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INTERVIEW: will.i.am & Taboo Talk 'East LA, Black Eyed Peas, Childhood, Giving Back To LA Communities, AI +More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody is the d j en Vy Jess hilarious, charlamage
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  Speaker 3: the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We got some
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  Speaker 3: special guests in the building. Well, I am a table.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome fella.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? How you feeling it's going to be here?
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  Speaker 5: Good to see you, man, y'all got the new record
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  Speaker 5: out of East l A.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, talks about that, man.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously we sampled Carlos Santana, so thank you for clearing that.
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  Speaker 1: It's been sampled a bunch.
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  Speaker 7: But there's a part in the song where he says, uh, Maria,
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  Speaker 7: Maria fell in love with East l A. So I
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  Speaker 7: just wanted to like highlight that part of the song
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  Speaker 7: and shout out the community that's being hit pretty hard
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  Speaker 7: by the ice raids. And what's beautiful about that is
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  Speaker 7: uh also got it.
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  Speaker 1: I also got a.
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  Speaker 7: Text from y Cleft saying he's a producer of the song, like, yo,
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  Speaker 7: let me get a clip of the video so I
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  Speaker 7: could post that. So that that meant a lot. But
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  Speaker 7: what's going on in our communities, it's pretty harsh, and
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  Speaker 7: I'm all for, you know, making.
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  Speaker 1: Sure our borders are safe.
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  Speaker 7: But it's just inhumane to go after anybody that looks
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  Speaker 7: Latin that you know, there's people that have been detained
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  Speaker 7: that are residents and citizens. There was a person who
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  Speaker 7: served in our military that has been detained.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that's a.
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  Speaker 7: Pretty you know, bad execution that took a good idea
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  Speaker 7: to turned into a bad idea because they could have
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  Speaker 7: been going out to making sure our communities are safer
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  Speaker 7: by apprehending, you know, criminals, but to go after hard
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  Speaker 7: working folks, people that are working two to three jobs
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  Speaker 7: to keep you know, food on their table, their kids
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  Speaker 7: going off to four year colleges. I know this firsthand
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  Speaker 7: because of the my program, my foundation, the work that
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  Speaker 7: we do getting kids to go off to four year colleges.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we've witnessed, you know, the fear that's been
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  Speaker 7: instilled in our in our neighborhood. So I just wanted
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  Speaker 7: to lift up the vibration and celebrate the community.
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  Speaker 8: And also as Angelino's born and raised in East Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 8: his mom went to Roosevelt High School, my mom went
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  Speaker 8: to Guarfield, So there was always this beautiful rivalry, but
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  Speaker 8: at the end of the day, it was about uniting
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  Speaker 8: and bringing East La together and standing in solidarity with
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  Speaker 8: those folks that you know that are crying out for
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  Speaker 8: help justice.
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  Speaker 2: So what does East La mean to both of you personally?
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  Speaker 5: Like, is this record like more of a tribute, is
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  Speaker 5: it a time capsule or is it something else?
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  Speaker 7: Well, for me, it's a thank you, It's a I
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  Speaker 7: see you, I love you. I have a lot of
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  Speaker 7: just beautiful memories there. I was born and raised there,
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  Speaker 7: spent twenty five years of my life there in the
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  Speaker 7: projects dreaming. I was able to move my family, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and we migrated out of the projects, but I still
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  Speaker 7: you know, loved my neighborhood, my program. I got a
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  Speaker 7: robotics program right in the middle of the projects that
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  Speaker 7: I'm from. My after school program is right down the
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  Speaker 7: street from that. My aunt still works at the Homo
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  Speaker 7: shelter there. My uncle still works at the park, you know,
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  Speaker 7: keeping the kids off the streets. So although we moved
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  Speaker 7: out of the projects, we're still in the heart of
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  Speaker 7: the community. So East La is like an ongoing dialogue
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  Speaker 7: of commitment dedication to you know, change the vibration of
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  Speaker 7: the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 8: And for me, as a Native Mexican kid from La,
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  Speaker 8: you know, It means a lot to be able to
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  Speaker 8: not only give back to the community in a sense
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  Speaker 8: of championing the idea of solidarity and oneness, but also
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  Speaker 8: to be able to wrap in Spanish or Spanglish like
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  Speaker 8: that was dope for us, you know, using slang specifically from.
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  Speaker 9: East la or Ball Heights.
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  Speaker 8: Really loving the vibration and the frequency that is the
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  Speaker 8: color and the texture of East Los Angeles, and that's
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  Speaker 8: why the video is so colorful.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you said something earlier that a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people don't necessarily say. You were saying that you're not
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  Speaker 3: mad if they're taking criminals off the street, taking people
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  Speaker 3: that are doing bad things off the street, but there
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  Speaker 3: has to be a process and procedure to do it
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  Speaker 3: and to figure out the good from the bad.
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  Speaker 6: Is that what you're saying.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, like you remembered, during COVID, they did a really
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  Speaker 7: good job making sure everybody got swabbed, making sure everybody
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  Speaker 7: got vaccinated and.
