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INTERVIEW: 8Ball Talks 8Ball Brand Coffee, Health Journey, Southern Rap, Memphis Culture, MJG + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up every day of weight. Click your ass up
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. I'm finish for y'all. Done morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is DJ Envy, just Hilarius, Charlamagne the guy. We
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  Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
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  Speaker 2: the building, the legend, a legend in the building. Ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, eight ball from eight ball of m JG.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome brother, and.
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  Speaker 3: I'm beautiful, excellent, blessed man. How you say blessing?
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  Speaker 1: Now's it going? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first I want to say congratulations brother. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: your your weight transformation and you know where you went from.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen your picture in twenty twenty when you were
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  Speaker 2: big and you lost a lot of weight.
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  Speaker 1: So first, how did you get to that level?
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  Speaker 4: How did you get there?
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  Speaker 3: It's just life, man, You know I was already. I've
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  Speaker 3: been big my whole life. Always tried everything to lose
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  Speaker 3: weight and sports exercise. I ate fish for two years,
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  Speaker 3: a vegetarian, vegan for a couple of years, just did
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  Speaker 3: it everything.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty when everybody sat down in the house and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that, Yeah, I guess it affected me in
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  Speaker 3: a negative way and my body start. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: older and I'm not exercising, and now I'm in the
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  Speaker 3: house every day. I'm not moving around like I used to.
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  Speaker 3: And just after this, you know, I was having a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things going on with me, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and I started going to my doctor. She
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  Speaker 3: told me to go to a cardiologist, cardiologists nutritionists and
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  Speaker 3: we put these things together. And it's been like almost
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  Speaker 3: three years now, wow, since the journey started. I was
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  Speaker 3: like four hundred and fifty eight at my largest and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like under three hundred. Now, that's dope. You know,
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  Speaker 3: my son lace with me. He run marathons, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so and all my kids are very physical, so we
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  Speaker 3: you know, they always keep me doing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So we've been working.
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  Speaker 4: So so was it all natural or you know, did
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  Speaker 4: you just start eating right?
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  Speaker 1: No surgery at all? Yeah, no surgery at all.
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  Speaker 3: But it was definitely helped from my nutrition is and
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  Speaker 3: eating better and exercise and and you know all well
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  Speaker 3: it was it was the tools that my nutrition is
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  Speaker 3: not because check this out and this is how I
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  Speaker 3: this is how I want to say it. Okay, So yes, uh,
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  Speaker 3: my nutrition has gave me all the tools I needed.
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  Speaker 3: But how would you rather see me sitting here? Today
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  Speaker 3: four fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Eight to get helped, you know what I'm talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Or this guy would you rather see?
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  Speaker 4: And there's the other things you could be shooting up
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  Speaker 4: to lose. That's not you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody judged. I just love the fact that you got
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  Speaker 2: to wait where you know you feel comfortable that your
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  Speaker 2: your cardiologists are saying your heart is doing better, your
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  Speaker 2: body's doing well. And then hopefully we'll see you running
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  Speaker 2: a marathion with your son.
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  Speaker 3: Hey man, I'm walking when I can. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying. We do walk runs with our foundation, and
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  Speaker 3: I be a part of the walk.
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  Speaker 1: Of course he's a part of the.
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  Speaker 5: Run, but definitely, Man, the other thing you pushing, Man,
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna make just Larius poop all over herself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like she had a coffee drinking just because you came.
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  Speaker 1: Coffee.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't even say are you a coffee drinker? She said,
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  Speaker 4: do you want coffee?
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, yes, I ain't something.
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  Speaker 4: You don't even drink coffee.
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  Speaker 1: It's just for a taste. She ain't got a drink.
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  Speaker 2: She got a stomach though she has a real weak stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't let him, do you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry this is your introduction to me.
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  Speaker 3: Hey listen, I'm a fan. I listen to you every
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  Speaker 3: morning and going hard on.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: What you talking about. What you got got you to coffee?
