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Faith Over Feelings ( NBA YoungBoy Complex Interview BreakDown) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Baby checking in behind the scenes of the grind, which
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  Speaker 1: is where we get on in behind scenes of just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the day to day's happening was not
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  Speaker 1: happening all of the things, y'all. Today was such a
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  Speaker 1: day at work. I'm feeling so unsure of myself. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I just had to get that out. I recorded a
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  Speaker 1: video coming here and this, you know what's so crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like.
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  Speaker 1: It's not sure I'm as sure of my capabilities. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm trying to figure out like when missteps happened,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out.
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  Speaker 2: Like what the root causes, Like what is it?
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  Speaker 1: What's happening within my mind and in my brain and
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  Speaker 1: are making me feel like I'm not owning my space
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  Speaker 1: to what it I should be. I think we talked
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about that, you know before a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago when we checked it behind the scenes of
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and that's just been like a constant thing
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  Speaker 1: for me this week and a little bit of last
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  Speaker 1: week as well too. I'd be so honest with y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I get on here and just like treat y'all like
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  Speaker 1: y'all are like my diary or something. So low riders
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  Speaker 1: don't ever say I don't give y'all nothing, because I'd
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  Speaker 1: be giving y'all all the inside scoop. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just I don't know, there's just been a
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there is an added pressure. Not really though,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess so ish. I think that's a self
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  Speaker 1: proclamation though, Like I think when things start to feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're at a pressure, they only are if you
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  Speaker 1: treat life or whatever the situation is like, there is
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  Speaker 1: added pressure. So I don't even want to give into
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  Speaker 1: that because that's not what I'm feeling. Maybe it's a
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  Speaker 1: it's not overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, y'all. Can you can't describe it, can't
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  Speaker 2: explain it. But I'm just off my pivot a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware though, as you guys see, because I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you guys so trying to just hone in on what
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  Speaker 1: it is. One of the things that I did this
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  Speaker 1: week that I prioritize this week was organization. And I
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  Speaker 1: think organization didn't really matter as much when I was
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  Speaker 1: coming from a place where like, I don't know, it.
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  Speaker 2: Just not even that organization.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that it didn't matter, Organization just wasn't It's
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  Speaker 1: never been a priority for me. Like I've always thought
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  Speaker 1: it's cool. I'm good because I can operate in chaos.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think now that I am caring more
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  Speaker 1: about when I'm putting out into the world, how I'm
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  Speaker 1: putting it out with the conversations I'm having are because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think when your name is on the line,
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  Speaker 1: there's just a lot more on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Organization is just like so much. It means so much to.
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  Speaker 1: Me because the more organized I am, I think, the
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  Speaker 1: better I'm able to understand the what, the why, and
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  Speaker 1: the relevancy behind anything I'm talking about. But also like
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  Speaker 1: even if I'm on an island strained it by myself,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't mean physically, I mean like just mentally, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm on this island all alone and I have
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  Speaker 1: to debate my way out of anything, I always think
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  Speaker 1: about this, Like if I'm in a courtroom and I'm
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  Speaker 1: the only person that believes that this person is innocent
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  Speaker 1: in this courtroom, the only thing that is going to
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  Speaker 1: save me is factual information, but not just that, the
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  Speaker 1: organization of it and how it's presented. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the things behind the scenes of the
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  Speaker 1: grind that like I'm really trying to sharpen. I've never
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  Speaker 1: really been a person that has been the most organized.
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  Speaker 1: I think most leaders that are creators have a central
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  Speaker 1: organization because you're delegating and stuff like that. But I
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  Speaker 1: think there with more responsibility just comes heavy as the
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  Speaker 1: head that words the crown. Like the more responsible, the
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  Speaker 1: more responsibility requires a different level of you. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if maybe like that's what's happening, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: being pushed to like this next level of like okay, delegate, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: open your mouth when things are not right, Okay the girl,
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  Speaker 1: Like I think that's where I'm being pushed to. So
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  Speaker 1: today has been like a tug of war for me,
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  Speaker 1: just like mentally, because it's a battle when.
