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New Mixed with Old (French Montanna Interview, Cesar Pina and Jen Tips Interview and Ryan Wilson and TK Peterson Interview) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Dang dang wherever I come to the breakfast Club, I
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  Speaker 1: called in the hot seat. You don't control I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even doing it. I'm so bad? Are you so bad?
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  Speaker 1: The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show d j N. You
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  Speaker 1: have to know this, bitch, Angela. I stay in everybody's business,
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  Speaker 1: but in a good rapt Charlemagne the guy, the ruler
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  Speaker 1: rubbing you the wrong way. The breakfast club ain't for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling. I'm telling what you're doing. Hall of Yo.
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  Speaker 1: This is your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five
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  Speaker 1: one oh five one. We want to hear from you
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  Speaker 1: on the breakfast Club. Hello, who's this yo? Yo? What
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  Speaker 1: up this boy? Flex Luga from Dover, Delaware? Man, okay,
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  Speaker 1: Dover Delaware? When I broke it off your chest? Man? Listen, man, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: No disrespect to order MCS or whatever. Man, But I
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  Speaker 1: just want to let SHO know. My name is Flex Luger.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a forty two year old rappler and I'm coming. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're gonna clown me. Let's hear. Let's hear something.
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  Speaker 1: Since you're so confident, own brand coming. Oh you want
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  Speaker 1: to hear someth Yep, yeah, okay, then all right, that's
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  Speaker 1: all good. I remember I was growing up. I was
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  Speaker 1: remember blowing up steady doing shows. Then why nobody's showing up?
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  Speaker 1: I ain't had no crack price to steady, going up,
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  Speaker 1: telling with your bows, pick teams, dude, so what's up?
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  Speaker 1: Only had a couple of homies. I ain't never do
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  Speaker 1: the phonies. Favorite song was Tender Rooney used to fight
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  Speaker 1: my cousin Flundy. Mama used to pray for me. She's
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  Speaker 1: still doing fathefully on my herd was hand choked my
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  Speaker 1: dude that was precking me. Had to pick up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, all right, hey man, I got a song
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  Speaker 1: on all platforms. Paint I feel flex Luca. I ain't trying.
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  Speaker 1: Network is still the show. I'm just saying, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: hungry y. I've been doing this for years. Every my
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  Speaker 1: name is flex Luga, Paint I feel all platform Angeline
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  Speaker 1: put me on the show. I thought, Nancy and anything.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't playing flex. What do you do with your
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: nine to five? Man? I'm working at Kimberly Clark right
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  Speaker 1: now in South Carolina. Dog, but that's only temporary because
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: when pain I feel, get off the Graham. It's over with.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you. Let me ask you. I feel all platforms.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, when when do you want?
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  Speaker 1: You know? As you know, like an entrepreneur, you start
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  Speaker 1: a business and it doesn't work when you let that
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  Speaker 1: business goes. So when you say, you know what, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna rap anymore, you know what, that's a good
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  Speaker 1: that's a good point, Evy. I'm not lying to you, man,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm so passionate about it though, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna still be on the temple, you know, write
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  Speaker 1: your music for people. Man, Hello, I always have, Hong,
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  Speaker 1: you've been doing music. I've been knowing it for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Magine, I really have it, Like what's a
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  Speaker 1: long time? Well I've been. I fell in love with
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  Speaker 1: it when I was like ten years old. Man, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know. I know it's old already. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody saying that you were so confident a minute ago.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that. I mean, and he's a DJ. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know what he might be able
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  Speaker 1: to do for you. Whit I'm still confident though, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: and just said no. No, I heard that. I said nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I mean y'all not stayed with it. Men.
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  Speaker 1: I mean everybody has their chance, and maybe you just
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  Speaker 1: haven't had your chance. I camera guy next that keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ever tell anybody to stop what they're doing. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you know, like with any business, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta know whin the fold. Now that's I
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  Speaker 1: think it's know when the holder you can't knowing the
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  Speaker 1: fold and then knowing the fold again. Yeah, sorry, yes,
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  Speaker 1: your NB. I just ask y'all man. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do nothing harmful. Man, I'm just asking y'all please
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  Speaker 1: go here, my son paint. I feel flex fluga all
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  Speaker 1: platform screaming. All right, I got a whole out boat,
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  Speaker 1: whole problem. Sound like from Queens, right, if he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound like from Queens, sound like from Brooklyn. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 1: gotta know, no whin the whole loom, no whining the food.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you say, okay, all right, so maybe he
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  Speaker 1: should fold him. Hello, who's this man? Good morning? This
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  Speaker 1: is Russ, Russ. What's happening? King? Get it off your chests? Russ?
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, let me first say I can listen to
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  Speaker 1: y'all since I was a nine three, right, how old
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  Speaker 1: are you now? I'm twenty three years old. Lord, have mercy, boy,
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  Speaker 1: we've been around too long. Man, Listen. I called y'all
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  Speaker 1: back when I was in tenth grade in high school
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  Speaker 1: and V and MVY hung up on me. Right us
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  Speaker 1: rush right rough, he kept saying. Rough. Mvy's communication has
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  Speaker 1: improved a lot over the years. This is too difficult,
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  Speaker 1: hang about a lot of rust. But anyway, I remember
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  Speaker 1: what I was mad about back then. I was mad
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  Speaker 1: because you know I'm from Baltimore, man, y'are not so
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  Speaker 1: I was mad. But man, you know what I'm doing today, masturvating?
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  Speaker 1: What something change? What? Sir? I'm I'm gonna read your book? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: anxiety playing tricks on me chick one, Yes, sir exactly,
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  Speaker 1: because you know I took them mental health day to day.
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  Speaker 1: So I called out of work. Oh man, listen, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta do that from time to time when you have
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  Speaker 1: an anxiety about today. Brother, Man, Monday morning, I was
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  Speaker 1: on my way to a job interview when I had
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  Speaker 1: crashed my car, man, and that's just ruined out week.
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  Speaker 1: Damn well, man, shake it off, my brother. I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: you're taking the mental health day to day. Yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: the day that you should have liked, you know, did
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  Speaker 1: some energy clinics in man, maybe take a salt bath
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  Speaker 1: right down your your long term goals, manifest some things
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  Speaker 1: in your life. But you can still do that today. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna turn with to day. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get my my my feelings off my chest and like
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  Speaker 1: write it down. You know, look back on this day
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  Speaker 1: and I know it's not gonna be a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, you know, I'm just trump pushed through.
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  Speaker 1: I love this, my brother. I love how you live
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  Speaker 1: in King Man. Y'all, y'all have a good morning. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for that. Hey, Russ, I'm gonna put you on hold.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna send you some more things to read. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna send you doctor to Walker, the Unapologetic guy, the
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  Speaker 1: Black Mental Health. That's a. That's a. That's when I
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  Speaker 1: recommend to everybody. Man, I'm gonna stoph that for it's
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  Speaker 1: not mine, the autograph, but I'll send it to you.
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  Speaker 1: Damn man, I got you kids. I'm gonna send it
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  Speaker 1: to you. Don't hang out, hold on hanging your lin
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  Speaker 1: of seven. Hello, who's this J's Uber and Mike Uber
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  Speaker 1: Mike bro get off your chests? How you're doing? Two things.
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  Speaker 1: First thing, I thank you for sending us a shout
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday. But I only got one problem. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like wait on people when I pull up. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like wait you here confirm that meets ready to go? Nah,
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  Speaker 1: it don't. It don't because I'm not type of person.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes Uber said it'll be there in ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: and to take fifteen minutes. And I don't be waiting outside.
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  Speaker 1: So if I'm staying at a hotel, i'm doing something,
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  Speaker 1: I usually wait to you outside that I start walking
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  Speaker 1: to you, okay, and then antelaye. When this day I
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  Speaker 1: want to come to your days twenty eight, I'm already starting. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've already been planning. It's gonna be amazing this year.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Okay, I'll be there. Last thing, I
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  Speaker 1: promise you this is Charlemagne. Yes, sir, okay, you know
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  Speaker 1: that that fear we have when somebody pull up on
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  Speaker 1: side of you on the car, Yes, sir, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: got That's why I don't like waiting a car be
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  Speaker 1: putting up aside along beside you. Af fair. We got Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's called you're talking about it the anxiety. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tall you something. I couldn't be an uber driver
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  Speaker 1: bro dealing with all them strangers every day and random
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  Speaker 1: people jumping in and out, exchanging that different energy with
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  Speaker 1: different people all day. Lord, have mercy. Oh man, it's
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. And I love talking to people. Man, I
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  Speaker 1: have ten thousand pickups. Man, it's amazing. I read that
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  Speaker 1: story the other day. It gave me anxiety for all
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  Speaker 1: the uber and lived drivers about the the young lady
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  Speaker 1: who got killed. Yeah, and she was begging for her life.
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  Speaker 1: She had four kids, like damn yeah, y'all haven't blessed?
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  Speaker 1: Morning many third, All right, get it off your chests.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If
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  Speaker 1: you need to vent, hit us up right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: the breakfast club. Good morning, the breakfast Club. Time to
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  Speaker 1: get it off your chest. Whether you're man, thank you
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  Speaker 1: from you on the breakfast club. You got something on
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  Speaker 1: your mind? He who's this? This ball? Called it to
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  Speaker 1: the three one three? Good morning, three one three? What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: That's Detroit? Right? Yes, your third, but I brother, get
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  Speaker 1: off your chest, Okay, I want to First off, I
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  Speaker 1: wander said good morning, A good morning DJA and go mornish.
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  Speaker 1: I don't name the Great peace King. How are you
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  Speaker 1: black man? Hey, I'm all right, brother, No, I'm all right.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say that about my girl. I
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  Speaker 1: love her. We've been together fourteen years and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to say her name with Brandy Michelle's foster. I
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  Speaker 1: want to say how much I love her. I appreciate
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: everything that you do from being my family and my kids.
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  Speaker 1: I've never for sake her. I would never take her
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  Speaker 1: for granted. I would never play with her. I don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. I wish all black men to do the
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  Speaker 1: same thing because they've got a lot of women. And
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  Speaker 1: that's real. And that's the hold down like my PF
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  Speaker 1: do me when I say my baby, hold me down.
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  Speaker 1: It's no limit. I don't even think about another few minutes. Anybody,
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  Speaker 1: somebody they want to beyond stay and Rihanna. I want
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  Speaker 1: a Brandy. I don't want none of that. I want
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  Speaker 1: a brand, your Brandy. That ye not Brandy Brandy. My brand,
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: the Brandy Boston. That's her name. That's my baby, and
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  Speaker 1: I love her. That's beautiful, My king, have a go y'all.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: I mean he said it like he got the like
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  Speaker 1: he got options. He said it like something just happened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, what happened. I don't want me a Rihanna.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do you have the option to
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  Speaker 1: have picture something? You can only say you don't want something. Listen,
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: make sure you listen this morning to Breakfast claud Don't
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  Speaker 1: they just love the Hello? Who's this yo? Caesar? Yeah?
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: What's up? Bro? Get off your chest? Hey Caesar, I
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: meant to use an anonymous name. Everybody too late? Oh
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: my goodness, do you want to change your name now? Man?
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: I just get off my chess real quick. Don't come
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: you walking, because I don't like when Charlemagne and that you. Um,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: but yeah, leave it on my chest. Um. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like when people movie trying to take I don't like
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: when other people to be trying to take other people
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  Speaker 1: back and still hold like a like a like a
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: brune against it. You know, like for example, if a
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  Speaker 1: dude he's on a girl and he like, I forgive you,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: I take you back, but like what week years down
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: the road, you still like throwing it back in my face.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: That's like, come on, out. So this just happens. This
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: just happened to you, Caesar. I mean, yeah, this is
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: like this is like long ago type stuff, you know
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  Speaker 1: if I'm talking about like even nowadays, you know, like
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: I see my partners go through it. You birth gods.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, well, I would say that sometimes things
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: trigger you, you know, so you might have forgiven somebody,
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that you completely forget it, and
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: so there might be certain times when you fall back
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: into some old habits. It takes a long time to
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: build up that trust. So it's an effort on both
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  Speaker 1: people's parts. Though I do agree you can't just keep
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: on beating somebody up after you said, let's work on it.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: But every now and then, you know, you don't intend
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: for it to happen, but you get a little mad.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: You're right, You're right, You're right. We all you when
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  Speaker 1: we all get trying to, you know, love our best
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  Speaker 1: lives out here. I feel you. Well, thank you, bro?