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  Speaker 1: What you got in the coffee brand? Uh? Man?
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  Speaker 3: I I drink it every morning for one Uh. I
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  Speaker 3: like a good breakfast blend coffee. And uh my son
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  Speaker 3: met a young man in Memphis named Coffee Black, and
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  Speaker 3: him and his family have this awesome team. Man, if
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  Speaker 3: you ever in Memphis, you have to go to the
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  Speaker 3: coffee shop. Uh, Summer National at the Summer National and born,
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  Speaker 3: but please go to the coffee shop Coffee Black.
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  Speaker 1: But they were.
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  Speaker 3: Friends man and and and and they kids go to
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  Speaker 3: school together, all their family. And he got into the coffee,
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  Speaker 3: his family got into the coffee and he was like, dad,
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  Speaker 3: you ought to try, you know, come check it out.
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  Speaker 3: And I went and I checked it out, and we
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  Speaker 3: like form this relationship. And he's like you all to
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  Speaker 3: come with you know a coffee man, and we it's
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  Speaker 3: African coffee. Our blend, the eight ball original blend is
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  Speaker 3: Kenyan and Ethiopian blend. And and we we tasted a bunch,
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  Speaker 3: We did a bunch of the things.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call the cuppings.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, technical terms, but we did all of that
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  Speaker 3: and uh man, we came with the eight balls. Original
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  Speaker 3: blend hit the market in December. We've been doing pop
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  Speaker 3: ups everywhere. Dallas, Houston, we did, Charlotte, Nashville was off the.
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  Speaker 1: Chain, dope, dope.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to do one up here, but we a't
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  Speaker 3: gonna be here that long, and we're here today.
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  Speaker 5: I love the tagline, family owned, culture driven, legacy built.
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  Speaker 4: Who came up with that?
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  Speaker 1: That guy?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, listen, man, I want to talk to you just
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  Speaker 5: about rap a little bit. Man, When you and m
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  Speaker 5: j G were coming up, did y'all realize y'all were
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  Speaker 5: helping build the blueprint for Southern rap.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all just trying to like survive and get on.
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  Speaker 3: Just that we didn't know what we was doing. We
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  Speaker 3: were just doing's doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We was still in high school when the first record
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  Speaker 3: came out, and just everything kind of kept going. We
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  Speaker 3: never we never made no demo or nothing like Cats
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  Speaker 3: used to do back in those days, send your demo
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  Speaker 3: to the record label.
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  Speaker 1: Like. We never did none of that. Like we just.
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  Speaker 3: Met people and got in the studio, made this music.
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  Speaker 3: We were still in twelfth grade and just kept going
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  Speaker 3: and something that that the song in high school led
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  Speaker 3: to Coming Our Hard album. Coming Out Hard led to
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  Speaker 3: the whole Suave House catalog, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: and just everything just kept going. You know, we left
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  Speaker 3: Swave and that led to the other things that we did,
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  Speaker 3: you know, bad Boy and a couple of records with
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  Speaker 3: t I now.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, did you you ever think about coming out
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  Speaker 2: of Memphis right as big as you are and such legends.
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  Speaker 2: I always look at artists like that and say, you
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  Speaker 2: were the pioneers for that city. You ever thought about saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, we should have set up shop and
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  Speaker 2: we should have been the outlet for that city because
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  Speaker 2: you so many great artists came behind y'all. Did you
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  Speaker 2: ever think like that kind of like what raided in
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  Speaker 2: l a and were puffed it in New York and
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  Speaker 2: well kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Though well not really but really but not really. But
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  Speaker 3: as far as A Ball and m J G go,
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  Speaker 3: if you look at Memphis culture now, Memphis hip hop
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  Speaker 3: culture now, if we hadn't A left Memphis, we probably.
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  Speaker 1: Would have bad.
