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INTERVIEW: 2 Chainz Opens Up About Purpose, His Father & The Voice In His Head · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: Indeed, what.
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  Speaker 1: Are y'all doing? Good morning? You and the family came
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  Speaker 1: ready to be cold. Listen, you was just waiting on
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  Speaker 1: your little.
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  Speaker 5: Because I watched the other interview. You can't get one
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  Speaker 5: in right. He was so serious the whole time. So
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  Speaker 5: you know, I rock with your police. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we we were. We just left in a you circuit
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  Speaker 5: with my son and we was in Cincinnati and they
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  Speaker 5: said it was gonna be cold there, but it wasn't freezing.
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  Speaker 1: But when we came to New York it was cold.
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  Speaker 4: That is the only day too, because the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the week we're getting like sixty to seventy degrees.
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  Speaker 3: Today is the only day you can wear that.
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  Speaker 5: Bliss you because it's cold. It's my room, it's coold
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  Speaker 5: new book.
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  Speaker 6: The voice in my head is God. I want to
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  Speaker 6: ask what was the intention behind the outfit this morning?
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  Speaker 6: Because then the bury me inside the Louis store chapter.
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  Speaker 6: You say, every outfit has an intention, So what's what's
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  Speaker 6: the energy other than it was cold?
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  Speaker 5: That's the energy that And it's like where else can
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  Speaker 5: you wear like the hat in it? And you know,
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  Speaker 5: I can't get this off in Atlanta, so this will
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  Speaker 5: be the place. And I don't live in Canada, so
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  Speaker 5: this will be the place. Tell you, man, what's happening.
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  Speaker 4: The voice in my head is God new book that's
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  Speaker 4: out today. Make sure you go get it if you
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  Speaker 4: haven't got it yet. Why was it the time to
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  Speaker 4: write this book?
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  Speaker 5: I just think that success without reflection is just noise.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, success without giving back is noise.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm feeling successful. I think when you live long
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  Speaker 5: enough to experience scars, when you want enough to have
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  Speaker 5: the wisdom, you know, then it's time to write a
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  Speaker 5: book in my personal opinions, so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, growth, maturation me.
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  Speaker 5: You know talking about are you talking about God in
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  Speaker 5: this book through my personal experiences?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 5: So I just felt like, after you do for me,
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  Speaker 5: I've done the albums, I've shot my short feelm and
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  Speaker 5: I'm just ready to take more creative risks. And so
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  Speaker 5: this doesn't feel like a risk because I feel like
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  Speaker 5: this could this could motivate someone, this could help someone.
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  Speaker 5: It's not generic, it's not cliche. I hadn't seen any
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  Speaker 5: other artists talk about, you know, intuition in the book space,
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  Speaker 5: so just.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I wanted to on to one thing, the
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing. Everybody takes a different part of what they
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  Speaker 4: feel that they get out of the book.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: For myself is your relationship with your dad. And the
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  Speaker 4: reason I say that is I have said and I'm
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  Speaker 4: always very intentional of what I say to my kids, right,
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  Speaker 4: because there's a line between being a dad and it's
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  Speaker 4: a line with being a human being.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll explain.
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  Speaker 4: So with that relationship with your dad, was there I
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  Speaker 4: know your dad moved in with you. Was those tough
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  Speaker 4: conversations to have from to start him being incarcerated to
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  Speaker 4: even at one time when when you know, when you
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  Speaker 4: got into that incident in Alabama and your dad said,
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  Speaker 4: well go get a gun and go handle yourself. You know,
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  Speaker 4: how would those conversations had because I'm sure you wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: tell your kids that same thing, or would you.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good question, you know, Well, I think everybody
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  Speaker 5: in here have lived through different eras, and you know
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  Speaker 5: I'm from the boys don't cry era You.
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  Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying. I'm from the that's weak, that's soft.
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  Speaker 5: My dad would say numerous amount of times that he
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  Speaker 5: don't think a woman could raise a man, but he
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't be there, you know what I'm saying out to be.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I can't change oil, change tires and stuff
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  Speaker 5: like that. You know what I'm saying, Like somebody might
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  Speaker 5: consider some man stuff, but I've cut the grass and
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  Speaker 5: done stuff like that, as y'all know recently. So I mean,
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  Speaker 5: when I think about it's like he wasn't there to
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  Speaker 5: teach me certain things that a man should know. And
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  Speaker 5: I learned a lot of things on my own. And
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  Speaker 5: you know, he was my first hero. He's my first
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  Speaker 5: somebody you look up to, whether he was in constantraate
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  Speaker 5: or just me hearing stories about him and me just
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  Speaker 5: realizing that that DNA is inside of me. So what
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  Speaker 5: I passed that on? I think I broke that that
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  Speaker 5: way of thinking. I think it stopped with me. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I'm very you know, I'm not lenient to why I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 5: you can cry anytime, you won't, But if my son
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  Speaker 5: needs to cry about something that's bothered him or hurt
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  Speaker 5: and I'm not like getting all over him about it.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it's just timing and where we are
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  Speaker 5: in life right now. I don't know how you are
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  Speaker 5: with your kids. But I'm a little bit more sensitive
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  Speaker 5: to my kids, of course than my father was to me,
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  Speaker 5: because he wanted me to be tough. He didn't I
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  Speaker 5: hear stories my eyes tell me like if I would cry,
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  Speaker 5: he didn't want nobody to pick me up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have Like.
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  Speaker 5: It's some baby pictures, but like all my baby pictures,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sitting somewhere my mom beside me. She's not like
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  Speaker 5: holding me, like you know what I'm saying. Like one
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  Speaker 5: of the pictures I remember is like at the beach,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sitting on the hood of a car. I'm like
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  Speaker 5: not even one, and my mom got on a baby suit.
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  Speaker 1: She right beside me.
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  Speaker 5: But it's not really like a picture someone colling me
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  Speaker 5: or anything.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 7: What did you learn about your own feelings throughout the
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  Speaker 7: whole experience with your dad, so being able to spend
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  Speaker 7: time with him and him moving in with you to
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  Speaker 7: his passing, because you talk about it very stoically at first,
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  Speaker 7: and then you talk up and then you we actually
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  Speaker 7: get to hear you talk about finally being able to
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  Speaker 7: cry and being able to like kind of get in
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  Speaker 7: tune with yourself a bit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, his last his last few years, I said,
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  Speaker 5: I talk about talk talk about it in the book.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: He's getting out of prison, and you know, he's in
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  Speaker 5: his late sixties, you know what I'm saying, Like, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, they might have been seventy something.
