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Full Ep | Rapsody & Akeem Ali Pull Up + Kai Fair’s Street-to-Entrepreneur Story | Morning Hustle · The Morning Hustle Podcast

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  Speaker 3: It's the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The morning hustle.
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  Speaker 7: Every morning hustle.
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  Speaker 2: Here's some quick inspiration to start your day.
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  Speaker 6: Cal's message of the day.
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  Speaker 9: Kyle's message of the day today is attitudes determine altitudes,
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  Speaker 9: if you will. Your attitude will determine your altitude. How
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  Speaker 9: high you go, how far you go, the distance you travel,
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  Speaker 9: all depends on you and how you carry yourself and
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  Speaker 9: how you move forward. Man, we're all going to have struggles.
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  Speaker 9: We're all going to have speed bumps. We're all going
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  Speaker 9: to have challenges. But how are you handling those challenges?
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  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying? Are you letting it shut
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  Speaker 8: you down?
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  Speaker 9: Are you letting it take you off your game? Are
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  Speaker 9: you letting that frustrate you to the point where you
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  Speaker 9: can't function? You got to just approach it differently.
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  Speaker 8: You got to say, you know what?
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  Speaker 9: Let me shake that off and get back in this
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  Speaker 9: driver's seat. Let me shake that off. Get back in
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  Speaker 9: the cockpit. Let me shake that off and just get
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  Speaker 9: back to doing what I know.
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  Speaker 8: I can do.
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  Speaker 9: And if you can handle that and if you can
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  Speaker 9: make those adjustments and how you approach.
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  Speaker 8: Things, you'll go way further in life.
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  Speaker 9: Man, I tell my kids all the time, you're going
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  Speaker 9: to let one bad thing that happened at 10 o'clock
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  Speaker 9: in the morning mess up your entire day.
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  Speaker 8: That's crazy. By 1030, you should have shook that off already.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 9: So let's keep it moving. Handle what's coming your.
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  Speaker 8: Way with grace.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 9: And don't let it knock you off your game. Kyle's
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  Speaker 9: message of the day today is attitudes determine altitude.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. And mine is simple. If I hit
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  Speaker 1: the lottery, everyone around me is going to be rich
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  Speaker 1: because I'm moving to a rich neighborhood.
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  Speaker 9: I hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a hustler.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a hustler.
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  Speaker 6: It's the hustler of the week.
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  Speaker 9: Morning, Hustle in the Building, baby. It's L'Oreal, Kyle, Santillian, Alton, Walker.
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  Speaker 9: And we got a guest today, man. This brother is
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  Speaker 9: all about being inspirational, helping people change their lives for
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  Speaker 9: the better.
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  Speaker 8: And inspiration, man.
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  Speaker 9: And just letting them know that, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 9: You might come from certain circumstances, but you can change
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  Speaker 9: your life and do something positive with it. He's a speaker.
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  Speaker 9: He's an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 8: He's an author.
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  Speaker 9: Kai Ferrer is in the building.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah!
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  Speaker 8: What's happening with.
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  Speaker 6: You, brother?
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  Speaker 8: What's going on?
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  Speaker 7: What's going on?
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  Speaker 8: Everything's good. Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 9: So how did you even find yourself in a space
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  Speaker 9: where you're out here inspiring people? Like, what brought you
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  Speaker 9: to the place to inspire others?
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  Speaker 10: So the crazy thing about it was I always had
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  Speaker 10: the gift of gab, right? But I was always using
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  Speaker 10: it for the wrong reason. And once I knew I
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  Speaker 10: needed to change my life because I was one of
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  Speaker 10: the people that didn't have to be in the street.
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  Speaker 10: It's the difference between somebody that's born in the streets
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  Speaker 10: that got to do the street stuff and somebody that
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  Speaker 10: just look at.
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  Speaker 7: Him like, man, I want to do that. That was me.
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  Speaker 10: But then when you get in the streets, then you
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  Speaker 10: realize you're like, it's real. And now you have to
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  Speaker 10: do street things even though you don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 10: And so my stomach always was hurting when I was
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  Speaker 10: doing these things. And I remember when I got my
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  Speaker 10: connection to God and I was just like, man, I
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  Speaker 10: always had.
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  Speaker 7: An entrepreneurial spirit.
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  Speaker 10: My mother was an appraiser. He gave me my entrepreneur spirit.
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  Speaker 10: She told me, hey, you can do this.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to have, you know, you can go
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  Speaker 7: and make your own money.
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  Speaker 10: And, man, I just, when I got out and I
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  Speaker 10: caught the felony, when I got out, I just started
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  Speaker 10: talking to the youth. And now I knew then just
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  Speaker 10: by how the youth gravitated to me because they were
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  Speaker 10: looking at me like, man, he got what I want.
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  Speaker 7: Not knowing that at that time I was at my
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  Speaker 7: brokest part of my life.
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  Speaker 10: I just still had a little lingering stuff left over
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  Speaker 10: from the street.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 10: But it was the stories, it was what I went through,
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  Speaker 10: that got a lot of the youngins that I was
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  Speaker 10: talking to. And now these guys got businesses, and they
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  Speaker 10: still come up to my shop nowadays just to come
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  Speaker 10: talk to me.
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  Speaker 7: Like, man, listen, I got this. Remember when you talked
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  Speaker 7: to me? You did this. You've inspired me.
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  Speaker 10: And so from there, I said, hold on. I was like,
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  Speaker 10: I can do cars because I got a car shop.
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  Speaker 10: I can wrap cars.
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  Speaker 6: I can do all that.
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  Speaker 7: That's nothing. But my passion was into motivation.
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  Speaker 3: Do you find it hard talking to these young men? Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because, you know, coming off the street and
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  Speaker 3: trying to do things legit. Like, hey, man, I'm making
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money over here. You want me to
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  Speaker 3: start over there? I don't see no money over there
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  Speaker 3: right now. So how do you get people to get
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  Speaker 3: past that?
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  Speaker 10: See, the hardest part is the OGs don't look good.
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  Speaker 10: The OGs ain't looking right. The OGs either doping out, broke, right?
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  Speaker 10: So I'm one of the ones where I'm looking right.
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  Speaker 10: And I understand it. It's a different type of young'uns nowadays.
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  Speaker 10: They want to see it. Okay, OG, you want me
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  Speaker 10: to stop doing this?
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  Speaker 7: Well, show me.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 10: And so when they come to me, I got 13 cars,
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  Speaker 10: and I got more now legally than when I.
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  Speaker 3: Was in the streets.
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  Speaker 7: I just took that same mindset.
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  Speaker 10: Like, man, listen, everybody that's in the street that's really
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  Speaker 10: getting to some money, they're really Fortune 500 bosses.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're smart now.
