Latest / Earn Your Leisure / EYL #279 An Inside Look Into Music, Entertainment, & Politics With Icewear Vezzo, HaHa Davis, & Hill Harper
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- 1:54Speaker 6: We got a special we got two special panels that
- 1:59Speaker 6: we're gonna host back to back. Yes, of course, we
- 2:02Speaker 6: have our friend Hill Harper here. Shot out to Hill.
- 2:06Speaker 8: Yeah, and we were super intentional, right.
- 2:08Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, we can bring people from all
- 2:10Speaker 4: throughout the country, all throughout the world really, but it
- 2:13Speaker 4: was like, nah, if we come to Detroit, we gotta
- 2:14Speaker 4: do it the Detroit way.
- 2:16Speaker 8: And so we got some Detroit legends.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Hill Harper is here, We got my man ha Davis
- 2:20Speaker 4: is here.
- 2:23Speaker 6: Of course, and we got my brother ice with Vesso. Yeah,
- 2:27Speaker 6: in the building as well. So we're gonna have a
- 2:28Speaker 6: very dope you know, probably forty five minutes. We're gonna
- 2:32Speaker 6: mix it up with them and we're gonna have some fun. Man,
- 2:35Speaker 6: We're gonna have some fun. So one of the legends
- 2:38Speaker 6: from Detroit, somebody that has changed the game when it
- 2:41Speaker 6: comes to social media, comedy and then marketing and turned
- 2:45Speaker 6: it into a business. You know, so many, so many
- 2:47Speaker 6: businesses was created on the iPhone, including Earn Your Leisure.
- 2:51Speaker 5: That's how we started on the iPhone.
- 2:52Speaker 6: So never despise small beginnings because it could lead you
- 2:57Speaker 6: all over the world, can make you a lot of money.
- 2:59Speaker 6: So one of the funniest people in the game right
- 3:01Speaker 6: now and somebody that I've been watching for a long time,
- 3:04Speaker 6: Detroit's on make some noise for haha, Davis.
- 3:07Speaker 5: So over five.
- 3:09Speaker 6: Million followers on Instagram, something that you know, you've curated massively.
- 3:15Speaker 6: How have you been able to turn social media following
- 3:18Speaker 6: into you know, a real tangible business for yourself?
- 3:22Speaker 3: Social media changed my life.
- 3:23Speaker 9: It gave me an opportunity to take care of my family,
- 3:25Speaker 9: and on top of that, it gave a lot of
- 3:28Speaker 9: us guys a voice who didn't have a voice before
- 3:30Speaker 9: social media. So a lot of us who didn't have
- 3:33Speaker 9: a way to put our voice.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Out, the social media did that for us. Now there's
- 3:39Speaker 4: a story of perseverance. Man, Like we've seen a lot
- 3:41Speaker 4: of people do sketch comedy. We've seen a lot of
- 3:44Speaker 4: people do stand up comedy on the internet. Most people
- 3:47Speaker 4: can't transition into making it a successful career. I saw
- 3:51Speaker 4: a clip where you said that you have four million followers,
- 3:55Speaker 4: but you weren't making any money. Talk about that journey
- 3:58Speaker 4: because most people think so social media instant gratification. I'm
- 4:01Speaker 4: gonna get it now, I'm gonna do it now. Talk
- 4:03Speaker 4: about that process of like I'm gaining followers, but ain't
- 4:06Speaker 4: no business coming behind it?
- 4:08Speaker 3: The thing?
- 4:09Speaker 9: What that is like fame? The fame came before the
- 4:12Speaker 9: money game. Like I ain't had no money. Like I
- 4:14Speaker 9: was in my mama basement with four million followers and
- 4:16Speaker 9: uh I was famous, but I ain't had no money.
- 4:18Speaker 9: She was like, it's time to will get a job
- 4:19Speaker 9: like my mom already famous. I can't be working in
- 4:21Speaker 9: the KFC there. I'm be like can I get a
- 4:22Speaker 9: picture or I got to holler one of my catchphrases,
- 4:25Speaker 9: but at that time the month. Yeah, but peop don't understand.
- 4:28Speaker 9: Like a lot of times, you get the fame before
- 4:30Speaker 9: you get the money. And that's what happened with my career.
- 4:32Speaker 9: I was I had people that loved me across the world,
- 4:34Speaker 9: but I didn't have no money in my bank account.
- 4:37Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
- 4:38Speaker 6: Take some noise for Vezo just walked in Ice with
- 4:40Speaker 6: a yeah, the legend himself, Detroit so on. So my
- 4:47Speaker 6: question for you, bro, let's talk about the music side.
- 4:49Speaker 6: This is the United Masters. You know they always talk
- 4:52Speaker 6: about music independence, right, so talk about you and your
- 4:56Speaker 6: journey owing your master's different things in that nature.
- 4:59Speaker 10: I've been rapping for a long time since I was
- 5:02Speaker 10: a shorty. You know what I'm saying. It took me
- 5:03Speaker 10: a long time of getting on, but it took me
- 5:06Speaker 10: even more of a longer time to get some money
- 5:08Speaker 10: in my pocket, you know what I mean. And what
- 5:11Speaker 10: contributed to that was me being able to make the
- 5:14Speaker 10: decisions that I wanted to make with my music.
- 5:16Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
- 5:16Speaker 10: That come with on your masters and on your catalog overall,
- 5:20Speaker 10: it don't even matter how old the song is. You know,
- 5:23Speaker 10: you can sell your entire catalog from full of songs
- 5:26Speaker 10: that's ten years old, you know what I'm saying. That's
- 5:29Speaker 10: actually how I got my first million dollars.
- 5:31Speaker 3: Bro.
- 5:32Speaker 10: I sold a bunch of songs, like all my old
- 5:35Speaker 10: catalog for a million bucks. That's when I seen my
- 5:37Speaker 10: first m you know what I mean. So even coming
- 5:41Speaker 10: up in the you know, in the game whatever, I
- 5:43Speaker 10: knew it was important to all my music and to
- 5:46Speaker 10: all my masters and be able to make the decisions,
- 5:48Speaker 10: I just didn't know the significance of it, like how
- 5:51Speaker 10: far I could go with that?
- 5:52Speaker 3: And I seen firsthand, you know what I mean.
- 5:54Speaker 10: So I think that is important when you're making music
- 5:57Speaker 10: and you catch a buzz, you catch you away, make
- 6:00Speaker 10: sure you keep that. That's extremely important. It's gonna come
- 6:04Speaker 10: in handy, you know what I mean. It did for me,
- 6:05Speaker 10: and I know it do for a lot of other artists.
- 6:07Speaker 4: Let's talk about the city of Detroit, man. Yeah, y'all
- 6:10Speaker 4: both from here. A lot of times in entertainment, I mean,
- 6:12Speaker 4: we come from New York, so people say you got
- 6:14Speaker 4: to go to a big city to do it right,
- 6:16Speaker 4: especially in comedy, definitely entertainment. It's like we got to
- 6:19Speaker 4: make it big in New York and we got to
- 6:20Speaker 4: make it big.
- 6:20Speaker 3: In La y'all.
- 6:22Speaker 4: I've managed to keep this loyalty to this beautiful city.
- 6:25Speaker 4: Talk about being successful where you are and then track
- 6:29Speaker 4: translat into the world.
- 6:31Speaker 9: For me, I think, like Detroit just a hustling city.
- 6:34Speaker 9: You know, we just learned how to hustle for real.
