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EYL #246 Rotimi on Power, 50 Cent, Real Estate, Skincare Business, African Roots, Music & Working His Wife · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: So okay.
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  Speaker 7: So one of the things I learned from Kelsey Grammar
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  Speaker 7: always always as a way you can look at a
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  Speaker 7: camera where it's you're talk you're talking to the people,
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  Speaker 7: but you're also.
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  Speaker 3: I'm look, I'm looking at the camera as you're doing this.
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  Speaker 7: So like camera left, you're looking kind of at it,
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  Speaker 7: but you're not looking at it. But they feel it
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  Speaker 7: feel like you're about to break that fourth wall a
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  Speaker 7: little Oh shit, that's good, Keep going, keep good, keep going,
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  Speaker 7: and you feel like so then then you start doing
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  Speaker 7: things that like.
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  Speaker 3: Is it mischievous? Yeah? Are you angry? Yeah? Do you
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  Speaker 3: feel sexy? Yeah? I was my guy.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, guys, welcome back e y l.
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  Speaker 6: We're back home for a short period of time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: this is gonna be a dope episode. Man, shout out
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  Speaker 6: to my guy Punch first and foremost. Yeah, ran into
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  Speaker 6: him at the airport in l A.
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  Speaker 3: What were we out there for? It might have been Grammymy,
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  Speaker 3: definitely Grammy for sure. I see what you did there.
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  Speaker 3: Well I'm getting to that.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, so we was out there connected and then
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  Speaker 6: a couple of weeks later he was like, Yo, I'm
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  Speaker 6: managing role to me now and I want to get
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  Speaker 6: him on the platform. So it was like, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 6: do it. Let's let's set it up. I was a
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  Speaker 6: big fan of Power, so.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, we all are. Let's just say, let's this
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  Speaker 3: is not just like a youth.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't a big fan of your character.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't there. I wasn't. I appreciate you. He
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  Speaker 3: was necessary. It was necessary. It was very necessary because
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  Speaker 3: it reminded us like what those used to be.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, towards the second third season, we
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  Speaker 5: saw that he was a lover, but he had a
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  Speaker 5: little sweet in him.
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  Speaker 3: And you were like, nah, this is what you used
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  Speaker 3: to be bro.
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  Speaker 4: So wrote to me. Interesting story.
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  Speaker 6: I know a lot of people know you from power,
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  Speaker 6: but you're an artist, singer, entrepreneur, relationship goals for the
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  Speaker 6: whole contest Africa.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk about that father.
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  Speaker 6: Nigerian, Yes, sir, That's why I wore my knights, say see.
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  Speaker 4: By Nigerians, not your family.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, so I feel like we were allowed to
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  Speaker 6: talk about first and foremost, thank you for joinings.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you for having me. Did he leave athlete out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he did, athlete, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: So all right, so how does it start? Because I
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  Speaker 6: know used to do music. You're doing music now, so
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  Speaker 6: it's come through sixty but you were music and I
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  Speaker 6: believe he was in a group.
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  Speaker 3: With jay Z's not you. Yeah yeah, yeah, So.
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  Speaker 4: How did this all start from the music side?
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  Speaker 7: So a lot of people don't know that musically, I've
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  Speaker 7: been singing since I was four years old and my
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  Speaker 7: mom had me.
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  Speaker 3: My mom had me as a Nigerian wedding singer.
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  Speaker 7: So I was singing at weddings from Connecticut to Philly
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  Speaker 7: to Delaware, Jersey, all of that.
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  Speaker 3: For like five six years at.
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  Speaker 4: What age from four to nine weddings at four years.
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  Speaker 3: Old, Nigerian weddings, Like what's the difference? So like Nigerian
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  Speaker 3: like for Nigerian Nagerian wedding.
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  Speaker 7: So I would be like the when the when, the when,
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  Speaker 7: the just walking down, or I'll be singing gospel songs
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  Speaker 7: or like just start the party. So I was doing
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  Speaker 7: that from four to nine, and then in high school,
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  Speaker 7: so that's when I started realizing, like, y'all, I really want.
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  Speaker 3: To do music, like I love art, I love this.
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  Speaker 7: And so in high school with jay Z's nephews, So
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  Speaker 7: my junior year, his nephews moved into town and so
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  Speaker 7: they created a group called NBAH and they needed a singer.
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  Speaker 7: What was it called NBHB NBA natural Born Hustlers. So
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  Speaker 7: we started that, but we was winning talent shows and
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  Speaker 7: doing all types of things. And the whole call one
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  Speaker 7: time was like listen, if y'all really want to do this,
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  Speaker 7: come to New York. I need y'all here here in
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  Speaker 7: my penthouse every other week, player songs, performing songs for me.
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  Speaker 7: So we're going every Saturday that holds crib and performing
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  Speaker 7: in his living room like it's what we wrote for
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  Speaker 7: the week. And he's like Okay, that's trash.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing. Keep doing that. I love your voice.
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  Speaker 7: So again, like, so he's sixteen, seventeen years old and
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  Speaker 7: you're singing somebody who's arguably the greatest rappers say, yo,
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  Speaker 7: you have real talent.
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  Speaker 3: And that was just the motivating thing for my life.
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  Speaker 3: Actually I really started like okay, I could really do this.
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  Speaker 3: How consistently? Is it like every week y'are do making
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  Speaker 3: new songs? Yeah? Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So we were doing talent shows, we were doing a
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  Speaker 7: community college to YMCA shows. We were doing all that,
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  Speaker 7: and then during the week after school, I played balls.
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  Speaker 7: So after practice I'd go and we would just write songs,
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  Speaker 7: record them, and then bring into whole crib man. I
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  Speaker 7: literally just you know, see what worked and see what
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  Speaker 7: didn't work, and you know, you're just sharpening your performance
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  Speaker 7: and all of that.
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  Speaker 6: So you're singing in high school, but you go to
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  Speaker 6: college for communications, right, Yeah, and that was in Illinois.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Northwestern. I went to Northwest Nothwestern.
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  Speaker 6: So at that point, did you like just give up
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  Speaker 6: on a dream of being an artist or did you
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  Speaker 6: say okay, we put this on pause for a minute,
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  Speaker 6: or did you continue to be an artist while in college.
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  Speaker 7: So I went to school originally for voice performance, so
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  Speaker 7: I got in for voice performance.
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  Speaker 3: As Northwestern.
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  Speaker 7: I got in and I was realizing, like, damn, I'm
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  Speaker 7: doing all these classes and getting half credits, and I'm
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  Speaker 7: learning music theory and all these things that I personally
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't use for my artists work, like my dreams of
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  Speaker 7: being artists. So let me actually put my college experience
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  Speaker 7: to you. Let me go to communications and I did
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  Speaker 7: a minor in business, so let me start running how
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  Speaker 7: to run a label, how to figure out what I
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  Speaker 7: want to do, how do I handle my money, how
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  Speaker 7: do I understand investments? So I started doing that early,
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  Speaker 7: but now it was always music. It was always music.
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  Speaker 7: So we would actually sneak into the music department studio
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  Speaker 7: at night. So I got cool with the janitor, so
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  Speaker 7: we record all our records at night, so just to
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  Speaker 7: and sell the mixtapes during lunchtime during school in college.
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  Speaker 4: So you had a buzz in college as a music
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  Speaker 4: I had a buzz in.
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  Speaker 5: College as a music. We skipped over something and we
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't breaze over it. Northwestern is not the easies school
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  Speaker 5: to get in. All this is like top level, one
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  Speaker 5: of the best communicating schools in the country, not definitely
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  Speaker 5: in the world. So I'm sure, like silastically, you must
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  Speaker 5: have been super intelligent to even get in there. But
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  Speaker 5: from your parents' side, yeah, I'm sure they're not thinking like, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: what set in him there to find out where he
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  Speaker 5: can be in music?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, what are their thoughts about what they want
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  Speaker 3: you to do?
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  Speaker 7: Roalt to me, you have to be a doctor, a lawyer,
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  Speaker 7: an engineer, a dentist. Forget the music now, anybody can.
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  Speaker 7: I don't even want to hear your music grow to me,
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to hear your.
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  Speaker 3: Songs, you know what I mean. So for me, it
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  Speaker 3: was like I'm competitive.
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  Speaker 7: So my dad put that bug in my back, like listen,
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  Speaker 7: get your degree, focus on this. If you want to
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  Speaker 7: make music cool, but for get this this will change
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  Speaker 7: your life and save you and just learn, learn as
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  Speaker 7: much as you can. So my deal with him was
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  Speaker 7: if you graduate, he'll pay for the first year out
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  Speaker 7: of college and pay my rent and everything, so I
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  Speaker 7: can focus on music.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the deal, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 7: So again out to just having amazing parents that believe
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  Speaker 7: in and do that for you. But yeah, I had
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  Speaker 7: to add to ad to really really work and compartmentalize
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  Speaker 7: my time. Man, because again making the record, selling the
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  Speaker 7: record in school, doing work and then going to uh
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  Speaker 7: Chicago in the city and like doing all types of
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  Speaker 7: open mics and just build the name in the city.
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  Speaker 3: So it's always compartmentalizing and.
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  Speaker 7: Learning how to just balance my time and try to
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  Speaker 7: make money while I was doing it.
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  Speaker 3: What did your parents do like for a living?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, so my mom was in public health and my
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  Speaker 7: dad was an investment banker.
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  Speaker 4: Banker in New York.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
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  Speaker 4: So he didn't want you to go into finances.
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  Speaker 7: Now, he didn't push forward. He just made sure that
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  Speaker 7: I understood like how to handle my money.
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  Speaker 3: He's still no, no, he's retired. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So you so the financial literacy and business that was
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  Speaker 6: something that.
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  Speaker 3: You was introduced to at a young age, very young age.
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  Speaker 7: So my dad basically would have me come to work
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  Speaker 7: with him and just see and just learn how to
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  Speaker 7: understand taxes, understand saving, understand stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So like the first money I did. So basically a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people don't know.
