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EYL #242 Symba on Youth vs Elder Culture, Music Mastery, Michael Jordan Mishap, & Life-Changing Africa Trip · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
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  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a Dylan Brooks right shout to him. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying things like that. That's where it starts.
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  Speaker 4: Getting us dealing. Brooks is a legend. No, he's not
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  Speaker 4: from my point, and Dylan Brooks could be from some
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  Speaker 4: Canada or something.
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  Speaker 5: Right, he's from Ontario.
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  Speaker 4: He could be somebody that's the first from his neighborhood,
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  Speaker 4: bro who did what he's doing in America.
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  Speaker 6: But not even to them, he's a legend. He might
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  Speaker 6: when he goes on the campus of Oregon, he probably
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  Speaker 6: he's a legend.
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  Speaker 4: That's the fact.
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  Speaker 5: How many guys from organ make it to the league
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  Speaker 5: and have a career, not man.
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  Speaker 7: My graduates from my school being false back drop bag drop,
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  Speaker 7: Mike drop back drop.
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, welcome back e y l. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: are in our second home, l A. We're out here
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  Speaker 3: all the time, so.
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  Speaker 8: It's officially maybe it's officially placed. Atlanta is our second home.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, Atlanta's the second.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I got to make Cali. I love Atlanta. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: blame you. Atlanta is the ship.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. I got love for both places. Man.
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  Speaker 3: But we was coming out here for the weekend and
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to, you know, make it as impactful as possible.
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  Speaker 3: So we're like, who can we interview? And I shot
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  Speaker 3: to AV He's like, Yo, what about some we live
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  Speaker 3: out there. I'm like, yeah, let's do that. Let's reach
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  Speaker 3: out and the bro set it up right, shouting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah my boys schmurder too, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they they set it up and we're here.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm a fan. I told you that before when
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  Speaker 3: we connected with nineteen Keys at the BT.
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  Speaker 9: What was that last year?
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  Speaker 5: Last year, last last June, last year radio room.
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  Speaker 4: That's June. So that's about a year. Yeah, year around sure,
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  Speaker 4: year works.
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  Speaker 3: So you know it's it's been dope to see your rise.
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  Speaker 3: Been following you on the ground, you know, watching the freestyles,
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  Speaker 3: watching everything that you've been doing.
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  Speaker 9: So first and foremost, congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you man, thank you. Congratulations to y'all. Two man,
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  Speaker 4: I was just actually watching the Blast episode.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, how'd you feel about it?
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  Speaker 4: Like, God, I love it, Bro, I love I love
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  Speaker 4: Vic too. Vict is like he's he's like the embodiment
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  Speaker 4: of like what you have to do, like as the
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  Speaker 4: homey or like as the friend. That's a part of
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  Speaker 4: business that like take matters into your own hands to
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  Speaker 4: kind of like simplify a lot of things for artists.
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  Speaker 4: So shout out to Vic, man, I love him for that.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that dope one family did we did that here?
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  Speaker 9: Actually know what I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Saying, the fact, But yeah, man, so let's let's jump
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  Speaker 3: right into it. I gotta it's gonna be a fun conversation,
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  Speaker 3: lot to talk about. But first, all right, so everybody
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  Speaker 3: knows you out there. You're making a bus.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Are you signed to a label?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: What label you signed to?
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  Speaker 4: I'm signed to the best label in the world, Atlantic Records,
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  Speaker 4: completely unbiased opinion. Yes, yes, all right?
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  Speaker 9: So when did that?
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  Speaker 3: Because she was independent for a long time, yes, So
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  Speaker 3: talk me through that.
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  Speaker 9: How did that happen? The thought process?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you kind of like debated it in your
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  Speaker 3: mind whether that was a good idea or not.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe you didn't like, you know, going to a label did?
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  Speaker 9: How did that come about?
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  Speaker 4: Well? For me, Bro, I was always somebody that was
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  Speaker 4: just like I just always kind of thought past where
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  Speaker 4: I was at the moment. And for me, growing up
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  Speaker 4: in the Bay Area, we got, like I said all
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  Speaker 4: the time, we got a lack of infrastructure when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to the hip hop music scene. So it was
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  Speaker 4: hard for me to kind of develop the team that
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  Speaker 4: I needed to kind of help me do find what
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  Speaker 4: it was that I represent as an artist. So I
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  Speaker 4: had to go elsewhere, and through going elsewhere, I ended
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  Speaker 4: up leaving the Bay Area and coming down here to
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  Speaker 4: Los Angeles. And when I came down to Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 4: I started getting their rooms and learning different things, and
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  Speaker 4: through that I kind of started developing like more appreciation
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  Speaker 4: for the major side of things, because it was like
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  Speaker 4: you get to kind of take advantage of like all
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  Speaker 4: these different opportunities and relationships versus like you going through
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  Speaker 4: this uphill battle. Especially for me, it was tough because,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, I couldn't really develop a team, so
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  Speaker 4: I had to hire one. So I partnered with Atlantic
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  Speaker 4: back in like twenty twenty, like right before the pandemic.
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  Speaker 4: My first single on Atlantic came out two days before
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  Speaker 4: the pandemic. So for me, partnering with the majors, it
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  Speaker 4: was always about being able to get my music scene
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  Speaker 4: like from a order perspective, because I didn't really relate
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  Speaker 4: to where I'm from. I don't really sound like the
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  Speaker 4: typical Bay Area artists or have the typical sound, so
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  Speaker 4: I always needed like more platforming in different relationships to
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  Speaker 4: help me elevate what it was I was trying to do.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, partner with the major label was easier
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  Speaker 4: for me to do that than to take the independent up.
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  Speaker 8: So at first, before you got to Atlanta, you were independent,
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  Speaker 8: but you were Columbia. Yeah right, so talk about that
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  Speaker 8: because you went from major to independent back to major. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: you know, there was still some money that was made.
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  Speaker 8: There was a lot of money that should oh I
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  Speaker 8: should what was that?
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  Speaker 4: Like I always say, bro Columbia was like, so my
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  Speaker 4: sister Chelsea, Chelsea Blfe, she just became the VP of
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  Speaker 4: UMG Nashville. Shout out to Chelsea. But she's like the
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  Speaker 4: person that really got me into the industry. Like when
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  Speaker 4: I was driving down from the Bay Area, I was
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  Speaker 4: working with Nick Nack. Y'all remember Nick Nack, I know
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  Speaker 4: the name. Nick was a producer. He produced like these
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  Speaker 4: hose ain't loyal from Chris Brown, but he from the
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  Speaker 4: Bay A legend. Yeah, but he was like the first
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  Speaker 4: person him and like starting six young Mirth. They were
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  Speaker 4: like the first people I've seen move from the Bay
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  Speaker 4: and come to Los Angeles and really start making the
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  Speaker 4: name in the music industry. So I started getting in
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  Speaker 4: touch with them, and I start doing the same thing
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  Speaker 4: driving down from the Bay, linking up with them down here,
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  Speaker 4: and through being down here, I was watching Nick and
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  Speaker 4: Mirth like go to different major sessions and writing for
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  Speaker 4: different people, and I was just learning things and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, damn, I think I need to move down here.
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  Speaker 4: So Chelsea was actually an intern at Innerscope at the time,
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  Speaker 4: so she was just kind of like getting into the game.
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  Speaker 4: She was working under Manny Smith. Shut out the Manny
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  Speaker 4: and Chelsea brought me in for a meeting and my
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  Speaker 4: music was terrible, but my raps was good. My music
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  Speaker 4: was terrible, but my raps was good. And Manny he's
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  Speaker 4: seen the potential in me. He was just like, keep
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  Speaker 4: doing your thing. And that was like two weeks after that.
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  Speaker 4: I met Kendrick Lamar. This is right before a Good
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  Speaker 4: kid Man City. So Kendricks seen a freestyle I did.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, bro, you dope, Like keep doing your thing.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of weeks later, Chelsea was like, come down
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  Speaker 4: to Vegas. I never even told this story. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Chelsea was like, come to Vegas. Kendrick's performing at rehab right,
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  Speaker 4: like he fucks with you, Like, come down here. So
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  Speaker 4: I jump in my Camaro. I got a Camaro at
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  Speaker 4: the time, right boom. I take that nine hour drive
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  Speaker 4: from the Bay all the way to Vegas. So I
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  Speaker 4: get down there, me and my homie, my homie j Kine.
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  Speaker 4: So we get down there and I'm on the side
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  Speaker 4: of the stage. So he getting ready to perform. He
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  Speaker 4: see me on the side of the stage. He like like,
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  Speaker 4: come up here. So I'm like like look in the round,
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  Speaker 4: you know, ka like come up here. So I go
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  Speaker 4: up there boom. I'm chilling and I'm just watching the
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  Speaker 4: show and I was like, this is what I want
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  Speaker 4: to do. I was like, this is what I want
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  Speaker 4: to do. Like I was already rapping, but like I
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  Speaker 4: was around people that was working in the industry. When
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  Speaker 4: I seen somebody that like I related to as a rapper,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, this, what the hell I want to do?
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  Speaker 9: And Rehab looked back then too.
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  Speaker 4: It lit just like twenty thirteen, twenty twelve, somewhere around
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  Speaker 4: it was there. Yeah, like it was. It was lit.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what showed you like this is this is possible,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm about to tell you the whole story. So
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  Speaker 4: I look at Chelsea. So I'm like Chelse, I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: this is what I want to do. She like, sim
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  Speaker 4: you gotta move to LA. She was like, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: not the right like the proper resources for you down there.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta move. So I come down to La. Come
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  Speaker 4: to La. I'm hustling at the time, doing my ding.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta couple of dollars, right, I go broken ninety days.
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  Speaker 4: That's where I go.
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  Speaker 5: That's the name of the bio Player.
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  Speaker 9: Challenge.
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  Speaker 4: I go broken ninety days because I'm thinking, I gotta
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  Speaker 4: buy the DJ's drinks and do all these different things
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  Speaker 4: and buy the tables in the club. So I'm just
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  Speaker 4: blowing it. But I'm not realizing, like I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be spending my money on developing my craft. So I
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  Speaker 4: ain't went brought no studio, I ain't went brought no laptop,
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  Speaker 4: I ain't got no software. I'm just going to sessions
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  Speaker 4: with Chelse every day. To the point some people just
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  Speaker 4: think I'm the weed man, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm just rolling up, Like they texted Chelsea like
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  Speaker 4: who's this? So boom. So I started making a little
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  Speaker 4: money just hustling doing my thing, So I go get
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  Speaker 4: me a studio. I get a studio in a rehearsal
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  Speaker 4: hall right where they playing drums and everything so you
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  Speaker 4: can hear the in the back of my music. So
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  Speaker 4: me and Chells get the studio, I meet Phonics and
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  Speaker 4: Dee Brooks. They was like the first people that kind
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  Speaker 4: of told me like how music was changing, because this
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  Speaker 4: was at the time of when we was going from
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  Speaker 4: like the Drake Cole Kendrick CD kind of air into
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  Speaker 4: like the streaming era to where it was more melody driven.
