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Growing Up as Whoopi Goldberg’s Grandson - Mason Dean | Born To The Game Podcast · Born To The Game Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I was probably about like seven or eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: because we used to go out in public, like to
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  Speaker 1: the Third Street Promenade and stuff like that. People with
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  Speaker 1: cameras would like follow her around, and I used to
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  Speaker 1: be like, what the hell is going on? Because why
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  Speaker 1: are these people hopping out, these fans trying to take
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  Speaker 1: pictures of my grandmother?
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  Speaker 2: This is on to the game's peak in every beating
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  Speaker 2: rhyme with the pressing peak running on us and the
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  Speaker 2: timeless song, but an be along on to the game,
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  Speaker 2: carrying in the plane, it goes on the path, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a new lay runs and proclaim This is on
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  Speaker 2: to the game lass play.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Born to the Game.
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  Speaker 4: Produced by Archimedia Group in collaboration with Inflection Network and
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  Speaker 4: distributed through iHeartMedia. This is the space where the children
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  Speaker 4: and families of iconic athletes, entertainers, and cultural figures share
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  Speaker 4: the truth behind legacy, not just what their families did,
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  Speaker 4: but who they were and how that legacy continues.
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  Speaker 5: Some people grew up watching icons on TV. Mason grew
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  Speaker 5: up calling one granny, Raised around creativity, humor, and a
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  Speaker 5: whole lot of personality. He's learned firsthand what it means
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  Speaker 5: to be close to greatness while still figuring out who
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  Speaker 5: he is on his own.
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  Speaker 4: Police Welcome to the show, the grandson of Whoopy Goldberg.
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  Speaker 4: Mason Deanon, welcome coming in here, off black jackets All.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know you were a stylist.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know you. Guys, you just threw someone psion.
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  Speaker 3: Look hands suck you looking, cell Grid.
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  Speaker 4: We're so thankful and just so excited to hear your
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  Speaker 4: story because.
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  Speaker 3: Grandma is like, We're gonna try not to fan girl,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try.
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  Speaker 4: But you are part of just the lineage of someone
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  Speaker 4: who is so influential and has so much and who's
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  Speaker 4: had so much impact on so many people's lives, and
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  Speaker 4: so we just want to get into your perspective, how
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  Speaker 4: you grew up, where you're going, who you're becoming, all
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  Speaker 4: the things so viewers can get to know make sense.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, So let's can we can we get into it
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  Speaker 3: for it? Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get into it so well. First start off by
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  Speaker 4: saying or answering this question, at what age did you
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  Speaker 4: realize your grandma is who she is?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What was that moment like when you realized.
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  Speaker 1: I was probably about like seven or eight years old,
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  Speaker 1: because we used to go out in public, like to
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  Speaker 1: the Third Street Promenade and stuff like that, and people
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  Speaker 1: with cameras would like follow her around. And I used
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  Speaker 1: to be like, what the hell is going on? Because
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  Speaker 1: why are these people hopping out these vans trying to
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  Speaker 1: take pictures of my grandma? And I think there was
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  Speaker 1: a time where I saw her face on the billboard
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  Speaker 1: and I was kind of like what, like what's happening here?
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  Speaker 1: And then my mom explained it to me at the
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  Speaker 1: Kids Choice Awards. Oh yeah, this is the moment, like
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  Speaker 1: I remember, I will never forget this. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to tell my about my daughter this story too. Like
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  Speaker 1: we were walking the Orange carpet because it's orange, it's Nickelodeon,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and this kid came up to me and
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  Speaker 1: I was a little kid too, and he was just
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  Speaker 1: talking to me, just being like, hey man, how you doing,
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  Speaker 1: and like I never met him before, but his voice
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  Speaker 1: sounded familiar and it ended up being Diego from Go
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  Speaker 1: Diego Goes. So like I'm tripping. I'm like, Okay, something
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  Speaker 1: is weird. It's happening here, Like I'm talking to you,
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  Speaker 1: but you're not a real person. You were animation, you
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  Speaker 1: know that character, and then that's when he kind of
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  Speaker 1: clicked for me, like you know or no, no, this
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  Speaker 1: is after that happened. Later on in that day, we
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  Speaker 1: went inside it was a stable center, and then she
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  Speaker 1: was all in the row and I remember her telling
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  Speaker 1: us my grandmother being like, ye'all be right back. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta go do something really quick, and like five minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: she's on the stage and she's doing that, like she
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  Speaker 1: does that a lot. I think that just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the shock factor. Even being her family member, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's still a surprise, like what she does. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the audience is in shock too. They don't
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  Speaker 1: know if she's coming up, and we don't even know and.
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  Speaker 4: Were with her, so it surprised the entire audience that
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  Speaker 4: she was announcing Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: She just randomly came up on the stage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So what's one thing about her that would surprise viewers?
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  Speaker 1: I think how real she is. I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: only certain you know, actors that can go and do
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  Speaker 1: all these different roles but still be themselves. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like what you see on the TV is like
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  Speaker 1: what you get in person. It's not somebody that's pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be somebody else, you know, just to be liked
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  Speaker 1: by people. You know. I feel like that realness is
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  Speaker 1: what inspired people to want to go out and be
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  Speaker 1: raw and be real with your skilling, with your image
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  Speaker 1: and your art. You know. So that person that you
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  Speaker 1: see on TV is authentically her, Yeah, unapologetically her. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I had so much respect and admiration towards her.
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  Speaker 5: She's definitely unapologized, Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: And just you know, even I mean naturally respect your grandmothers, right,
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  Speaker 4: like that's just what you do, but even just having her,
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  Speaker 4: and she demands that respect because of just who she
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  Speaker 4: is and her presence.
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  Speaker 3: So how is she as a grandma? Like does she
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  Speaker 3: give you? Like do you do you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Have that grandma grandson type of like like that.
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  Speaker 3: Relationship?
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  Speaker 1: Well I have. I have three sisters, so I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only you know, boy in our family other than my father.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, uh, she always would just give like
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle gems to me. She would ever like sit me
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  Speaker 1: down and be like, Yo, this is what you gotta do,
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  Speaker 1: and this is how you should do it. And because
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  Speaker 1: it's like I feel like she lets me fly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like she lets me spread my wings if I if
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  Speaker 1: I fail, then that's just get back up and do
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  Speaker 1: it again. So I feel like, you know, people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna say no to you, people Dona slam during your face.
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  Speaker 1: But she kind of instilled in me that if you
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  Speaker 1: love something, then that's not gonna stop you from chasing
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  Speaker 1: after your goals and dreams. So I think that when
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  Speaker 1: people ask me like what or some like gems or
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  Speaker 1: lessons that she gave you, it's kind of hard for
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  Speaker 1: me to say because I can't really pinpoint one thing
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  Speaker 1: I could be. Like, you know, she always tells me
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  Speaker 1: to keep chapstick with me, you know important that that's great,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's actually like, you know, she tell me that
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  Speaker 1: in passing, like she'll give me those gems and pass
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  Speaker 1: It's never like I'm gonna sit you down and tell
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  Speaker 1: you what you what you need to do, because I
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  Speaker 1: think she respects that I am a man and like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm about to raise I'm raising my own family.