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  Speaker 7: So with my father, he made it to the point
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  Speaker 7: where if you're really that guy ro to me, if
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  Speaker 7: you're really who you believe you are. Make sure saved
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  Speaker 7: all your money. Do not spend your power money. So
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  Speaker 7: for six years I never touched my power money. I
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  Speaker 7: mean I used I lived off of my shows, my hostings,
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  Speaker 7: and my endorsement deals. So for six years I just
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  Speaker 7: saved all of that. And the first purchase I did
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  Speaker 7: was by real estate. So knowing that that was something
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  Speaker 7: that my dad taught me while I was in high school,
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  Speaker 7: like saved, make sure you have a line of a
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  Speaker 7: line of work and then find different streams to make money.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what I started doing. That's crazy. So we're back.
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  Speaker 5: I want to go back to Northwestern because you're selling
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  Speaker 5: the tapes and making some money. But what is your
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  Speaker 5: sound like? You're still trying to figure out your sound.
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  Speaker 5: I'm assuming, so like who's influencing you? And at that time,
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  Speaker 5: what is it? Is it R and B?
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  Speaker 3: Is it? Like?
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  Speaker 7: Who's influencing sound that you're making at the sound? So
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  Speaker 7: at that time, man, I was one of those that
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  Speaker 7: didn't really know. I just knew I could sing really well,
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  Speaker 7: so I didn't really have a style. It was more
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  Speaker 7: so trying to emulate everybody. And so okay, Chris Ben
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  Speaker 7: had a record this person had a record. This person,
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  Speaker 7: So I'm doing records and they're not really connecting because
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  Speaker 7: it wasn't me. So every artist goes to that point.
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  Speaker 7: Every artist needs to realize that focus on finding your
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  Speaker 7: sound and who you are. And then now that's when
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  Speaker 7: everything took off for me. So when I realized, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: I'm African American. Okay, I'm the epitome of really African American.
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  Speaker 7: Let me lean into R and B, let me lead
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  Speaker 7: into afrobeat, let me lead into you know, pop, whatever
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  Speaker 7: it was that made my sound. So my mom had
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  Speaker 7: me listening to country music, early R and B, jazz,
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  Speaker 7: all of that. Paul Simon fell out, KUNTI like all
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  Speaker 7: of that. So it was a melting pot. So when
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  Speaker 7: I realized, you know what, let me just be myself, man,
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  Speaker 7: that's when everything happened. But during that time, I was
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  Speaker 7: just I just a dude that could sing and perform.
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  Speaker 6: So, all right, you graduate college, yes, right, major in communication. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: your dad made you the promise that if you graduate college,
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  Speaker 6: he's going to take care of your first year of
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  Speaker 6: living as an adult.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Now when do you actually get into acting?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, all right, so graduate school struggling artists. All my
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  Speaker 7: friends are getting jobs with these big companies. So I'm like, damn, man,
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  Speaker 7: what's going on? Dad, I do the right thing. You
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: started losing hope, right. So my manager at the time,
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  Speaker 7: he was like, Roll, you're always really really good in
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  Speaker 7: front of a camera, really good at performing, like, you're
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  Speaker 7: really good with music videos. Try acting, Maybe go get
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  Speaker 7: a commercial to something. So in Chicago, I'm not cool whatever,
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  Speaker 7: let me just try it. So no agency wanted to
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  Speaker 7: take me in because I had no resume. Only agency
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  Speaker 7: that took me in was because her son went to
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  Speaker 7: my school, so she was taking care of alumni.
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  Speaker 3: So she was like, just try you know, I come on,
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  Speaker 3: just try it. I go.
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  Speaker 7: When audition for her, she's like, oh, she's you're kind
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  Speaker 7: of good. Okay, She's like, you know what, I have
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  Speaker 7: an audition in two days. It's called for a TV
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  Speaker 7: show called Boss. You're not gonna get it because the
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  Speaker 7: roller is already cast. You're not gonna get it. Just
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  Speaker 7: want you to get used to being in front of
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  Speaker 7: a casting director, being in front of an auditioning.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, cool whatever.
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  Speaker 7: At the time, I didn't know I had a photographic memory,
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  Speaker 7: so I can read and understand and digest things really fat.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that I thought this. Everybody could do that.
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  Speaker 3: So go in.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not thinking anything. And this is how crazy I
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  Speaker 7: was with the music. So I don't know, do you
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  Speaker 7: remember when you could write your website on your on
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  Speaker 7: the wristbands. So I'm going into audition like a yeah,
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  Speaker 7: wrote to me music dot com. Cool, like, not even
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  Speaker 7: thinking about being an actor. So I get on and
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  Speaker 7: Kelsey Grammar happens to be in the audition, and so
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, cool, I'm not really thinking I'm this whatever,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna get it.
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  Speaker 3: I do it.
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  Speaker 7: And I didn't realize that she's saying try it this way,
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  Speaker 7: do it this way, do it this way.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize I'd done it like ten different ways.
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  Speaker 3: They called.
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  Speaker 7: They call me and like you got it, and I'm
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  Speaker 7: like how, like got what? It's like, okay, you're you're
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  Speaker 7: they're going to send an offer. You're going to be
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  Speaker 7: on the show. So I booked my first audition not
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  Speaker 7: really knowing what I'm signing up for. So the best
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  Speaker 7: thing that happened to me, man, was Kelsey Grammer took
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  Speaker 7: me in, you know, and he said, you'll come an
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  Speaker 7: hour early study with me, let me explain how this works.
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  Speaker 3: And da da da da dah.
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  Speaker 7: So my first real acting class was episode one of Boss.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot there and those were I know there's
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  Speaker 5: some younger audience that like Kelsey Gramma, this is like
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  Speaker 5: one of the highest paid actors on TV. Started at Cheers,
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  Speaker 5: didn't have phrase is hugely successful syndicated but even bigger,
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of people think you got to go
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  Speaker 5: to school because of the degree you can get, but
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  Speaker 5: it speaks to going to school to be part of
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  Speaker 5: a network that alumni got you this this audition, but
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  Speaker 5: being with Kelsey introduced you to a network named Stars, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: which nobody was really watching.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely at the time. Absolutely, And you know for me
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  Speaker 7: what you just said, bro, I feel like college sometimes
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  Speaker 7: most of the times is not really about the classes
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  Speaker 7: you take, but more about like the hands you shake,
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  Speaker 7: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: And for me, I understood that.
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  Speaker 7: And again that was a lifeline for me because I
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  Speaker 7: don't know if she didn't realize and say, hey, what
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  Speaker 7: school would you go to? If she didn't do that,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if I would have been an actor.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. So she was a lifeline
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  Speaker 7: to my you know, my career in a way. But yeah, Kelsey,
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  Speaker 7: Grandma took me in man and and really really taught
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  Speaker 7: me about even even so like what I should do
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  Speaker 7: and how I should even spend my first check because
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: the first six figures out of college at twenty one,
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: you don't really know what to do. So just the
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: advice from him on just how to just you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: start an LLC. Don't put this under your name, you know,
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: so they don't take your tax they havelf the your taxes.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: That's crazy, you know.
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: So like I'm like, okay, cool, so you start your company.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: Front row seat production started now, so that this is
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: so just explaining that. So everything was so fast paced
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: and happening so fast at that time.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: A friend of the show was also on the cast.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: So let's talk about this then, all right, the first
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: time you got a check, you got a six figure check,
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: just out. So you have your dad, who's a she's
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: he's well versed in finances. You know, I'm sure he's
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: giving you advice on it, tool, yes, but then Kelsey
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Graham is giving you advice. So Yeah, let's kind of
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: break that down. Like, so you said you started the LLC. Yeah,
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: started the check was made out to your LLC as
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: opposed to you personally. Yes, so you can take deductions, yes,
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: and different things of that nature.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: Because if I kept the under my name, as soon
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: as I get the check, it's already taxes personal income.
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: So having that a part of it, it was like damn.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Like and one of my guys who was on the
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: show that he didn't know that. So he's getting like
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: twenty thousand an episode, but he's getting eleven, you know.
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: So he's like he thought they were robbing him. I'm like, no, bro,
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: now it doesn't work like that. It's more so just
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: you know, put it under your company's name. You collect everything,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: and then you can figure out how to write things
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: off and figure out the taxes on that. So he
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: explained that to me perfectly, and that was the first
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: thing I did and saved me a lot of money
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: and I was able to put a lot of things
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: under my business.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: So when do you start working with at Power?
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: Power was twenty and fourteen, so this was twenty twelve
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: what I'm talking about.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: So a few years, how does the power story. How's that?
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: How's that for power? Oh, let's go in between that time?
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Right, because the show doesn't last as long, which now
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: means that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: You you're in between gigs.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Right, So that money that you had to now your
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: dad telling you save safe safe, Yes, what's the in
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: between time?
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: Because there's plenty of actors who don't get gigs, they
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: don't get a power after they start on the show.
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: So a lot of people don't stand man being an actor.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: You know, it's you have to have financial literacy because
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: if you don't, you don't know when your next job's
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: gonna come. You don't know what auditions gonna hit, You
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: don't know anything. So you have to be a masterful saver,
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean. So for me, after that
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: show again, I've never auditioned. I didn't know anything about
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: anything else but Boss because I was on that for
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: two seasons. So my dad and I talked and he said, listen,
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: like the money that you've made, we're gonna put that
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: away and only work off of twenty five thousand for
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: the next eight months. Let's figure that out. If you're
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: really him, you'll make twenty five thousand work everything else
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: you're gonna thank me later.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: We don't need to use this.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: That was for boss.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: This is for boss money.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: So how much money was that that you put away?
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: So I put away about two seasons, about twenty five.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: So you put a quarter million away quarter twenty five
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: thousand for eight months, so.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: Quarter million away, and then half of that I put
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: it into like really say stocks, so like Starbucks, Google, Face, Facebook, YouTube,
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: like all those things. So I did all of that
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: to just keep it afloat, you know. And then my
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: dad was like, no work off of twenty five thousand,
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: so I had to kind of find a spot. So
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: I was all right, let me, let me move to
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: Atlanta because it's cheap over here. Let me get some
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: roommates as my friends. But I made sure that my
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: roommates were also songwriters. So we built it. We built
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: a studio in Atlanta. Didn't really have any furniture because
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: I was like, listen, bro, we're gonna have computer chairs,
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: if we're gonna get some joints. If the girls gonna
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: like us, we don't like us for our personality, brother,
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. So it was it was
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: that type of energy, and I was just figuring out
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: how I can make this stretch and what can I do?