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  Speaker 1: So when I go get.
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  Speaker 5: Him, you know, that's when I had a conversation about, man,
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  Speaker 5: you ought to move with me, Like this is just
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  Speaker 5: crazy at this point, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 5: the last time he did time he was probably two
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  Speaker 5: or three years. But I just felt like it was time.
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  Speaker 1: I had my.
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  Speaker 5: First child and I had a house, and so, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I remember stopping and getting him. He wanted to suit,
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  Speaker 5: and then I remember stopping at a rise and he
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  Speaker 5: wanted the phone, and he had some money, he had
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  Speaker 5: a little money put up, you know somewhere, and we
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  Speaker 5: just talked and he he said that he would, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he would, you know, think about it, and he ended
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  Speaker 5: up eventually just you know, staying with me, which was
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  Speaker 5: really cool. It was like we started building that relationship.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I was so fond of him from a
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  Speaker 5: distance because you know, when I was young, we got separated.
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  Speaker 5: So just being in the same house, me learning his
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  Speaker 5: little crazy ways and his sarcasm and everything, and so
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  Speaker 5: you know, after he started getting sick, I was going
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  Speaker 5: I was starting at like this was like twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 1: My dad died in twenty twelve. My first album came
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  Speaker 1: out of twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 5: I was just so hot at the time, and so
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  Speaker 5: Keisha would tell me, like, man, you know your dad didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Eat the day or he needn't do something. She just
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  Speaker 1: tell me, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 5: And he was somebody that didn't want nobody to know
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  Speaker 5: he was sick. He like such a man, he don't
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  Speaker 5: want you to know he going through nothing, which is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: And he went to the hospital one night, you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. I end up going up there with him.
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  Speaker 5: I ended up staying with him. I got it like
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  Speaker 5: I just stayed with him for like a week or two,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And I have shows that
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  Speaker 5: I end up counseling. But I had this one particular
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  Speaker 5: show in Savannah, which is like, I don't know, a
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  Speaker 5: couple hours from Atlanta. And I'm talking to him and
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I got this show in Atlanta. You're gonna
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  Speaker 5: be cool tonight. You're like, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be cool.
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  Speaker 5: And then he says, you know, dope man, my role model.
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  Speaker 5: I had a song called dope Man, my role Model
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  Speaker 5: my mixtape. So he's so sarcast I'm like, bro, you straight,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. He gives me a fist
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  Speaker 5: bump and says, do it big Apps, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Our last name. I said, Okay, cool. I go to Savannah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even get the room I come back when
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  Speaker 5: I when I come back here on his breathing thing,
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  Speaker 5: I see it like boom, but I see him he
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  Speaker 5: like looking at me.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he looking at me, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: While he's on his breathing thing, and he keep trying
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  Speaker 5: to take the two by the throat and they keep
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  Speaker 5: saying like if you if he takes that out, he
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  Speaker 5: could he could die.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: So if he take that out, he can die. Now
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  Speaker 5: now rewind this. I just got my part from prison.
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  Speaker 5: So they saying the only way that he cannot take
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  Speaker 5: it out is if they handcuff him to the bed.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: So I say, okay, handcuff, and then I get to
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  Speaker 5: thinking like something is telling me, like he don't want
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  Speaker 5: to be handcuffed no more, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: So he handcuffed the bed. He looking at me and
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  Speaker 5: his shit, you know, he's breathing. And I said, all right, man,
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  Speaker 5: you know, take the handcuff. I'll take that and take
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  Speaker 5: it off. Man, he don't want to be handcuffed. But
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  Speaker 5: soon as the handcuff come off, he come to try
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  Speaker 5: to take that and they tell me if he take
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  Speaker 5: it out it could scratch his and so and so
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  Speaker 5: I swear to you I do that four times. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: put the handcuffs back on, take the handcuffs back off.
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  Speaker 5: Put the handcuffs back on them. And it's like he
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  Speaker 5: just he's not looking straight home, looking to the side
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  Speaker 5: like this, you know what I mean. So I try
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  Speaker 5: to hold his hands myself personally, like you know what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Not chill, you know what I'm saying, Just chill keep
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know a couple of days after that
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  Speaker 5: or not even a day after that. You know what
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  Speaker 5: I'm saying that the beets start going off. You know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying. By me staying with him and the nurses,
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  Speaker 5: I'm able to run, go, get the nurse. You know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, check it out. And they same thing
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  Speaker 5: four times. Boom bom boom they hit them, bring them back.
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  Speaker 2: Thank y'all, nurse.
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  Speaker 1: They walk out the room.
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  Speaker 5: Man, man, look, man, don't you be doing Run out again?
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  Speaker 5: Boomom do that the fourth time. Now they put me
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  Speaker 5: out the room. So I'm looking through the the little window.
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  Speaker 5: And so the fourth time, the lady come out and
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  Speaker 5: she says, you know, I lost my father to if
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  Speaker 5: he come back now, he'll be brain dead. We already
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  Speaker 5: broke two ribs. You just gotta let it go. And
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  Speaker 5: I was like, that's easier say it than done, because
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  Speaker 5: he just told me. Not only did he tell me
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  Speaker 5: do it big, he told me before I went to Savannah,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna die no time soon. It came out
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  Speaker 5: of his mouth and a he never told him no lot.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm like, what happened from the time I went
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  Speaker 5: to Savanna came back? But anyway, That's something that I
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't say haunted or traumatized me. I know you're big
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  Speaker 5: on therapy or whatever, and like this book is my therapy,
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  Speaker 5: like certain things I do is my therapy. I hadn't
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  Speaker 5: actually sat down with someone, and I'm not against people
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  Speaker 5: who who do or who have. But is it traumatic
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  Speaker 5: seeing your father passed? It could be, yeah, But then
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  Speaker 5: like a few years later, I had a son who
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  Speaker 5: reminds me so much of like how he moves and
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  Speaker 5: his sarcasm as well.