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  Speaker 1: So she gives me that space to kind of grow
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  Speaker 1: and figure stuff out while you know, I'm going through
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  Speaker 1: the motions.
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  Speaker 4: And did you inherit any of her personality, her humor.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly, like I feel like I did. I mean, like,
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  Speaker 1: of course, like it's in me, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I think it's in all of us, like
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  Speaker 1: all of my siblings, especially my mom. But I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be able to like pinpoint it because my grandma she
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  Speaker 1: knows a little bit about everything. So it's like her
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  Speaker 1: personality depending on the conversation, she can talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about this in this way, whether it's politics or sports,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's everything. It's like a like
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  Speaker 1: a Malcolm person like she has every like all this
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  Speaker 1: knowledge to you. Never know how that conversation is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah you know, yeah, I mean, but you still seem
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  Speaker 4: very wise and charismatic and personable. So I would say,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, from an outsider's perspective, it seems like you
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  Speaker 4: inherit inherit to that you know, character characteristic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually, now I'm thinking about it, let me like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of taking time, I would say patience is like
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  Speaker 1: definitely something that I've gotten from her because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of there's been like a lot of situations in my
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  Speaker 1: life where I'm like, damn, like what the hell, like,
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  Speaker 1: let you get this going. I'm trying to make something happen.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, taking your time with everything or just
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  Speaker 1: taking your time in life is like very important for
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  Speaker 1: your mental health, like just for strength, just giving yourself
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  Speaker 1: strength and space and time to figure out what you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. And I think that that's what I
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  Speaker 1: got from her, because some situation I'll see her in
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, how the hell you got the patience
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  Speaker 1: for that? Because if I was in your shoes, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, we're going to love Yeah, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. So to see how she has the patience
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  Speaker 1: to some annoying times too, like some annoying ship that happens,
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  Speaker 1: and have that patience in that strength, I think I
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  Speaker 1: always say that, I definitely.
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  Speaker 3: And I love that. I love patient people. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: try to be there moments where it gets the best.
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  Speaker 6: That you work on, you have to work on it
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  Speaker 6: doesn't come.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so good for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still working on it.
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  Speaker 4: Part of you becoming who you who you are if
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  Speaker 4: you are working progress. So is there a favorite movie
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  Speaker 4: that you that she's played in. Have you ever been
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  Speaker 4: on set with her?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I have like faint memories of being on set
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  Speaker 1: with her. Are just going to meet her on set,
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  Speaker 1: but not really just hanging out there for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: But my favorite movie that she's filmed, like I was
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  Speaker 1: a young kid, it was this movie called Eddie and
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  Speaker 1: she's like the basketball coach of the Knicks and she
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  Speaker 1: like they call her from out the stands and then
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  Speaker 1: she makes this freak through and it ends up coaching
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks and they're going like this is run. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was my favorite movie like growing up because I
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  Speaker 1: love basketball, So like that's what I.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean, you got the New York Times.
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  Speaker 1: I hear the New York That's like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where that came from. I was probably my pops. He
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  Speaker 1: from Jersey, Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: So I have to say this, like your grandmother is
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  Speaker 5: single handling the person that inspired me to become an actress.
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  Speaker 5: Seeing the color purple growing up, that was when I
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  Speaker 5: first saw it.
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  Speaker 6: I saw her on TV and I was like, she
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  Speaker 6: looks like me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And in that moment, I felt like I could
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  Speaker 5: be on TV.
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  Speaker 6: I could be an actor.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, And I will never I mean, I've been a
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  Speaker 5: huge fan.
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  Speaker 6: I think she's hilarious.
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  Speaker 5: I think she's one of the funniest entertainers that we
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  Speaker 5: have she's a naw treasure. But what does she inspire
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  Speaker 5: you to do? I mean, you had her in your house.
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  Speaker 5: I saw her on her TV screen in the eighties, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: ag myself. Maybe it was the nineties, You'll never know,
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  Speaker 5: but anyways, but she inspired me to be who I
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  Speaker 5: am today.
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  Speaker 6: So what does she inspired you to be?
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  Speaker 1: She inspired me to like, because all you see, like
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  Speaker 1: my thing is music. I love making music and she
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  Speaker 1: also like dabbled in the music space too, which I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know.
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  Speaker 4: I knows she's a renaissance woman like she literally does.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't like, she literally like everything. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess when I've moved out to New Jersey and
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  Speaker 1: like staying with her and you know, making my music,
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  Speaker 1: just my art itself has grown so much because she'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, yo, listen to this album by this band
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  Speaker 1: and tell me what you think.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: And it's always that you know what I mean. It's
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  Speaker 1: never like if I'm trying to make a change with
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  Speaker 1: what I have going on. It's like she makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel like I want to make a change, not like
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  Speaker 1: you need to change, like you want to you should
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  Speaker 1: do it this, but try it out like this, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, and like that story, like that
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  Speaker 1: patience comes from too, because it's like, you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: being so patient with me, you know, and I think
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  Speaker 1: you can kind of see it in my eyes that
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of losing patience with myself or like with
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  Speaker 1: my art, for say example, like this song or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and like I'm kind of losing my patience
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  Speaker 1: with this and I don't know what to do. She's
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  Speaker 1: just like, I mean, do what you love, do what
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  Speaker 1: you feel is right, you know what I mean? You
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  Speaker 1: know what it is like, you know what you want,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you want to hear, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: just having that somebody tell me that, not only just
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  Speaker 1: because it's my grandmother, but you know somebody that's where
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  Speaker 1: she's at, like the impact that she's made, and that's
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  Speaker 1: her telling me that, you know. So I just I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: if you're telling me that, then I can't stepping away
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  Speaker 1: with myself anymore.
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  Speaker 6: She is sister act.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Like, oh my god, no, Like I seen sisters
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  Speaker 1: so many times when you're.
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  Speaker 4: Like scrolling through on like Hulu or and you see
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  Speaker 4: one of her movies up, like how do you feel?
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  Speaker 3: Like what feelings just overwhelm.
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  Speaker 1: You that feels like it feels like not even real
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  Speaker 1: sometimes because it's like it kind of feels like I'm
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  Speaker 1: in this matrix or something, because it's like I know her, like.
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  Speaker 3: How I experience like.
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  Speaker 4: I'm related to her, like I'm part of her, like
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  Speaker 4: I'm an extension of her.
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  Speaker 1: And I could see all my family members faces in
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  Speaker 1: her face.
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  Speaker 3: I was just saying that Tomar. I was like, all
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  Speaker 3: of you guys, I see I.
