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EYL #237 Ice Cube on Big3 Ownership, Hollywood Secrets, Iconic Movie Roles, A.I. & Hip Hop's Golden Era · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 5: But has really you know, become a superstar entrepreneur and
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  Speaker 5: spearheaded the Big Three, which is I believe the only
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  Speaker 5: correct me if I'm wrong, the only black owned professional
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  Speaker 5: sports League in America. Yes, congratulations, thank you. Something that
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  Speaker 5: has just taken the whole world by storm, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: couple of weeks, so we're gonna be talking about that,
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna be talking about the music, entrepreneurship, everything. So
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  Speaker 5: first and foremost, thank you for joining us. Appreciate it,
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  Speaker 3: Man. You know, this is a this is a nice
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  Speaker 5: let's get into this. So the Big Three. Let's go
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  Speaker 5: through it.
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  Speaker 3: First. Let's start the origin.
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  Speaker 5: I know it starts in twenty seventeen, and anybody in
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  Speaker 5: any neighborhood has played three on three basketball, one on one, basketball,
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  Speaker 5: two on two, and three on three. So it's something
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  Speaker 5: that was already familiar to us. But what made you
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  Speaker 5: have the idea to actually take it from the playground
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  Speaker 5: to an arena.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, we rewind about two years back to
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  Speaker 6: twenty fifteen is when I started to really look at
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  Speaker 6: the three on three game. I had saw so many
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  Speaker 6: tournaments like Weekend Warrior, put your squad together, come out
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  Speaker 6: and play for you know, Spider Mountain Dew or Nike
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  Speaker 6: or whatever. But it was all amateur outside, you know, nothing,
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  Speaker 6: nothing professional. Then I started looking at three on three,
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  Speaker 6: not just me, but my partner, Jeff Quietness. We started
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  Speaker 6: looking at three on three all over the world. And
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  Speaker 6: to be honest, three on three is played more than
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  Speaker 6: five on five. When you take about you know, you
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  Speaker 6: take every basketball bouncing in the world, most of them
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  Speaker 6: are three on three over five on five, and around
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  Speaker 6: the world.
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  Speaker 3: It's because of infrastructure.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they wasn't and they didn't have, you know,
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  Speaker 6: fifty sixty years of basketball. Now we got seventy five.
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  Speaker 6: But so so they play a lot of three on three.
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  Speaker 6: Realize a lot of kids play three on three. We
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  Speaker 6: all play more three on three than five on five,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in our lifetime. So it all, you know,
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  Speaker 6: it just was right, and there was like a void
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  Speaker 6: in the in the market in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, if you like me, after the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 6: you kind of hibernate to to a football start. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, yo, this is a nice gap in the
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  Speaker 6: summer where it's like nothing that's really popping. No full
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  Speaker 6: season happens from June to September, but the Big Three
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  Speaker 6: and everything else is mid season or preseason. So we
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  Speaker 6: just felt like this was the perfect sport at the
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  Speaker 6: perfect time. And it's already kind of in our it's
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  Speaker 6: in our DNA to understand three on three.
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  Speaker 4: So after you have the idea, you have to read
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  Speaker 4: a business structure around it.
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  Speaker 3: And so what's that like?
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  Speaker 4: Is when we think three or three were thinking like
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  Speaker 4: people playing in the parks, you're not playing in the parks, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: playing in the actual NBA arenas. So how is that
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  Speaker 4: building the structure around it, getting players to commit to it,
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  Speaker 4: getting coaches, getting sponsors?
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  Speaker 3: What was that like in the beginning.
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  Speaker 6: You know, working and arguing about about rules, uh, working
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  Speaker 6: about business model, you know, just kind of working it
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  Speaker 6: all out, arguing about that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, really.
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  Speaker 6: Trying to figure out the best way to introduce this
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  Speaker 6: league and what is this league about? And we felt
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  Speaker 6: like the the Mini All Star Game was the was
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  Speaker 6: the hook. We're gonna go from city to city, gonna
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  Speaker 6: take the whole league. You could see the whole league
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  Speaker 6: if you go to a game and we're gonna bring in,
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  Speaker 6: you know, over one hundred athletes that you know, you know,
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  Speaker 6: probably seventy five percent of them, you know, you've seen
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  Speaker 6: them somewhere or you're actually a fan. So that was
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  Speaker 6: the business model, and we're gonna treat our our players better.
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  Speaker 6: We were gonna give our captains control on who he
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  Speaker 6: plays with, you know, not have a GM, and just
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  Speaker 6: really make it a player's league and be outside the box,
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  Speaker 6: you know, come with our own rules that made our
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  Speaker 6: our game more interesting than if you look at FEEB
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  Speaker 6: three on three, it feels pretty amateursh you know, it
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  Speaker 6: feels like outside pick up game stuff. But we wanted
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  Speaker 6: to do things that would bring us into the arena,
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  Speaker 6: create the atmosphere, and create the style of game that
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  Speaker 6: was better to watch and better to play for the
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  Speaker 6: for the players. And so in doing that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we we mixed it all a part like gumbo, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, and uh, and came out with
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  Speaker 6: the Big three and for the last three four years
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  Speaker 6: we've really been tweaking it and adjusting it, so all
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  Speaker 6: the games are interesting.
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  Speaker 3: You're never out of a game.
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  Speaker 6: You can always come back because of the rules that
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  Speaker 6: we've laid down.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: Our four point circle is to me necessary and innovative
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  Speaker 6: and smart. Bring the fire, you know, one of our
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  Speaker 6: rules where you could challenge a file. Once a half,
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  Speaker 6: you could challenge a file and how the players go
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  Speaker 6: one on one if you didn't like the call and
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  Speaker 6: if he, if he make it, it the file count if
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  Speaker 6: you if you, if you stop him, then the file
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  Speaker 6: comes off the the board.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: It's things like that that we can do in the
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  Speaker 6: three on three game that you can't quite do in
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  Speaker 6: the five and five game, and it makes our game unique.
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  Speaker 5: So, speaking of the business model, how is it because
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  Speaker 5: like the NBA for instance, or any sports league is
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  Speaker 5: owned by the owners in each team, they own the
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  Speaker 5: team obviously, and they hired a commissioner. Well, you guys
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  Speaker 5: have full ownership of the league, right, it's different just
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  Speaker 5: like the team, there's no ownership in the teams.
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  Speaker 3: Not yet.
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  Speaker 6: We're starting to move to that model now, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're in talks with a few one MLB owner, another
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  Speaker 6: former NBA owner to buy teams. But we did start
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  Speaker 6: with the you know, kind of like a NASCAR or
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  Speaker 6: UFC or something. You know, we wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 6: that we could calibrate the league before we started to
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  Speaker 6: sell teams to owners, because we wanted the league to
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  Speaker 6: work and we didn't want, you know, too much interference
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  Speaker 6: with our adjustments. And I think we're at a point
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  Speaker 6: where it's time to take these teams and put them
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  Speaker 6: in cities with owners. But this year we're still going
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  Speaker 6: to go with the the with owning the whole league
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  Speaker 6: and getting another season like that under our belt before
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  Speaker 6: we start.
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  Speaker 5: So you would prefer to have different people owning different teams.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, that's the growth of the league. You know,
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  Speaker 6: that's us owning the league. You know, in its entirety
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  Speaker 6: forever was never realistic or never you know, our plan.
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  Speaker 6: Our plan was to get the league, make sure it
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  Speaker 6: worked from all angles, and then start selling teams then expand.
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  Speaker 6: So that's where we are when that process right now.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the last time, especially our generation, i've
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  Speaker 4: seen a basketball movement travel like this, it was and One.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Right, So when I look at your model, I'm thinking, like,
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  Speaker 4: was there influencing that? Because when we were watching that,
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  Speaker 4: we were rooting for an one and then we started
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  Speaker 4: to find out who the players were and then we
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  Speaker 4: run for them. And so I see something very similar
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  Speaker 4: here where it's let's root for the league and now
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  Speaker 4: we have teams. Obviously we see trilogy is Dominats and
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  Speaker 4: that we can find guys inside of there, like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: these are the players.
