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Club 520 - Master P & Chris Johnson on CRAZY Jimmy Butler story, AAU & NIL · Club 520 Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The volume. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, NYC. What's happening? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: That's off the books of the show Man first Seas. First,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate y'all pulling up. Shout out to my god
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  Speaker 1: Marcus having this few of our culture. We appreciate y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Man Club five twenty Man, I'm the host. My name
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  Speaker 1: is DJ Wells. I got my game with me to
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  Speaker 1: my far for our left, my dog Bi should be
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  Speaker 1: hearing out the pearles.
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  Speaker 3: How you what nasty?
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  Speaker 4: Cool and nasty?
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  Speaker 3: What's up in New York?
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  Speaker 1: You know the vibe to a right that back home here?
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  Speaker 1: But show still to my right, my dog young not
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  Speaker 1: yo your tea? How you are brother man? I'm cooling, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here. It's a good vibe in here.
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  Speaker 1: Already we can be ourselves. So that's all I needed
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  Speaker 1: to hear. Oh yeah, he already set the tone.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, man, we're gonna have some great guests today. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start it off right man. We got two of basketball
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  Speaker 1: spinders joining us on the stage right now. We got
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  Speaker 1: from the Legends Basketball Survived, My man, Chris and last
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  Speaker 1: a certain lot at least one of the best talent
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  Speaker 1: evaluators in basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Coach P Paul j N already appreciate y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Come on up, y'all, show ups a love, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Hey showing the DJ some love, My boy going crazy
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  Speaker 1: with the segments.
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  Speaker 2: Tap me me in for showing show ups a love.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, man, it's a lot of basketball up here. But
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  Speaker 1: first things first, you know what I'm saying. We love
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  Speaker 1: having a good storytime here at Club five twenty for
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  Speaker 1: coach P and T. Y'all got a connection from way
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  Speaker 1: back man letting people know about it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he told me today, Yeah, you worked. He knew
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  Speaker 2: my father. So I'll let you explain the first and
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  Speaker 2: that I could comment about it.
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  Speaker 5: So when I was grew up in Boston and I
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  Speaker 5: used to attend practice is at Boston University when Rick Patino,
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  Speaker 5: you're Saint John's coach, was the head coach.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear it for Rick and Saint John's yeah on
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  Speaker 2: top of the Johnny love.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, uh no.
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  Speaker 7: It is.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm a young college player trying to walk on
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  Speaker 5: Division three and I'd go to all the practices in Boston.
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  Speaker 5: So I went to Boston University watched Patino practice. Jeff's dad,
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  Speaker 5: Shaun Tigue, was there. He was one tough son.
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  Speaker 3: Of a bitch.
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  Speaker 5: I can say that, right, Marcus, say anything I want,
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  Speaker 5: Coach Am I right though, your dad tough, hard nose player.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know he was. He was sad to me,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll let you go.
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  Speaker 5: That's not what I saw him practice.
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  Speaker 1: Now, so you telling me that and he gonna watch
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  Speaker 1: this show and you giving him all that love. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not to hear that for the rest of my
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  Speaker 1: life that he was a good player, and every day I.
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  Speaker 2: Was telling me so.
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  Speaker 5: So he's a og man.
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  Speaker 2: Don't say that now you got og title. It's crazy
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, what my favorite things about basketball? And you got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of vantage points. A lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: play a part in people being successful.
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  Speaker 2: One of the best traders around, Chris Man.
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  Speaker 1: Please tell the people how you got started and say
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  Speaker 1: helping people get to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, first of all, shout out to Marcus, my guy.
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  Speaker 8: I met Marcus at USA basketball. Okay, so I had
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  Speaker 8: a couple of players on the USA team and I
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  Speaker 8: met him with Tobias Harris. So Tobias and him are
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  Speaker 8: really good friends. And I've been a part of Harris's
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  Speaker 8: family for a while. And we met gambling with me
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  Speaker 8: and him and Russell Westbrook.
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  Speaker 4: So we were.
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  Speaker 8: We were gambling and me and Marcus was looking like, hey,
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  Speaker 8: double down on zero. We was telling Russ the next
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  Speaker 8: one they hit with zero, which payout is like thirty
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  Speaker 8: three to one, and nobody on it. But that's how
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  Speaker 8: I'm at Marcus and you being in a basketball space.
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  Speaker 8: It's all about community and it's all about you know,
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  Speaker 8: the youth, the ground, the grassroot, and it's all about
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  Speaker 8: you know, it's a small circle. And I went from
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  Speaker 8: being a player and understanding like what my true craft is.
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  Speaker 8: So my true craft is not hooping. My true craft
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  Speaker 8: is developing people and really taking it into like a
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  Speaker 8: science of like understanding, like mental mental health, mental wellness,
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  Speaker 8: like understanding moves, you know, looking at people and being
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  Speaker 8: able to identify not just what their skill set is,
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  Speaker 8: but who they really are. So basketball for me has
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  Speaker 8: been great, and to be around the world, to be
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  Speaker 8: able to touch people around the world through basketball, it's just.
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  Speaker 4: Been a great vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Most definitely, one thing I like about you Chris, is
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you said off the court is just
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  Speaker 1: as important as on the court, and coach, you can
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  Speaker 1: contest it. Is you evaluate talent, you have to evaluate
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  Speaker 1: the person as well. Do you keep that in your
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  Speaker 1: mind where you go through rankings and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like on court, but off the court is just
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  Speaker 1: as an important.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. I put a big emphasis on traits, not just talent.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of talent out there, but talent doesn't
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  Speaker 5: develop without traits. I believe that your your traits can
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  Speaker 5: protect your talent and it can grow your talent. A
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  Speaker 5: lot of talented guys with red flags. That's why they
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  Speaker 5: don't make it in the basketball space and sometimes they
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  Speaker 5: don't make it in the professional space. So character, to
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  Speaker 5: me is huge. Every high school player I have a
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  Speaker 5: chance to talk to, I tell them three things. Focus
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  Speaker 5: on character, academics, and talent. I tell them to chase
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  Speaker 5: the cat. That's the acronym.
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  Speaker 2: So far as there's a hell of an acronym, coach
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  Speaker 2: that might get you in trouble too.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: So far as the talent side of it, though, how
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  Speaker 9: you go about like ranking a player?
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  Speaker 3: What are the steps?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 5: I coach for a long time so I have that.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully I have the experience right and background and seeing
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  Speaker 5: the players at the highest level of college. I coach
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  Speaker 5: at Ohio State, Boston College, so I know what the
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  Speaker 5: high major looks like. Been a head coach at Wright
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  Speaker 5: State mid major, and I was an assistant with Rick
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  Speaker 5: Majeris at Saint Louis University then he passed away. So
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  Speaker 5: for twenty two years I've been in the college game
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  Speaker 5: as a head coach or an assistant.
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  Speaker 4: So I look at.
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  Speaker 5: Different categories that are important to the game talent wise.
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  Speaker 5: First athleticism. You have to see who has the athleticism,
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  Speaker 5: who has the measurables skill level, who can impact the
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  Speaker 5: game without scoring for me? And I know for Chris
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  Speaker 5: basketball IQ is missing in the game and it's needed.
