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Episode 286 "Customer Service In ATL" · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 3: All right, y'all today on the show, we got a
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  Speaker 4: Guys.
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  Speaker 6: But first off, we're going to start him off with
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  Speaker 6: a little headline highlights right here on the balla Blair show.
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  Speaker 3: Keith Lee.
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  Speaker 6: He came to Atlanta and gave some interesting reviews on.
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  Speaker 5: He came at the perfect time around Halloween time, because
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  Speaker 5: he was scaring the ship out of all these restaurant owners.
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  Speaker 6: I think they wasn't expecting it either, because you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they started circulating online.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know about other cities, but Atlanta is
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  Speaker 2: a one of a kind because he started getting death threats.
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  Speaker 2: He was, Yes, it was on the local news that
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  Speaker 2: his family started receiving death threats, like, dude, are black
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  Speaker 2: owned businesses you try to put people out of work?
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  Speaker 2: But no, he didn't put anybody. I watched, I watched TikTok.
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  Speaker 5: He always make it very clear he's not on to
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  Speaker 5: bash anybody.
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  Speaker 2: He's not trying to tell you. He said, this is
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  Speaker 2: my experience.
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  Speaker 3: And he wants everybody to be trud fairly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but you know, Atlanta gonna overhype everything like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, yeah, this place, like I believe candy bursts.
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  Speaker 7: I really just want to say I do appreciate Keith
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  Speaker 7: Lee for stopping by our restaurant and trying to show
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  Speaker 7: us love. It is very unfortunate that we couldn't serve
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  Speaker 7: him and his family. We have we would have loved to, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: but he's right. We don't take to go orders on
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  Speaker 7: the weekends, and the simple reason is because we do
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  Speaker 7: love and appreciate the people who come and support our
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  Speaker 7: restaurant on the weekends. We get a lot of community
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  Speaker 7: support people in our city that show up for us,
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  Speaker 7: as well as.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of people from out of town.
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  Speaker 7: So with that being said, we don't want to overwhelm
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  Speaker 7: our kitchen by having to, you know, have such long
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  Speaker 7: times for the people who are actually at the restaurant,
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  Speaker 7: plus having to do to go orders because obviously that
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  Speaker 7: would make the long the wait times even longer.
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  Speaker 2: But hers response wasn't negative. No, it was good, it's cool,
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  Speaker 2: it was cool. Yeah. I just felt like yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: his family did start getting something.
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  Speaker 3: But they got a response that milk and Honey initially did.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like that response.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this Keith Lee video about the real
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  Speaker 1: looking honey and who is this Keith Lee?
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  Speaker 8: You don't know Keith Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that gave me very much.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I'm rich, I'm successful, and I don't know who
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  Speaker 5: the heck this little social media guy is. I don't
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  Speaker 5: like what, you know, because it's like people are get
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  Speaker 5: any success off of these restaurants and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 5: and it's like, man, one thing that we can't do. Man,
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  Speaker 5: we can't get to a certain point where we feel like, yo,
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  Speaker 5: I got money, So I have to be little people that.
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  Speaker 2: Just act like you know, cause it's kindescending.
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  Speaker 6: But honestly, everybody didn't know who Keith Lee was. Like,
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  Speaker 6: I really didn't know because I'm not like a super
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  Speaker 6: TikTok watcher like that. But I did my research and
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, okay, cool. But still the evens, the same.
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  Speaker 2: Treatment is the same, And I wonder what city is
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  Speaker 2: he gonna go to next? Man? Wherever he going to next?
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  Speaker 3: Threatening to stop the tour now because of the death threat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been getting I'm telling y'all, he's been getting
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  Speaker 2: death threats.
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  Speaker 6: So I want to know this guys. What is you
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  Speaker 6: guys experience with Atlanta restaurants?
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  Speaker 2: It depends, you know. For me, I'm a guy who
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  Speaker 2: likes to dress very very sports casual, so I can
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  Speaker 2: wear a Nike tech suit or something dressed up. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, I hate dressing up, so I would rather
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  Speaker 2: wear I always like to wear a hat. I can
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  Speaker 2: have a fresh haircut and I still wear a hat.
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  Speaker 2: So I just like wearing a hat. So I you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I get treated weird when I walk into an
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  Speaker 2: establishment and I have a hat on back. Lobster bar, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: lobster bar chops those places where you have to dress
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  Speaker 2: nice or you know, really have some type of a
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  Speaker 2: lower a lower business casual attire, no hats, you know,
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  Speaker 2: nice shoes and stuff like that, no cut off shirts
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. Me I could wear a hoodie
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  Speaker 2: every day, so me, I always get treated based off
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  Speaker 2: of what I wear. So if I wear something nice,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be completely fine. But if I wear a hat
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  Speaker 2: backwards and I walk into a restaurant, oh, they're talking
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  Speaker 2: to me like I ain't nobody.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because a lot of athletes get turned away, you know,
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  Speaker 6: in these Atlanta establishments if they go to, like you said,
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  Speaker 6: a nice restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know that's the only time. But I
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  Speaker 2: have definitely received some pretty bad service in some places.
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  Speaker 2: And it does make me feel sad because when you
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  Speaker 2: try to support local business, and I like to tip
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  Speaker 2: really big, like I literally would tip almost as the
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  Speaker 2: same amount as the bill if the service is great.
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  Speaker 2: If the service is not great, now, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to tip you anything, you know, but I just hate
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  Speaker 2: when the service isn't good because I'm a great tipper
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  Speaker 2: because I know that the waitresses and waiters they don't
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  Speaker 2: make any money for real, they make money off tips.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm a great tipper. I just wish that they
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  Speaker 2: would know that, so you know, we can get the service.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't like to say that because I want
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  Speaker 2: to see how they really treat it everybody.
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  Speaker 8: That's just me.
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  Speaker 5: My experience with with the restaurants in Atlanta has been terrible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I enjoy Keith Lee coming to the city and terrorizing
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  Speaker 5: everybody because you know, uh, sometimes you know, things need
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  Speaker 5: to be you know, shook up a little bit. And
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people make fun of me because I
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  Speaker 5: go to the same places, like the places that I
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  Speaker 5: like to go to. I normally go to establishment to
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  Speaker 5: where I know the manager who runs the restaurant or
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  Speaker 5: I know the owner. I know somebody there that is
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  Speaker 5: gonna take care of me, is gonna cater to me,
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  Speaker 5: because a lot of these restaurants you go to, you
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  Speaker 5: get terrible service. People act like they don't want to
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  Speaker 5: be at work. I prime example, I just went to
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  Speaker 5: an establishment. Not gonna say I went there. I called
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  Speaker 5: the phone to order the food because I don't like
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  Speaker 5: going I don't like going to restaurants and sitting down,
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  Speaker 5: So I called to order the food to go.
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  Speaker 2: Phone.
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  Speaker 5: Phone don't work. Phone out of service, phone out of service.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like every restaurant in Atlanta does not work. Anyways,
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  Speaker 5: I said, okay, I'm gonna just drive up there. You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's like two o'clock, a little bit out the lunch out,
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  Speaker 5: so it should be slow. I go in there, walk
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  Speaker 5: to the bar, sit at the bar for fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that.
