Latest / The Breakfast Club / Deon Taylor, T.I. & Terrence J On Creating A Pandemic Movie, Mentoring Young Artists + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Morning. Everybody is DJ and V Charlomagne the guy. We
- 0:03Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. We got our special guest hosts
- 0:06Speaker 1: La La, and we have the cast of Fear in
- 0:09Speaker 1: the building and the director J T. You direct the
- 0:17Speaker 1: movie like The Intrude and Black and Blue and Traffic.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Do we still consider you an independent filmmaker? I have
- 0:22Speaker 1: to be because I'm still making them independent, right, Okay, Okay, yeah, yeah, man?
- 0:26Speaker 1: But this hitting in body a small production company, No, man,
- 0:28Speaker 1: I think we've now got our name out there. There
- 0:31Speaker 1: ain't so much hidden anymore. But we are still one
- 0:34Speaker 1: hundred percent independent and doing our own thing, owning our
- 0:36Speaker 1: own films. But this was a little bit different though,
- 0:39Speaker 1: because these two brothers to my left as well as
- 0:42Speaker 1: Joe Spahkora also producers UM and also have percentage and
- 0:46Speaker 1: ownership in this movie with us. So this a little
- 0:48Speaker 1: bit of a different marketing tool we're on now. Man.
- 0:50Speaker 1: We're doing it from the creative side and the business side.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Which let's talk about it For people that don't know
- 0:57Speaker 1: what fear is. What is fear? Break down? An emotion? Right?
- 1:01Speaker 1: It's um. It's a psychological thriller, man. It taps into
- 1:12Speaker 1: UM the innermost darkest UH apprehensions of a group of
- 1:19Speaker 1: a group of friends that come to a large UH
- 1:23Speaker 1: in the height of the pandemic. It just so happens
- 1:26Speaker 1: to be hunted, you know. And and the spirits that
- 1:30Speaker 1: hunt this large they pull out the fears of people
- 1:34Speaker 1: and use it against them. But it's not a scary movie.
- 1:37Speaker 1: They're saying, it's not a who's that this is scary? Know,
- 1:43Speaker 1: he said. He said he didn't feel like it was
- 1:45Speaker 1: scary to him because that like thirty three minutes, that's
- 1:50Speaker 1: when I cut it off. I was like, nah, cut
- 1:52Speaker 1: off at three minute. I was home alone at the time. Yeah,
- 1:57Speaker 1: yourself a DISSERVI because you know, right at thirty five
- 2:00Speaker 1: then when it gets as when they go crazy and
- 2:04Speaker 1: now I mean I think, um, you know, man, it's
- 2:07Speaker 1: really about people tapping into the to the things that
- 2:11Speaker 1: you know. You know how they talk about self taught.
- 2:13Speaker 1: You know, you're a big on mental health and awareness,
- 2:16Speaker 1: and you know how self taught. The things you think
- 2:18Speaker 1: inside your man more important than the things you confess outside,
- 2:22Speaker 1: you know, with your mouth, and they tap into the
- 2:25Speaker 1: things that you feel about yourself. That's why this is
- 2:28Speaker 1: the type of harror movie that I feel like you
- 2:29Speaker 1: can only make it in twenty twenty three because we
- 2:31Speaker 1: ain't scared of no monsters or nothing. Real life. Yeah, yeah,
- 2:37Speaker 1: And that's what the movie deals with, is the manifestation
- 2:39Speaker 1: of the consciousness. So inside the film, what happens is
- 2:43Speaker 1: all the characters are dealing with something, you know, the
- 2:46Speaker 1: most unique thing we have on earth, which is the mind.
- 2:49Speaker 1: So whatever it is that you could actually manifest or see,
- 2:52Speaker 1: whether that's good or bad, that's actually what you bring
- 2:55Speaker 1: it to your reality. So the movie is really cool
- 2:58Speaker 1: that way, and it's a big conversation piece. Man. We've
- 3:02Speaker 1: been touring the last week now. We did like five
- 3:05Speaker 1: six cities, and every time we screened the movie, it's,
- 3:07Speaker 1: you know, it's been like an hour of Q and
- 3:09Speaker 1: A after everyone about what the mind is doing and
- 3:12Speaker 1: how it's doing it. It's a lot to do with
- 3:13Speaker 1: mental illness too, man like, you know, So it's dope
- 3:16Speaker 1: that way. And the end I think it's just spectacular,
- 3:19Speaker 1: man Like what we the message we get, which is
- 3:22Speaker 1: how do you defeat fear? So filming this was horrifying.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Dion made us floor like we didn't have no trailer
- 3:41Speaker 1: a man. I told him I would go refer I
- 3:44Speaker 1: mean like refer it for me though you know what
- 3:46Speaker 1: I'm saying. But but that, but I will tend you
- 3:48Speaker 1: that the large week film don really is haunted yea,
- 3:52Speaker 1: and no it is that the story that they told
- 3:56Speaker 1: that was real. Shit. No, that story that with the
- 4:01Speaker 1: with the the killing of the witches and all that
- 4:04Speaker 1: shit is real. Got to sleep there though, Yes, yeah,
- 4:09Speaker 1: this is really left. What did you see, Terrice? Did
- 4:17Speaker 1: you see anything when you were there sleeping? So I'm
- 4:19Speaker 1: not a When I pulled up my mattress, there were
- 4:22Speaker 1: spiders that came out from the bed. They had to
- 4:24Speaker 1: change like the bed that I was in, Like it
- 4:26Speaker 1: was terrifle. It was terrifying. It was terrifying after the
- 4:30Speaker 1: spiders came under your mattress. I'm a method active baby.
- 4:34Speaker 1: You guys. Remember this was this was the first movie
- 4:38Speaker 1: that was shot during the pandemic. So we actually went
- 4:41Speaker 1: to the CDC and had the conversation with them before
- 4:44Speaker 1: they started doing the bubble and all that. We were
- 4:46Speaker 1: the first ones to do it. We were actually driving
- 4:48Speaker 1: people or driving test results to LA and back every day.
- 4:52Speaker 1: That's how he got us all there. So that's how
- 4:54Speaker 1: we were able to get there. Joseph Coor drove from
- 4:57Speaker 1: New York to Lake Taho to do this film. Terrence Tip.
- 5:00Speaker 1: Everybody came down and descended into one location so we
- 5:03Speaker 1: could make the movie. Originally I was going to do
- 5:05Speaker 1: it with a cameraphone, and then I got a little
- 5:08Speaker 1: bit more risky. I was like, man, I wonder if
- 5:09Speaker 1: I could call it a real DP and really shoot this.
