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Episode 316 "Dreka Gates · The Baller Alert Show

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Speaker 4: That drink got the building.
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Speaker 2: With all energy. How you doing today? First and foremost great?
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Speaker 5: Happy to be here?
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Speaker 2: Are you?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I am. We want to start from the beginning of
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Speaker 2: drink of life and can we do that?
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Speaker 6: From bad Rouge, Louisiana. You were born and raised there,
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Speaker 6: Like what was it like growing up?
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Speaker 5: It was different? But you know I was in the suburbs, Okay,
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Speaker 5: I was kind of like bad Ruge suburbs.
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Speaker 2: They sure do come. But you never heard of any
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Speaker 2: suburbs and bad Ruge.
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Speaker 5: But you could.
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Speaker 7: Like that part I was. I was on the outskirts
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Speaker 7: of the city.
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Speaker 2: So that's why you didn't adapt accent that part. Did
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Speaker 2: you like go to like a Catholic school?
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Speaker 5: I know Catholic did not regular regular regular high school?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, play sports or anything like that.
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Speaker 5: I played volleyball, I did the shot put, javelin, shot
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Speaker 5: put in.
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Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, your parents must have been well off.
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Speaker 5: Then, like I mean, my parents were well off, like
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Speaker 5: upper middle class.
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Speaker 7: But you know, because you're doing the shot put, you're
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Speaker 7: doing just like.
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Speaker 2: All the rich sports. That's a rich ties sports.
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Speaker 1: You to your technique with that, you got pay practice
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Speaker 1: shot facts.
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Speaker 2: Were you like in the church heavy at all?
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Speaker 5: Or No?
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Speaker 7: Thirteen?
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Speaker 5: I told my mom I wasn't going to church anymore
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Speaker 5: because I didn't really believe in because I grew up Baptists,
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Speaker 5: and it's like every time you go in the church
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Speaker 5: are always talking about.
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Speaker 7: How horrible the kids are these days, and how horrible
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Speaker 7: this is, how horrible that is.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't trying to hear that.
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Speaker 7: Okay, so what does she say, Okay, you don't have
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Speaker 7: to go Hell no, that was a fight.
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Speaker 5: Like I grew up, like I'm in Louisiana, like it's
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Speaker 5: still part of like the Bible every Sunday like that
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Speaker 5: has to go exactly, you don't have a choice.
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Speaker 2: So that was that.
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Speaker 5: That ended up in a little bit of a little scuffle.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so you was going to church till you moved out?
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Speaker 5: No, because I stood I mentioned that I wasn't going.
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Speaker 2: So did that affect your relationship with your mom or anything?
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Speaker 5: I mean it did, but she's like, we're so close now,
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Speaker 5: you know everybody goes through that with their parents, know
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Speaker 5: me agors.
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Speaker 2: I love that. Yes, get me started. I got a
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Speaker 2: couple in the house.
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Speaker 5: Man, I'm on the verge of that.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, were you like a nerve? Did you get
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Speaker 1: straight a's?
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Speaker 5: You did? I get? I got straight a's when I
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Speaker 5: was in.
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Speaker 2: Great I didn't.
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Speaker 5: I got and I was taking college courses my senior year.
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Speaker 2: Sounds very yes, I'm very definitely would have been.
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Speaker 7: Look I had some people doing it.
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Speaker 2: So did you go to college? Did you go to college?
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Speaker 5: I went to l s U and two years and
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Speaker 5: I dropped out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you didn't finish No, I did not.
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Speaker 7: I dropped out and got in the music industry.
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Speaker 6: Oh wow, Okay, so let's get into that. What was
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Speaker 6: that your dream to do?
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Speaker 7: What was your dream?
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Speaker 5: My dream was to be a doctor. Like I always
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Speaker 5: felt like I was like a healer. I always wanted
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Speaker 5: to help people. So I actually went went to l
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Speaker 5: s U for pre med, but I stopped after like
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Speaker 5: two years and I started taking over Kevin's career. Well
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Speaker 5: started off.
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Speaker 6: What made you quit the medical field? Did you like
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Speaker 6: this is too hard or it's just too much? No?
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, your first two years of college
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Speaker 5: you're taking a bunch of like BS courses.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, So.
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Speaker 5: It was easy for me to not want to continue,
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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, because I hadn't gotten to
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Speaker 5: like the good stuff. And then like I just saw
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to say, another opportunity. But just like
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Speaker 5: Kevin and I, we were together prior to all of that,
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Speaker 5: but he was an fucking amazing writer. I mean he
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Speaker 5: still is to this day. Like he's very fucking talented,
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Speaker 5: and I just thought that he should take it serious.
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Speaker 5: And we had a talk one day and I asked
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Speaker 5: him and he was like, yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 1: So you you you were dating Kevin before you went
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Speaker 1: to college.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so you went high school high school sweethearts.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if you college sweethearts. That was my
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Speaker 7: sweetheart though. Yeah, I always say that because yeah, I
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Speaker 7: guess high school.
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Speaker 2: Sweet, huh would you meet at my brother's football?
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Speaker 5: It was so crazy. Okay, so my brother and his
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Speaker 5: sister were like brother. They play brother and sister and
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Speaker 5: we had no clue. He was picking up his sister
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Speaker 5: from my brother's football game, and I was going to
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Speaker 5: see my brother play football.
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Speaker 2: Man, what happened?
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Speaker 5: He hemmed me up.
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Speaker 2: I know he said something to you, though. What did
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Speaker 2: he say? What was his first word?
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Speaker 6: Like?
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Speaker 2: Whatever?
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Speaker 7: It was something like that.
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Speaker 5: He was in front of me walking, I'm behind him.
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Speaker 5: He kept turning around looking at me, but he said
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Speaker 5: that I was looking at him. Of course I'm looking
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Speaker 5: at you if you're walking in front of me, right.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And so then he hemmed me up at my car.
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Speaker 7: We talked for like two three hours.
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Speaker 2: Damn your first interaction you talked.
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Speaker 5: First interaction wow, which impressed all kind of stuff?
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Speaker 7: Were you impressed? Was I impressed?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 7: So I was. I was hard.
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Speaker 5: I was really hard on gods.
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Speaker 7: Gonna say, what do you mean hard on guys? Like
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Speaker 7: I had never like.
