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DC Young Fly on Rethinking the Way We See Luxury: "You Don't Know Luey" · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: We're not even conditioned for niggas to have this type
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  Speaker 1: of money.
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  Speaker 2: So the way we act is just awful impulse.
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  Speaker 1: If we really formulate a group and be like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you take all the money you spend here, You take
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  Speaker 1: all the money you spend here.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that the black motherfucker has the.
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  Speaker 1: Same shit they like, Nigga, I'm not paying three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty dollars of his sweatshirt.
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  Speaker 2: This shit should be forty.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know, Louis, you're gonna go in here and
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  Speaker 1: spend a thousand dollars on the shirt because who said
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  Speaker 1: that this motherfucker was worth a thousand? This is what
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  Speaker 1: you see, This is what you conditioned to. So we
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  Speaker 1: have to wipe this whole narrative and the way we
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  Speaker 1: think on a certain situations on what's hot, what's elevating,
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  Speaker 1: what's morally making you progress, and then we're gonna literally
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  Speaker 1: find ourselves in a better state of mind.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the taket of generation to do it, though,
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  Speaker 3: because you think about those brands you just name with
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  Speaker 3: Louis Vauton or Rolex, these are brands that have been
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  Speaker 3: around for hundreds of years, have been able to prosper
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  Speaker 3: for hundreds of years. And then that branding is something
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  Speaker 3: that you see and you automated, automatically attached to being wealthy,
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  Speaker 3: or you automatically attached to being you know, well off.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have those status symbols amongst us, like the.
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  Speaker 2: Thing we don't have.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even think I can name one thing that
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  Speaker 3: a black man has created and owned that you can
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  Speaker 3: have on you or with you that make you pla
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  Speaker 3: oh he got a whatever, Oh he got some corn bread.
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  Speaker 2: From Uncle Rick.
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  Speaker 3: Money off white, I mean, but still that was that
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  Speaker 3: was connected to a brand that was already established. So
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  Speaker 3: for us to be able to do it without getting that,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, that extra hand that the
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  Speaker 3: big brother hand to come and say, hey, give me that,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, that's what It's going to
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  Speaker 3: take a while.
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and I think it is here, but he
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  Speaker 2: to add on his. It's in my head, but see
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  Speaker 2: to add on his.
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  Speaker 1: We use that materialisty like he said, we put that
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  Speaker 1: value on the roll legs and the lure be like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we made it. Instead that are saying, spiritually, cordially, what's
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  Speaker 1: making it to us? Because that were putting our status
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  Speaker 1: on making it when peace can be mean you made it,
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  Speaker 1: your friend in a better state of mind, Mean you
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  Speaker 1: made it. You're thinking you're going outside Joe, your state
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  Speaker 1: of mind and the way you're supposed to live.
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  Speaker 2: And this is value and this is validation to everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: You know what made me stop buying that ship? I
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  Speaker 4: actually google who these people were, look him up. Some
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  Speaker 4: terrible looking motherfuckers. I'm telling you, once you see the chest,
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  Speaker 4: the names you putting on your body, you don't really
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  Speaker 4: rethink that ship. Why would you give a fuck what
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  Speaker 4: the old white man thinks cool?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 5: That's what Dame Dash told us. I won't name a designer,
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  Speaker 5: but he talking about the designer that's really popular. He
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  Speaker 5: was like, Yo, I know that he's a bad person,
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  Speaker 5: a terrible person. He's like so when ask when somebody
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  Speaker 5: raps about him, you got to question them, right because
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  Speaker 5: it's like like he's like this, and he's like yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and they know and they know he's a bad person.
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  Speaker 5: Like you know what I'm saying, So like, yo, I
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  Speaker 5: know these people personally, like they're like real devil.
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  Speaker 6: But I want to talk about that. You said it
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  Speaker 6: might take a generation in DC. You said the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: All we in the midst of that generation, right, Because
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  Speaker 6: if we're supposed to be what I'm saying, when you
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  Speaker 6: look at if we're talking about just the entertainment space,
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  Speaker 6: especially in your space. When I look at y'all and
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  Speaker 6: I look at what y'all doing with eighty five media,
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  Speaker 6: I'm watching it firsthand. When I look at like we
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  Speaker 6: were backstage and we're talking about this is a family,
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  Speaker 6: I'm looking at who y'all hiring. This is not the
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  Speaker 6: example this is now being celebrated. Yeah, Netflix recognized it,
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  Speaker 6: but the community recognized it for right years. Right, I'm
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  Speaker 6: looking at early Lesion, same right in the financial space.
