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Episode 348 "Ice Cube" · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: They get a little they called Melo broadcaster from Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia walking to the ball show.
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  Speaker 2: I go by the name of I go by the
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  Speaker 2: name you know, bat the building, My bad ya, yay,
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  Speaker 2: what's up, big dog? Oh man, I'm pretty fair for
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  Speaker 2: a square Okay, pretty fair for a square. Rock with that,
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  Speaker 2: we got new music out, Yeah, new music, man down,
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  Speaker 2: it's my ego, Yeah, quintessential ice Cube. You know, West
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  Speaker 2: Coast flavored, West Coast beats, special guest appearances from you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of some of the homies that uh that I've
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  Speaker 2: been in the game with for a while. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: to me, if you're a Day one fan, Day two fan,
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  Speaker 2: Day three fans, you're gonna love the record.
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  Speaker 1: November twenty second.
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  Speaker 2: Drops November twenty second, A.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of tracks on y'all believe it. I saw fourteen. Damn.
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  Speaker 2: I took a whole bunch off.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of music for a list celebrity movie
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  Speaker 1: director actor Ice Cube.
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  Speaker 2: Like, the's a lot of records. Well, that's that's where
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  Speaker 2: I started off making music. So to me, that's the
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  Speaker 2: most natural part of my whole career is making music. Movies,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get a lot of publicity and they play
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  Speaker 2: a lot in people enjoy them in a different way.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm still hungry. I still love hip hop and
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  Speaker 2: doing music and creating song, getting beats, writing rhymes. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's still fun to me.
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  Speaker 3: So what do you think about the artists nowadays that
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  Speaker 3: you know a lot of artists do have writers.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that? It's always been part
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  Speaker 2: of the game, you know, if you got a writer,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't consider you an MC. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I consider you're vocalist. And that's that's cool it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't trying to clown but that's just the reality.
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  Speaker 1: But they're an artist, but just not an MC.
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  Speaker 2: Not an MC, you know. To me, MC's you know,
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  Speaker 2: I come from a school where you had to write,
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  Speaker 2: be able to write it and spit it.
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  Speaker 1: So if we throw on the beat right now, ice
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  Speaker 1: Cube can get down with it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying I can get down with it for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Freestyle is not my specialty. That's why they free,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But writing is the essence of you know,
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  Speaker 2: all great literature. So I'm a writer.
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  Speaker 1: No man, listen, it's an honor for us to have
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  Speaker 1: you here. Now. I was going through a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the records. Sanctified, She Sanctified, She sanctified. That's a really
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  Speaker 1: good record.
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  Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg. Yeah, too short, too short, October London tober London.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good record. I can't wait for that one
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  Speaker 2: to drop. Yeah, me too. You know, I think people
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  Speaker 2: are gonna dig it. You're gonna give us a visual
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  Speaker 2: to that if I could corral them dudes. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they busy all over the world. Where you're gonna find
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  Speaker 2: Snoop he on the moon right now, doing you know
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  Speaker 2: something for Peacocker or NBC or something. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's all about corralling them at the right time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to pull these four artists. That's jet said all
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  Speaker 2: over the world, pull them together. But I think anybody,
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  Speaker 2: I think you can do it. Yeah, we'll get it in.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get it in. Okay. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what's your favorite record off of the project that's
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  Speaker 1: coming out overber twenty seconds?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I love So Sensitive, It's not my favorite. My
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  Speaker 2: favorite is probably Ghetto's Story because it's, uh, it's so today.
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  Speaker 2: You know a lot of people, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of turmoil going on in different neighborhoods. You know, homies,
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  Speaker 2: robbing homies, homies, uh, setting each other up, and you
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  Speaker 2: know it's it's really treacherous. You know, we all know
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  Speaker 2: what happened in Nipsey Hustle and it's a song about
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  Speaker 2: that sentiment. You know what happens when when the people
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  Speaker 2: you grew up with you can't trust them no more.
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  Speaker 2: Now do you feel like.
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  Speaker 3: When you started becoming successful, you have to stop hanging
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  Speaker 3: around like certain type of people?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, if I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to go to jail, like and know, I know people
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  Speaker 2: that's active. I know people that's inactive. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: the more you're doing positive things and trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: better your situation, you know, the more you have to
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  Speaker 2: you know, stay away from the ones that's too active,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you end up, especially in La probably everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you end up with a case just because
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  Speaker 2: you know somebody. And so yeah, you know you gotta
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  Speaker 2: change how you you know, how you move.