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  Speaker 4: So through that I started writing with them for a
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  Speaker 4: lot of different people. Then we got a meeting to
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  Speaker 4: go play some records at Columbia. We got the Columbia
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  Speaker 4: and I was playing the records that we was writing
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  Speaker 4: for people and they was like, uh, man, we want
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  Speaker 4: to sign, you want to put this out. But the
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  Speaker 4: records really wasn't me. It wasn't like me rapping and
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  Speaker 4: who I was. It was me doing what I think
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  Speaker 4: would work for other people. But I needed the money
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  Speaker 4: at the time. You know what I'm saying, Because I'm
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  Speaker 4: paying for this studio, I'm going broke. So they like,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna give you one hundred and fifty thousand, I'm
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  Speaker 4: like running, running, Yeah, where do I sign? Because I'm
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  Speaker 4: already knowing like I'm probably only gonna put like one
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  Speaker 4: or two songs out and get dropped because I don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what I'm doing, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 9: Content was it like three albums? To it like it was?
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  Speaker 4: It was like a two project that was like three albums.
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  Speaker 4: I think three albums three albums. And really, honestly that
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  Speaker 4: happened because of Chelse because I had no buzz, nothing
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  Speaker 4: like it was. She was the new A and R.
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  Speaker 4: She got hired over there and the first person she
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  Speaker 4: signed was me, you know what I mean? So she
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  Speaker 4: brought me, Yeah, shut out to Chelse because that really
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  Speaker 4: kind of like helped boost like my thought process on
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  Speaker 4: what it is I need to do to better myself
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  Speaker 4: to where when I got to Atlantic, I was more
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  Speaker 4: prepared and kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Knew how to you gotta go through that to get
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  Speaker 5: to this.
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  Speaker 4: I'm bad for being sous.
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  Speaker 5: What'd you do with the one fifty book?
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  Speaker 4: Or did you? Nah? So I learned a little bit
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  Speaker 4: from when I moved to La So don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 4: I fucked off a lot of the money. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: bought a Maserati.
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  Speaker 3: Like you got it up front one fifty up front, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't got a Maserati just doing all kind
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  Speaker 3: of shit.
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  Speaker 4: But I invested into my studio I started paying like
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  Speaker 4: different songwriters to come by the studio and teach me
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  Speaker 4: how to write hooks in different things like that. Phoenix
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  Speaker 4: and d Brooks played a big part in that as well.
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  Speaker 4: But I invested in myself getting better as an artist
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  Speaker 4: and through that. By the time that deal was over with,
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  Speaker 4: I dropped one song. I dropped one song for the hotel,
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  Speaker 4: and it was a whole regime change. Like three weeks
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  Speaker 4: after I dropped the song, and.
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  Speaker 3: They let they just let you go, let me go.
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  Speaker 3: And you didn't have anything you did have like anything
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  Speaker 3: that you old them anything like that.
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  Speaker 9: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: See, that's the good thing about labels. I'll be telling
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  Speaker 4: like I'd be telling us that. Like I'll be like,
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  Speaker 4: like you could just go get like a quick three
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  Speaker 4: hundred right quick and just get them people with they
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  Speaker 4: won't get out there like it ain't like the streets
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  Speaker 4: where it's like you could even pay a nigga back
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  Speaker 4: in the streets. He gonna always remind you remember, let
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  Speaker 4: you hold that three hundred thousands.
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  Speaker 5: Man, you old me this.
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  Speaker 4: Like it's different. It's like it's business like you know,
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  Speaker 4: you take what you get from when you However, the
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  Speaker 4: business deal go is.
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  Speaker 9: How I go.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the things that I so from my
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  Speaker 3: advantage point, the major label gives you that start them right,
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  Speaker 3: It gives you like the push it it pushes you
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  Speaker 3: on different platforms.
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  Speaker 9: They play your song on the radio. That you know.
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  Speaker 3: The downside to that is most of the time they
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  Speaker 3: own your music. They own the master's right.
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  Speaker 4: Sit downside, depending on how you look at.
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  Speaker 9: It, them only your master's all right, what's your what's
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  Speaker 9: your take on.
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  Speaker 4: That some people can't do ship with their own masters?
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  Speaker 4: Und you just making thirty five dollars every ninety days
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  Speaker 4: off your music and you own your rights, why not
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  Speaker 4: give up a percentage to get.
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  Speaker 3: So you're comfortable with not owning your masters at the
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  Speaker 3: moment because you see in the future you want to
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  Speaker 3: own your masters. But right now you're looking at it
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  Speaker 3: from a standpoint where your sacrifice not only your masses
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  Speaker 3: now to get to the point where you have start them,
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  Speaker 3: so your masses.
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  Speaker 4: Deeper and deeper than stardom. For me, it's also learning
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  Speaker 4: the industry, it's learning the game. So let's say one
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  Speaker 4: day I'm not in a situation with Atlantic, I'll still
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  Speaker 4: know who to call and who to talk to, and
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  Speaker 4: who does what and what department at Apple? Who does
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  Speaker 4: what is Spotify? And who I need to talk to
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  Speaker 4: to get playlisted over there. So it's deeper than just
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  Speaker 4: start them. It's learning the system. So one day I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to have to create my own and then I'll
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  Speaker 4: know who to go to to make that sport.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, relationship, it's one of those advantages.
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  Speaker 8: And it's I think even for us when when Charlomagne
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  Speaker 8: was you know, we were over at Black Effect, it
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  Speaker 8: was like, figure about what everybody's doing, because at some
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  Speaker 8: point what y'all are building would be bigger and you'll
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  Speaker 8: know the people to go to. Exactly, you said something
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  Speaker 8: very important. You said that you didn't have the team,
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  Speaker 8: you had to build one. And it made me think
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  Speaker 8: of this this line on sacrifices, and you were saying,
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  Speaker 8: the people that I'm with ain't the people I should
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  Speaker 8: have made it with.
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  Speaker 5: That's pretty complex, right.
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  Speaker 8: So like talk about that because it's like you are
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  Speaker 8: aware that these an't the people I should have been around,
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  Speaker 8: the people on the other side of the people that
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  Speaker 8: really gave me the push to get here. How do you, like,
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  Speaker 8: how do you manage that?
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  Speaker 4: So, like I said, bro in the Bay, it was
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  Speaker 4: tough for me to develop a team in the Bay areas.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough. It's tough trying to break through, and everybody
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  Speaker 4: got their own things going on, and it's not like
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  Speaker 4: my friends are passionate about my dream. As I am.
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  Speaker 5: Money, it comes with a lot of questions. How do
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  Speaker 5: I save?
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  Speaker 8: Where should I invest? Can I build wealth to pass on?
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  Speaker 8: It's hard to know where to get the answers. That's
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  Speaker 8: why the people at Fidelity do what they do. They
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  Speaker 4: You know. So it's tough to make them a part
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  Speaker 4: of that sometimes when it's like you growing at a
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  Speaker 4: certain page and they not like kind of growing at
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: the job that they need to do to help keep
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: you there, you know what I mean. So it was
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: very tough for me to try to like put a
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: team together amongst who I was around, So I had
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: to go find outsource help. So the people who ended
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: up helping me, like my production company who I'm signed to,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Star Island, shout out to them. They're based out of Philadelphia,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: but that happened through a relationship that I had with
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: someone that they introduced me to them. We've seen eye
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: eye on the same things I seen. They just as
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: passionate about what they do as I am with what
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  Speaker 4: I do, and I'm like, you know what, I need
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: to link with them. They ended up getting me my
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: deal Tolantic, you know what I mean. So it's like
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: sometimes you gotta kind of reach out, you know, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: get outsource help. But that don't mean you gotta forget
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: who didn't help. It's still as you grow, you'll be
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: able to open new doors and find new roles for
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: people that was there before.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: And I want to go back to the label thing
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: because that was pretty insightful. It's like, sometimes you have
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: to infiltrate the system to learn the system exactly to
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: create your own system. And that's something that Dane, you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Dan Dane always tell us that all the time, Like,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: you know, cause we work with a lot of different
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: corporate relationships, like we gotta show a Revolt shout out
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: to Revolt. He did an episode with us and he
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: came in and he seems like a movie production. It
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: was like one hundred different camera men and all of that,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: and he was like, Yo, how much does this on
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: cost to do this?
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: I don't know?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: And he was like, well, why don't you know. I'm like, well,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: this is this isn't our production, it's their production. He
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: was like, you turn into talent that quick. He's like,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you're supposed to know. Like he was like, even if
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: it's not, you're not paying for it. Now you understand
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: how a higher level production works and you can say, Okay,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: this is needed, this isn't needed, this is no da
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: da da. And then when he said that to me,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, he's right, you know what I'm saying
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: because now it's like when we're producing shows like that,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: we already have the inside information because we've learned it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: A lot of.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: People just go through it's just talent. They never take
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: the time to learn the business. But it's like that's
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: really like being an intern, Like you got the inside
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: a vantage point of how a corporate structure works.
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: And that's actually what we did.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Even like I said with iHeart, like you know, now
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: we see how contracts work, how to run a podcast
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: now exactly. Now we can run a podcast that we're
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: kind of merit off of. You know, we take some things,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: we add different things. So I think people need to
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: fully understand that, like whether no matter what you do,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: you play sports, you do music, whatever, it's okay not
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: to be the owner, but you should be learning.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: Shit understand what's going on. That's a fact because it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: like you never know how you're going to need something,
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, or when you're going to
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: need it. So it's like you could be going through
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: something you might think like, oh, okay, this is how
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: I've seen it done over here, so let me kind
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: of see how this works over here. Let me apply
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: something over here. But if you never see that you'll
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: never know to do that.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: That's a fact.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: So I agree with that bro in thousand.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: So let me ask you this as far as you
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: have a very unique way of marketing yourself on social media,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: right like freestyles and your active.
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: It's similar to Larussell.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Like, I feel like you guys because a lot of
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: artists don't utilize social media like they have like eight posts.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: They're like very like artsy with it, Like they got
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: like one post like with a banana and it's just
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: like no caption. I understand it. I guess a mystique.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: But you guys, you on Instagram like every day like it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: So what's your strategy with that? Like you're just going
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: to just put out ten posts a day?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Now? See the Russell's different. L Russell do but six
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: posts a day, like on a good day. On a
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: good day, I might give you two. But I tried to.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I try to curate like things of culture, you know
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: what I mean, like things that we haven't seen in
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a while. Like I always like, like what would hip
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: hop in the early two thousands look like in twenty
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: twenty three. That's how I kind of approach social media.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: So it's like like what would Pop be doing courtside?
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying with the camera out, Like
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: how would hold be rapping? What would he be addressing?