- 6:37Speaker 9: Two people clap, She's one of them. Yeah, Like Detroit
- 6:41Speaker 9: is a hustling city and likes we like, you're a
- 6:44Speaker 9: real entrepreneur.
- 6:45Speaker 3: And you're always giving back. You're always doing the.
- 6:47Speaker 9: Philanthropy part of it, you know, So that's very important,
- 6:50Speaker 9: doing a philanthropy part of this, you know what I mean.
- 6:52Speaker 9: I feel like that's why you were able to come
- 6:53Speaker 9: home and always receive that love because the simple fact
- 6:57Speaker 9: you're always giving back. So I think it's really just
- 6:59Speaker 9: a hustling side of it for real. I agree with
- 7:02Speaker 9: him on that. It's it's just the it's the hustling side,
- 7:04Speaker 9: you know what I mean.
- 7:05Speaker 10: Detroit folks always been like, hello, ambitious, you know what
- 7:09Speaker 10: I mean. That's stuck with us since the beginning of time.
- 7:12Speaker 10: You even look at Barry Gordion, what motowon them? Did
- 7:15Speaker 10: you know they he kicked it off. He gave us
- 7:16Speaker 10: the blueprint of how to even you know what I mean,
- 7:19Speaker 10: run a label and stick true to to your sound
- 7:23Speaker 10: and what you what you got going on. You know,
- 7:25Speaker 10: at the time when them dudes was making them making
- 7:27Speaker 10: that muse, the rest of the world wasn't really making
- 7:29Speaker 10: them type of songs, especially like when the Temptations got
- 7:33Speaker 10: the making songs like Psychedelic shack and all that, you know,
- 7:37Speaker 10: them sticking to they sound played the part and that
- 7:39Speaker 10: shit being big.
- 7:40Speaker 3: You know.
- 7:40Speaker 10: So I think no matter where you're from, though, wherever
- 7:43Speaker 10: you're from, I think it's important you stay stay true
- 7:45Speaker 10: to your roots.
- 7:46Speaker 3: You know, it's gonna always it's gonna win.
- 7:48Speaker 5: And then well, let me ask you a question.
- 7:50Speaker 6: So you was an independent artist, then you went to
- 7:52Speaker 6: major then back to India, right, so talk about your journey.
- 7:57Speaker 6: What's the difference. I'm sure there's artist here. What's the
- 7:59Speaker 6: advantage just being independent with the advantages of being on
- 8:02Speaker 6: the major You know, what's your perspective on seeing both
- 8:05Speaker 6: sides of the coin.
- 8:07Speaker 10: So the first time I'm gonna be one hundred, I
- 8:09Speaker 10: signed to a major label because I needed some money.
- 8:12Speaker 3: You know what, I'm saying I just came on from
- 8:13Speaker 3: prison or whatever.
- 8:15Speaker 10: But so to a rapper, signing to a major label
- 8:19Speaker 10: is like a basketball player going to the NBA. That's
- 8:22Speaker 10: what it felt like to us having a major deal. However,
- 8:25Speaker 10: it's two totally different things.
- 8:28Speaker 3: You know.
- 8:28Speaker 10: I had it in my mind that once I go
- 8:30Speaker 10: to a major label, I'm gone, I'm out, it's over.
- 8:33Speaker 3: I made it, I'm gonna be big. But it don't
- 8:35Speaker 3: work like that.
- 8:36Speaker 10: Unfortunately, you still got to put the exact same grind
- 8:39Speaker 10: in the same hustle, if not even more, and it's
- 8:42Speaker 10: less beneficial financially. You know, it makes more sense to
- 8:45Speaker 10: stay independent, especially if you're a hustler.
- 8:49Speaker 4: Talk about the transition. Social media's played a big role
- 8:52Speaker 4: in your career. I mean, I remember Vine was a thing,
- 8:55Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, well, and you were big on Vine,
- 8:57Speaker 4: and then Vine no longer existed in instag became something
- 9:00Speaker 4: that you had to use. Talk about studying social media
- 9:03Speaker 4: and using it to your advantage.
- 9:04Speaker 3: Definitely.
- 9:05Speaker 9: If I like it was only six second video, That's
- 9:08Speaker 9: why I talked fast to this day, because you had
- 9:09Speaker 9: to you had to be funny in six seconds. So
- 9:11Speaker 9: that's why I still talk fast. But social media, I
- 9:15Speaker 9: just learned what my fan base want. It Like, I
- 9:17Speaker 9: just kept beating certain things into their head, like some
- 9:20Speaker 9: people might love to guard, some might love Finn to
- 9:22Speaker 9: be a breeze, some like beyond me. But I always
- 9:25Speaker 9: had I was a catchphrase, king, Really you thought I
- 9:26Speaker 9: was the funniest guy.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Not.
- 9:28Speaker 9: People just gravitated to certain things that I was doing
- 9:31Speaker 9: from my catch phrase. So I just studied the fans,
- 9:34Speaker 9: and once I realized what it was that they wanted,
- 9:36Speaker 9: I just kept on doing it. Then the followers just
- 9:37Speaker 9: kept on building up from that.
- 9:39Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a quick follow up on that because
- 9:41Speaker 4: when I'm listening to vezz on thes like I made
- 9:42Speaker 4: that first million dollars or I signed my contract. Being
- 9:46Speaker 4: on social media, what was the moment was it like
- 9:49Speaker 4: I saw somebody post me like, because at this point,
- 9:51Speaker 4: I feel like you might be running Snoop Dogg's page.
- 9:54Speaker 9: No, Snoop Dogg, he's just a genuine person, and he
- 9:58Speaker 9: taught me that how to beat genuine Like he just
- 10:00Speaker 9: always showed me that love since twenty fifteen. But yeah,
- 10:04Speaker 9: it was Snoop Dogg. It really took my career to
- 10:05Speaker 9: the next level for sure. Definitely. Like he found me
- 10:08Speaker 9: in twenty fifteen, came out to the East side of
- 10:10Speaker 9: Detroit and ever since then he's been rocking with me.
- 10:13Speaker 5: Yeah, Fezo, let me ask you this.
- 10:15Speaker 6: As far as you talked about it's more beneficial to
- 10:17Speaker 6: be an independent artist, but what are some things that
- 10:20Speaker 6: people don't really think about when they think that, you know,
- 10:22Speaker 6: they're going to independent. I know, you gotta promote your
- 10:24Speaker 6: music yourself. You gotta, you gotta put a lot of
- 10:26Speaker 6: money into you gotta invest in it. So what are
- 10:28Speaker 6: some things that people might not be considering on the
- 10:30Speaker 6: independent side.
- 10:32Speaker 10: I mean, the most important part is what you said.
- 10:35Speaker 10: You have to spend that money. You gotta, you really
- 10:37Speaker 10: genuinely gotta invest in yourself, you know what I mean.
- 10:39Speaker 10: If you spend a little bit, you gonna that's what
- 10:41Speaker 10: you're gonna get out of it. If you spend way more,
- 10:44Speaker 10: you spend a lot of money, you don't get a
- 10:45Speaker 10: lot out of it. But it's more than just dumping
- 10:47Speaker 10: a bunch of money in there. You gotta put the
- 10:49Speaker 10: work ethic behind it. And you can't spend money frivously,
- 10:52Speaker 10: you know what I mean. You gotta you gotta make
- 10:54Speaker 10: sure everything adding up making sense. I really thought that
- 10:57Speaker 10: it was gonna be a huge difference signing to a major,
- 11:00Speaker 10: but honestly, bro, it wasn't, you know what I mean?