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Good luck? Man? Hello? Who's that? Yo? What's wrong? From something? Matic? Bro?
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: What's up? Man? You would high that? Charlotte? Yeah? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I first of all, man, I just want to give
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  Speaker 1: you your your roles now, Uh, you know for the worst, man,
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  Speaker 1: the mental health, like I made you do a great
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  Speaker 1: job man, not just the words and speed, but also
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to live the way for people to
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  Speaker 1: really you know, to heal and to deal with the
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: mental health. Right, thank you king, man, it's all good.
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  Speaker 1: I sent. I sent some teachers that you got it too, man.
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  Speaker 1: So I created the depression features and said that I
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: make them look good. You guys get it. No, I
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: look good. I make stuff look good. But that's what
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: the teachers say, the person's features, right, okay, So people, man,
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: it's the girl you know, the pressure in that different
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: you know dicenario right and and basically handing. Listen, you
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: don't see what's going on in this tide because like
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a mem health issue. It's not like
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: a cold when you do the simple you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So people who the people's yes another So
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  Speaker 1: you know what I took. People here, you go get
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  Speaker 1: your hair done, never done here saving put your out
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  Speaker 1: and on the good look good all right? Okay, yes sir,
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  Speaker 1: Well thank you man. You have a good day. Man,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: have a good morning, all right, bro? All right, man? Hello,
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: who's this? This is Timpa ain't. Good morning, mama, Get
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  Speaker 1: it off your chest. Oh my god, I was so excited.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Good morning, y'all, it's my birthday. Happy bay. Oh my gosh,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: I was same. I'm excited. Sorry what you're doing this weekend?
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Well right now? Um later on my mom for to
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: come get me star stuff. Oh that's really nice. I
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: like that. It's by day with your mama. Enjoy your day, mama.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you have a question for Charlomagne. Yes, ma'am Charlotmayne.
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  Speaker 1: I've been buying all these books right because you were
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: in the minute though, but only book. I don't have
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: this George, anybody I can get it for a birthday?
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Can what you want? You y'all? Got you what you one?
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  Speaker 1: You want? See both first one? All right, I got you.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on hold and get your address.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you so much. I'll have a
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  Speaker 1: blessed one. Thank you. Get it off your chest. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred five eight five one on five one. If you
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: need to vent, hit us up now. Was the breakfast Club?
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: Good morning, the breakfast Club, The breakfast Club. Your morning's
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: will never be the same morning. Everybody is dj Envy
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  Speaker 1: Angela Yee Charlomage and the guy we all the Breakfast club.
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  Speaker 1: We got some special guests in the building from the
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  Speaker 1: Gathering Spot. We have Ryan Wilson and T. K. Peterson.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome guys to be here, Queen and the Gathering Spot there. Well,
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: let's let's break it down for people that don't know
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: what is the Gathering Spot. So the Gathering Spot is
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  Speaker 1: a private network that we established in Atlanta in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the community business. We figure out how to
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  Speaker 1: connect people. Youngest members twenty one, oldest is ninety. So
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: we spend time building connections, hosting programs, and we have
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: physical clubs across the country. Now, actually just had Mary
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  Speaker 1: Jayes um Esten Gavan women. Their whole entire event was
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: there at the Gathering Spot. So how can people become
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  Speaker 1: a member if they wanted to become a member of
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: the Gathering Spot. So you go online, right, we have
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: a process that starts there. You'll get in contact with
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  Speaker 1: a person on our membership team and then we interview everybody. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's really important for us to get to know every
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: single member of the community. To make those connections that
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: I was talking about, We've got to spend time really
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: understanding what makes you you, and then from there we
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  Speaker 1: send out acceptances, so it kind of works like college.
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  Speaker 1: You put your application in and then we'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: soon after if you're if you're a member. How many
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  Speaker 1: members are there? There's twelve thousand the country across the
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  Speaker 1: country that with membership. What does that include? What do
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I get with the membership? And how much is membership feeds?
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  Speaker 1: And why would somebody want to do it? So the
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: membership includes access to the physical locations we have, so
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta we have about twenty five thousand square feet
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  Speaker 1: in DC on LA roughly the same size, so physical
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  Speaker 1: clubs that have events space, a private restaurant and bar,
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: and workspace where private offices and conference rooms. That thought
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: being that anything you would need to do in a
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: modern day's worth of work you can do inside of
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: the space, both professional and social. And then we have
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: our own content platform digital platform there and on local
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: perks and different benefits. But the biggest attraction to being
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  Speaker 1: a part of the community is that one another. You're
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: meeting other people who are like minded and highly driven
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: and see value and being part of something that's larger
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  Speaker 1: than themselves. So very similar to college, where you're meeting
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  Speaker 1: people who are lifelong friends and partners and different things.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you keep that connectivity beyond the educational
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: setting and with you for the rest of your life, hopefully.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, you know, when I started at my private
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: label store and Detroit, the meeting that I had with
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: my partner Mikey was at the Gathering Spot. So that's
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: where we actually had our first initial meeting in person
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: to kind of talk about getting things started. So like
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: stories like that or what it's about for us, Like
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: we look now it's been all seven years since TJ's open,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: and there's so many business partners in relationships. We even
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: have TGS babies where people are like I met I
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: met at TGS and now now look at us. That's
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: why we started the gathering spot. Hey, look there there
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: are a lot of different and that's that's again that
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: we were talking about this in twenty thirteen. That was
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the plan, like how do we create, yes, a place
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: for the network where we can build with one another,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: right knowing that there's not enough places around the country
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: to be able to do that, So we started in Atlanta,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: but we're building them all over the country. Now. Now
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: what is membership fees? How much is supposed to be
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a membership? And can I bring in people because you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: how does that work? Yeah, great question. The fees are
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: it's two hundred dollars a month or two thousand dollars
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: for the year to be a member of the gathering spot.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: And yeah, you're allowed three guests pretty much at any
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: time without giving advanced ois. If you need more than that,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: we asked that you reach out so we can make
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: sure that there's enough space for your for your guests.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: What made you decide Atlanta was the right place to start.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is one of the more important cities
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: in the country, right, and we we've believed that for
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: a really long time. But you look between the colleges
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and universities, the big businesses that are there, the small
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: businesses and startups that are there, and then you've got
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: the culture that's coming out of the city, right, that
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: special sauce. We couldn't we couldn't pass that up, right,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: That's what you see inside of the club. You'll see
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: people who are wearing suits and ties sitting next to
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: people who are wearing t shirts and jeans, right, And
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: so our goal is to try to figure out how
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: to make them talk to each other. But you have
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: to be in a city that understands and kind of
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: moves in that way already. And so we planted in Atlanta.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: But we're in the community business, so I mean we're
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: at this point able to do this work all over
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the country in DC, right, So yeah, DC was the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: second one, and then we recently opened another in Los
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Angeles and that's the physical clubs. But we have membership
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: communities actually one here in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Charlotte.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: So they're TGS folks everywhere. Now, I was going to ask,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you know, Drake talks about kicking it with Jack Hollow
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: at the Gatherer Spot. So you have celebrities as well
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: out of a members or do you have celebrities that
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you know come through because they feel safe away? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Terms of our brother man, he is a long time
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: support that showed us a lot of love the whole
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Grand Hustle team. We're forever thankful for their support very
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: early on. But yeah, we have we have celebrity members. Oftentimes,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of people whom the team around
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the celebrity is oftentime, the member, So they're like manager,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: they're assistant, their attorney, so the apparatus around them. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: then because of that, they're familiar with the space and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: because it's a private community, um, they have you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: private get together as regularly. So we're fortunate that we've
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: we've worked with Drake and the OVO team several times
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: over the years. It's always a great time with them. Now,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: why would you turn somebody down if they wanted to
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: become a member, Why would you turn them down? So
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: we're looking for people who are connectors, right, So if
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: you're one of those people that likes to walk in
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: rooms and just pass out of your business card and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: not say anything and the interaction is really transactional, you're
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: probably not a good fit for TGS. But like, this
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: is about relationships, right, So if you're not a person
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: that displays interest in building real relationships, this is probably
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: not the best environment for you. I Mean, we ask
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of questions in our interview, but the main
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: thing that we're asking and the question that everyone gets
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: is what animates you outside of the office, And we like,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: we really care about the answer to that question, Like
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you have to talk to us about that other thing.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: That you're passionate about. That's what we ultimately build programs around.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: So it's important to get to you, like the real you.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: And if you don't want to bring that to the table,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a game like this is probably not the best place
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: for you. Now right now, this always fascinates me. So
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I want to get to the Greenwood part, where you
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: guys have done this whole partnership. Now, the wording is
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: they did Greenwood acquired the gathering spot, and so as
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: people who have built this up right as a baby
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: from the beginning, what was the decision that what was
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the thinking behind you making that decision to go into
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: business with Greenwood? So there are a lot of things
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in this, right, But first and foremost, if you look
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: at what we've been talking about at TGS for years, right, So,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the pandemic hits and we had a very vocal camp
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: paying called we All we Got, and the thing that
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: we were talking about was we've got to support one
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: another and like be radical in that support. That's us
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: talking a lot though about money, right, and so the
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: conversation that was happening a lot in the community is
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: that we just don't have access to the right resources
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and the right tools to be able to advance our
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: personal and our business interests. So what we're doing with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Greenwood is is something that really is is special. Right.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: When you hear the term black on black, a lot
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of times that phrase doesn't end positively, but in this
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: context it does. Right, this is black on black M
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and A. And we're working together to build a really
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: really big company. Knowing that we bring the community that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: we have at TGS now together with the financial tools
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and resources that Greenwood has. Those those two things together
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: are super super powerful. So we decided it was it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: was better to go with each other than to be
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: trying to build a business separately. Now, black people only
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: allowed at the gathering spot. You just said Jack Harlowe
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: was there, but I don't know he's a member. He
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: might have came with somebody else. I'm asking both both. No,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So look, we are we are specific at TGS and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: at Greenwood that while everybody is welcome, we are speaking
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to our community directly, right, and so that is where
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we are focused. Right, We're talking to black folks, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: if never mixed words about that. It's important for us
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to have places you mentioned safety earlier. We have to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: have places where we are safe and can build and
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: grow with one another. Again, everyone's welcome, but we are
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: definitely specific about where we're the perspective. I think something
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: that Ryan has said over the years as true is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that there's places where we're tolerated or accepted. This is
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a place that was built for us. This is black owned,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Black man is black operated. This is our platform. We
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: got more with the owners from the gathering spot. When
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: we come back, it's the breakfast club. Good morning, the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: breakfast club, all the breakfast club. I gott to remind you, guys,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: my call show happens July ninth in Atlanta. Your favorite
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: celebrity calls like fifty cent Bunby, Past Detroy, Jeez, Rick Ross, Carlos, Milla,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Killer Mike. But since we talked in Atlanta, we got
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the brothers from the gathering spots here. Yee. Now let
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: me ask you this. We talk about working in tandem, right,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: black on black, but in a positive way. So why
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: acquiring and not a partnership? So I mean that really
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: got down to just the way that the best way
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: to construct the deal, right, I mean Greenwood is a
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: big platform. Right if you look at just technology companies
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: generally the way that they're able to scale a little
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: bit different than what we were doing. But the way
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that this works truly day to day is that we
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: are partnering right Like our teams are working with one another.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: We're I think this is an example of like again
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: for other business owners that are out there, it's possible
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to find arrangements like we've been working together for a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: long time. We just have expanded the family in our
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to work with the Green with team Dan. Now, how
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: difficult was it to get everything together? I mean starting
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: off saying you want to have a membership, Well, how
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: difficult was that? Because you need a vision and it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: has to be a vision of not just one to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: two people. You need a bunch of people up to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: join a membership type of club. I can't just just
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: meeting one person like you need numerous people. So how
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: difficult was that? Big difficult? Big difficult. So the hardest
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: thing as always you guys know as entrepreneurs as well
