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How an Accidental Encounter Changed Baang's Perspective · Story Scaling

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  Speaker 1: We are podcastvideoscom.
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  Speaker 1: We believe in the power of love and transformation through storytelling.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, gang?
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  Speaker 1: I'm Bang and you are back with another episode of Story Scaling.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to switch it up a little bit today.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to take this time to share a story.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's one of the ways that we learn and I think that's one of the ways that we connect with each other is sharing our story.
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  Speaker 1: So today I want to share a couple of stories from my past, some some stuff that I've learned and maybe it can help encourage or inspire or, you know, yeah, provide some insight.
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  Speaker 1: So story number one is the time that I met Tommy Hilfiger.
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  Speaker 1: I know that sounds super crazy, but I'll just get the whole entire rundown.
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  Speaker 1: And so there was a fashion symposium that came through Bentonville a couple years ago and a lot of very notable fashion designers were going to be here years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of very notable fashion designers were going to be here, including the first black woman to gross $30 million on her clothing.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was Tracy forgot the last name a gentleman, a representative of Coach, the president of coach, tommy Hilfiger, and just a few.
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  Speaker 1: You know a few more people, and so I wanted to go, but tickets were sold out and I couldn't find, I couldn't find a ticket, and so somebody actually reaches out to me.
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  Speaker 1: This is just interesting, and so I guess the overall theme of this story is faith and just kind of believe and trust that things will work out as they should and that your role in everything is just to keep moving forward and keep believing more than anything.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, like you, just have to believe that things can happen.
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  Speaker 1: So I digress.
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  Speaker 1: So I get a message from someone saying like hey, I have an extra ticket to the you know the event.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to go?
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  Speaker 1: I'm already tripped out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like dang okay because, like I said, I wanted to go in me tommy hill figure.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, I get dressed, put on every single you know piece of tommy clothing I can find, from my hat to my uh socks, literally.
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  Speaker 1: And so in in my mind I'm thinking, okay, what makes this event worthwhile?
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  Speaker 1: Like it's super cool and I'm fortunate that I'm able to go, but what makes this event worthwhile for me?
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  Speaker 1: And I've decided that actually meeting Tommy Hillfiger is what would make the event worthwhile.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know the likelihood that that could happen, just because of how big the event was and him being a public figure, a person of status.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how accessible he was, but in the back of my mind I'm like, you know, I got to meet him.
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  Speaker 1: And so I get to the event and my brain goes in like calculation mode.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like how can I make this happen?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I see him way over there, can I, you know?
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  Speaker 1: And then I just I this, this voice in my spirit is just like you didn't even get yourself in the room, so don't try to put pressure on yourself to figure out how to meet, you know, tommy Hilfiger, or anybody for that matter.
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  Speaker 1: Like, if it's supposed to happen, it's supposed to happen.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm like that ain't self, like that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But I just felt like a calm and at peace at that moment, and so I sat down and got to hear some wonderful speakers and also meet some you know what I'm saying wonderful people too.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was kind of in a roundabout way, like working my way to the front where everybody was, and so I ended up meeting some people and I was able to kind of sit on the front row and so, as I'm listening at the time, he'll figure, speak and share his story.
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  Speaker 1: I was really encouraged and really inspired by some of the stuff that he was saying.
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  Speaker 1: And so, when it was all said and done, he's coming off the stage and I'm right there and he notices my outfit because I'm wearing some.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can't even find it in the store, but I got on, you know what I'm saying, and he kind of spots me out and I think I can't remember if I said something to him first or if he said something to me.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm actually talking to Tommy Hilfiger and you know there's a rumor that's surrounding Tommy for a long time and I ask him, like, I ask him the question, like you know, why do they say you don't like black people, which is crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: But I did ask him because I wanted to know and he looked at me with like the most sincere look and he was saying, not only is that not true, but you can go back and look, I was.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He was telling me that he was one of the first fashion designers to like, actually highlight and promote, you know, people of color and, uh, give them a platform when a lot of other people weren't.
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  Speaker 1: And so I asked him I was like man, how does such a hideous rumor even come about if it's not true?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, man, when you're having success in any realm, people will go to the deepest depths to try to sabotage that, and people will go to great extremes.
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  Speaker 1: He says I hate that, that you know that rumor was started, but I have peace in knowing that it's the furthest thing from the truth and I love you know, all types of people is what he was ultimately saying.
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  Speaker 1: And so, anyway, as long as story man, much shorter, I just think that was a really cool moment of just like you know, sometimes you really do have to trust the process and you really do have to believe that, even if you don't see it, even if you don't understand how you know things could happen, cause I went from not having a ticket to this event that I wanted to go to to talking to one of the most influential, you know, american designers of all time, um, and it didn't take nothing from me, but just believing that it could happen.
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  Speaker 1: So keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is a completely different story, um, but I'll share the story about how I met my favorite artist.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Big Crit.
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  Speaker 1: He's a rapper from Meridian Mississippi and he's super, super dope and talented, so check him out whenever you get the chance.
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  Speaker 1: But this is also a story of just faith and belief.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can visualize something, a lot of times your brain will fill in the blanks.