- 5:12Speaker 1: And so I think it's really great about the film
- 5:15Speaker 1: is in between takes you will see when you go
- 5:18Speaker 1: see the movie, Wise call fears because you could really
- 5:21Speaker 1: see every actor in there really dealing with something. Because
- 5:24Speaker 1: this is at a time where we didn't know so
- 5:27Speaker 1: now everybody's cool, Now everybody tough. Now everybody know everything.
- 5:30Speaker 1: But this is when we were watching CNN and ten
- 5:33Speaker 1: Thousand Bodies every day. We were saying, you know what
- 5:36Speaker 1: I mean, this is that moment. So to be able
- 5:38Speaker 1: to do that film during that time, and shout out
- 5:40Speaker 1: to Rock sam Man for producing a film during that
- 5:42Speaker 1: but we did it, man. And now to have a
- 5:44Speaker 1: movie that looks like this and feels like this fresh
- 5:47Speaker 1: new it's pretty dope. And that's how it got us
- 5:50Speaker 1: all there, because you know, he called me and say, man,
- 5:51Speaker 1: I'm gonna shot the movie. I said, Man, any nobody's
- 5:53Speaker 1: shooting the movie now, I want to shoot the movie.
- 5:56Speaker 1: I said, all right, win he say, like Thursday, And
- 6:01Speaker 1: that's what happened. We just I mean, really it was
- 6:04Speaker 1: is I guess it's spontaneous as it sounds. That's exactly
- 6:08Speaker 1: how I went down. And as soon as I showed up,
- 6:11Speaker 1: I saw Terence and it ain't like, you know, I
- 6:13Speaker 1: got to show up and prepare and go to wardrobe
- 6:16Speaker 1: like I showed them. Hey, which which we're right now here. Yeah,
- 6:19Speaker 1: let's go. First scenes coming right up. The campfire scene
- 6:23Speaker 1: that was. That was like thirty minutes after I got
- 6:25Speaker 1: Really I love that. I love that there's such a
- 6:29Speaker 1: grittiness and and so authentic. One is done that way,
- 6:33Speaker 1: like when you just in the trenches shooting a movie
- 6:35Speaker 1: as a labor of love. Everybody's just putting their best
- 6:38Speaker 1: foot forward. It's not about the hair to make up,
- 6:41Speaker 1: the clothes. It's really about just digging in and getting
- 6:43Speaker 1: into it. You got to be a beast to do that. Yeah,
- 6:45Speaker 1: he he his dog. So you thought to yourself, Bend,
- 6:48Speaker 1: let's use no budget whatsoever. Us what the film represented
- 6:53Speaker 1: was the moment of the time we were in. So
- 6:56Speaker 1: even when Tip out there, right, you know, I when
- 7:00Speaker 1: he got there, I looked at him. I was I
- 7:02Speaker 1: was like, that's it, this is the moment. This is
- 7:04Speaker 1: what he looks like, you know what I mean? And yeah,
- 7:07Speaker 1: no no budget at all. You know. What we were
- 7:09Speaker 1: trying to do is just be raw and be ugly
- 7:12Speaker 1: and capture what it felt like during that time. But
- 7:15Speaker 1: the twist is when you go to the theater you'll
- 7:17Speaker 1: understand what we're going with this, because, like I said,
- 7:21Speaker 1: fear is a powerful, powerful emotion and it would look
- 7:24Speaker 1: it could it could manifest in a very very hurtful way.
- 7:28Speaker 1: So what I thought was really cool about the movies,
- 7:30Speaker 1: as we keep growing it and growing it. I was
- 7:32Speaker 1: standing this the other day, like during that time, and
- 7:35Speaker 1: even now, like you feel like I I mean, I
- 7:37Speaker 1: feel like I got a little thing right here. You're
- 7:38Speaker 1: gonna line, you start searching, you go down the rabbit
- 7:41Speaker 1: hole for you know, you didn't diagnose yourself, right, So
- 7:48Speaker 1: I got this And so this energy is in this film, right.
- 7:52Speaker 1: How we perceive television is in this film. How we
- 7:55Speaker 1: perceive everything that we consume and how we regurgitated. It's
- 7:59Speaker 1: in this film about the campfire scene. That's the scene
- 8:01Speaker 1: where you guys start talking about your fears. So let
- 8:04Speaker 1: me ask you guys in real life, what is your
- 8:07Speaker 1: biggest fear? Start with you, TJ. My biggest fear is
- 8:11Speaker 1: just not maximizing my full potential, you know, waking up
- 8:15Speaker 1: an old man and looking back and feeling like I
- 8:17Speaker 1: left something on the table. And so that's why every
- 8:19Speaker 1: morning I get up, I'm like, you know, I don't
- 8:21Speaker 1: want to leave anything behind in this life, you know,
- 8:24Speaker 1: So that would probably be it is that while you're
- 8:26Speaker 1: looking alone, walk in front of you and my sister,
- 8:41Speaker 1: my sister. That's like my sister, how did this even
- 8:45Speaker 1: go left? That's like my family when when when you
- 8:48Speaker 1: see me, you see you got to open the doors.
- 8:52Speaker 1: You know. What I'm saying me along is A is
- 8:54Speaker 1: A is a national treasure. She must be protected at
- 8:56Speaker 1: all cars, you know, biggest fair I think my biggest fear, man,
- 9:03Speaker 1: you know, is not being able to be there for
- 9:07Speaker 1: my kids and my loved ones when they depending on
- 9:10Speaker 1: me when they need me, and not even just not
- 9:12Speaker 1: be there physically, like you know, just not be here
- 9:15Speaker 1: to guide them and direct them and you know, off
- 9:18Speaker 1: of my my I guess experience or knowledge or wisdom
- 9:23Speaker 1: for them to get through whatever they might be challenged with.
