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Episode 353 "Atlanta Promotors" · The Baller Alert Show

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Speaker 1: The broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia. Went to the ball
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Speaker 1: Alert show.
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Speaker 2: I go by the name of Ferrari, I go by
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Speaker 2: the name you know, beat Town. We got by botching
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Speaker 2: to the show, Fellas, this is a special show. Biddy
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Speaker 2: saw one of the we had with a couple of
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Speaker 2: who do we have on the show? We had DJ
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Speaker 2: cas Oh, yeah, we had cash and we talked about Yeah.
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Speaker 2: He was like, we gotta get on here and we
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Speaker 2: need to talk. I was like, well, who's gonna bring
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Speaker 2: He brought the heavy hitters, and he brought the heavy
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Speaker 2: hitter the heavy architects. The architects. That's that's the perfect
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Speaker 2: of that of the Atlanta nightlife. Biddy in particular, was
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Speaker 2: one of the first people to give me a job when.
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Speaker 1: I moved to Atlanta. I literally moved to Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: Because he said, yeah, I got you that that's really
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Speaker 2: that's a terrible thing for someone to say, yeah, just
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Speaker 2: just move everything they they got going on.
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Speaker 1: My daughter was one.
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Speaker 2: I left to Atlanta because he said, yeah, I got you.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna do the best that I can.
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Speaker 2: And he had me running around in the clubs. I
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Speaker 2: didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was
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Speaker 2: just going all over the to do I was doing that.
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Speaker 2: So Bitty Barnes Bachi abe wow, yeah, please introduce yourselves.
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Speaker 3: My name is mister Biddy Barnes. I'm from the Bronx,
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Speaker 3: New York, and I am one of the architects of nightlife.
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Speaker 3: I've been doing parties since nineteen ninety two ninety three.
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Speaker 3: I started with Al Entertainment ag Entertainment. I met him
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Speaker 3: at one of his parties actually at Ethiopian Vibrations, and
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Speaker 3: Mike Squib was like, I want to introduce you to somebody.
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Speaker 3: I think y'all should be friends, and introduced me to
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Speaker 3: Al and from that day we just clicked. And then
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Speaker 3: one day he introduced me to AID and that's where
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Speaker 3: that's where, that's where it really starts because ab gavers
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Speaker 3: Friday nights over there. That'sols Yeah, I remember I had
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Speaker 3: Friday nights aso. But go ahead, what's the first?
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Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? I'm Bachie uh the first? Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's so.
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Speaker 3: But they call you big Bachi.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, me and my brother two years apart. We're
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Speaker 1: from College Park, our parents are from Ghana. Bachi's our
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Speaker 1: last name. But I started throwing parties in really high school.
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Speaker 1: But college I went to West Georgia. Uh started my
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Speaker 1: entertainment company with my boys A and then Uh, it's
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Speaker 1: funny my cousin Pat Oh. Yeah, Russell. They used to
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Speaker 1: hold down Georgia Southern. So they had their crew at
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Speaker 1: Georgia Southern called Steady Rising. Had Bai and was Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Then our girl Nicole Martin, she was at Georgia State,
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Speaker 1: and we all grew up together. So everybody threw parties
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Speaker 1: at their colleges and when we would come home, we
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Speaker 1: had an umbrella company called Certified Crumptents. Through college, we
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Speaker 1: all was the man or the woman at they school
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Speaker 1: and then when we came home, we threw the parties.
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Speaker 1: So by the time we graduated, we already had a
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Speaker 1: name in nightlife in Atlanta, and so when we graduated,
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Speaker 1: we were still throwing parties and we already had a crowd.
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Speaker 1: I met both of these guys on our way up.
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Speaker 1: Ab was doing his thing, Biddy was doing his thing
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Speaker 1: with AG and I think I was like the first
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Speaker 1: young guy who came to him who had a crowd.
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Speaker 3: And from that before social media, before.
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Speaker 1: For social media, before we started doing the Texas. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, the text blasts and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and then.
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Speaker 3: The truth is the niggas came out of nowhere. He
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Speaker 3: was like, where did these guys come from?
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Speaker 1: We came out of nowhere to the Atlanta mainstream nightlife.
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Speaker 1: He's right. But if you were from our side, if
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Speaker 1: you from here and you went to college anytime doing
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Speaker 1: from two thousand to two thousand and eight, you knew
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Speaker 1: about us. And then we kept it going. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, and then from that graduated to
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Speaker 1: some ownership. So got saft buckhead. I have a tax
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Speaker 1: office business. Got you got a tax office too. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing taxas fifteen years.
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Speaker 3: That's his ship. That's the bread and butter. Hey, what's up, sir?
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Speaker 4: My name is ab Washington, Washington, d C. Who swim
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Speaker 4: is the godfather? Sir? H I started uh the business
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Speaker 4: in d C. I started as a DJ, went up,
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Speaker 4: stopped promoting, did some clubs in New York, Washington, now Atlanta,
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Speaker 4: and we moved around up and down. During Super Bowl
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Speaker 4: doing Super Bowl All Star weekend. Biddy was there.
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Speaker 3: He ain't doing it right. Let me do it for him. No, No,
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Speaker 3: we're not doing that. That's a Washington. A Washington started
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Speaker 3: throwing parties in DC as a DJ. He went from
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Speaker 3: a DJ HI the DJ because his door was so busy,
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Speaker 3: he started working at the door. The owners of the
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Speaker 3: club that he worked at told these guys that killer
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Speaker 3: Manjar in New York, I got your manager. They sent
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Speaker 3: Aid to New York and became a manager of Killer
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Speaker 3: Manjary in eighty eight eighty nine, which is a huge
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Speaker 3: club in New York at the particular time. That's where
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Speaker 3: Abe learned all of the background of how everything works.
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Speaker 3: This is why all of this shit makes sense. So
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Speaker 3: Abe comes here, he leaves New York, comes to Atlanta.
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Speaker 3: During this time, me and Al had already started doing
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Speaker 3: these little parties or whatever. But then A pops in
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Speaker 3: and he has an idea. So Abe walking around the
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Speaker 3: city finds Essos. After he finds Essos, he goes to
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Speaker 3: the radio stations. I can't remember the person name he
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Speaker 3: spoke to, and he told him listen, there you go.
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Speaker 3: He said, listen, I want to do a live broadcast
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Speaker 3: at my club, Essos on Cortland Street. And they were like,
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Speaker 3: live broadcast, what is that? They didn't even know, So
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Speaker 3: he said, listen, your partner station. What's that called kiss
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Speaker 3: in DC? Call what you call it, They'll explain it
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Speaker 3: to you. He called them to explain it to him.
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Speaker 3: Abe created the first live broadcast in Atlanta that blew
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Speaker 3: everything up. Then he said, hey, you guys can have
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Speaker 3: the party. I don't even want my name on the radio.
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Speaker 3: Put your name on the radio. That's where the change
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Speaker 3: of the game was.
