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#686 - Blacc Sam & Bino Rideaux Talk Nipsey’s Legacy, New Album, Documentary & Unreleased Music · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: for the thirty eighth time being Overdeaux and Black Sam
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  Speaker 1: in the building. Appreciate y'all pulling up man, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: having us. Yeah, of course it's a big week this
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  Speaker 1: week Novo Thursday night celebrating the release of Prolific. I
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  Speaker 1: was I was lucky enough to hear the album. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, album is great. I want to talk to you, Beno, because, like,
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  Speaker 1: I know how artists can get when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: like older music, and you and Nip recorded this album together.
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  Speaker 1: Was it like, because like, did you get demo itis
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  Speaker 1: or did you kind of have like like any sort
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  Speaker 1: of like Yo, I don't kind of sound like that anymore. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm better now, Like you know what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 1: was it did you go through that process with any
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  Speaker 1: of this music?
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  Speaker 2: It's it's I feel like I feel like the music
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  Speaker 2: is timeless.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, Yes, I was telling you because you were like, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's old. I was like, bro, it don't sound like
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  Speaker 1: it sounds.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just point it out, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: It was like us just had us on some advanced
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  Speaker 3: timing way back then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was elevated. Is time this music? For sure?
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  Speaker 1: For you? This is like an era where you're relatively
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  Speaker 1: unknown in LA right, Like this is before Boso, this
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  Speaker 1: is before death.
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  Speaker 2: Jam, Yeah, before all that shit.
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  Speaker 1: Like do you have like nostalgic feeling listening to some
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  Speaker 1: of the ship like thinking about like dang, like this
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  Speaker 1: was before, like Nip believed in you really before everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: For real, Yeah, listening back.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, It's easy, easier for me
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  Speaker 3: to listen as a listener, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: opposed to like critiquing myself tough, you know. So it's like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, like I said, it was kind of
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  Speaker 3: ahead of the curve back then, like just the whole
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  Speaker 3: approach to the music. So I kind of hear it
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  Speaker 3: and I respect it more rather than when I just
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  Speaker 3: did it.
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  Speaker 1: For right, right, Sam, I want to know, man, you've
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  Speaker 1: been so careful about how Nip's legacy is used and
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, you know, fans have been asking what's up
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  Speaker 1: with new Nipsey music. I know there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of unreleased music. This guy was a studio rat, so
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  Speaker 1: there's you know, I'm sure there's hard drives of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: What made right now the timing to finally let this
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  Speaker 1: stuff go?
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people ask, and it's always
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  Speaker 4: number one for me. It was hard for me to
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  Speaker 4: just even listen to music. Yeah, from from Bromn and
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  Speaker 4: let alone to even think about putting music out for
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  Speaker 4: two things like I you know, I would never be
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  Speaker 4: in the family and the team would never be somebody's
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  Speaker 4: just opportunistic trying to just drop something for for financial gain.
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  Speaker 4: And from the outside, it was a lot of like
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  Speaker 4: people who don't have the same responsibility as us that
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  Speaker 4: just was speaking from what they thought was right, like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's the perfect time you gotta go now this is
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  Speaker 4: And so that's when it we all kind of stepped
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  Speaker 4: back and I was like, Man, get those people away
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  Speaker 4: from us. We don't even want to think about that.
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  Speaker 4: And then as time passed and I felt it a
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  Speaker 4: little easier to listen to the music. At least it
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  Speaker 4: was always me listening to this project and knowing that
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  Speaker 4: this has to come out. Even for Beino, this has
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  Speaker 4: to come out. You know, this is something that he
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  Speaker 4: did with Hustle and he deserves for it to be out.
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  Speaker 4: And then I know how important this project was to Bro.
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  Speaker 4: I remember he gave it to me to listen to
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  Speaker 4: and was he was proud of it, and I'm like, Bro,
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  Speaker 4: this is dope as fuck.
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  Speaker 2: Bro.
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  Speaker 4: So it was slated to come after Victory Lap and
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  Speaker 4: just hit everybody was talking to the team hit Beino,
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  Speaker 4: hit Tay, and then was like, man, how you guys feel.
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  Speaker 4: They from the jump they were like, Bro, there's no pressure, bro,
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  Speaker 4: whenever you know, we here, whenever you're ready to put
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  Speaker 4: this out. And so they've been patiently waiting, man, just
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  Speaker 4: being super solid. And I just hit them like how
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  Speaker 4: you guys feel? And they're like, man, let's man, let's
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  Speaker 4: do it. So we all got together, same production team
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  Speaker 4: and just been listening to the music and we like,
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  Speaker 4: man's put this shit out, man, And and I feel
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  Speaker 4: it's perfect time. And like you said, man, the music
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  Speaker 4: is timeless, sound like right now, it's elevated. It's hustled
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  Speaker 4: and being no at at A at the finance together
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  Speaker 4: to produce something that I feel they couldn't have done
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  Speaker 4: alone because it's both of them fifty fifty together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: putress out, man, and I feel positive about it, happy
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  Speaker 4: about it, and not to belong with it.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: One thing I wanna stress to everybody for me, I
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  Speaker 4: know how important hustle music was and how important his
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  Speaker 4: art form was to him. And he's like meticulous. He
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  Speaker 4: wants to make sure that the sequence is right, the the, the,
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  Speaker 4: the the the each song goes with the project just
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  Speaker 4: not just like picking Lucy's and putting 'em together. And
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  Speaker 4: we would never I would never be a part of
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  Speaker 4: any of that. So this is something he did and
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  Speaker 4: I I we don't have any more of these, like
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  Speaker 4: this is important to me and to whoever buys it
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  Speaker 4: and j even listen to this. This is one of
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  Speaker 4: them things where he was mad scientists along with be
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  Speaker 4: know and like very critical and it's a masterpiece and
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  Speaker 4: I just you know, I'm just happy that it can
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  Speaker 4: come out in the world, will be able to It
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  Speaker 4: ain't about sales, It's not about It's just about, man,
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  Speaker 4: this is a body of work. This is really a
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  Speaker 4: prolific piece of art form and I'm happy that is
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  Speaker 4: here and people are going to be able to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: listen to it.
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  Speaker 1: Also, like if you think back, let me move your
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  Speaker 1: micro lover coursures if you kind of think back, like
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  Speaker 1: you said, it's supposed to come after Victory Lap, Like
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  Speaker 1: what a great contrast, you know what I mean, like
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  Speaker 1: to victory Lap. You know, yes, sir, you said, like
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  Speaker 1: there were because I feel like we see it happen
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  Speaker 1: when someone passes away sometimes man, it'll be like nine
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  Speaker 1: months later whatever major label they were with. Well, like
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  Speaker 1: you got an album with a bunch of features and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's never cohesive. It doesn't never feel like
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  Speaker 1: well like what that artist actually wanted this music to
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  Speaker 1: come out the way it was. So I think that's
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  Speaker 1: why this is important. If it's like Nipsey wanted this
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  Speaker 1: album out like it wasn't like is that for you?
