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INTERVIEW: Bun B Talks "Ridin' Dirty" 30th Anniversary Concert, Trill Burgers, Family, Jay-Z, Staying Humble + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Every day a week, click your ass up the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 3: You don't finish for y'all done.
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  Speaker 2: Morning.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody is dj envy just hilarious, charlamage to God. We
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  Speaker 4: are the breakfast Club. Law La roses here as well.
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  Speaker 4: We got a special guest in.
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  Speaker 5: The building, legend but b welcome back, brother.
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  Speaker 3: Thank y'all.
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  Speaker 6: Man, it's been a while, it's been a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Been a while, man, it's good to be back in
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  Speaker 6: the building.
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  Speaker 2: With I always wonder how bun is not bigger. You've
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  Speaker 2: been eating trail burgers for a decade plus. I expected
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  Speaker 2: you to game.
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  Speaker 3: You don't get high on your own supply.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 5: How's everything going. How you feeling, man?
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  Speaker 6: I'm good man, I'm in a good place right now.
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  Speaker 6: You know, business is great, getting ready to open up
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  Speaker 6: the fourth location.
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  Speaker 3: You know, wife is Wife is good now. You know.
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  Speaker 6: We had a breast cancer scared with her last year.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it took about a year to get through
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  Speaker 6: that and she's doing very well right now. You know,
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  Speaker 6: all the postcare is pretty much done, so getting back
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  Speaker 6: to some normalcy. She's she's happy to be traveling again
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  Speaker 6: because that was a big concern for us. We didn't
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  Speaker 6: really want her to get like COVID or any type
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  Speaker 6: of communicable disease because that would have delayed all the treatments.
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  Speaker 6: So she just chose to stay home, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: and I tried to stay home as much as I could,
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  Speaker 6: and then she every now and then she'd be like, no,
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  Speaker 6: you should go go handle your business.
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  Speaker 3: This ain't cheap, so go handle your business.
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  Speaker 2: So but the last time I saw y'all, I think
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  Speaker 2: I saw your granddaughter's cheerleading competition.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, we're on Orlando. Yeah, she's graduated in high school.
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  Speaker 6: Now she's getting ready for college.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy, that's crazy. We getting old.
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  Speaker 2: We getting old, Charlotte, I'm happy to be in Is
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  Speaker 2: the only thing worth getting old is not getting old?
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  Speaker 3: No, No, that's right, that's right. No, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was wondering why you didn't come out at any
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  Speaker 2: of the jay Z shows this weekend. Every time big
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  Speaker 2: pimping drives like, Okay, Bunn definitely about to come out.
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  Speaker 6: I had some shows myself last weekend, and we were
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  Speaker 6: going to try to come up on Sunday. We were
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  Speaker 6: going to try to get up there to the show
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  Speaker 6: because we were just wanted to see the show.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't concerned about performing.
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  Speaker 6: That's not my place to make those kind the decisions
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  Speaker 6: or make that kind of an ask, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying. I think that's one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 6: Hovi and I still have a very good relationships, because
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  Speaker 6: I don't really ask it for nothing, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying. So we just wanted to come up and
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  Speaker 6: see the show, but we couldn't make it work in
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  Speaker 6: time to get here, so that would have been dis
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  Speaker 6: missed it. But again, he still got Paris, he's got friends,
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  Speaker 6: I mean London, he's got La So I'll pop up somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll pop up somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: That would have been dope because he did diverse, but
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  Speaker 4: it would have been amazing to feel like he did
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  Speaker 4: a Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: He did Friday.
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  Speaker 3: I think he did. I think he did it two
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  Speaker 3: different nights because everybody kept hitting me, like you're.
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  Speaker 5: Aware you for you to come out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm getting my money, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: But shout out to whole man. An amazing, amazing three
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  Speaker 6: day weekend for him in the city. You guys are
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  Speaker 6: having an amazing summer in New York. You got the
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  Speaker 6: Nicks championship, right, you got Mandanni watching the World Cup
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  Speaker 6: with inmates in the in the jail house.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying you the final game.
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  Speaker 6: Crazy New York is having a nice little run this summer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm happy for y'all.
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  Speaker 4: How many how many times do you get called to
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  Speaker 4: perform at weddings because the international player is anthemus, it's such.
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  Speaker 6: A it's absolutely its own revenue stream. It's his own
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  Speaker 6: revenue stream. And that started really right around the end
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  Speaker 6: of COVID. It was when we started getting our first
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  Speaker 6: calls for that, and then we've just been doing them.
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  Speaker 6: And then like like, we'll have a lot of people
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  Speaker 6: that call us for Tilburger caterings. And then if there's
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  Speaker 6: a friend like Gary Owen was, you know, he wanted
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  Speaker 6: burgers at his wedding and he invited me to the
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  Speaker 6: wedding and I was like, you know, I could, I
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  Speaker 6: could rock for you if you want. He was like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: hell yeah, let's do it. So for friends, I kind
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  Speaker 6: of offer it if they're getting married. I kind of
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  Speaker 6: offered because I know it creates a moment. It definitely
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  Speaker 6: creates a moment. But it's yeah no, that's a whole
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  Speaker 6: like outside revenue stream for me that that's a probably
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  Speaker 6: six figure thing a year.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm calling you because I'm calling you for my
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  Speaker 4: daughter's wedding. Let's do it because that's my favorite song
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  Speaker 4: of all time. Look, you know, I go crazy to
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  Speaker 4: that song. Get the burgers catered and you'll get diverse
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  Speaker 4: for free. You get the song for free. No more, No, no,
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't apply to everybody that's an indie.
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  Speaker 3: That's like my kids know that.