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  Speaker 5: Fifteen minutes. Nobody greeted me. Nobody said hey, how you doing, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: welcome in. I sat there for fifteen minutes, watch a
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  Speaker 5: lady make some tea for one of the customers. After
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  Speaker 5: she makes the tea, she's just sitting there texting on
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  Speaker 5: her phone. Then she said, hey, are you placing an order?
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  Speaker 5: I said I would like to place the order, and
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  Speaker 5: she was like, okay, I'll be right with you. I'm like, damn,
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  Speaker 5: I can't get no water. I can't get no nothing.
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  Speaker 5: So you know what I did. I wait another five
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  Speaker 5: minutes and walk right out of there. And I said,
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  Speaker 5: this is a prime example. Well, I do not like
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  Speaker 5: going to restaurants in Atlanta because when any time I
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  Speaker 5: go to Miami, I go to LA I go to
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  Speaker 5: New York getting the best customer service, these restaurants in
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  Speaker 5: Atlanta are trash.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, is that a black place? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, I've had podcast. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If I've never had mediocre service. I've either had great
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  Speaker 2: service or yes, I've never had Oh this service was good.
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  Speaker 2: It's always either great, like one time for Lafonda Man.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I walk in, they give me the
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  Speaker 2: menu and water. Where's the fond the Finders on Howld
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  Speaker 2: Mill Road, a little Mexican restaurant. As soon as I
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  Speaker 2: sit down, the chips bowl kso waters.
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  Speaker 5: Seems like you know what, I realized, I've never had
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  Speaker 5: a bad experience at it as somewhere expensive. I agree
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  Speaker 5: anytime i've That's why if I do go somewhere, then
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  Speaker 5: I'm not familiar with it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anybody.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna make it expensive because I know I know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm gonna get. You know what I'm saying. I
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  Speaker 5: know I'm gonna sit down. It's gonna be boom boom.
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  Speaker 5: I can eat and go home. It's not like, man,
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  Speaker 5: this person didn't even speak to me, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean. And you're working off customer service, and it's
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  Speaker 5: like you go to some establishments you just know you
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  Speaker 5: walk in like.
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  Speaker 2: This is a rap. This's gonna be bad. Understood, this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be bad.
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  Speaker 5: I could just look at the waitress face and if
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  Speaker 5: they look like they in a terrible mood, I said,
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  Speaker 5: this is gonna be bad.
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  Speaker 6: I think a lot of times, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 6: dealing with these local places, you got a lot of
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  Speaker 6: people family who work in there, you know, and they
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  Speaker 6: kind of probably feel like, you know, it's whatever versus
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  Speaker 6: if you go into like a chain restaurant like a
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  Speaker 6: long Horn or you know that these establishments where the
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  Speaker 6: customer service could be iffy too, but they're not really
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  Speaker 6: they don't have no ties to the owner or anything
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  Speaker 6: like that, so they're legit working for a check. Like
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  Speaker 6: you know, when you walk into these local places. You're
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  Speaker 6: not getting anything comped. It's like, look, you're gonna get
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  Speaker 6: what you get. You walk into like a long horn,
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  Speaker 6: have a bad experience. They comping your meal.
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  Speaker 5: They they gonna make sure you're good. The manager gonna
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  Speaker 5: come out of the blue, out of nowhere and be like, hell, I.
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  Speaker 3: Take care of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I would say if anything from the gentleman
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  Speaker 2: that came to the market, Keith Lee, it's the conversation now,
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully I would we could see some better customer
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  Speaker 2: service from all the rest, because you never know. That's
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  Speaker 2: that's always my thing when I have bad customer service
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  Speaker 2: at a restaurant, I just say this, Hey, you never
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  Speaker 2: know who someone is that's coming in here to eat.
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  Speaker 2: You never know who they can And that's what I
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  Speaker 2: don't like, Ley is a you never know who this
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  Speaker 2: person could be in your establishment.
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  Speaker 5: Because that's what that's what I was thinking. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't like this whole narrative. If it's like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if somebody know they got a celebrity or
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  Speaker 5: somebody coming in, why do they get treat better than
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  Speaker 5: somebody that may eat here four times a month?
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  Speaker 2: You know? This this celebrity.
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  Speaker 5: They probably gonna come here twice a year, or you know,
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  Speaker 5: next time, they might send their assistant or somebody grab
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  Speaker 5: them some food. And Cardi b even she he said
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  Speaker 5: something about it as well as like, Yo, I've had
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  Speaker 5: to call.
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  Speaker 2: And literally say Yo, this food is Drop.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to name Drop to get good customer services.
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  Speaker 2: And that's bad. That's bad.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, and it's crazy in Atlanta too. You got
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  Speaker 6: random hours they open, they close. You know, it's crazy
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  Speaker 6: to them on that.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the food don't even be worth it. Man, It's
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  Speaker 2: like yeah, because then yeah, then the order be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even get we didn't even touch that. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, the order could be completely wrong. You get
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  Speaker 2: that ship and you be like, oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Man, they got they got it, they got it. This
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  Speaker 5: is a real problem, like they.
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  Speaker 2: For the city. Though, this is a good wake up
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  Speaker 2: call or at least some type of attention for I
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  Speaker 2: believe some people, in my heart, I believe some people
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  Speaker 2: will say, you know what, we gotta do better.
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  Speaker 6: Guys know we do this especially and I know y'all
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  Speaker 6: don't want to make it about black or white restaurants,
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  Speaker 6: but a lot of these black establishments, you know you're
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  Speaker 6: gonna get charged out the gate from the parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: To the damn you know, food, especially downtown downtown restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: You have to pay for parking anything downtown. If it's
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  Speaker 2: a nice restaurant, you have to pay the park somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Man even get to the restaurant. But I do like the.
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  Speaker 5: Places that have valets, and their valet is a complimentary Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so I forgot. I went to a place that was
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  Speaker 5: like close to the airport and I've never been there before,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm assuming that it was black owned because it
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  Speaker 5: was a lot of black people working there.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you just.
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  Speaker 5: Never know, right, But I got amazing customer service I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about from the valets, from walking in, from being greeted,
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  Speaker 5: from sitting down, And it's like when you go to
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  Speaker 5: places like that, that's why I'm like, I'm gonna tip
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  Speaker 5: this person really well because you never know. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I never try to judge a place just on my
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  Speaker 5: first initial visit, like if it's a bad experience, I
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  Speaker 5: try to go back again to see the experience again.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, that place, I was like, man, that's
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  Speaker 5: how you should be treated everywhere.
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  Speaker 8: You go.
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  Speaker 6: I had to go look up the restaurant because I
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  Speaker 6: just had this. I went, I got invited out to
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  Speaker 6: a church. This not this past Sunday, but the Sunday before.
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  Speaker 6: It was in Tucker, Georgia, and the place was called
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  Speaker 6: Catch Kitchen. When I say terrible service, tear red bow
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  Speaker 6: and I hate to say, it's a black on place.
