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- 1:34Speaker 3: Drop, Mike, drop back drop drop. All right, guys, welcome back,
- 1:49Speaker 3: e y l. This is gonna be a dope, fun conversation.
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- 2:07Speaker 3: Yes, so ms Diddy, this is something that we've been
- 2:11Speaker 3: looking forward to for a long time. So Shot, this.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Is gonna be cleaning. It's just like you're gonna chot
- 2:20Speaker 4: this upthing.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Uses Listen, this is good. This is me.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Here we go, just like my brother Kenny Burns, a
- 2:25Speaker 3: lifestyle specialist that came from Kenny Burns. Yeah, Shot to Kenny.
- 2:29Speaker 3: A coordinator of events, brands, marketing, social media, influence, all
- 2:35Speaker 3: all of the above.
- 2:36Speaker 4: The Ambassador of LA of Los Angeles.
- 2:39Speaker 3: Yes, yes, born and raised in Los Angeles County from Compton, California. Correct, right,
- 2:45Speaker 3: But it's all love all l A.
- 2:47Speaker 2: All l A, all of LA Girl, West Coast.
- 2:50Speaker 3: Girl, California, Love West. So this is gonna be a
- 2:53Speaker 3: super dope conversation. We're going to talk about brand partnership,
- 2:56Speaker 3: we're going to talk about social media influencer, and we're
- 2:59Speaker 3: going to talk about promotions and how she's actually been
- 3:02Speaker 3: able to build her empire organically through solid relationships. So,
- 3:07Speaker 3: first and fore, Moore, thank you for joining us. Appreciate it.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Thank you. You know I practice this beginnings long overdue.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Thank you, guys, and I want to beyond thank you
- 3:19Speaker 2: guys for having me here, But I really want to
- 3:22Speaker 2: be very intentional and specific about giving you gentlemen your flowers.
- 3:27Speaker 2: You know, your kingdom work that you guys are doing
- 3:31Speaker 2: is something that you may not fully understand the magnitude
- 3:38Speaker 2: of it for years to come. You think you do.
- 3:40Speaker 2: You don't appreciate that because it's really changing the world,
- 3:44Speaker 2: is changing lives. And one thing that you guys preach
- 3:47Speaker 2: across the board is the information, the education and getting
- 3:50Speaker 2: into our people. And because a lot of us grew
- 3:54Speaker 2: up the way we grew up, there's a lot of
- 3:56Speaker 2: information that our families didn't give us and our parents,
- 3:58Speaker 2: I know for me, you know, parents did what they
- 4:01Speaker 2: could and they were great, but there's a lot of
- 4:03Speaker 2: information about life and money and finances and things that
- 4:06Speaker 2: they never ever taught me. I know, survival got that downpack,
- 4:11Speaker 2: you know, and so but there the other components to
- 4:15Speaker 2: really live a life fulfilled. There's a lot of things
- 4:17Speaker 2: they didn't teach me, and maybe they didn't weren't fully taught, right,
- 4:21Speaker 2: But I want to I want to make sure that
- 4:24Speaker 2: I say on record that what you guys are doing
- 4:28Speaker 2: is is God's work and it's going to continuously be
- 4:33Speaker 2: a change for the world. And I'm honored to sit
- 4:36Speaker 2: here and to share a generation with you guys.
- 4:39Speaker 3: You know what I mean that you have it, ladies
- 4:42Speaker 3: and gentlemen, survival the thriving literally. So let's get into this.
- 4:48Speaker 3: So you are the president of a marketing agency, the
- 4:50Speaker 3: brand Group LA. But I want to bring it back.
- 4:54Speaker 3: So how did you start into you know, I think
- 4:58Speaker 3: you started as a party technically, yes, So that's interesting
- 5:03Speaker 3: because most party promoters, at least on our side, are men. Yes,
- 5:08Speaker 3: it's a very male dominated industry party promotion. So how
- 5:12Speaker 3: did you get into that? To that world?
- 5:15Speaker 2: You know, being I had a real good advantage being
- 5:18Speaker 2: born and raised from Los Angeles in this fake this
- 5:22Speaker 2: not fake. Hold on, we were having a confidence be
- 5:24Speaker 2: where the cameras started, this fantasy island, you know, and
- 5:28Speaker 2: so you know, this is where people come to make it.
- 5:31Speaker 2: And if you're fortunate enough to be amongst those people
- 5:36Speaker 2: in so many different worlds and melting pots, then if
- 5:38Speaker 2: you're smart and you do your thing, you can thrive.
- 5:41Speaker 2: But I really started my own journey because my father
- 5:46Speaker 2: was a musician. A lot of people in my family
- 5:48Speaker 2: or music, and I grew up around it. But I
- 5:50Speaker 2: started my own journey when Gay started Good Music. So
- 5:53Speaker 2: monop John Monopoly at the at the time as the
- 5:56Speaker 2: president and he's always worked Gay throughout the years, and
- 6:01Speaker 2: that's yeah, it's actually how I know Kenny Burns, and
- 6:03Speaker 2: so yeah, because you know, Kenny Burns had a lot
- 6:06Speaker 2: of He's always had a lot of hand and a
- 6:07Speaker 2: lot of things and really assisting a lot of people,
- 6:11Speaker 2: which you know he'll never say, he's just so solid
- 6:15Speaker 2: like that. But I started waining Good Music started and
- 6:20Speaker 2: on the promotion side, so I did all the street
- 6:22Speaker 2: team stuff for the West Coast, which were girls I
- 6:26Speaker 2: took on my homegirls. Homegirls was always cute little brown
- 6:30Speaker 2: girls whatever, you know, and and I was like, yo,
- 6:33Speaker 2: we should make the good Girls, and I was like,
- 6:35Speaker 2: we should make the Good Girls. That was the name
- 6:39Speaker 2: of the street team for good musica. No, but yeah, yeah,
- 6:46Speaker 2: we started the Good Girls. And that you know, this
- 6:48Speaker 2: continued because Yay went from college dropout, such a dope
- 6:52Speaker 2: rapper to like second album a superstar, and so that
- 6:57Speaker 2: comes with so many, you know, opportunities, And of course
- 6:59Speaker 2: k took me under his wing. Kenny Burns really early
- 7:02Speaker 2: on in my career and in my life and has
- 7:05Speaker 2: been an incredible brother to me. His wife's been a
- 7:07Speaker 2: great sister to me and a great mentor and a
- 7:11Speaker 2: person I can always call on depend So I started
- 7:14Speaker 2: in good music. Then it just naturally progressed to party promotion. Actually,
- 7:19Speaker 2: my homeboy called me. The lockout was happening and all
- 7:22Speaker 2: the NBA players were out here in LA and they
- 7:25Speaker 2: were losing their mind because they didn't know what was
- 7:27Speaker 2: about to happen, right, So, I mean, they were all
- 7:30Speaker 2: out here. So my homeboy was like, uh, why don't
- 7:34Speaker 2: you come to the clubs and I and bring the
- 7:36Speaker 2: bring all your girls, and I give you five hundred dollars.
- 7:38Speaker 2: I was like cash, all right, whatever, that's exactly what's
- 7:43Speaker 2: going on. We're going and so you know, that night though,
- 7:47Speaker 2: I was like, hmm, you know, I'm a business person.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I'm sitting Then I said, under yea, and them, you know,
- 7:53Speaker 2: I'm a marketer, Like my brain starts work as soon
- 7:55Speaker 2: as I step in somewhere. I'm like, how can we
- 7:58Speaker 2: turn this into something else?
- 8:00Speaker 3: You know?
- 8:00Speaker 2: And so from there that night I really took on
- 8:03Speaker 2: the whole club. Like the owner was like, everybody, no hurd,
- 8:07Speaker 2: you know, and I did. I worked in music. I
- 8:09Speaker 2: knew the n rs, I knew the managers, all of
- 8:11Speaker 2: that because at that time in the clubs it was
- 8:14Speaker 2: only the d boys or athletes, and so for me,
- 8:18Speaker 2: I was bringing the music people in, the DJs, the producers,
- 8:21Speaker 2: all of that, and it just started from there, catapulted
- 8:24Speaker 2: from there, and I always did good work and that's
- 8:27Speaker 2: why men respected me. I never dealt with those issues
- 8:30Speaker 2: in business, really the.
- 8:32Speaker 4: Good music experience, because we just want to close over that.
- 8:34Speaker 5: Obviously being around Yay, I mean obviously relationships is key,
- 8:39Speaker 5: and you've kept positive and great relationships. What was that experience? Like,
- 8:42Speaker 5: what are the biggest things you took from being at
- 8:44Speaker 5: good music?
- 8:46Speaker 2: The biggest things, you know, I was blessed and fortunate
- 8:48Speaker 2: enough for those gentlemen to be family to me too,
- 8:52Speaker 2: and to really be around them, so not just worked
- 8:55Speaker 2: at a label. I was family and friends with them
- 8:57Speaker 2: before I ever. We created this concept of of of
- 9:01Speaker 2: the good girls, and before I did the college, the
- 9:04Speaker 2: workout plan, little ghetto skit and all of that, you
- 9:06Speaker 2: were friend that was me. He had a bulllet wing,
- 9:10Speaker 2: you know. But so what I learned was really familyhood.
- 9:14Speaker 2: I saw those gentlemen really love each other, you know,
- 9:17Speaker 2: and I saw Yay look out for a lot of people,
- 9:20Speaker 2: like you know, everyone has their feelings about people. But
- 9:23Speaker 2: I saw that and I saw him look out for
- 9:25Speaker 2: me as well. And I also learned that you can
- 9:29Speaker 2: do whatever you want. Yay has always thought like this,
- 9:33Speaker 2: been like this, He's never I saw him pay for
- 9:36Speaker 2: his own videos, half of diamonds, and you know, so
- 9:39Speaker 2: many other things. And so what I learned a and marketing,
- 9:44Speaker 2: there's no dollar amount, there's no cap on that visibility marketing.