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  Speaker 5: And I look for kids that understand what they're doing
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  Speaker 5: and why they're doing it. Quick story on that. Talk
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  Speaker 5: to an NBA assistant coach just this year and he said,
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  Speaker 5: half our team doesn't know where to go on the court.
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  Speaker 5: They don't know when I say cut, they don't understand
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  Speaker 5: when I say screen, they don't know how This is
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  Speaker 5: a high level NBA assistant. So basketball IQ is another factor.
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  Speaker 5: And then I put the traits competitiveness, coachability, body language,
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  Speaker 5: and being a caring teammate. Those are my top four.
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  Speaker 4: Because you had Jeff rank so low high school.
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  Speaker 3: So I just wanted to.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna get I checked that before I came. Yeah
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  Speaker 5: about that, okay, all right, well here's the disclaimer.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't doing it then.
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  Speaker 3: I was coaching to.
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  Speaker 5: Say, Louis when you come out of high school, So
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  Speaker 5: blame the guy before me.
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  Speaker 2: I need to talk to him. Was that they had met.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they didn't know what That's why I got the job.
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  Speaker 2: They have bad eyes.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. I had your brother up high.
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  Speaker 2: You did shouts to FoST when you moved, shout to him.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, thank you for that. Though you're trying to
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  Speaker 5: put me in a corner. You can't put a boss
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  Speaker 5: the guy in a corner in New York. Not good.
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  Speaker 1: But so yeah, he tried to it up for you.
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  Speaker 1: Paul's but listen, oh in YC. Yeah yeah, y'all know
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  Speaker 1: what time it is? We playing them games? I said,
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  Speaker 1: Paul's Relax, now you know what I'm saying. We only
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  Speaker 1: got introduced to each other. Why is Kayane Anthony not
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's all American.
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  Speaker 3: What you got to do with that?
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  Speaker 4: I need to know.
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  Speaker 5: Committee votes.
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  Speaker 4: Who is the committee?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, a lot of people who oh, different people. There's
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  Speaker 5: a whole list of people we live in. You got
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  Speaker 5: to reach out to McDonald's to get that. That that's
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  Speaker 5: information that didn't want me to give out.
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  Speaker 3: So if you reach out, they'll give it.
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  Speaker 2: To you McDonald's.
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  Speaker 5: But honestly, it's always been a vote. Look, I recruited
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  Speaker 5: McDonald's All Americans. Now I'm voting for them. There's so
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  Speaker 5: many great players every year, and Kayanne's a great basketball player,
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  Speaker 5: especially on the offensive end, and he's a really likable kid.
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  Speaker 5: Not to get voted in, somebody has to get left out.
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  Speaker 5: There's other guys too that had great high school careers
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  Speaker 5: this year. Great, I mean great. I don't throw all
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  Speaker 5: compliments unless they're they're earned. They didn't make it either.
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  Speaker 4: Son on the West Coast.
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  Speaker 8: I think six eighty McDonald's All Americans in California.
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  Speaker 4: At one point it used to be like two per stake. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and so now yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They don't do that. It's not about it's the twenty
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  Speaker 5: four best players in the committee's mind, based on the
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  Speaker 5: criteria that they give you, which is who can be
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  Speaker 5: a pro, who's dominated the game at the high school level,
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  Speaker 5: and who has the greatest upside among the group. And
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  Speaker 5: that gets difficult, as you know, you make a list
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  Speaker 5: top one hundred, top two hundred, somebody's going to be
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  Speaker 5: left off that could be deserved. Just like the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 5: We were talking about that in the back room. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: teams that got in maybe shouldn't have teams that didn't
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  Speaker 5: make it North Carolina, Yeah okay, and then you know,
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  Speaker 5: other people didn't make the tournament. That's the unfortunate part
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  Speaker 5: of making a list.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I guess that was a pr answer.
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  Speaker 5: Respect, What would you like me to say the truth?
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  Speaker 6: I just did.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't make it.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get hold of Hey, I like him.
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  Speaker 3: You got to watch him.
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  Speaker 9: You gotta watching someone to ask you like, I'm good,
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  Speaker 9: I got I'm back on you next hold on, Chris.
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  Speaker 10: That's crazy, you know, you know, yeah, oh, Jeff, Jeff,
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  Speaker 10: this wasn't in the contract.
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  Speaker 9: Now, Chris, I wanted to ask you, like, who was
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  Speaker 9: that first player? Did you develop him in high school,
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  Speaker 9: college or the pros?
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  Speaker 4: Like first?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, cool? Or even that you you might have started
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  Speaker 3: with a pro.
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  Speaker 11: I heard you basically changed Jimmy Butler game round.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember him in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 8: Shout out to Jimmy because getting traded a Golden State.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're like fifteen and two.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and okay, look at Jimmy.
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  Speaker 8: With Jimmy, Jimmy's very interesting because Jimmy does.
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  Speaker 4: All the things that you just mentioned.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't ranked in high school.
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  Speaker 8: He wasn't ranked in the city of Houston where I'm from,
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  Speaker 8: he wasn't on the top scholarship boards. Coach Bulls Williams
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  Speaker 8: gave him a scholarship going to Marquette the thirtieth pick
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  Speaker 8: in the draft.
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  Speaker 4: So when he got to me, when.
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  Speaker 8: I looked at Jimmy, Jimmy has what you need to
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  Speaker 8: be a pro. It really doesn't matter how you start,
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  Speaker 8: but when you pick up, you know that I got
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  Speaker 8: to prove something. I got to go out and change
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  Speaker 8: my life. I come from nothing. When I get that
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  Speaker 8: type of ingredients, like a player like Jimmy, it's easy
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  Speaker 8: to develop because he already had the mindset, he already
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  Speaker 8: had the competition, and he already had the will and
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  Speaker 8: the want to be that So I put Jimmy on
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  Speaker 8: a five day workout, play like five workouts a day,
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  Speaker 8: like micro.
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  Speaker 4: I had him trained with the point guards.
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  Speaker 8: I had him trained with two guards, the forwards and
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  Speaker 8: the sentence. So when you watch him play now with
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  Speaker 8: Go to State, he can play anywhere on the court.
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  Speaker 8: He got all the footwork.
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  Speaker 4: And he has the ability to make the team better.
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  Speaker 8: And so that journey with Jimmy was great because he
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  Speaker 8: gave me an opportunity, a platform to be able to
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  Speaker 8: build him and to build him into something great. And
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  Speaker 8: that year people don't know Jeff when he was in Chicago,
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  Speaker 8: Jimmy had a contract I think about forty six million.
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  Speaker 8: He came to me and was like, say, bro, I'm
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  Speaker 8: a decline. I was like, bro, I can't tell you
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  Speaker 8: to climb forty eight million. I ain't got forty eight million.
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  Speaker 8: I can't tell you the decline. And he was like, no,
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  Speaker 8: I'm gonna get max. I put into work. I'm focused,
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  Speaker 8: and I don't give a fuck.
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  Speaker 4: Turned it down.
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  Speaker 8: And once he turned it down, at the end of
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  Speaker 8: the year, he was Most Improved Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 8: First Team All NBA NBA All Star got a picture
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  Speaker 8: of us taking that picture of signing a hundred million
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  Speaker 8: dollar max contract for the Chicago Bulls. And that's a
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  Speaker 8: player that wasn't rained, sir, He wasn't on nobody board.
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  Speaker 4: It just comes from peer desire of what you want
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  Speaker 4: to become.