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  Speaker 6: And it was just terrible, Like you know, we sat
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  Speaker 6: down the baby we had, you know, my friend baby
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  Speaker 6: never got hurt. It never got his drink, you know,
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  Speaker 6: to the to the end, and the waiters still charged
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  Speaker 6: for the drink. My friend never got her right food.
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  Speaker 6: Her husband's food was terrible. Had to ask for the manager.
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  Speaker 6: The manager taking twenty days to come over. We saw
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  Speaker 6: her over there having a conversation with the guy just
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  Speaker 6: I guess trying to prepare, you know. Came back was like,
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  Speaker 6: well he didn't try. He thought y'all wanted the drink
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  Speaker 6: to go. Damn, that was the first thing we ordered.
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  Speaker 3: Why would we wanted to go? Like what, didn't even
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  Speaker 3: apologize for the for the waiters behavior.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't care.
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  Speaker 6: Gosha was terrible and I'm just like you and they
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  Speaker 6: just I guess they just open, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just like it's it's still it was terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Customer service should be at the highest of the high priority,
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  Speaker 2: and any business customer service should be it.
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  Speaker 5: But customer service, I want to even go even further
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  Speaker 5: into saying customer service in Atlanta is not even just
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  Speaker 5: the food the restaurants, it's the clubs too.
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  Speaker 2: That is that's what, That's what.
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  Speaker 5: But that's what I'm saying. It's like, the customer service
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  Speaker 5: in Atlanta is terrible. It's I mean, even going to
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  Speaker 5: a club to try to get into the club makes
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  Speaker 5: you feel like you're like you're trying to go into
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  Speaker 5: like a penitentiary or somewhere to even get in. By
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  Speaker 5: the way these security guards treat people, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: go the bottle girls walking around with rolexes on. They
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  Speaker 5: think it ain't even got to serve the bottom the
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  Speaker 5: club service.
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  Speaker 2: Like you have the top tier clubs that are ran well,
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  Speaker 2: then you have of your lower tier clubs where you know,
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  Speaker 2: the customer service. Uh well, I don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: lower hole in the wall clubs. It could be a
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  Speaker 2: club that's not as big as the other clubs were.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as you can just literally walk in a
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  Speaker 2: section and have a section, and now a waitress or
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  Speaker 2: waiter will have to come serve you. Majority of the
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  Speaker 2: waitresses are majority of the servers are all women anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I actually don't have never seen a male waitress a
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  Speaker 2: male waiter in the club. They're all girls. Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: So now the service, like how long does your how
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  Speaker 2: long does it take for them to bring your bottles out?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 2: Are they unite? Are they friendly? You know? Because some
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  Speaker 2: of them, you make it seem like I will, I
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  Speaker 2: know you, and I know you gotta tip me well,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just a whole thing, like it's.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of tipping real quick.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Don't you hate it when like the gratuities already included
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: and then the people just act like an asshole?
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I don't like when the gratuities included and then
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: you want me to tip more, and then you don't
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: get mad if I don't tip additionally, like I see
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the gratuity like I like, so now you already calculated
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: for me. That's right. Cool. But if you have a server,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: if you have a bad.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Service and already included is what I'm saying.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Well, if the cortuities already included and I have a
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: bad server. I'm gonna I'm gonna say something to somebody.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna complain. I've usually I've never really had
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: an issue with that. I've had an issue where it's
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: expected to me to do an additional tip. And that's
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: the problem I have, especially if the service was just subpart.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: If the service was astronomically great, I may give you
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: cash as an additional tip. I don't know. But like
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I said, I'm a good tipper because I know waiters
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: and waitresses don't make any money. I get it. No,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you think they don't make any money, Well, I know
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: that they don't make money. On slow nights they make zero.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: And it's a lot more slow nights than big nights,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: depending on who you work for and what club. You
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So it just depends. But yeah,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I don't you know. You know what I don't like.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: I really don't like the fact that I feel like,
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: you know, in the city, you know, in Atlanta, I
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: feel like it's going towards more like you gotta be
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: somebody or know somebody to get great customer service. I
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: felt because anytime I've ever been places where like somebody
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: don't know me or don't recognize me, always get bad service.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: It's like the weirdest shit ever.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Like I was in the club one time and I
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: had ordered something and the girl was just acting like nonchalant,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: like she don't even work in the club, and you
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: know she's she's a bottle girl. And once she found
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: out who who I was, the service changed. Why does
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: a service change? Why does a service change when they
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: find out who you are? I don't understand.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I never understood.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: That was Keith Lee's point.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: He was like his family got told an hour and
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: a half way time, and then he came in five minutes.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: We'll get you.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that that has that has a stop, and
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: that's that could be anywhere too. But it sucks. And
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of glad Keith Lee is highlighting things like
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: this because we can now see hopefully a change.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Hopefully. Man, that's what it is. Customer service this episode
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: before we.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: This episode definitely needs to be customer customer service.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That's episode for show.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Before we get to our interview with LVR Injustice, y'all
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: want to hit him off with a little bit of
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: a players ball.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: It is time for the players Ballou James Harden is
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: now officially a Los Angeles Clipper. He has been traded
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: him and from Philly. I can't believe seventy six ers
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: now they play for the Los Angeles Clippers. They're not
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: going to do good. I'm telling you. Kawhi Leonard does
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: not last a whole season. He always gets Paul George
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't either. Paul George. I'm a real big Paul George fan.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: He's dope.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook, he's dope to me. I just think he's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: been having a bad.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: So because you're not a Kawhi Leonard fan. You saying
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: that Leonard, but you're saying those guys are.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Gonna Kawhi Leonard always gets hurt bro and he did
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: a love guy too. He does not play an entire NBA.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I thought he's supposed to be a cyboard Apparently not
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: so James Harden. He's not going to be the Houston
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: James Harden guys. For people who think that you're here,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: they're just getting a brand name. That's all they're getting.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Ye I do. I would hope to see something dope,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: but I don't know. They were already a contender before
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: he got over there. Kawhi Leonard just caught hurt.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: You know, you know, you know what I've been saying online,
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: everybody saying this team just looks good on paper, we
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: already know what it is because first of all, how
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: is Russell and James Harden?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Well, they really close. Who's but I'm saying, who's gonna
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: come off the bench? No, not neither one of them.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: So you're telling me James, it's going to be Russell
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Westbrook at point, James Harden at the two, Paul George
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: at the three, Kawhi Leonard at the four, and then
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: the center guy, whoever the center guy. So you're saying, PJ. Tug,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you don't think he's gonna start. Oh, he's not starting.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: He's coming out of the bench. He's definitely not starting. Man.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: I just don't think these teams would all these I
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: think I think the Denver Nuggets showed us that these
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: superstar teams with all these big megas stars that are
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: definitely not playing beating them. Yeah, I feel like I
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: feel like that doesn't matter anymore. And they just lost
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: to Lebron who's in his twenty first season. He dropped
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: thirty five points, twelve rebounds, seven sists.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Against the Clippers. James Harden didn't play, but yeah, I don't.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I don't think James Harden is gonna make a big difference.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And I was a huge James Harden fan when he