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: So for me, I'm always trying to find like cultural
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: moments that we as a culture could kind of be
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: like damn, this makes me feel something or just this
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: makes me remember a time in hip hop that I
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: was growing up or something like that. So for me,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: it's always looking for cultural moments. I'm not like just
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: into like freestyling every day, like or just posting music
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: every day. Like I post the things that I like
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: to do, and I try to time into the culture
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: that I love and show people how we could all
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: come together through social media.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you said that community is your thing.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, building community, said, I'm listening to you and you're
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: talking about Mom and Mom was big on community for homes,
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: have real estate, right for a restaurant. I'm like, you
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: watch Mom do all that, and you still said, I
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: want to go into the world of entertainment. So talk
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: about the lessons that you work you learn from Mom
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: watching her bill community and being an entrepreneur. That made
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: you say, well, I want to be an entrepreneur, but
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: I want to do it in music.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Bro, I was an entertainer before my mama was a
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: real estate agent. Like I just knew as a kid,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: like this was what I was going to do. Rather
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: it was in sports, you know what I mean, whether
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: it was in music, whether it was in movies, whatever
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: it was going to be. I just knew I was
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: going to be in entertainment. And I love what my
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: mom do, you know what I mean, Like my mom
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: always like you should do this, you should do that, jumping.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Really it's just not something I'm passionate about. Like I'm
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: passionate about entertaining people with information, you know what I mean,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and learning things and showing people how like you could
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: grow up and it's cool to grow, like I be
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: feeling like in hip hop sometimes like they make it
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: like we all got to just be like a young
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: wild nigga, you know what I mean, Like we can't
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: just grow up, you know what I mean, and post
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: our cribs, post our families and different things like that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: So I try to be like a representation of that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: And my mom was crazy is she was a rapper.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: My mom was a rapper before she was a real
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: estate agent. So technically I'm the version of my mom
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: that didn't make it first, didn't make it in music
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: because she made it in real estate.
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: So she invested in real estate.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Too, right, Yeah, she's heavy in real estate.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: So I know you're not passionate about that, but do
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: you like consult what Like is there a situation where
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: it's like, all, I'm gonna give you some money and
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: then you like you do it or I'm investing you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Nah? Like we just literally we got a property, me
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: and one of my partners right here, not like literally
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: bro about two miles away in Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah, Like
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I got a media company that was that we're actually started.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: So that's why we was talking about infiltrating the system.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: These same cameras you got, we just bought. So you
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, I can show you. I'll show
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: you my whole thing and my setup. But we're getting
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: ready to produce a lot of different shows out of
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: our space. So we got a fourth floor unit and
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: on the first floors for podcasts and television and film.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: The second floor we got to watch room. The third
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: floor we got a studio, and the fourth floors for
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: gaming and AI. So I'm all about like innovation, That's
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: what I'm passionate about. But real estate is not something
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: to where I could just sit here and tell you, well,
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: the market is doing this somebody, you know what I mean,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Like that ain't what I do. I talk to my mom,
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I let her know what I want to do, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: then I invest in things kind of around that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: So content a content house, Yeah, it's a good idea,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: especially in LA. Yeah, everybody's making content and really you
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: hit every everyone. You got a studio recordings through down there,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: so you got the podcast, recording, studio, gaming studio.
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: That's everything. That's everything that's people are doing right now.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: So talk about So we spoke to Acon and he
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: was talking about like how music for him. He was like,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: if you look at all of the people that's really
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: been successful as far as like making a lot of money,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: they ain't through it through music. He was like, his
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: thing was always just using music as a catalyst to
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: get into the door, to build your name, to get recognition,
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: and then just start spinning off and doing other things.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Obviously you still knewer in the game, but if that
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: something that you thought about or you're thinking about as
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: far as like, you know, using your stardom and then
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: you know, branching off and doing other stuff.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I agree with that until a concept, a certain word,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: a certain word was through because all of this shit
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: happened through music, you know what I mean. Like, so, yes,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: we may not obtain the money through real estate we
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: can make, but music is what gave us the money
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: to go into realistic So one thousand percent that's something
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: that I definitely want to do. Like I was talking
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: to Joe, That's who kind of taught me that. I know,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: y'all know Joe, No, Joe Budden, Oh yeahah yeah, Joe.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I think Joe told me like two years ago, like
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: he was like, Bro, you're going to do good and rap,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: You're gonna do all these different things, but you should
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: really lock into your other passions because it comes down
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: to what else can you do outside of music? Because
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: you have to do it again in different spaces. So
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: that's the whole reason why I wanted to create a
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: content house because it was like, what's the one thing
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I'm missing to make me feel like I'm not giving
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: my best every day? And what I noticed is which
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: is something I'm fixing now. My schedule used to be
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: so scattered, you know what I mean, I'll be at
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: a session this day. I'm doing a podcast this day.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Somebody called me to do this video popping up. I
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: didn't really like create a balance, and because of that,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I would be recording at this studio or recording at
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: this studio with this engineer and this different engineer, my
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: music would kind of be sounding a little bit all
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: over the place. So I needed somewhere to like centralize
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: my creativity. And that was the whole point of the
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: content space. So what we're doing there is creating different podcasts,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: creating different television shows, creating music and different brands for
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: different people, and gaming and different ideas like that. So
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: that's definitely something that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: So is that studio like anybody can just rent out
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: or is like in house, like these people are like
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: kind of like signed to you.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: It's something people could rent out, but just not the public.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: The public can't rent it out. But if you connected
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: and know how to get in touch with the studio manager,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: the studio manager will lock you in to get through.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: So you're building that right, So you're building the studio manager.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: It's because we got it already. Shout out the brad,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: my man, we got a studio manager. We're actually looking
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: for a producer right now to come in and produce
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: a lot of these different ideas that we haven't. We
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: just sat down with three different people this week, so
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: it's it's food like coming together. I plan to have
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: everything up and running by August first. But like we
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: were coming together strong, do.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: You plan to scale it? So?
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: I know you started here, but real estate is a
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: global thing, right and so you got ties to Philly.
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: We know in New York is a vision to scale
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: this model and do it throughout.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: And like even when you like walk in, like I
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: want to take y'all so y'all can see it. But
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: it's like when you walk in, it's more of like
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: a museum of culture, you know what I'm saying. Like
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: it's like like I got paintings coming in. It's like
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Mount Rushmore is a like New York rappers, and Mount
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Rushmore is La Rappers, and Mount Rushmore is a Southern
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: rappers and like a podcast painting. So it's like kind
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: of like a real creative house for our culture to
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: where people come in. It's like you actually want to
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: be creative and want to work.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: It's like a fathe house, you know, fhase Claim, Oh
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: thank god. Fays Claim is this big video gaming crew.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: They got like a billion dollar valuation, the huge like
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: all of a lot of rappers and athletes and all that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: But I think I heard of him. My voice from
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: game over was telling me about that. Yeah.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So they created a whole culture. My son put
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: me on to him because he's a gamer. So I
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: started doing research on them, and they've created a whole culture.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: It's they have a house and they got like twelve
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: different people. It's like, you know, different personalities, but they
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: played video games. But it's like that house is just
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: like a cultural phenomenon, you know what I mean. So
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: the idea of doing something like that for the hip
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: hop twist, I think it's dope.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I'm gonna be hosting, like I'm getting ready
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: to drop a new project soon. I'm gonna be doing
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: my listening party there, you know what I mean, for an.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: Exclusive fifty people.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Like I was just with Dave Chappelle the other night,
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: you know, and we was he was talking, I was
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: showing him the studio and everything. We was talking about
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: possibly him coming through and doing like something private, you
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, just like making it like a
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: place of like yeah, like cultural shit. We even came
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: up with this idea having a restaurant that's open twelve
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: days a year, you know, and like each once a yeah,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: like a pop up thing, and you like different people exactly,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: you invite different people, so like we it's it's coming
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: together real cool.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, wow, yeah, I like that. Twelve days a year
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: that means once a month, yeah, anybody.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Each day, each day of the month would be a
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: different theme. So like let's say January would do Italian
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: February it'd be soul food. Uh, March would be like
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Chinese food, like something different every time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually had similar ideas to that. We actually
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  Speaker 3: actually implement it, but just for the events. Shout out
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  Speaker 3: called Earn Your Masters. We do south By Southwest, we
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  Speaker 3: Week and it's like a pop up event and we
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  Speaker 3: like interview like Timberland, and we have like musical artists
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  Speaker 3: perform until we perform.
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: It's just kind of like a bunch of just random stuff,
• 32:57
  Speaker 9: just cultural.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: But that idea for the house was something that that
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: you know, originally thought about it even like going back
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: to the Reil world the exactly like.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: From that, you know that was the first social media. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: that was the first social media. That was the first
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: time we seen I say social media, And I'm gonna
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: say why I say social media because I feel like
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: reality TV is a form of social media, But I
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: feel like it was the first time we seen people
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: we didn't know from nowhere just on a public platform
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: being becoming a celebrity.
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: That's a fact.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: So that's why I say it's more social media than
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: even though it was reality TV. But it's like, that's
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: what social media is today. It's like everybody has a
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: public platform for them to have an opinion. Every day person,
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, be somebody in real world.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Was like the first kind of concept we've seen there.
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: That's a fact.
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: That's a fact. I never thought about it like that,
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: but a fact. Shout to the original New York caste.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Jersey Shue or too so you you you you have
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: an interesting song the goat. Yeah, speaking of the Mount Rushmore,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: that made me think about that. There's always debates on
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: the goats, right, who's the the Lebron Jordan top five,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: top four basketball players, who's the top four lyricists, top
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: five that all alive? Yes, spin on it is that
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: we all goats, we all goots. But everybody can't be
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: a goat. Let's be honest, you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: Can, can you really?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Because we're in the United States Constitution, is there laws
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: for a go.
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: I'm just saying because.
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: The goat, Well, we got first give comments to LLL
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: because before ll we never heard the word go.
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: But I think Muhamma Ali.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's true.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: If I went back and looked, he called himself the
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: greatest of all time.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: Mohammad Ali called himself the acronym L.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: He heard us that it was somebody before LLL. But
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: I can't remember the story, so I shouldn't even have
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: said that. But I heard it was somebody.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: He was running with that he named his album that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: He definitely he was. Yeah, he said he was vocal,
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: he was very vocal.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Acronym.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: He owned it. He was the first one that owned it. Yeah,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I think you can't anybody could be a go because
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: there's no law or there's no real criteria to say
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: who's the greatest of all time?
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: But do you do you water that? Like the word legend, right,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: it gets watered down. Legend definitely is everybody a legend?
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: But I think the legend there could be multiple.