- 11:03Speaker 3: Like everything a major do is huge.
- 11:06Speaker 10: They do it big, you know, they go in all
- 11:09Speaker 10: the way, But that only come after the artists put
- 11:12Speaker 10: that first part of they grind in, put that initial
- 11:14Speaker 10: grind in.
- 11:15Speaker 3: And I feel like at that point, once.
- 11:17Speaker 10: You do the legwork to where you got a brand
- 11:19Speaker 10: and you got a name, and you making a couple
- 11:21Speaker 10: of dollars, it really don't make sense to go to
- 11:24Speaker 10: a major. Certain artists, yes, it makes sense, Like for me,
- 11:27Speaker 10: I think like R and B artists or rock artists
- 11:30Speaker 10: and pop artists, it makes sense for them to be
- 11:32Speaker 10: with majures. But people that's in my type of genre,
- 11:35Speaker 10: the music I make, it's really no difference, you know
- 11:38Speaker 10: what I mean. It's the same amount of work. However,
- 11:40Speaker 10: you just coming out of your own pocket. But when
- 11:43Speaker 10: you make the money back, you're seeing way more than
- 11:45Speaker 10: what you would have made back if you wasn't invest
- 11:47Speaker 10: in your own cheese.
- 11:48Speaker 6: So, like, what's the most beneficial way to spend money?
- 11:51Speaker 6: Like is it to pay DJs? Is it to like
- 11:55Speaker 6: how is it a feature? Is it a producer?
- 11:57Speaker 5: Like?
- 11:57Speaker 6: What do you think the most beneficiator for art artists
- 12:00Speaker 6: to spend their money.
- 12:01Speaker 3: Without a doubt, it's marketing, period, you know.
- 12:04Speaker 10: I think you need to get a team around you,
- 12:06Speaker 10: and you got to pay the folks you got around
- 12:08Speaker 10: you. You know, you get you a big strong team around you,
- 12:11Speaker 10: and everybody work. Everybody attack what they good at, you know,
- 12:15Speaker 10: and go with whatever they attribute is. And you dump
- 12:19Speaker 10: the money into the people around you and let them
- 12:22Speaker 10: do the work, you know, all while you're doing the
- 12:23Speaker 10: work as well. But for Shure, it's marketing promotion, you know,
- 12:27Speaker 10: That's the main thing.
- 12:30Speaker 3: I'm talking.
- 12:31Speaker 4: Let's talk about creating the skit, right, because I watched
- 12:35Speaker 4: them the voiceovers.
- 12:37Speaker 3: It takes time. Man.
- 12:38Speaker 4: Let's talk about the amount of work that goes into
- 12:41Speaker 4: you creating, right.
- 12:42Speaker 8: Is it something that you're doing every day?
- 12:43Speaker 4: Is it something that you're sitting down you're writing it,
- 12:46Speaker 4: or you're working with writers?
- 12:47Speaker 8: How what is that process like for you?
- 12:49Speaker 9: To be honest, I've never written a skit like I
- 12:52Speaker 9: really just cut the camera on.
- 12:53Speaker 3: I just go.
- 12:54Speaker 9: But like I'm getting ready to be on the road
- 12:56Speaker 9: for a while, and I know I'm getting ready to
- 12:57Speaker 9: go on tour.
- 12:58Speaker 3: Something I feel fat.
- 12:59Speaker 9: Attend for twenty skits that I can just put up
- 13:02Speaker 9: while I'm on the road. Okay, I ain't putting nothing
- 13:04Speaker 9: up in five or six days. I know the people
- 13:06Speaker 9: want to see something. I just put that out. But
- 13:08Speaker 9: the process that go into it is really just me
- 13:10Speaker 9: cutting on the camera. I mean, the voiceovers is probably
- 13:12Speaker 9: the hardest work. It's probably like it's probably awkward because
- 13:15Speaker 9: a lot of the videos be silent and then they'd
- 13:18Speaker 9: be like, what are you doing? But then I gotta
- 13:19Speaker 9: put the voiceover on, So it's kind of it's like
- 13:21Speaker 9: an awkward humor. But once I put a voiceover on,
- 13:23Speaker 9: it be come in life, you've become a full director.
- 13:26Speaker 4: When you look at some of these kits, you said something,
- 13:28Speaker 4: I want that to go over people's heads, you said,
- 13:31Speaker 4: when I'm going on tour.
- 13:32Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't take that lightly.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Like we've watched comedians, We've watched people do sketches on
- 13:37Speaker 4: social media, and they can't transition to the next thing
- 13:40Speaker 4: because being on front and on stage in front of
- 13:43Speaker 4: a crowd, it's totally different than being in your base
- 13:46Speaker 4: and making a skit. Absolutely ablutely talk about that, man,
- 13:49Speaker 4: because that's an incredible feat.
- 13:51Speaker 3: No Ah, Yeah, the stand up thing is totally different.
- 13:53Speaker 9: When I first started doing stand up in twenty fifteen,
- 13:56Speaker 9: I thought just because I was famous that I I
- 13:58Speaker 9: could do stand up. But man, I tell you could
- 14:00Speaker 9: have heard. You could have heard? Could I cuss from here? Okay?
- 14:04Speaker 3: Cool?
- 14:05Speaker 8: It's one to know what the word?
- 14:06Speaker 3: All right? Cool?
- 14:06Speaker 9: But when I first started doing standard, you could have
- 14:08Speaker 9: heard two mites halving six. It was so silent in there.
- 14:12Speaker 9: And then I started to go back to the comedy club,
- 14:14Speaker 9: I was like, Nah, really want to be funny for real.
- 14:15Speaker 9: I ain't just want to be social media funny. But
- 14:17Speaker 9: now that I'm eight years in will stand up. It
- 14:19Speaker 9: took me eight years just to get my stand up
- 14:20Speaker 9: where it is now. You know what I'm saying. But
- 14:22Speaker 9: it's definitely it's definitely a hard process that stage because
- 14:25Speaker 9: like with the skits, I can go back and reshoot that.
- 14:27Speaker 9: On the stage, it's like right now, you gotta be
- 14:28Speaker 9: funny right now, Like people standing right now, you gotta
- 14:31Speaker 9: be funny right now or they not coming back.
- 14:33Speaker 3: To see you. So yeah, that's the difference.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Sovezo, let me ask you this as far as a
- 14:38Speaker 6: label owner, what was your process in starting a label
- 14:41Speaker 6: and what's some of the challenges as opposed An artist
- 14:45Speaker 6: is one thing, but managing people and signing artists is
- 14:48Speaker 6: a whole different thing.
- 14:49Speaker 5: So what's that look like for you being a label owner?
- 14:53Speaker 10: Managing people is that's the hardest part of owning the
- 14:56Speaker 10: record label, you know what I mean, trying to It's
- 14:59Speaker 10: hard to get other artists and other people to kind
- 15:02Speaker 10: of not say, not to say, think own the level
- 15:05Speaker 10: that you own, but just to think, you know more
- 15:08Speaker 10: more I don't know, just the it's hard getting people
- 15:12Speaker 10: to just be on the same page.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Bro.
- 15:13Speaker 10: You know, you gotta worry about accounting for what people
- 15:17Speaker 10: do when you're not around them. You get what I'm saying,
- 15:20Speaker 10: Like I'm worried about my artists getting in trouble, what
- 15:22Speaker 10: they got going on in the streets and all that
- 15:24Speaker 10: type of shit.