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  Speaker 10: You started from nothing, and now you this. take the
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  Speaker 10: same mentality and go somewhere else with it.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Now, when I talk to the youngsters, I say, listen,
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  Speaker 10: I'm not here to tell you, like, hey, stop what
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  Speaker 10: you're doing. I'm here to tell you, if you don't,
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  Speaker 10: this is what can happen.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying? They glorify it on the TV.
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  Speaker 10: It look good on the TV until you get in
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  Speaker 10: that cell or you get in front of that judge
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  Speaker 10: and the judge is like, 25 to life.
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  Speaker 8: For sure. That's what's up, man. You're doing good work, man.
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  Speaker 9: Congratulations on everything you got going on. Undefined Evidence is
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  Speaker 9: the book. If people want to follow you, tap into
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  Speaker 9: what you got going on, give them the information on
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  Speaker 9: how they can.
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  Speaker 3: Tap in with you.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Kyle Fair, K-I-E, Fair, F-A-R, 929 on all social
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  Speaker 10: media platforms.
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  Speaker 7: And like I said, the book is out.
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  Speaker 10: I got another book. that's already written. I'm just editing
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  Speaker 10: it now called Confused Love. And that's a love story.
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  Speaker 10: You know, it's a crazy love story.
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  Speaker 8: I love that.
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  Speaker 7: So, yeah, man, I'm just happy, man.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like your DM's about to be crazy. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to be like, okay, so about that business and
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  Speaker 1: that 800 credit score.
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  Speaker 9: Hit him up, man. Hit him up for sure. We
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  Speaker 9: appreciate you being here today, brother, man. Kai Fair hanging
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  Speaker 9: out with us on the morning.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I did it.
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  Speaker 8: Some people trying to join the gang gang by dating
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  Speaker 8: your ex.
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  Speaker 3: That may be another app. Date my ex. I may
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  Speaker 3: make that app.
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  Speaker 8: You should make that up. People will do it.
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  Speaker 3: People will do it too.
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  Speaker 9: All right, so it's once your friends, your homies, your
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  Speaker 9: relatives dated somebody, are they off limits for you and
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  Speaker 9: vice versa, man?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm done with it. You can have it at
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  Speaker 1: this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if I'm married, especially if I'm married with
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  Speaker 3: kids and stuff like that, definitely.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, because that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: It's helping you to try to hold on to somebody
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  Speaker 1: and stop love. I mean, that's on you if you
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  Speaker 1: want to feel awkward at Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 9: But, yeah, but what if that is, like, your best friend,
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  Speaker 9: your people, and now that person that was your ex
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  Speaker 9: got to be around because they around with your friend.
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  Speaker 3: Once I'm married with kids, anybody I dated before, y'all
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  Speaker 3: can have them. Like, I shouldn't even have those feelings
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  Speaker 3: no more.
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  Speaker 1: Good job, Alton.
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  Speaker 6: Finally.
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  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have those feelings.
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  Speaker 6: I shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I shouldn't. He said shouldn't. I shouldn't. It'd be the
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  Speaker 3: one that licked that dick.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 9: All right, man, our exes off limits. We're talking about
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  Speaker 9: people maybe that you dated in the past. Like, would
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  Speaker 9: you be okay if your sister or your brother popped up.
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  Speaker 8: Dating them now? You know what I mean? Your best friend,
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  Speaker 8: your homies, and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how do you think Kendall feels now that she
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  Speaker 1: has to see Kim running around with her ex... Lewis Hamilton.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think she felt some kind of black?
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  Speaker 9: No, the Kardashians are different. I think that's part of
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  Speaker 9: their game plan, dividing, conquering men. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: It's like as long as we're making some kind of
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  Speaker 1: money off of.
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  Speaker 8: Them, we Gucci.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think they got no feelings about that. That's
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  Speaker 9: actually not a bad thought.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: All right, hustlers, what about y'all, man?
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  Speaker 8: 866-HUSTLE-8.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so when I was in high school, right after
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  Speaker 5: high school, I was dating this guy, We worked at
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  Speaker 5: the same place. Okay, so years went on or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I got married.
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  Speaker 11: He actually started.
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  Speaker 5: Dating my sister. They actually ended up getting married, and
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't a very good marriage. And, like, they're still
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  Speaker 5: married today, but I'm currently taking care of her. I'm
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  Speaker 5: currently her caretaker.
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  Speaker 1: Which means you still got to deal with him in
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  Speaker 1: some capacity.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I would hate that for me.
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  Speaker 8: That sounded weird. I guess maybe they're separated but not divorced.
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  Speaker 3: I guess they still made it not divorced. I got confused, too.
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  Speaker 3: She's like, I'm a caretaker.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 8: I guess he didn't do his job as a husband,
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  Speaker 8: so he out of there.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, he realized he had to do more work
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  Speaker 1: than he signed up for.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe. Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Caretaker.
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  Speaker 1: I needed more on that.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted more on that, too.
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  Speaker 9: I know. All right, well, let's keep it going. We
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  Speaker 9: got somebody else holding on the line. Tasha, what you say?
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  Speaker 11: So I'm dealing with a situation right now where my
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  Speaker 11: best friend have a best friend and she and I
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  Speaker 11: are not really close. But the best friend is dating
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  Speaker 11: somebody I dated when I was in college. So my
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  Speaker 11: best friend, you know, she asked my best friend, hey,
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  Speaker 11: do you know that they were dating? And she was like, no,
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  Speaker 11: let me ask her. So she asked me and I
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  Speaker 11: told her, yeah, we dated when we were in college. And,
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  Speaker 11: you know, we don't talk anymore, but we still follow
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  Speaker 11: each other. He liked myself on social media and all
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  Speaker 11: of that. So now they're in a relationship. And she said, well,
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  Speaker 11: she's not my best friend. She's just my best friend's
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  Speaker 11: best friend. And now she feel weird because we're still
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  Speaker 11: following each other on social media. So, yeah, I do
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  Speaker 11: believe that exes are up limited, especially even if we're
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  Speaker 11: not like best friends or close friends. If we have
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  Speaker 11: mutual friends and we're in the same circle, it's off
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  Speaker 11: limits because now when I come around, you're going to
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  Speaker 11: feel some type of way because you're going to really
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  Speaker 11: feel the chemistry that man once had and you're going
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  Speaker 11: to be uncomfortable. So yeah, X's are off limits.
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  Speaker 8: That's a little different, though, because she's them two aren't
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  Speaker 8: directly friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but just a friend adjacent.
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  Speaker 8: Their friend adjacent.
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  Speaker 6: Right. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's so crazy how women were so
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  Speaker 1: accepting versus men. I remember with Ray J and Danger,
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  Speaker 1: she smashed a homie. Remember that? He was taking her
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  Speaker 1: serious at first. So he found out she slept with
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  Speaker 1: one of his friends.
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  Speaker 9: And then after that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're done after that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like, but with women, like, we are
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  Speaker 1: forgiving and be like, go ahead and you.
