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DJ Envy On Building More Than A Career · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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  Speaker 3: It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of The
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  Speaker 3: all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the
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  Speaker 3: conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, normally we kick
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  Speaker 3: off behind the scenes of The Grind, but I feel
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  Speaker 3: like this whole episode is going to bring you behind
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  Speaker 3: is going to shake the room will be had, but
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  Speaker 3: with a special guest.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see if you guys recognize this voice.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to recognize that voice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what up, y'all? It's DJ Envy.
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  Speaker 2: I got DJ Envy here.
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  Speaker 3: You guys know DJ Envy from The Breakfast Club, father
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  Speaker 3: of 40. No, the father, the DJ, the man, the myth,
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  Speaker 3: the legend is joining me for the first time here
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  Speaker 3: on the latest with Lauren LaRose of the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We've had Char on. Jess has popped in on a
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  Speaker 2: couple episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: We're breaking your cherry.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Well, thanks for having me. Thanks. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: So we are here in Vegas right now.
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  Speaker 3: I told you guys that we were headed out to
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  Speaker 3: the iHeart Radio Music Festival. My second year here at
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  Speaker 3: the festival. Envy is here as well, too. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: be ripping and running. But last episode, this is actually
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  Speaker 3: really timely. I was telling my listeners, we call them
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  Speaker 3: the lowriders, like L-O, get it, lowriders? They be riding
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  Speaker 3: for me. I was telling them that my first iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 3: music festival, you were telling me how it was so
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  Speaker 3: important to go because I get to meet the people
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  Speaker 3: who make iHeart, the company, move and shake. And you
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  Speaker 3: were helping me navigate during that time, just coming into
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  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio and understanding radio, but also understanding the business behind
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  Speaker 3: it and the strategy behind it.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: And now we're back here a year or two doing
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  Speaker 2: it again.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, I didn't go last year because my
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  Speaker 1: daughter was getting engaged. So I went to Greece to
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  Speaker 1: watch the engagement.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, iHeartRadio Festival, it's a weekend of just pure
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  Speaker 1: celebration of music. So it's one of the only festivals
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  Speaker 1: that they blend so many different genres of music. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not just hip hop or R & B. It's country.
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  Speaker 1: It's pop. We have BTS, which is a pop Asian
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  Speaker 1: group that they'll be there. So when you look in
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  Speaker 1: the stands, it's not just seeing one group of people.
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  Speaker 1: You see everybody. And outside of that, you see so
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  Speaker 1: many different people from the iHeart company. So, of course,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see the president, the vice president. But you'll see
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  Speaker 1: the program directors, people from sales, people that make the
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  Speaker 1: engine actually work. And you'll get a chance to see them.
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  Speaker 1: But because it's such a closed type of thing, you'll
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  Speaker 1: see management of Snoop Dogg and Snoop Dogg's handlers. And
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  Speaker 1: you get a chance to really see behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: and hang out with the celebrities and artists and see
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  Speaker 1: how they actually live and how they would go on tour.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty dope.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be bringing you guys some audio from behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: You guys know I take you on to the latest
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  Speaker 3: locations as well, too. But Envy, I always talk a
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  Speaker 3: lot on the podcast about just you and Charlamagne like
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  Speaker 3: as business people behind the scenes and how you guys
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  Speaker 3: have been able to build and sustain for so like
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  Speaker 3: so long. Like it's been like decades at this point
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  Speaker 3: or one decade because 15 years.
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  Speaker 1: 15, no, two decades, 20 years. Mine has been two decades. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: talk heavy.
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  Speaker 3: Because people, you, people got to put the, the mixtape
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  Speaker 3: era of your life together with it.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, a lot of people, so that's three decades, three.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he'd be getting money for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: No, but, um, I think people segmented like they, it's
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  Speaker 3: like DJ envy, mixtape DJ.
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  Speaker 2: If you are hip hop, like, uh, affiliator or parallel, or.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know, and then it's like, DJ Envy
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  Speaker 3: the DJ, then it's DJ Envy that has done all
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  Speaker 3: of that, who is on Breakfast Club and who has
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  Speaker 3: made a national name for yourself just as a personality
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  Speaker 3: and like a VJ.
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  Speaker 2: What has that been like for you?
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  Speaker 3: Because we talk to a lot of celebrities all the
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  Speaker 3: time and you always ask them, tell me how it started.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: You've been able to tell me how it started for
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  Speaker 3: almost 40 years now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the mixtape game was a different type of
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  Speaker 1: game because it's weird because... People know me, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: from different parts of my life. Like most people don't
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  Speaker 1: even know I DJ. They're like, you really DJ? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I started off as a DJ. I actually started off
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  Speaker 1: as a battle DJ. But the mixtapes were a time
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  Speaker 1: where you actually created these tapes. And it was like
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  Speaker 1: a it was like a how Spotify does when you
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  Speaker 1: have the Spotify playlist and stuff like that. But it
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  Speaker 1: was a DJ Envy playlist on a tape and Clue
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  Speaker 1: would have one and this DJ would have one and
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  Speaker 1: we would sell it. So that was the first start
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  Speaker 1: of business where you would have to make this tape.