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  Speaker 4: Like when we when we're driving in the call, they
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  Speaker 4: want to play dazz music. That's my song and I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate it. We just turned them when the.
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  Speaker 5: Be drops is just it just feels good.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you'll travel for catering, right, Oh yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: I got some family getting married. I'll be that be dope.
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  Speaker 6: That's nothing man again. Yeah no, no, that's another other
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  Speaker 6: revenue street. Right but yeah no, and I enjoyed doing it.
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  Speaker 6: For one, it's good to watch the union happen, right.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Wedding is a great room to be in.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of love, a lot of energy, and
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  Speaker 6: to be able to be a part of that is
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  Speaker 6: one thing, but then be able to actually kind of
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  Speaker 6: uplift the moment because a lot of times we don't
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  Speaker 6: tell people I'm coming out right, so it just becomes
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  Speaker 6: a part of Like I think what we've been doing
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  Speaker 6: mainly is they have their first dance and then I
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  Speaker 6: kind of come out as that second song, so and
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  Speaker 6: I try to they try to hide me so people
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  Speaker 6: don't see me, so we don't spoil the surprise for people, and.
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  Speaker 3: Once I pop out, people know it's a party. Now
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  Speaker 3: it's up now.
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  Speaker 1: As you've gotten deeper your own union, though, how like
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  Speaker 1: from when the song first dropped to now, as you're
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  Speaker 1: being able to bring that light to people, how has
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  Speaker 1: that like changed or gotten deeper for you because you've
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  Speaker 1: been married for so long.
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  Speaker 3: No, Like I said, I love watching it because you know,
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  Speaker 3: I have a great marriage. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: I love my wife, and I love our relationship and
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  Speaker 6: the family we've been able to build. So you know,
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  Speaker 6: for me, I feel like I get to become a
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  Speaker 6: part of sewing into a new marriage and new family
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  Speaker 6: and hopefully that that you know, is a great moment
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  Speaker 6: for them. But I kind of know what people are
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  Speaker 6: getting themselves into So I love to be a part
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  Speaker 6: of it. I love to be supportive of it, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and I have a relationship typically with the majority of
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  Speaker 6: the people. It's not a lot of cold calls. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's not a lot of cold calls. I typically don't
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  Speaker 6: want to do a lot of those because I don't
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  Speaker 6: really know what the vibe is going to be in
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  Speaker 6: the room. Sometimes you know, it might be an arranged marriage.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, you know, say, but it's fun. It's
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  Speaker 6: fun to be a part of it. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 6: you know, for me, I get to touch different people
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  Speaker 6: because I've done some things, some performances at weddings where
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  Speaker 6: the guest sometimes like I've done weddings with people where
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  Speaker 6: everybody in a room didn't know who I was. So
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  Speaker 6: it's good to actually utilize that, to be introduced to
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  Speaker 6: a new set of people. And then once they see
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  Speaker 6: it in that scenario, it's like, Oh, I like this guy,
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  Speaker 6: like what he did. Let's go and see what all
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  Speaker 6: he's got going on?
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  Speaker 5: What keeps you so humble?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 4: The funny thing about bum bonnacoy you and be like
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  Speaker 4: ay and b I didn't know if you have any
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  Speaker 4: free time for us to.
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  Speaker 3: Come to reference.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, bunk, come when you want to come? What
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  Speaker 5: day you works for you? What makes what keeps you
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  Speaker 5: still so damn humble?
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  Speaker 3: Well, my wife, I'm being very honest.
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  Speaker 6: You know, my wife does not allow me to get
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  Speaker 6: the big head, you know, and think so much of myself.
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  Speaker 6: And I think it's just really a part of my
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  Speaker 6: character at this point, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 6: I just like to be supportive of people, lift people up.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, I don't take the friendships and the
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  Speaker 6: relationships I have for granted.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You guys have always made
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  Speaker 3: this platform.
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  Speaker 6: Available to me, so I don't want to overutilize that
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  Speaker 6: and then when I really need it, like well, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you would just hear or whatever. So I don't think
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  Speaker 6: I've been on the show for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 6: I have not been at this too. I think the
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  Speaker 6: last time I came up was when we had the
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  Speaker 6: home invasion. Yes, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: But this is a great platform, especially now you guys
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  Speaker 6: have expanded and grown, you know, so big that I'm like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: we got to make sure when we call them. It's
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  Speaker 6: something that we can really really benefit from. I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to just call y'all and come up people like, so,
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  Speaker 6: what's up? What y'all got going on?
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate that too, because you've been around for so long.
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  Speaker 2: You have so much wisdom to share. Absolutely, And the
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  Speaker 2: thing I like about you one people always talk about
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  Speaker 2: staying relevant, right You to me have always seemed more
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  Speaker 2: interested in staying useful. Yes, what's the difference.
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  Speaker 6: Well, staying relevant is where I try to make sure
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  Speaker 6: that what I'm doing is seen and becomes prevalent in
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  Speaker 6: the space. But it's always good to make yourself available
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  Speaker 6: to people because they may have more of a draw
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  Speaker 6: than I do, you know what I'm saying. So if
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  Speaker 6: I can make myself available to the majority of the
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  Speaker 6: people that are in the industry that I'm in, I
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  Speaker 6: can utilize that in other ways. You know, I got
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  Speaker 6: to do the Jack boyce too. You know, I was
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  Speaker 6: able to rate the Jack Boys two project, was able
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  Speaker 6: to be a part of Bryson Tiller's project. So those
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  Speaker 6: artists have a lot more motion than me and the
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  Speaker 6: music industry at this time. But so that kind of
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  Speaker 6: thing helps keep me relevant to people, and so I
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  Speaker 6: get a two For one, the relevance comes just from
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  Speaker 6: being associated, but being chosen as a whole bigger to me,
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  Speaker 6: it's it's it's a bigger situation, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 6: Just that people think, like, Yo, we think your voice
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  Speaker 6: would help our project.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great thing for me.
