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Mari Da Legend & Greatness Similarities - #145 · The Grounded Show

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Speaker 1: What to do. We're back again The ground Is Show,
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Speaker 1: episode one five. You're doing a little different layout today,
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Speaker 1: you know, just some a little more chill some, a
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Speaker 1: little more more comfortable and personable. The Little Thrones we
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Speaker 1: was on before it was a little too much, so
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Speaker 1: we'll try and switch it up. Man, ll y'all let
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Speaker 1: us know if this is the vibe or not. But
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Speaker 1: I'm excited today we got Mari on. She was actually
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Speaker 1: here in the last episode with Sean, just like behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes vibing and helping out and stuff and during
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Speaker 1: the week, so let me let me bring it back
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Speaker 1: a little more. So I booked a session with Ian
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Speaker 1: that's the engineer I usually be working with poly math man,
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Speaker 1: and he called me up, like, yo, we got a
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Speaker 1: new engineer. You want to pull up, you know, just
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Speaker 1: to kind of see the vibe and everything. So pulled up.
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Speaker 1: It was Mari super dope. If like, if you do music,
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Speaker 1: or even if you're like a fan of music, the
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Speaker 1: engineer thing is like a funny thing because they're like
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Speaker 1: very crucial to like what you're doing creatively. It makes
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Speaker 1: a difference as far as like your vibe, you know,
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Speaker 1: like you got to find an engineer that that kind
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Speaker 1: of works with your pace and optimizes your pace so
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Speaker 1: that you're doing good stuff. Like it's like anything else
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Speaker 1: like and it kind of taps into the whole concept
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Speaker 1: of like what we're going to talk about on this
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Speaker 1: pot but like anything else, like the engineer got to
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Speaker 1: be on point, like anybody on your team, which is
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Speaker 1: like the end of mixing, engineer, recording, engineer, producers, whoever
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Speaker 1: you got that you're working with. Everybody got to be
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Speaker 1: on point. If not, it's not gonna work, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. So that immediately jumped out to me like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: she's dope to work with in the studio. That's already
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Speaker 1: like like a win, you know what I mean. And
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Speaker 1: then after that, you know, you start you're working at Polymath.
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Speaker 1: Now you're there permanently. And then Ao shout out to
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Speaker 1: Ao Popn't say a video that you know, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know about. So the video was basically Ao talking about
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Speaker 1: like the full circle moment of he met Mario at
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Speaker 1: Full Sale, like as a student years ago, they took
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Speaker 1: a sefie together, and now she's working at the studio.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, She's part of the teams.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely insane because like when I met Ao, I was
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Speaker 2: like wow, Like when I met him, it put my
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Speaker 2: mind in perspective of, like what you were saying, how
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Speaker 2: it was like way more people to the team than
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Speaker 2: what regular people know. Because when I met Ao, I
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Speaker 2: wouldn't say I didn't know anything about music, but I
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Speaker 2: didn't know half, not even probably like twenty five percent
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Speaker 2: of what I know now. So when he told us
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Speaker 2: the story of like how the whole situation with Lawayne,
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Speaker 2: y'all got to he told the story multiple times, y'all
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Speaker 2: gotta like go look him up on YouTube. When he
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Speaker 2: told us that story, it just put in perspective of,
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Speaker 2: like it take a whole village for real to raise
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Speaker 2: a rapper or a singer or an artist. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's not just them, you know, And a lot of
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Speaker 2: people would think that it's just them because you know,
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Speaker 2: we don't really know much about music.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we just know we like this person.
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Speaker 1: It's funny you say that because I always think about
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Speaker 1: a specific friend of mine that, like I dropped the
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Speaker 1: video one time and he sent me a Justin Bieber video, like, bro,
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Speaker 1: you gotta do something like this, And I'm like it
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Speaker 1: don't work. Like you know what I'm saying, Like this,
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Speaker 1: I pulled up the budget of the video, send it
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Speaker 1: to him and like, yo, this is how much they
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Speaker 1: spent on the video. This is who they got on
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Speaker 1: the video. Like, bro, this this is a whole you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You do what you can when
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Speaker 1: you're coming up, and you try to do the best
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Speaker 1: with what you what you can do. But at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, if somebody type of
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Speaker 1: productions take, if somebody's pulling a million dollars and the
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Speaker 1: best minds into something, it's gonna be a little different
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Speaker 1: than you and a couple of people with limited resources.
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Speaker 1: But but yeah, like to go back to where you
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Speaker 1: were saying, Oh, and.
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Speaker 2: So he told us a story and like we I
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Speaker 2: had just stayed after. I let him talk to all
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Speaker 2: the other students and I stayed after and I just
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Speaker 2: like kind of had a wonder woman him and like,
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Speaker 2: you know, just to get deeper into the story, because
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Speaker 2: I just had a lot of questions.
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Speaker 1: Like part of the schooling, Like was it in the
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Speaker 1: classroom or like an after event?
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Speaker 3: No, it was like one of them events.
