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Dolore Is Free - #65 · The Grounded Show

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Yes, sir, we back again another edition episode What is it sixty five?
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Man? Yeah, we sixty five? Yeah, sixty five Episode sixty
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five or the Grounded Show. I'm here with the boys and plus one more
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of the boys. We got the low ray on this week. What's going
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on? Man? It's good guys. How you doing? Thanks for having
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me on? Man, Yes, sir, Man, thanks Man to tell
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everybody that's you know, listening, thanks you for having us on. We
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were on your show here to the Grind Radio, your radio station. I
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think I was on maybe like two months ago or something. Quincy was on
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like two weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, man, And that was a
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super dope vibe. The studio is super nice to set up you guys,
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super dope. The interview was super dope. Everything was though. Man,
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how's that been going for you? I appreciate that, man. We put
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a lot of work behind it. The first episode was in the like slummy
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super ghetto basement studio. That was not a good look. My boss LV
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step the game. I got the Hill Studio, the Hill spot fors and
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it's just been dope, bro. Like I recently stopped being an artist,
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you know, I'm always be a rapper. You know that's in my heart,
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But as far as pursuing an artist, I let that go. So
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hosting has just been really dope, bro, because it's been so natural.
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Everything has just been flown to the point where I'm like, I made the
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right decision, you feel me? Yeah, I want to definitely ask you
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about that because I know you've been getting involved in a lot of different types
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of events and doing different stuff than what you were doing before, and you've
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been flourishing, you know what I mean, You've been doing a lot of
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different things, and we're definitely going to get into that first. I definitely
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wanted to tap in a few topics around, you know, the music verse
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this week, just the kind of things that kind of stood out to me.
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One thing that I kind of liked, just because a lot of stuff
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has been coming up about concerts in general, especially Taylor Swift, if Drake,
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that's always in the news his concerts, especially the big ones. I
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mean they're all big, but you know, Beyonce what she got going on.
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But I recently came across an article that was they were interviewing Jadakiss,
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and Jadakiss was saying that he got fifty Cents tour, like above any of
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the other tours. He specifically said, you know, above Drake and Beyonce's
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tours, you know what I mean, just as far how good it is,
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Yeah, just as far as the show, you know, like the
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type of music and everything. He just his specific quote is this for the
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music that we do. To see people up in that kind of caliber from
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our cloth to music, to have that kind of production and see my dudes
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up there, that ship is incredible. And you know that was him talking
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about when he was a special guest on a couple of the dates. And
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yeah, man, that Final Lap Tour is what it's called. And I
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can imagine that man, just because the kind kind of guessed that he has
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out there slashed the catalogs they have, and just when you have a good
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rapper and this is something that the lorry could hit first pause, But when
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you got a good rapper that knows how to actually perform in a seasoned and
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it's actually an EMC, they can put these types of shows together and it's
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something that always hits, you know what I mean. So what do you
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think the Lorrie about j D Kiss saying that about fifty tour I'm gonna keep
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with a stack with you, Bro. I didn't know nothing about nothing with
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Beyonce Jake, I don't. I don't keep up with mainstream stuff like that
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these days. I'm going too until the local seeing my boys that's doing music,
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because that's more what I do now. But I'm gonna say this,
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I have seen a clip of Buster Rhymes at the fifty show right at that
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tour, and Buster was geeked like you would have thought he was on something.
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He was so geek boy, and they had to fly going and it
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was just like yo. So from based off, that's the only thing I
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know about it. To keep it real, I can't talk like I know
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about it, but that's the only thing I've seen from it. Dad was
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legit, bro, Like Wow, I could imagine that was a really really
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dope show and a really really dope tour when you got a legend like Bust
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the bus acting the way he was acting and he wasn't on the song and
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nothing like that had nothing to do enohing. He was just a fan.
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Ye that tells you everything. That tells me everything from me, Yeah,
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definitely, especially with how great of a performer he is and how much he
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puts into his live show. For him to appreciate it like that, that's
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something that definitely got to be respected. What about you, Joe. I
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saw him bring out eminem for a patiently waiting the whole fucking place blew up,
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And that's one of my favorite checks that I would have got the chill.
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I got the chills watching that ship. For them to do it,
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it was twenty years ago when they actually did it like his I'm actual out
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tour, and it's just crazy to see how that same energy. It's probably
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crazier now than it's back then. What's your think, Quincy? Honestly,
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Brou, I'm not surprised because I was supposed to go to the show in
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Atlanta, but the same weekend that he was here, I was on vacation
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and uh Maryland, so I couldn't make it, And obviously none of the
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other shows coincided with where I was gonna go. But I mean, it's
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fifty brou, you know what I'm saying. Like and and the fact that
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you know, he was basically doing an anniversary style tour of his old you
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know, of his project, of his biggest project. You know, I
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just didn't I didn't expect anything less, you know what I mean, Like
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he he has built his career so well that of course Buster is gonna come
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out and support you know what I mean. Of course Eminem's gonna come out
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and support. Man. He's what he's done for not just music, but
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just for the culture is huge. So people respect that and and gonna come
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out and show love. And so I'm not surprised, man, I'm just
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mad I didn't make it. Hey, if I can see one more thing
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on that us, yes, yes, do you think? Bro? Yeah?
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So I seen Nas, Woutang and Tampa last year, right that toy
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they was doing, Yeah, and nobody knew Bust. Nobody knew Bust was
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a part of the show, right, And so it was Woutang and then
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in between before Nas came out, Busted a set with splip Star and anybody
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who went to that show, Bro, Like, it was dope to see
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Wood because I've never seen him. Nas is my favorite rappers, So that
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was just a whole nother level. But Bus as far as breath control,
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as far as the engineering of this his set, and as far as his
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stage presence, Bro, I have never ever seen a performance a rapper single
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band, it didn't matter. I've never seen a set like Bust and Splip
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Star set. Bro. I mean it was next level, bro, and
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he was really rapping. It wasn't rapping over vocals, it wasn't rapping over
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performance. Bet. You know what I'm saying. Like anybody who went to
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the shohow was like, yeah, it was dope. Nah who of course,
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but they were like yo, Boston like Yo, it was next level.
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So for him to be that type of showman and be at that fifty
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cent show like that and you could tell he was it was Orgain, it
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was natural, It's organ He wasn't in capit like it was. He was
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really geeked at that fifty joint. So that just says a lot, you
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know what I'm saying. Yeah, for the caliber or show that he puts
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on. For him to go there and feel that from those tracks and that
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performance and that energy, I mean, there's there's no bigger stamp than that,
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you know what I mean? Right? Yo? Quick quick thoughts on
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this one, because I don't really want to get too much sports talk like
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that, But what y'all think about Damian Litterard to the Bucks. It's official.
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It's not even get him. I think Boston would get him still,
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he said, what, I think Boston could get them still, I wouldn't
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be surprised if they did. But at the same time, I'm just not
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a big fan of Boston's dynamic down the stretch, you know what I mean,
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Like they just got this squad that there's like too many similar skills,
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the thing that Tatum lacks, Brown doesn't really bring it, and vice versa.