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  Speaker 1: Was that like a wake up call where you had,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you had to kind of cut people
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  Speaker 1: out who were a little bit too eager and and
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  Speaker 1: had dollar signs in their eyes when it came to
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  Speaker 1: unrelease Nipsy music.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't as much as cut people out. It
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  Speaker 4: was just put them in their place as far as understanding.
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  Speaker 4: Like I tell people all the time, Man, that's cool
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  Speaker 4: for you to think, but that is unacceptable for us
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  Speaker 4: to think. That's cool for you to do, that's unacceptable
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  Speaker 4: for us to do as the family. As this is
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  Speaker 4: my brother, you know, his friends and people that were close,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not even mad at him, but y'all can't
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  Speaker 4: run this And thank god, hustle business affairs were like
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  Speaker 4: where they need to be. Ye, So you know, he's
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  Speaker 4: doing joint ventures. He has control of what he does creatively,
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  Speaker 4: and so and you know, thank God man, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Broke put everybody in in a situation financially to where
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  Speaker 4: everything yourself sufficient, clothing and just even the Marathon brand.
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, because sometimes you know, people that
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  Speaker 4: have children and family and kids, they don't have the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to kind of just make it about art, so
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  Speaker 4: they have to put it out and sometimes the label,
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  Speaker 4: you know, is looking out for the family and doing
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  Speaker 4: something to keep hopefully keep some money coming in. But
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  Speaker 4: not to be all over the place. We everything was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, thank God in place taking care of and
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  Speaker 4: you know, Hustle got the kids super super right, you know,
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  Speaker 4: real estate, they got things in their name, they got
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  Speaker 4: trust set up, and you know, we're in a position
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  Speaker 4: to just be able to make sure we take this
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  Speaker 4: music and approach it the right way and really try
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  Speaker 4: to do it the way Hustle would have did it,
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  Speaker 4: and for not to be all over the place. For
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  Speaker 4: Hustle the music. And he would always tell me this
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  Speaker 4: and tell us the music was so important. It wasn't
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  Speaker 4: about money. He would say, Man, we're gonna get the money. Man,
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  Speaker 4: My shit gotta be inspirational to people.
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  Speaker 1: Can forget how long we were waiting for Victory Lap.
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  Speaker 4: No facts, facts like Victory.
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  Speaker 1: Lap was a drawn out process to get it, yep,
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  Speaker 1: Like it wasn't like it was like he signed Atlantic
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  Speaker 1: and then we got an album Like nah, I remember
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  Speaker 1: we'd be like, man, it wasn't this Nipsey album coming?
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  Speaker 1: Like I keep hearing about it, Like yeah, no, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think too, man, Like just like you said, Man,
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  Speaker 1: just mourning healing. And then also, you know, the marathon
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  Speaker 1: is a thing. You know, the clothing line is a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Like these are all things that you know you've been
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  Speaker 1: able to with your team, like spin into like a
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  Speaker 1: serious enterprise to honor Nipsey, Like I think about a
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  Speaker 1: marathon Burger, how are you guys at four locations now?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 1: And that's within two years.
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  Speaker 4: Man, Just been blessed, man, and just trying to stay
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  Speaker 4: stay on it, stay aggressive and take advantage of the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: That's not easy for people to know. The food game
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: is not easy, man, for real, and the food is incredible.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to know for you did you
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  Speaker 1: were you like your vocals? Were there any records where
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  Speaker 1: you're like yeah, I gotta recut that, like I could
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: have said that better, or yeah, I mean because you
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  Speaker 1: have you have that, you know obviously you could do that,
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  Speaker 1: like you know.
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  Speaker 2: Like yeah, I mean as as a team, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was a couple where it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we should you know what I'm saying, try to try
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  Speaker 3: to attack this one again.
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  Speaker 2: But for the most part we wanted to leave it.
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  Speaker 2: You know that.
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  Speaker 1: That's dope.
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  Speaker 4: Man, let me say something that could off one thing.
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  Speaker 4: Even with the music, a lot of people obviously coming
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  Speaker 4: to the table, we're listening and we're trying to find things,
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  Speaker 4: and every time, even with production everything, every time we
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  Speaker 4: take a step back as a team and listen to it,
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  Speaker 4: the originals was better than anything. Right, We're like, man, listen, man,
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  Speaker 4: I hate to be that guy. Man put it back,
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  Speaker 4: keep it how it was, man, just and it's you know,
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: it could be better. And then when we really listen
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  Speaker 4: to it, we like, nah, the way they had it
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  Speaker 4: is perfect, and so that's kind of what the compass
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  Speaker 4: for us.
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  Speaker 1: That's dope. It's like, all right, even if we tweak something, now,
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  Speaker 1: now we got to listen to that. Now, let's listen
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  Speaker 1: to the original, and the original beats it out every time, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Every time. So I'm like, man, this is a masterpiece.
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  Speaker 1: into the interview. I'm curious because I'm listening to the
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  Speaker 1: album dope record on there that I think has some
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  Speaker 1: potential radio is the Cardian Ti record. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to know. Now, we had originally heard those vocals pop
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: up on Vultures, the do It record with ty Kanye
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  Speaker 1: and YG. What was the process of you letting those
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: vocals go on that project? I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: big deal because we first of all, I thought that
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  Speaker 1: that record on Vultures was s dope. But for you
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: to like, what was your thought process? Like you know what? Sure?
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: You know, big moment for Tie too, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Vultures won.
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  Speaker 4: You know, facts man, tie is home team. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I gotta keep it honest. We didn't know anything about that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so you know, when it came out, I was mad,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, hold on that it's supposed to be
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: on this project. And then that record or the or
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: the one that is on this project was actually supposed
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: to be on Victory Lab. Hustle was like, I love
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: this record once again, but it doesn't fit this project
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  Speaker 4: and I feel like it fits this prolific project better.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: And so, you know, coming from the side not even
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: doing you know, I don't, I don't. I'm not an artist.
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  Speaker 4: I don't do music. I'm just I'm like, bro, we
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: need that for this. This is a radio record. We
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: need a Victory Lap. That's like it's saying about sales
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: or anything. This is about the body of work. And
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  Speaker 4: I feel it doesn't fit the project. It fits this
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: project best. And so when I got it and was
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: listening to it and after we're doing all this moving forward,
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, damn, Hustle was right once again. But in
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  Speaker 4: the time that we taken to get clearances and do
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: this and do this, that that comes out, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was one of them things. Man, we just chopped
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  Speaker 4: it and we're like, all right, we're gonna, were gonna
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  Speaker 4: go ahead and clear it. Man, it's nothing. I don't
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: think Kanye got clearances from anybody.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard he was kind of running, running wild
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: when it came to the sample clearances, the features like
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: paying people, like just everything. But it came out hard.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, we're gonna we clear it. But it
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  Speaker 4: was not a decision because I mean from us, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was like one of the few times we'd heard
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  Speaker 4: new Nipsey vocals since he has passed, so each time
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  Speaker 4: it's been very important.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, and I thought that. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was important moment because I do know how
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: big of a deal it was for for Tie to
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: have that Vultures project finally come out. So was Cardi
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  Speaker 1: originally on that because I know they were label mates,
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  Speaker 1: you know obviously, so.