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  Speaker 3: But but but if we had a left Memphis, man,
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  Speaker 3: the story might have been different for us. Just because
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  Speaker 3: it worked like that for three six Mafia and other groups,
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  Speaker 3: it didn't mean it was gonna work like that for us.
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  Speaker 3: Like leaving Memphis might have been the thing that saved
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  Speaker 3: our lives all the time, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: because we wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's look at Memphis rap culture now and just think
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you think Memphis didn't always get the same
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  Speaker 5: respect as like the New York's LA's or Atlanta, Because y'all,
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  Speaker 5: it's so much people borrow culture from Memphis, Like so
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  Speaker 5: much of the culture borrows so much of what Memphis
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  Speaker 5: has done.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we we fight each other at mm hmm, that's
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  Speaker 3: what I think. We help each other a lot too,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a lot of help out there, But
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  Speaker 3: we we fight each other a lot, and it hinders progress.
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever tried to bring you have you'll ever
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  Speaker 5: sat down and had those conversations about man, listen, let's
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  Speaker 5: everybody get there, let's put all the side to see
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  Speaker 5: what we can.
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  Speaker 1: Do as a community.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we had self destruction? What was the other record?
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  Speaker 3: Look at the culture now. I'm just saying, bro, it
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  Speaker 3: ain't you know? And in real time and if I
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  Speaker 3: could be candid, The young niggas ain't listening like that.
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  Speaker 3: They don't they listen to who they want to listen to.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not the guy to be you know.
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  Speaker 3: They I'm not the one they listen to like that.
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  Speaker 3: My power don't lie in that field. That that's not
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  Speaker 3: you see what I'm saying, Like, I'm not the guy
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  Speaker 3: to do that because these young people worship listen to
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  Speaker 3: who they want to listen to, you know. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: every every og ain't og, every uncle' unc. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, I proudly except my maturity. You can
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  Speaker 3: call me o G, you can call me on. I
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  Speaker 3: ain't triven, you know what I'm saying, But you know
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  Speaker 3: it ain't. They don't accept it like that.
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  Speaker 2: And when did you realize that you had to leave Memphis?
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  Speaker 4: Like what was that to be?
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  Speaker 1: Like, no, we have to get out of here. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like that.
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  Speaker 3: We were still in high school, man, Like we never
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  Speaker 3: been nowhere Mississippi, Arkansas right there.
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  Speaker 1: You know we'd have been there Nashville, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: But now there's still in high school opportunity for us
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  Speaker 3: to go to Houston Texas never flew on the airplane before,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, So it was for the
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  Speaker 3: experience as well. When we left, we didn't know we
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  Speaker 3: was gonna be gone for twelve fifteen years, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying. We didn't know that I was living.
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  Speaker 1: Were just going to Houston to see what. You know.
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  Speaker 3: That first two weeks to a month, we was in
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  Speaker 3: a motel six on the Southwest Side, in the same room,
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  Speaker 3: two beds, with all our stuff, you know, records that
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  Speaker 3: our mom gave us, you know, the straight up. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can make a movie about that ship, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and stayed in that room and it came from that,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And then we just never
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it wouldn't have I lost my place,
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  Speaker 3: but mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: But uh m hmm. We're talking about leaving Memphis.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, well I wanted to say a certain thing.
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  Speaker 3: I really didn't want to, you know, uh go a
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  Speaker 3: certain ways.
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  Speaker 2: But because you notice that with all Memphis artists, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like all Memphis artists they leave Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly, you know what I mean. We've seen it with
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  Speaker 1: so many of them.
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  Speaker 2: It just seemed sad because sometimes the city needs it,
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  Speaker 2: but I understand why they leave as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know it.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, some people can you know, like
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  Speaker 3: three six Mafia, you know what I mean, Like I
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  Speaker 3: have to go back to them and all the other
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  Speaker 3: guys that never you know what I mean, it's still
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know Yo, Gotti.