- 9:49Speaker 2: There shouldn't even be a budget on that. It's very
- 9:52Speaker 2: important to spend on that. Explain that as a marketer.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Some people think ten percent of this will put towards
- 9:59Speaker 2: me marketing, I don't really believe in a cap I
- 10:02Speaker 2: believe in you spend until it all makes sense, figure
- 10:06Speaker 2: out what your ROI is. It may not be money
- 10:08Speaker 2: to come back, and maybe simply visibility. So if you
- 10:11Speaker 2: want to put up five billboards, put up ten. Really
- 10:14Speaker 2: believe in it and just go and just see what happens,
- 10:17Speaker 2: you know. And that's what I saw those guys do
- 10:20Speaker 2: you know, look at Don seege Look just Don and
- 10:23Speaker 2: everything he's created. You know, It's like I saw those
- 10:26Speaker 2: guys really believe in themselves and just kind of go
- 10:28Speaker 2: for it. And I was always inspiring to me and
- 10:30Speaker 2: I modeled my business after that same like thought process.
- 10:36Speaker 4: That's a lot. So who's the team? So is Don
- 10:39Speaker 4: c is at that time?
- 10:42Speaker 2: So it was Don, It was yay, I mean hip
- 10:46Speaker 2: hop g Roberson Yeah yeah, but not of course KB
- 10:55Speaker 2: of course was you know, they were always friends and
- 10:57Speaker 2: had to I don't know all business dealings men to men.
- 11:00Speaker 2: I mean you got GC really do like it was
- 11:03Speaker 2: early quinc Yeah, like you know, it was a lot
- 11:06Speaker 2: and so you know Finesworth Bentley got to give Bentley
- 11:11Speaker 2: his flowers like that man is a real legend to
- 11:16Speaker 2: the legends.
- 11:16Speaker 3: So working all right, So you start in the clubs,
- 11:19Speaker 3: you start developing, you start throwing parties yourself. Then you
- 11:23Speaker 3: get into the good music vibe, and then you start
- 11:25Speaker 3: working on the street team for good music.
- 11:27Speaker 2: That was before the party promoter.
- 11:28Speaker 3: Oh, that was before the party emotion. Okay, So at
- 11:31Speaker 3: what point does the party promotion really start to take
- 11:33Speaker 3: off of you?
- 11:34Speaker 2: Almost instantaneously, because I was positioned in a good place
- 11:40Speaker 2: because of who I was already. I was already. I
- 11:42Speaker 2: was already been stitty, I was already ditty. So I
- 11:44Speaker 2: didn't build inside of a specific career. I was already
- 11:49Speaker 2: who I was, and so really instant because for me,
- 11:54Speaker 2: I didn't drink. I wasn't a party girl. Never, even
- 11:56Speaker 2: though I threw parties, no one would ever classify me
- 11:58Speaker 2: as a party girl. Because I was looking at how
- 12:01Speaker 2: do we make this the biggest movie? You know, and
- 12:05Speaker 2: there's a lot of like at that time, there was
- 12:07Speaker 2: no cameras in clubs. That didn't happen. You don't take
- 12:10Speaker 2: pictures in the clubs and stuff going on in here.
- 12:12Speaker 2: I put the camera in the club. I said, I
- 12:14Speaker 2: want this to look like a music video. We put
- 12:17Speaker 2: Kenneth wyn in the club, Kenneth Winn is James Harden Shooter.
- 12:22Speaker 2: We came up together. It's my people were from LA
- 12:24Speaker 2: and I said, I want this all our I want
- 12:27Speaker 2: this to be a promo video, but it has to
- 12:29Speaker 2: look like a rat video. So that whole concept wasn't
- 12:32Speaker 2: happening until they started seeing that happen out here. So
- 12:35Speaker 2: then you go on to supper Club Tuesdays, which was
- 12:38Speaker 2: a huge, huge change the whole trajectory of nightlife out here.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Everyone knows about supper club Tuesday. So so I'm going
- 12:45Speaker 2: up on a Tuesday that came from super Club Tuesdays.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Then you know, this is a time for us in
- 12:51Speaker 2: the culture. Being from LA, it was so important because
- 12:56Speaker 2: we're a gang culture. We're gangs, We're affiliated, is what
- 12:59Speaker 2: it is. You know, we're from different sizes, from different parts,
- 13:02Speaker 2: and that was a club that no matter where you
- 13:05Speaker 2: were from, it was it was it was even territory.
- 13:09Speaker 2: I mean, we had game, we had They had no
- 13:11Speaker 2: business being in the same place together, you know what
- 13:14Speaker 2: I'm say. There's a lot of politics that we had
- 13:16Speaker 2: to move around, you know, but everyone came, you know,
- 13:18Speaker 2: Drake Grehanna, j Cole, Chris Brown come every week supper Club,
- 13:22Speaker 2: Supper Club and I went over to do well. I
- 13:25Speaker 2: have my great team stept by supreme team, indeed Gary,
- 13:29Speaker 2: I mean all those guys, Shane Mooney which is Paul
- 13:31Speaker 2: Mooney's son, Jimmy mcghetty, Sincere King Show, got to give
- 13:36Speaker 2: Sinceres props. Then we went on to do Toxic Day
- 13:38Speaker 2: Party with LA's Finance, which just changed the whole day
- 13:41Speaker 2: party concept. No one was doing day parties Vegas. Yeah, yeah,
- 13:45Speaker 2: we can date pack the day.
- 13:46Speaker 3: Remember when day parties became a thing and.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Toxic was it was was the Lorina with.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Legend that was legend. When a day party Vibe first
- 14:00Speaker 3: came to New York, it was very confusing to me
- 14:03Speaker 3: because people was going, like I'm going to party and
- 14:06Speaker 3: like it's four o'clock, it'lock like it's still like outside,
- 14:10Speaker 3: like like that's the new vibe day parties and I'm
- 14:13Speaker 3: like a day party. Like I still I didn't never
- 14:15Speaker 3: understood the day party started. So you started the day party,
- 14:19Speaker 3: the tic.
- 14:19Speaker 2: Day party out here Vegas, Vegas. But that's the thing
- 14:24Speaker 2: I'm saying. It was a pool party. I'm saying day party.
- 14:26Speaker 2: I had nothing to do inside with the pool inside
- 14:29Speaker 2: of clubs. Day party outside. Like, you know, even starting
- 14:34Speaker 2: with brand partnerships in night life, nobody was doing that.
- 14:38Speaker 2: The party promoters didn't even do that in other markets.
- 14:40Speaker 2: That wasn't on your radar. When you're a party promoter,
- 14:43Speaker 2: you have multiple parties a week. People have no clue
- 14:47Speaker 2: the type of how your brain you're just doing this.
- 14:50Speaker 2: But for myself, my my guys, who we you know,
- 14:54Speaker 2: we would sit down and strategize. All right, well, clearly
- 14:57Speaker 2: we need water in here to aquohydrate. Let's talk to
- 15:01Speaker 2: SO and so. You know, Okay, Meek's album is coming out, Puma.
- 15:05Speaker 2: I need you want to be here because this is
- 15:07Speaker 2: an AA demographic and you know that everybody is coming here,
- 15:11Speaker 2: every soccer player, basketball player, football player, artists, actress, the
- 15:14Speaker 2: whole thing. Need that brand off of you. We'll show
- 15:17Speaker 2: you where your branding can live in here. We'll have
- 15:21Speaker 2: Meek Mill here.
- 15:22Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Let's do that. That's a lot.
- 15:24Speaker 3: I feel like brand partnerships is something that you know,
- 15:28Speaker 3: everybody understands. It makes sense for a brand to sponsor
- 15:32Speaker 3: a certain situation. Sure, it's not easy to actually get
- 15:35Speaker 3: the brandships. So what was your formula to actually like
- 15:39Speaker 3: what worked for you to reach out to brands, and
- 15:42Speaker 3: how did that process work to actually get the relationships
- 15:45Speaker 3: with the brands?
- 15:46Speaker 2: Great point relationships. I date everything back to relationships. I'm
- 15:50Speaker 2: old school, you know. I believe in showing the work
- 15:54Speaker 2: and you build it, they'll come and relationships. And so
- 15:59Speaker 2: I was I've been really fortunate in my career that
- 16:02Speaker 2: they it comes to me, and what my brain does
- 16:06Speaker 2: at the time it comes to me is formulate how
- 16:09Speaker 2: it can look specifically for that brand or for that
- 16:11Speaker 2: person at that specific time. So even thinking about the
- 16:15Speaker 2: idea of water in a club, you have to have
- 16:18Speaker 2: one in the club. Let's go fis aquhydrant. Of course,
- 16:23Speaker 2: it's a relationship that we have, you know. And so
- 16:26Speaker 2: it came from building business outside of that. So they
- 16:29Speaker 2: were all calling me, the labels, the heads, the an rs,
- 16:32Speaker 2: they're all my friends, you know. I remember Joeyi calling
- 16:36Speaker 2: me and he was an interscope at that time. This
- 16:38Speaker 2: one time we took Meek over Joeyya Interscupe Parties, b
- 16:43Speaker 2: Et Awards weekend. So Court Diddy, what you're doing, what
- 16:46Speaker 2: you're doing? Where we at? What's all right? What you
- 16:48Speaker 2: got going on?
- 16:49Speaker 1: Oh?
- 16:50Speaker 2: You need this artist to be in front of all
- 16:52Speaker 2: of this, and you wanted to be a branded party
- 16:55Speaker 2: for say Interscope or at the Atlantic Records. Okay, see
- 17:00Speaker 2: what this can look like. Right, we have the LED screens,
- 17:03Speaker 2: we'll make sure that's up there. Of course the DJ
- 17:06Speaker 2: needs to shout it out. But what are your touch
- 17:08Speaker 2: points that are special to you? What do you want
- 17:11Speaker 2: to get across to your consumer. Let's tailor make that
- 17:14Speaker 2: into this event. Because a lot of people with partnerships,
- 17:18Speaker 2: they just say, Okay, Coca Cola, you want to give
- 17:20Speaker 2: me the money, or Pets you want to give me
- 17:22Speaker 2: the money, then we'll just take the money. Well, know,
- 17:24Speaker 2: what's important is keeping this relationship with this person, what
- 17:27Speaker 2: makes them happy. And what I always excel at is
- 17:31Speaker 2: interpersonal customer service. So Atlantic Records, I do the Atlantic
- 17:38Speaker 2: Records party. Well, naturally, Atlantic Records needs a whole table
- 17:42Speaker 2: for themselves, for their execs beyond the artists. Let's make
- 17:46Speaker 2: sure these execs and the A and rs are happy
- 17:48Speaker 2: as well, and the producers are happy. And that's people
- 17:51Speaker 2: don't think about the person behind.