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  Speaker 4: Cardy, that's the first time I heard that. And I
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: remember Hustle like before Victory Life came out obviously, and
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: then he like, bro she dope. She next, and then
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: as things kept going and kept going, and then she
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  Speaker 4: just blew up. I always remember Hustle was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: champion her and also was proud as the progress and
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: as she blew up. And that's why this record is
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: important to me too, because they did that record together
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  Speaker 4: when they were you know, early early yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Early label mates. I mean she was coming up tapping
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: in with a lot of West Coast folks. So I
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: feel like listening to the album and then the cover,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: the photo that you guys used for the cover fits
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the album so much. Uh what what was I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys had multiple ways you could have
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: went with the cover. What was it about that photo?
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I think be No knows much more better than me.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the photos.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: You know, we used to we used to make the
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: music and go kick it at the Roosevelt in Hollywood,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, just to play the music
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: and catch a voard.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah you feel me.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: So you know we got photos from actually doing that.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: You know, it was only fitting, you know, for the
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: cover for the project.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people were like surprised, like, oh,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I made the cover. I didn't know me being at
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: this part of it. Exact prolific cover and.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: I think not to be all over the place thing
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: with that cover too. I remember same thing Hustle sent
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: that over to the group chat and was like, this
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: is uh, these are photos. You know, him and JP
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: were going back and forth with the lighting, you know,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: making the bottle be the only pop of color. Yeah,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: and just all that. So you know, we're blessed to
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: be able to even stay true to even his vision
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: of what the cover, you know, what he wanted the
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: cover to be.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: No, I think it's I think that's what's so cool
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: about this album is like you said, like, this is
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: how it would have came out had Nip been here
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: or not, which I think is like I don't know
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: how many times I don't I don't know life after
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: death maybe you know, when Biggie Path. I don't know
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: how many other times we've had like like this. This
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: was truly the division, you know. So I think it's incredible.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I wonder stand for you man, you know it, And
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: it's like losing Nip so horrible, so tragic. I remember,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: obviously Kobe passed away after, but I remember trying to
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: explain to people because I'm from Phoenix and trying to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: explain to them like, hey, you like a Kobe passing
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: away was a big deal, but if you were here,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: it felt like Nipsey passing away. It was like it
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: just felt different. Man, Like I just think back to
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: you know, I went to Crenshawn's loss and the night
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that it happened, and I got high at the gas
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: station right there next to the Fat Breaker, and you
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: know the way it impacted the city. I don't think, well,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I don't. I think you had to live here to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: kind of know. But uh, it's it sucks to know that,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: like nip will never be able to how he impacted
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the world, because I think that his passing woke a
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: lot of people up to the movement. But for you,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: it's gotta be kind of surreal to just see the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: impact that Nipsey has had after his passing and all
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the new fans and all these people with these tats,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: like they're like the tattoo thing is crazy. People have
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: all money in tattoo, the Nipsey tattoo, you know, the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: marathon tattoo.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It is truly like, I don't think we've ever really
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: seen anything like this in hip hop.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it to me, man, it just always reminds
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: me of multiple convos with Bro.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: You know, that's my.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Brother and we're in it together, and it's you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: the politics and trying to get to the money and
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: ship with the police, and it's just all the struggles
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: of you know, a black male in LA in the
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: hood trying to be successful and trying to do something
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: and the ups and downs of that. And so for me,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: it's always like, Bro, come on, man, we gotta get
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: to this money. Let's do it every time, no matter
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: that whatever situation we in, Bro, we gonna get the money.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Bro.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: This is him telling me, We're gonna get the money, Bro.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: But my shit is more important. My shit has to
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: inspire people, bro, So turning down deals and turning sitting
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: certain things down. And I never fully understood it then,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: But to your point, which seeing the people that he
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: inspired and seeing the multiple people that lives he's affected
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: in a positive way and tattoos and just the interviews
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: and seeing all that, I'd be like, damn, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: this is this is what Bro wanted. So it just
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: makes me feel like like job fulfilled and in his
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: in his vision, he knew it and he did it
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: and it feels good man. And I think even you
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: bringing up the Kobe Bryant thing, it's crazy because you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: obviously we looked up to Kobe and he was a motivator.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: In such a heartbreaking situation.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Man, yeah, man, he we he he was motive. He
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: was a motiva, motivational person for anybody in the struggle.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: And and and showed that hard work, you know, could
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: turn into massive success. And you know, he did something
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: at Crenshaw High School that Hustle was a part of.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: And and Hustle looked up to to to to his
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: movement and Mama mentality and all that right, and Hustles
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: went at the Grammys and and our families at the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Grammys after bro pass and the day Hustle won two
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Grammys is the day that Kobe passed. And so that
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: was eerie and that was crazy, and I I don't
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: fully understand it, but it just feels like there's a connection,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: you know, to to what they both meant to the city.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: And even with murals and just the family is just.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I got a mural outside of your brother I saw
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: walking in Man.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I always loved man. I, you know, not to belong
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: with it, but to answer your point, man, it just
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: it never makes sense to me. But I just can
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: smile and be happy that Hustle. This is what he
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: wanted to touch people. He wanted to inspire people. He
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: wanted to inspire people that may have been counted out,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: that people felt like were uninspirable, and he did it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Do you ever, does it still phase you? Because I mean,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the tattoo thing is it is It is like if
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you're in La or on the West Coast and like
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you see somebody with like a sleeve and they're like,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know under thirty, there's like a good chance
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: if they're a hip hop like they got the Like,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: does it phase you when you because you got to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: be out and see that all the time.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think it's just what you said.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: It just reminds me, man every time. I be like, man, Like,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: we were filming the video and the white dude on
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: the surfboard and he had the all money in on
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: the surfboard and he told me about the time he
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: seen Hustle at the Laker game and was was, you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: saying the lyric and Hustle shot at him out and
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: got them a video with him and the Valets we shooting.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: We shoot another video at the Roosevelt and the Valet like, man,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: and your brother, you know, he knows me at this
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: hotel and I know him at the Marriott Hotel. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: was in the Keys to the City, so us will
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: touched the city in so many ways that aren't televised.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I always tell people that I got fired
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: from my radio job in twenty thirteen and that was
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: pretty fucked up about it. And your brother was he
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: DM me on Twitter and he was like, yo, man,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I heard what happened. Come out to LA.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: This was.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Around the time Crenshaw was dropping one hundred dollars mixtape,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: so this was like that like a week before and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he's like, we'll do an interview, you know, Like so
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I pulled up and I forget what studio he was at.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: JP was probably like twelve years old at the time
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: because JP was around, and we do it. We do
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: it interview. Then he takes me over to the store
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and like literally gave me like he's like, just grab whatever.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I had three black trash backs full of Crenshaw. Sure, nope, nope,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And then I ended up going to the I forget
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: there was the release There was like a little release
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: function on Fairfact at YEP, and uh yeah, dude, just
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: such a fucking great guy. And this was before I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: lived in La. I was you know what he had
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: known me because he had wrapped on my show in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Idaho in two thousand and nine when he was opening
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: up for Games Damn Classic, Yeah, and then again in Vegas.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, he was always just like just such a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: big hearted dude man. For you be know, like I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: know that, Like it's it's gotta be kind of cool
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to like prove Nipsey rite a lot, because brother, you
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: are You've You've turned into an LA legend. Bro, Like