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Speaker 2: You show up if you want to see a lot
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Speaker 2: of people, they just do the bare minimum. They go
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Speaker 2: to class, they do the homework, and they expect great
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Speaker 2: things to happen. But you gotta do the extra curricular,
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Speaker 2: like you have to go out and do your own
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Speaker 2: type of networking. Like when they say network, I'm telling
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Speaker 2: you that's like the most important thing ever, because like
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Speaker 2: you can get in a position without knowing as much
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Speaker 2: just from who you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember, I took the tour of food Cell
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Speaker 1: a long time ago, and the guy that led the tour,
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Speaker 1: he said it in the tour at the beginning, He's like,
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Speaker 1: if you spend the money to come here and you
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Speaker 1: don network, you're wasting your money.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, straight up.
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Speaker 2: And a lot of people do that like they expect,
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Speaker 2: oh I graduate, something great supposed to happen. No, like
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Speaker 2: you gotta do that extra feetwork to meet the right
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Speaker 2: people and know the right people. And when I may him,
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Speaker 2: I never thought that I want to be working with
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Speaker 2: Ao at his studio, Like I didn't even have the
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Speaker 2: correct skill set for me to even approach him in
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Speaker 2: that type of way, because like I'm realistic. I'm not
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Speaker 2: I'm not the type person that think, oh, like oh
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna just take this way, which ain't nothing wrong
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Speaker 2: with that, but I knew if I did get the opportunity,
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Speaker 2: I was gonna drop the ball because I wasn't ready
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Speaker 2: for that type of For.
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Speaker 1: The people that aren't aware of who we're talking about,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about Aos the producer, one half of Ao
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Speaker 1: and Keys credits with you, Cardi B and Meg Thee, Stallion,
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Speaker 1: the WAP Joint, Bryson tilor Lil Wayne John, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Like we're talking about music and songs
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Speaker 1: and things that you know that you've heard that you
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Speaker 1: might have not have known it was him, But this
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Speaker 1: is a dude that came out of Orlando, really built
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Speaker 1: it from the ground up. Him and Ian put together
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Speaker 1: a crazy studio downtown Orlando. Like when after I left,
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Speaker 1: remember because I took my son at that last session, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he left. He was like, dangn man, that studio in there.
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Speaker 1: It felt like I was like in like Spider Man
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Speaker 1: in New York City, you know what I mean. Like
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Speaker 1: he thought that inside kind of looked like the buildings
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Speaker 1: and look. Yeah, I was like, damn, Yeah, it does
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Speaker 1: kind of give you that vibe, like just because it's
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Speaker 1: so modern, you know what I mean? But yeah, like
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Speaker 1: that's why you're saying, like you can't imagine, you couldn't
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Speaker 1: have imagined this is where it would have taken you,
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Speaker 1: because like this is a dude, that's where you want
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Speaker 1: to be, you know what I mean, like to the
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Speaker 1: highest level.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then if you actually meet him in person,
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Speaker 2: like he is so freaking cool, like so humble and
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Speaker 2: like he's not one of them type of people, like
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Speaker 2: type of people that's like oh yeah I made it
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Speaker 2: or like yeah I'm successful. Like he's more like you know, welcomeing,
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Speaker 2: like oh, you know the people who around me like you,
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Speaker 2: so I like you, you know, Like he's kind of
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Speaker 2: like that, like he I didn't feel any type of
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Speaker 2: distance or you know, like oh you ain't at a
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Speaker 2: status to talk to me when I met him, Like
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Speaker 2: it was like I met him and.
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Speaker 3: He was like hey, what's up? Like he said hey
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Speaker 3: to me like he already knew me.
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Speaker 2: So it made me even more comfortable at the studio
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Speaker 2: because I'm like, Okay, I'm around good people like Ian
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Speaker 2: is a great person, like shell nice guy, like I can't.
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Speaker 1: Any probly already and you probably knew like if she's
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Speaker 1: already at this point she's the person that needs to
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Speaker 1: be here. So he's giving you the energy that you
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Speaker 1: need to receive, you know what I mean. Because at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, like we were saying, it's
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Speaker 1: a teamwork and you got to build that up, you know.
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Speaker 3: Too, shout out fact.
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Speaker 1: So you know, you meet him, you talk to him,
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Speaker 1: y'all take that picture. And then what was like the
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Speaker 1: first studio you started working at after that?
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Speaker 3: Like, so the very.
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Speaker 2: First studio I started working at was actually Criteria in Miami.
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Speaker 2: So I left or like I left Orlando, like they
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Speaker 2: called me so last minute. It was like, oh, come
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Speaker 2: if you can come in like three days, you got
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Speaker 2: the job. And I literally just drop everything and just
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Speaker 2: left and went, you know, and like shout out Trinity,
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Speaker 2: my homegirl, Trinity actually got.
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Speaker 3: Me the job.
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Speaker 2: Like that's where that goes back to like networking, because
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Speaker 2: I'm at Trinity when I was like working at doing
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Speaker 2: a little student stuff at Full Sale, and she came
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Speaker 2: for a grad panel and I just started talking to her,
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Speaker 2: like telling her, like, you know, the stuff you do
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Speaker 2: is cool, you know, like that stuff is fire, and
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Speaker 2: just asking her a bunch of questions and stuff. I
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Speaker 2: got her Instagram and she's a dope person. She's like
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Speaker 2: another one of AO. She's not one of them type
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Speaker 2: people that stand offish. So when I hit her up
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Speaker 2: on Instagram, she responded like it's like nothing, like she
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Speaker 2: wasn't you know, Oh I don't really know you like that,
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Speaker 2: so you not know Hollywood stuff. Yeah, So and now
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Speaker 2: we started talking and then she told me to get
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Speaker 2: my pro tool certification and stuff. And I did that
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Speaker 2: and then I told her I got it. She was
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Speaker 2: happy for me. And then and then as soon as
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Speaker 2: I graduated, she told me they was looking for people
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Speaker 2: and so like she helped me get my resume together
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Speaker 2: and everything, Like he really took time to help me.