- 17:53Speaker 5: Yeah, when I'm hearing the overall theme, obviously the mind
- 17:59Speaker 5: is different, but that's detail. Knowing that look if we
- 18:02Speaker 5: need to have order, let's call let's call it, let's
- 18:04Speaker 5: have aquahydrate. But in that same sense, it's like, well,
- 18:07Speaker 5: if it's we're going to have a party, let's get
- 18:09Speaker 5: some rock in there too. And if you're doing a
- 18:12Speaker 5: brand dealers with Puma, let's have their branding around.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Absolutely.
- 18:16Speaker 4: Where did that attention to detail originate from? Is that?
- 18:19Speaker 5: Because I know one of the things you pride yourself
- 18:21Speaker 5: on was like when you were working as a nine
- 18:22Speaker 5: to five employee, you were the best worker.
- 18:24Speaker 4: Yeah, So what is that where it came from?
- 18:27Speaker 2: I think that it's piece of it is innate ability,
- 18:31Speaker 2: an innate it's in me, and a lot of it
- 18:34Speaker 2: is being the person behind people as well, and understanding
- 18:38Speaker 2: how important my position has been in certain moments with
- 18:42Speaker 2: say artists or actors, actresses, whatever, and making sure that
- 18:45Speaker 2: person is taken care of. And it's also I don't
- 18:49Speaker 2: demand anything of anyone else that I don't demand to myself.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Right Oay, So when I was a little girl, I
- 18:55Speaker 2: always made my bed. My parents didn't have to tell
- 18:57Speaker 2: me to make my bead. They didn't tell me how,
- 18:59Speaker 2: they didn't have to tell me to clean the bathroom.
- 19:00Speaker 2: They didn't have to tell me to keep my closet clean,
- 19:02Speaker 2: because it was just something I had in me. It's
- 19:04Speaker 2: what I wanted for myself. I wanted things to be excellent.
- 19:07Speaker 2: I wanted things to be together. And I think I
- 19:10Speaker 2: always also took life serious. And sometimes when you're in
- 19:14Speaker 2: these worlds, you're around these things, it's fun, it's cool,
- 19:18Speaker 2: we kicking it. But for me, everything was serious because
- 19:21Speaker 2: I was working for legacy in my mind, how do
- 19:24Speaker 2: I be the biggest this, how do I present this
- 19:28Speaker 2: way in front of my generation? And so every move
- 19:31Speaker 2: was serious with me.
- 19:33Speaker 5: So I mean you grew up with some people like
- 19:35Speaker 5: obviously some people that you know the world may recognize, Yes,
- 19:39Speaker 5: and they were successful at a very young age. Was
- 19:41Speaker 5: that like an inspiration either, Like, all right, I see
- 19:44Speaker 5: O Marian I grew up with him. Yeah, he's made
- 19:46Speaker 5: it in his life. Sure, that's that's pushing you to
- 19:49Speaker 5: even go harder.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Well, I knew it could be could be done. I
- 19:53Speaker 2: knew that it was attainable. I think when you're from
- 19:56Speaker 2: the hood, unless you get out and you see things
- 20:00Speaker 2: outside of that, you don't think that it's for you.
- 20:04Speaker 2: Your boxing and kind of think that oh, that's what
- 20:06Speaker 2: happens on TV. That's what happens for them, and you
- 20:08Speaker 2: don't know that it's for you. I mean, Yay has
- 20:13Speaker 2: been living in la for since I've known him. He
- 20:16Speaker 2: always had the mansion in Hollywood since I went up.
- 20:19Speaker 2: I was twenty maybe when I went up there, So
- 20:22Speaker 2: this is attainable. I didn't walk in somewhere and it
- 20:25Speaker 2: was like, oh, that's beautiful for you. Always walking somewhere.
- 20:27Speaker 2: It's like, yep, need this, need this, And so I
- 20:32Speaker 2: don't know. A lot of my brain was was bravery
- 20:36Speaker 2: and blind bravery because I was just like, let's go
- 20:39Speaker 2: for it.
- 20:41Speaker 3: So as far as all right, so let's talk about
- 20:42Speaker 3: the transition into actually developing the brain group. How did
- 20:46Speaker 3: that come about?
- 20:47Speaker 2: Interesting enough? I was I was part doing. I would
- 20:53Speaker 2: have parties, so I had clubs, right. But then one
- 20:59Speaker 2: day my named of Deare Curtis, who used to work
- 21:02Speaker 2: for Russell Simmons, caught me and said, Diddy, we're doing
- 21:05Speaker 2: this comedy show. Russell's here every week, but no one's coming.
- 21:11Speaker 2: This is the last week and we're gonna shut it down.
- 21:14Speaker 2: Come and see. Let me know if you want to
- 21:16Speaker 2: take it on and if you feel you can iss
- 21:20Speaker 2: yours whatever you want to do with it. So we
- 21:23Speaker 2: goes at the Chinese Man Theater Ya and I we
- 21:27Speaker 2: go my team and I'm looking around like this is
- 21:32Speaker 2: so unorthodox. It's not kind of positioned the way say
- 21:38Speaker 2: a party or an event would be. Because it was
- 21:40Speaker 2: a theater. Tony Rock was hosting. He's an incredible host comedian,
- 21:45Speaker 2: and I'm like, hmm, talk to my team, like, let's
- 21:51Speaker 2: try it. Let's do it. We got Russell Simmons. There's
- 21:53Speaker 2: a couple elements here, right, we got Russell Simmons, we
- 21:55Speaker 2: got Tony Rop, have them period. That's locked in. We
- 21:58Speaker 2: have all deaf digital as the This is how all
- 22:01Speaker 2: death Ji Digital's really built up behind this show. I'm like, alright,
- 22:05Speaker 2: forget it, let's do it. One week later when we
- 22:10Speaker 2: walked in, there was like four people. One week later
- 22:12Speaker 2: it was sold out, and every week after that for
- 22:15Speaker 2: the next every Wednesday after that, for the next three
- 22:19Speaker 2: or four years, all Deaf Comedy Life was sold out.
- 22:22Speaker 2: And every single person you could ever think of, every
- 22:24Speaker 2: celebrity you could think of, has t stopped through there,
- 22:28Speaker 2: touched there, went there every single week. Dave Chappelle when
- 22:32Speaker 2: he came off his high hiatus. That's where he went
- 22:34Speaker 2: to play. Hm, he's Surrey before you know insecure, Uh,
- 22:39Speaker 2: Tiffany Hattish before the fin you know what I mean?
- 22:41Speaker 2: Like they all went there. Russell was there every week,
- 22:45Speaker 2: and so I said, Hm, I don't start my company.
- 22:51Speaker 2: I'm gonna always be the girl that the promoter right
- 22:56Speaker 2: with my guys. And I always knew this is a
- 22:59Speaker 2: man's sport and a young man's sport. I can't be
- 23:02Speaker 2: the old girl in the club, you know what I mean,
- 23:04Speaker 2: The guys can. It doesn't work for women. It looks different, right, Yeah, I.
- 23:09Speaker 4: Don't think I've ever seen it, to be honest, female promotion.
- 23:13Speaker 2: There's some, there's some that are doing things. There's some
- 23:16Speaker 2: that came after me. But to do what what what?
- 23:20Speaker 2: I did that and so all that Comedy Live was
- 23:27Speaker 2: really the catapult for me to say, Yo, I have
- 23:29Speaker 2: a team. There's there's women that are next to me
- 23:32Speaker 2: that look up to me, and they're expecting me to
- 23:34Speaker 2: succeed at this. I have to really fully become an
- 23:38Speaker 2: entrepreneur and the CEO and I have to put it
- 23:40Speaker 2: on paper and I have to create a brand and
- 23:43Speaker 2: an empire that they can also be proud of. And
- 23:46Speaker 2: so that was really the So like, what was the
- 23:48Speaker 2: first steps.
- 23:49Speaker 3: Once you realized it that you wanted to do it?
- 23:51Speaker 2: How do I turn this into LLCTO L What are
- 23:58Speaker 2: the first steps?
- 23:58Speaker 6: You know?
- 23:59Speaker 2: But you have legal zoom. Legal seems legal zoom is good,
- 24:03Speaker 2: you know. And I went to a family friend of
- 24:05Speaker 2: mine who's a huge business banker. I said, I want
- 24:08Speaker 2: to start a company. I don't I don't know what
- 24:10Speaker 2: I'm doing business wise, but I know how to do business.
- 24:14Speaker 2: But I need to make it formal and I need
- 24:16Speaker 2: to do what I need to do, get my paperwork together.
- 24:19Speaker 2: And he did. He started my company for me, the
- 24:21Speaker 2: brand Group. I was so surprised it was even available,
- 24:24Speaker 2: because I was like, I wanted to look like like
- 24:27Speaker 2: a law firm. I don't want anyone or else like
- 24:30Speaker 2: a little black girl doing this business.
- 24:32Speaker 3: No.
- 24:32Speaker 2: I wanted to look chic and simple and clean and classic.
- 24:35Speaker 2: I wanted to sound like you don't even know what
- 24:37Speaker 2: it is. And the brand group was available. That was
- 24:39Speaker 2: the lower because I was like, I want the brand
- 24:41Speaker 2: group and he was like, there's no way that's available.
- 24:43Speaker 2: That's too good. It's not it's not gonna be available,
- 24:46Speaker 2: and it was so you.
- 24:47Speaker 4: At the brand group.
- 24:47Speaker 5: Now the people who are part of the promotion team,
- 24:50Speaker 5: are they now transitioning with you so fresh because.