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  Speaker 3: Stayed long time, you know before Dall stayed long time,
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  Speaker 3: never left, you know what I mean, always was everywhere,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it depends on the person, I think, man,
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  Speaker 3: in your situation.
• 12:38
  Speaker 5: That you know, you know you hip hop hip hop
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  Speaker 5: turned with fifty or a year ago to yes, years ago?
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: How do you feel about aging in the genre that
• 12:46
  Speaker 5: once acted like like turning forty was a crime, like
• 12:49
  Speaker 5: you couldn't be old and hip hop?
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  Speaker 4: Now it's just like it's embraced.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it's it's uh, it's it's dope, man,
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  Speaker 3: just to see you know, the cultures and mature in
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  Speaker 3: that in that fashion, you know what I mean. Like
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  Speaker 3: I I love to see it, man, you know, our
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: fan base is still still thriving. Man, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: love to see.
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  Speaker 5: Why why don't why don't you think some people respect
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  Speaker 5: the growth and evolution of artists though, because I remember
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  Speaker 5: I saw the when it was naming the street after
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  Speaker 5: y'all in Memphis and the d A, the DA was
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: upset about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm liked, these brothers has grown men. Just racist, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in real talk, real time. Just we still
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  Speaker 1: live in that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Memphis is one of them places, man, you
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  Speaker 3: know it's and we surrounded by all that.
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  Speaker 2: Still, yeah, we want to know what made y'all sign
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  Speaker 2: with with with bad Boy and Puff back in early
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  Speaker 2: two thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Beside the money, I'm sure, well, yeah that was. But just.
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  Speaker 3: The same thing with Suave and going to Houston, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. It was just that thing. Let's
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  Speaker 3: do something different, you know, everybody go this way. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna go this way and see what happens, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And just we was we always have
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  Speaker 3: been fans of New York hip hop culture. A Balling
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  Speaker 3: mj G. The name A Balling Them Say G comes
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  Speaker 3: from run DMC. We wanted something simple like that, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. But we always been a fan
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  Speaker 3: of this culture and just the opportunity to work we
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  Speaker 3: do from or or that entity from the outside looking in,
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  Speaker 3: it you know that was the you know, it looked
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  Speaker 3: like the you know what I'm saying, and where we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be and it was for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how was that experience that did they understand?
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  Speaker 2: Did they get it at that time?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, we were just being put in a box
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  Speaker 3: just to at for that time, like something for that
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  Speaker 3: time that could work at that time for them.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: But the whole bad boys out thing.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't like a thing where we did what
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  Speaker 3: we what we thought we should.
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  Speaker 1: Have done, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like y'all, but that moment was a good moment.
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  Speaker 5: I mean because you know, bad boys so had the
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  Speaker 5: young jocks, but then y'all came with it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want drama. That's it was a great man.
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  Speaker 3: It brought another culture, of a younger culture to a
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  Speaker 3: ball and like the thirty forty something, that's what they
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  Speaker 3: know us for.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what's the wildest studio session you haven't been a
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  Speaker 6: part of?
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  Speaker 2: I want some story right from bad Boy to that.
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  Speaker 4: I got the coffee.
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  Speaker 6: I'm on the roll.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know running stopping man.
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  Speaker 3: Stop Now it's so many I don't you know, you
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  Speaker 3: got to think about we've been you know, yeah, we
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: don't you know, been around a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: So my studio sessions today are more calm, chill, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's really just me or us a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: with the with the people and a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: this and you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: That makes it. But we've had some things.
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody back in the nineties I think had
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  Speaker 3: you know, too much fun, the smoke.
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  Speaker 1: Field rooms, women over.
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  Speaker 3: Here, and you know what I'm saying, Okay it.
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  Speaker 4: These days, man, is a success family purpose?