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  Speaker 2: Have you picked up any in Vegas yet?
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  Speaker 3: I did? I did, so, I went on, I went
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  Speaker 3: on the weekend. I performed on the first night and
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  Speaker 3: we did a Trap of Dying.
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  Speaker 6: Then I did play as Anthem and then Lake hit
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  Speaker 6: me like like later that night, like, yo, you want
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  Speaker 6: to stay another night? You want to do it? Like
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  Speaker 6: because you just kind of killed it. He was like,
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  Speaker 6: you want to do it the next night? So I
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  Speaker 6: stayed for the next night, not knowing that the next
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  Speaker 6: night was going to be fab and Usher. And then
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  Speaker 6: like Kevin Hart was in the crowd, Mojo Brooks was
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  Speaker 6: in the crowd. So we ended up having a great
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  Speaker 6: time together. You know what I'm saying. I'm a big
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  Speaker 6: Mojo Brooks fan. You know what I'm saying. His crowd
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  Speaker 6: work is crazy. But yeah, no, it's good to be appreciated.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, Jeezi and I have been connected literally
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  Speaker 6: since the earliest days of his career. We have so
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  Speaker 6: much history together. Just you know, he'd be like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: you ready, let's do it. Because I was waiting for
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  Speaker 6: the call, right I'm at the crib, like yo, I
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  Speaker 6: know he gonna call at some point. And then the show,
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  Speaker 6: the first run was a little short, and then they
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  Speaker 6: extended to run. I was like, Okay, now I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: get that call. Now I'm gonna get that call. And
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  Speaker 6: it was great rocking with him. I told him, I said,
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  Speaker 6: I could have looked at maybe one hundred other rappers
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  Speaker 6: that I think Las Vegas would have been drawn to
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  Speaker 6: before him, based on the subject matter of a lot
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  Speaker 6: of his music. But when you go to the show,
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  Speaker 6: it feels like you're in the twenties or something because
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  Speaker 6: these are all street people, but they're clean and gangsters
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  Speaker 6: have always dressed up for the occasion. Gangsters have no
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  Speaker 6: problem putting on suits and tuxedos. They love living that life,
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  Speaker 6: they love dressing that women up. And that's what it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was really like a gainst the convention almost kind
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  Speaker 6: of thing. But he's got a great thing going on.
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  Speaker 6: I think the production is amazing. That's what really blew
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  Speaker 6: me away. The stage production. I don't want to give
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  Speaker 6: away it because I know some people haven't seen it,
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  Speaker 6: but the way they present the show, the way the
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  Speaker 6: orchestra is set up, like it's a really really crazy
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  Speaker 6: thing that he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason I adds is for me, like you're
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  Speaker 2: very synonymous with Jez's career to me, especially early on,
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  Speaker 2: because you got a legend like Bunbee who was on
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  Speaker 2: some of them early records like over Here and of
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  Speaker 2: course travior Die and all of that, it really stamped
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  Speaker 2: Gez in a real way. It made us pay attention
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  Speaker 2: even more.
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  Speaker 3: To me, well, we had a mutual friend. I got
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  Speaker 3: D Money.
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  Speaker 6: Shout out to D Money, and he was the one
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  Speaker 6: that connected me with Jeezi to do over here in
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  Speaker 6: a relationship like we just it just took off from
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  Speaker 6: there and so he was like, Yo, let's let's do
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  Speaker 6: another song. And then I started coming out with him,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, the friendship just grew over the years,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm really happy for what's happening for I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to say proud, because I knew it was going
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  Speaker 6: to happen eventually, but you know, to see him come
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  Speaker 6: this far and have that that that moment. You know
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  Speaker 6: what I'm saying, Vegas. Everybody doesn't really get that, you
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  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. Very few people from hip hop
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  Speaker 6: for sure. And so I was really really excited to
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: be a part of that and it.
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  Speaker 3: Paid off crazy. It paid off greatly.
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  Speaker 2: Man, did you know trappad Dye was going to be
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  Speaker 2: that when you first heard it?
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  Speaker 3: I did. I did knew it was going to be that.
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  Speaker 3: And it's crazy because I did that. I did. I
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  Speaker 3: did two songs that day in the studio.
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  Speaker 6: I was there to do Trappide and then I went
• 11:23
  Speaker 6: to the bathroom and I saw Gucci Mane in the
• 11:25
  Speaker 6: hallway and he was like, what you're doing. I'm like,
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: I'm doing something with Jeezy and he was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing the Black t Remix.
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  Speaker 3: You want to jump on it?
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  Speaker 6: So I just went across the room to the other
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  Speaker 6: room and knocked that out, you know what I'm saying.
• 11:36
  Speaker 6: So I just been a very very blessed man in
• 11:39
  Speaker 6: this industry, you know what I'm saying, to have these
• 11:41
  Speaker 6: kind of relationships and to have them carry on, Like
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: I don't like to just make a moment friend. I
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: like to make a forever friend, because you never know
• 11:48
  Speaker 6: how that relationship is going to go.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: Who's going to need you? Who?
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  Speaker 5: I think you do that so well.