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  Speaker 2: That's the fun.
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  Speaker 1: Now, listen, if I ain't the best advertisment to tapping
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  Speaker 1: of a Christmas training on what to tell you, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you just he just sold the ship out of me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to get back out of.
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  Speaker 3: You would have took that risk?
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  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, no, no, that would have been signed.
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  Speaker 2: I said, Chris, you're right, No, you can't.
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  Speaker 8: You can't take that risk because there's so many players
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  Speaker 8: that have had your teammate before. I think you got
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  Speaker 8: the Minnesota took that Riskay his name, but he wound
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  Speaker 8: up in China the next year.
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  Speaker 2: Damn. Oh you talk about you, bozo?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, forty eight on the table yep, and he
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  Speaker 8: was like I want sixty yup, And he was in
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  Speaker 8: China the next year.
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  Speaker 2: this season?
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• 16:53
  Speaker 2: No, that could have said.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: You want to know who's on the committee?
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Say his name?
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: Yo?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: So where was you at when Jimmy went crazy on us?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: You was part of that. He was part of that.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: So you called Rachel Nicholas, Yeah, he tried to.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna tell you Jimmy. Jimmy is a true competitive
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Jimmy crazy.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Suah hey yo aw he said.
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: He said, Jimmy is the type of guy to keep receipts.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Let's just start there. He ain't forgetting, he plays Domino's.
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: He's he's ultra competitive. You know, and sometimes guys that
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: are really competitive, they just black out and they just
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: focus on what's that in the moment, and him going
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: to practice was just a build up of what was
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: going on in his life at that moment. And when
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: you have that in you where he started for nothing,
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: playing with the third team and going after cad and
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: going after people, those are true stories. But he was
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: there to show them that he wanted to win so bad. Now, Jeff,
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: before you got there the year before, let's talk about this.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: After All Star.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Break, Jimmy tore his meniscus a euro step against the Rockets.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Oh no, I was there.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Oh he was on the team.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we came the same year.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: So Jimmy called me. I wish you wouldn't have He
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: should have told me he was gonna do that. Shit,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: how was State of Indiana.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: But exactly, But to show you the type of competitor
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: is show you that practice. Jimmy could have canceled the season. Sure,
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: I told him once again, counsel the season. He looked
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: at me and as like Minnesota had never been in
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: the playoffs, like in fourteen years or something.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: He was like, I'm gonna come back.
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna make us go to the playoffs, and I'm
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: gonna sacrifice my body for this team and for the organization.
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: And we left. We went to California and we trained.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: He went out of surgery. We started training the next day,
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: sitting in a chair, dribbling. Four weeks later he was back,
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: and I think he had like thirty eight thirty six.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: First game back was in LA I told him to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: sit out.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I was trying to kill they was in there that night.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I had seen some people I wanted to something body.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: All right, man, before we get out of here, when
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I ask both of you, gentlemen, keep his brief as
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you can. Obviously, is there a big change of how
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: you go across dealing with younger athletes with the NIL effects?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Well, nil now is in the high school game. Forty
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: states allow nil and the other states will eventually doesn't
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: affect what I do at all. It's more so what
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: happens to the players.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: The public school.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Public schools have lost a lot of kids going to
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: private schools because a lot of the public schools, and Jeff,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: you could probably speak on this, being the head coach
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: of Pike High School, kids will leave for the private
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: schools because the NIL is more open. Each state association
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: makes their own rules, but at the end of the day,
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: the government is going to decide NIL, not state associations.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: But for what I do, the only thing I noticed
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: is when kids get NIL, I take a look to
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: see if their game starts to digress because of all
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: the distractions. I tell every kid that will listen in parent,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: you know, your brand is not your brand. Your game
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: is your brand. And when they decide to have a brand,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: to have a business to make money.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: We're all cool with that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: But when it affects your game or your grades, it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: not a good thing. So and it's a hard thing
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: to balance because adults can't balance money and game. So
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: now you have a teenager grades, school, game, money, it's
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: a hard balancing act. But for me, I just continue
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: to watch the progression of the digression of them on
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the court, their talent, their impact, and then I always
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: keep an eye on their traits.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Mo Stepan, Chris want to ask you this as a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: parent of a kid, it's going crazy right now. You know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, obviously you got the game and the knowledge,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: but you see, as other teammates, how is that for
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: them to kind of adjust to this new type of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: lifestyle or opportunity. You got a lot of kids, like
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you said, they come from nothing. Somebody way of checking
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: your face. You can change your mama life today, but
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: that check may not last longer if you go crazy
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: later and get more money.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, as a parent, my son is going to Colorado,
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: shout out to Colorado, Big twelve, Yes sir, and he's
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: yeah taboid, he can play. I think it's the big
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: thing is building a system and community around the kids.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: The money's always been there, so the money's not changing kids.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: Social media has changed kids and the fact of like
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: showcasing what you actually have. So you just need to
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: educate kids on how to utilize the platform of social
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: media to be beneficial so versus them having to do
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: it themselves.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Just hire a team. So it's there. So we just
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: need to educate the.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Kids, the community, the system, the people around them of
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: how to hire people to put in place that can
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: manage those things for them so they can keep the
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: main thing.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: The main thing.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Now, what I've learned having people kids that come from
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: influent houses, those are your top basketball players right now.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: The people that can afford training you don't see a
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: lot of kids in the hood getting the right training
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: because they can't afford it. It's become a business now.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: So like for myself, if I got a person that's
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: in a hood, I make enough money where I can
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: just say you good, I'm gonna take care of you.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna build you from the ground up, so his
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: sacrifice will be different. But you find people now that
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: parents can afford training, their skill sets are much better.
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: So it's really has nothing to do with nil. It
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: really comes down to what's in your chest, who's around
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: you if you want to really play basketball, or you
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: want to be a celebrity or influencer, because there's three
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: different levels to that. So we can't box a kid
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: in Because I got people that parents are filthy rich
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: and play basketball in the NBA, as so many kids
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: that I have that dad played in the NBA. That's
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: better than a kid straight out the hood because he
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: has more opportunity to get trained and to be developed.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: So that's why you looking at the NBA now, you
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: see a lot of kids of dads that play in
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: the NBA because they have the resources to be able
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: to get to that level.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: But do you think it lacked passion now, because I
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: think when you come from nothing and you are hoping
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the passion be a little different.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: It does.
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: A look, it does be a little different. But then
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: I look at Steph Curry.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: But then I look at Anthony Edwards.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I think we all can relate to him a little different, yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: than we can to Steph Curry.