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  Speaker 6: Specifically and forced it on most people.
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  Speaker 1: But well that's a different subject.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but there was like a where you volunteered and
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  Speaker 7: drove to the near a stadium or the arena to
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  Speaker 7: get swabbed. And vaccinated, and a lot of the folks
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  Speaker 7: that did that, not a lot portion of the folks
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  Speaker 7: that did that were undocumented. So they know where the
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  Speaker 7: undocumented people actually live. They got all the information, but
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  Speaker 7: the way that they went about doing it is inhumane.
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  Speaker 7: There is a you know, a path that they could
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  Speaker 7: have taken to boost our economy by turning undocumented folks
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  Speaker 7: to documented folks.
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  Speaker 1: Because these folks that.
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  Speaker 7: Have these jobs, income taxes are taken from their paycheck.
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  Speaker 7: And people in Beverly Hills in Brentwood, they know their
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  Speaker 7: services are needed. Altadena and Malible Palisades burned down in
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  Speaker 7: reconfiguring these neighborhoods. They know the value of these people's services,
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  Speaker 7: and so I just think the way they went about
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  Speaker 7: it is horribly wrong. There could have been a better
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  Speaker 7: tax that, you know, gave people dignity, gave them the
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  Speaker 7: opportunity to become citizens, just the way other countries do.
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  Speaker 7: Just to blanket, just go into a neighborhood, mask people
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  Speaker 7: right in unmarked vehicles, you're inciting kidnapping because there's.
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  Speaker 1: No way to be able like who was that person?
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't even you couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: Even describe them.
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  Speaker 7: You know what car was that You wouldn't even know
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  Speaker 7: what if that was a government vehicle. I just think
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  Speaker 7: the tactic was just poor, you know. And and it
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  Speaker 7: doesn't reflect America's best. It doesn't reflect that sounds like
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  Speaker 7: a third world country. That doesn't sound like America.
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  Speaker 6: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: Why was West Side Story to write song the sample
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  Speaker 5: for this record?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, because it's at East LA. That's the part.
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  Speaker 7: I just love that part. And he said it with
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  Speaker 7: so much emotion that I just wanted to highlight that part.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I wanted to highlight you know.
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  Speaker 7: And and Carlos Santana has always been a hero in
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  Speaker 7: the Chicano community me growing up. You know, his brother
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  Speaker 7: did an awesome song. Shout out to Kid Frost for
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  Speaker 7: sampling his brother's record.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's a.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's a you know, and absolute Carlos Santana once
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  Speaker 7: again for for clearing that record.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and it was beautiful to have like the musical
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  Speaker 8: transitions from the three to zero, which were used to
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  Speaker 8: in East Los Angeles when you're on a date or
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  Speaker 8: you're doing something with family, you see three oo's in
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  Speaker 8: restaurants and then.
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  Speaker 10: To go what is like a like a yes, Okay,
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  Speaker 10: so that frequency that you first hear that's a three
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  Speaker 10: ozero and the three dudes playing usually at restaurants or
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  Speaker 10: you know, at different events, and then to be able
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  Speaker 10: to have it go into a transition with Cumbia with
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  Speaker 10: the undertone of the hip hop bop as you said,
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  Speaker 10: like that's it's really dope.
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  Speaker 2: What's the cool was it?
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  Speaker 7: Cumbia is a style of music that originated out of
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  Speaker 7: Colombia and then a lot of Central American countries have
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  Speaker 7: adopted it. Thenald Cumbia's is really awesome. It's it's popular,
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  Speaker 7: but originated in Colombia.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a.
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  Speaker 7: It's like this rhythm, like you know, like I thought this,
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  Speaker 7: and you know, trap has a signature rhythm. You know,
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  Speaker 7: there's all these house has obviously it has their four
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  Speaker 7: on the floor, but a cumbia's uh on the percussive
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  Speaker 7: that that's a signature rhythm throughout every Cumbia. And so
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  Speaker 7: we we wanted to go from a trio to a
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  Speaker 7: cumbia because that's what growing up in East La felt like.
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  Speaker 7: I grew up in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood which.
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  Speaker 2: Was you know, beautiful, The only black family there there was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, okay, there was the Hammers, there were.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know these people, will.
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  Speaker 7: People, the Rose family, the Walkers, my family, which is
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  Speaker 7: pretty pretty pretty large, No Canes. Uh, there's about five
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  Speaker 7: black families in our neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: But to all the.
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  Speaker 7: Mexicans, it was just one black family, you know what
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  Speaker 7: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And it was beautiful. It was beautiful growing up there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, people say you said that.
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  Speaker 11: People tell you that you're not from Easter Laborature from
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  Speaker 11: boy Heights.
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  Speaker 2: What's the difference.
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  Speaker 7: So growing up was East l A. But then we
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  Speaker 7: they like twenty years ago, they specified like we're from
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  Speaker 7: Boyle Heights and Boyle Heights. Uh, boyl High it's just
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  Speaker 7: you know, just east of downtown, but not as east
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  Speaker 7: as East l A.