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  Speaker 3: Was that the biggest influencing model that you were looking at?
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  Speaker 6: One of them I also played in in the NBA
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  Speaker 6: had something called the Entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: League, the NBA E League. Yeah yeah out here and
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  Speaker 3: U last week. Yeah yeah, So.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, they they would they would gather a
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  Speaker 6: few of us and go play in Phoenix or go
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  Speaker 6: play in you know, Oakland or whatever, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: it was cool because people would.
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  Speaker 3: Come out and check it out. So I was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 3: this model.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty cool going from city to city, especially with
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  Speaker 6: something like this because you're kind of introducing people to
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  Speaker 6: the game. And I mean, seeing the seven footed play
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  Speaker 6: three on three basketball in person is there's a whole
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  Speaker 6: other experience that I don't think you would ever forget.
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  Speaker 6: So so we want to go from city to city
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  Speaker 6: and then pretty soon, you know, these these teams will
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  Speaker 6: land in their own cities and we'll go there most
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  Speaker 6: of the time.
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  Speaker 5: The great thing about three on three, because I played
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  Speaker 5: basketball my whole life, a lot of people don't notice
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  Speaker 5: three on three is actually a different game than five
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  Speaker 5: on five.
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  Speaker 3: Remembered Prinshaw. We had we knew this kid, We knew
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  Speaker 3: this guy out.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't the most athletic, he probably wasn't the best
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  Speaker 5: on five on five, but he's pretty virtually unstoppable three
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  Speaker 5: on three. Yeah, So it's like I think that it's
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  Speaker 5: actually introducing a whole new way. Like even if you
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  Speaker 5: when you see the Olympics introduced I want to actual
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  Speaker 5: your thoughts on that. But it's not the same experience
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  Speaker 5: as a basketball fan. You can go to a five
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  Speaker 5: on five game, but if you're watching a half court
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  Speaker 5: three on three game, it's not the same.
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  Speaker 6: It's different, definitely not the same. Different skill sets, you know,
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  Speaker 6: And I'm glad you brought that up because we've had
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  Speaker 6: guys who come straight from the NBA and they struggled
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  Speaker 6: in the Big three, and then we've had guys who
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  Speaker 6: didn't make it to the NBA and they shine in
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  Speaker 6: the three on three format because it is a different game.
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  Speaker 6: You know, in five on five you can be a specialist.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you could be defensive stopper, three point shot guy,
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  Speaker 6: run the court, yeah, rebound guy.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: You don't have to be able to do too much else,
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  Speaker 6: but come off screens. Let thing three on three and
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  Speaker 6: you have no nowhere to hide. You have to be
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  Speaker 6: able to pass, dribble, shoot, and defend or you're gonna
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  Speaker 6: get embarrassed. So you got to have all the around
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  Speaker 6: basketball skills to be successful in three on three because
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  Speaker 6: it's not the help coming, it's not the screens coming,
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  Speaker 6: it's you know, it's it's it's mono E mono pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: You got a man up. Yeah, what are your thoughts
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  Speaker 3: on I mean, I saw it.
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  Speaker 4: I watched it in the Olympics this year, but as
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  Speaker 4: you're creating this league, it's becoming something. And I feel
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  Speaker 4: like overseas we watched three on three the time, Like
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  Speaker 4: I see the highlights, it's always the three. It's never
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  Speaker 4: five on five when I watched highlights from overseas. So
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  Speaker 4: when you see it becoming an Olympics export, what are
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  Speaker 4: your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: You feel like the impact is growing, but do you
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  Speaker 3: think you're responsible for that? Both?
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  Speaker 6: Right, Well, we did announce before they announced that it
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  Speaker 6: was an Olympics, so I got to say that we
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  Speaker 6: we we spark something hopefully, but you never know. I
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  Speaker 6: think it's two different types of game, like you have
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  Speaker 6: the NBA and then you have the Olympic five on five.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's two different styles. Same with with FEEB three
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  Speaker 6: three and the Big Three. You know, they're they have
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  Speaker 6: the amateur version of the game that they do very well,
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  Speaker 6: and we have the pro version of the game. We
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  Speaker 6: actually had a few Olympians coming play in the league.
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  Speaker 6: They played for the Aliens, and so we just feel
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  Speaker 6: like it's two different experiences. Although you know that doesn't
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  Speaker 6: hurt what we're doing at all because it just puts
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  Speaker 6: more attention that that three on three basketball is worth
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  Speaker 6: your time and you know, your your your effort and
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  Speaker 6: your your money to pay attention and and and love.
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  Speaker 3: The sport, you know.
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  Speaker 5: So let's talk about overseas expansion. That's something that all
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  Speaker 5: the major sports leagues have done. NFL, I think the
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  Speaker 5: Jacksonville Jaguars' playing two games in London this year, and
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  Speaker 5: they've had NBA games in France, and they of course
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  Speaker 5: London is NBA Africa. So you for the first time
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  Speaker 5: Big Three is going to be at the O two
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  Speaker 5: arena champion and all slow game rights.
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  Speaker 3: That's maje.
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  Speaker 5: So obviously you're doing that intentionally, right, So what's the
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  Speaker 5: plans for overseas growth and how does that fit into
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  Speaker 5: the business model.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you know, we've always had our vision overseas, not
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  Speaker 6: only Europe, but Asia, and you know, to me, it's
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  Speaker 6: it's part of growing the league. You want to you
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  Speaker 6: want to be worldwide and you know basketball, boxing or UFC,
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  Speaker 6: you know, MMA and soccer are the three things that
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  Speaker 6: translate all over the world. And so we had our
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  Speaker 6: game in Toronto in twenty nineteen, I believe right eighteen.
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  Speaker 6: We did our championship in the Hamas in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 6: and so going to London is you know, a great
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  Speaker 6: statement for the league. You know, we're not only taking
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  Speaker 6: our championship game over there, but like you said, our
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  Speaker 6: all star game, so you'll be able to see the
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  Speaker 6: best that the Big Three has to offer.
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  Speaker 3: It, you know, in London.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, we have a vision of of making
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  Speaker 6: what's called the Big Cup and have each country submitted
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  Speaker 6: team and see who got the best.
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  Speaker 3: Three players in the world.
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  Speaker 6: We also would mind if a owner bought a team
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  Speaker 6: and put it in London. You know, by us playing
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  Speaker 6: once a week, we have time for to travel. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's we can play anywhere in the world. So that's
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  Speaker 6: another advantage of the league.
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  Speaker 4: That makes the true world champion right when you do
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  Speaker 4: that without a doubt. Another way to help the league
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  Speaker 4: grow is having exposure. And for a while and when
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  Speaker 4: the league started, we could watch it on CBS, I know,
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  Speaker 4: DOWB there's a structure with paramount plus. What was that
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  Speaker 4: conversation like getting into the networks and trying to convince
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  Speaker 4: them that this is something that is worth picking up
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  Speaker 4: and how it's going to scale going forward.
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  Speaker 3: It was a it was a big part of the league.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we understand, you know, we could have you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: went straight to a streamer and got a check and
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: did it like that. But to be able to put
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: it on a major network. For the first two years
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: we were on We're on Fox. First it was on
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: FS one and and and then we got some of
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: the games on Big Fox.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: But we've been with CBS for three years.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: It's our fourth year and you know, half the games
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: are on CBS, which is which is great. You know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: it's it's great with growing the league. Our our ratings
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: are better than NHL MLS. You know, they have more games,
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: but you know, we have a constant amount of people watching,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: you know, which is which is damn good for the league.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: That's only been around six years, so you know we're
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: trending in the right direction. We're back on CBS this
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: year and Paramount plus.