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  Speaker 2: Like you naturally like eat, sleep.
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  Speaker 1: And breathe certain things and then things are not a
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  Speaker 1: hundred things are not moving out one hundred percent as
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  Speaker 1: if you do that, like, and that's what like freaks
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  Speaker 1: me out about this, this whole you know, feeling of.
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  Speaker 2: Like unsure of myself.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been a person that's ever been unsure about
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  Speaker 1: myself and unsure about myself in anything. So so it's
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  Speaker 1: two things. It's the fact that I'm not in a
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  Speaker 1: new space, Like it's not like I'm walking into a
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  Speaker 1: new career path and I'm having to figure out do
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  Speaker 1: I like it here? Why am I even here? How
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  Speaker 1: does my you know, skill set, my capability even progress
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  Speaker 1: me in the space that I am in? That is
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  Speaker 1: not it, because this is what I've been doing. I've
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  Speaker 1: in a new space physically, but this is the lane
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  Speaker 1: of things that I've been doing for some time. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what the heck, Like what's happening? Like why
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  Speaker 1: is my ag game off?
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  Speaker 2: Like what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: And then secondly, it's you know, feeling unsure about yourself
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  Speaker 1: is just a very it's a very hard concept to
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  Speaker 1: grassom you've never been through that, But I try to.
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  Speaker 1: Like one of the things I told myself today was
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not giving that too much light, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit in the feeling of how I feel today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about it. I'm gonna get it out,
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  Speaker 1: and once I do that, you not getting much else
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  Speaker 1: from me on that whatsoever, because I think it's I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the feeling of being unsure lends to like
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  Speaker 1: the feeling of like faith. And for me, whenever I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's about to happen in one of these
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  Speaker 1: like nightmare spots in life where you can't control what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, and like, you know, things just feel so
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  Speaker 1: heavy whatever. Not like workwise, but just like in life
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  Speaker 1: in general, Like whenever I'm in like a very crazy,
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  Speaker 1: weird space where like you really can't control much of anything.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that I control.
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  Speaker 1: Is the amount of faith that I have in God
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  Speaker 1: to like just allow me to do what I naturally
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  Speaker 1: do in situations we talked the other day. If you
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  Speaker 1: missed that podcast episode, make sure you go back and
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  Speaker 1: listen to it. But in situations I always am trusting
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  Speaker 1: God that I will figure it out, and I do
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  Speaker 1: in situations where I've learned that it is not my
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  Speaker 1: job to figure things out. I can't solve everyone's issues.
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  Speaker 1: I can't be you know, like I can't be the
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  Speaker 1: crutch for everybody, like I just can't. I trust God,
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  Speaker 1: and I have faith in God to give me that
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  Speaker 1: like intuition of like no, Lauren is you gotta say no, No, Lauren,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta put your foot down. No Lauren is see something,
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  Speaker 1: say something, you know what I mean. So my faith
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  Speaker 1: is like unshaken. But I just need to apply that
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  Speaker 1: to all aspects of my life right now, Like and
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's it too, Like I haven't had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time to just kind of like sit down in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, like just really sit down have some conversations
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  Speaker 1: with God. I don't even think I need to have
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  Speaker 1: conversations with God. I think I need to be quiet
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  Speaker 1: and listen. So I think that's it. I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that is kind of you know, this uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: and this feeling that I've been feeling. It's a very
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  Speaker 1: new feeling for me. I've never experienced this type of
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  Speaker 1: feeling in my life. But I'm also although I'm not
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  Speaker 1: in a new career field, I'm physically in a new
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  Speaker 1: space and I'm physically at a different point in my life,
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  Speaker 1: in different level of my life. So you know, maybe, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's maybe that is what it is. Like maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's not a it's not a
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  Speaker 1: new like I didn't wake up and go decide to
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  Speaker 1: become a freaking Dennist And I'm like, girl, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing here? But things are different, Like, man, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast will be one in March.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I gotta start planning something for that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to just have like a party to celebrate,
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't mind doing that like on like you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to do something that is like very
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  Speaker 1: impactful to celebrate the first year of the podcast because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this podcast like it's literally like my baby,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's grown physically, like in its appearance.
