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Symba on how his trip to Africa Changed his Life: "I Stopped Wearing Jewelry" · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 2: So I was sitting in Atlanta when I was on tour,
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  Speaker 2: and I was talking to this guy and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, saying all these different things about where I
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  Speaker 2: want to go, and he was like, I said something
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  Speaker 2: like I'm an African American man. He was talking about something.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, oh, you ever been to Africa? And
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  Speaker 2: I was like nah. He was like, so you're an
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  Speaker 2: African American man and you've never been to Africa And
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  Speaker 2: I was like damn. And it hurt even more that
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  Speaker 2: a white dude said.
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  Speaker 3: It was like damn.
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  Speaker 2: So I was like, I need to go to Africa.
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  Speaker 2: So I started looking into like, you know what I
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  Speaker 2: could do to go and all these different things. So
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  Speaker 2: I got a homie named Io who's from Nigeria. I
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  Speaker 2: met through my guy Frank shut out Frank, and Io
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  Speaker 2: was telling me he was actually getting ready to go
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  Speaker 2: back over there and do some things for the kids,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, telling me how like everybody comes over
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  Speaker 2: there and they usually bring like clothes or money, but
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  Speaker 2: they never really bring things to like help these kids
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  Speaker 2: or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, man, let's go, Like I'm down
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 2: So we all go over there, and immediately when we
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  Speaker 2: get over there, we realized like, well right before we
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  Speaker 2: kind of knew like it was a uh, they're not
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  Speaker 2: as advanced in technology as we are over here right
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  Speaker 2: as far like they got computers and different things like that,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't have it in abundance like we do.
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  Speaker 3: So we was.
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  Speaker 2: Already talking about bringing laptops over there for the kids.
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  Speaker 2: But I got a homegirl who works in AI. She
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  Speaker 2: has a dope program, and we was like we could
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  Speaker 2: put onto the laptops where it could help the kids
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  Speaker 2: learn to navigate through the computer faster. So we go
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  Speaker 2: over there, Bro, and immediately, Doug, when I get over there,
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  Speaker 2: it was like a culture shock. It was like a
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  Speaker 2: real culture shock because the first thing is so hot.
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  Speaker 4: At the airport.
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  Speaker 5: Bro, the airport like a bus term and no disrespect,
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  Speaker 5: but I'll let you finish.
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  Speaker 4: But we got a story, all right, Bro.
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  Speaker 2: It was so hot to where immediately like it make
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  Speaker 2: you take the labels off. You feel like you're not
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  Speaker 2: You're not worried about getting fly every day. Nah, you
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  Speaker 2: ain't worried about your outfit. You ain't worried about that.
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  Speaker 2: So that process puts you in humanity, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So now you moving like how you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to move over here? A lot of it over
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  Speaker 2: here is about elitists and status and all these different things.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of shoes you got on over there is like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what you really contributing to our people? You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like, how are you helping us
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  Speaker 2: as a people? So I get over there, man, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm moving through. So we were staying on the island
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  Speaker 2: and then we were going to the mainland every day.
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  Speaker 2: So he going into the mainland and I'm seeing just
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  Speaker 2: like cows and like people just like selling everything they
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  Speaker 2: could find and like doing all these different things. So
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  Speaker 2: I met this kid kids in front of the stories
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  Speaker 2: rapping or whatever. I'm like, daan, this kid kind of dope.
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  Speaker 2: I ended up posting the kid or whatever. Yeah, posted
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  Speaker 2: them went up. Everybody in Nigeria start start tagging them everything, right,
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  Speaker 2: so I immediately start getting hit Yo, we want you to
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  Speaker 2: come to this radio station.
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  Speaker 3: Yo.
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  Speaker 2: He wants you to come to this thing. Like Yo,
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  Speaker 2: he wants you to come to Africa today. It's like
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  Speaker 2: to see and in Africa over there. So now I'm
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  Speaker 2: on a press run, you know what I mean. I'm
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  Speaker 2: on an organic press run, just like literally went there
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  Speaker 2: to see the city. I'm on a press run and
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  Speaker 2: I'm bringing Lucky with me, bringing them with me, talking
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  Speaker 2: about everything. So on the first day we go do
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  Speaker 2: some interviews and I'm like, man, I'm hungry. So we
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  Speaker 2: go over to this restaurant across the street. We get
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  Speaker 2: some food and I'm like what you want to eat?