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Speaker 2: That's fire, all right. So I want to start with
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Speaker 2: ad because a lot of people all I've never had
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Speaker 2: a problem with ad A treats me very well.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but people be like, man, Abe's
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Speaker 1: an asshole.
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Speaker 4: Fuck e damn A.
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Speaker 1: What the hell you did the pistols?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 1: Could you treat me very well?
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Speaker 4: Let me let me tell you something. It's the nature
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Speaker 4: of the business.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 4: People don't understand the night life is really a business.
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Speaker 4: I run it as a business, all right. So persaying
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Speaker 4: you come to the door, I said, yo, you gotta
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Speaker 4: pay now, I'm an asshole, right, you come to the club.
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Speaker 4: Let's say if we have some moves on regulation. Yeah, man,
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Speaker 4: you can't come. You have a dress code where we
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Speaker 4: have this and that. You're an asshole. You know this business,
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Speaker 4: you can't have everybody love you otherwise ain't gonna make money.
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Speaker 4: It's true, you know, so people taking personally, I can
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Speaker 4: never understood why they think the night life persueing the
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Speaker 4: club business is just a game. So I usually ask
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Speaker 4: people say, yo, what do you do for a living?
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Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. So let me ask you a question.
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Speaker 4: You work in the store, men's store or you know,
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Speaker 4: clothing store. If I come there ask give me a
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Speaker 4: free jeans, will you do it?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: I can't.
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Speaker 4: You know I can't do that. Well, I can't let
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Speaker 4: you in for free because at the end of the night,
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Speaker 4: I gotta pay security, I gotta pay DJ, I got expense.
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Speaker 4: If I'm not gonna make money, you're not gonna stand
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Speaker 4: there say yo, abe here, let me chip in. You'd
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Speaker 4: be like I'm out. So when you don't give people
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Speaker 4: the way they what they want, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 4: you you know they'll see you as an asshole. So,
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Speaker 4: like I said, I'm not in this business to be
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Speaker 4: loved or this. I respect my customers. I love the business,
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Speaker 4: but I have rules. Regulation. Obey the woos on regulation.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 4: Not only if you want to time on this.
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Speaker 1: I mean when I first met Ad, I thought he
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Speaker 1: was on some bullshit at first too. I'm gonna keep it,
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Speaker 1: really I did. But what I learned, what I learned
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Speaker 1: as I got older, a lot of people don't didn't
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Speaker 1: respect what we do as a real business. You see
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, and the difference between me and
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Speaker 1: him when we came in the game. A lot of
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Speaker 1: our friends was our core audience at first. Right, So
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Speaker 1: if I've been letting you in Ferrari since we've been
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Speaker 1: in school, now you see me like, damn botch you.
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Speaker 1: I told such such a why can I get in?
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Speaker 1: So typically I would let that person in. But then
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Speaker 1: when I learned is it is a business and you
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Speaker 1: gotta respect this shit as a business. And a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't you understand what I'm saying. So, if
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Speaker 1: you got a party with five hundred people in there
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Speaker 1: and you don't let in two hundred and fifty people,
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Speaker 1: you look around, you think you're done, made some money.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the night, you count the money.
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Speaker 1: What the fuck you let everybody in free? So what
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Speaker 1: I learned from Abe and Alex Biddy and people who
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Speaker 1: are a little bit uh more vetting the game than
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Speaker 1: I was. You got to treat this shit like a
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Speaker 1: business from the jump, because at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to like me, but you can respect me.
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Speaker 1: And in this game, respect goes further than liking somebody
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Speaker 1: because you always hear about such owner. Damn, we're finna
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Speaker 1: go over here, all right, fuck it, we're gonna let
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Speaker 1: me get my money because I don't even want to
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Speaker 1: deal with this shit at the door. But then you
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Speaker 1: got your man party over here. Oh boy, we're good
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Speaker 1: over here. Were fine at first. I used to be
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Speaker 1: the you know, the good person, but then you want
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Speaker 1: to be the respected person because that's how you make
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Speaker 1: your money. Because guess what, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: two or three years, these people that's coming to your party,
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Speaker 1: that was your friend, you ain't gonna hear from. They
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Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about you, you see what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So it's business at the end of the day. So
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Speaker 1: that's just what it is.
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Speaker 2: Do you guys think hookah change the way how parties
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Speaker 2: are because now that I see I see hookahs and
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Speaker 2: sections more than the dance floor. Does that create more
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Speaker 2: money for you to get or is the the dance floor.
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Speaker 1: How do you guys?
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Speaker 3: You know, the.
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Speaker 1: Dance floor ran away? So in Atlanta, and correct me
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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. The landscape of the music controls the
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Speaker 1: night life, correct all right? So when you saw a
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Speaker 1: dance floor in Atlanta clubs, they was making musics where
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Speaker 1: you were dancing, correct, right. But then when the music
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Speaker 1: changed and it was less about dancing and it was
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Speaker 1: more about popping bottles being vip trap music. There you go.
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Speaker 1: Then the music dictated the way you ran your club,
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Speaker 1: so it was about vip and buying sections. You understand
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And then the hookahs came into the
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Speaker 1: game too, and I think, you know, no disrespect. Nowadays
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Speaker 1: rappers rap about a lot of rap about using the
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Speaker 1: drugs instead of selling the drugs. You understand what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: So the whole night life experience has changed because the
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Speaker 1: music has changed.
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Speaker 3: I want to tap into that a little bit. The
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Speaker 3: consumer controls what happens at the club. You guys have
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Speaker 3: to know that, right. And so in two thousand and three,
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Speaker 3: Vision Open. I think that Vision was the greatest, the
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Speaker 3: greatest thing, and the worst thing all at the same time.
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Speaker 3: Because prior to Vision, Atlanta has two worlds Atlanta and
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Speaker 3: then everybody else right, and so people from Atlanta always
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Speaker 3: partied where they was from south side, west Side, east side,
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Speaker 3: north side, and then people who transplants who came here
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Speaker 3: for school work, whatever, they partied Midtown, Buckhead and shit
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Speaker 3: like that. In two thousand and three were now open Visions.
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Speaker 3: It was a big club. So it collapsed everybody all
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Speaker 3: into the same place. And then when he started doing
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Speaker 3: parties with trappers and Jesus and all that, then it
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Speaker 3: made people who were south Side, east Side, west Side
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Speaker 3: who wouldn't come into the city gave him a reason
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Speaker 3: to come into the city. So after a while, niggas
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Speaker 3: didn't want to dance no more. They wanted VIP sections.
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Speaker 3: Even the regular person that had a nine to five
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Speaker 3: job that it really wasn't for them. They wanted to
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Speaker 3: be a part of that. They wanted to be in
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Speaker 3: a section and.
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Speaker 4: Popet bottom and a Vision we had a days for
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Speaker 4: actually there was that was that was up there in
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Speaker 4: the bottom.