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  Speaker 6: So questions based on what you just said, did reliving
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  Speaker 6: that for the book make you cry again? Because you
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  Speaker 6: said that was the first time you remember crying when man,
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  Speaker 6: I cried so hard when that happened. I was listening,
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  Speaker 6: I think, I even I'm trying to think about so
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  Speaker 6: I might listen to it was a song, but not
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  Speaker 6: when I was doing it in the book, because I'm
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  Speaker 6: just I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't. I didn't cry while writing the book. I
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  Speaker 5: think because I've relived that so many times. It wasn't
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  Speaker 5: like I buried it and then just brought it back
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  Speaker 5: up like I relived my pots passing in front of me.
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  Speaker 5: You know I've done that a few times.
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  Speaker 1: So I think.
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  Speaker 5: And then also I see now me talking about it, it
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  Speaker 5: just becomes easier to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you keep stuff bottle again or whatever.
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  Speaker 6: And when you said when Halo was born in the book,
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  Speaker 6: you I got to see the picture. That's I just
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  Speaker 6: got to see the picture. You said you got the picture.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm just trying to show you.
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  Speaker 6: I want to see the picture. You said it was
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  Speaker 6: a picture of your father. The alarm went off in that,
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  Speaker 6: all right, So don't even tell the story. I just
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  Speaker 6: show you that.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to discussed this book because it's so much
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  Speaker 4: that you want people to read and see for themselves.
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  Speaker 6: He just gave away, but it was worth it.
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  Speaker 1: So this this picture, all right, we'll explain. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So this is all right, so let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: So, my son, Halo was born ten fourteen fifteen, Right,
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  Speaker 5: me and Keisha was in the hospital, and my mom
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  Speaker 5: and my two daughters was at home and they were
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  Speaker 5: in our room in the master bedroom. Right, the alarm
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  Speaker 5: went off at home while Halo was coming. The alarm
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  Speaker 5: went off same time. So why Keisha having Halo the
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  Speaker 5: alarm going off and my mom is asking me, what's
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  Speaker 5: the past? Word to tell the alarm people because it's
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  Speaker 5: saying motion in the house or whatever. Now my mom
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  Speaker 5: is on the phone saying, I swear, and I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: at the cameras and I don't see anything coming into
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  Speaker 5: the house.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see the doors. I'm looking at all the doors.
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  Speaker 5: My mom said, I hadn't left the room, so I
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  Speaker 5: don't know why the motion going off. I tell of
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  Speaker 5: the code it goes off. We have halo, we come home,
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  Speaker 5: all right, We're getting our alarm updated. And then Keisha
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  Speaker 5: looks at her email. And when you have motion, it
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  Speaker 5: takes pictures. It takes snapshots of what the motion is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, when we.
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  Speaker 5: Looked at the motion, you can see you can see somebody,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, And it was my It
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  Speaker 5: was my father. Now my father left in twenty twelve.
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  Speaker 5: This was twenty fifteen. You can see an image. So wow,
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  Speaker 5: people that I'm close to a couple of friends, I'm close.
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  Speaker 5: So I showing a picture. I'm like, who is it? Like,
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  Speaker 5: that's part right there. I'm like, look at the date
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  Speaker 5: and like my friends begetting big old chill goosebumps or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 5: My father used to walk around the house like with
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  Speaker 5: his shirt off. He was in good shape to be seventy.
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  Speaker 1: Like. He wasn't like fast and slop. He was in
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  Speaker 1: the arm and so he had something.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm gonna find and so another thing about this,
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  Speaker 5: and this is my personal opinion. He's so sarcastic that
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  Speaker 5: when I used to try to show people, I could
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  Speaker 5: not find a picture.
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  Speaker 8: M hm.
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  Speaker 5: So I gave a picture to Keisha. I said, Keisha,
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  Speaker 5: when I try to show people, that makes it sound
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  Speaker 5: like I'm crazy. I don't have a picture. So we
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  Speaker 5: go to Florida one time. I'm not even looking back there.
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  Speaker 5: I know she knows I talking about I go to
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  Speaker 5: Florida one time. I don't got the picture them. I
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  Speaker 5: can't find what happened in Florida. You remember.
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  Speaker 7: Whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, anyway, my phone fell in was She probably don't
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  Speaker 5: remember this, but she does remember this when I said this.
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  Speaker 5: But we was on a boat. We got off a
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  Speaker 5: boat and then her phone down there fell in the water.
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  Speaker 5: And when my phone fell in the water, I said, damn,
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  Speaker 5: that's all. I don't think about the context. I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: this is my proof, this is my proof that golds
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  Speaker 5: are real.
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  Speaker 1: Or whatever. You know what I mean. Boom.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, So I get to looking because I know exactly
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  Speaker 5: when the date was, because I know when Halo was born.
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  Speaker 5: I pull up the picture again. So now I got it.
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  Speaker 5: So I give it to my cousin I'm always with
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  Speaker 5: outside cat. I gave it the cat like cat, you
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  Speaker 5: keep this picture?
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Boom. So this is crazy.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: So this is I go over the back in the day,
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I go over to the Yate house, right, and I'm telling
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: him the same story. I'm like, bro, this has happened
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: to me. I'm trying to tell him what happened. And
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: this is man, you know, I'm the coolest player in
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: the world. Man, it's like food around It's like lemonade,
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So I can't find a picture,
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: so I say, cat, cat with my tother come in, man,
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: give me the picture of popus mess. I can show
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: while he giving me the picture, Bro, I'll knock over
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: a big thing of lemonade everywhere on everybody. Like you
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I'm such a player. I ain't
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: never done nothing like that, you know what I'm saying.
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: So in my mind, I'm like, bro, this is how
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: my dad is he like be on some joking. So
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: you got me looking crazy here. I don't waste lemonade
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: on everybody the table. This ain't even nothing I do,
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? But anyway, that's another story.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Let me find a picture all right right here? Let
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: me see I email myself so at one loute. Okay,
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: this is not why he's looking.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Why he's looking at the picture the book on to
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: change dot com.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: You have a chance to win.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Courts to change book to change book dot com. To
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: change book, go to changebook dot com. I do gotta
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: sweepstakes for people. They can sit next to me at
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: a Hawks game. Yeah you know, uh, of course that
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: I'm very close. I come in through the owner's lounge.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: It's a whole experience. I do have this little uh
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: side note this disclaimer. Women, I'm gonna be smelling good.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be looking good. If you have a crazy
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: man at home, articulate that to him. Men, I'm not
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: gonna be talking through the whole game. Right, we can talk,
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: but I'm gonna really be watching the game.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: A rapper win. I hope somebody trying to make.
