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Akon: Building an Empire, Funding Africa, and Why 'I Am the Fund' Changes Everything | EYL · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: Everybody when they signed in the contract for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best thing that ever happened to them. It's
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  Speaker 1: only a bad contract later when you're making money. When
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  Speaker 1: I invest, I'm investing so I can raise my value
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  Speaker 1: to get more money, whereas them they're investing to make
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  Speaker 1: the money back plus interest. I'm not thinking like a
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  Speaker 1: hedge fund. I'm thinking like I am the fun.
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  Speaker 2: I might not sell a bunch of records anymore, but
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  Speaker 2: if I can get billions of views on Instagram and TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: is that something that musicians are starting to look at.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm looking at, and you should because those
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  Speaker 1: are the active users that's constantly checking for that record,
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  Speaker 1: constantly playing that record, repeating it and sharing it.
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  Speaker 2: As far as Africa, what do you think the biggest hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: Is the outside world coming in. If you go into
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  Speaker 1: an environment where people don't got you can just bribe.
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  Speaker 1: They gotta survive, so they gonna accept it.
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  Speaker 3: Africa gotta be willing to die for it. That's the
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  Speaker 3: only way it works.
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  Speaker 1: That's an ultimate opportunity for anybody to go in and
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  Speaker 1: really like whatever you're doing here, and you do it there,
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  Speaker 1: your money, your value all that's going triple quadruple, like
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  Speaker 1: literally within the year.
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  Speaker 4: At what point are you thinking, I gotta build catalog.
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  Speaker 3: That's always the case, just make timeless music.
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  Speaker 2: People are selling their catalog. Is that something that you're considering.
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  Speaker 3: It's so big.
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  Speaker 1: There's pieces that I'm creating specifically just to be able
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  Speaker 1: to gain value and then sell it later.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about the direction that African music.
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  Speaker 1: Is headed in the fact that it's even mainstream to
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  Speaker 1: me is enough for it. But what I am afraid
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  Speaker 1: of is the idea that that is the only way out.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Gosh, welcome back, Yea, we got a special guests,
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  Speaker 2: my brother A cow's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's a special day boys. Since I leave, since
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  Speaker 1: I seen y'all last, Bro, I can't I can't begin
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  Speaker 1: to express our pride. I am with y'all advancement. Appreciate
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that, man, Bro, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen each other all over the world.
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  Speaker 4: Right, the last interview in a hangar which was allmatic,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, here we are today, man.
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  Speaker 3: Man, this is this is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Before we start, I got an ask you, man, it's
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  Speaker 2: sending God giving back that trophy. Man. That's that's highly
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  Speaker 2: uh controversial.
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  Speaker 1: It's highly controversial. And we all as a family and
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  Speaker 1: I all spoke about it, like we know we're the champions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you want the cup, we're giving back
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  Speaker 1: to you. But you know, like you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: it actually looks worse that's giving it back to you,
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  Speaker 1: like the person has to receive it.
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  Speaker 2: YEAHMI said that they don't deserve it. I respect what
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  Speaker 2: you heard he said. He said that they don't deserve
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  Speaker 2: he said. He said, we lost, like we don't. We
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be getting the trophy like we lost.
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  Speaker 3: Right and you was in you You watched that love
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  Speaker 3: that was there from top to bottom. Like I almost
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  Speaker 3: jumped on the stairs myself. It's I don't think people
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  Speaker 3: got to understand it.
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  Speaker 4: To see you in Africa and watch the reception like
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  Speaker 4: we were at the semi final game and you went
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  Speaker 4: on the screen.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, I'm like, what's going on? Everybody's wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, calm on the screen. Man. I wish
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  Speaker 3: y'all was.
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  Speaker 1: I knew y'all was there, like ah man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I was just happy that y'all actually was though
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  Speaker 1: that just shows that y'all making y'all rounds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the fact.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing. Man.
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  Speaker 2: Well let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I know you got the new music coming out, so
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  Speaker 2: we definitely to talk about that, but I want to
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  Speaker 2: just get your perspective on a few things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you wanted the great minds when it comes to business.
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  Speaker 2: So what's your thoughts on the state of music right now?