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  Speaker 1: See her like it's it's her and and that's like
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  Speaker 1: the trippiest thing. I remember one time because they had
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  Speaker 1: a sister act on Netflix for a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like when you don't touch a Netflix, it like kind
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  Speaker 1: of goes to slow moos thing where it's like you
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  Speaker 1: all the pictures and sister popped up on there. And
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  Speaker 1: it was like three in the morning. I remember I
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  Speaker 1: opened my eyes. I thought I was dreaming, like I'm like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: somebody like I have to check my phone. I'm like
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  Speaker 1: sign does she call me? But it's like I have
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  Speaker 1: those times a lot, you know, going through Disney plush
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  Speaker 1: and then you just see her face. It's it's super cool.
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  Speaker 3: Often do you see her her?
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  Speaker 1: Like damn it? Every other day? Every day because she
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  Speaker 1: she loves to see the baby tea.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we saw that she was talking about about
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  Speaker 4: her on the view, so she's very proud.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah she loves y. Yeah, it's insane, like it's like
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's but I love like how much she
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  Speaker 1: loves her too, because you know, uh, like my dad
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  Speaker 1: too is like the same way where it's like they
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  Speaker 1: see babies and they're like these are these are these
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  Speaker 1: are this is God's of course this is but they
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  Speaker 1: like they've done no wrong. They don't lie to you,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like that's how they're not yelling at you.
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  Speaker 4: Is Granny whoopee When she face times you, she's like,
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  Speaker 4: macon it out the way for sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's so that's so lovely.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah to hear that, it's beautiful. It's really just
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful time, Like just to be able to experience
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  Speaker 1: this and like just seeing how my family has changed
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  Speaker 1: so much, you know, like everybody kind of evolved because
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  Speaker 1: I was the baby in my family for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and now it's like I have a baby
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  Speaker 1: and now that's everybody else's.
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  Speaker 3: And not even just a baby.
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  Speaker 4: You have a daughter, right and then you you have
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  Speaker 4: such a powerful and iconic woman leading this charge in
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  Speaker 4: the sense, and then now you have a daughter who
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's it's so rare for especially black women,
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  Speaker 4: to see someone as influential as your granny and influencing
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  Speaker 4: and inspiring us. And now you have your daughter who
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  Speaker 4: you can just kind of show her the reins and
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  Speaker 4: you know who can see her and learn from her
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  Speaker 4: obviously as she gets older.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just it's a beautiful story for caring.
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  Speaker 5: For just being a great representation.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely who she is and who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So let's talk about Mason as a kid. I'm curious
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  Speaker 6: to know. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I always like the three words to describe yourself. So
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  Speaker 5: if you have three words to describe yourself, what would
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  Speaker 5: they be?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Hyper? Hyper okay, athletic, Oh give myself that? And fast?
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  Speaker 1: Yes I was. I don't know what it was, if
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  Speaker 1: it was like my ADHD or something. But I was
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  Speaker 1: always on move, like you couldn't catch me standing still.
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  Speaker 1: I was always doing this, playing every sport.
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  Speaker 3: Just what kind of.
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  Speaker 6: Kid were you in school? Did you like school? Were
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  Speaker 6: you were you outspoken for either class?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I was saying school like I definitely was out spoken,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that I made my teacher's life because
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  Speaker 1: they would tell me, like, yo, be quiet. But I
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  Speaker 1: would never really get in trouble because I was saying
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  Speaker 1: some funny ship. I remember what I was saying, impeccable.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, uh, but when it came
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: down to actually like, oh damn, I gotta pass this
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: like class or then I would I would always pass
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: my classes. Uh, but I would. I would crack a joke,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: you know, from here and there, and yeah, just super hyper.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: And now I just made your you need things to do,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: You're not challenged.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wanted something to do, you know, enough
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: going off? Yeah, I was like, we need more.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Staff, we need So I know that you were on
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: the East coast and now you're back on the West coast.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: So were you raised on the East coast? Like where
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: were you? Where'd you grow up?
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I grew up out here in l A. So like
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I went to school in Santa Monica and hung around
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: like Venice a lot. We lived in the Palisades, you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and so like when the fires was happening, it was like,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: what's happening right now? And I was on the East
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: coast at that time. So seeing all those fires was
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: kind of just like what the hell. I actually went
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to the Palisades to go visit like where an old
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: house was, and that whole block was just untouched and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that's just insane, you know. Uh yeah, I, you know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: spend all my time out here and I just needed
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to change the pace though. I figured, like, you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: let me just go out there and experience the East
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Coast a little bit, just like, you know, while I'm
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: still I'm here my in my twenties, like, let me,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I got energy. I'm out here ready to be outside
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: and meet people. And I feel like I was ready
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: for that like place in my mind to be like Okay,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: let me start over, let me like meet new people,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: let me find new places to hang out.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: And yeah, so you have your signature locks, like do
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: your inspiration around and when did you first start them?
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I first started to I will first, I will say that, yeah,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I will say that. She wasn't inspiration for me. Uh.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I wasn't like, Okay, I'm gonna grow my locks like
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: my grandmother though, because it was kind of like a defined,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: define thing with my parents because they used to always
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: tell me, like, yo, brush your hair, like homb your hair.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And then by the time I got to like ninth grade,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: tenth grade, I was like, nah, I ain't doing it
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: no more. I'm not gonna come you know what I mean.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I thought it was cool, and then it just started
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: growing and up. And once I started locking up, I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, I'm here now, like you know, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: uh so I just kept.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: You just committed to That was back in the day.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: I mean having locks on TV.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: That was I mean, that was a big thing started.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she started that starting for sure. That's why I did. Like, no,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: it was just my grandmother. It's just me and her.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: That was.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: That's a bold statement.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I love it.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: So what were you into? You said you were athletic.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Did you play basketball? Were you in the sports? Like
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: what things were you interested in growing up?
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Basketball, Like I was like, I went to Michael Jordan basketball.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I was a shooting guard. Okay, yeah, I was on
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: my my favorite player, Kobe for sure. Yeah, Kobe, because
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, being from l A And then
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I was born in ninety eight. So by the two thousands,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: two thousand, the Lakers was just winning championship.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: It was a great year.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah great, yeah, yeah, that's like so that was a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: good you know, like a good introduction to basketball for me.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And then you know, going around and watching him play.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I used to go to school and try to do
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: all the moves like him, all to turn.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Around and I was doing that.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Through the hallway.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I can see it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: So you never have aspirations to be on film or
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: in the movie industry.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I feel like I feel like, deep down everybody
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: kind of has like that little you know, like if
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you watch a good enough movie, you're gonna be like, damn,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: this person looks so big on the screen and they're
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: so empowering, like it makes you want to like kind
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: of envision yourself being there. But I never really had
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: like aspirations for it, you know. But I have been
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: kind of getting into the acting world recently, and like
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I've been taking acting classes just to you know, just
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to kind of know, just to try it out the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: opportunity presents hisself.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: You have a great look, you really do. You have
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: a great look.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I'll be so down, like I would love to do it,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and you know, just to be able to I have
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: fun with it, like you know, going through practicing reading scripts,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: with my teacher and just kind of doing it like
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it's it's fun, Like, yeah, I enjoy it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: I have a fun fact. Your brother's film Till I
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: was an extra.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Really are you serious?