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  Speaker 1: And these two schools.
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  Speaker 7: I think, really you know, define the rivalry between East
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  Speaker 7: East LA and Boyle Heights, Roosevelt and Garfield. There's a
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  Speaker 7: lot of like, uh, as far as the vibe, it's
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  Speaker 7: the same as far as like, but the high schools,
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  Speaker 7: the gangs are totally totally different. But to to East
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  Speaker 7: Siders it's all one thing. But then there's there's a
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  Speaker 7: lot of people that's gonna be listening, watching this, so
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  Speaker 7: I have to be super careful to be like Willie's
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  Speaker 7: Boyle Heights food gonna be given of, you know, separating
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  Speaker 7: us or like same world together. But right now we're
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  Speaker 7: all together. Right now, we're all together, right you want to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we talk about, you know, black in the
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  Speaker 3: Latin culture a lot, especially in New York, right is different.
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  Speaker 3: It's more Puerto Rican Dominicans, right, And I'm not Dominican,
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  Speaker 3: I'm black, he saysn't.
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  Speaker 1: You look Dominican.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody said, I'm not. I'm fully black.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, growing up, it was kind of like
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  Speaker 3: it was when I say us verse there and not
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  Speaker 3: us as in it was the blacks, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans.
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  Speaker 6: We stood together. We stuck together, right, We clubbed, we
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  Speaker 6: partied together.
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  Speaker 3: It was against So it's nothing to hear somebody Puerto
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  Speaker 3: Rican say nigga.
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  Speaker 6: You know that's my nigga. That's that. That's to the
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  Speaker 6: ever So a Mexican ot recently said that people had
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  Speaker 6: a problem with it.
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  Speaker 3: It's different here because we didn't grow up with the
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  Speaker 3: Mexican community. We grew up with Puerto Rican Dominicans. So
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  Speaker 3: say Fat Joe saying nigga was never a problem j
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  Speaker 3: Loo saying it. We didn't think, oh my god, it
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  Speaker 3: was how we grew up, especially in Bronx, queens Brook
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  Speaker 3: and whatever. How is it growing up in LA Because
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  Speaker 3: people were disturbed by that one time.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm like, that might be the same thing as
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  Speaker 6: how we grew up here.
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  Speaker 1: It depends, Like.
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  Speaker 7: Nathaniels, they say they drop in bombs all the time people,
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  Speaker 7: So the northern California and California and you know Richmond
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  Speaker 7: and they embomb all the time. Daniels, southern southern Cali,
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  Speaker 7: they don't really do that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. Our manager, Polo, he'd be dropping it crazy.
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  Speaker 6: Here though, Mexican.
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  Speaker 7: Polo's Mexican, Like yeah, So it all depends on what
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  Speaker 7: which part of California you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But because there's more black and Latin h.
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  Speaker 7: Communities and in northern California where's tightly mixed together, I
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  Speaker 7: could see why that that that's that has like a tolerance.
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  Speaker 7: In southern California. Uh, there has been a division between
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  Speaker 7: Blacks and Latins highly because of the prisons. So the
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  Speaker 7: prisons have separated blacks and Latins, and so there was
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  Speaker 7: like this notion that, wow, you survived, how did you
• 13:01
  Speaker 7: get how did you survive being one of the only
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  Speaker 7: black families in all Mexican neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it was it was, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of black people in southern California probably
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  Speaker 7: had a tougher time, but for my family it was
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  Speaker 7: and the other black families in our neighborhood and Elisa Pico,
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  Speaker 7: Elisa Village, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 8: In Tabo well, growing up in Dogtown Projects, which is
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  Speaker 8: close to where he grew up, and then I moved
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  Speaker 8: to Rosemey, California. It was predominantly Asian and Mexican, so
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  Speaker 8: we didn't really have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 8: It was more like you know, the Mexican Asian War,
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  Speaker 8: because it was heavy in the eighties, like the Watchings
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  Speaker 8: versus like Bartleer Street or you know, all these gangs
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  Speaker 8: that were in the San Gabo Valley. But I always
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  Speaker 8: knew that, you know, there was like this divide in
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  Speaker 8: this separation. So when Black Eyed Peas was formed, it.
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  Speaker 9: Was like yo, hip hop brought us together. It was
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  Speaker 9: not a cultural thing.
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  Speaker 8: It's not like oh, tabs Native American and Mexican and
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  Speaker 8: Will's black and apples Filipinos more like now we we
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  Speaker 8: hip hop kids. We grew up on dayline tribe. So
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  Speaker 8: that whole essence of just like you know, standing together
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  Speaker 8: for hip hop, B boying, MCing. It was that thing,
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  Speaker 8: so that the word was never really like a thing
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  Speaker 8: for us. You had your in your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 7: You you got a lot of flag because I hung
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  Speaker 7: out with Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 1: Like, hey, out with the blacks.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, so so my son's mom, Josh, my oldest son,
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  Speaker 8: his mom was black.