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  Speaker 3: Go on and try.
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  Speaker 1: If love is love.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all don't do that. You be like, oh, you mess
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  Speaker 1: with her?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, she done.
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  Speaker 6: She's done.
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  Speaker 3: Some of my friends, if I ever find out you
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  Speaker 3: mess with them, I'm done.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's just they nasty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I know them.
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  Speaker 9: Is that what it is? Is it because you know
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  Speaker 9: their business? And I think people forget men and women
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  Speaker 9: are naturally opposites, all right? So we're not going to
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  Speaker 9: have the same outlook on things.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yo, girl, she good, but man, you finally, like, yuck.
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  Speaker 3: Some of my homeboys, I'm like, I hope you got
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  Speaker 3: tetanus shot.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: You need to go to the vet.
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  Speaker 1: Because you know all his smoke.
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  Speaker 3: You need to go to the vet.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 10: The vet is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, I wouldn't touch.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't touch.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I don't even eat after this, dude. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now I can see that.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 8: Perfect point, bro. Perfect point.
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  Speaker 9: All right, if you didn't get through on the phone lines,
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  Speaker 9: you know what to do. Hit us up on that app.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 12:56
  Speaker 9: He's got the book, Style Living Paycheck to Paycheck, and
• 12:59
  Speaker 9: today he's here to give it his right, man, because
• 13:01
  Speaker 9: people are looking at Thanksgiving and Halloween coming up and
• 13:04
  Speaker 9: Christmas and all that.
• 13:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 13:06
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 13:06
  Speaker 9: So let's talk about it, because being that October is here, right,
• 13:09
  Speaker 9: and a lot of people, they get into the cycle
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: every year. You know, we use these credit cards to
• 13:13
  Speaker 9: buy what we need for Christmas. You know what I mean?
• 13:15
  Speaker 9: Because you can't go without putting something under the tree
• 13:17
  Speaker 9: for the kids. And then you spend the next six
• 13:20
  Speaker 9: months of the next year paying all that stuff off.
• 13:22
  Speaker 9: And then you're in that cycle again and again and
• 13:24
  Speaker 9: again and again. So the question is, why is October
• 13:27
  Speaker 9: the ultimate cutoff month? to take control before that holiday
• 13:30
  Speaker 9: spending gets way out of control.
• 13:32
  Speaker 12: I mean, because let's talk about it. November, what is
• 13:34
  Speaker 12: known for Black Friday, right? And so everyone wants to
• 13:37
  Speaker 12: hit up the stores on Black Friday. And then right
• 13:39
  Speaker 12: after Black Friday, we got Cyber Monday. And so what
• 13:44
  Speaker 12: we see is we see spending tends to go up.
• 13:46
  Speaker 12: So by October, you need to have a set budget,
• 13:50
  Speaker 12: to go that word again, for what you're going to spend.
• 13:53
  Speaker 12: And let's be honest, if you're married, you and your
• 13:55
  Speaker 12: spouse need to be on the same page. Hey, We're
• 13:57
  Speaker 12: going to spend this much money on our kids. But
• 14:00
  Speaker 12: if we can rewind, here's the biggest conversation. This is
• 14:03
  Speaker 12: what I see for like parents. They want to impress
• 14:06
  Speaker 12: their children and they do not want their children to
• 14:08
  Speaker 12: understand that If they're going through something financial.
• 14:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 14:12
  Speaker 13: I wish my mom and dad would have told me, hey,
• 14:14
  Speaker 13: we don't have it like that.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: So in your book, Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck, you
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: mentioned the holiday sinking fund.
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: And this is a way that you can spend actual
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: cash instead of borrowing money so that you don't have
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: to owe later on. So when do you believe somebody
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: should start this? And what does it really mean?
• 14:34
  Speaker 13: Let's let's take it holidays and deeper.
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 14:37
  Speaker 13: So you got Christmas comes every single year.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 14:40
  Speaker 12: If I was in a relationship, my anniversary comes at
• 14:42
  Speaker 12: the exact same time every single year. I was born
• 14:45
  Speaker 12: July 1st, 1984. My birthday comes every single year. And
• 14:49
  Speaker 12: so when I was born on July 1st, I just
• 14:51
  Speaker 12: came back from Greece. I treated myself to a yacht cruise.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 14:55
  Speaker 12: When I got back on July 17th, I started my
• 14:59
  Speaker 12: birthday fund. that same day really okay yeah because i
• 15:02
  Speaker 12: know it's coming around so for me i want to
• 15:05
  Speaker 12: buy my tickets during the off season so that way
• 15:07
  Speaker 12: i can get a better deal yeah and then when
• 15:09
  Speaker 12: i buy my ticket for my yacht i do a
• 15:10
  Speaker 12: yacht cruise every single year then i keep that money
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: going and then that's the money that i get to
• 15:15
  Speaker 12: spend in july wherever i am and i'll put away
• 15:19
  Speaker 12: from my income bracket i'll put away a lot of
• 15:21
  Speaker 12: money but what i love about it is it's in
• 15:23
  Speaker 12: the budget it's giving me freedom so if i drop
• 15:25
  Speaker 12: a bag over there i'm not concerned because i've been
• 15:27
  Speaker 12: saving for it for six seven months right right And
• 15:30
  Speaker 12: so your sinking fund starts immediately. If you know, hey,
• 15:34
  Speaker 12: Christmas is coming up. My son or daughter's birthday is
• 15:36
  Speaker 12: coming up. My wife's anniversary is coming up. Her birthday
• 15:40
  Speaker 12: is coming up. Or even, like, there's a special time
• 15:43
  Speaker 12: in your spouse's, maybe she's graduating from school, I don't know,
• 15:47
  Speaker 12: whatever that is. Man, start that immediately. Don't wait a
• 15:50
  Speaker 12: month before.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: There's always something coming up, FYI.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: There's always something coming up.
• 15:55
  Speaker 12: Something is coming up, but nothing's really special is coming
• 15:58
  Speaker 12: up surprisingly like that, right?
• 16:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 16:00
  Speaker 12: So graduation, I graduate with my DBA in May. I'm
• 16:04
  Speaker 12: already saving for it.
• 16:05
  Speaker 13: Already, right?
• 16:06
  Speaker 12: So I'm already going to turn up. I'm already saving
• 16:09
  Speaker 12: for it. I've actually been saving for it for like
• 16:10
  Speaker 12: the last six months because I really want to turn up.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: So even though you have a good amount of money,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: you still save for things.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure.
• 16:17
  Speaker 13: Because it gives me permission to enjoy spending it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: Give them that IG so they can follow you, bro.