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: Right, I mean, but we can relate. But when I
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: look at Staph, I look at Clay, I look at
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: some of the two parent households by in the NBA
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: that people don't talk about because the game of basketball,
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: no offense fall is a black dominated game. And so
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: when you look at that hero, no offense, but it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: dominated by black players, and so a lot of people
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: don't talk about two parents. They don't talk about the
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: two parent household, you know. And so being a two
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: parent household, you can produce a mentally tough kid. You
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: don't have to be abused to be mentally tough.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: It's her.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: We're down on time. But I want to tell this
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: for everyone more watching whoever coaches trains parents. We talked
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: about social media, you talked about mental wellness. We can
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: talk about basketball all day long, and the biggest thing
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: that I've noticed, whether it's millennials, Generation Z and now
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: it's I think it's Generation Alpha. The biggest problem the
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: kids are experiencing is not on the court social media.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: First was the Internet, now it's social media. And the
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: one game I tell everyone not to play is the
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: comparison game. It's a never ending game. You can never
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: win the comparison game. And so many kids are playing
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: that comparison game. And it's a recipe for unhappiness. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: you don't even get to the trainer, you don't get
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: to the coach. You're just unhappy all the time because
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: you're constantly comparing other kids have versus what you don't have.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: So if I can encourage everyone to help kids not
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: to play the comparison game, someone's always gonna be better
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: than you. You're gonna be better than somebody else. That's
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: the way life goes. But if you can keep them
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: focused on their own growth, their own development, they'll be
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: happier and they'll make faster progress. The comparison game is
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: the quickest way to fizzle out of anything, whether it's
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: somebody at work or somebody in sports.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I just want to get that in I well saying, coach,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I need to hear that. Hey man, we got to
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: move on. Make some love for coach P and Chris
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Johnson for show.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Gentlemen.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: We appreciate y'all. Gonna take a quick break and we'll
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: be back at it. We get to be in the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: presence of a mongul philanthropist and mostly partly right now,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: President p Man. We got the one, the only master
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  Speaker 1: p the build. It makes a love Master p Man.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you Man.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: So I honored to be in your presidence tonight, big dog.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Before we start, can I say some p Yeah, Hey, DJ,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: can you play break.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: A Moll's something real quick for me?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta send to bar exact like we ain't
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: got they know in my house. Oh, it's like a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: national anthem. No no no, no, no no nothing, no no.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: No, no no no, break the ball something, hold on.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: They don got that. That's cool. Respect, respect, don't worry
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: about it. That's my mama. It's cool.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Oh there.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Now getting right here we go. Hey, you don't what
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I'm saying.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I had to do this for my sister, she said.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: If you don't tell him how we feel about this,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna never forget you.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: What they say.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Well, you starting off.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Hustle ball against Captiller who I beat your neighborhood drug dealer?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: You turned me out?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Seek me o me.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I'm all right right, my faull DJ, I just had
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a shower.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: I had a show.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, the ball that's right now we locked
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: in up to. That's my song, man, that's my song
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: for sure. Listen, man, first things, farts. Congratulations on your
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: new role. You know what I'm saying, New Orleans holding
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: down to president of operations. Man, tell us what inspires
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you to take that role? Man, You're so successful with
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: everything you've ever done. What made you go on this journey?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 28:16
  Speaker 12: So black athletes, right, A lot of these people don't
• 28:21
  Speaker 12: understand us.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: They don't understand our culture.
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: And for me to be a coaching to be president
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: of operations of a major university and coming from hip
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: hop exact history, and I'm just letting God lead me
• 28:35
  Speaker 12: on this journey, y'all where I come from. And this
• 28:39
  Speaker 12: this is big for our culture and our people because
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: we always talk about the negative things.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: So think about it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 12: It's been twenty five years that I've been doing right,
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: and so I know that this is a way that
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: garden and I'm just taking this journey.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Most definitely, Tea.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Listen, you got a little bit of leneaship with Master
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: being here, don't even though I'll let him know about
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it now. So remember when y'all went to ABCD camp,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you took Romeo and DeMar DeRozan. Well, I was happen
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to be on the team with DeMar DeRozan, and I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was having some bright moments at that camp, and you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: tapped me on my shoulder at one time and you
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was like, hey man, you nice. He was like, but
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: it's a cat on your team right there. He was like, man,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: trust him, he can play too. And you told me
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: drive the ball to the lane and throw it up.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I promised he'd go get it. We played the next game,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I threw it up to themar He wouldn't go get it,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and I ain't get the ball no more like it
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: became his team. It was my team for a minute.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: The next thing you know, it was his team.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: And so that's what I want to tell y'all.
• 29:43
  Speaker 12: Right, when you look at DeMar DeRozan, Lance Stevenson, I
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: coached all those guys, Jailer Sus, Big, Chad Holby, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: my thing is those guys come from real community, places,
• 29:59
  Speaker 12: a property, and I think a lot of these coaches
• 30:02
  Speaker 12: they give up on our kids. And that's why I
• 30:04
  Speaker 12: tell any kid in college right now, right, the reason
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: why you want to play for me at the University
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: of No organ is I want nothing but dogs.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: No puppies allow. And I know real talent.
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: But I'm also going to help these kids get to
• 30:17
  Speaker 12: the next level, whether it's to the NBA or even
• 30:22
  Speaker 12: your education is more important because I call it, we
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: all should be seeking wisdom and not money.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Right, think about it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 12: A lot of us use wisdom and as avoid and stuff. No,
• 30:34
  Speaker 12: you don't avoid wisdom. Wisdom is advancing. So I'm going
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: to show the next generation how we advance. And so
• 30:40
  Speaker 12: when you look at me and say, man, I grew
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: up in the cality your products, just like you was
• 30:44
  Speaker 12: listening to break them off, right, So if you follow
• 30:46
  Speaker 12: me on that journey, then you're going to follow me
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: on this journey showing our people how to get our money,
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: how to take care of our families, how to build
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: generational will. And so that's the journey I'm on right now,
• 30:59
  Speaker 12: educating our peace people. And so y'all give y'allself a
• 31:01
  Speaker 12: round of applause in here, because everybody in here we
• 31:05
  Speaker 12: on that mission. We want to get better. Right, y'all
• 31:08
  Speaker 12: know that I was able to accomplish this. I mean
• 31:12
  Speaker 12: I lived in the projects with my grandparents and they
• 31:15
  Speaker 12: had twelve kids. Me and my brother made fourteen and
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: sixteen people in a three bedroom project. And so my
• 31:22
  Speaker 12: goals was to give my grandmother house. So that's what's
• 31:26
  Speaker 12: my motivation. One day, I want to give my grandmother house.
• 31:29
  Speaker 12: So you also have to have that why. And if
• 31:33
  Speaker 12: you had that why, you can be successful.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Most definitely with you, like you said, accomplish so many
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: things across the board, the discipline, the things, the foundation
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: and place have you can accomplished that. And listen, we
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: love basketball. We're going to talk about it. How was
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: that like making it to the NBA?
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: You know it was? It was something I think basketball
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: changed my life and saved my life. So I've been
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: with all the time, all my life. Right.
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: But the thing about it is right, people didn't understand
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: that because I had made it a music and so
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: people forgot that this was my first love. This is
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: where I came from. This what took me out to ghettom.
• 32:11
  Speaker 12: And so I've always was putting in the work. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: I showed my son, my son right now, I play
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: for University of Houston. They're the number two team in
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: the country, and I showed them hard work because I
• 32:21
  Speaker 12: know if you stay in the gym, it's like anything
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: in like this, the game alike, it's not just basketball.
• 32:26
  Speaker 12: So I just used that as this what took me
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: out the projects. But I also used that in my business.
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: So it teach you dedication, It teach you consistency because
• 32:39
  Speaker 12: it's all about consistency.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: So think about it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: I wouldn't be here where I'm at if I didn't
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: put the work in. And so basketball gave me that.
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: And so you know, think about it. We all sitting
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: up here. But you're gonna get older. You can't play
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: basketball forever. You can't do what you used to do
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: on a basketball court.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You can't do that, right, hold on, you can't do that.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I know I was rolling with you, bro.