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  Speaker 2: I know you got a hit out now, but have
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  Speaker 2: you changed your tactical strategy as far as like TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: Like are you aiming towards social media TikTok influences when
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  Speaker 2: you're actually making the music or is it still like
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  Speaker 2: how it was before? Like how has that changed being
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  Speaker 2: social media?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Like me personally, I didn't change anything. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the formultave that I have for me specifically is like
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  Speaker 1: the formula that will always be like for me, right, So,
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  Speaker 1: I think everybody has a formula that works for them.
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  Speaker 1: With me, I just feel like it's recession proof when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to what I'm doing because of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I'm covering like the globe and now when you
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  Speaker 1: look at social media and how it's actually spread and
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  Speaker 1: then you look at my music, how it's actually like
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  Speaker 1: it adapts to every generation. Right, So if next generation
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  Speaker 1: comes a whole new different technology.
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  Speaker 3: My fans today is present that to their kids.
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  Speaker 1: And then they're gonna adapt that onto whatever that next
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  Speaker 1: technology is, you know what I mean. So I never
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  Speaker 1: really worried about trying to conform into this technology because
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  Speaker 1: then I'll be like I would literally be stuck in
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  Speaker 1: this frame of work. So when something else new come,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to readapt again. And you want something
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be sustainable, that's gonna adapt to anything else
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  Speaker 1: that's new, that's adapted, you know what I'm saying. So
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  Speaker 1: my formul has always been just make reality music that
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  Speaker 1: people can relate to. So as long as people can
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  Speaker 1: relate and people are creating new platforms, that relation is
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  Speaker 1: going to always conform into that new platform.
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  Speaker 4: Your songs when they ring off, even now, it just
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  Speaker 4: feels like it could have happened in this year, right,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. I wonder when you're creating,
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  Speaker 4: or when you were creating, Yes you're making songs, Yes
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  Speaker 4: you want to make a hit. At what point are
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  Speaker 4: you thinking I gotta build catalog or did it just.
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  Speaker 1: It's always the case, okay, Like as I'm making I'm
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  Speaker 1: making it to build catalog, right, But always looked at
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  Speaker 1: it from a perspective of just make timeless music, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? And I think what you what
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  Speaker 1: you can relate to is always gonna be timeless. If
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  Speaker 1: it's not timeless now, there's gonna be a memory tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: But even memories are timeless. So don't overthink it or
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  Speaker 1: try to make music for now. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest mistake artists make because when now it's no
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  Speaker 1: longer here, then they have to try to make music
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  Speaker 1: for the next now. And you just have to find
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  Speaker 1: you You find yourself reinvented every time. Before you know it,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna find you're gonna lose things to reinvent into.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of catalog and timeless music, people are selling their
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  Speaker 2: catalogs right right right, So is that something that you
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  Speaker 2: you're considering, you have considered.
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  Speaker 3: I got my catalog is so big.
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  Speaker 1: To tell people a little piece of here, a whole
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  Speaker 1: little piece.
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  Speaker 2: Here, that's what you made. The pre was saying, he said,
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  Speaker 2: you think about selling pieces of.
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  Speaker 1: It, and that's how you should do it like especially,
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  Speaker 1: but it depends on you know, what you have, Like
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  Speaker 1: what's your plans? Like me, I was selling pieces of
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  Speaker 1: my catalog so I can build my city.
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  Speaker 2: Are you already started to sell pieces of your catag Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I definitely started selling some pieces. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: block of catalogs that I would never sell. That's for
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  Speaker 1: my family, right, that's going to continue to make money
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  Speaker 1: for them and their kids and formed. But because I
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  Speaker 1: makes like because I'm constantly creating, there's pieces that I'm
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  Speaker 1: creating specifically just to be able to gain value raised,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then sell it later.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like real estate exactly. It's
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  Speaker 3: just like real estate.
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  Speaker 2: So like when but y'all, you have an artist that
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  Speaker 2: actually sold t pain, right, you participate in that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean his portion he can sell.
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  Speaker 2: I still have, Oh, you still have your portion.