- 9:27Speaker 1: I think that's that's my biggest fear. Yeah, Oh, I
- 9:31Speaker 1: think I'm in the same boat. I think time. I
- 9:34Speaker 1: think my biggest fear is like constantly trying to wonder
- 9:39Speaker 1: if I'm be here in ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years
- 9:42Speaker 1: my kids, Like, I'm like, man, I want to be
- 9:44Speaker 1: here when they turn That's something that I keep on
- 9:46Speaker 1: messing with. And that's something you gotta not do. You
- 9:49Speaker 1: got to live in a moment right now and understand that,
- 9:52Speaker 1: you know, every day as a blessing versus you trying
- 9:54Speaker 1: to live for what you know what twenty thirty gonna
- 9:57Speaker 1: feel like, you know what I mean, So it would
- 9:59Speaker 1: be time for me. And it's what's crazy as we
- 10:01Speaker 1: deal with all this in the film. Yeah, I'm thinking
- 10:04Speaker 1: about the movie. You know, you did the whole airborne
- 10:06Speaker 1: virus that got people stuck in the house, you know
- 10:09Speaker 1: what I mean. But then also, I'm not gonna give
- 10:11Speaker 1: it away, but there was a lot of people who
- 10:13Speaker 1: committed suicide during that time. When was all of that,
- 10:16Speaker 1: did y'all tape all of that during that one year
- 10:18Speaker 1: or that stuff y'all did after the fact. Did it
- 10:21Speaker 1: all in the fifteen days we were there? Wow? So
- 10:23Speaker 1: we were really ahead of that moment. Yeah, that's why.
- 10:27Speaker 1: That's why I keep telling you know, that's why the
- 10:29Speaker 1: movie is being received away because you what you just
- 10:31Speaker 1: hit on, which is we were actually ahead of that
- 10:33Speaker 1: curve a little bit. What we were like, man, just
- 10:35Speaker 1: thinking it out loud like tip Terry She that mean,
- 10:39Speaker 1: like how they how it happens is pretty dope? Was
- 10:43Speaker 1: it like July twenty twenty? Yeah, he did it? Yeah, yeah,
- 10:47Speaker 1: everything you started hitting the fan around March April Februaries
- 10:50Speaker 1: when it started going. And back to what she was
- 10:54Speaker 1: asking about budget, you know, we put all the money
- 10:56Speaker 1: on the screen. So it's like, you know, when he
- 10:58Speaker 1: asked you to participate in something like that, you want
- 11:00Speaker 1: to get paid six figures to be in it, or
- 11:02Speaker 1: you want to invest six figures and have a seat
- 11:04Speaker 1: at the table. And so that's the beauty of what
- 11:06Speaker 1: Dion's created with This is where you know, producers complete
- 11:10Speaker 1: profit participation and I and I love that because it's
- 11:13Speaker 1: all about you know, Boston up, It's all about us
- 11:16Speaker 1: working together. It's not reaching up. There's no studio handing
- 11:19Speaker 1: us down money. It's completely self finance, looking depend If
- 11:22Speaker 1: anybody look not looking dependent, like they didn't tell me
- 11:26Speaker 1: that right now, I would have never thought that. Watching
- 11:28Speaker 1: it feel like get Out, it's not that I think
- 11:29Speaker 1: about that's why you know, the people and get out.
- 11:31Speaker 1: The actors they got shot to get out there. Your
- 11:34Speaker 1: mouth to guard is yet this get out? And in
- 11:38Speaker 1: the movie a little bit any parts checked with an
- 11:42Speaker 1: armored truck on a pillow in a box. His first
- 11:47Speaker 1: road he checked from Get Up. Yeah, but I think
- 11:50Speaker 1: like what this represents everyone. I think everyone talks a
- 11:54Speaker 1: good game about this black excellence and building our own
- 11:57Speaker 1: and but it's very seldom man, that we actually really
- 12:00Speaker 1: work together. And people, Yeah, people don't want to have
- 12:03Speaker 1: that conversation about like, you know, working with people that
- 12:05Speaker 1: look just like you, and especially in this industry, man,
- 12:08Speaker 1: where people are actually the ones that look like you
- 12:11Speaker 1: could be the most cutthroat you know, and the most
- 12:14Speaker 1: people that have pushed you away so very clickish, you
- 12:16Speaker 1: know what I mean. So for us independently, man, I've
- 12:19Speaker 1: been you know, this took us a long time to
- 12:21Speaker 1: be able to build this, but now, like movies like
- 12:24Speaker 1: you know, Black and Blue and Intruder and you know
- 12:27Speaker 1: all these other films we didn't made Supremacy, Yeah with rehearsal,
- 12:31Speaker 1: Ali and Danny Glover, like now to be able to
- 12:34Speaker 1: do it at this level and now also be inclusive
- 12:36Speaker 1: and work with other people, this movie could go much
- 12:40Speaker 1: further than I could throw it based on the fact
- 12:41Speaker 1: that these guys could run faster than me too, you
- 12:44Speaker 1: know what I mean. So this should be like the
- 12:47Speaker 1: new brand of what we're trying to build in Hollywood,
- 12:49Speaker 1: you know, which is really everybody working together and building
- 12:53Speaker 1: something and owning something collectively, not just one person getting
- 12:56Speaker 1: rich or getting empowered or So this movie works, we
- 13:01Speaker 1: do it again, and then we do it again, and
- 13:03Speaker 1: then these guys actually participate because right now no one
- 13:06Speaker 1: owns IPS. I was going to say, it's just so
- 13:08Speaker 1: that's what's so important. And one thing about you, Dan
- 13:11Speaker 1: is you're always about giving those opportunities to people that
- 13:15Speaker 1: to us, you know, people that understand what our day
- 13:19Speaker 1: to day lifestyle is like. And I think it's amazing
- 13:21Speaker 1: to provide those opportunities to all of us for ownership
- 13:24Speaker 1: and just also to kind of I've learned a lot
- 13:26Speaker 1: from you, like just learning from you, and I know,
- 13:29Speaker 1: just watching how he works, it's like it's like a masterclass.
- 13:32Speaker 1: And to be able to be a part of that,
- 13:34Speaker 1: and then, like he said, take that blueprint and do
- 13:36Speaker 1: it again, and do it again. That's what it's about.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Providing more opportunities for all of us out there to
- 13:40Speaker 1: continue to grow and then put us in position to
- 13:43Speaker 1: provide more opportunities for more people. You gotta have that.
- 13:46Speaker 1: It's a reason why people are like, man, I ever
- 13:48Speaker 1: seen Jack Nicholson work in twenty five years, but he's
- 13:51Speaker 1: sitting on the front row of the Lakers game right
- 13:54Speaker 1: It's because he owns stake and equity and Batman Yano
- 13:58Speaker 1: reeves the matrix, you know what I mean. So you
- 14:01Speaker 1: could go on and on how these guys are able
- 14:03Speaker 1: to actually be a part of something, but us, we
- 14:06Speaker 1: always get it up front, you know what I mean.
- 14:08Speaker 1: And now in this system where everything is streaming and
- 14:10Speaker 1: they own everything, you really don't get no ip or equity.