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: Right, when you say greatest, it almost become singular, right,
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: like you're the greatest to do something, then you're the
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: best to do it. Legend is like multiple. You could
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: be a legend in different genres and different things.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: But I understand why you said that, and I appreciate
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: the message. I think like, let's take a Dylan Brooks
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: right shout to him. But I'm just saying things like
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that. That's where it starts getting dyling. Brooks is a legend.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: No, he's not from my point. And Dylan Brooks could
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: be from some Canada or something.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: Right, he's from Ontario.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: He could be somebody that's the first from his neighborhood,
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: bro who did what he's doing in America.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: But not even to them, he's a legend. He might
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: when he goes on the canvas of Oregon, he probably
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: a legend.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: That's the fact. How many guys from organ make it
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: to the league and have a career, not man.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Leaves way.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: I'll see you in the NBA next season, my brother to.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: A false reality though, because a lot of even in rap, right,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: there's rappers where you start to disregard like a true
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: legend right and say like, yo, he's not all of it,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: and it's like that comfort.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: It's so a legend. Yes, yes, it's a hurricane Chris,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: a leegend.
• 37:03
  Speaker 9: Hurricane Chris Aby that legend word is just so strong.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: It is Hurricane Chris is Hurricane Chris alleged No, because
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: he has a legendary soon.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, is he not a legend because he hasn't his
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: body of work. I think in order to be a legend,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: it's like a resume, right, the resume doesn't doesn't check
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: those one thing doesn't make you legendary.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: It's the pure definition of legend.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Doing things that nobody has ever done, being extremely consistent,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: doing it on larger scales, being a pioneer. These are
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: all things that you know, you can say you do.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: You check a lot of these boxes, you a legend.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Okay, I think Hurricane Chris checks off about three of
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: those things.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Three.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the consistency?
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: All right?
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: He did something legendary, and he did something most people
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: can't do, which is make it ricord.
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: That's the fact.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: And what was the other when you said he consistency pioneer, pioneer,
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: he pioneered some ship.
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: With the pioneer.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Hey maybe, but that's not his though.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: He pioneer turned to DJ's name.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. It was a DJ. It's a
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: DJ's name out.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's from Dallas.
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: The same the same day we met you, we met him.
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: He's like, that's mine. Yeah, Radio Room.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: He was the first one to make a DJ, Exactly,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: he's a legend.
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: No, he's out the first we came him that Veric
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: Beef for President makes the DJ the legend. The song
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: is not even rockets Eric Beef for President, but Bay's
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: the hook. But Eric Beef for President makes the DJ
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: on the forefront. Very Beef for President was the name
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: of the song exactly. But if Jazzy Jeff doesn't have
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: a song.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: We sound like dinosaurs.
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: All right, where are we going next? Africa?
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: I want to go to Africa, man, And because I
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: watched that trip that you took and it was powerful,
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: and we drove down those roads. We went to Legos,
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: Nigeria ourselves, and to see you do it, I was like, wow,
• 39:19
  Speaker 8: he gets it. So I want to know what inspired
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: that trip because most people and we just came from
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: African and shout everybody at African. You know that we
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: had were honored out there, and we understood the mission
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: of connecting diaspora and bigger than just talking about it,
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: actually going to see the people and putting your feet
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: on the ground. So I want to know what inspired
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: you and and we'll take it from there.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: So I was sitting in Atlanta when I was on tour,
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: and I was talking to this guy and I was like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: you know, saying all these different things, bro, where I
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: want to go? And he was like, uh, I said
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: something like I'm an African American man. We was talking
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: about something. He was like, oh, you ever been to Africa?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Like nah? He was like, so you're an African American
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: man and you've never been to Africa. And I was
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: like damn. And it hurt even more that a white
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: dude said it was like damn. So I said, I
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: need to go to Africa. So I started looking into like,
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: you know, what I could do to go and all
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: these different things. So I got a homie named Io
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: who's from Nigeria. I met through my guy Frank shut
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: out Frank, and Io was telling me he was actually
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: getting ready to go back over there and do some
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: things for the kids, and you know, telling me how
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: like everybody comes over there and they usually bring like
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: clothes or money, but they never really bring things to
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: help these kids or whatever. So I was like, man,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: let's go, Like I'm down to go. So we all
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: go over there, and immediately when we get over there,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: we realized like, well right before we kind of knew
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: like it was a there not as advanced in technology
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: as we are over here right as far like they
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: got computers and different things like that, but they don't
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: have it in abundance like we do. So we was
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: already talking about bringing laptops over there for the kids.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: But I got a homegirl who works in AI. She
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: has a dope program, and we was like, we could
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: put onto the laptops where it can help the kids
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: learn to navigate through the computer faster. So we go
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: over there, Bro, and immediately, Doug, when I get over there,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: it was like a culture shock. It was like a
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: real culture shock because the first thing is so hot.
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: At the airport.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Bro, the airport like a bus term no disrespect, but
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: we I'll let you finish.
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: But we got a story, all right.
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: Bro.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: It was so hot to where immediately like it make
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: you take the labels off. You feel like you're not
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: You're not worried about getting fly every day. You ain't
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: worried about your fit, you ain't worried about that. So
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: that process puts you in humanity, you know what I'm saying.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: So now you moving like how you don't have to
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: move over here? A lot of it over here, is
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: about elitists and status and all these different things. What
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: kind of shoes you got on over there? Is like
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: you know what you really contributing to our people? You
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: know what I mean? Like, how are you helping us
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: as a people? So I get over there, man, and
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I'm moving through. So we were staying on the island,
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: and then we were going to the mainland every day.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: So he going into the main land and I'm seeing
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: just like cows and like people just like selling everything
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: they could find and like doing all these different things.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: So I met this kid kids in front of the
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: stories rapping or whatever. I'm like, Dan, this kid kind
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: of dope. I end up posting the kid or whatever. Yeah,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: posted them and went up. Everybody in Nigeria start start
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: tagging them every thing, right, so I immediately start getting
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: hit Yo, we want you to come to this radio station.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: Yo.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: He wants you to come to this thing, like, Yo,
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: we want you to come to Africa today. It's like
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: to see and in Africa over there. So now I'm
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: on a press run, you know what I mean. I'm
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: on an organic press run just like literally went there
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: to see the city. I'm on a press run and
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: I'm bringing Lucky with me, bringing them with me, talking
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: about everything. So on the first day we go do
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: some interviews and I'm like, man, I'm hungry. So we
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: go over to this restaurant across the street. We get
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: some food and I'm like, what you want to eat?
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: And he like like, I don't know, you know what
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: I mean? Like, I'm like what you mean? So my homie, like, Lucky,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: you ever ate at a restaurant? He like no, how
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: was he fourteen? He was like, you ever had a hamburger?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: And he was like no, it's like pretty much like
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: you east right, and like these things called bones every day,
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: which is like these like small chicken uh they like
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: chicken gizzards kind of. So we get him a hamburger, bro,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: and I watched me at the hamburger and it immediately
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: made me just be like, Bro, we got life fucked up.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: We got life fucked up over here. Bro, we be
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: so consumed with the bullshit to where it's like we
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: don't even really see the life in front of us.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: So from that day, from when I seen that, I
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: just started living in it, bro, you know what I mean? Like,
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I just start going where the people was at if
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: people was hitting me like, Yo, you got this going on.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm pulling up the veto had a concert.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: I pulled up. He brought me out on stage. You know.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: So one thing I noticed was just like the love
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: I'm doing all this movement. I ain't looked over my
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: shoulder one time. I ain't feel like nobody was about
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: to rob me one time. I ain't like nobody was
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: finna take my jury or do something to my son.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Not one time. Now they gonna ask you for some money.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: They're gonna ask you for some money, you know what
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: I saw when you pulled up with the van.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they gonna ask you for a little money. But
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: it wasn't like I felt threatened if I didn't give
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: him any you know what I mean. It was just
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: like God, like this is this is how it should
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: feel with us amongst our people. It shouldn't feel like
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: I gotta have a gun to go to this spot
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: because Bro might take my chain, or I gotta park
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: my car over here because you know, like, it didn't
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: feel like that now. One time, it just felt like love.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: So it just really put me in a space bro
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: of like living and just letting life happen instead of
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: trying to make it happen.
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: How long was you there for?
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Two weeks? Was there for two weeks? I was supposed
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: to go to Ghana the second week, and then I
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: just fell in love with the people in Nigeria. I
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: was like, Bro, I'm staying here. Fuck it here with
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: the people.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: You said something. So is that what you found because.
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: You said this quote, you said that we buy things
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: here to showcase a part of ourselves that.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: We never took time to find.
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: And so I'm wondering, is that what you found that
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: in a piece of saying like this is what life should.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Be, Bro? Like, I ain't really if you peak like
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: the last Like, since I got back, I ain't really
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: been wearing jewelry. I wear my watch, you know what
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: I'm saying. But it's like I don't really wear it
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: because over there it made me realize like, like, bro,
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: this shit don't make me a better rapper. It don't
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: make me a better person, you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: it's just something to show people to get them to
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: pay attention to me. I could find another way to
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: do that. I'm creative enough to find another way to
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: do that. So It's like, I ain't about to just
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: feel like I got to just put on jurelry every
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: day to go do an interview or make people rock
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: with my music. You're either gonna rock with it or
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: you not. And I'm at peace with that. I'm not
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: trying to impress you.
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: No more liberating a feeling.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is what it is, like, let life happen
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: however it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: And that was that was because of Nigeria.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Oh cousin Nigeria.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Bro.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: The whole time, Like the first two days was rough.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: Why because you can't really shower the way we shower
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: over here, because we can't drink they water so as
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: nice as a house that we was in, the shower
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: thing was still like a sprinkler. So it's like I'm
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: washing my body, but I can't really wash my face.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: I'm washing my face with a bottle of water, brushing
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: my teeth with a bottle of water, you know. So
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: it was just like it was. It was a culture shot.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: But it's like once you get used to it, you
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: get used to the heat, you ain't really tripping off
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: like clothes and what you gotta wear and like all
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: these different things. It's just like like it's people in
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: the club actually party, yeah, not a parties is Chris dance.
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: You didn't move around with any security? You know.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: I had security. I had Top like here, Yeah, I'm
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: like like security of the world.
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, you know what I'm saying.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: We had cops.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, Like.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: I ain't want of them rappers to becoming on my
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: jeil every day. No security, yeah, ain't. I was running around.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: I got my son out there. I got to get
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: back home. Yeah, I got to get back home.
• 48:29
  Speaker 9: Bro, that's a fact. That's how we was moving, man, everywhere.
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: They slept at the house yeah yeah, yeah, outside waiting
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: for us.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: They was at the crib like serious.
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: I was like I thought that part got left out there.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: I was like, wait, did you have Noah, I definitely did,
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: but safety first, no going over there like it showed
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: me and then like I shot the music video that
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: we just dropped Top g over there and even how
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: that happened.
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: Like I was in the project, bro, like one.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Of the worst hoods over there, it's called Legos Island.
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: How that happened?