• 16:21
  Speaker 12: Hey, man, you can follow me at Anthony O'Neal on
• 16:24
  Speaker 12: all platforms, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and make sure you go
• 16:27
  Speaker 12: by anthonyoneal.com. They get all the resources to learn how
• 16:30
  Speaker 12: do you set up the 529, how do you set
• 16:32
  Speaker 12: up that sinking fund, and I promise you, you'll be well.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: I appreciate you, man.
• 16:35
  Speaker 8: We'll catch you next time you pull up on us.
• 16:36
  Speaker 13: For sure, man.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I appreciate y'all.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Social media, your mans don't think it's funny, too.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: But God ain't pleased. This is a holy moment.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: With Alton Walker.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: It's the boy that hustled L'Oreal, Kyle Santoli, and Alton Walker.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: And it's time for Alton to hit us with what?
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: God ain't pleased.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, these last four weeks, this doggone song has been everywhere,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: and we have to say thank you, Saucy Santana.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: AKA your twin.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: That is not my twin.
• 17:08
  Speaker 8: Yes, it is.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: We're quiet on the cricket. If you never heard of
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: the song, here it is right here.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Shh.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: And God ain't... Please listen. This thing done got out
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: of hand, y'all.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: Is it?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Look, I went to church, and I swear the deacons
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: wanted to, I guess, reach the young people.
• 17:28
  Speaker 13: No, they didn't.
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: Not through this.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: And they done remixed the quiet on the free.
• 17:32
  Speaker 13: No, they did not.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: And it went like this. You better be quiet, quiet
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: on the creeps, quiet, quiet on the creeps, quiet, quiet
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: on the creeps, quiet, quiet on the creeps, you wait
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: too long, you wait too long.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: And God's trying to speak, and God's trying to speak
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: to you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: You better be quiet on the creeps. Quiet on the creeps.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Absolutely not.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Quiet on the creeps.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Quiet on the creeps. Quiet on the creeps. Quiet on
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: the creeps. Quiet on the creeps.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Quiet on the creeps. Quiet on the creeps.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Quiet on the creeps.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Quiet on the creeps.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: This has to sound awfully familiar. Sounds like me though.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: That's the guy they please, man. Come on now. And Atlanta. Atlanta, Atlanta,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: January 17th. You know, I got to tell y'all, we're
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: going to be at the City Winery, so make sure
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: you get those tickets because that show will sell out.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And Cincy, November 12th. Pull up, Cincy. I got my
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: boy Supreme.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: From the Wiz.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: He's going to be hosting... And then I got my
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: dog from Cincy, Funny Man Graham, going to be on
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: that show. So, hey, look, Cincy, I got a pair
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: of tickets. If you're in my DM, I got a
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: pair of tickets for you. Cleveland the 29th. Pull up
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: on us, Cleveland, if you're in Cleveland. And I got
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: some tickets for you, too. Go to the DM now.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: First person in my DM for Cincy and Cleveland. You
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: get a pair of tickets.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Let's get it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Alton Walker Show.
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: The Morning Hustle Cash Grab.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: 10 questions.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Question.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: 60 seconds.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: 60 seconds.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: Time for that $ 1, 000 cash grab, baby.
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: Mona Hustle in the building.
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Alton Walker here. And it's time for
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: that $ 1, 000 cash grab. On the line, representing out of Birmingham, Alabama,
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: Steven's on the line. What up, Steve?
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: What it do at the gate?
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: At the gate, what it do?
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Steven!
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: How confident are.
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: You, bro?
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: I'm pretty confident, man.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Let's get to it. Woo!
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: He's not even trying to joke with y'all.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Here's the rules, bro.
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: You got 60 seconds to answer 10 questions. For every
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: correct answer, we'll get you $ 10. Get all 10 right,
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: you win $ 1, 000. If you don't know an answer, you
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: can say pass. We'll come back to that question as
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: long as we have time. But make sure the answer
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: you give is the one that you really want because
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: we have to go with your first response.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: And our judges, Big Med, don't play about that, okay?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He never plays.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: All right, that being said, man, we're going to hook
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: you up.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: L'Oreal's got a free answer for you.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: And that answer is going to be 68.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: 68, all right.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: I got 60 seconds on the clock, man. Let me
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: know when you're ready.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: Clock begins at 3, 2, 1. Here we go. What
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: is 17 times 4?
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Spell the word bottle.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: B-O-T-T-L-E.
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: Which of these represents a solid state of matter? Steam, ice,
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: or liquid water?
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Pass.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Which famous ocean liner tragically sank in 1912 after.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Hitting an iceberg?
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: Titanic.
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: What's the capital city of the state of Colorado?
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: Pass.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: How many centimeters are in one standard meter? 10, 100,
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: or 1,000? 100.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: 100.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: Solve this math problem. What's 95 minus 30 plus 15?
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Pass.
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: What scientific instrument is used to zoom in on tiny
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: items like cells that are invisible to the naked eye?
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: Microscope.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: Which one of these domestic animals belongs to the canine family?
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: A cat, a dog, or a rabbit?
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Dog.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: What do you call a group of fish that swim together?
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Pass.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: What is 17 times 4?
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: 68.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Time.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I gave you the first answer
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and you skipped it.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: But you came back around.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I was trying to get it all.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: I wasn't trying to hold on to just one question.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: I was trying to go ahead and.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: You did smart because you did get a lot more
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: than a lot of people have gotten in the past, okay?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: But you did get a few wrong. Which of these
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: represents a solid state of matter? Steam, ice, or liquid water?
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Ice.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: Ice, yeah.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: You was listening too hard, but not hard enough, okay?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: The capital city of Colorado is Denver. 95 minus 30
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: plus 15 is 80. This one you're going to kick yourself.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: What do you call a group of fish swimming together?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: We call that a school.
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: Oh, my God.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, my God.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I know. It's okay. You didn't do terrible. $ 60 isn't bad.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: That's not bad. Some of these questions are getting long.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Facts.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on with us over here.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: I ain't been to school in about a decade.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: By the time you got to the end of the question,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: you forgot the question.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I thought he forgot when I gave him the answer, too.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I was just trying to go fast.
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Well, you did pretty good, man.
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: $ 60.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: Six out of ten right for you today. So congratulations
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: on that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Steven, Steven, he's our man.
• 23:06
  Speaker 13: If he can't do it, no one can.
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: Any shout-outs for Birmingham? You got something? Man, let me
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: shout-out the whole west side, man.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: That's all I want to do.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Shout-out the whole west.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Side, man.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Shout-out my teacher.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it is.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Look on that east side, son.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: Nah, we ain't doing no east side.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: All right, man, if you want to get down with
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: the cash grab like our guy Steven, you know what
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: to do. Text the word CASH to 71007. You could
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: be up next on that $ 1, 000 cash grab.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Feel the vibe with the More Than Hustle.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: You know what it is, baby.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: More Than Hustle in the building. L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Alton
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: Walker's here. We got a guest, and this brother is
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: making waves right now.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: He's got some fire ass music. The freestyles are jumping off.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Akeem Ali is here, y'all.