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Speaker 3: But Vision was also the place that had about ninety
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Speaker 3: VIP sections, and that created a reason for regular people
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Speaker 3: who never bought VIP sections because prior to Vision, there
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Speaker 3: was velvet room in the velvet room. There was big
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Speaker 3: dance floor and VIP sections. Regular people didn't buy sections
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Speaker 3: in there. Only VIP people bought sections. Football players, basketball players, hustlers.
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Speaker 3: At Vision nine to five people bought sections.
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Speaker 1: Okay, And the sections here's the key. The sections was elevated.
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Speaker 1: Were on the dance floor. I look up, you look
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Speaker 1: to see who in vi P, and when I'm in
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Speaker 1: vi P, I look down to see who on the
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Speaker 1: dance floor. Was that purpose? Okay? If I'm if I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna pay extra, I need to be seen and the
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Speaker 1: people that see me gonna be below me, so that
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Speaker 1: you know that's that's just how it is.
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Speaker 4: Let me break it down from my point of view, okay,
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Speaker 4: And I'm gonna break it down from both from the
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Speaker 4: club owner's side and from the customer side.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 4: The night life people keep saying, I know we're from Atlanta,
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Speaker 4: we talk about a land. As far as nightlife, I'll
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Speaker 4: be honest with you, the night life is dying all over.
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Speaker 4: You know you guys have some club owners elsewhere. Let
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Speaker 4: me tell your slow blah blah blah. Part of it
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Speaker 4: could be financial. People don't have money. In Europe. A
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Speaker 4: lot of big clubs are closing down there. They're blaming
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Speaker 4: the social media. They were saying, a lot of young
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Speaker 4: people don't want to go to the clubs no more.
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Speaker 4: They would rather stay on the social media.
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Speaker 1: That's what I hear.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of clubs is shutting down as far
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Speaker 4: as here home. Club owners. Let me tell you from
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Speaker 4: what I've seen club owners. First things first, they don't
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Speaker 4: want they don't wrun the business like business right. Two,
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Speaker 4: they forgot the customer service. They don't give no customer service.
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Speaker 4: Talk about three gouging they think. You know, there are
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Speaker 4: a lot of club owners just got into the clubs
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Speaker 4: because Atlanta is probably one of the easiest place you
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Speaker 4: can get a liquor license. I can go find a building,
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Speaker 4: slap some painting, some lights, put some sofas, sound system,
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Speaker 4: you know, go get a liquor license. If I can't
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Speaker 4: get a liquor license to the nightclub, I can get
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Speaker 4: a liquor license, a restaurant license, open it and running
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Speaker 4: at the club, parking ownership charging people forty fifty sixty
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Speaker 4: dollars to part.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.
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Speaker 4: Okay. When I say club owners, let me include the staff.
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Speaker 4: The staff they don't get enough training. How to handle
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Speaker 4: the customer, give them customer service. DJs, they don't care
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Speaker 4: about their art. They come and just play whatever they
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Speaker 4: want to play, this and this and that. That's from
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Speaker 4: that part. Now let me take you from the customer
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Speaker 4: point of view. The customers are confused. They don't know
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Speaker 4: what the fuck they want. They don't come to the
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Speaker 4: clubs to party anymore. Like but you say, partially, I
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Speaker 4: think the problem the music. The music has been coming
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Speaker 4: out the last what five six years, ten ten years?
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Speaker 1: He gave a party to it.
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Speaker 4: That's why if you noticed a lot of R and
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Speaker 4: B NICs are getting popular now in the city because
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Speaker 4: you can dance to it. That's true, okay. And the
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Speaker 4: customer don't know what they want. They want to come
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Speaker 4: to your club one o'clock just to party for one hour.
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Speaker 1: That shit is crazy, you know it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: I mean Jamin the pre dot to Day posted something saying, YO,
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Speaker 4: can you please if you book me from now as
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Speaker 4: a DJ, see if the crowd can come there twelve o'clock.
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Speaker 3: So he told him book me for twelve thirty. I
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Speaker 3: want to be on d don't put me to DJ,
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Speaker 3: that's what he says.
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Speaker 4: He's right, people show me Yo, when I opened the
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Speaker 4: door ten o'clock from ten to midnight, twelve thirty is nothing.
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Speaker 4: So you know I have a saying like, oh shit,
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Speaker 4: the airplane landed. It's like, you feel like everybody's coming
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Speaker 4: out the same time.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it goes back to my point again. You
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Speaker 3: know why that is because every body wants to be
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Speaker 3: VI and P. I keep telling you, when the opportunity
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Speaker 3: came for a regular person to feel like he was special,
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Speaker 3: they wanted to op all the way in. The regular
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Speaker 3: person doesn't come to the club. He don't have to
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Speaker 3: have no money. He not coming to one thirty.
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Speaker 1: The fuck you doing that?
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Speaker 3: You need to be there.
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Speaker 4: Tenure your promoters, your promoters. When we used to promote
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Speaker 4: to be at the we used to shop a nine
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Speaker 4: thirty the club. Make sure everything's right, make sure the
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Speaker 4: sound is there, make sure the DJ's there. Boom boom boom.
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Speaker 4: Opened the door. Now you promoters, they don't be shop
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Speaker 4: up to one o'clock and like, yo, yeah, celebrity, you're
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Speaker 4: just walking.
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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, though, the difference between when
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Speaker 1: you started, you started, even when I started, and now
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Speaker 1: is two things. The main one is saturated and what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, is all the promoters ex promoters in Atlanta
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Speaker 1: are owners now right, True, that's number one. So it's
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Speaker 1: too many clubs. It's too like when I was going
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Speaker 1: to Visions and buying sections. You went to Visions on
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Speaker 1: this day. You went here on this day. You didn't
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Speaker 1: have a bunch of options. But the biggest thing that
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Speaker 1: you I think you said it. The biggest thing is
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Speaker 1: social media. I'm gonna break the shit down back in
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Speaker 1: the day, right, in order to be seen, in order
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Speaker 1: to see what's going on, in order to hear from somebody,
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Speaker 1: you gotta be there. You ain't come last night. But
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Speaker 1: now with social media, right, you can see it. Everything
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Speaker 1: in the part of your hand.
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Speaker 2: Saw what you missed last night.
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Speaker 1: So I was just talking to this lady and she
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Speaker 1: was telling me about how her son goes in his
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Speaker 1: room and don't come out. I said, my son do
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Speaker 1: the same thing. I said, wy, he gotta come out though,
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Speaker 1: because everything he needs is in his hand. If you
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Speaker 1: ain't go to the party last night, you can see
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Speaker 1: it on social media. If you want to see what
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Speaker 1: Ferrari was wearing last night, you can go to your Instagram.