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: We went to that premiere.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: I went to Atlanta and I saw when it came out,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: like I heard that it was it was coming out
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: because I watched. I can't remember the young man's film
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: that the young men's name that played till his name,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I know he was in All American.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant kid.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I can't remember his name off the top of my head,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: but he was great. When when I saw that he
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: was happening, I was like, oh my gosh, I have
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: to be in this film.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: I have to be in it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: I don't care if I'm being an extra. And I
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: tried and try to try. I got on the last
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: day as an extra, and I will happy as a clam.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: That's amazing to be a part of that film.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I always like.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: And she was talking about how long it took her
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: to to get the film made and I learned so
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: much even and that was when I was, you know,
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: getting back into acting. But I said, I was like,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I don't care what it takes I'm gonna get on
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: this set. And the last day of filming, I got
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: on as an extra and I'm happy. I was happy
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: to be there as an extra. We froze our butts
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: off outside Atlanta. But it was it was great and
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: I love the finished film. It was amazing. So you
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: have everything you need to do and be.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying. If you want to do acting,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: do it.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Again, she inspires me, like literally, that's that's that's real amazing.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: So when did the music come into play? You were
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: into sports and things like that, but then now you're
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: into music, and we're going to get into your music
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: as a whole. But usually when we're talking to guests,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: glimmers of themselves happened when they're kids, and so we
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: just kind of like walk people through who you are
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: as a kid and then and who you are as
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: an adult.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: So there was music in you then or was it
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: later on? What did that happen?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: So okay, I got the whole.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: My little I want to hear this.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Story, all right. So on a stormy day right now,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I was so when I was younger, when I was
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: about like probably six or seven, years old, I would
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: take piano lessons. But this man, his name is John Flucker.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Shout out to him, uh, because he used to give
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: my mom vocal lessons and he also was like wizard
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: on the piano. So growing up, I would take these
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: piano lessons and always be like, I don't want to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: do this anymore. I want to play basketball. And then
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: my mom and my god father we're both like, yo,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you gotta just stick with it and just see what happens.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And by the time I turned fourteen, I started making beats,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Like I started teaching myself how to make beats. And
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I saw this documentary when I was fourteen. It was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a social boy documentary and it was like just about
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: his career and stuff like at that time, you know,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: like Sojia boy was you know, the bape shoes and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: like the I really had a.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Brand, so really underestimate him.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: But yes, so I understand that, you know what I mean, Like.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: For that era too, just like music and YouTube coming
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: together with music, so it felt like anything was possible,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: you know, if that's what I want to do, because
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I still want to play basketball. Then when I was
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: in high school, I was like dating this girl and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: then this guy was trying to get with my girl,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: so I wrote a dis track to him. But it's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: like crazy because if I listen to the disc tract now,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, this is crazy that. I even was
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: like I have to write this and record this. And
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: at the time, I used to burn like all the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: songs that I would make onto a CD and he
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: was gonna watch this.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah you crime and.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Used to make mixtapes and stuff, so that was my thing,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: like because before it was like we had iPhones. But
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I still just that's just what I did. I don't know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: like that was just something I did. And I had
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: this one disc and I like showed it to my friends.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Then they took the disc and then they were like
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: passing around to other people so that other people were
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: hearing this song. And I was kind of like, you
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: know what, I want to write more music if it's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: like that, you know what I mean. And it's like
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: people were reacting to this, and I was kind of
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: just in our feelings are just having fun, yeah the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: case maybe, And I had like hmm, I had a good,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: like you know, reception to that, and I just kept
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: staying sticking with it and keep going.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: So is it the the the ability to storytell that
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I guess drives your love for music or do you
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: find it to be therapeutic because you mentioned the take, Yeah,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: so is that what it is that drives you to
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: want to pursue this.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, it's it's the therapeutic part of it, because
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: you know, when that happened, I was fourteen years old,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and it's like, now I'm getting to the point I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: turned twenty eight this year, so get into that going
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to different parts of my life where music saved me,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like and I actually was
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: able to use that as like a journal entry, as
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a diary instead of being like, oh, I'm just doing
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: this to be cool, and like you know, I get
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: all the girls, we get all the money. You actually
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: like go through life and see that point in your
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: life where you're like, Okay, this is what's hell helping
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: me the most, you know what I mean, Because everybody's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: always like, man, you can talk to me about it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: You can. Sometimes I don't feel like doing that, And
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the only thing that I really need right now is myself. Yeah,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and I just need to sit with myself and my thoughts,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: get this out in like the amount of times I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: had to do that and still do it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: That's what inspires me the most to keep, you know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: keep writing.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Sitting with yourself that is something that people who are
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: in their forties fifty sixties do not know.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: How to do well.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: And men, right, so men, particularly black men, talking about
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: being able to sit with yourself, that's not something that
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: you guys know.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: How Yeah, oh yeah, definitely, that's like, yeah, that part
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: because and like you know, I think about it often
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: more now, you know, because like having a daughter and
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: then you have to think about you know, even if
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not feeling like this today, I can't break down,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't. I can't like really do that
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: or like shut myself out anymore. So it's like you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: have to have that outlet, yeah, to be able to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: kind of let off that s theme or all that stress.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So like music being there for me in that area
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of my life is like really important and I appreciate that,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you know a lot.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: So would you feel like that was where you feel
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: the most like yourself in your music?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, cause it's like, you know, I don't never
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: think about music as like okay, like all these people
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: are gonna listen to this, or like these people are
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: gonna hear this, or it's gonna leave beyond these four walls. Yeah,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: when I'm in those four walls, it's like all that
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: matters is what's happening in those four walls. You know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you can pull ideas and do this from whatever is
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: going on on the outside, but in that room is
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: in how you're feeling. Like if you singing or rapping,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: or you yelling or you crying, whatever is going on,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to put that, like on record.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And that's so cool to me because like twenty years
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: from now, thirty years now, it's still gonna be there
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and that's that's so cool.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: So, what's been your proudest moment in your music industry
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: so far?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Damn, my proudest moment. Yeah, I'm really trying to think.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I always say, uh. When I shot my my music
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: video for Blue Stainless was definitely a moment that I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: was really proud of because it felt like I was like, Damn,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I'm doing this right now, Like you know, seeing the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: whole setup with the cameras and seeing you know, yourself
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: on camera and seeing the whole team of videographers just
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: standing around being like all right, we're gonna put him
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: over here and he's gonna do this, and you just
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: sit back like damn.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: M for you.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like that that was like a proud moment. I
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: feel like I had, Like I've had moments that it's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: like just not coming into my mind right now because
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it could have been from like a minute ago. Yeah,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and I just can't like it doesn't come to my
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: mind right now, but definitely in more recent time will
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: be that blue standing.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: So when you were in your music video, you're standing
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: there and you're like, this is Mason's moment. Yeah, did
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: you feel like, you know, because we'll get into the
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: pressure and the expectation, but did you feel like a
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: sense of empowerment that you were doing something for yourself
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: outside of your grandmother?
