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

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  Speaker 3: So I was sitting in Atlanta when I was on tour,
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  Speaker 3: and I was talking to this guy and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, saying all these different things about where I
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  Speaker 3: want to go, and he was like I said something
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  Speaker 3: like I'm an African American man. We was talking about something.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, oh, you've ever been to Africa? And
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  Speaker 3: I was like nah. He was like, so you're an
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  Speaker 3: African American man and you've never been to Africa.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like damn.
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  Speaker 3: And it hurt even more that a white dude said
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  Speaker 3: it was like damn. So I said, I need to
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  Speaker 3: go to Africa. So I started looking into, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what I could do to go and all these different things.
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  Speaker 3: So I got a homie named Iyo who's from Nigeria.
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  Speaker 3: I met through my guy Frank shut out Frank, and
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  Speaker 3: Io was telling me he was actually getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: go back over there and do some things for the kids,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, telling me how like everybody comes over
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  Speaker 3: there and they usually bring like clothes or money, but
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  Speaker 3: they never really bring things to help these kids or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, man, let's go, Like I'm down
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  Speaker 3: to go. So we all go over there, and immediately
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  Speaker 3: when we get over there, we realized, like, well right
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  Speaker 3: before we kind of knew like it was a they're
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  Speaker 3: not as advanced in technology as we are over here,
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  Speaker 3: right as far like they got computers and different things
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  Speaker 3: like that, but they don't have it in abundance like
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  Speaker 3: we do. So we was already talking about bringing laptops
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  Speaker 3: over there for the kids. But I got a homegirl
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  Speaker 3: who works in AI. She has a dope program, and
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  Speaker 3: we was like we could put onto the laptops where
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  Speaker 3: it could help the kids learn to navigate through the
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  Speaker 3: computer faster. So we go over there, Bro, and immediately, Doug,
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  Speaker 3: when I get over there, it was like a culture shock.
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  Speaker 3: It was like a real culture shock because the first
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  Speaker 3: thing is so hot.
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  Speaker 5: At the airport. Bro, the airport like a bus term
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  Speaker 5: of no disrespect. But I'll let you finish. But we
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  Speaker 5: got a story all right, Bro.
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  Speaker 3: It was so hot to where immediately like it make
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  Speaker 3: you take the labels off. You feel like you're not
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  Speaker 3: You're not worried about getting fly every day. Nah, you
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  Speaker 3: ain't worried about your outfit. You ain't worried about that.
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  Speaker 3: So that process puts you in humanity, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying. So now you moving like how you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to move over here. A lot of it over
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  Speaker 3: here is about elitists and status and all these different things.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of shoes you got on over there is like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what you really contributing to her people? You
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like, how are you helping us
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  Speaker 3: as a people? So I get over there, man, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm moving through. So we were staying on the island
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  Speaker 3: and then we were going to the mainland every day.
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  Speaker 3: So he going into the mainland and I'm seeing just
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  Speaker 3: like cows and like people just like selling everything they
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  Speaker 3: could find and like doing all the different things. So
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  Speaker 3: I met this kid kids in front of the story's
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  Speaker 3: rapping or whatever. I'm like, daan, this kid kind of dope.
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  Speaker 3: I ended up posting the kid or whatever. Yeah, posted
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  Speaker 3: them and went up. Everybody in Nigeria start start tagging
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  Speaker 3: them everything, right, so I immediately start getting hit Yo,
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  Speaker 3: we want you to come to this radio station.
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  Speaker 6: Yo.
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  Speaker 3: He wants you to come to this thing, like, Yo,
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  Speaker 3: we want you to come to Africa today. It's like
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  Speaker 3: to see and in Africa over there. So now I'm
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  Speaker 3: on a press run, you know what I mean. I'm
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  Speaker 3: on an organic press run, just like literally went there
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  Speaker 3: to see the city. I'm on a press run and
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  Speaker 3: I'm bringing Lucky with me, bringing them with me, talking
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  Speaker 3: about everything. So on the first day, we go do
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  Speaker 3: some interviews, and I'm like, man, I'm hungry. So we
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  Speaker 3: go over to this restaurant across the street. We get
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  Speaker 3: some food and I'm like what you want to eat?
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  Speaker 3: And he like like, I don't know, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? Like, I'm like what you mean?