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the anthems, the six tape shit,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I mean for you, like, how often do you still
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: kind of pull inspiration from your relationship with it?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Shit? Man, it's that man, possible not to.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every situation inside music, outside of everyday life, it's all.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It's all inspiration from that.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Is there any particular record that you kind of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: can talk about like a more memorable session, because I'm
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: sure you guys had some fun times in this year.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Was there was there was there a session in particular
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: form one of these songs that you reflect.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: On, man, you know, it's stories about all of them.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: But we was talking about situation.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: That's my joint, that's my favorite song.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: That's my ship too. Brouh. That's when where it was.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: It was dope to really go back and forth with it,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying in the verse, and yeah, it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Was it was you know, that was a dope session
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: for me. Like just that process.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: It's like we ain't really talking, you know, we ain't
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: talking about what we finnsh do. It's like he going
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: to booth lay some shit. I'm already you know, plotting,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: and he come out out going to booth. You know
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. We ain't really holler at each other
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: until after and were listening to that shit type. You know.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: So you guys had already plotted the name Prolific for this.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Originally we had a different name.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: It was single for the summer, okay, but you know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: just as a team and as a collective, we feel like,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you know, we all came together trying to you know
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, plot and vote, but Prolific was just
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: you know the most fitting.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, there's prolific tattoos all over the place.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: It's a word there's anonymous with because of his tattoos
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: exactly I can imagine, and then you guys really turned
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it into a brand. You know what I'm saying, it's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy, Like Sam, for you, can you speak
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to just I feel like in the last seven years,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: we've been able to watch like you know, I remember
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: when you guys did the grand opening of the first
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: smart store.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It was like seventeen or eighteen, I forget when it was.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And you've been able to take this marathon brand and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: just the business of the marathon into heights that you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Nipsey would be proud of you know what
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But for you, like you've you've kind of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: always been behind the scenes, I think purposefully. That's why
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I think it was so important, you know, your first
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: interview being with Big Boy because Big is you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: voice of La and I also thought it was it
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: was just it just felt right. But for you, like,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: can you kind of talk to like some of this
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: stuff you probably are learning on the go, you know
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like you're you're you, but you've grown
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the marathon into such an enterprise from where it was.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm sure we don't see the you know,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the failures in the in the stress, Like what has
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: it been like for you just kind of picking up
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the pieces and and building a real empire around your guys' brand.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: I think the key for me to keep even going
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: and even believing in the brand is coming from Hustle
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: when he first educated me on the Marathon brand or
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: the Marathon concept, when he was telling me he was
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: gonna put the mixtape out, and just him being so
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: sharp and educating himself and reading books and always wanting
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: to pour a knowledge into us and make me believe that, oh,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: all right, this can actually be done. It come from Hustle,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: from the music and him creating his record label and saying, hey, bro,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I want I wanna involve you in it. This is
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: what we're gonna do. This is how you know Jay
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: did with Rockefeller, this is how Master P did, This
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: is how Baby and them did, and they're going to
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: get the distribution. And watching him and made me believe like, damn,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: we could really actually do this. And then when he
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: changed the name from his mixtapes, see like, man, I'm
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: done with the Bullets volumes. I want to go. My
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: next one was gonna be called Marathon. I didn't understand
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: it I'm like, marathon, Nah, we gonna run bullets. Ain't
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: got no names to a volume ten hot. This thing
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: on the street. What you're talking about, we got it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: He like, nah, bro, I don't like the energy. I'm like,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: what do you mean? We win in right now? And
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: that's another thing that didn't matter, Like, I don't like
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: the energy at these shows, everybody come and testing it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: We're jumping off the stage, fighting with everybody. I want
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: the energy different. And I didn't understand it. But he
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: told me about the marathon concept. He gave me the music,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh my god, this is amazing. And
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: once it dropped, you know, with the blink of an eye, man,
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: the energy changed all the shows. Now you got people
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: walking up with resumes, people saying how inspired they are.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: You got niggas from every hood coming now, tattoos on
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: them with the all money in with the marathon, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: you just made something that transcends all the stereotypes, that
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: transcends all the dumb shit that we got to deal
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: with out here in La with Gang Bang and just
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: everybody from every hood, people that looked like him, that
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: came from the same situations as him, whether they were
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: on different blocks or neighborhoods made them feel like, man,
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: if Hustle did it, we could do it. Look what
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Hustle did in his neighborhood. Look what he did with
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: his homies. Look how they enterprising around legit business with
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: record labels and with clothing stores. And so he was
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: the blueprint and not to be all older place. He
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: made me believe that he could be done. And he
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: had conversations with me about, Man, this marathon brand gonna
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: be big, bro, It's gonna be our biggest thing. You know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: we could be you know, as a brand dealing with
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: all lifestyle music, films, food, fashion. Yeah, and just every
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: step whether it gets hard or not. I just always
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: remember when we was across the street with tables selling
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: t shirts and to where the opportunity is now. It's
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: just about belief and hard work and Hustle laying the
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: blueprint down.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I think too, it's like outside of Snoop, the modern
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: version of like because if you're from La, you're from
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a neighborhood, you know, there is like a burden of
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: like being who you are, who you're supposed to be
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to your homies, to your area, etc. But also like
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: there is a bit of a hindrance in terms of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: like evolving out of that, you know what I'm saying,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: And he did it in such a magnificent way where
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it was like, you know, like you said, it just
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: cut through on a different level nationwide, you know.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: And I cut through and not to be all over
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: the places it cut through, because Hustle was genuine about, Hey,
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: we are where we're from, but if you're a real nigga,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: come fuck with us regardless. And my shit is here
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: to motivate y'all. Also, don't think that I'm not doing
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: this to motivate y'all because we all in the same
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: fucked up shit when we really take a step back.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: So I'm here to motivate you guys. And I feel
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: like no matter where you're from, everybody appreciate it and
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: knows that, and that's why they stand up for Bro,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and they're like, man, listen, Bro, you know, Bro, is
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: the is the truth and the motivation for for for us.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you, like I s like I said earlier, you
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: kind of have done a pretty good job of staying
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: out of the way in terms of you know, I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: don't think you're on Instagram, are you on Instagram. Stand mm,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: but I feel like you also can like serve as
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: like a similar motivation to a lot of a lot
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: of people. Is is there a reason why you kind
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of like eased into getting in front of the camera
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and doing media and stuff.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I think I got to tell the team
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: if if I'm if I, if I'm needed, you know
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: what I mean to accomplish the goal of the brand
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: and and what we're doing, then I gotta be front
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: and center, regardless if I if I feel comfortable, if
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I like it or not. And so in certain things
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: as far as with getting this documentary for my brother,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: getting people aware, trying to get investors and and things done,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: like I gotta be front center. And when it comes
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: to Marathon berger or marathon clothing and even the album,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: you know, anything that being on needs me to uh
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: help promo, I'm I'm here, anything that our team needs,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I'm here.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I gotta be.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: So it's not it's not even a question.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: But you know, when you go into a show like Thursday
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Night Novo, right, it's gotta be like a celebration. But
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: also Nip's not here, so I'm assuming you're curating back
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: call like hey, l we gotta extra so and so
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: pulls up. So what is the Can you kind of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: give us an idea of like what we expect Thursday?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Man, It's it's it's an experience.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: So you know, I don't wanna spoil anything, but you
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: can you could definitely expect an experience.