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  Speaker 2: And he like like I don't know, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Like, I'm like what you mean?
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  Speaker 3: So my homi? He like lucky.
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  Speaker 2: You ever ate at a restaurant? He like no, how
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  Speaker 2: was he fourteen? He was like, you ever had a hamburger?
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  Speaker 2: And he was like no, pretty much like east Rice
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  Speaker 2: and like these things called bones every day, which is
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  Speaker 2: like these like small chicken uh, like they like chicken
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  Speaker 2: gizzards kind of. So we get him a hamburger, bro,
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  Speaker 2: And I watched me at the hamburger, and it immediately
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  Speaker 2: made me just be like, Bro, we got life fucked up.
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  Speaker 2: We got life fucked up over here. Bro, we be
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  Speaker 2: so consumed with the bullshit to where it's like we
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  Speaker 2: don't even really see the life in front of us.
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  Speaker 2: So from that day, from when I seen that, I
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  Speaker 2: just started living in it, bro, you know what I mean, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I just start going where the people was at if
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  Speaker 2: people was hitting me, Like yo, you got this going on?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm pulling up the veto had a concert.
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  Speaker 3: I pulled up. He brought me out on stage. You know.
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  Speaker 2: So one thing I noticed was just like the love
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing all this movement. I ain't looked over my
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  Speaker 2: shoulder one time. I ain't felt like nobody was about
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  Speaker 2: to rob me one time. I ain't feel like Nobody
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  Speaker 2: was finna take my jury or do something to my son.
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  Speaker 3: Not one time.
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  Speaker 2: Now they gonna ask you for some money. They're gonna
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  Speaker 2: ask you for some money, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I saw when you pulled up with the van.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they gonna ask you for a little money.
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  Speaker 2: But it wasn't like I felt threatened if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: give him any you know what I mean? It was
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  Speaker 2: just like God, like, this is this is how it
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  Speaker 2: should feel with us amongst our people. It shouldn't feel
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  Speaker 2: like I gotta have a gun to go to this
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  Speaker 2: spot because Bro might take my chain, or I gotta
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  Speaker 2: park my car over here because you know, like it
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  Speaker 2: didn't feel like that now. One time, it just felt
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  Speaker 2: like love. So it just really put me in a space, Bro,
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  Speaker 2: of like living and just letting life happen instead of
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  Speaker 2: trying to make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: How long was you there for?
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  Speaker 3: Two weeks? Was there for two weeks?
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  Speaker 2: I was supposed to go to Ghana the second week,
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  Speaker 2: and then I just fell in love with the people
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  Speaker 2: in Nigeria. I was like, Bro, I'm staying here. Fuck it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm familiar with the people.
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  Speaker 1: You said something, So is that what you found because
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  Speaker 1: you said this quote. You said that we buy things
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  Speaker 1: here to showcase a part of ourselves that we never
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  Speaker 1: took time to find. And so I'm wondering, is that
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  Speaker 1: what you found that in a piece of saying like
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  Speaker 1: this is what life should be?
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  Speaker 3: Bro?
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  Speaker 2: Like, I ain't really if you peak like the last Like,
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  Speaker 2: since I got back, I ain't really been wearing jewelry.
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  Speaker 2: I wear my watch, you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 2: it's like I don't really wear it because over there
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  Speaker 2: it made me realize like, like, bro, this shit don't
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  Speaker 2: make me a better rapper.
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  Speaker 3: It don't make me a better person.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like it's just something to
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  Speaker 2: show people to get them to pay attention to me.
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  Speaker 2: I could find another way to do that. I'm creative
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  Speaker 2: enough to find another way to do that. So it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't about to just feel like I got to
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  Speaker 2: just put on jewelry every day to go do an
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  Speaker 2: interview or make people rock with my music. You're either
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  Speaker 2: gonna rock with it or you're not. I'm at peace
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  Speaker 2: with that. I'm not trying to impress you.
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  Speaker 4: No more liberating a feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is what it is, like, Let life happen however,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 4: And that was because of Nigeria.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, because of Nigeria. Bro.
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  Speaker 2: The whole time, like the first two days was rough.