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: Then my agent called me and he was like, listen, man,
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: there's a TV show called Power. And all this time
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: that eight months, it was just staying in the house
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: recording and doing features and trying to just make some
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: type of money, you know, and doing some hosting. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: I was able to flip it a little bit and
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: then to then my agent called me. He's like, yo,
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: there's a TV show called Power. But mindra, this is
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: now seven months into my savings, so I'm like a
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: down to about thirty five hundred three thousand at this point.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: So.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Terrible slash back. Yeah, damn nah. So my my agent
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: calls me. He's like, listen, bro, you got to put
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: yourself on tape, but if you get it, you have
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: to fly yourself out to LA because they're gonna want
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: to see you in the room.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: And do it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: I was like, all right, cool, I don't know what
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: Power is. It's fifty cent show. I was like, okay,
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: all right, I mean what else we got, so let's
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: do it. So I ended up doing put myself on tape.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: They loved it. They're like, okay, you get out here
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: in two days. So I'm like, Dann, I said, tick,
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: that's a ticket. Oh shoot, okay, two days all right?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Cool?
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Flight about a good seven hundred and five hundred. Okay, damn,
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: I'm down to twenty five hundred. Okay, cool, Bro, you're
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: gonna have to stay in the motel. Man, You're gonna
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: have to stay in the motel. So I found a
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: motel in East Hollywood with the road, trees, all.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Type of things. Bro. It was. I go to the
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: front desk.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: I'm like, hey, bro, I don't know how long I'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: be here, but is there a way we could work out.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: I'm a struggling artist. I don't really have that much,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: can you. It was sixty a sixty at night. He
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: was like, I'll give it to you for thirty five,
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: I believe. I said, okay, thank you, bro, thank you man,
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: thank you. So I was able to half that. Okay,
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: so cool, I can stretch it half the time long? Okay, cool?
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: They don't even call me in until a week later,
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: so now I'm counting. All right, damn, it's thirty five.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Then you come down and took her on it. Thirty five. Okay,
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: I can eat if I do this. Hmm what girl,
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: I know I can get some food. Shoot, yeah yeah,
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: yeah okay. Surety was cool. So let me just say
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: oh yeah, yeah, okay cool. Let me say at her
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: crib like literally, bro, like, I'm trying to figure this
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: out because I too much. I don't want to call
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: my dad and ask. I'm like, no, I can do this,
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: you know. And again, it's my money. But I love
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: the challenge of it, you know. I love the challenge
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: of it. And I really didn't want to touch that.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: I really wanted to save that and see what I
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: could do later with that money. So go in literally
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: a week later, get it. They called me, hey, ro
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: we love you, but we're gonna see you. Can you
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: wait another week and a half because we wanted you
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: to do it again in front of the network. Now,
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: So I'm there now three and a half weeks. So
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: now the money is just going like this, going like this,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: going like this, going like this.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: So now I'm I'm trying to uber. I'm trying to this.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: So I'm down to about in three weeks, about twelve
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: hundred in terms of food, in terms of guys, in
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: terms of everything, about twelve hundred. So okay, to me,
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: what are you gonna do, man, what are you gonna do?
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: So then go in and it was me and Lakeith
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: la Keith Stanford, right, la Keith.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: So it's me and him. So he's over here, I'm
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: over here. I'm baling for the part of Bound. Nobody
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: knows that. I don't really talk about that. That's crazy.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: We both were balanced for Dre and we're both in
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: the same position. Like he's like, bro, you know, if
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: I don't get this, I kind of you know, I
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: can still. I got another show I'm working on, which
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: was Atlanta.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So I'm like, dog, I don't care who
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: you are. I don't care what's going on. It's not yours, bro,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: it's not yours.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: And that was the energy I had the whole time.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: It's like I need this, I need this, So I
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: go in embody like my life depending on I brought
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: props about this, I did this. I did everything because
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: I knew that I only had about one thousand dollars
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: left and go in and kill it and then move
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: to New York.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: And then so the original you get the role, Yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: you were supposed to only be like a short yeah
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: period of time, right yeah, yeah, And then that ended
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: up being seasons. So how does that work be Cuse,
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: like when somebody's writing a script, right, they write you
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: in a script and they say, okay, you're going to
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: be in for three episodes, and you get killed. You
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: impress them enough so they have to because now they
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: got to rewrite the whole script because I'm assuming now
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: that is like a domino effect, right, and when now
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: they have to write you in for another fourth seasons.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: So now it's like now all of the other characters
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: have to be adjusted. Just a character might have to
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: be taken out. There's a lot of work involved.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: So yeah, so my character was only really supposed to
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: be on season two and then die early season three,
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: and it was supposed to just be like, oh Canan's
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: little man that he's out of prison, he got his
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: little man and that was really it, and he does
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: some crazy stuff and he gets killed.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: But again, I was on savage mode.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Bro.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I was like, listen, I need I need this, I
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: need this, I need this.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: And so even though the first season I really didn't
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: have that many lines, I made sure everything I did
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: with my eyes was like what was that?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Is he up to something?
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: It was so I cast so much curiosity with the
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: character that they started realizing like, oh wow, like there's
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: something here. But if I would have played it to
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: with the words, it would have been like.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Talk about that is That's an acting trick with your eyes.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: So okay.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: So one of the things I learned from Kelsey Grammar
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: always always is a way you can look at a
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: camera where it's you're talking, you're talking to the people,
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: but you're also.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Look, I'm looking at the camera as you're doing this, So.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Like camera left, you're looking kind of at it, but
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: you're not looking at it. But they feel it, feel
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: like you're about to break that fourth wall of oh ship,
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: that's good, keep going, keep going good, keep going, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: you feel like so then then you start doing things
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: that like is it mischievous?
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Are you angry?
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Do you feel sexy? Yeah? It's my guy.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: So so it's a it's a trick where you're able
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: to one connect with the audience more. But then I
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: made it to where you don't know what he's actually thinking.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: So I'll say something and then do something with my
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: eyes and make it be like should I believe that?
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: So that's where the creation of Dre really really started happening,
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: and then they brought me in. They were like, man,
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: you know fifty in Courtney Kemp again, we were gonna
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: we were gonna give it to your character, but this
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: might be baby ghost, this might be something here, you know.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: And then it felt like that, So this is this
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: is interesting because you started as season two. Yeah, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: so from a contractual standpoint, so about that, like how
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: it goes from being just a seasonal character to now
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: being a regular on the show, right the negotiations around now.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the funny thing is, man, again, you have
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to believe in yourself. So the first.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: When I booked the show, my agents weren't happy with
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: it because I was making less money than I made
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: on Boss so my first season, so you're supposed to
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: obviously continue to grow in your and your income, but
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: I took a back seat because I believed in the show.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: So I said, Okay, let me just sign this one
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: twenty year deal if I kill it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: So it's like it's like being on a.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: Ten day contract kind of, you know what I mean,
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: Like not that extreme, but like if you kill it,
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: you're going to get a long term deal with the team.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: So mine was a one year situation where it was
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: less than what I made, and it was less than
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: per episode. So I was making like maybe twenty five
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: thousand episode, you know, and so power power, So I took.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I took a hit to believe in it, but then
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I killed it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: So when you kill it, that money can quadruple four
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: time five x, you know once you once you show
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: your work. So then after season two, I redid my
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: deal and I signed, you know, for six figures every episode,
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: So then but every year it'll grow, you know.
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: So at that point in time, by season six, you
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: make it aft you know, you know, amount of money,
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: so it just grows.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: But then that's how we back ended. So I started with.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Where it starts at, you know, a sixth figure, and
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: then it just consistently grows as the character grows, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: by by season six it's it's pretty nice.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: So what was that that first encounter with fifth because
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: this is his shows, his baby, Courtney Camp.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: We've had a conversation with her.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Incredible, Yeah, what is that first conversation with like from
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: an after standpoint, but then also from a music standpoint too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: So I had a crazy encounter at first because before
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: I could even say anything right, and this is God
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: showing me your bro chill so so me. So fifth
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: is walking in and somebody's asking him like, yo, man,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: can you check out my mixtape?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: And he was like nah man. So I was like,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: oh no, the office, no band for him. Yeah.
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: It was on the street walking before we did the scene.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: That's all like just in the in the street he
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: was walking with watched filming. We're about to start filming Aronx.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: We were everywhere, Queen Brooklyn, everywhere, but but yeah we were.
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: It was like literally him walking in bro and told
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: dudes like yo, can you can you say no and
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: sat down.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: And say what's up? So shit, okay, all right?
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: But now it was it was it was all right, bro,
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: if you're gonna do it, he got to find out
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: that you did music, not by you asking for anything.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Just do your job.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Let him know that you're cool, let him know that
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: you're hungry about it. And for me, I over prepare
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: so like I don't want to mess up a line.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: I don't want to mess up anything. And I think
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: by the time for me as an actor, like and
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: for any actors watching, like the preparation you do and
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: anything but the preparation I had for it was so
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: crazy that it was fun. When I got on set,
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: it wasn't nervous, it wasn't I was able to just
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: play around. So my preparation is what got me my
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: extension really because I was I wasn't on set trying
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: to just okay, cool, cool cool cool. Now I was
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: really like, all right, whatever you do, I'm going to
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: counter that. Whatever you say, I know how to play it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: So that was how comfortable I was. So I wasn't
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: really nervous about the work, but the music, I was like,
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: oh shit, now never now, let me let me, let me,
• 30:07
  Speaker 7: let me get hot on my own.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Bro let me get out on my own.
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: So that was that was and he knew he knew
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: I was really serious about it because you know, my
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: my takes were flawless, so.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: That was what he appreciated. So how did he find
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: out about your music? All right? So crazy?