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Dog, I'm in the I'm in the crib. Now keep
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: in mind, I bring a studio over there. So my
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: crazy ass like I brought like a laptop with like
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: a mic and like a studio setup. So my ass
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: over there finding random people on the street that's singing, like, bro,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: come to the crib, like get on the sprinter, like,
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: come to the crib. Like I'm to the point. My
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: homie eye was like, shit, you can't be you got
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: to kill yeah, like everybody coming over there. So I'm like,
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: I'm a chill So I'm bringing people to the crib, bro,
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: and they just recording like they recording, they recording, and
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: I'm like, damn, these dudes is talented his hell, Like
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: you know, they talented his hell. So the engineer who
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: I had engineering, I kept telling and I'm like, no,
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: we had got back the day we had got back
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: from taking the laptops to the school. We've got a
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: hundred laptops to the school. We went and did that.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: I got back in my homie self, who was the
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: engineer that was engineering all the kids that was over there.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: He was like, Bro, is this something you wanted to do?
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Like before you get up out of here? Because I
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: was leaving in two days, and I was like, man,
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: I did want to shoot a video, but I couldn't
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: really get it how I wanted to get it. He
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: was like, what you wanted to look like. I was like, bro,
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: I want to show Nigeria, Like I don't want to
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: show the island, you know what I mean? Like we
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: could show that too, Like, let's show both sides. Let's
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: show the difference between the island and the mainland. So
• 50:44
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  Speaker 4: We just filmed a video bro like all night and
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  Speaker 4: Lucky the most was more than the music and everything.
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  Speaker 4: He said the main thing he wanted in life was
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  Speaker 4: to learn because he never really had the chance to
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  Speaker 8: We talk about education reform here, but we missed the
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  Speaker 5: So that that's big.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, when you were there in one of the
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  Speaker 8: things we saw was the amount of youth. There's so
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  Speaker 8: much youth. And so we always look at Africa as
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  Speaker 8: a place, especially Nigeria, as a place of like tremendous resources.
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  Speaker 4: And so me and Victor actually is working on a
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  Speaker 4: telling you guys about. But it goes into the difference
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  Speaker 4: African and the African American and statistically a whole bunch
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: of different things that we cover and why we are
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: the way we are, and really kind of highlighting that too,
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: motivate people over here to stop looking at Africa as
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  Speaker 4: a place with just kids with flies in they face
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  Speaker 4: that like what America shows us over here, Like like
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of Americans think that a lot of Africans
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: don't rock with us over there. And I asked that
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: question over there, and that's not necessarily true. The media
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: paints that perception, so we look at them that way
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: and there's this combative spirit. But really, bro, our people
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  Speaker 4: love us. They love us over there. So if we
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  Speaker 4: took time to actually go over there and like, Okay,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: let's build a school, let's build a gymnasium, let's build studios,
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: let's build Like I've seen three gas stations the whole
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  Speaker 4: time I was there. Bro, Like, let's go build some
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  Speaker 4: gas stations over there, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 4: what's the process. Even if we can't figure out how
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  Speaker 4: to do it, let's figure the process out so the
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: next generation can't. But I feel like that's something we
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  Speaker 4: need to look forward to. Because on some real shit,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: like America ain't doing too good right now, jump, you
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, And eventually we're gonna have to
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: go over there and to see what's going on with
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  Speaker 4: our people. So it's important that we start somewhere. We
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: gotta start somewhere. But that's definitely something I'm interested in.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: It's you know, getting some things going over there and
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  Speaker 4: bringing more people back over there so we could unify
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  Speaker 4: over there.
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  Speaker 9: You know. It's interesting.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: We we've been tapping in a lot with the continent,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: and we were in DC a while ago and we
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: were talking to some people from East Africa and one
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: of the women specifically, she was talking about the movie
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  Speaker 9: Right, very insightful you from from the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 3: So like the Black Panther movie, especially that first one,
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• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: where the child might have been abducted and the parent
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: didn't really fight for the child.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 9: So it's two parts to this.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: Now, the child starts to act out right, becomes more
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: sexually active, joins gangs. It's all out of like frustration
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: because they have an attachment to their biological parents but
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: they don't necessarily know them. But they've never really gotten
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: over that feeling of just being kicked out and left
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  Speaker 3: alone and not like you never came back from me.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: And then the parents have some sort of a grief
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: and they kind of feel some sort of blame for
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: not going after the child. So it's trauma on both sides.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: And it's like the only way to really hell that
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: trauma is to be reconnected. And it was like kill
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: Monger in the movie, like he's a very rebellious person,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: and it's like his story to me is like the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: story of African Americans, right, and it's like I feel
• 1:01:58
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• 1:02:02
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• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: a campaign in the media to be like all these
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Africans don't care about you, d D D DA, like
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  Speaker 9: D Then the Africans it's like, well.
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  Speaker 3: They're slaves, like they they're nonsense, they they're always troublemakers
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  Speaker 3: in America.
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  Speaker 9: They always get in trouble, they're killing each other, they
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 9: doing all of.
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  Speaker 3: That right, But it's like there's reasons for both sides
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: why there's dysfunction, and now I think it's dope, And
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: especially with the music is now we're starting to bridge
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: that gap and we're realizing that there's more similarities than
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: and we have expertise that could be beneficial because we
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: went through a system in America that nobody has ever
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: gone and we survived it, and they have the resources.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 9: So it's like, if we can if.
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  Speaker 3: We can let our expertise with their traditions and their resources,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: now that's an unstoppable combination.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: It's very unstable. Would make us like the most dominique
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  Speaker 4: placed on earth, you know what I mean. Like I'm
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: fully for it, bro Like I'm all for that's a
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: great that's a great analogy you just broke down to.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: I gotta rewatch the movie now from that perspect because
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: that's dope. You know what's crazy. Somebody told me over there.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: It was like it was like one of the main
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: reasons like we look at you guys with an eye
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: up is because you guys put your data in retirement homes,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: and I said what you mean. They was like, you
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  Speaker 4: guys put your grandparents and your mother's in retirement homes
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: when those are the people who have the information to
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: feed the children. How the kids supposed to learn when
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: you in the midst of living life and learning yourself,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: those are the people that lived it. They're supposed to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: pass that down. That's something we don't do that over here.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: And I never looked at it like that.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: That was one of the conversations we had waycon as well,
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  Speaker 8: and he was like, the wisdom of the eldest. Yea,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 8: even at a level of successful quote unquote success that
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  Speaker 8: he's had, he's still before he makes a decision, checks
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  Speaker 8: in with his eldest because they have wisdom, even if
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  Speaker 8: it's not in a business sense, they have wisdom of
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 8: life anything. That's one of the things that's missing that
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: when we talk about generational gaps, it's like, how do
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: we keep our elders as a part of the lineage
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: of information to a younger generation. Right, we talk about
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 8: the population being so young in Africa, but do they
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: know those traditions of tapping in with the elders, right,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 8: Because there's a certain level of knowledge that they can
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: pass down right, and you add that knowledge to the creativity, innovation,
• 1:04:35
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• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: an unsolveable force.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: But we got to realize it though.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: But I think that was done intentionally because it's African
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: tradition where elders are respected, and it's African tradition. Like
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: I went to the Louver in Paris, which is like
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: the most well respected museum of all time, and it
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: was interesting to me because I was looking at the Egyptian.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: You can spend a whole day in the Egyptian. It's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: crazy how much artifacts they actually stole from Africa.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 9: But that's a different story.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: The thing that I noticed from African art and African
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: artifacts as opposed to the European art and the European
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: artifacts is that most of the African arts had men
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: and women together. The Europeans was just like just men,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, or a woman. So it's
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: like the family structure that's always been part of African
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: tradition and elders. So it's like even the Willie Lynch,
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• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: One of the things is play old versus young, play
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: men versus women.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 9: We see the same thing happening. We see like even
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 9: now to this day.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: You see social media everybody debating about relationships and should
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: you pay for a date? It's just men and women
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: going back and forth. And then it's like the number
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: one thing that hip hop has done over the last.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 9: Decade is yo, you old, rapper? Like you old?
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: I hate when people do that. It's well, everything we
• 1:06:00
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• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: that we fix that because I hate when people say
• 1:06:08
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• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: and that right? Because what we're really doing is we
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: tearing down our elders.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: That can help open up more doors and more lanes
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: for us to have more platforms to create more revenue.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: The problem with that is a lot of our elders
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: be still trying to rap like us. It's like nigga
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: rap like the adult you is. Some of these rappers
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: still be forty seven talking about they got bitches in
• 1:06:35
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• 1:06:38
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• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: But there's part that goes with that, right, and you
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 8: come from this this generation was like, we never saw
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 8: our artists grow old.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: We never we never got I was about to get
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 4: into that hip hop is relatively fifty year of it, right,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: So at anything with age, you get wiser. So as
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: we he continue to grow as a culture, I think
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: the labels as the old rapper or washed up or
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: all those things will continue to go away because the
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: dude who's twenty five now is gonna be thirty in
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 4: five years and his life is going to be different.
• 1:07:15
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• 1:07:17
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• 1:07:25
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• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: wisdom that young.
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  Speaker 4: People don't have one thousand percent.
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  Speaker 3: Young people have energy and information that older people don't have.
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  Speaker 9: They need each other.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: The information and the youthfulness is not the most beneficial
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: if you don't have wisdom, but the wisdom is not
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: even really that beneficial if you don't have new ideas.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: So it's like both have to respect each other, like
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: old people have to respect young people and young people
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: have to respect old people. And that's how you really
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: and like you said, now with hip hop you have
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: mentors like you have Buster Robs, you have jay Z
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: have but not it's like we didn't have they that
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: wasn't there before. Right now elder statesmen who have been respected.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Who's not like you know homeless, Like these are people
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: that got money that you know, people respect. That's our
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: culture still respects, right, like we should watch look like
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: that's still something that's But now it's like as a
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: young rapper, I can sit down with X, Y and Z,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: get information, give game, and now I'll be better suited
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: as opposed to just trying to wing it.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 8: But this is new, like even this is this is new, right,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 8: Like I grew up listening to the Big Daddy can
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 8: carry us one. After a while, they couldn't even do
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 8: a show because nobody was interested. Like now like they're
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 8: still doing they're on tour now. It's the only genre
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 8: you think about it inside of music where it's like
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 8: our artists couldn't get on right because even like think
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 8: about Jay, right, Jay's fifty three years old, that love
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 8: was fifty five.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 5: They looked at differently.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 8: Right, they're not too far apart, but they ll never
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: there was never a space where it was like, yo,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 8: this could be the Rollerstones or you guys can even
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 8: in R and B we see it like now where
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: Anita Baker, She's still torn.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: So like this is a brand.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: New genre of letting our artists age, letting them let
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: the mature, letting them go through life experience and explaining
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: what that is. I think, like you said, the issue
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 8: is that at forty six, like I'm in I'm forty one,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 8: Like I want to hear about what life is at
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 8: this point because at this and Noah said it right,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 8: I've been I've been wealthy a lot longer than I've
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 8: been broke, which is true. I watched you at twenty
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 8: when when you drop thematic, you're about to be fifty
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 8: fifty now like it's thirty years a well.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: It's talking about and now it's changed. It's changed exactly.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 4: So it's like we're watching Nas, We're watching Jay, We're
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: watching certain people do it. Like I'm saying, I think
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: the problem is because hip hop is rooted in youthful culture.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of elder statesmen feel like
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: they have to stay young and that's not relatively the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: case anymore. We need y'all to grow up, to set
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: an example, to give us the wisdom on what not
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: to do on hotder, Like we don't want to go
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: broke when we get youall age right rap about how
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: we don't do that exactly, y'all don't tell us that.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: Y'all tell us keep going, so you keep keep your
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: foot on their neck, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: and then you d M and my producer trying to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: get a beat and all it's like that sounds you
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: feel me? No, Like, don't do that. Continue to be
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: who you were, but just innovate your thing.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 8: So when you're creating, because I think you're in the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 8: part and Cold had it. I think he said the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 8: best when he made the song Middle Child.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like he really is in the general.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: You know what's crazy?