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: It trying to like you. You sing all your songs
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: the whole time.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Can you get that picture because you know I'm trying
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: to show them and you know what's going on. Up
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: hop up if you see anything, Oh.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see something in the picure?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Can wait only he h m hm.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: So question for you, right, Charlamagne. Believe you by the way,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: but you can see Charlemagne face.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: You know I ain't.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: But the reason that because that happened to him in
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Prince he took.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: This is a spirit.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: He took a picture and the picture I want to are.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: You okay what I've seen it? Okay? Oh wow, that's
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: a whole person. Yes, I thought it was going to
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: be like not that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: How you used to walk around the shirt walking that's
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: him walking through the kitchen.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: I know you're saying the book too that you feel like,
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: until you had your son, your dad hadn't like crossed
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: over to the other side.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: That's my assumption, right, this is my mom.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: My mom is super, super spiritual, right, so she was
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: probably like, you know, he probably come to fuck with
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: me before you know what I mean, probably come over
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: to the fuck with me, just you know what I mean.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: That's how she kicked the light before he left. But
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: so the.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: Voices that you were hearing there, because I know you
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: have been hearing voices in your head and hearing God
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: for a long time. Do you know which ones might
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: have been your Dad because he was there with you,
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: or it was the God connection that you haven't you
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: hear in God during that word?
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: So this experience right here, when this happened, this would
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: have been twenty fifteen. I'm not even sure if I
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: was fully committed to just given the voice. It's credit
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: for my success. Now, That's why I said when he
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: asked me when it's timeing to write a book, It's
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: like I've lived and had enough experience in trial and
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: error with listening not listening, moving through fear, moving through
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: ego to let you know, like this voice, it got
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: to be God. The reason I call it the voice
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: of God because the voice would be like my intuition,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: it would be my my my alignment. You know what
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I'm saying that that's what the voice. But when I
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: say God, I know everybody's not into God. But I
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: had to give the credit to somebody higher than myself.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, for this superpower, whatever the
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: hell like for me, I got a real picture of
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: my dad three years after he passed. Like, this is
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: not something and I don't. It's my first time ever
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: ever talking about it, feeling comfortable talking about it, showing
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: somebody that I feel like is understands like a deeper
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: mean of like spirits and everything, like because I don't
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: fully understand.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: My father.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: You know, you see they be like people come to
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: you in dreams, people you know, do stuff like that.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: I can't say that he did that, you know what
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, But I can tell you that I do
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: have a divine guidance in me that helps me make decisions,
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: whether it's business decisions, relationship decisions, whatever it is. And
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: it's a voice that could probably be too noisy to
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: certain people, but I welcome that voice. So this book
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: is I put this book together to help somebody and
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: to motivate somebody to shut down the outside noise. And
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: this is also for anybody who's ever said, like something
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: told me, like something told me to get this job,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: wear this hat, or whatever it is. It's like it's
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: that something told me thing. You know what I'm saying
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: is that or something told me don't go to this
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: place and this happened, something told me don't whatever it is,
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: you know, and we've all said that when we missed
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: the flight, Well that's God trying to Maybe I wasn't
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: supposed to get on it, you know what I mean.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: So why can't that inner dialogue be that? Why if
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: they say God is inside of you, and why can't
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: your blessings come from within on how you are on
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the surface. You're a positive person on the surface, then
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: your blessings coming with it. This is my experience, this
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: is my opinion.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So what do you trust that voice though? Because you
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: talk about in the book many times when you didn't
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: trust that voice. You heard it and you were like, nah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: You got to be you got to go through the
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: experience right to see, like what was that for.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: You that said I need to start trusting this voice.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I don't want to use like a tragic experience experience,
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: but like the voice comes before something happens, right, So
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: it's hard to like pay at attention because you don't
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: know what's about to happen.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Alabama, you know what I'm saying.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Alabama, my Cali experience, these different experiences that I had,
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I felt something I did, I put this on everything
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I felt something, something told me, you know what I'm saying,
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: but you don't have.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: A crystal ball in order to see it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: So that's why I'm using all these experiences in the
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: book to tell you, like how I listen and maybe
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: then fully you know what I mean, not just what
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: was going on or when I did, and that positive
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: outcomes that came from them. You know, I woke up
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: sometimes to be like something told I need to do
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: this today.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I do that a lot.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Actually, you know what I mean, And it's just a
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: message I'm just trying to bring the people.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: The book is about God and you first recognized in
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: that voice, But to me, it's also a love letter
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: to your mom and your pop. So so when did
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: you first recognize God in them?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Mom?
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Church going, still go, just went yesterday? Mom went yesterday.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: I checked on her, uh my part. When he was
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: in prison, he wrote which is which helped me come up.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: With the title too.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: He used to write God is Love on the back
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: of his prison letters, and one day I took the
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: got the ears out and I put an equal sign
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: like God he is Love. So I was like, it
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: just made so much sense to me because if it's
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: love there, then it's God there. That's what I think.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, And it was hey, there,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: then I can't be God. And that's how I decipher
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: what that voice was. So yeah, I've had that that
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: kind of spiritual upbringing, like i'm'a. I'm'a. I'm from a
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: praying family. You know what I'm saying. I encourage my
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: kids to pray, So it's something I believe in and
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I talk. I pray before my show, I pray before
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I rap at night.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Bruh.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I just you know what I'm saying. I just be
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: praying sometime. I be praying on stage when I'm killing it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: I look up, man, think you know, think, man, you
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: ain't nobody you know what I mean, because it's just
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: a certain order you get when you when you tapped in,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: Real And you said you always wanted to write a book.
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Did you think that it would be this?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: No? No?