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: So about four or five months into filming, still never
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: mentioned anything to him about music, So I go, I'm
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: recording on the low.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: So what I was doing was I was going on set,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: kill it, and then go to record at night. So
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: it was twenty four.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: Hours of just working work, and work and work and working,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: and then during the weekends, I was going to different
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: cities for hostings. So that was where I was That's
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: what I was eating off of the money I was
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: making from shows and bookings. That was the money that
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: paid for everything else. So go in Fifth Outside. So
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: I go in and these these producers. They're like, yo,
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: this whe Snapchat.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I just came out.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: We're like yo, we just want a beat thing on Snapchat.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: So this producer, this guy, he's an A and R.
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: He's going to come and take some of our beats
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: for some artists. So I said cool, cool, cool. So
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: old boy comes in and my record is playing. There's
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: a record called Lotto at the time. He's like, yo,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: that's your I was like, yeah, man, that's me. He
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: was like, Yo, my name is Tony G. I worked
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: for G Unit Records. I said, bro, this is crazy.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: I said, yo, I'm playing dre on the fifties new
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: show Power. He was like, bro, I do the music
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: for that show.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I said what. He was like, Yo, this fifth No
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you sing? I said, bro. No. He was like, oh,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: he got to hear this.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: So he tells me to come to the office the
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: next day, right so my meeting was at one o'clock.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: I was supposed to be there at once. So when
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: you have these meetings you play records, it's really like
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: a forty five thirty forty five minute meeting, so you
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: just it's never that long. But this day, I was late,
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: so I'm panicking. So I get there at two fifteen
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: and he's a minutes later hour because of traffic.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Bro I was flippling.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was out, So I'm like, damn, I lost
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: that bloom. This is crazy hour and fifteen. So but
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: they're cool. Tony he's like, it's cool, don't worry, bro,
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: I get it. So I get in and then as
• 32:13
  Speaker 7: soon as I sit down and play the first record,
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: fifth walks and he comes into the office. So if
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: I was on time, he would have himself. He No,
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: he wasn't supposed to be there. He wasn't supposed to
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: be there. Sorry, he wasn't supposed to be there. So
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: it was just Tony g getting to know play, hear
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: more stuff, and then we're going to figure out.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: What we were going to yeah, introduce it to him.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: So that's what that was crazy.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: But so he comes in and he's like, yo, ro
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: what you doing here. I'm like, oh, I'm playing some records, man,
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: playing some records.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Bro. He's like, what you do music?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: He was like.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I was like yeah. He was like, y let me
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: hear this. Okay, so he's thinking, I don't know he was.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: He does that fifty laugh. Well, okay, this is gonna
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: be funny, that type of energy funny. All right. Cool.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: He sits down and we played the record and he
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: just goes like, oh, it makes me play the record
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: ten times and he's like, okay, listen, I'm gonna put
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: a verse on this and I want to offer you
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: a deal. And that's how I got my Gami to
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: deal bro. Like literally, just god grace, Tony g the
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: snapchat guys meeting at the same time. Everything is aligned,
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: and you yeah, I signed to Genie so again. And
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: I think the thing about it was Fifth was so
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: impressed that I didn't even ask him, you know, so
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: I think he respected the grind of He still found out,
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: you know, on his own.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: You know, what was that like being being signed to
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Genius because this is this is different, this is past
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: you know, the Tony ya Yale with that eror, but
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: now it's like R and B So what was that like?
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Because number one, you're working with him on the show,
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: and now you're working with him for the music.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: How was that now? It was?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: It was?
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: It was.
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: It was dope because at first it was like, all right, bro,
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: you gotta really really work hard. But then you're a
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: full time actor too, so how are you going to
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: do this? So I didn't sleep, bro, like I didn't.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: It was studio, studio, studio, work, work, work, film, film,
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: and no life.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: And I had to just compartmentalize my time.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: And I knew I had to do the hostings and
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: as well because that was the only way I was
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: going to eat. Because I made sure I didn't touch
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: any of the power of money. Okay, yeah, so for
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: six years, for the six years, bro, I didn't I
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: didn't touch any of that. I didn't touch. I just
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: let that collect and build and be there. That was
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: like the nest egg, you know. I didn't want to
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: touch that, you know.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: And so so yeah, I was like, this music gotta work.
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: But working with fifth Man, it was it was amazing
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: because I was able to see him as a businessman,
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: I was able to see him as an artist. I
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: was able to see him as an actor. I was
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: able to see and have close understanding of how he runs,
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: you know, what he does, you know and so, and
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: it was very motivating. But at that time I was
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: still trying to find my sound too.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: So it was it was a really dope experience, really
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: dope experience.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: So let's get into this.
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you talked about it briefly, but all right, your
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: dad is an investment banker. Yes, your first your first
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: job in acting, he made you save all of the
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: money a quarter million dollars you put up.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Then you are in power for six years, six seasons,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: six seasons, and he made you.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Save all of that.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: This was my choice, This was my choice, but you
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: had got that from him.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: But I got that idea from him.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: So the first time he made you do it, the
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: second time you did it on my own. Yeah all right,
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: So you so now you save all of your power money.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah right, six seasons worth of money season and you're
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: only living off of club hostings and shows and shows
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: that you're doing. Now you got a nest each of
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: money that saved. What do you what do you do
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: with that money?
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: So with that, I put a lot of it back
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: into stocks. And what I did, right, after that was
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: by my first house. So the first purchase with that
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: money was real estate. So I paid for my first
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: shown primary resident that you're living in. Yeah, so you
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: brought no mortgage.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: You just no mortgage. I just purchased at cash.
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: And then with then I built another house in Orlando
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: as an investment property so to airbnb it for Disney World.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Like Disney World, so I did.
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: So what I did was I tried to research where
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: can I make the most money and what would keep
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: the occupancy rate of my house busy all year where
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: so Orlando was the first one one or two, and
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: I realized that if I could, if I could build
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: another house three miles away from Disneyland, five bedroom, six bathroom,
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: that's going to be very valuable. And then so I
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: bought that out as well cash. So now, okay, cool,
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: I know that I have liquid every month from that
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: is no anything, So it's like hoa fees and all
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: those things. But it's another money that I can just have.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: And the first thing it was beautiful, man Like, within
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: now seven months of having it, it already went up
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, you know what I mean.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: So again it's just realizing, okay, making the money, begets
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: more money and make money. So then now I'm like,
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: all right, cool, let me get another one, you know.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: And so I built another one in Nigeria, Victoria house,
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: another house to Airbnb as well, but that one is
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: now for like film films used the house, content content creator,
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: music videos.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's that in Nigeria as well.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: So all right, we got the money in stocks money
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: stock blue chip companies like Google, Yes, Amazon, Apple, stuff
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: What year was that that you because you said that
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: twenty twelves.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: In my head, I'm thinking about wait, this is like
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: the inception of Facebook going public.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: No no, no sorry, so then Facebook came later with
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: power money sorry yes.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: So all of those blue chip companies.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Yes, then you buy your own residents that you're living in, yes,
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: cash cash, the Airbnb property in Orlando cash. Then you
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: after that you buy the house in Nigeria cash. So
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: all right, this is interesting because so a lot of
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: athletes are entertainers. They go broke because they the decision
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: making that they make. Right, So it's like, all right,
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: instead of buying, let's say somebody has a million dollars, right,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: and what they'll do is instead of buying five hundred
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: thousand dollars house in cash, they'll buy a ten million
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: dollar house and have a twenty thousand dollars a month mortgage.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: And the problem is that it's no problem to pay
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: that if you're getting paid twenty thousand an episode. But
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: when the episode stops, what do you do Now you
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: got twenty thousand dollars a month that you gotta pay,
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: let alone with the taxes taxes, So that in itself
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: is an interesting decision to make. Was that your thought
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: process to say, Okay, I don't like this is an
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: up and down game for me, so I'd rather just
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: keep my bills low and pay it in cash as
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: opposed to having a dope crib.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: But I got to pay it, so yeah, it was
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: more so like let me build. I was like, look,
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to build my dream house yet, let
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: me just build something that's really dope for me. At
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: the time, I was a bachelor, So let me just
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: build a dope crib for myself and figure.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Out the rest.
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: But let me build another one so that you know,
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: I'm consistently going to see money for everything. So now
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: this home is now paying all my build my phone
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: at this so I'm living for free because at this
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: point acting in music is so all over the place.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: You don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. So I
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: was like, let me just make sure everything was good.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: And then during this time, man bro like it was
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: four months before COVID, so everything shut down except Orlando.
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: People were still figuring out ways to travel and this
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: and this and this because Florida was still open. So
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: I'm still being able to make money while sitting down.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: And Hollywood was done for a year, you know, so
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: I with no buil, know nothing, and I'm still doing
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: shows and everything as well. Like it was just everything
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: was just still collecting and collecting, collecting by the choices
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: I made. So then the house in Nigeria was also
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: people were like, okay, cool, well the prices are low
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: for airbnb, so this is a time where I can
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: go stay in his place. So I was renting it
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: out for three four months at a time to people.
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean that I knew had some
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: bread and needed somewhere to go, so it was still
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: able to just collect collect and I know that you know,
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: God willing thirty years from now these homes of retirement plans,
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean, if if I hold it
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: along oil flipping and you know, get two more houses whatever.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was still just making money.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: So this is this is pretty incredible. And so you
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: got the power money your stashing. But the music money
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: starts to pick up. Yes, me and my beds out. Yes,
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: now you're watching this so to talk about watching the
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: growth of that record grow and the type of money
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: that that brought.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Because now everybody's streaming, it's exactly perfect timing for you.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: So the record so in my Bed actually he got
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: hot during covidep So during COVID, everybody's making videos about
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: in my bed.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Everybody's doing this about whatever. So many people knew that
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: it was you. When I first heard that, I know
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: it was you. Yeah yeah yeah, a lot of people
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: didn't know.
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: A lot of people know. But then they started shazaming.
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: Then the video came out and people were like, yo,
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: he's really he really does this, you know what I mean.
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: And before In my Bed I had another record called
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: Love Love Rhythm. Yeah, so it was like, okay, he
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: did it, he did it once, Oh he did it again.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: So it became that and I structured my deal with
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: Empire where it's not an artist deal. I was more
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: of a partnership, so a lot of the money that
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: I make independently comes to me, you know.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: So during this time, so.