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  Speaker 1: I just really respected how you transitioned and evolved as
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  Speaker 1: a just as a man.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. It was very.
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  Speaker 1: Inspiring just growing up as a youth.
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  Speaker 2: I just saw that. Damn.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's to a point where if it's an ice Cube. Anything,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna check it out, from the Big Three to
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  Speaker 1: your movies, to acting you shooting the movie. I want
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  Speaker 1: to check it out because your brand has evolved into
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  Speaker 1: a like it's past just you as a person, it's
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  Speaker 1: ice cube with the brand.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm glad that you know I've gotten
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  Speaker 2: to that point. I've always been committed to quality. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you might not like everything I do, but you're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to say it's trash and I just
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  Speaker 2: threw it together and it's just a money grab and
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  Speaker 2: Q don't care. You know, I'm always trying to give
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  Speaker 2: one thousand percent into the project and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: when I put something out, it's worth your time and
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  Speaker 2: it's worth your money, and that is not a waste
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  Speaker 2: of your time, because wasting your time is worse than
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  Speaker 2: wasting your money because you can't get time back. Can't
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  Speaker 2: get time back. You can only you can get the
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  Speaker 2: money back, but you can't get the time back. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think, I think because my commitment to
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  Speaker 2: quality has been there with everything I do, people trust
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  Speaker 2: that I'm not if I if I'm doing something that
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  Speaker 2: I believe in it, and I think it's something cool
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  Speaker 2: that everybody should check out and be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, I'm glad that after all these years,
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  Speaker 2: it's reverberated into Yo, the Q brand is official. If
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  Speaker 2: he's stamped, I'm gonna check it out, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going straight for it. Are you ready? What's the best
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  Speaker 2: damn Friday?
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  Speaker 1: What's ice Cube's favorite Friday movie?
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  Speaker 2: The first one? Of course, that's the best one. But
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  Speaker 2: I think I think it's Friday after the next is Friday?
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  Speaker 2: Friday after Next is a closed second. But everybody, so
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  Speaker 2: you don't like next Friday, Next Friday? Next, next Friday? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Next Friday is funny. I think what happened, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going through the process of each movie. With the first one,
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  Speaker 2: we did what's called a negative pickup, meaning the movie
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  Speaker 2: company gave us all the money up front, and we
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  Speaker 2: were not upfront. But as we hit these benchmarks and
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  Speaker 2: and all we needed to do was turn in a
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  Speaker 2: complete movie. Uh. And that's how the first one was made.
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  Speaker 2: So it was no studio execs involved in the making
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  Speaker 2: of that movie, at least on set. And so with
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  Speaker 2: the second one, it costs more to do it. So
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  Speaker 2: now since they had more money in it. They wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be more involved. No control it, but just give
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  Speaker 2: these suggestions. You weren't the happiest with too, is what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying. Well, I felt like I might have been
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  Speaker 2: listening to too many people when you should have told
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  Speaker 2: them to shut up, you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a great movie. You know, we got we got
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  Speaker 2: Mike Epps out of that movie, and Pinky and you
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  Speaker 2: know so and uncle uncle l Roy, you know all
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  Speaker 2: these you know, different characters that helped, you know, make
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  Speaker 2: the franchise healthy and so, you know, I'm proud of
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  Speaker 2: the movie. But I just think the first one and
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  Speaker 2: the third one is you know, pretty much us without
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  Speaker 2: any Sugg studio interferience.
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  Speaker 3: Now I heard that that we get a new one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, Last Friday. What's called Last Friday.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see. It depends on, you know, how accepted
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  Speaker 2: by the public. You know, we may go after that,
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  Speaker 2: another one after that. You know, it's something that could
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  Speaker 2: keep going. Because Friday has created its own universe. There's
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  Speaker 2: always you know, the characters, you know, but also there's
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  Speaker 2: always room to bring in new funny characters that you
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  Speaker 2: may not know, you know, like we did with the
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  Speaker 2: third one with Money Mike and Damon and yeah, Ricky Smiley.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's like, so.
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  Speaker 3: Who was who was actually supposed to get that role?
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  Speaker 2: Which one when Kat Williams Money Mike, Yeah, well we
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  Speaker 2: you know, I knew Ricky first, so I invited him
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  Speaker 2: to LA to audition for a few different roles. So
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  Speaker 2: it was Santa Claus, it was Money Mike might have
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  Speaker 2: been one more role, and he was just a better
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  Speaker 2: Santa Claus, you know in my mind when.