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Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, if you want to see
17:42
Speaker 1: what everybody's talking about, you visit a blog site. Back
17:45
Speaker 1: in the day, you ain't have to do that. You
17:46
Speaker 1: had to be there. You don't got to be there
17:48
Speaker 1: now because it's all in your hand. That's what's really
17:50
Speaker 1: killing night life. And nowadays less is more. So you
17:56
Speaker 1: want to be in intimate settings, Like when I go out,
17:59
Speaker 1: I don't want to go out where it's two hundred
18:01
Speaker 1: people on my back smelling like weed. I gotta stand
18:04
Speaker 1: in fucking line. Like you don't want to do that ship.
18:06
Speaker 1: You want to go somewherehere it's cool and where say
18:08
Speaker 1: it's somebody. You see what I'm saying, Less it's more.
18:13
Speaker 1: That's why we got saws. It's a small lounge because
18:16
Speaker 1: that big ship is dead. Like nobody want to be there.
18:19
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying is to be honest right now,
18:22
Speaker 1: no shade. The people who really club like for real
18:25
Speaker 1: are young people or people who don't people who haven't
18:29
Speaker 1: experienced it before. You know what I'm saying. Even y'all,
18:31
Speaker 1: Like y'all was here when Jeezi was throwing parties, being
18:34
Speaker 1: math parties or whatever you want to call it that era.
18:38
Speaker 4: It's like every generation things change.
18:44
Speaker 1: This generation changed technology now is like's I give you
18:51
Speaker 1: all example, these motherfuckers was coming out with silent parties, bro,
18:55
Speaker 1: you remember that that was the thing, a silent parties.
18:59
Speaker 1: So just to think about a motherfucker coming to the club,
19:02
Speaker 1: give you some headphones and everybody's partying and we're not
19:05
Speaker 1: talking to nobody. What the fuck is that? But at
19:08
Speaker 1: the same time, that's what that's that's what we had
19:11
Speaker 1: it though.
19:12
Speaker 2: I will remember one time I'll never forget. It was
19:14
Speaker 2: a New Year's E party I was hosting, and everybody
19:18
Speaker 2: in the.
19:18
Speaker 3: Club was on their phone exactly they were.
19:22
Speaker 2: People were having a good time, but people were like
19:24
Speaker 2: this having a good time, and I was like, damn,
19:29
Speaker 2: put the phones down.
19:31
Speaker 1: All the people that's on their phone, they're making it
19:33
Speaker 1: easier for the motherfucker people.
19:35
Speaker 4: What's going on?
19:35
Speaker 1: What's going on?
19:36
Speaker 4: But you makes you antisocial?
19:40
Speaker 6: Everybody's anti social, Like even like thinking about this means.
19:44
Speaker 1: That's why, that's why there's the merge of social media.
19:47
Speaker 1: You don't got to be you don't got to be social.
19:49
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You like the girl, you
19:51
Speaker 1: won't say nothing to it, but you're gonna like a
19:52
Speaker 1: you're gonna like a post, but you don't have.
19:55
Speaker 3: To talk to face to face, face to face the
19:58
Speaker 3: other way.
19:58
Speaker 1: Guess what she can deny you. She can deny you
20:01
Speaker 1: on technology, you good. But if you tell you to
20:03
Speaker 1: your face, like, man, what the fuck? I ain't talking
20:04
Speaker 1: to you? Yeah, you're saying that shit hit different, you
20:07
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But if you don't get a
20:08
Speaker 1: reply on the DM and you don DM one hundred girls,
20:11
Speaker 1: as long as you get two or three back, you good.
20:13
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. But if you won't go
20:15
Speaker 1: out and talk to one hundred girls, see what I'm saying.
20:17
Speaker 1: So that's, in my opinion, that's really what it is.
20:20
Speaker 4: Shit all the time of niggas do know how to
20:21
Speaker 4: talk to girls? Ain't?
20:23
Speaker 5: Well?
20:23
Speaker 6: You know what I've noticed just this past years, I've
20:26
Speaker 6: noticed it used to be like where people would go
20:28
Speaker 6: to the club and they'll be happy to bring ten
20:31
Speaker 6: fifteen girls to the club.
20:32
Speaker 1: Now I'm like.
20:34
Speaker 3: Man, where y'all where y'all girls at?
20:36
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
20:37
Speaker 3: Like dudes in a section with seven eight dudes? I'm like,
20:40
Speaker 3: where y'all girls at?
20:42
Speaker 1: You know what that means though?
20:43
Speaker 4: Right?
20:43
Speaker 3: Tell me, huh cool, they can't afford it.
20:47
Speaker 1: That's what I said. Hit me out, Hit me out.
20:48
Speaker 4: Hear me out.
20:49
Speaker 1: If the dudes with the bag, he can buy the
20:52
Speaker 1: section by himself and control who comes in the section.
20:55
Speaker 1: When you see eight hundred people over there, ten of
20:57
Speaker 1: them split a thousand dollars, You understand what I'm saying.
21:00
Speaker 1: Second section two thousand, You got ten tim boys put
21:04
Speaker 1: up two hundred dollars a piece. Now you have to
21:06
Speaker 1: do a crime for extra risbands because it's a sausage
21:08
Speaker 1: party in your section. I mean, that's the truth all
21:11
Speaker 1: about you.
21:12
Speaker 4: But you know, hear me at the bars people, you
21:19
Speaker 4: have to get this mind. You don't have to be
21:22
Speaker 4: in the section as you do. No hall, no things
21:26
Speaker 4: have to change them. You have to be You don't
21:27
Speaker 4: have to be in the section.
21:28
Speaker 1: It ain't about what you say. It's about the females.
21:30
Speaker 1: The female is not gonna talk to by sitting at
21:32
Speaker 1: the bar. And this is what I'm saying. She wanted
21:35
Speaker 1: the god buying boles.
21:37
Speaker 4: For real, for real, you can come to a club
21:41
Speaker 4: if you don't have a section post off by the bar.
21:44
Speaker 4: He was crazy. You don't have it. You can't afford
21:46
Speaker 4: it right, meet one girl, buy a couple of drinks
21:50
Speaker 4: and just talk to her.
21:51
Speaker 1: That's true.
21:52
Speaker 3: Let me say something real quick. I was raised.
21:54
Speaker 2: I was raised, and I feel like I have really
21:56
Speaker 2: good o g's around me.
21:57
Speaker 1: B it b in one of them.
21:58
Speaker 2: I was raised and talk that a party is ran
22:01
Speaker 2: and circulated around women. I feel like if they show up,
22:06
Speaker 2: if you cater to them, it's going to create a
22:09
Speaker 2: great atmosphere for everyone to have.
22:12
Speaker 4: It supposed to be.
22:13
Speaker 1: That's how it's supposed. That's why he said, the R
22:16
Speaker 1: and B parties is working like. That's why when we
22:19
Speaker 1: were doing Cassette, right, the whole thing Hannah created and
22:23
Speaker 1: Kenny Burns we created Cassette was to give you an
22:26
Speaker 1: experience about something that you had back in the day.