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: as you need capital, which is the first steps. So
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: something we talked about is that we got ninety seven
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: knows before we got the first yes when it came
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to get an investor, and then when you finally make
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: it to the part where you have the capital to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: build out the location. Then you start operating the business.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And like you said, we're a private membership club and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: people want to see it before they sign up, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you don't want to come to a place that doesn't
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: have anyone in there. So it was it was we say,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: hand to hand combat every day we went out and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we were in Atlanta and meeting as many people as possible. Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're just getting to the place honestly where
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: we can talk about that part of the journey. Um,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I mean it was it was like super rough. A
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: lot of people told us no and like not the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: like no I'm not interested, polite nose. We were getting
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: like no, like get out of my office. I don't
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: like this. You're gonna fail knows. And you know, it
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: took just us continuing to believe that like the thing
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that we saw that could really be a thing that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: we could build, we just had to figure out how
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to make that happen. That we see this as as
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: like assignment work, right, this is something that we feel
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: uniquely called to do and didn't want that part of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the process to stop us. But I mean, when you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: don't get paid for years. Right, it's you know, it's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a difficulty, and we spent the first several years of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the business really trying to figure out one how to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: make it happen, but then too how to keep it
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: on everybody else that works for you around you. You
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: cannot pay yourself at first, all the money goes back
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: into the business, so it would be the people that
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: work for you, but they're the ones that are making
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: money while you're Yeah, there were years where it was
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: like everybody in this joint is making more money than us,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: like truly everyone. We weren't paying ourselves anything. But I mean,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you you got to see it through. I mean, we
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we kept going knowing that like there would be a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: day where we'd be able to participate to and we
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: just had to stick around long enough to make that happen.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And that's why that's gonna say, that's why we're forever
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: grateful to the to the founding members of the club,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: particularly in Atlanta, because they bet on two guys and
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and and a concept way before there was any proof
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and to put in. So we have people who signed
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: up in twenty and fifteen to become members just because
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: they met us. So they saw they saw a post
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: on Instagram, and they just liked the concept and they
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: wanted to truly support. And that's why, like every time
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: we talk, we always say like first and foremost were
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: we just work here and we're happy to serve and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: be a part of this organization. But its member left.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: It's all about the members and the twelve thousand plus
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: people who have invested, but particularly the people in Atlanta,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the founding members there who made it possible. Salute to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: your dickens in in Atlanta, who's a founder member of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the club who recently got elected as a mayor of Atlanta.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Like that's how that's how long and deep rooted we
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: are in that community. I was going to ask, So, now,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: who handles checks and balances? Right, two hundred dollars a month,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes a two hundred dollars going to get decline? So
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: who calls that person and if that person decides to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: come to the gathering spot after they've been declined six times?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Who says personally? My grandmother used to say, I ain't
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: talking about anybody, but I'm talking about somebody. Yeah, I mean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: we have a team internally, right, So that's actually tk's
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: responsibility inside of the business. Ye, So for everybody out
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: there talking to TK, yes, But honestly, there hasn't been
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: a huge problem for us. I mean this, there's a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: lot of things that you get with the TJS membership,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and you know, yes, access to the space itself and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the programs, but like the people, right, and so people
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: don't want to miss out on being able to continue
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to build those relationships. Rian Wilson tkpon oraginal to me
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: just the way, because I remember when the Gathering Spot
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: first started, my good friend Jane, Yes, she'd always been like,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: if we have to go to the gathering Spot and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: so just to see, you know, just how far you
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: guys have come in this period of time. And I
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: know it definitely wasn't easy. Some people probably felt like
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't ever get done the way that it has.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I congratulate you because it's a huge deal, and I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: think people watching this should all say, how can I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: be a member? How can I join the community? Even
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: if you're not in Atlanta, DC, LA. Like you said,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: there are communities in Chicago and Detroit and New York
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and other spaces where they can also be a member
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in support. Yeah, please please come join us and be
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: a part of this collective. It's a it's a really
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: special time for us as as a company. And you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: to Tk's a point earlier, we're just extremely we can't
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: We're just grateful. People are like Jene like, like Shaka
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: like like. The only reason we made it was because
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the community decided that they weren't going to let the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: business go under, even folks that y'all seeing here, Hi
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: mean doctor Key of the Village Market, Pinky Slooty Vegan.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: We've been a part of this tribe together, really growing together,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and that that that is something that we don't take lightly.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And so anybody that's interested in joining the work, we'd
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: love to have you at TGS or at Greenwood. All right, well,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: thank you guys for joining us, and make sure you
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: check out the gathering spot and it's the Breakfast Club.
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• 28:57
  Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club now if you just joined us.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: We're talking about this couple that had a twelve hour flight.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: They got on a plane and one got upgraded, so
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: he decided to sit first class and left his wife
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: in the back. It was a twelve hour flight and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: his wife was pissed off about it. She has every
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: right to be. So we're asking eight hundred five eight
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: five one oh five one, what would you do? Hello?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Who's this? Hi? My name is Charlie from off in Illinois. Hi, guy,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: ain't Charlie Charlie. I had to call it in a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: way in today because this had me feeling for type
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: away ahead, Mamma, I just feel like that's your wife.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't even left her at all. If anything, if
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you wanted to use your whatever, if you just wanted
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to use your point so bad, you should have offered
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: your wife to go be comfortable. And you say it
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: an accountment. Never left your wife, Okay, So would you
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: leave her if you're a man, was like, oh, your
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: husband was like, you go sit in first class and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I stay back here with you. Leave him. No, because
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's a twelve hour flight. I want to do with
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: my man, right. If anything, I just want to feel like, no, no,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: thank you. We'd I really do pray that any woman
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: that gets put in the situation meets there happy, happily
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: ever after an economy. Hello, what's this? What's your name? Calvin?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Are you calling from Calvin? Calvin? I'm from Old Bridge,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Old Bridge? Okay, now let me ask you a question.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You're traveling with your your girl, your significant another, all right,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: or your man whatever it is, right, Yeah, all of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a sudden, girl, I'm just I'm not assuming, all right,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm not assuming you with your girl. Twelve
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: hour flight. They're like, yo, Calvin, Yo, you can upgrade.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: But we only got one twelve hour flight. You know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you got the pillow, the comfort of the bigger TV,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you know, the beds that laid down, the red full nail,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you could take the ten nail. Relax, you've been working
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: all day, your wife in the back, with your girl
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: in the back, all right, all right, it's only gonna
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: be one or two things happening. Just did my wife
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: was taking that seat or I'm sitting in the back
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: of my wife? Simple because that I'm an explainer, was
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: going on list. This is what they are for you
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: trying to have this apurience. No, all right, right and
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: not mean dilight do all right, Well, I'll tell you this,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not giving up that seat. Me and my wife
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: are gonna we're gonna split it six and six. That's disrespectful.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna split it six and six. I don't
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: even want that me. We're gonna be here. Let me
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: ask you a question. What if she said, how long
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: you've been together my wife twenty seven years? What if
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: she said for the next twenty seven we're gonna split it,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be with some other guy. Half I'm
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna let I'm gonna be be with you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: for the other half. You're gonna do that exactly twelve
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and twelve. We're gonna hang it. We're gonna be an
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: economy together. By the way, I've been in that situation
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: twelve hours, it's been I mean from like LA that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: maybe I think it was an LA to New York
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: flight and I told my wife take the first class flight,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and she was like, no, I want to see what
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: you an economy. I would never do that, but you don't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to sit with me anyway, because I'm sleeping
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the whole twelve hours. I don't care. I'm gonna let
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: my wife take that first class. We're gonna sleep together.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It's not even about talking and nothing. It's just about
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: us being each other, us being with each other. Like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna be together in first class, We're
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: gonna be together in economy. That's just how it goes,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: all right, we got roomors a the way. Yes, And
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: since we're talking about flights, we'll tell you about somebody
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: who says that they were physically assaulted ahead of getting
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: on their flight. Oh just called it an argument between
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you and gear Later. I hope she has flashbacks. It's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be a part to it. But not exactually happens
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: a lot because we travel a lot, So sometimes they
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: will will only be one first class e show, so
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: she'll take the first class s or sometimes like baby,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: you take it, you dj last thing. I know you're tied,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you take it, So it depends, you know what I mean.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: We don't care about it. What does somebody take a
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: selfie with gear and economy and then take a picture
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of you in first class and like, look at it
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: en being first class while I want his wife an
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: economy and he's like, I'm not insecured that insecure. I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: see that. I see you're thinking about that right now.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: That's my wife, my lady. My. But if you go
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: back to check on her and she fell asleep and
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: her head is leaning on and it's Maxwell. He also birsketball.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Maxwell would never be economy. There was only one left.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: There was only one seat left Maxwell. What if Maxwell
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: only decided to sit in an economy because he saw
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Gea back then an economy? It was like, you know what,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: somebody else take my first class sea, I want to trade.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: But if you went back there and they're toasting and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: having drinks, laughing, laughing, and you were first class trying
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: to sleep all your heads and laughed, what you're gonna do?
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: What you're gonna doing, and they're sharing a blanket, Yo,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it's the funniers out Maxwell go and then get under
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the blanket goes, you would cry. See I played too much.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, Good Morning, the breakfast Club, the Breakfast Club.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Your mornings will never be the same morning. Everybody is
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got some special guests in the building.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: We have Caesar Pina flipping their jersey and we also
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: have Jenny Tips. Hey, welcome guys and talk about real
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: estate this morning and everything that's going on in the
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: real estate market. I feel like I just saw y'all,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah you did. So what's going on in the real
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: estate market right now? We're seeing it. It's it's no
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: low inventory, interest rate to high. Is this a good
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: time for people to continue to buy real estate? I
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: believe so. Right now the market is shifting a little bit, right,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So you should definitely look into more into rental properties
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: now right because no matter what, interest rates are going up,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: but there's no inventory. There's a housing shortage when it
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: comes to rentals and buying properties that's not going away
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: anytime soon. So you're at a point now you have
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: two choices. Either you buy that house and pay a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: three thousand dollar mortgage if it's something to live in,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: or you're going to rent it for somebody else and
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: pay them three thousand dollars a month. So that's pretty
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: much a choice when it comes to an occupied property.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: So for somebody trying to buy that first home, would
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you suggest a multi unit home for is their first home, right, Yeah,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: for sure, because they're going to have that income coming
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: in so they don't always have to depend on their
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: job for some odd reason if they get laid off
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: or you know, things happen, you get sick. At least
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you got that income. I mean, our first home was
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a two family the nine two. Yeah, so what that
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: means is what the one floor pretty much pays the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: mortgage and your floor is pretty much what you're using
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to save. Yeah, you use it to save, You save
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of dollars, you have a car payment, you
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: want to go on vacation, or you don't have to
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: stress as much. You have a better quality of life.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Now what if that. I've heard people give the advice
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: that you should not buy like a kind of because
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: of the hausing association fees that come at that. I
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: think it's everybody's lifestyle choice. Right when you buy a condo, Yeah,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you pay homeowners association. There's pros and cons. You don't
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: ever have to cut your grass you get a pool,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you never have to clean it. They clean it for you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: There's a laundry room, there's a gym, there's so many amenities.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: You know, there's an elevator. You don't ever have to
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: worry about the maintenance of the elevator or you know,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: cleaning up the trash around the property. If your toilet
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: gets messed up, they have a company there that'll fix
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: it for you. So all of that is included. The
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: downfall buying a condo is where you got to do
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: your research is when there's what do they call that
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: assent assessment? Yeah, so you might end up inheriting an assessment.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: So if the condo is about ten twenty years old
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and they need to do updates, you might be responsible
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: for that. We've done a zillion and one real estate
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: seminars trying to encourage people and teach people how to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: buy real estate. So what do you say to people?