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: But you know most artists they do an autobiography and
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: then they talk about how they have nothing to eat.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Artists are the poorest. You
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Nothing, no education, no nothing, no I finished high school,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: I have a college degree. I don't be on none
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: of that, you know what I'm saying. And I still
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: have my struggles that I deal with, and so when
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: it was time for me to do the book, I
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: wanted to be in my own lane like I do
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: with anything else. If you all noticed, I don't following
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: over really no trends. I'm so comfortable in my skin,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: it's it's scary sometimes.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: M I know you said you don't need therapy, but
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: you've been in some real life ramatic situations like you
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: just named two of them, Alabama.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: The Cali one.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: I didn't even know it went to that where he
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: was standing over you and all of that. I don't
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: know why I never've heard that part of the story.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: But it's any out of that impact the way you move.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Like now, well.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: You know now I'm gonna say something cliche. I mean,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: it's some here for a Reese. You know what I'm saying.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's something, But it really does though.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Like I'm in my forties, just got my physical a
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago, no cholesterol, diabetes, hot blood pressure,
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: work out three times a week at he you gangs
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: a rapid night. I eat healthy, drink a lot of water,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: don't get enough sleep. But that's like something I can
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: work on. But you know, I'm just you know, I'm
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: in a I'm in a good I'm in a good place.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I'm happy.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Man. No PTSD, no stress, no, no.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Not that I know of, Like I don't have any
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Like I did take psychology in college, so and I
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: loved it. Like when I got in psychology, it wasn't
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: even my major. I remember changing to the major life
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: maybe like I remember finding out something about myself studying
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: the actual course, you know what I'm saying.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And so with me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: The therapy aspect, you know, I do have like some
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: little triggers. I do have triggers, but I want to
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: say I'm kind of conscious of them, and I'll probably be.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I'm probably doing some self evaluation, you know what I mean.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: I hadn't sat down and really liked kicked it off.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I'm not against therapy though, I'm not against therapy. But
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I have went through things and I've gotten over them
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: and I've moved on. And I went through some dramatic
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: stuff too. But I just feel like God, when you
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: I feel I believe so much in God that I
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: just didn't didn't let that hold me back. I didn't
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: let it bring me PTSD. I ain't like, man, you
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: know what happened to me. I'm crazy, Like I ain't.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: People need excuses to be you know, man, you don't
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: even know. Man, I was, you know, and I ain't
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: on that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: You know, I know that you see that you're deeply
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: grounded in family. Came here with your family. How did
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: you know that your wife, Keisha was the person that
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: got intended for you?
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Something told me, something told me she was the one key.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: She used to write.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: She still does, but she you know, I said this,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: she used to go to church and she used to
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: write notes, and I was like, okay, and like real
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: life then the powerpoints type of stuff of like what
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: they was talking about the church. So I liked that
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: she was God fear and I liked that she was
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: just a natural beautiful woman inside and out. And you know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: having somebody like that in the industry, it's like being
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: in the industry and having you know, somebody that you
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: care about it is like not the easiest thing to navigate.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: So you got to just you know, for me, just
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: keep on the pedestal. Let let her know that she
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: she is mine. She's the one point.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: How do you separate the vine and guidance from just
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: wanting something really bad?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: My question is easier than that.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: You ain't what the heck you're working though you're getting
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, But but it's sty good the divine God.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Keep going, keep working, you know when people do look
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: at your paper, Just keep going. You almost finished the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: divine guidance aspect.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Or if you just want something, So, if you just
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: want something really bad, is that are you saying?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Like manifesting something?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: You know you have a you have something in your
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: mind that you want, like I want this goal, I
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: want to accomplishment, accomplish it. But that don't mean that's what
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: God wants you to be doing.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I believe in speaking things into AI do I believe
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: in manifestation. Now, if you want to do something that
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: don't got love and I believe like he don't got
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: nothing to do with I say, God is love.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: God equals love.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: So you might want to be on some that ain't
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: got nothing to do with love, and he not going
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: to answer the phone for that. But if you want
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: something and they got love attached to it too. I
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: think he'll answer and listen. I mean, you already know
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: what's going on. So that's my personal because I have
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: one of some of them. Another thing is we have
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: to teach some of the youth the difference between needs
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: and wants. I think they got it, like some of
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: it confused, you know what I'm saying. And it's a difference.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: So how have you always Because every interview I watched
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: you and I know we talked that culture kind before too.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I feel that was good. Thank you, no, thank you.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: I feel like every time I listen to you speak,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: even when you were younger, it seems like you always
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: understood the difference between your needs and your wants and
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: separated the two. How did you have that so young?
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: Like doing so many different things from college to being
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: in streets.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Like So I'm going to tell you another pop story.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: So Pop, my pop used to go in the store.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: He used to steal, and then he used to get
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: mad at me because he would just stop abruptly, and
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: then I would hit him in the back of the
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: achilles with like the buggy. When I him in the
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: back of the leg with the buget heud get mad
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: as hell, and so then I'll get like thirty feet
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: away from him, and then we're getting the car and
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: he'll start taking stuff like out his sock. He would,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: you know, the long socking. He puts stuff on his jean.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: And then he told me, he said, he told me, kids,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: don't listen to me or my pops on this, because
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: now I listen to it don't make sense, But he said, steal,
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: steal what you need, not what you want. And so
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: he was going to the store and steal like things
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: that he felt like we need for the house, whether
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: it was.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Taller trees or whatever it was.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, It'll be that it wouldn't
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: be like snacks or or gum or nothing like that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: And that makes perfect sense to me.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you don't want people to think, man, I
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: need this watch, you know what I'm saying, Because that's
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: why I say, they don't know what needs.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And wants are.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: But my pop, so for a long time, I used
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: to steal stuff, you know, but I would stand in
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: line with a pack of gum on everything I love.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: I'll just be like, I'll just be waiting to pay
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: for the gum.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But if it was something I.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Needed, I already had it home, Like I really need this,
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: I take that and couldn't afford it, I would take it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: You think reading the book, right, do you think God
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: gave you the plugs?
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: You TraFi, you think God gave you read it. He
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: was like, it was a blessing that got the plug.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: God gave me this plug.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I'm like, because your plug.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Could be how have you got this job? Whatever? You
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: know got opening up so many doors for me? But yes,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: how I got it?