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  Speaker 9: So I got a lot of flat like, hey, you're
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  Speaker 9: living a taboo lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: Yea girlfriend.
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  Speaker 7: The lifestyle.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so so I was like, yeah, well, if I'm
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  Speaker 8: living the taboo lifestyle, I am taboo.
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  Speaker 1: So then that whole energy.
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  Speaker 8: Came about, like yo, I don't I'm down with the
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  Speaker 8: Blacks and down with the Filipinos, down with the Mexicans,
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  Speaker 8: the Asians.
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  Speaker 9: And that's that that connection that I had growing up.
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  Speaker 5: How does like when you talk about East l A
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  Speaker 5: and you know y'all mentioned in all the different types
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  Speaker 5: of music that you were influenced by it that I
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: went into this record, how did that show up in
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: you'll musical identity before?
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, so.
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  Speaker 7: If you listen to like songs like it, he says,
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  Speaker 7: on their first album. If you listened to like songs
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  Speaker 7: like Latin Girls on our third album, or people that
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  Speaker 7: we've collaborated with, like Juanas and Juan Sebastian, DeBie Nova,
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  Speaker 7: or a few Sergio Mendez.
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  Speaker 1: If you see.
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  Speaker 7: Records on like Translation where we went and dove into
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  Speaker 7: like reggaeton, or when I collaborated with Daddy Yankee, like
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  Speaker 7: on his first record. We've always been like fusing Latin
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  Speaker 7: rhythms like our bio was in nineteen ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: It was like wise Black Eyed Peace different were like we.
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  Speaker 7: Infuse Latin rhythms because of our you know, upbringings, like
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  Speaker 7: you google it, google it, but yeah if Google has it.
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  Speaker 8: And it was dope being able to drop Spanish versus
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  Speaker 8: back then. So I was dropping, Like we did a
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  Speaker 8: song called Release, and I was like, s I see see,
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  Speaker 8: I see Mosic guys, she took get it something that weather?
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  Speaker 8: I said, yes, and so oh, I see what I said.
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  Speaker 8: Okay said it's the offer. You Spanish tongue is spinaking true.
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  Speaker 8: That was like you've been talking that ship.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know what he says.
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  Speaker 1: I could have said this ship sucks.
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  Speaker 9: This shows.
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  Speaker 7: We would always we would always be like yo time,
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  Speaker 7: like right, you know, you gotta dig and you gotta
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  Speaker 7: go on your your Latin bag bro on this one.
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  Speaker 7: Like that's it's really like hone into our individuality cultural differences.
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  Speaker 7: You know, like you the Latin native dude. You know
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  Speaker 7: what I'm saying, I'm the black dude from an all
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  Speaker 7: Mexican neighborhood. Apples like super Filipinos straight from the Philippines
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  Speaker 7: don't even speaking English for like twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's.
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  Speaker 7: That's why Black Eyed Peas is like super international.
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  Speaker 9: Just be white like you.
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  Speaker 7: Before before we even Matt Fred before you mat fraid
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  Speaker 7: and so black Eyed Peas.
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  Speaker 1: Not the way she said, and that was funny.
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  Speaker 7: But our biggest audience outside of the not we're more
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  Speaker 7: We have more success.
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  Speaker 1: In Mexico than the States really really.
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  Speaker 7: Like yeah, yeah, like we could play like multiple stadiums
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  Speaker 7: at our height. We was playing at Steca Stadium, was
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  Speaker 7: playing stadiums all throughout Salvador and uh you know Bottomla Chile, Brazil, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela,
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  Speaker 7: Like yeah, like that's where we would go to those
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  Speaker 7: places that's the reason why the only stadium we played
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  Speaker 7: in America was in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't play no stadiums in the States.
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  Speaker 7: Really at the height of our career, the height of
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  Speaker 7: our career, we never played the stadium in America just
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  Speaker 7: in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: That's in our mind.
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  Speaker 5: Black Eyed Peas was just big and that's all your
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  Speaker 5: name stadium.
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  Speaker 1: Yeahah, outside of America.
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  Speaker 6: Wow, I don't know why I could have sworn they
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  Speaker 6: did the garden. No, no, we did. We did a
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  Speaker 6: different arenas, arenas.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, twenty twenty thirty thousand stadiums is eighty dollars, no
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: med life, none of those.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: No, we didn't do that just in Miami.
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: But we was able to do eighty three thousand in
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: France three to three times in a row.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Japan, all you that you were able to do
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: it there and not necessarily here. Did you want to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: do it here or you didn't care success? You know
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: it didn't matter to you?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, I can't nitpick be like no.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Because some people want to do home like I want
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: home like that. You know, home is earth, okay.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: And we've we've always had It's true, we've always had
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: the mentality like apples from the Philippines.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: Our goal is less.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Performed in the Philippine.
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we got to go back to Apple's motherland, so
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: it meant international.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: The idea is we're going to take this international.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Will being one of the only black people growing up
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: in that Mexican community in Taboo, you know, you know,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: getting flack I guess from your own community about you know,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: being with a black woman.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Did y'all have any identity issues growing up?