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Kimi Casanova. Uh-oh, he's already touching the bell, y'all.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: What's up with you, brother?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: What's going on? How we doing?
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah, man, pleasure to have you here hanging out with
• 23:59
  Speaker 9: us today, man.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: I appreciate it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I just want to do your dance every time I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: see you.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, we can do the dance. That's why y'all got
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: me on your bus.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: We ain't going to tell them.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: That's fire.
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: I like it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And it's like so simple and easy. Everybody can do it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: I love that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: Even a caveman can do it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: Even a caveman can do it.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: You had all the ladies pulling up. You had some
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: of my friends pull up in Atlanta. I was like,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: what you doing up there with them?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, you and me in Dallas?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: My girl was out there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: My girl was out there with you. What the hell?
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to sit with my girl.
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Got my kids out here with this.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I can see that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: I can see that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Did you have somebody girl? Has anybody ever had to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: call you about a woman?
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Like, yo, what's up? No, don't come to me as
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: no man about no woman. You can have a dog. Like, yeah, no,
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: I ain't man enough for that.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: You didn't even come to other men as men.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll do it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: I've seen it. Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Man, I learned.
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: Somebody told me. Man, somebody will kill you over there.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Look, brother.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: Hey.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Hey. Yes, but let's talk about the Texture Tape 3,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: which is phenomenal. I love it. Like, I don't know
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: if I, I don't have to pick, but the singing,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the rapping, just everything is amazing. Like, do you have
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: one where you kind of like feel more comfortable with
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: singing versus rapping?
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: I feel more comfortable singing. singing but i'm a better
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: rapper than a singer like yeah singing songs just make
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: they just get us in a certain mood a certain
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: mode because everybody don't want to hear all the rapping
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: you're doing all the time especially for me i'm like
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: i want to rap.
• 25:33
  Speaker 14: You got words yeah like i want to you know.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: And so for people who want to hear that yes
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: but we want to feel stuff and i like making
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: people feel and like you know taking them back to
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: a time like you recall like when certain songs came
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: out how they made you feel, you know, where you were,
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: you know, the setting. And, like, sometimes you listen to
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: it now, you be like, man, I just remember when
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: this first came out. Absolutely. That's what I be trying to,
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: you know, give people, evoke that type of emotion and
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: that type of nostalgia.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I can hear that in some of the samples. Like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I can hear, like, pretty brown eyes creeping through there,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: sounds like. It'll give you, like, a feel of that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: record or something.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: You know, I actually don't be sampling stuff.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, so that's not a sample.
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: So I be like... I kind of like take a
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: pinch or a snippet or I like, I'm not going
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: to say like interpolate or make my own version, but
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: the song Mink, I know what you're talking about. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: just took the staccato hits, like a hit from it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: That's a fire, yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so I just, and they like, and so all
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: I took was the, and then I, and that was
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: all I took.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So it gives it the feel though.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so it's not like it's sampling it in totality.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: It's just like a hit. And so it's like, Not
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: even a sample You know samples count Like certain ways.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah Right You're like hold on Don't call it that You.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: Take like a certain Amount of counts And it's not
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: that it's not You know what I'm saying It's just
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: I heard it And got inspired And I was like
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: I have to do something I love.
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: That But speaking to the sound When I listen through
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: the album Right And it sounds like Original music Yeah
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: But to me, it takes me to a time of
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: late 80s R & B. And I mean, like, when
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: I'm hearing the beats on here, I'm like, oh, that
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: reminds me of, like, Guy album. Oh, that reminds me
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: Bobby Brown. And that reminds me of New Edition, Phil,
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: or I'll Be Sure.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: Was that intentional?
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I do a lot of studying, a lot of listening,
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: a lot of, like, dissecting and breaking down. And so
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: I have to learn how to shape shift. That's another
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: thing I have to do. Like, you rap, you sing,
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: you do X, Y, Z, but you have to make
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: the song sound good and you have to make it
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: intentional enough to sound like what you want people to, like,
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: gather from it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying?
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: So when you're saying it sounds like Bobby Brown, it
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: sounds like that's, like, spot on. Like, I did the
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: studying to make it, like, you can't say, like, oh,
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: he's sounding like a Bobby Brown song, he's sounding like
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: a guy's song. This just sounds so much like it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: It's like, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: if this came out in the 90s. It feels like
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: if it's of that era. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: Vax.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: You hear it.
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: Akeem Ali hanging out with us on the Morning Hustle
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: show today. More with Akeem when we come back.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: Don't move.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: Morning Hustle, L'Oreal, Kyle Santilli, and Alton Walker, and today,
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: Akeem Ali is in the building.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Well, when you first got started, let's take it back
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I know you started working with Lou Williams.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And how did the two of y'all, I've known Lou
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Williams for quite some time, how did the two of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: y'all even link up in the first place? Because some
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: people think it's a little scary for an artist to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: sign to an athlete.
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: She was scared to sign anybody.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: That's true, too.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: Scared to sign your name on a paper at school. Man.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: But we met one of my best friends. We was
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: each other's barbers. And I cut his hair. He cut
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: my hair. But, you know, he used to cut Lou's hair.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: And he was at the house one day cutting his hair.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: And he was like, my partner, he do music. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: he was like, you know, play me something. And so
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: he played it. And, yeah, it just went from there.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: We talked, formed and built a relationship. You know, we
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: used to go to Magic City and, you know, We
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: in there and we ordering wings and stuff. And, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: he give me some money to throw. I stash half
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: of it in my nuts.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I got bills.
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: I'm not rich like that. When we come back, we
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: got more to talk about. Akeem Ali hanging out with
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: us today on the Morning Hustle Show.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: We are the Morning Hustle.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: All right, y'all.
• 29:16
  Speaker 9: Morning Hustle in the building. L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Alton Walker.
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: And as you've been hearing for the past few minutes,
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: Akeem Ali has joined us.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Were you supposed to go on tour with Joe Scott originally?
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: I'm going to tell you what happened.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: I set everything up for my tour at the top
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: of the year. Me and my booking agent were talking
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: about it. And, man, if I had known, this is
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: what it would be. this hard, I would have just said,
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: wait till next year. Everybody trying to do everything. Everybody
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: outside right now. Let's stay in the house. But I
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: had put all my routing together for my tour. And
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: once we put the routing together and got all the
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: deals put together, literally a week before I was about
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: to announce, Jill DMed me and was like, literally hey
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: what you doing you want to go on tour and
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: i was like you want to get married but i
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: was like is she talking to me you know what
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: i'm saying and i was like man i didn't know
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: that she subscribed or like paid that close attention to
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: what i had going on it may have been somebody
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: on her team that was keeping her privy but i
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: know she was following me and so i um i
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: declined and i was like to so bad but i'm
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: going on my own tour and i just like did
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: all around and i didn't want to have my booking
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: agent doing all the work and we went through doing
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: all this stuff and i was gearing up for it
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: putting ideas together in my head and cancel it then
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: i went on sale with the tickets and once i
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: seen how the tickets were selling i doubled back like
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: hey you still need me i love and she was
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: like oh no it don't work that way brother it's
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: too late yeah it's a wrap.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: You could have done both, though, couldn't you?