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Speaker 2: So I really appreciate her for that. Like that's genuinely and.
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Speaker 1: Even that just somebody who just met from networking.
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Speaker 2: From networking, from just doing little extracurricular stuff and ran
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Speaker 2: into her and stayed in contact, you know, because some
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Speaker 2: people will reach out, but they they scared to keep
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Speaker 2: reaching out. You know, these people that you're reaching out
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Speaker 2: to is busy. You're not the only person reaching out
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Speaker 2: to them. So like somebody will reach out and then just.
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Speaker 1: Say that's That's one thing I definitely noticed about people
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Speaker 1: that kind of don't really do stuff. They just kind
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Speaker 1: of talk about it. They'll reach out to somebody one
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Speaker 1: time and very impersonal even like a text or a
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Speaker 1: DM or something about something that they want to do,
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Speaker 1: and they don't ever follow up, and they feel a
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Speaker 1: certain type of way about that person. Oh man, Like,
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Speaker 1: it's exactly what you said. People moving around, people busy,
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Speaker 1: they might have seen your message. But if you're doing
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Speaker 1: different stuff and they don't know you like that exactly,
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Speaker 1: and you might even just seen it and got busy,
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Speaker 1: Like it might not even have been no bad intention,
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Speaker 1: but it's like, if it's something you want to do,
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Speaker 1: you got to pursue it even like you know, me
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Speaker 1: and Joe recently did the event at the winery spot
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Speaker 1: the Vineyard and it went super dope. We literally did
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Speaker 1: like ten times what they usually do on those days.
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Speaker 1: So yo, man, it went and went so so well.
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Speaker 1: The owner, Clint was super happy with how it went.
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Speaker 1: But even with Clint, when I reached out to him,
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Speaker 1: I had to follow up, you know what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: because one he's busy, and two he gets a lot
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Speaker 1: of inquiries.
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Speaker 3: From a lot of people running the whole business.
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Speaker 1: Exactly a lot of people hitting you up all the
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Speaker 1: time with BS. Yeah I got I gotta be persistent
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Speaker 1: and let him know, like, yo, I'm serious.
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Speaker 2: You know that's what I had to do, Like to
10:42
Speaker 2: get that opportunity, I had to straight up put everything aside,
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Speaker 2: like I straight up told you, and like I'll clean
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Speaker 2: the whole studio from top to bottom. You can eat
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Speaker 2: off the flow, Like that's how serious I am about this,
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Speaker 2: Like I'm not playing, Like I don't care about my pride,
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Speaker 2: ain't too ain't bigger than a toilet.
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Speaker 3: I don't care if I go to clean.
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Speaker 2: This toilet to be around these people, who's gonna teach
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Speaker 2: me how to get from here to here?
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Speaker 3: I'm an clean that toil every day.
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Speaker 2: In fact, I'm not tripping, like I'm not an egotistical
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Speaker 2: person who feel like, well I done, I did this,
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Speaker 2: and I work with this person. I've been in this studio,
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Speaker 2: So I'm not starting from the bottom to you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not working my way back up again, Like none
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Speaker 2: of that matters to me. What matters to me is
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Speaker 2: knowledge growing, being progress, like.
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Speaker 1: Being AJ was talking about earlier, Like how can we
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Speaker 1: put together something like for like local artists, that's actually
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Speaker 1: dope that people will want to pull up to, and
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Speaker 1: AJ was like, man, one of the problems with that
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Speaker 1: is the ego that most artists bring, you know. And
11:42
Speaker 1: it's one of those things like not even just artists,
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Speaker 1: just people in general, Like a lot of people just
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Speaker 1: feel like they're too good for certain things when they
11:48
Speaker 1: haven't even done an entry level version of it, right,
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Speaker 1: and a lot.
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Speaker 2: Of these people that they look up to like making
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Speaker 2: this staying. I've seen her documentary. She was saying she
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Speaker 2: was performing at venues that nobody was there facts, you
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, And she still was still showing
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Speaker 2: up a lot of people. Oh nobody came, so I quit,
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Speaker 2: like or like they tried me, Like I know I'm
12:08
Speaker 2: better than that, Like yeah, that's why you gotta keep
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Speaker 2: going and keep showing people like hey, yes, I'm better
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Speaker 2: than that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then not get stuck in that little cycle
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Speaker 1: of like I'm just trying to make these ten people
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Speaker 1: around me feel like I'm the dopest person, right, Like, Bro,
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Speaker 1: there's a whole world out there, a whole fan base
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Speaker 1: that's looking for you, but you're not finding them because
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Speaker 1: you're mad that your friend from third grade is not
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Speaker 1: your biggest fan, Like it don't make no sense.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then it's been times like I recorded people
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Speaker 2: who is like very well known and I didn't know
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Speaker 2: who they was. Like I'm talking about I had sessions
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Speaker 2: with people who on TV shows. I didn't even know
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Speaker 2: who they was when they walked in, Like I'm just like, okay,
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Speaker 2: another person.
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Speaker 3: You know, everybody were chains.