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  Speaker 2: And its sound.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown and the thoughts and the conversations that we
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  Speaker 1: have here because I've gotten more comfortable just talking to
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  Speaker 1: you guys. But it's also just like really grown me
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  Speaker 1: just you know, being responsible for a podcast and a
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  Speaker 1: show and working with a team of people. It makes
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  Speaker 1: you like, really, this is what I'm talking about on
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  Speaker 1: the other entity of my life, Like I thought I
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  Speaker 1: had it all figure out as far as like you know,
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  Speaker 1: how this whole thing of like life and being an
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  Speaker 1: adult and grown up.
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  Speaker 2: This works is grown up. This's a word. No, grown up,
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  Speaker 2: this is not a word. But I thought I had
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  Speaker 2: it all figured out.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, you enter new levels of your
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  Speaker 1: life and it's like, no, that this new level requires
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  Speaker 1: a different version of you. You cannot use the old
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  Speaker 1: version of yourself, the old corners that you were cutting.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't do it. You just can't.
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  Speaker 1: So I really want to make sure that one year
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  Speaker 1: is like, you know, a thing. But I say all
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  Speaker 1: that to say within this year, within the podcast about
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  Speaker 1: to be one years old, I think about just all
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  Speaker 1: of the things that we've been through here together on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. That sounds weird because I'm sitting here talking
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  Speaker 1: to y'all and I can't see anybody. That still freaks
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  Speaker 1: me out, too, Like that still freaks me out that
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  Speaker 1: I can't see none of the low riders, but y'all
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  Speaker 1: can see and hear me. But I know y'all out
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  Speaker 1: there though, because we be talking on Twitter, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: talking on Instagram, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: When I se yall in person, we talk about the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I just.
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  Speaker 1: There's maybe it's a transition period and we've been through
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  Speaker 1: it together, so you guys know from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm realizing as this podcast it's a year,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, this time has partaken. I think the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is new levels require like new versions of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's what I'm walking into right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I was fighting that a little bit and just
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  Speaker 1: thinking I can hindle everything and I got it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm brown girl grinding like I
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  Speaker 1: got it. No, not at all, So readjusting some things,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, personally, but also professionally in the way.
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  Speaker 2: That I do, you know, things day to day.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the reoccurring lesson that I've been getting
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  Speaker 1: over this last like five days. And maybe I just
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  Speaker 1: REALI that in talking it out, and that's why I
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  Speaker 1: be talking to y'all even though I can't see or
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  Speaker 1: hear you guys.
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  Speaker 2: You help me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, y'all, let's get on into the latest. Enough
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  Speaker 1: about my problems that's getting to somebody else's. So NBA
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  Speaker 1: Young Boy sat down with Complex. He sat down with
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Roles. Now, I just want to say shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Jordan Rolls over a Complex because NBA Young Boy is.
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  Speaker 2: Not an easy interview okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't mean he's not an easy interview because
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  Speaker 1: like he was rude, He just doesn't really say much.
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  Speaker 1: And the little bit that you do get out of him,
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  Speaker 1: I think that there is I mean with any interview.
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  Speaker 1: I think of interviews like playing spades. There is like
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  Speaker 1: such a dance to the conversation between you and another person.
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  Speaker 2: It's really your dance when you do it with multiple people.
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  Speaker 1: So when it's like you and a team interviewing someone,
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  Speaker 1: but when it's just you in that person, the dance
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  Speaker 1: is a lot different. Because if I'm playing spades and
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  Speaker 1: I have a team member, my team member knows you
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  Speaker 1: know all right, follow suit, know what I'm cutting, You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like you kind of know where
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  Speaker 1: to go. We watching the board, We know how to
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  Speaker 1: play together. But when you're interviewing somebody, y'all aren't prepping together.