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Definitely. I feel like like when you are standing
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: there and you're like, all right, we're about to do this.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Take ye, then you have that moment where you're like,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: this is really this is really my shit, right, this
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: is really me, Like I can't believe that, Like this
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: is so cool because you think about back to when
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: you're a kid, you know, and you're like, you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you set these goals for yourself, Like I want to
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: make music when I'm this age, Like if I could
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: be in that moment and then like my little kids
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: self could see me in that moment, That's what I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: think about, you know what I mean. So, and like
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: with my grandmother, it's like I know that this is
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: what she wanted me to do. You know, she wants
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to see me in my in my moment, doing my things.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so who's her favorite grandchild?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: You can tell you I would Hey, I don't know.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like in flex she wastes a little bit
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: on the day. It depends on the day exact right, Yeah, yeah,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: exactly exactly.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: But you are the only.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Boy, Yeah, yeah, I do have a different part to
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: the heart, you know. So what do you want people
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: to feel when they hear your music? Like what I
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: guess if there's there's a rapper out there, now, who
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: do you resemble the mouse? Or you're like, I'm just
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Mason Dean, Yeah, one.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Of the At this point, I feel like I did,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: you know, when I was younger, I was trying to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: like resemble different rappers are just taking They would inspire
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: me a lot, you know, And I feel like with
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: just all of that going back from like my parents
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: playing me, you know, nineties hip hop and then up
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: into two thousands and just hearing all that music and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you got the twenty tens, you know, yeah, and then
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: so it's like there's so many different eras of music
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that I was just I was there for, like I
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: was able to experience that. I feel like I'm just
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: kind of in the boat where I'm like, I'm just
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: gonna do whatever, you know. So I don't know, you know,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: maybe one day I'm feeling like singing, the other day
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling like rapping. I don't really know.
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: So how would you describe your music?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I would describe it. I tried to go for the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: cinematic approach, like because I do want to score films
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: in the future, you know, like I do want to,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Like that's a goal that I've had since I was
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: in high school, and you know, like talking about like
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: movies and stuff like that's how I watch movies, and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: that's what made movies feel so big to me was
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: always the music. So I always was like, you know,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: instead of being in front of the camera, like I
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: want to make that song, you know, I want to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I want to score that, you know, I mean, yeah,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: that's like I always wanted to do that. So I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: always take that approach because if I could make a song,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and if you're not, if I didn't make a visual
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: or you're not seeing a visual, you have to base
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: everything off of like your ears and then painting a
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: picture for somebody that's listening, which is kind of like damn,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: how am I gonna do that? And the only way
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: I can is by building it as if you're in
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: an environment like to hear it, you know, like I
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: like to throw a lot of like birds chirping or
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the waves crouds because it feels like you're somewhere instead
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of like you're just listening to somebody's song. It's like
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the beach listening to this song, or
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: like I'm in the car listening to this song, you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: kind of painting out that vision.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: So what does success in your music career look like?
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: And where can people find your music?
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Where can people?
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you can find my music is Mason Dean on
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Apple Music, Spotify, title Pandora Radio. I don't know all
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: the streaming platforms and uh so, like I forgot the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: second part of question. I'm sorry, just what what.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Does success look like for you and your music career?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, definitely success. It's just to keep doing what
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm doing for sure, and keep creating and keeping that
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: authenticity to my sound, to my art and not trying
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: to kind of keep myself in a bubble in a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: box and like continue to listen to new music and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: continue to be inspired and giving myself that space to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: do that, because I feel like sometimes as artists, you
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: could be hard on yourself and then you start comparing
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: yourself to everything that comes on the radio because you
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: think that, oh, that's how I'm supposed to sound for
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: my music to you know what I mean. So I
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: think that just creating ideas that's new to me, you
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, to the point where I want
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to keep hearing it, Like, yeah, you know.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Who is staying to yourself besides your music?
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: Who are you listening to? It's in your playlist?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: In my playlist, it's a mix I got I do have.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: This is artist named Michael Franks. Throw back right there.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: He had this song called Lotus Blossom. That's why I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: named my daughter Lotus because of this song.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I hope he watches this I hope if he's.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Watching the show together a concert soon. But I love
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I love him. I got future on there Drake and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Kandreck because I don't understand what.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: We can against.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just love both. And I listened to like
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of jazz music too, because that kind of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: just yeah, that's like my kind reggae waves to, like,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: you know, just kind of chilling acrobats. Yeah, oh yeah,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I love afrobeats, That's yeah, I love that. And I
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: love making afrobeats too. Yeah, that's like that's the most fun.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And I feel like that's the music where I feel
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the most free writing it too, because I'm not really
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: thinking of I'm just feeling.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: You know, it's the beats and the vibe, like I
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: love afro beats.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Were you a versus guy? Did you watch that?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: You?
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: When was that?
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Was that COVID during Ano they're starting to reduce.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Its watch it?
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I I was watching those live. I was I like that,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: you know. I just I love that the music industry
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: didn't really stop, Like you still got to see like
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the artists that you love still doing what they love
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: in a more intimate setting. That was cool, you know.
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, your dream like to work with, to work with
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: or the feature for feature or either way, whether you're
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: producing or you're the artist yourself, love to work with.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I would love to work with Stevie Wonder because I
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, all his songs are incredible. I
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: never heard a bad Stevie Wonder song. I got to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: see him perform live and he is His voice is amazing.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: The way he played the piano is incredible, like what harmonica.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: He can do any anything, anything.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Everything and anything. So to be in a studio with
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: somebody like that, and on top of that, he just
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: seemed like a like a cool guy. When he was
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: talking to everybody, he just seemed like, you know, he's like,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: we're all in this room together, We're all sharing the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: same energy. I want to be in a studio with you, Wow,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: somebody that has that energy and you know, but also
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: is making it just incredible music, you know and inspiring
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: me to you know, instead of making this cored this small,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: open it up like this, you know, like having that
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: you know that, yeah, that mentorship is everything. Yeah yeah, Well.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: I mean you choosing Stevie Wonder is honestly not surprising,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Like you have been surrounded by classic people, just choosing
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Stevie Wonder on brand because that's all you know, appreciate
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: you appreciate timeless people and people who will have legacies
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: that us.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: You know, so good for you.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: I love it.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: You'll want to play some games.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Let's do a game. Okay, So this one is called
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: this or that. I'm gonna give you two options, and
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: you and Mariah are gonna choose.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: This or that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: You answer to all three of us three Okay, so
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: it's called this or that. Here we go homebody or outside.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Homebody. I'd say this.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do the home body. Homebody.