• 20:21
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  Speaker 6: We are working out our second platform, so half the
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: games will be on CBS. Half the games will be
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: on the second platform. And to me, that's the best
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: way to grow to the league is to stay on
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: network television.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: So so you said somewhere that you had higher ratings
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: than like NASCAR.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: No, MLS, NHL. Okay, yeah, so correct me if I'm wrong.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: As a as a sports league, you make money off
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: of being on television, ticket sales obviously to the games,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: and then merchandise variety of all this stuff, Right, sponsorships, sponsorships, Yeah,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: of course, yeah, those are the four big things.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: So all right, so how has that gone from you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: How has that going for you so far as far
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: as to work with corporate brands to scale up and
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: you've got good ratings to you know, work out different deals.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Is like doing one off with these TV situations or
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: is it like three year deals or ten year deals
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: and like kind of projecting it in the future.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, our deal with CBS was a two
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: year deal and they re reupted, so and with brands
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: it varies, you know, summer three year. You know, our
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: first deal with where the DTAs was a five year deal.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: It just varies. And you know, the craziest thing was
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: to have this league during the pandemic because you know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: everything you know, kind of went back to square one
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: until we kind of built it back up because.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: All brands were.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: They were just calibrating and redoing their business models on
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: how they approached advertising. Some brands realized during the pandemic
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: they didn't have to advertise a lot because they were
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: still selling out of their products. So you know, we
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: had to live through that, adjust through that, and you
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: know what's great is we're getting more more corporate sponsors,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: you know every year. We got more this year than
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: we had last year and we still haven't started the season,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: so we're hoping more come in.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: But that's to me, you know.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: The the constant fight when you have a league, you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: brands will come in and go out, you know, so
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: you know the thing is to be around long enough
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: to get those five and ten year deals is the key.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: They talk about, you know, leveraging your celebrity because I
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: remember that when the lead first started, we were watching
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: the games, but there was a marketing campaign behind it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: You didn't know who you were going to see sit
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: in front row.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so how did you better to approach people like, hey,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: this is something you gotta see because i'm watching the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: gains away.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Is that so and so saying front row? Yeah, well
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: we wanted to.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: You know, we come from entertainment, so we knew the
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: games have to be you know, dead serious, but everything
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: else we can have fun with and we can encourage
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: all our friends people. We know, we can encourage this
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: to be the place to be in the city. You know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: when we come to town, you know, it's really a
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: cool experience. It's different than the NBA, because when you
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: come to a Big Three game, it's not just the
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: corporate guys hanging out. You know, you got whole families there.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: You know, you got people bringing their kids and the
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: neighbors kids, you know what I'm saying. So it's that
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: fun atmosphere. Nobody gonna tackle you if you run down
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: to get an autograph from Doctor J.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: It's like, it's like that on purpose, you know, I
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: wanted it to be fun and different than than.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Just your typical NBA game, which pretty standard. You know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: it's about Web three.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: I know you guys have a Web three Project Forever
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Experience Action Token.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, what's the deal with that?
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, when n f TS came out, a
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: lot of people didn't understand what they were a lot
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: of people, you know, it was like, yo, why would
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: why would you sell digital art?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Who was buying that?
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: And so the next step in the n f TS
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: was was utilities, like being able to buy this n
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: f T and have physical and real things that you
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: can do with it and not just be a piece
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: of art.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: And so what we what we came.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Up with was was a FEAT which is giving people
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: ownership like experience, Like if you was the owner, you
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: would you would have special parking, you would have you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: v I P treatment. You know, you would have access
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: to practices and you know, the players and and and
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: and the functions and the parties and the things that
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: we do. And so that's what we offered. You know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: we offered our NFTs, but they were real things that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: You can do.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: You know, you can you know, own a piece of
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: a team and and be treated like our owner.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: When I look at the league, I look at the
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: player of retention, and so it makes me want to
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: how were the contract structure with the players season by
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: season or is it multi year? Because I mean I've
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: seen James White play almost every year.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah you had ice old.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Joe killing and I mean he's he's probably gonna be
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: in there big three hole things.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Without a doubt. So how does that work with the players?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: How do you structure contracts?
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Will usually sign one or two year contracts. You know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: it's depending on success. You know, if you're winning, that's
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: my fun. So but if you're winning, you know we
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: want you back. If you're not winning, then we may
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: make a move here and there. You know, it's really
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: about and how long you been with your squad and
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: your team, you.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying like that, that's uh, you.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Know, if you've been there a while and you i
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: ain't really got over the hump, we may make a change.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: And what happens is we picked the player captain and
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: he gets to pick who he wants to play with,
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: So the Coke captains are his choice. And then and
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: then they draft two players from from the combine to
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: make up the rest of the roster.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: You know, we have certain rules though too that if
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: you win the championship, that same squad has to return
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: to defend, and the runner up team they can return
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: with the same squad too, but they have to send
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: one player.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Back to the draft pool and pick a new player.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: And then everybody else, the captains and Coke captains stay
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: the same, but all they draft players got to go
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: back to the pool and get they gotta you know,
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: reupp you know, if you're not winning, you gotta reup.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: So that's pretty much how it goes.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: So James White, they've they've you know, one have gotten
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: to the playoffs or the championship and so you know
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: he he's there. You know what I'm saying, there's no
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: reason to pull him because they've been winning the championship.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: You know, shout out to Stephen Jackson.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: But there's been a lot of talk lately about player
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: conduct from the NBA side, right, And I want to
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: talk about this John Morant situation because I see a
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: lot of people like, well, he has a right to
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: bear arms, but then it's like, well he works for
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: a private organization. So have you ever had any issues
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: with your league as far as player conduct and what's
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: your personal thoughts on specifically the John Morant situation.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, we want players to conduct themselves in
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: a professional Manner's cool. We're dealing with players that's older,
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: you know, been around the game a little bit. You know,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: we're not dealing with kids. You know, we're twenty two
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: one up. So you know, we want we want people
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: to conduct themselves in the right way. We're not going
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: to micromanage our players though, you know at a certain point,
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: you know, what they do outside of the league is
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: pretty much their business. But the NBA is a different
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: you know, it's a different league. They got different standards,
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: you know, I just want him to be treated like
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: other players that's brandished guns on you know, on pictures
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: or whatever.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: You know, So it's complicated.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: You know, it's like it's like marijuana, you know what
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: I'm saying, Like you're in a state that that, uh,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: it's legal for recreational use. Do you suspend a guy
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: on camera smoking a blunt? You know, it's real tricky.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: So you know, I just think you just take everything
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: in consideration. It doesn't help his brand, and I think
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: he should consider that. You know that little five minutes
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: of being cool with your homies, it don't do nothing
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: for you. Don't do nothing for you, you know, so
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: probably should put the guns down. You probably don't want
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: to need a gun. You know, in this life, you
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: don't want to need a gun. So I'm saying, so,
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: you know, playing with it is ridiculous.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You shouldn't play with guns period.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: You brought my water and so it made me think
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: of being a league first because you were the first
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: league to accept marriwater and CBD. It's something that you
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: can use inside of the league. You also the first
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: with a four point play. Yeah, first a female coach
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: yep to lead a team. Were the first embrace mental
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: health first to embrace metals. So being in the league
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: at first, you're setting trends and I'm wondering what.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: The relationship is like with the other league.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Right, we brought up the NBA, So is there a
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: positive relationship there where they're watching what you guys do
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: when it's saying like, maybe these are some of the
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: things that we can now accept, do you feel like
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: you're setting those trends in that way?
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think they're taking things that we're doing
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: and watching us, and we're you know, somewhat guinea pig
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: for it. But you know, we've taken some things from
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: the NBA too, so we understand that. I think I
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: don't think they like the fact that we change the
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: game without acts. We do what's best for the Big Three,
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: and they might not dig that because they have a
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: business model. You know, their players watch what we do,
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: and you know they they may want to be the
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: only ones to change the game, but it's too late.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: So I have a theory that virtual reality is going
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: to change sports because I feel like it just makes
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: complete sense, Like if you could pay to actually put
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: a headset on and like be front row with Avontae
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Davis throwing punches or Lebron or whatever. Right, Like, I
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: feel like virtual reality is gonna be big period. But
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I feel like sports, particularly basketball, football, and boxing.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: So how do you feel about that?