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: That's a lot. So her, it would have been, I
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: actually would have still been on tour with her right now.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: And so my tour starts literally in six days. And
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: I would have still been on tour with her. And
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: it would have started, hers would have started in, like, June,
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: and I would have still been on the road until, like, November, December,
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: I think.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: She's going overseas, too.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: So I felt a.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Little bit about a way he was on Cam Newton
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: and I felt the way how he was pressing you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: about the price of your tickets. I thought that was
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: a little outrageous. The prices are fairly low to me.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Thirty dollars to be able to see your favorite artist,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: somebody that does incredible music. We've heard it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I just thought he kind of gave you a lot
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: of flack for that when he, you know, as a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: football player, how much do tickets cost to go to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a game?
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: Well, I don't think he got no control over the
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: ticket price.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but at the same time, you didn't mind your
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: fans paying that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: I think it was reasonable. I think it was within
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: reason for him to ask, why do you feel... people
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: are obligated to even pay for a $ 30 ticket. Like
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: I have to earn your $ 30. I have to earn
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: or win you over as a fan first. And then
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: it's like, you have to like me enough to say,
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: I want to spend time, effort, energy and money with
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: this person. And so it was like, you know, that,
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: It's relative, depending on who you're talking to. $ 30 is,
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying, the whole walk. And then
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: somebody is just like, count $ 30 to poop. Like, I
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: sneeze in this $ 30. That's a fact.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I open my eyes and it's like, like, how did $ 30?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: You hear the cash app.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: Sound going off every time you, you hear the coins
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: dropping like on cash app.
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: But, yeah, it is not a lot.
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: But I always accredit it to something that I'm not doing.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: It's my job to win you over, to make you
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: want to, to make you a fan, to turn you
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: into a believer. And until that happens, I mean, I'll complain.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: I'll advocate. I'll say stuff for myself, about myself. And like,
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying? I'm always being my favorite.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: But I cannot be mad if it's like, hey, I
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: love you enough on the internet. I don't care enough
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: to support the music. I don't know the man. I
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: don't know the person. Or I'm not like drawn into
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: that yet. Or you ain't convinced me enough. And so
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: I don't get upset about it. But I am going
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: to keep talking.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I know that's right.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: And I'm going to keep saying something. Because as long
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: as it gets attention and awareness and people are made
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: like conscious of it, then it's like, Some people are
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: just like, oh, let me just buy the damn tickets.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: Some people are like, and I'm like, I was just
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: telling somebody on the phone yesterday, we have to remember
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: to stick to the goal and not the plan.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Make sure y'all pull up to the Texas tour.
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: I'll be in Atlanta. I'll be in Atlanta December 4th
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: and 5th. I'm going to 38 cities. I had to
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: cancel two of the dates. I ain't ashamed about it
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: because Canada wasn't selling the tickets, eh? But that's okay.
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: You know, I'm still rolling. That's what's up. Ain't no
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: shame in my game. I'm going to hustle.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Next tour, they're going to sell out. We already know that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: They're going to sell out this tour.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: They're going to sell out this tour.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I'm at Canada.
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I'm at Canada. You're going to bring it back next tour,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and they're going to sell out.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: If I see you at a goddamn Canada.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Show, I'll swing out everybody in Canada for them not
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: selling out your show out there, okay?
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: How about that? You the one.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I got your back.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Don't f * * * with me.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: Don't f * * * without me, man.
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: Make sure y'all play that, man. The Texture Tape 3
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: is on the pop. And Akeem Ali, we appreciate you, man. Yeah,
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: I appreciate y'all for having me.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: See the whole interview and behind the scenes on our YouTube.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: At the Morning Hustle Show.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Elton Walker. It's the Morning Hustle Show.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: That's right. And if you want to stay on the
• 34:23
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• 34:26
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• 34:29
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• 34:31
  Speaker 9: All right, let's talk about it, man, because, you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: I said it plenty of times. I'm not really with it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: I don't really trust it. Delivery, especially with food.
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: You got all these services, whether it's Uber Eats or DoorDash,
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: and there's nothing against them personally. I just seen too
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: many horror stories.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: I literally probably last week saw a video that somebody
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: caught on their phone.
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: Ring camera.
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: The delivery lady put her hand in her pants, scratched
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: on the inside of her crotch.
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: Ew!
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, touched the food, and then put the food down
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: in front of the door.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: See, that's disgusting. Like, she literally just hates her life
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and wants other people to be miserable, too. I did
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: see that thing. It actually was a little scary, where
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the guy, I believe it might have been DoorDash, he
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: came to the door, and there was a 12-year-old boy.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: And he said.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, he called the little boy, the 12-year-old boy, beautiful. FYI,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the instructions were to drop the food off and leave.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Nobody asked you to knock at the door.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: That's wild.
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: See what I'm saying?
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Yep, y'all be doing it, though.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I don't do DoorDash. I do Uber now.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: Same thing.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: No, it's all a delivery service.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: DoorDash, I won't dash a door again in my life.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: They be stealing. I don't know how them folks be stealing,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: but that dude that stole my chilies in, I think
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I was in Florida.
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: He stole your chilies.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Man, he stole my chilies, man. I got the chipotle
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: with the mashed potato. I was ready to eat that thing.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: He gonna come to, he came to the hotel, and
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I wasn't, I'm like, he's sitting out there for a minute.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Joe was eating my food.
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: He was eating it, yeah.
• 36:12
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: And I had to walk the Chili's because I ain't
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: had nothing. Man, I was angry.
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: But I don't want to discriminate because there's been plenty
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: of times where, like, even with dumb stuff, like, you're
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: waiting on a package for somebody's birthday, you know what
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: I mean? And you missed a date, come to find
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: out it was delivered three houses down.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: Or, or.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: They'll lie and act like, yo, one time I was
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: waiting for these clothes and they lied and said that
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: they rung the bell or knocked at the door.
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: Yes, I've been sitting here all day.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I was sitting there all damn day. But when it
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: comes to, you got to be careful in the notes
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: when it says leave it at the door. Because one
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: time I was at my boy's house and I was like, yo,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: leave it at the door. So it said it was delivered.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: So I look outside the door and there's nothing there.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So I get mad. I'm like, yo, they robbed me.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: They got me for my money. I reported them everything.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Why did I leave the next day and I'm walking out?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: The freaking pizza was outside the building. They left it outside.
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: Not the inside apartment door. The building door.
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: That's hilarious.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Yo, tell me that's not crazy.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Who the hell would do that on the street?