• 32:38
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  Speaker 1: It's also kind of crazy too, because if you like,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: go back to like Victory La. Victory Lap was one
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of those albums that like it was like a slow burn,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: like it's a marathon, yep, and it's crazy, like do
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you reflect because like you said, it's it's it was
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: harder to listen to the unreleased stuff for you. What
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: about like just do you reflect on Nipsey's catalog a lot?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Like will you like go back and revisit Victory Lap
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and you know, Mailbox Money and some of that stuffy.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: And before I answer that, I gotta mention it's OTB. Yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: it's all money in. And then there's a joint venture
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: with Atlantic God just so it's clear of course.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: But when you bring up catalog, man, just listening to everything,
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: and as you said, once I continue and listen, the
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: more and listen more. Always amaze me.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: That hustle. Everything that Hustle talks about is true everything
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I can reflect on, Like, damn, that's crazy. I remember
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: when that happened, and and I just always wonder, like, man,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: I wonder, is that is that a lot of artists
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: or is this just like unique because people ask and
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: be like, that's really happened. Let me get a date.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: This is what he's talking about. And so it's just
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: crazy hearing things and watching the things happen, and even
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: he was very ahead of ahead of his time on
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: technology and oh gods, being disruptive and just watching all
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: this stuff happen in real time, even with AI, you know,
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: and just everything.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: First, guy, remember to really embrace crypto on a high
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: level hustle.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, yep. He always preached, Man, listen, technology is
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: gonna always bring opportunity, So don't fight technology. Embrace it
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: and learn how to use it with integrity, and you
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: know you'll win. If not, you're gonna get you're gonna
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: get left behind.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: No for sure. Nah. I think the other thing I
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: was gonna say was like, it's it's crazy, cause I
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: remember when I wouldn't say he first sarted with Johnny
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Shipes and and the cinematic situation. But I remember Charlemagne
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the God put me on the bullets Ain't Got No
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Names Volume one class when he was in Philadelphia doing radio,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: and uh, from there, I was just a fan. But
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it's crazy to think like all of the errors of
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: his career, because there was the era where he had
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: like Hustle in the House as a single, and then
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: fast forward a little there's the big radio single with
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Lloyd Feeling Myself, and then he gets out of his
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: deal and then he goes on this prolific mixtape run
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: like it. It's just it. There were so many eras
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: to the Nipsey like hip hop side, Like you know,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: so I like sometimes I like every once in a while,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, yeah, let me roll the windows up.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Was so crazy, you know what I'm saying, Like for you, like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: do you remember when Nipsey started, Cause I feel like
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: every artist who be from a certain background, like there's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: always that like one foot in, one foot out type
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: of situation before you kind of know if this shit's
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: really going to work out. Do you remember when it
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: kind of started to click for him that like, all right,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: we gotta this shit is a real opportunity.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Hustle was always somebody who was going
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: to be all in. So he believed, and he put
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: a thousand percent of his efforts in and his time in,
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: and I think he motivated us to also believe, like, man,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: maybe this can happen. And every win compounded, every small win, everything,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: and the fact that he was so dope and so talented.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: I feel like it just made people be like, all right, man,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: maybe you know this is a long shot, but maybe
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: maybe we could do this. Maybe Bro could get a situation.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: And I think to your point, when Shipes came out
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: here man and was it in the hood in front
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: of slaws and T's and saw Bro, he had already
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: listened to the music. But when he saw Hustle in
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: his environment and seeing you know, hunting homies in the
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: front of the of the shop and seeing what was
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: going on, he lost it. And from that point he
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: was a thousand percent in on making sure that Hustle
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: got a situation. And you know, I always say we
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: appreciate Shapes so much because he believed in Hustle so much.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Him and Hustle his friends, they laughed, joke, talk shit
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: like he was somebody that was like holding the flag
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: for Hustle, and he knew how how dope Hustle was.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: So once he got Hustle a situation with Sony through
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: his thro through shipe some label Cinematic, Shipes had a
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: lot of success with a big crip yep and and
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: at this point he had like massive success with Sean Kingston.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: And so Charlie Walk was the or uh A president
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: at UH at Sony Epic, and he told him, lay,
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: you can you you have another situation, you can sign,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: you can sign another artist, whatever you wanna do. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: so Shipes used that situation and signed Hustle and he
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: believed in him. He brought Hustle to New York, and
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Hustle was in New York doing the mixtapes recording. New
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: York embraced him, and he blew up out there with
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: the mixtapes, came out here with the mixtapes, and just
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: back and forth from lad New York. You know, I
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: was in prison, I was getting the mail, I was
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: hearing on on on on the Cyrus radio.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I was on the phone.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: And that's when we really understood, like this shit is real.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: He and the blog era gone crazy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Man, The The World Star Hip Hop, The Making of
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: a Star, hoos s Superstar, and and I remember, man,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: I hadn't heard any of the new music, and I
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: was in like a uh uh, what's it called? Atlanto
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: CCF prison Lo lo L low points, getting ready to
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: go home. I probably had like six months left.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: We got the TV. We could watch the TV, and
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: we got the dorm and all the beds in the back.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: So at night it's only like five or six people,
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: probably like two blacks, two Mexicans, and one white boy.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: We'll be down there watching TV. And the Hustle in
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: the House video came on. And I hadn't been on
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: the phone. I don't know anything about it, so I
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: couldn't believe it. I'm like, hold on, this is BRO video.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: So I'm yelling, I'm like Bro to the homie DT.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I'm like DT hustle video on. I'm screaming, and it
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: came on. I'm glued to it, and that'sh I got goosebumps.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: I just couldn't believe it. And I look up. The
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: riot gear came in and everybody came in, so I'm like, well,
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: hold on, what the fuck is going on? I turn around.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: The whole dorm is standing up, two hundred people watching
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: over the balcony. They thought it was gonna be a riot. Wow,
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: it was silent. Everybody after that, and that dorm was
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: a believer and we knew something big was coming because
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: that video was so epic and Hustle lyrics and just everybody.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: It moved everybody. And at that point that was the
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: easiest little time I did. I was kicking my feet
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: up like when I get out of his own you know, yep.