- 14:13Speaker 1: So now you're gonna get paid all the money right now,
- 14:15Speaker 1: and then you're gonna watch that for the next twenty
- 14:17Speaker 1: thirty years. Your kid's gonna watch that. So to be
- 14:20Speaker 1: able to participate like real did and to get out
- 14:23Speaker 1: or have percentage. I'm sure he didn't invest, but they
- 14:26Speaker 1: gave him equity in the movie because he came in
- 14:28Speaker 1: a small budget movie. But this is different, man, Like,
- 14:31Speaker 1: this is ownership. So when you see Fear this weekend
- 14:34Speaker 1: in the movie theater and you're right, it looks fantastic.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Shout out to Chris Duskin, you know the whole VFX
- 14:42Speaker 1: team that worked on this. When you see that, just
- 14:44Speaker 1: understand when you buy that ticket, it is actually going
- 14:47Speaker 1: back to a black production company and back to these
- 14:50Speaker 1: guys who put their money up and they own that.
- 14:52Speaker 1: So in five years from now, when you watch Fear,
- 14:54Speaker 1: it's there. So now we could buy some cars for
- 14:56Speaker 1: Envy's car show. For the car shot, I was gonna ask.
- 15:09Speaker 1: So when you board during the pandemic, it was like,
- 15:11Speaker 1: I gotta shoot something. I can't just sit on my ass.
- 15:13Speaker 1: But what was that That thought process came because we
- 15:15Speaker 1: were all home doing nothing. Dion was calling everybody. He
- 15:18Speaker 1: was was on the phone with Charlemagne six am every morning.
- 15:21Speaker 1: We got to change the world. We're gonna do approach,
- 15:23Speaker 1: like Dion on the couple Zo. We did great man,
- 15:29Speaker 1: we were acting, Dean was leading the charge on. It
- 15:32Speaker 1: wasn't even entertainment stuff. It was politics. Yeah, all of us,
- 15:36Speaker 1: you and me and Killer Mic and uh it. But
- 15:40Speaker 1: I think we all just everybody knew something big is
- 15:43Speaker 1: gonna come out of you know. We just wanted to
- 15:45Speaker 1: be a part of whatever was going to be on
- 15:48Speaker 1: the other side that was that was going to be
- 15:51Speaker 1: financially beneficial or even just culturally beneficial. Uh And I
- 15:56Speaker 1: think you know, in our own way everybody did a
- 16:00Speaker 1: lot of people didn't make it to the other side.
- 16:03Speaker 1: I'm saying that physically as well as mental. A lot
- 16:07Speaker 1: of people did not make that jump. Y'all show that
- 16:09Speaker 1: in the movie. Yeah, some people wanted to make it.
- 16:15Speaker 1: You know, some motherfucker's round them justn't you know, and
- 16:20Speaker 1: just wouldn't let it happen. What did an I would
- 16:25Speaker 1: how important it is, like just mentorship, Like who taught you?
- 16:28Speaker 1: Like you're giving the game to people, but who taught you?
- 16:32Speaker 1: You know what? I wasn't taught And I think that's
- 16:35Speaker 1: what really helps me to be who I am today
- 16:38Speaker 1: because it was so hard for us for seventeen years.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Every time we went somewhere and somebody tell you know,
- 16:43Speaker 1: you don't know how to actually do something, so you
- 16:45Speaker 1: have to learn on your own. I just remember Man
- 16:47Speaker 1: two three times having a metaphysical death in my life.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Well I'm like, damn man, Like I thought I was
- 16:52Speaker 1: doing this right, but I collapsed, and later on in
- 16:56Speaker 1: life I ended up meaning Robert smith Um who became
- 17:00Speaker 1: a real mentor to me. But I was already on
- 17:02Speaker 1: the move. He already seen that. But yeah, that's why.
- 17:07Speaker 1: But that's why. I just come from a place man
- 17:09Speaker 1: of like, man, we could just show it educating. I
- 17:11Speaker 1: know that's not normal, but you know we already said, man,
- 17:14Speaker 1: the game is to be sold, and I told I've
- 17:16Speaker 1: always been like, no, man, you get to get a
- 17:18Speaker 1: game away for free, so we could learn and move forward.
- 17:20Speaker 1: That's the bottom line, you know what I mean. It's
- 17:22Speaker 1: not it should not be this thing where it's only
- 17:25Speaker 1: one and we've had this conversation. I've seen Kevin Hard
- 17:28Speaker 1: have it. I've seen Tia have it, Terence have it.
- 17:31Speaker 1: That's a reality right now, it's only one, you know
- 17:34Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like, man, how do we get
- 17:35Speaker 1: past that? And then how do we also celebrate people
- 17:38Speaker 1: that's actually winning. Man. You know, we just talking about
- 17:42Speaker 1: Joe Siphcore of fifty cent on the way over here,
- 17:44Speaker 1: because Joe is a really big part of this film,
- 17:47Speaker 1: and I was just saying to myself, Man, do you
- 17:49Speaker 1: guys understand we do as a culture, but do you
- 17:52Speaker 1: understand what this man has done in television? Yeah? I
- 17:56Speaker 1: don't think people understand. They yeah, But at the same time,
- 18:00Speaker 1: why why why does the country not understand that? And
- 18:03Speaker 1: then why is he still being in a position where
- 18:05Speaker 1: he has to fight for what's right? Right? Like this
- 18:09Speaker 1: is real man thinking? No valuable in black content? We value,
- 18:13Speaker 1: but I don't think, man, I don't think somebody else's hands. True,
- 18:19Speaker 1: they try to devaluate it. Will we own now well
- 18:23Speaker 1: umber his numbers than every other show on the network,
- 18:27Speaker 1: So what does that mean? But that's also why it's
- 18:29Speaker 1: up to us, like everything that we're talking about, because
- 18:31Speaker 1: obviously fifty has been a mentor and I've said a
- 18:35Speaker 1: million times I say it a million one times. Fifty
- 18:37Speaker 1: changed my life by the opportunities that he's always provided
- 18:39Speaker 1: to me. But then you'll see what people be like,
- 18:41Speaker 1: Oh she did power now she on BMF. She just
- 18:44Speaker 1: do everything we're fifties that first of all, I'm loyal
- 18:47Speaker 1: and second of all, like this man provided it's like
- 18:55Speaker 1: it's like you're mad about that or that's not the
- 18:59Speaker 1: right thing, but some other person gives me opportunity. Yeah, yeah,
- 19:02Speaker 1: you should go do that. You should go do that
- 19:04Speaker 1: because you see I just said, it's not it's not
- 19:06Speaker 1: it's value when we give it to somebody else, but
- 19:08Speaker 1: we have it. It's just it's not valued. Man. They
- 19:10Speaker 1: criticize you to, they copy you. There, you got what
- 19:14Speaker 1: makes a lot of things, because I'm thinking about like
- 19:16Speaker 1: somebody like Norman live Right, you know what I mean,
- 19:18Speaker 1: normally called you every time no one would say anything
- 19:22Speaker 1: Joe the appetite. Yeah, I would be praised every everywhere.