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  Speaker 1: You'd have to produce it, produce the covers. copy the
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  Speaker 1: tapes and then ship it. You would have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: send it to whether you use UPS, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: post office or, you know, FedEx and you would ship
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  Speaker 1: it and it would be cash on delivery. So when
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  Speaker 1: you get it, you would have to pay for it.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to think at age 17, 18, a
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  Speaker 1: kid making $ 20, 000, $ 30, 000, $ 40, 000 a month at that age.
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  Speaker 1: I was making more money than my, both my parents
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  Speaker 1: at that age. So it was, it was the start
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  Speaker 1: of business and learning what to do with business. And
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  Speaker 1: You know, like any other kid is 17, 18. The
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  Speaker 1: first thing you do is buy jewelry, cars and sneakers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then you start realizing there's other things instead of that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I bought my first house at 22, age 22.
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  Speaker 1: I bought my first house. So you start, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thinking about business and then that, you know, transformed into
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  Speaker 1: me DJing and doing albums. And I did a couple
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  Speaker 1: of albums and then I knew that I couldn't sustain that.
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  Speaker 1: So I wanted to get into radio. Radio was something
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  Speaker 1: that I really, really loved and radio. I jumped into it.
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  Speaker 1: I started doing overnights. I started doing weekends and, Started
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  Speaker 1: doing mornings with Miss Jones and then it transformed to
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  Speaker 1: me coming over to the other station, which is Power
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  Speaker 1: 105 on iHeart. I started doing afternoons and they really
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  Speaker 1: needed a morning show to kick off and they asked
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  Speaker 1: me what I wanted to do. And I said, no,
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  Speaker 1: because mornings is a lot. You see, it is a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yo, you don't. This is the first day in like
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  Speaker 2: five days I felt rested.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So mornings is a lot. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they started throwing money at me and they wanted it
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  Speaker 1: to be my show. I didn't want my own show
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't want to be the only person. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we talked to Charlemagne. He became a part
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  Speaker 1: of it and talked to Angelique. We became a part
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  Speaker 1: of it and then we just made it a team
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  Speaker 1: and the Breakfast Club was started.
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  Speaker 3: Did you understand then, early days, because that was when
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  Speaker 3: radio was like, nobody would debate how impactful radio was
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  Speaker 3: during that time. It was like the thing. Did you
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  Speaker 3: understand then the impact that you guys were having? Like,
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  Speaker 3: New York radio and the personalities were the celebrities. Like,
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  Speaker 3: we hear so much history about, you know, you and
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  Speaker 3: all these other people. Did you know that, though, in
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  Speaker 3: the moment?
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  Speaker 1: Nah. I mean, for myself, most people don't know that
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  Speaker 1: radio is an art, right? Radio is like a basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: Every player for a show to work has to play
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  Speaker 1: their part. Right. Meaning call me the point guard. I'm
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  Speaker 1: dribbling the ball up. Yeah. Right. So I have to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that everybody gets their shot. So I might
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  Speaker 1: throw it to Charlamagne and he might dunk it or
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  Speaker 1: I might throw it to Jess and she might, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a layup or I might throw it to you.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's knowing who you are in that radio
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  Speaker 1: and playing that role.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: When you see people playing the same role, if you
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  Speaker 1: ever listen to any other radio station or any other
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  Speaker 1: radio show, like me and Charlotte, this show wouldn't work
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  Speaker 1: if me and Charlamagne was the same.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It wouldn't work if me
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  Speaker 1: and you were the same. If me and Jess was
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  Speaker 1: the same, it wouldn't work. We all each individually have
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  Speaker 1: our own talents and our own individual talents shine on
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  Speaker 1: every show.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you helped me really understand because I don't think
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  Speaker 3: I understood how radio touches people when I was first
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  Speaker 3: coming on the show until I started going outside and
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  Speaker 3: people were talking to me like they knew me.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: They were like, I might say, oh, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go see my mom on Friday. I would see somebody
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: You want to go see your mom?
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  Speaker 3: How is she? And I'm like, how do you know that?
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  Speaker 3: You become a daily habit of theirs. But one of
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  Speaker 3: the things that I always mention when I talk about
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  Speaker 3: you is how you really helped me understand like even
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  Speaker 3: business outside of the radio. Like I remember you saying
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  Speaker 3: to me, you went to an.