- 15:25Speaker 3: That's the hardest thing to that shit, Bro.
- 15:27Speaker 10: It's just dealing with dealing with artists, you know what
- 15:30Speaker 10: I mean, Like worrying about everything that everything they got
- 15:32Speaker 10: going on pretty much become your problem. But as a boss,
- 15:35Speaker 10: you gotta be prepared for that, you know what I mean.
- 15:37Speaker 10: You got to be prepared to help guide people throughout
- 15:40Speaker 10: their everyday problems and their everyday life, because that shit
- 15:44Speaker 10: always fall off into the business side of that shit,
- 15:47Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying.
- 15:48Speaker 8: You said that, and this is for both of you.
- 15:50Speaker 4: You said that Detroit has a sense of hustle and
- 15:53Speaker 4: there's a sense of entrepreneurship here. So I'm wondering, outside
- 15:57Speaker 4: of the music and outside of the entertainment space, what
- 16:01Speaker 4: are the entrepreneurial journeys that you're looking at?
- 16:03Speaker 8: Is invested in real estate?
- 16:04Speaker 4: Like what are some of the things that y'all have
- 16:06Speaker 4: looked at over the past five years since the sension
- 16:09Speaker 4: of your careers.
- 16:10Speaker 9: It's definitely a real estate And I think real estate
- 16:14Speaker 9: is really like the biggest former income outside of what
- 16:18Speaker 9: I already do, you know what I mean, Because like
- 16:19Speaker 9: I always tell my manager, like, I ain't gonna be
- 16:21Speaker 9: pretty forever. I'm gonna have to need something to fall
- 16:22Speaker 9: back home, you know what I mean. This ain't gonna
- 16:24Speaker 9: last forever. So when this is over, I want to
- 16:26Speaker 9: have some of the you know what I mean, fall
- 16:28Speaker 9: back home.
- 16:29Speaker 10: Yeah, for me, I folk with the real estate, But
- 16:32Speaker 10: my second biggest stream income outside of music is movies.
- 16:36Speaker 10: I produced movies and I act in them as well.
- 16:40Speaker 10: Me and my wife just opened up a juice bar too,
- 16:42Speaker 10: called Fresh and Press Amazing. So that's a good market
- 16:45Speaker 10: to be in And the reason why I want to
- 16:48Speaker 10: invest in that because it's something that she really likes.
- 16:51Speaker 10: She really loved it. It wasn't just the money grab. It's
- 16:53Speaker 10: something that's generally in her heart. She really got the
- 16:55Speaker 10: insight and knowledge about that. And I think that's important
- 16:58Speaker 10: when you investing in businesses. You don't want to just
- 17:01Speaker 10: do shit just to do it. You want to be
- 17:03Speaker 10: able to do something that you're gonna be interested in that.
- 17:06Speaker 10: You got to drive there to actually grow that business.
- 17:08Speaker 10: Because if it ain't no if it ain't no drive
- 17:11Speaker 10: there for that business or whatever it is, then to me,
- 17:14Speaker 10: I feel like it wouldn't work.
- 17:15Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
- 17:17Speaker 6: We met your wife yesterday and we tasted the product.
- 17:20Speaker 6: The juices is amazing. What's that process as far as
- 17:25Speaker 6: working with your spouse or working That's something that a
- 17:28Speaker 6: lot of times people were like, stay away from that, like,
- 17:30Speaker 6: don't mix a relationship in business. You obviously have done that,
- 17:35Speaker 6: So what's your thought processing.
- 17:36Speaker 10: That I just stay out her way. Man, I let
- 17:40Speaker 10: her do what she gotta do. I believe in her,
- 17:42Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying. I trust her decisions, I
- 17:45Speaker 10: trust her judging her pins, everything that she got going on.
- 17:48Speaker 3: I fully believe in her.
- 17:49Speaker 10: It's not just the business that she chose to invest in.
- 17:52Speaker 10: I'm investing in her as a human being.
- 17:55Speaker 3: You know.
- 17:55Speaker 10: So whatever she got going on, I know it's gonna
- 17:58Speaker 10: work because she trusted me as well. Know.
- 18:00Speaker 9: Yeah, it's that trust. It's that trust word that what
- 18:03Speaker 9: got me was the word trust. I got to build
- 18:06Speaker 9: that trust up too. I like that, that word trust.
- 18:07Speaker 9: I like that.
- 18:08Speaker 5: So how you buying reality in Detroit?
- 18:10Speaker 3: Yeah? Right now?
- 18:11Speaker 9: Being my other team, we folksing on buying a comedy club.
- 18:13Speaker 9: We're trying to open up a comedy club. And d
- 18:15Speaker 9: I mean, like you say, you gotta be something that
- 18:16Speaker 9: your heart is truly invested in. And you know, I
- 18:18Speaker 9: do comedy, so obviously I always be in the comedy club.
- 18:21Speaker 9: And I know I'm put one hundred tempercent in it,
- 18:23Speaker 9: so definitely.
- 18:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:24Speaker 4: So when you got the comedy club vest, you got
- 18:26Speaker 4: the label. When you're looking for the next set of
- 18:30Speaker 4: talent or the next oct what are the things that
- 18:33Speaker 4: you're looking for in the comedian, in the artists, to say, like,
- 18:36Speaker 4: that's somebody special, that's somebody we need to invest in
- 18:39Speaker 4: them and watch their future blossom.
- 18:42Speaker 10: I'm looking for dedication, you know what I'm saying. That
- 18:44Speaker 10: hustle or that ambition and that drive, that's the That's
- 18:48Speaker 10: what I look for.
- 18:49Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely, like somebody who just don't matter what's going on,
- 18:52Speaker 9: or if you at two million follows or three million follows,
- 18:55Speaker 9: you still got that same grind before anybody even knew
- 18:57Speaker 9: your name. Like I still got that same grind before
- 19:00Speaker 9: anybody knew me. As how they was, Like you can
- 19:02Speaker 9: ask anybody that know me. Some days I wake up
- 19:04Speaker 9: and I be losing my mind. I got to put
- 19:06Speaker 9: all content, even though I know I'm big already. Some
- 19:09Speaker 9: that don't even sitting in my mind. I'd be like,
- 19:11Speaker 9: I need to put our content.
- 19:12Speaker 3: I'm trying to.
- 19:12Speaker 9: I gotta. I got somewhere else I want to be,
- 19:14Speaker 9: you know what I mean. It ain't never been about
- 19:16Speaker 9: who I was today. I got I gotta put this
- 19:18Speaker 9: time in for who I want to be in the future.
- 19:19Speaker 9: You're not trying to be in that basement anymore. No,
- 19:21Speaker 9: I can't go back to that. Back them bake some
- 19:23Speaker 9: days is over.
- 19:24Speaker 10: Hey, I really watched Broke come up and real like
- 19:27Speaker 10: real like when him and Snoop Man when he said
- 19:29Speaker 10: they was on eight miles with him that day.
- 19:31Speaker 3: No, if I watched bro I watched him come up.
- 19:34Speaker 10: He had the same mindset, the same dry, the same
- 19:37Speaker 10: plan mostly poorly. He was the same person. So that's
- 19:40Speaker 10: why bro still turt. That's why he's successful because he
- 19:43Speaker 10: stayed humble.