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: was playing in Houston because I never seen somebody. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: never seen one player play against five people. James Harden
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: would just do an ISO every play. He would doo anymore.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: That's a rap. It's literally well, I haven't seen him
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: do that in a long time since he's been hoston
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: so us do.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: You think do you think I know, I know we
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: probably gonna get some slack about this, But do you
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: think that that the seventy six ers are like cursed?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: They had Jimmy since that they haven't won the championship
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: since Doctor Jay in the eighties, so that they.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Have, but think about all the superstars they've had. They
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: had Jimmy Butler, James Harden, Yeah, who else is they have?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Bed still there? And then Ben Simmons was just a
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I forgot about Ben Simmons even played for them, and
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: he and you know, he's playing good in Brooklyn right now.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: He hitting shots and all. Yeah, but I mean they
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: still not gonna do nothing. I'm upset for the Philly
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: fan base. However, the only thing that's cool about Philly
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: they're not tripping on the basketball team because the Eagles
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: are good. They're seven and one. They played the Dallas
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Cowboys all this weekend. Cowboys are five and three. The
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Eagles are seven and one. They only lost one game. Man,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: you know you know who? I wonder.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I wonder where Aaron Donald is gonna go because they
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: saying the La rams Is and Talks have traded him.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I wonder where Derrick Henry is going. Uh, that's one
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: of my favorite players on Madden with the stiff.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: So I said, man if he goes to Alvin Cook too,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: because he's he's frustrated with the Jets and because they
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: haven't been using them. He was with Minnesota. Now the Raiders.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know Adams not. Oh yeah, Devanta Adams. Yeah
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: he's upset. Yeah, they gotta get wasted. Did you see
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: the play when he was Jimmy Garoppolo over threw him.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And then also shout out to the Texas Rangers they
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: won the World Series. Shout out Texas one time for them,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: big big, big deal.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Everybody said, anybody but the Houston Astroids that's yeah, that's
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: best up.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: People tired of them winning. I would say, you know,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: they were very cocky. The team got baseball team is
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: just very arrogant. So yeah, and this is the first
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: in the Texas Rangers history of the franchise, the oh
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Wild Series.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Ye.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they about to make a lot the arias on
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks, who I don't even understood how they got there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: But I don't know too much about baseball. I don't
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: follow it that much. I just know my nephew plays
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: for the Washington Commanders. I mean the Cleveland Guardians. Dan
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: look at me to my football. The Cleveland Guardians. Tristan
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: mckensie is my blood nephew.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: He and baseball your picture making that money.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Birthday's coming up.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Well, anyway, this was such a pleasant players ball friendly.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: We did.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: We didn't argue.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: I didn't really argue about what's going on in sports
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: other than you know, I mean we kind of agree
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: with the same thing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I agreed on everything.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Usually, yeah, usually this is real agree. This is this
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: is really rare.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: We usually I think Denver is going back to the finals,
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and I also think it's going to be Denver Nuggets,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: and it's gonna be the Milwaukee Bucks.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Another thing that we can agree on is Justice from
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: LVRN is here on the Barlar Alerts Show.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Will be right back here about to be dropping them gems.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back y'all.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: We will be right back with more of the Baller
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Alert Show. You're listening to a specialist Bawler Alert Show.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: You know what's going on is Justice, Justice Worre's cool
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: Pants here. I want you to do me a favorite.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: Checkout this episode on ball Alert YouTube right now because
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: there's a lot there's a lot of gems, very insightful,
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: and we have a lot of fun.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Justice lv the building. Yes, what's up, sir?
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: I go by name of Justice aka Justice Worst cool Pants,
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: aka the Black Bobby Brown, even though Bobby Brown is
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: already black aka Brown with Dreds. I sent Peter Griffin.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: But I mean, just like all jokes aside. I started
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: a company with my friends in two thousand and thirteen, fourteen.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: We started a company named lv R in Love Renaissance.
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: We started as a management company, grew into a record label.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Now we're a record label management production you know, fully independent.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: You know we I don't know they say we're valued
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: over like one hundred million dollars. But it's cool. You know,
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: life Lex Life Lex. Just you know, you just told
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: me to introduce myself.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, as you should.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Now this is the ball Alert show.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: Now, how did you guys come up with the idea
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: to start this LVRN together?
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: To be honest, it wasn't an idea. It was kind
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: of like a passion, right. It was just like I
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: always loved music. Music. The culture of music drove me
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: to be who I am today, right Like music saved
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: my life, to be honest, you know what I'm saying,
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Like hearing Kanye West for the first time, like just
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: made me believe in myself as a human. So you know,
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: all these different things are I feel like nurtured me
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: and pushed me into trying to understand because there's no
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: blueprint to get into music, right, no, like, oh go
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: apply here. I remember I used to apply a depth
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: jam for internships. Like that's you're never getting that right, Like,
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: you know, but I realized that, okay, cool, Like you
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: have to show your value. So I started when I
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: was leaving high school. You know, I just started managing artists.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: I didn't really know what that meant. But you know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: all that being said, it kind of just continued to happen,
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: as like the growth happened. It wasn't really an idea, right,
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: who's the earlier artist that? I mean? You want the
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: ones that met that I might know you could tell
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: the ones that made it, okay. I mean the first
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: few artists that we started with that actually like kind
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: of got through the door was an artist named Rory.
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: He's from Atlanta. Actually, there was an artist named Q
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: who had the Ogi Bobby Johnson song. You know what
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: I'm saying. Like those are like the first few that like, okay,
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: like what's going on? And then you know, we started
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: to develop and kind of like hone in on our
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: niche a little bit more and you know, kind of
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: just define what it is that we're good at, you
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: know what I'm saying.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: But so, who was the first artist that took off
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: for you guys?
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Draw was the first one technically, dra Yeah, okay, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: almost the first one technically because Cha Cha was kind
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: of big, but like when Broccoli hit, that was a
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: whole different, you know, perspective. And then I want to say,
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: after that, we kind of pivoted into having like starting
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: our record label, and the first artist on the record
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: label that worked was Black. You know when we dropped
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: his first song problems.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Y'all struggle with the who or how? First of all,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about Drama briefly real quick, like
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: how who found Drama? Like how did that happen?
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: Dram was my partner Tunday, you know what I'm saying.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: He he was on a blog called Pictures and Planes.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: Blogs were important at the time, and he saw this
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: EP that Drama had put out. He just had d
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: M him like, YO, like what are you doing. He's like,
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: I'm in Virginia. It's like cool, I'm gonna pull up
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: to and they put up the next day and Drum's like, yeah,
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: the fact that you flew into see Virginia. He didn't
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: have anything going on, YO, Like you would you guys
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: manage me? And that's kind of how it started.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Now who found Black?