- 19:27Speaker 1: Now you did say something that you said, they would
- 19:30Speaker 1: you say, they copy you to, you criticize you to,
- 19:32Speaker 1: they copy you. Now they try to copy your daughter
- 19:34Speaker 1: and her girl group. Oh, they tried to take that coach.
- 19:39Speaker 1: I mean, where did you realize that was a copy?
- 19:41Speaker 1: Soon as you first saw did you say that's my
- 19:43Speaker 1: daughter's group? Nah? Man, that's that's really man, that's my wife,
- 19:48Speaker 1: Like that's to me because she you know, that was
- 19:50Speaker 1: her that was a brain child, her baby, and it
- 19:54Speaker 1: was brought to her attention, I believed by some fans
- 19:57Speaker 1: um a fan page kind of like inquire, Hey is
- 20:00Speaker 1: this y'all? I thought about it when I saw it.
- 20:04Speaker 1: When I went around, I was like, no, eat that same.
- 20:09Speaker 1: But I mean I ain't I an't spend a lot
- 20:11Speaker 1: of time around little girl dogs to tell I know that, man.
- 20:15Speaker 1: But you know what, I think it was gifted. One
- 20:19Speaker 1: of them were gifted for Hares. And I think that's
- 20:22Speaker 1: when Tamika were like, look these this is what I
- 20:25Speaker 1: was talking about, you know. But I mean, man, you know,
- 20:29Speaker 1: I'm a regardless I have it. Shake app bro, I'm
- 20:32Speaker 1: gonna get to you. I'm proud of hell her and
- 20:35Speaker 1: my daughter for even you know, rolling they shleeze up
- 20:40Speaker 1: and you know, and and going all the way with it.
- 20:44Speaker 1: You did, because this is so many times creatives, uh
- 20:48Speaker 1: in the community. Man, they they they see they see
- 20:52Speaker 1: travesties of justice like the and they just go with
- 20:55Speaker 1: the flow and roll with it. And you know what
- 20:57Speaker 1: I'm saying, these these these these independent black women are
- 21:03Speaker 1: standing up against this billion dollar company and saying, nah,
- 21:08Speaker 1: y'all ain't gonna take our ship. I mean, and I
- 21:11Speaker 1: respect that most people feel like we don't have enough
- 21:14Speaker 1: money to go back at them. So let's just now,
- 21:17Speaker 1: you know, were millions in. I ain't even gonna cap
- 21:19Speaker 1: you down. There's millions multiples even to get this fun
- 21:23Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And uh and and who
- 21:26Speaker 1: knows where we would be if we weren't fortunate enough
- 21:30Speaker 1: or able to to to fight the fight that that
- 21:33Speaker 1: that we've been blessed to be able to fight. But
- 21:37Speaker 1: I had a upmore faith that you know, God well
- 21:40Speaker 1: had the last say so, hey, man, Florida just got
- 21:43Speaker 1: eighty two millions. What happened with that? Say, he was
- 21:48Speaker 1: an endorser of the product and get invested in as well,
- 21:53Speaker 1: some investor and endorser, and he's supposed to get I
- 21:56Speaker 1: believe allegedly some ship. So I think the amount was
- 22:00Speaker 1: like thirty two thousand and some shares, but they wand
- 22:02Speaker 1: up awarding him. It became a billion dollar company. I've
- 22:05Speaker 1: not even heard of that the energy, but the thing
- 22:11Speaker 1: gives though. This is a little bit different, right because
- 22:14Speaker 1: Flow actually had an agreement, you know, with the company,
- 22:19Speaker 1: this company here, I think that whole thing is founded
- 22:22Speaker 1: on Oh why would we want to do business with
- 22:25Speaker 1: these guys. Listen to the language they use. Look at
- 22:30Speaker 1: you know. We don't want to We don't want to
- 22:32Speaker 1: be associated with that we and that's I say, Well
- 22:35Speaker 1: I'm thinking that. Well, well, well, well that's your motive,
- 22:40Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you wanted our ideas,
- 22:43Speaker 1: but you didn't want to be associated with us for
- 22:45Speaker 1: whatever it is. So that's why you didn't come in fairly,
- 22:48Speaker 1: license legally, uh and partner with us like you would anyone.
- 22:54Speaker 1: And the thing is, you know that company ain't no angels.
- 22:59Speaker 1: They still ain't know ain'tels theyself. I'm a firm believer
- 23:02Speaker 1: that he would at seeing cast the first stone. I'm
- 23:05Speaker 1: not perfect, but I'm a lot better than I was,
- 23:07Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I think you don't
- 23:10Speaker 1: have to do be in there with tip to do
- 23:11Speaker 1: be in there with the girls. You did, and if
- 23:14Speaker 1: you like it enough to put it on a box
- 23:17Speaker 1: and designed something after it to sell it, then why
- 23:21Speaker 1: not cut the girls in or whatever the growth is
- 23:25Speaker 1: of whatever the proceeds is. I just think, man, it's
- 23:28Speaker 1: it's terrible that you can still do this in America.
- 23:31Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, but you can't unless you
- 23:33Speaker 1: got the means to fight. That's right. You know, I
- 23:36Speaker 1: was thinking too, Tip, you know who was who was
- 23:37Speaker 1: mentoring the young rappers in Atlanta? Because you talk about
- 23:40Speaker 1: your growth and your evolution, and I feel like brothers
- 23:42Speaker 1: like you who made the transition from the streets, you know,
- 23:45Speaker 1: to corporate America. You gotta get these young brothers from
- 23:48Speaker 1: game because I feel like they just thrown it all
- 23:50Speaker 1: the way. I'm I'm I'm always here, bro, you know
- 23:53Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm always here. I always try and
- 23:55Speaker 1: make myself available whenever I can. And uh, and I
- 23:59Speaker 1: believe that the mentorship is you know, it's present. It's present. Man.
- 24:03Speaker 1: You know you got uh institutions of culture like Grand
- 24:08Speaker 1: Hustle qc Uh. You know you got uh free bands,
- 24:15Speaker 1: you got uh street execs. Uh. You know, it's it's
- 24:21Speaker 1: a lot even so so deaf. You know, you got
- 24:24Speaker 1: a lot of ogs. Did you know what I'm saying?