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: And so many people that do what I do never
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: had a plug, and they'll tell you how miserable their
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: hustling experience was. Once you get somebody that you can call.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: And this is just once again, this is my These
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: are my theories, right, you know what I'm saying. But
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: I I'm not looking for a plug.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I find this guy that essentially helped change the way
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I was moving and living up to now.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: It was a little finesse in one of your plugs.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Now, yeah it was a little little Yeah that was finesse. Yes,
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: that was finesse, but it was it was It was
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: a sign of intelligence too.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: It was the signs of intelligence, right because.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: I'm able to I'm hearing what's going on, and I
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: know how important it is to have one because I don't.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: At this point, I already had a plug. So I'm
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: hearing like so, I'm like, so I didn't even take
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: buddy plug. That's just kind of like would come in
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: the street. I never was like a person that robbed anybody.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I won't say this.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: The reason I do agree with him when he said
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: for him, for him because he was the weed man.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: We man different than like the other guy that's telling
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: the hardship.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: We man. Weed brings you love, you know, weed man man,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and you know how it is you.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: I mean, you get a feature. I was smoking. We
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: were then artist. When you're coming up when you smoke
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: like man, it's pretty good.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Let's wrap.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: You know, things can happen man, you know. So it
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: helped me out tremendously. I got some of my stuff
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: may sound really really off, but if you just if
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: I have Charlemagne with me, he'll help you.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I read.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: I'm like, God gave me the plug, like.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Well, he was the weed man. That's the difference.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: A man different when you got that.
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: Everybody has those experiences though, where you're like, yo, if
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: I had to talk about this again, nobody would be
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: But I think that's favor too. Like I was watching
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: a sermon yesterday and Pastor Mike, like Junior, he was saying,
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: you're yes to God breaks cycles and then that comes
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: with a whole level of divine favor that like you
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: couldn't even explain it to people and the feeling of
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: it if you try to. And a lot of your
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: story is that it's like you have this personal one
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: on one that like we would never really get. It's
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: funny to hear.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: But the story about my dad cross snow, it's something
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: I never knew how to even tell nobody. You had
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: to be like I probably told eight people my whole life,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: and this happened in twenty fifteen. I just showed my
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: kids recently because I thought that they would be you
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: know ready.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: But you even named all your kids something spiritual.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: Well, Keisha started off, she named our first baby Heaven.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: She named the first two Heaven Harmony, and then I
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: came with the halo.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I sprinkled that south Side. That's fine.
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: How has emotional maturity changed the way you hear that
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: inner voice, that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Emotional maturity change.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: How I hear the inner voice, my emotional maturity change, how.
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: I hear MYO.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Uh oh, yeah, I can answer that. So my emotional
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: maturity changed how I heard the inner voice because I'm
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: able to want one decipher if it's love or hate,
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: because cause we all got a fucking voice too. We
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: all got a voice that we've all said fucking and
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: done and done some things, and some it sometimes came
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: back to bite us in the button sometimes it happened.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: But right now, I think with the emotional intelligence, it
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: comes with it comes with growth, it comes with age,
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: and it comes with experience, right and it just comes
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: with life. It comes with life situations, it comes with
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: life choices. And so for some of the things that
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: I touched on in this book, you literally have to
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: live long enough. Like this book can't be written by
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: a teenager or somebody in their twenties. This is my
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: personal opinion. This book is like experience based. At the
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: same time, I'm just not running off some ideas and
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: stuff like this. This is this is stuff that you
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: know I've been through, or someone that's been through, or
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: you know something and there was a voice there. It
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: was a voice there during all of these situations.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: Has there ever been a time where that voice led
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: you somewhere painful?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: But you but you realized it was necessary.
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: And I don't mean by not listening to it, like
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: you actually listen to it in this still let you
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: somewhere where you was like, it's not what I thought
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: was gonna happen.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. When I listened to my voice, I have listen, bro,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: this is This is how insane it is.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: I listened to it. It'll tell me what time to
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: go to the gym, tell me what time to lead
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: to go get my son. They'll tell me what right,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: what route to take him. It'll tell me what tell
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: me what we need to eat, what he needs to eat.
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: It'll tell me what route to go home. I can
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: go home three or four different ways. They tell me
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: that man, don't go that way, Man go this way.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: And and this has been happening for a long time,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: but I ain' used to pay no attention. Util I
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: ran into a road block and you'd be like, oh, man,
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have came this way. You know what I'm saying.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: But this was early on, when I was maneuvern.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: But the voice is something that I that I hear
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: a lot that it was hard for me to really
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: articulate without saying I had an imaginary friend of something
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: like that when I'm sitting in the corner and I'm
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: going back and forth and I'm ide eight between me
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: and my voice. But I think it was very important
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: at this time for me to write this literature because
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's gonna help if it helps one person,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: which I've already received multiple text messages from people who
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: got advanced copies on the voice in their head and
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: the something told me and them listening more closely.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: So that's what this is for. That's why the timing
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: is for.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: You know, I've been in front of you guys many
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: a times talking about many of different projects, but I
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: just keep going into my creative bag coming up with
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: something that I think can help my community. This is
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: like a community outreach project. This is for my community. Bro,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: It's like this for my community. People give away turkeys,
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: people do all kinds of stuff. This book is for
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: my community. I feel like I've been just holding on
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: hoarding like this secret, sauce, this secret like man Tony,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: how you keep I got partner, man, How you keep man,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: what I'm telling you, man, try and try and try
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: and try, just try, just try try two weeks, like,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: just try.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Did you really think you were Michael Jackson.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I was just messing with my mama. My mama,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: My mama.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Got she she she been with my daddy this whole time,
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: so she knows sarcasm, right. So I had, you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: I broke my broke my elbow and my knee. But
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: they put my they'll just put me to sleep, apop
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: my elbow back in place.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Boom.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: And it's on her birthday. She done left her birthday
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: party being in the hospital with me. So I'm coming
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: up out of the anesthesia and they're.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Like, miss you okay, missed up, You're okay. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: mister up.