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It's like a kind of thing that I just never thought that worked out
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from the start, you know what I mean. They just they're a really
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good team that has a lot of really good pieces, and because the pieces
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are so good, they're able to be successful. But every year, it's
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like the team is almost different every year because you're trying to like people do
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stuff that they don't do, you know what I mean. That's why I
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like Little to the Bucks because he just gotta be him. Jannest just gotta
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be him. And then the whole players are the ones that gotta adjust,
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which they always gotta adjust anyway, you know, be honest, went to
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the Bucks. Yeah, and now now you're talking about he might even sign
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that extension, you know what I mean? This thing doubly could destroy Miami
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because they didn't get Lillard. Plus if if Yannis resigns with the Bucks now
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he's not going to Miami either, because that was the thing before too.
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So it's just crazy how it shook out like Miami like doubly lost and they
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got to play and they gotta play the more. Yeah like that, you
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know, they got to see them more now, you know what I mean.
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So it's like even that mental you know, if they like that first
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game, if the Bucks take it, I don't know, man, that
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might mess Miami up mentally, you know what I mean. Yeah, facts,
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they'll have his number. But yeah, man, I had another article
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to talk about, but it was about Kanye, and as we've spoken,
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I'm just like, man, never mind, Yeah, the doctor Dre thing,
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but yeah, I want to know about that, but we guess,
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yeah, yeah, we'll touch on the next time, if anything, because
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we're gonna go down that Kanye loophole, man, and we just forever.
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But yeah, the reason I wanted to have you on is you were You
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were always somebody that I thought about to have on the podcast, just because
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you have a real dope story and just seeing your growth like over the past
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few years, because like at this point, even the change that you had,
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you've been in that change for like many years, you know what I'm
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saying. So like you're you You've gone through the growth and you've like cultivated
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it and you're still you know, you're keeping it going, you know,
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going into the future. So I always respect that, you know what I'm
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saying. But if you yes, struggle still real. Though, the struggle
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is still real, man. Don't that social media for you, bro?
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Every day is still a struggle for me, man. Yeah, in fact,
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I feel that man, every everybody kind of man. This is something
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that I talk about when it comes to business too, like that people always
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forget that we're all people at the end of the day, so they'd be
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doing these weird things in business not thinking about it just from the human side,
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which makes it so much easier. But even just from the point of
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view where you're saying, like the struggle and everything, like just give people
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a little bit of background to like kind of you know, your upbringing,
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the kind of things that you ran into as far as trouble goes, and
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how you kind of made a change. Yeah, man, I tried to
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give you the cliff notes, you know, because it is kind of an
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end up story because it's been ten years now. You know, my life
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changed ten years ago and it's never been the same sense. But now I
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just grew up a regular dude. Man. But I grew up in a
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rough neighborhood, you know what I'm saying. I definitely didn't grow up like
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most dudes with my skin complexion, you could say, but I got into
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a lot of stuff at an early age. Man, I was running while
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really young. My grandfather was in the minefield rest and peace. That's the
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only reason I could say that. You know, if he wasn't still alive,
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I would not even touch on that. But I just grew up always
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seeing gangster's brow and like things never made sense of my life until I got
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older because I was the baby of the family, so you know, I
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was sheltered from that from that life. But like my neighborhood, my grandfather,
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like I just always seen it, and like I had a natural gift
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for learning things quick. I had a natural gift with people. So of
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course, you know, I jumped off the porch. I started doing my
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thing in the streets and at a young age, and then before I knew
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it around high school. It just got out of control. Man. I
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went from selling drugs to really addicted to drugs, and like I would do
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my whole real you know what I'm saying. Well, I used to make
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mad money and then now I'm not making nothing because I was an addict,
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you know what I'm saying. And then I went from like I always trying
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to stay humble. You feel me, I never ever want to to boost
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myself up at all, you know, And part of my story is humility
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and transparency because then it's not as powerful if I'm like not real about it.
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But you know what I'm saying. I had always had a nice always
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had jewelry, I always had a nice girlfriend. Everybody knew me. And
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then it went to like straight up crack cad status bro where like I went
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from the man to to really like a junkie pretty much, man. And
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I went from selling drugs to being addicted to drugs for fifteen years. Man,
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in fifteen years of my life, I was in this crazy cycle of
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just getting high, coming down doing whatever. I couldn't get money, like
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broke, like poor broke, Like I used to sleep on the floor in
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the trap house on a tile floor with my pitbull. I had this giant
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pit bull rest in peace, Tally on member Tally, and I would use
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Tally as a pillow on a tile floor in a trap house like I would
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sleep in abandoned houses like just rock bottoms. And then one day I had
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my man's from back home. I was meanness man and like a trailer part
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and they would let me live there for free as part of my job,
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you know what I'm saying. So it was like the perfect job for a
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drug addict because I always had I finally had a little stable spot. All
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I had to do was get up and go to work every day. But
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my man's just going through a hard time back home. I told him come,
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you know, come to Florida, Come stay on my on my little
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couch. When I said I lived in a trailer, it was like a
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trailer trailer, like not like a mobile home, like a little last trailer.
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And we had got drunk man. Long story short, And at the
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time, I was on felony drug probation for four and a half years.
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I had caught three felony drug chargers and I had one year left to go
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on this felony probation, and my man said, got twisted and came out
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of his mouth sideways, sucker punched me. We had got to this big
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ass fight. I took him outside and like you know, warm them out,
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and the neighbors had caught the cops and like swat team came to the
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crib because I guess the lady had a little exaggerated a little bit saying like
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I was killing the dude. I was gonna kill him or something. But
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so our team came into the crib and everything was coaster bro We bought were
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old friends, were from the hook. We know how to play it.
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We're not giving them nothing, you feel me. And so they was mad
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that no, but he wasn't trying to press charges on me or they didn't
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have nothing they could take me in on. So then they start going with
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my name and stuff, and they're like, yo, you want you want
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drug probation right now, So like we need to go on your crib,
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and so they go on my house. They come out the house and they
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got like you know, in the past, I said, like an amount,
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but just to keep it a stack. I don't know exactly how much
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it was, but it was a big bag, Like, I've never really
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seen that much blow before, man. But they came out with a big
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gass bag of cocaine. Man, and they're like, Yo, it's your
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house. You on probation, you get knocked for this, man, And
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I'm like, Yo, at that time, I was a co catt son
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and we was both drunk. I was like, if I had, I
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would have been doing it. You feel me like still to this day,
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they plan they planted that on me, son. I know for a fact
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they answered on me. So I had one year left the probation. Now
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I'm going to jail for felony possession of cocaine and felony possession to a distribute,
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attempt to distribute, and felony violation of probation. And it's a whole
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crazy story that I don't want to take up too much time that process.
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But in that time, man, I'm in jail and I'm thinking, Yo,
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how did I get knocked for the one drug I had a problem with?
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Falsely? Like, I'm getting falsely arrested for cocaine when I had a
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really bad cocaine problem, bro. And it was like the Twilight Zone stuff.