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: And is that something that you would incorporate in your
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: league as far as to have, like not right now,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: but in the future a virtual reality component where people
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: can actually pay and have a virtual reality experience from home.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, without a doubt. You know, however, they want to
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: experience the Big Three. You know, it's a challenge to
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: get ten twelve thousand people in an arena and you're
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: free on TV. So you know, some people gonna want
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: to watch it at home. Like me, I prefer watching
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: boxing at home. You know, I've been to a couple
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: of matches and shit, if you blink so so, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: you know, I like the announcers, I like the angles,
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: I like the replays, I like all that. So you
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: know that doesn't make me, you know, less of a
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: boxing fan. So so people gonna have a on preference.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: And you know, we would be crazy to try to
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: shun the technology that's available for people to experience the
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: Big Three because it's all about eyeballs now, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: it's all about as many people seeing the game, you know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: loving the game for UH and staying interested in the game.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: That's the most important thing right now, you know, making
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: money off tickets, getting a big contract for streaming and
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: all these. To me, it's not the way to blow
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: up the league. The way to blow up the league
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: is eyeballs. Eyeballs, eyeballs, and so we'll do whatever it
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: takes to get those eyeballs on us, you know, whether
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: you come watch on TV or virtually.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: One of the things when you're creating some innovative and
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: this is something we've learned, is you got to document
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: the process.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: You document it all.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: And so I know you're working with Jesse Collins Entertainment,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: who is phenomenal in covering especially US, cover us in
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: the right man. So talk about that because I know
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: a lot of it is built around some of the
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: challenges that it took you to get to this point
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: with the league.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Without a doubt.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: Man, you know, people wouldn't understand how hard it's been
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: these last seven years because of the obstacles, and not
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: only obstacles from the outside, but obstacles within, you know,
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: dealing with with with UH, with you know, people who
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: have ulterior motives for the league, you know, and and
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: so you know it's been it's been a challenge, but
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: you know, we up for it. You know, we kind
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: of knew it wasn't gonna be a cakewalk that you know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: starting the league from scratch is virtually impossible because so
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: many things got to go right and and you can
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: get attention, but keeping it here is a is another animal.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: So it's been a challenge.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: But but uh, I think people dig it another players
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: love it. I know fans love it. And to me,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to do anything else right now, you know,
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: another movie, another record, like you know, I could do that,
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: but this right here is something that's huge and humongous,
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: and so.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: This is where I want to be.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: So I want to ask you about Hollywood actually, because
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: you start in music and become a superstar and then
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: you're just going a crazy run in Hollywood. But so director, producer, screenwriter,
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: and actor. You actually have done all of the four
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: I believe one movie you did all fours Players Club, right,
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: So when you first starting in Hollywood, Boys and the
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Hoods your first movie, yep, classic, that's classic.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Classic. So hey, I got all right, let's start there.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: When you're doing Boys in the Hood, do you in
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: your mind know like this is something that is going
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: to be a game changer.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: No. Nah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: You know, as a matter of fact, when I first
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: saw the rough cut it, you know, never show somebody
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: a rough cut if they don't know the process. Because
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: I was pissed off, you know, I left called my
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: manager at the time and I was like, we fucked up.
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: We fucked up doing this movie. It don't even look
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: like a movie it saw. It feel flat. And she
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: was like, what you're talking about? I said, John showed
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: me a piece of it. Well, he showed me the movie,
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: but it it's unfinished. Look, don't look finished, she said.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: Did he say it was finished? I said, no, let
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: him finish the movie. Let him finish the movie. So
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: from the time I had seen the rough cut to
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: the time he showed me to finish movie, I was
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: pissed off.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: You know, I was thinking, man, what didn't you like
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: about it?
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, it just didn't have all the sound
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: effects in it. It didn't have you know, if you
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: watch a movie without without them sound effects and things,
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: they feel flat. You know, somebody set the cup down.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: You don't hear the fucking cup. You know, like you
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: see a car go by, you don't hear the car,
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. It just seemed like the hell,
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: WHI is this movie missing sounds?
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: You know? I know, I see I should be hearing.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: But he had to put all that in and he
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: had to edit it and polish it up, and so
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: when I seen it finished, then I knew.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, this is some shit.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: You know, this is a good ass movie, Like this
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: is this is something that is gonna It's gonna change
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: people's outlook on guys that come from our neighborhood. You know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: did you feel that's interesting? Because now I'm thinking about it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: At the time, this is after America's Most Wanted. This
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: is after well right around the same time as that certificate.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: Are you thinking this is a risk because I'm Ice Cube,
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: the rap star who's from NWA, who has his soul
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  Speaker 6: career that's thriving. Hey, I am trying to act because
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: at the time, we don't really see too many people
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: in rap that's acting. Yeah, it's you and you didn't
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  Speaker 6: play play house party. Yeah, yeah, I thought it was
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  Speaker 6: a risk. Ice Team was acting a little bit or
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: he's in Colors, yep. Yeah, but uh he'sn't Breaking, It's
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  Speaker 6: in Breaking and Ship. But but it was Yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: was like, man, you know, I want to do good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not an actor, Like kept telling John, I'm not.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not an actor, man, you know, like.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even want to be an actor, you know
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  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. I just wanted to do good in
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: the movie.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Taking that attitude and taking that approach, and he helped
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: me through it.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Lawrence Fishburne helped me through it.
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  Speaker 6: Cuba Gooding, Junior, you know, they are they all you know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: helped me get comfortable with doing that. Like, you know,
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: you could feel stupid acting, you know what I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Like you got all these people looking and you just
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: gotta do some some shit that's written down from a
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: piece of paper and not from your true heart, you know.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: So it was an adjustment.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm thinking to myself, now you start boys in
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the Hood, John Singleton, invest in Peace, the influence there,
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: but you come back with Hoigher learning with him again.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: So talk about the role he played inside of you,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: thinking about screenwriting, producing.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Directing, everything. You know, he discovered me as an actor.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: He he he coached me as a as a writer,
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: and he helped me as a director. Like he actually
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: came to the set when I was shooting Players Club
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: and helped me.
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  Speaker 3: This big scene.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: I was running out of time and he just helped
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: me organize it and get his shot. And so he
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: just he just stopped by to see what was up.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: You know, he didn't stop by the work, and he
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: stayed there with me for six to eight hours to
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: make sure it just got done right. And so I
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: really needed him that day. And I appreciated him helping
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: me because you know, he went to film school, He
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: went to these things to prepare him.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: You know I didn't.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: I didn't do nothing but shoot videos and and and
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: I was on a few movie sets. So he was
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: my mentor throughout. You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't have
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: done film and produced and done these things without without John,
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: you know, basically being a living example and then helping
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: me when I needed it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: So how do you even have because most people are
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: you become a successful actor. A lot of people just
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: stay in that pocket and you could have just been
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: a successful actor. But like I said, to go screenwriter, producer,
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: and director. I think the first the first thing that
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: you wrote was Friday was that.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: No, No, that's the third third movie I wrote. Uh.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: He he encouraged me to write. He asked me.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: You know, I was sitting in his house one day
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: and he was like, YO, when you're gonna write a movie?