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: What's that process? Like?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: It was kindmatic Cold for making that song.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: You wanted to do it.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: I want to make that, bro, because that's really who
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: I am. Bro. He is too, he is too. But
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: when I heard it, I said, it's like it's it's
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: like him. He he just thinks ship. I think like
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: a lot of should I feel and think like I'll
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 4: be like I'm gonna do this and then here just
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: this motherfucker. I love Cold though shout out the cold.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 8: What you're saying when you're trying to create as a
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 8: middle child and knowing that the dynamics, like, how does
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 8: that affect your process?
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: So what's crazy is Africa changed it before Africa was
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: hit chasing. So that's why you will see certain elements
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: of what people love for me not match the music
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: for the longest. Like I just kind of figured that
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: out where results take time. So like Sacrifices, that's a
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: simber record people love that never end up broke overnight.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: On God.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 4: Lessons pop out things like that, right, But when you're
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: in the business, you would attempt new things, you know
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: what I mean. Coca Cola gonna try to sell you
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: some cherry coke now really eat buy it or not?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, It's up to you. Up
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: Street Nigga and Soul Tizes. Those are good records to me,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 4: but to the audience who's here from me right now,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: they don't necessarily want to hear that. But I've chased
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: other audience that I feel may be a broader streaming
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: audience or a radio audience, and those different things so
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's confused my process until I went
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: to Africa and I really just sat with myself, like,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: you know what, it's an honor in life for people
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: to even want something from you, you know what I'm saying,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: Like just to even like, no, people wake up and
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: want to hear me rap? Why would I not give
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: them that every day? Why would I not just rap
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: for what people want to hear me do? So my
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: latest music that I'm getting ready to put out, my
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: new project is called Don't Call Me Now coming soon,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: but it's rap based. It's what you see on Instagram
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: and what you see in the radio freestyles in song
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: for man, you know, and it's taking me time to
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: figure out how to do that, like the Ja Morant thing,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: that's the freestyle in a song for Matt. But it's
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: it takes time, you know what I mean. I don't
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: have I didn't come up like how some of these
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: rappers came up with a producer and a song choreographer
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: and people to structure they records. I've learned this shit
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: on my own, on the fly for the last fifteen
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: years of my life. So I'm not going to always
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: get the production right. I'm not going to always get
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: the hook right, but I'll learn from my mistakes. The
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: next time I will.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: Jam Morant talk about that.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: That's an interesting if the story is an interesting story period. Yeah,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: very unfortunate situation, but you took a different approach. I
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: feel like you wasn't extremely.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: Hard on him. Yeah, but you wasn't soft on him either.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 9: Walking through that process.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: Africa, Africa bro understanding who I Yeah, Bro, I'm an incubator.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: I'm somebody that can help the older people understand the
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: young people and the young people understand the old people.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 4: You feel me. So anything in our culture that goes
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: on that needs to be addressed, I'm the person to
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: say something. That's who I am. That's my identity in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: the game. So the first time Joall did it, it
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: was like I was on tour. I'm like, come on, Joe,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 4: what the fuck you? But I'm like this, obviously he
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: legged drunk, you know what I'm saying, Like yeah, But
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 4: then you do it the second time, you bugging right.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: So now it's like, Okay, you got people who don't
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: understand our culture, right, who don't understand what it's like
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: having millions of dollars who don't understand what it's like
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: trying to bring people out the hood that come from
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: that culture, and they're around you, and certain things find
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: you just based off who you located next to, and
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: they all got something to say, he's a thug, he's this,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: he's but y'all ain't never had to live that life,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And then you got people
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: that's saying, oh, why is it wrong for him to
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: carry a gun? And motherfucker, because he's a fucking two
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: hundred million dollar man, that's a public face for the NBA.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 4: He's a role model. So for me, it was more
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: so about getting everybody to understand the two right, and
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: even within that, understanding the role we as musicians playing
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: this shit because it's like, we'll let rappers do that
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: shit and it's cool all day. But because he got
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: two hundred million dollars and he played for the NBA,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: we gonna look at him like a thug but a
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 4: rappers cool. Like, it's too much hypocrisy in it, you
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. So if we're gonna talk about it,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 4: we got to talk about the role we play in it.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: We make songs about killing niggas and shoot niggas. And
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying we shouldn't, because that's certain people's lives
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: and their stories and what they've seen and what they've
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: been through. But we all ain't got a fall victim
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: to that, you know what I mean? And I'm address
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 4: it every time I can and let people know, Like,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: look at me, Bro, I ain't never killed the nigga
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 4: in my life, you know what I'm saying, Like I
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: ain't never shot a gun outside of a shooting range.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: It's like, I don't need to, and all black people
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 4: ain't got to, Like we all ain't got to be
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 4: that way, and we not. But that's how mainstream media
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 4: want to portray us. So when joshuaw a gun, it's
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: easy for them to go from two hundred million dollar
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: NBA player to a thug. It's like, nah, bro, hold on,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: check this out for a minute. Understand where he coming from.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: It's pressure on bro, I said. In fact, there's a
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 4: lot of pressure. I'm going back to that bar.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 8: As you said, Man, it's a prilipicion honor for people
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 8: to want something for you every day, and the drama
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 8: rant is a great example of it.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 5: Like when you still in those freestyles.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 8: I remember the first time I heard that La Leaka
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 8: street style and I was like, oh my god, like
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 8: heard you, I heard this thing?
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: Did another on my did you hear this?
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: You hear this?
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: Can I put it in the request?
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 8: Because when I heard that La Leaks freestyle, it made
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 8: me think back to being Segul. It's one of my
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 8: favorite rappers. Okay, shout out to Shinty. Yeah yeah, my birthday,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 8: my forty birthday. It was a moment, but it made
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 8: me think back A thousand bars okay at some point, Okay,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 8: can we get at a thousand bars a lot?
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 4: That's that's a lot.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 9: It's a lot of bars. Say twenty minutes.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 8: He did, well, it was like a ten minute him
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 8: and him and Bleak they did And I heard it before, right, Yeah,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 8: I know, I know because you comfort, I know, you study.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 4: It's not it's one of them things where it's a
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: free fall where you just let it all out, you
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. But I'm at this space where
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: it's like, bro, I say so much in my reps,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 4: like the way I write, I think a thousand bars
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 4: for me would sound like a fucking dictionary biology class
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 4: that people don't want to sit through cannabis. Yeah, because
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 4: I'm very passionate about the ship I say. I hate
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: just saying ship to say it like I have a
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 4: hard time making songs about nothing. You know, people could
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: just go in there and be like million dollars on
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: my wrist, bad ass bitch, she gonna suck my dicks
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: when there's an empty my clip. I'm with the ship.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 9: I said, hit record right there, yo, but.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 4: It's like, what the fuck did I say? A whole
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 4: lot of records like that. I like that, but it's like,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: what did I just say? It's like what I just say,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 4: And that's no offense to people who make music like that.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: It's just for me that ship don't sit right with
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: my soul for what I like to listen to them,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: for what I like to make, you know what I mean.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: I feel like when I'm getting on them, I gotta
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: say something because one day, bro, I'm gonna be gone
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: and I ain't gonna be here. You know what I mean.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: What people gonna have left is my words and my music.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 4: So I wanted to mean something. I don't want it
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: to just be some ship I put together.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: So we don't please.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: We met, you met your brothers. Interesting story. Yeah, tell
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: us that manage your family business. But y'all just recently met. Yeah,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: that's an interesting story.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So my dad bro, you know street cat, you know,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: doing this thing, and he handed up in prison when
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 4: I was young, when we both was young. But my
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 4: brother he kind of was more so like my dad.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: He was more in the streets and shit. And my
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: mom she kind of when I was younger, my mom
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 4: kind of like segregated me from like the streets, like
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 4: just totally moved me from that life. Because my mom
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 4: was in the streets and when I was young, she
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: just kind of moved me from it. So I naturally
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: just like was always into the arts and different things.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: So we never really crossed paths or whatever, even though
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 4: we was probably around each other a lot, but didn't
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 4: have the same interest in life to even have a
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: conversation or nothing like that. So my dad passed years ago,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: and I remember meeting him when I was younger, and
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 4: I used to always be like, man, I got a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: brother somewhere, my brother somewhere, and and I started doing
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: music and one day my uncle street Life he hit me.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: He was like, man, you got a brother, bro, Like
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: he just came home, like you should get in touch
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: with me, a cool dude. And then it's like I
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: just had the freestyle come out Lebron post me. So
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: I'm like, here they go with this shit, Here come
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: this shit, right. So I'm telling my mom and shit,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: like I'm telling my mom like she's like, nah, you do,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: She's like, ya, remember you met him. I'm like, yeah,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: I do. But I'm like I don't really know. So
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: we end up talking on Instagram and then we would,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 4: you know, talk here and there, back and forth. And
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 4: then one day I was in Philly drunk as hell.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 4: You know them nights when like you be out late
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 4: drinking and you go to sleep at like five in
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 4: the morning and he wake up at seven thirty still
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 4: licks like can't go back to sleep. It was one
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: of them days. So I end up calling and we
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: was just on the phone for like four hours, and shit,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: ever since then, we've just been rocking. Ever since then, Doug,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 4: we've just been traveling the world and rapping and.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: Trapping and trapping.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: How's that bench?
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: Just you know, because it's once again going back to
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: that story where it's like long lost people that's being reunited,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 3: like obviously a lot of time was lost, But how's
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 3: that like been as far as just like connecting with
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: somebody that you never really had a relationship with.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: I feel like it worked out better as we got
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 4: older because I was so one track minded when I
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: was younger, and for what he was involved in, I
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 4: would have been like, I ain't going around that nigga.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: Other would have just totally separated myself and been closed off.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 4: With me being older and him being older and having
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 4: an understanding of certain things he been through and me
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: having a certain understanding of things I've been through, we
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: was able to have a conversation and that we related
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 4: to each other through through different scenarios. So it's things
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 4: he been through in the streets that I've been through music,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. We could relate through it
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 4: through communication. But if we never would have been able
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: to live life to experience them things what we have
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 4: to talk about, you know. So I feel like it
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: kind of worked out as we got older than it
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 4: did younger, you know what I mean. But I got
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: like siblings and shit that we was cooler when we
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: was younger, and I don't even talk to they As
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: I got a younger brother, I got an older sister.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 4: I got another sister in Texas and another sister in Atlanta.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: And I think I got another brother, but I'm not
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: After the new album, we have four.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Perhaps it's interesting because you talk about man J
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 8: and we talked about new music on the way. I
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 8: wonder what you define as success because you don't take
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 8: me as a guy that's like, hey, I got this
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 8: many streams or I sold this many records. So how
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 8: do you quantify success for your music?