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: My streams are hitting, going crazy, it's going and I'm
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: still able to do shows. But if I was, if
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: I was to, if I was with a major at
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: the time, I would have seen way less money, you know.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: So again it was a situation where I kind of
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: bet on myself because we skipped over the fact that
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: fifty had let me out my deal.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: So yes, yes, yes, two thousand and seventeen, twenty eighteen,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: so he had let me on my deal.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: How long was the deal supposed to be for No,
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: it was I.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Think three albums, three albums with Fifth and you did one,
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• 42:16
  Speaker 7: You just told him, Mike, Yeah, I told him, like, listen, man,
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: I want to I want to bet on myself, you know,
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: and I feel like and during that time there was
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: a lot of he was changing a lot with the label.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: It was hit fired everybody, So there wasn't anything really
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: tangible for me to stay there, and he didn't want
• 42:31
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  Speaker 7: put up money that they loan you to make whatever,
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: and then you owe them back through your mechanicals. So
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: we had a situation where he had put up about
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: if in four years you put up and maybe like
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand investments in the
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: videos and and shows, and da da da da da.
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: So he just made sure that I paid it off
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: through my mechanicals with Empire. So it was it's really nothing,
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: you know, it's anything. But he was like, bruh, this
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: is how I'm gonna market you. I'm gonna say I
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: want to punch you in your face at least twenty
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: five times and I'm gonna say this, and they got
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: the number one album in the country, and but I'm
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: gonna say, I'm gonna punch you in your face and
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: break your nose and this. So I'm like, bro, what's
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: why why? He said, trust me, Bro, it's gonna work. Bro,
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: it's gonna work. It's gonna work.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: So he's like, yo, TEMs, He's gonna call you the
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: next day. Da da Da da da.
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: And at the time, my album was number one on
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: the R and B charts, but it was you know,
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: it starts off for three four days and it could
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: fall off. But with him doing that, it made people
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: be like, yo, he we got a number one album.
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: Well let me go check this second.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: And it stayed number one for about another two weeks.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: So it was brilliant.
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: That's how That's what actually broke love rhythm, you know
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: what I mean. But so I was able to pay
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: that back off through my mechanicals and you know, get
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: out of that situation.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: So but it was it was dope mechanicals. What does
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: that mean?
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: So the money that you make from streams, the money
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: that you make from airplay, the money that you make
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: from publishing everything that's from title Pandora. Every time you
• 48:16
  Speaker 7: get a stream, so basically one hundred and fifty streams,
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: usually one hundred and fifty streams equates to like one dollar,
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: So if you get five hundred, if you get about
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: it takes about seventy five million streams in total to
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: go gold.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: So that's the thing.
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: So you do the seventy five million divided by one fifty.
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: I think it's about five hundred thousand. So that's how
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: they break it up. So they break it up with
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: definitely like getting So that's why it's so important to
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: get your your your songs on Spotify, get your songs
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: on Apple Music. All these things are super important because
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: you need to be on these these playlists to get
• 48:59
  Speaker 7: to get your streams up.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: So that's what it was.
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: So I was getting whenever I make the money from that,
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: I'd have to give a portion to him. So we
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: had like a twenty five percent split, so he'll get
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: twenty five percent of whatever came in until it's paid back.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: That's what.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: So when you're having that conversation with fifty, yeah, when
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: so he says this is the plan, Yeah, it's going
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: to help. But then when he's relaying, it's messing on
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: social media. He's not joking, like people don't know what's
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: a joke. No, yeah, they think it's serious.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so.
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Hey, how was that for you? Like people, people came like, yo,
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: you okay?
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Like where they can see yeah people, yo, bro, no
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: even snoop call. He was like, Bro, I'll pay your
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: debt for you. Bro.
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: I don't want you to have these problems. No, I said, Bro,
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: it's good. We're just playing. It's like, oh shit, okay,
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: cool bro, make sure you're good man, Like I know
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: how fifty get bro. And you got to see him
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: every day too.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Oh shit, and we're still filming the show drink about
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: to get killed. Yeah. Then we thought, yeah, so it
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: was it was. It was crazy man, because again it's
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: him just doing his thing. But yeah, I have to
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: deal with that.
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: I was like, yo, you're good, Like Jamie called me, like, yo,
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: you're good, bro, Like I can give you fit them
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: down from power fixed.
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: So like the mind of fifty cent, right, yeah, let's
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: talk about this for a minute, because I'm sure you've
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: seen it.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: You've been around it.
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, how strategic because we see him do these things
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: a lot Yeah, how strategic is he as a person, because,
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: like I said, on the outside, it just looks like,
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: oh fifty just being fifty again.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: He going off on this person, going off on that person.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Everything everything I knew. I realized a man was a
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: marketing genius. Bro when.
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: He sat us all down, he sot the cast down.
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: And this is when we were filming season two, and
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: he was like, yo, Empire, they're on Fox, they got
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: the big bag. We can't compete with them with the
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: the marketing and their promotion and advertisement.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: We're on Stars. We cannot compete.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: But I'm going to start a beef with them that
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: they have to mention us every time they get interviewed.
• 51:00
  Speaker 7: So I'm going to go straight for Taraji, I'm going
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: to go straight for Terrence. I'm going to go straight
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: for everybody and make whoever's the interviewer ask about did
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: you hear what fifty said about power being better and everything?
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: So I saw how he attached himself to one hundred
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: million dollar.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: Promotion and it put us like this the pit, like, oh,
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: what's better? Power? Empire? And I saw him create that
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: and like so it was like a Monday.
• 51:29
  Speaker 7: He said, I'm going to go sit down with I
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: forgot who he was and it was went by Wednesday,
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: it was Power and this to a point where Taraji's
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: going crazy about fifty Terrence is going crazy and it
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: was just like wow, like, you guys don't understand that
• 51:41
  Speaker 7: this man really just is playing with you strategically, and
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: now we are now in competition with y'all and every
• 51:49
  Speaker 7: time you do something you have to mention that and.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Your name is automatically automatically because your.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Fifty cents show Power.
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: He was saying that fifty cent said this about your show,
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: not better being and better So everybody, I was like,
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: what show is this to do that?
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Because at the.
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: Time Power Wasn't people found out about Power for real,
• 52:05
  Speaker 7: like maybe season like they didn't watch it when.
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: It was on.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Did you watch it when it was first thought?
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Was the season two?
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's when that's when it really hit,
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Like so that's when he went to Miami. Yeah that's two.
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: Three was Miami yet that was mine. That was one
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: of my first first episodes with Angela. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: So that's when it took off. So it became that
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: because of now we tied to one hundred million dollars.
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: Marketing plan, gorilla marketing, gorilla marketing.
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: But you have now we got to talk about something
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: very important, said you once for a bachelor. Yes, yes, brother,
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about one of the most important decisions you made.
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: Yes brother, Mary and Vanessa. Yes, talk about how you
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: met story behind it.
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: So met v so v Vanessa Man, incredible woman, my god, man, Like,
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: she saved my life, bro, because I was out here thoughting.
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: Brother saved my life, my guy, recovering of recovering. Fact,
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: it was bad for me. It was actually really good
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: for me actually, but nah. So she's an artist herself,
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: you know, and she's one of the biggest artists from Tanzania.
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: So she was basically the East African Rihanna. So she
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: had a show, she had a show. We met an Essence,
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: so she had to show Essence and I also had
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: a show of performing at the main stage of Essence.
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: So this particular weekend, though, I had a joint that
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: flew in, you know, like a little you know, weekend,
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: So she flew in.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: So this is the craziest story, bro.
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: So at the time, Shorty was with me the entire day,
• 53:41
  Speaker 7: but then at night she was like, I'm not feeling
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: too well, and I have to go stop by this
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: private Spotify party and I was like, I'm going to
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: be there for fifteen minutes. You don't have to come,
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: I'll be there, I'll be back and then just meet
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: us at the next spot. So in that fifteen minutes
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: we go and then I see V sitting on a
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: pool table.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, this is crazy, so start talking.
• 54:02
  Speaker 7: I didn't know who she was at the time, but
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: they introduced me and I was like, they told me
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: who she was, but I didn't really care about that.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: I was like, yo, your vibing.
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: We just started talking. So fifteen minutes turned into about
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: two and a half hours. So I forgot, like I'm tripping, you.
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: Know what I'm saying.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: I forgot, bro, So I'm getting text like where are you.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh oh. So then he was like focused.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: They focused.
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: So V is like V is literally like, you know,
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: I want to see you tomorrow before I leave, and
• 54:31
  Speaker 7: I'm like, listen, let me just be honest with you.
• 54:33
  Speaker 7: I got a situation. I don't want to put you,
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: I don't want to let me. Let me deal with
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: this and then I can focus on you. And I
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: usually I wasn't like that.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, you hear, what's up. But I
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: was like, there was a fire to the city.
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: It's multitizing, But I was there was a respect there,
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: you know, and it was a it was a it
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: was a different type of love, man.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: And so she goes.
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: She leaves, still talking and still talking in that time.
• 55:00
  Speaker 7: Difference is different, man. So she leaves and at the time,
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: now I'm building my house. I'm building the house in Atlanta, So.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Asking her like, yo, what do you think of this?
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: I want to do this. I want to do this.
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: And by the time the house is done, me and
• 55:15
  Speaker 7: her about three four months and it's just long distance talking.
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: So I didn't know that the house that I'm building
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: is basically being built for us, you know what I'm saying.
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: So by the time it's done, it's like, Yo, She's like,
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: I want to come to the States.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: You know. She comes to States and she at the time,
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: she hates America. She was like, there's too much going
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: on here.
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: And it gets to the point where bro, like, I
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: was like, Yo, do you want to go back? You
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: can just we can figure it out. You can stay
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: with me.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: And when she came never left.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: So y'all was you hadn't seen in essence, you didn't
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: see her again.
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: I didn't see it for three months. But y'all talking
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: talking every day when she comes back to America. Is
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: when she comes back to America? Is it like we
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: just friends or y'all like really.
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: Non locking, Like it's basically a relationship.