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, what I said, Man, I'm barely getting
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: this actor shit right.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: He said, you expect every script you get to be
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: as good as boys in the Hood. That's what he said.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I don't know. I mean, Hollywood is full
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: of trash. Said if you want to do good movies,
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: you should write them. So and then he said, yo,
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: if you can write a record like the records you write,
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: you can write a movie. So that kind of gave
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: me the encouragement to just start writing. And then he
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: would help me. You know, I would taking my scripts,
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: he would read them. No it was trash, but he
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: would help me get better. And I wrote a script
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: called America He's Just Young, which is from my old
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: Funkadelic record, and then I wrote another one called Full Life,
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: and then I wrote Friday with DJ Pooh legend.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: So Friday, you wrote, you wrote that that comes out
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: classes that changed the games again. Yeah, so this time
• 43:47
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• 43:49
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• 43:52
  Speaker 5: did you have an idea that that was gonna be
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: as big as it turned out to be?
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: For for for the cool people? You know, I felt like,
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  Speaker 6: Had Hood classics, h and I wanted mind, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I mean I had boys in the hood, but I
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: wanted my own.
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  Speaker 3: So I was, you know, working on that because I was.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: Like, get a hood classic, then people always gonna like
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: this movie and they always gonna hire me as actor
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: if I ever have to, you know, rely on my
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: past to get work in the future. So having a
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: hood classic was was most important.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: I think you you might be and sorry, maybe you
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: can correct me. You might be the only person with
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: a classic five mic album and a classic movie that's
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: his What do you think that.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Ever? Yeah, a classic movie that he that he made
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: that he made the movie.
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and a classic like well, five mics messed up
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: that you have five mics, that's a fact. And Friday,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: I mean Boys in the Hood of Lowe was a classic.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: That's yours. But Frida is yours. Yours?
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: That might be a new thing.
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: I'm so that how long did it take to shot
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: because it was like maybe a couple of days, twenty
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: days to shoe. So as you're right, there is one thing, right,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: but this business side of it, and we've seen it
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: with production, is you gotta pay these people. Yeah, right,
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: So who's teaching you about budgets? Like who you need
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: the lighting? Who's teaching you about that?
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Is John as well.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: I had a great manager by the name of Pat
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: Sharponay and she's actually a producer on the Friday movie.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: But between.
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: Her and me, we was just figuring it out, you know,
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: figuring out who we wanted to use to help us
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: here and there, and so we just you know, worked
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: on finding the right crew, you know. But yeah, yeah,
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: it was really you know, her knowledge of the business
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: that that helped us get that movie done in twenty days.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: So what because it will follow up really quickly because
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: you alluded to the Players Club. Yeah, but out of
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: forty films, it's the only one that you have directed,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: producer and screenwriter and acted in. Yeah, and did the
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: soundtrack and did the soundtrack. I'm wondering because why is
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: that the only one that you did it? Was it
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: something that you saw from the production side that was like, oh,
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: directing side that was like this is a lot.
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: Well, directing kind of takes you out of the game
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: for about a year, year and a half. You're stuck
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: on one project, you know, And I didn't want to
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: be bogged down. So I actually like producing better than directing,
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: you know. I like to find a director that I
• 50:47
  Speaker 6: can work with and then produce the movie because I'm
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: not as bogged down, you know. I can I can
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: actually produce three movies in the same time as I
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: could direct one. And so I just felt like I
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: didn't want to. I don't want to be bogged down
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: like that again to have to you know, I wrote
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: the movie, so I was I was on that movie forever,
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: like writing it, then getting it where somebody wanted to
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: make it, then casting it, shooting it, editing, doing the soundtrack,
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: you know, putting it out and commentating the DVD and
• 51:34
  Speaker 6: you know, so since you look up and it's a
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: long time on one thing instead of doing multiple.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: So speaking of the Friday, was there lessons that you know,
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: because let me if I'm wrong? Was there issues with
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: Warner brother because they owned the franchise?
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: Right, Warner Brothers, they are they distribute the franchise. So
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: they distributed the first one, and it has in the
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: contract that they have the right to distribute each one.
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: So what were their issues trying to make more Fridays?
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: Like they have to approve something before you could actually
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: make a Friday.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so talk about that.
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: Well, we you know, we did the first one and
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: and I wasn't gonna do another one. After that, they
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: approached me, could you want to think? Could you think
• 52:28
  Speaker 6: of another one? So I said yeah, And then I
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: approached Chris Tucker. He didn't want to do it. So
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: I was like, oh, okay, this is kind of throw
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: a little monkey wrench in the movie. So so we
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: did it next Friday with Mike Aps. That was great.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: People loved it. Then we did Friday at.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: The next and then they asked me to write a
• 52:49
  Speaker 6: fourth one, and I wrote and they they had.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: An issue because.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: Craig and Day they ends up in jail from selling weed,
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: you know, and finally end up in jail, and dee
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Bo and the Joker Brothers is trying to you know
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: what I mean, they in jail too, so they're trying
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: to you know, trying to you know, stab them up
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: and shit. So they just was like, Jail's not funny.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: You know, nobody, nobody's gonna laugh about being in jail.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I'm like, you ridiculous.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: Like then all these movies come out like Oranges New
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: Black and Let's go to Jail and Life Life and
• 53:35
  Speaker 6: you know, Get Hard and all this shit, and I'm like, okay,
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: so y'all definitely don't know what y'are talking about. So
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: I just kind of, you know, that was in twenty thirteen,
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: you know, so I just kind of stopped paying attention
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: to them. Then they asked again, they begged again for
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: me to write another one.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: So I come of, right, one to fit.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: This time won't be about jail, and they loved it,
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: but they just had these little notes that they kept
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: trying to change things, trying to change it I'm like, dude,
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: you guys do not know what needs to go on
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: a Friday movie. Like, stop pretending like you guys are
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: smart when it comes to this shit. You know what
• 54:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, I know it, I know it's gonna work.
• 54:23
  Speaker 6: I know it's not gonna work. And they just kept
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: messing around. No one knows, back and forth, back and forth,
• 54:31
  Speaker 6: you know, six months of this shit, and then John
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: Winsbone pass away, So they like just fucked around till
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: the man passed away and then Tiny passes away A J.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Johnson. It's like the movie we were gonna go back
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: on the block.
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: And so you know, I've been trying to get it,
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: get control of the franchise.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Since then.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: So essentially essentially you wrote to you actually wrote two
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: more Fridays. Yeah, and that's never came out. Yeah obviously.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: So you say you're trying to get control of the franchise.
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: How do you go about trying to get control of
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: the franchise?
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: You know, I mean, of course appealing to their superiors
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: on you know, their basically sleeping on money.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: Is it like a buy out thing? Maybe, like if
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: you pay you can not. I'm not, I'm not. I'm
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: not gonna pay for it.
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna you know, what they need to do
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: is let me control and they'll make a lot of money,
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: but they're not gonna make it.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: So you're open to doing another one.
• 55:42
  Speaker 6: I'm open to saying if another one can be done
• 55:47
  Speaker 6: while you're doing that, While that's happening, there's still other
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: franchises being created that you're involved in.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: Right, So Barbershop, Yeah, it's right there, you have the
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: Are we there yet?
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: So now like intrusting family households, I wanted what that
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: experience was like for you, from Boys of the Hood
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: to that point, Like there's a generation where it's like, oh,
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: ice Cube, the guy who makes the kid movies like
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: I grew up, ice Cube was the dude was telling
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: us that.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, I'm with this, I'm with this.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: So how's that transition?
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: Because we don't see people grow, right, we don't see
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: our artists grow, we don't see them evolved, and we
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: don't see them have these moments.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: So what was that transition like for you?
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: It's amazing, you know, to be able to sustain love
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: and families, and like, once I realized my fans, my
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: core fans were having kids, and they kids was in
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: elementary and junior high. I felt like, Okay, it's time
• 56:51
  Speaker 6: to do something to to make sure I'm still cool
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: in this household, that household or whatever. The last thing,
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: I want you to look at your kid and be
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: like ice cute.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: You should you should look him up. He used to
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: be He used to be cool. You know what I mean.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: We used to rock him, you know, he used to
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: used to use to put this record.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: So I didn't want to be that guy, you know,
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: I wanted I wanted the kids to know who I was.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: So the way to do that.