- 24:55Speaker 2: I promoted with my boys, with guys, and my team
- 24:59Speaker 2: at the brand and group became women. There's men that
- 25:02Speaker 2: work on my team and you know, on the production
- 25:04Speaker 2: side of events, but it became you know, young Black
- 25:10Speaker 2: and Spanish women. That was important for me for that
- 25:13Speaker 2: representation to be seen at the forefront. That was important
- 25:17Speaker 2: to me. So that's why I had women and women
- 25:21Speaker 2: work hard.
- 25:22Speaker 3: So with the focus for the brand group. Was it
- 25:24Speaker 3: still in the event?
- 25:26Speaker 4: So?
- 25:26Speaker 3: Was it management?
- 25:27Speaker 4: Was it?
- 25:27Speaker 3: What was your original?
- 25:28Speaker 2: So it kind of took on our life of its own.
- 25:30Speaker 2: It definitely was events. But then everyone wanted me to
- 25:34Speaker 2: do pr wanted me to do, you know, covering the
- 25:37Speaker 2: media part because I knew all the media. You know,
- 25:40Speaker 2: like at that time, the share room, the shade room
- 25:42Speaker 2: was starting, Angie was really starting and they were just
- 25:45Speaker 2: more in the comment section or the shade room. I said, Angie, look,
- 25:50Speaker 2: I said the owner. I said, I'm gonna give you
- 25:52Speaker 2: exclusive celebrity content from my shows, from my all Deaf
- 25:57Speaker 2: Comedy live comedy shows. This is how you're going to
- 26:00Speaker 2: build up the shave room. This is how you're gonna
- 26:02Speaker 2: build up the credibility. Credibility, credibility. Right, here's this, here's
- 26:07Speaker 2: the picture, the Jasmine brand like all of these you know,
- 26:10Speaker 2: young black women that were building up there that are
- 26:13Speaker 2: huge meat. I mean, look at the shave room. It's
- 26:15Speaker 2: the black CNN. It's the culture seeing in you're going
- 26:18Speaker 2: there first.
- 26:20Speaker 4: All you could be going on lision, going to your leader.
- 26:29Speaker 3: Partnership.
- 26:31Speaker 4: I mean, we come, well, listen, I've.
- 26:33Speaker 2: Set it up.
- 26:37Speaker 3: They have a huge platform.
- 26:38Speaker 4: That's that's a genius idea.
- 26:39Speaker 5: Right, So now you know these do you know them
- 26:42Speaker 5: or you're get in contact and finding out them and
- 26:44Speaker 5: are you charging them for this exclusive deal?
- 26:46Speaker 4: Because we're just doing this. We're building everybody's building.
- 26:50Speaker 2: Everybody at this time is building. The shave room. Wasn't
- 26:53Speaker 2: the shaved room at that time. They were just a
- 26:54Speaker 2: shave room.
- 26:55Speaker 4: But you you're you're already Diddy.
- 26:58Speaker 2: I'm already Diddy. But that was a that was in
- 27:02Speaker 2: me growing up in business. Because I came from a
- 27:05Speaker 2: relationship base way of doing business. I had to learn
- 27:10Speaker 2: how to do business across the board. That was tough.
- 27:13Speaker 3: For me.
- 27:14Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's key. I mean sometimes like relationships
- 27:17Speaker 4: can take you farther than.
- 27:18Speaker 2: Money A hundred what does because they're answering my cost
- 27:21Speaker 2: that money, they may not answer your call just because
- 27:24Speaker 2: you have that money, you know.
- 27:27Speaker 3: So okay, So then you get that rolling and at
- 27:30Speaker 3: what point do you realize that transition from events parties
- 27:37Speaker 3: to actually you know, growing the brand and working on
- 27:40Speaker 3: a more strategic with bran partnerships, and then you do
- 27:43Speaker 3: management as well?
- 27:44Speaker 4: Right?
- 27:44Speaker 2: No, no, baby, shitn't. I don't want to do it,
- 27:46Speaker 2: okay because they've always wanted me to.
- 27:48Speaker 3: What was the next step evolution for you once you
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- 29:24Speaker 2: You mean on the partnership side general, I think partnerships
- 29:28Speaker 2: have been a large part of the success of my company.
- 29:31Speaker 3: Who's who's like your favorite partner that?
- 29:37Speaker 2: I love of the Players Association m b p A,
- 29:39Speaker 2: m b p A. So the Player Association shout out
- 29:42Speaker 2: to everyone over there, LaToya Sterling, I love that.
- 29:44Speaker 3: What do you do with that?
- 29:45Speaker 2: So All Star, let's say give specifics. All Star came
- 29:48Speaker 2: to Los Angeles, right, big deal. During that time, Rest
- 29:54Speaker 2: and Peace to King Hustle album was dropping, so they
- 29:59Speaker 2: called me plantic. Never did he named the album release party.
- 30:03Speaker 2: You gotta do it. It gotta be crazy. I'm like,
- 30:06Speaker 2: I rd that. But during that time, he did a
- 30:09Speaker 2: Victory live because he was out. He was releasing during
- 30:11Speaker 2: that time. It's perfect time. It's All Star in La
- 30:13Speaker 2: like the King of La or we not have a I.
- 30:16Speaker 4: Remember just he had. He was on the stage and
- 30:18Speaker 4: performed it.
- 30:19Speaker 2: Watched and so right, and so that's say so that.
- 30:24Speaker 2: Then Kevin Hart during that time was doing a partnership
- 30:27Speaker 2: with Mountain Dew. So they call me Wayne Brown shouts
- 30:31Speaker 2: and Wayne Brown loved him so much. keVs like one
- 30:32Speaker 2: of the Cavs best friend and incredible friend of mine.
- 30:35Speaker 2: It's like, Diddy, we got we have about three initiatives
- 30:37Speaker 2: we need to do for this partnership. You want them? Yes,
- 30:42Speaker 2: you figure it out. Cool. And Players Associated was a
- 30:47Speaker 2: players Association. I had already did my partnership with them
- 30:50Speaker 2: for me to build in whatever programming I wanted to
- 30:54Speaker 2: build in during that time for All Star with them.
- 30:57Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I did the partnership with the Players
- 30:59Speaker 2: Association and shout out to LaToya Sterling over there and
- 31:03Speaker 2: Brian and we During that time they had the whole
- 31:07Speaker 2: London hotel so they controlled it for the week they
- 31:10Speaker 2: took it over. The craziest thing branded the hotel for
- 31:13Speaker 2: Players Association think four fifty, which was their other company
- 31:16Speaker 2: at that time. It was insane.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Most people know the London now because Travis Scott and
- 31:19Speaker 4: Young Thumb.
- 31:20Speaker 2: And that came out after that, which is one of
- 31:23Speaker 2: my favorite records.
- 31:24Speaker 4: It's great record.
- 31:26Speaker 2: What I hate that people knew that London Travis Scott
- 31:29Speaker 2: from here. This is we're not laughing at you conversation.
- 31:35Speaker 2: So yeah, so they were like, Diddy, you can program it.
- 31:40Speaker 2: How you won? Right? Cool? Hm hm, Well God kept
- 31:44Speaker 2: my heart. Let's do the dinner here my high fab
- 31:47Speaker 2: fab host. Shout out to my the family, fabulous fab,
- 31:53Speaker 2: shout out to Fat Shoutindy is that is fab in.
- 31:59Speaker 2: My main source of laughter is laughing at him. But yeah,
- 32:05Speaker 2: and so Fab hosted and it was amazing. And what
- 32:08Speaker 2: I did is I had Nipsey Hustle's album release party
- 32:12Speaker 2: that same night on the rooftop at London because I
- 32:15Speaker 2: wanted Kevin to go there. Because I knew what was
- 32:19Speaker 2: important for Victory Lap from a cultural standpoint with certain aspects,
- 32:24Speaker 2: was making sure the world understood who King Hustle was.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Nipsey Hustle was outside of someone saying, oh your gang
- 32:32Speaker 2: affiliated or something like that. Because he is everything to us.
- 32:37Speaker 2: He is everything to us. It was so important for
- 32:40Speaker 2: me to make sure that the narrative from my side
- 32:43Speaker 2: that I was able to control was this man is
- 32:47Speaker 2: this type of man. You know, he created the blueprint
- 32:51Speaker 2: for all of us that our community based leaders and
- 32:55Speaker 2: work in this field to be who we are. He
- 32:58Speaker 2: showed us this is what you do, this is how
- 33:00Speaker 2: you do it. You know, and and him and everything
- 33:04Speaker 2: still does to us based on that. So that was
- 33:07Speaker 2: really important for me to get that right more than
- 33:09Speaker 2: anything I've ever done, like in in my career, any
- 33:13Speaker 2: events partnerships, that was the most important one. And that's why.
- 33:20Speaker 3: This So what's how do you negotiate like a budget?
- 33:25Speaker 3: How do you know what a fair budget is?
- 33:27Speaker 2: And that's a fair I need all of it fair,
- 33:30Speaker 2: that's relative. I don't I want all of it. And
- 33:37Speaker 2: so you know, cause because you have to realize what
- 33:42Speaker 2: someone is paying for, Like they get earned your leisure
- 33:47Speaker 2: the podcast, but they also get t you two entities
- 33:51Speaker 2: with this podcast some night gotta pay for all that.
- 33:55Speaker 2: So yeah, the brand group, you're contracting to do this event,
- 34:00Speaker 2: but it's because of Ms Ditty, So you have to
- 34:02Speaker 2: pay for Miss Ditty's likeness in this as well. There's
- 34:04Speaker 2: always a line item for that, always, and so I
- 34:09Speaker 2: oftentimes evaluate how important it is for my company to
- 34:14Speaker 2: partner with this person, How important is that? And there's
- 34:17Speaker 2: a lot of things that I weigh the budget in
- 34:20Speaker 2: on that. You know, what is what is my company
- 34:27Speaker 2: getting out of this partnership, even beyond visibility? Is it longevity?
- 34:33Speaker 2: Is it first ride of refusals of future events and
- 34:37Speaker 2: future things? And future partnerships is are you guys connecting
- 34:41Speaker 2: us to the other department that does X, Y and
- 34:43Speaker 2: z as well, so everything is catered to specifically to
- 34:48Speaker 2: each type of partnership. I don't have an overall budget
- 34:52Speaker 2: of what it looks like.