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  Speaker 2: Why because you can't really shower the way we shower
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  Speaker 2: over here, because we can't drink their water. So as
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  Speaker 2: nice as a house that we was in, the shower
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  Speaker 2: thing was still like a sprinkler. So it's like I'm
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  Speaker 2: washing my body, but I can't really wash my face.
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  Speaker 2: I'm washing my face with a bottle of water, brushing
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  Speaker 2: my teeth with a bottle of water, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it was just like it was. It was a
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  Speaker 3: culture shot.
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  Speaker 2: But it's like once you get used to it, you
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  Speaker 2: get used to the heat, you ain't really tripping off
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  Speaker 2: like clothes and what you gotta wear and like all
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  Speaker 2: these different things. It's just like like it's people in
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  Speaker 2: the club.
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  Speaker 3: Actually party, yeah, not a party, dance.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't move around with any security.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I had security.
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  Speaker 2: I had tops, like yeah, I'm like like security of
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you know what, we had cops yeah yeah, yeah, Like.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't want them rappers to becoming on my jewell
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  Speaker 3: every day. No security ain't. I was running around. I
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  Speaker 3: got my son out there. I gotta get back home. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I got to get back home.
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  Speaker 4: Bro, that's a fact.
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  Speaker 3: Get home.
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  Speaker 4: That's how we was moving, man, everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They slept at the house yeah yeah, yeah, outside waiting
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 3: They was at the crib like it was serious. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I thought that part got left out there.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wait, did you have.
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  Speaker 2: Noah, I definitely did, but safety first, no going over
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  Speaker 2: there like it showed me. And then like I shot
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  Speaker 2: the music video that we just dropped top g over there,
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  Speaker 2: and even how.
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  Speaker 3: That happened, Like I was in the projects, like one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the worst hoods over there is called Legos Island.
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  Speaker 4: How that happen?
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  Speaker 3: Dog, I'm in the I'm in the crib.
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  Speaker 2: Now, keep in mind, I bring a studio over there,
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  Speaker 2: so my crazy ass, like I brought like a laptop
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  Speaker 2: with like a mic and like a studio setup. So
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  Speaker 2: my ass over there finding random people on the street
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  Speaker 2: that's singing, like, bro, come to the crib, like get
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  Speaker 2: on the sprinter, like, come to the crib, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: to the point my homie, I was like, shit, you
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  Speaker 2: can't be you got chill, Like yeah, like everybody coming
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  Speaker 2: over there. So I'm like, I'm a chill So I'm
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  Speaker 2: bringing people to the crib bro, and they just recording
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  Speaker 2: like they recording, they recording, and I'm like, damn, these
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  Speaker 2: dudes is talented his hell, Like you know, they talented
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  Speaker 2: his hell. So the engineer who engineering, I kept telling
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  Speaker 2: him like, no, we had got back the day we
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  Speaker 2: had got back from taking the laptops to the school.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a hundred laptops to the school. We went
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  Speaker 2: and did that. I got back in my homie self,
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  Speaker 2: who was the engineer that was engineering all the kids
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  Speaker 2: that was over there. He was like, Bro, is this
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  Speaker 2: something you wanted to do, like before you get up
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  Speaker 2: out of here? Because I was leaving in two days.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, man, I did want to shoot
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  Speaker 2: a video, but I couldn't really get it how I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get it.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, what you wanted to look like?
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Bro, I want to show Nigeria, Like
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to show the island, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? Like we could show that too, Like let's
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  Speaker 2: show both sides. Let's show the difference between the island
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  Speaker 2: and the mainland. So if you watch the video, it's
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  Speaker 2: a conversation with me and myself, Like, that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like the island in the mainland. So I'm starting off
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  Speaker 2: in the mansion right where I'm in the crib. That's
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  Speaker 2: the island where the cribs is nice and it's gold
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  Speaker 2: shrimming on the tie and the marble and everything is
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  Speaker 2: uh nah, it's Lego's island. So these were the big
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  Speaker 2: cribs and everything. But then when you going to the mainland,
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  Speaker 2: there's more poverty. So we're showing both sides of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, I'm telling him that I want to
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  Speaker 2: show that. He like, I got the perfect people for you.
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  Speaker 2: So he called his production crew called Whack People, and
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  Speaker 2: they come through and literally broke like two hours, like
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  Speaker 2: just pull up to the crib. They're like, yeah, bro,
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  Speaker 2: what you want to do. I'm like, man, I want
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  Speaker 2: to shoot a video, but like I wanted to look clean.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want it to look like we just had
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  Speaker 2: a regular DSL or camera and we just shot whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And he was like, nah, I got you.