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  Speaker 1: So that person, you know, it's not like it's a
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  Speaker 1: like a malicious battle in an interview whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: And this interview didn't feel like that either. Jordan Roads
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  Speaker 2: is an amazing job, but.
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  Speaker 1: That person's coming from a whole different place in mental space,
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  Speaker 1: with a whole different objective than you are. So trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out the best way to meet in the
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  Speaker 1: middle and have that conversation. Only a great to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and Jordan Rolls I've been watching him on Complex. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Complex is doing a good job of building
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  Speaker 1: him as talent Speedy Mormon, who, like you know, is
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  Speaker 1: the face of Complex and has been for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Is I feel like I was telling a friend this.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Speedy is kind of like they're like,
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  Speaker 1: he's out of here.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing the bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Interviews, He's traveling for the interviews. You know, he has
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on, and the brand is smart to
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  Speaker 1: keep branding him and building three sixty with Speedy in
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  Speaker 1: the way that they are. But they're also really smart
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  Speaker 1: in getting a person like Jordan Rose who can be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more readily available for all things, for
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  Speaker 1: all talent, is you know in New York a bit
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  Speaker 1: more it seems to Speedy. I don't know, it just
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  Speaker 1: seems like it because Speedy's all over doing his interviews.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I'm sure because of the success of
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  Speaker 1: three sixty with Speedy on Complex, Complex has gotten the
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  Speaker 1: influx of people wanted to host conversations because Speedy's conversations
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  Speaker 1: are so great. Jordan Rolls is in that vein of things,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Complex was so smart about the branding
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  Speaker 1: in the way that they chose their talent to lean into.
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  Speaker 1: Because Jordan Rolls isn't three sixty, night and Day from Speedy.
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  Speaker 1: There are two very different people, two very different interview
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  Speaker 1: styles for sure. Another thing that I about what's smart
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  Speaker 1: with Complex, Jordan Rose is a lot younger, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the things that he's able to care about
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  Speaker 1: or just a little bit different than you know, the
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  Speaker 1: conversations that Speedy or have it and you need both,
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  Speaker 1: Like Speedy's still young.
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  Speaker 2: I think how old to Speedy.
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  Speaker 1: If you guys don't know who I'm talking about, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what rock you live under because here
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  Speaker 1: at the Latest, like you got to know the people.
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  Speaker 1: But Speedy Mormon is a correspondent for Complex. He's been
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  Speaker 1: there for a very very long time. And to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, I feel like Speedy has built Complex's
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  Speaker 1: interview platform to become a space where artists like artists
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  Speaker 1: and talent you gotta go through Complex Like that is
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  Speaker 1: a It's like how you got to side at the Directorce Club.
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  Speaker 1: When you go to New York, you gotta talk to
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  Speaker 1: Complex when you're rolling something out, whether you're a music artist,
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  Speaker 1: you know, an actress, actor, whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: Because Speedy's interviews have been they've done so well and
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  Speaker 1: they pick up so well for talent. So now Complex
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  Speaker 1: is developing, you know, this other talent.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Rolls was on the platform prior to but if he was,
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  Speaker 1: they're positioning him a lot better now. If he wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: don't even matter because he is killing it right now.
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to show them that love because I
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  Speaker 1: watched their stuff a lot and it's really really good
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  Speaker 1: to watch. But I also just know how important it
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  Speaker 1: is the big up the people in the seats that
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  Speaker 1: are doing the work, especially the people that are on
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  Speaker 1: their grind and coming up because we all have days,
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  Speaker 1: Like I told you guys, I was feeling today and
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  Speaker 1: in these last like honestly, it's been since last week
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  Speaker 1: where you're not always on you know, a hundred, you're
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  Speaker 1: not always you know, averaging the best numbers from the court,
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  Speaker 1: but you're still doing a great job. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure. I don't know if they ever will
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  Speaker 1: hear this, But if so, I want to be the
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  Speaker 1: one to tell you doing a great job. But getting
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  Speaker 1: into the interview, So NBA Young Boy sat down with
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Rose and oh my god, y'all like he barely talks. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to give y'all an example of
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  Speaker 1: him barely talking.