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Speaker 5: I also lost my virginity to him, So it was
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Speaker 5: like I wasn't really like you gotta like come with
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Speaker 5: it if you're trying to you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Are you like a daddy's girl?
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Speaker 5: Was like I was, okay, Yeah, I think daddy's girls
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Speaker 5: would just kind of like, yeah, it's kind of like
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Speaker 5: a puzzle. You gotta exactly, yes, you gotta figure me out.
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Speaker 2: What does your family think about on your relationship? When
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Speaker 2: y'all first started.
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Speaker 5: Doing Oh my gosh, nobody liked it. Everybody was against it.
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Speaker 5: Nobody was really for it.
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Speaker 2: But he wasn't all the way Kevin Gates yet though, right.
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Speaker 5: No, Oka, he was just Kevin.
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Speaker 6: But you was getting the pieces together when you was
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Speaker 6: putting his career together. So what was your game plan
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Speaker 6: as far as you know, managing him and taking on
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Speaker 6: his career with him?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I just thought that he was really fucking talented,
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Speaker 5: and I'm very good at like I call myself kind
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Speaker 5: of like a visionary, Like I can see people like
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Speaker 5: and where they're going and what they could be. And
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Speaker 5: I told him I was like, dude, I actually told
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Speaker 5: him that he was gonna be a motivational speaker. But
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Speaker 5: he has like fucking become that in a sense. And
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Speaker 5: I mean, as far as I get into the music, industry.
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Speaker 5: I didn't know anything about it. I just figured it
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Speaker 5: out and made it work, put the pieces together.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 4: So how did that conversation go. Did you say, listen,
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Speaker 4: I need to manage you.
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Speaker 7: No, it was it wasn't even that.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't even like.
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Speaker 5: Me just managing him because I literally played like every
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Speaker 5: single role that you could possibly play, like in an
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Speaker 5: artist's career, you know what I'm saying, booking agent, all
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Speaker 5: the things, you know. And so once we acquired like
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Speaker 5: all those other like I guess you say, team members
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Speaker 5: or players, like I was strictly in that manager role.
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Speaker 6: And that was two thousand and six, two thousand and six.
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Speaker 6: So fast forward to twenty ten. You guys found a
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Speaker 6: company bread Winners Association.
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Speaker 5: Yes, bread Winners Association that was the record label home
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Speaker 5: to him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I did a partnership deal with the label. So
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Speaker 4: how was it hard when you were coming in there
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Speaker 4: as like a partner with him? And was it kind
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Speaker 4: of hard for people to like respect you, like she
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Speaker 4: don't know nothing about the music business, like you know, hell.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because they just looked at me as the girlfriend. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: and it's like, no, I'm way more than that. And
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Speaker 5: so I actually had to like hire, so let me
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Speaker 5: have this story to tell you. So when I went
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Speaker 5: to the label, they actually suggested to me that I
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Speaker 5: should hire a manager for him, and I'm like, but
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Speaker 5: I am the manager, Like what do you mean?
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 2: So I did what they suggested.
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Speaker 5: But in the process of me doing that, like this
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Speaker 5: person that was in place was always like, okay, let
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Speaker 5: me go Astrika, let me go Astrica. Okay, I got
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Speaker 5: to go back with Drica. I'm waiting to hear from Drica.
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Speaker 5: So it was like eventually they caught on like okay,
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Speaker 5: like she's really the one that's like workings exactly. So
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Speaker 5: then I then they eventually like respected me and the
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Speaker 5: people that were in the beginning, like they they truly
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Speaker 5: respect me, like they're like executives now.
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Speaker 1: And because my wife is a big fan of Kevin
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Speaker 1: Gas and she's also a big fan of you, So
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Speaker 1: after we're done, I'm going to FaceTime her. But you
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Speaker 1: guys started getting fans of him, but fans of you
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Speaker 1: two together. So how was that as this was happening
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Speaker 1: so in real time, because they they'd be like, where's Kevin,
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Speaker 1: Where's dream Because.
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Speaker 2: I remember that he came to the radio station, and
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Speaker 2: I facetimed him. I facetimed her.
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Speaker 1: She was like, where's Draka, Yes, so I kind of
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Speaker 1: knew that started happening. How did that make you feel,
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Speaker 1: because now it's almost like you had to be everywhere
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Speaker 1: he was at exactly.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, No, we were literally joined at the hip,
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Speaker 5: like if you saw him, I wasn't too far away,
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Speaker 5: and vice versa. So it was kind of weird for
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Speaker 5: me because I'm not I don't want to be the star,
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Speaker 5: like I don't want to be a singer or a
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Speaker 5: rapper or anything like that. Like my place was in
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Speaker 5: the background, like handling the business. That's my comference zone,
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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So it was it was
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Speaker 5: kind of weird, but I'm like I understood it, you know.
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Speaker 2: And he was one of the first rappers that really
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Speaker 2: acknowledged his lady next to him. Yes, I mean we
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Speaker 2: saw it when artists would blow up in the beginning
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Speaker 2: of their careers and then they get a girlfriend. You
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Speaker 2: came in the game with him next to him, So
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Speaker 2: I feel like he was one of the first artists
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Speaker 2: that I saw had his lady right next to him.
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Speaker 2: And you guys had kids and I was like, this
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Speaker 2: is literally happening for a public eye.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it was pretty amazing.
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Speaker 5: I think it was really good for a lot of
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Speaker 5: people to see that because I feel like we influenced
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Speaker 5: like a lot of you know.
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Speaker 6: And it's hard to have somebody that you can trust
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Speaker 6: your career because a lot of people get into a
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Speaker 6: lot of messy things. But some of your duties were
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Speaker 6: you led the touring the merchandise department to a multimillion
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Speaker 6: dollar success that expanded the label into a lifestyle brand.
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Speaker 6: Like what was your strategy? How did you do that?
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Speaker 5: I mean, it was all about just growing the brand.
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Speaker 5: It was like, Okay, yes the music is popping, you
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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, But there are other avenues of
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Speaker 5: making money, you know what I'm saying. There's other ways
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Speaker 5: to really maximize and capitalize off of this. And so
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Speaker 5: I really just I just did what I felt that
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Speaker 5: I should be doing, to be honest with you, and
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Speaker 5: also just looking at other brands when it came to
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Speaker 5: like merchandise. You know, merchandise is huge. Now you can
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Speaker 5: potentially make more off of merchandise than means you are
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Speaker 5: off for music.
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Speaker 2: That's not his case.