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: But for me, that was the that was the time
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: when all the stuff Hustle talked about and all the
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: times were putting up posters and you know, doing the
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: legal ship to finance the campaign, and you know, that
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: was the time I knew like, oh it's out of here. Yeah.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, I always was curious. You always would hear rumors,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: well not rumors, I mean Rick Ross verified it, but
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: there was like this that m mg era was very,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: very prolific to use the word. And I remember around
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: that blog era time Ross was trying to sign Whiz.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: He was trying to sign Don Kennedy and he always
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: said he tried his shot getting nipsy yep. Facts, Uh
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: do you was that was there ever, Like, do you
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: remember what like those talks and like, because obviously Nip's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: always giving it up to Ross. They've always had a
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: great relationship musically and personally. But was it was that
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: ever a thought or was it always just like we're pushing.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: NA for me and my team just speak speaking bluntly.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: I think Hustle was communicating with Ross. We always respected
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: and appreciated Ross, because I don't know if he knew
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: or if anybody know at that point, you know, it
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: was very crucial. We into it with the homies, We
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: frontline at the shop, we get into you know, Melee's
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: and shootouts. I'm getting arrested. It's like serious, right, and
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: you know we got spots in the hood. We got
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: to finance this campaign of trying to push the music
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: for it, but also trying to protect and make sure
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: we on deck. Just speaking blunt so the fact that
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Ross was there and making sure Hustle was on features
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: with Ross and bringing things and speaking about him, that
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: helped tremendously. And then he even had opportunities come where,
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: like you say, there was a financial opportunity to sign
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: to the label, and Hustle went back and forth with Ross,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: and Ross at one point was like, look, bro, whatever
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: you want, I can get it done now, and brought
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: a situation that was massive and would have trained would
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: have changed the the dynamic as far as financial. I'm like, bro,
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: we need to get this chili because you know we
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: we we we own right now is crucial. We fighting
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: cases all type of ship and hustle. You know. It
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: was like, nah, man, I appreciate the opportunity, I know
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: what it could do, but when we finally do this,
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: it gotta be all money in. And he like, I gotta,
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: I gotta you guys talking about me, my cousin Adam
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: and fast. He like, you guys gotta be responsible for
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: taking this nipsey hustle thing to the to the next
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: level or to the next situation. And I can't, even
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: though we needed it, can't. It can't be Ross situation
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: that does that. It gotta be us. And so I
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: didn't understand that either, and our team like, look, bro,
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: thank you.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: But because at that time, Meek's going crazy. So I mean,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I think already been on one of the self maids
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: by then.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: You know, Ross put him on and put him on
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: the self made and we knew what the opportunity would
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: have done. But you know, Hustle's the visionary man. He's like, nah, man,
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: I can't take that away from y'all as CEOs and
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: as you know label founders, and it gotta be all
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: money in and you know he he held it down
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: and and eventually we got that situation direct all money
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: in in Atlantic and you know he's had conbos with
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Ross and explained exactly that, and Ross like, nah, bro,
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: I understand it, and you know it just even the
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: talks and even Ross being vocal about wanting to sign Hustle,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: I feel like just helped helped push this thing along.
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: And you know we were always appreciative of it. But
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: to answer the question, yeah, it was another one of
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: those things that Hussele just moved from his heart and
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: what he felt. And it was in a situation where
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: it was a lot on the line.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and would and nobody would have blamed him or
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: they would have been like, yeah, yep, I think you know,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I think we had similar thoughts. He was like, we
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: got Taylor game. Tell me how important of a because
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I look back at like certain moments that changed and
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: influenced the way the music business is practiced, and I
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: think Nipsey read the book Contagious and read about this
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: guy was charging I think one hundred dollars for a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: fairly cheese steak or.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Something like that.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: I got the book up there somewhere, and he comes
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: up with this idea, you know, proud to pay. And
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: it's such a foreign idea at the time, because I
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: don't think during the blog era, all the mixtapes used
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: to be free. You would just go to like now
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Write or Two Dope Boys or whatever site you like
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: that piff and you would just download the music. It
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: would be free. Other than that it would be a
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: release that you'd have to go to the record store
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: to buy. So this guy comes up with this idea,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: and you guys it it works out nicely. I was
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: there that night when when the Crenshaw tape dropped. How
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: much do you attribute that moment, that idea to kind
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: of setting up so much of what came after that,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: because I feel like it really shook up the industry.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: Yep, I think it did. I think once again, man Hustle.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: Hustle been doing these type of things since he was
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: a little kid. He always was a visionary and always
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: put it all on the line and had massive wins
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: because of it, and he always brought the team along.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: So once again, when he say one hundred dollars, I'm
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: one of the first ones like, huh, bro, what are
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: you talking about one hundred dollars? He like, nah, trust me, bro,
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: and he tells me about the book and then he
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: read it, and before I could read it, I'm like,
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: all right, listen, I'm at you thousand percent. I'm all in.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: But we got to give him a hat, a hoodie,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: we got to give him a key chain, we got
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: to load him up for a hundred. And he's like,
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: we ain't giving them nothing. It's the CD is a
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: hundred and it's gonna be the Proud to Pay movement.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: And if a lot of people are inspired, and I'm
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: gonna give it for free, and if they like it
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: and if they respect the music, and if they want
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: to spend one hundred, that's what it's here for. And
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: to your point, man, when it came.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Out, it was just twenty four hours.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Twenty four hours immediately, and I remember, you know, this
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: is before I knew anything and technology, and you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: it was new to me that my brother's phone he
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: had that app connected to his phone. I think it
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: was Shop of Fire or whatever it was. And all
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: I'm hearing is ding. He looking at me smiling, and I'm.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Like, hey, when the jay z ding ding ding ding
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: ding ding comes through when he body's a hundreds.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, he called somebody in Ate. They
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: had it wired. They like us to send us to Info.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Hustle sent them to Info. They wired it to Hustle
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: and then that went crazy. So it was one of
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: those things. Man Hustle always was a visionary man, and
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: he put the work in and he believe, he believed
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: in it, and then he made he made other people believe.
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  Speaker 1: Had to pull up. Get right, just this nice little
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: on one Hardeing jersey. These are not available, all right? Shots
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: to them, man, all right, salutes to the family. Follow
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: him on Instagram. Hardeing Underscore Las Vegas. Sorry, let's get
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: back to the podcast. No, for sure, man, I think
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I just think back because I even think like the
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: evolution of that is like what the Russell's been doing.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: You know, he tells his fans pay what you want
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to come to a show. Now, some people might pay
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: a thousand dollars, some people might pay ten dollars. But
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's I just think that we're kind of
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: in that era now with streaming where or artists are
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: realizing like if I have a flock, like I gotta
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: present stuff for them to like support me with. You
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because in a world in which
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you know, a million streams is like thirty nine hundred
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: dollars on Spotify. I think you gotta do other shit
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: right right? You know, I'm curious, man, You're growing up
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: and there's this era of La hip hop that I
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: will forever look back on as one of my favorites,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: and that is nip Dom Kennedy YG. You know back
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: then you had Schemed the Duke and just so much
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: dope mixtape ship popping in La. How much of that
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: era were you tuned into and like, uh, were you
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: like like influenced by man?