- 19:44Speaker 4: So this is it. This is interesting. Right, So you've
- 19:47Speaker 4: watched his journey. I wonder have you is it the
- 19:51Speaker 4: same team around? Because a lot of times, as we
- 19:53Speaker 4: are saying, right, there might be new people that come
- 19:56Speaker 4: into it that can add to it. There might be
- 19:58Speaker 4: people that are not no longer part of it. What
- 20:01Speaker 4: was your What was the team like when you started?
- 20:03Speaker 4: Are they still around?
- 20:04Speaker 11: Like?
- 20:04Speaker 8: How do y'all manage that?
- 20:05Speaker 3: Yeah? The team still? For me?
- 20:06Speaker 9: The team still around a lot of people, You know
- 20:08Speaker 9: what I'm saying, a lot of people you gotta you
- 20:09Speaker 9: gotta let go because a lot of times people get
- 20:11Speaker 9: money hunger. A lot of times people try to snake
- 20:13Speaker 9: you out, you know what I mean. But the people
- 20:14Speaker 9: who's loyal to me. They still here today, but a
- 20:16Speaker 9: lot of people have come and win too.
- 20:18Speaker 10: At the same time, my manager right there, she's been
- 20:22Speaker 10: my manager since I started rapping. That they're still here.
- 20:25Speaker 10: But like BRO say, like, you know, well, you don't
- 20:28Speaker 10: never owe anybody nothing. That's what y'all always got to remember.
- 20:32Speaker 10: As soon as y'all get some paper, You're not obligated
- 20:35Speaker 10: to stay with nobody. If that relationship don't make sense,
- 20:38Speaker 10: if that business don't make sense, then get rid of it.
- 20:41Speaker 10: You will fall with them. If you feel like you
- 20:43Speaker 10: owe anybody anything. You gotta think for yourself. You gotta
- 20:46Speaker 10: think for your future. You gotta think for your family
- 20:48Speaker 10: and your kids and all them. You know what I mean,
- 20:51Speaker 10: Because a lot of times with me, I've seen me
- 20:53Speaker 10: having a couple of dollars. It ain't really change me.
- 20:56Speaker 10: It really changed the people that was around me, you
- 20:59Speaker 10: know what I'm saying. So I had to get rid
- 21:00Speaker 10: of a lot of motherfuckers, that's true.
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- 21:08Speaker 6: yesterday and to us it was like the comeback city,
- 21:11Speaker 6: And I was like, what do you mean to come back?
- 21:13Speaker 5: I ain't really understand it and.
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- 26:38Speaker 6: Today it was saying, like, you know, it had a
- 26:40Speaker 6: lot of adversity, people counted it out, but now it's
- 26:42Speaker 6: on the rise again.
- 26:43Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:44Speaker 6: So what's your thoughts on the current state of Detroit
- 26:48Speaker 6: and where do you see the city going?
- 26:50Speaker 3: For me?
- 26:51Speaker 9: I think the city coming back, Like even with our downtown,
- 26:53Speaker 9: you see the downtown on fire.
- 26:54Speaker 3: The Detroit Lions. I know we're finna do this year.
- 26:57Speaker 9: Our football team is back, you know what I mean,
- 26:59Speaker 9: even with the game, like the rap game, the Detroit
- 27:01Speaker 9: rap scene is on top right now. Like me watching Vezzo, Psh,
- 27:06Speaker 9: baby Face, all them rap for fat at ten years
- 27:08Speaker 9: and they finally getting.
- 27:09Speaker 3: They just do.
- 27:09Speaker 9: Man, that's powerful, you know what I'm saying, Like, the
- 27:11Speaker 9: Detroit rap scene is finally getting.
- 27:13Speaker 3: They just do.
- 27:13Speaker 9: Any state I go to, I hear Venzol, I hear Pezy,
- 27:16Speaker 9: I hear baby Face, I hear all them really on top.
- 27:18Speaker 9: So that's for me, that's what I feel. I feel
- 27:20Speaker 9: like that's what's bringing Detroit back right now. What's your thoughts, bro,
- 27:23Speaker 9: I feel the same way. I think Detroit turt right now.
- 27:26Speaker 9: You know, I think we're on a good path. We
- 27:28Speaker 9: just gotta stick to it, you know what I mean.
- 27:30Speaker 9: We got a lot.
- 27:30Speaker 10: It's always room to grow for any city, any business,
- 27:34Speaker 10: it's always rolling to grow. But for the most part,
- 27:36Speaker 10: we're doing what we're supposed to do and it's only
- 27:38Speaker 10: gonna get bigger, you know what I'm saying.
- 27:39Speaker 3: We came a long way, bro, a real long way.
- 27:42Speaker 3: This is true.
- 27:43Speaker 4: I wonder when y'all, y'all watch the rap scene, right
- 27:46Speaker 4: when you talk about all these artists said PZ babies
- 27:48Speaker 4: face even showing it, and well, y'all watching other cities saying, look,
- 27:53Speaker 4: they didn't do it right, they didn't work together. This
- 27:55Speaker 4: is what we can do to make sure that we
- 27:57Speaker 4: represent our city and make sure that the world can
- 27:59Speaker 4: recognize us as a city. Like are y'all working together
- 28:02Speaker 4: on that level of thought?
- 28:04Speaker 10: We for sure was thinking like that. Me Peas and Ray.
- 28:07Speaker 10: We used to be a rap group called Team. He said,
- 28:09Speaker 10: you heard about that. Yes, yeah, we was a rap group.
- 28:12Speaker 10: We wrapped together for some years and we set out
- 28:15Speaker 10: a plan and everything that we're doing now, we talked
- 28:18Speaker 10: about it, we wrote it down, you know what I mean.
- 28:20Speaker 3: We had meetings about it. We made it. We made
- 28:22Speaker 3: it happen.
- 28:22Speaker 10: I always look for what the person before me had
- 28:27Speaker 10: done wrong, so I can not do the same thing
- 28:30Speaker 10: that they did, you know what I mean. So I
- 28:31Speaker 10: think it's important that you look at what somebody else
- 28:35Speaker 10: ain't doing right so you don't make the same mistake.
- 28:39Speaker 6: Make some noise for ha ha Davids and icewear vessels
- 28:42Speaker 6: and gentlemen.
- 28:44Speaker 5: We appreciate these guys.
- 28:45Speaker 6: Man, all right, we're not done yet, so we're gonna
- 28:48Speaker 6: bring up the honorable Hill Harper. I'm very excited about
- 28:52Speaker 6: this conversation. Every time we talked to Hill, it's a
- 28:54Speaker 6: bunch of gyms and a lot of information. Obviously he
- 28:57Speaker 6: has a lot going on right now. Detroit Native. Yes,
- 29:02Speaker 6: somebody that you know has done a lot for the city,
- 29:04Speaker 6: means a lot and has a lot of knowledge from
- 29:07Speaker 6: crypto to everything.
- 29:09Speaker 8: Really, I means Harvard educated. Before we bring Hill up,
- 29:12Speaker 8: I just want to give a shout out.
- 29:14Speaker 4: Yesterday we had the opportunity to sit down and talk
- 29:17Speaker 4: to about a hundred alumni of Allies Future Mogul Plory.
- 29:22Speaker 4: Are they here, our future mogus? Are they right here?
- 29:25Speaker 4: So I want to shout out to them. They did
- 29:27Speaker 4: a collaboration. This is the fifth anniversary of the Future Moguls,
- 29:30Speaker 4: So shout out to y'all. We spoke to y'all about
- 29:32Speaker 4: networking and making sure that y'all come together. So the
- 29:34Speaker 4: fact that y'all here is important. Clap it up from
- 29:36Speaker 4: there one more time, shout out the ally. I think
- 29:41Speaker 4: they've raised over seven hundred thousands for scholarships for these
- 29:43Speaker 4: young adults. So again, shout out to y'all for being here.