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Definitely, movies or music.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: You can't do.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: That's tough. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with music.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go with movies. But I think
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna do movies too.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: But it is.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Wait, so if you're watching it, if there's movies or music, right,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: if you're watching the movie, is all the music out
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: the movie?
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: No, you can't have a movie without music.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: That would be you can't.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: But don't they have a lot of That's a genre, right,
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: haven't isn't it don't they?
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to movies.
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: Too.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they have silent movies.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they have music in it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: I mean sometimes in the silent movies, I think it's
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: completely it's just it's just really it's acting, right, No, what.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: The piano?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: No words? Yeah, that's what silent like.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: But not like today though, right, Okay.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: That way never fly to me?
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, soundtrack, I mean it's it's moves, the.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Plot, it is the tone of the movie.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, absolutely. That's why I chose movies because I
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: can have.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Both, Yes.
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: Things smarter planning or spontaneous.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Spontaneous, But can I explain if that defeats? All right?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: And I would say that because actually I gonna let
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: you pick here, and I'm like, conjure up.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Okay, got so I'm saying planning because I'm a mommy. Okay,
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: So that's why I can't really do the whole spontaneous
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: thing anymore with a toddler.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it just doesn't work.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: What about your I'm gonna be spontaneous. Yes, that's I
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: would like to do more planning and be a person
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: that plans plans to the t.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: But I'm working on it. I'm still working on it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely you're going yeah, spontaneous. I just like the
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: just the surprise that stuff. Like, of course, it has
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: to be a little bit of planning, and I can't
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: just wake up, like what's up, what we're doing. Like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: if I'm like, okay, if I'm I gotta be over
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: here on this side of town by six pm, now,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: whatever happens past six pm on that side of town,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: I don't have to plan it. But I just know
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I just got to be over there. So it's like
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: a mixture both. But I like the spontaneous.
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: Okay, I got you. Are you a thrill seeker?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: No, If the thriller is there, then hey, I'm having
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: a good time. I'm not looking for it.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: But if it's knocking at your door.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: You go in. I might like look through the hole
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: to make sure. I like this.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Next one, sneakers are slides.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going sneakers, niers or crocs. I love cross the hard.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: I love I'm near for the cross.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Okay, texting or calling, texting, real texting or FaceTime face timing.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, I like a face time. I like it depends
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: on the.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, So I was going to say that it depends
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: on the person. But I'm a facetimer. Smar and I
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: FaceTime all day every day, but I do agree it
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: depends on the person.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Texting words me out. I like, I'd rather either FaceTime,
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: I mean calling.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: It depends on who you are.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: But texting over calling. I want to I want to
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: call because I don't want.
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: To sit just sit and text too much. Yeah, you
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: know what I'm trying to.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, early mornings or late nights.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, now early mornings. I do like the early
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: mornings because I have it feels like it's like two
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: days in winter instead of like I guess that's that's
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: what happens, like since I had a daughter, Like that's
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: what it.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Is morning that you do?
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: You have a morning routine that you do every day?
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, ritual?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I just drink like a big ass bottle
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: of water and that right there is enough, Like right there,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm up and there, you know, hopping the shower,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: listens to some music and drink some more water and
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: keep drinking water, and it starts to day.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean when they go, oh sorry,
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I was gonna ask early mornings or late night. Okay,
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: look I'm existing right now because you'll know once your
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: baby gets Toddler era.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: But late nights for me, I'm up. You're up, That's
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I'm up. I do not here.
• 44:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: Time difference, Yeah, like she's up sending me runs.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: What about to late nights. I'm not an early person.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Like if I have to for work or something, I'll
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: get up, But like late.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Nights, Yeah, I get that. I get that.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: Ye, you have one more?
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Do you have anyone on your list?
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: This is the last?
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Just because I love this.
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: It's Michelle.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: Obama has been trying to teach us that when they
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: go low.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: We go high. Are you going low? I mean, are
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: you going high? Are you going lower? When they go low?
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going high because there's no bad cart. I mean
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: like if you're if you're going low, you find fire.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: With fire, it's just gonna be a bigger fire. And
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: now even if the fire wasn't, like if your house
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't on fire, now your house is on fire because
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you didn't you know what I mean, live next door
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to somebody with a house.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: Just grow up.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Sure, I got it.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: And that's I feel like, that's more if you really
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: taking like I'm trying to be disrespectful, I feel like
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: even taking the high road is the most disrespectful you
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: can be to somebody if you're trying to be that person,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: because it's like I'm doing better then you know, whatever
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: you got going on down there, I'm over here with it.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: I just I love your the way that you're thinking.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Right, So you grew up around someone who
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: the world knows, and naturally people now think that they
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: know who you are, right? So do people assume things
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: about you because of who your grandma is? Were there
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: any expectations that you set for yourself where you felt
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: like other people had for you.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I think, uh, one thing that people used to always
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: think about me like growing up was that for some reason,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: like I'm really big into fashion and I'm not. I
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: just like wearing was comfortable to me. But I think
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of people thought that I really cared about that,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: or like I really was like, oh, I really care
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: about how I look and flashy things exactly like and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I never really did. I just kind of always been
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: the same person that I am not even before I
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: had my daughter, I always kind of just in my
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: own world with stuff. I always picked comfort over all
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the difficult stuff. So I think that's like one thing
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: that was always like kind of weird. People try to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: assume that they know my personality because I don't really
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: post like a lot on my Instagram with like me
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: talking and like doing interviews too often. But so I
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: don't really have like there's a lens that people don't
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: see like when it comes to me. So I feel
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: like because I do rap in because of who my
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: grandmother is, people assume that I live a certain lifestyle
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: that I don't really live, or like that I'm like into,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: like you know, being all up in the clubs and
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: doing all this stuff, and that's like not the life
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: that I live at all. And yeah, I guess like
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: social media could perceive make your life look a whole
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: lot different. Thing is I could be shoot a music
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: video and have all my chains on and like it
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: looks like that's just how I.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: Walk around, you know, that's my personality.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's like kind of why I
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: try to just I don't really use social media that
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: much as much as I did before, but I kind
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: of try to keep my piece in between or just
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: like my life and then whatever's happening on social media. Yeah,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: kind of separate, but like still showing people what's going
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: on in my life without like trying to use it
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: all the time, because I have family and friends on
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: there that I don't really talk to you like that.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: So it's like I do post for them, and you know,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: people that listen to my music, I post for them,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and but.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: It's not all incompassing life and you're not always trying
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: to get content exactly.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, once I post and I'm putting my phone away
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: and then I'm going to just like, you're level I
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: think so. I think literally, I appreciate you, thank you.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I think that. Yeah, just that because people I'll tell
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: people straight up, you know, if it comes to social media,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: people like you gotta post more, you gonna do this,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, I don't. I don't because you know,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: in real life, I got enough going on, you know.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: So uh I kind of I think that's where it
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: came from me, or the level headedness too. It kind
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: of came from me detaching from social media a little
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: bit because I'm not there, like, oh, I got to
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: take a picture like this so people see me in
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: this way, or like I gotta this is way. This
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: is how people dressing now I got dressed that way,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, to reach more people, or
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: You don't feel like you have prove something, Yeah, just
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: prove something to myself.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: That's what it is.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: Did you put a lot of pressure on yourself to
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: become somebody because of your grandmother?