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Family and purpose, man, you know, success is rooted in
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  Speaker 3: that to me these you know, or has been for
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  Speaker 3: a while, you know what I mean. But it's uh
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  Speaker 3: still that's that's where you know. Today we got a foundation,
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  Speaker 3: the Glorious Smith Foundation. We got the Robbie Run August August,
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  Speaker 3: the first August, the first Orange Mound, back to school.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, all of it. But all of that, man,
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  Speaker 3: you know we've been foundation. This is our second year,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: like eighty percent out of pocket, probably since the whole
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: thing been going, you know me. But you know that, man,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I got these albums I'm doing versus from the Book
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  Speaker 3: of Primro. My release Chapter one, Chapter two is on
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  Speaker 3: the way. I know a lot of people releasing like
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: multiple albums and stuff right now. So I got eight chapters.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna drop and it's a whole thing. But you'll
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  Speaker 3: see it. And I'm not doing like the heavy promotion.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: You gotta follow me to know about it, like that
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: type of thing. But that's my piece. If you listen
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: to their music, man, you know I'm talking to me.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. So and that's this whole
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: the whole series is that it's melodic music, poetic words,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where my peace lies.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: You know, doing legos with my grandkids, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like, that's.
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  Speaker 5: Super big on the list, man, you know stuff like that. Man,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: when when did you find purpose? Do you remember that moment?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? When my health wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like it really make you
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: sit down and look at that, you know, and that
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: I'm been around people that you know, I was fortunate
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: enough to work with, like Big Pond.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Just to see that, you know.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: What I'm saying, And I and all the people that
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: fortunate enough to work with heavy did at the same time,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: and just you know that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so so the health scare was bad enough to
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: way had you looking at your mortality like, man, I
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: may not be here much longer if I.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Don't, Yeah, because I got Like in real life, a
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: lot of people depend on me, not just financially, but
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, depend on just to be there,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: you know, so just you think about it and you
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: know you can't be there.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: For them, you know what I'm saying, not.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: At your best or trying not you know, not even trying.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: I think people don't realize how they really do get
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: greater later. That's why I like talking to the the
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: old old You're sixty.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: One, man, where y'all get. I don't know what you're
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: gonna do your reserve in your fifties, all right, forty three.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You get there? We started, They.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Gave you twenty more.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: You believe I'll be fifty four? Did you fifty four? Okay?
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'm just but yo, but sixty one is crazy
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: that heavy though you hear me with one, but.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: There, you know what I'm saying, And I really do
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: feel like it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Do get greater later. No, definitely, man, you know.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: When you can accept it, you know, when people accept
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: their maturity.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, you feel like eight Ball MGG doesn't get
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: the respect that is deserved just because Charluamae was talking
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: about hip hop fifty right, and I feel like eight
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Ball MGG didn't get represented like they should, Like we
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: don't see them getting represented in these shows when that
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that conversation of hip hop is discussed.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: We don't care about them enough.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's I don't want to say underrated,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: but doesn't necessarily get the respect.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Well, you gotta know the you know, we're just talking
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: about Dick Gregory.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. It's like.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: People who have get these things, you know, like three
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: six they deserve it all because they and I keep
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: going back to them because they are you know in
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: that you know, I used that because from our era
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: basically you know what I'm saying. But they they had
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: a thing where the world saw them on a stage,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: the Oscar and other things, you know, but definitely the Oscar,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. But you know, uh, the
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: groups that get those like things things that you're talking about, Yeah, yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: you know they.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: You know, they had these things. Man and me and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: m J.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: We just never had that, you know, uh yeah, you
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: know bon Bonn and Pimp, you know, the the ug
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the the the song with the Outcasts and the song
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: with jay Z, you know what I mean. And and
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: those were those moments for them, you know what I'm saying.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: We just never had one of those moments, you know.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: What I mean?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Lord, I think stay.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Fly, Yeah, but it wasn't our moment. Everybody's included moment.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: It was like a calid.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Record, you know what I'm saying.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: So, but we never had that eight ball and m
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: JG the world moment.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: So it keeps you from opening some doors being talked