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Speaker 5: But because I mean he's very well established, but you know,
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Speaker 5: like there's still really really good money that you don't
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Speaker 5: have to get out your bed for. And it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: We'll be right back with more of The Baller Alert Show.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert Show.
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Speaker 7: What's up.
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Speaker 5: It's Driga Gates and you are now tuned into the
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Speaker 5: Baller Alert Show.
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Speaker 2: So I do know eventually you guys got he became
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Speaker 2: so big that you had to hire help. Yes, what
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Speaker 2: was that conversation like and how did that happen?
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Speaker 5: I mean it was really like it's a necessity at
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Speaker 5: some point because one person you can't do it all,
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Speaker 5: You're gonna kill yourself, you know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 5: it was very it was welcoming, especially for me, you know,
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Speaker 5: because I'm the one that's like, oh gosh, and wife
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Speaker 5: like a lot.
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Speaker 7: How did you separate the marriage and love and business.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it came to a point to where there
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Speaker 5: was really no separation. And I'm going to say this
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Speaker 5: now that I was guilty of being more in the
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Speaker 5: business manager role than wife role at times, because it's like,
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Speaker 5: at the end of the day, like I know, it
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Speaker 5: does but I don't mind saying it. I don't mind,
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Speaker 5: you know, because I'm guilty of that. I was more
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Speaker 5: in the you know, that role than I wasn't a
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Speaker 5: wife role because you know, that had become my life.
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Speaker 5: That was our life. Like you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: We spent eighty to ninety percent of our time on
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Speaker 5: the road, I mean eight of the year on the
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Speaker 5: road touring, So that was like life to me. Everything
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Speaker 5: else had to you know, come second and third.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's probably hard doing the separation.
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Speaker 4: What was what was some of the things that you
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Speaker 4: have to do to like actually start to separate yourself
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Speaker 4: from you know, the roles of being a wife and
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Speaker 4: music executives and things like that.
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Speaker 5: Man, it just and this is gonna sound kind of silly,
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Speaker 5: but behind closed doors is something different.
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Speaker 7: That's you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: That's because when we're out in public, like it's it's
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Speaker 5: the business, it's the music, it's you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, like having someone
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Speaker 5: standing on the side of you that's in full support,
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Speaker 5: like that is what really kind of like I guess
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Speaker 5: you could say, like held it all together.
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Speaker 2: And you never wanted to put out music. Ever, No,
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Speaker 2: I never wanted to.
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Speaker 7: Have you ever heard me sing I'm horrible?
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Speaker 5: Heard me rap I'm horrible?
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Speaker 4: Well listen now, now you got writers, Now you know
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Speaker 4: you can you get somebody.
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Speaker 7: I know I will still never do it. That is
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Speaker 7: not my place.
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Speaker 5: I know.
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Speaker 7: At what point did you did y'all get married? Twenty fifteen? Okay,
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Speaker 7: we actually got Okay? What prompted that decision?
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Speaker 5: It just kind of seemed like the next thing to do.
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Speaker 5: We had just had our second baby, and it was
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Speaker 5: just like, oh, let's get married. We love each other,
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Speaker 5: so like it.
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Speaker 2: Was a casual conversation like, hey, let's yeah.
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Speaker 5: I mean because we had been together since we were
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Speaker 5: baby seventeen, so you know, almost ten years at that point.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now there was a moment when you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't see you guys together a lot.
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Speaker 2: And keep in mind, I knew this because my wife
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Speaker 2: told me.
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Speaker 1: Everyone watching it like what's going on because she's a
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Speaker 1: big fan of you separately and him and him?
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Speaker 2: So what happened?
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Speaker 5: Life?
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Speaker 2: Okay, life was life.
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Speaker 5: Life is life was lifing and life life's for everyone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm married too, so I kind of I can
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Speaker 1: put two and two together. Yes, yeah, okay, so but
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Speaker 1: you got fans. I don't have fans with my marriage.
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Speaker 2: I mean, even though I think I got a little bit.
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Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, Atlanta local, you guys had worldwide. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like you have like people that stand for you guys
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Speaker 1: together so over I know, I know they were on
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Speaker 1: your Instagram.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, what's happening, what's going on?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean seriously, like life was fucking lifing. I swear,
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Speaker 5: like that's really all it boils down to.
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Speaker 2: Like I take a break, like from the traveling.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I no longer tour like that. I don't do
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Speaker 5: that anymore. That is not something that I do. But
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Speaker 5: at the end of the day, it's my best friend.
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Speaker 5: We've been together since we were babies. Like we've literally
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Speaker 5: been together for twenty years.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot lot.
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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. To be with someone and
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Speaker 5: you have to think that we're both coming into this relationship.
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Speaker 5: We're both bringing our own shit into this relationship. So
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Speaker 5: to be honest with you, like this the time when
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Speaker 5: you guys weren't seeing us together, we're really just like
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Speaker 5: working on ourselves. That's what I was doing. That's what
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Speaker 5: he was doing.
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Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying at the end of the
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Speaker 7: day again like that's my best friend.
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Speaker 6: So and like you said, getting off with the tour
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Speaker 6: and stuff like that, did you want a more stable
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Speaker 6: environment for your children?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: But you know the crazy thing is I had them
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Speaker 5: on the tour. They were touring with us when they
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Speaker 5: were babies, so yes, but yeah, yeah, but they're homeschool.
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Speaker 7: And they're so intelligent. They so well, I'll be like, man.
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Speaker 5: Yeah that makes me feel so good. Yeah, I'm like
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Speaker 5: a proud mom moment. But yes, my babies are super intelligent.
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Speaker 6: When you got off the tour and like you said,
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Speaker 6: you guys were going in your separate directions. Is that
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Speaker 6: when the Gates family farm came about and you started
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Speaker 6: to pour yourself into that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So actually early twenty twenty we made the Well. I
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Speaker 5: went to him when we were living in California at
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Speaker 5: like December twenty nineteen. I was like, look, I had
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Speaker 5: like this epiphany. I was like, I'm going to the farm.