- 34:54Speaker 5: I read that you said that when you do a partnership,
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- 37:51Speaker 5: I haven't heard that before. Most people say, like, if
- 37:53Speaker 5: that makes sense for it, will do it. But ja's
- 37:56Speaker 5: a little bit more on depth. I think it went
- 37:57Speaker 5: into detail about the it died like I work out, yeah,
- 38:02Speaker 5: when I want to the shoes on wearing, Yes, there's
- 38:04Speaker 5: a connection, so like when they approach you.
- 38:06Speaker 4: This makes sense for me and mostly all brands across
- 38:09Speaker 4: the line, all.
- 38:10Speaker 2: Brands across the line. Because also I'm very aware of
- 38:15Speaker 2: what I represent to my community, So it has to
- 38:18Speaker 2: be what is authentic to me because people know the realm,
- 38:23Speaker 2: people know what's not you know, and so yeah, it
- 38:26Speaker 2: did it work out? It makes sense, Like that's something
- 38:28Speaker 2: that's important to me, you know. Or even when I
- 38:31Speaker 2: partner with spirit companies or deal with them, that's also
- 38:33Speaker 2: important to me because I worked for the Hennessy brand
- 38:36Speaker 2: and when they send me to France to study about it,
- 38:41Speaker 2: I fell in love with the culture. I fell in
- 38:43Speaker 2: love with the spirits game. It wasn't about drinking. It
- 38:46Speaker 2: was about what this represents, How how you cheers in
- 38:50Speaker 2: business dealings, how you you know the knowledge behind it,
- 38:54Speaker 2: what was built. That's a lot of the marketing. So
- 38:57Speaker 2: even when it comes to partnering with alcohol brands, that's
- 38:59Speaker 2: always important to me too. They all come to me.
- 39:02Speaker 2: I don't say yes to everyone.
- 39:04Speaker 3: So as far as okay, so you a brand reaches
- 39:09Speaker 3: out to you, we'll say whatever, Greg Gooles, whatever they say, Okay,
- 39:13Speaker 3: we want to do an event for All Star Weekend.
- 39:15Speaker 3: So now you say, okay, just you was doing a number, yeah, Okay,
- 39:19Speaker 3: the budget is gonna be fifty thousand dollars.
- 39:21Speaker 4: For the event.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Okay, go ahead, no.
- 39:24Speaker 4: No, no, this is the budget is five hundred thousand.
- 39:27Speaker 2: We need to go quarter.
- 39:32Speaker 4: And we're going to say what's say so rock.
- 39:35Speaker 3: Shout the Diddy king. Yeah all right, so let's let's
- 39:39Speaker 3: say one hundred, one hundred hundred.
- 39:41Speaker 2: We'll do around now.
- 39:42Speaker 3: One hundred thousand dollars. Right, So now it's like, okay,
- 39:45Speaker 3: they're get they're they're giving your company one hundred thousand dollars.
- 39:48Speaker 3: Now you have to find a venue. You have to
- 39:51Speaker 3: book the talent that come. You have to like what
- 39:54Speaker 3: is what is now? What do you do now? It
- 39:57Speaker 3: depends on what's needed. So they may need a venue, right, And.
- 40:03Speaker 2: That also the the advantage of having a Miss Ditty
- 40:08Speaker 2: do it is because I have great relationships with venues.
- 40:11Speaker 2: I've done events and built built clubs and built the
- 40:15Speaker 2: the awareness and visibility around restaurants, venues, hotels, all these
- 40:18Speaker 2: type of things. So if I say, hey, I'm coming
- 40:20Speaker 2: to do this there, they're like, come on, Diddy, what
- 40:22Speaker 2: do you need? What? Alright? How do we make this work?
- 40:25Speaker 3: Right?
- 40:26Speaker 2: And so they may need a venue. They may need
- 40:28Speaker 2: a talent, but maybe not. But you're also coming to
- 40:30Speaker 2: me because I have incredible relationships with the use of
- 40:37Speaker 2: the world. So if I'm as soon as you sat down,
- 40:41Speaker 2: I invited you somewhere yup. You know, Now that's an
- 40:45Speaker 2: event that's an important to me on other levels. But
- 40:48Speaker 2: if I'm like h I I want y'all to come
- 40:51Speaker 2: to this event, nine times out of ten, you're gonna
- 40:53Speaker 2: come because of our relationship. So that's something that has
- 40:59Speaker 2: to be accounted for. Because even though what I learned,
- 41:03Speaker 2: say with all Deaf Comedy Live, the comedy show we did,
- 41:07Speaker 2: just because there's a name attached but which I've always known,
- 41:10Speaker 2: doesn't mean that people are just coming here in this market.
- 41:14Speaker 2: This market is very specific and it's very different. Yes,
- 41:17Speaker 2: Los Angeles in Hollywood, well, it's so much more tougher
- 41:22Speaker 2: because there's these people rather be at home drinking wine
- 41:25Speaker 2: and their mansions looking over the looking over the city
- 41:29Speaker 2: with their friends. I might invite you guys all to
- 41:32Speaker 2: my house to have wine and dinner, and we're gonna
- 41:35Speaker 2: miss that whole event that's going on. So it has
- 41:37Speaker 2: to be more than just this person's here, this this
- 41:41Speaker 2: brand is here. It has to be lifestyle marketing that's
- 41:45Speaker 2: inclusive and the person that's doing it. No one misses
- 41:48Speaker 2: a Missus Ditty event if they're invited, and if they're
- 41:51Speaker 2: if they're able to come, they just don't you know what,
- 41:55Speaker 2: you know what.
- 41:55Speaker 3: They're re' It's like kind of like a.
- 41:59Speaker 4: Can we just sounds like a collaboration.
- 42:02Speaker 2: The four thousand people that y'all have.
- 42:10Speaker 5: It.
- 42:10Speaker 3: We did.
- 42:11Speaker 2: But I just want to say it was so inspiring
- 42:14Speaker 2: to watch that.
- 42:14Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
- 42:15Speaker 4: That great segue. Here's a great segue. So now you
- 42:18Speaker 4: you've mastered.
- 42:19Speaker 5: The LA market master. We're going across the country though,
- 42:24Speaker 5: and we're going global. So like, who's studying the analytics
- 42:27Speaker 5: and the demographics of the other cities?
- 42:29Speaker 4: New York, La, Miami. I know you did some stuff
- 42:31Speaker 4: in all those.
- 42:31Speaker 2: Cities, all those cities. Here's the thing. I'm not an
- 42:34Speaker 2: analytics girl. I'm a cultural girl. You can't tell me
- 42:38Speaker 2: about something. I eat, breeze, sleep, do speak, live every
- 42:44Speaker 2: single day of my life. You know what I'm saying.
- 42:47Speaker 2: I rely on my instinct, I rely on my gut,
- 42:50Speaker 2: and I rely on what's in front of me, what
- 42:52Speaker 2: I know to be true. So if you go to Atlanta.
- 42:55Speaker 2: You gotta be with Rugs. Rugs is the Rugs. What
- 42:58Speaker 2: are you talking about? That's like, if you're coming to
- 43:00Speaker 2: Los Angeles, they're gonna say get up with Miss Diddy.
- 43:02Speaker 2: If you go to Miami, you're gonna go with Mike Headliner.
- 43:06Speaker 2: We're not even playing this game. Mike Headliner is who
- 43:10Speaker 2: he is. The greatest party in the world is Lived
- 43:13Speaker 2: on Sundays. I don't care what anybody says, and nobody
- 43:15Speaker 2: can tell me something different on who I am. You
- 43:18Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, You can't cultural impact. We were
- 43:21Speaker 2: talking about that Live on Sundays. Mike Gardner Headliner group
- 43:27Speaker 2: is who did? Who has done? Live on Sundays?
- 43:31Speaker 3: Who's New New York right now?
- 43:32Speaker 2: This is see okay, But that's an interesting concept because
- 43:36Speaker 2: I wonder who is the person in New York right now?
- 43:42Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, because I actually had this conversation
- 43:44Speaker 2: recently because I'm not sure who it is and it
- 43:47Speaker 2: could be a misshap that I just don't know.
- 43:49Speaker 3: He's doing this thing out in Jersey, Johnny marys No,
- 43:52Speaker 3: we love to I forgot the spot in Jersey. It's
- 43:54Speaker 3: in Jersey though it's big. It's like a huge indoor outdoors.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Really shout out to that what they're doing this thing.
- 44:01Speaker 3: But there's a few other people that's doing anything on.
- 44:03Speaker 2: The shout out to Keno and D I don't.
- 44:08Speaker 4: What New York.
- 44:11Speaker 2: Okay, let's we gotta get with Keo and d King.
- 44:14Speaker 3: It's a few people doing anything on the gentleman club
- 44:16Speaker 3: scene too, but I don't really know them like that.
- 44:18Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm just about to say a G. I
- 44:20Speaker 2: was I swear on my life, I was just gonna
- 44:22Speaker 2: say New.
- 44:23Speaker 3: York, New York, New York is not really need.
- 44:25Speaker 2: But let's say, hold on what AG did. It's never
- 44:29Speaker 2: it's never been. It's never happened before in our culture,
- 44:33Speaker 2: in our generation. The way AG not only controls but
- 44:37Speaker 2: owns what he owns. He is one of the the
- 44:41Speaker 2: kindest men I've ever met in in in this culture
- 44:44Speaker 2: to me, to me, he has been nothing but kind
- 44:47Speaker 2: to me, respectful and and you know, uplifting to even
- 44:53Speaker 2: my career and everything that I do. So a G
- 44:56Speaker 2: one hundred percent as well. In Atlanta, like it's.
- 44:59Speaker 3: Like checking Oh, we don't play.
- 45:01Speaker 2: I don't play about checking in because I'm from LA
- 45:03Speaker 2: that's very important. Like we were raised on the idea
- 45:07Speaker 2: that that is what you must do. So I do
- 45:09Speaker 2: that with all my guys. That's why that's why they,
- 45:12Speaker 2: you know, respect me the way they do. I give them.