• 56:02
  Speaker 6: You get a relationship virtually virtually a lot of what's happened,
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: a lot of what's that?
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: How she comes to America? Y'all already, Yeah, we live.
• 56:10
  Speaker 7: But it was like she was like, let me just
• 56:12
  Speaker 7: come for two weeks, you know, let me just see
• 56:14
  Speaker 7: for two Weeks'm gonna take off from everything. But then
• 56:15
  Speaker 7: the two weeks turned into now four.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Years, Bro, she never went back.
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: She hasn't gone back.
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: She has not gone now. She hasn't gone back to Tania. No,
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: she had four years and four years now.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: Does she miss it?
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, she missed her family, But I think she was
• 56:28
  Speaker 7: just like, there's nothing there really for me. And the
• 56:30
  Speaker 7: cool thing about it was she wanted to When we
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: first met, she was already telling me she wants to retire.
• 56:35
  Speaker 7: She just wants to be focused on business and focus
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: on her life focused on just learning herself because she's
• 56:41
  Speaker 7: been doing it for fifteen years. So it was like
• 56:45
  Speaker 7: her ending that and then me saying, yo, just you
• 56:48
  Speaker 7: might as well just stay and it became the perfect
• 56:49
  Speaker 7: situation and.
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: I got the whole family and got so but she's
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: still very big and yeas Africa yeah yeah, so all right,
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: let's talk about the Africa. Yeah, so you are born
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: in America, but obviously your roots are Nigerian, yes, yes,
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: and you go back there a lot, yes, And she's
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: obviously huge on the East soul. You got the East
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: and West side. Yeah, so do you guy, what do
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: you guys have plans?
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: For Africa as far as like expansion business music, like
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: how do you look at that?
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: So again, so.
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: For music for her, when she retired, she owns all
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: her stuff, all her streaming and everything.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: She owns everything. So like when she retired, her songs
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: became iconic, so she's not making music anymore.
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: So she's not making music anymore, but her songs have
• 57:38
  Speaker 7: become iconic and staples. So then she's still streaming very
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: well because of it. And what we did was in
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: terms of business, we started the app, a wellness app
• 57:46
  Speaker 7: together called for the better, not me, and what it
• 57:49
  Speaker 7: is is. It started off in covid where it was
• 57:52
  Speaker 7: just like, yo, let's just give gratitude to make gratitude
• 57:55
  Speaker 7: posts for people of videos, so like every day they'll
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: get a video post from me or her. But we
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: wanted people to subscribe. So then we were like, well,
• 58:05
  Speaker 7: that's too basic. Let's make it where they get an
• 58:07
  Speaker 7: inside look at our life. Let's get to where like, okay,
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: what we love, what we do, what we did. So
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: we're like, okay, let's charge five dollars per month, forty
• 58:18
  Speaker 7: five for a year, twelve dollars for three month subscriptions.
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: So we're like, let's figure this out. Let's let's let's
• 58:24
  Speaker 7: make money. Let's let's give something to our fans. And
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: they were like, yo, why is Instagram and all these
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: platforms getting free money, like freedom, like they were posting
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: to them and not earning anything, you know, why don't
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: we control our content? And so it was like, all right,
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: let's figure out a different way to make better. We
• 58:41
  Speaker 7: know people and nosy as hell, so let's capitalize on that,
• 58:44
  Speaker 7: but also give you know, Bible scriptures that we love
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: or what I like to eat on my workout regimen
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: to our core fans, and we started seeing during the pandemic.
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: For the last two year, we started seeing a lot
• 58:56
  Speaker 7: of subscriptions to our show. So we're constantly making content
• 59:00
  Speaker 7: that's just for our fans, and that's what's keeping her
• 59:04
  Speaker 7: really alive as well in Tanzania because they're getting they're
• 59:09
  Speaker 7: seeing her and what she really does as a mom,
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: now you know what I mean.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: So it's been really good.
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: You said keyword retired, and we kind of had this
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: conversation before, but that that conversation when you're looking at
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: your spouse, So you're looking at your wife at the
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: time and seeing like I may want you to focus
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: on something else, like as your career is thriving.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: What was that like, right, because she's obviously established as
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: a musician.
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: I told you it was there a number that you
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: said that we need to reach as a couple, or like,
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: how did the dynamics work for her to stop?
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: Well, for me, it was like, Okay, let me figure
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: this out because everything is paid off, so there's no stress,
• 59:47
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean.
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: So that's a big thing for me. It was like, Okay,
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: there's no stress. You being here is not going to
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: make it ten to fifteen thousand dollars more a month.
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: You know, it's more.
• 59:59
  Speaker 7: So okay, we'll figure this out, but let's start doing
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 7: outside businesses that now you're in control of. So we
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 7: created the app and now she completely runs that. So
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: she gets her salary her monthly you know what I mean,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 7: and it's all hers, you know what I mean. So again,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 7: and she also has her streaming, which has picked up
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 7: more than when she was actually an artist, you know,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 7: and it keeps growing every year, every year, every year.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 7: And then we also she was like, I want to,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: I want to, I want to make a Swahili book.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: So we also made a Swahili book where it's like
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 7: twenty five easy words that anybody in the world because
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 7: Swahili is the number one spoken African language. So we
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: made a book whereas on Amazon and people able to
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 7: just learn different words, easy words or easy phrases. So
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 7: that was also another thing that we did. So we
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 7: were like, let's just figure out different businesses that keep
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 7: you busy and keep your mind coming up creative, keep
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: you still feeling like you're part of, you know, the
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 7: culture as well.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: And yeah, so we just created more businesses for each other.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: How many subscribers we got on that, so we are
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: up to now about eight nine thousand, nine thousand subscriptions.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, and so a subscription and it's just like
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 7: a look in your life, yeah, looking in life.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's like a look in our life.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 7: It shows again what I like to eat, what she
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 7: likes to eat, things we're reading, how how we both
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 7: are as parents, how we deal with the relationship, giving
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 7: relationship advice. So it's all these things for the better
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 7: than me that it just really just gives us, like
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 7: we'll post That's why we stop really posting each other
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 7: on our Instagram because it's like, if you really want
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 7: to see us traffic here, So again we've done it.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 7: Where nine thousand subscribers, that's that's five dollars a month.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 7: So she's in a space where okay, you know, she's
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 7: really happy, you know. So again that is and then
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 7: keep building that and keep building that.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: And she has eight million followers, yes, eight million followers. Yeah,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: cause we were like, yo, there got to be at.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 7: Least ten thousand people that want to pay file like,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 7: they got to be at least thirty thousand, like out
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 7: of the eight million, and out of my three eleven million,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 7: there got to be thousands of people. So we're able
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: to make even three thousand subscribers a month. You know,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 7: that's you know, that's still a nice piece of change
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 7: just to So we were just thinking from that and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 7: we were like, we don't need that much, but we
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 7: can still build it every day.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: So you know what, again, that's what we're at.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: So where's the skincare line coming to play?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 7: So during COVID, I was using a lot of different
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: products that were breaking my skin out, man, and I
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: was just like, yo, like, let me create my own
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 7: thing that both men and women can use. That's all organic,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: that is true to me, and it feels regal and again, man,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: God's gift.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: I partnered with these these guys in Israel and we
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 7: got minerals from the Dead Sea. So the Dead Seat people,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 7: if you don't know, it's a healing component. So a
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: lot of people go down to grease. I mean, it's sorry,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: a lot of people go down to Israel to go
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 7: straight to the Dead Sea to heal any type of
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: skin diseased, skin orders, skin disorders, skin cancer, e zima,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: all these things. So I was like, oh, this is
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: perfect and it's one hundred percent natural. So we partnered
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 7: the deal. I was like, they were like, what do
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 7: you want to call it? I was like, no, I
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: want people to have favor favor, you know, favor over
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: their life, faivor over this, and I know how important
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: skin and feeling sexy and feeling good and having good
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: skin millions of people, so wanted to make a unisex.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: So did the deal with them, and it's been about
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: a good year so far and it's doing really really well.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: So we have skin cleanser, toner, moisturizer, lotion, under eye,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: so it's everything that you need to take care of
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 7: your skin and favor Skin dot com.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: You can go check it out. But it's really really
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: really good and really healthy for you.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: So that the only place they can get is from
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: the website or we trying and distribute to you know,
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: the big box stores here in America and internationally as well.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: So that's the plan.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 7: So we're actually talking to Target right now, but also
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 7: we're getting it on Amazon as of right now, is
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: from it's on the website, so Favorite Skin dot com
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 7: FA v R Skin dot com. So it's on the
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 7: website now, but we're getting it through Amazon, so it
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 7: can now go global because again me and v our fan.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Base reaches Africa, Europe. So once that happens, it's going
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: to be crazy.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: And then we're working out a situation with HSN now yeah,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: so we're in talk, so we were about to finalize that.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: So once that happens, you know, and then the target
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 7: conversation has happened as well. So and everyone loves the product,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 7: like genuinely loves loves the product, and it's.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: Been really really really really dope for both men, women,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: kids as well. And it's all organic, all organic.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 5: I feel like you have a natural audience, right, you
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: have nine thousand people that are watching it part of
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 5: routine exactly. This is part of your daily routine exactly right,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: So from a marketing standpoint that were you conscious of
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: that and made that.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 7: Absolutely So on the app, we show the whole skincare regiment.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: We show how to how to use it, what to do,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 7: even give like a breakdown of what each mineral and
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: what each thing does for it. So out of the
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 7: nine thousand, we may say about let's say four thousand
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 7: have purchased it, you know, automatically, so and then realizing
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 7: that once somebody actually tries it, they want it all
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 7: the time, now, you know. And that's that's been the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 7: consensus from a lot of our fans and just people
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 7: were just discovering it. But we know that once it
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 7: goes the HSN, once it gets to Amazon, we know
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 7: it's going to be on a different level.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: And it's doing pretty well.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: So all right, let me ask you this, Well, how
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 4: many before we get there?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: How many products are in that line?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: It's about five products? Fire products, so it's like a moisturized.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 7: Moisturizer, toner, lotion, uh, face mask, and and the actual
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: the actual wash.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: So we see Rihanna shot to her become a billionaire
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: of fine yes cosmetics, Kylie Jenner, Yes, billionaire off of cosmetics.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: It's just the kind of goals that you have.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, yes, absolutely.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: Even though it's not cosmetics per se, but it's skinkill.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: Because it's my life, you know. And the funny thing is, man,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 7: What really got me the idea was I did a
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: character named Butterscotch, you know, I put like this white.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 7: So a lot of companies were like, yo, we would
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 7: love for you to be a part of this, can
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: you rock out?