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: First and foremost, I don't have enough money? How much
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: money do I need to buy my first property? Investment property?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's the main question we always get, right,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: how much do I have to save? Man, it all
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: depends what kind of loan you're gonna do. You're gonna
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: do fah loan. You know, there's only three point five
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: percent down. Conventional now also has for on arcupied properties
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and five percent loan too, So it all depends. You know,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: if you use one of those programs, you don't have
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: to put a lot of money. If you go the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: regular conventional route and do twenty twenty five percent down,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: at that point you'll get a better rate. When you
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: make an offer, more people are going to look at
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: your offer a little bit more serious. That's that's pretty
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: much the difference when it comes to it. But it
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: all depends man, one more and one market you're in,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you know, it all depends. Try to state area right now,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: let's save if you wanted to buy a property, there's
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars you're looking at. You need anywhere
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: between twenty to twenty five thousand in the bank. And
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I also didn't want to have to pay pm I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and I know when I was buying my first house,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: because that's something too that I wasn't aware of. With
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the realty of trying to send me a house, he
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, you only have to put down you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: you could put down ten percent, But then I would
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: also had to pay mortgage insurance, and that was kind
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: of pricing because that was about a thousand dollars a
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: month for the house that I was buying. And that's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: not money that you get back, you know, for anything,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: that just goes straight to them. You know that's true. So,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, it just depends on would you rather have
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the money in the bank or would you rather not
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: pay that extra money monthly. That's the whole thing, right,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: let's think about it, all right, I'm gonna pay the PMI, right,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: but now I have another ten percent to play with.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I could take that ten percent and get a rental
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: property and make all that money every month. Right, say that.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Now I take that ten percent, I put it over here.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: That's going to make me another three thousand and five
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: thousand a month. The pm I. If you're in the
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: market like this one right where values are through the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: roof and they keep on going up. Once you hit
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: that threshold that you have more than twenty percent equity
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: in your property, then you call up your bank and
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: they take the PMI a way. You just have to
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: get to that threshold. Yeah, but in an escalating market
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: right like this one, that just makes no sense right
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: how values are. It could be a two year thing,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a three year thing. But the whole time that you
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: use that other percentage of money you have, you could
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: already made fifty to sixty thousand on your money. Now
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: for people who decided to like an adjustable interest rate
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: on their mortgage, why would somebody do that? Just what
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: are the circumstances that you would say, this is a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: type of loan I want to get. Well, Usually, even
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: with the commercial properties, right, anything over five six units,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: they're always five year terms, right, so it's five years
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and then you have to redo the loan again. But
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I think right now and adjustable is a good choice
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: right right now. When I the rates this morning, the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: third year was like five point almost five point nine,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: fifteen year was like five point six. Adjustable was like
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: still in the force, like lay force. So even though,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: oh man, you know, I want a thirty year mortgage,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: but I think right now, the way that everything is going,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a five year mortgage might be a good option. Now,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: how many units do you guys own now? So we
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: currently own and manage and also have projects they're we're
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: building out from the ground up around the country of
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: three thousand units, three thousand units? Is there a cap
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: of how many units? You don't want to like, when
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: do you want to stop? You have three thousand units,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: so that means you're getting income from all those three
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: thousand units or will get income? When do you want
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to stop? When is it enough? So I think hold
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: on a second, because I want to say what drove
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Caesar to be this crazy monster that he is is
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: that he ran into a guy. I want to say, like, well,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: how many years ago you ran into this this guy,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the Jewish guy that he told you he had ten
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: thousand Oh, yeah, he got some he had ten thousand units. Yeah,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: so one Caesar heard him say that he turned into
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: this monster. And I don't think he's gonna stop. He'll
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: tell you, okay, five thousand, then he'll say ten thousand,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: but he's not gonna stop. You're not gonna stop. No,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: he's not. I don't think. So, Like now it's five
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: thousand units, then then I'll slow down, and then my
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: daughter's gonna graduate f my high school next year. So
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: then once she takes over, I figure I'll slow down
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit. But in real estate that there really
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: is no endgame, Like you could just keep on going,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: keep on going, keep on going. Being that there is
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: little inventory, do you look at it also as a
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: good time to say I should sell some of these
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: properties because it's at a high. So what we've been
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: doing with that is are smaller properties right, like anything
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: on the four units we have best selling right because
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: the one thing of real estate you got to learn
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: how to adapt to the different markets. So we've been
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: selling the smaller properties and then we're taking a lot
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: of that profit and we're putting that in the Midwest.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I see the Midwest how I see the Tri State
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: area about five ten years ago. So there's still a
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: lot of opportunity over there, and you get more for
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: your money than you do out here in the Tri
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: State area. So for people looking to invest, it might
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: not be able to afford big markets like your New York,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, in LA even the landing now in parts
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: of Florida. What would you recommend that they start looking
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: to invest right now? As far as rentals, you know,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: we've been focusing on the Midwest the last year or so. Chicago,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: we like Milwaukee, Ohio. Those areas have a cheaper price point.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: So when I first started in the Tri State area
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: in New Jersey, I was paying twenty forty thousand in
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: a unit right her door. Now, our doors in the
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Tri state area are anywhere between one hundred and fifty
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: to two hundred thousand in the door right in a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: matter of five to ten years. In the Midwest, I'm
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: paying twenty to forty thousand the door, And on some
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: of the properties a lady that I bought in Chicago,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: the doors are already worth one hundred thousand a unit
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: in a matter of you know, less than a year
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: and a half. So that excites me. So I definitely
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: tell everybody when it comes to rental properties, I will
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: definitely think about the Midwest. There's still a lot of
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: opportunity in the Tristate area because you got to think
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: about it right before. If you bought a let's say,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: just simple numbers, a three family, you pay five hundred thousand, right,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get a rate of three percent. Right. So
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: at that point, let's say all in with the mortgage
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: insurance taxes, everything you're at let's say twenty five hundred
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: dollars right around there, give a take right boom, But
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: you were only making fifteen hundred dollars in apartment. Right,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: so you're a forty five hundred dollars. So when you
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: take that away, two thousand dollars is your profit every month. Right.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: That was the market when rates were low. Rates are high.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Now right boom, you're paying five hundred thousand dollars for
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that same three family, right, five hundred thousand rates to
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: hire six percent, six percent, you have three thousand mortgage tax, insurance, everything.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Let's say you're at four thousand. But guess what. Now
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: the rent in that apartment is higher. So now your
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: rank to income one from forty five hundred dollars to
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: seventy five hundred right a month. And that's in that's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: right now in Patterson, Newark, all these areas have the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: rents have gotten up so high, which is crazy, right
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: because I don't know how people could afford that. But
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: when you do the numbers on the higher interest rate,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: you're still making three thousand dollars a month. Over here
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: you are making two or twenty five hundred. So yeah,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I race one up. But now you make more money
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: if you're a landlord, right because the rents are now
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: we have more with season flipping New Jersey and Jenny
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Tips when we come back Envy and July Yee, Charlomagne
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: the guy we are the Breakfast Club is still kicking
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: it with flipping New Jersey season and Jenny Tips. We
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: are doing a seminar July thirty first, So for people
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: listening and never been to a real estate seminar, why
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: is your real estate seminar good? And why is it
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: better than other people's seminars? And why is it a
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: place to get a lot of knowledge? The most important
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: right is affordable number one right. There is no upsale
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: right our seminars, we pretty much break everything down credit
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: buying your first property, what's fah mortgage? What's the what
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: kind of attorney? The attorney review process, howe that's that work?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: What realtor should I use? Hard money loans, investment loans,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: developing multifamily, commercial u everybnb, now wholesaling. We pretty much
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: break everything down when it comes to real estate, anything
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: you can think about. Then we show people like what
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: questions they should ask when hiring these professionals too. So
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: it's not like we just bring people up there to
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: blow smoke up your ass, but it's like we actually
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: teach the people exactly what to look for their expectation
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: in hiring each individual professional. But another reason I like
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: about it is that people actually purchase homes from the seminar.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Like they have they come back and say, hey, I've
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: followed you guys and the home. I followed you guys,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and I got my credit fixed. I follow you guys,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and I got a loan. So that is July thirty
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: first at the Jacob Javits Center. It's back. So if
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you want to learn that, it's not just real estate,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: we talk about everything. We talk about credit repair, helps
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: you with your credit repair, hard money lending, conventional lending,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: property management, contractors, anything that has to do with real estate.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: We break down. And not only that, we show you
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: pictures and we bring in people and actually do it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Season and I and Jen. We don't do a wholesaling,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that's something that we don't do, but we bring in
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: somebody that actually does it that can explain that. We
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: don't do air and bb Airbnb, but we bring in
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: somebody that actually does Airbnb and can guide you how
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: to do it. Many cases, we brought people from auction
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: dot com where we purchase our properties, and they tell
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: you how to guide through the auction site and the
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: website to actually purchase a property, and like Caesar said,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: there is no upsale. So once you go in there
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to speak to people, it's not like, well, you get
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: there in the charge you one hundred dollars to talk
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to Not that at all. It's really about the learning process. Now.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: One of the big reasons we haven't been doing they
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: seminars because so many times people come up to us
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: to say, how can I invest with you guys, How
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: can I learn more? How can I get in on
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: some of your deals? So you came up with this idea, Yep,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: break it down. So I think it's genius. I thought
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: it was dope. Like you said that our seminars, people
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: are always like, Okay, what's the next step? How could
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I get in a deal with you guys? After our seminars.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: We never really had anything after the seminar because we
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: wanted to do the right project, right, the right platform.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: That because even with the seminars, when you think about
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: our seminars, it's almost like we're going back in time
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: and saying to ourselves when we first started in real estate,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: what was messing? What help did we need that nobody
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: ever gave to us? Right, So the same thing with this.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Now we have a real estate membership platform, right, It's
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: called Flip number two Dow DAO. So real estate dow
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: is pretty much an educational platform where you're going to
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: have the education part our real estate network, and the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: most important questions are seminars. How could we co invest
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in the deal with you guys? Right, So, in that sense,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: flip to doubt any question you ever had about real estate?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: How do I qualify for AFFI chain mortgage? You click
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: a button. Answers there, How do I get a hard
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: money loan? Click a button the answers there? How do
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I bought it a piece of land? How do I
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: develop this property? You click a button? The answer? Is
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: there anything that you ever fought about that you needed
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to know as far as real estate? Or be at
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: your fingertips finger flip to doubt as a real estate
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: black book. Now, the other thing is, all right, I
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: got all the education part downpack, Right, I learned what
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: whole celling is. I learned what a hard money loan is.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: What do I do after this? Right? You have all
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: these educational things out there where you buy something and
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: it gives you information that you could have probably looked
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: up online. Right. It doesn't give you the resources with
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: flip to dial. It gives you the resources. Now besides
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the education, Now you're ready. You learned how do I
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: get I'm in Ohio. I need a rotor here that
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: works with investors. Right, it gets investment properties right, because
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: it's always different kind of people that you need in
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: your platform. Right in your network. You click a button.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: You have a realtor to concentrates and multifamily properties in Ohio.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: All right, I bought a property in Florida. I need
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: to add a second floor to it. Took abutton. You
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: need an architect. The answers there. Now that the reason
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: this this came up is what we did was we
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: started we talked to everybody who did real estate deals
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: around the country, and we talked about the good things
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: and the bad things about the real estate market and
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: what was happening. So, for instance, when me and Ye
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: purchased homes in Detroit, the most difficult thing for us
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: was to find a contract. Right, Ye went through How
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: many contracts did you go through? You probably like five,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: four or five? She went through four or five. I
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: went through two, and usually is I waited for her
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to see how it was right this time, and sometimes
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: they were good and sometimes you weren't too good. And
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: I lost a lot of money doing it, and it
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: was a lot of different things that I didn't know.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: So we said, let's let's in this site. Let's put
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: something where if you're in let's say you invest in
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee and need a contract or need a property manager,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: or need something, we can guide you to people that
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: actually do it in that market, that have had success,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: that do good jobs. Because I lost a lot of
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: money in the Detroit one, and I'm sure you did too, right,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I would have said, well, I mean I still made money, No,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: but you lost money with the contracts you have to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: change a couple of times. But yeah, no, I definitely
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: could have made more money than I made off the property.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: I think that's the hardest thing. And when you don't
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: live in a place too and you're trying to find
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: people to do work, and you don't know who's good
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and who's not good. You know, I wish that I
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: would have seen like ratings for people, seen some of
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the work that they've done, because I know that sometimes
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: you can get really desperate just to get a contractor.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: And we've heard some really horror stories about trying to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: work with the contract of the person does have the job,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: or they don't do the work properly up to code,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: and then they run off with the money. You know.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: I've heard of people who bought a new home and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: then ended up having to sell it because the work
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: was done was so bad that it would cost too
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: much for them to actually even repair how bad the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: work was. Correct. So on this site that that'll guide
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: you through those different areas. So if you're looking for
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: somebody in Miami and Milwaukee and Chicago, in Detroit, New York,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, there's a platform there where we actually guide
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: you and tell you who's done work and they can
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: show you their pictures and show you what they can.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: You gotta vet people out too. Yeah, everybody knows somebody
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: who do do this and who does that, and so
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: it'll be licensed professionals, yes, okay, because that's the other
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: thing too. You get people who aren't license to do
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: your planning at your electrical work and it's over like
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: that never turns out. Well, that's right. So that's that's
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: the main thing with the site. And then also which
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: is the biggest thing is people always ask how can
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I invest with you guys? And we never take anybody's money,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: and the reason being is I don't want to be
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: responsible for anybody's money, and that celebrity, that's athletes, that's anybody.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: But now there will be a way where people can
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: actually invest and be a part owner on some of
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: the projects that we actually buy. Yeah, so they'll see,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: they'll see the actual whether it's a multifamily or flip,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and then it's going to evolve from there. But they'll
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: be actually, they'll actually be able to see the property,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: the condition, what we're buying it at, what's going to
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: be the repair value, what's the rental income that we're
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: going to get, And then they'll have a dashboard and
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: they're going to see how much money they're going to
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: get monthly based on the rents and the expenses we collect.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: So the dope thing about that is why I was
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: super duper excited, is everybody always asks how, how can
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I walk through the process. So let's say it's a
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: multi unit building that court Let's say one hundred thousand
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: dollars and you can invest one hundred dollars, right, So
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: you invest one hundred dollars, So now you're a part
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: owner of this building, a small part, but part definitely
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: a partner. But you're a partner. So now how does
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: it work? How does somebody who invest one hundred dollars
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: on one hundred thousand dollars building, how do they make money?