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Speaker 5: You can come or you can stay here, and he
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Speaker 5: was like, you leave me. So so we went to
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Speaker 5: the farm together and then I mean COVID hit after that,
16:55
Speaker 5: and then I mean, shit, everybody's life change, you know
16:58
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And like, for me, that was a
17:01
Speaker 5: time for me to really really like really dive into
17:03
Speaker 5: myself and work on myself because I mean, for seventeen
17:06
Speaker 5: years I had devoted myself to you know, him and
17:10
Speaker 5: his career. So for me, it was really just a
17:13
Speaker 5: time for me to dive into myself. And I'm honest
17:15
Speaker 5: to God, didn't care about anything else that was going
17:18
Speaker 5: on with anybody else.
17:19
Speaker 6: And did you feel like even prior to the farm
17:21
Speaker 6: and finding yourself, did you feel like you had to
17:24
Speaker 6: something to prove and to achieve, you know, with his career,
17:27
Speaker 6: like you quit school and stuff like that, and your
17:29
Speaker 6: parents are probably like what are you going to do?
17:31
Speaker 6: You know, and you made this big success out of
17:33
Speaker 6: his career and now you know you're you're going to
17:37
Speaker 6: make a life for yourself on this farm. How did
17:39
Speaker 6: the farm help you?
17:40
Speaker 5: Oh man? Internally I received some of my biggest lessons,
17:45
Speaker 5: like on the farm, just being in isolation with myself,
17:49
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Like you get a lot
17:52
Speaker 5: of people are afraid to sit with themselves, you know
17:54
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, True.
17:56
Speaker 2: Deal with yourself, exactly and your issues exactly.
17:59
Speaker 5: But I was, I'm not gonna say happily in that place,
18:02
Speaker 5: but I was in that place and I got the
18:04
Speaker 5: opportunity to really grow into evolve into this fucking I'm
18:08
Speaker 5: sorry patting myself on the back, but like this amazing
18:11
Speaker 5: person that can now like when it comes to just
18:13
Speaker 5: processing life's experiences, like I'm a beast at that. Like
18:16
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, there's nothing you can go Yeah, yeah,
18:20
Speaker 5: steps for myself, you know what I'm saying. But it's
18:24
Speaker 5: like and I feel like that's something that everyone should do,
18:27
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, Because for me, that was
18:29
Speaker 5: kind of like also like an identity crisis, you know
18:31
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, because like for seventeen years, you're this person,
18:35
Speaker 5: you're you know what I'm saying. So I really just
18:38
Speaker 5: like took that time out for myself. I took that
18:40
Speaker 5: as an opportunity to really just really really work on myself.
18:43
Speaker 1: And did you have the support yes, from why you
18:47
Speaker 1: were on the forum working on yourself, Like what was
18:49
Speaker 1: the things that you were practicing, the you know, kind
18:51
Speaker 1: of heal stuff that you've been through in your life.
18:53
Speaker 5: Oh, a lot of a lot of people like to
18:55
Speaker 5: call it like shadow work, because a lot of us
18:58
Speaker 5: have the tendency to like project onto other people, or
19:02
Speaker 5: we'll experience something and want to point the finger and
19:05
Speaker 5: play victim and all that stuff. And it really took
19:07
Speaker 5: me stepping outside of that and going back to shit
19:11
Speaker 5: fucking childhood, you know what I'm saying, getting to the
19:13
Speaker 5: root of why do I feel this way about this?
19:16
Speaker 5: Why is this really bothering me? Anyways? You know what
19:18
Speaker 5: I'm saying, and just really just getting to the root
19:21
Speaker 5: of everything. You know, we have our triggers. You got
19:26
Speaker 5: to get to the root of them, because it's really
19:28
Speaker 5: not the person that's triggering you. It's some ship that's deep, deep,
19:31
Speaker 5: deep down in Yeah.
19:33
Speaker 7: Why Mississippi out of all places?
19:36
Speaker 5: Okay, So now that's not the roll Mississippi. Yeah, Sippy
19:42
Speaker 5: is about to turn up. Okay, every time.
19:44
Speaker 2: Another roll Misissippi off from Markansas. So hey, my neighbor,
19:47
Speaker 2: my neighbor, So why Mississippi? And what part of Mississippi?
19:50
Speaker 5: So ma co Mississippi. It's like an hour ten min.
19:52
Speaker 5: It's north of New Orleans. Okay, Right, So I actually
19:56
Speaker 5: spent my summers in Mississippi at my grandmother's great grandmothers
19:59
Speaker 5: h house. So it's kind of like a had like
20:02
Speaker 5: a kind of full circle moment with going back to
20:05
Speaker 5: the farm.
20:05
Speaker 7: Did the land speak to you when you went out there?
20:07
Speaker 6: Oh?
20:08
Speaker 5: Yes, And I'm talking about on some like ancestrals like
20:12
Speaker 5: type stuff, not the fact that, okay, we bought this
20:15
Speaker 5: land in this hours. No, like this really belongs to us,
20:19
Speaker 5: like our place like that.
20:21
Speaker 6: How did you acquire the farm? Like where did how
20:23
Speaker 6: did you did you go out there? Were you just
20:25
Speaker 6: driving an open road and said this is it?
20:30
Speaker 5: I didn't have one.
20:31
Speaker 7: Of those moments.
20:32
Speaker 5: But in twenty seventeen, my dad, so my parents, they
20:36
Speaker 5: had like a second home up there, and my dad
20:38
Speaker 5: was like, y'all want to get like a property up here.
20:40
Speaker 5: And we were like, okay, whatever, like we'll go there
20:43
Speaker 5: when we have time. And so we got in twenty
20:46
Speaker 5: seventeen and then yeah it Yeah, we just got it
20:51
Speaker 5: and ended up living on it.
20:54
Speaker 7: And it's a blueberry farm.
20:55
Speaker 2: A blueberry farm, yes, educated me, what's the blueberry that's say?
20:59
Speaker 5: Oh, it just mean we just have acres of blueberries. Yeah,
21:02
Speaker 5: acres of blueberries.
21:03
Speaker 7: But you have animals that live on this.
21:06
Speaker 5: I have animals now. So we have camels, alpacas, peacocks, tortoises.
21:10
Speaker 2: That's the big old birds that go with them. Make
21:12
Speaker 2: them noise, They make them noise. Get scared of all
21:16
Speaker 2: the animals?
21:17
Speaker 5: Hell no, I'm not scared of animals.
21:20
Speaker 2: Not any horses.
21:21
Speaker 7: No, I don't do horses.
21:24
Speaker 5: I don't do horse.
21:25
Speaker 7: Did you have a bad experience.