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: I think the one thing about one is everybody respects
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  Speaker 4: and love Bunny, like you always show love. If you're
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: in the town, you're gonna pull up, You're going to
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  Speaker 4: say how your family is, like You've done it on
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  Speaker 4: numerous occasions.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I like to make sure people have a good
• 12:03
  Speaker 6: time in town too, So like I've always for years,
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  Speaker 6: when artists will come to town, especially new artists, I would
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  Speaker 6: go pick them up, write them around. Because there's not
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  Speaker 6: a lot of people that can get a pass in
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  Speaker 6: every neighborhood in the city. So some people are good
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  Speaker 6: on the south side, some I'm a good on the
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  Speaker 6: north side, the Southwest or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good in every neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: So whatever it is they want to see in the
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: city of Houston, I make sure they see it.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you doing your thirtieth anniversary show? Yes on the first.
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  Speaker 5: What does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 6: I can believe that this album is still being appreciated.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be honest, you know, as a black man, I
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: didn't even I didn't even plan to be fifty, you
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  Speaker 6: know what, I'm saying, like, I'm fifty three now.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't plan for.
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  Speaker 6: My career to last over thirty plus years, you know
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  Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So all of this is a blessing
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  Speaker 6: to me. So I'm just happy to still be here
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  Speaker 6: and be appreciated. And it's crazy that our nominal album,
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  Speaker 6: Dirty Ryan Dirty is thirty years now, and I don't
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: think it's any less impactful than it was in that moment.
• 12:59
  Speaker 6: I think what we created with that album musically, lyrically,
• 13:03
  Speaker 6: and culturally still speaks to people. It still resonates with people.
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: So now here we are celebrating it thirty years later,
• 13:10
  Speaker 6: everybody still is happy and excited about the project, and
• 13:14
  Speaker 6: so we wanted to we wanted to celebrate it the
• 13:16
  Speaker 6: right way because I've noticed, like, you know, I'll wake
• 13:18
  Speaker 6: up one day and somebody'd be like, oh man, super
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: Tight is twenty seven years old or something like that.
• 13:23
  Speaker 6: I'd be like, Wow, that's crazy that we've we've made
• 13:26
  Speaker 6: it this far for so long. And so with Rotten Dirty,
• 13:28
  Speaker 6: we realized that this was going to be the thirty
• 13:30
  Speaker 6: year Anniverse. I was like, that's nominal. We got to
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: celebrate that. We got to celebrate that in the right way.
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: So our ideas because you know, of course, you know
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: PIMC isn't here anymore rest in peace and also missed
• 13:41
  Speaker 6: the three two isn't here anymore? Who is you know,
• 13:43
  Speaker 6: a very big part of this album. You know, we
• 13:45
  Speaker 6: considered making three two a part of UGK for a while,
• 13:48
  Speaker 6: but it just didn't work out that way. And so
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: with this, I was like, well, I don't want to
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: be doing Pimpc's versus and be doing three twos versus
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: and three twos hook. So let's bring in celebrity acts
• 13:59
  Speaker 6: to come in and form these songs with us and
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: make it a little bit more impactful on the evening.
• 14:04
  Speaker 6: And so that's what we've been doing, and we've had
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: a great response from people, you know, A Ball and them, JG,
• 14:09
  Speaker 6: Big crit you know, David Banner, Slim Thug.
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: We've had a lot of great people agree to be
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: a part of this album because of what the album
• 14:19
  Speaker 6: meant to them as well, you know what I'm saying.
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: And that's a beautiful thing to have, that reciprocation of
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: sewing into people and having those.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: People a lot of pressure too for them.
• 14:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I came up with a system so that
• 14:29
  Speaker 6: everybody would be okay, because I thought maybe some of
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: these dudes don't know the verse or anything like that.
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: And I was very shocked at the majority of people
• 14:36
  Speaker 6: we asked were like, Yo, we know this album, we
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: know these songs. That's not a problem. Just tell me
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: when and where and we're showing up. And that's a
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: great thing. That's a great feeling to get that kind
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: of not only love and agreement to be a part
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: of the show, but the idea of it. Seems like
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: everybody I've been asking this album actually means something to
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: those people. And we've been trying to pick people that
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: tonally and subject matter, subject no matter I should say,
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: make it makes sense. So like when we put Slim
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: Thug on it, I'm like, Slim, you're going to do
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: this song because that's the kind of music that you
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: make for yourself. And so that's what we've been trying
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: to do, is make sure that the energy feels right.
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: I didn't just want to pick people just because they
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: were famous or well known and would sell a lot
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: of tickets on the moment. In the moment, on the day,
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: I needed to all make sense, and so we did
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: a really good job. I think of picking people not
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: only to be a part of it, but picking them
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: specifically for what their target audience kind of speaks to
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: what they speak to I'm sorry to their target audience,
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: and then picking a song that's pretty much in line
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: with that.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: But you know, grief isn't linear, so it got to
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: be hard to do that project.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, the crazy thing is that, you know,
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: Ryan Dirty starts with one day, So if there's going
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: to be a difficult moment, it's going to be that.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: So once we get to that point, and we get
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: past that point, then we can move on and from
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: that point on because the first song is the first
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: song we perform, is going to be one day, and
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: then after that it's murdered.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: So once we get to murder, we're going we're on
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: a run.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Now, that's one of your best verses too. I appreciate
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: what's something because the one thing I like about you
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: know you've always honored PIMC. But it's not like you
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: let grief define the identity of UGK, right, Like, what's something?
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Losing him taught you that success never could?