- 45:14Speaker 2: I give them that.
- 45:15Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel you know what I'm thinking now, Like
- 45:18Speaker 5: it's like when you go to an event, a Miss
- 45:20Speaker 5: Diddy event, I can imagine how respectful the dudes are,
- 45:22Speaker 5: no matter where they're coming from.
- 45:24Speaker 2: They are very young, lady appreciate doing it.
- 45:26Speaker 5: Yeah, it's incredible, and I'm thinking you were Diddy. And
- 45:29Speaker 5: so because the gentleman will come in, the first thing
- 45:32Speaker 5: we say is like, excuse.
- 45:33Speaker 4: Me, miss, excuse me miss when we.
- 45:35Speaker 5: Come into a spider matter for coming up party's And
- 45:38Speaker 5: so that's that's how we got Miss Ditty out of this.
- 45:40Speaker 2: No, I wanted to figure out how I was always Diddy.
- 45:46Speaker 2: And then when I got on social media Twitter, actually
- 45:49Speaker 2: in the beginning times of Twitter, when I got on there,
- 45:55Speaker 2: I was like, oh, it needs to be feminine, you know.
- 45:58Speaker 2: I mean, I've always had a I'm a very graceful lady.
- 46:03Speaker 2: I have a girg. Genna said why about me? But
- 46:05Speaker 2: I also have a very assertive energy as well, and
- 46:08Speaker 2: so I'm mindful of that, so I try to make
- 46:12Speaker 2: sure that'll balance to the best of my ability.
- 46:15Speaker 3: As far as you're so. You have a business, but
- 46:17Speaker 3: you also have a personal brand too, your influencer. I
- 46:20Speaker 3: think over two hundred thousand followers on Instagram.
- 46:23Speaker 2: I don't think I'm up there yet close.
- 46:26Speaker 4: After it's done. But you're saying.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I was earlier here for you guys minutes, which
- 46:37Speaker 2: is true.
- 46:38Speaker 4: It is true.
- 46:39Speaker 3: How is it? What's the importance of separating and balancing
- 46:43Speaker 3: personal brand from a business brand.
- 46:45Speaker 2: It's so important, it's so important. But it's also important
- 46:49Speaker 2: to know who feeds the whole brand. The Mysticy Empire
- 46:56Speaker 2: has to be separate from the brand group. And because
- 47:01Speaker 2: what I do know and why people trust me and
- 47:04Speaker 2: continuously hire my company, is that I'm never bigger than
- 47:08Speaker 2: a client. Even if I'm bigger than a client. You
- 47:11Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. If I walk into place naturally
- 47:16Speaker 2: because of what I've done in this town, the Mistity Stadium, whoever,
- 47:20Speaker 2: it's just a natural, it's a natural thing because of
- 47:22Speaker 2: what I've what I've done. But if this client is
- 47:26Speaker 2: with me, that's a back seat. That has nothing to
- 47:30Speaker 2: do with what we're here to do here with this
- 47:32Speaker 2: specific client. The client could be water Bottle. That is
- 47:35Speaker 2: the most important key element here in this moment, and
- 47:40Speaker 2: that's something that I never forget that I never lose
- 47:43Speaker 2: sight of the hats that I play at the specific time.
- 47:45Speaker 2: Those are very important to me. And so but the
- 47:49Speaker 2: MISDDDY is the reason why the brand group is successful.
- 47:53Speaker 2: And one thing that my incredible team of women never
- 47:57Speaker 2: forget is that. And I respect them so much for
- 48:00Speaker 2: that because they hold that's so so near and dear
- 48:03Speaker 2: and high in regard on even how they move and
- 48:07Speaker 2: how they do business for the company.
- 48:09Speaker 5: You know, I think one of the things that needs
- 48:11Speaker 5: to be highlighted to women who have help and guided
- 48:14Speaker 5: you into this. We spoke about kV and obviously all
- 48:19Speaker 5: the other males that have helped you, but who is
- 48:20Speaker 5: some of the women that have guided you, because I
- 48:22Speaker 5: mean a lot of times we don't see it women
- 48:25Speaker 5: working together and so it's like, oh, it's Caddy or you.
- 48:27Speaker 2: Know, you know what, Honestly, my team is really really
- 48:33Speaker 2: my internal team. So Mia, Patience Tie, Diana de Marie
- 48:39Speaker 2: started my company, uh with me as well, and you
- 48:43Speaker 2: know there's there's tons of women in my company that's
- 48:45Speaker 2: who inspire me. My team, My team inspire me. There
- 48:49Speaker 2: are women in this culture that have that are great
- 48:52Speaker 2: inspirations to me and that at the drop of a
- 48:54Speaker 2: dime whatever I need to be there. So like on
- 48:57Speaker 2: the Scott Young is someone that I definitely give that to,
- 49:01Speaker 2: you know, because she's always like you are like little me.
- 49:04Speaker 2: You're a beast in business, you know what I mean?
- 49:06Speaker 2: And she is. She's a freaking genius though, you know,
- 49:09Speaker 2: aside from what people think they know about her from
- 49:11Speaker 2: the love and hip hop brand, she's you know, been
- 49:16Speaker 2: one of the driving forces and the whole culture from
- 49:19Speaker 2: the inception of it, you know, and you know, women
- 49:24Speaker 2: were I'm trying to think who else definitely Inger Best
- 49:31Speaker 2: who uh uh used to handle the business on the
- 49:37Speaker 2: Sac and Daileons side. There's a couple of the one.
- 49:40Speaker 2: I don think about that. I think about that. But
- 49:43Speaker 2: my team really is who inspire me and lifts me
- 49:46Speaker 2: up because they know me, They know the real me,
- 49:48Speaker 2: They know both sides. They know the business side of me.
- 49:51Speaker 2: They know when I'm yo cracking the whip. Because we
- 49:56Speaker 2: don't have the luxury to mess up in front of people.
- 50:00Speaker 2: We are young black kids doing business.
- 50:02Speaker 4: Is there any point?
- 50:03Speaker 5: I know you're selective about the brands, but is there
- 50:07Speaker 5: a point or who you select to be your clients?
- 50:11Speaker 5: Because I mean, this is your brand and you don't
- 50:15Speaker 5: want to take anybody.
- 50:16Speaker 4: How does that what's that process like for you?
- 50:17Speaker 2: It's just tough because it's tough to figure out how
- 50:20Speaker 2: to say no when you need to say no to things.
- 50:23Speaker 2: It really is. And I just pray and hope that
- 50:27Speaker 2: it comes about in the right manner that is supposed
- 50:30Speaker 2: to come about it when it comes about, so I
- 50:32Speaker 2: just do what What's what I feel good about? You know,
- 50:37Speaker 2: because my career is based on purpose. I'm a woman
- 50:41Speaker 2: of God. I didn't just try to be popular and
- 50:44Speaker 2: post something on Instagram.
- 50:46Speaker 3: You know.
- 50:46Speaker 2: I did a lot of hard work for where I
- 50:48Speaker 2: am and so I never want I don't want to
- 50:50Speaker 2: taint that because unfortunately black women, we really only have
- 50:54Speaker 2: like one chance to mess it up, and it's not fair.
- 50:57Speaker 2: It's hard to come back from something.
- 50:59Speaker 3: How many how many if do you do?
- 51:00Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 51:02Speaker 2: How about five? Be something? Six?
- 51:05Speaker 3: And most of them are in LA m M.
- 51:09Speaker 2: Around major markets. Yeah okay, yeah, yeah.
- 51:13Speaker 3: So are you physically at all of those events or yeah?
- 51:17Speaker 3: So a lot of traveling. That's I mean, the.
- 51:21Speaker 2: Pandemic was good for me in the sense of like
- 51:24Speaker 2: us said, okay, I get the rest.
- 51:27Speaker 3: All of those events like co brand is sponsored with
- 51:31Speaker 3: or some of those dependents just you by yourself.
- 51:33Speaker 2: Some of them are just are just my company. Like
- 51:35Speaker 2: our main focus, our major one yearly is called Toasta
- 51:39Speaker 2: Young Hollywood, which I've changed the name to Toast the Black.
- 51:41Speaker 3: Hollywood TUSA Toast Toast Toast.
- 51:45Speaker 2: Cheers, and so you know we've done that for years
- 51:49Speaker 2: before everyone started honoring people. That was something that you know,
- 51:53Speaker 2: I did because I understood again what it was like
- 51:56Speaker 2: to be the person that was making everything move and
- 52:01Speaker 2: not always maybe getting the recognition, but you just don't.
- 52:04Speaker 2: It's just a part of the game, right, So I
- 52:06Speaker 2: wanted to get my old two people that helped me
- 52:09Speaker 2: through my career and also were that person. So even
- 52:11Speaker 2: my first Toast to Young Hollywood, you know, honored of
- 52:14Speaker 2: course Kenny Burns, Steve Rifkin, Baron Davis, Megan good Sheesh,
- 52:22Speaker 2: Core Test Brian, which not until then, no one honored Test.
- 52:27Speaker 2: You know, he's one of my very dear and close
- 52:30Speaker 2: friends from the beginning of my career. As well, and
- 52:34Speaker 2: he was like, did he No one's ever thought of.
- 52:36Speaker 3: Me like that.
- 52:36Speaker 2: You know, he's such a great guy. And now everyone,
- 52:40Speaker 2: of course calls and tests. I'm not saying I did
- 52:43Speaker 2: that solemnly, but but yeah, So that was that was
- 52:48Speaker 2: the beginning of that in bridging the culture with I
- 52:52Speaker 2: was I'm fortunate in my career to know the OG's
- 52:55Speaker 2: and the young ones, and there's not a lot of
- 52:57Speaker 2: people that are in that position. So it's important for
- 52:59Speaker 2: me need to, Oh, Dallas Martin as well, that that
- 53:02Speaker 2: first social in Hollywood to have like a Dallas Martin
- 53:04Speaker 2: and the Steve Rifkin, right, Dallas Martin and Kenny Burns
- 53:08Speaker 2: or Baron Davis and Brandon Jennings. You know, that's the
- 53:15Speaker 2: godfather of the city.