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  Speaker 2: I want you guys to take a listen to to Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Rolls asking NBA Young Boy about the massive tour, which
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  Speaker 1: is the Make America Slimican Tour that NBA Young Boy
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  Speaker 1: did very successful tour. We'll get into that, and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Birdman was there, like every tour stop.
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  Speaker 2: I Birdman talked a lot about the tour. When he
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  Speaker 2: was at verses, he.
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  Speaker 1: Just kept yelling and kept me yelling and kept me
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  Speaker 1: yelling about this tour. But this is a perfect example
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  Speaker 1: of basically what the interaction for the most part was
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  Speaker 1: like in the interview. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Birdman was also on the tour, like basically every stop.
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  Speaker 3: What was his role on the road with you? She's chilling.
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  Speaker 2: Being unk, being unk.
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  Speaker 3: You got like a favorite memory on the road with
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: him every moment, every moment. Yeah, Yeah, that's somebody that's
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: been with you since you were about sixteen? What does
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: he mean to you?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I think he should hake him. Didn't want to get
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: some fresh and you.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Want to take a look only if you promised that
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: we could come back me maybe A handshake of a
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: maybe is still a pretty solid handshake, would you agree.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna hold you to it the maybe.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: So.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think NBA Young Boy mean any harm. He
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: did say when they first came back in, like I'm
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: not the best with words, and I was like, that's ironic,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy not the best with words? Like your
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: music goes so crazy though, like how like okay, but
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: you know, interview artist, an artist in an interview is
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: different than an artist in the studio making music in
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: a setting that is his own that he can own.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I get it. But they got into some things.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: So they talked about this whole Michael Jackson NBA Young
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Boy comparison, because one of the things that gets thrown
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: on NBA Young Boy is that he is the Michael
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Jackson of his generation because of how crazy his fans
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: go for him, like his level of celebrity is insane.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I thought his answer was actually very mature, like he
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: won't say too many words, but I thought these words
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: made a lot of sense.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: A sick a listen, I don't know nothing about Michael Jackson.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: What yo, why be you got a song called Dirty
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Diana sampling Dirty Diana, But.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I don't understand the star.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: I don't, okay, power because you was we wasn't like
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: really alive at his peak when like women was like
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: passing out.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like certain should be over exaggerated sometime, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you gotta think about it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: They over exaggerate about me sometime. But how though, like
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: how like that statement that you know Michael Jackson, that's
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: like going too well?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: First of all, NBA, young boy, very on point. I mean,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it was like when Michael Jackson
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was alive.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I wasn't. I mean, that's not true.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I was alive and I was aware of things when
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson was alive, but I was so young. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: wasn't like the age I am now sitting in the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: seat I'm sitting in now.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: When did Michael Jackson die? Let's look this up.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Michael Jackson died in two thousand and nine.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: So on two thousand and nine, I was, I was
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in high school. I graduated from high school in twenty ten.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: He died June twenty fifth, two thousand and nine. Right, So, yes,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I was in high school. That problem, that was my
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I was my junior year of high school. So it's
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: like you, of course, you know Michael Jackson. You understand
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the celebrity of Michael Jackson, but I was. It wasn't
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like I was like attending Michael Jackson concerts or like
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: paying enough attention to like really have felt the celebrity
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: of Michael Jackson.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: So I think an NBA young boy is younger than me.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: NBA young boy, he has to be around Jordan Rose's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: age because Jordan Rose, Jordan Rose made a like a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: kind of like a comment about them being around the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Saint MAT's. Yes, NBA young boy's twenty six years old. Okay,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: so if.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I'm thirty four, NBA young boy, it's twenty six years old. Yeah.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: He I'm telling y'all, I've I've got a chance to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: like see it from the TV screen, and I don't
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: even really fully understand the impact of Michael Jackson. Not
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that I don't understand it, but I just, you know,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: how like you have to see some things up close
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and personal to really.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Like, oh shoot, I ain't get a chance to do that.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: So if I haven't gotten a chance to do that, NBA.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Young Boy, it's he wasn't even like yo, he's twenty
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: six years old. I think a lot of people in
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: his position could have used a question like that in
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a moment like that to lean into the hype, because
