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Cliff Notes: How Jay-Z Purchased The 'Tree of Life' Painting Inside Of Larry Morrow's Treehouse Restaurant · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: The Tree of Life painting. Talk about that, what is
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  Speaker 1: the significance of that? And there's a story with Sean Carter.
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  Speaker 2: God we might know is involved in Jaz.
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  Speaker 1: May have heard of him, jay Z what's the story
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  Speaker 1: will have man?
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  Speaker 3: So basically, so when Treehouse open up, we wanted to
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  Speaker 3: create this painting. So with Morrows, you know Morrows, like
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  Speaker 3: people would line up. I would sit in front of
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  Speaker 3: Morrow's in my car and whilst people get dressed up,
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  Speaker 3: come take a picture in front the sign. When we
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  Speaker 3: got that sign, I had the option to get this
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  Speaker 3: little wood sign. I'll pay more and get this aluminum
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  Speaker 3: illuminated sign. I'm like, I want the wool one. I
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  Speaker 3: want the one that you know people could take pictures
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  Speaker 3: in front of little did I know that I would
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  Speaker 3: set myself up.
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  Speaker 2: To create a photo drop.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody would take pictures in front of every celebrity you
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  Speaker 3: could think that will come and take these pictures.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 3: It was a big hit and it helped, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like circulate around social media. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, when we go in the Treehouse, I
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  Speaker 3: want a photo drop. I want somewhere for people to
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  Speaker 3: take pictures. So we created that at Treehouse and the
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  Speaker 3: way it came about there was a friend of mine,
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  Speaker 3: Kendel furan genius when it comes to you know, art
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  Speaker 3: and just with what he does, he's a dope person.
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  Speaker 2: He was like. He came looked at it and he
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  Speaker 2: was like yo, Like I'm like, yo, look I want this.
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  Speaker 2: I want to paint here. I don't know what I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be.
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  Speaker 3: So we just started pondering our ideas and we was like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I want a picture at jay Z.
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  Speaker 2: But that also come from theoria.
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  Speaker 3: She also mentioned something about like, you know, putting somebody
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  Speaker 3: like it was gonna do. Wayne was thinking about different
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  Speaker 3: people to put but we came up with an idea
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  Speaker 3: of like, you know, jay Z and turning his head
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  Speaker 3: into like a tree or something right, and it was
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  Speaker 3: the idea.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't really know it was gonna look the way
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  Speaker 2: it looked.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like I got the perfect person for this.
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  Speaker 3: So he called Jerrion and Geren came over, a dope artist,
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  Speaker 3: local cool dude, and we started to develop this idea.
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  Speaker 3: And so we all came up with this idea and
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  Speaker 3: then I told him like, yo, look like hole gonna
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  Speaker 3: take a picture in front of this all right, both
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  Speaker 3: didn't take a picture in front of it. But after
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got the painting up went viral. You
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  Speaker 3: got fab taking pictures in front of it, everybody who
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  Speaker 3: come to the Treehouse taking pictures in front of it,
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  Speaker 3: and a few friends sent it over to Emory's J
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  Speaker 3: and everybody and J wanted to buy it. And so
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to buy it to put it in a
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  Speaker 3: rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and uh so he
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  Speaker 3: pursed the painting and he put it in the Rock
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  Speaker 3: and Roll Hall of Fame. And I went to, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I was in Cleveland for All Star weekend and I
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  Speaker 3: went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
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  Speaker 3: I saw this photo and then had my name on
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  Speaker 3: side in the Treehouse and uh, you know jerm Bee's
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  Speaker 3: and it was dope, you know, because you know, it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what's been happening in my life. I've been
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  Speaker 3: projecting a lot of things into the universe, and it's
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  Speaker 3: like it happens because of you know, just like just
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  Speaker 3: just knowing it will, you know, and and praying and
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  Speaker 3: just like being thankful for the opportunity and just everything
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  Speaker 3: that's going on. So when whole like when I got
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  Speaker 3: to call like hold want to buy him? Like Yo,
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  Speaker 3: that's dope. And honestly, I didn't want to let the
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  Speaker 3: painting go, but it's it was bigger than me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was big. I would have felt like a sucking
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  Speaker 3: not you know, letting that peyton fly because you know
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna help you know, an artist from New Orleans
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  Speaker 3: and they'll open up more doors for just all of us,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: So did you speak to him directly or just somebody?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I spoke to his team.
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  Speaker 3: They reached out and we was going it was negotiating
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  Speaker 3: for like two months about the prices.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did they ever pull up? I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I've seen pictures was maybe with Salon's just Salon.
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  Speaker 4: Did anybody from the team pull up to the Treeols
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  Speaker 4: prior to leaving the Payton leaving?
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  Speaker 2: No? But it was like a big rollout, like erness,
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