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: Achieving a goal? Just like whatever my goal was for it?
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: Like last year. Last year, my goal was to put
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 4: out a project and find where my fans were. That
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 4: was literally my definition of success for twenty twenty two.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: Bright ended up on Jimmy Kimmel the breakfast club funk
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: Master Flex. I didn't imagine none of it. I thought
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: that was gonna happen two three years later, you know
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: what I mean. So for me, it's just like achieving
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: a goal, like right now, like I want to make
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: five million.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 9: Dollars, Like that's my goal by any means necessary.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: That's my year. Like this year, I wanted to just
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: like have five million dollars tucked like, all right, that's
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: over there, Like that's my new goal. And then I'm
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: pretty sure when I do that, I'm gonna want one
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: hundred million, you know what I mean. So it changes,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 4: it changes every day, but it's like that's my new goal.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: Like that's what's gonna make me feel successful. Is the
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: day that I know I got five million tucked right now?
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: So you got the NBA Playoffs, Yeah, getting your jersey
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: from Kevin Durant.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but it was a partnership with the NBA ESPN.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: ESPN was deal with that, so basically we were able
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 4: to make the music for the commercials. So something I've
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: realized is my music does better on other platforms and
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: on streaming suits because the people who listen to my music,
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: what I've realized is they have a tough time navigating
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: through the internet. So I don't have a lot of
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: like young kids that listen to me. They will in
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 4: the next two to three years as they grow up,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: you know, and experienced life more, but it's hard for
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: them to navigate through the internet. For who listens to
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: me currently, So I found ways to find platforms that
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: they like to live on, like the NBA or the NFL,
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: or video games, you leisure, video games, Joe Budden's podcasts,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 4: different platforms that I know my demographic pays attention to
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 4: because they're a very inquisitive demographic. So I have to
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: go to those platforms. And the NBA was one of them.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: So they noticed that I just be at a lot
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 4: of games. I'm just a big Hoop fan because I
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: played Hoop. I feel like a lot of Hoopers relate
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 4: to my music because I tell a lot of stories
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: that Hoopers go through. So I've you know, cool with
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: Draymond Green, cool with Kevin Durant, cool Lebron James. And
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: they could see that. So I was making music for
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: Madden last year in two K and when I did
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: the Warriors halftime show in December for the Celtics, they
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: was like, Yo, we want to kind of figure something
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 4: out for ESPN, like a song or something for the playoffs.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: And it was like, let's do it. So we had
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 4: a conversation about us, you know, making music for the commercial.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: So they sent us a bunch of clips and stuff
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: to watch and me, Raven and my boy Jada Great,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: we just sat in there and we came up with
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: a bunch of ideas and next thing we know, like
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: they was all over espn FO. Yeah.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 5: So you're a Warriors guy. Oh man, let's just put
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 5: us out there.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, I am a Golden State Warrior, but Simba
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: is a Golden No, Simba is a Los Angeles Warrior son.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 9: Los Angeles Warriors son. So you you're a Lakers fan.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: Lakers are clipping Lakers, Lakers, Warriors and the Suns West
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: You just West Coast.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm fans of players, so that's my thing.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: You got three teams in the same division.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: I've never I've never supported institutions. I only support individuals.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: So I'm stealing that.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you right here, it's an easy time.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: I'm stealing that.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 5: You can't steal because it's.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: No bro, that's me. I've never been a fan of it,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: like no offense. I've never been a fan of the Lakers.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 4: I was a fan of the Lakers so long because
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: they had Kobe Bryant. You a fan of Kobe and
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: I was a fan of Kobe. That was my fair
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: It's my favorite player.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 5: Ever.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: I was a fan of the Lakers when they got Palgasol.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: I was a fan of Lakers when Lebron came, you
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. So in that gap between them,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: I went back to my that's the fact that my
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 4: Warriors start turning up because I was with the Warriors.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 8: As a guy who likes the front running team, right
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 8: because no, why, that's why. Here's why Kobe's winning championships.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 8: I'm with them, Warriors winning championships.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: I'm with them.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: But I was with Kobe when he wasn't winning championship exactly.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: That was like in the nineties, bro Kobe took Brandy
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: to the prom. Where do we talk?
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: That's a fact.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 4: That's a fact, my idol dog. I wanted to take
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 4: Brandy to the prom so bad. I wasn't old enough
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 4: to go to no prom. But Kobe did.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 8: He definitely did that. He definitely did that and won
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 8: three years after that, four years after that.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So and then Shaq left. And you say we
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: had a rough few years.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: I like that. You said we we had a rough
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 5: few years.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: But in a rough few years, I was going to
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: them we believe games, watching my dog, Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: Matt Barnes. I was watching the Donald Foyle and them boys.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: I was, I was, I was dad.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: I respect that that's different than what he's going to say.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 5: That's my it is different. You're gonna tell me Lebron
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: that you listen.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: I have three players that I've supported over the last
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: twenty five years of basketball. You gotta really I played
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: basketball every single day of my life for twenty years.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 9: I'm like basketball, it was my life. Latreull's Spreewall was my.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: First guy on Golden State actually, and then when he
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 3: got to the Knicks as well, Alan Iverson when he
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: got into the league.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: That's new Latrell and the nexs he was with.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: Not as much as Golden State. But I always was
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: a Latrun's seedball fan. That's why I wore fifteen. I'm saying, like,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: this is different. I remember with La Treil's people fan.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna tell you the entire star lineup.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: That he was with. But I was watching them play
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: Gollary Fish and you you was in Golden State with it?
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: You got me, you gonna go.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: I wore fifteen because of spre ball. He never won
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: a championship in Golden State. It's a great player, Alan Iverson,
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: great player. I wasn't Alan Iverson. Ai fantasis.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 5: You're not six You weren't a Sixers fan.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: I was a Sixers fan. So I was moving for
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 3: the Sixes because here and then, when Lebron gets into
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: the leagu then what it was Lebron?
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: Then you're not rocking with the Sixes no more.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: He was off the he was out of the Sixes.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: I think it wasn't he came in two thousand and three.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: Bron came in two thousand and three. Well, y'all, I
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: had just won a m v P when Lebron came in.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: My alliances Lebron.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 5: There's no loyalty, no loyalty.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: He still rock with his guy.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 5: I've been with Lebron for twenty years, y'all. I was
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 5: still playing bro.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 4: But that don't mean you can't like somebody.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 9: Was it changes?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: No loyalty, No, I'm change. That's not saying because you
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 4: like the Russell you can't like Simba.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 5: I like both of y'all.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 4: Okay, So there's no loyalty.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 5: No, it's not what you just said. This is the
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 5: team sport. That's individual Nope, that's team sport.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 8: No, no, no no, Because if he tides to go
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 8: at you, you're gonna go back at him, and it's
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 8: gonna be an individual thing is if.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: The Lakers go with the Warriors, they're gonna go back
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 4: at each other.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 9: Way swim for playing switch teams, Bro, most players don't
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 9: the same.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: That's my brother. By the way, I'm just using that.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 5: It's loyalty.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 8: Right when I found out about the game of basketball
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 8: the eighties, the Bulls is my team to day.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: I don't care the Bulls of my team. Yeah, but
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 5: downs we ain't win since ninety I get it.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: So just because you're loyal to a Fox, don't mean
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 4: there's no loyal I said, that's not loyal you just
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 4: like my homie Kirk, he's a Dallas Cowboys fan. Every
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 4: year they're going to the Super Bowl every year. Bro,
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 4: you're just loyal to a fault.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 8: I'm realistic though my loyalty. I know, like this is
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 8: not a championship team every Like when we got Derrick Rose,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm Lloyd got a chance to go to
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 8: State Warriors.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: Because of Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Steph Curry, Michael Petrice Baron, Davis,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: Matt Barnes, Stephen Jackson. What was my boy Jason Richardson what.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 4: I'm loyal to the Lakers because of Lebron James, Kobe Bryant,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: and Magic Johnson. Even though I was too young for
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 4: Magic Johnson, I watched his highlights. Okay, I'm loyal to
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: the Phoenix Suns only because of their fan base and
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: Kevin Durant.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: See it, So before Kevin, you weren't walking with them.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: Not until Kevin Durant. Because I'm lord of Kevin Durant, Brooklyn.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 4: That's my guy wherever he goes, and I'm gonna be
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: at the game.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: Speaking of basketball, got you. You made a comment that
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: you recently recanted. You said you was educated, you received
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: education on it with Michael Jordan.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 4: I was going to save this apology. I was gonna
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 4: save this apology for Gilbert Arena show, for fuck it, Michael,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 4: Michael Jeffrey Jordans aka the Black Cat, ak a Black
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 4: Jesus Jesus aka the number one shoot ever. I apologize.
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: I apologize. You are the greatest basketball player of all time,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: of all time. If there's ever a goat, even though
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: I said no one's the goat, We're all the goat.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: If there's ever a goat, it's because of you. I'm sorry.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 4: I apologize. You are the greatest of all time.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 5: Uh and as a life long Chicago fan, I stand
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: by that statement.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 9: Michael is definitely eas a go. He's he's a goal
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 9: for sure. Start with the A he had his moment.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 9: He's definitely a goal.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 5: He's a he said the and you're saying it's two
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 5: different things.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: I got schooled. I got schooled when the education happened.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 3: Like what they were like, give you statistics, they were
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: showing you game feel like, Bro, they do.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 5: Study with him.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you who it was. I didn't even
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 4: tell nobody who gave me the Listen, I'm gonna see
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: it right here. It was Katie.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 9: Katie.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: Katie gave you a lesson, Bro, What better person?