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I'm just sitting in the jail cell, going like, yo, this
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is like God, Like this is crazy, son, Like if it had
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been any of a drug, I would have took the charge. I would
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have been like whatever I would have got out went right back to the same
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stuff, you know, And like I'm not gonna get preachy with you guys.
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You know what I'm saying. But I am a man, a guy,
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I'm a Christian, you know what I'm saying. And they say God
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works in mysterious ways, and that was definitely the case in my spot.
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Bro, getting knocked for the drug I had a problem with falsely. So
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my lawyer is like, you're gonna do a year in jail when the trial
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starts. The minimum they want to give you fifteen years in prison. And
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it's just like crashed on me. Like I had done a mad time before,
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but never no hard time. I never been up the road, nothing
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like that. So it was it was crazy, but I just made a
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decision right there, like, Bro, this life is not leading me nowhere.
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So I had overdose a couple of times. I've been through home invasions,
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I've been robbed, I've been shot at, like just and then getting
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knocked for this drug that wasn't mine. Like, it was just enough.
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Bro. I was like twenty eight years old at the time, and I
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was just like, yo, I just had enough, man. So I
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made that decision in that day in jail to change my life and get sober
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and just start being more on a righteous path. And then everything went away.
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Bro. Like the state attorney has to communicate with your lawyers. My
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lawyers telling me worst case scenario that first trial day. I'm not like,
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it's a whole crazy story, like it just take up too much time.
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But long story shortly, go ahead, elaborate on that part what you're getting
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into, all right. So, so I was able to get bailed out
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on the possession charge. So I was in I was in on Osiola County
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for like a week or two, and I was able to get bailed out
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on the possession charge. Because then I have to turn my supposed to get
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bailed out. No you can't. Yeah, you can get bailed on all
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those types of charges. But the thing is, there's so many people on
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probation in Central Florida that the violation of probation is how they get you.
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That's the charges they really want to get you on because it's like a double
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charge. And so there's so many people on probation and Central Florida that it
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takes time. So the VOP wasn't going through the system yet. It was
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only the possession charge and the attempt to distribute charge. So I got bailed
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out on those charges after like a couple of weeks in county and Osiola County,
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and and then the time came for me to turn myself in on the
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VOP. So this is after I changed my life, after I made the
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decision and change my life, after I prayed to God and made a little
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pack where God like, yo, like this life is done. So I'm
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like so real quick. And I wasn't made that decision in jail when you
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originally got knocked, but then you still had a little time period where you
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were going to figure out what was going to happen with the charges and everything,
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and you were bailed out of that situation now in jail. In jail,
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my mind, the wheels was turning, you feel me, The wheels
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was turning in jail. And then when I got bailed out, I was
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free, and it was just like this wave of like I don't even know
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how to describe it. To you unless you felt that same feeling, like
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we call it conviction. And it was just this wave of conviction where I
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was like, I knew I had to change my life. And so while
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I was bailed out before I had to turn myself in again, is when
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I made that decision to change and you know, set a prayer to God
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or whatnot. And it wasn't like I was scared to go to prison.
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I just felt like my life was gonna end in some tragic wave. I
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didn't change, and so I felt like God, like they say real recognized
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real. God saw that I was being real about it, and I wasn't
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just scared to go to prison, so he looked out bro. So when
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I went to turn myself in for the violation of probation, it was at
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thirty third because I was on probation in Orange County, even though I lived
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in Osceola County, And they put you in this little room downstairs, like
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well, you if you go visit somebody, you might have noticed there's like
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this little plexiglass room, but everybody shackled up and you're not in bookings yet,
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like you haven't gone through processing. You're not in the jail you're just
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waiting to go up there. And I was in there for like an hour
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and this guy comes in and he's like, yo, Jonathan, they told
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him, and I'm like yeah. He's like, come with me. I'm
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getting your size and your weight. You're getting out of here. And I'm
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like, yo, getting out, Like I'm turning myself in for felony violation
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of probation. I'm already a felon and I got two pending felony drug charges
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on top of my felonies that are already caught. Like there's got to be
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a mistake. And he's like nah, Like a judge facts us a letter
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saying put you on pre trial release until your trial starts. And I've been
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in the game for a minute, bro. Preacher releases for misdemeanor crimes like
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first defenders. It's not for people poll that got the record that I had.
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You feel me. But at the same time, I wasn't for an
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argue. I wasn't for an argue. So without like an hour tour with
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an hour in turn of myself, I'm getting released. And the whole thing
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was crazy, to the point where I called my lawyer and she's like,
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they let you go, and I'm like, yeah, they said preach release.
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She says, man, go check in with pre Charlie's right now,
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and go home and don't leave your house till this trial starts. You know
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what I'm saying, Like, don't do nothing. But like everybody had said
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the good writtence to me, son, like to the point I didn't even
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have a ride home from thirty third living in Cassime, you know what I'm
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saying. So it was like everybody's expecting me gone for a long time,
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and I had found a ride and whatnot. But then things got really weird.
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For that first trial day, right, which is probably like six months
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after I got they let me go and put me on prechrol release. And
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that first trial day, the lawyers like, I'm gonna send you a paper
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in the mail and you just show up on time. Dress nice, whoo
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woo woo. And so I get there. I wasn't even thinking Bro,
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Like this whole time in my life was like the Twilight Zone. I was
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dizzy every day. You know, It's like the craziest thing that ever happened
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to me. And I didn't even pay attention to Bro. I just went
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and I'm like, yo, why am I at thirty third for court?
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But it was at thirty third And so I go to the same spot where
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I turned myself in, at the same place you would go visit somebody and
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they're like, what do you here? Who you here to see? And
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I'm like, nah, I'm here for court. And they said, we'll
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go to the courthouse. And I'm like, nah, like you don't understand,
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Like I got this paper, like I'm here for court, and they're
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like that don't make no sense. Go down this hallway and talk to the
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you know, in Florida, it's not CEOs, the sheriff's you know what
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I'm saying. And they got like an observation deck where the sheriffs who observed
22:55
the jail with all the cameras. It's kind of like behind the scenes.
22:57
But they told me to go down and talk to him, and I'll go
23:00
talk to them, and they I said the same thing, like I'm here
23:03
for court, and they're like, go to the courthouse. I'm like,
23:06
bro, listen, it's about the store. I got this paper for my
23:11
lawyer. I showed him the paper. They said, all right, hold
23:12
on one second, what's your name? I told him my name. The
23:15
dude Radio's in. He's like, what, Radio's back? What bos this
23:21
gun out on me? They all put their guns out on me and tell
23:23
me not to move Son, and I'm like, yo, what is going
23:26
on? And they're like, we have you on the most wanted escape e
23:30
list? Yo. I'm I'm like, bro, listen, listen to this.
23:38
Bro. I'm Italian Son. I got a purple silk shirt on with
23:42
the tie, the slacks, I got these fake alligator shoes on, and
23:45
I'm talking to him. I'm talking to them like I would talk to you
23:49
less, like like one of the boys. Right. I'm like, Yo,
23:52
my man's listen to me. Bro. You think I escape from jail,
23:56
got fresh and then came back for court like I just went to Cane,
23:59
Like what did your problem? Bro? They still got their guns on
24:02
me in everything. But then they call the supervisor, and the supervisor comes
24:06
and says like, Yo, there's there's a there's one courtroom under the jail
24:11
under thirty third and it's for parole and probation hearings. It's not for people
24:15
that are freeze, for inmates that are going through the transition process. And
24:18
they said, if he's on that docket put him in there, and sure
24:22
enough, I was on that docket. So they put me in this room.