- 24:26Speaker 1: They reached back and still make sure that the conversations
- 24:31Speaker 1: of being had. Uh. You gotta killer Mike, you got
- 24:35Speaker 1: you know, uh c low Yeah, of course, geez, everybody
- 24:39Speaker 1: like does that part to make sure that if there's
- 24:44Speaker 1: some information that a young man or a young lady
- 24:46Speaker 1: needs that they know where to find the places like
- 24:49Speaker 1: the gathering spot, places like the Trap Music Museum, places
- 24:53Speaker 1: like Trap City Cafe where you just show up and
- 24:56Speaker 1: just happen to see somebody. Hey, man, how do you
- 24:59Speaker 1: like a person like pull it up to the cafe
- 25:01Speaker 1: with like, how do I copyright my music if I
- 25:03Speaker 1: can't really afford the lawyer? I was like, man, you know,
- 25:06Speaker 1: I just used to. I don't know if they still
- 25:08Speaker 1: do it like that, but I just used to put
- 25:09Speaker 1: my demo in the mail. That's what I learned. You know.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, this question for you too,
- 25:31Speaker 1: and you this this is interesting. Could you could you
- 25:35Speaker 1: when you name Killer Mike, yourself, QC, all these different
- 25:39Speaker 1: brands organizations as Pioneer Rap, could you unionize hip hop? Like,
- 25:46Speaker 1: is there a real way to actually delegate this brand?
- 25:48Speaker 1: Because it is a multi it's a multi billion dollars
- 25:52Speaker 1: a year business and you have these pioneers, right, So
- 25:56Speaker 1: is there a way to actually unionize hip hop? Was
- 25:59Speaker 1: it somebody trying to do that? They've been trying to
- 26:01Speaker 1: do it for them, So why they trying what I'm
- 26:04Speaker 1: saying you could actually do that. I think I think
- 26:06Speaker 1: it should be done it and the reason not only
- 26:08Speaker 1: for that for conversation and growth, but also think about
- 26:11Speaker 1: all the artists that get older, and that's what I'm saying, Yeah,
- 26:16Speaker 1: don't have healthcare. Yeah, you know, don't have the finances,
- 26:20Speaker 1: have retirement. I mean, I think that would be a
- 26:22Speaker 1: great I guess you have to look at other industries
- 26:24Speaker 1: to see how they did it, because that's out of
- 26:25Speaker 1: my spectrum education. I guess you'd have to look at
- 26:27Speaker 1: like the film industry and see how they did it
- 26:29Speaker 1: way way way back, because those old artists have nothing right, right, Like,
- 26:34Speaker 1: they've been used through the system, through the studios of
- 26:38Speaker 1: nothing and records get sam So they got a way
- 26:41Speaker 1: for them. They got a way for the fifty year
- 26:42Speaker 1: hip hop to get a check. Right. So that's crazy, man,
- 26:46Speaker 1: Like you should you should as smart as you are,
- 26:47Speaker 1: I mean, you should dive into that. That. I mean, bro,
- 26:51Speaker 1: I hear. It takes participation, you know what I mean.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Everybody gotta be you know, willing to come together. Uh
- 26:59Speaker 1: and and you know, I see most of the time
- 27:02Speaker 1: I have people if it ain't our idea. Yeah, you
- 27:06Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, if we didn't think of it first,
- 27:10Speaker 1: like you know, a lot of times people don't really
- 27:12Speaker 1: want to participate, you know, collectively. But it is a
- 27:15Speaker 1: phenomenal idea, and it's gonna be a resentment to the
- 27:18Speaker 1: to the artists who aren't doing well. Then you know,
- 27:21Speaker 1: why should I work with the artists that is doing well?
- 27:23Speaker 1: We don't just build it without them? Yeah right, I
- 27:26Speaker 1: mean you don't get in right, So anyway, that's interesting.
- 27:29Speaker 1: We just couldn't your dudes for after So it's the
- 27:31Speaker 1: same thing you pay your dudes yelling and when things happen,
- 27:33Speaker 1: you get help in chance you get true, we need that.
- 27:36Speaker 1: We need that right now. Yeah, I'm with it. Yeah,
- 27:39Speaker 1: we need that. I'm gonna ask you other director because
- 27:41Speaker 1: I know y'all gotta go do do you do you
- 27:42Speaker 1: think of the audience when you're making these films? Like
- 27:45Speaker 1: a black person wouldn't do that, black person wouldn't running
- 27:47Speaker 1: that room and they're screaming going on, and you know,
- 27:52Speaker 1: you know, that's all I think about. I'm I'm actually
- 27:55Speaker 1: an audience first director, um, which obviously the track regular
- 27:59Speaker 1: movies made. UM. But yeah, you have to actually put
- 28:02Speaker 1: up I think That's what makes me a little different
- 28:04Speaker 1: is that I'm not trying to appease anyone else but
- 28:07Speaker 1: the audience that I'm making that film for, and also
- 28:09Speaker 1: grounded it in something that's authentic and real. Um like
- 28:13Speaker 1: even like fear, like having all these guys, these all
- 28:15Speaker 1: alpha males, Joseph ka Tip, you know what I mean?
- 28:19Speaker 1: Terrence Batch, Um, yeah, man, we're trying to like alpha females,
- 28:23Speaker 1: and alpha females means I'll be seeing all alpha males
- 28:27Speaker 1: I see to be getting in a whole lot of trouble.
- 28:29Speaker 1: What is alpha male being? Well, I mean they're they're
- 28:31Speaker 1: they're leaders. They're they're guys that are in the front
- 28:34Speaker 1: that normally are leading a situation or their group. If
- 28:36Speaker 1: if if I didn't know them, and I know you
- 28:39Speaker 1: got a group of guys you hang around, they would
- 28:41Speaker 1: be the leaders of that group, you know what I mean.
- 28:43Speaker 1: So yeah, I always say, man, if I worried that mcdges,
- 28:45Speaker 1: I'd be the baddest freeman. But yeah, we want to
- 28:53Speaker 1: make the movies for the audience. And this weekend, when
- 28:55Speaker 1: this movie comes out, I think people will have a really,
- 28:57Speaker 1: really good time watching it. And that's what the first
- 29:00Speaker 1: priority is We're so excited and it's about that participation
- 29:04Speaker 1: showing up, supporting, absolutely, watching the movie, tweeting about it,
- 29:07Speaker 1: talking about it, so that we can spread the word
- 29:10Speaker 1: and really you know, get some some real numbers out
- 29:13Speaker 1: there to be able to continue doing What is success?