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: And I kind of look over I look over there,
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: I see you my mom. I see my mom, Like
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: you're okay, and like yeah, like, what's your name? Say
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: your whole name? I said, Michael Jackson. She said, I'm
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: getting an up. She got up and left. Man, I
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: don't know, I don't know, man. I'm an optimistic person. Man,
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: I'm just optimistic if something bad happened me. I just
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: I turn it over. I just try to find the good.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: And it's some good in here somewhere. It got to be,
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: You talk about rebranding and reinvention a lot in the book, like,
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: do you ever worry that when you are constantly evolving
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: can disconnect you from your from your core?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: No, you have to do that, You have to. I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: have to.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: I'm showing people, but I'm not like being preachy when
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: I'm showing people how to move and how businesses move.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: If you look up McDonald's sprites, everybody rebrands. They don't
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: exactly change their name, but they rebrand, they change the arts,
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: they do something they you know what I mean. And
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: so for me, I'm a business. Two change is a
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: brand and I have a new logo. I got a
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: new logo. I'm about to launch, you know, this week
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: or next week. So for me, you know, I've been
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: too changed. Titty Boy, met Tony and Janie's son, I'm hell,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: we've killer. But I mean I'm looking at other successful
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: people that pull this stuff before. I mean, I know
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Jay has a couple of names. A couple people I
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: know have a couple of names, and it's just like
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: a part of me. I'm also giving that knowledge. I
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: was like, man, I got some game, and sometimes this
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: book is a way to spread it to the masses
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: and instead of just talking to one individual. So I
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: think it's important that you know a lot of people
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: be like man. You know, I've had artists asked me
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: should they changed their name? You know what I'm saying,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: Should I change my name? Like I know you did it, bro,
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? And stuff like that. So
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: it's whatever works for you. But I think it's important
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: that you you revisit your brand every three to five years.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Three to five.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Years, that's mine. I go in there and I see
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: what I can tweet, turn do whatever.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: I love the book man, because you make you make ambition.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: You look at it as something spiritual, like I think
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: sometimes people have this this hunger and they dress it
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: up as faith. But like to me, you actually approach
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: ambition as something spiritual.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Can we can't You can't buy ambition. You can't go
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to Amazon. You lazy.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: You need some take something to give you. You taking
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: something to get you injured. But that ain't the ambition.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I got that. I got the self motivation. You know
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: I the boys starts there, anybody to get your ass up.
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: You ain't got no big home, You ain't got nobody's
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: gonna do this for you, ain't got no friend you
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: can call on. You ain't got nobody. So like it
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: all falls on me. So yeah, I'm operating and definitely
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: in that space.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: The one thing I wanted you to talk about in
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: the book is why you chose Alabama because over South
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Carolina State.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Did you talk about it in the book.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: No, So I got recruited by South Carolina South Carolina State.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: I was going to Memphis. When I got I was
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: going to Memphis. That's what I was gonna commit to.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I like Memphis because Penny Hardaway had went there. I
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: was like this little skinny, scrowny point guard two guard,
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: and I just wanted to just following those steps. So
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: when I got locked up in high school, Alabama State
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: was the first school they called me.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: They got in touch with me. They called me.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: They were very like, you know, compassionate about what I
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: went through, and they offered me a full ride scholarship.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: I already had the grades they offered me a full
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: ride scholarship. And they also I had peers that went
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: down there from my school life, so I knew some
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: knew some kids down there. It was two hours from
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: the house. And you know in the book, first chapter two,
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: I went down there playing. I went down to the
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: plane when I first went down there, at them you
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: know the Alabama boy they show they see it being
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: and I ended up going down there, and then I
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: lost my love for basketball the same year I went
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: down there because the coaches that called me and they
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: were so excited about having the opportunity to work with me,
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: they got fired. New coaches came in, New coaches came in,
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: they brought players in, and then I just remember my
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: passion for hooping starting to diminish, because at this point
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: I still wasn't like rapping or anything.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I was just like trapping and hooping.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because in the book, I thought you said that
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: in the book because you said it was somebody knew
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: down there and it was close to.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: The close to the crib, and you said you.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Started playing ball, and then what really turned you on
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: You said it was when the flood happened.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: My dorm well my dorm flooded, But that just made
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: me get a spot off campus. You know, I still
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: was dealing in the parameters of a student athlete. I
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: still was I was I was going to class, you know,
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: I was going to class. I was doing everything. I
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: just I'm already living a certain lifestyle. I'm already got
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: a little hustle going I go down there. I got
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: three cars already. I'm literally driving a different car Monday, Wednesday,
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: and Friday, just because I can. I'm on that type
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: of time and so but I'm I'm a I'm a
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: learning junkie too. I love to learn even now I
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: love I mean, learning is so fast right now, is insane,
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, like trying to learn what's
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: going on in the words. But you know, originally meant
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: I enjoyed learning new information. I just you know what
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, I love it. So it was never a
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: situation where I if I wasn't on campus, I wasn't
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: gonna go to school. I still was going to handle
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: my responsibility. So I just talk about that in the
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: books as wonder, and that's that's one of the things
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: that push me into being independent too. You go to
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: college you know, you stay on campus. Then when you
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: get your crib off, this is your first home. This
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: is your crib.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: You know, you start becoming, like, you know, a grown up.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't met your queen either if you didn't go down.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah true.
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: My last question, if that voice in your head told
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: you to walk away from rap tomorrow, would you listen.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: That's a great question because I love rap music so
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: much and I feel like, you know, I love it.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: He wouldn't do He wouldn't do that, you know what
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: I'm saying. I love it, and one of the things
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: I love about it is that I still have good ideas,
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: whether for me or anybody else. When I say ideas,
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: not just in rap, but after the wrap, the market
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: and the title, the fonts, shades like I'm into all
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: like even this right here. This is a black artist
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: named the Reese He's dope, man. He's just like he's
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: not with a gallery or anything. The Reese Walker. I
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: found him online. He does this little like pastel dope.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: This is art like he drew.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: He drew this of me. This is not a picture.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: He drew this whole thing.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: And I just like, I just like, I don't know,
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: curating dope stuff.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: So and you still do that without rap.
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: If God said to jan and I want you to
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: put that, if I heard him as clear as you
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: saying that, yeah, I probably would because I feel like
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: he got something bigger for me. And so he wants
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: me to probably start going to sleep at night, getting
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: up early or something like that, which I haven't done.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: And since my father passed, I sleep in the daytime.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: Only was sleep at night.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: So you're writing books now, you got the podcast?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: You know, me and Halo Me and Halo podcast. Check
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: that out?
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: What do you do at night?
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: Then if you like what are you doing?
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: You just like, what are you doing?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Are you not sleeping? You do?
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: I sleep at night?
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: Y'all know.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: What time I go to sleep?
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: Six seven?
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: I got kids, yell it out.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Halo told me we was retiring this year. I think
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: he said on the podcast, like we had to let
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: it go or something for something.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but I go to sleep around six six
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: or seven, and then I get up around what time
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: I get up.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Twelve one?