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: Well, I think it was it was, it was, It
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: wasn't even really losing him. I think the test run,
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: obviously for having to to continue without him was when
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: he went to prison, and so because of that we
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: had to figure out a way of carrying on his
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: name and keeping him alive musically so that when he
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: came home the group would still have some weight on it,
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: some motion to it. And honestly, he came home more
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: popular than he was before he went in, because you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: we did the free PIMC movement, which was accepted by
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: everyone blowing up at their time, and so when we
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: lost him, we was like, well, we know, we know
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: how to continue. We just got to have the strength
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: to continue. And that took a couple of days. Like
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: I tried to do a show, a memorial show for him,
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: probably within the first two months of in passing, and
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: that probably was the hardest moment. But it's not the
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: music that really that really kind of makes me emotional.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: It's not being able to talk. There's like, you know,
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: cars that I look at now, like your Pemp would
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: have had a Bugatti. Pep would have had this, he
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: would have had at forty or something like that. And
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: so those are the things that I hate that he
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: didn't get to be a part of and like that.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: But it's very random, Like it's very random moments when
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I get emotional about him, you know, because I don't
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: really listen. I'm not facetious. I don't really listen to
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: myself like that, So it's not like I'm riding around
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: listening to UGK. But it'll be in conversation with different
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: people and somebody will be like, you know, like I
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: talked to Bundy from the group X Mob. I mean
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: we're very close and he lost his partner as well
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: to cancer. Recipes vicious, and we just talk about the
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: moments that we shared with these artists and things that
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: we went through in those days, and in those moments,
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: you know, we find the time to laugh about it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: But then it's it does get emotional, you know what
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: I'm saying, And I just I think about like social media,
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: like I think social media would have been a blessed
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: and then it curse to Pimp, right because I look
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: at like what Boosie was doing, you know what I'm
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: saying with the girls and all of them, like Pimp
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: would have absolutely been a part of that. But then
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: also Pimp had a very sharp tongue, so I feel
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: like we probably would have got into it with people
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: because he used to just speak right. He didn't really
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: have a filter like that, and so he would very
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: very regularly comment about people in different things. So I
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: felt like maybe that would have complicated some things. I
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: feel like we would have had some definitely had some
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: beef because he would have said something about somebody, you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: just feeling a certain way, and then we would have
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: had to deal with that.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: But to be fair, that was a part of the
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: whole point of UGK.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Right, Like, we got into it with a lot of people,
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: and some of those things rectified themselves, some of them didn't.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, we moved on and whatnot. But you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: I just I'm glad that we get to celebrate him
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: in this way with this concert. And so that's really
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: why I wanted to let everybody know because UGK fans
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: are not just from Texas, They're not just from Louisiana.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: There's fans of PIMC. I remember going to on tour
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: in Japan and the kid flew over to from Korea
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: because he had a Pimpse tattoo on his arm. So
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: you never really know how far your energy and your
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: movement carries around this world. So I just want to
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: keep the energy going. And I think this is a
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: great way to not only celebrate him, to celebrate this album.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: And you know, one of our biggest moments ever.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: As you guys, or as you're putting together the show
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: with your team and you're reflecting, what do you think
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: would have been one of the biggest things that would
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: have wowed him as you guys would have been able
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to reflect together.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: To just the fact that the album still resonates, right, Like,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: we were very careful to not timestamp things. So he
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: would talk about driving the bench, but he would want
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: to talk about like a six hundred because he knew
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: Ben's Mercedes was always going to make a six hundred, right,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So we tried not to
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: be like riding in a ninety six Binge or a
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: ninety eight beam or anything like that, keeping things very general.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: You know, you got to stick to a theme, you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: and this album was very thematic, and the things that
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: we talked about on Ride and Dirty, we were some
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: of the first people to really talk about that, like
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: the screw tapes and things like that, and riding in
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: the slabs trying to spread that culture around the country
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: and eventually around the world. And so this album is
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: a lot more impactful than we gave it credit for
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: at the time, because when we were talking about it,
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: it was something that everybody in the city was starting
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: to gravitate to. And now we look and the whole
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: world is talking about drink. The whole world and the
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: artists all over the country are sampling DJ Screwed, you
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. So a lot of what we
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: talked about in that album and exposed to the world
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: on the grander scale, still resonates today.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: You know, even unfortunately, like.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: The syrup stuff, like people are still zip a syrup,
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, And that's our culture, you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: hated I love it. That's our culture and we love
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: representing it. And I'm glad that that's something that people
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: still appreciate us representing, even though a lot of people
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: from my age group don't really sip anymore. But this
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: this gives everybody a chance to go back to ninety
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: six for a day. You know, we're all parent and
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: some of us are grandparents, you know what I'm saying,
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: So we don't really get to go out like that.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: The clubs obviously don't really speak to us in that
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: way right now, the music doesn't really speak to us
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: in that way.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: So everybody gets to go back to ninety six for
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: one night and remember when they didn't have all the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: responsibilities in their life, you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: you know, you get some get somebody to babysit the
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: kids or the grandkids, and then come out and you know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: put your dickeys on and celebrate.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Nostalgia is the greatest dopamine hit ever.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: It really is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: And I only plan to go to one night at
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: jay Z, which was the reasonable doubt night. I was
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: on such a high from that Friday, I ended up
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: going the whole week.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Why not, you know what I'm saying, especially if you
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: have access to do that, you know what I'm saying,
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: because you got the bag, you could afford that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you're doing good to go see g.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I'm going to see j Z and Mary in the
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: same weekend.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: That's it. That's a big thing, because I want.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: That dopa mean hit because I forgot. I'm not gonna
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: say I forgot, But sometimes we get so caught up