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: No?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Hip hop did a really good job.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: That was like, hey, Willie rapped on, hey, rap about
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: the neighborhood they seen, or like he that dances food and.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: So because not even like hey and I forgets it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Now you come to all the kind of inside of
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: fucking parties with his home.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: But like that's how I That's how I talked growing up.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Like that's how I talked growing up.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: If you would have if you would have seen me
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: fifteen years old, like, hey, that's what it was.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: What did your mother and pop say when you came
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: home talking.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Late that, Oh, my mom's talking about my mom talks
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: like that. Now, my mom don't talk like that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: What about your cousins?
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: Oh, in the hood hood and you came around with
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: the headhomes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: So I just took my mom.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: We had a every every summer, my mom comes with
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: me to Europe on tour for the past like eight years.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So we were just there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: We were in Turkey and in France this summer. So
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: my Mom's like, hey, Willie, look I got some pictures.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: So my mom's trying pictures. I'm like, where's that. She's like, oh,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: that's Media's king. I'm like, when was mean, Willie? That
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: was last week? I'm like, why didn't I do? Why
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: didn't I go and perform at it? Really? Because y'all
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: was out here. So a King Sina, for those is listening,
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: is like a Latin.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Sixteen.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: So you know, my my and I wanted to make
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: sure her daughter had a She's half black, half Mexican.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: A lot of my nieces and nephews and cousins are
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: half black, half Mexican, and half black half Mexican.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: They end up looking Dominican.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Mm hmm, Jessica, I call it homemade Dominican.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Homemade Dominican, yes, we.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Got homemade Dominican.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Yes, And in our in our neighborhood, like so a
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: lot of our niece, my cousins look like you.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Because you ain't.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: You ain't Dominican, but Dominican they look like you know
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: what I mean.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: They look like just married a Mexican man, you look.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Like you can look like sisters.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: My daughter is Mexican and black. It's do so I
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: have a homemade Dominican. You got a homemade Dominican. That's
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: a dope.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Dominican. Becauserie Dominican.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, you just listen to the story Black and Mexicans.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Their kids look like Dominican. Therefore the yeah, so envy
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: might be homemade. Then I'm not dominic.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And here's the reason why.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: If you think about, like, what's that island on the
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: other side of dominic d r is Haiti.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So people look like got.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: And so obviously if you have black, any African descendant,
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: that's gonna go.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That's not gonna go right to the dominic community.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: They're gonna be like, we're not African descendants, we're not black,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: which is a different conversation conversation, but you unpack it
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: all they you know, ancestors look like me and gotcha.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: You know we look alike. We could be in the
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: same family.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, MV.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: Have you guys noticed Ice out here like the way
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: it is in l A.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah absolutely not like no, not like l A.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: But yeah, like you see him over in Jersey, heavy
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: in Jersey.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: But you see it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Dominicans, Yeah, you see it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Uh, And you know they're all online and they'll send
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: out of text, Hey just let you know Ice is
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: in Patterson today, Ices in this town, Ices in this town,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: and you know, yeah, they running up grabbing.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: And he never used to let people know he's not
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Dominican more than he do now. Before he used to
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: kind of embrace it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: He's a lie.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: That's In fact, he did a whole interview with TMD
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: and the headline is like I am black.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Side.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: He plays around.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: All the time, he says, the Dominican he was even good.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a ride along and call Ice to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: see if they grab you.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: If he confirmed he's a hundred, why.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Not.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: I want a Dominican a war too. But I'm not Dominican,
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: I'm black.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. What about you have any identity issues?
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: So growing up in Los Angeles is a mosaic of cultures.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: So I just felt comfortable moving through understanding and loving
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: and appreciating learning about all these different cultures growing up. Dude,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: I'm Native and Mexican. So one end, my grandmother was
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: connected to the Jerome roots, which is the Native side,
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: and then on another end, I got my Mexican Chicano
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: roots right growing up growing up in La So it
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: was a tough heavy lift to like bring other nationalities
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: to the house sometimes, But at the end of the day,
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: it was like, this is who I am, and so
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: I'm going to be. I'm go an live this taboo lifestyle.
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: People rock with it or not, It's all good.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: This is who I am.
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: I stand on business, you know.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It's dope too.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: Like I was I rereading the comments on YouTube, and
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: there's this there's a there's a couple of people that
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: are like, hey, Willie, your mom, your mom raised me
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: at the park, mom.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Took care of you know.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so my mom in the projects was the mom
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: that took care of people's kids. And so there's a
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: lot of people that are on that when I travel
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: out there, when I'm out in the streets on the
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: on the comments on videos that are like, your mom
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: took care of me, your mom raised me, and your
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: mom helped raise my kids, and so the love in
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: the community was real. The only time I wouldn't say
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: it was an identity issue. My mom was real strict
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: growing up, like I couldn't really go outside and play
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: too far from where she could in line of sight
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: and so, and then a lot of my friends growing
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: up their family their their parents were kind of like,
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: you know, free, Willie. They go out and do whatever
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: they wanted, and so I would always be like, damn,
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: my mom is mean. I wish my mom was like
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: Andy's mom. I wish my mom was like Lollo's mom.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: But now that I got older, I'm so happy that
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: my mom was strict, you know, rest in peace Lollo
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: that I grew up with. But yeah, my mama is
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: my mama strict, And they would be like, where you're going, Willie,
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: your mom did you get a switch, hunk?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: So my mom would be like, go get a switch.