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: For me? The beautiful thing about life is relationships. It's
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: one thing I learned very early, like you're only as
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: good as your relationships, and your relationships are gonna determine
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: if you're going to sustain or not. And all the
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: great things that have happened for me in life, it's
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: through friends. Like when something great has come, it's been
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: through a friend. And Black, you know, obviously he's talented,
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: but he was signed a flow rider, you know initially,
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: like I never knew that. Yeah, he was like spending
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: a lot of time in Miami or whatever. But you
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: know he had friends that were, you know, in the
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: city that we all knew, like you know, Trizzy Diamond,
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: they they you know, they did parties and like you're like, yo,
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: like our friend Black, you know, like he needs some help,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: like can you figure it out? He sent the music.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: I heard his tone and I'm just like, you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: a tone like this is just one of those rare ones. So,
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: you know, we met him and you know it was instant.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: It clicked, and we already knew what we had to do.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: But we spent the whole year just developing before we
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: put any music out. We spent the whole year develop.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which labels don't do that anymore.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: So, so after that year was done, when we put
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: out the first record, it worked so real quick.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Just to go back, did you did you want to
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: do music at first?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Were you like into rap? Were you a singer?
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: Every good executive is a failed artist at one point
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: in time to try to wrap, try to do something.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: But like again, it's just about knowing what you're good at.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: Your passion doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: the one that's on the mic. So you used to try,
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: So you used to wrap.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: You know, like I think everybody used to want to.
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: Like I think I found some I found some some
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: videos on Facebook. You know what I'm saying. You try
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: and rap and ship, but like can I curse you? Yeah? Yeah,
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: but like yeah, but I realized immediately I was like, yo,
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: I hate this, like my I hate the way my voice.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Sounds, but you want to be a part of it
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: in some way.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, It's like my passion doesn't have to stop there, right,
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: So I think again, just like thinking, thinking back to
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: my eight year old self, my twelve year old self, Like, ya,
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: who are the people that I love? Like, you know,
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: I loved Russell, I loved Puffy, I loved you know, JD.
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: Like I loved all these people and like, oh, these
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: are entrepreneurs, like you know, and they make it look cool,
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: right because I also I also like the idea of
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: like making sure that things look fun and that's kind
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: of how I pivoted.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Was that the same case for your partner?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Who?
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: Well we have well how many of you guys is
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: for right? Four founders as four founders and we just
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: we just added a new partner, Amber, Amber Amber. But
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: what was your question?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Sorry?
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Was that the same case?
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Like, were you guys kind of like trying to do
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: your own thing and then you guys came together.
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, we we all went to the same
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: college when Georgia State, and everybody was kind of just
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: doing your own thing, and I think it was just
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: a mutual respect. But me, for me, like to be honest,
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: like it was kind of like a mastermind plan that
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: I had because I just knew that it took a village.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: So like, you know, as I kind of started getting
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: rolling into it, I was like, Okay, cool, I need
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: the right partners to help create you know, like what
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: it is that I saw. But I just also like,
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: I'm very lucky, right the idea of like you know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: starting a company with your friends and having the same
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: vision is very hard to do and realize that it's
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: a fucking blessing, right, to be honest, So I'm very lucky,
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: But also you know, I was very intentional too.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: You know, so you had the idea for LVRN initially, right,
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: did you come up with the name or did you
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: get with you your friends and then.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: They came in?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I did came up with the name. Yeah yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: I mean, I mean it was a concept that I
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: started my college dorm room.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: So how did you pick who you wanted to be
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: a part of this?
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: I mean, my partners? It was just organic. Again. It
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: was just kind of one of those things where I
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: just spent my time building relationships with people. Like I'm
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: just people person, right, and like I'm genuine about my approach,
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: you know, like I don't think we're all perfect. But
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: like I met Carlin, you know what I'm saying who
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: he did flyers for selfish NT was like a promo team,
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying on on campus and I'm like, yo,
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: you do flyers? Like I need somebody's you know that
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: can do artwork that's creative, And he was like, okay, cool.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: We just spent time and as we spend time, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: got I learned to I learned to know him deeper. Right,
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: I'm like, oh, you're actually talent to from from beyond
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: just doing flyers, So like, would you just come, you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: help me? And he did, saying with you know, Sean
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: saying with tune the It was just like I have
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: a I have a gift of getting people to believe
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: in my ideas, and I think it just kind of
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: happened that way, just organically.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Question, Yeah, was there any intent by saying Okay, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: wanted to work for said record label, but I couldn't
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: get the opportunity.
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: So I made an opportunity myself. I wanted to work
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: for death Jam really bad. I remember to the point
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: to where like I was lying to artists that I
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: wanted to like them, give me a chance to management. Like, yo,
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: you know I used to work for Depth Jam. I
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: used an intern for Depth Jam. I used to say
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: he used an intern for Depth Jam. I never did,
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: but like you know what I'm saying. But like again,
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: you know, like I said, Russell was like a huge
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: you know, you know, staple in terms of people that
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: I looked at, and like he obviously created that Jam.
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: I just thought it was such an iconic label. So yeah,
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: I mean I just yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: I mean, so you guys start LVRN. You got your partners.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: You know, what was the plan? How did you guys?
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: You know, what was the plan? To make money?
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: Again, It's never been about the money for me, to
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: be honest, And I think for I can say that
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: for all my partners, for me, because I believe that
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: being great at what you do money it's just a
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: byproduct of excellence.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: So I just spent majority of my time just really
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: spending and doing the education and trying to understand why
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: certain artists work, why certain artists don't, Why do I
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: love certain artists? What are the common denominators? And really
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: just strengthening my skill there, right, And everybody, I guess
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: was strengthening their skill at whatever it is that they did.
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: And the time in the line that we found the
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: right artists and we just poured all of our you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: energy and resource in at ten thousand hours into the
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: into these artists. And that's the difference, right, Like nobody
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: had any money. I mean, we had some sacrifices like
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: I had to sell my car to shoot the music video.
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: You know, Carling had to sell all his you know shoes.
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: Sean had to borrow some money from like a weird
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: NFL player that he knew. I don't know. It's a
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: lot of weird shit, but you know, just had to
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: do what we had to do, right, Like there is
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: no magical you know, there's a drug and I think
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: you know what's what's interesting too. I think that that's
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: what makes our company really unique and our story really unique,
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: is we didn't come from the street per se, right,
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: So like you know, like gaining the respect of the
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: no to riot on the street has been a little
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: bit of a challenge because it's like, oh, like I
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: don't know him from like you know, selling drugs or
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: like doing that. You know what I'm saying, Like, that's
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: not our background. So we're you know, inner city, you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: educated black kids, right, and it's that so it's our
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: Our angle has been completely different. So no, it's not
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: like Rockefeller, but you know it's from the same perspective
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: of just like you know, grinding, like doing doing what
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: you love.
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: The concept of independence versus you know, signing on with somebody.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, you need partnerships, right, I think partnerships allow
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: you to elevate. Partnerships allow you to expand your your reach.
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: But the spirit is the spirit, the spirit of entrepreneurship
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: the spirit of creating something with people that you love.
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: There's nothing better than making money with people that you love.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: I like the way you articulated your soliloquy in my
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: TI voice. What does that word mean?