24:25
Son. Everybody's got County blues on, bro the jumpsuits, and I'm
24:29
in there with my purple stike shirred on and we all shackled together. You're
24:33
not even in the courtroom. They keep you separated from the courtroom and when
24:37
they call your name, you go on this phone booth. You put on
24:38
the headphones with a little microphone. And when it was my turn, I
24:42
get in there and the judge goes the case has been dismissed. I never
24:45
want to see you again. And mind you this, I'm deaf, son,
24:52
I can't hear. So I'm in the phone booth like wait what and
24:55
he's like on to the now. I'm like wait, wait, so hold
24:56
on, hold on, what did you say? The guard was like,
25:00
bro, get out of here, like it's over. And the whole time
25:03
I'm in that room, all the inmates was like, yo, this dude's
25:07
in the mafia, like it's Italian dude. Who I'm like like, nah,
25:11
Son, Like it didn't even like that, And so I started kind
25:15
of like preaching to that and I'm like, yo, God, real quick.
25:18
That does gotta look crazy. It was in there and wearing the jail
25:22
house fit. You come in there dressed like Barney the Pimp and you just
25:27
getting your case to Smiths and slide. Bro, that has to be from
25:32
their point of view. They're probably telling that story like it's something like it
25:34
probably sounds crazier to the people they tell it too, than you telling it
25:38
to us right now, bru, I swear they thought I was John Garden's
25:42
son, like I was one of the guardies, Like that's what everybody was
25:45
saying. That's what everybody thought. And but nah, I started preaching and
25:49
I'm like, yo, listen, like it's God. I'm not in the
25:52
mob. I didn't have no I didn't tell them about my grandfather. I
25:55
didn't say none of that. I was just keeping it a stack, like
25:56
yo, I changed my life. God honored it, and he's getting me
26:00
off for all this, and he could do the same for you. Bro.
26:03
The Guarden was like he got he broke, he broke like character.
26:08
If you don't go right now, I'm gonna change you. I'm gonna change
26:14
you right now if you don't leave right now. And I'm like, all
26:17
right, bet and then I left. And then so just one more little
26:19
part. I'm still on probation. I still had a year left on probation,
26:25
and I called my lawyer and my lawyer and shook. She's like,
26:27
bro, the state attorney's telling me they're throwing the book at you. I'm
26:32
telling you you're gonna do at least a year in jail and then go to
26:33
prison for fifteen years. All like they didn't tell me they was gonna dismiss
26:37
the case. And I'm like, I'm free, and she says it's this
26:41
thing called ex post factor where they can't take it back if there's a mistake
26:45
or anything. They can't Once that judge says, boom is over with and
26:48
they can't go back. So she says, go straight to probation and check
26:52
in with your probation office officer right now. And so I went straight to
26:56
probation. And when he seen me, he was sure. He goes,
27:00
what are you doing here? And I was like, here would go again?
27:03
So he calls me in the back to his office and he types in
27:07
the tuter and he turns the computer around and it says Jonathan Ptolo status incarcerated
27:14
on everything. I love so and even in the probate computer it said my
27:17
status was incarcerated and I have been free this whole time. And so this
27:21
man goes, all right, I told him the whole story. He's like,
27:23
all right, stay out of trouble. I'll see you next month.
27:26
And then I did my year of probation and I've never been arrested. I've
27:29
never seen the cops since. And I was been ten going on eleven years.
27:32
Bro, Bro, that is so you see why I've been able to
27:38
stay Yeah, now not go ahead, go ahead, finish the statement.
27:44
I was just gonna say, you see why I've been able to stay on
27:47
this path. And like, I have my moments where I slipped up.
27:48
Man, I'm not perfect, especially after the divorce. I just recently got
27:52
divorced. You know, I've been drinking a lot more than I normally do.
27:56
So I've had some times where I did stuff I shouldn't have been doing
27:57
it. But for years straight before the divorce, I was on that straight
28:03
and narrow sun, like know nothing. You know, I quit smoking trees,
28:06
I quit doing drugs. I quldn't, I couldn't getting drunk. I
28:08
would still drink, but I quit getting drunk, and but you see why,
28:12
Like I had such a profound impact on my life. I was like
28:15
I can't even play with that life no more. Yeah, man, So
28:22
that's that's that's how it happened right there. Man, Sorry to make it
28:26
long, but it's a lot too it. Nah, we needed all that.
28:29
That's yeah, that's a crazy story, man. Yeah. Man,
28:33
so you know that that's how it happened. Man. That was two thirteen
28:38
January six, twenty thirteen. I still remember everything about it to this day.
28:42
Man. Hey man, that's hard to forget. Bro. That's something
28:45
that you can't even That's like, that's the thing that you wish would happen
28:49
in a situation in your life, like when you're just thinking about it,
28:52
like to yourself, and it's like the solution you would wish for that you
28:56
know is never gonna happen. But in case some how it did happen.
29:00
Facts. Yeah, But like I feel like I was so far gone that
29:07
if something extreme didn't happen like that, I wouldn't be here talking to you,
29:10
man. That's real spoke m Well, everything happens when it happened,
29:18
and for a reason, you feel me. So it went from the worst
29:22
thing that ever happened to me to the best thing that ever happened to me.
29:26
Yeah, yeah, just like that. It's crazy. I'm gonna throw
29:32
I'm gonna throw it to Quincy and Joe just because you know, I know
29:34
a lot of the stuff as far as how your story goes and everything.
29:38
But if y'all got anything y'all want to like kind of elaborate on or any
29:42
any kind of reactions you have anything, He said, who was any of
29:48
that stuff that happened You kind of tapped into the reason why you do And
29:52
like the show, the podcast you're doing right now, when't anything during that
29:56
spark This nah, not not the podcast, the radio show on podcast was
30:04
kind of just given to me because the owners scene that I was everywhere she
30:10
seen me on because I hold boxing events too, So she seen me at
30:14
like rap battles, She seen me hosts boxing events. You see me at
30:17
Christian shows, she seen me at non Christian shows, and she just thought
30:19
I'd be a good fit for it. But I do do community work,
30:23
and that definitely inspired the community work because like I go into the youth prison
30:29
here in O'callorda, and I meant to the youth in this Level ten facility
30:32
here in o'callora. So that definitely inspired that. But as far as the
30:36
radio show goes now that I kind of just got thrown into that that was
30:40
actually going to be my person to tell the story facts facts. That's that
30:44
was actually gonna be my next question U and regard because I know during ire
30:49
or my interview with you on here to the grind, uh, you kind
30:52
of mentioned that the youth, the what you do to give back to the
30:56
community and the youth. Could you kind of elaborate on that because I definitely
31:00
think that with the story that you just told, man, you know,
31:03
you gotta share that as with many as many people as possible. Yeah,
31:10
Man, I had got asked by one of my bros man many faces who
31:18
had did it before. The organization is called Urban Youth Justice, and they're
31:22
going to juvenile facilities all over the world, but mainly in Florida. It's
31:27
based out of Tampa, and I would ask to go just do some songs
31:32
one time and I did a song, but I just felt led to like
31:37
tell my story and it had an impact and the owner of the organization was
31:41
like, Yo, you want to get down on this. There's actually a
31:44
facility in O'calla because that's where I lived. Now. He was like,
31:48
and you could be the one. You have your own team and everything and
31:51
do it there. So but I I'm gonna keep it a stack. Bro.