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  Speaker 1: I but you asked him first to audition.
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  Speaker 2: Well, asking the audition for a few different roles, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I wouldn't. I didn't want to fly him to
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  Speaker 2: LA and just have him audition one role. And that's
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  Speaker 2: not unusual. You know, sometimes when it's an actor you
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  Speaker 2: really wanted the movie, you'd be like, try this one,
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  Speaker 2: try this one, try that one, and we see which one,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're comfortable with. And what it was when
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  Speaker 2: I saw Cat and I met Cat, he was he
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  Speaker 2: just he was Money Mike that day one. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't have to act, you know, he just had
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  Speaker 2: to have you know, good dialogue. And then he was
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  Speaker 2: he was coming to the set with amazing adjustments and
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  Speaker 2: changes to the dialogue. And you know, the more he
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  Speaker 2: was getting down, the more we was giving him to do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he was like, this is our comedic goal
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  Speaker 2: right here. We had a small part for him, but
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  Speaker 2: by the end of the movie, as you see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he housed that whole third act and so you know
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  Speaker 2: he he is money Mike, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you know, if we didn't find Cat
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  Speaker 2: that Ricky could have played Money Mike. But Ricky was
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  Speaker 2: a better Santa Claus. I think everybody at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day got the role that they should have,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why the movies are so beloved.
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  Speaker 3: So Ricky Smiley wasn't going to nobody hate knowing chat
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  Speaker 3: or anything like not that I know.
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  Speaker 2: If he didn't come to me hating, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. You know, you don't know who people talk to.
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  Speaker 2: But he never said nothing to me about it. He
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  Speaker 2: was happy to be a part of the movie. He
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: was more complaining about us whooping his ass with that
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  Speaker 2: Christmas tree. How many times we gotta do this? I said, Man,
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  Speaker 2: we just got to get every angle now with my
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  Speaker 2: ass with the Christmas tree. Nigga. So when you trying
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  Speaker 2: to jump out that window. It looks real. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that it's just funny.
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  Speaker 3: You look like y'all was hitting for real with that
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  Speaker 3: Christmas tree beating his ass.
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  Speaker 2: It's a truth, you know what I mean. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: like this flimsy ass christ you know, it was just
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  Speaker 2: sticks and okay, now let me switch. What's your favorite
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: barbershop movie? Oh man, number one? So the first one?
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  Speaker 2: First one, damn like to Too is great, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: but my favorite is you know, to jump off.
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  Speaker 1: Those are usually Now when when you're also directing and
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  Speaker 1: acting in your movie, isn't that a lot for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? You do. I'm producing, okay, producing. I've directed one movie,
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  Speaker 2: which is The Players Club, okay, and so my role
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  Speaker 2: in that movie he wasn't that big, so it was
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't as hard as I thought it was gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: It's really trusting your assistant director, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: your first a D and if you trust him, he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell you, hey, you should you should go shoot
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  Speaker 2: that over and you know you get to when you shoot,
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  Speaker 2: you can record everything so you can go back and
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  Speaker 2: watch it and say, I need to do this, I
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  Speaker 2: need to do that. You need to move over here,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're kind of directing, and then you go
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  Speaker 2: back in and get it right. Uh. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: as difficult because I didn't have a large role. If
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  Speaker 2: I was just to start a movie, it'll probably been
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  Speaker 2: a little more difficult to directing that, but it's not impossible.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people do it.
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  Speaker 1: When you did Triple X, yeah, that's one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite movies of all time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. You killed that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you. You always wanted to ask you.
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  Speaker 1: I was like that, I want to meet him, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask him this question right here, because
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  Speaker 1: you had to go after Vin Diesel. Yeah, did you
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  Speaker 1: initially say no or did you be like, hell, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that shit.