- 29:45Speaker 4: I see a bunch of HBCUs represented.
- 29:50Speaker 8: No, I didn't plan. I didn't plan that. Shout out
- 29:53Speaker 8: to y'all.
- 29:54Speaker 4: All right, let's bring up none other than He'll Harper.
- 29:57Speaker 4: My brother comes to the stage.
- 30:00Speaker 11: I feel I just wanna tell a quick story. Everybody,
- 30:03Speaker 11: years years ago. I was in Los Angeles at the time.
- 30:12Speaker 11: I don't know how we got connected, but we went
- 30:16Speaker 11: to lunch. Yes, we went to lunch. You remember where
- 30:20Speaker 11: we went to lunch.
- 30:21Speaker 8: We were in Beverly Hills, bell Air, bell Air Air.
- 30:24Speaker 11: We were in bel Air. We went to lunch at
- 30:27Speaker 11: the bel Air Hotel.
- 30:28Speaker 3: Yes, and you.
- 30:29Speaker 11: Remember what we ate, oysters and lobster salads. And his
- 30:35Speaker 11: brother said, this is real, real talk. He said, man,
- 30:37Speaker 11: this is the first time I had a lobster salad.
- 30:40Speaker 12: But you all are doing so very Hollywood.
- 30:42Speaker 11: Listen, give it up for these two because they have
- 30:46Speaker 11: built literally.
- 30:50Speaker 12: A multi, multi multimillion.
- 30:52Speaker 11: Dollar empire that has created jobs, It's created opportunity, It's
- 30:58Speaker 11: created multiple opportunities for people all the way down on
- 31:02Speaker 11: multiple levels. And that's exactly what entrepreneurship is. That's exactly
- 31:07Speaker 11: what happens when we support our own and we amplify
- 31:11Speaker 11: people to allow them to create jobs all the way
- 31:13Speaker 11: down the food chain.
- 31:15Speaker 12: And so I just give it up to you brothers
- 31:16Speaker 12: for what you do, Okay.
- 31:17Speaker 6: Really appreciate appreciate it, appreciate it. So let's get into this.
- 31:20Speaker 6: I want to start with crypto. Shall we just start?
- 31:24Speaker 6: So we were talking upstairs XRP, any XRP enthusiasts in.
- 31:30Speaker 12: The building, Okay, okay, So they had.
- 31:32Speaker 6: An interesting ruling with the SEC and that is interesting
- 31:35Speaker 6: how that's going to affect the landscape of cryptocurrency. I
- 31:38Speaker 6: know you're you're a crypto enthusiast, So what's your thoughts
- 31:42Speaker 6: on the current state of crypto and specifically how the
- 31:44Speaker 6: XRP ruling could you know, translate to the whole entire space.
- 31:48Speaker 11: But we're coming out of a crypto winner and uh.
- 31:52Speaker 11: And the XRP ruling is very interesting because, just to
- 31:54Speaker 11: break it down real quick, people who may not know,
- 31:58Speaker 11: the SEC was trying to have XRP, the commodity, that is,
- 32:04Speaker 11: the token the asset considered a security and therefore would
- 32:10Speaker 11: fall under securities law and therefore be illegal for them
- 32:13Speaker 11: without the proper licenses, et cetera to trade that asset,
- 32:18Speaker 11: but the judge rule that instead of it being considered,
- 32:22Speaker 11: and now the ruling's not final and we're really talking
- 32:24Speaker 11: about what may happen in the future, But the potential
- 32:27Speaker 11: is that asset the judge set is not necessarily a security, but.
- 32:33Speaker 12: A commodity like an orange. So if you have a.
- 32:38Speaker 11: Grove of orange trees you grow oranges, you don't need
- 32:41Speaker 11: a license from the SEC to sell those oranges.
- 32:45Speaker 12: It's a commodity.
- 32:47Speaker 11: And so the sense this asset was created, the question
- 32:51Speaker 11: is it a security like a stock or is it
- 32:55Speaker 11: a commodity like an orange? And if it ends up
- 32:58Speaker 11: being ruled to be a commodity, then the floodgates literally
- 33:05Speaker 11: will open extremely wide because it will allow a great
- 33:10Speaker 11: deal of assets to flow into the space because it
- 33:14Speaker 11: won't be now. Other people argue that the more regulation
- 33:17Speaker 11: in the space is better because it's kind of like
- 33:19Speaker 11: the wild wild West, and therefore you need regulation, and
- 33:23Speaker 11: both parties are correct in a way.
- 33:25Speaker 12: But what's interesting about it to me is.
- 33:29Speaker 11: Folks who are holding XRP thought that it was definitely
- 33:33Speaker 11: going to go the security route, but it's indicating that
- 33:37Speaker 11: it may go the commodity route, which changes people's minds.
- 33:40Speaker 11: So you've seen the price, for instance, of XRP jump
- 33:43Speaker 11: radically recently, but it's not even traded on Coinbase. Coinbase
- 33:48Speaker 11: halted the trading of XRP because it was under sanctioned
- 33:51Speaker 11: by the SEC. Now, if Coinbase starts trading XRP and
- 33:56Speaker 11: opens it back up, because a lot of people have
- 33:58Speaker 11: a ton of XRP on but it's locked up because
- 34:01Speaker 11: you can't even trade it on the on the platform.
- 34:03Speaker 11: If Coinbase opens XRP back up, get ready because it'll
- 34:09Speaker 11: start moving and it'll move fast.
- 34:11Speaker 12: But we'll have to see what happened.
- 34:12Speaker 4: Yeah, and everybody talks about the crypto. I'm not sure
- 34:15Speaker 4: what to do with it. But we were looking at
- 34:18Speaker 4: this building behind us, and we said, there's hundreds of
- 34:20Speaker 4: buildings that looked just like this. And if we're talking
- 34:23Speaker 4: about this is a comeback city, how do we all
- 34:25Speaker 4: take part in this? Can you talk about how crypto
- 34:28Speaker 4: can play a role inside of that token economy and
- 34:31Speaker 4: how we can own things together?
- 34:33Speaker 11: Yes, but but let me let me talk about the
- 34:36Speaker 11: city first.
- 34:37Speaker 12: Yes, so I chose Michigan. I'm not from Michigan. Right.
- 34:40Speaker 12: I came here and I was born in Iowa.
- 34:43Speaker 11: I came here in twenty eleven, twelve thirteen, when there
- 34:45Speaker 11: used to be a media tax credit here. I did
- 34:47Speaker 11: a couple of films. They weren't that good. I'm not
- 34:50Speaker 11: gonna tell you which they were. But I fell in
- 34:54Speaker 11: love with the people. This is the greatest people in
- 34:57Speaker 11: the world here. It's a commination.
- 35:00Speaker 12: It is. And I said to myself then I didn't
- 35:03Speaker 12: have a child.
- 35:04Speaker 11: Then I said to myself, when I have kids, I'd
- 35:06Speaker 11: rather have them grow up black people here than people
- 35:09Speaker 11: in Hollywood. And the reason why you will not meet
- 35:11Speaker 11: a black person in Detroit does not have a good
- 35:14Speaker 11: sense of themselves. It doesn't exist. Now some of them
- 35:16Speaker 11: don't have good sense. But those are two different things.