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  Speaker 1: So so when you're selling, you're selling the portion of
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  Speaker 1: the catalog that you own. Like prime example, if I
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  Speaker 1: own my master's fifty fifty universal, if I sell off
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  Speaker 1: my masters, I'm selling my version. My fifty percent. Universe
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  Speaker 1: is still retaining theirs, or they can hold on to
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  Speaker 1: theirs if they decide to, you know, what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 4: And even part of it was like how people were
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  Speaker 4: getting their masters and you know the provisions of thirty
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  Speaker 4: thirty five years for it reverse back.
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  Speaker 3: And trying to figure out versions the reversions.
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  Speaker 4: Once I get full, now it makes more sense because
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  Speaker 4: I have more value exactly. Here's the thing also, because
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  Speaker 4: early on, like you said, you have artists, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure this kind of loged that we're keeping that in
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  Speaker 4: the tuck when you're structuring those deals. Early in your mind,
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  Speaker 4: when you're getting the artists, you're like, that's a superstar.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to structure the deal I have that we like,
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  Speaker 4: how did you have that knowledge early on to figure
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  Speaker 4: out that's a star? We got to have partnership, equity
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  Speaker 4: shares inside.
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  Speaker 1: Cause it's something you kind of choose that according to
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  Speaker 1: what you believe in. Like it's some things that you
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  Speaker 1: just be like, nah, that's gonna be big, like you
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  Speaker 1: believe in yourself, like you know that right there, gonna
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  Speaker 1: go crazy, right, But then sometimes you find something that
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  Speaker 1: you don't really believe in that even goes crazy than
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  Speaker 1: what you did believe in.
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  Speaker 3: So me, I structure everything as if I believe in it,
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  Speaker 3: I won't get into it.
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  Speaker 1: And let's have believe in it, and it's all the
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  Speaker 1: same structure until we negotiate later when you actually prove yourself,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So like labels, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they do. They give you a generic contract and it's
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  Speaker 1: one for everybody. Then when you get your weight up,
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  Speaker 1: then you go back in and you renegotiate.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that, because there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of artists, all the artists, I feel like it's always
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  Speaker 2: complaining about their record label. They signed a bad contract,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like it wasn't a bad contract in that
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  Speaker 2: moment that you signed it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's never a bad contract in the beginning. It's
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  Speaker 1: only a bad contract later when you're making money and
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  Speaker 1: not given it like we ain't making no money, or
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  Speaker 1: it's a great contract because they're investing in you.
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  Speaker 3: I've never recoupited it. They're investing in you.
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  Speaker 1: Like to me, that's a selfish way of thinking because
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have to take their hard earn money and
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  Speaker 1: put it into you for you to become in the
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  Speaker 1: position you're in. To complain, they gotta put that money
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  Speaker 1: on somebody else. Like people don't think about what comes
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  Speaker 1: with investing in you and what they have to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whether it's relationships, resources, all that that they
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  Speaker 1: all have to work or actually purchase to gain the
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  Speaker 1: value enough to be in a position to invest in you.
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  Speaker 1: Like everybody, when they sign in the contract for the
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  Speaker 1: first time, it's the best thing that ever happened to them.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody remembers that moment. They remembering the moment when now
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  Speaker 1: they have to get that money back. Man, Hell no,
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  Speaker 1: I put it all this work. I early in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: do all these radio shows. Men, I had to travel
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  Speaker 1: over here and sacrifice time my family. Yes, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you asked for, that's what you signed up for. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I invested in thinking that you understood that that's
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  Speaker 1: your role. My role was giving you the resources to commit.
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  Speaker 1: And actually you know, like bring your dreams about. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So now that you're in the dream and you know
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  Speaker 1: that now that like this is what it takes for
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  Speaker 1: me to get there, you want to be rewarded for
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  Speaker 1: what it takes.
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  Speaker 3: I rewarded you in advance the advanced right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what it feels like when you when
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  Speaker 4: you speak about it, and I wonder if your mindset
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  Speaker 4: was there. It feels like the venture capital world, whereas
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at an investment, which is the artist, right,
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying here, I'm going to invest in it. And
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  Speaker 4: most times, you know, when you put it investment in
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  Speaker 4: vestu cap, if one out of ten make it, you
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  Speaker 4: make it back. You've got it. You get the right one.
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  Speaker 4: You're fortunate enough to have a few.
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  Speaker 3: Times a few times that don't happen.