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  Speaker 2: I said yeah, because you know, it's trip less, like
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  Speaker 2: why not? And but I thought, you know, we could
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  Speaker 2: have got a better director, and I felt like the
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  Speaker 2: director was too old school and we should have had
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  Speaker 2: a new, innovative director that could have did some of
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  Speaker 2: the big stunts that was in the first one, like
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  Speaker 2: the avalanche and all that. So I just felt like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't my movie to produce. I was
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  Speaker 2: just in the movie. So I had the kind of
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: you know, my my man Neil Meritz, and that you
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  Speaker 2: know a couple of people from you know, Joe Roff,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of people at Revolution. It was their movie
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  Speaker 2: that they was putting me in. So I didn't really
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  Speaker 2: have the control to say, you know, this director to
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  Speaker 2: old school, his his vision, his stunts, the way you
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  Speaker 2: do things are are behind us and not in front
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  Speaker 2: of us. And so but that was the only thing
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, the movie could have been directed
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  Speaker 2: a little better, but story wise, acting, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I did my thing.
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  Speaker 3: In you Now, is there any movies that came out
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  Speaker 3: that you were supposed to be in but you said no?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's always hard to say I was
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  Speaker 2: gonna be in that. You know, people ask you sometimes
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  Speaker 2: early in the process. That don't mean it's all gonna
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  Speaker 2: work out. You're gonna make a deal and do the movie.
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  Speaker 2: But Minister Society, they asked me to come in and
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  Speaker 2: read for Old Dog and be Old Dog in that movie,
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  Speaker 2: and I turned it down because I had just done
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  Speaker 2: Boys in the Hood then I just don't trespassed and
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  Speaker 2: these was like two hood characters, and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to be I'm about tighte cast myself as
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  Speaker 2: just you know, the hood nigga.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, so I turned that down. They wanted me to
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  Speaker 2: be Enforced Gump as the bubble shrimp Hod and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I stick on my lips out like that, and so
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  Speaker 2: passed that up. You know a few you know that,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Yo, this ain't right for me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Ice C as the father when your son played
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  Speaker 1: in n w A, did he ask you for any
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  Speaker 1: tips or kind of he already studied you on his own,
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  Speaker 1: like how did that conversation go?
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  Speaker 2: I would just tell him, you know, I wouldn't wait
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  Speaker 2: for him to ASTs, you know, I would just tell him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not what to do or how to play
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: the part, but I would just tell him in this scene.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm skeptical, Easy, I'm cool with Rin, me
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  Speaker 2: and Dre talking about shit on the side, and I
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  Speaker 2: would just set him up for my mind frame. So
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: when he going to those scenes, he was going into
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  Speaker 2: it with you know, the right attitude, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: to speak.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I felt like his character was the strongest.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I liked the easiest character as well, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, no one could be there. Easy, couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: there to actually give him what you gave your son.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, between him and Corey Hawkers is doctor dre you know,
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  Speaker 2: those three was the strongest for sure. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: he did a great job. I mean, I knew he
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  Speaker 2: can do it, So I wasn't surprised as far as
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  Speaker 2: the look flavor, being able to rap and you know,
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  Speaker 2: bring it to the stage. I had seen all. I
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  Speaker 2: had seen all of that. It was just him becoming
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  Speaker 2: a great actor was what he needed to do. He
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  Speaker 2: needed to uh just hone in his skills and work
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  Speaker 2: on being that and he did. He did the work.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: You know, the coach's son got it the hardest always,
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  Speaker 2: so we put him through the ring. It for like
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  Speaker 2: two years. I was trying to get him to quit,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, because I felt like if he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: gonna go one hundred and ten percent, then he shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: do it at all because people gonna clown the hell
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: out you if you don't do a good job. You know,
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  Speaker 2: It's like they're gonna tell you, you know, just keep
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: your day job and be your son and stop. You know. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't want that to happen to him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we we see kind of like the the backlash that
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Lebron I hate to work backlash because I ain't nobody
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  Speaker 2: getting hit. But but uh, you know, b yeah, well Briannie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think it's tough on him. So I wanted,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my son to be like, hey, if you're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna, if you're not gonna do what it takes
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  Speaker 2: to be the best, then it's better for you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: basically saving you from the humiliation of people clowning you
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  Speaker 2: for not doing a great job. So but you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of him because he you know, he put
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: it on his back. He felt like this was you know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: his family honor and uh that he was gonna, you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: do right by his family and himself. And it's cool
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: because he he done carved out a career for himself
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: in the game.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Now, I was gonna say, we got so many things
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to talk about. I know we got limited time, but
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the Big Three, yeah, back three, Like, you just got
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: so many successful things. I don't think there's too many
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: people that have so many successful things. The Big Three.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: This is a big deal.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I remember when it first came out, it was dope
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to watch, but now it's like a required thing to watch.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: People go out their way and be like I have