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: in this algorithm world that you forget what real life
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: connection feels like.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, and it's it's good to be in a room
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: where everybody's there for the same reason.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Sometimes when you go to some of these things, different
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: people have different agendas for the evening, but that's that's
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: gonna be one of those nights where everybody's there for
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: the same thing in the same way, so everybody gets
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: to appreciate it. You're gonna make friends, you know what
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: I'm saying. You're gonna be next to somebody because I
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: seen it at the Jeezy shows. You know where people are.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: You know, certain songs come on and then everybody is
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: singing that song and you see dudes next to each
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: other and they rap into each other and all of that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I love that type of feeling.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: I love that energy, and that's kind of what we
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: want to create because we know that everybody that comes
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: to this show on August first is a fan of
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: the album that we're performing. And then we got some
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: special surprises throughout throughout the show as well, so it's
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: it's gonna be an amazing evening. I'm really excited about
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: what being able to pull off.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Now with all the hats that Bumbee has from Chilburgers
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: to everything that you do.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: What do you enjoyed the most.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: Of Papa being a grandfather, being a.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Grand because you can bring them back when you when
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: you finish well, it's it's it's a lot of this
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: stuff is different now.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: So when when I creating music and doing that, the
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: kids couldn't really be a part of that in that way, right.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: They could see the creation of the stuff, they could
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: see the performances, but they couldn't really contribute with the Burgers. Now,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: like my granddaughter works for trill Burgers, my niece works
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: for tril Burgers, my nephew works for trill Burgers, my
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: manager's daughter works for tril Burgers, so all of these
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: my daughter works for trill Burgers now from an administrative aspect,
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: and so everybody gets to be a part of this now,
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: So with the music, you know.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: They could appreciate it in that but if they don't
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: have any like musical talent, they can't contribute to that legacy.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: But with this there's a place for anybody that wants
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: to be a part of this company. And being from
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: the Pawpat side, man, I'll be honest man, just having
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: a house and having the kids come over and just
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: having fun and being able to be like, yeah, you
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: used to do that same thing when you were her
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: age or his age. So it's a beautiful thing to
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: just watch this family grow and to be able to
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: be like, you know what, We're not going to go
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: out of town this weekend. We're gonna stay here, bring
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: the kids over, have a good time, cooks some food,
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: and just enjoy life. And that's a beautiful thing to
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: have lived this long and have gotten this far and
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: be in a position to be like if I want to,
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: because I'm the boss now, I can just be like,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: you know what, we're not doing that this weekend. We're
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: gonna spend time with the family. That can wait till
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Monday or Tuesday, but this weekend we're gonna have fun.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: And I bet you the burgers ain't even what they
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: love to eat when they come over. It's probably something
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: else you cook put on that grill.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll be honest, my wife is an amazing cook.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: So they don't come to my house wanting to burger.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: If they want a burger, we can go to the restaurant.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: But if they want to eat with Granny and Paw part.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: They want to come to the house. They want Granny
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: to cook because my wife.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Cooks really good soul food.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: She cook a lot of food that I don't really eat, like,
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: you know, like I don't eat collar greens and stuff
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I don't since forever or just recently.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: No, no, never, No, I'm pretty sure.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: We don't even understand.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: It's a texture thing for me. Like I'll eat raw spinach,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: but I won't eat cook spinach. I just it's it's
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: like a slimy type of thing. And that really started
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: with okra.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Even I only eat turkey. Next, bro, what else don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: you eat?
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: I don't want to get into it. I don't eat liver.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I don't want to get you deep into it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: But it's not like he's from New York.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Like my wife makes a great gumbo, but she always
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: put okra in it, so I'm hesitant to eat it
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: because what okra is slimy to me. I gotta tell you,
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: it's a texture thing for me. That's it, you know
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: But what I like to eat. My wife cooks for me,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and she cooks very well.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: But on Sundays She'll typically cook like an old school
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: soul food dinner, and then the whole family will come
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: over and eat, and I'll be like, yeah, I'm finna
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: go get some wings.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I'll be back.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: But but again, that's that she cooks those meals for
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: her because that's what she likes to eat. She was
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: raised by her grandmother, so that's kind of a lot
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: of what she she was taught to cook.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: And I just don't get in the way with that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Just because I don't eat, it doesn't mean that somebody's
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: not going to appreciated.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: That's all she That's not when I took me in
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: my adulthood.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: But yeah, there's there's a lot of things I don't eat.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I don't eat the chillens.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: I'm never I still.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I can't give up.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know really what. Yes, I love it when.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: They're cooking chicklin's. Yeah I gotta go. Yeah, Yeah, I
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: don't want.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: To smell it for what New Year's Eves would make
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: it Christmas thanks Giving me.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Fried chicken, that's like a good luck thing.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: No, they do cabbage us we do black eyed piece
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: of cabbage, and don't I don't eat cabbage.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, I can I understand that's extra average.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a lot of things that that typically black
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: people love to eat and that I don't eat.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: But again, at a.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: Very young age, I was like, when I get old
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: and I get money, I'm not eating none of the
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: slave food.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Like I'm not eating no tripe. I'm not eating none
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: of this. You know what I'm saying.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: I'm eating steak, you know, and potatoes and pork chops
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: and fried chicken or whatever you know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: But I don't knock it when she cooks it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: I don't knock it because I know I'm the minority
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: that no one else feels like I feel when my
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: wife cooks.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Everybody's ready for when my wife cooks.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: People probably so surprising when they're like first time guests
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: at your house and she'd throw down and you you'd
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: be like, well.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I might have the mac and cheese and some
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: beans or whatever and like maybe.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: One meat, but yeah, nah, I don't like mac and cheese.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, now you gotta go.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: You don't like macache. It's just cheese as with the stomach.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: It definitely like those dollar but I just don't like it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: But that's dietary though, Like I can understand that if