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  Speaker 4: Off Right, It was that in the frame of mind,
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  Speaker 4: like I'm treating it like that type of investment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, with me, it was a little bit different because
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  Speaker 1: everything that I invested in was already a part of
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  Speaker 1: what I was already doing. So I looked at I
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  Speaker 1: was investing that to build more value for me. Like
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  Speaker 1: if I signed an artist like t Pain. T Pain
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  Speaker 1: is a songwriter, he's a producer, he's a performer, and
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  Speaker 1: he's an entrepreneur. That's value in itself that I can
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  Speaker 1: attach myself to that raises my value. So I went
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  Speaker 1: from the moment I invested in him because he has
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  Speaker 1: a value that comes with that.
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  Speaker 3: You understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So, now if I go into any corporation, loan office, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and I need something to leverage. I'm leveraging what I
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  Speaker 1: bring to the table plus what's attached to me that
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  Speaker 1: I profit from. You understand what I'm saying. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not thinking like a hedge fund. I'm thinking like I
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  Speaker 1: am the fun There's a bigger difference. So and when
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  Speaker 1: I think it like that, don't I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: can never make a bad investment like in that, in
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  Speaker 1: like in that with that mind frame, right, So, because
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  Speaker 1: I know how to leverage this within this sector. So
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. Whereas hedge funds they just
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  Speaker 1: invest in, you know, a group of things and hope
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  Speaker 1: that one of them pop. But what they do they
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  Speaker 1: kind of hedge their best because they get the information
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: on everything they're in betting on and look at the
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  Speaker 1: numbers and find and kind of try to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mitigate the odds and the risks and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: the rewards or whatever the case may be. But me,
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  Speaker 1: I already know that I'm winning and as long as
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  Speaker 1: I'm winning there will be money. They're waiting, like ready
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  Speaker 1: to invest in me, but now they want to see
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  Speaker 1: what my value is so they know how much to invest.
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  Speaker 1: So when I invest, I'm investing so I can raise
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  Speaker 1: my value to get more money. Where asked them, they're raising,
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  Speaker 1: they're investing to make the money back plus interest. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 3: It's great breakdown.
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  Speaker 2: Every time we see you, we gotta talk about Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Got to you gotta talk.
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  Speaker 1: About Africa, especially not at your Africa's a fact.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what man we heard?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: You have man when I tell you this is probably
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  Speaker 1: the most proudest moment because this was a public like infruition,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is something we spoke about and y'all acted
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  Speaker 1: on it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. That's amazing, bro.
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  Speaker 2: So how's how's everything going? Obviously the last time we spoke,
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  Speaker 2: you had the city. The city I think got derailed
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. It was some hiccups. Where do we
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  Speaker 2: stand now with with everything?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the hiccups are gonna continue. You know.
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  Speaker 1: The project that I'm doing is just one of them
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  Speaker 1: things is just it comes with hiccups, like it goes
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  Speaker 1: back to new artist to get.
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  Speaker 3: Like I asked for it. Now I gotta get deal
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  Speaker 3: with it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a lot of political a lot of agendas.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the things that's going to change the
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  Speaker 1: face of how the people of Africa, you know, think,
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's what the fear is, like the
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  Speaker 1: switching of that mindset and mentality with a project like
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  Speaker 1: that becoming successful. So I'm always be going up, up,
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  Speaker 1: going up an uphill battle. So now I limit the
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  Speaker 1: conversations when it comes to that because I noticed that
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  Speaker 1: they was utilizing that information to kind of try to
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  Speaker 1: pull and shut it down, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But just know I will always continue to be working
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  Speaker 1: towards that direction.
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  Speaker 2: And like, well, just in general as far as Africa,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think the biggest hurdle is. Is it
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  Speaker 2: internally as far as dealing with like governments and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, or is it the external factors like people
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  Speaker 2: that have vested interest France.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the biggest problem. The biggest problem is is
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  Speaker 1: the outside world coming in. But then the problem that
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  Speaker 1: actually allowed that is the internal problem with the mentality.