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I definitely did, And especially when you're younger too, because
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: it's like all you know is school and what's on
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the other side of that fence or on the other
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: side of the fence that I have not seen. I
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: see my grandma over there, but she over here like
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: that you look on the other side of the it's
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: like she's not even on the other side.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Of the somewhere.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, you put that pressure on yourself. But
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I think that what I didn't understand when I was
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: younger was that people don't like it when you're pretending
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: to be somebody else or like you're trying to fit
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: them more. You know, people always say like, yo, are
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: you gonna sit at the table? Are you gonna build
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: your own table? You know what I mean? And it's
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: like the people that build their own tables, like my
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: grandmother is like, that's what is inspiring, and that's what gravitates.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: You know, people gravitate towards you. You start doing that,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Are you inspiring people to
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: do that? So I think that, Yeah, when I was younger,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: it was, you know, I have to dress this way
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: because if I don't, this is what's popping now, Like
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: this is what's viral. Everybody wears Supreme. If I'm shooting
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: music video, I got where supreme, you know what I mean,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: or like stuff like that. But and on top of that,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: not really caring about it too. Like in my heart,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I knew I didn't really care to do this stuff
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: like dressed this way or portray this sort like this
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: certain image. But I always felt like that was necessary
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: to move forward in my career. But now, like the
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: older I've gotten, now it's kind of like, yo, I'm
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: wearing sweatpants and cross to the media, you know what
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, Because that's I'm comfortable. You show up at yourself,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: leave as your self, you know what I mean, when
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: you're in there talking to whoever you're talking to, be yourself.
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: That when he goes into these big meetings, he goes
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: as himself. He doesn't change his clothes, he doesn't put
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: on a suit. If he doesn't feel like it, he
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: goes in exactly who he is.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Power.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, people realize the power and being authentic and being
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: yourself now that that's that's beautiful. So what were I
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: guess two questions. Did people treat you differently once they
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: found out who your grandmother is? And what are some
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: of the challenges that you have faced dealing with that.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, people people definitely treating me differently. I didn't.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: I wasn't like the person that would tell everybody, like,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't like your name Mason, I'm Whoopy's grandson.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, I never really was telling people that,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: And because I want like that authentic interaction with somebody
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: before they're like, oh, that's whooped Over's grandson, So let
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: me like try to be super cool with him or
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: like you know, get on his good side, to try
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: to be friends with him, because I had a lot
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: of people try to do that, you know, or people
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: that would be rude to me when they first meet
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: me and then they find out and it's like, oh man,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: what's up. Mazing, It's like I don't like that, And
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: I think that sometimes, you know, because I have to
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: think about it. From like my grandmother's perspective too, because
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I never wanted her to feel like I was trying
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: to hide her from the world, you know what I mean,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Because I didn't want her to feel like I'm not
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: proud that she's my grandmother, because That's definitely never the case.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm so grateful and I'm proud she's the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: coolest grandmother playing, you know what I mean. It's just
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: like that, yeah, like because stuff, and then that stuff
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: starts to bleed over to with social media, because you know,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: you got people that will start commenting on your page
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: because of something that she said on the view, and
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: it's like, I don't want the view all the time,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: so I don't even know what she said. And it's
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: like now people coming on my page, you know, talking
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: about all this stuff concerning her, your needs to do
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: this and do that and do that, like like I'm
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: about to go tell her.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: She's authentically.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: That's so you know that, you know, people start to
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: do that a lot. Somebody told me they commented on
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: my music video one time, and it was like, oh, damn,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: this is what his grandson. I would have thought he
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: would have been a doctor or a lawyer.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, what the hell are you talking about?
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: That's not even ever been my goal or dream of mine.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Shout out to doctors and lawyers. We love y'all, for sure,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: but that's never in your heart. But it's the expectations people,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because you know related to her.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you should have been doing that instead
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: of doing this, which is weird. Sometimes it's a weird
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: feeling to feel that people actually feel that they they
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: know enough to say that you know what I mean.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: Because they wouldn't say it to anybody else. You know,
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: you just have this boldness.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Like I've never seen you to day in my life.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: And it's like, I know you probably haven't seen me either,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: because you probably just came across my page and wanted
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: to say something about, you know, regarding my grandmother. I
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: have people tag me in their stories and it's not
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: even I'm not even in the story.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: It's not even.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Heard mimosas and just grown man. I'm not saying because
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: you don't see it.
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: You want to see this randomly?
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And he started doing it every day, just random marathon.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: What you don't know?
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: This never made him in my life. I don't know
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: who he is, but that happens sometimes, which is like
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: so random.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: You know, how do you deal with those fans?
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I just, I mean I just let him keep doing.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: People comment on your page like how do you.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: I just I'll either just let them do what they
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: got to do. He takes the high rom Yeah, because
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: if if you say something too crazy, it is like
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I still have my following here too, you know, so
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and if you say something wild, somebody's gonna say something
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: back to you.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: You know, you have a whole fight on my comments,
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: like do you not know my grand who?
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: My granny is her fan base, you know, to come
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: after you.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: You don't play about her ground her grand baby.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: No, she don't not at all.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: Can I can do?
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: I think this will be a perfect time to go
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: into impersonating, right, yes.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: Yes, okay, okay.
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: On board to the game, we have a segment called
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: Impersonating Greatness where we have our guests impersonate their family member,
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: their parents or this case, their grandparents.
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: So can you give us your best whoopyberg impersonation?
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm gonna shut it.
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: You can try.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: You can't think of something you can think of like
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: a phrase or something, but just her at home, like
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: in her own element, not on TV or anything.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, right, Hello, it's Whoopy and welcome back to
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: the Boards of the Game podcast. I know you're watching
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: from home, and I know you're enjoying what we have
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: going on right now. Make sure you like to subscribed
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: down below.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: You forgot the.
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: So good listen to the glasses.
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: Like the low tone.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: Boys.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: That was good.
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, that was okay.
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: The phrase, any phrase that she says that you know,
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: she's always saying that you that you like or that
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: you kind of keep close to you.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: One thing my mom always told me, it's always better
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: out than.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: Iconic iconic?
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: Do we dare as.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: Iconic?
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: That's everything that's that's the statement for that. Better than.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: That's like that old school with they don't say, they
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: don't say.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: That every and I don't even know if she is,
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: if she's trying to do this, but everything that she
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: says is ass because she she's a walking gym, and
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: it's like, literally, oh my god, absolutely that.