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: Is to do a movie that they love, and that's
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: always gonna get played, like see, are we there yet?
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: The kids grow up, they love it, but they outgrow it.
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: But then there's always new kids coming up who their
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: parents is like, Yo, sick of you bugging me? Stick
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: you in front of a movie, put in already there yet?
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: So the love is generated, you know what I'm saying.
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: With each with each generation that that watched that movie,
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: they end up growing up and then they reach a
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: point where they discover my music, they discover my my,
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: my other movies and stuff. So it's it's a way
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: to reach rejuvenate fans and to make sure that that
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: the youngsters know who you are and they're not just
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: relying on you should have heard death certificate, you know
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: what I mean.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: You should have heard today was a good day.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've done something very unique inside of that too,
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: and that's provided opportunities so that that's the first time
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: we see Eve in the movie.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Ye first time we see NICKI humanas in that type
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: of throw.
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: You were super intentional about that, like, given opportunities to people,
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: especially in the reporld.
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: If they're great, you know what I mean, if they're good,
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: if they if they have a personality that I think
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: people want to see more of. Yeah, you know, it's
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: really all about being the right person for the role.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: You know, I didn't know they was all gonna work out,
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean, never know how it's going
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: to be when they when they actually audition or they
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: come on set. But yeah, I want to give people
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: a shot that that Hollywood may be overlooking.
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: So speaking of Hollywood screenwriters, they're on strike right now.
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: And this goes back to the Web three conversation where
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: somebody told me, you know, I just do I started
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: thinking about it, and I'm like, they might not have
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: as much leverage this time because of chat GBT, And
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: it's like, well, if I can have a computer writer
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: script in a day, then I don't necessarily need a screenwriter.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: What's your thoughts on that.
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: Well, I think, you know, it's something that's very real
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: and it can happen. Yeah, you can have a computer
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: write to a script in a day, but you know,
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: at the end of the day, will it be as
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: as real as a person writing it.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: Will they have that feel to it? Who knows? You know,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: it's it's a new world.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: That's why they don't strike, you know, they want to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: you know, curve it in some ways.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: The worst thing is for them to tell the studios
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: not to do it, but then they go home and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: do it when.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: It's time for them to turn in that spread. Yeah, so.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: You know, at the end of the day, you know,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: technology is here. Everybody got to make an adjustment. I
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: don't know if I want all my entertainment to you know,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: come from an artificial source. You know, I may just
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: check out and you know people be scrolling more and
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: looking at real stuff.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: I think that the the hunger for reality is gonna
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: start growing as more and more artificial things take over.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: You know. I even think it's a backlash right now with.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: Music music because you have a lot of people using
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 6: auto tunes and they sounding like a computer, and I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 6: don't know if people are gonna go for that.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: Did you Amban? Yeah? I did. How do you feel
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: about it?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 6: I didn't like it because it's artificial, you know.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 6: I treated like a sample. You know, I can simpleize
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 6: the Brothers, but not the Brothers. You know, it's just
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: a piece of of how great they are. You know,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 6: it's a sample, it's a portion. It's not the it's
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 6: not the is Brothers. You know, it's my interpretation of that.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: So I guess you look at this like you would
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: look at sample.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: In terms of the movies and writing, there was a
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: phase when you did the family comedies like the ones
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: we alluded to earlier. You did the Buddy Cops films
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: with twenty one Jump Street and twenty two Jump Street.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: I remember watching the original show Holly Robinson right along
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: with that.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: Right along with Kevin.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: Is there a genre or a topic that you feel
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: like you're headed toward that you haven't done.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: Yet I think I could do more dramas.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, I like with the success of my comedies,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: most people shove comedies in my face. Most movies I
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 6: get green litter comedy. So you know, I got some
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 6: dramas in me song.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: What's that process like of getting at greenld So for
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: most people, they don't even understand. It's like, you write
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: the movie, then it's what's the next step I.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 6: Have to get it to You write the movie, polish
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 6: it up as tight as you can get it, and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 6: and you uh, you know, you pitched idea to the people.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: You know, I know from being out in Hollywood for
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: thirty years, I know people are different studios that you
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 6: could say, hey, I got something. You know we're pitching.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: We're gonna be going around to different studios and telling
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: them the idea on this date. You want it, you
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: want want me to come in, and so you set
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: up a bunch of meetings where you go around town, uh,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 6: pitching the idea, and you know, people respond to it, Yo,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: we like it, we want it, and then you send
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: them the script. The script go through whatever process to
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: go through at the studio. I think the marketing team
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: has to sign off on it. You know, you don't
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 6: want to do a movie that they can't sell, so
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: a lot of different departments sign off on it before
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: it's green lit.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Green lit means the studio has agreed to make it.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: Everybody has signed off on it, and you need actual signatures.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: And once you get all the signatures, you need the movie.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: You know, they start to spend money and the movie
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 6: is actually green lit. When they start to spend money, do.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: You put the budget how much it's gonna cost to
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: make it? Or yeah, they figure it out.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you take the script, you get it to a
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 6: line producer, a line producer, he he breaks down how
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 6: much it's gonna cost, how many days it's gonna take
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 6: to shoot, how you know what you need? How many locations,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 6: and you know, he kind of breaks the script down
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 6: to puzzle pieces and each piece costs a certain amount
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: of money to create. So you know, you look up
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 6: and it's like, yo, for this much money, you can
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 6: shoot thirty days because it costs you know, one thirtieth
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 6: per day, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: And so.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 6: Depends on how much it costs per day, that's how
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 6: many days you got to shoot, on how much your
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 6: budget is.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: So it costs a million dollars a day, and you
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 6: got thirty million dollars, you got thirty days to shoot.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: So sports and activism has always kind of gone hand
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: in hand in the black community, from John Collis at
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: the Olympics, Muhammad Ali to modern day Klan Kaepernick to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: Kyrie Irvan. You have been very vocal as an activist
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 5: for a long period of time in a variety of
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: different political situations that you take apart. Now you're actually
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: an owner of sports league, So what's your thoughts on
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: players taking social stances and what's your thoughts in general
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: on sports and political activision, racial different things coming coming together, Like,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 5: what's your thoughts on that, Because a lot of people
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: think that should be separate. Some people think that they
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: should go hand in hand.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: Like, what's your thoughts. I think nobody want to see
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: robots play.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: If that's the case, then you know, everybody would be
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 6: creating their own Lebron James robot.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: You know, so nobody want to see robots play.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: Some human beings with opinions, you know, do I want
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 6: you shouting out anything political in the middle of a
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: jump shot? But before well, before and after the game.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: Man, they put a mic in your face. You got
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: the mic.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 6: I'm I come from a from a culture of you
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 6: got the mic, Use it, you know, and you could
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 6: change somebody's attitude. You know, you could change somebody's thought process.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: If they hear from the right person. You know.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 6: I remember different people coming up to my school and speaking,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 6: and some people I paid attention to, some people I didn't.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 6: It depends on how much did I like them, respect them,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 6: understand what they was about.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: So sometimes it takes.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 6: An athlete to get the message across more than a
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: politician or teacher or preacher or whatever. So you know,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 6: everybody should be able to voice their opinion depend you know,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 6: it don't depend. I mean, it don't matter if they
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: played a sport or not.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: Would they be Throughout your career, you've pretty much done
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: a variety of different things, from speaking out against the police,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: political issues, acting, rapping sports is anything that you feel uncomfortable,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: like I don't want to like this is not my lane,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: because it seems like everything is your lane.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: Like, is it anything where it's like I'm staying away
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: from this?