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  Speaker 6: Shout out to Charlamage again and Black Fact what they're
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  Speaker 6: doing in the pocket, It's like, you know, it's happening
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  Speaker 6: within the midst of it. We just got to keep
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  Speaker 6: leading these examples and change the mindset of the people
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  Speaker 6: as we're doing it. So when y'all, when y'all perform, right,
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  Speaker 6: Because when I look at you, I never looked like yo,
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  Speaker 6: these guys are comedians. I first took at like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: these guys are brilliant. They're brilliant because what they do
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  Speaker 6: is impossible. Are y'all going into these spaces with that
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  Speaker 6: kind of said thought, like we represent the generation that
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  Speaker 6: we're talking about right now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, even look at this platform right here, Look at
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  Speaker 4: all the things you've been able to do our your
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  Speaker 4: leision right now. Think of how much further ahead we'd
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  Speaker 4: be if we came from if your dad was a
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  Speaker 4: camera man for thirty years, or if your dad was
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  Speaker 4: a producer for thirty years, or your mom was the
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  Speaker 4: secretariat Warner Brothers. Like if we were grandfather, then we'd
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  Speaker 4: be billionaire. Fact, like you're said with the generation and change,
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  Speaker 4: were the first generation with that was a blueprints because
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  Speaker 4: we start this started out as homeboys making jokes on
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  Speaker 4: a show, right, we didn't know that it was We
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  Speaker 4: didn't know that we would have to accept the responsibility
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  Speaker 4: of having to create our own media company. Like when
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  Speaker 4: we were sitting there and we were going out, we
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  Speaker 4: were meeting with these people like yeah, we want to
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  Speaker 4: take it on the road, we want to do this,
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  Speaker 4: we want to do this, and they were like, how.
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  Speaker 2: It'll never work.
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  Speaker 4: Like those were literally the worst of these same people
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  Speaker 4: who come back, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: Ally, I can't I'm talking abys.
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  Speaker 4: I'm who gonna help us, help us. We can't do
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  Speaker 4: this ship by ourself. We don't have the knowledge of
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  Speaker 4: if we were just sitting here. We don't know how
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  Speaker 4: to put that camera right there.
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  Speaker 1: But we're the one that take the risk for to
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  Speaker 1: be the blueprint exactly right, you see what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: But also we observed because we observe y'all as well,
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, okay, it does work.
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  Speaker 2: But see, this is what goes back to what I
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  Speaker 2: said earlier.
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  Speaker 1: If we just stop hating on one another and really
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  Speaker 1: say what could we do together?
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  Speaker 2: Or believe in me. I don't know what the fuck
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting myself into.
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  Speaker 1: When you said you believe in the little brother, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't even know what the fuck this was. And then
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  Speaker 1: once I saw the bigger picture, it took me. It
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  Speaker 1: took me probably three three and a half years, even
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  Speaker 1: after we don pop off for me to really put
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  Speaker 1: my stamp on it, because I had to sit back
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, but we got a lot of people, Hold,
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  Speaker 1: look this motherfucker go to work here every day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this is bigger than how I perceive it.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at it how they looking at it,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking at how everybody else is looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, hmm, what can I do to enhance this?
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  Speaker 1: And then once I start, I said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: this is why I appreciate y'all because y'all bring a
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  Speaker 1: certain energy. Well, nigga has to be you gotta pick
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  Speaker 1: up or you're gonna find out you slack it.
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  Speaker 2: And when you slack and you're like, okay, I'm the problem.
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  Speaker 1: And then once I see I'm the problem, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: how can I enhance this situation and make it better
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  Speaker 1: amongst people who bring in that same type of energy.
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  Speaker 2: What did it for me? What it's like.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing everybody around us right not have to go to work?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Not have to go you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like this is your job? Now?
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  Speaker 4: When I saw our friends quitting their job, then I
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  Speaker 4: knew I was like, this is this is really something
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  Speaker 4: because that was just a whole different feeling that I
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  Speaker 4: never even thought, like you know, of course, and this
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  Speaker 4: ship when you're like I quit my job, I do
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  Speaker 4: this other people like and my daughter camera man, he
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  Speaker 4: had to go get no other jobs for three years?
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  Speaker 2: Right, Like you straight?
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  Speaker 4: You good?
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  Speaker 2: My boy?
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm not only am I good? I'm better because
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  Speaker 4: I got my own independence. I'm free, I could, I
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  Speaker 4: don't have to. And that's what really set the tone
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  Speaker 4: for me and watching other people me that.
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  Speaker 3: Was it was seeing the people like the people being out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because whenever I go to a city, I
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  Speaker 3: always touched the city.
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  Speaker 2: In whatever way I can.
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  Speaker 3: And once people start coming up to me talking about
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  Speaker 3: us versus everything else that they see us do, like
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  Speaker 3: they specifically say, yeah, man, I know you from but
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  Speaker 3: that shiit y'all doing, Bro, keep doing that shit. That's
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  Speaker 3: what made me know, like, Okay, we impacted because certain places,
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  Speaker 3: you wouldn't even think that we was touching those places
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  Speaker 3: because I be some places, molack, man, what you're doing here?
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  Speaker 3: And when I see that we uh, we were there.
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  Speaker 3: When I saw we had infiltrated those places that you
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  Speaker 3: can't infiltrate, especially in our community. It's certain places that
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  Speaker 3: they not even letting no new ship come through. It's like, nigga,
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  Speaker 3: fuck that we got what we like and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: I had went to the.
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  Speaker 4: Gas station and they had the ad had the ship
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  Speaker 4: playing out like.
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  Speaker 2: That type of ship.
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  Speaker 3: Bro made it to the hoods, that type of ship
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  Speaker 3: of shops, those type of things
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  Speaker 1: My graduates from my school being forced back drop, back drop,
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  Speaker 1: Mike drop, back drop, drop,