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  Speaker 2: HBCU and I was like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you were talking to me about Hampton and you
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  Speaker 3: were like, you should start talking about that. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I mean, I mentioned it. He was like, no,
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  Speaker 3: you should start talking about that because there's a space
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  Speaker 3: for that. And you can really find your way in
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  Speaker 3: that space. And I literally talked about it on air
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  Speaker 3: and it, like it changed so much for me on the,
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  Speaker 3: just on the business side of things. And you, and
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  Speaker 3: I always am like, how did, how do you, how
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  Speaker 3: do y'all know just what works? You've been doing it
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  Speaker 3: for a while, but like, how did you guys understand
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  Speaker 3: how to brand and build real businesses? A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people who aren't as relevant as you are from your era.
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  Speaker 1: So I always learned that whatever you're into, people can tell, right?
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  Speaker 1: So people know if you listen to DJ Envy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have six kids and I'm a family man. I
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  Speaker 1: love my family. So everything about family people come towards,
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  Speaker 1: come to me, right? If it's about cars, right? They
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  Speaker 1: know I love my cars. I own them. They come
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  Speaker 1: to me. If it's about investments, when it's real estate,
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  Speaker 1: They know I own a bunch of properties, right? When
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  Speaker 1: it comes to HBCUs, they know I went to Hampton
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  Speaker 1: University and I was shouting out Hampton before it was
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  Speaker 1: cool because at one time nobody was ever shouting out HBCUs.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they told me that because I went to, I
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  Speaker 3: remember being told because I graduated from HBCU, I would
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  Speaker 3: never have like a mainstream job.
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  Speaker 1: They told me that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Like any good job.
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  Speaker 1: Told me that as well. And that's why I really
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  Speaker 1: shouted out and talk about my HBCU and talk about
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  Speaker 1: my experience and tell people I got a degree. I graduated.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't just go for a year and say I went, no.
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  Speaker 1: I graduated. I got my degree. I walked across that
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  Speaker 1: doggone stage. So for myself, it's just talking about the
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  Speaker 1: things that you into and that just attracts people. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I always tell everything, you know, in this
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  Speaker 1: in this industry, you'll have ups and downs and they'll
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  Speaker 1: love you one day and hate you the next. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'll try to cancel you one day and
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  Speaker 1: then put you on, you know, on their shoulders the next.
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  Speaker 1: But with my HBCUs, they have always stood ten toes down.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what happened in my career, the HBCUs always
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  Speaker 1: was that warm hug for me. So I'll never let
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  Speaker 1: the HBCUs go.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like, because this is the last question,
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  Speaker 3: because Envy, yo, it's like 3 o'clock in the morning
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  Speaker 3: here and I just told Envy, hey, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be on my podcast today. Do you feel like because
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  Speaker 3: you started out so young just figuring out, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you talk about the ups and downs, right? You bought
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  Speaker 3: a house young. You were a dad young. Do you
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  Speaker 3: ever look back and there are things that you like,
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  Speaker 3: not regret, but like just wish you had done better
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to your kids or just your own
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  Speaker 3: life or things you're trying to make up for because
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  Speaker 3: when you were younger you didn't know any better. Steve
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  Speaker 3: Harvey talked about this a bit in that conversation with
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  Speaker 3: his daughter. And it made me think of you and
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  Speaker 3: Charlamagne because y'all have been dadding and lifing for a
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  Speaker 3: long time on a big level. He said that he
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  Speaker 3: felt like he spent most of his adult life trying
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  Speaker 3: to make up for the young dad. He wasn't, even
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  Speaker 3: though he was a very, he was there, but he
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  Speaker 3: just didn't know he was young.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I was different. I was there, there like
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  Speaker 1: some people, you know, they, they choose their jobs over
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  Speaker 1: their family. And I did. It was in times when
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  Speaker 1: I did work my ass off, but I always made
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  Speaker 1: it my business to be there for my kids. Right.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at me and my kids, you look
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  Speaker 1: at some people in their kids. You can tell the difference. Right.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell the difference how close me and my
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  Speaker 1: daughter is, how close me and my son is, how
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  Speaker 1: close me and my young kids are. Because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's funny. I had a conversation with my dad the
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  Speaker 1: other day. My dad is 83 years old. Right. And
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  Speaker 1: I was telling him I'm going to Vegas. And he
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  Speaker 1: was like, yo. He was like, just do me one favor, right? Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your parents, when they get to that older age,
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  Speaker 1: they start having that life conversation, right? And I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: But he told me, he was like, just do me
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  Speaker 1: one favor. I said, what's up, pops? He was like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: I know you like working. I know you love money.
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  Speaker 1: He said, but just remember those girls. He didn't even
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  Speaker 1: say my sons. He said, those girls love you. He
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  Speaker 1: was like, I see their face. They love you around.
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  Speaker 1: He said, just make sure you never pick your job
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  Speaker 1: over them girls because them girls love you like no other.