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: he knew it was gonna go viral. I mean, it's
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy, It's gonna go viral regardless. But he
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: could use that to lean into the hype, but he didn't.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: He answered it in a way that was like smart.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And I think that people talk about NBA Young Boy
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: as if he's this like because I mean they're you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: there's the cases and the charges and.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: The baby mamas, and you know, the drugs and like
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that be going on over
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: there allegedly, right.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But I think people have conversations about NBA Young Boy
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: as if he's like so unaware of what's happening outside
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: of his bubble. And I think sometimes he does lean
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: into that, and we're gonna get into a moment where
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: he did that during this interview, But he's very well
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: aware of culturally, his influence, his touch on his people
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and his fans, and just kind of where he sits
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: in the hierarchy of like the greats because people put
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: him literally next to Michael Jackson, which a lot of
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: people take its to it. Now, let's okay, So I
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: told you guys that there was a moment in this
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: complex interview with NBA Young Boy in Jordan Roles where
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy plays very like, y'all don't know what
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. So Jordan Rose brings up the name
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of the tour, masa make America slime again. Obviously it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to play on Trump's maga make America great again. Now,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this NBA Young Boy Tour was a huge success. It
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: sold over five hundred thousand tickets. It grows over seventy
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: five million dollars across across forty two to forty five
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: sold out arena dates each day sold out, making it
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: one of the highest grossing raptors within reports, indicating roughly
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: around one point five million dollars per show. Okay, at
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a time where people are having issues selling tickets and
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: getting people into seats, this man sold out forty two
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to forty five arenas. One point five million dollars a show.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: The music is streaming crazy, his numbers go crazy, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in this interview he said he still owns his masters.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He know a little something, but he acted like he
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: didn't though. When it came to Trump, Let's take a listen.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: What is that message make America Slim Again? Like what
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: does that title mean to you? And then following them
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: with Trump applying follow whatever? Trump applying yeah or what?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And what way?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Like in every way?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, Trump pardoned, you got you off house arrest.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. What you need.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Did you ever speak to him about like, did you ever.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Have a right?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, but the album's named Make America Slim Again. The
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: tours named make America slam Again.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It was the name was like, it's just the voice whatever,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Trump applying that's it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Have you ever met Trump?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Cause you like you got me thinking right now? Why dude?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Like okay, So this is obviously him playing a little stupid.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I can't confirm whether he's met Trump or not.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I did reach out to the White House to see
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: if that conversation had happened, because I don't know where
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: else I'll get it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try and work it out another way as
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: well too.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: But in twenty twenty four or NBA Young Boy was
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: sentenced by a federal judge in Utah after he admitted
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to possessing weapons despite the fact that he was a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: convicted felon.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: So he reached this.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Agreement that he would get that basically took care for
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: state charges. So they resolved to state charges against them,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and then it settled two sets of federal charges against them,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: one that carried a twenty three month sentence and then
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the other ordered five years of probation in a two
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars fine. And he was given a pardon
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: on these charges, on these gun charges and was released
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and able to go home. The pardon even made it
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: where his probation terms including like drug testing and all
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: of that. We're out of here now. At the time,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: he released a statement thinking Trump. He says, I want
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: giving me the opportunity to keep building as a man,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: as a father, and as an artist. But there's been
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: no confirmation of like the meeting or anything like that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: since this time.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: President Trump gave NBA Young Boy another shot at not
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: sitting behind bars, career, family, all the things right, all
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the things I noticed, all the things I get it.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm not knocking him for his answer. Let me
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: back that up. I'm not knocking him for acknowledging well
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: he didn't even acknowledge it. I'm not knocking him for
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: obviously being grateful for Trump for doing that, which is,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: in my opinion whatever right. Politically, I don't know him.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know enough. We haven't heard enough, you know,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: politically to understand how NBA Young Young Boy would have
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: arrived at being a Trump supporter if he had not