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  Speaker 6: So my home? He like, Look, you ever ate at
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  Speaker 6: a restaurant? He like no?
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  Speaker 3: How was he fourteen? He was like, you ever had
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  Speaker 3: a hamburger? And he was like no, it was like
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  Speaker 3: pretty much like east Rice and like these things called
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  Speaker 3: bones every day, which is like these like small chicken uh,
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  Speaker 3: like they like chicken gizzards kind of. So we get
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  Speaker 3: him a hamburger, bro, And I watched him meet the
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  Speaker 3: hamburger and it immediately made me just be like, Bro,
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  Speaker 3: we got life fucked up. We got life fucked up
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  Speaker 3: over here.
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  Speaker 4: Bro.
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  Speaker 3: We be so consumed with the bullshit to where it's
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  Speaker 3: like we don't even really see the life in front
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  Speaker 3: of us. So from that day, from when I seen that,
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  Speaker 3: I just started living in it, bro, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? Like, I just start going where the people
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  Speaker 3: was at. If people was hitting me, like yo, you
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  Speaker 3: got this going on? I'm like I'm pulling up the
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  Speaker 3: veto had a concert, I pulled up, he brought me
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  Speaker 3: out on stage.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So one thing I noticed was just like the love
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing all this movement. I ain't looked over my
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  Speaker 3: shoulder one time. I ain't feel like nobody was about
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  Speaker 3: to rob me.
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  Speaker 6: One time.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't feel like nobody was finna take my jury
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  Speaker 3: or do something to my son.
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  Speaker 6: Not one time.
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  Speaker 3: Now they gonna ask you for some money, They're gonna.
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  Speaker 6: Ask you for some money, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I saw when you pulled up with the vans.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they gonna ask you for a little money.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't like I felt threatened if I didn't
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  Speaker 3: give him any you know what I mean? It was
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  Speaker 3: just like God, like this is this is how it
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  Speaker 3: should feel with us amongst our people. It shouldn't feel
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  Speaker 3: like I gotta have a gun to go to this
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  Speaker 3: spot because Bro might take my chain, or I gotta
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  Speaker 3: park my car over here, because you know, like it
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  Speaker 3: didn't feel like that now. One time it just felt
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  Speaker 3: like love. So it just really put me in a
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  Speaker 3: space Bro of like living and just letting life happen
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  Speaker 3: instead of trying to make it happen.
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  Speaker 7: How long was you there for?
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  Speaker 4: Two weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Was there for two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I was supposed to go to Ghana the second week,
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  Speaker 3: and then I just fell in love with the people
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  Speaker 3: in Nigeria. I was like, Bro, I'm staying here. Fuck it,
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  Speaker 3: I'm from here with the people.
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  Speaker 4: You said something.
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  Speaker 8: So is that what you found because you said this quote,
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  Speaker 8: you said that we buy things here to showcase a
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  Speaker 8: part of ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: That we never took time to find.
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  Speaker 8: And so I'm wondering, is that what you found that
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  Speaker 8: in a piece of saying like this is what life
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  Speaker 8: should be?
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  Speaker 6: Bro?
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  Speaker 3: Like, I ain't really if you peak like the last Like,
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  Speaker 3: since I got back, I ain't really been wearing jewelry.
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  Speaker 3: I wear my watch, you know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 3: it's like I don't really wear it because over there
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  Speaker 3: it made me realize like like, bro, this shit don't
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  Speaker 3: make me a better rapper.
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  Speaker 6: It don't make me a better person, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying, Like it's just something to show people
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  Speaker 3: to get them to pay attention to me. I could
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  Speaker 3: find another way to do that. I'm creative enough to
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  Speaker 3: find another way to do that. So it's like I
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  Speaker 3: ain't about to just feel like I got to just
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  Speaker 3: put on jury every day to go do an interview
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  Speaker 3: or make people rock with my music. You either gonna
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  Speaker 3: rock with it or you not. And I'm at peace
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  Speaker 3: with that. I'm not trying to impress you no more.
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  Speaker 7: Liberating a feeling.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is what it is like, let life happen
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  Speaker 3: however it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 6: It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 7: And that was because of Nigeria.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, because of Nigeria.
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  Speaker 4: Bro.