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  Speaker 1: So you can say right now, like I want to have a bestselling book, but you don't know how to write a bestselling book or market a bestselling book or how to sell a bestselling book, right, but you do know how to write, and so have the vision to have a bestselling book, start writing and then, you know, allow the blanks to be filled in, like don't it's not imperative that you have every single step mapped out, and that's, you know, kind of the theme of this story.
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  Speaker 1: So I found out my favorite artist was going on tour.
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  Speaker 1: He was going to be in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: I had never seen him and the tickets were a little bit steep for my personal liking, even for my favorite artist, which is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it sounds crazy, but I do believe that you support the artists.
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that you, you know you pay for what you want, and so, um, I think at this time either I was in college or I was yeah, I think I was in college.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, the the the bag was not super extensive, um, but I'm looking at this ticket and I'm like, ok, what makes this purchase worth it for me?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what makes my hundred and fifty you know, whatever it was at the time hundred and seventy five dollar investment?
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  Speaker 1: What makes the value of this experience worth?
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  Speaker 1: You know, one hundred seventy five dollars, if not more like.
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  Speaker 1: And then it hit me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh shoot, I gotta meet him.
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  Speaker 1: Like I have to actually meet you know this, this artist.
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  Speaker 1: And so I got to meet angry.
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  Speaker 1: But I wasn't satisfied with just meeting him.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, he's a person that's inspired me musically and creatively, so I have to share some of my art with him.
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  Speaker 1: Like I got to rap for him.
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  Speaker 1: That's what came into my mind, as this is the thing that makes this experience worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And so I bought the tickets and I had like a month until the concert.
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  Speaker 1: And so in the back of my mind, once I decided that I was going to rap for him, I started just subconsciously processing what will I say?
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  Speaker 1: How will I say?
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't a thing that I like woke up every day, looked in the mirror and I was like you know, I'm the boy now you got it.
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  Speaker 1: Like it was nothing, like that.
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  Speaker 1: It was just I planted the seed and then, from that just initial seed, um, I was watering it every day without even realizing it, because I just knew, like, okay, I'm a rap form and so, fast forward, I end up going to the concert and, uh, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I went with a buddy of mine and we got to watch him.
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  Speaker 1: Sahada Prince opened up for him, which was super dope, but then Big KRIT took the stage and he just killed it.
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  Speaker 1: And so now it was time for the meet and greet.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody that got general admission tickets left and the people that got the VIP meet and greet stayed behind.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's a line of people and my brain is still calculating how I can make this happen, how I can meet him and also perform slash rap for him.
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  Speaker 1: And as the meet and greet line is happening, I start to make my way towards the back of the line, because in my mind, my logic is if I'm towards the end, then they won't push me out, they won't rush me through, and so I watch one person go, I watch two people go, I watched 10 people go, I watched 20 people go.
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  Speaker 1: I probably watched a hundred people meet, you know, my favorite artists, and I just keep stepping back, I just keep stepping back and then it's my time to get on um, get up there and shake his hand and meet him.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, when I met Big Crit, it was really cool because he was so humble and and the countenance that he gave off was that of just super meek, like how you will want any person that you look up to and, uh, any you know public figure that you admire, you will want them to have the same level of groundedness that he did.
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  Speaker 1: And so he shook my hand, he looked me in my eyes, he was super sincere when I told him, you know, that his music inspired me and I appreciated it, and he was, you know, telling me that he appreciated me, and so I told him I was like man, you know, I'm gonna rap for you.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I feel, like you know you, being in my home state, um, and in a city that was very pivotal in my upbringing, like I, I feel like it's only fitting that I share some of my art with you.
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  Speaker 1: And so he was looking at his road manager who was really kind of on the schedule because they left, you know, little Rock, arkansas, and then, I think, had to go straight to Atlanta or something.
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  Speaker 1: So they were like really.
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  Speaker 1: And so I said, man, you know, I want to spit something for you if you don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: And he's kind of like looking at his road manager out the side of his eye and he's like, man, I got some instrumentals on this tape.
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  Speaker 1: You know you load that up and rap to it.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, nah, dog, I got to rap now.
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  Speaker 1: And so he said how much you got?
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  Speaker 1: And literally I just went Now pay attention when I speak.
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  Speaker 1: My mind Set the tone without even trying.
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  Speaker 1: God chose me to see so I could leave the blind and I just kept going.
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  Speaker 1: I just kept going and he was like you.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's a video of it.
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  Speaker 1: My buddy captured the moment and, uh, you could just see him feeling it and resonating with him.
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  Speaker 1: He even, like you know, hit me and all that type of stuff and it was dope, um, and when I finished I was just like this is a surreal moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I get to share some of my art with one of my favorite artists and he actually enjoys it, and I think the theme of this entire story is you know, if you have a vision, you know if you, if you believe something, if you set out to do something, it can happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and you don't have to know how.
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  Speaker 1: So don't put a ceiling on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of people that went to that concert and probably had similar aspirations but didn't even try and you miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
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  Speaker 1: He could have said no.
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  Speaker 1: He could have said, nah, man, I'm busy.
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  Speaker 1: Or like nah, man, we got to go.
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  Speaker 1: Or, you know, nah, man, I'm sorry, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And because I believe that you know it could happen, it could happen.
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  Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Bay, with StoryScaling from podcastvideoscom.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you next time, peace.