• 33:03
  Speaker 13: You can't do what you used to do back you
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: want tie him up because you won't play See that,
• 33:12
  Speaker 13: y'all see how you know that's what they do too.
• 33:15
  Speaker 13: That's why it's a mental thing, right you like to
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: start thinking that you could do what you used to
• 33:20
  Speaker 13: do back in the days. And you know, I mean,
• 33:23
  Speaker 13: look at Michael Jordan, and that's why that's why we're
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: having this conversation. Product always talent, So think about the
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: product gonna be around when we're not around. And so
• 33:33
  Speaker 13: when you look at it, the reason why Michael Jordan
• 33:36
  Speaker 13: is still so successful because of those shoes. Take nobody
• 33:39
  Speaker 13: you still wearing them now? Fact, and he ain't even
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: playing no more. And if you ask Michael Jordan that
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: same thing, he'll possit.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Now, I owe y'all can do it. You can't. It's
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: called for all the time.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: I'm only thirty six, brother, that's old and basketball.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Repect.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Huh in basketball? When I was playing with what the honeys, yeah,
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, my music is what got me out. The
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: leader wasn't basketball.
• 34:17
  Speaker 12: So the GM was listening to the ice Cream Man,
• 34:19
  Speaker 12: and I'm like, man, what you where you get that room?
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: So I knew, y'all I was done.
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: So I walked in there and sit down. This older
• 34:29
  Speaker 12: white man by bass. He not here, no no more,
• 34:32
  Speaker 12: but he sent me down. He said, man, your music
• 34:35
  Speaker 12: is pure field damn. And it's a Bible built state,
• 34:40
  Speaker 12: and your music is pure of phild. He said, I
• 34:42
  Speaker 12: love your basketball. You tough because he seen me and
• 34:46
  Speaker 12: Anti Mason get into it. So he said, why you're
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: not scared of Anti Mason man? And the Mason was
• 34:52
  Speaker 12: a tough dude on the basketball court, like for real.
• 34:54
  Speaker 12: He let when I got to the gym, man that
• 34:56
  Speaker 12: Mason said, I'm from New York, give me the ball.
• 35:00
  Speaker 12: I'm like, damn, big dog, for I just got in there.
• 35:04
  Speaker 12: I just got in there, man, And so what I
• 35:08
  Speaker 12: like about it?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 35:10
  Speaker 12: I had filed Anti Mason right, and he was like, man, rookie,
• 35:15
  Speaker 12: when I get in the back, I'm about to whoop you.
• 35:17
  Speaker 12: So I'm thinking to myself, damn them over like sixteen.
• 35:21
  Speaker 12: I was like, oh right, I got to get back
• 35:23
  Speaker 12: to that locker room first, right, So I got back
• 35:25
  Speaker 12: to the locker room first.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: I was ready.
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: You said, nah, big dog, I like you. We end
• 35:30
  Speaker 12: up being friends. But in the GM couldn't understand that.
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: He said, to your music, pill Field, and you ain't
• 35:37
  Speaker 12: afraid of and the Mason.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Man. We decided to go another director. Man.
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: They changed the colds on the So think about it,
• 35:53
  Speaker 12: y'all right, By the time I left, I had left.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Something in there. My cold wasn't working no more.
• 35:58
  Speaker 12: I had to call a security So that's why I said, right,
• 36:01
  Speaker 12: we have to start thinking about being entrepreneurs, because you know,
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: we get locked out of situations when it's when it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 12: over for us. And UH had nothing to do with basketball.
• 36:11
  Speaker 12: I was going hard every night. I mean, they had
• 36:15
  Speaker 12: some great players on that team. BJ Armstrong to tell me,
• 36:18
  Speaker 12: slow down, you're asking this story when you see them,
• 36:21
  Speaker 12: and I was.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I was out running everybody. B Jones said, Man, we
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: got eighty two games while you're running so fast. I
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: was so used to running from the police. This wasn't
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: nothing for me. This was nothing. I'm and I'm thinking, man,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: I'm on this team.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Y'all ever played one on one at practice?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I guess who?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just anybody like we always used to play ones
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: that practice. Anybody play one?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: And what everybody?
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Who you be?
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Come on, dog, I was you acting like I am
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: from the project. I just told you I grew up
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: in the project with people.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying. You played bj On, you beat everybody.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Step Curry that.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: His dad was on the teah about the ones with
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: dal turn up.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah he was.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: He was, man, you know what, you had to file
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: deal back in the way. I know.
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: That's why steps so good too. When he touched the bottle,
• 37:08
  Speaker 12: I'm slapping.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Shoot too good? He shoot too good.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Now you can shoot though. I ain't gonna lie you
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: guys jump. I've been watching you, man. I learned how
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to shoot in the project with no lights.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Imagine when the lights come on. I'm like, man, look
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: at that light right here here. I ain't gonna get
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: no shooting contest with you. I've seen you too. Yeah,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: but it's definitely. One thing I like about you is
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: that everything is always based on family. And like we
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: already talked about this, were in the age when we
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: saw them shows on TV. You know what I'm saying.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Everybody remember these shows on Nikkoloine. You remember the movies
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Uncle Pee, come on tap In. I don't know, we're
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: too old, but I remember that. The dope part about it.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: You have the Martin Rosen. You have to bring the gens.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: They get to see that type of life as an influence.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: What's that being able to pull your family up as
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you excel as well?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 37:56
  Speaker 12: No, I mean I'm greatful and thankful. I just talked
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: to Brandon Jennis the other day and I was like, Brandon,
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: what what made you make it? He said, coach pe
• 38:06
  Speaker 12: because I am. I'm like, and I'm coach Pete for real, right,
• 38:09
  Speaker 12: I start thinking, because you know it don't hit you
• 38:11
  Speaker 12: till you get older. And he was like, you know
• 38:15
  Speaker 12: you you believed in me when nobody didn't believe in me,
• 38:18
  Speaker 12: and then you showed me stuff because you already had
• 38:21
  Speaker 12: the mansions, you had the nice cars, all this stuff.
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: He said, that made me go harder. And so I
• 38:25
  Speaker 12: do the same thing with my family, with my kids.
• 38:27
  Speaker 12: Right So I didn't give my son. He's one of
• 38:30
  Speaker 12: the top players in cal he's the number one player
• 38:33
  Speaker 12: in California, and he's a freshman at Houston right now.
• 38:36
  Speaker 12: He didn't get a car till he got to Houston.
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: So I start realizing, right that you got to start
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: make people, making people work for what they want. And
• 38:44
  Speaker 12: I think with this generation, we give these kids everything
• 38:48
  Speaker 12: they want, even if you look at it right now,
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: we got to stop that and you just got to
• 38:51
  Speaker 12: start being real parents and make them appreciate everything that
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: you give me.
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: I said, bar for sure, listen where do you see?
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: So oh for us in New Orleans, what I see right?
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: And I know a lot of people talk about what
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: went on before I got there. I just got there.
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: So we're gonna be way better than I mean we
• 39:28
  Speaker 12: was last year. But I'm giving kids second chances that
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: I know that deserve it, that then changed their lives.