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: A paragraph? Like?
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I have you talked about it?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I was going to say, where where do
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: we input Summer Walker?
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: So I shout out to DJ also okay one time
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: also and also me and her got really cool and
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: also had a roommate named summer Walker. I got you.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: So she had a roommate named somemer Walker, not the artist.
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: Her name happens to be summer Walker. Summer Walker. She
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: is a talented visual artist, right, and that was her roommate.
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: And she had all these like cool you know projects
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: she was working on or whatever whatever. And in that time,
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: we got a building that was our first building. We
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: got a building, and we were working on building a studio.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: And I asked someone, I'm like, yo, like would you
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: come and help me build the studio, like manage the
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: studio and like really like do all the art and
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: all that stuff in there? Because I really thought she
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: was she was dope. And she said yeah, So she
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: came and we built a relationship for like a year
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: and it was great, and you know, she was taking
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: care of the studio, offered her full time job managing
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: the studio, and like it was great. And like a
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: year later, she's liked, yo, like, I've been working on
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: something or I have my eye on something for a while.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: I think it would be great here. I'm like, what
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: is this. She's like, well, once the time, I was
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: googling myself and her because her name was some Walking.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: This girl name is, I'm Walker, and I think she's dope,
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: and she showed it to me. I'm like, she's dope.
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: And obviously that was how that happened. I mean, you
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: call it easier alignment.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: That was an that was very aligned.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: So she googled her name yeah, and the artist some
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Walker came yeah, and then you and then okay, So
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: what happens?
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: So she shows me the artist, I meet Summer for
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: the first time. She brings Summer and I meet Somemmer
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: for the first time. Meeting was awful because she didn't
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: speak very own brand. But again, she had a guitar
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: and she had a face tattoo and I'm like, I've
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: never seen this before. This makes sense. Hmm, that was it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm signing her, So.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: What was the development stage of Summer Walker.
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: Summer is one of those rare artists, to be honest,
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: she's one of those very rare artists that like it
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: was just written for her. Like I always tell I'm like, yo,
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: You're so lucky because she didn't have to go through
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: the hardships of like artists that like get to a
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: label trying to get them to understand they're trying to
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: get them to see it. And it's not like she
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: got popular before she signed to a label either, right,
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: So it's just like, but she just happened to just
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: be aligned in that weird situation. And for her, she
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: just had all these incredible stories because she's a great
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: songwriter and it's her voice is just one of those
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: and for her, it was just just giving her the
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: space and let her do what she does and then
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: she'll write her songs and she'll come back to us
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: and I'll just like, you know, like kind of like
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: go through the better ones, you know, add some suggestions
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: here and there. But man, her development process actually for
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: Summer starts now, which is like getting outside of the
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: concept of the bedroom but when it came to the music,
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: Like the music, she didn't need any development. She's just
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: special like that.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: How did you guys as a label help her?
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: You know when she was because she declined probably a
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: lot because she didn't want to go out, and you
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: know she's very introverted, and with the award shows and
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: being in so many appearances, how did that affect you
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: guys when she didn't want to do certain things?
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: I was stressed. I was stressed. I mean, I'm I mean, no,
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: now she's a lot better, but I was stressed. I
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: mean because I'd never seen it before. But also, like
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: I think that for me, the best part about being
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: an executive is understanding your artists and making things that
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: is true to them palatable to the world, right. And
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: I think that for her understanding that she didn't want
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: to do interviews or whatever it was, it made sense
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: because she felt like she said it all in her music.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: She's like, there's nothing else I need to say to anybody.
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: If you really want the answers or have the questions
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: that you want to know about me, listen to my music.
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: And that was that was the perspective. And like I said, luckily,
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: I just feel like that it was just written for
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: her because people just connected with her music so much,
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: all the other stuff didn't really matter as much, right.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: So you were like, you you ruined my relationships because
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: you won't go do anything outside.
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: But like if you stay hot, that is very cool,
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. But no, I mean, like
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: I just took be honest, like I would love to
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: take a lot of credit for you know, Summer and like,
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: you know, but I just do believe that she's just
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: one of those talents. It's just one of those generational
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: talents where its it's like, Okay, you know, I think
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: the only thing that's in Summer's way is Summer, and
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: I think that's the development. That's where we are today,
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: where it's like trying to get past, you know, all
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: of the things that she technically wouldn't normally do just
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: to expand and grow her reach.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: Her personality is starting to come out now you're seeing
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: it more like on the internet, and I know you
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: kind of like rooting for that because you know, you
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: wanted to continue being you know, a star and continue
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: growing and stuff like that. What was some of the challenges,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: you know, sign to somebody like like summer.
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: The challenges, I mean, the challenges every day. I mean,
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: you know that's like my little sister. But like at
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: the end of the day, you know, it's funny, right,
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: And again, this is how you know you have a
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: great artist or a special artist. You know. Me and
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: some will have conversations and she's just like, yah, some
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: why'd you make that decision? Like why did you do that?
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: Like why did you, you know, date that guy? You
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. Like it's like I really be
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: like trying to understand her perspective, and she's just like
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: I need something to write about, damn. And I was
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: just like, oh, like you are an artist, you like
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: you live vicariously through your arts. It's like, yeah, it's
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: my diary. Right. So it's just like trying to trying
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: to manage an artist or trying to like keep an
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: artist from not like going off the deep end, but
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: still like doing what they need to do to get
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: their material. Is that's the hard part, right because like
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: at the end of the day, like you know, all
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: a lot of great artists had music, and that's just
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: kind of how she looks at it, right, And she
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: lives unapologetically, which is interesting question.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, what are some things that you had to
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: endure or overcome because I know it went all Was
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: it all positive?
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: No? I mean, I mean it's mental health issues, you
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. There's you know, not one to tour,
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: you know, like not wanting to do all these things
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: that are important in the actual business, right you know,
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: there's actually growing your company, your employees. Like, Bro, my
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: life's hard, like really really hard. But I can't complain
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: because I think that's the joy of what it is
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: that I do. Problem solving, like really like creating a
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: new way or new way of thinking. So, you know,
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: like our challenges, I mean, you know, getting getting the answer. No,
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying, Like, just like everybody else,
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: you know, our challenges are cool. Like the music industry,
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: You're also only as good as your next record, you
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. So you have a record out
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: or you don't have a record out, then it's like, oh,
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: you're falling off. Like like bro, it's it's tough, you
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. So trying to figure out how
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: to you know, balance and maneuver and also like just
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: stay on your path. I think I think a huge
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: part of my growing and my my my my up
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: and coming in this business is me starting to compare
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: my success to other people. And I'm just like, oh
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: that that's gonna like you're gonna start I make decisions
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: that actually aren't even authentically you. And that's the biggest
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: mistake that I feel like, you know, I've made at
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: certain points in my career, and I'm just like, bro
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: to be honest, like, what's meant for you? It is
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: meant for you in the right timing, you know what
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: I'm saying.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
• 43:25
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• 43:27
  Speaker 8: Yet what's going on is justice Justice where it's cool
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• 43:33
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• 43:36
  Speaker 8: there's a lot there's a lot of gems, very insightful
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: and we have a lot of fun. What does your
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: personal life look like? I'm just on the road for
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: myself at this flame.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: You're trying to get something outside now, I ain't got time.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: You don't have time, you don't have time for it.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: No, I you know, for me, Like how I look
• 43:52
  Speaker 8: at my personal life again. I look at my personal
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: life and say away, I look the I look at
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: my career life. Right, It's just like if I'm going
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: to do something, I want to put my everything into it, right,
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: and you know, to be to be a boyfriend, to
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: be a husband, or to be you know, a father.