- 53:16Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my guy. So you mentioned COVID, So how
- 53:19Speaker 3: did you survive during COVID? During all these events and
- 53:22Speaker 3: then at one point he shut down? So how is that?
- 53:25Speaker 2: How was that I was happy to rest because I
- 53:30Speaker 2: didn't know how hard I was working. I didn't understand
- 53:36Speaker 2: the craze that I was that I was actually to
- 53:40Speaker 2: me a bit detrimental because I was working, like I'm
- 53:43Speaker 2: a worker bee, I'm gonna work. I'm gonna take off
- 53:45Speaker 2: the trash. I'm gonna off the floors like I'm working,
- 53:48Speaker 2: and you know I needed to. I needed to rest,
- 53:51Speaker 2: But I survived because I also pivot. I mean, everyone
- 53:53Speaker 2: marketing is keen, It'll always be keen, So now you
- 53:56Speaker 2: need marketing on social media. And I think the pandemic
- 54:00Speaker 2: it did great to show and to bring back real
- 54:04Speaker 2: respect to what social media really, to me should be.
- 54:09Speaker 2: I think there was a time where it became like
- 54:11Speaker 2: almost a joke, like like wasn't respected enough, Like you're
- 54:16Speaker 2: kind of like we're the real life people and y'all
- 54:18Speaker 2: are social media people. And then the pandemic hid and
- 54:21Speaker 2: everybody wanted to go live and try to you know, yeah,
- 54:24Speaker 2: that's exactly what it was. People that you never would
- 54:27Speaker 2: be seeing go live with people were it was happening
- 54:31Speaker 2: every day. I mean, look what happened with D nine's career.
- 54:35Speaker 2: What are we even what are we discussing right now?
- 54:38Speaker 2: Like that's that happened before all of our very own
- 54:41Speaker 2: us exactly fat show, I mean incredible and even you
- 54:48Speaker 2: know those moments that that's what that's what social media
- 54:52Speaker 2: ended up showing during that time. And I think it
- 54:53Speaker 2: also humanized all of us and it kind of leveled
- 54:56Speaker 2: the playing field for a lot of people. Like now
- 54:58Speaker 2: we all here at this, we're here on this social
- 55:01Speaker 2: media platform.
- 55:03Speaker 3: Like are you doing virtual events? So like how were you?
- 55:05Speaker 2: Definitely did virtually I did a great virtual event, a
- 55:07Speaker 2: couple of them. I wanted, you know, people are respecting
- 55:12Speaker 2: business to be able to speak out to people. So
- 55:15Speaker 2: then when Kenny Smith came and spoke, and Kevin Frazier
- 55:19Speaker 2: and Prima Donna actually came and spoke, and a couple
- 55:22Speaker 2: of my girls that are uh Jay Dunn who has
- 55:27Speaker 2: waist trainers, like all the girls that to me were like, y'all,
- 55:31Speaker 2: y'all are really doing your thing, and I want people
- 55:33Speaker 2: to hear, you know, what's going on with you guys
- 55:36Speaker 2: right now and also how you got to where you are.
- 55:40Speaker 2: Also during that time, racial conversations are really important. So
- 55:44Speaker 2: I have a really great friend of mine name is
- 55:46Speaker 2: Caitlyn Crosby. She owns what was called the Given Key.
- 55:48Speaker 2: So you see these keys on chains. We've seen them before,
- 55:51Speaker 2: just like in different places and keys talk to me
- 55:56Speaker 2: about the keys. But she's she's she's a white girl,
- 55:59Speaker 2: and she's like a sister her mind, and I wanted
- 56:00Speaker 2: to talk to her in front of my black friends
- 56:03Speaker 2: and say, oh, what are the conversations you're having with
- 56:05Speaker 2: your black employees, what are the conversations that you're having
- 56:09Speaker 2: with your family? Like what's going on? Because you're a
- 56:12Speaker 2: sister of mine about I need to make sure you're
- 56:14Speaker 2: all here. You know what I'm saying. It was it
- 56:17Speaker 2: caused a lot of people to come to the front,
- 56:20Speaker 2: and I think social media is a great place to
- 56:22Speaker 2: be able to do that.
- 56:22Speaker 5: It became like if silence became complicit. Oh I didn't
- 56:26Speaker 5: say anything.
- 56:26Speaker 2: I called out it a lot of my wife. I
- 56:28Speaker 2: don't see anything. I don't see my lawyers everything. I
- 56:32Speaker 2: need to see something.
- 56:34Speaker 5: So you had obviously entertainers, athletes, influences, Well you also
- 56:39Speaker 5: have politicians.
- 56:40Speaker 4: Yeah, so like, how what is that approach? Like?
- 56:43Speaker 2: Man, you know what, I approach everything in marketing as
- 56:47Speaker 2: a concept of a new artist or a new album
- 56:52Speaker 2: dropping that is that's that's the way you market everything.
- 56:57Speaker 2: I don't care what it is, you know, And so
- 57:01Speaker 2: I mean by that like, So, we had had an
- 57:03Speaker 2: incredible mayor. She stepped down recently to do her fits.
- 57:06Speaker 2: She had another baby, she's in her family. My other
- 57:09Speaker 2: name was Asia Brown. Her name was Asia Brown. Her
- 57:12Speaker 2: name is Asia Brown. One of the youngest black sitting
- 57:15Speaker 2: mayors of a major city period. And she was extreme.
- 57:18Speaker 2: She's extremely progressive, really moved the needle and Brutie Compton
- 57:25Speaker 2: Mayor of Compton, Asia Brown, and she's stepped down down
- 57:29Speaker 2: on the clear and but she gave Kendrick Lamar the
- 57:33Speaker 2: key to the city. You know, she was instrumental in
- 57:36Speaker 2: bringing all of us, giving all of us a way
- 57:41Speaker 2: to give to the community. Cause sometimes a lot of
- 57:43Speaker 2: people you don't know where to start, you don't know
- 57:45Speaker 2: what to do. And so that's why she was really
- 57:48Speaker 2: progressive to me. So when she s both her terms,
- 57:52Speaker 2: I was like, all right, what we doing, let's do
- 57:55Speaker 2: let's do it. How we marketing is, how we pushing this,
- 57:58Speaker 2: how we making sure people understand who you are and
- 58:00Speaker 2: what you're doing and what we're doing in the community.
- 58:03Speaker 2: And so, you know, like we always part Master p
- 58:06Speaker 2: and Romeo are incredible to the city of Compton. They
- 58:10Speaker 2: have a partner with I don't yeah, I didn't know
- 58:21Speaker 2: that that, but I know I know who, I know
- 58:23Speaker 2: what you're talking about. Yeah, he had a lot of
- 58:25Speaker 2: a lot of players, but they him and Chico are
- 58:28Speaker 2: big homie Chico shout out to Chico and Compton, like
- 58:31Speaker 2: we've always partnered on holidays, so Thanksgiving and Christmas and
- 58:35Speaker 2: bringing the toys and so you know that was my concept.
- 58:39Speaker 2: Just visibility, visibility. How are we making you know, and
- 58:43Speaker 2: making sure the narrative about this beautiful city is it
- 58:48Speaker 2: is beautiful, not just everything people.
- 58:50Speaker 3: So what's what's next? What's what's next for MS Diddy
- 58:53Speaker 3: and for the brand group?
- 58:55Speaker 2: You know, how much as I don't know, man, I
- 59:01Speaker 2: just believe in hard work and I just I follow
- 59:04Speaker 2: God's dream and wherever he tells me to go. I'm
- 59:06Speaker 2: very like I said, I trust my my gut. I
- 59:11Speaker 2: really really, I really live my life based on that.
- 59:13Speaker 2: So I also am not a fan of this gonna
- 59:18Speaker 2: sound crazy like ultimate goals because I don't want a seling.
- 59:24Speaker 2: That's just me. I don't I don't want to seiling
- 59:26Speaker 2: because that I might hit that goal. And now I've
- 59:29Speaker 2: done everything in my life to hit this goal. Everything
- 59:32Speaker 2: took me ten years to hit this goal. And I
- 59:34Speaker 2: get there and I'm like, oh, shoot, what what am
- 59:38Speaker 2: I supposed to do next? What is supposed to happen,
- 59:41Speaker 2: you know, and so yeah, I'm not I'm just I'm
- 59:46Speaker 2: just I'm just working. I'm just working and continuously wanting
- 59:50Speaker 2: to inspire my generation and my family and be something
- 59:54Speaker 2: that you know, the people that I respect and love
- 59:56Speaker 2: are proud of.
- 59:58Speaker 3: You have it, ladies and gentlemen. Shout out to l
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- 1:00:15Speaker 3: was named like.
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: Inglewood Guardian and you don't even know about Guardeen at
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: Carson Carson. Yeah, we talked about that, you guys, you've
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: been in Inglewood. And then first our first event was
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: to Elementary Junior High the I E. The I E.
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: Which is a very large place.
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: That's a fact.
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: My family out there, my cousin Michael Walker. Shout out
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: to michaeh.
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, so love man, and shout the Hollywood.
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: Shout out to the valley. You see it keeps going.
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: Malleble Palace Verdi. You got have been over there.
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: My son, my son, I took him. We was in
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: l A for a mon at the beginning of the pandemic.
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: We came to LA for a month and we was
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: just vibing. Yeah so I look like that.
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: Because you came to LA for a month.
- 1:01:09Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, everybody, the whole team.
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing.
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: Michael was with us.
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael.
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: So we went to Noble and talking. My son with
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: me and uh so he had the rock shrimps. Long story, like, yeah,
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: this man is fancy. Months later, somebody asked me, like,
- 1:01:25Speaker 3: what's your favorite food? Like most kids said, like pizza.
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: Of course, he's like rock shrimp from from Noble. He's eleven.
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: Now he's acquire taste.
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: He lives a life.
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: That's the truth that really he really did that.
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you understand what I'm saying these kids, it's
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: his favorite food.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: No ceilings, no ceilings.
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: Another little wing shout to King Weezy, I love.