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's plenty of things, you know, I just want
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 6: to do what I feel like I could be. I
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 6: can be additive, you know what I mean, be good
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: at I don't want to I don't want to take
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 6: away now. I don't want to just do stuff because
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 6: I can. I want to do it when I know
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 6: I could do a good job. And so I you know,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 6: I do a lot, but I make sure that I
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 6: don't do too much where I can do a good job.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: You know. The last thing is, you know, just saying.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: Jack of all trades, master of none is still better
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 6: than being a master of one. But I don't want
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 6: to do so many things that that that my music
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: or my acting or the sports starts to diminish because
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: I'm just spinning too many plates.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: Now, jack of all trades, a master of none is better.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: I've never heard anybody say that before. I never heard
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: the second part, second part. You know, people forget the
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 5: second part.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 6: They always say, you don't want to be a jack
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: of all trades and a master of none, but it's
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 6: still being It's still better than being a master of one.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 6: So I don't want to do everything. But you don't
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: want to just single out to just one thing too either,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 6: So I think it's about balance.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: It's about knowing when you've reached your limit.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: And I want to learn about a game and understand
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 6: it before I get in it. Anyway, So I'm always
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: you know, I want to respect the game before I
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: get in it, because if now you're going to lose, I.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: Won't go back to nineteen ninety one, the line was
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: either they don't know, don't show, don't give a funk
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: about what's going on in the hood.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 4: More important than the line, which is very important, was
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: a shirt that you were wearing, Let's said Crenshaw on it,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: that sparked a movement inside of a young man we
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: know now it's the late Dipsey Hustle. I wonder what
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: your thoughts were when you saw the impact that that
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: shirt had on this community and obviously on him and
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: the whole marathon brand.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 6: I didn't really make too much of it because the shirt,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: you know, and Crenshaw has had a profound impact on me,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So it's hard to look
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 6: and say, yeah, I did that when when I was
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 6: affected the same way. You know the area he used
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 6: to you know, it was boulevard where you know, people
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 6: would go hang out with their cars, They women, they music,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: and so to be able to just even highlight that
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: area on film was you know, I felt honored, you
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: know what I mean? So anybody taking that and running
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: with it, you know, to me was was was I
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 6: honored that I'll bestorm John instead of myself.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: So did you do you watch No Fall? The show? Nah?
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: I couldn't watch No Fall. Why couldn't you watch it?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 6: Because John? You know, John wasn't there the complete division.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: The reason I asked is because the last scene, well
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: the last year, the last scene that part. I was
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: wondering how how you interpreted because it was kind of
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: an old boys in the hood. He's walking through the
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: alley that reminded me of the alley that Ricky was
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: running down. Yeah, you want to see a dead body, right,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: you want to see that body and the filming boys
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: of the Hood as they're doing it, So it felt
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: like an old to Johns I was thinking about how
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: you know your thoughtsbout it because you were involved in
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: that movie, and obviously John was the creator of Snowfall.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: I thought it was an amazing.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: They call it the Easter Egg or whatever, an amazing
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: homage and and tribute to John.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: And and.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 6: We probably had some people around there screaming, you know
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: what y'all making what y'all doing. I mean, I didn't
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 6: like him yelling you ain't gonna win the oscar, but
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: silly niggas yell that ships at all. But but for
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: the most part, I thought it was real cool. I
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: thought it was a great way that to put a
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 6: cherry on top and and make you know, John's you know,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: vision somewhat full circle because he's always seen you.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 3: Know, we saw.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: Boys in the Hood and Poetic Justice and Baby Boy
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: as a trilogy, and and so you know, this was
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 6: his you know, weekly crack at it, so to speak.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: So you know, I wish he was able to that
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: it was his vision throughout the whole series, but that
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 6: but that ending was real classy.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: Is TV more challenging then because you've done TV like
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: to Is TV more challenging in the movie or I.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: Think so because with TV you gotta you gotta basically
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: create a movie every week with a movie just you know,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 6: it's a one shot deal. And so I think TV
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: it's harder to keep up with that pace.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: Before we leave, I just gotta ask a couple of
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: rap questions.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's fitting because the last time we was here,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 5: I asked Baron Davis the same the same exact question.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: So I'll be interested to get your take on it.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: Your top five rappers from l.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 6: A Wow, from l A. I got some cold rappers
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 6: out here. I don't miss nobody, you know, I like, uh.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: M hmm.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: Can we claim corrupt? Yeah? Yes, sure, sure, sure, my love.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: I can't put them in order though, that's fine, That's fine.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: I love corrupt. Okay. I think you wanted the coldest
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: and it could be surrounding areas calmed in Long Beach.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: Kendrick is cold, Okay, the game is cold.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: Rass cast interesting choice. M hm.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 6: Crooked Eye, no Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg is a superstar
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 6: on all level. You're rhyme in pure rap.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: Grab the mics bars? You know those as oppose to me?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 8: Are?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: Are the bars? I'm gonna make something even more general.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: It's fifty years of hip hop, right if we're putting
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: the playlist together with the five songs that have to
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: be in the fifty the fifty years of about what
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: are some of the five greatest sauce?
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: I will put the breaks? Okay, uh rappers delight.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 8: Okay, the show classic, damn down.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: To two fingers left.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 6: I ain't even left the eighties yet.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: Mhm.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 6: Wow, man, this is it's hard after that, like, wow, man,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: the last too.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: I cannot put one in go for it in my
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: top fifty. Yeah, today is a good day?
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: Is in the okay, all right, no problem, Like I
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 6: know you're gonna be humbly speaking, I ain't gonna I
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: ain't gonna put that one in fifty. I appreciate those things, man,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that that plays forever.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: It's one of those songs. It's like summertime for Smith.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: But it's so many.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 6: It's like, you know, treated right, God, damn uh, it's
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: like it's so many.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: It's tough. It's too many. It's too many.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 6: Man, it's just like, yeah, it's too many that it's
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 6: too many many.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, him, it might be an easier one.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 5: I know you're obviously in a much more positive like
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: these things, but it's important to the culture. I think
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 5: when you spar with your opponent, right, it's a core
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 5: element of hip hop. Yeah, you have one of the
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: top battle songs ever, the top, the top, the tip.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: What's your top five? He said? The top no Vascilina
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: is the top battle song ever, and it's not even close.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even close. All right now, yeah, so all right,
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  Speaker 3: so what's the top five.
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  Speaker 5: No Vascillina's number one for you, what's the top four
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  Speaker 5: other than that battle songs?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I would go with, you know, hit him
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  Speaker 3: Up is good? Ether is is dope.
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  Speaker 4: I would go with, uh, your eighties got, uh, your
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: eighties got.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm not saying he's got you try I got.
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  Speaker 6: Oh man, I'm gonna have to go with uh, the
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 6: bridge is over, that's what that's what we go and uh,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think I gotta go with let's go, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: What was Let's go again? D d No? Takeover? Take
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: over or back to back, back to back is done
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: to is serious? Yeah? That became like a number one record.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah it was Grammy not baby.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: I think he got one too. What was that? Uh?
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: Back down ricky? Now? Back down was back down? Crazy? Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but I don't think it's as strong as
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: like takeovers that's in the five.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: But ether no, I would say no Vasseline and ether
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  Speaker 3: I'm surprised his why it's no vassaline, you know, argue
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  Speaker 3: this with us.
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  Speaker 6: One took our poem c's and the manager.
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  Speaker 3: Can't beat that. Takeover?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no Ether Ether took out a record a record
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 4: label that took him out, put him on a pause.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: I have to rearrange some things. I broke up a group.
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  Speaker 6: You did that was kind of the temple getting at
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  Speaker 6: the end for Rufus, it was.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so no vascil I guess like both does right?
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: They came back. Yeah, bomb things was incredible. Do you
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: do you miss that element of hip hop?