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  Speaker 2: You was like, uh, it was like, give me, give
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  Speaker 2: me a couple hours, right, So he called back in
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  Speaker 2: like six hours. He was like, when you want to shoot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, shit, we can shoot now. You're like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: on away. So they pull up, Bro, they got all
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  Speaker 2: the equipment. We go to this spot with my man Vector.
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  Speaker 2: That's his neighborhood that we was at, so that whole
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  Speaker 2: community over there. Vector take care of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: that community. He's a big staple over there. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: what Kendrick Lamar is does. He's that to them over there.
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  Speaker 2: So go meet Vector, tell him what I want to do.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, come on, bro, take you through. We go
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  Speaker 2: through the neighborhood. We just filmed the video, bro, like
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  Speaker 2: all night and we just chilling like we're eating, Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking their herbal shots and everything. They gel off
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  Speaker 2: every day. But I was just over there, bro, just
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  Speaker 2: rocking with the people. I had my son with me outside.
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  Speaker 3: Bro.
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  Speaker 2: It was like twelve midnight. We just out there the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 2: kicking in with the kids and it was just love.
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  Speaker 3: It was love.
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  Speaker 2: So it's definitely something that's a part of my life
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  Speaker 2: at this point. Because we actually ended up signing Lucky Wow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So we got him a spot over there. He has
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  Speaker 2: a studio over there now because he was living in
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  Speaker 2: a straw house with seven siblings, his parents don't, you know,
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  Speaker 2: less fortunate. So we actually you know, got him in
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  Speaker 2: a better situation and he's making music. But the thing
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  Speaker 2: that impressed us about Lucky the most was more than
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  Speaker 2: the music and everything. He said, the main thing he
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  Speaker 2: wanted and life was to learn because he never really
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  Speaker 2: had the chance to go to school. So we're helping him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get in school and learning. So more than
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  Speaker 2: just putting his music out and like trying to turn
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  Speaker 2: him to a rap store, it's like allowing him the
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  Speaker 2: ability to grow up and have a dream for like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of kids over there don't really get the
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  Speaker 2: time to dream, you know, So that's something that we
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  Speaker 2: want to provide for him.
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  Speaker 4: So that's context.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about education reform, yeah here, but we missed
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  Speaker 1: the part where it's like there's people who only have
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  Speaker 1: access to education. So that that's big. I mean when
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  Speaker 1: you were there and one of the things we saw
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  Speaker 1: was the amount of youth. There's so much youth, and
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: so we always look at Africa as a place, especially Nigeria,
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  Speaker 1: as a place of like tremendous resource, right because imagine
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  Speaker 1: if you give or you help import education, import mindset,
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  Speaker 1: import infrastructure and business. What does the country look like,
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  Speaker 1: what does the continent look like? Is that something that
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  Speaker 1: you plan to do going forward? Continuoucy going to Africa,
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  Speaker 1: going to different countries and the content.
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  Speaker 2: So me and Victor actually is working on a project
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  Speaker 2: together and we actually are shooting a documentary that we
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  Speaker 2: started over there, and it's called Bridge to Gap and
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: it speaks on and the documentary would be the first
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  Speaker 2: documentary produced by my media company that I was telling
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: you guys about. But it goes into the difference between
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: and so does the project we're making with the music
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: to it. It goes into the difference between the African
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  Speaker 2: and the African American and statistically a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 2: different things that we cover and why we are the
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  Speaker 2: way we are, and really kind of highlighting that to
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  Speaker 2: motivate people over here to stop looking at Africa as
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  Speaker 2: a place with just kids with flies in they face,
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  Speaker 2: that like what America shows us over here, Like America
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of Americans think that a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Africans don't rock with us over there. And I asked
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  Speaker 2: that question over there, and that's not necessarily true. The
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  Speaker 2: media paints that perception. So we look at them that way,
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  Speaker 2: and there's this combative spirit.
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  Speaker 3: But really, bro, our people love us.