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: So pretty much, we're gonna fractionalize the real estate into
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: real estate shares, right, So that hundred dollars when you
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: think about it, right, think about it right now, you
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: have a hundred dollars in the bank. How much interest
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: do you earn a year on nine hundred dollars point
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero eight. Okay,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: So if you have one hundred dollars and then but
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: it's about it. I don't anybody think that that's not
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: a fact. That's somewhere around it though. So you take
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, right, you buy a share and look
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: to down right now, that hundred dollars on average, right now,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: our returns on our real estate investments or anywhere between
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: sixteen percent, so let's say about twenty two percent, right,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Let's say a year. So that means on that hundred dollars,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: you'll make eighteen dollars a year. Within the bank, you'll
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: make about zero got you and then if it was
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: five thousand dollars and you got hey, I got five grand.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything with it. You'll make about nine
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year. Now, question with that? So you
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: get to see where the money goes and how the
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: money's thing, and you get to see who pays. So
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: you get to see the whole process of how your
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: money is being spent and do the whole project. Yep.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: And it's pretty much what we're building is we're trying
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: to build a community right where everybody is a part
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: of it, Everybody is learning, everybody is investing together because
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: that's very important. Right. The whole thing is we don't
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: want to just through a platform where you know, sign up,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: give us your money. This is what it is. No,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: we want you to be a part of it. Guy,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: we have more with season, Flipping New Jersey and Jenny Tips.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: When we come back, it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning morning.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: all the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with Flipping
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, season and Jenny Tips. How can you guarantee
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: that people will actually make money and not lose money.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: How can you guarantee that the real estate that you
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: know you have people investing in is good real estate. Well,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: the most important thing for us is, right, is we
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: buy undermarket value real estate. Right. When you look at
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: all the other platforms out there, and you know they
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: raise capital or buy properties, usually they buy that retail costs.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: We buy undermarket value. So when you invest with us,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: even that one hundred dollars, we're buying the properties on
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: the market value. So not only are you're gonna get
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: a great return in your investment, right, you're also gonna
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: get equity over time because we bought the property on
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: the market value. And we've been doing that successfully over
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and over for the last fifteen years. Because we're not
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: we're not deal junkies, right that we're just buying deals
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: to buy deals. No, Right, there's a method to all
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the madness. Like my wife says, you know, as long
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: as you buy under market value, you're never gonna get hurt.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: And that's the number one thing that we do. So
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: now for people that want to get more information and
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: want to get involved with this, they want to invest
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: or they want to you know, start right now, what's
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: the website so they can do that. It's www dot flip,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the number two dal d ah. What does dalla stand for?
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Do you centralize auntonomous organization? Okay? And the question and
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: also the seminar which is coming up July thirty first.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Now for people who don't know what will they learn
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: from the seminar? What will they get out of the seminar?
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: It says here real estate meets the metaverse. So we're
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about Web three, blockchain technology,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: land in the metaverse, stuff like that, because everybody has
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: an interest in it. I think that the future of
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: finance is Web three in blockchain technology. It's definitely gonna
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: be geared to that. Like I know right now the
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: crypto MARKT and ft mark is kind of crazy, right,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: but that part of it, the Web three blockchain technology,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: it definitely is the future of finance. So if you
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: want more information, go head over to flip to dab
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: that's flipped the number two dao dot com. And also
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: don't forget the seminar is going down July thirty first,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: So if you want to learn more about real estate
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: and not just in the metaverse, real real estate that
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you can actually touch, and also the metaverse. There will
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: be credit repair people, hard money lenders, conventional lenders. There
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: will be appraisals, property managers, contractors. They're going to break
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: down where the deals of gotten from auction dot com,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: the hubzoo dot com and where they get the deals.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Eyl will be there as well, talking about some of
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: their their real estate stuff if some of they do.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Ian will be there as well, talking about some of
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the how to get some of his use some of
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: his money not just in real estate, but in the
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: stock market as well. So it's gonna be a big date.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: That's July thirty first at the Jacob Javissement. That's far
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: for our seminar. And then one of the things, right,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: when we first did our seminar, right, we did a
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: different seminar than everybody else, right, So for Flip to
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: doal what we're doing different right now, right, which has
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: never been done before. I forgot about that. Yeah, you
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: forgot the most important part, that's right. So for Flip
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: to doubt right now as far as our what you
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: want to call an early bird special, I don't. I
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: wouldn't say early bird, but just like you know, welcome. Yeah,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: So people that signed up now to Flip to Doubt
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: are going to have a chance to win a house,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: a three family house. Now have not a house that's
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: ten thousand, Nope, not a house that's fifty thousand dollars.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: The house is currently valued at how much half a
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: million dollars? Five half hundred thousand dollars. Now, so if
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: you go to the seminar which is July thirty first,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: or you sign up to Flip to Dow, you have
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: an opportunity. We're gonna give this away during Christmas. So
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: it's a perfect Christmas gift. And it's a three family house.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want with this three family house.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: So it's ready to rent, so you can rent it now.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: It's renovated and everything if evy wins, I notice is
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: set up. No, we hired a third party to hand
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: everything on the up and up positions of cousin. Now,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, they're not given because it's a family
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: house and each floor gets how much rent you're probably
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: looking at anywhere as far as cash flow a month
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: between fifty five hundred to sixty five hundred. Right, um,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: But you can do whatever you want with that, he
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want. Taxes, No, everything is
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: on the house once you take over the property, and
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: you're responsible for your taxes and all that stuff. But
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get clear title. Right. House is brand new,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: and we're not just gonna give you the house. We're
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: not gonna walk you know, because let's say somebody wants
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: it out of state. Right, We're gonna help you with
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: the property matchman. We're gonna guide you in that direction. Yep.
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Yeahs as far as the sweep stakes, yeah, and we'll
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: documented on the platforms for everybody will learn as well.
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: So you can do whatever you want. So you can
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: keep the rent which is fifty five hundred sixty five
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month, free and clear. You can sell
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: it and go buy yourself a rolls work. You can
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: live in it if you want. You can go take
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: a vacation. You could you go some rolexes, you could
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: buy a Cuba lake. You could do what. Yeah, you
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: could do it. You could do that. But you know
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: the hope if it was me and I won this house,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I would refinance the house, take the money out and
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: buy more property. Right, That's what I would do. And
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: then cash flow every month. Again, you could do whatever
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: you want. You keep a long term, you could refinance
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the house, you could flip it. It's totally up to you.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: But again, nobody has ever given away a house. It
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: makes it seem so easy, though. You could refinance and
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: buy more property. We're gonna guide you, but we're gonna
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: guide you with those questions. Right, that's the that's why
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: we're doing flips to down right, so we can answer
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: any question that you ever had about real estate. But again,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: it's a five hundred thousand dollars house. There's a backyard
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: you can put you could put an above ground fool
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: of you. Now, let me tell you how this house
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: is nice. I tried to buy the house, right, because
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: it's a house. It's it's it's to know. I was
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: trying to buy the house. It's a three family house
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: that has a big yard. It's on a nice street. Uh.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: There there's a there's something across the street where you
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about other neighbors. It's a perfect
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: house to rent out. You can make money. You could
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: sit back and just collect rent for the next fifty
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: years of your life if you wanted to. But we
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: felt like you know, people talk so much is about
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: what if you would have asked me, I would have
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: told you not to use them because I wasn't using
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: them six months later? Yeah, great, Well anyway, but Angelie
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: did get me those properties, so I can't be to you.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Did make some money, I did. He did buy me
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: and Louisa time back. I did break you off over that,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: and I broke your boyfriend too, right, see, and guess
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: what I did with that? Sounded weird, right? Broke off?
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Did No? I didn't but a bag. You know what
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: she did. She brought the back back. I traded it
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: in for something else. That's all right, that happened. I
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: got a coat, okay, oh wow. I never would have
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: purchased that. I flipped it. She flipped it, all right.
• 59:49
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• 59:51
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• 59:55
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• 59:59
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• 1:00:40
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• 1:00:43
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• 1:00:46
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• 1:00:50
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• 1:01:03
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• 1:01:07
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• 1:01:10
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• 1:01:12
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• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: does setting healthy boundaries look like to you. Whether it's work, relationships, smoking,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: a joint, anything that has to do with other people,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Boundaries have to be set, which is why I realized
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: one reason, that's one reason I don't like to be outside. Okay.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I took my old ask in these creets this past
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: weekend to see my guy Andrew shows sell out Radio
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  Speaker 1: City Music Hall here in New York City, two shows,
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  Speaker 1: twelve thousand people, and I went to the second show.
• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: he was having an after party. I'm like, Okay, I'm
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: gonna lay on the couch all day Saturday. Get these knaps,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Get these naps in so I can be ready for
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: the night's festivities. And what I realized about myself is
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: after this pandemic, I am very socially awkward, okay, especially
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: in the nightlife setting. And you know why because I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: told y'all in twenty twenty two that's the year of
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: boundaries for me. And I don't know if y'all know
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: or not, but there are no healthy boundaries you can
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: set in the club, Okay. In fact, you actually look
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: like a complete jerk setting boundaries in the club if
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: you don't want to be bothered Why in the hell
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: would you be at a club If you want to
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: be tucked away in a little section with just you
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: and your friends, you could be doing that in the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: living room at your house. Okay, I wanted your friend's house.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: You can't really set boundaries at a club are any
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: setting where you are there to be social and I
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: need my boundaries now. I'm saying all that to say
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: the place where boundaries can be set is at work. Okay.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: In fact, work is the place other than your relationship
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: where you can set the most boundaries and healthy boundaries
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: are absolutely a necessity in the workplace. And Kevin Burling
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: of Kentucky laid out a boundary for his manager at
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: Gravity Diagnostics. In fact, it was a very simple request,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: and the request was he asked them not to celebrate
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: his birthday at work. Well, Gravity Diagnostics did not respect
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: their employees wishes and they threw a birthday party anyway.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: And man, because of that, Kevin Burling got the greatest
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: be gift his life. Let's go to w Kosky Local
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: twelve for the report. Police. Kevin Burling had worked at
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Gravity Diagnostics for about ten months in twenty nineteen, and
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: because he suffers firms anxiety disorders and panic attacks. He
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: asked the company not to celebrate his birthday as it
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: normally does for its workers, and that's when things started
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: to go south. According to the lawsuit filed in Kenton County,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: the office manager forgot his request and still held a
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: birthday party for Burling. That triggered a panic attack, and
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: he left and spend his lunch hour in his car.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: His bosses held a meeting about the incident, triggering another attack.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: At that point, company managers told him to leave for
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: the weekend and then subsequently fired him, telling him they
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: were worried about him being angry and possibly becoming violent.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Burling declined interview requests. His lawyer, Tony Bucker, says the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: company apparently was more concerned about others than his client's
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: well being. A jury believed Burling, and this week awarded
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: him four hundred and fifty thousand dollars in damages, including
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: three hundred thousand for mental anguish. I want my money, okay.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: In fact, since y'all want to celebrate b days and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I told y'all not to put it all in a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: birthday card, right to check for the four fifty and
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: put it in a birthday card. Okay, everybody not with
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: all that noise on their b day. That man told y'all,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't want no cake, I don't want no balloons.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: I don't want everybody gathering around singing me Happy birthday.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Even if this is Stevie won the version, and it
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: was Kentucky, so you know it wasn't the Stevie one
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: the version. Okay. You don't know what the reasons were
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: for not wanting to celebrate his born day, all right.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Kevin might have had a religious reasons. Maybe he just
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: didn't rock with y'all like that and would rather do
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: that with his friends and loved ones. And actually he
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: did have a reason. His reason was because he said
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: a b day celebration would bring back childhood memories surrounding
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: his parents the voice. Look, he don't even owe y'all
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: an explanation. He told y'all he didn't want no birthday celebration.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Y'all can debate all day on whether this man overreacted
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: or not, but there's no such thing as an overreaction.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: When I said a boundary and you overstep said boundary, okay,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: And these are actually the worst boundaries to overstep. Because
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: this is really all about you. You think that what
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: you are doing, you know, for me, is so great
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: that it has to be done. Therefore, you not really
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: thinking about me. You're thinking about yourself and how it's
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: gonna make you look, and how it's gonna make you feel.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: You're not thinking about me. So now eat this lawsuit
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: and run me my four hundred and fifty thousand. Okay.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: All boundary violations aren't physical. Most are mental and emotional,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Kevin said. His supervisor chastized him for stealing his coworker's
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: joy and for him and called. Kevin said to him,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: stop being a little girl. Look at those keywords, stealing
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: his coworker's joy. What about my joy? It's my birthday.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: You don't care about me. You care about yourself. Imagine
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: going to someone on their birthday and saying, if you
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: don't let us have a party for you, then you
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: will be stealing our joy. Come on, man, the nerve.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: When someone oversteps your boundaries, they are letting you know
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: that what you want doesn't matter. Let me tell y'all
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: something else. No is a complete sentence, and you know
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: what those is a complete sentence? Run me my money? Okay, please,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: give Gravity Diagnostics and kent in Kentucky, the sweets out
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: of the Hammeltones. Oh no, you are the Dogee of
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  Speaker 1: the day. You all do gee oh the day. Ye
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: all right, Kevin Burlin, get your coins, every red cent,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: all the money, Thank you for that donkey of to day. Yes,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty thousand. The Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: Your morning's will never be the same morning. Everybody is
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: Feels like it's been like a decade since you've been
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: up here. For real on, god, it's been a long term.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: What's going on with you? French working, working, staying out
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: the way, acting music? Yeah, yeah, just finished this finis
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: this project? Getting ready to drive today, you know, So
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: that's about it. Just staying out the way. You're back
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: into because you know, you gave up liquor, you gave
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: up that life. Yeah you still gave it up. Are
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: you still away from that? I'm still drunking high from before. Yeah,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I'm still drunking high Friday something something someone loose. But yeah,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: but you know I had to my body couldn't take them.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: While I did it, I couldn't take them. Did you
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: feel better now that yeah? Yeah, yeah, for a million
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: times better. You know, I feel the accomplishments, I feel
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: the losses, I feel everything. You know, at one hundred
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: percent back then, you know, you just ainything happening. You know,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: we're celebrating every day. You just take a shot and
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: go to the next celebration for the next step. Yeah,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: especially like in LA and New York, because like every
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: day somebody celebrating something. So you haven't slipped up at all. Nah,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: that's good, that's amazing testament to willpower. I saw you
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: a celebrating your album released with our mayor Eric Adams.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Shot Yeah, shout the Mayor Eric Adams. I think I'm
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: the first one in New York to ever have the
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: mayor come to the album listening to party. I wouldn't
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: have to second that. I think so too. I haven't
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: heard the sich A thing. But he also has to
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: been mayor that long either. He's the mayor of New
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: York City. Shot the Eric. You know what I'm saying.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: He's a cool dude. Man, He's and he's trying to
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: make a difference. Did you talk to him about not
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: using lyrics to indict people. Yeah, definitely. You know what
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. He's one of us, so he's definitely trying
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: to help the kids. Here's want to make sure that
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the kids is not going to do the same thing again.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: No you sign a bad boy. No no, no, no
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: longer sign the bad boy. You just I mean, I'm
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: sure your contract was something you just. I think I'm
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: the first one to complete a contract bad boy. Shot
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: the puff Man, shout the puff He was definitely a mentor.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: He's still a big brother. Love him to death now,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: I know I saw. I think it was in the
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: Blue Chail song. You said that you I passed up
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: bad Beef with Diddy and Drake. I think it was.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: It was something going on, like I didn't really know
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: exactly the details of it, but I know, Um, I
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: had a birthday party that eggyears earlier, three for me
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: on a boat, and when I got there, Drake was
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: there waiting for me, and puff Hack came in his
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: own little boat and that was the first time they
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: met after It was going to Yeah, but I was
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: already talking to puff before that. I was like, whatever,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: y'all got going on. Need that that, you know what
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. They're both like my best friends, so I'm like,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: y'all need to that that. So I'm glad that they
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: didn't even know that each other was coming to the party.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: When they came to just spent the whole night talking
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: to each other. And I was like, see, like you
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think that's better anyway, because
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: when when you're planning to meet somebody, yeah, but a
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: bunch of people, but if it's just a night out,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: you might come with one or two and then you
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: could actually have a conversation without people around you. Yeah,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell Drake Puff was gonna be there, and
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell Puff Drake was gonna be there, so
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: I'll waited until they got there, and you know, and
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: it was and it was good, you know, good friends
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: before that. So when they got there to just sat
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: down and they just you know, spoke the whole night,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, you see, that was best friends to
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: start with. And I see you squatch a lot of
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: your beefs that you had it and throughout the last
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: couple of years. So it was with a gym and
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: Cam and fifty and so why do you think you
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: had to do that? Now? Was you just over it?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Or what made you say, you know what, let's just
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: let it go. You know, it's just like when you
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: beefing it, let you feel a handicap. You can't hand
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: do nothing. You can't you know, you can't move here,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: you can't do this. It's like you feel like, you know,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: you stuck to a little space. And I'm saying I
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: wanted to expand Autumn beef to my whole career since
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: you know me, since you know me, I've been beefing
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: whatever these kids is doing, whatever's going on. I didn't
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: did it. I don't ran circles around it. I didn't
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: did it ten times. So I know what beef could
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: bring you. But then I know what talent and what
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: longevity could bring you. And what's sewing love could bring
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I know both. But
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you know you're gonna let anybody
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: you know say whatever they want. But it's just you know,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: you rather pick the money and pick you know, the love. Yeah,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: what about the Did you ever get a chance to
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: talk to a thug? Because I know your thug. We're
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: going back and forth at one time. Yeah. Yeah, definitely
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: me and thuugh Me. I mean, THU got no problem.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: That's whytched that out too. Yeah yeah, definitely free wise,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: self free, free gunn for everybody. Yeah, and you also
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: survived the Kardashian curse. You talk about that. Not too
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: many people survived that Kardashian curse. I was I was
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: basically saying that, like, you know, there is no curse.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm still doing my thing. I think that's
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: what I was saying in the song. I was like,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: there's no curse, so I'm doing my thing and Travis
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: doing this thing and shout out to them. I just
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: feel like when you go out with them or have
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: a relationship with them or anybody out there caliber, I
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: feel like that the media start picking up on your
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: relationship life and forget about you your talent life, you
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Your music life, you're acting life,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: or whatever it is. If yeah overshadows everything you become
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: this reality start, Well, that's not really the goal, you
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It could be playing basketball or
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: do whatever it is. It takes away from your game
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: and they'd be like, Yo, this guy is now this
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: this because he go out with this this, You know
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So that it will just change. It
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: used to be funny to see you on the Kardashians
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: that I'm not gonna lie always French, you never changed.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: He used to be funny like Yo, Franchis on the Yeah,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: I might be tied two, He's not number two man. Honestly,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: I just I just feel like I can't give whoever
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: it is the time they want because I'm just so
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: focused on doing what I'm doing. You know what I'm saying,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: And I know and I know some of them be like, nah,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: you know you need somebody to ride with you and
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: be there with you until they right there with you,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: and you're like, yo, I gotta go on these thirty days.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, shows and this and that
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: after club it's like it's it's hard and you want
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: to give somebody you all when you go out with them,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: and I don't feel like I'm I'm in that space
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: right now. You think you've ever been in love, Yeah,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I've been in love before. Every heartbroken, Yeah, of course,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: plenty of times, plenty of nah, because you know you
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: gotta go through that early because if you go through
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: that late, you know, I'm saying, you don't want to
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: be going through the heart breaks after after you like
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: you ain't gonna know how to handle it. I feel
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: like you're the heartbreaker. I can't now, I really don't.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: I really don't. They know, I mean, they know what
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: it is now. You usually played with music and sounds
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: on your albums, or whether it was one of the
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: first to do the afrobeat sounding records or one of
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: the ones that sound to do the drill sounding records.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Before I heard other New York artists with Drake and
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Beyonce and a bunch of people changing the direction a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: little bit with with house sound and music. Are you
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: dabbling and dabbling with that as well? I think that
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: was something that me and Max be started, you know
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like with me and Max, me was
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: doing it from back in the day since Kolke Wave,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And it's just like, you know,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: as soon as Max heard Drake album, he was like, Yeah,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: it's my swack. It's it's it's a Jersey DC vibe.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: It's just the wavy vibe. I think and Drake could
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: do whatever he wants. He playing this week, could drop Prouty,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: you know, a rap album right after He always do
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: it right. Yeah, I mean he did that with Controller
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: and all that at that one point when he just
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: tested the music. You know what I'm saying. But yeah,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's definitely something different now. Max, when we
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: spoke to you, I think a while ago we was
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: praying for good news. You said Max might be released soon. Yeah,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: we're here in the camps now, So that's that's that's
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: a step down, you know. But you know Bergen County
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: and when you give you seventy five years, they don't
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: want to they're letting you write out. So yeah, so
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: he fighting free Max b Have you ever healed fully
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: from you know? Max and Chinks? And I heard one
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: of the songs now was like you still feel it
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: to this day? Have you healed fully from any of that?
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Because you got you gotta think about it. Me, Max, Bum, Chinks,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: even Zach my brother, like we're always just you know
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: the same crewe making music, you know, so you go
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: through it. Max Beeka seventy five years, Chinks die, my
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: little brother get deported. It's like I'm the only one
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: making music, so like it wasn't feeling the same, you
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So definitely I don't probably get
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: my time to heal about it. I mean from the thing,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think I get myself the time. What makes
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: you still want to do music? Going through all of that?