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: Is that because of your music? Artists like, because a
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: lot of artists are like that too, Where they're up
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: on it.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: I've been doing that ever since the kids knowing me. Okay,
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: Harmony thirteen, But what.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Are you doing?
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Are you thinking?
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Are you writing?
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: Are you I'm in I'm in a studio space when
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: I'm doing something ambitious to help my career go further.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: And that is the time when all the noise is
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: shut off for me. All the people that I love
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: should be in the bed sleep. I don't receive phone
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: calls that lay nobody calling me saying they needed I
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: can actually concentrate on the task at hand, whatever that is.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: And those are my hours that I can just lock
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: in from probably twelve to six or something like that.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: I started working at night round eleven to twelve. From
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: twelve to six is really just really really my time,
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: really need time. I don't have to worry about you
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. I mean, of course I worry
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: about people, but it's just really my time. I don't
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: have anything else my mind with me and the task
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: at hand.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: And that's therapeutic for you.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: That's so therapeutic for me.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't know what to do, Like like Keisha hates
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: when I'm at home that in those times because she
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: trying to sleep.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm moving around up and Man.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Just the other day, I was just doing the most
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: craziest stuff, man, because I had to be up at seven.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: So I'm like, Man, do I go to sleep or
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: do I just stay up to seven? So I'm trying
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: to figure it out. She's like, what you're doing home?
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: This thing?
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: No? She look at me. I'm standing out the window
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: like Malcolm X. I'm just looking out the one, you
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: know what. I'm saying stuff like this, I really need
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: some asphalts so I can. I'm just looking at stuff
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: at the house. I'm just looking at the driveway. I
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: need to do this round about over. I'm looking at
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: the tennis court and got the light out there on
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: the court.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I'm looking. I'm like, man, we should use this more often.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: We just.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: With my mind and my like, I'm not sleepy, I'm
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: not tired, I'm not ying at because my body trying.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: I'm almost like a new boring. I'm trying to sleep
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: from like seven to five. I mean, I'm sorry, five hours,
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: seven to twelve. I'm trying to sleep like that long,
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: but the longest, like literally since twenty twice of my
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: pop died. I hadn't really slept in night time.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, m hm, well the book is out today.
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: This is the book is god? Are you looking at this?
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: This is dope. There's a ham some picture on the
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: back as well. Man, look if you open this up,
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: this is something something told me. So I'm gonna challenge
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: you'll go to two chainsbook dot com, enter the Sweet
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: States to sit next to me at the hoss game.
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: You have to March eleventh to do that. But this
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: right here, tell me what does something tell you?
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Bo? I guess something told.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: You give me some give me an example, something told
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: you give me.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: An exam where.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: So what I'm saying, what so you was pulling stuff?
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: Tell me how to tell me how that went?
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: So I woke up under this.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: It's crazy though. So that yeah, because I was.
• 47:59
  Speaker 9: Gonna wake up early and do my little you know,
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: my little curling joint. But I ain't have enough time
• 48:03
  Speaker 9: because I was I was going to questions for my book,
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: you know what I'm saying, because I start.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Person this week.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: So I got up.
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: I ain't have enough time for that. So I was like,
• 48:10
  Speaker 9: you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna wear my hat.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Something told you to put I mean you got other
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: hats though, what made you get put that one on?
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: Like the funny is I want to go with the
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: little suit and go with the you know, the bodysuit.
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: I just got these new nikes.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: I know they courting. Okay, give me an example. Something
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: told you.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: I told them that today I'm learn how to ski today.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Something told you, like you just sitting there like, man,
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: you know it is my son's snowboards and I took
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: them on the mountain the other day and I felt
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: bad because I couldn't go with him on the mounta
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: because I don't know how to score snowboard to ski.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: So I was like, you know what, I'm gonna learn
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: how to ski, so next time we go, I can
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: get on that.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I'm good father.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: So absolutely.
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: Something told me I need to go back home this
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: weekend spender time with my family.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: Something told me that two Chains had an amazing book
• 49:01
  Speaker 6: that he needed to get published, and that's why you're
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: in them.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: Hold on, you knew you wanted to write a book,
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: But did you go to him and say, hey, it's
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: time or did how did that?
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: No, he just knew I'm a successful black dude, so
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: he tried to cap in on my success because he
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: know I'm a winner.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Else he changes the plug. I wouldn't have Crystal franchises
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: if it.
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: Wasn't and people don't talk enough about you and your
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: involvement in the Crystal franchise.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: My environment in the culture is crazy, you know what
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: I'm saying. I am the pictures, I am the mood
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: boy for a lot of stuff going on. I'm humble
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: and quiet sometimes a lot of the times. But I
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: could see how what my influence has done for even
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: my whole city.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Like man, listen.
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: Esco and the Esco franchise ten years. I owned the
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Dirt five years before I started running the business, own
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: the vertically candy Land. There's no other person my age,
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: my democratic that owns a my demographic, that owns an
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: adult entertainment. You to get a permit to be nude
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: and have alcoholis they stop issuing those in nineteen ninety three?
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: You have to biytos for an extremely high price from
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: somebody who sets it. A lot of the even the
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: G League team being connected to the Linta Hawks, you
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Even having an association with that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: It's just a lot of things that I see that
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: I try to open up like in this book and
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: let my peers know, like this is what's going on,
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: and this is how I'm even making these business decisions
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: based off Like of course I have a lawyer, I
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: have management, but I got this voice going on with
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: me too, and but I do have you know, the
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: crystal situation shot the Jernamthan just shot that everybody that
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: I became partners with. I think collaborating. Collaborating is a
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: good thing, not only a music but in business too.
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: And my secret to that is finding someone that's passionate
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: in whatever you're trying to do and collaborate with and
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: then you can have success in the field. So I
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: said to say that the person I'm collaborating with the
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: ESCO there, they're passionate about the hospitality space.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: They don't have a special seasoning or sauce. It's bigger
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: than that. You got to know this space.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: The person that I'm in the strip club visits is
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: passionate about that business. So it's just and Jonathan is
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: passionate about crystals, and this man is passionate about giving back.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: To our community. So that's how a lot of things
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: line up.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: There you have it.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: It's two changed ladies and gentlemen.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Get the book today, thank y'all.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: And it's the Breakfast Club, Good morning.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Every day. Click yours up, the Breakfast Club.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: You don't finish for y'all.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Done,