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Let's play a joint off there which I want to hear.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Which first, Let's let's hear Fortunate Man the Sunshine again.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Let's get it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you brother, all right, no problem, but thank
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: y'all for joining us. Pick up the album right now,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: The Auditory and Volume one is out right now. Com
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: and Pete Rock. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, wake
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: that ass up in the morning.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.