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: Make sure that I went and got a switch by
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: where people were playing.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I thought that was just some down south ship we
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: was born.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: My mom was born in the South.
• 26:19
  Speaker 7: She was born in Louisiana, and Grandma was born and
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: picking in Mississippi, and then brought a lot of that
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Southern like, you know, raising how she disciplined us, She
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: kept that and ongoing and how she raised us.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: She'd be like, get.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: You put out there and go give me a switch
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: from over there where they at.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: So I had to go get a switch.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: And your mom's gonna hit you hung and your mom
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: me so they would follow me just to go see
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: me get disciplined.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: And then the old thing about it if you picked
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: the wrong switch, you can't. Yeah, that taught you a
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: lot about consequences and accountability at a young.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Age, not abuse.
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a different, different time, you know.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Speaking about moms. My mom send us a nice text
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: about the song. She said, I'm proud of you and
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: Willie taking it back to the neighborhood. My memories of
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: growing up in East l A start with the music
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: playing loud and watching Chicano culture evolve and take over
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: the streets. I never thought that my son would bring
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: the music to my childhood neighborhood.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Love you forever, Mom and my mom's My mom's text was,
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: I cannot believe I made a trailblazer, a waymaker, an
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: influencer and innovator.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: That's my Willie.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, you look like a man. What
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: took y'all so long to create a song?
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: I guess paying homs to this particular community.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: That's a really good question. It is, I tell you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I tell you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: So, up until this point, if you did a record,
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: it would be it would be a gang alignment. But
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: my neighborhood is you know, we know the gang in
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: the neighborhood. And I didn't want to make like a
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: record that can be misconscrewed. We misconscrewed as.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Like gang alignment. I didn't want to make a record
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that that was like.
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Street you know and celebrating, you know, the conditions of life.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: And so now the record is about it's urgent. We'll
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: have songs like Latin Girls was well, have songs that
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: that shout out.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: You know, the lifestyle of where we were raised.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: But it was all.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: Fantasy music, so using your imagination. Most people like want
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: to keep a real, living reality. I wanted to stay fantasy.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: I wanted to make music that was like different from
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: you know, the conditions of life, like.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I don't want to relive that.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: And so music, especially Daylight sold trump real quest I was.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Escape from my reality, and I think.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: If I look at you know, that was a heavy
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: question because it makes you reflect on.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Like, hey, why didn't we do that?
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: Why didn't we have like an East LA record in
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: nineteen ninety eight, nine two thousand one. I think it's
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: been two decades, you know. Plus so why now? And
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: the reason now, it's because the urgency and the need
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: for you know, changing the vibration and you know, think
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: in the community and at the same time letting the
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: community know that we.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Got your back.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of folks that don't want to speak
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: up because there's a lot of politics on speaking There's
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: a lot of folks that that remained silent because of
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: like what is it? What is it going to mean?
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of you don't know who owns what.
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: M there's there's a you could be signed in a contract,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: you could be doing something with a certain organization and
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: that organization owns things.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You don't know who owns what. And so for that like.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: We've we've already had a career and now's the time
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: they do that. There's it if there was a time,
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: will be right now more so than then.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: And also add that we are from the cloth of
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: like self Destruction, Boogie Down Production, Miss Melody, Dougie Fresh
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: m See like all that era, and then you had
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: We're All in the Same Game on the West Coast
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: with Young MC easy that record. So we've always been
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: pillars of activism, but movement with like songs like Where's
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: the Love Right, Well, we advocate for people that may
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: not have the same platform that we have, and in
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: this this situation, it was RASA, It was people that
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: we grew up with. It was the voices that didn't
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: have the platform, and it was our love letter to
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: our childhood. But also to stand in solidarity with those people.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: Also, also there's you could talk about the community, or
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: you could be about the community and go to the
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: community and bring solutions to the community. So I'm more
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: solution orientated, like I don't have to talk about the
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: community to go out there and you know, have success,
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: come back to the community and build robotics programs, college
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: prep programs. And then during COVID, when when we realized
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: that when people were working from home, when they were
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: educating themselves from home, they didn't have access to the internet,
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: go back to the community, provide free Wi Fi for
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: the projects so kids could you know, learn from their
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: home because we realized that they were putting themselves in
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: harm's way when they had to go up to you know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: an area where they had free Wi Fi. So we
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: about any place any so we brought so my foundation
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: in collaboration when we link brought you know, free Wi
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Fi to the projects and so you could talk about
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: it or you could do about it. And so I
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: we always wanted to I always wanted to do about it,
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: and now it's time to talk about it and do
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: about it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: At the same time, though, I did the same thing
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: as South Carolina, same exact thing, d because I, you know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: I usually do like the book back drives and everything,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: but like during that time, I'm like, all of these
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: kids are having to go to like fast.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: From restaurants to get Wi Fi.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: And so I did the same exact thing, got Wi
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: Fi for this, Yeah, the colony, Colony House of Projects
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: and Columbus Olina.