21:26
Speaker 5: I haven't had a bad experience, but I don't want
21:28
Speaker 5: to have a bad That's a big creature right.
21:31
Speaker 2: There, like wild muffalo nothing, none of that. No.
21:34
Speaker 7: But we do have cattle, but they're elsewhere. Okay.
21:38
Speaker 2: So does your children have duties?
21:40
Speaker 3: Uh?
21:41
Speaker 5: Yes, I try. You know, it's kind of it's it's
21:45
Speaker 5: it's a little difficult.
21:46
Speaker 4: I do try, though, because y'all coming from l A
21:49
Speaker 4: to Mississippi. So I know your kids are kind of like.
21:52
Speaker 1: Man, what is this?
21:54
Speaker 6: Yeah?
21:54
Speaker 2: But they actually they love it.
21:56
Speaker 5: They'll take their shoes off, go outside, run around, playing
21:58
Speaker 5: the mud jumping. Yeah, they love it.
22:01
Speaker 7: Are their friends nearby or they have friends?
22:04
Speaker 5: Okay, we don't have neighbors, so yeah, that's what I'm
22:07
Speaker 5: where friends come from.
22:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, while neighbors.
22:10
Speaker 7: Who wants neighbors?
22:11
Speaker 2: She said, I know you a country because you's in
22:15
Speaker 2: the country. You don't want nobody.
22:17
Speaker 5: You don't want my house, right, house, business, None of.
22:19
Speaker 2: That have a point.
22:22
Speaker 7: So what is the day to day? A day and
22:23
Speaker 7: a life on the farm.
22:25
Speaker 2: What do you do?
22:25
Speaker 7: Like when you wake up?
22:26
Speaker 6: I know I've seen a video of kind of like
22:29
Speaker 6: you you moving around, but you know, just for the audience,
22:31
Speaker 6: what is it?
22:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I wake up, I go in my
22:33
Speaker 5: gym work out. I try to get up before everybody
22:37
Speaker 5: else does, because once everybody else is.
22:38
Speaker 2: Up, it's over with.
22:40
Speaker 5: You don't get nothing done.
22:41
Speaker 2: So I go you were just asking me. I was like, dude,
22:45
Speaker 2: I've been up five in the morning.
22:47
Speaker 5: But that part, yes, So I get up early before
22:49
Speaker 5: everyone else. I go next door work out. After that,
22:52
Speaker 5: I'll probably do like a little meditation or something, and
22:55
Speaker 5: then I go outside, walk around, check on the animals,
22:58
Speaker 5: all that good stuff. Go inside, I see the kids,
23:00
Speaker 5: and the kids are getting ready to start school, and
23:04
Speaker 5: then I start my day. Really after that work.
23:07
Speaker 6: Are the animals on automatic feeders or do you feed them?
23:10
Speaker 4: Oh?
23:10
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I have help. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
23:14
Speaker 5: we have help that come in Monday through Friday.
23:17
Speaker 2: That's good.
23:17
Speaker 4: It's probably so peaceful to just be able to just
23:20
Speaker 4: that's actually one of my dreams because I'm a country
23:22
Speaker 4: boys just be like man, I just want to get
23:24
Speaker 4: a farm or get a lake house and just be there.
23:28
Speaker 1: Now you say you've work out, Now, is that where
23:30
Speaker 1: the drenk of wellness comes from?
23:32
Speaker 7: So drink of Wellness.
23:34
Speaker 5: I have been working on this actually for like years,
23:36
Speaker 5: but didn't have the time, and then during COVID I
23:40
Speaker 5: had the time, so I was able to like get
23:42
Speaker 5: all that together and launch it in twenty twenty one.
23:46
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's all about it's based on like just
23:49
Speaker 5: health and wellness. I just it's not a place where
23:52
Speaker 5: I get to share like the things that I've created
23:55
Speaker 5: myself and things that have helped me like on my journey.
23:57
Speaker 7: So, yeah, you have skincare or.
24:01
Speaker 6: Candles, crystals, books, bracelets, all things well yeah, hair products,
24:07
Speaker 6: you know, and you have like over one thousand and
24:09
Speaker 6: five star reviews, which is amazing, and that's not easy
24:13
Speaker 6: to get.
24:13
Speaker 5: No, it's not okay, and I'm not going to because
24:17
Speaker 5: I want like people's genuine like opinions of the products.
24:21
Speaker 5: But I put a lot of love into it and
24:23
Speaker 5: it's not My ship is not white label.
24:26
Speaker 2: I use my own products, like you.
24:28
Speaker 5: Go in my bath.
24:29
Speaker 4: This ain't no influencer thing with somebody.
24:33
Speaker 5: No, this is like my ship gotch my custom formula
24:36
Speaker 5: is my everything. Like I said, your skin looks really good.
24:40
Speaker 6: So I'm pretty sure that you know they watch and
24:43
Speaker 6: they're like, man, I want that one now.
24:45
Speaker 2: Who can use these products? Men?
24:47
Speaker 5: Men can use them.
24:48
Speaker 2: To actually have a lot of men that use the product.
24:49
Speaker 4: So that's why one of your friends she was like,
24:51
Speaker 4: I was like, man, I think I put on too much.
24:53
Speaker 2: She's like, you put on lotion exactly on oil. I
24:57
Speaker 2: was like, but so we're not supposed to put on lotion.
25:03
Speaker 7: It's cleaner to put on like an oil, something that's in.
25:07
Speaker 2: Its whole show a life, little path.
25:11
Speaker 4: Of course, ye can y'all make that happens as a
25:15
Speaker 4: roast to me about putting on lotion.
25:17
Speaker 2: So I would come in here, ashy. I do reviews too,
25:20
Speaker 2: So matter of fact, I'm gonna have my wife do
25:21
Speaker 2: a review.
25:25
Speaker 5: I love it. Make sure you send it over so
25:27
Speaker 5: we can, yes, put it on blast.
25:29
Speaker 6: So if somebody's looking to heal themselves and going into
25:34
Speaker 6: you know, I want to really take this seriously.
25:37
Speaker 2: My healing journey.
25:37
Speaker 6: What should they start with as far as your products go,
25:40
Speaker 6: should they get a candle a crystal to start? Uh?
25:44
Speaker 7: You know, body butter.
25:46
Speaker 2: Body butter.
25:46
Speaker 7: You know what's so crazy?