22:29
Speaker 1: That's why the artists were artists, Nostalion artists. That's why
22:32
Speaker 1: it was really about R and B. Mostly because if
22:35
Speaker 1: the women have a good time, everybody else is gonna
22:37
Speaker 1: have a good to go. And so if the women's
22:38
Speaker 1: on the dance floor singing, dancing or doing whatever, then
22:42
Speaker 1: the guy's gonna come too. If it's an R and
22:43
Speaker 1: B party, you can't look all that tough at the
22:45
Speaker 1: R and B party, You singing fucking Jodsy. You understand
22:48
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So which one is it? So what
22:49
Speaker 1: I'm saying is the art not real? So the R
22:52
Speaker 1: and B party, if it's done right, it's supposed to
22:55
Speaker 1: create that atmosphere where everybody's having a good time.
22:57
Speaker 2: Give me, that's the most fun parties now be because
23:00
Speaker 2: it's just.
23:01
Speaker 1: But when you got and you drinking, what do you
23:05
Speaker 1: start doing? Start singing exactly and.
23:08
Speaker 6: You socialize, you have you have a good time. But
23:10
Speaker 6: I don't like these fake R and B parties. And
23:12
Speaker 6: when I'm talking about these fake R B parties, they
23:15
Speaker 6: say it's.
23:15
Speaker 3: An R and B part and then they play and
23:17
Speaker 3: you go, where's.
23:20
Speaker 1: R and B? We played?
23:21
Speaker 6: Y'all play trap for two hours and play R and
23:23
Speaker 6: B for thirty minutes and get us to walk through
23:25
Speaker 6: the door.
23:25
Speaker 4: Because you know, you know what a lot of DJs,
23:27
Speaker 4: there's not a lot of DJs that's call R and
23:30
Speaker 4: B all night long?
23:31
Speaker 3: Can the djna have a real deep bad who.
23:34
Speaker 4: Got music knowledge and you know in those music.
23:37
Speaker 1: But Atlanta now is not a club times a restaurant time, yo.
23:41
Speaker 3: So let's said that, But let's also do this right.
23:46
Speaker 3: Another big problem is that promoters don't know the role
23:49
Speaker 3: of what a promoter is supposed to be and.
23:51
Speaker 4: Do what existence.
23:54
Speaker 3: So that's that that.
23:59
Speaker 4: You owner, don't say that what no, no, what I
24:02
Speaker 4: about say. There's some a lot of them. Let me
24:05
Speaker 4: rephrase it, a lot of them. They call themselves a
24:07
Speaker 4: promoter promoter.
24:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
24:10
Speaker 4: Let me tell you one of my promoters, I told
24:12
Speaker 4: you this by good night, right, one of my promoters.
24:14
Speaker 4: Usually what promoters that we give them, you know, copp hookah,
24:18
Speaker 4: com bottles. I saw promoter my surrounded with girls any section,
24:25
Speaker 4: smoking the hookah, doing drinking the bottles and on Instagram.
24:32
Speaker 4: So I called him. I said, listen, the house is
24:34
Speaker 4: almost full. Go around shape. People say thank you for
24:37
Speaker 4: coming me some new people.
24:38
Speaker 1: So for now, people don't do that.
24:40
Speaker 4: You know what he told me, I don't know a promoter.
24:42
Speaker 4: I told him, what are you? He said, I'm lifestyle specialist.
24:46
Speaker 4: Oh ship, I don't know what that ship means? I said,
24:49
Speaker 4: Kenny birds. Kenny has a right to say that. So
24:57
Speaker 4: that's when I say, Yo, these people came to support you. Yes,
25:03
Speaker 4: but at least at least he can do is just
25:05
Speaker 4: go around, you know, give him some data. Thank you
25:08
Speaker 4: for coming out, blah blah blah, and go back to
25:10
Speaker 4: your seat.
25:11
Speaker 3: So let me, I'm gonna say something. Hey, can you
25:14
Speaker 3: be man? Can we be mad? Right? This is the
25:16
Speaker 3: truth and this is the super truth. Maybe, right, just
25:20
Speaker 3: maybe that the early promoters worked so hard and did
25:24
Speaker 3: the job so well that people wanted to be promoters,
25:28
Speaker 3: not to be promoters, just to get the look that promoters. God,
25:31
Speaker 3: they could care less about the business, they could care
25:34
Speaker 3: less about the money, but maybe they wanted to look
25:36
Speaker 3: so they can get girls and attention and stuff like that.
25:39
Speaker 3: Because for all intense purposes where I come from, promoters,
25:43
Speaker 3: you have three elements. Right, If you got a couple
25:45
Speaker 3: people on your team, somebody's the cool guy that attracts
25:48
Speaker 3: the people truth, and then you got the guy that
25:50
Speaker 3: handles the business. And then then you got the guy
25:52
Speaker 3: that's willing to do whatever it takes to make sure
25:55
Speaker 3: that the event runs right. During the process. Now it's
25:57
Speaker 3: just people. They're not do people not putting up there
26:00
Speaker 3: money to do parties no more. They work with the club.
26:02
Speaker 3: Somebody's handling in and they're just waiting for a little payout. Hey,
26:05
Speaker 3: oh you got two twenty here's two seventy for you,
26:07
Speaker 3: here's two fifty. You can't sustain off that, so you
26:10
Speaker 3: got to go get a job.
26:11
Speaker 4: No, you know what I think the problem the art
26:14
Speaker 4: of promotion. The generation never passed it to the next
26:18
Speaker 4: generation and then changed. No, social media has changed it
26:27
Speaker 4: old my guys, how many flyers have you done? How
26:29
Speaker 4: many fliers now? Social media? It's like you say, it's
26:32
Speaker 4: a click away, you know, but the being more personal,
26:38
Speaker 4: That's what I was going to say, thinking the customer, what's.
26:42
Speaker 3: Wrong with that?