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  Speaker 1: But so they kind to play hand in hand, like
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  Speaker 1: you can't have one without the other. Because the Western
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  Speaker 1: world got so much influence because of they throw they
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  Speaker 1: money around, and they can throw their money around into
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  Speaker 1: certain parts of Africa, because Africa just struggled so long,
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  Speaker 1: like in a position of not having So if you
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  Speaker 1: go into an environment where people don't got you can
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  Speaker 1: just bribe. They got to survive, so they're gonna accept it, right,
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  Speaker 1: So they utilize that as ay, they honestly use that
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  Speaker 1: as a weapon to continue to do what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: But we got to be smarter and be willing to
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  Speaker 1: take that suffering just a little bit longer to be
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  Speaker 1: able to be in a position to actually own it
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  Speaker 1: and really like like do what we need to do.
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  Speaker 1: And it's prime example, like when you look and see
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in Iran. Right, Iran could easily just gave
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: in and say, you know what, take it. But they
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: came together as a people and knew that we have
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: to sacrifice in order for us to be free on
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: our land, protect our sovereignty and still be able to
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: look ourselves tomorrow and live and take care of our
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: children the way we know how to do it within
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: the culture we live in. So they fought back and
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: was willing to die for Africa got to be willing
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: to die for it.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: That's the only way it works. Yeah, you're seeing some countries,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: you know, fighting that for the ones that was willing
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: to die for what will happen.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: They switching it up, new leadership, new environment, new rules,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: new attitude, and the countries are actually advancing.
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was reading a report the other day about
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: the opportunities. Obviously, we've seen it and have tried to,
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: you know, help change narrative and create narrative around the
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: opportunities that are there in terms of population growth, economic opportunities, infrastructure.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: There's a study saying that the population growth is going
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: to double, specifically in countries like Chad Moley, Niger, tripley.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: But there's not the same infrastructure there. And so cultural
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: cities the car Abijean a cry, they're gonna get that weight.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: They're gonna get the weight of that talk about the
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: opportunities that exists in these cultural cities.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Man, this is why I've been preaching forever for African
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Americans to go back home with the knowledge that they
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: have the resources they have and the access that they have.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Because what's crazy is America itself has money to give
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: us citizens to invest in foreign lands like they The
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: reason what makes us so powerful is the fact that
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the United States of America is united because they have
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: allies everywhere because they spread investment everywhere. But if they can,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: if they cannot have to give a country aid, but
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: give that aid money to their citizens to invest in
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that country and flourish, they will prefer to do that.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: So the money is available to do that.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Right, So when you look at influx of people and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: population growth like that, that's an ultimate opportunity for need
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: body to go in and really like, whatever you're doing here,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: and you do it there, your money, your value, all
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: that's going triple quadruple, like literally within the year because
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: of the opportunity of the population.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: We went to the car and saw some of the opportunity,
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: some of the vision. I said, yeah, we might be
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Senategalese after this, and then we'll.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Get to that.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, you got to a port city, which means
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: that there's trade, which means that there's infrastructure. The same
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: way we looked at America in terms of why New
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: York is prominent, right, closural cities.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Harbors like Newark Harbor's.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: Like the d m V Miami Uh, all these places
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: that have access to water and lead to trade which
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: leads to growth.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Same things exist.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: What do you think about the music like we've seen
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: afrobeats take off, right, we see Tyler like it's it's
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: become very very mainstream.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about the direction that African music
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: is headed in?
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I love the direction. I mean the fact that it's
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: even mainstream to me is enough for it. And the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: good thing is is they have the population to keep
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: that sustainable without a question, because rhythm and dance it's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in our blood, like we don't know how to we
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: can't shake that, right, So that's one source that we
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: know we can always look up to or look to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: to help build what we're trying to build back in Africa,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: because it's moving really really fast. But what I do,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: what I am afraid of, is the idea that that
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: is the only way out or that is the only
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: avenue for the young generation. We've we've already seen it
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: happen in America right to the point where everybody's financially literate,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: but they're super talented.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: But then then what like, right, so you don't want
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: that to happen to a billion kids, that's a fact.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Then it's a huge problem that the world got to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: work like focus on. So that that's why these conversations,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you know, y'all show like the information that y'all given
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: is golden Like, it's the golden egg for our future
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: because as long as we are in a position where
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: we can literally like get the info, then we can
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: plan according to the info that we're getting. But if
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you ain't got the information, the only thing you could
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: plan is your craft, and that you just got to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: perfect that. But then once you perfect it, you go
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: in rooms and you're getting and then you're walking into
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: opportunities that you can't even maximize because all you're walking
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: in is talent without the knowledge.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the last conversation, we were just at the cuss
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: of artificial intelligence.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Right right, Yeah, and so now that was just using
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: it from a prompt and getting you know, responses.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Now we've seen it's crashing industries. It's disrupting especially music.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I wonder what has your experience been since that time?