25:48
Speaker 5: It's going to be something the thing that you don't
25:50
Speaker 5: put on your body, because I feel like everything starts
25:52
Speaker 5: with like the mental. And so I have this journal
25:56
Speaker 5: and I call it high Vibe writing, and it's where
25:59
Speaker 5: you write for like twelve minutes. It's like you can
26:01
Speaker 5: be pissed off whatever you're pissed off, whoever you're pissed
26:04
Speaker 5: off with. It's like you just go in right, you
26:06
Speaker 5: write for twelve minutes straight and then you like burn
26:09
Speaker 5: it and that kind of like neutralizes the negativity. And
26:12
Speaker 5: so that is like where I would honestly tell people
26:15
Speaker 5: that's where you would start at, because for me, it's
26:17
Speaker 5: all about like releasing and then you refill your body
26:20
Speaker 5: with the good stuff.
26:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Earth Signed Virgo is just just released.
26:25
Speaker 6: I feel like you you need that just a flute
26:29
Speaker 6: behind you know.
26:31
Speaker 5: Your voice, your memoir and just.
26:38
Speaker 7: You know, a nice music behind it with waterfall.
26:42
Speaker 5: Yes, that's my whole vibe.
26:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the vibes.
26:45
Speaker 5: I can feel it. I can feel it.
26:47
Speaker 6: You have a garden as well, Yes, I do. What
26:49
Speaker 6: is the benefits of growing your own? And do you
26:51
Speaker 6: recommend that to people?
26:52
Speaker 5: Yes, even if you grow like on a freaking window
26:55
Speaker 5: sill or out of pots on your balcony, like I
26:57
Speaker 5: do recommend it. The food is different. It's not what
27:00
Speaker 5: you're going to get out of the store. It's like
27:02
Speaker 5: it's going to be packed with nutrients, is going to
27:04
Speaker 5: be packed with love because you grew it yourself and
27:07
Speaker 5: you're going to really appreciate it, like that ship is
27:09
Speaker 5: really rewarding.
27:11
Speaker 2: So like what's in your garden?
27:12
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so I have to get ready for this.
27:18
Speaker 2: I'm sure you have to learn what to grow, how
27:20
Speaker 2: to grow it?
27:21
Speaker 5: Hell yeah.
27:22
Speaker 2: Can't just plant a pineapple.
27:23
Speaker 1: Tree and expect that thing to grow coconut or whatever.
27:28
Speaker 5: Hell no, I've had a lot of trial and errors.
27:30
Speaker 5: But like okrah is one of my favorite things.
27:35
Speaker 2: It grows wow too, Like like how do you plant okra?
27:40
Speaker 7: Is a plant? But then it grows up into like
27:42
Speaker 7: a stalk?
27:42
Speaker 2: Okay?
27:43
Speaker 6: Yeah?
27:43
Speaker 7: Corn?
27:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that that's like probably one of my favorite things.
27:48
Speaker 5: But I have like over sixty different like fruits and vegetables.
27:50
Speaker 6: That's what's up you harvest everything? Yeah, love Love Harvest?
27:55
Speaker 6: Where did love Harvest come from?
27:57
Speaker 4: Me?
27:59
Speaker 5: So, like people started calling me love and so that's
28:02
Speaker 5: why I named it loves Harvest, Like this is my harvest,
28:05
Speaker 5: Like this is.
28:07
Speaker 2: So everything is just kind of peeling off of what
28:08
Speaker 2: who you?
28:10
Speaker 6: Yes, we're in the drink a world now like she's
28:13
Speaker 6: she's lived that that previous life and now it's all
28:15
Speaker 6: about her and I love it.
28:16
Speaker 4: Man.
28:16
Speaker 6: Loves Harvest is actually a cannabis company. Yes, right, can
28:20
Speaker 6: you tell us about that?
28:21
Speaker 2: Yes, it is my like ten got I'm taking notes
28:30
Speaker 2: like a moth.
28:32
Speaker 5: So that's my that's my cannabis dispensary that's solely on
28:36
Speaker 5: operated by me that I'm opening up in Mississippi and
28:39
Speaker 5: I'm opening on four twenty. Okay, that.
28:44
Speaker 2: Like ten computer screens with each man. No, I don't
28:48
Speaker 2: keep up with all these businesses.
28:50
Speaker 7: It's a lie, but I do have a really good
28:52
Speaker 7: team that helps.
28:52
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, so you have a drinker team.
28:55
Speaker 5: Yes, I have a drinker team.
28:57
Speaker 2: Fire. So are you still doing the music?
29:00
Speaker 4: No?
29:00
Speaker 2: Website? YouTube? You got a YouTube page?
29:02
Speaker 7: Drinking Gates TV?
29:04
Speaker 2: Yep?
29:04
Speaker 7: Yah, yeah, Drink and Gates TV.
29:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, So what going back to love Harvest, what makes
29:11
Speaker 6: your strand or product different than all the other products
29:16
Speaker 6: out there?
29:16
Speaker 5: I mean, so for me, like I don't have my
29:18
Speaker 5: strain necessarily just yet, but that's something I'm working on.
29:22
Speaker 5: But just with Love's Harvest, like when you come into
29:24
Speaker 5: my place, like it's totally different. It's going to be
29:26
Speaker 5: like any unlike any other like dispenser you've ever been into,
29:30
Speaker 5: Like it's gonna transport you to somewhere else.
29:32
Speaker 2: Can you name some like Mississippi? No, okay, what did.
29:37
Speaker 7: You just ask me if I could name Kevin Gates song?
29:39
Speaker 2: Can you name some strands like Kevin Gates songs? Like
29:41
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yes, of course, spoke this one. If you
29:48
Speaker 2: got two phones, get out bet right now. Yeah, they're
30:01
Speaker 2: gonna come to the cameras. I want that to drink
30:03
Speaker 2: of two phones. I want the two phones.
30:05
Speaker 7: What drinker's not gonna do that she's gonna name.
30:10
Speaker 2: But it could be.
30:12
Speaker 5: Okay, So I am working on something, right, A balance, Huh.
30:16
Speaker 7: It's gonna be a balance between the two.
30:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, Because I mean, like I'm very I'm very
30:21
Speaker 5: in tune with myself and with nature and all that stuff.
30:23
Speaker 5: But you know, everything's like full circle now, so I'm
30:26
Speaker 5: incorporating some of my past with where I am now,
30:29
Speaker 5: you know. But yeah, I'm working on something really really really.