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Music is something that I do to get away from
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: my job, which is music. So I had a music
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: about making music. It's like, you know, that's where I
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: find you know, my standing. That's that's like, you know,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: that's my therapy. All right. We got more with french
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: Montana when we come back. That was french Montana's were
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: joined off. The albums out today morning, Everybody's DJ, Envy,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlemagne the Guy, We all the breakfast Club.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: We're still kicking it with french Montana. Do you ever
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: missed that twenty year old or twenty two year old
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: French Montana from the Bronx where you wasn't a huge star,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: You could still move around and you could enjoy life
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: a little better. Do you ever miss that? No? Because
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: I would have been shot or killed. Rest in piece,
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  Speaker 1: pop Smoke, Rest in peace and Nipsy. We're praying for
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  Speaker 1: a little TJ. It's like I would have been you know,
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  Speaker 1: i'd have been shot because I felt like everybody loved me.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: I wasn't moving on defense. You know, I thought everybody
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: was happy I made it, and it was It wasn't that.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: It was the other way around, you know, and your
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: greatest threat come from the inside. I'm glad that I
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: moved to LA for a little bit, you know what
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm glad I did. I did certain things
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: because I could have protected me from something. Now when
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: I moved, even though I don't know, probably with nobody
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I moved on, I got a problem with something me
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: having me having be for people kind of helped me,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I was always on point.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Jim, and Jim says, you know, probably
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: one of the toughest jobs to him is being a
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: rapper because you're always on target, like you're a targeting.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: It's like everybody knows what you're gonna be. Do you
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: feel that way and how do you make sure that
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: you're not that target? What do you tell some of
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: these younger artists out there? Twenty one Savage said that
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: jay Z said, get a chef, get a lawyer, and
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: get something else that. I think he spent all your
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: money on security. I mean when they caught Pope smoke
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: and have no security with him, you know what I mean.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: And I think all the young artists just need to
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: know you need security. You need like one of those
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: it's gonna take a bullet, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: And honestly, and I don't mean your homeboys neither, because
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: when you have your homeboys with you and you're thinking
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: that's security, that's not. That's just the case. Who you
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: gonna happen? What about when it comes to women. You know,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: as you said, you were to tap two snipers, but
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: you have to be careful with that too. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: of course, of course. I mean we targets were targets
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: from every aspect, from every angle. All the women are
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: looking for bags. Some of them they think that's the
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: way they get paid. Some people, you know, they've been
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: taking their whole life. You know what I'm saying. Robbers
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: we come from you know, you come from there. I
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: come from there where you know people have been robbing
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: their whole life. And you know if you look sweet,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: they're gonna grab you you know what I mean. Some people,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: you know, they just pushed the limits something. I call
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: them suicide bombers, but they don't really care. What was
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: your biggest mistake, you'd have to say in this industry,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: what's the one thing you said? Damn, I shouldn't have
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: did that. My biggest mistake was not forcing Chinks to
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: stay with me in La. It was supposed to go
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: to Coachella. I was still going out with Chloe and
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: he was with me, and Maliko was there and he
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: was we were supposed to go together, and I kept
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: on telling him like, yo, let's go, let's go. She
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: wants you to go, like you know, let's trying to
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: put them together. And I'm saying, hooked them up. And
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: he was like, nah, I gotta go home. I got
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: my daughter, this, this, this, and that. That happened like
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: two days right after that, the day after that, So
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: that was my biggest mistake. I should have just forced them,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: but we was all drunk and not let my you know,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: my pride and might he go to all you want
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: to stay over me? All right? Bad? You know what
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So he came back and it was just
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: like a sad situation. What do you think is the
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: smartest decision you've made? Start rapping, pick up a mic
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: and let me ask you this. So you also recently
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: were a type of a conversation because of Basketball wives. Right.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: DJ Duffy is on the show and she had a baby,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: she's engaged, and she was saying that she might take
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: some time off from being on the road, and you
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: were like, all right, you can't come back then. Yeah,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: so let's talk about that for a second, because I
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: saw that was a big topic on social media. Yeah,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: when you come into this game, it doesn't come with
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: your own schedule. It comes with sacrifice. You know what
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, Like you have you have to be able
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: to make certain sacrifices. If not, then you can't be
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: in this game. I'm saying, you can't just come in,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: come in the game and just expect to make all
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: this money, get all this fame, be this you know
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Then you just want to stay home.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: It don't happen like that. If I'm sacrificing, you got
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: a sacrifice. But if somebody's like, okay, I just need
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: like you know six a woman who had a baby, yeah,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: which she did have to take time off because yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: you know, of course that time and then I can
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: come back. That's not no, that time she has to
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: take off. But she was taught about she was going
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: to retire, right, yeah. She was like, she was like,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm confused. I'm like, don't be confused, because
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: there's people that want to be in their position, right,
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: don't be confused. That's the crazy thing about that is
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: And this is when you start people getting upset. Right.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: The new generation feels like, I feel like a lot
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: of times things should be given right now. Maternity leave
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: is totally different. Right, you have a baby, Absolutely you
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: deserve maternity leave. Some fathers out there paternity leave. So
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: now when somebody says, hey, you know, I'm gonna take
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: a couple of months off to see if I'm anna
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: retire or not. If you take that time, if you
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: leave me while I'm working, I gotta find a replacement.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to find a replacement for a week
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: or a month to you figure out what you want
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: to do. I'm gonna find a replacement to replace you.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong with that, do you.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: I think he was honest about it. You know, because
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: somebody could have said, do what you gotta do and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: then they get replaced anyway. But I also feel like
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: you never know what could happen. He could have got
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: somebody else and then she could have been ready to
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: come back, and he could have felt like, man, she
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: was better, and you know, you never know what had happened.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: So it is still up in the air to me.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: But I do think that's an honest thing to say
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: to somebody, because yes, you do still need to have
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, of course, Man, you gotta let them
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: like when you tell them that, that's when they have
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: to make a decision. Do I really want this? You
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying That decision have to be made
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: one at one point in your career because if you
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: don't love whatever you do, you're gonna get tested, You're
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: gonna go through certain levels that we're gonna be like, man,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: do I really love this? Because I can't take it. No.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: But I know for women in particular, it's different when
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: you have a kid and you have that connection and
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: they're really young and then you leave and you miss
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: your baby so much, But then she missed work a
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: lot too, so it's a harder balance. I feel like
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: when it's women, yeah, definitely. I mean she had the
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: time with the baby. Now Like it wasn't like I
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: was gonna ask you one time the conversation was versus.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: H when you do versus be willing to do a versus.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: I didn't one with Tory Lanes. I blew a socks.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: All that that was. That was the earlier was earlier.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: It was the first ones that started versus. And I
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: told Swiss that Swiss on me a check. I swear
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: I hit him. I told me you gotta give me
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: a check, and he did. He said it to my lawyer. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: he sent me a paperwork. You know, because the first
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: time they were just beat battling. I remember, you know
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I called Switzer and I called I
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: called timber Land up. I'm like, y'all need you all
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: to judge this joint. We're about me and me and
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: Tory Lanes because he had the quarantine radio. But instead
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: of me just going on your quarantine radio and doing that,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: let's just do it a versus. He was like, oh nah,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: you an't got me, Like yo, bro, you gotta stop
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: playing with me. Man. Your catalog and even you know
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So we did it. We was talking
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: back and forth. I remember then I had um timber
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: Land and Swiss beats on the on the thing and
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: everybody was judging it. And after that they just took
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: it and just like you know, you know, to the
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: next level. But as far as me, it is whoever
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: that one time, Jim was supposed to be you and Jim,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: which I think would be great because y'all have problems
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: before y'all squashed it. I think that would be a
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: good one. Yeah, I think because you and Jim, Jim,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: Jim got records. Nah, Jim, if you're watching this, don't
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: do it. I think I think that you both told
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: is so. I think it would be really really entertaining,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: really really good. Nah. I don't think you don't think so. Nah. Now,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: Jim got records. Let's just say ball in the pop
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: that had the were gonna go next. Jim got Baby Girl,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: Jim got uh summer in Miami, Jim got all the
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: dip set records. Jim got records, all right, Jim got
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: records set. But yeah, but honestly, though, I think I think,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to versus, you could just
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: go twenty for twenty or anybody, just because it doesn't
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: matter what else you got, you know, just like how
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: Drake could go against jay Z even though jay Z
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: got a long catalog. It's the top twenty records you
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: choose and what you put against exactly whatever record, exactly.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: All right, we got more with French Montana when we
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: come back. It's the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlemagne, the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: with French Montana. I want to ask you this. You
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: think that people have a certain expectation of you, like
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: they expect more of the party songs. Now, well, I'm
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: you know, I became the first African born artist to
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: go diamond, and I became the first male artist from
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: the Bronx, from the mecca of hip hop, to go diamond,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I got four albums,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: three even platinum. So at the end of the day,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: for me, I accomplished everything I wanted to do and
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: now it's time for me to make music for me
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: and for my care audience. The people that helped me
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: get here the people that started listening to me when
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: I made Shot Caller and New York Minute and the
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: Mac and Cheese Mix, saves and this and that. So
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: I felt like me and Harry Fraud, we never gave
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: it a full push. We always just did a one offs.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: We did the Shot Callers, we did I'm a Coke Boy,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: we did this, but we never did a full project.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: So I just want to get back full circle to
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: the essence of hip hop and just like, you know what,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: that's what I want to make. I want to make
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: a full rap album. So it's something you just felt like,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: this is what I want to do. It don't matter.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: I accomplished so many things and this is the music
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like I want to do. Yeah, definitely, because
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, when you talk
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: about rest in peace for the God's side, you know
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: he said it. He's like, you know when you talk
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: about top five mcs, the number one thing is gonna
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: be his bars. You know, we're going back to the essence.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: I'm here to make history and leaving my mark. I
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: did everything, you know what I'm saying, Like there's artists
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: have been in the game three times. The lymth I've
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: been in the game and still haven't won diamond. Jay
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: Z haven't one diamond Snoop haven't won diamond. What I'm saying,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: but they have way more other things. That's more than
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: what I got. But as far as me leaving the legacy,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: I want to get back to this sound. Do you
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: feel like because you name all your accolades, some of
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: your accolades, and I think people forget about a lot
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: of the stuff that you do. Do you feel like
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: they don't respect French as a rapper or as a
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: lyricist because of some of the other things, because of
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: the relationship with the Kardashian and Trein and some of
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: the other ones. You step down, it's more about frenches
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: personal life and less about the lyrics. I feel like
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: it's the same thing with Drake. Drake rap better than
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: other artists, you know what I'm saying, but they don't
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: want to get it to him because he's still smelling
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: as flowers, you know what I'm saying. That's a nicer
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: way to say it. Yeah, you're still smelling your flowers.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: People ain't gonna put the light on you while you're
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: still smelling your flowers. So Drake is different though. Yeah,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: And I think what Drake is is because Drake is busy.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: He could, he put together songs, he's lyrically, he could.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: He will body a lot of most rappers out. Yeah.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: But I think which gives Drake the little asterix is
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: when he went in back in that beef and it
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: was like, Drake, they'll write his own rhymes. Yeah, that
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: gave him a little astrict And he never discussed it.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: He never spoke about he never came out. It was like, nah,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: that's you know what it is. And I think that
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: gave him the asterix. But if that astrict wasn't there
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: for hip hop, he's by far one of the best ever.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: But after this album, we're gonna get back to that
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: top of you know what I'm saying. Yeah, after this album,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back to that topic. I just think,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: you know, and that's and that's that's the lame I'm
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: going down, you know what I mean, Because that's bro
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: Like I came from the like if Chicago Bulls and nine,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: like ninety six Michael Jones was playing, that's where I
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: was at in the Bronx. That's the mecca of hip hop,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: Like Big Pun down the street. You know the carreras
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: one down here like you know, everybody was right there. Yeah,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: and everybody slicked the ruler everybody. So to make it
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: out of there the time that I was there was
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: mission impossible. And we had to battle, like literally, like
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: you would take five bands, you take your re up
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: money fifteen grand, you will go here, you will go ahead,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: go to every project the battle. So we come from
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: hip hop rapping. I had to wrap the get on.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: All my music is wrapped, you know what I'm saying
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: when when I got on. But you know I had
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: to try to, you know, accomplish. You can't accomplish too much.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: Was just too much rap. Like you've seen jay Z
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: always had them my bars down. What was that line
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: of the he's there? I had to den my bars
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: down and the money yeah yeah, so that's the same thing.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: Jay Z switched his whole style up. Wouldn't got to
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: the back and then came back to the rap. What
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: about acting? So now you've been doing your acting thing,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: and so is that something that you feel like you
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: want to pursue, Like I want to be in some
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: more feature films' what's with that? My documentary is coming
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: out this year is you know, about about the whole
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: story with me coming from Africa and you know, starting
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: to rap, and you know, and being immigrated here and
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: my pops leaving and my mother getting a welfare and
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: Max b and Chinks dying and me having to get
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: through all that. You know. I showed it to jay Z,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: I showed it to Drake, so me and Drake is
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: executive producing it together and it's it's gonna be real
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: dope as far as in film and in theaters this year,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like you don't tell those stories about yourself
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: that often either what made you decide now was the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: time to do it because people just know the music
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: and people never really got a chance to see how
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: hard it was to make it, you know, because we
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: make it look easy every day, so people be like, Okay, cool,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: he's just rapping. He getting lucky, all right, He lucky again,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: he lucky again. What's then artist's career span thing? And
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: usually honestly three to five, three to five lucky. Yeah,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: But now, like a microwave, right now, it could be
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: a couple of months, it could be a yeah, yeah,
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. So for somebody at last fifteen years.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta give them the blueprint. That's how
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: you do it now, I tell you also reference your
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: your baby mama tripping and my son. I was called
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: parenting going for you as it getting better? No, it's better,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: it's better. Definitely, it's better. You know they're always going
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: on some money, but it's better. Man, Yeah, shout out.