- 35:20Speaker 11: But when we think about this city and the greatness
- 35:24Speaker 11: of the city and the legacy of this city, it's
- 35:27Speaker 11: about ownership. And I want to be careful about what
- 35:34Speaker 11: I say. But in many ways we may have gotten
- 35:36Speaker 11: somewhat away from that. But tokenization can bring us back
- 35:40Speaker 11: to that. And so to answer your question, if we
- 35:42Speaker 11: tokenize that building behind us, it opens up the access
- 35:46Speaker 11: for actual ownership in a smaller fractal share way when
- 35:51Speaker 11: maybe one of us or two of us don't have
- 35:53Speaker 11: the down payment, and we know how they readline, they
- 35:56Speaker 11: know how less than one percent of major bank.
- 35:59Speaker 12: Lending go to our community.
- 36:01Speaker 11: So even the idea that you're going to get a
- 36:03Speaker 11: loan for that building may not even happen. But if
- 36:06Speaker 11: we're able to tokenize that building, and I could go
- 36:09Speaker 11: to you and you and you and you and you
- 36:11Speaker 11: and say how many tokens are that you want? Oh,
- 36:13Speaker 11: you can do ten, you do twenty, you do forty,
- 36:16Speaker 11: you do ten, you do two, you do five, you
- 36:19Speaker 11: do seven. All of a sudden, we collectively own that structure,
- 36:23Speaker 11: and we don't let other outside forces like what happened
- 36:28Speaker 11: in Harlem. As an example, developers came in beautiful brownstones,
- 36:32Speaker 11: they bought them, they boarded them up. They did not
- 36:35Speaker 11: create affordable housing. They boarded them up. They choked the community.
- 36:38Speaker 11: Community services start closing cleaners, clothes, grocery stores closed, food
- 36:42Speaker 11: deserts are created. Nobody wants to live there, everybody leaves,
- 36:46Speaker 11: it's vacated. Then on masks they come back and develop it,
- 36:48Speaker 11: but they don't sell.
- 36:49Speaker 12: It back to us.
- 36:51Speaker 11: Right, so we can disrupt that type of activity because
- 36:56Speaker 11: you look at that building, most of the windows are
- 36:58Speaker 11: boarded up. Someone's choking out that building because they could
- 37:02Speaker 11: be redeveloping and creating affordable housing, but they're not. They're
- 37:04Speaker 11: trying to choke it out and then bring other people in.
- 37:08Speaker 11: We can disrupt that through tokenization by getting into and
- 37:11Speaker 11: access to the asset at a lower individual cost. But
- 37:14Speaker 11: the only way that works is if we do it collectively,
- 37:16Speaker 11: which we haven't been taught to do in our community.
- 37:18Speaker 11: We've been taught to compete with each other, but not
- 37:20Speaker 11: work collectively.
- 37:23Speaker 5: Yes, for sure.
- 37:24Speaker 6: So let's talk about artificial intelligence, and a lot of
- 37:30Speaker 6: people are scared of it, say it's a major threat,
- 37:33Speaker 6: especially to our community. It's going to take they said,
- 37:35Speaker 6: over three hundred and sixty million jobs worldwide over the
- 37:39Speaker 6: next ten years. And you know, this is the motor
- 37:41Speaker 6: city and people think of Detroit and they think of
- 37:44Speaker 6: hard labor. But you actually provided a different insight when
- 37:47Speaker 6: we were upstairs about Detroit It's history of innovation. Can
- 37:52Speaker 6: you just kind of explain what you said to us.
- 37:55Speaker 6: That's very insightful what you said.
- 37:58Speaker 11: So Detroit in this area was was the most innovative
- 38:03Speaker 11: place in the world. It was the Silicon Valley back
- 38:06Speaker 11: in the day. And to me, you know, I was
- 38:09Speaker 11: fortunate enough to buy the Fisher mansion, which is right
- 38:11Speaker 11: up the street.
- 38:12Speaker 12: I mean, that's the Fisher building.
- 38:13Speaker 11: You can see it if we didn't have this screen
- 38:14Speaker 11: right here, you know, building with the green top. The
- 38:18Speaker 11: Fisher family was the richest family in America because of innovation.
- 38:22Speaker 11: Henry Ford goes to Charlest Fisher and says, hey, man,
- 38:26Speaker 11: because remember Ford used to not be a car company,
- 38:29Speaker 11: it was a motor company.
- 38:30Speaker 12: It's called the Ford Motor Company.
- 38:32Speaker 11: Henry Ford made a motor, an engine, and he goes
- 38:35Speaker 11: to Fisher that they made carriages for horses, and he says, man,
- 38:40Speaker 11: I need a horseless carriage.
- 38:42Speaker 12: And Fisher's like, you need a horseless.
- 38:44Speaker 11: Carriage, Yeah, I'm building a motor so we won't need
- 38:47Speaker 11: horses to pull the thing. And that's why the term
- 38:49Speaker 11: horsepower came because Fisher says, well, we build the size
- 38:53Speaker 11: of the carriage based on how many horses pull it,
- 38:56Speaker 11: So how many horse power do you need it to
- 38:58Speaker 11: be built? And so ultimately the Fishers built the chassis
- 39:04Speaker 11: for Chrysler, Dodge, GM, Ford, etc. Built amazing wealth built
- 39:10Speaker 11: that amazing building. Why y'all brothers here going to the lobby.
- 39:13Speaker 11: It's one of most beautiful lobies you ever see. But
- 39:16Speaker 11: the point is it was a city of innovation, new thinking,
- 39:19Speaker 11: and to me, it's the mobility city of the world.
- 39:22Speaker 11: And if we use AI and AI mobility to push
- 39:25Speaker 11: harder and deeper into that type of technology, this city
- 39:30Speaker 11: can become the mobility capital of the world. Autonomous vehicles,
- 39:36Speaker 11: young independent entrepreneurs that are developing technology now. To me,
- 39:40Speaker 11: the scary part is though, that if we're not actually
- 39:42Speaker 11: writing the code, if we're not part of the code
- 39:45Speaker 11: of AI, then the AI ultimately, as it's generative and
- 39:49Speaker 11: it's improving upon itself, it starts to.
- 39:51Speaker 12: Write us out of the future of it.
- 39:53Speaker 11: So that's why I need any of y'all that are
- 39:56Speaker 11: young coders, that are young entrepreneurs. You have to start
- 40:00Speaker 11: your company now because we're at the nason part of AI.
- 40:04Speaker 11: And if you don't start your company now and get
- 40:07Speaker 11: into the generative cycle, that as you're coding in or
- 40:10Speaker 11: typing in prompts for AI and you're not in your
- 40:13Speaker 11: companies not popping up on it, the AI is not
- 40:17Speaker 11: going to be generative.
- 40:18Speaker 12: For your company.
- 40:19Speaker 11: It's just like a new version of a Google search,
- 40:21Speaker 11: and you're not at the top of the search. We
- 40:23Speaker 11: need our companies and our entrepreneurs to be part of
- 40:26Speaker 11: the generative process. And since it's in it's Nason phase,
- 40:31Speaker 11: launch your company now, don't wait, do not wait. We
- 40:35Speaker 11: need you in it and this city can be I
- 40:38Speaker 11: believe the AI mobility capital of the world. Autonomous vehicles everywhere,
- 40:42Speaker 11: built by us for us, and we're part of that.
- 40:48Speaker 3: Hill.