26:44
Speaker 1: But y'all, y'all are both of y'all are right. What
26:46
Speaker 1: it is is it's saturated one. So when it's so
26:49
Speaker 1: much of the same thing, people do less. And also
26:52
Speaker 1: when when when I was promoting, I'm sure when you
26:55
Speaker 1: guys were promoting, there was a personal element to it,
26:58
Speaker 1: like you pass out a flyer or you text or
27:01
Speaker 1: call up person you see what I'm saying. But now
27:03
Speaker 1: I can post it on my page and you see
27:05
Speaker 1: it and then you come versus me personally inviting you
27:08
Speaker 1: to something that dove Like, listen, if you go to
27:11
Speaker 1: my page and you saw an event I was doing,
27:13
Speaker 1: you be like, damn, I might come. But if I
27:14
Speaker 1: call you like, Rari, hey, I really need you at
27:17
Speaker 1: my spot, or if I drive to your studio or
27:19
Speaker 1: your office or whatever, and I'll hand you an invitation, like, bro,
27:21
Speaker 1: I need you here. That needs exactly when it was,
27:26
Speaker 1: you know, the days they talking about That's what people
27:28
Speaker 1: was doing. You do that though, And it wasn't that
27:32
Speaker 1: many parties, bro. So if I miss Biddy's party at
27:36
Speaker 1: Velvet Room or ABS party at s O or whoever
27:39
Speaker 1: you want to call it, you know or bot you
27:41
Speaker 1: certified college reunion party. If I missed that event, I
27:44
Speaker 1: may not get to go to that event again for
27:45
Speaker 1: the next few months or the next year. You see
27:47
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But when it's every week, it's the
27:49
Speaker 1: same shit, it's the same. You're not doing nothing, you
27:53
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And original We partied so early,
27:58
Speaker 1: for so long. By the time I started my freshman
28:03
Speaker 1: in college, right by the time I graduated college, I
28:06
Speaker 1: was damn that partied out because we part I was nineteen,
28:11
Speaker 1: listen to me, So you was tired of it, right,
28:14
Speaker 1: and so most of our generation, no matter if you're
28:18
Speaker 1: in your fifties, your forties, or your late thirties, they
28:20
Speaker 1: partied a lot in their twenties. So now they want
28:22
Speaker 1: something different, especially when it's everybody doing it like damn,
28:26
Speaker 1: he doing party too, Yo, I gotta do something else
28:28
Speaker 1: like this, motherfuck god, it's too much. So now you
28:31
Speaker 1: want something different, you know what I'm saying. And so
28:33
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, the restaurants is more of an experience. Guess what.
28:36
Speaker 1: You can go to the restaurant. You can eat good,
28:38
Speaker 1: you can drink, catch a vibe, catch a vibe, and
28:40
Speaker 1: a lot of them got DJs, and you're gonna get
28:42
Speaker 1: better customer service to parking is cheaper. And that's saying listen,
28:47
Speaker 1: that's same two fifty two hundred dollars budget you had
28:50
Speaker 1: to go to the club. Oh, now you're doing something.
28:51
Speaker 4: You full, you full.
28:53
Speaker 1: You can gut some drinks and something for everybody.
28:55
Speaker 2: And this is a good one. What dictates or what
28:59
Speaker 2: determines hang the DJ the fee that.
29:01
Speaker 1: They want.
29:04
Speaker 3: Brand value meaning that you you know that the DJ
29:08
Speaker 3: one when he posts it and he puts it on
29:10
Speaker 3: his page, his followers are gonna pay attention to that. Two.
29:13
Speaker 3: He doesn't just DJ at the club, He actually sits
29:16
Speaker 3: in the space that is his own. That you're like, nah,
29:19
Speaker 3: if you want somebody you call what's his name? For
29:21
Speaker 3: that he's a specialist. He ain't just Oh yeah, I
29:24
Speaker 3: could DJ reggae party, or I could DJ your hip
29:26
Speaker 3: hop party, or I could DJ R and B party,
29:29
Speaker 3: or your afrobeats. I could do that too, But what
29:31
Speaker 3: is your specialty? What do you do?
29:33
Speaker 5: Great?
29:34
Speaker 4: You know Beddy what's her name? Posted regarding the dj
29:37
Speaker 4: you know jan thing that day. Half of the DJs
29:40
Speaker 4: they don't even post where they gonna be at. They
29:44
Speaker 4: don't even promote where they're gonna be at. Okay, and
29:47
Speaker 4: at the same token to I blame ownership. You know,
29:50
Speaker 4: they used to be from New York. There were some
29:52
Speaker 4: DJs that die hard followers, Oh what's his Name's gonna
29:55
Speaker 4: be here? S and That's gonna be here, Kick gonna
29:57
Speaker 4: be here, Flex's gonna be here, Social is gonna be
29:59
Speaker 4: here Atlanta. The DJs never bothered to promote it themselves.
30:04
Speaker 4: At the same token, ownership never bothered to promote the DJs. So,
30:10
Speaker 4: as a DJ, as your name is your brand, you
30:13
Speaker 4: have to create your own brand and you followers and
30:16
Speaker 4: when you DJing, true t be told take it as
30:21
Speaker 4: your skills. It's amazing how even though mind you most
30:26
Speaker 4: of them. Some of them are producers. It's amazing how
30:28
Speaker 4: the d M DJs they get paid fifty sixty seventy
30:31
Speaker 4: thousand dollars a night, and our hip hop DJs don't
30:34
Speaker 4: get but they don't get me call them and they
30:39
Speaker 4: produce the ADM DJ is produced. But there's a lot
30:42
Speaker 4: of DJs. Some DJs they don't take it seriously. They
30:46
Speaker 4: don't take the art, meaning they have to probably DJ
30:50
Speaker 4: every night because the pay is not that great. When
30:53
Speaker 4: they DJ every night, they got the same set. I've seen.
30:58
Speaker 6: I hate that when you know, when you know, okay,
31:00
Speaker 6: he's about to play this, and then what time is it?
31:02
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, he's about to play this.
31:06
Speaker 4: I want to hear. I've seen DJs to my nigga. Listen,
31:10
Speaker 4: they put a record on, put the hook on their mouth,
31:15
Speaker 4: play all the way today switch I should yo, he's
31:22
Speaker 4: not lying.
31:31
Speaker 5: You know, they get on the mic shape I need
31:33
Speaker 5: to refeel on chocold.
31:37
Speaker 1: And that's disrespectful, bro, But listen, listen. He's right though.
31:46
Speaker 1: But at the same time, hey, DJ actually has to
31:49
Speaker 1: play good music, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's
31:51
Speaker 1: what's gonna make a mother. I know listen what I'm saying.
31:55
Speaker 1: First of all, in the DJ's defense. When the DJ
31:58
Speaker 1: and this no shade towards you or whoever. When the
32:01
Speaker 1: DJ gets paid what he's supposed to get paid, he's
32:03
Speaker 1: gonna do everything you want him to do. Half the
32:05
Speaker 1: time they taking pay cuts. So when I take a
32:08
Speaker 1: pay cut, you're not gonna get my full It's just
32:10
Speaker 1: like an artist. You want me to perform, or you
32:13
Speaker 1: paying me to walk through. So if you pay me
32:14
Speaker 1: a walk through price, I'm not touching the mike. But
32:16
Speaker 1: if you give me my rate for my show, then
32:18
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you everything that you want.
32:21
Speaker 3: That's number one. Number two, No, I want you to
32:23
Speaker 3: stop on one. I want to respond to number one.
32:25
Speaker 3: So I want to talk about DJ Casher. I don't
32:27
Speaker 3: want to throw you off.
32:28
Speaker 1: Hold your ahead.
32:29
Speaker 3: If you're a DJ, you believe in yourself, don't take
32:31
Speaker 3: the rate you don't like, don't take it. Dje my man.