31:55
These kids these days is crazy. But I remember when I was a
31:59
kid. You know, I'm on the forty years old now or back in
32:01
the nineties. We was wild and we was crazy. But it's a whole
32:05
other level these days. And like when I first started going in there,
32:08
they're like, oh, this old white dude, like I didn't get no
32:12
respect, but they're just showing them consistency being a male role model and influence
32:19
in the life that was consistent. And I always kept with a stack,
32:22
like y'all know my alias is mister Real Spill. I didn't go in there
32:25
like, oh who who. I went in there like, yo, this
32:29
is what I've been through, my little brothers. The og crypt that's in
32:31
the fence right now. I just got out of the fens, been out
32:34
the fence for a year, and I was back in the fens, got
32:37
stabbed in prison by his own gang, and I was a quadriplegic. I
32:40
go in there and I tell them from experience. I don't go in there
32:43
and tell them from a place that like I've seen a movie or I just
32:46
want to help. I'm like this Christian guy like you know, Ned Flanders,
32:50
Like nah, I'm going in there, like, look, man,
32:52
I didn't live that life. My little brother is seriously about that life and
32:55
this is this is what happens, you know. And the funny part is
33:00
my hood side ato like keep it real, will be like Yo, I
33:04
could tell y'all some things where you could navigate the system, but then I'm
33:07
like, I'd rather just tell you just stay out that life, you feel
33:10
me because it's just hard. But but now now I'm going there and it's
33:15
like yo's lot right, Like it's like I'm a big brother to them.
33:16
Man, Like when they get out, they hit me up, I'll shoot
33:20
them some bread, get them some new shoes, get them a hair cut.
33:22
And there's a lot of them make music. I try to set them
33:24
up in studios and it's just dope, like the fact that they hit me
33:29
up when they get out, because when you're when you're locked up, you
33:30
just want to pass time on a lot of things. So I don't I
33:36
don't take it personally or think it's dope when they come to my mentor meetings,
33:39
But when they hit me up when they get out, it's the real
33:42
love. That's when I'm like, all right, bet, I had an
33:44
impact on this kid, and I still got all all the numbers on my
33:46
phone. I'll be reaching out on the holidays. How's your mom? How
33:50
you do? How's your brother? You know what I'm saying, And it's
33:52
just it's dope. Bro. Every time I leave there, I'm like renewed,
33:58
you know what I'm saying. I just it's just a great It's just
34:00
a great feeling, man, you know. So yeah, that's something me
34:04
and Quincy talk about pretty often, just from the point of view of not
34:07
having anybody really to look up to or get guidance from when you come from
34:12
those situations, you know, because you was around Wentworth. If you know
34:15
the kind of stuff that went down and that kind of environment, bro,
34:20
it just leads to more bullshit. Like that's just how it is. It's
34:22
a cycle, and there's a lot of people in there. Like I think
34:27
about it now, and me and Quincy have talked about it before. Bro.
34:30
There's there was men in Wentworth, the aids that I am now that
34:35
was hanging around us, trying to give us quote unquote game about gangs or
34:39
street life and stuff like that. Like, bro, you're grown man with
34:43
bills. What are you doing out here? You know what I'm saying.
34:45
Like it was just a crazy thing. But we never thought about it that
34:49
way. We looked at them like, oh, they the older dudes.
34:52
He's an og, you know what I'm saying. We thought he came with
34:53
some wisdom just because he's older and he's around. But nah, bro,
34:57
Like, sometimes you have people around you that just leads you down the wrong
35:00
path. Sometimes the people around you just don't have the answers. And it
35:05
happened to me my OG in my neighborhood, my big brother. They they
35:09
stayed me down those wrong paths, you know. And I feel like you'd
35:14
have to be a real hater. You'd have to be a real jerk off
35:16
to go down a path and have a real negative ending and not see somebody,
35:21
a young dude, going down that path, and I at least tell
35:23
them that what's real about it and try to stay them away from that,
35:28
you know what I mean. I don't want no kid to go through what
35:30
I went through, man, on every level. You feel me. And
35:32
I even be telling them these days, like, Bro, drugs is crazy.
35:36
Someone I did drugs. They were still natural in a sense, like
35:39
these days, all this synthetic stuff and all this is crazy, and I'm
35:43
like, you better off just not even doing it, bro, And I
35:45
keep it a stack, Like if you want to have a five girl,
35:47
you want to have nice things, you want to have a future, then
35:52
drugs, you know what I'm saying, even just getting started. The cool
35:55
the cool kids that do it when they're young, look at them now,
35:59
they probably crackheads. They probably did, they probably imprisoned you're feeling. But
36:04
the cast that just you know, maybe did their little thing but then get
36:07
too much into it or just stayed away from it, those are the real
36:09
stand up dudes. Those are the dudes that you would look up to these
36:13
days, you know. So it's just the type of stuff I'll be trying
36:15
to tell them, man, because I feel like nowadays there's not too many
36:20
positive influences out there that can come from a place of experience. And keep
36:22
it a stack with these kids, man. And if it was your kids,
36:27
if it was kids, I don't know, I'm gonna be the same
36:29
way. Bro. I just gotta love for the youth. Man. So,
36:32
man, look, I feel I feel like nowadays just being peace and
36:37
still is like out of style, you know what I mean. Like nobody
36:42
wants to be like in a situation where they're just happy about what's going on.
36:46
Everything is kind of even. There's no crazy stuff, you know,
36:51
there's nothing kind of you know, in their ear from every angle. It's
36:53
just kind of like people want to kind of be in that chaos. They
36:58
want to be in the middle of the gossip. They you know, they
37:00
want people commenting on their life and everything. And obviously, you know,
37:02
the social media is a part of that. Everybody feel like they did main
37:06
character reality show, you know what I mean, And it's definitely something that
37:10
people need guide and so man, yeah, man, it's like you're not
37:16
gonna really get it if you don't have a father figure or an older brother
37:21
that's you know, on a on a good path, on a good place
37:23
in life. You're not gonna get it from the movies of the music.