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: This and this and this?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 7: And I'm like, why would I give my brand to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 7: you when I can create my own my own you know,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 7: face mask and my own face product and you know,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 7: skincare line.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: So let me just not give you this. Let me
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: make my own stuff. So that's what started it.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 7: But yes, from seeing the success of it, man, like again,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 7: and you just start seeing like these checks come in
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 7: every three months, You're like, oh, it's very motivating, you know,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 7: it's very motivating to see that damn something I created
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: is now you know, helping fund my life, you know,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 7: And so it's pretty dope.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: How do you protect the product?
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: Like you said that you went to Israel, Israel got
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: minerals from the Dead Sea, Like, how do we protect
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: another brand from following the same pattern or is there
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: a way to protect it?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: That's a great question. Well anybody can you know, I can't.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 7: I don't own the Dead Sea right however, but like again,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: it comes into the marketing, you know, again, it comes
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 7: into even just the even learning how the bottle, like
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 7: the colors of the bottle, it depends on it, and
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 7: then the product and then people just literally seeing results
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 7: so fast, I don't think again, it being so pure
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 7: and for people to trust you with their face, you
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 7: know what I mean, and then for them to see
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 7: that it works the word of mouth of everything. So
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 7: I think just the difference would be the marketing and
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: just making sure people understand that it's unisex, that there's
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: not a lot of unisex products too.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: You know, people are scared to do that, you know.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: But again seeing the results of that, it's been beautiful.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: So to jay Z, you meet him when you're a teenager. Yeah,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: but then I guess you meet him again with the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 6: Rock Nation branch. Ye when was that and how was that?
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 7: So this was two thousand and eighteen, twenty eighteen, and
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 7: at the time my song loved it and was going crazy,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 7: and so I haven't seen whole at that time for
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 7: maybe wow, ten years maybe ten years if that. So
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 7: I'm not sure how if you remember again, you don't
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: know if he watch his power, you don't know nothing.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: So he sees me, he's like, Row, what's up, And
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 7: it's like, oh wow, this is what's.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Up, bro, you know what I mean. It was a moment.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: But then realizing he was like, man, I'm so proud
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: of what you're doing. Man, I'm so happy for you.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 7: I love what you're doing. Man, you're super super talent.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: I love the songs. And then his nephews. He was like,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 7: how y'all niggas let this nigga go? How do you
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: let this nigga go? It was there, He's like, how
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 7: do you let him?
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: What? Damn? You know?
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: But it was It was a dope moment of again validation,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 7: knowing that you know again, like you made an impact
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: on one of the greatest life and he's still watching
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 7: you are up to now.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: I'm not too sure.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 7: I think they worked for Rockne No no, no, no, no, no, nothing,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 7: nothing's wrong, But like, I think they still work with
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 7: Rockne there.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: So I was telling you we were flying and House
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Partly is my favorite movie of all time.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 5: So let me watch the new rendition of it, and
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: I pop up and I see you on screen perfectly
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: about to sit down on him next week. Can you
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: talk about that, that transition from being on a TV
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: series now being on the bag screen because a lot
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: of actors, I feel, find it it's tough because the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: TV series takes a lot of your schedule. Yes, whereas
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: movies can be two to three months, and there's a
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: timing that you have to do it right. You don't
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: want to miss your moments. Talk about that transition from
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 5: TV to film.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 7: So okay, So it took eight months out of the
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 7: year to film Power, So we were filming eight months bro.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: So again, with movies, the most it will be usually
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: is about forty five days.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 7: So that for me freed up a lot of my
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 7: time to do other things but still have a dope
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: impact on whatever the movie is going to be. Again,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 7: I needed for me personally the transition, bro, I need.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: I needed a break from TV because I needed to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: consistently build the music up because it takes too much
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 7: time and doing a series that long, you know, you
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 7: kind of need like a moment, you know. And again
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 7: for me, strategically, Dre was such a powerful character that
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: for me to jump into something right away I didn't
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 7: want it felt like it it would hinder the new
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 7: show because people would just still see that character. And
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 7: so for my mental health for the trajectory of my career,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: it was like, let's take a break from TV, Let's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 7: focus on movies. Let's focus on these months and a half,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 7: Let's build the music up. Let's don't streuss. And then
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 7: at that time it was COVID, so everything kind of
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 7: shut down, you know. So now that the world's done
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 7: to app back open back up. Now it's like, Okay,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 7: if a TV show comes that makes sense, I'm open
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 7: to it. So now I'm on a TV show called
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: Will Trent on ABC. So with that being said, different dynamic.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 7: They don't have a lot of us on there, you
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: know what I mean, It's on ABC. So for me
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 7: it's like, Okay, you made the right choice. Ro you know, like,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 7: so you're able to do this for the two three years,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 7: get your family right, spend time with your kids, build
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: your relationship, get to know your woman more before you
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: have to go away now for another eight months to
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 7: do something. So everything just worked out perfectly.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 5: I think selfishly, as fans, it's like, we want to
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: see a Mario on the show for ten season. Yeah,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: I want to see eas do ten season of Strip.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: We know there's a window.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: It's a window that you can't miss because and six
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 7: seasons of Dre it was a sweet spot where it
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 7: was like, Okay, I still have room to make ro Timmy.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 7: You know, I still have room to build my brand.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 7: I still have room to do it, but it's also
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: iconic enough that you'll never forget it. So that's that's
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: that was the sweet spot. So now two three year break,
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 7: get on something that's completely opposite from that and show
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 7: you know, my range as an actor.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: So you got crazy Jamie Fox story too. Yeah, talk
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: about that.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 7: So man again, blessed my like God has been good
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 7: to me. So the first first celebrity that I ever
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 7: met in LA was Jamie Fox. And again knowing that
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: I wanted to be a triple threat, knowing that I
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 7: wanted to be an actor, seeing a musician, that's somebody
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 7: I looked up to. But that specific day he was
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 7: filming Django. So if you if you remember he was
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 7: he had the beard, the dirty beard. So it's night,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 7: It's night is a party, so feel somebody taped me
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 7: on my shoulder and he was like, yo, man, what's up.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what what's up? Something man? Yo? Yo? Yo?
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: Bro.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: I'm a fan of you. Man. I'm like, oh, thank you,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: thank you man for show for show. Bro. Yo, bro,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: what's up? Man? What's up? Bro? I look and I'm like,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: oh wow, my bad dog? What bad?
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 7: So So he was like, man, you're super talented man.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 7: Me and Leonardo DiCaprio. Stop our show. I stopped stop
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 7: filming and watch watch you watch your show. Watch boss.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 7: On set, we have everybody. We have Quentin Tarantine, everybody
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 7: watch you man. I'm like, yo, this kid is super special.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 7: And he was like, how long you been acting? I'm like, man,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 7: I've been acting, you know six months now.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 4: He was like what.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 7: He's like, you can't take class Like now he was like,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 7: oh you like me? Okay, bet look bro, Litsten, come
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 7: to my cryb tomorrow. Let's talk le So go to
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 7: his crib the next day and he's like, so, you've
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 7: been acting, so what have you been doing this all?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I was like I do music too, Like he
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: was like you do. So go to a studio playing
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: records and he's now blown away. Bro, He's now blown away.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 7: And now he's like, yo, you are my little brother,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 7: like I got you forever, Like whatever you need, I'm
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 7: here for you. You're like me, and he was like,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna help you figure out, you know, money, how
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 7: to handle these girls. So Jamie became my big brother
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 7: very very fast, even to the point where when he
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 7: wasn't even at the crib. I would have the key
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 7: to the house and just chill and just stay you know,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 7: do my meetings and stay at Jamie's crib man. And
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 7: it was that type of love and just knowing that
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 7: someone of that caliber who's doing what you're doing, just
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 7: shows you love and just says I got you. And
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 7: he's never he's never switched up. And it's been like
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 7: that for ten years now. But yeah, man, he would
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 7: come to pop up to my events and get on
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 7: stage and be like, Yo, this kid's gonna be the one.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 7: He's the one watched, you know, and so having that support,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 7: you know, it's a confidence booster.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I didn't recognize him, but it was. It
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: was the funniest thing. And it was I was getting irritated,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: like yo, stop stop touching me, bro, but it was
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: it was Dole. That's crazy. So is there a dream
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: role that you see yourself wanting to play one day?
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: Like you brought up Jamie, And I felt like when
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 5: we watched him in Ray, he was born for that moment. Yes, yes,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: I mean even Common said it like they couldn't tell
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: was me like Jamie Ray because you felt like you
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 5: were watching Ray Charles. Is there a role out there
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: that you've always dreamed of to say, you know, one day,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 5: if the situation is right, I want to be this.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: I mean I want to I definitely want to be.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 7: I don't know if I don't know, I don't know
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 7: for sure if it's a Marvel character, but I want
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 7: to be a superhero bro and I have my own
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 7: franchise of it, whether it's a superhero or whether it's
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 7: something of like like a dope war veteran that you
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 7: know goes through something crazy. But that those two ideas
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 7: I'm definitely flushing out. But also like having like a
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 7: franchise romantic comedy, you know, like a Meet the Falkers
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 7: type of situation where it's funny as hell, but like
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 7: it goes three four or five movies and the dynamic
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 7: of a Nigerian and another another race families meeting and
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 7: just be chaotic, you know what I mean.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: So something something cool like that.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 7: But again, whatever's going to be, I definitely want the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 7: ownership of it, you know, definitely want the ownership of it.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 6: So your independent music, right, yeah, So why would you
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 6: want to stay independent or go independent or what? Did
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: you have other majors on the table?