30:33
Speaker 7: Good, working on the line for like athletes and artists.
30:41
Speaker 2: That's fire. Is it a clothing line?
30:44
Speaker 7: No?
30:44
Speaker 5: Oh no no, this is all with.
30:48
Speaker 2: We're we're gonna be able to get it.
30:50
Speaker 5: My intention is to be able to have it like everywhere,
30:53
Speaker 5: everywhere where it's lee legal.
30:55
Speaker 6: But now we have to drive to Mississippi to experience
30:58
Speaker 6: the love.
30:58
Speaker 7: Harvest, right, yes, yes, but I promise it'll be worth it.
31:02
Speaker 7: I know your parents are pressed.
31:03
Speaker 5: That's your dad, Oh my gosh, yes, my parents are
31:05
Speaker 5: very proud of me.
31:06
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, they probably like who would have thought you
31:09
Speaker 4: dropped out of college?
31:11
Speaker 2: That part not at all l s U.
31:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, they didn't take that likely.
31:20
Speaker 2: They thought she was going to be a doctor. Like,
31:23
Speaker 2: if you don't mind me asking, like, how how was
31:25
Speaker 2: that communication when you dropped out? And then they was like.
31:32
Speaker 7: Did your brother kind of help you a little bit?
31:33
Speaker 2: Like this is what happened?
31:36
Speaker 5: Hell, yeah, that didn't go over well.
31:39
Speaker 2: What you telling her? I think I'm about to be
31:40
Speaker 2: a music manager.
31:42
Speaker 5: I didn't even.
31:42
Speaker 7: Say that no.
31:47
Speaker 5: I literally like I got cut off and it was
31:50
Speaker 5: kind of like okay, well, ship, that's over with now,
31:53
Speaker 5: so like we got to make this happen.
31:54
Speaker 3: You know, we'll be right back stayed with more of
31:58
Speaker 3: the ball Or Alert Show. You're listening to a special
32:03
Speaker 3: edition of the Baller Alert Show.
32:04
Speaker 2: What's up?
32:05
Speaker 5: It's Drigga Gates and you are now tuned into the
32:07
Speaker 5: Baller Alert Show.
32:08
Speaker 1: So you have a you have great energy, right, but
32:12
Speaker 1: I know that you probably have a bad day or
32:14
Speaker 1: two here.
32:15
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, who doesn't have a bad day?
32:19
Speaker 1: How do you smile through it? What do you do?
32:21
Speaker 1: Do you speak to therapist? Do you talk to somebody?
32:23
Speaker 5: So I have a person that you call the You
32:25
Speaker 5: burn the pages, I burn them pages. I'll be fuck
32:31
Speaker 5: on them pages. I also like there's a lot of
32:34
Speaker 5: different things that I do, like different meditations and exercises
32:37
Speaker 5: and ship where I can scream at the top of
32:38
Speaker 5: my lungs and really just get it all out and
32:41
Speaker 5: then I can come back down to myself. But it's
32:44
Speaker 5: really like the way I process shit, Like a so
32:48
Speaker 5: called problem to me isn't a problem. It's an opportunity,
32:51
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. I'm not trying to be
32:52
Speaker 5: on some old positive that's really like what I do,
32:56
Speaker 5: Like I really just it's the way that I process everything,
32:59
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. And I learn that from
33:01
Speaker 5: a spiritual psychologist that I was working with for like
33:03
Speaker 5: two years. Like I learned a lot of really awesome
33:08
Speaker 5: ass tools just for fucking lifing, which I feel like
33:11
Speaker 5: everybody needs. Can you share a couple of them, Like
33:14
Speaker 5: one of one of them is the writing, you know
33:16
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. And also it is uh looking at
33:19
Speaker 5: the challenges as opportunities, like what is the what what's
33:23
Speaker 5: the lesson that I'm getting from this? Like what am
33:25
Speaker 5: I gaining from this? Because you're gaining something, you know
33:28
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
33:29
Speaker 2: So what are some top five wellness tips that.
33:33
Speaker 7: You can share for people?
33:34
Speaker 5: Wellness tips sell first, like put your oxygen masks on first,
33:38
Speaker 5: like always, no matter what, like no matter what when
33:43
Speaker 5: it comes to just like the physical health, like know
33:45
Speaker 5: what your body likes, like get your fucking get go
33:48
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Speaker 5: Yes, because that shit is important. You you could have
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34:05
Speaker 5: Yes, same here, Like I feel like I accidentally had
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Speaker 5: And is it? Like my skin is breaking out right now?
34:13
Speaker 5: So just really just getting to know yourself. How many
34:18
Speaker 5: how many do you have to do?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Sat there if you want water?
34:21
Speaker 2: Huh that's three? Yeah? Or I am not a vegetarian.
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Speaker 5: I'm not a vegetarian. I don't subscribe to any of that.
34:30
Speaker 5: I like everything is balanced with me now, I mean
34:33
Speaker 5: you see.
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Speaker 6: Me, ah yeah, okay, yeah, your kids how old are
34:39
Speaker 6: they now?
34:39
Speaker 5: Nine and eleven?
34:40
Speaker 7: Nine and eleven?
34:41
Speaker 6: And what kind of practices do they take on that
34:44
Speaker 6: that you do often You're like you do that on
34:47
Speaker 6: your own now.
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Speaker 5: I love it, Yes, I mean even like what I
34:50
Speaker 5: was telling you about with just processing experiences and stuff
34:54
Speaker 5: like that. Like my kids are all fucking beast with
34:56
Speaker 5: like dealing with people and that just makes me so
34:59
Speaker 5: proud them. Like I love that because I feel like
35:02
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, I don't I'm not
35:03
Speaker 5: gonna say I don't care if you know how to
35:05
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35:07
Speaker 5: to know how to life like for real, for real,
35:09
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, because a lot of people
35:11
Speaker 5: end up like That's why there's such a People call
35:14
Speaker 5: it like a mental health crisis, but it's just really
35:17
Speaker 5: because people don't know how to process the shit that
35:19
Speaker 5: they're experiencing in life, you know. And it's not to
35:22
Speaker 5: downplay that, you know, but I feel like that is
35:24
Speaker 5: a very important tool that we need to be teaching
35:28
Speaker 5: our kids self mastery how to life. You know.
35:32
Speaker 7: Are they in school now or are they still homeschool?