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: it's a dietary restriction, of course you.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't want to eat it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: But no, like just on the idea of not wanting
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: to eat mac and cheese, I think that's I think that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: I think that's something that's more palatable than kyl of
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: greens by a long way.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Things give, and I get the stuff in. I like stuffing.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I like the yams, but the maga cheese I'm cool
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: on that. The turkey next, Yes, up.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: I'm starting to have a bit of aversion to dressing
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: now because the gizzards. Like like when I cook my
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: when I fix my plate, I got to pick every
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: gizzet out of the dressing.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okayod I love chicken gizzards.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't with that. And you said that with
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: confidence like I do.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about how she cook them on this weekend.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: I might have to get like that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: But I think a lot of that food. To be honest,
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: I feel like that's more relational. Yeah, when you use
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: certain food, it kind of brings you back and makes
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: you thinks about relationships you had with people that maybe
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: on here anymore.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, And that's why to me, even like when I
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: see you at because I've never been to the Houston Rodeo,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: but every year when it's happening, and like you're there
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and now your Burger spot is there, and then you're
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: taking the stage, you're doing different things. I know you
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: didn't perform this year, right right? I think about that,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: like even seeing Miss Tina at the Rodeo too. I'm like,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: this has to be very like relational for the people
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that are from where y'all are from.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely, because you know, the Rodeo I think is
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: on that ninety third year of existence, so it's been
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: something that most of us grew up in. Like we
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: all went to the Rodeo at a certain point, like
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: your family would take you, your school would take you.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: We used to go there and do like you know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: I guess they call it cosplay now, but like you
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: would go there and they would give you like a
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: vest and a hat and stuff like that to put
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: on so you could take a cowboy picture.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: But now, no, it's twenty one days. Wow.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Wow, it's twenty one days and every day has a
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: concert in the football stadium. So they averaged like sixty
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: thousand people, sixty five thousand people at night.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: How come you didn't do the stage this year.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: I wasn't asked you, I don't. It's not my choice
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: to whether I want to do the Rodeo or not.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: It seems so synonymous, where like you're like, because you
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: have the stage where you bring out artists and it's
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: normally like the Heritage.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Night, right, Yeah, Black Heritage.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I thought that that was like sett and Stonnach, that
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: is your thing.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: People come for that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: I mean it was because we did it so well
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: the first year they asked us to come back. We
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: improved on the concept. They asked us to come back again,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: and we kind of knocked it out the park on
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: that third run for real, because that's when Drake offered
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: himself to the show, you know, and we were able
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: to bring some artists that the Rodeo doesn't really have
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: a connection to in that way, or even in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: case of Drake, they can't afford to pay up an
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: artist like that to come. So he saw the kind
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: of cultural impact we would have and in the moment,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: and of course he loved to be a part of
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: of pretty much anything that Houston that's Houston centric, so
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: he was like, yo, I got to come and do
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: your riddo, but he didn't understand the scale of it
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: because he's like, yo, I can bring my stage. I
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: was like, nah, we got a crazy stage, and well
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: I can bring pow rolls. Like, well, we got powo.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: But if you want more, that's fine. We just need
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: your presence, you know what I'm saying. So, but it's
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: been a beautiful partnership with them, and even when I
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: didn't perform this year, we still get to do the
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: burgers and the tenders on site, which to me, as
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: long as we have that, I'm still in play, you
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. But even if I never did
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: it again, which I'm not wishing or hoping for that, right,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I love to go back at some point, But even
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: if I never did it again, four shows in a row,
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: as I was the first black man from Houston to
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: headline the rodeo, it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Was like your thing. After that, it was.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: Like everybody assumed that, like people think this year, everybody
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: came thinking it was my rodeo, Like people from outside
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: of the state think that this is a rodeo that
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: I put on that happens on the weekend or whatever,
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: and it's much bigger than that. Like I said, there's
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: twenty one nights. There's a multitude of artists that perform.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: A lot of them are country based, but they do EDM,
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: they do R and B, they do throwback shows.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: I'm just happy to be able to put myself on
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: that stage. And when we first got actually do it,
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: we're like, we got to share this moment because we
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: never know if we'll be back.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: So I tried to put as.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: Many people from Houston on that stage where I felt
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: should be able to be seen and be appreciated in
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: that moment because they've been as contributive to the culture
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: as I have. So we just made a whole Houston
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: night the first year. Then they brought us back. We're like, okay,
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: well let's do a Southern night. Then they brought us
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: back again, so then we did an American night, you
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. And so it's been a fun
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: experiment to do and I've been blessed to be a
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: part of it. And the city benefits because now there's
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: an influx of people that come in for that weekend.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: So now they consider it like Black Rodeo weekend, even
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: though there's only one Black Show for the entire thing
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: this year. They had two black artists. They had Lizzo
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: and they had Shaboozi. You know what I'm saying. So,
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: and I've been very careful, like to like, they always
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: wanted to put me on Black Heritage Night, but I
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: felt like if I allowed them to do that, then
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: no one else would get that night. So but it's
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: been amazing. It's been an amazing experiment. You know, I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: glad they had me, and if they never bring me back,
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: I'm good. I made some good money, so it made
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: some even bigger impacts. So that's that's pretty much it
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: for me. I can figure it out from there.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: But do you think hip hop has lost his eldest
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I have younger artists to stop.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Look the I think what we're doing is we're targeting
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: the wrong way. I don't think that you should be
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: trying to bring in new fans. You should be trying
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: to make a deeper connection with the fans that you
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: already had. But that being said, a lot of people,
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: a lot of my contemporaries, didn't jump on the digital
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: era as soon as they should, and I was late
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: to it and still was able to benefit from it,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: but I feel like a lot of my contemporaries did
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: not embrace it. I think they kind of looked at