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to go watch that. Yeah, and you're getting so many
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: retired dope still can hoop ball players.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I like that.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I like how you were very vocal about, you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the female basketball that's going on right now.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: That was dope U.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: But how did that happen? Like what made you say,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna start a league called the Big Three?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Just a fan of hoops, you know, I'm a big
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: fan of basketball, and you know, after the Finals was
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: over and before the NFL come in, it's just that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: dog days, you know, it's the days of summer sports
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: is not cool. It's just boring. And I was like, man,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: we need something to fill this void because I feel
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: like this. Everybody I know feel like this. You know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: after the finals, everybody got a basketball hang over. They
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: want more, but it's no more. And then you gotta
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: wait ten twelve weeks for the NFL to start to
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: really start, and so you know, when there's avoid in
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the industry. And then we had a good idea with Uh.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I was like three on three has been sitting there dormant,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: like it's like the little cousin of five on five,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: but nobody has elevated it to the pro level. And
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: so then you know, you start throwing ideas in the
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: hat pow wowing. You know what it would look like? Man,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: what if we did this? Man? What if we did that?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Oh damn, that's a good idea, and you have to
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: work up four yeah, four four points shot. So you
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: start looking and he's like, man, this is not only
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a good idea, this is a great idea. Like and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: then you start looking at your man power and the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: people around you. Do you have enough connections to bring
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: us to life? And the answer was yes. So now
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: is do you have the passion to do it? To
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: invent us professional sports league, you know, in the middle
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: of all these other huge leagues. And we was like, yeah, man,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: we got the the moxie, as they say, the balls
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to do it, and we fearless. So we appreciate you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Just period.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I want to know, did you really offer Taylor and
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Clark all that money?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah? We did. It was a great business decision because
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: if you look at her impact on the game, uh,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: it was huge TV ratings, sponsors were knocking her door down,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and the ticket sales went out to sold out. So
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you take that same player and now you put her
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: as the first professional female basketball player to play, you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: in a men's league at the highest level. Then now
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: it's an explosion of interests from people who can see
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: if they can do it. So, you know, our sponsors
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: was saying, if you get her, it's gonna unlock millions
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of dollars in sponsorships for the league. Did she entertain it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I believe she did, but I believe her agents were
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: hating on it because her agents that she has are
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: also NBA. They got a lot of NBA guys that
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: they make millions off of, and the women they don't
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: make that much money off of. So their agents was
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: probably like, yo, are we gonna make the NBA mad
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: and and let her plan the Big three full you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: a little commission and possibly alienate all these you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: these million dollar deals we got going and all these
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: commissions we get with the guys. So I think they
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: was like, man, we're not we don't care if she's
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: making more money. She's gonna go back to the w
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: n b A. We're gonna keep everybody happy. We're gonna
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: keep making our money from the boys and we're gonna,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: you know, work to make sure that the women get
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: a little more money. Uh So they kind of made
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a business decision and and and didn't let us speak
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: with her and her family because that's what we really
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: wanted to do, sit across the table and and give
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: our case on why you know, this was a huge
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: move for her and and and women in sports and
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: being paid a fair wage. And you know it didn't
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: work out, but that's cool. You know, it was a
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: real shot.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Now, when we was on the radio, we had a
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: segment called you know, you got me fucked up? And
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you said, people who believe that you a mega supporter,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: got you fucked up.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: People who think I'm MAGA or Trump supporter and all that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: And I went out there and voted for for for
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the Republicans and all this. Man, they got me fucked up.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: You know, never said that they have no proof. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: ain't never endorsed a candidate. So you know, I just
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: think they got me fucked up. And it's just a
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: narrative that's wrong. And why do you think people believe
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: that you support Trump? I think because when I put
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: out the contract with Black America, both parties came to me.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't go to them saying look what I got
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: and you should sit down and talk to me. Both
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: of them came to me and said, Yo, you got
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: an interesting document here. Can we discuss it with you?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: And I discussed it with the Democrats disgusted with the Republicans.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: And the Democrats was like, Yo, after we win, we'll
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: we'll deal with it. And the Republicans said, Yo, you
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: got some good ideas. Can we use a few of
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: them and put them in our plan. Now, their plan
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: was called the Platinum Plan. That's not my plan, that's theirs.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: That was done in their own think tank and they