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Speaker 2: And stuff now, so it's hard to tell who actually
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Speaker 2: got money or who don't you know, so it's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: another person would have chained on who probably fit the rap.
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Speaker 3: Let's go. It's another session.
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Speaker 2: And then next thing, you know, like I always network,
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Speaker 2: so you know, I start talking to there, we got
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Speaker 2: close or whatever, and we're like, oh, give me your Instagram,
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Speaker 2: and then I follow the Instagram.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, you on a whole TV show.
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Speaker 2: I'm treating you like regular and you on the whole
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Speaker 2: TV show.
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Speaker 3: But that still ain't changed nothing.
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Speaker 2: I still treated them the way I was treating them,
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Speaker 2: but it was just like wow, like you don't know
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Speaker 2: who you in front of. That's why you treat every
13:26
Speaker 2: session the same. It's not because oh this person a
13:30
Speaker 2: huge superstar. So now I'm finna try to add like
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Speaker 2: I'm you know, I'm put on my professional pants today.
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Speaker 2: Like no, I treat every session the same, whether it's
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Speaker 2: a regular smeglative.
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Speaker 3: You got two followers.
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Speaker 2: If this show sung and you care about it, I'm
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Speaker 2: finna care about it with you, like I don't care
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Speaker 2: if you got That's how.
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Speaker 1: You get to that position by approaching everything with the
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Speaker 1: same level of work and commitment and integrity.
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Speaker 3: You gotta have integrity.
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Speaker 1: It's like something we were talking about before we started
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Speaker 1: recording is like there's so many similarities in being successful
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Speaker 1: in anything, like you as an engineer, you know, somebody
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Speaker 1: as a business owner, somebody running a TV show, ao
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Speaker 1: running the studio. You know, everything has the same principles
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Speaker 1: as far as like you got to be consistent, you
14:15
Speaker 1: gotta be reliable, you got to show up every day,
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Speaker 1: you gotta work hard, learn new things. Always know that
14:20
Speaker 1: you can learn, you know what I mean, And all
14:23
Speaker 1: those like details and all those things are what make
14:26
Speaker 1: you successful. And that's why, like people could kind of
14:29
Speaker 1: sit around that aren't really like in the same kind
14:32
Speaker 1: of field or like the same kind of job or whatever,
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Speaker 1: and you could still like chop it up and feel
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Speaker 1: where each other's coming from if hard.
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Speaker 2: Workers you know what I mean and completely understand exactly
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Speaker 2: and feel exactly what that person's saying to y'all end
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Speaker 2: completely different fields, but it just goes hand in hand
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Speaker 2: with like you said, just being persistent and hardworking, like
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Speaker 2: no matter what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, something like I messed up on when I was
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Speaker 1: younger that I took way too long to learn was
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Speaker 1: you're not disloyal for leaving the group of people that
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Speaker 1: you grew up with to do things if they don't
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Speaker 1: have the same vision or if they're not working the
15:12
Speaker 1: same as you, like you get like at least I
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Speaker 1: don't know about you, but like for me, like a
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Speaker 1: low income neighborhood, like we was all broke, so like
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Speaker 1: you have this mentality like, oh, you can't win without
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Speaker 1: your homies because that's messed up like when you're younger,
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Speaker 1: you know, and then you realize like, yeah, but this
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Speaker 1: person don't this person hasn't done anything this last year,
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Speaker 1: or this person wants to be a civil engineer, or
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Speaker 1: this person wants to do like flooring or something like
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Speaker 1: why why are y'all trying to all alione do the same?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: I gotta come up with you bro.
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Speaker 2: So then when you end up doing something that your
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Speaker 2: homeboy doing because he doing.
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Speaker 3: Good at it, but that's not your route.
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Speaker 2: Just because your homeboy doing good at it, that don't
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Speaker 2: mean you finna hop in there and do good at it.
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Speaker 2: You don't have the same ambition or that as your homeboil, homegirl, whoever.
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Speaker 1: You grew up with exactly.
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Speaker 2: You know how many people I started doing music with
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Speaker 2: who I probably don't even really talk at them like that,
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Speaker 2: but when I see them, it's still all love and
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Speaker 2: it's still ay. I see what you're doing, you turning up,
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Speaker 2: you're putting on whatever.
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Speaker 3: It's never bad vibes.
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Speaker 2: But I also have those people where and I can't
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Speaker 2: stand these type of people. The first ones watch every
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Speaker 2: story like you know, see every post, but never react
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Speaker 2: to it.
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Speaker 3: You never show love or whatever.
16:32
Speaker 1: Or then people like that have never like you said,
16:35
Speaker 1: they've never shown you any love, like you wouldn't even
16:38
Speaker 1: know that they're tapped in. But then when you see
16:40
Speaker 1: them in person, they know stuff.
16:42
Speaker 3: They know more stuff about you than you.