- 40:48Speaker 4: I wonder you know you have an in depth history
- 40:52Speaker 4: of the city. For the young people out here who
- 40:55Speaker 4: are looking to invest, maybe in real estate, what are
- 40:58Speaker 4: the areas because I know there's some historic areas not
- 41:01Speaker 4: too far from here. What are the areas that they
- 41:03Speaker 4: should be looking at to say, all right, this is
- 41:05Speaker 4: an opportunity before everybody comes out to invest in it.
- 41:08Speaker 4: We can now invest and make sure that we're at
- 41:10Speaker 4: the forefront of this.
- 41:11Speaker 11: So my grandmama used to say, I can show you
- 41:13Speaker 11: better and I can tell you. So I'm just gonna
- 41:14Speaker 11: be honest.
- 41:15Speaker 12: So I bought a.
- 41:16Speaker 11: Building y'all know you know, you know in eight Mile
- 41:21Speaker 11: they shoot up that building with the cow's head on top.
- 41:23Speaker 11: On Mac there's like a little ice cream shop on
- 41:26Speaker 11: Mac with a cow's head.
- 41:27Speaker 12: I bought that building. Don't go mess it.
- 41:28Speaker 3: Up, y'all.
- 41:30Speaker 11: But so I think that whole area around Mac and
- 41:34Speaker 11: Drexel and that Chrysler plant that's over there, moving towards
- 41:37Speaker 11: gross Point is a great opportunity because remember how many
- 41:42Speaker 11: cars are going down Mac gross Point and back, and
- 41:45Speaker 11: there's not a lot going on there. Right there's a
- 41:48Speaker 11: package liquor store right there near Mac and Drexel. There's
- 41:52Speaker 11: a couple other things, but not a lot happening. I
- 41:55Speaker 11: believe that corridor is prime for getting a you know,
- 42:00Speaker 11: any type of it could be residential. I'm a big
- 42:03Speaker 11: believer in commercial real estate. Although downtown commercial real estate
- 42:07Speaker 11: is suffering, but that doesn't mean community based commercial.
- 42:10Speaker 12: Real estate can't thrive.
- 42:13Speaker 11: And if there's anybody there out there that's an ice
- 42:15Speaker 11: cream entrepreneur, this is real talk. And you have a
- 42:19Speaker 11: little bit money to invest in infrastructure, I'll partner with
- 42:24Speaker 11: you on that Cow said because it's historically an ice
- 42:27Speaker 11: cream shop, and I'd like it to be an ice
- 42:30Speaker 11: cream shop. And the little kids in that neighborhood deserve
- 42:32Speaker 11: ice cream. They ain't got no ice cream. They got
- 42:35Speaker 11: plexiglass liquor stores and they can buy Fago and Werners
- 42:38Speaker 11: and maybe some funians with snap money. We got to
- 42:41Speaker 11: do better, y'all, and that it starts with bringing things
- 42:44Speaker 11: like ice cream and fresh produce and things like that
- 42:47Speaker 11: in the community. So I'm serious. If somebody wants to
- 42:50Speaker 11: open up an ice cream shop, I'm mac, particularly if
- 42:53Speaker 11: you know how to do really nice flavors, because I
- 42:57Speaker 11: don't know how to do that.
- 42:58Speaker 12: Let's talk.
- 42:59Speaker 8: Let's talk, got one right here, all right.
- 43:02Speaker 6: So my last question is wish your vision. You say
- 43:08Speaker 6: you fell in love with the city of Detroit in
- 43:10Speaker 6: the state of Michigan. Where do you see this city
- 43:13Speaker 6: in the state going over the next decade.
- 43:16Speaker 11: I just want people and more people to choose Michigan
- 43:19Speaker 11: like I did. I mean, we're forty ninth out of
- 43:21Speaker 11: fifty in growth and I don't I don't understand. I
- 43:25Speaker 11: don't understand why so much talent leaves you graduate. Most
- 43:29Speaker 11: of the top graduates from Grand Valley State, from Michigan State,
- 43:33Speaker 11: from University of Michigan keep on going Western Michigan, Oakland University.
- 43:38Speaker 12: They leave, They go to Atlanta.
- 43:41Speaker 11: They go to Chicago, they go to Austin, Texas, they.
- 43:44Speaker 12: Go to la.
- 43:47Speaker 11: We got to keep our talent here. We can't be
- 43:50Speaker 11: like Lebron taking the talent to South Beach. These guys
- 43:53Speaker 11: are so fancy they hanging out with Lebron. Now I
- 43:56Speaker 11: see my man somewhere. He got the Lebron's on right there.
- 43:58Speaker 11: I see you right there talking to somebody. Though I
- 44:02Speaker 11: just shouted out to your Lebrons.
- 44:03Speaker 12: They're nice. They're nice. I see you and.
- 44:05Speaker 11: So so we have to create more people choosing Michigan
- 44:10Speaker 11: and bringing their talents here. And let's be clear, this
- 44:13Speaker 11: state is poised more than any other state in the
- 44:16Speaker 11: country for climate change. Twenty one percent of the fresh
- 44:22Speaker 11: surface water supply in the world touches Michigan shores twenty
- 44:26Speaker 11: one percent. There's more water here, there's more clean water,
- 44:31Speaker 11: there's more opportunity here, there's more intelligence here, there's more
- 44:35Speaker 11: hustle here than any state in the country. Yet we
- 44:39Speaker 11: are getting smaller and it doesn't make sense. We all
- 44:42Speaker 11: have to be ambassadors for this place because I want
- 44:44Speaker 11: people to come here. I don't want us to keep
- 44:47Speaker 11: losing the congressional district. I don't want us to keep
- 44:49Speaker 11: fighting over funding for different things that we deserve. And
- 44:53Speaker 11: so I believe that you're gonna see Michigan really start
- 44:55Speaker 11: to grow like you're gonna see Detroit start to grow
- 44:58Speaker 11: like Austin, Texas has, because we're gonna be creating businesses
- 45:01Speaker 11: that attract talent. And I think it's gonna happen. But
- 45:03Speaker 11: it only happens, like I said, if we collaborate. Doctor
- 45:06Speaker 11: King said it well way back then. We are all
- 45:09Speaker 11: tied together in a single garment of mutual destiny. My
- 45:12Speaker 11: destiny is in a strictly linked with yours. And that's
- 45:14Speaker 11: why since you all are doing well, you give me
- 45:16Speaker 11: permission to do well. And if we do well, you
- 45:19Speaker 11: give me permission, and on and on and to the
- 45:21Speaker 11: extent we either tear each other down or build each
- 45:23Speaker 11: other up.
- 45:24Speaker 12: I believe we build each other up. I mean, it's beautiful.
- 45:28Speaker 8: You know who else is here, who's that earn your leisure?
- 45:32Speaker 4: And we're gonna keep coming back because we understand the
- 45:34Speaker 4: importance of being in cities like Detroit, the beauty of
- 45:37Speaker 4: Detroit right, and the future for Detroit. So thank y'all
- 45:41Speaker 4: for coming, thank you for inviting us here. Has been
- 45:43Speaker 4: in a crazy, amazing time and he'll. I know we
- 45:47Speaker 4: don't like to take too much of your time, So again,
- 45:49Speaker 4: thank you for coming to be a part of this
- 45:51Speaker 4: earn your master's panel.
- 45:54Speaker 8: And that's it for your time, man.
- 45:56Speaker 12: I appreciate it. Thank y'all, y'ad bless you.
- 45:58Speaker 3: Thank you.
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