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I think somebody took half of my beef the other day.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: What?
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: The lady that, because, all right, so the groceries got
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: dropped off, but the only meat that was missing was
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: the beef, half of the beef. They didn't mess with
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: the chicken, none of that. It was the dog. No,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: it was the delivery lady. She need a half.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Of my beef.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: How do you take.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Half of somebody's? Why didn't he take the other meat?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: If that dog was hungry, he would have ate the
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: other meat.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: I'm definitely not getting groceries delivered.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: I get it delivered.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: How would a dog get in to get the meat?
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: That's why it was the lady.
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: That's why you know it was a lie.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: All of this looks weird.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: 866-HUSTLE-8. I have my beef stew.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: What beef?
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: 866-HUSTLE-8.
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: 866-487-8538.
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: Where was it?
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Outside.
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: Tell us about your delivery horror stories right here on
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: the Motorhustle Show.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I forgot to get it from outside.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: Listen, man, you know what it is. We're asking you
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: about your delivery experiences that have gone absolutely wrong.
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: 866-HUSTLE-8.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: 866-487-8538.
• 38:19
  Speaker 9: Chris in Dallas, what happened with you?
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Man, it ain't even food.
• 38:22
  Speaker 11: It's Amazon.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Y'all place the doggone money.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Ooh, here we go.
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: Every time I order something.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: From Amazon, why you take it to my neighbor house?
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Now my neighbor in my business ain't calling me big money.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: Every time I got the package from her, she said,
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: my big money, I got your package.
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: Baby, stay out of my business. Wait, can we ask
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: what was in the package?
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Everything.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: When I say I order everything, everything I see on TikTok,
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: I go on Amazon.
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: And find it and I order it.
• 38:50
  Speaker 11: So every day I'm ordering something new.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: It get me too, girl.
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: All right, Rico in Dallas, man. Talk to us about
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: your delivery story.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Okay, so I actually work for DoorDash, but the one
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: time I took a delivery, I picked up an order
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: for a customer from McDonald's.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: So I got to her house, dropped the food off.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: She texted me back. She said, there's no food in
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: the bag. McDonald's only put napkins in the bag. So
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: I go back to the lady's house.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Pick up her order, go back to McDonald's and ask
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: them where the food was. They said, well, we put
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: the food in the bag. I said, no, this lady
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: only got napkins. So I had McDonald's remake her order,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: and then I drove back to her house. and dropped
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: off her food and then started my door dash again
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: but i've also had customers where i've delivered food and
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: then lie and say they never got.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: It I know you ate that McDonald's stuff.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you why.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: When you picked up that bag, how come you ain't
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: feel it was light?
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: No, so literally, like, when I go in, I just
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  Speaker 4: grab the bag. So I'm like, okay, whatever's in there
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: is in there because they sealed the bag. I dropped
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the bag off sealed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. It's good, man. You ate it.
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  Speaker 8: It's napkins.
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  Speaker 1: Napkins ain't heavy.
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  Speaker 8: And when it was sealed and.
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: Light, maybe he was like, maybe they just ordered small
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: fries or something.
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  Speaker 11: Who knows?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Even small frogs got a little weight to it. With
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: that oil, come on.
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: All right, what y'all got, man? 866-HUSTLE-8, 866-487-8538. Hustle in
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: the morning.
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: Y'all know what it is, baby.
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: More than a hustle in the building. L'Oreal, Kyle Santilli,
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: and Alton Walker. And we got a guest today, man.
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: One of my favorite people in the rap game. Brand
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: new album right now. You know, Grammy Award winning.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying?
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Like we said, baby.
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  Speaker 9: Doing it big for a minute now.
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: We got to give it up, man. Rhapsody's here with us.
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  Speaker 3: Love it.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the A, had to come see my people.
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure. For sure, man. It's good to have
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: you back, yo.
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: Always happy to be back.
• 40:43
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: I love watching you work, man. Just seeing you drop stuff.
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: You're so intentional with all the music and the imagery
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: and the messaging and everything that you do. And you
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: got this brand new album. Guy got an Afro with
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: gold hoops.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I love gold hoops.
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  Speaker 7: And gold.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: I said, wait.
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  Speaker 9: It's and.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: It's all right.
• 40:59
  Speaker 14: All across America, they slaying it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: They get the first part right, though.
• 41:03
  Speaker 14: They try to be grammatically correct.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Ghana has an... No, no, no.
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  Speaker 11: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: You said what you said.
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  Speaker 9: Ghana said it like I said it.
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  Speaker 8: For sure, for sure.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: From what we understand, the inspiration comes after a trip
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: from Africa for this album.
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  Speaker 10: In Ghana.
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  Speaker 8: Ghana, specifically. Yeah, the title.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: I was in Ghana.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: We were taking a trip.
• 41:25
  Speaker 14: About a five-hour trip to go see the Ashanti region
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: because I was doing a bunch of things. We were
• 41:29
  Speaker 14: going to go to the Ashanti region, slave castles. We
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: were going to go to the botanical gardens. We were
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: going to do a lot of things.
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: It was mad early.
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: And station after station after station, it was this Anglo-Saxon,
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: westernized gospel music. And, you know, listening to that in
• 41:45
  Speaker 14: the continent and not hearing the people's version of that,
• 41:48
  Speaker 14: it just reminded me, like so many places around the world,
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: how much, you know, religion and other things have been
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: co-opted And especially in religion, you know, everybody doesn't want
• 41:59
  Speaker 14: you to see themselves in the most high, the creator.
• 42:02
  Speaker 14: So it was just a reminder, like, you know, we
• 42:04
  Speaker 14: can't forget to see ourselves. Like, you can't put God
• 42:07
  Speaker 14: into any shape, form, fashion, race, gender. God is in
• 42:12
  Speaker 14: all things and everyone, but... Don't take yourself out of that.
• 42:16
  Speaker 14: God got an affluent goal.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Do you find yourself defending the title? I know anytime
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: you mention God, people get a little unruly, especially if
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: it's not in the image that they portray him as.
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: No, I don't defend it.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I don't argue with people.
• 42:31
  Speaker 14: You know, everybody has free will to believe as they choose.
• 42:34
  Speaker 14: This is just my perspective, my take, my understanding. You know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 14: I'll re-comment sometimes that people are like, it's a hymn.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: It says in the da-da-da-da.
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: And I'm just like.
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: Hey, whatever.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: Whatever you do.
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: This is just my take on it.
• 42:50
  Speaker 13: God is beyond comprehension.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: Told y'all she's dope, man. Rhapsody hanging out with us
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: today on The Morning Hustle. More with rap when we
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: come back. Do not move. L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Alton Walker,
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: Rhapsody in the building. It's the morning hustle.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So we did, a lot of people are saying the
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Neo Soul is really coming out of you in this album.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: We did see Jack Harlow try to pull off a
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: little Neo Soul. What did you think about his version
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: of Neo Soul?