- 29:16Speaker 1: What is success for this movie? Like what we didn't
- 29:19Speaker 1: have to do opening weekend? We already we are, We
- 29:21Speaker 1: already won. Um, we already won, you know, just movie.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Yeah I didn't think we also put COVID, No, we
- 29:31Speaker 1: didn't put in theaters? Is a huge window, you know,
- 29:35Speaker 1: this many screens, doing that independently and then having so
- 29:39Speaker 1: many opportunities for windows after this, right, so after this,
- 29:43Speaker 1: then there'll be the streaming window. Then there'll be another tier,
- 29:45Speaker 1: so we'll be able to profit international. So there's a
- 29:50Speaker 1: lot of upside as long as we all support it
- 29:53Speaker 1: as well as as well as the you know, the
- 29:57Speaker 1: learning and the wisdom and the experience is that comes
- 30:01Speaker 1: we're producing NIXT to someone who's dead it so many
- 30:05Speaker 1: times before Terrace and that we just like, Amen, So
- 30:08Speaker 1: what this means? It's great, man, it's great, and this
- 30:12Speaker 1: is and this is a new this is new for
- 30:14Speaker 1: me as well in terms of releasing this wide. So
- 30:18Speaker 1: we've we've put our movies on our own UM and one,
- 30:22Speaker 1: but this this is a wide release, so we're actually running.
- 30:25Speaker 1: We've beat studio movies a bunch, but this one's gonna
- 30:28Speaker 1: do great. Man. Like I said, we're in the system
- 30:31Speaker 1: right now where you know, you're watching some of these
- 30:33Speaker 1: mega films made two, three, four million dollars um that
- 30:37Speaker 1: have fifty million, sixty million in So we know Fear
- 30:40Speaker 1: gonna come and do that, which means we already beat
- 30:43Speaker 1: most of these films anyway. But what I love about
- 30:46Speaker 1: what we're doing with Fear is um which is actually
- 30:50Speaker 1: very present in this room right now, which is the
- 30:52Speaker 1: power of reinvention. See part of part of the system
- 30:56Speaker 1: that we're in right now. As black people, we're scared
- 30:58Speaker 1: to reinvent ourselves. So the minute that you step out
- 31:01Speaker 1: of whatever lane you've been running in, everybody always make
- 31:04Speaker 1: a joke about it. You know, I was talking to
- 31:06Speaker 1: Tip like his comedy, Like why can't he do comedy? Right?
- 31:11Speaker 1: Terrence went from hosting to now acting. Look at you
- 31:14Speaker 1: multi hyphen it acting, hosting, building company owner, you you book, Like,
- 31:21Speaker 1: we have to get to a place, man, and we're
- 31:22Speaker 1: not scared to reinvent ourselves or learn something different and
- 31:26Speaker 1: for fear. For me, it was like, man, let me
- 31:28Speaker 1: show Tip and Terrence and Joseph and everybody else, myself
- 31:33Speaker 1: and Rock Sand like really get on the box and
- 31:35Speaker 1: be like, let me show y'all how this works at
- 31:37Speaker 1: the highest level. Here's how you can compete and create
- 31:39Speaker 1: Warner Brothers or New Line or Lionsgate. And that's exactly
- 31:43Speaker 1: what we're doing right now. Two other questions. One break
- 31:46Speaker 1: down how y'all make money on planes? Right? Because a
- 31:49Speaker 1: majority of the movie planes I see on the plane,
- 31:52Speaker 1: But how do you how do they record that? How
- 31:54Speaker 1: do y'all make money over that? Because the planes, every
- 31:56Speaker 1: movie's on the plane before you know it gets to
- 31:58Speaker 1: most of the time when you actually purchased that. So
- 32:01Speaker 1: how does that work? That's a window, So basically you're
- 32:04Speaker 1: gonna a movie opens and then it's the same with
- 32:06Speaker 1: a hotel, So you ever go like it in hotel, Yeah,
- 32:10Speaker 1: but where the plane is actually paying for it as well.
- 32:12Speaker 1: They're gonna license for us. But all those deals that
- 32:16Speaker 1: we're talking about in film, those are deals that you
- 32:19Speaker 1: could only make if you own the IP, right, So
- 32:22Speaker 1: when you look at these movies you're talking about, for instance,
- 32:25Speaker 1: Top Gun, right or Avatar. Those movies are making three
- 32:28Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars here and then they open overseas
- 32:32Speaker 1: and they're at seven eight nine hundred million dollars to
- 32:34Speaker 1: three billion dollars. Well, that's only the theatrical experience. Now
- 32:38Speaker 1: understand that that's what that made. Ends from the theater.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Now when it goes downstream, what's downstream, planes, hotels, cable,
- 32:47Speaker 1: first window buys, it'll keep on selling when it gets
- 32:53Speaker 1: the team. You run down the line, right, and now
- 32:57Speaker 1: you just resell it again. So it just keeps making
- 33:00Speaker 1: money over and over again, the same way we're watching
- 33:02Speaker 1: all these old movies. You know that what's Eddie Murphy
- 33:07Speaker 1: coming to America? Life? That's all life life, right, So
- 33:10Speaker 1: you imagine how much money that is. Man, if you're
- 33:13Speaker 1: a student, you just keep licensing that through system for real.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Most of the time, know, you know, the ips are
- 33:19Speaker 1: held under the big studios. So some you know, the
- 33:24Speaker 1: airlines or whoever is responsible for doing the licenses for
- 33:27Speaker 1: the airlines would just go to that like a one
- 33:29Speaker 1: stop shop and go and do a deal with Warner
- 33:32Speaker 1: Brothers or do a deal with Universal or do a
- 33:34Speaker 1: deal with Lionsgate and they get all of the library.
- 33:38Speaker 1: You know what I mean. The last time I saw
- 33:40Speaker 1: you to you was at the Operation Hope for Him. Yeah,
- 33:43Speaker 1: guy John O'Brian, and you were talking about your development
- 33:46Speaker 1: that you was complex. Yeah, yeah in Trata in Trota
- 33:52Speaker 1: is my first, my first development, affordable housing on bank
- 33:56Speaker 1: kid or property I bought by five years ago aid
- 33:59Speaker 1: and half acres partner with with the city um along
- 34:04Speaker 1: with you know, some some private equity as well. Uh.
- 34:08Speaker 1: And you know we got one hundred and forty three
- 34:11Speaker 1: units retail space at the bottom right now. Man, you
- 34:14Speaker 1: know we're about to you know, about to cut the
- 34:16Speaker 1: ribbon later on this year. But I'm looking for a tenant.