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: I feel like it takes intention what I realized after
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: like trying find a balance. I'm like, yo, like, it's
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: just it's not the reality of where I am in
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: my passion and where I am in my you know
• 44:19
  Speaker 8: what I'm saying my space. I'm like, yo, like, I'm
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: just going to do what I love. And it's okay
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: because every seven years, you know, you change consciousness. Your
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: consciousness shifts every seven years, so like after that seven
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: I might have a different feeling and then I go
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: into maybe being a father.
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: Did you grow up with that with intentive parents or
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: both parents in the household, Like, like you're saying you
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: want to be intentional about you know, growing and developing
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: a child or nurturing a relationship. Did you grow up
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: seeing it like.
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: I want to be a stay home dad. To be honest, like.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Like, oh man, you're the wrong business.
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: Well, That's what my goal right now, and it could change,
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: but if you ask me today, my goal right now
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: is like you know, I'm thirty one now, you know,
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: by forty to be retired. You know what I'm saying.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you're working your way to that, to your
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: goal of being from.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: Working since I was seventeen thirty one. It's a long time.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: That is a long time.
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: Now you guys, you guys at one point was partner
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: with Interscope.
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: Right, yeah, yeah, South End Scope. I mean was that
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: your first one? That was your first partnership with the
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: major one ship?
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Look like is that distribution all?
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: Is the joint adventure? So you know when we have
• 45:33
  Speaker 8: when we when we first signed Black Again and like
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: the record took off, we ended up doing a joint
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: venture with Interscope Again. They were like our fifty to
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: fifty partner. You know, we did all the marketing, promoting,
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: signing the artists.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah it was the money, okay, so fifty fifty.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Okay, So what happened with Interscope?
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I know?
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: Youthing, I just think that like again, as you evolve
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: and as the business changes and as you get success,
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: things just start to look there. You start to understand,
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: you know, like we have our own building that we
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: that we bought and very nice by the way, thank
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: you check it out. I'm sure we have about twenty
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: six employees.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Like we're like, so you said, I got pretty much
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: I gotta treat I got treated like I was at
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Chick fil a.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Oh we should did it my pleasure.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: At the point, you was pretty much like, we don't
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: really need and yeah.
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: I just think I just think we're at the point
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: where we we are. We are our business has matured
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: to a point to where now we have to start
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: to focus on our business and you know, making the
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: margins make a little bit more sense.
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: Are you independent completely right? But does Innerscope own the
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: previous Summer albums?
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: Of course, yeah, we're partners on that.
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: Okay, but going forward, if she were to drop a
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: new project, it would be owned by you guys.
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: No, Summer Summer Summer is still with Innerscope and lb R. Okay,
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: the whole venture as a whole, it's just independent.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: That's that's smart.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, OK dude, how do you Okay, so, how do
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: you guys prioritize.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: The artists or who y'all want to put out?
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Let's say if Black wants to put out an album
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: and Summer is ready to drop, do y'all kind of
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: have to decide, okay.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: You want to play off?
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: Mean who to put the market a dollar stoward.
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: Luckily we've never had that issue because R and B
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: Niggas is slow, so it works that way, you know
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: what I'm saying. But if it, if it came to it,
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: I think I think we have to look at the plan.
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: We have to look at the plan. It's not about
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: the music. It's not about you know, the money or whatever.
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: We have to look at the plan. Who already has
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: majority of things locked in stone? The music is one thing,
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: but like there's a whole thing that's around, right, Like
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: sometimes timing might even make sense, right, Like, you know,
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: if you're in the middle of a fucking breakup, it
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: might just be prigent at that point. You know what
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: I'm saying. You know what I'm saying, if you ever
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: to already routed, like you know, all those things, I
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: think we have to look at in totality, you know
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: what I'm saying.
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: So going back real quick to the breakdown of LVR
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: and and Interscope are all of you will all of
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: your artists be that way of signed to one label
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: and then and then your label as well.
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: Like no, so moving forward, like I said, this is
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: just we're completely independent where it's just like every artist
• 48:16
  Speaker 8: like that we signed from here on.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Out will just be solely yours.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Because I know Baby Taits on there and she has
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a partnership with Warren Warner.
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but Baby Taits she's a management client. She's a
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: management client. You know, our business is comprising three. So
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: you have management, management, label, label and what publishing publishing
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: and now we're starting a TV and film department. Yeah,
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: because you were telling me off camera thinking about doing
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: the little podcast room.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all doing it big.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: Now I got a question, So, now is Division actually
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: signed to you guys or.
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: Is that management client client? So it was Division signed
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: to the sign to oo oh.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: So you're kind of like Rock Nation.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: You guys have all these different departments under one umbrella.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: So they cover management, uh, like you said, publishing. They
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: also have sports though, but you guys, you know, want
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: to have the TV part.
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm trying to venture into sports any sports ages
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: out there.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: So basically it's an umbrella and then under the umbrella
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: we have different departments that yeah, okay, now does do
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: you manage the specific department? Does toune they do in
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: specific department? Amber?
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: Like, man, I mean I think that's like the that's
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: the growing pains, right, It's just like that's why we
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: have so many staff members because you have to separate
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: the work. I think that, like you know where we
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: are now, we just oversee and really just help and
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: develop our talent that's coming up. You know what I'm saying,
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: Like our people that work for us, you know what
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: I'm saying. So and also just like hiring the capable people.
• 49:52
  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, Like if you want to
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: build a new department, to call me back a capable person,
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. So it's it's it's hard, man.
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: Like you know. The crazy thing about about what we're
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: doing is, you know, you have a lot of friends
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: that you grew up with and you try to give
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: them opportunities and it's just always fails. Always. It's heartbreaking,
• 50:14
  Speaker 8: you know, yeah.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: Because you probably got a lot of friends that were
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: friends with you in college and probably seeing you guys
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: success and like.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, man, give me a job.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: So how do you say no.
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: How do I say no? Oh, I say no. If
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: you get to know me, I'm a little bit I'm
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: very directed.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, he was a little asshole.
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah yeah.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: For anybody watching this, you know who may be in
• 50:37
  Speaker 6: your shoes in college, Like, man, this is my path,
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: I want to take it.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: What is your advice for that person?
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: My advice for that person? Well, Number one, follow me
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: on Instagram. I give advice every day. Number what's your Instagram? Justice?