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: I remember that era for me, it was like I
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: was in the like hot new hip hop also.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Got a shot because Tiger was on the way back
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: then too.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: I was always on new hip hop too, Dope boys
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: and ship like that was my ship. So every everything
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: that was dropping, you know, like I remember the day
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: Crenshaw dropped. You feel me like like I was working
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: at a computer type ship. I think it was raining
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: and ship that It was just like Wiz was killing.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Mix tapes back then.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Block Air was my favorite.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Cushion orange juice. Like I was stuck on cushion orange
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: jues for a long ass time. But yeah, yeah, the
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: block Air was everything that was the peak as hat
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Rocky you feel me.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I just think that the Dom Nipsy thing was such
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: a h It was like at the time they were
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: like Shaq and Kobe at.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: L A like of the l A Underground like Fox
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah l A, Yeah for sure, Dom And it was like,
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Boom, but you had you
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: had a lot of ship going on to LA Yeah,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: pack div like PA was incredible for overdose overdose, you
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: It was. It was like a dope little.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Odd future ship going crazy our future.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Remember you know the Tumblr are you know, I feel
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: like Tyler killed Tumblr like you smack Tumblr ass like
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: But yeah peace Tumbler. By the way, I know it's
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: still there, but I think ever since they took certain
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: content off, people have stopped going.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: It's different, all right.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: So for you say, I'm curious, Uh, we got four
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Marathon Burgers recently you announced Marathon Tacos. Where's that going
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: to be.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: That's gonna be on Melrose's in between the Marathon clothing
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: store and burger It's uh right there on the same street.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: I think we're pretty close. Maybe end of the year
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: we should have the big grand opening.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Now, like Marathon Burger is like a quintessential stop in LA.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: And it's like anybody who comes to town, let's say
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: seven eight years ago, they'd be like, we need to
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: go to cookies and bye weed. Now they're like, we
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: need to go to a marathon Burger and get a burger?
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Is it? Like how I mean, dude, it's got to
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: get crazy over there sometimes because you're always any rapper
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: who comes into town, no matter how famous or not,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: they need to take a stop. So like it's got
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to get kind of chaotic.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: Yep, Yeah, we've been blessed. Man. I think you know
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: once again when we when we when we wanted to
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: do it, we're like, man, hustle for sure with press play,
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: so we got to go all in and man, we've
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: just been blessed at the response of the people of
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: all you know, walks of life, football players, basketball players, actors, artists,
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: everybody pulls up of notoriety. Also, Man, it just shows
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: love and you know does buyouts gives the people in
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: line free food. May just organically turned it into something that,
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: like you said, if you're in LA, you can't miss
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: and you know we couldn't. We couldn't even expect that,
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: and we just humbled and appreciative man. And we have
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: an obligation to number one, keep the food quality you know,
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: where it needs to be, and just make sure that
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: the services is correct. But yeah, it gets it gets crazy, man.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: And I know you're in the restaurant game too.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: Every day there's a new there's a new there's never
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: a piece.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always something new someone Oaks showed or it's
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: always some ship.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Like wait a minute, I was telling my you know,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: because there was like this crazy like let us holopanio
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: thing going on, right, so how to hit my guys, Like,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: hey man, just to be safe, no basil on the
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: pizza for the next week.
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: The last thing I need to do is ab somebody
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: saying what up there? Gave him explosive bubble.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Guy right right, right?
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm curious we had heard that there was
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: how first of all, YG and NIP have this incredible
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: relationship and it translated to just classic records. I think
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: the verses was a perfect example of how fuck Donald
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Trump and last time I checked, are just just timeless records.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: What was the progress or was there ever any like
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: beginning of because there was this idea that they might
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: do a joint album together. Did that ever get started?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: And if so, is that music? I'm sure it's super unfinished,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: if there's any of it, yep.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: And I remember when they were trying to work on it, two.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Of America's most wanted right, what was gonna be the name?
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: I think so, yeah, think so. I think they had
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: spoke about that. YG would know better. But I remember
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: when Hustle told me about it and explained, you know,
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: what they were doing. And I remember certain sessions Mustard
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: YG that had started working. From my knowledge, not a
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: lot of complete records have been finished, but I think
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: that fuck Donald Trump came from those sessions, from one
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: of those sessions, and they just ended up leaking it.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: But I know that, I know that there probably are
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: some some some verses. A lot of the team and
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: a lot of they guys sent over everything when we
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: kind of like did the blitz.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: To see what was we need to see what's out there,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: everyone calling all engineers homies.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: Yep, yep. And I think for us the soundtrack to
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: the to the documentary is where dope records that are
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: close to being or don't fully have a a project
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: or having land on the project and are kind of
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: time stamped where you can tell Hustle was younger here, right,
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: Hustle older is here. In my eyes, they're gonna go
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: for the soundtrack for the for the doc because we
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: can all right, this is episode one is when he
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: was earlier, this is this record was recorded there and this.
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: So that's kind of what our thoughts have been for
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: finding anything dope because.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Almost like if there's really dope ship, you obviously want
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: to you want to you want to get it out
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: or be super strategic, like, hey, there's this jay Z song.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: What it feels like for the Judas and the Black
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Messiah soundtrack, that felt like, I want to say, that
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: was the first record we had heard that was new
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: from nip since he passed, But it felt right because
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, Nipsey and jay Z, this is this
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is a moment, you know.
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So a lot of that stuff, once again, we
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: didn't know. We didn't know that that was even gonna
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: have an opportunity, And I think it may have been
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: Mike and Keys who were instrumental in even making that
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: a opportunity.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: DJ had on the cuts Yup Yup.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: And then I believe Jay heard it and jumped on
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: it too, cause I remember they were sending me the
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: the the the record when it had J on it.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: And then obviously I know Hustle always wanted to do
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: something with Ja, So I was like, man, we got
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: one f we got one for Bro. So I was
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: just excited. Our whole team was excited to get that out.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: Was there a lot of stuff done around the racks
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: in the middle time, because obviously Victory Lap comes out
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: and then next the following year, I remember he puts
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: out racks in the middle he pulled up on us.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Was there like the is there like a bubble of
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: stuff from that era?