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: This is like this whole worth twenty three. This that time,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I got coan GPT and I started my own AI
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: company based Dubai, and we've been up for two years
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: already killing it. It's you know, we're more, it's like
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: it's more you know gen ai, like because I know
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: that's where the direction of the world is going. So
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: we've been cultivating that just we just built the data
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: center that we just you know, But for the kan GPT,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: it's African base. I'll be launching hopefully before the end
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: of the year. And it's all African dialects in all
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: other languages. So if you're in a village and you
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: don't speak English, or you don't speak German, or you
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: don't Free Sprench, whatever your local village dialect.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Is, you'll be able to communicate with the rest of
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: the world.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You know, that's interesting because there's so many languages in Africa.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, you're a long got like twelve hundred.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. Do you ever think that that's something
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: that hurts Africa as well? Because it's like the our
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: world that unified by culture and language and language, right
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: like China, Like it's a billion people, they speak the
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: same language hundred per Like you go to some places
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: like you said in Nigeria and within six miles that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: people don't even speak the same language, right, Like, do
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: you think that that's something that's kind of hurtful as
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: far as not being on one accord just from a language.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean but that was one.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Of the tools that was used to divide us language right.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But then you know, the French went in there and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: made sure that every country that they colonized spoke and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: wrote in French.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: But then they were they would they would, they would
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: divide all the tribes purposely.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: French and English, right, right.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So so ultimately what happened was with with that language barrier,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: already the trade can't happen, so there's you you actually
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: start your growth because you can't communicate to even you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: concoct a plan or sell goods and trade goods back
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and forth. So language barriers had one of the biggest
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: walls in Africa that was unseen, but they used as
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the biggest tool.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: You feel what I'm saying.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: So that's why when when you look at all of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the acconaized countries, they always speak the language of the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: colonized country. You feel what I'm saying, So everybody speak
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the same language. There's pure transparency when it come to trade,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you know, planning, whatever the case may be. Whereas Africa,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: we was fragmented in languages and it was easier for
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the masters to control them. But at the same time
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it was a default because the slaves used to use
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: them languages and create languages so they can outsmart the masters,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and the masters couldn't understand what they were planning or
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: what they were saying, like Haiti exactly. Like that's why
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of pigeon, you know, like pigeon come from.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Like those are like fragmented languages where you mix them
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: all up, but they were actually creating real like such
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: certain parts of South Africa where it's not even a.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Word, it's like a sound like you're like, wait, what
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: do you say?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: You think he beat boxing, but he actually talking to me, right,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: But these are all traditions of slaves back then that
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: it was like code on how they can communicate without
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the slave owner actually understanding what they were doing as
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: they was planning escapes and different things like that. But
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: as unfortunately it was a strength for them then, but
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: it was it was it's a weakness later by default
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: because now when you're trying to unite the tribes, you're
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: trying to unite the people and everybody else to kind
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of move forward together, you can't because that language baron
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: is hard to communicate.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: But that's what your app does, That's what that was
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: say technology becomes the great bear that that unifies. That's
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: so as you're saying CONGBT and I'm thinking jenerator of Ai,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking there is a world of opportunity now right
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: because in order for that you need to have telecommunications.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: What kind of device is who's coming in there?