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: I went to k So let me that. I went
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: to Kd's house after Game four right in Phoenix. Yes, Bro,
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: he literally put me through Michael Jordan's school, literally like
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 4: from the beginning, dog Like, Bro, how could you can't
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: never say that again? You gotta understand they wouldn't even
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: pick guards in the top five of players before Mike.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: It was a big man's league. People like Great Hill
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 4: and all these people start gett drafted like.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 5: He's just going.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 4: There's no stopping pop, there's no fade away. You gotta
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 4: understand I'm able to dribble the way I dribble across
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: people over because Mike went to the front office to
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: sit people can't keep playing this aggressive that he was
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 4: just on me, And I'm like, damn, I didn't know
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: all of that. And the part that got me was
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 4: when he told me he won MVP Defensive Player of
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 4: the Year, Yes, and All Team NB eight in the
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 4: same season.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 5: I believe the year was eighty eight.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: I said, dog, I am foul. I am foul, and
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 4: I apologized, but I did not understand it. I felt
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 4: like Mike was first because he was like doing things first.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 4: It made him look a lot better than he was.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 4: But when Kevin broke it down and showed me the
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: stats and showed me everything he created, the way people
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: finish around the basket, the way Kyrie finished, just certain things,
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: the crossover Kobe had just Jimmy Butler's crossed, so like
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: he just broke it down. Yeah, he broke it down.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 8: Ray Allen just had a similar argument. He broke it Jordan,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 8: I mean, you take the you're just gonna stick with
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 8: the A I'm loyal. I mean, he broke it down
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: so cold up something. But like I said, Michael, he's
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 8: he's definitely, he's an icon.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: He showed me some game where like like Mike was
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: just having a bad game where it was looking like
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: he didn't even want to play, and then some dude
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: said something in the fourth quarter like.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 9: I was just watching that.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like you off the night Champ or something,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: and he just came out and dropped twenty three and
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 4: won the game.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 9: We just watching that actually today, Big, I was just
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 9: watching it.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: K He showed me that that, Bro. I was yeah,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Mike, I'm sorry.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 3: Before we leave, we got to talk about this artificial intelligence. Yeah,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 3: this is something that is very controversial. Timberland.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 4: You heard his talk with Big, Yeah, like it it
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 4: was okay.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was okay too. Drake songs hard hard,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: so hard. So a lot of peoples going back and
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: forth with this. Some people like it, some people don't
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 3: like it. What's your thoughts on this?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: Like I said earlier, Bro, I'm a fan of innovation,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: so I understand that it's you know, hasn't been regulated yet,
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 4: even though I'm reading things about it becoming that. I
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 4: see Universal just did a deal with an AI company.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 4: I think Warner is getting ready to do some things
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 4: with an AI company, and pretty sure Sony is too.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: But I think it's great. I think people are scared
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 4: of it because I think it replaces us in a
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 4: lot of ways. But at the same time, it helps
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 4: us in a lot of ways. And it's nothing like
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 4: one thing about humans, bro, It's nothing like human and
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 4: human interaction, you know what I mean. So no matter
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 4: how much the AI can duplicate our emotions and all
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: these different things, it ain't lived our life and they
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 4: can't tell our story like we can, you know what
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 4: I mean. So it might be able to say things
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 4: we've been a part of a lot faster, a lot
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: more efficient. But let's use it as a tool. Let's
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 4: use it as a tool to make us more faster
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 4: and efficient rather than looking at it, looking at it
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 4: as something that's gonna take our jobs or whatever it
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 4: may be. But I think it's dope, bro. I can't
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 4: wait to hear the joint Biggie and Tupac mixtape like
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to hear Kendrick and Drake album.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 9: Would you do a song with?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 8: Like?
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 9: Would you do a song with Tupac on the aio?
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: I got a jay Z feature at the crib?
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 5: Do you.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 4: Me and pop got?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about one way or another?
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 9: Is that?
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 5: And I know you love Jay?
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 4: We have a mutual Yeah, it's my favorite ever? Bro?
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 5: Is that is that the dream you like? We have
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 5: to do in real life?
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 4: Drake Future and Drake I mean J Future and Drake
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 4: those are my three and j Cole Kendrick would be
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 4: my fifth.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 9: I told you you remember the conversation I had with
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 9: you about that song.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, those are like my favor My number one would
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: be Whole for sure, because, like I always say, he
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 4: the reason.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 5: I rap, like like whole he tapped in.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 4: No but uh, Lenny's my guy. Earl is my guy?
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: Who else?
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 5: Are?
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 4: Guru? Shows me a lot of support, a lot of
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of But I haven't physically talked to him
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 4: or met him in person, but he's literally the reason
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  Speaker 4: I rap, bro Like he was the one that made
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  Speaker 4: me be like, oh okay, I ain't gotta just you know,
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  Speaker 4: rap about shooting them upucker, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Selling drugs and all this, even though Hove talked about it,
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  Speaker 4: he talked about the thugs that come with it. Hopefully
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to go through that. He wasn't just
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  Speaker 4: like I'm on the corner selling drugs. Just the greatest
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  Speaker 4: life ever, you know what I'm saying. Like he was
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  Speaker 4: really telling you, like nigga, change is cool to cop
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  Speaker 4: the most important, you know what I'm saying, front, the
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  Speaker 4: place where it's the shakiest. But he said, niggas don't
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  Speaker 4: come around along because they eighthyst pray to God so
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 4: long that the eighthyist front the other side where other
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 4: guys don't talk too much, and the dudes ran up.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say, the girls ran down the tomp and so
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  Speaker 4: them dudes to trust. I don't know what the fuck
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  Speaker 4: they thought. Niggas just like us. I'm from where the
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: beef is inevitable, half price for the new. You know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. That ship, that ship, if you ain't living,
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  Speaker 4: that ship made me be like, damn, I could rap
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  Speaker 4: about what's going on around me. I ain't necessarily got
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 4: to be like doing it, you know. And that's really
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 4: where I got my staff from. How many classics as
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 4: you have I think the only jay Z album that's
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 4: not a classic is Kingdom Come in Blueprint three.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, everyone else is a classic.
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  Speaker 4: And I could be biased, obviously I could be. But
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  Speaker 4: to me, they're all classics because they're all revelations of
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 4: where he was at life in life at that moment,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 4: and they are great bodies of work, and they're all
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 4: things we could go back to. Like I could go
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  Speaker 4: to Magna Carter right now and learn some ship. I
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  Speaker 4: can go to four four four right now, and it's
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 4: some ship. I was just going through with my being,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, And I was telling her like,
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  Speaker 4: it's the same ship. I could go to Blueprint one,
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  Speaker 4: Blue blue Print to Blueprint two point five Black album,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 4: uh one, Get Value one, Like it's They're all classics
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  Speaker 4: in their own way.
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  Speaker 9: So shout out the whole.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the goat of all times.
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  Speaker 9: Shout out the whole.
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  Speaker 4: The goat for sure, we said the goat you can
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: call the hold is definitely the Michael Jordan's right.
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  Speaker 9: They stay.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's loyalty. Speaking of loyalty, So this
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: is the last story I'll talk about hip hop. I'm
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 3: so loyal. That's why I'm surprised you say I'm not loyal.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 3: I'm probably the most loyal person ever. NOAs my son's
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: name is not said so obviously like Nas, that's my
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: favorite ever. So it was tough times for for for
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 3: Nas when takeover came out, right, he was a big
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: nos and huge nos.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 9: Still a takeover came.
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  Speaker 3: He called me this call me on my on my
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  Speaker 3: mother's house phone, right like, yo, yo, your man is done.
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  Speaker 5: Oh don't tell the story like what you're talking. Tell
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: the story like that.
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  Speaker 9: Yo. You heard you heard the takeover joint. I'm like
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 9: what you're talking about right now?
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  Speaker 5: Bro?
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  Speaker 3: He played me take over over the phone. I listened
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  Speaker 3: to it. That's how loyal I am. I said, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it is wack.
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  Speaker 5: That part of that part of the story is true.
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  Speaker 5: That part, I promise you.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 4: I promise you that part of the story is true
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 4: because I could not.
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  Speaker 5: You can't.
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  Speaker 9: I could not.
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  Speaker 5: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Takeover was better than ether.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 5: No, No, we're not gonna do that. But that part
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 5: of the story was true. The other part was not.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't say your man. Dad said, Yo, you said
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 8: it's got a problem over. I didn't say it's over.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 5: I said, got a problem and then that problem not
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 5: before Ether because then he drank over.
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  Speaker 4: It was better than either a lot of people say
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 4: that it was that's a song. You're saying everything induction lyrics.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 4: Ether just have more shock value.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 3: You gotta look at it like this from me when
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 3: Ether came out, the impact that it had on New
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 3: York City, I don't know about everyone else in the
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 3: world was Oh, no impact that it had.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 4: It felt like they felt like that in the world.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it was.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: I went to school to take and it was just
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: like it was mazing.
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  Speaker 8: We have to get to the radio to see, like
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 8: remember and he had the whole thing with the whole
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 8: It was a moment.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: It was it was that was a crazy moment as
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 4: a kid, like and I'm as a whole fan, I'm like,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: what you go? And then he just came was super
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 4: ugly en.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, they apologize and it was like, oh, you.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: Know, Takeover is better than either.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 3: So we asked ice Cube his top five I don't
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 3: know if you saw that that's been trending online. We
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: asked in his top five battles on the Wall top
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: he didn't even have take Up, take Out, Takeover.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 5: It wasn't in the top he had no Vaciline Ether
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  Speaker 5: undeniably number one.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 4: He had because Cuba is a West Coast nigga and
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 4: just Ether so aggressive, like he just you know, que
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 4: West Coast of the court. West Coast music is rooted
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 4: in aggression.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize how I'm not from that era, so
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  Speaker 3: I never really grew up on n w Ain't nothing
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 3: like that. But I had to go back and listen
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 3: to no vassel and Crazy. It's hard no Vasselines, who
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: is one of the greats Bro? Now that's like, that's
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: a hard one of the goats bro. Like he's cold.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: Like we were talking about the other day, like who's
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: the Barrelyris this Cube or Scarface?
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  Speaker 5: That's tough.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 9: Face Face is tough though.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 5: Face has one of my favorite albums all time to Fix,
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 5: like Fixed.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 4: Fix because if you think about it, they like represent
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 4: the same, you know what I mean? They represent the same.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 5: That's a tough one.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 9: It's like d m X. He kind of like that
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 9: type of person too.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 4: X was man. That was my favorite, like for a
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 4: long time when I was.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 8: A kid like X in your in your uh creative laboratory,
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 8: you had the New York Mount Rushmore.
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 5: Who wasn't.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna tell you new show coming soon soon
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 4: you it will be revealed, y'all. I appreciate you, brother.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 9: What do you want the people to be aware of?
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 3: You say you got the new project dropping? Yeah, what's
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 3: the what's the end for everything?
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 4: Man? New project on the way, don't call me now
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 4: coming soon. We got a date coming for you soon.
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: Most importantly, man, y'all stay aware of self stair where
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 4: a positive energy stallware. These brothers stay where Everybody in
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: the culture, man, that's doing their part to keep us moving,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: keep us moving forward, creating black businesses, taking people off
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 4: the streets and putting them in meetings. Let's be aware
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: of that man. Till then let's keep doing we doing.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you man, Like I said, I really appreciate the music.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 3: I'm a fan, so I'm watching rooting for you man,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 3: So you know, keep going man.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 4: Same here, bro, I appreciate your platform. I'm coming to
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 4: investment it is you.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 3: Heard it first spit yes, Ai God, thanks for rocking
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 3: what us. We'll see you next week.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 9: Pete please.
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