37:25
But I tell them though, like I love gangster movies just maybe because my
37:30
family and all that, But I tell them, every single gangster movie every
37:35
single street movie is the realist movies to watch because what happens at the beginning
37:40
of the movie is dope, it's the best time to come up. But
37:44
what happens every single ending of every single hood against the movie. It's never
37:49
a positive ending. It's never a happy ending. This dude stitches on this
37:52
dude, This dude kills that guy. This guy goes to prison and rats
37:54
on everybody. You know what I'm saying. It's like it's never facts come
38:00
up and always the best time, but it's always the shortest. The struggle
38:02
is always the longest, the most part, you feel me, and it's
38:07
never like that. I know it's cliche, but like they say, there's
38:08
there's no happy endings for gangsters. Man. That's facts, man, you
38:16
know, but that's and it's like, I ain't nobody, man, I'm
38:21
just somebody that would love to If I could change one kid's life to not
38:25
go through what I went through, then it'll be all worth it to me,
38:29
you know what I'm saying. But at the end of the day,
38:30
if you had and it followed me around with a camera a day. Look,
38:34
I'm not the best role model son, you know, but I tried,
38:36
you know, I tried, you feel me? So, yeah,
38:40
man, I kind of wanted to touch a little on what you were saying
38:44
as far as like having that role model, and you kind of touch on
38:46
even like I know you're a Tupac fan. We all Tupac fans. Just
38:51
that lyric and Dear Mama where he's kind of talking about that. You know,
38:54
for a woman, it ain't easy to raise a man. And I
38:57
wanted to kind of start with you, Joe, because you kind of had
39:00
like a weird not weird, but like a unique dynamic in your childhood where
39:05
like your dad was there and then there was a time that he wasn't there,
39:08
and just kind of explain it, like how did that feel, just
39:12
as far as you having somebody as a male in your life, Like what
39:15
was the differences that you felt? Yeah. Actually, I spent a majority
39:22
of like my first few years with my dad and then when we went to
39:28
meet up with my mom, and I don't fully remember this, but they
39:30
tell me the stories like because I spent so much time with him, like
39:35
I didn't want to listen to her. I didn't I wasn't like I didn't
39:37
want to be there. I'm like, nah, you're not my dad,
39:38
like and then but that got me used to like knowing that there's times where
39:45
like we weren't gonna all be together all the time. So like he was.
39:52
Then he would started traveling for work, and he began like when the
39:54
hurricanes came using a hurricane restoration like all over the U asked he was He's
39:59
a big part like New Orleans restoration. He was gone for a long time.
40:02
Uh. That put me in a position like hold, like feeling like
40:07
I got to hold it down for the family being the only guy there,
40:09
you know, and just be like a male presence in the family when he's
40:14
not there. So it kind of showing me like it's not always gonna be
40:16
there, and if it's not there, you gotta step up and be that
40:19
person. I think that kind of grew on me to say, you know,
40:22
if the leaderships aren't there, I'm gonna step up and be the leader
40:25
whenever I got it in all aspects. No, that's facts, man,
40:31
what'd you think about that? Quincy? I know you gotta obviously you know
40:37
your dad was never there, not because of him, you know what I'm
40:39
saying. He was taken from us very you know, before you was even
40:43
able to really you know, even have an experience with him. So just
40:46
you know, that lack of having your dad there and just growing up with
40:51
a step dad originally, like how you know obviously that affected you, but
40:53
how does that kind of resonate with you? From me? I mean,
40:59
it definitely is. I can I say it. It's tough because you know,
41:05
I had to learn how to be a man or teach myself how to
41:07
be a man myself, like like I have to YouTube how to tie a
41:12
tie, you know what I'm saying, Like you know what I mean.
41:14
So it's like it's tough when you think about it from that perspective because you
41:17
know, I did have a father figure very temporarily, you know, but
41:23
he was abusive at that time. So when you know I saw it,
41:28
I always was like I don't want to be nothing like him, you know
41:30
what I mean. So any kind of fatherly advice or fatherly things that I
41:34
saw from him, I didn't really want to take that in boss. So
41:39
you know, basically for me, it's like I had to really like learn
41:43
how to be a man on my own and teach myself, you know what
41:45
I'm saying. So and I'm still learning to this day. You know what
41:47
I mean. Like I still feel like I look to older men that I've
41:52
met and other I would call brothers. You know what I'm saying, Like
41:55
you guys, you know what I'm saying, and learn through y'all experiences of
42:00
how to be a better man every day. You know what I'm saying.
42:01
But it's different. It's tough. A woman can't teach that man facts.
42:06
Man, how about you? How about you, Delorie? How does that?
42:08
How has that dynamic been in your life? And see it's it's crazy.
42:15
How like with the radio show stuff I just went through. It was
42:17
just talking about gets brought up on the shows and it's no difference with this
42:22
right here. So I just had my man's at my crib working with me.
42:25
He's going through it, right, And same kind of thing where I
42:30
was like, Yo, come come to my crib. I got a guest
42:31
room. Now you know I don't. I don't got a family here no
42:34
more, so you could work with me, get back on your feet.
42:37
But he never had his father in his life, right, And we had
42:42
got a little bit the other night, you know what I'm saying, and
42:45
smoking some cigars and talking about life. And he was like, yeah,
42:47
you know, if I had my dad and this and that. And he's
42:52
like, you can't understand because you always had your pops. And I said,
42:54
now hold on, man, just because people have their father in their
42:58
life doesn't mean that it was like some family matters mark, you know,
43:01
mister Winslow. Father figured. My dad is a great man, and I
43:06
don't want to take nothing away from him. But my dad was a firefighter.
43:09
Firefighters worth twenty four hours shifts and then they get forty eight hours off.
43:15
My dad would be gone all day long every other day or every other
43:19
two days, and then when he was home, he was sleeping for like
43:22
that whole first day and then his second day off he would run the painting
43:24
business that I run. Now you know what I'm saying. But and my
43:29
dad was like this ill tempered old school Italian dude where I had no relationship
43:34
with my father because if I the littlest bit of coming out my mouth,
43:37
for the littlest bit of what he thought was disrespect, my pops would throw
43:42
hands son, like he would kick in my door and cast me with three
43:45
pieces in my face, like bust my nose wide over and then stand over
43:50
me and be like come on, and my father's huge, bro, and
43:52
I'm like nah son. And then and then the next day I seen him
43:57
and he said like, you know, hey dad, you know thinking it's
43:59
cool, and my dad would say something to like, excuse my friends,
44:01
but this is real, be like it's a good thing you didn't fight me
44:05
back, and I'd be like what he because I would have put you in
44:07
the hospital. And I'm saying, oh, that's my dad. Like,
44:12
but it was like that we had no relationship. It was like it was
44:15
like a tyrant, you know, the illust respect. He was never really
44:17
around because of his job. But then now, just to keep it real,
44:22
spilled my pops is my best friend. You're now he's seventy five years
44:27
old, he's an old man, and we mended that. Bro. We
44:29
used to fight, bro, like we used to fight to it. The
44:31
whole family will start fighting because me and my pops are going at it.
44:35
And then I'd always get kicked out. I would always be like the outcast,
44:38
the black sheep. But then there came a time in my life where
44:40
I was like, I'm gonna forgive this man. I'm not gonna use it.