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  Speaker 1: She's doing a great job. We've never been in the
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: media and I respect everything she should do for my son. Well,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: French's albums out today. What do you want? You want
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: to play off the album right now? Mon Thiga? You
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: can play the one with me Jada kiss beend in
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: the butcher, Ok. And I gotta think every time. You know.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: First of all, French has never changed his number from
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how long. The number is still
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: the same since he was swear And anytime I ever
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: called him, no matter what it is, he never says no.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: So first I was doing my car show and French
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: had a Bugatti. I was like, you know, now, Bugatti
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: is about one point five to me, not the cost
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: you calling you as somebody for a Bugatti. Nine times
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: they gonna be like, ah, well big to my people.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: French didn't say that at all. He was like, Yo,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: just put it on the trailer and bring it and
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: it was not a problem. Then I'm in Africa year
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and the DJ before me, so I was supposed to
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: play the hip hop set, and the DJ before me
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: played the hip hop set, and we're in Africa, so
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: it's like vibes and I'm supposed to play the hip
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: hop sis. I was like, I gotta think of something
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: to do to outdo the kid that played the hip
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: hop set. So I called French and I'm like, Yo, French,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: when I perform, true story, I said, Yo, when I perform,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have the camera on the FaceTime and I'm
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: gonna call my my people from New York and bring
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: New York to Africa. And French was one of the
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: ones that picked up. It was French, Fat, Joe, Buster Rams,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: Jim Jones, and Fabulish y'all all picked up for me.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: So I was all just you know, always appreciated, always, yeah,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: definitely always. No, is it weird for you being in
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: the club now that you don't drink. No, I got
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: used to it. I'm doing because was the party animal
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: his whole in tension when you're in the club with him,
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: is to get you drunk. I remember one night we
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: were in Vegas. It was my birthday. It was me,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: you and Kevin Hart. I don't even know how I
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: walked back to my room. He just kept going and
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: then he had me performing with him on It was
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: the weirdest thing. But you were performing. He was performing
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: with frenchial stage. Oh my god, Kevin crazy. I hope no,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: probably goodness probably, but but but back to what you're saying.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: You know, people don't go to your funeral for what
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: you did for yourself. They always go to your funeral
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: for what you did for them. I lived by that, Colt.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: So I'll be trying whenever my peoples or whatever it is,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: somebody to help. I always do that, you know what
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when you had me from Africa, it
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: was like five in the morning. In the morning, He's like,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: no problem here like Africa. Oh no, he said, you good,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: you are all right. Well there you have it, French
• 1:30:57
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  Speaker 1: Some restrictions apply. Wanting Everybody's dj Envy, Angeline Charlomagne, the guy.
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  Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: joining us today from the Black Promoters Collective. We have
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: Troy Brown, Shall we join up, Gary Gidry and Jennie Denise,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: Janet Janie Cotton. It's a common name. Welcome everybody, all right, Welcome, Welcome, y'all? Alright, alright,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: say you guys talking to Mike too? Where you chalk?
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: I know, we got a lot of Yeah. Tell us
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: what the BPC, the Black Promoters Collective is, First of all, well,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: it's a Black Promoters Collective. It's a group of the
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: top independent promoters that come together. We came together over
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: COVID the break It allowed us some time to slow
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: down and just think about where we were, and we
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: saw a lot of things culturally in the country, a
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: lot of division and a lot of just violence in
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: the streets. And it just sparked that emotion and us
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: to say, you know, we've always talked about coming together
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: and doing something great for this culture, and so it
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: gave us a time to slow down and just think
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: about it and actually start to get the movement going.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: And so we all came together and turned it into
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: a real business and now we're out here doing some
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: of the biggest concerts in the country. It's been just
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: amazing experience. How did you guys get together? I know
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: what happened during the pandemic. Did you guys previously know
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: each other or did y'all respect each other because y'all
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: know y're all in the same business. How did y'all
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: get together on the phone and said this is what
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: we want to do. We originally started a company. It
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: was called Promoters a Record and it was four of us.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: It was a Rick Johnson from Chicago, Suleman Mausi from Detroit, myself,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: and Bill Ingram from Philly, and we started to have
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: a partnership and we started the Girls Escape. That's when
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: they first came back. We did a huge two shows
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: in Detroit, and once we did those two shows, they
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: kind of promised us to tour at the time. Unfortunately,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: it didn't happen and they wound up going to one
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: of the big box companies, which was ag Live after
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: we kind of branded them. We just didn't have the
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: infrastructure at the time or the capital to make the move.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: So we told ourselves that are never happened again. But
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: how could we empower ourselves as an organization? So we
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: met Gary Gidry. He was doing Millennial Tour, a lot
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: of big tours out there, so he had that infrastructure,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: that touring infrastructure, and a lot of other partners was
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: already popping in their markets. So we was like, listen,
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: let's just all come together and just form votron, right,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: and we started having calls. At first it started with
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: like maybe fifty people, sixty people, and we dwindled it
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: down to about six people or six companies, and that's
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: who we are today. So y'all coming together to like
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: compete with the Live nations in the Ages of the
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: World thing go okay. I think the notion there, Charlomagne
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: is that you know much like you're seeing. And it's
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: interesting that we say the post George Floyd er right,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: because you know, it did take that for a lot
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: of things that transpire, you know, across the board. You know,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: you look at what's happening with a lot of black companies,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: you know, media entertainment IP. You look at companies like
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: Group Black, you look at the black effect. We're doing
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: that same thing in the live Touring Entertainment IP space.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: It's literally that same thing. As a matter of fact,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: we're having discussions with some of those under entities with
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: how how we as people of color and black entities
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: can now voltron and really ultimately control our IP, create
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: our IP, control our IP. And what we're saying is
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: buy back the block. I was gonna ask, you know,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: with you guys doing these concerts and do you guys
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: have a lot of different CULTI with these contract venues
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: in these holes, the fact that you are black where
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: they make you jump through hoops and do other things
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: that maybe these other brands or these other box companies
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: like you said, don't have to do. Well. Definitely that
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: that has been the you know, the upstream swim that
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: we've been our whole careers. You know, really the spark
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: for this is about the culture. You know, so many
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: of our artists um their brands, how they're communicated to
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: the into the community is controlled. That narrative is controlled
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: by people who don't look like us, is controlled by
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: people and in cubicles and part of these big box
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: agencies that that tell the story of our culture. And so, um,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: we're in the streets, We're we're in the coffee shops
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: and the barbershops and beauty shops. We're just being in
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: the community promoting. So we understand how to connect to
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: Mary J. Blige back to the beauty shop, how to
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: make sure that that that the message or the brand
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: that she wants to commun municate is definitely communicated on
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: the streets. So that's that's really what this is about.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: It it's about it's about the culture. It's about changing
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: the narrative of who we are, what we look like,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: because we're not just you know what we see in
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: the streets on these killings and just the negativity that
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: normally comes with businesses being black. You know that we
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: don't do good business. Are you guys doing the Mary J.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: Bliss Good Morning Gorgeous Tour? We are? Okay? So I
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: wanted to walk me through that process and how you
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: acquired that. So I think it's a couple of things
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: and that's a great question, Angie. So I think we
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: have to finish answering your question first on how we
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: got there, right, because it's demonstrated in the work that
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: we did with the first two major tours Envy, Right.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: So when you look at pole Star now and you
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: see the success of the Night Tour top ten tour, right,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: you see success of the Culture Tour new edition, Joe
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: to see Charlie Wilson another top ten tour, well for
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: the first half of them. That's all yeah in the world.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: When you look at pole Star and you look at
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: the top ten tours for the first half of the year,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: those are the only two black tours. That's the Black
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: Promoters collective. So when you say, how are you guys
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: getting treated? Yes, treated one way prior to treated another
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: way after. Now let me pivot to your question that
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: now allows us to romanticize and our package our business
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: to now go to the queen of our culture that
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: we all grew up with as hip hop kids, right
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: and say, Okay, Mary in Case Studies, right, we love you,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: we know who you are, we know what you mean
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: to us. You're now coming off the Super Bowl Billboard
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: Icon Award, right, you know, let's partner and here's what
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: we can do. Here's what we do. To Gary's point,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: not only from it what you know from a business
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: perspective from below the line level, but in above the
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: line level. Look, we're credible in the streets and in
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: the boardrooms, and I think that affords us a different
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: narrative than the big box, big box companies that you
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: guys talked about. Right, we can do it in both
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: and both arenas, which it allows us to maneuver in
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: ways that the other folks can't. Being excited absolutely, and
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: we're buying millions of dollars worth of media, guys, and
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: we're doing it all internally, right, So we're doing the digital,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: the social, the mobile, the radio, the street teams, the grassroots,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: that's all us. So we're ultimately in effecting agency unto ourselves.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: So the Garry's point, now we can go have big
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: brand conversations and partnerships, and we're doing social partnerships as well.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: You know, you saw during the Culture to a New
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: Edition was going into the boys clubs, giving bikes back
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: right to the kids. You saw presentations to foundations across
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: all these cities that were happening on the tours, you
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: saw Maxwell talking about really black culture things and is
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: that he was not prior to this tour. That's that's
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: how we're partnering with our people, with our talent in
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: ways that they the other big boxes aren't necessarily doing.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: Why because we come from the places that they come
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: from and we're looking at life through the same lenses
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: that they are. I love it, man. The unity and
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: group operation is a must like this is. That's honestly,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: the only way to move is if you're a black
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: now you got to move with a collector. That's it. Yeah,
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: cooperative economics, that's right. This business about scalability. People want
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: to know how big, far and wide that you can
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: take their brand, and you know, being a small operation,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: you know it's only going to go so far because
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: you know, culture is culture. That's fine. But if you're
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: a global brand, you want to partner with people that
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: can take your globally. That just makes sense. That's just business.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: That's not even Black, Green and Blue. That's just business.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: You can secure endorsements and all of that. Yeah, all
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: of that, and the whole thing is going full circle
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: because my first show that I ever did, I was
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: right next to this man, right, and Kevin Hunter my
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: first concert at the Paradise there. That was my first concert, right.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: I had to really convince some people to make it happen. Bud.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: It was the artist I'm trying to think it was.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: It was a comedy show. It was. It was called
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: um Who's the next Biggest Comedian or something like that.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: We came up with it and we were supposed to
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: do it with um Donelle Jones. He didn't show up
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: and we wounded up getting like Jenny and we did
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: seventeen hundred people I would never find in a thirty
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and it was crazy. I wound up owning
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: that same venue a couple of years later, and that
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: was the start of our career. Well, congratulations and good luck,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: and definitely if you're out there, pick up your tickets
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: to go see Mary J. Blige the Good Morning Gorgeous
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: Tour Introit. I know you're from Boston. So you're having
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: a party for the Warriors tonight after they beat It's
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club Morning, thank you morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: Angela Yee, Charlemagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: Now you got a positive note on my positive note
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: is simply this man, instead of ignoring loss and trauma,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: are moving quickly past them. We can choose to slow down,
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: sit with each loss, examine it, grieve it because it's
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: better to sinking and experience it now than to find
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: yourself drowning years later and losses that had no voice.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club, finish your y'alld up