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: it different and they didn't really know how to navigate
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: promotion and marketing and sales in this digital space where
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: people don't actually physically go in the record store and
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: buy music anymore, and that was pretty much off putting
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: for people. They didn't really know how to adjust to
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: the new times, and I think by the time they
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: did start to figure it out and want to adjust
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: and want to be a part of it, there was
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: a little bit of a delay and there was a
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: lack of connection in that space.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: So I think my age group primarily is in Facebook.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: You know, some of them have Instagram, and that's fine,
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: but I think the more, the more direct way to
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: communicate with our age basis Facebook. But I don't think
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Facebook is as attractive, you know what I'm saying to
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: many artists as an Instagram or a TikTok but then.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Easy to get to an ig than Facebook at times.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, But then the way that I feel like the
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: way that Instagram and TikTok operates does not lend itself
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: to having that older mentality, and you find yourself doing
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: things that are not within your character. Like I'm not
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: finna get on social media and start doing these TikTok dances,
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: but I'll do a line dance because that's my age group,
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, And we all do those
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: at parties and trail rides and stuff like that. So
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: you just gotta find that space that works for you
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: and be good with that, be comfortable with that. We're
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: never going to sell what we used to, sol We're
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: never going to impact in the way that we used to.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: So it's just a matter of being smart enough to
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: just keep yourself in front of the people that know
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: you and love you and appreciate you, and then you know,
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: and you know, make good with that, and if you
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: need a side also, go get a side out. So
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: I'm cooking burgers on the side, you know what I'm saying.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: That that offsets the loss of income that maybe I
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: would have had by not having a connection to this
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: much younger fan base.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: They don't want to hear my music.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: And even if I did go and say, like ask
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Future for a verse, I'm sure Future would give me
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: a verse, But I don't know if futures fan base
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: wants to hear me with him.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know if my fan base wants to hear
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: him with me. So you don't really get.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: To benefit from that kind of a thing even if
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: you even if you have the access to it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: You know, you're owning a burger franchise on the side.
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's growing, you know, it's growing.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So like you're like they would people wanted like if
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you got on TikTok and didn't do like, we don't
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: want to see you doing all the dances on all.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Of those things, right, No, but if you.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Know, if you sat down on TikTok and you did
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: like I talk like when I watch your interviews, I
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm always learning something from your interviews about business, navigating,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: brand strategy, and just being honest about what I want
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: to actually do. If you found a short form way
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to do that on TikTok, we would listen because you're
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: one of the others that I feel like we respect,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: like we we know you're not gonna do nothing that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: you don't want to do. I think it's about how
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: you do it. People get on there and be doing
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: five six, seven, eight.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: And shit, well, if if I find a lane that's
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: authentic to me in the space that I can you know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: really help people benefit from.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Then we'll probably we'll probably look into that, you know
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: But right now, I think I think my company needs
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: me more than anything right now because I still do shows.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: I'm still you know, I'm still on the road, i
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: still make good money performing. I still you know, get
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: asked to do a lot of the things. So I'm
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: not really hurting on that side, you know what I'm saying.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: I feel like my energy is really best needed to
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: build this company.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And what you said too about not you know, targeting,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I guess the youth can just really folk knowing the
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: people who already rock with you. Yeah, I think that's
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: the most important thing. I don't think people realize that
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the highest spending demo in the US is forty five
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: to fifty four.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Well, we're liquid, right, We're liquid. We're working you know,
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: working class people. We've got money. All we need is time.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: So like from like my shows, if we give them
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: two and a half to three months to get ready
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: to prepare for it, make sure the kids are going
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: to be okay, save up their money, you know what,
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: I'm saying because a lot of times my contemporaries in
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: my age group, their money is best best utilized in
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: other ways, you know what I'm saying. But if we
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: give them enough time to prepare for the show, they'll come.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: They just need enough time to work some shit out,
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: but they'll come. They got to ask to get off
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: work that kind of stuff, you know what I'm saying.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: So I understand that stuff, and so we try to
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: lean into that in a way that allows people time
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: and finances in order to come out and have a
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: good time.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: And start start time. Start time is important too.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, No, you got to start around nine o'clock,
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: ten o'clock. You ten is late now, well, ten is okay.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: But if you start going past, if you go past
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: midnight or evening, we're done.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Like you got it. Doors got to be closed by
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: by man. We didn't have a choice that night.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I don't have no choice. Yes, yes, said but I
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: left at one thirty. But I went the whole weekend,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: which I couldn't believe I did. But to your point,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of things for us. No, No,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: that was something for us. So August first and Houston.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: That makes sense to me go see riding thirty.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: They can get the links in my bio, but they
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: can go to a smart live tx dot com and
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: they can get tickets there too. But the link is
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: in my Instagram bio.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: We appreciate you for joining us.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Brother, man, we appreciate you. Guys. Let me come up
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: here and talk about this. You know what I'm saying.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: Thing that you guys open up your door on your
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: platform to me whenever I need it. So I'm going
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: to try to need it more often, just so I
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: can see you guys.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: The one you always pull up in anything I'm doing,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: whether it's somewhere that you're closed. So if I'm in Houston,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: you always pull up just to say what's up?
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you?
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: How the family and I really really appreciate it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Man, It doesn't It doesn't cost me anything just to
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: come and say hip, sure people love and bring people
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: some burgers. Well that bringing you some burgers, my But
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: the long term benefit works. Long term benefit works. Thank
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: you all for having me though.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: For real, it's button B It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: hold up every day a week ago.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Click your glass up the Breakfast club you don't finish for.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Y'all done.