35:34
Speaker 4: Oh?
35:35
Speaker 7: No, my kids are homeschool. They will be homeschool until
35:38
Speaker 7: they're done.
35:40
Speaker 2: Any particular reason why.
35:42
Speaker 5: For me, I feel like I'm my child's best teacher
35:46
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, and the schools now
35:48
Speaker 5: are little they're starting to get a little too progressive
35:51
Speaker 5: for my liking.
35:53
Speaker 7: Take that.
35:53
Speaker 5: How you want to.
35:56
Speaker 7: Do they play like sports? To get interaction with o?
36:00
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, they play softball, baseball, soccer, things like that.
36:05
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, Rotti, they do they Yeah, that's good.
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Speaker 4: Because a lot of people think, you know, some parents
36:10
Speaker 4: would think like homeschool, like they need to go be
36:12
Speaker 4: around regular kids and have you know, those type of interactions.
36:16
Speaker 5: And they do. They interact with regular kids. And then
36:18
Speaker 5: they also like they travel, like a lot of the
36:21
Speaker 5: times when we're traveling stuff, the kids are with us,
36:23
Speaker 5: so they're getting to experience like all of these amazing
36:26
Speaker 5: things and interact with all types of different people. So yeah, are.
36:31
Speaker 7: They picking up wanting to do what their parents do
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Speaker 7: at all?
36:36
Speaker 6: I want to be yeah this mom, I want to
36:39
Speaker 6: do that dad.
36:40
Speaker 7: Yeah.
36:41
Speaker 5: It's funny because my daughter, she was actually on her
36:43
Speaker 5: way to being an actress when we were in California,
36:45
Speaker 5: but she's so she was tired of being in traffic
36:50
Speaker 5: every day, so she like stopped. She had an agent
36:52
Speaker 5: and everything, but now she's wanting to get back into it.
36:55
Speaker 5: And I'm like, are you sure, Like do you know
36:57
Speaker 5: that means you're gonna have to go back to California
36:59
Speaker 5: and like be in the mix again. So my daughter
37:03
Speaker 5: does like she's and she actually has a great voice.
37:05
Speaker 5: But yeah, my son, no, he wants to just play
37:09
Speaker 5: this video came gamer.
37:15
Speaker 4: That's some decent money. Now, I know you might need
37:19
Speaker 4: to get back in that management role. He starts streaming.
37:21
Speaker 5: Look if they do I will be the best my.
37:29
Speaker 7: Kids career like that part.
37:32
Speaker 6: Yes, speaking of kids, do you what do you think
37:35
Speaker 6: about kids in social media?
37:37
Speaker 5: Ooh, that's a really touchy touchy, touchy, touchy touchy subject
37:41
Speaker 5: for me. Like my kid, my daughter, like she loves
37:43
Speaker 5: creating the videos and things like that, but her account
37:46
Speaker 5: is on private because it's like people can be really
37:49
Speaker 5: harsh and I don't want that. I'm not going to
37:51
Speaker 5: say that. I'm trying to like shelter them. But at
37:53
Speaker 5: the same time, you don't have to experience that either,
37:56
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. You don't have to be
37:58
Speaker 5: exposed to all of that. So, but my kids are
38:01
Speaker 5: they're very intelligent, so they know, you know, when if
38:06
Speaker 5: they run across something and it's just they know to
38:09
Speaker 5: pass on by, like just keep it moving.
38:11
Speaker 6: Ney advice for like parents and kids, you know with
38:14
Speaker 6: social media out there, who's like, well, I need to
38:17
Speaker 6: have my baby be famous, that's what they'd be trying
38:23
Speaker 6: to be doing, Like I know, yes, their kids or
38:28
Speaker 6: not said, yeah, I don't really believe in that because
38:32
Speaker 6: the industry, you guys know, y'all in the industry, the
38:34
Speaker 6: industry is tough.
38:35
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying I call.
38:36
Speaker 7: It the matrix because it's like you can just tell
38:40
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38:41
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38:44
Speaker 6: we see how you know, parents should have been more
38:47
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38:48
Speaker 2: Understand how. I'm like, how's that going on?
38:51
Speaker 5: And because they're not there and present, like that's why
38:55
Speaker 5: I said, if my kids got into it, no, I'm
38:56
Speaker 5: going to be the manager fu all that, like I
39:00
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39:04
Speaker 5: I'd recommend. And if you do do it, you need
39:06
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39:09
Speaker 6: So well, speaking to kids one more time. You are
39:13
Speaker 6: a doula?
39:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, how did I mean?
39:16
Speaker 2: I understand it.
39:17
Speaker 6: I understand how you got there because you just overall HeLa.
39:20
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39:22
Speaker 2: Was off tour.
39:24
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39:28
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39:29
Speaker 2: I had a dream for people who don't know what
39:31
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39:32
Speaker 5: So a birth doula is something that is something somebody
39:35
Speaker 5: that really just accompanies like the woman through She's just
39:38
Speaker 5: there to support the woman, like at the woman. I
39:40
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39:42
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I'm.
39:43
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39:46
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39:49
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39:56
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39:59
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40:03
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40:06
Speaker 6: And understanding the journey, yes, knowing what to ask for
40:10
Speaker 6: exactly so, like so as a childbirth educator, because I'm
40:15
Speaker 6: a certified childbirth educator as well, it's my job to
40:18
Speaker 6: make sure that you know, like what's going on with
40:20
Speaker 6: your body, like because it's a very natural process, like
40:22
Speaker 6: our bodies are made to do this.
40:24
Speaker 7: It just all I have to help.
40:26
Speaker 5: My goal is to help them to remove the fears
40:28
Speaker 5: and make have them all the way knowledgeable about what's
40:31
Speaker 5: happening so that they're not like this and causing even
40:34
Speaker 5: more pain. You know.
40:35
Speaker 7: So have you been through how many pregnancies have you
40:39
Speaker 7: been a part of.
40:41
Speaker 5: I've did three Because I don't have a lot of time,
40:43
Speaker 5: and you're like you're like on call because you don't
40:46
Speaker 5: you never know when you're gonna really have your baby.
40:48
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40:51
Speaker 5: Absolutely beautiful, amazing. I mean I get to see this
40:56
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40:59
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41:03
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41:06
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41:09
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41:25
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41:26
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41:27
Speaker 5: Then, yeah, so the midwife is actually they're there to
41:30
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41:31
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