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I just saw that Wawei is now coming to Africa,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: but it also been.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Africa a while. But like when I was doing my
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: a kond like.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: In Africa, I was partnering up with them because we
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: were putting the cap five wires up under the underground.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: It's all why Wai that did all of that?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So they already got I think they had a thirty
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: year plan for Africa already.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: So that's that's part.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: So now as you're saying it because instead of using
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: in videos GPUs, they're saying that Wi is going to
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: create the jpus that will now go into the continent.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure which countries.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: All of them, but I'm leating, you know now being transparent, guys,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: they like literally.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: All of them.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: It speaks to the power issue, which is an issue
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: on the continent. How do you see that that plan out?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Because yes, we've seen metal with the w project going
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: underseas with their cables, but that doesn't get inland right, right,
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: So how how do you see power for the continent
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: going forward? Because this is going to be a huge issue.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a huge show, but it
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: won't be as huge because as you can see the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: world is they're slowly transforming away from the traditional energy sources.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a lot of renewable energy going in.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But when you look at all the fiber optics that's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: being put in, it's that's the connectivity for people to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: be able to communicate, whether you got media sources, you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: mobile sources, whatever the case may be. But as far
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: as energy itself, I mean, we got plenty of wind,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: we got plenty of water, and more than anything, we
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: got plenty of sun. So just those three alone, those
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: when you look at hydro, you look at you know, solar,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you know, you look at wind, that alone can power
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: all of Africa. We don't even need no nuclear power plant,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: right But of course that nuclear is always available too,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: with proper funding and all of that. But when the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: infrastructure isn't put in place, then certain things you want
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to go nuclear because certain things only nuclear can power
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: for it to be efficient, you know what I mean.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So as of now, though, Africa can literally rely on
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: all you know, renewable energies and be able to compete
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: with the rest of the world because of the vast
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: amount of land that existed, that's that's not being used.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: And somebody's gonna see that as an opportunity. Why that
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: should invest.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So you got a new song, beautiful Day.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: So I think it's like six six hundred million social
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: impressions something like that. They said impressions impressions Do you
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: check GPT? Yeah, it's like two billion, two billion.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: That's a big number. You better last month, man, oh
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: last month? Yeah, that might work.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Last So it's two billion social impressions. Yeah, So talk
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: about the song, but then also talk about this is
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: interesting because Open a Eye just brought a podcast for
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: two hundred million dollars what was the name of the podcast.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Alleged y'all know, Because I know they're coming at y'all,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: But y'all, y'all can triple y'all value because you can
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: freaking too.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Now that's a fact. I got to be there to
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: help y'all negoti down.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: But what was interested. They was like the show, Like
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the actual show doesn't really get a lot of views,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: but they was like the social impressions. So I thought, like,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: do musicians looking at that same way? Like I might
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: not sell a bunch of records anymore, right, but if
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I can get billions of views on Instagram and TikTok,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: is that is that something that musicians are starting to
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: look at? Like is it like shifting?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like on the business side of the musicianship, That's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm looking at, and you should because those are
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the active users that's constantly checking for that record, constantly
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: playing that record, repeating it and sharing it. And those
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: are the people that will spend money on tickets, t shirts,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: merch whatever the case, right, because there are believers in
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: your you know your work. Now you got others like
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: an actual view it's okay now, but they don't care
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: about just the view because you could just be strolling through,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: stop for a second and move over, but it's still
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: clicked on as a view. Even if you viewed it
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: for a few seconds, it's still viewed. But that don't
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: mean that there was an engagement, there was a like
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: process on it, or that the artists or I'm sorry,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the consumer actually engaged in that record or that artist.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But now the numbers that they're looking at is engagement.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Because these fans are actually engaging, you know, going into
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: comments making that means they're emotionally attached. And those are
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the people that you want to send the ads to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: because now you're understanding exactly that relationship to that person
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and that artist and what that artists represent and how
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that brand correlates to. That is what you want to
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: be at. That's the value.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: So do you think it's a disconnective. They still gauging
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: first week sales? Yeah, and that's dumb, that's dumb, stupid.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: It means nothing because that's all marketing.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: And that's an old way of thinking, very very old
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: with outdated. Yes, But to their credit, a lot of
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: the older uh you could say Fortune five hundred companies
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: still think that way. So they use that to leverage
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: to get branding opportunities. But in the end the long run,
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: that one week means absolutely nothing.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: That's that's the jay line. We were praising Billboard when
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: we was young. Now I look at the board like,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: are you dumb?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: So I wondered from it because it seems like I'm
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: speaking to you a bunch of times.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: You're deep into the analytics, right.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about the tour, but before we announced,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: like talk about it when you're looking at where you're going,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: are you saying, look, let me look at my analytics
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: where the engagement has happened. We got to get to
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: these cities because fifty seven city World Tour, yes, sixty yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: how do you gauge where we're moving?