- 1:01:59Speaker 2: I was to give you a card.
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: So how can the people follow you on social media.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Find me at your leisure? First and foremost, you know,
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: first and foremost with these two pissy men, I am
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: a Leo, but no Miss Diddy m I S S
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: D I D D Miss Diddy across the board. My
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: company is the brand group uh l A actually on Instagram,
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: my name needs to be Miss Diddy on l A.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: I took the l A off because Drake told me to.
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he said you global. Why would you keep.
- 1:02:32Speaker 4: In l A casual conversations with you?
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 1:02:35Speaker 4: Can we get the name? Drop that?
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: And then Greg Una made it happen. Shout out to Flowers,
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: New York. Shout out to Greg Una. He's great friend. Yeah,
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: he's the one that made it happen.
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: He may he made my chain.
- 1:02:51Speaker 2: See what he is? Yeah, I love him. He's been
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: one of my years.
- 1:02:57Speaker 3: Really you know, oh yeah, everybody every is your closest friend.
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: You you won't even you don't want me to line
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: up what I've done for people. You really don't want
- 1:03:06Speaker 2: me to lie that up. That makes you close.
- 1:03:08Speaker 4: She's going to leave this and say, you know, I
- 1:03:10Speaker 4: know I do.
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: But you know my parents are from New York. That's
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: another coin, will have it. Yeah I'm in New York. Okay,
- 1:03:17Speaker 2: all right, Mount Rushmore l A.
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: Who we got.
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: What hip hop for l A?
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: You see my mom? No, it's not easy. No, I
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: would not to hear yours because that's not got to
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: give your okay, because let me tell you why it's
- 1:03:34Speaker 2: hard because I have Snoop and I have Dre. But
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: that takes off too, does But what's tough for me?
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: Which you got? Well, he may not be for y'all,
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: but for for me, I need to add corrupt in there.
- 1:03:49Speaker 4: Okay, he's from Paradelphia.
- 1:03:50Speaker 2: I see why I preference because I knew it was
- 1:03:54Speaker 2: I knew it was coming.
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: Corrupt.
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: And then it's tough because our New Age.
- 1:03:59Speaker 4: We have like a couple of spots.
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: It's only one spot left and the news.
- 1:04:04Speaker 4: Here's what we'll do. I'll give you the first face.
- 1:04:07Speaker 2: Okay, give me Okay, you gotta do top five because
- 1:04:11Speaker 2: you can't give me two rushmore, give me generation, So
- 1:04:14Speaker 2: give me New Age Rash top.
- 1:04:16Speaker 3: Five because that's everybody always says top five five.
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: Okay, it's like Snooping Dre for me, like equally Nipsey
- 1:04:29Speaker 2: of course even before corrupt.
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: Okay, last spot.
- 1:04:36Speaker 2: For see, I'm still I'm still messing up. Oh because
- 1:04:42Speaker 2: because but see, y'all would take him. Y'all would take
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: if I said Tupac's not for me, corrupt is let me.
- 1:04:48Speaker 5: Let me I want hear number five because one of
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: your best friends is gonna.
- 1:04:53Speaker 4: Be no it is and it's like, I can't remember
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: where you're from.
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: It's either Kendrick already and I can't even separate, can't
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: what am I supposed to do? Shout out to rowdy
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: rich and you and YG is very important.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: Get my please you take Kendrick. I'll give her time
- 1:05:12Speaker 3: to think about it. I got a Tupac because he's
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: Tupac not it doesn't matter that he's not from l A.
- 1:05:20Speaker 3: He wrapped Tupac off the rip Nipsey. Of course that
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: I was saying that was my favorite like person like that.
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: I actually listened to the lips and everything. He still
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: for everything represented the game because he brought He brought
- 1:05:38Speaker 3: the West Coast back. He brought the West Coast. It
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: was game played the major card. Snoop Dogg. I mean
- 1:05:46Speaker 3: he's Snoop. He's the biggest four biggest ever that's four.
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: And then Kendrick Lamar the leader of the New School.
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: But he's not a rapper. So you took Snoop, Snoop
- 1:05:59Speaker 3: and I ice cube autible mention.
- 1:06:01Speaker 5: I was going to I'm gonna go nip okay okay,
- 1:06:07Speaker 5: Snoop okay, kendreck see and I wanted I was going
- 1:06:11Speaker 5: to say cube cube for ice C Supert.
- 1:06:15Speaker 4: I'm gonna goep.
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: Ice cube. And then, like some people might, you know,
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: think rowdy is just it's not it's too new.
- 1:06:25Speaker 2: But here's the things. But not corrupt, is my Here's
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: the thing. Y G is not y G. You yes,
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: And also let's be clear not to glorify a specific
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: type of gang culture, but if we're talking about a
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: true authenticity of a representation of a certain type of everything,
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: y G embodies that, and he showed the world what
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: it looked like and the world got it from him.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: Let's not forget the record how.
- 1:06:58Speaker 3: Big they get from him?
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: From Snoop, No, I'm saying from Snoop, I'm saying I'm
- 1:07:05Speaker 2: saying gang wise. I'm not even trying to say gang wise,
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: but I'm saying everything about his mannerisms.
- 1:07:12Speaker 3: His move He definitely represents.
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: Generation generation an even even game in in why G
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: are even the same but separate generation? It's weird, it's.
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: Just a different generations. Y G and Nipsey is the
- 1:07:29Speaker 3: same generation, but why Gig the artist in Nipsey until
- 1:07:32Speaker 3: Nipsey's last Sure, but y G was way bigger than.
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: And let me tell you here's the thing. Being from
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Music is what connected the gang culture in
- 1:07:43Speaker 2: the normal setting. I'm not even saying specific a Nip
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: and oh YG wouldn't be around each other. Very important
- 1:07:52Speaker 2: music music, so why it is very physically last that
- 1:07:58Speaker 2: video is incredible when the arossed over on the separate colors,
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: like all of that video, you know what I mean.
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: Let me say this too, OT Genesis, I gotta give
- 1:08:07Speaker 2: no we just read into him. Got to give credit
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: to O. T. Genesis on the West Coast side, like
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: when he deal with his records.
- 1:08:13Speaker 4: Long Hunters.
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: Dances on the stage that made the HBC the coach.
- 1:08:25Speaker 4: That happened very important. I definitely have Genesis records.
- 1:08:29Speaker 3: Shout out to Genesis. I like a lot of the
- 1:08:31Speaker 3: R and B artists out that the West Coast, a
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: lot of Sir and all of those Guysko, it's a
- 1:08:39Speaker 3: lot of the West Coast.
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: Even West Coast. She called from the West Coast. She
- 1:08:43Speaker 2: ain't from l A. She from the Bay, but first
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: first from the Bay to her.
- 1:08:51Speaker 4: KLAINI true another.
- 1:08:53Speaker 3: One she's from Oakland.
- 1:08:54Speaker 4: Shout to you.
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: Always had love for Cali.
- 1:08:57Speaker 2: And then you got to give you all marions because
- 1:08:59Speaker 2: he's for the West. We're talking about yeah, because that's
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: the R and B. Well, we're talking about a whole
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: and let's talk about any any person that's a certain
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: age was a fan of B two K.
- 1:09:11Speaker 4: That's not even yeah yeah is one of my joints.
- 1:09:17Speaker 3: That sequence on touch Yeah.
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: Yeah real, that's on West Coast. That's he from Inglewood.
- 1:09:27Speaker 4: Yeah, daddy o J. Let's not like I play.
- 1:09:33Speaker 3: West Coast World West Coast if you won't.
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: Yes and movies, Yes Friday, South Central Minister.
- 1:09:43Speaker 3: Society definitely played a major party.
- 1:09:46Speaker 5: They had that poll like East Coast like classes or
- 1:09:49Speaker 5: is the West Coast one?
- 1:09:49Speaker 2: What was it like Juice?
- 1:09:50Speaker 4: And we had Juice, Jackson.
- 1:09:52Speaker 2: Jack City and pay. That's one thing I don't think
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: we have is a.
- 1:10:00Speaker 3: Paid Probably the best movie ever made. You got shot
- 1:10:04Speaker 3: for the Dame Dash.
- 1:10:05Speaker 5: Shout out Today, Snowfall, Snowfall right now.
- 1:10:09Speaker 4: Show as a show, but full is a pleasant movie.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: Cultural influence on that, but.
- 1:10:17Speaker 3: It's better than powers. Cultural influence. Two good seasons, three good.
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: Seasons, Howers coaching, it's raising Kanaan, no shows actors on that.
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: I like that Shout out to what is Shout out
- 1:10:28Speaker 2: to the whole fire his whole team. How they're doing
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: the being math with the what's the ghost? Yes and and.
- 1:10:38Speaker 4: Yes, yes, right, all right.
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: We could do this on and on and on. We
- 1:10:43Speaker 3: gotta do behind the scenes.
- 1:10:46Speaker 4: Yeah. Shot to everybody on picture on dot com.
- 1:10:48Speaker 5: Shout out to every earner in e y L University
- 1:10:50Speaker 5: over twelve thousand of y'all. Shout to y'all for executing
- 1:10:52Speaker 5: on information and spreading the word. That's the most important thing.
- 1:10:55Speaker 4: After you learn, you go tell someone, tell someone, and
- 1:10:58Speaker 4: tell someone about.
- 1:10:59Speaker 3: What you learn.
- 1:10:59Speaker 5: I'm a shout to all y'all and shout out to everybody.
- 1:11:01Speaker 5: Shout the entire ey L team, the merch team, and
- 1:11:04Speaker 5: everybody that's been supporting.
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- 1:11:11Speaker 2: Shout out to everyone on ey L, the merch team,
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: out of your earners, twelve thousand plus earners. After you learn,
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- 1:11:21Speaker 4: Someone learn what you earn.
- 1:11:22Speaker 2: Right, you see, I was giving the eyes and the camera.
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: That's what I thought you were giving a friend. Yes,
- 1:11:27Speaker 2: telepriend and tell a friend.
- 1:11:28Speaker 3: All right, God, thank you for rock and rest. We'll
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: see you next week. Peace peace, Bye my graduates from
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