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  Speaker 1: And that always hit me. Like, you know, that always
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  Speaker 1: meant the most to me. I always, like, my daughters
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  Speaker 1: love that. Like, I know when I get old and
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  Speaker 1: if I, you know, can't wipe my own ass or
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  Speaker 1: I have dementia or I'm sick, I know them four girls,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take care of their daddy.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Tyler Perry talking about that as well, too. Like,
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  Speaker 3: he was saying to young people, like, make sure you're
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  Speaker 3: good now to people because, you know, when you get older,
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  Speaker 3: somebody's going to have to take care of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, thank you for joining us today, Envy. I
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  Speaker 3: hope you guys have enjoyed the conversation. And this is
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  Speaker 3: a good kickoff to the iHeartRadio festival weekend, music festival weekend,
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  Speaker 3: because as I take you behind the scenes and I navigate,
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  Speaker 3: you guys are getting to hear from one of the
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  Speaker 3: radio icons that I learned how to navigate from.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you. Of course, Envy, you always.
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  Speaker 3: Looked out for me from very early on. I used
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  Speaker 3: to be like, he's so nice. I would have never thought.
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  Speaker 3: You so to yourself and so quiet. You just never
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  Speaker 3: know what they expect from you.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it is? Most people don't know this.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I started posting my cars, extravagant stuff online
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  Speaker 1: was not to issue on people, but was to tell
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  Speaker 1: people they can do it without doing nothing foul. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I always say the biggest thing I always say is
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  Speaker 1: I never sold drugs. Yeah. I never did crack. I
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  Speaker 1: never sold coke. I never did. I never did any
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  Speaker 1: of that. My dad's a retired police officer. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times when we come from the areas that
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  Speaker 1: we come from, I come from Queens, New York. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing that we see are the local drug dealers,
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  Speaker 1: the local scammers, the basketball player, the this, that, and
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  Speaker 1: the other. But I'm like, I didn't have to do
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  Speaker 1: any of that. And I'm still able to buy the
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  Speaker 1: things that I want and not have to look over
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  Speaker 1: my shoulder. You know what I mean? I can buy
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  Speaker 1: my Ferrari and drive down the street and not know
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  Speaker 1: that I did anybody dirty. So That was the main thing.
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  Speaker 1: And I tell everybody all the time, there's so many
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  Speaker 1: different ways. And if you come from areas like we
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  Speaker 1: come from, you want to show those kids that there
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  Speaker 1: are other ways to get out of those areas without
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  Speaker 1: doing the typical, yo, go sell some drugs. Or the typical,
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  Speaker 1: got to be a basketball player. There's other ways to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's crazy? I mean, I ain't never sold
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  Speaker 3: no drugs or nothing. But, like, where I come from,
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: it's rough, too. My mom just did a good job
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: of shielding us from that. But you and Charlamagne, like,
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: I had already been through a bit of life and
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: had worked good jobs and, like, you know, done well
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: for myself and all that stuff. But meeting y'all opened
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: up a new level of, like— oh, this is what
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: building business looks like. This is all for the fact
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: that they get on a mic every single day and
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: they have a name. And off of that name, you
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: guys have built so much for yourselves. y'all structured teams.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: Like I was in like a corporate arena forever. So
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: to watch you guys as entrepreneurs, the only other entrepreneur
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: I've ever been able to look at in that way, honestly,
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: it was my mom.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: She did it, but there was a lot more she
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: wanted to do. So y'all opened my eyes to like
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: those next levels of things. And that's why she loves
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: y'all too.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: But we shouldn't have to open your eyes. And the reason,
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: the reason I love your mom and your grandmother is
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: they did something that most people haven't. Right. Even though
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: you guys are from Delaware and it's not a huge market,
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: but what they started and what they created for you,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: is to be applauded, right? It's because that's what I
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: want for my daughter. Yeah. Meaning, your grandmother and mother
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: have a house for you already that you don't have
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: to live in that's going to bring you money regardless.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: You never have to rely on no nigga. You never
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: have to rely on no man because regardless of what happened,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: you will have some money coming in and that's what
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I want for my daughters and my son. Like, I
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: bought my daughter her first home but the reason I
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: did that is because I never want her to rely
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: on anybody, need anybody. You know, she knows she got
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: a place to sleep. Now, Everything else, you know, you
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: got to figure out your car, knowing your electric, but
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: that's whatever. But you know you got a place to sleep.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: And I applaud your mother and your grandmother for putting
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: that in you early.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: They worked hard, okay? They worked hard.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: But, y'all, this has been another episode. Listen, I'm telling y'all,
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be bringing you guys the latest from
• 14:54
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• 14:56
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• 14:57
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• 14:59
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• 15:03
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• 15:06
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• 15:09
  Speaker 3: um yeah you know i tell y'all every single episode
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: y'all could be anywhere with any old body talking about
• 15:14
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• 15:16
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• 15:19
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