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: And then the visual that goes along with it as well,
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: like even your heartfelt message at the end. Well, I
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: thought that was really dope because specifically Boyle Heights have
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: been like they've been going through a lot, you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 11: with the LAPD officer shootings, and everything like that. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: don't know if y'all heard, but it was an unfortunate death.
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: Reci peace to Jeremy Flores. He and his family. They
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: just they underwent, They underwent like some crazy trouble right
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: with somebody called the police on him because he was
• 33:37
  Speaker 11: driving a white van and they said that they that
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: he had a rifle and then the police came and
• 33:43
  Speaker 11: they killed him, you know what I mean. Like, so
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: this is a great tribute to them, and just just
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: this song just alone, the visual as well, Shine's light
• 33:55
  Speaker 11: on East LA and some of those projects and communities
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: because they really really need like like some healing right now,
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: so that this what y'all doing is great. Now, is
• 34:07
  Speaker 11: this a Black Eyed Peas song? Or will I Am
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: in Taboo song?
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: It's will I Am in Taboo? We struggle with that,
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: like is this black Eyed Peas?
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, hey, why don't we do something that
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: we haven't done where you know, we we we know
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: what Votron's like, but if we could, like, you know,
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: highlight different clusters of what we are collectively, that means
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: a tab and Apple song will call a me and
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: Apple song, you know, you know, doing doing it like
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: that on this on this next face.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: But I'm in solo mode.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: I have records coming out, and I wanted to put
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: out as much human made music as possible.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Because hey, I take it over like that. Damn.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: Well yeah, it's really dopey the aim.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I want to.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: That sounds crazy to even say I want to make
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: as much human made music as possible.
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, damn. How do you feel?
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: You know, people got on Timberland when he signed his
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: first AI artists, and people were mad and said, you're
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: taking the jobs from regular artists, taking the creativity away,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: taking you know, the fact.
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: What are your thoughts on it?
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's the way.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: The environment, the proximity of what Timberland was around as
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: he was doing the AI music. So for a couple
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: of years before that, he was, you know, wanted to
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: sign people by having them submit music. And then the
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: thing that he signed is an AI, not a human
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: I could see why that rough feathers.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I thought, you just did this campaign.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: And then the situation with the dude and the beat.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: It's a there's a lot of noise around it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Had uh. For example, we did some version of that
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: where we're like the new member of the Black Eyed
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: Peas is an Ai when we were about to do Vegas.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: But like I said, I think.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: It's the proximity because he was adjacent to you know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: a call out, you know, magnetizing the community to send music,
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: and then the thing he signs is an AI. But
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: other than that, if you remove that out of the way,
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: there's no there's no there's no, it's no different of
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: lending your voice to a to a cartoon. For example,
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: I did Madagascar two that hippos a hippo.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I did a bird on Rio one and two who's
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: was Pedro. So it's using your.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: Imagination and like building character.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You know, Mickey.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: Mouse is the o g Ai character outlived freaking walk.
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  Speaker 7: So there's nothing wrong with you know, avatars or you know,
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: uh alter egos. You know, there's nothing wrong with that.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: It's just you gotta be careful in the environment and
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: they and the environment that you that you do it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: In what happened with Vegas because you mentioned Vegas the virus.
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: I was affected by the fires.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: To be honest with you, I'm an altaden opacity in
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: the area and I was displaced for a long time.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I didn't have a home. Wow, fact.
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, so we had a well we well, we'll revisit
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: that now that you know, you know, people are safe,
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: people can live.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: You did you lose everything?
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: I had to get rid of Every internal damage was bad,
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: so we had to get rid of everything internally structurally.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: Structurally were okay, but our surrounding area was devastated. So
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: you know, my hearts go out to Yeah, my kid,
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: both of my son's preschool burned down, So my heart
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: goes out to Altadina, Malibu Palisades and all the people affected. Dude,
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: our our year started off fucked up twenty five so
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: to be able to have come back in the summer
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: and have healing, as you said, with this song and
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: this whole idea of how can we be of service
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: and help and do our part to advocate, Like that's
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: that's a blessing for us as.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: We made year.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Man, I feel like it was two years so far.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: It's crazy because I feel like culturally LA is having
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: such a great moment, right, not a moment because y'all
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: at LA, but like, you know what Kendrick did well culturally,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: but then it's like societally, the fire ice ray, It's
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: like God.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, what is thirty fifty two.
• 38:50
  Speaker 11: I noticed that it's shouted in the song Copley fifty.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Two is a section and LAFC where the community they've made.