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 5: Like I said, I mean, of course nobody wants to
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: see violence and stuff like that, But do you miss
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 5: the element because there's still people beef in each other now,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: but now it's it's real beef, Like, do you miss
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 5: the element of people actually making because it's not easy
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: to make a song about somebody you got think you
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 5: got the research.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: Like cannabis is up there as well. Second d No,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: you can't forget about that. That's that's up there. Yeah, okay, okay,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: do you miss that part of hip hop? I don't know.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 3: You know, it's like it's like fighting.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: You know, it's cool when somebody else is fighting you watch,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: but when you're in the fight, you don't know where
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 6: it's really gonna go.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know how cool you feel. It's like that.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 6: It's kind of like you're putting, you know, not only
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 6: yourself but your crew in some kind of you know,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 6: possible danger, you know what I mean. You don't know
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 6: how out of hand it's ever gonna get. And usually
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: the people battling or going at it like that on
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: the record, it's serious. Before they get a chance to
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 6: have a conversation, sometime they can squash it.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: You compare the making movies to making TV. You're saying
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: like they're making a movie every week. I wonder what
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 4: that's like for you, especially while you were creating these franchises.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: The process of writing a movie as opposed to writing
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: an album, is it the same creative mind flow? Like,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: what's that process?
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 3: Well? Was it like for you?
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 8: No?
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: I you know, writing a movie is you know.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 6: I looked at it kind of like a hobby. You know,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 6: it's like my downtime. I may I may be out
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: of town, I may be on a movie and just bored,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: like in my dressing room, like in my trailer. So
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: I'll start writing just to be creative and not just
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: have a lot of dead space with a record.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm I gotta beat.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, I'm I want kind of instant
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 6: satisfaction with a movie. I know it's like this is
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 6: a long drawn out process, so I just kind of
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 6: take a different approach the music.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 3: You know, you want you.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: Want to hear something, record something, and you want it
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 6: to be dope when it come out to speaker, Like
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: you need that shit. Like if it's not sounding good immediately,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: you start to you know, either break it back down
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: or change things or just you know, you got to
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: get it to that process. You gotta get it sounding
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 6: good immediately.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: I got two more music questions for you before we finish.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: It's very important versus would you do it?
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 3: Versus? And who would you?
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 5: Who do you think is the ideal dancing partner, Because
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: how I look at versus, it's not always like this
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: is the best person, this is the best person. They
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: got to kind of compliment each other, like, yeah, a
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: good dancing partner, Like I don't think two chains in
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: Rick Ross was a good pairing, not from a skill standpoint,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: but it just it wasn't a good dancing partner. TI
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: and Rick Ross is probably a better dancing partner. So
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: how you feel about would you do it versus? And
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 5: if so, who would you want to versus? I wouldn't
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: do it versus, But I think me and LLL would
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: be a great versus. Why wouldn't you do it versus?
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 5: We both can grip and rip, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 5: We both grabbed the mic and spit it, and we
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 5: both can perform our songs, So I think it'd be great.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: We both got.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: Hits, and you know he got a lot of hits.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: I said, he got a lot of hits, So I
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 6: just think it'd be a good one. But I wouldn't
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 6: do it. Why not because I respect him too much.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 6: I can't go against LLL.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: But it don't have to be a battle. It could
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: be like because earlier how it was not gonna be like.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 5: It wasn't always dip Set and Locks turned it into
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 5: the battle, But before that it was just because even
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 5: ghost Face and Rays.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: Did a versus together.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 5: Like before the dip set and Locks, it was more
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 5: so like complimenting each other play a song. It was
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 5: very friendly. Once Jada Kids got up there and took
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: Santana's Ben dan Off.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: Has it been at the end of the Yeah, that's like, yeah, no,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 3: I'm good. All right.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 5: Well, my last questions the question how do you feel
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 5: about artists selling their catalogs and would you sell your catalog?
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, you got to do what you
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: feel is right for yourself and your family. You know,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 6: at the time, I don't think I would sell my
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 6: catalog because I think it's uh man, it's a valuable
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 6: piece to our puzzle and my estate, my kids, my family.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 6: You know, once you sell it, then you know, you
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 6: do something with that money.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: And then you you kind of lose out on what
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: ownership is all about. You know.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 6: I love when people call me and be like, yo,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 6: we want to put this song in this movie here,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 6: And it's like, you know, that's the reason you own
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 6: a song or own your publishing, to be able to
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 6: grant that and get that extra money.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's part of the game.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: You talked about family, talked about the state. I wonder
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: what it's like watching your son established himself as an
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 4: actor in this field?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 3: Amazing?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, who else could play you in
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: the movie Budgets and he killed that?
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: So what is that like?
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: Because most people we see in music their children want
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: to do music and sometimes the works.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 3: Sometimes it doesn't just follows you an actor. How's that?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: How's that been? It's been great. You know.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 6: I couldn't have like, you know, written out a better script,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 6: you know, for what to happen the way it did.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 6: And the fact that he's not only you know, taking
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 6: that role, but he's he's run with his career. You know,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: he's in Spain right now doing then the Thieves too.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 6: And you know, as a bother, you just want your
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 6: kids to be good kids and then you want them
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 6: to do something cool that they did. And uh, I
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 6: think he's he loving life right now, you know, he
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: loving life. So proud of him, man, and proud of
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: all my kids. You know, all my kids are great people.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 6: And that's that's you know, that's what you want at
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 6: the end of the day. You know, as long as
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 6: I ain't raising no no jail birds and no dope heads.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I'm happy. How long you've
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: been married, been married for right now it's about thirty
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 3: one years going to thirty one years. How has that
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: impacted your career? I'm sure.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 5: I Mean people don't really talk about that a lot
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 5: but how that family having the stability in your family,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: How important was that for you to be.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: Able to achieve the levels of success that you've been
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: able to achieve.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 6: Wouldn't wouldn't be able to do it without without the
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 6: family support and without being a family man. You know,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 6: I just think about all the time that that could
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 6: have been wasted, that I ended up really staying focused
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 6: because I didn't have those distractions that I've seen some
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 6: of my peers have, and so, you know, it's been
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 6: an essential part of me being able to do so
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 6: many things and do them at a high level. You know,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 6: if I was just running around, you know, I probably
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 6: wouldn't get get most of that shit done.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: Que appreciate your time, brother much respect. How can it?
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: When will the Big Three be airing again? How can
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 5: people get information? Anything else?
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: You want to let the people know before check us
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: out The Big Three?
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: We're gonna be back for season six starting June twenty
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 6: fifth on CBS. We starting down in Chicago all summer
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 6: long from June twenty fifth to August twenty six, every weekend,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 6: either Saturday or Sunday.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 5: You can check out The Big Three on CBS. Yes,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: and I heard you got a celebrity All Star game. Yeah,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 5: y'all ready to get down in it.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm just think d C. Yeah, y'all ready, when
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: is it?
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 6: It's uh, it's was a week before the twenty six
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 6: What is that? We're gonna put it in the calendar nineteenth
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 6: August nineteenth, put it in the calendar.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 6: Man, the Gallon Wallow n Eli Chopper. You know they
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 6: he can really the ball.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: I've seen them play. Yeah ball.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 6: So we'll love to how y'all come back here and
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: show you what you know? That's what he show us
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 6: what you got now.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 5: I appreciate you, brother, thank you, and thank you for
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: you know, being a shining light for us, you know,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: watching from voys in the hood talking about gentrification thirty
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: years ago, to not being afraid to be political, to
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: you know, doing in the movies, to being an entrepreneur
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: to provide an information. Game is something that I think
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 5: a lot of people have gained a lot of insight
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 5: from inspiration, motivation, and education. So that's something that is
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 5: extremely important. So thank you for everything that you've done
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: for the culture in the world.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: Appreciated man, you know much love. Just thanks for everybody
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 6: for all the support.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 6: You know, you can't do this kind of stuff without
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 6: the people, you know, supporting and showing you that they
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 6: appreciated and they want more. And so you know, I've
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: had so many people motivate me, so to be able
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: to motivate you know, anybody from what I'm doing, you know,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 6: is just a blessing that comes off of, you know,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 6: putting your putting your head down and working hard.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: You know. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, yeah, ya.
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  Speaker 6: My graduates from my school being forced bad drop.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: Might drop trust.
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