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  Speaker 3: The whole time, Like the first two days was rough.
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  Speaker 3: Why because you can't really shower the way we shower
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  Speaker 3: over here, because we can't drink they water so as
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  Speaker 3: nice as a house that we was in, the shower
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  Speaker 3: thing was still like a sprinkler. So it's like I'm
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  Speaker 3: watching my body, but i can't really wash my face.
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  Speaker 3: I'm washing my face with a bottle of water, brushing
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  Speaker 3: my teeth with a bottle of water.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 6: So it was just like, yeah, it was. It was
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  Speaker 6: a culture shot.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like once you get used to it, you
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  Speaker 3: get used to the heat, you ain't really tripping off
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  Speaker 3: like clothes and what you gotta wear and like all
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  Speaker 3: these different things. It's just like like it's people in
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  Speaker 3: the club actually party.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, not a party is christ dance.
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  Speaker 4: You didn't move around with any security.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I had security.
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  Speaker 3: I had topics like here, I'm like like security of
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  Speaker 3: the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: We had cops.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, Like.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't want of them rappers to become I'm on
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  Speaker 3: my jewelly.
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  Speaker 6: Every day. No, security ain't. I was running around.
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  Speaker 4: I got my son out there.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta get back home.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta get back home, bro, that's a fact
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  Speaker 3: to get home.
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  Speaker 7: That's how we was moving, man, everywhere.
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  Speaker 8: They slept at the house yeah yeah, yeah, outside waiting
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  Speaker 8: for us.
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  Speaker 6: They was at the crib like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I was like, I thought that part got left
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  Speaker 4: out there. I was like, wait, do you have Nah?
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  Speaker 3: I definitely did, but nah going over there like it
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  Speaker 3: showed me and then like I shot the music video
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  Speaker 3: that we just dropped top G over there, and even how.
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  Speaker 6: That happened, Like I was in the projects, bro, Like
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  Speaker 6: one of.
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  Speaker 3: The worst hoods over there is called Legos Island.
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  Speaker 7: How that happened?
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  Speaker 3: Dog, I'm in the I'm in the crib. Now, keep
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  Speaker 3: in mind, I bring a studio over there, so my
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  Speaker 3: crazy ass, like I brought like a laptop with like
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  Speaker 3: a mic and like a studio setup. So my ass
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  Speaker 3: over there finding random people on the street that's singing, like, Bro,
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  Speaker 3: come to the crib, like get on the sprinter, like,
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  Speaker 3: come to the crib. Like I'm to the point. My
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  Speaker 3: homie eye was like, shit, you can't be you got chill,
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  Speaker 3: Like yeah, like everybody coming over there like so I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: all I'm a chill So I'm bringing people to the crib, bro,
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  Speaker 3: and they just recording like they recording, they recording, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, these dudes is talented his hell, Like
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  Speaker 3: you know, they talented his hell. So the engineer who
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  Speaker 3: I had engineering, I kept telling him like, no, we
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  Speaker 3: had got back the day we had got back from
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  Speaker 3: taking the laptops to the school. We've got a hundred
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  Speaker 3: laptops to the school. We went and did that. I
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  Speaker 3: got back in my homie self, who was the engineer
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  Speaker 3: that was engineering all the kids that was over there.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, Bro, is this something you wanted to do,
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  Speaker 3: like before you get up out of here?
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  Speaker 6: Because I was leaving in two days, And I was like, man.
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  Speaker 3: I did want to shoot a video, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: really get it how I wanted to get.
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  Speaker 6: He was like, what you want to look like?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, bro, I want to show Nigeria, Like
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to show the island, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? Like we could show that too, Like, let's
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  Speaker 3: show both sides. Let's show the difference between the island
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  Speaker 3: and the mainland. So if you watch the videos, a
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  Speaker 3: conversation with me and myself, like, that's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: the island and the mainland. So I'm starting off in
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  Speaker 3: the mansion right where I'm in the crib. That's the
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  Speaker 3: island where the cribs is nice and it's gold trimming
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  Speaker 3: on the tie and the marble and everything. Uh nah,
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  Speaker 3: it's Lego's island. So these were the big cribs and everything.