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: came up with that. Mine is called the Contract of
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Black America. So they plucked a few things out of
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: that contract and put it in their plan. And people
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: are saying, that was my plan, and so they running
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: with it. But they don't want stupid because that's not
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the truth. Once you once you are an impactful person
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: and you you know you talk to politicians, they will
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: always try to use you as a political football, correct,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And that's really what happens. Everybody want me on their team.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're such a big deal, so I mean,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: you can't blame it would be. I mean, but we
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: got to be smart enough to know it's a game.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: You know, if y'all see me, you know, at the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: conventions and on the stump, and then that's one thing.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: But you know, I haven't said anything this election, not
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: one thing. You know, people saying I'm telling people not
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: to vote, that's bullshit. I never told people not to vote.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I told people you should get something for your vote.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: And nothing's wrong with that. I ain't no wrong with that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Because the Dodgers one, yeah, you're out there before.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, energy, yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: You know what's cool is they saying I'm the reason
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: why they won. You know, the players are saying this,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: so hopefully you know that's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: know what's cinema ringe side if they want to live
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: one of them? These Lakers cute, you know, they they're
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: getting it together. New coach. Oh yeah, yeah, they got
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: a JJ Reddick as a new coach, and you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: they they're figuring it out. You know, I think you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: they they won some games that we wasn't sure they
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: was going to win, and they lost some games that
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: we thought they was going to win.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: So I'm just having to carry away about to be
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: forty man, damn broad definitely carrying the team.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Hey that that's that is a shame. You know, they
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: should find players that can help him or you know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a d is a great superstar that complimentsy. But I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: think we need one more and then have Lebron just
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: you know, be you know, second half, fourth quarter, help
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: us win the game. Lebron and not you know, he
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: just had a triple double. Yeah, you know, he's uh,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: you know, one of the best to ever do it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Is he better than Jordan's? I don't, I don't. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: don't want to say that they played in two different eras,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: you know, two different errors. You know, Jordan never faced
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: a zone and and Lebron never faced the Pistons, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: as far as he faced the new Pistons, but not
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the bad boys. They can fouls and and so it's
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: just a different style, you know. Uh, but Kobe played
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: in both eras. Long lived Kobe.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now, I got I gotta ask this question, right,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: So from LA native like yourself, who are the Clippers fans?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know where they come from, No disrespect though,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: like I don't know where they come from.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I've never met anybody from La that's a Clippers fan.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And people be like, nah, you from l A. You
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: a Lakers fan. We all got that one friend or
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: cousin when everybody going one way, he gotta be the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: only one to say, I don't want to go that way.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: People being the Clippers. You know what I'm saying. You
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: got a lot of cousins and a lot of you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: as friends who always go against the grain, and they
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: just going to the Clippers just to be disruptive and
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: not be Lakers fans like Kean, like the Knicks and
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: the Nets.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, so damn hey man, you
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: know the Dippers, the Zippers, the strippers.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: We don't care about that. Man. They need to go
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: back to San Diego and take them chargers, which oh
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: my god, he's gonna say the chargers, man, both the
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: charges start with it. You funking up l A. You know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: like your cousin who comes spend the night but don't
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: go home. You know, like it's a month later you're like, homie,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: okay is what you're saying that Rams, But I'm a
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Raider fan, got it. You know, I'm the president of
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: How do you feel about them moving to Vegas? I
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: know you don't like that. I wanted them to come
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to l A. They could, you know, Oakland, they wouldn't
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: build them a new stadium, so I see why they left.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: And you know, Vegas is actually dope. I think Vegas
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: and the Raiders fit a man Raiders fit of course.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I mean that's the original. Everything sounds like Warriors fan. No,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I know. I mean I don't head on the Warriors.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I don't hit on the.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Uh sacar was San Francisco Warriors, but now they're.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: In No, they was the They was the Golden State
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors, which now California State in San Francisco. Yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the in Frisco. They you know, no, they ain't the Lakers. Okay, okay,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: ask you man. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate you pulling up
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: on us.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Man, this new music h November twenty second. Yeah, man,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: damn yeah, we appreciate that. Now is now is this
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: your last album? We're gonna keep going until the end
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of time.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know what we're retirement meany Okay, yeah, it's gonna.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Get me so we can get ice Cube at seventy
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: dropping the project if that's ninety yeah, yeah, ice Cube
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: in the bedable. We show appreciate you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Sir, appreciate you all having me anything else bt We good, Yep,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: We're good. Yeah.
• 32:55
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