32:38
Speaker 3: I watched him and he was like bitty Alice, offering
32:42
Speaker 3: too little. I don't want that, I need this much money,
32:45
Speaker 3: he said, Nah, I don't. I'm not taking that truth truth.
32:52
Speaker 1: No, he's right here, take the money. He went his
32:56
Speaker 1: own way.
32:56
Speaker 3: And look at him.
32:57
Speaker 1: That's true, But that goes back to what I say
33:00
Speaker 1: when you when you pay a DJ with what he's supposed
33:01
Speaker 1: to you're gonna get out of him what you're supposed
33:03
Speaker 1: to get. That's number one and number two, some of
33:05
Speaker 1: these motherfuckers ain't real DJs, you know what I'm saying.
33:08
Speaker 1: And then at the same time, niggas, shame on you
33:10
Speaker 1: if you gonna pay this motherfucker and you're gonna allow
33:12
Speaker 1: him Abe Washington, who don't play ship allow him to
33:16
Speaker 1: smoke that who can play them records? He shouldn't have
33:18
Speaker 1: been djning next year.
33:19
Speaker 4: But the problem is batching most of them do.
33:23
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is if he's smoking hookah and he's
33:27
Speaker 1: not doing his job correctly, and it's not good because
33:32
Speaker 1: guess what, I ain't seen Mars smoking, no God DJ smoking,
33:36
Speaker 1: no hooka up there right, No, that's cat. I ain't
33:38
Speaker 1: seen Cass smoking.
33:40
Speaker 6: But you gotta understand you get what you pay for,
33:42
Speaker 6: and that's what a lot of people did.
33:43
Speaker 1: I'm making. Yeah, that's it.
33:45
Speaker 6: And a lot of those DJs they take the low
33:47
Speaker 6: price because they.
33:48
Speaker 2: Jing five times a week, that's all they got, sometimes
33:51
Speaker 2: three times in one night exactly.
33:53
Speaker 1: So you if you cut your if you dilute your
33:56
Speaker 1: brand right, and you going with you know, I'm going
33:59
Speaker 1: over uh quantity versus quality. If that's your if that's
34:02
Speaker 1: what you want to do, then that's what you're gonna get. Yeah,
34:04
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying.
34:05
Speaker 3: The worstman state you can make in the space is
34:07
Speaker 3: chase the money.
34:07
Speaker 4: Yeah.
34:08
Speaker 1: Yeah. See a lot of people don't understand this is
34:11
Speaker 1: business too, a lot of people. And it's gonna go
34:12
Speaker 1: back to club owners a lot of people. And I'm
34:15
Speaker 1: in the financial space a little bit, so I can
34:16
Speaker 1: see this. A lot of people don't understand how business works,
34:19
Speaker 1: and a lot of people do things they can't afford
34:20
Speaker 1: to do. You understand what I'm saying. It's like, so
34:23
Speaker 1: when you're a club, when you're a club owner, restaurant own,
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Speaker 1: or lounge owner, right when you open your business a
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to raise or get enough money to where
34:33
Speaker 1: the business can run itself. You can't try to live
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Speaker 1: off the business at first, because when you try to
34:37
Speaker 1: live off the business, you compromise the business and grow
34:40
Speaker 1: for financial gain. So sometimes if you got an investment
34:44
Speaker 1: and I don't know if the lounge costs two hundred
34:47
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars, and you get up two hundred
34:49
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars, you think you made it. No motherfucker.
34:52
Speaker 1: You got to keep enough money in that account that
34:54
Speaker 1: if that bitch closed for three four months, you're still okay.
34:57
Speaker 1: That's what people don't realize, because it takes time to
35:00
Speaker 1: grow a business anything sort of like a DJ too,
35:02
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: So these are vanity businesses, and we don't realize that
35:05
Speaker 3: these are businesses that most people don't take on till
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Speaker 3: after they're super successful.
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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you're an entrepreneur.
35:12
Speaker 1: You're an entrepreneur. But we all entrepreneurs, right, but nobody
35:16
Speaker 1: really sat us down and told us how to start
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Speaker 1: a business, how to run a business, and and how
35:22
Speaker 1: you're supposed to properly do that business. So sometimes you
35:25
Speaker 1: jump into something and don't know what's hell you doing.
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Speaker 1: That's why a lot of these owners, you know, they
35:29
Speaker 1: place be open and they ain't be close tomorrow because
35:31
Speaker 1: they don't they living off the land.
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Speaker 6: And one of the things that I want to say
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Speaker 6: is that, yeah, you're living off the land. It's like
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Speaker 6: I just want to know the difference with this parking,
35:40
Speaker 6: because this parking is a big deal. Why would you
35:42
Speaker 6: go to an urban club it's sixty dollars apart, sometime
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Speaker 6: one hundred dollars apart. Then if you go to like
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Speaker 6: a you know, an EDM club ten dollars.
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Speaker 1: The part to answer that because we pay the shit
35:55
Speaker 1: if we all came to that spot, that club, that venue,
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Speaker 1: the two three hundred people showing up, five hundred people, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're not paying here, we're not paying the parking ship.
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Speaker 1: Guess what that should have changed tomorrow, because if you
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Speaker 1: went to a Caucasian event and you told them, motherfucker's
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Speaker 1: fifty two hundred dollars, they're gonna make you turn. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna hardy.
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Speaker 4: You know you people forgot when I first moved here.
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Speaker 1: But it's not always the club owner. Though they both
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Speaker 1: own places to their own places, it's not always a
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Speaker 1: club own it because in Atlanta, the way it works,
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Speaker 1: when you get when you get a building in Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: you don't necessarily own the parking lot. Get somebody else
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Speaker 1: owns the parking lot.
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Speaker 4: By bout you the same token you can as a
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Speaker 4: club owner. You can go to the it might work,
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Speaker 4: might not work. You can people say, hey, listen, we're
36:39
Speaker 4: not gonna get no customers because we're overcharging. So hopefully
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Speaker 4: the parking owners will understand and bring the price down,
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Speaker 4: because otherwise both of you gonna lose. Ain't gonna be
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Speaker 4: no customers. You ain't goddamn money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't be understanding that, because like when we did,
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Speaker 1: a lot of times they get he ain't gonna tell
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Speaker 1: you all. Sometimes the owners get a cut.
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Speaker 6: And that's what I figured because we when we moved
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Speaker 6: to our news space for R and B Wednesday, and
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Speaker 6: when I got there, the valet guy to know me,
37:07
Speaker 6: he was like, yo, sixty dollars. I said, why are
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Speaker 6: you charging sixty dollars of a place that nobody ever
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Speaker 6: been in?
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Speaker 3: Here?
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Speaker 4: Ya, i'n tell everybody go. I don't want to name
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Speaker 4: a club. I've been to a club they try to
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Speaker 4: charge me on the street. On the street, I said, Yo,
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Speaker 4: this city of Atlanta, probably how the fuck you want
37:22
Speaker 4: to charge me? And they're backed off.