16:43
Speaker 1: They're locked in there. You're like damn, Like they mentioned
16:46
Speaker 1: something from a random story or something, You're like, dang,
16:48
Speaker 1: you remember, like you was tapped in like that that
16:50
Speaker 1: the story I posted three weeks ago you're talking to
16:53
Speaker 1: me about, you know what I mean, Like but it
16:55
Speaker 1: be that man like And there's another funny thing about
16:58
Speaker 1: that too that we've talked about before, or like sometimes
17:01
Speaker 1: it don't even just it don't even be like a
17:02
Speaker 1: bad intention. Some people just don't be Like I've caught
17:05
Speaker 1: myself scrolling and seeing something and thinking it's dope, and
17:09
Speaker 1: I might tell three people and forget to even like it,
17:13
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like I might pull it
17:14
Speaker 1: up and be like, damn, you see what Mari's doing. Yo,
17:17
Speaker 1: She's this is super dope. Oh yo, I met Marie
17:20
Speaker 1: da da da da day, And then by the end,
17:22
Speaker 1: I might even just scroll, keep scrolling or whatever, you know,
17:25
Speaker 1: because I'm just not like my brain is. I'm trying
17:27
Speaker 1: to be better about it, but my brain isn't like
17:29
Speaker 1: that because I'm like a little older, so I'm not
17:31
Speaker 1: really like one of those like online, you know what
17:34
Speaker 1: I mean. So like I've had to adjust that, you
17:37
Speaker 1: know what i mean.
17:38
Speaker 3: That's real.
17:39
Speaker 1: But yeah, and even like it kind of like we're
17:43
Speaker 1: talking about, like you see the support and sometimes you
17:47
Speaker 1: feel like it's not there but people be tapped in
17:50
Speaker 1: and even sometimes it just be like even for me,
17:53
Speaker 1: like sometimes I just had to realize like I just
17:56
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough at that time, you know what I mean.
17:58
Speaker 1: Like you sometimes get mad like damn, man, they didn't
18:01
Speaker 1: do this, they didn't do that. But it's like I'm
18:03
Speaker 1: just starting, you know what I mean, They don't they're
18:05
Speaker 1: not trying to be listening or supporting some wax stuff
18:09
Speaker 1: like we were talking about Justin Bieber's out there yeah, yeah,
18:12
Speaker 1: doing a million dollar video and I'm trying to force
18:15
Speaker 1: you to watch my two hundred dollars video. Like I
18:18
Speaker 1: can't get mad that you're rocking with that unless I'm
18:20
Speaker 1: bringing something that is like undeniably like nah, you got
18:24
Speaker 1: to tap into this, you know what I mean. And
18:25
Speaker 1: it takes so long to even get to that point,
18:27
Speaker 1: like cause like for example, like me as an artist,
18:31
Speaker 1: before I was singing, I was rapping, you know what
18:33
Speaker 1: I mean, because you know the neighborhood thing, everybody twenty
18:36
Speaker 1: people in the closet, it goes down and down and down,
18:39
Speaker 1: and yep, eventually it's just two or three and they're
18:42
Speaker 1: the only ones that keep doing it, you know what
18:44
Speaker 1: I mean. Like and then like when I switched to
18:47
Speaker 1: the singing, it's like I'm coming up on like ten
18:49
Speaker 1: years of it, so like I'm getting to that point
18:52
Speaker 1: now where like with the singing, like with the rap,
18:54
Speaker 1: I was in my mind I had that downpack, you
18:56
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like I was already I had
18:58
Speaker 1: been rapping so long that I was ready on it,
19:00
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But like with the singing,
19:02
Speaker 1: you like have to readjust so for me, it's like
19:05
Speaker 1: I have already been through it with the rapper, I know,
19:08
Speaker 1: like all right, I gotta I gotta create this sound
19:10
Speaker 1: first and then and then people will rock with it,
19:13
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's like as an artist,
19:16
Speaker 1: like kind of like AJ was saying with the ego thing,
19:18
Speaker 1: like it's hard for some artists because they just feel
19:21
Speaker 1: like I'm doing this, you should support me because I
19:25
Speaker 1: decided I'm gonna do it, And it's like it don't
19:27
Speaker 1: work like that, you know, you got you gotta people
19:30
Speaker 1: support what they want to support exactly. And it even
19:32
Speaker 1: like something we're talking about before too, is like some
19:36
Speaker 1: maybe that's not even the type of content that they
19:38
Speaker 1: like period, Like if you're a rapper and they don't
19:41
Speaker 1: listen to rap? Why are they gonna support you just
19:45
Speaker 1: because you're the friend, you know what I mean?
19:47
Speaker 3: And they listen to rock music.
19:49
Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, So it's always I always like, I always
19:55
Speaker 1: think it's funny and I like to kind of look
19:57
Speaker 1: at both sides with that, because you know, as a
20:01
Speaker 1: content creator and as an artist and stuff like, you
20:04
Speaker 1: want to have that thought of like, man, like, why
20:07
Speaker 1: why isn't more people that know me rocking with or
20:10
Speaker 1: this and that, like or even with like the event
20:12
Speaker 1: that we did. When me and Joe were talking about
20:14
Speaker 1: it beforehand, we were like expressing some like concerns about
20:21
Speaker 1: like the distance of the venue compared to like people
20:24
Speaker 1: that we know. So it's like, dang, Like do we
20:27
Speaker 1: want to do it at a place that's forty minutes
20:29
Speaker 1: away from people that made people that we rock with? Yeah,
20:32
Speaker 1: And then I was like, man like, at the end
20:34
Speaker 1: of the day, exactly, at the end of the day,
20:37
Speaker 1: if we get randoms there, we believe in this concept,
20:40
Speaker 1: so we'll feel it. It might not be our friends,
20:43
Speaker 1: but we'll feel it. And lo and behold, the day came.