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: Has stuck with you.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Always prioritized time with your family first, because you know, we,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: as crazy as the world is, we get caught up
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: in work. We get caught up in ourselves. Always make
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: time for your family a phone called text message, FaceTime,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: you know, just check in on your family all the time,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: you know, because family is important, and one day we're
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: not all going to be here, So we got to
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: make the most of every moment that we have on
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: the planets.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, coming from one of the busiest women, Okay, alrighty.
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: So we have another segment. We have a segment on
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: Born to the Game called Legacy Objects.
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: It's where our guests.
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: Brings something small that holds a big story, an item
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: that represents where they come from, what they carry with them,
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: and how legacy shows up in everyday life. So Mason,
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: what did you bring and what does it represent?
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Jesus Peace. That was my father's. He gave it to
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: me and ever since I was a kid, he used
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: to always wear a Jesus Peace and it was always
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the one with the cross. It was never like this
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: this head one that you know, everybody even rap music
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: had that Jesus Peace with the head. It was always this.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: So before I went to Rochester to do a show,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: he gave me this chain and like, I was really
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: nervous about that show, but I like it feels like
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: I'm getting a hug from him and God like at
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: the same time. So if I have this chain, I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: always feel like I could do anything.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: So shout out to my dad. He's at the house
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Shout out, damn, shout out to dad.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: So speaking about dad and fatherhood, what legacy? What does
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: legacy mean to you now? And has fatherhood shaped that?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: And what are you proud of building for yourself and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: your daughter?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm first. I'm proud to keep doing what
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: I'm doing with my music because I want her to
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: be able to grow up one day and be like, Yo,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: this is my dad. You know, this is that he
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: shot this music video, or he did this song, or
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: I remember this song. You know, growing up and you know,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: when she gets to the age where she decides what
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: she wants to do. I just want her to know
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: that she has, you know, my full support, and I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: believe that she can do anything that she puts her
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: mind to. And I want to instill that belief in
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: her too, and not just being like, oh, yeah, the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: world is so big, you don't know if you know,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: you don't know if you can do that.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I wanted her to feel like she can do anything
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: that she wants and love doing it. Whatever she chooses
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: to do to love doing it. So like the legacy
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: there is like it's already it's already continuing because she's
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: here now, you know what It's like, she's already see
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: it in her eyes, you know, And whatever she decides
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: to do in the future, I'm always being her corner
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: and rooting for her and inspiring her to do better.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: And you know what I mean, I can't wait for that.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: That's what legacy is to me now, because I don't
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: really like when it comes to career legacy, I don't
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: really know, Like I feel like I'm living so much
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: in the moment that I'm just trying to do what
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I could do now and you know, not think about
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: tomorrow yet because you know, tomorrow, I don't know, it
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: has trouble of its own, Yeah, exactly. So I just
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: like to, you know, kind of stick to just making
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: sure that she's good, every day, she's fed, she's getting asleep,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: because that's legacy right there, you know what I mean,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Because one day she's gonna get older and she's gonna
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: be a healthy, healthy young woman out here, you know.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: You know, that's just what it is for you. That's
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: what legacy is.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: How is it changing? How is fatherhood changed you?
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: I don't get any sleep anymore.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: Dirty dip.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's the first week. We're just talking
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: about this outside too, in the in the room. The
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: first week, I was thinking like, I don't know how
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: I'm about to do this, Like how am I about
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: to be your father? Right? Because every time I look
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: over at her, she just I don't know. I'm trying
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: to make her laugh. She's like two and a half now,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: because on March fifth then she'll be three months.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: So she frash, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: She just started smiling.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: Like is she sitting the night now?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean if she go to sleep at like
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: nine pm, she probably gonna wake up at like three
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: in the Morning's actually not and but it's like that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: four in the morning. Putting her back to sleep is
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: the part that's like, damn, this is kind of hard.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: But I love every time that she wakes up. It's
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: not like she's like crying and stuff. She'll be waking
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: up and just look at you like, yeah, just start smiling.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: So it's so cool to like to see my face
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: in her face. Ye, you know every day because now
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: you can actually see the twinkle in her eye and
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: she'll look at me and just started like going like
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: that all gums, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: B my son is soon. I still find myself like
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: in his mouth, She's the best.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 6: When you found out you're going to be a dad,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 6: how did you feel?
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Oh? I was. I was so scared because I was like,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously I never done this before, and I
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: was living in New Jersey at the time, and I'm
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, but the closer it started getting
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: to that nine month mark, like when it got to
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: like four months, then five months and six, then you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: start getting more mentally prepared for the moment. And then
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: it gets to the point where I got to month
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: seven and I'm like, all right, just come on the
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: baby shower. Yeah yeah, I'm waiting on you. Yeah yeah.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: And I never, like, I never experienced excitement like that
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: in my life. And definitely that moment I held her
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: in the hospital felt like another like chapter two of
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: my life just started, you know, instead of it's like
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the end of one chapter and like the start of
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: another one. And so that's kind of just so crazy
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: to me, just to feel that and be like present
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: in that point in life right now.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: So now that you are a father, you have I know,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: you have a different level of appreciation for your parents.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for your grandmother.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: What's one thing you would say to your parents and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: to your grandmother?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: I would say, I tell my parents now, I'm like,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know how y'all how y'all did this three times?
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: You know, you know, but I would just say thank you,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: you know, thank you for being patient because I know
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: my mom says, you know, you're a boy, so when
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: you was peeing, it was going everywhere, and I'm like,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm grateful that you stuck it out with me,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: you know, and like the patience that they had, the
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: patience that they have with my daughter now, you know
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: what I mean. It's just beautiful. And they helped me
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: out in every way in life. You know, if I
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: got to do something, go out of town, or do
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: a show or just anything, You're always there just to
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: be like, we got it. Don't worry about it.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out. Shout out to my parents. I want
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: to just say thank you, and you are very much appreciating.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: Beautiful.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: They have raised an incredible heat of being. Thank you
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: so wise, so just genuine great energy.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: Mason. So they've done a phenomenal job with you.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you. That really means a lot.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: We do have a surprise for you, you.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 6: Know, surprises, an money for you.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: If I did, I will give it you.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 7: No, I'm Mason, surprise.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: We're here. We're just now that we love you.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: We're super proud of you, and we love everything that
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 7: you do. An amazing son, an amazing new father, and
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: an amazing musician, and everything that you have accomplished at
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 7: this point in your.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: Life we are super proud of.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 7: We're super proud of you.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: Love you.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: I love you. I will I don't even know what
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: that means, but I'm gonna get it in. I'm gonna
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: get it. This is dope. Thank you guys so much.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: This is so cool, so cool you are and just
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: such an incredible human being.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: So much.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Fun, such a cool space. You
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: guys are so cool, Like I'm loving this. Yeah, Thank
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: you guys.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: For having me beautiful conversation. We learned so much about
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: you again, the impact that your grandmother has had, your mother.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us so close out ready. Thank
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: you for joining us today. I'm born to the game.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 4: I'm your host Mariah.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: I'm Tamara and make sure
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: To like, follow, subscribe, Sure we'll see you next time.