44:44
As an excuse to act a certain way because he acted a certain way
44:47
towards me, And I'm gonna try to mend this relationship. But it was
44:51
something I really worked hard on and really prayed about, and it changed,
44:54
bro, and now we are best friends, and now my whole family gets
44:58
along grade And so you know, just because I always have my dad doesn't
45:01
mean it was, like I said, like some family matter stuff where it
45:05
was like perfect And I learned all that. He taught me how to paint,
45:08
and he taught me how to throw a football. But I didn't get
45:10
no sex talk. I didn't get no drug talk. I didn't get no
45:14
jail talks. I didn't get none of those talks from my pops. And
45:16
I had to learn all that from the streets and learn all that the hard
45:20
works. So yeah, that's the one I'm saying talk about a lot on
45:22
the podcast, just from the point of view of everybody got their struggling.
45:25
You don't know anybody's going through from the outside looking in. Somebody might look
45:29
at you and say, oh, white dude, both parents, he's good,
45:31
he's chilling. It ain't always the case, you know what I'm saying.
45:35
So you know, it's really important, like you said, even just
45:38
taking the time with people because of that same detail, Like we don't know
45:44
exactly where everybody'd been through, what they're going through, the things they lacked.
45:46
You know, there's so many different, you know, factors in people's
45:52
lives that make them the way that they are, and you always got to
45:54
extend that grace no matter what tracks. Bro like, Oh, you show
46:00
respect first until you disrespect me, until you come with disrespect. I'm always
46:05
gonna come with respect and the best understanding I can. You're not always gonna
46:08
relate, You're not always gonna understand, but you could try, and you
46:12
could not be a jerk, and you could be patient, you feel me
46:15
until until it's not until it's not reciprocated. I don't I don't want nobody
46:20
that would be a pushover. And I'm damn sure not a pushover. But
46:22
I'm gonna at least trying to come with that understanding and respect first I get
46:27
proven otherwise, right right. I actually wanted to run through this Billboard Top
46:34
ten game and then kind of go into what you got going on with your
46:37
radio show. Some dope news coming up fifty minute, Mark Man, it's
46:45
been a super dope episode so far that bro, I knew what you came
46:49
on and told that story bro that it was gonna be like what the hell
46:52
because it's crazy, man, and just what you were able to go through
46:57
and recognize the fact that, hey, I've been on some bullshit. I
47:01
need to make a change and to be blessed and to be able to keep
47:06
it up and recognize it and still how do you say, appreciate it?
47:09
You know? Ten years later? That's the thing, man. A lot
47:12
of these people that be going through stuff, they be having that that you
47:15
know, olive branch thrown out to them, but they just don't recognize it,
47:21
you know what I mean. There's plenty of situations where somebody's giving you
47:24
a hand, giving you hope, trying to help you come out of whatever
47:29
hole you're in. And sometimes we might be too stubborn or we might be
47:31
too you know, hazy to realize what's going on. But you know,
47:36
you always got to take those good opportunities and rise to them as well,
47:39
you know what I'm saying, Because you can't just say, hey, I
47:43
need a handout, but then you're not doing the work on yourself, you
47:45
know, And That's what I always respected about you and your story because you're
47:50
somebody that recognize what was going on, and you do the work and you're
47:52
active in the community to show like, hey, like you said, I'm
47:57
here to make sure this don't happen no more because I was blessed with these
48:00
with it, this opportunity. Yeah, and just real quick, man,
48:04
you can't use things that happened to you as an excuse to wild out facts.
48:08
I just went through this divorce, and it was a time right after
48:12
the divorce, but I was like, I'm a while out and it was
48:15
a struggle. So it was a real struggle for me to stay on the
48:19
path I'm on, and honestly, I'm still kind of struggling with it and
48:22
it's been eight months. But at the same time, I'm nowhere i used
48:25
to be either, you know, because I've been trying not to use it
48:29
as an excuse. Bro exactly. That's facts. Man. I went through
48:31
something four years ago and I took the same approach and it turned out horribly.
48:37
But I've used his last four years to recover and really go back to
48:40
the person I'm supposed to be in. If anything like that ever happens again.
48:45
I know how to react better, that's for sure. Thanks. Thanks,
48:50
But yeah, man, we about to get into this billboard top ten.
48:52
Man. We are going in two the week of February twenty six,
48:58
two thousand and five. Sol I'm gonna see how we do this. I'm
49:06
gonna I have three songs that I picked out of this top ten that I'm
49:09
gonna give y'all. I'm gonna give y'all the clue. Everybody's gonna get a
49:15
turn. So everybody's gonna get a question. Y'all could try to give me
49:17
the artist and the title of the song. All right. If you can't
49:22
get it and you pass it, the next person gets a chance to get
49:25
it, and they'll get that point, and whoever has the most points at
49:29
the end wins. All right, all right, so I'm gonna give the
49:32
clues. Let me do this to figure out. Okay, So the first
49:39
question is one of the numbers on the chart, obviously, right one through
49:44
ten. So you guys, all guests a number. Whoever's closest to that
49:49
number is the one that's gonna go first. So whenever you're already, go
49:53
ahead, tell me a number three, six, all right, I said
50:01
six. He said, all right, so what's it called? Joe?
50:07
And the lore was the closest y'all called out the same number. So now,
50:12
since you went first, Delrii, I'm gonna give you first. You're
50:15
gonna tell me a number one or two, and whichever one's closest to it,
50:20
that's the person that's gonna go first. So pick one or two,
50:22
De Lori one, pick one or two. Joe, Oh, obviously never
50:28
mind, he got y'all see me puffing earlier, my bay, the lore.
50:36
You're going first because it's the number one song, all right. So
50:39
I'm just gonna give you these clues, and in the wording of the clues,
50:44
you're gonna get the you know, the hint for the song title.
50:49
So make sure you're paying attention. So this is the number one song February
50:54
twenty six, two thousand and five. The song is from a maturing R
51:00
and B singer that returned to the scene with a grown and sexy vibe to
51:06
climb the charts with this plea for love. So this maturing R and B
51:13
singer with a growing all right, go ahead, I read this lady incorrect,
51:21
my friend, Yo, you had me nervous. That was a good
51:25
one. That was a good one. Next one, Joe, you go
51:29
ahead and guess this. Maturing R and B singer returned with a grown and
51:34
sexy vibe to climb the charts with this Plea for Love two thousand and five,
51:49
Plea for love maturing growing is it? I sir? No, sir,
52:00
Quincy, I gotta get this. I don't know one more time for
52:07
the culture. All right, it's in the words, it's in the words.
52:12
You're ready this maturing R and B singer returned with a grown and sexy
52:16
vibe to climb the this please for love. Damn, I don't know bron
52:29
for the song or the artist. Uh Ronald Eisley. No, I'm gonna
52:36
give you one more go Delori and then I'm gonna tell it what you think
52:40
for love? Because that was like ninety nine. I was gonna say Teddy
52:47
Riley, but there definitely wasn't two thousand five. Y'all are gonna be in
52:52
this one, because y'all should have got this. One that was number one
52:55
that week was Mario let Me Love You. That was his first comeback song
53:07
after he did Just a Friend when he was a little kid. Down let
53:12
Me Love You. That was another. I didn't realize that that actually reached
53:16
number one on Billboard. Bro that was that was a big song. That
53:20
was a big song. I think the maturing thought. I was thinking a
53:24
little older than But I get why you said that. I get you said.