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  Speaker 2: They love us over there, so we took time to
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  Speaker 2: actually go over there and like, Okay, let's build a school,
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  Speaker 2: Let's build a gymnasium, let's build studios, let's build Like
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  Speaker 2: I've seen three gas stations the whole time I was there. Bro, Like,
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  Speaker 2: let's go build some gas stations over there, you know
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: what I mean, Like.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: What's the process.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Even if we can't figure out how to do it,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: let's figure the process out so the next generation can.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: But I feel like that's something we need to look
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: forward to because on some real shit, like America ain't
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: doing too good right now, jimp, you know what I mean.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: And eventually we're gonna have to go over there and
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: see what's going on with our people. So it's important
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: that we start somewhere. We got to start somewhere. But
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: that's definitely something I'm interested in, is, you know, getting
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: some things going over there and bringing more people back
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: over there so we could unify over there.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: It's interesting.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: We've been tapping in a lot with the continent, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: we were in DC a while ago and we were
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: talking to some people from East Africa, and one of
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: the women specifically, she was talking about the movie Black Panther, right,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: very insightful from the Bay Area. So like the Black
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Panther movie, especially that first one, it's a lot of
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: hitting messages in that, Like I mean, obviously the Black
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Panthers Black Panther Party starting in Oakland, but as far
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: as like.
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  Speaker 4: How she described it to me was ill.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: She was like, you know, it's like a parent that
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: has a child right where the child might have been
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: abducted and the parent didn't really fight for the child.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: So it's two parts to this.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Now, the child starts to act out right, becomes more
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: sexually active, joints, gangs. It's all out of like frustration
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: because they have an attachment to their biological parents but
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: they don't necessarily know them. But they've never really gotten
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: over that feeling of just being kicked out and left
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: alone and not like you never came back for me.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: And then the parents have some sort of a grief
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: and they kind of feel some sort of blame for
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: not going after the child. So it's trauma on both sides, right,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: and it's like the only way to really heal that
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: troblem is to be reconnected. And it was like kill
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: Monger in the movie, like he's a very rebellious person,
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: and it's like his story to me is like the
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: story of African Americans, right, and it's like I feel
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: like we've both been played against each other where it's
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: like we look at it, not everybody, but there's been
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: a campaign in the media to be like all these
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Africans don't care about you.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Da da da da, Like they sold you to slavery,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Da da da.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: And then the Africans is like, well they're slaves, like
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: they they're nonsense. They they're always troublemakers in America. They
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: always get in trouble, they're killing each other, they doing
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: all of that right, But it's like there's reasons for
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: both sides why there's dysfunction, and now I think it's dope,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: and especially with the music is now we're starting to
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: bridge that gap and we're realizing that there's more similarities
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: than we have expertise that could be beneficial because we
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: went through a system in America that nobody has ever
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: gone and we survived it, and they have the resources.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: So it's like if we can, if we can piece
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: with their traditions and their resources.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Now, that's unstoppable.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: It's very unstoppable. It would make us like the most
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: dominant place on earth, you know what I mean. Like,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm fully for it, bro Like I'm all for it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: That's a great that's a great analogy you just broke
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: down to. I gotta rewatch the movie now from that
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: perspect because that's dope. You know what's crazy. Somebody told
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: me over there.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: It was like.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It was like one of the main reasons like we
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: look at you guys with an eye up is because
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you guys put your data in retirement homes. And I said,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: what you mean there was like, you guys put your
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: grandparents and your mother's and retirement homes, when those are
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the people who have the information to feed the children.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: How the kids supposed to learn when you in the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: midst of living life and learning yourself, those are the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: people that live, they're supposed to pass that down. That's
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: something we don't do that over here. And I never
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: looked at it like that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: That was one of the conversations we had with Acon
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: as well, and he was like the wisdom of the eldest,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: even at a level of SUCCESSUF quote unquote success that
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: he's had. He's still before he makes a decision checks
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in with his eldest because they have wisdom, even if
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it's not in the business sense, they have wisdom of life.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Any thinks that's one of the things that's missing that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: when we talk about generational gaps, it's like, how do
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: we keep our elders as a part of the lineage
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of information to a younger generation? Right, we talk about
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the population being so young in Africa, but do they
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: know those traditions of tapping in with the eldest, right,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: because there's a certain level of knowledge that they can
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: pass down, right, and you add that knowledge to the creativity, innovation,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and the energy that the youth have, and that becomes
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: an unsolvable force.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: But we got to realize it though.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was done intentionally.
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