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: Where's cool pants? Number two, I will say, spend majority
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: of the time understanding your craft better than anybody else
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: around you. I think people really underestimate the importance of
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: the education of whatever it is that you're doing. And
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: education is not even in the perspective of just like
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: I have to read some books, you know what I'm saying,
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: But a lot of it also have to do with experience. Right,
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: just start it right. You're going to learn a lot
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: from failing. And I think that people are scared to fail.
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: But I'm like, no, the trick about failing is just
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: like fail fast. You know what I'm saying. You don't
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: want to take six years failing super slow and tumbling
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: Like nah, bro, just go ahead and get that shit
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: over with in like twelve months. You'll learn a lot
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: and you'll know what not to do and make the
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: shit better. So like for me, I think that's that's
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: the starting point. And the second part about it is
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: just like really just priding yourself and surrounding yourself with
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: people that have things to actually benefit you and whatever
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: it is you're doing, because I really realized that majority
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: of people's downfall is based on who they surround themselves with.
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, Like, see who I came with.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: I came with one of the smartest people I know, Like,
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. I met him maybe like
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: six months ago. Who's that shout to able? He's a
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: designer base based out of Atlanta, and he's he's incredible.
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: So what does he do? He's a designer design everything everything,
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: album covers and album covers, architecture.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: He's gonna make you some money.
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: No he didn't. I just met him six months ago,
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: but I just you know, that's my guy. Now, you
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: got you have to just keep people that like that
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: mean well in your life. And I feel like people
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: people get so attached to, you know, relationships that were
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: and not understanding that that was supposed to last for
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: a certain period of time. Now where you're going, your
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: life has to reflect who's around you.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So any new potential artists that you have coming.
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: Up, I mean we have we have a few new
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: artists that I'm really excited about. Shout to the artists
• 52:57
  Speaker 8: named sad Boy, Shout the artists Namedyana kill me. But yeah,
• 53:04
  Speaker 8: we have.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of artists.
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: Someone will be mad, you forget just how that was
• 53:11
  Speaker 9: Goe's you know what I'm saying, Like we have, you
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: have some ne artists that we're working with and just
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: just trying to help them out, you know what I'm saying,
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: and trying to help their dreams come true.
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: Just don't waste my time and money and money.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: But you never know until you get into it, you.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: Know, you know pretty fast, Yeah, from like from from
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: what I'm realizing now, you learn to know pretty fast
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: if artist is going to make it or not. You know,
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: Like Drake had this line, you know where he said
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: once you know, like you got it, you got it.
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: The theory is brilliant, and I realized that like recently,
• 53:44
  Speaker 8: I'm like, it's actually very simple. The common denominator and
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: all the stress for artists are there. You just have
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: to pay attention to it and over time and artists
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: will reveal themselves if they actually like meant to be,
• 53:53
  Speaker 8: you know, a star a star or not, because anybody
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: can be an artist. I think it's really just are
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: you going to be big?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: How do you know? Though?
• 54:00
  Speaker 8: What's what's like the main sign signs become specific ingredients.
• 54:05
  Speaker 8: It's in tangibles, right, So like I can explain to
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: you some of like the tangible ones, but some some
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: of the other surface intangible, but like some of the
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: tangible ones is just like again having like a like
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: a vision, right, Like I think that people come to
• 54:20
  Speaker 8: you say they make music, but it's like, yeah, music
• 54:22
  Speaker 8: is one thing, but like you're now your product, right,
• 54:25
  Speaker 8: it's too much too many artists around, too much music around.
• 54:29
  Speaker 8: You have to look at yourself as a product and
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: being a product, you have to have a vision, right,
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: Like Nike's not just gonna throw shoes on the on
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: the shelf, like they have a vision. We're gonna sign athletes,
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: We're gonna do Jordan, you know what I'm saying that, Like,
• 54:41
  Speaker 8: you have a vision. And I think that a lot
• 54:43
  Speaker 8: of artists don't understand. They just want to be famous,
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: They just want to put out music. But they don't
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: have a vision. They don't, they don't, they don't want to.
• 54:48
  Speaker 8: They don't even know what the show is supposed to
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: look like. They don't know what color palette they're gonna have.
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: They don't they not even know what they're wearing. I
• 54:54
  Speaker 8: even know what their friends gonna look like on camera.
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: Like all that's part of a vision. You have to
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: envision yourself of being where you see yourself being. And
• 55:03
  Speaker 8: if you don't have that, nine times out of ten,
• 55:06
  Speaker 8: you're probably not gonna make it unless you just happened
• 55:08
  Speaker 8: to be special, which is once every six years you
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: find one of those.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: And it depends on what you define as big.
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: That's relative, you know how big you want to go,
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: because there's different levels big. And I say, you never
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: know what an artist is really going to be, because
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure you couldn't anticipate Summer not wanting to
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: tour or not wanting to do interviews when you first
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: signed her.
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: No, I know it was part of her vision, That's
• 55:33
  Speaker 8: what I'm saying. Like she had a vision, her vision
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: just wasn't like the average vision, but her vision was like, Yo,
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna make music and I'm gonna slott it under
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: the door. Y'all niggas put it out and let me know.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: And you guys were, and y'all cool with that, right.
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: I'm cool with that because again you have to understand.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: If even though that came with a lot of music.
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: The music reflected that vision. Like the music felt felt intimate,
• 56:01
  Speaker 8: the music felt to yourself, the music felt dark, you
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. Like, all that made sense with
• 56:07
  Speaker 8: her presentation for the artists.
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: But as far as the label, the business of it,
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: you know, like you said.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: You had a lot of stressful days, Yeah, because we're
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: here to.
• 56:15
  Speaker 8: Service the artists. To be completely honest, the record label
• 56:18
  Speaker 8: is here to service artist. Yes, it's a business, so
• 56:19
  Speaker 8: we had to make money. But like, but the sole
• 56:22
  Speaker 8: function of a record labels to service the artist and
• 56:25
  Speaker 8: get the artists to as many people as we can
• 56:29
  Speaker 8: get them to, right, and get people to like their
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: music and buy into them. That's what the sole purpose
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: of a record label is. So the artist. If the
• 56:37
  Speaker 8: artist is the CEO of their business, right, their business,
• 56:41
  Speaker 8: and they don't have a vision, where does that put
• 56:44
  Speaker 8: anybody at nowhere. We're just spending money throwing it at
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: the wall.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: So you know, alady sounds good?
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: Well, Justice, Where's cool Pants? Y'all know what I mean?
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: What pans you got on today?
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: I have some skip ants on today?
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: You got some ski pants?
• 57:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah? I bought them on them in Utah Powder Powder Mountain. Yeah.
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: I think it was you tell you I remember? Yeah.
• 57:09
  Speaker 8: Shout out to Utah its code out there.
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: Well, Justice swears cool Pants from lvr N. We appreciate
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: you forciing alerts, sir. Before we get out of here,
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: we do have a pep talk with Justice.
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on? It's Justice Where's cool Pants? Aka
• 57:23
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• 57:27
  Speaker 8: Here's my pep talk for you. If you're watching this
• 57:31
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• 57:35
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• 57:37
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