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  Speaker 3: But then when you going to the mainland, there's more poverty,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: so we're showing both sides of it. So I'm like,
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: I'm telling him that I want to show that. He like,
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  Speaker 3: I got the perfect people for you. So he called
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  Speaker 3: his production crew called Whack People, and they come through
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  Speaker 3: and literally broke like two hours, like just pull up
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  Speaker 3: to the crib. They're like, yeah, bro, what you want
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  Speaker 3: to do. I'm like, man, I want you a video,
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  Speaker 3: but like I wanted to look clean. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: it to look like we just had a regular DSL
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  Speaker 3: or camera and we just shot whatever, and he was like, nah,
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  Speaker 3: I got you. You was like, uh, it was like
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  Speaker 3: give me, give me a couple hours. So he called
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  Speaker 3: back in like six hours. He was like, when you
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  Speaker 3: want to shoot. I'm like, shit, we can shoot now.
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  Speaker 3: You're like, I'm on the way. So they pull up, Bro,
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  Speaker 3: they got all the equipment. We go to this spot
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  Speaker 3: with my man Vector. That's his neighborhood that we was at,
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  Speaker 3: so that whole community over there. Vector take care of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of that community. He's a big staple over there.
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  Speaker 3: He's like what Kendrick Lamar is to us, he's that
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  Speaker 3: to them over there. So go meet vector tell him
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  Speaker 3: what I want to do. He's like, come on, bro,
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  Speaker 3: take you through. We go through the neighborhood. We just
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  Speaker 3: filmed the video, Bro, like all night and we just
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  Speaker 3: chilling like we're eating, like I'm taking their herbal shots
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  Speaker 3: and everything. They gel off every day. But I was
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  Speaker 3: just over there, bro, just rocking with the people. I
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  Speaker 3: had my son with me outside.
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  Speaker 6: Bro.
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  Speaker 3: It was like twelve midnight. We just out there the neighborhood,
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  Speaker 3: kicking in with the kids, and it was just love.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: It was love.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: So it's it's definitely a something that's a part of
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: my life at this point. Because we actually ended up
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: signing Lucky. Oh yeah, so we got him a spot
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: over there. He has a studio over there now because
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: he was living in a straw house with seven siblings
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: his parents don't, you know, less fortunate. So we actually
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you know, got him in a better situation and he's
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: making music. But the thing that impressed us about Lucky
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the most was more than the music and everything. It
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: said the main thing he wanted and life was to
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: learn because he never really had the chance to go
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: to school. So we're helping him, you know, get in
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: school and learning. So more than just putting his music
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: out and like trying to turn him to a rap store.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: It's like allowing him the ability to grow up and
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: have a dream for like a lot of kids over
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: there don't really get the time to dream, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: So that's something that we want to provide for him.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: So that's contexts man.
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: We talk about education reform here, but we missed the
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: part where it's like there's people who only have access
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: to education.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: So that that's big.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, when you were there in one of the
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: things we saw was the amount of youth. There's so
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: much youth, and so we always look at Africa as
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: a place, especially Nigeria, as a place of tremendous resource
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: right because imagine if you give or you help import education,
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: import mindset, import infrastructure and business, what does the country
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: look like, what does the continent look like? Is that
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: something that you plan to do going forward? Continuoucy going
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: to Africa, going to different countries, intil the content.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: So me and Victor actually is working on a project
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: together and we actually are shooting a documentary that we
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: started over there and it's called Bridge to Gap and
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: it speaks on and the documentary would be the first
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: documentary produced by my media company I was telling you
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: guys about. But it goes into the difference between and
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: so does the project we're making with the music to it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: It goes into the difference between the African and the
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: African American and statistically a whole bunch of different things
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: that we cover and why we are the way we are,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: and really kind of highlighting that to motivate people over
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: here to stop looking at Africa as a place with
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: just kids with flies, and they face that, like what
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: America shows us over here? Like America, Like a lot
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: of Americans think that a lot of Africans don't rock
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: with us over there. And I asked that question over there,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: and that's not necessarily true. The media paints that perception,
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: so we look at them that way and there's this
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: combative spirit. But really, bro, our people love us. They
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: love us over there, So we took time to actually
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: go over there, like, Okay, let's build a school, let's
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: build a gymnasium, let's build studios, let's build Like I've
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: seen three gas stations the whole time I was there, Bro, Like,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: let's go build some gas stations over there, you know
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: what I mean?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Like what's the process.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Even if we can't figure out how to do it,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: let's figure the process out so the next generation can.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: But I feel like that's something we need to look