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: You know, the team did an awesome job making a
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: space for the community of Angelinos to really celebrate. You know,
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: they brought a tribal experience to sporting. The only place
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: we actually find that is outside of the States, the
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: Real Madrid or the Brazilian football team or Germany. You know,
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: you see this like a different level of fandom that's
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: that's tribal.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: So thirty two fifty two.
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: I wanted to shout that out because I go to
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: I go to the games, and that section is you know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: a lot of the people from the community that I know.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: There's people like Boyle Heights. They got the Boyle Heights
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: scarves and the Boyle Heights flags or.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Different cut a hay. You know, the whole East Side
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: east Siders.
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: Are there in the in the thirty two fifty two
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: like which is three thousand, uh three, five hundred and
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: fifty two seats.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: It's really what.
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: It is, like the Seahawks, how they have the twelve
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: man like that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, did you have you bounced back to that book from
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: your house.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: We did.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we moved in fortunately, but still we have eight
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: hundred trash trucks taking the debris out. We probably won't
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: be up and running as a community as far as
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: like good for a couple of years. Some of the
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: lots are being sold. Some of the lots are being
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: taken over because they don't have insurance.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Some of the people.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: You gotta understand, bro, these are marginalized communities on the
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: other side of Altadina, A lot of black families and
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: Mexican families that didn't have, you know.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: The proper insurance.
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: They've been living there there for years and they were
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: affected by the fires, and unfortunately the city comes in
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: and takes their home because they can't pay for that lot.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Is this song gonna be part of a bigger project
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: or it's just like a one off statement.
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: Oh no, it's part of my solo project of one
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: of the three. So I got I got all pop
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: record that's like a big, big type of records.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Then I got like a just a.
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: Like a nineties influence boom back a record, and then
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: I have just like a fusion project.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: This is the fusion project.
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: I just saw that you collaborated with Mercedes.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he did. He did that. I tried to
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: get it for the last.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: So we got two pieces of technology inside Mercedes. One
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: the sound drive that takes all the sensor data, yeah,
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: and aims at sensor data to a sound generation platform
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: that allows a driver to remix, reimagine songs just by driving.
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: And then I got this AI radio that's in Mercedes vehicles.
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: And because of that Qualcom, we just partnered up with
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: Qualcomm and we you know, just married our systems onto
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: Chip so they would get us in more OEM vehicles.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: So we I go to India.
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: In two weeks to announce our partnership with three OHEM
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: auto manufacturers out there in India. What's awesome is one
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: of our kids that joined MY program. There's a kid
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: that comes from the same project as me. He joined
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: my my My program when he was like in the
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: ninth grade, tenth grade.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: He then went to school for computer science.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: He then graduated and now he's like one of the
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: lead in leadership implementing our systems and Mercedes. I'm just
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: really proud of his dedication, commitment and we rely on
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: him for his talents. But you know, just go to
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: show that people from the same projects can can align
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: and bring the best out of each other. So you know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: really really salute his h his growth and now leadership
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: at the company.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: So I love that you.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: That's really it's great when I sit here and I
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: listen to you and Taboo talk man, and I think about,
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: you know, the other members Filipino, with all the different
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: coaches in the group.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: How did y'all land on the name.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Black eyed Peas because black eyed Peas is synonymous with
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: black folks.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that accompanis.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: And on that name.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: I just I just uh, my grandma she used to
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: used to, you know, force me, not force me, but like, boy,
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: you ain't getting up out that table.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Tea finished in black eyed Peas and they were drive
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and I didn't. I'm not. I'm not a fan of.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: The love black eyed Peas.
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: Rights is good. It's just a peace by itself. Like
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: to me, sometimes it's good. But the way that way
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: I had it growing.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Up, it was. And so the green beans.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: And black eyed peace when they get cold, I ain't
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: trying to add that. And so my grandma would be like,
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: you ain't getting up off that table to you finish
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: the Black Eyed Peace. So for me, it just meant like,
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: don't stop until you're done. You can't get up until
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: you finish something. And no matter how hard it is,
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: no matter what it is, if you got a dream,
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: if you were set to do something, you gotta see
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: it and you got to complete it.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: And it's good luck.
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: You know, it's a good luck and so good luck
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: and you know, good vibes and what you magnetize and
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: what you attract.
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: And also Black Eyed Peas and Soul Food and we
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: always felt like our music feeds the soul. And it
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: would have been weird being like, okay because your mexicanist
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: list named the group.
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: But they had that or Bees and Rice.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Hit Listen. Black probably would have been whack if y'all
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: didn't make it.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: I want to change the name.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: Somebody was like Black Eyed Peas.
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, because the idea of soul food is dope.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: We feed the soul with our music absolutely.
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: And you know, there was two groups that were out
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: that was named after food, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: I'm like, they got to smash the pumpkins. I'm like, yo,
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: they got food names. Bro, Like you know what I'm saying. Well,
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: let's get into the joint right now.
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Let's get into you and introduce it.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Yo, what's up.
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: This is what I am Taboo and this is a
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: new record that we got called East l A.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: We appreciate you guys for joining us.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Man, thank you for having us all the time.
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: Sarahs Breakfast Club one. Let's get into it.
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club