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: gotten a party, not enough in recent not enough consistently.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I think with some I mean Nicki Minaja the same way,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I would have never thought that Nicki Minajo end up
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a Trump supporter. It makes sense with NBA Young Boy, though,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: because this man was literally parton. He was about to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: go to jail, was about to be behind bars, it
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: was about to be you know, two years of sitting
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: down solid and then another sitting down at home. Right,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: So I understand that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I just wish that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He wasn't pushing the whole mega regime thing because obviously
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: NBA Young Boy is very influential and very impactful. He
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: is like the leader of you, one of the leaders
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: of youth culture, if not honestly, I'm saying NBA Young
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Boy is the leader of youth culture at this point.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Youth culture is basically like the Puschreisty's. The youngin is
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: like the people. Look, I'm thirty four years old. I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: gotta it's not me anymore, but like the thirty one
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: in under like that, I would say, Indy, I mean,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the kids love NBA Young Boy. Y'all remember seeing those
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: tour videos and hearing the crowd and just seeing how
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: crazy they were going. That man say jump, they say
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: how high? So I think politically and again I haven't
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: heard him speak much on politics or say this indefinitely,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if he understands where he's leading
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the people, especially like you know, I know that there
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: are some music artists who, although you know, come from
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: underserved communities and blah blah, all that stuff you know
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: that goes along with it, still feel like or felt
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like President Trump was the answer. But if you look
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: at things that have happened more recently, I don't understand
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: why anyone would think that or push that, and I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: just don't know if NBA Young Boy, as smart as
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: he is, I don't know if he understands how his
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: blind loyalty ends people up longer term. And honestly, I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: mean maybe he does. Maybe I'm completely wrong. Maybe we'll
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: get that in another interview, but I would rather hear that, like, okay,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: like why push whatever Trump is pushing? Why yes, he
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: pardoned you. I totally understand that, but like I mean,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Fetti Wop was recently released and he wasn't pardoned, but
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the First Step Act, which you know, got through the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: under the Trump administration, is the reason why he was
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: able to come home.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: But he's not out here.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I want you to be magg again, baby, Yeah, I
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: want you. You know, I'm not even saying that because
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I want nobody to clip that younger. What I'm saying though,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: all right now listen obviously at this point, if y'all
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: can't tell, I am a converted NBA Young Boy fan,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I never was against NBA Young Boy.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I've always liked his music.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I just think I wasn't really in tune with like
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the only thing I knew about him was the thing
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that hit the headlines and y'all know my end of it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Sometimes that's just the that's the cattiness of it all.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That's the baby Mama drama. That's the you know, the arrests,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the runner from the police, the all of that stuff.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: But his tour and watching each tour stop in the crowd.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't go to the tour, but just I wanted
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to go. That's how much watching the tour influence me.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I wanted to go to the tour, just experience the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: energy of it in real life, but didn't end up
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: making it. But he says that he's gonna go back
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: on tour again. He's gonna his plans or to take
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it international hopefully. I stand in the fact that he's
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: been able to do all this with feeling black ball
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: by the industry, with also not having like a lot
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of like mainstream support, Like he's not played all over
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the radio, he's not sitting down for a bunch of
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: interviews a lot of the times when the outlets are
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: talking about him. It is the drama, but people love
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: his music. It goes crazy. I'm all against people going
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: against the regime. I don't support the MAGA stuff, but
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I mean I support get pay Young man get paid.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So yeah, but shout out
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to Complex for this interview. This was my breakdown of it.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: You guys want more episodes like this?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Let me know.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I enjoy talking through interviews with you guys because I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: think we really get a chance to dissect not only
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the conversation that is being talked about and like the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: headline of it all, but the actual real conversation, like
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the how is this impassing us?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: What does this really mean? That doesn't really mean anything, because
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: sometimes these interviews would just be like this could have
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: been a tweet. You need to see the inner newa.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: You know how you could that feeling. Sometimes it's your boss,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: like yo, this could have been an email. We didn't
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: need a meeting. But I love it. Nonetheless, this is
• 30:11
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