• 39:37
  Speaker 12: Thinking about it, like, none of us are perfect. All
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: of us then did something that we could hide from
• 39:42
  Speaker 12: or go and act like or whatever. But think about it,
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: how do you get to the league if nobody really
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: pulled you to the side and believe in you. So
• 39:50
  Speaker 12: I told you I coached Lance Stevenson right, So y'all
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: know Lance Stevenson out.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Here in New York. He was wilding out at.
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: First, and so I was able to see the good
• 40:01
  Speaker 12: in him and showed him the value like man, slow down,
• 40:04
  Speaker 12: and me and his dad built a good relationship. So
• 40:07
  Speaker 12: it's also what I'm gonna do is build relationships with
• 40:09
  Speaker 12: these parents. At the same time, it's all about holding accountability.
• 40:13
  Speaker 12: But my thing is asking them what do they really
• 40:16
  Speaker 12: want out of this? So you got to know what
• 40:18
  Speaker 12: you want?
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Do you really want?
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: Because I had to change my parents couldn't change me.
• 40:22
  Speaker 12: You know, once you get on that school campus, you
• 40:24
  Speaker 12: could go wild out, sir, And I had to start
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: policing myself. I had to start saying that I want
• 40:31
  Speaker 12: somebody of life. And so I'm gonna show these kids
• 40:33
  Speaker 12: everything that I've been through. I got a brother dead,
• 40:36
  Speaker 12: I got a brother incarcerated, right, so it's nothing you
• 40:38
  Speaker 12: can fool me with. But I got real love. These
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: kids are part of my family. And so when you
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: use that word family, that we're gonna be able to
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: know each other even after life, after basketball and still
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: keeping those relationships. How many of these other coaches do
• 40:52
  Speaker 12: that with us, because once it's over, they don't care
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: about us no more think about it. And that's what
• 40:57
  Speaker 12: I'm gonna be able to give the kids that come
• 41:00
  Speaker 12: into my program. Like I mean, I'm looking out here,
• 41:03
  Speaker 12: I want some of the top kids in New York.
• 41:05
  Speaker 12: Were able to give them the same nil deals that
• 41:08
  Speaker 12: we could that they could get from any other universe.
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: And so I think that's gonna be the good thing
• 41:13
  Speaker 12: about it. But I want them to know this is
• 41:15
  Speaker 12: about getting the education, because once that nil money run out,
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: what you're gonna do. So I'm gonna teach them how
• 41:21
  Speaker 12: to invest some of that money, you know, and don't
• 41:24
  Speaker 12: just take this money in your personal name. They don't
• 41:26
  Speaker 12: teach you our activites that so go get your LLC,
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: Go get you an incorporate a business, so now you
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: could write some of that off instead of just taking
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: that money. Even though we call it name and likeness,
• 41:37
  Speaker 12: you know, but we're saying, now take this money and
• 41:40
  Speaker 12: investors in something. So when them four years come, you
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: got your money. The triple double quatjup.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: And so they're not gonna teach us that just won't
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: give us the money and hopefully that if we don't
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: win for them, then we go back to the hood.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: And I want to change that most definitely.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: So yeah, clap it up. That was the bar right
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: there for surest.
• 42:01
  Speaker 12: Think about to write everybody up here, how many coaches
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: still keep in touch with you, Let's be honest, like
• 42:07
  Speaker 12: me and all my players were still in contact.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't see.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I definitely talked to them about cause I talked to
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I talked to Mike Blueholt. That's the NBA though like
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: college and high school my AU coach, I still talk
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: to him.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: But other than that college now.
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: See, to think about it, because all they doing is
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: bring one player in then once it's over.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: They looking for the next best player.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Yes the fact, but we see like, because you you
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: coach a bunch of NBA players, you man, you one
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: of the most influential people ever. When we see a
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: lot of people at New Orleans like kind of like
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Coach Prime did in Colorado.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Man, let me tell y'all something.
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: I model what I'm doing after Coach Prime because he
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: the go yes sir, and uh, to be able to
• 42:55
  Speaker 12: celebrate a black man that did something historical. Let me
• 43:00
  Speaker 12: know that I could do it in basketball what he's
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: done in football. And so you're gonna see, you're gonna
• 43:05
  Speaker 12: see everybody at our games, but you're gonna you're gonna
• 43:07
  Speaker 12: get a great game because these the players that I
• 43:11
  Speaker 12: bring in there, the goal is to get them to
• 43:13
  Speaker 12: the NBA and to create more testimonies and so more
• 43:17
  Speaker 12: players that we get into the NBA, that's when we
• 43:21
  Speaker 12: get more students to the to the university and uh,
• 43:24
  Speaker 12: we bring enrollment up.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: And so that's the page I'm on.
• 43:28
  Speaker 12: Like, so the basketball part is one thing, but for me,
• 43:31
  Speaker 12: it's the education and that's that's about changing lives and
• 43:34
  Speaker 12: saving lives.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I feel like this is my most important job, to
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: be a server.
• 43:38
  Speaker 12: So yeah, I got to shout out Coach prime Man
• 43:40
  Speaker 12: because he paid the way and I'm just about to
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: kick the dough down, especially coming from hip hop. Think
• 43:45
  Speaker 12: about you think they want to give me this job
• 43:47
  Speaker 12: coming from hip hop?
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Nah?
• 43:49
  Speaker 12: So that means I had to be doing right a
• 43:51
  Speaker 12: long time for sure, because they put me under the
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: microscope right like, and it's hard to do. So I
• 43:59
  Speaker 12: had to have a degree, I had to have a
• 44:01
  Speaker 12: good record. So all these things that I want to
• 44:03
  Speaker 12: show our culture that we could leave the past behind
• 44:07
  Speaker 12: and we could grow up and get better, they do it.
• 44:08
  Speaker 12: They got tattoos under their suits. They done been in
• 44:12
  Speaker 12: trouble before, let's be honest. But they give a second
• 44:16
  Speaker 12: chance at changing their lives. That's why I said, I'm
• 44:18
  Speaker 12: looking for dogs. I'm looking for players that they done
• 44:20
  Speaker 12: gave up on, and we're gonna have We're gonna have
• 44:23
  Speaker 12: an opportunity if you really about changing growth. And I'm
• 44:27
  Speaker 12: gonna show them these diamonds and the ruffs that they
• 44:30
  Speaker 12: forgot about. Like all they needed was a chance, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 12: that's all I need. I'm gonna live in testimony, that
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: if you put your trust in faith and go, you
• 44:38
  Speaker 12: could actually go to.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: The next level.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: Most definitely make some letters.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: To that with a bar there.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Now, I gotta ask, obviously, you in in many markets
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: and dominated just about everything.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: You did get into the snack world.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: We all love rap snacks, man, how is that transition
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: going from rap music to making chips?
• 44:55
  Speaker 12: You know what, nobody believed in rap snack me and
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: used to go to all these different places and tell
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: people about it. But it's all about the flavor and
• 45:07
  Speaker 12: think about it. We understand what flavor is and our
• 45:10
  Speaker 12: people we eat chips. You know, we got the hunting buns. Now,
• 45:14
  Speaker 12: we've been eating this stuff a long time, but we
• 45:17
  Speaker 12: don't think that we can create this stuff. So there's
• 45:20
  Speaker 12: been a journey for over twenty five years. I know
• 45:22
  Speaker 12: a lot of people think that it's a success story overnight.