- 34:20Speaker 1: I need a grocery store because it's a food desert
- 34:23Speaker 1: over there in the area. I need a grocery store
- 34:26Speaker 1: and a drug store for a pharmacy. You know what
- 34:29Speaker 1: I'm saying for the people in the area, because you know,
- 34:31Speaker 1: some people don't have cars and they got a drive
- 34:34Speaker 1: you know way you know up the street rude, you know,
- 34:36Speaker 1: on the other side of the town just to get
- 34:38Speaker 1: their prescriptions. Field and a bank. We need a central
- 34:40Speaker 1: look you know, a central bank. I think it's important
- 34:43Speaker 1: to speak to how they if you us sometime right
- 34:46Speaker 1: because if I'm mistake, I'm I'm thinking you had a
- 34:48Speaker 1: grocery store there, but they pulled out because they thought
- 34:51Speaker 1: we'd be stealing. Well it ain't den it ain't really
- 34:53Speaker 1: that they thought we've been and they right, you know
- 34:55Speaker 1: what I because you know, it's just such a they.
- 35:04Speaker 1: What they say is, you know, they they the growth
- 35:08Speaker 1: of the community has not matured to a place. You know,
- 35:12Speaker 1: they got to look at they they overhead and expenses
- 35:15Speaker 1: that it caused them to operate, and how much people
- 35:18Speaker 1: in the area presumably can afford to pay. So they
- 35:23Speaker 1: need some subsidation, some coming from the city, you know,
- 35:27Speaker 1: you know, some kind of rent, some rent consideration. But
- 35:32Speaker 1: but we need some people that could work with us,
- 35:34Speaker 1: just simply because the neighborhood, the community needs it. Anybody
- 35:38Speaker 1: who have been in the bank Yead area and it's
- 35:40Speaker 1: it's growing, you know, Microsoft up the street and you
- 35:43Speaker 1: know Bill Gate needs somewhere to go by Bagel man,
- 35:45Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you man, well, just
- 35:48Speaker 1: come on end and work with some people that want
- 35:51Speaker 1: to really really feel the void in the community. So
- 35:53Speaker 1: how do they reach out to you? Somebody listening to
- 35:56Speaker 1: this thing like I got the grocery store for ya,
- 35:58Speaker 1: got the okay asolutely you want to talk to Crystal
- 36:02Speaker 1: Peterson and Dynasty Realty or Dynasty broke reach um and
- 36:08Speaker 1: she could connect to all the dots. Uh, you can.
- 36:11Speaker 1: You can talk to to to people that in trata.
- 36:14Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and you can pull up
- 36:16Speaker 1: on me. And I definitely make sure you get on
- 36:19Speaker 1: the phone to get in front of who you need
- 36:20Speaker 1: to talk to, get to get it going. Last question
- 36:24Speaker 1: to buy. Beyonce performed no cameras supposed to be no
- 36:30Speaker 1: cameras then looking at you? Are you looking at you?
- 36:35Speaker 1: You want to know what's down that performance? That's seventy
- 36:40Speaker 1: twenty four million dollars. You need a long watch beyond
- 36:45Speaker 1: a bunch of different So you got cameras leg long
- 36:58Speaker 1: stop stop stop, no aun chips, Celebrities wearing out there
- 37:01Speaker 1: right kneel long as a friend, A bunch of friends
- 37:04Speaker 1: were all out there were hanging out. Incredible performance. This
- 37:07Speaker 1: is the biggest launch in the world. They launched this hotel,
- 37:09Speaker 1: the Royal Atlantis. Nobu launched a new restaurant. It was incredible.
- 37:14Speaker 1: We all went out there. Beyonce looked amazing, she looked
- 37:18Speaker 1: impeccable voice obviously, Blue Ivy came out. All the vibes
- 37:23Speaker 1: were there, a very theatrical performance. So this wasn't you know,
- 37:27Speaker 1: this wasn't single ladies dancing tight Beyonce. This was like
- 37:30Speaker 1: this was Halo Beyonce. Right, very very you know what
- 37:34Speaker 1: I mean. So the the the outfits in the wardrobe
- 37:37Speaker 1: was masterful. She came out, she went on this little
- 37:40Speaker 1: platform and had the wind and the water hitting her.
- 37:43Speaker 1: It was amazing. You know what. Yeah, they had these
- 37:47Speaker 1: sprinklers hitting Curd. It was fire. There was was coming
- 37:51Speaker 1: off of the building. Um no, I mean she she
- 37:55Speaker 1: went through a lot of her catalog, but not not
- 37:58Speaker 1: not as many of the upbeat, more of the you know,
- 38:00Speaker 1: the emotional you know what I mean. People were tearing
- 38:02Speaker 1: up in the audience, very emotional Beyonce performance. You know,
- 38:06Speaker 1: everybody was out there. It was it was a vibe.
- 38:09Speaker 1: Had one question when why not twenty five million? The
- 38:18Speaker 1: number was reflective of not just the payment to her,
- 38:23Speaker 1: but it was a whole production, you know what I mean. Yeah,
- 38:26Speaker 1: so this we said that was all with like a
- 38:30Speaker 1: million dollars. A don't even think that was a number.
- 38:32Speaker 1: I think the number was actually more. I think like
- 38:34Speaker 1: the bigger number was somewhere around forty five million. Like
- 38:36Speaker 1: it was. It was. It's the biggest launch. They wanted
- 38:38Speaker 1: to outdo the original Atlantis. Somebody like she deserved it
- 38:44Speaker 1: absolutely where she worked her ass all throughout the year. Man,
- 38:48Speaker 1: and when you see BSA, you're gonna get a show.
- 38:51Speaker 1: So you know, it's certain people were just happy to
- 38:54Speaker 1: see those types of numbers go to expecting absolutely, like, man,
- 38:59Speaker 1: why I can't get twenty for me? Because show back
- 39:03Speaker 1: back to you know the knee A long question. We
- 39:05Speaker 1: have to celebrate our queens. We have to make sure
- 39:08Speaker 1: when when they stepped out you when you know, when
- 39:14Speaker 1: I see Gabriel Union, n s Nash making good like,
- 39:18Speaker 1: we gotta celebrate our icons. You know what I'm saying,
- 39:21Speaker 1: will tell you I don't care where I see together together.
- 39:38Speaker 1: I'm asking, man, no shout out to me, and I
- 39:43Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not terce long no, no celebrating gotta
- 40:03Speaker 1: be there to celebrating them. No, I mean never doing
- 40:10Speaker 1: the this is it so recosided down