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Speaker 1: I know the wolves, I know what club you're talking about.
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Speaker 4: I don't want the club they want to I know.
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Speaker 1: But they suffering too. A lot of these valet companies
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Speaker 1: a lot of the they suffer because everybody's catching ubers
37:37
Speaker 1: or they got smart.
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Speaker 4: Man, I don't.
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Speaker 6: I don't believe in the valets at the club, man,
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Speaker 6: unless somebody go part their car and walk to the club.
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Speaker 3: Why are you charging people sixty dollars door?
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Speaker 4: Don't pay it because I remember when I first moved
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Speaker 4: here in Atlanta, when they used to boot your car.
37:53
Speaker 4: They used to charge you according to your car. If
37:55
Speaker 4: you're driving your Bench, they'll tell you two fifty. If
37:58
Speaker 4: you're driving a Honda, you will charge you this much.
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Speaker 4: Then eventually the city complaint and the mayor.
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Speaker 3: Listen, I remember when you didn't have to pay the
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Speaker 3: park nowhere, and I'm talking about you.
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Speaker 1: But you know what everything it's a lot of money
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta to though. So a lot of these V
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Speaker 1: I P customers you talking about, they got nice cars.
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Speaker 1: So when your car nice, I do want to pay
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Speaker 1: and park again? Guess what? I want to guess what front.
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Speaker 1: Guess what When that customer is talking to that girl
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Speaker 1: right and they get out the club, it's cold outside,
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Speaker 1: and she walked right in his car. You know that's
38:34
Speaker 1: better than oh man, I parked, Wait.
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Speaker 4: You park without when the club put a shiny car
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Speaker 4: in the front looks it's a good look.
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Speaker 1: It's a good look. And guess right, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what y'all drive, but it's somebody in this in this
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Speaker 1: made bag or this Rosworth's truck or his bends that's
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Speaker 1: willing to pay the park in the front. And that's
38:51
Speaker 1: okay because that's for those people. So if you got
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Speaker 1: ten space, you say, look everywhere it's free, but these
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Speaker 1: spaces right here. But that's just like sixty to park
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Speaker 1: in a bag and to park in the front, it's
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Speaker 1: a hundred.
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Speaker 3: What So people tell you go to Atlanta, you can
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Speaker 3: get rich. That's that's all. This is what y'all are
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Speaker 3: talking about. It's everywhere you turn, someone's trying to price
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Speaker 3: guard somebody for something. A bunch of black people on
39:18
Speaker 3: our own people just to say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but but but don't get it twisted. We're we're
39:23
Speaker 1: talking about this. Whole conversation is about why we think
39:26
Speaker 1: the club experienced. Nightlife in the club has dwindled down,
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Speaker 1: but but on a better, more positive note, Atlanta is
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Speaker 1: the only place of his kind in the world where
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Speaker 1: a black man can have a black owned business and
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Speaker 1: do good for himself. Some of these things.
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Speaker 3: We have to raise the bar though the bar is
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Speaker 3: just way too low.
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Speaker 1: Bar is way too low, but we accept it.
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Speaker 2: I want to because we we gotta, we gotta wrap.
39:54
Speaker 3: It's a mental health check in.
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Speaker 2: I want you guys to, uh, that's your cameras, you know,
40:01
Speaker 2: just share what mental space you're in right now and
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Speaker 2: just leave, like with some positive words.
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Speaker 3: Every day. I pray every day, I meditate every day,
40:13
Speaker 3: I do quiet time because I've learned and understood how
40:17
Speaker 3: important it is to understand where you are mentally every day.
40:25
Speaker 3: I don't think that we understand the depths of depression
40:30
Speaker 3: and struggle and the different aspects that we all as
40:33
Speaker 3: people go through. I suggest that everybody take the time
40:38
Speaker 3: to connect with yourself, because if you don't and you're
40:41
Speaker 3: in a dark place, anything is possible. Anything. Take time
40:46
Speaker 3: for yourself.
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Speaker 1: I pray as well. I disconnect sometimes too. I think
40:55
Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, being an entrepreneur since school, a lot
41:01
Speaker 1: of people don't realize the mental capacity that we take
41:04
Speaker 1: on because, especially when you're an entrepreneur in the night
41:08
Speaker 1: life or any business where you always have to see
41:12
Speaker 1: that you're doing well. People don't take the time to
41:15
Speaker 1: ask how you're doing, because oh that's botch you he's straight,
41:18
Speaker 1: I know he good? Now, Nah, sometimes you're not good.
41:21
Speaker 1: But as a result, you got to do what makes
41:24
Speaker 1: you happy. You got to take the time to have
41:28
Speaker 1: some me time for yourself, because that's very important. A
41:31
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand all the shit you see
41:33
Speaker 1: on social media. Ninety percent of it is fake, you
41:36
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And you don't need to compare
41:39
Speaker 1: yourself to anybody else because that person may be doing
41:42
Speaker 1: just as worse than you are. You know what I'm saying.
41:44
Speaker 1: But mental health is very very important. I always try
41:49
Speaker 1: to tell my son, I try to tell my daughter,
41:51
Speaker 1: I try to tell the youngest around me. You have
41:54
Speaker 1: to be grateful for what you have because somebody's always
41:57
Speaker 1: doing worse.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate that right about now, k boch for this.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 4: Life is up and down. You know, you go up
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Speaker 4: and down. It's a struggle. But don't give up. Be consistent,
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Speaker 4: have a good work ethics, and please talking about city
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Speaker 4: of Atlanta, Please our people. Let's love one another, you know,
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Speaker 4: in our business in the clubs, if there's some issues,
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Speaker 4: walk away. It ain't worth true killing somebody for a
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Speaker 4: nightclub you can't get in, or your ego or you know,
42:39
Speaker 4: your ex girlfriend with somebody else on this, it ain't
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Speaker 4: worth it. Walk Away, That's all I have to say.
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Speaker 4: Walk away and let's just respect one another. That's it.
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Speaker 1: Last thing. It's somebody out there who's probably on drugs,
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Speaker 1: who drinks real bad. We've all lost people to gun violence.
42:58
Speaker 1: And one thing I'm definitely gonna say is drugs and
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Speaker 1: alcohol are not meant to be mixed. So I don't
43:06
Speaker 1: condone drugs, but if you're gonna use drugs, don't mix
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Speaker 1: because I've had people who got killed by somebody because
43:14
Speaker 1: they won't this. They want that, they were drinking this
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Speaker 1: and it led to them doing something they didn't even
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Speaker 1: realized they were doing.
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Speaker 4: Egos too.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 2: I mean, appreciate you guys, man, anything be TV good.
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Speaker 1: Yep, man, we're good. This was a great conversation.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait for these clips to clip up.
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Speaker 1: Ball Alert Peace,