20:46
Speaker 1: It was probably like fifteen percent people we knew and
20:48
Speaker 1: eighty five percent randoms just from like the promo that
20:51
Speaker 1: we did behind it, you know what i mean. And
20:54
Speaker 1: it's like then the people that we rock with are
20:57
Speaker 1: going to come after, but you.
20:58
Speaker 3: Also get more respect from people that you don't know.
21:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that like the same thing that happens when
21:04
Speaker 1: you like go out of town for something, Like when
21:07
Speaker 1: you go out of town for music and you rubbing
21:09
Speaker 1: shoulders with people, the vibes be so good because they
21:11
Speaker 1: don't know you, so it's like they don't know you,
21:14
Speaker 1: you don't know them, so you're like all energetic happy.
21:17
Speaker 1: They're doing the same thing that the people in your
21:18
Speaker 1: town are doing. You just feel differently about it because
21:21
Speaker 1: you're out of town, you know what i mean. And
21:23
Speaker 1: it just be so funny how that works, like with
21:26
Speaker 1: you know, like with with Ao and Ian, like they're
21:30
Speaker 1: super tapped in the people they work with. The stuff
21:32
Speaker 1: that they do is like super high level and stuff,
21:35
Speaker 1: and so many people around Orlando feel like you got
21:39
Speaker 1: to go everywhere else, you know what i mean, And
21:41
Speaker 1: it's like you don't have to go somewhere else. You
21:43
Speaker 1: just have to bring that out of town energy here,
21:46
Speaker 1: you know what i mean, The same energy you leave
21:48
Speaker 1: in this city with you got to bring that here
21:51
Speaker 1: and understand that it's a different game here that it
21:54
Speaker 1: isn't like in other cities. You know, like there's no
21:56
Speaker 1: record labels out here, Like there's no you know, the
21:59
Speaker 1: music scene. It's kind of dry out here. So like
22:01
Speaker 1: you got to figure out how to get it where
22:03
Speaker 1: you fit in, you know, or.
22:05
Speaker 2: How to bring the music scene or you know, bring
22:08
Speaker 2: it back, because all them cities did. Wherever city that's
22:12
Speaker 2: popping with the music scene, they just brought the music
22:14
Speaker 2: scene to their city. It ain't like, oh, out of nowhere,
22:18
Speaker 2: now this is the music scene. No, Like they brought
22:20
Speaker 2: that to their.
22:21
Speaker 1: City with the culture sound.
22:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you just got to do the same where
22:28
Speaker 3: you are.
22:28
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people told me, oh, you got
22:30
Speaker 2: to leave Orlando, you know, if you want to do stuff,
22:33
Speaker 2: like if you want to do cool stuff, you got
22:36
Speaker 2: to leave Orlando.
22:37
Speaker 1: And like I'm like, nah, But it's also because you're
22:42
Speaker 1: a hard worker and you know that you can make
22:44
Speaker 1: it happen, you know what I'm saying. Like a lot
22:45
Speaker 1: of people they always need that thing to look forward
22:50
Speaker 1: to to believe that they can make something happen. Like oh,
22:53
Speaker 1: if only I get this next job, then I'll finally this.
22:56
Speaker 1: If only I get you know, moved to this place
22:58
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's like the lace or the whatever you're
23:01
Speaker 1: looking at is not gonna fix it. You need you
23:03
Speaker 1: need to feel whatever you feel and get to that
23:06
Speaker 1: point yourself where you'll make it happen. You know what
23:10
Speaker 1: I mean? Because so many people think something is gonna
23:12
Speaker 1: like cure cure things for them, and it's like man like,
23:16
Speaker 1: until you attack like the bad habits you got and
23:19
Speaker 1: really just start addressing that, that's when that's when the
23:23
Speaker 1: stuff gets real.
23:24
Speaker 3: That's what it's gonna change. You're gonna see the change.
23:26
Speaker 2: And that's what I noticed too, like just being more
23:29
Speaker 2: disciplined and like like you said, like happens and stuff
23:32
Speaker 2: instead of just doing random stuff or watching random stuff.
23:37
Speaker 2: That's just like brain rot watch stuff that benefits me.
23:41
Speaker 2: Like I'm always watching how to mix this or how
23:44
Speaker 2: to use this plug in or what you.
23:46
Speaker 3: Know, like stuff like that.
23:48
Speaker 2: Like if I'm gonna watch something random, it's gonna be
23:50
Speaker 2: random like that, like how to who who was involved
23:55
Speaker 2: in this song or whatever.
23:56
Speaker 3: It's always some something.
23:58
Speaker 2: To do with music, and a lot of people who
24:00
Speaker 2: I know who is successful mixers and stuff like that.
24:03
Speaker 3: All they say is, oh, I just listen to stuff.
24:06
Speaker 2: I just always listen to stuff, like even if it's
24:09
Speaker 2: an auto like audio book instead of reading a book,
24:12
Speaker 2: they'll listen to the book. And it's like that's when
24:16
Speaker 2: you start realizing those smaller nuances and like different stuff
24:20
Speaker 2: that regular listens listeners won't hear.
24:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
24:25
Speaker 1: And it's like one of those things with being on
24:28
Speaker 1: point and being disciplined and everything is like I get
24:33
Speaker 1: so many people that will hit me up, like people
24:36
Speaker 1: I know from before, people I meet or whatever that
24:38
Speaker 1: like want me to put them on with something like
24:41
Speaker 1: put them on with the venue for the event, put
24:44
Speaker 1: them on with doing something at the studio, put them whatever,
24:47
Speaker 1: whatever it is, just because they see that I'm doing.
24:49
Speaker 1: It's like, bro, like it's not about putting you on.
24:52
Speaker 1: It's like you got to show up in these spaces and.
24:55
Speaker 2: Working you benefit instead of exactly you're not really being
25:00
Speaker 2: but where can you as where can you add value?
25:04
Speaker 3: Rather than what can we do for you?
25:08
Speaker 2: And that's what like, because a lot of people been
25:10
Speaker 2: hit me up to like that I was in school with.
25:13
Speaker 2: Once they seen like Ao post Me or whatever, and
25:15
Speaker 2: like they was asking me questions and stuff, and.
25:18
Speaker 3: It was like.
25:20
Speaker 2: People approach a lot of studios and stuff at like
25:23
Speaker 2: telling the studio what the studio can do for them,
25:26
Speaker 2: but they never go to the studio and tell the
25:27
Speaker 2: studio what they can do for the studio, like we
25:30
Speaker 2: know why you want to be here, Why do we
25:33
Speaker 2: need you here? Like it's no reason that we need
25:36
Speaker 2: you here if you just here because you just want
25:37
Speaker 2: to be here yep.
25:38
Speaker 1: And it kind of goes back to the habits thing too.
25:40
Speaker 1: It's like people don't want to attack that they have
25:43
Speaker 1: to change certain habits to be successful, and they keep
25:46
Speaker 1: thinking it's going to be this or that or you
25:48
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You always think there's like a
25:50
Speaker 1: little secret you always think when you're in that position.
25:54
Speaker 1: I notice people always think that, Like people that are
25:56
Speaker 1: being successful are like trying to like like you're gonna
26:01
Speaker 1: come and say, like I remember a long time ago,
26:03
Speaker 1: I had somebody hit me like once they seen like
26:05
Speaker 1: my music starting to gain traction and stuff, Yo, I
26:11
Speaker 1: got this song I'm releasing. I want to do kind
26:14
Speaker 1: of like what you're doing. But I wanted to be
26:16
Speaker 1: legit and I'm like.
26:20
Speaker 3: That's a bank.
26:21
Speaker 1: I was like. I was like, Bro, what I'm doing
26:24
Speaker 1: is legit. It's the result of all this music I've
26:28
Speaker 1: been putting out all these weekly at the studio like
26:32
Speaker 1: X Y and Z. I don't have a secret for you, bro,
26:35
Speaker 1: there's no secret. I'm running ads on the music, seeing
26:38
Speaker 1: what works, the ones that are converting, well, I keep
26:41
Speaker 1: running ads on those. I'm doing content weekly, I'm doing
26:46
Speaker 1: songs weekly. I'm not there's not I can't tell you anything, bro.
26:50
Speaker 1: And the person kind of was like salty with my answer,
26:54
Speaker 1: because again he thought I had some kind of secret
26:57
Speaker 1: I was holding back from him. And it's like, Bro,
27:00
Speaker 1: it don't work like that. It's work consistency. You can't
27:03
Speaker 1: escape it. It's like the thing I always say. He's like,
27:06
Speaker 1: because I ain't go to school, but I still had
27:10
Speaker 1: to pay that bluff sweam in tears. Somehow, you have
27:13
Speaker 1: to pay that blusd sweat and tears. Somehow. People don't
27:16
Speaker 1: want to do it. They try to avoid it as
27:18
Speaker 1: much as they can. But until you hit that ground
27:23
Speaker 1: and really put in the work, it ain't gonna happen.
27:26
Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen.
27:27
Speaker 2: Like he said, like he said he begged to go
27:31
Speaker 2: to to like intern that plush and he said he
27:34
Speaker 2: was on the way to Tempa with his girl.
27:36
Speaker 3: He begged. I mean, he promised his girl a trump to.
27:39
Speaker 2: Busch Gardens and got the call and was like, hey,
27:42
Speaker 2: if you show up right.
27:43
Speaker 3: Now, you got the job. And he literally looked at
27:45
Speaker 3: this girl was like, damn. Sorry.
27:50
Speaker 2: So it's like it's gonna be a lot of that
27:53
Speaker 2: when you go on where you're trying to go.
27:55
Speaker 1: I love him. He ain't got a lot of good
27:58
Speaker 1: like determination stories, and that's why I want to get
28:01
Speaker 1: him on here. I talked to I talked to him
28:03
Speaker 1: and he said, he's down. I think I might have
28:05
Speaker 1: to bring it to him. I think we might have
28:06
Speaker 1: to do it over there.
28:07
Speaker 3: He showed the cameras too.
28:09
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because man, like I'm not even gonna tell
28:12
Speaker 1: it because I would want him to tell it. But
28:14
Speaker 1: even like a story he told me about how he
28:16
Speaker 1: ended up mixing some music like and it was like
28:18
Speaker 1: a two it was like a two year thing that
28:21
Speaker 1: he was determined that basically they was like no, and
28:26
Speaker 1: he ended after two years. He ended up Like I said,
28:29
Speaker 1: I don't want to tell it because he obviously is
28:31
Speaker 1: history and it's way better if you don't. Man. Like,
28:35
Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff that gets me going when
28:37
Speaker 1: I hear people say stuff like that, like it just
28:40
Speaker 1: lets me know, Like even like I was saying with
28:42
Speaker 1: the event thing like that's just like when you when
28:45
Speaker 1: you get something from like hard working determination and then
28:48
Speaker 1: you see it happen, you're like that that just puts
28:51
Speaker 1: an extra battery in your back of like I got it.
28:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a difference.
28:56
Speaker 1: I worked hard enough and I'm working hard enough, and
28:59
Speaker 1: I got to the work ethic and the determination that
29:02
Speaker 1: I know if I make if I want to line
29:04
Speaker 1: something up, it'll get lined up. Right.
29:07
Speaker 2: It's a different feeling when you realize like, Okay, I
29:11
Speaker 2: did this facts. It's not like oh this was handed
29:14
Speaker 2: to me or I got a short cut, Like nah,
29:17
Speaker 2: like I did this like everything all the like you said,
29:22
Speaker 2: the long nights, the seeing what works, seeing what doesn't.
29:27
Speaker 2: You know, it's a different feeling. It's just it's so
29:33
Speaker 2: it's so fulfilling to see like you was determined to
29:36
Speaker 2: do something and actually got the results from it that
29:40
Speaker 2: you actually wanted.
29:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, and kind of like to start winding down me
29:46
Speaker 1: that's like a thing with uh with skateboarding, like me
29:48
Speaker 1: and Ajs. He've been skateboarding longer than me and he's
29:51
Speaker 1: super dope. But I've gotten back into it in like
29:54
Speaker 1: the last like six months or so because there's a
29:57
Speaker 1: dope skate park close to here, and I've been so
30:00
Speaker 1: like determined to stick with it because I love that
30:03
Speaker 1: part of skateboarding where it's like you have to let
30:06
Speaker 1: go of the fear and you have to be consistent
30:10
Speaker 1: to finally get these things done. And it's like one
30:12
Speaker 1: of those things that I love it as a hobby
30:14
Speaker 1: because one is super fun and two like it keeps
30:18
Speaker 1: that in the forefront of my mind all the time,
30:21
Speaker 1: that like what you can and can't do is determined
30:24
Speaker 1: by how hard you're gonna work and if you're willing
30:27
Speaker 1: to take the resk, you know what I mean.
30:29
Speaker 2: I've seen a meme and it was like, fear kills
30:33
Speaker 2: more dreams than failure ever can facts and that really
30:37
Speaker 2: stuck with me, Like so anytime, like how I was
30:40
Speaker 2: scared to hit up in in about trying to get
30:41
Speaker 2: in probably mapp.
30:42
Speaker 3: I was scared.
30:43
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not f in Texas, man. But
30:45
Speaker 2: then when I seen that post, I was like, nah,
30:48
Speaker 2: I'm not finna be that person like that. Let fear
30:52
Speaker 2: take away an opportunity for me. And it's crazy how
30:55
Speaker 2: it actually worked out.
30:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometime, I'm reading a book a long time ago,
30:59
Speaker 1: and I believe it was the rich that poort. That
31:01
Speaker 1: book was the only way to double your success is
31:05
Speaker 1: to double your failures. And when I heard, I was like,
31:08
Speaker 1: that clicked in my head. I'm like, it's like baseball,
31:12
Speaker 1: like a great a great slugger in baseball hits the
31:16
Speaker 1: ball three out of ten times and they're legendary if
31:20
Speaker 1: they hit three out of ten times. Like when you
31:23
Speaker 1: think about that, and even basketball, like a good field
31:26
Speaker 1: goal percentage is fifty percent. That means you hitting five
31:29
Speaker 1: out of ten times, and you're great if you can
31:31
Speaker 1: hit five out of ten times. And that's like the
31:34
Speaker 1: thing people need to apply.
31:35
Speaker 3: A lot of people don't even try once exactly.
31:38
Speaker 2: That's why I make you great because a lot of
31:40
Speaker 2: people once they feel that first and second time, they like,
31:43
Speaker 2: you know what, they throw the basketball.
31:44
Speaker 3: They don't even care about it no more.
31:46
Speaker 1: Yep.
31:46
Speaker 2: So that's what makes that's what makes the line between
31:51
Speaker 2: people who just do average stuff and then people who
31:54
Speaker 2: actually do more than you know, do more with what
31:58
Speaker 2: they're doing, because a lot of people just quit for real, Like.
32:02
Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, I definitely appreciate you coming on today. You
32:07
Speaker 1: came out as a last minute replacement, but I definitely
32:10
Speaker 1: had you like on my mind to be on the
32:12
Speaker 1: show talk about this, because that was super dope. Do
32:16
Speaker 1: you have anything in particular you want to leave people
32:19
Speaker 1: with or anything where I'm gonna have your socials on
32:21
Speaker 1: the episode and everything. So aside from that, you got
32:24
Speaker 1: anything else, any projects you're working on?
32:27
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, be on the lookout for Smoking Mirrors by Corey.
32:33
Speaker 2: She's getting ready to drop that. I just finished mixing
32:35
Speaker 2: that today actually, and yeah, that's pretty much like that's
32:41
Speaker 2: been my main focus so far. And don't let failure
32:45
Speaker 2: cure your dreams, man, Facts, straight up facts,