• 45:25
  Speaker 12: It took us twenty five years. So how many people
• 45:28
  Speaker 12: willing to be in business that long? In the staying business,
• 45:32
  Speaker 12: the sustainability, So when nobody believed that you could put
• 45:37
  Speaker 12: all this that looked like us on packages and bags,
• 45:41
  Speaker 12: we did and that's what changed the game.
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: Both definitely, you like.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: My community people, I grew up around you like a superhero.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: You did everything. You played basketball in the NBA, you ride,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: you act, everything that a black person wanted to do.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: You did.
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: I had that straight up.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: We all dream of be a TV movie who, right, Well,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: what's that feeling like? Like you kind of just when
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: you can't feel like you don't you don't You probably
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: don't feel that way. We like, Bro, you an icon
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: of us, So it's a little different for us how
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: that feel for you.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: So to be honest, y'all, I'm more.
• 46:25
  Speaker 12: Thankful like it don't really, it don't really touch me
• 46:28
  Speaker 12: like that because I know where I come from, and
• 46:33
  Speaker 12: I know that I had a lot of close calls
• 46:35
  Speaker 12: in life, and if God didn't spare my life, I
• 46:39
  Speaker 12: wouldn't be here with y'all right now. And I'm all
• 46:42
  Speaker 12: about helping our community in our culture, you know me
• 46:46
  Speaker 12: and one of my guys was laughing the other day, right. So,
• 46:49
  Speaker 12: in California got a program called Urban Born and Nipsey
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: Hustle was in our program in the eighth grade. And
• 46:56
  Speaker 12: so it's all about helping people will look like us,
• 47:00
  Speaker 12: knowing that you are important. So I'm looking at life
• 47:05
  Speaker 12: thinking God like man, you spared my life because I
• 47:07
  Speaker 12: had a lot of close calls, and I'm thankful and
• 47:10
  Speaker 12: grateful that I could be here with y'all and show
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: y'all that we can change and grow.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Because a lot of people they think that we gotta
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: be tough, we gotta be real.
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: What is that.
• 47:21
  Speaker 12: I never wanted to be tough in all this. I've
• 47:24
  Speaker 12: always just wanted to survive. I want to be better.
• 47:26
  Speaker 12: And I tell people all the time that.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: We invest.
• 47:32
  Speaker 12: Five, ten twenty of the life in going to prison.
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: Why can't we invest four years to go to college
• 47:39
  Speaker 12: or to create a business or brand. And so I'm
• 47:42
  Speaker 12: a living testimony that if you do that, then you
• 47:45
  Speaker 12: can live a legit life. Because think about it, if
• 47:48
  Speaker 12: we do all this negative stuff. And so when I
• 47:50
  Speaker 12: start making these movies, I'll invest my own money into it.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: I want to show us that if you believe in yourself, put.
• 47:56
  Speaker 12: Your money into what you believe in, because you're going
• 47:59
  Speaker 12: to get the make a piece of the pie. But
• 48:01
  Speaker 12: when you running around and you want to be pampered,
• 48:04
  Speaker 12: that mean you don't want to put the work in.
• 48:05
  Speaker 12: So all those things that you talk about, what I've done,
• 48:08
  Speaker 12: I never been pampered I've always get out and put
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: the work in and then I get my bigger piece
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: of the pie because I made the biggest investment in myself.
• 48:18
  Speaker 12: And so when you look in that mirror, I want
• 48:19
  Speaker 12: you try to look in that mirror and say, what
• 48:21
  Speaker 12: am I doing? How can I get to the next level?
• 48:24
  Speaker 12: Am I spending my twenty four hours wisely? Think about
• 48:27
  Speaker 12: because most of us turning up. If you turning up
• 48:30
  Speaker 12: twenty four hours, then you're not gonna beat me. Not
• 48:33
  Speaker 12: gonna beat me at nothing I'm doing. And I think
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: that that's what's my motivation is. And I know a
• 48:39
  Speaker 12: lot of people say, pe, you did this, this and this,
• 48:41
  Speaker 12: But I love what I'm doing, So I don't see
• 48:44
  Speaker 12: it as like, oh, you're doing all these different things.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: No, they all go together.
• 48:47
  Speaker 12: Like think about like you say, every athlete in the hood,
• 48:51
  Speaker 12: they love music, they love movies, they gonna love products.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: And all these different things. And I just like this,
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: that's what we do anyway.
• 49:01
  Speaker 12: And I just said that, you know, when I stopped
• 49:04
  Speaker 12: saying that I wanted to be a boss and I
• 49:07
  Speaker 12: wanted to be a leader. It's two different things. Because
• 49:10
  Speaker 12: a boss just he controlled everything. Being a leader, you're
• 49:13
  Speaker 12: gonna create more leaders. And so when I got to
• 49:16
  Speaker 12: that point in my life, I feel like that's when
• 49:18
  Speaker 12: God spared my life and saved my life. Say hey,
• 49:21
  Speaker 12: you know, you can lead the people and the ones
• 49:23
  Speaker 12: that want to listen, because think about where we come from,
• 49:25
  Speaker 12: a lot of us don't want to listen.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: That's why I told you I got a brother.
• 49:28
  Speaker 12: Then I got a brother incarcerated, because that's all about
• 49:31
  Speaker 12: that one word listening.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: So you got to be able to listen.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: They say a wise man learned, but a fool never will.
• 49:38
  Speaker 12: And I learned from not only other people mistakes, but
• 49:41
  Speaker 12: I also look at my life and say, Okay, if
• 49:44
  Speaker 12: I go that way, I'm gonna be good.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: But if I go this way with all my homeboys
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to prison.
• 49:50
  Speaker 12: I stopped getting in the car and wanting to go
• 49:52
  Speaker 12: to jail with my homeboys and saying, man, look, I'm
• 49:55
  Speaker 12: investing my education.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: I think that was the only thing that changed my life.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: And that's why I keep.
• 50:00
  Speaker 12: Telling y'all, wisdom is the most important thing that we
• 50:03
  Speaker 12: could have. Just thinking about most of us to pray
• 50:05
  Speaker 12: for money, man, Lord, I need to pay my bills.
• 50:09
  Speaker 12: Help me, No man, if you get the wisdom, the
• 50:11
  Speaker 12: money gonna come. And that's what's been happening for me
• 50:14
  Speaker 12: my whole life.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: And one thing I want to applause you on getting
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: back to the music. Obviously you are success in it,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: but the way that you ran your record label needs
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: to be applauded. If you look everywhere from the marketing aspect,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and we talked about some of the best people to
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: market your names needs to be on that list. Everybody
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: here know a no limit cover when you see it,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: marketing genius.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: The quality you know, tap in. The quality was.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: There, The marketing was there, and you was a well
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: oiled machine. You look at so many people who have
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: so many sad stories of music. You was an independent
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I won't like you talk about the boss of leader,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: but you was a real boss in the music industry.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: When you came to that realization, what was like to say,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: all right, I see where everybody else is, but I'm
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: doing this way different and way better.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:03
  Speaker 12: So when I first got into music business, you know,
• 51:06
  Speaker 12: every business I created, I find a problem.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: So I found the problem.
• 51:10
  Speaker 12: None of us was making money in the music industry,
• 51:13
  Speaker 12: and a lot of us were superstars. We was on
• 51:16
  Speaker 12: all these billboards. We was on all these records, but
• 51:19
  Speaker 12: we wasn't making no real money. And when you look
• 51:23
  Speaker 12: at the deals, was like us making seven percent, twelve percent.