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah. So I think at this point in time, like
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 7: I knew that my value as as an artist and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 7: as a name, as being somebody like Who's famous. I
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 7: knew because of my relationships, I could cut a lot
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 7: of the budget that a major would pay, you know
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 7: what I mean. So, knowing that I didn't have, knowing
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 7: I'm not a new artist, I didn't I don't need this,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 7: saying I don't need a heavy marketing budget.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: I don't need this and this and this. I can
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: use who I am and what I have.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 7: So if I keep my my overhead low, and I
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 7: know I have all these these these relationships, and I
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 7: know I also have great music, and I know I
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 7: can call the radio station and say yo, da da
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 7: da da da da. I was like, why would I
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 7: Why would I make Why would I ask for so
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 7: much and pay back so much when I don't necessarily
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 7: have to. So I was like, nah, I don't give
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: me that much. Let me let's let's work this and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 7: then everything out of that. Get me out of the
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 7: get me out of the red and black faster.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: You know. And so that's what I realized.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 7: But then again, you build the levers to then sit
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 7: with a major and say, let's partner instead of letting
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 7: letting me be just an artist underneath you know, underneath them.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 7: Now it's like a fifty to fifty split, eighty twenty split,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 7: whatever we work out.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: But I had to build that and show that, okay,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 7: And plus I keep majority of the money, more than
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 7: most most artists who are on majors, you know, in
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 7: terms of deals, So it made more sense.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: When you're doing those type of shows and deals.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 5: The power or the leverage that you built from acting
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: yes helps in the music right absolutely, especially in negotiation.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 7: In negotiations, so you know my value. So it's not like,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 7: I mean, if the music was bad, then okay, but like,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 7: since the music is good, you see that there's already
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 7: eyes on me.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: So okay, you don't have to do heavy lifting. Okay.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: It means I don't have to get a five hundred.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 7: Thousand budget that I need to do all this when
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: you can give us one hundred and we can do
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 7: the same thing and then we out of that hundred faster,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: So that's kind of the mindset that I was at.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 6: So what's your plans for the future, Like, what's your
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 6: top priorities?
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: Music is it acting, entrepreneurship.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: My top priority.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 7: Is entrepreneurship because it comes with everything, right, so that
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 7: now being a father bro like it changes.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: It makes you so selfless. So now, yeah, the music
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: is dope, the acting is dope.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 7: But now I'm thinking of, okay, everything, How can I
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 7: make sure my son is good, my daughter is good?
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 7: How can I how can I protect their future? Okay,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 7: I put up money here that they can't touch. Maybe
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 7: when they're eighteen they can touch this or so I'm
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 7: doing everything for them now, and I know being an
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 7: entrepreneur allows all of this to take care of.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: Them so selfishly.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 7: Before that I would have definitely been like, oh, music
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 7: for life, but now it's more so like entrepreneur to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 7: take care of my family.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 7: So, how do we make sure these books sell? How
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 7: do we get more subscribe? How do we get more
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 7: favor you know?
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: How do we get this? How do we make more
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: dope records? How do we get on TV and save
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: this bread again? And do that run over? You know?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: So that type of thought and it is beyond me
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: is beyond me.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: That's a lot, man, that's a lot. The next part
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: of it is you spoke about investing. Yeah, So are
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 5: you still actively using your brokerage account or is it
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 5: just long term?
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: Long term? Long term buying hold, Yeah, buying hold, buying
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: home man, Yeah, buying hold. Bro, there's no need, you.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: Know, lasting very last time, and it's because it goes
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: back to being married.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have financial discipline. Yeah. Did you walk into
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: the relationship with your wife has in financial discipline? No?
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: She was the case man.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: Bro.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 4: She was so bad.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 7: Bro, Like it was so bad because it was so
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 7: bad that at one point of it, she she's not realized.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 7: So when we're building the app, so she's not realizing,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 7: she's like, I want this part of it, I want this, this, this,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 7: and we're talking to the buildings. Yeah, so she's not realized.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm like, every every time you call them
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 7: and talk to them about this, so you're gonna put
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 7: us in the whole before we even make it. And
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 7: she did you know what I'm saying. So it's like yeah,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 7: and it's like I can't get mad. It's like, all right,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 7: we just gotta figured. And she felt so horrible. So
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 7: I'm happy that happened early because now she's like I'm
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 7: going to just listen and just follow what you're doing.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: Now. She's incredible with it. Now, man, it's really dope.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: That's dope. Still, I know you said saving power checks,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: saving these checks. What is the basis that we do now?
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: Is it the app? Like how it shows?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 4: Show?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: Still still wow?
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 7: Still nothing else show money, hosting's endorsements and and and
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 7: and and also just you know, singing wedding singing again,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean. I have a new record
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 7: called I Do and it's like a really powerful wedding song.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 7: So now people hire me to come singing their wedding
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 7: for that song.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: And so again you're still don't what you're still.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 7: Don't yea, yeah, yeahs at the price, I'm not and
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 7: my parents ain't stealing my money, yeah, he.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: Said the Nigerian wedding sing And I'm in my head,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking coming to America. It's like because I think
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: you're in part two, but in my head I'm saying.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: Geez your queen too.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, man, I was like, listen, man, again, let
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 7: me just save all the acting. I still don't touch
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 7: my active money. I still haven't, bro I still make
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 7: sure I don't this because again for me, it's just
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 7: there's no need to you know, and and again living
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 7: off the road, that road money and saving everything else,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 7: everything else, so nothing is touched.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 4: So you're the most popular couple of Africa.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: Do you have plans for Africa as far as like,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 6: I don't know in terms of what like musical bigger
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 6: than music, just like ambassadors, like I feel like you,
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, like as far as like rebranding the continent,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 6: I don't know, building a hotel or something the part
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: like you see Akon doing what he's doing, right and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 6: you see. So I feel like Africa right now is
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: going to be the continent of the next century. And
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 6: there's a lot of investment in Africa from a variety
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 6: of different places, China and different things in the nature.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: So it's always good when people that's actually from yeah,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: can actually benefit from it and rebranded, right.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: I call it positive propaganda absolutely as opposed to negative propaganda.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 6: So you guys being you know how big you guys are.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: I see it as an opportunity and it's both sides
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: of the continent, east side, west side, so it's like
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 6: really the whole continent. So have you ever even thought
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: about that, Like you guys role as Africa Ambassadors.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, So we've talked about building a school
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 7: out there and making it a school for.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 3: Film and everything.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 7: That's basically kind of like how Oprah did it, where
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 7: it's not necessarily the curriculum, it's more so about kids
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 7: being really gifted at something. So if you're a really
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: gifted singer, if you're really gifted actor, if you really
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 7: if you're dope at sports, if you're dope at if
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: you want engineering, it becomes not like STEM but more
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: like really just tailor made school for just the gifted,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 7: you know, whatever they wanted to focus on it. So
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 7: if you go and say I like engineering, but oh
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 7: I fell in love with music here, the curriculum will
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 7: shift for you, you know. So having that type of idea,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 7: so like the next three to five years will definitely
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 7: hone in on that. But and I don't know if
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 7: it'll be in Nigeria or Tanzania, but obviously one of them.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 7: But we're definitely building the school out there, bro for
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 7: the gifted.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: So how's your kids, like, is it important for you
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 6: to teach them the African because they've grown up in Atlanta,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 6: they're Americans?
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 4: Is that something you think about or you just.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely again, like you know, she's she's only been
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: in America for four years.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: That's an African woman. You know, she does not played.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 7: Brol don't play you know what I'm saying. So she
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 7: her morals as a mom are so beautiful. And then
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 7: also I was raised by African parents, like an African
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 7: like in a Nigerian household where it was I was
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 7: just living in America, but my parents raised me as
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 7: a Nigerian boy. So those principles are naturally instilled in us,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 7: you know, and and and we're going to make sure
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 7: you know that they have that because it's really important.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 7: It's and especially in today's generation, kids get lost very easily, man,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 7: so you don't have a hold on them, you know.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 7: I make sure that my son, you know, reads and
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 7: is creative and has less screen time than than than
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 7: than the average kid because now he's trying to figure
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 7: things out and he's super intelligent. So yeah, so I
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 7: think it's more so just keeping the principles I grew
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 7: up with.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: So last question, Afrobeats, how has it been for you?
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: And is that something that you're you want to embrace
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 6: because your music is.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: Not afrobeats, it's halving hal yeah. Yeah.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: So seeing the rise of afrobeats from David Old to
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 6: Vernon Boyd to TAM's Yeah, it's taking over the world. Yeah,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 6: how does that feel for you? Like, you know, being
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 6: Nigerian and yeah, are you leaning more into afrobeats these days?
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 6: These days because it is so popular.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 3: So for me, bro like, I just make music that
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: feels right.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 7: And the thing about it is, the two records that
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 7: are about to go platinum were afrobeat records of mine.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 7: So it wasn't me trying to do anything. It was
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 7: me just being myself and making music that makes me
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 7: feel good. So me and Punch were talking about earlier.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 7: It was just like, bro, like, why don't you do this?
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 7: Why don't you get on this, Why don't you try this?
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: Why don't you do this? So I'm very versatile as
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 7: a musician, so I don't really put myself in a box.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 7: But it's if it feels good, it feels good at
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 7: this point in time, you know, and there's no real
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 7: road map anymore for it. But like we have a
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 7: record you know that's coming out with Coil Er Ray
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 7: that's going to be crazy, you know, it's not really
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 7: an afrobeat records, more kind of dancehall reggae, you know.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 7: So it's not it's it's kind of like all over.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 7: But I have a wedding song that's traditional R and B,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 7: you know. So it's basically just being able to play,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 7: you know, the different levels of my talent being musician,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 7: be a musician, be free.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: There you have it.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 6: So how can they tap in? Get the skin kare
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 6: line and all of that. Tell them all of the
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: stuff you got working on anything.
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  Speaker 3: And this is really dope. Man. I appreciate y'all. Thank
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: you for coming.
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  Speaker 4: Man. You gotta pull up on us in Atlanta.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, continent too, man, So we got big.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: You been Ghana before?
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just left me.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: We gotta showing Ghana at the end.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: Of the year. So it's gonna be dope. Look forward.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 4: To it.
• 1:26:55
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