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Well, the routing is already there. Me, that data is priceless.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: The fans who bought the tickets, how many of them
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: they bought, Where they're seeding, which one them correlated to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: actual sales at the concession stands my merch, whether it's
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: a T shirt, a cap, a coffee mug, a hat,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: You now know exactly who it is, what it is.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You even can find out how early they came to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the show and how late they left, right, And this
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: is how you gauge which like audience member is actually
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a super fan. Because me, my goal is to I'm
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: trying to entertain that super fan. That person gonna.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Ride and die for me.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna make sure that person gets all the exclusives,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: anything that I need to sell, they get the option.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: To buy it first.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And you're collecting all that data, you collecting everything.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: How do you do how I am at least.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: But you're not using like ticket Master because they don't
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: give you the information.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Ticket Master will never give you that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Then you won't need Ticketmaster.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: With some venues, you can only use Ticketmaster.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, venue, but that's the venue exactly.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And guess what as they should they you know, they
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: invested in the infrastructure to where they can actually you know,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: maximize that data. But I got services, situations, links, all
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff that my fans come to just to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: get more information on my tour. And that's where I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: collect my information from because I know they're literally coming
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: for me. They're not coming to Ticketmaster to go to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: see like prime example, I know the difference in which
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: one of my fans are coming for me and which
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: ones are coming from Neil. I already know, right, But
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: my goal now is to I need to convince that
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: neo fan that he needs to support me to you
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. So my goal is to understand
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: what is it about those neo fans that make them
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: neo fanatics. By the time they leave my show, they're
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: gonna be akon fanatics and.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Neil probably doing the same thing.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: That's why we collaborate so we can share each other's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: fan base because they might come and say, Man, listen,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: those two though my idols.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Wherever they're at, I'm there. That's the goal.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: But in realistic terms, one of them gonna leave more
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of a fan than one in the other in the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: end of the night. And what's gonna get you there
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  Speaker 1: is the information on how to attract that fan.
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  Speaker 4: Talk about how you guys came together to create the tour.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Man, A lot of people go out this summer, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: or busy summer for shows.
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  Speaker 1: Busy summer. But you know, Neil's like my family. I've
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  Speaker 1: been knowing. We go back almost twenty years, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. So this is something that this was
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  Speaker 1: happen like we always wanted to do something together, like
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So when we got the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to actually go out, we man, we ran with
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  Speaker 1: it because we both was gonna go out on our
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  Speaker 1: own separate tours and then we stopped thought about it.
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  Speaker 3: Man, wait a minute, we're getting all the same markets
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  Speaker 3: around the same time. Like, what are we doing? You
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So we got together, man, say,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna do this thing the big way, and then
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  Speaker 3: after that then we can go off on our own
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  Speaker 3: separate tours.
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  Speaker 1: How many countries, h It's gonna be Europe, Canada and
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  Speaker 1: then the US fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know you got to run, got a
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  Speaker 2: busy schedule. We got word from management, but tell telling
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  Speaker 2: people like where they can expect the album, when they
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: can expect the album, come in the tour, how to
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  Speaker 2: get tickets all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, So the album is dropping April twenty fourth. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Beautiful Day. I mean I personally I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: for y'all to get a hold of it. The tour
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: is everywhere right now, but definitely between my page on
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  Speaker 1: Instagram and Neil's and both is at akon and at
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Neil you can get all the you know, obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: the scheduling, where we're gonna be and win, and then
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  Speaker 1: just stay tuned.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: My link trees also give you all the links of everything,
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  Speaker 1: but you can just go on Acon dot com and
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  Speaker 1: get everything you need.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is in that one spot.
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  Speaker 2: You have it. Man, we gotta connect next time.
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  Speaker 3: We now, we got to reconnect.
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  Speaker 1: Know next time i'mnna be coming to y'all building, I'll
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: be coming to you'll building.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fact. But all right, my brother, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a pleasure always ask you too. Man, all right, shall
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  Speaker 2: we tap in with y'all? See you next week, Peace
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  Speaker 2: says