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: about in certain places.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: It's interesting if you're from the South that you can't
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: you can't talk about Southern music.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Oh no, we are the seeds of everything you listen
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: to right now from the South, for sure, you know, Yeah,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: that's for sure.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I can't mention you GK without mentioning the Ball and MGG.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: I can't mention three six of our mission. Like no,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: it's impossible.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And everybody, anybody, the whole two thousands, look at look
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: at everybody catalog from the South that came out, they
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: balling them. J G was on their album from Ludacrous
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: t I uh yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: You know the young artists reach out to do y'all
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: look to do stuff now or no.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Most some of them, man, you know, not not everybody,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: but we clear a lot of samples.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Who like some of your rappers now, like some of
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: the some of your favorite rappers now like some of
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: the young guys who you like to listen to.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, no, you know, I don't listen to a
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: lot of new stuff I hear, but I don't listen
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: to a lot of new stuff I like. I like
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: what I like, and I'm so my music catalog is
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: like I could be listening to Black Sabbas Kodak.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Black like right behind. You know what I'm saying.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Just that's what I you know, But I like Kodak.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I mess with Kodak.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: He's yeah, I love him.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: And uh got a bunch of dope dope yeah yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Now, uh Eddie Vallero, Eddie Velero, y'all heard of Eddie Velero.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Put us on Get out of Here. Look him up,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Look up Eddie Vallero. He got an album with don
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Tripp right now. That's running uh man he he he
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: with that crew man, you know, but yeah, Eddie Vallero
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: is one of them.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Boy, check them out.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: What do you hope the legacy of A Ball and
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: MJ G Will be?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, you know, we're still living it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: You know, I really want to. You know, I like
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the term legend, man, But we still got the ways
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: to go. I feel like, man, you know, it's a
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: lot of stuff that's gonna happen in the next few years,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And uh, you know, our
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: story is still being written. You know what I mean,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Like it's still being written. Man.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: You know, as long as I'm.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Alive, Hippop is still young, and all these new things,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: you know, we we're we're gonna be one of those
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: first one day or another one of those first. But
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, there's never as long as I can breathe,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: long as I can get up and do whatever I
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: can do, to do what I can do, and I'm
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: gonna do.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Wish you many more.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: You mean you and a coffee was popping, thank you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I hope you don't mess with your man.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe when you.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Leavetflix it's your fault, that's right.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Some coffee main I got.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I just got one last question.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You got to say, we're finna do it, drop and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you're finish say it to you gotta say it like that.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: You gotta go on the go on the way upsite man,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: look at the drops man.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Everybody do it. So you gotta do it before we leave.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I got you that just to you know, with your group.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: You always see groups break up, leaf go back and forth,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: but y'all never have that.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: We know of why we are brothers in real life brothers.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Brothers fight sometimes, brothers gott to move furniture, yeah, all
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Why ya't never fight?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, but no, that's you know, we just don't.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Our business ain't for hereby, you know what I'm saying.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: We ain't never been like that's that's right. Yeah, but
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: we always tend told down. And that's my brother and
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I'm his brother, you know U Since day one, we
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: both was Mama's only son, you know what I'm saying.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So we were meant to be brothers, you know.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And that's bigger than all this, you know. A I
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: can bury the album a couple of months away.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Gotta come here.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: You gotta come back for that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: No, for sure, Thank you for the invite. Please?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Why can they get the coffee? Picked it up? Tell
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: them how they can get right to it?
• 26:50
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• 26:55
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• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Available today?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's not too strong.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Too strong when I drink.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: A shot of coffee and it tas like a shot of.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Honey already it's a shot of coffee. Yeah, espresso.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Just there we go, see everything.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Y'all better leave my girl alone. Do y'all know where
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I'm from?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Man? I said, you know where I'm from. I'm gonna
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: send some boys up here about y'all man? Just alone? Right,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: it's eight ball. It's the Breakfast Thank you, Thank you sir,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: every day a week ago.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Click your ass up the Breakfast Club. Finish for y'all.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Done,