• 51:29
  Speaker 12: The biggest percentage in music was Michael Jackson. He was
• 51:32
  Speaker 12: making twenty two percent of record and I said, I
• 51:35
  Speaker 12: need to change that.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: And then I started making my own covers. I came
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: to New York. So when I first did about it
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: bout it, I came to New York, I went through
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: every hood out here, and people was like, man, that's
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: you on that post. I said, nah, man, I'm from
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: New Orleans.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: We all look alike.
• 51:57
  Speaker 12: But I came out here y'all and put my own
• 52:01
  Speaker 12: posters up because think about it. You know, back then
• 52:02
  Speaker 12: you will pay somebody to put your stuff, but you
• 52:05
  Speaker 12: we don't have social media back then, they might throw
• 52:08
  Speaker 12: it in the garbage cab.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: I came up. I was my own street team.
• 52:12
  Speaker 12: And so when people start seeing and then when the girls,
• 52:15
  Speaker 12: you know, I sounded different. So I got this big
• 52:18
  Speaker 12: dunky gold chained on right, and the girls, I'll be talking, Yeah,
• 52:22
  Speaker 12: what's up baby, how you doing. She's like, I like
• 52:24
  Speaker 12: the way you talk. I'm gonna listen to your music
• 52:26
  Speaker 12: because nobody knew who I was. And and just being
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: able to communicate and network with the people people that
• 52:33
  Speaker 12: look like because even though I sounded different and and
• 52:36
  Speaker 12: but New York really gravitated to me.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: That's when I knew.
• 52:39
  Speaker 12: I was like, man, I think I'm gonna make it
• 52:42
  Speaker 12: in this business because I come all the way from
• 52:44
  Speaker 12: the South and they started messing with about it, about it,
• 52:47
  Speaker 12: and uh and and I and I tell the DJs
• 52:50
  Speaker 12: and I tell the people in the community out here.
• 52:52
  Speaker 12: I appreciate that because this was the first spot that
• 52:56
  Speaker 12: really outside where I came from, because I was in
• 52:58
  Speaker 12: the Bay Area and I was in the Orleans. But
• 53:00
  Speaker 12: to actually see some a whole different culture, because you know,
• 53:03
  Speaker 12: music started him. So I felt like I needed to
• 53:06
  Speaker 12: come here, go in these clubs and test the waters.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: How can I get New York to like my music?
• 53:13
  Speaker 12: And when I got New York to like my music,
• 53:15
  Speaker 12: I mean the rest was history because they jumped around
• 53:21
  Speaker 12: in the clubs, and you know, that's what my music was.
• 53:23
  Speaker 12: It was like, you know, it was all like that
• 53:26
  Speaker 12: military jump around, get you up and listen party. And
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: so now I appreciate you guys. I just always wanted
• 53:33
  Speaker 12: to say thank you New York for believing in me.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: We go.
• 53:53
  Speaker 12: And I want to tell y'all, right, so I know
• 53:55
  Speaker 12: y'all see me in the music side of the business
• 53:58
  Speaker 12: making music, but as a young person, I also got
• 54:01
  Speaker 12: into investing into other artists, and so that's when I
• 54:05
  Speaker 12: took on doing concerts and shows. I was able to
• 54:08
  Speaker 12: do the fifty cent first tour and invest into other artists,
• 54:13
  Speaker 12: and so I think that was the part that started
• 54:16
  Speaker 12: taking my business to the next level. Then I Snoop
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: Dogg and you know, all these incredible artists that I
• 54:23
  Speaker 12: was able to sign and help their careers and jumpstart
• 54:26
  Speaker 12: their careers, and it's been a blessing man.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Because I feel like when you help other people get
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: to where you're go and go to keep blessing you
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: most definitely.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Now you talk about being able to get Snoop Dogg,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: is there an artist that you almost had as you
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: wish you got.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: Indy I Re I didn't know like that type of music,
• 54:48
  Speaker 12: so she used to come to my house and sing
• 54:50
  Speaker 12: and I was just like, I just don't want to
• 54:52
  Speaker 12: mess up your career. And uh, I think that was
• 54:56
  Speaker 12: the one that got away that I just could have
• 54:58
  Speaker 12: just I didn't know, because y'all know that what I'm saying.
• 55:01
  Speaker 12: That's why I say education is so important. Right, I'm
• 55:05
  Speaker 12: only into the hip hop and I'm just like, man,
• 55:07
  Speaker 12: I got this diamond in a roof right here, and
• 55:10
  Speaker 12: I wanted to I'm like.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: How much you need to do this? But I didn't
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: know personally how to do like an R and B tour.
• 55:17
  Speaker 12: So I told her that, and I think that was
• 55:20
  Speaker 12: That's probably the one artist that I feel like that
• 55:22
  Speaker 12: I really couldn't.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you right now, if you got any
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: R on a no lipit cover, shit would have been crazy.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: I am not my here, but.
• 55:36
  Speaker 12: That's what I'm But that's what I'm saying about being
• 55:38
  Speaker 12: about being since it I truly didn't know what to do,
• 55:42
  Speaker 12: but like, I've never done that type of music, and
• 55:45
  Speaker 12: so I think that God has blessed her too on
• 55:47
  Speaker 12: her journey because I feel like I probably would have
• 55:50
  Speaker 12: stopped her.
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's real.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: That's definitely real, because I would never thought India I
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: would be.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was to that.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: That kind of threw me off, man, But that's how
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: influential you being. I mean, people just want to be
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: around you. Like we said, I know the show about
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the end or whatever, but we just really appreciate you
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: even taking time to sit with us.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I won't to tell y'all I'm not finished.
• 56:14
  Speaker 12: So if you follow me on my music journey, follow
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: me on this journey with the University of New Orleans,
• 56:20
  Speaker 12: changing lives, saving lives, helping our future athletes and student
• 56:25
  Speaker 12: at least.
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: Get to where they need to go at because we
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: give up.
• 56:29
  Speaker 12: On us, and I'm not gonna give up on us.
• 56:31
  Speaker 12: I'm gonna give our culture the blueprint. And I want
• 56:36
  Speaker 12: y'all to know that. Everybody think they got a lot
• 56:39
  Speaker 12: of time, but Junior Bridgeman played basketball. He died the
• 56:44
  Speaker 12: other day, right me and him to sit down and
• 56:46
  Speaker 12: talk about all the things that we was gonna do.
• 56:49
  Speaker 12: I want us not to sit down and do that.
• 56:51
  Speaker 12: I want us to move, make moves. Don't wait till
• 56:54
  Speaker 12: it's too late. And if you have an idea, bring
• 56:58
  Speaker 12: it to light, because the most treasures are in the
• 57:01
  Speaker 12: grade and we got to stop that because we keep
• 57:04
  Speaker 12: thinking we got so much time, but use.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: Our time wisely. Just start now.
• 57:09
  Speaker 12: Whatever ideas you have, whatever business you want to start,
• 57:12
  Speaker 12: go for it and create it and do it and
• 57:14
  Speaker 12: and there's no limit from that.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: I did it. You could do it, most definitely.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: Man, it's make some lord to master fee one time
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: for the one time.
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: The volume