53:29
Here's here's number two. It's going to Joe this this one man,
53:34
come on all right. This song was number five on the charts this week
53:39
February twenty six, two thousand and five. This epic collaboration was thought to
53:45
be the first of many, but beef got in a way. Either way,
53:51
This classic hit on top incorrect Damn Quincy wait, I'm gonna read the
54:02
whole thing. Okay, okay. This epic collaboration was thought to be the
54:07
first of many, but beef got in the way either way. This classic
54:12
hits hit is instantly recognizable with its unique intro and melodic vibe. How we
54:22
do there? You go ding ding ding? We came out before? Yeah,
54:30
yeah, that was a good one though, Joe, So yes,
54:37
sir, Now we going back to the lore for the last song. Oh
54:42
did I ask you? I ask you already, Quincy or not yet?
54:45
I didn't ask wrong? Right, So this. This one's going to Quincy
54:47
then all right. So this was the number two song on the charts this
54:51
week. With two hits on the charts this week, this rapper had a
54:57
different approach on this stringy hit that blew up, Stringy, Stringy with two
55:09
hits on the charts this week, This rapper had a different approach on this
55:15
stringy hit that blew up. You can guess the rapper too to try to
55:22
get a point at least, ding ding ding, So you got two points
55:29
the lory if you can let me throw ahead. Oh my god, no,
55:45
sir, the lawyer, you get a chance to get the get the
55:47
song. I don't get the stringy point. But I'm gonna just say because
55:52
the time period on p I MP, No, sir, it was candy
55:55
shopping. That wasn't that was what I thought. But the streak, my
56:05
god, I'm tired in the beat, Yes, sir, man, I'm
56:14
run the top ten down real quick, just to let you know what time
56:16
it was on This was February five. Yeah, Quincy got that finally got
56:23
there? You go, all right? So number one that week, like
56:27
we discussed Mario, let Me Love You. Number two, like we discussed
56:31
Candy Shot, fifty cent Feature in Olivia, Number three, Boulevard A Broken
56:37
Dreams, Green Day, number four one two Steps Sierra featuring Missy Elliott,
56:45
Number five, How We Do Game feature and fifty cent Yo. When this
56:49
song dropped, like even just the way it was produced, I was like,
56:52
bro, what is this? It was crazy? When you said the
56:58
clue was like, how the beat drop already? I was like, Yo,
57:01
bro, thats how we do beat? It's crazy. I even missed
57:05
this one. That's how this? Uh this? He was he was googling
57:15
stuff. He was googling your number six was this going ferno? Fifty cents?
57:21
Oh damn three on the charts that week? That's crazy? And number
57:25
seven Lovers and Friends Little John and the East Side Boys featuring Usher, and
57:29
I was about to say that had to be on the number eight Soldier Destiny's
57:35
Child featuring t I Little Wayne, Number nine Since You've been Gone Kelly Clarkson,
57:39
Number Rich Wants to Fund featuring ease Man. Hip hop used to really
57:46
run the charts man, Yo, facts they're all over the charts. All
57:51
the ones that we've read so far, there was only two joints that was
57:54
in hip hop exactly. Bro, It's it's crazy, man, how far
57:59
how far fallen? Man? But everything cycle dog and everything kind of like
58:02
has the same kind of growth and death. And you know, when you
58:06
really look at hip hop as far as like any other art form, it's
58:09
pretty much in that stage where it's like it either turns into something completely different
58:14
or it just dies dies. Yep, I'm looking at it right now.
58:17
The current top ten for this week is not the only hip hop song,
58:22
and it's not even really hip hop. Is slim you out drinking scissor other
58:27
than that? Bro? Oh, I'm lying gonna gonna fuck you mean his
58:30
number nine? Dang, he's still on the charts with that one. You've
58:36
been holding some position. Yep. He had to comeback show the other day.
58:39
Man. A lot of people had a lot of reactions to that,
58:42
the whole you know, snitched thing and him just coming right back out like
58:45
nothing happened. M Hey, man, the streets is the myth. The
58:51
train don't stop moving, Yeah, man, ear to the ground radio,
58:55
man, make sure y'all tap in. It's definitely some dope interviews, like
58:59
you was saying, Man, you just got people that's on the grinding there,
59:02
so do you be having different kinds of guests, But everybody makes sense.
59:06
You know, I was on it, Quincy was on it. You've
59:08
had different business owners on the artists and man October fourteenth, you got a
59:13
big one dog Thurston Howl from Gilligan's Island Saturday from four six. That's crazy,
59:20
man, Yeah, Otoba fourteenth from four to six. Low Life will
59:23
be in the building Thurston Howard and it also be my man's mini faces Freemont
59:29
People's will be in the building. Two heavy hit lyricists, New York lyricists.
59:34
If you really like that, that golden error type of lyrics, this
59:38
is gonna be that episode right here, man, and both these dudes too.
59:43
Is proof that it's never You're never too old to get some shine.
59:45
Man, You're never too old to do your thing. And that's also inspiring
59:50
to me because Thurston was homing to a strong peak and it was always kind
59:54
of in the background, and then now he's blowing up, you know what
59:59
I'm and he's older than me, so that's just it's just it's gonna be
1:00:04
dope for multiple reasons. But if you like that real raw, that New
1:00:07
York raw that like it used to be This is that episode for you guys.
1:00:10
Man, make sure you tune in at Ear to the Grind. There's
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1:00:22
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1:00:30
on your grind, I'm not gonna have you on the show man, straight
1:00:32
up, Yes, sir man, I feel that. But yeah, man,
1:00:37
it was dope having you on. I definitely want to have you on
1:00:40
later down the road, just to get a little more in depth with your
1:00:43
story and just you know, dissecting a little more just from the life lessons
1:00:47
kind of point of view and things that you feel like resonated with you a
1:00:52
lot. But you know, thanks for coloring. Loved it was it was
1:00:55
long overdue. Glad we finally got it in Joe, you got anything you
1:01:00
want to leave the people with, my friend, Thanks for having man,
1:01:05
Yeah, no, thanks the Lord for coming on. Ser any story Man,
1:01:07
it's it's a crazy story. Like like let's said, people are probably
1:01:09
telling that story about you to other people. Uh so it's getting Hey,
1:01:15
good to meet you. Looking forward to more episodes and then that's it.
1:01:20
You know what to do, Quincy. Yeah, definitely definitely appreciate you for
1:01:27
coming on, man, and you know, just for the listeners, you
1:01:30
know, to sign off man, definitely tap in to the into the Grind
1:01:32
Radio. I mean even just from the interviewing standpoint, I know you said,
1:01:37
you know you kind of got asked to do it, but but you
1:01:39
surely do have a knack for it. Man. That was probably the best
1:01:42
interview I've ever had, So I definitely want to give that, give you
1:01:45
that shout out on that man for real for us. So yeah, for
1:01:47
the listeners, Man, make sure y'all tap in man into the Grind Radio
1:01:52
and you know, stay better. Yeah, I appreciate that man. Not