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Dang, my boy.
• 43:25
  Speaker 14: I don't know, man. It's good to have a good
• 43:30
  Speaker 14: team around you. People that, you know, can be more
• 43:36
  Speaker 14: eyes and ears. and help you navigate through whatever creative
• 43:40
  Speaker 14: art you're.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Trying to do. So did he nail it?
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: Did he nail it?
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: He nailed the costume.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: He nailed the costume. Because what if there's like.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: A white boy that comes and be like, you know,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I'm really inspired by your album, so now I'm going
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: to do an afro. Is that okay? Because afros... I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: froze our back.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: She looking at you.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: She looking at Lauriel.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: She looking at Lauriel.
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: You know that ain't right.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I know you a comedian.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: I just wonder.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Because I feel like that's Jack Harlow's next move.
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: No, he can't do that.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: No?
• 44:15
  Speaker 14: Nah, we know in this culture a lot of people
• 44:18
  Speaker 14: take it inappropriate. You know, so it's good even if
• 44:23
  Speaker 14: the intention was not bad.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: That, you know, we educate people. Told y'all she's dope, man.
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: Rhapsody hanging out with us today on The Morning Hustle.
• 44:31
  Speaker 9: More with rap when we come back. Do not move.
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: Turn us up in the morning.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Can't knock the hustle.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: It's the Morning Hustle.
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Alton Walker, Rhapsody in the building. It's
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: the Morning Hustle. Let me ask you about Jay real
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: quick because, you know, and I'm also a little confused
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: too because this is labeled as your fifth studio album.
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: And I'm like, I know I've been listening to Rhapsody
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: more than five studio albums, but I want to.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, you put in the mixtapes.
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: They all consider mixtapes.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: Well, back on... God, what was it?
• 45:02
  Speaker 9: Idea Beautiful, you had a verse on Destiny and talking
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: about your.
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: uh, admiration for Jay Z.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean? Then fast forward, you're signed
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: to rock nation. Do you know what I'm saying? So one,
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: how was that full circle moment for you? Like admiring
• 45:16
  Speaker 9: him just as an artist and then end up being
• 45:18
  Speaker 9: signed to his label. And then at the same time, like,
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: I feel like a lot, especially in the social media era, uh,
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: There's people on, I was just on yesterday on IG
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: and people talking about, I don't understand why people think,
• 45:29
  Speaker 9: you know, Jay-Z is so great, this, that, and the third.
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: And I think it's a generational thing. They might have
• 45:34
  Speaker 9: missed some of the years that we hold dear to
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: our hearts. So I guess my question is twofold. Like,
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: what was it like for you coming fully around, full
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: circle moment, signing under Jay's label? And then, you know,
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: what do you say to those people that kind of
• 45:45
  Speaker 9: doubt what he's contributed to this game?
• 45:48
  Speaker 14: Signing to him... back in 2016 was a dream come true. Like,
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: my favorite rapper is him and Lauren, one and two.
• 45:55
  Speaker 14: They one and one, one A, one B.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: They just one.
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: Like, you know, so, uh, I always wanted to be
• 46:01
  Speaker 14: a part of the rock family. Um, you know, I
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: love what Jay represented. Uh, I love his style of lyricism. Like,
• 46:08
  Speaker 14: he was, he's the greatest of all time to me.
• 46:11
  Speaker 14: So to have somebody see me and be like, I
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: see you and so much, and I want you to
• 46:16
  Speaker 14: be a part of this, uh, family that we got. Like,
• 46:19
  Speaker 14: That was the biggest tilt of the hat that you
• 46:22
  Speaker 14: could give. Like, you know, nodding of the brim. Um,
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: you know, so that was, that was a.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Dream come true.
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: You celebrate it. How'd you celebrate?
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: Man, I don't even remember, bro.
• 46:33
  Speaker 14: I think they gave us like, well, we celebrated at
• 46:36
  Speaker 14: the office or walked in and had the cake and
• 46:38
  Speaker 14: all that, you know, all that, like the ace of spades,
• 46:41
  Speaker 14: you know, that was dope.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Um, I don't remember having.
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: A big celebration.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: It was like, go time.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: What are we celebrating?
• 46:49
  Speaker 9: We're going to acknowledge the moment, but.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: It ain't time to celebrate.
• 46:51
  Speaker 14: We got good work to do. As far as people
• 46:56
  Speaker 14: questioning Jay ever being in anybody's, because at the end
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: of the day, who you like is who you like,
• 47:03
  Speaker 14: but to say that somebody doesn't have the right to
• 47:06
  Speaker 14: be there, you don't know music. Maybe that's because of
• 47:11
  Speaker 14: generation or whatever, but Anybody that's going to argue why
• 47:14
  Speaker 14: is Jay-Z considered the greatest of all time, you don't
• 47:18
  Speaker 14: know music. And I don't have conversations with people like that.
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: Period.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I hear you.
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: Congratulations on another album. I'm definitely proud of you, man.
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: Seeing all the work and all the time and how
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: you've grown over your career and your years and see
• 47:30
  Speaker 9: you doing what you're doing at the level you're doing at.
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: Man, salute to you. Very proud of you.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: I appreciate it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 47:36
  Speaker 14: My first interview was in Kyle's garage.
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 47:40
  Speaker 14: I wasn't even a solo artist. I was in a group,
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: so he's been with me since day one.
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: I didn't even realize that was your first, but I remember.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: I think it was my first.
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: I got the video. I'm going to pull it up.
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: I love it. Kyle is my family.
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure. That's amazing. We appreciate you. Congratulations.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Man, Rhapsody, go get the album.
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: Y'all know what it is.
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: Morning Hustle. Hustle. In the morning.
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: Hey, yo, it's the Morning Hustle. L'Oreal, Kyle Santillan, Alton Walker.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: And we got money for your pockets. Text CASH, C-A-S-H
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: to 71007. All right, look, man, our time is up.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: We are out the door.
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: If you want to get with us, man, please do
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: on our social media as we slide up out of here.
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: How can they get with you, L'Oreal?
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Super easy. Starring L'Oreal. S-T-A-R-R-I-N-G. L-O-R-E-L.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Alton Walker Show. Follow me everywhere on your social media.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: FaceTime him.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can FaceTime me. I take it all, man.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not turning your comments off, you racist people.
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: All right, man. Kyle Santillan.
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: Follow me on the gram at Radio King Kyle. And,
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: of course, follow the show at Morning Hustle Show.
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: Bye. The Morning Hustle.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Every morning.
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: The Morning Hustle.
• 48:54
  Speaker 13: Every morning.
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: The Morning Hustle.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Every morning.
• 49:00
  Speaker 6: It's The Morning Hustle.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: With L'Oreal and Kyle Centillion.