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: forward to because on some real shit like America ain't
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: doing too good right now, jimp, you know what I mean,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: And eventually we're gonna have to go over there and
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: see what's going on with our people. So it's important
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: that we start somewhere. We gotta start somewhere. But that's
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: definitely something I'm interested in. It's you know, getting some
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: things going over there and bringing more people back over
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: there so we could unify over there.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: You know. It's interesting.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: We we've been tapping in a lot with the continent,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: and we were in DC a while ago and we
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: were talking to some people from East Africa and one
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: of the women specifically, she was talking about the movie
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Black Panther. Right, very insightful from the Bay Area. So
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: like the Black Panther movie, especially that first one, it's
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: a lot of hitting messages in that. Like I mean,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: obviously the Black Panthers, Black Panther Party starting in Oakland,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: but as far.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: As like how she described it to me was ill.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: She was like, you know, it's like a parent that
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: has a child right where the child might have been
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: abducted and the parent didn't really fight for the child.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: So it's two parts to this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Now the child starts to act out right, becomes more
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: sexually active, joints, gangs. It's all out of like frustration
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: because they have an attachment to their biological parents but
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: they don't necessarily know them. But they've never really gotten
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: over that feeling of just being kicked out and left
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: alone and not like you never came back for me.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: And then the parents have some sort of a grief
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: and they kind of feel some sort of blame for
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: not going after the child. So it's trauma on both sides, right,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: and it's like the only way to really hell that
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: trauma is to be reconnected. And it was like kill
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Monger in the movie, like he's a very rebellious person
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: and it's like his story to me is like the
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: story of African Americans, right, and it's like I feel
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: like we've both been played against each other where it's
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: like we look at it, not everybody, but there's been
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: a campaign in the media to be like all these
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Africans don't care about you da da da da, like
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: they sold you to slavery, Da da da. And then
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: the Africans, it's like, well they're slaves, like they they're nonsense.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: They they're always troublemakers in America. They always get in trouble.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: They're killing each other. They doing all of that right.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: But it's like there's reasons for both sides why there's dysfunction,
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: and now I think it's dope, and especially with the
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: music is now we're starting to bridge that gap and
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: we realizing that there's more similarities than and we have
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: expertise that could be beneficial because we went through a
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: system in America that nobody has ever and we survived it,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: and they have the resources.
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: So it's like if.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: We can if we can ocie with their traditions and
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: their resources, now that's an unstoppable combination.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: It's very unstoppable. It would make us like the most
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: dominant place on earth, you know what I mean? Like,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm fully for it, bro Like I'm all for
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: That's a great that's a great analogy. You just broke
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: down too. I gotta rewatch the movie now from that
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: perspect because that's do you know what's crazy? Somebody told
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: me over there.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: It was like.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: It was like one of the main reasons like we
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: look at you guys with an eye up is because
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: you guys put your data in retirement homes. And I said,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: what you mean there was like, you guys put your
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: grandparents and your mother's in retirement homes, when those are
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: the people who have the information to feed the children.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: How the kids supposed to learn when you're in the
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: midst of living life and learning yourself, those are the
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: people that lived it. They're supposed to pass that down.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: That's something we don't do that over here. And I
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: never looked at it like that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: That was one of the conversations we had with Acon
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: as well, and he was like, the wisdom of the eldest,
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: even at a level of successuf quote unquote success that
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: he's had, he's still before he makes a decision, checks
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: in with his eldest because they have wisdom, even if
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: it's not in the business sense, they have wisdom of
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: life any things. That's one of the things that's missing
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: that when we talk about generational gaps, it's like, how
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: do we keep our elders as a part of the
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: lineage of information to a younger generation.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: We talk about the population being so young in Africa,
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: but do they know those traditions of tapping in with
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: the eldest right, because there's a certain level of knowledge
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: that they can pass down right, and you add that
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: knowledge to the creativity, innovation, and the energy that the
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: youth have and that becomes an unsolvable force.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: But we got to realize it though.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: That I think that was done intentionally.
• 25:09
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