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: Yup, there is there is. I I wanna say, being
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: on Hustle have a lot of stuff from that same
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: time even before and then there were still I I
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: he broke a little bit more than me, but I
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: I assumed that some of the stuff with some of
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: their newer stuff. And then with the guys the All
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: Money In team, we were working on All Money In project.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: So that's obviously Pac Man Jstone, Free Jstone by the way, yes,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Free Jstone Man just put some money on his books. Man,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: that's my guy. Good guy.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: Come on, man, Yeah, pack Cousy, Cobby Killer, twin.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: pH there's a lot of that stuff too.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a project. We're still working on it. It's
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: things that Hustle laid hooks and gave it to them.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: It's versus that he that he put together. So that's
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: gonna be a project.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: All money in project, all money in project being worked on.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Can you tell me a little bit more about the documentary, YEP.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: Documentary is about nine eight to nine episodes. Man, we
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: got footage from everywhere, footage from things I didn't even
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: think existed. Spring Hill came in and helped us and
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: just did a full court blitz and got all the footage.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: So we have hundreds and hundreds and hours of UH
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: of footage to go through and we kind of just documented, man,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: everything from you know, Hustle's childhood to when he first
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: learned how to record himself and make beats, Hustle in
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: the hood selling dope. Hustle when he first was like
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: taking it serious to alright, you know what, Uh i
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: I'm i'm' i'm'a try to do this this this music
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: and started his own record label and first shows and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: when he was first in New York with Johnny Ships. Yeah,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: they were recording, and you know, we got when my
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: niece was born in the hospital. Just y, you see everything, man,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: you see you y. People love and respect hustle now
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: and they only really know ten percent a hust So
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: this documentary to me is so important because it's gonna
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: shed light on the journey and I feel it's just
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: it's very important to to to cement the story. And uh,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: I can't wait till it comes out. Man, It's it's
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: we w We got shelfed for a while because we
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: didn't want to sell it to certain individual and certain
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: companies that were kind of trying to come in with
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: creative control. And so we just been taking a step
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: back and doing it the long way, self financing it
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: hundred thousand at a time, and we recently just got
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: Alan Hughes to come on with us, to come on
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: and help executive produce it and like push it, push
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: it over the over the line.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: That's dope. And now it's time to find who's the partner. Yeah,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: where's it gonna come out of. It's gonna be HBO, Max, Netflix,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: you know all that good shit.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the next step. I think we looking like
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: maybe another five six months to just finish it. And
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: then once it's finished and it's like, hey, there's nothing
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: up for critique or anything, this is this is it?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: Then I wanna go and figure out where we put
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: it at. And more than the money, it's not even about,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: you know, the sale, it's about reaching the most people.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: So I would love for it to be on Netflix worldwide.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: I want everybody to be able to see and stream
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: and watch it.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Are you have you mentioned earlier being tough to listen
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: to Prolific? Is it tough to watch some of that stuff?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: It's hard, extremely hard. It's uh, you know, I was
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: you gotta prove everything.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: I'm editing it with the team wow so and with
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: my team. So I'm there just glued in for fifteen
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: sixteen hours a day with the with the guys and
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: with the film team, and you know, as hard as fuck.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: But it's my duty. Like I'm you know, I'm blessed
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: to be in a position to where they're asking me
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: like is this right? I'm like, no, that's not right.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: That does not feel right. That's not what happened. Go
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: get this footage, Go find this footage. We were here,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: go find this, and then when they get it, they're like,
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: oh shit, now we see. I'm like, now now I
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: got goosebumps. Guys, this is exactly what happened. So from
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: every scene in every episode, this is what the meticulous
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: task is. And I feel like it's gonna be We're
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: gonna sweep every award they need to get bro a
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: Nobel Peace Pride. I'm talking about. It's gonna go crazy
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: when it finally comes out. You know. I tell the team,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: we're tasked to not fuck this up, like this is
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: this is a.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Diamond, Like it's so good, Like all we gotta do
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: is not fuck it up.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: You just can't be stupid. You can't take some money
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: in let the dumb people fuck it up and oh
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: we only doing two episodes. Get him out of there.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: Just focus in and do this correctly, and you know
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: the rest will come.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: There's some dude on Instagram who DM me. I hope
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: he sees this, by the way, because I would love.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys ended up buying the footage,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: but he sent me a screenshot of he was like
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: the cameraman on the Lax tour and so he sent
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: me a screen shot of me and Nipsey and Idaho
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: at the radio station in two thousand and nine, and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, can you send me that? And
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: he was like, I'm trying to get some money for
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: this footage right now quietly, so I can't really send
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: it to you, but just just know I have it.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I gotta find that guy.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our guy. I know, I know who you're
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: talking about. If this if it's but.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: He was cool he said with this. I was like, Yo,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: this is crazy. This is like I didn't even know
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: any other footage besides you know whatever flip cam footage
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I have with Steve Lobell in the background and Adam
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: was in the and this is rapping over. What a time, man,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: what a time? I'm curious.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: One of the more like powerful days that I was
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: able to attend was Nip's funeral. Uh. That had to
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: be a hard day to get through, but it was
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: a beautiful day. How do you reflect back on that day? Man?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: Just like you say, man, I was one of the
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: hardest things that Man, I can't even explain. It's like
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: you never would expect to be in that situation. And
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: I just felt like we had so much team and
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: family that wanted to help do this, and the fucked
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: up things that were happening as we were trying to
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: find places to hold it to to to to hold
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: bro funeral, It just felt like it was God pushing
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: us to get to this Stable Center, man, and just
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: you know, so many preachers and so many different churches,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: was like nope. And so it came to a point
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: where we crying like damn, we can't find nowhere to
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: to to to to have Bro service, Like this is crazy.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: And Karen Civil and you know Rock Nation and Lebron
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: and Live Nation, Repino, everybody s stepped up and just
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: you know came in and just really moved mountains wow
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: and and made it happen. And I remember when we
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: finally were realizing, like, man, Bro, it's gonna be at
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: the Staple Center. I just just look up like, man,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: this this is what this is. This is epic. This
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: is how Bro deserves to be remembered and to be
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: you know, laid to rest. Man. And I feel like
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: that we were like, man, we we hitting the whole city,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: and you know, the police was there and was like, nah,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: you can't do that, and uh and and you know
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: we not gonna give a escort, and you know, we like, man,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: fuck what they talking about. We we we going through
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: the whole city for Bro and for the city man,
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: and to show every hood we went through stood up
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: and came out and just paid homage and show Bro
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: love and respect. You know, I w I was appreciative, man.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: I'll never be able to express how appreciative you know,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: I was in the family was. And when we ended
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: up going and stopping the on crensh On Slosson, the
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  Speaker 4: sun had already went out and and it was cloudy,
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  Speaker 4: and we got out the car stopped for a while,
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  Speaker 4: and I felt like there was a beam, high beam
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  Speaker 4: shining on my back, like somebody on the roof had
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  Speaker 4: turned on the high beam. And I'm like, what the
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  Speaker 4: fuck can I turned around and the sun was back out,
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  Speaker 4: shining strong as hell, and everybody was looking like man,
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  Speaker 4: the sun came back out, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: it was just clouds that had covered it up or
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  Speaker 4: it was just something we couldn't understand. And I felt
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  Speaker 4: like Bro was, you know, there, and was you know,
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  Speaker 4: giving his stamp of approval, like, you know, look what
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  Speaker 4: I did, man, look at you.
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  Speaker 1: I just remember leaving the funeral, going home and just
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  Speaker 1: watching the entire thing on the news, like the helicopters.
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  Speaker 1: It was just it was the I mean everybody was
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  Speaker 1: outside like, yeah, man, it was it was it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was special, And this album is special. It comes
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  Speaker 1: out Friday, so that'll this will actually drop Friday.
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  Speaker 4: So day before bro birthday, day before Nipsey's birthday.
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  Speaker 1: So this is it. So well, happy birthday to nip
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  Speaker 1: because this is dropping Friday. So I think the album
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  Speaker 1: is an incredible vibe too, Like it's still hot as
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  Speaker 1: hell outside. This is a joint true Beino fashion providing
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  Speaker 1: the vibes Bino, what do you got cooking? Obviously it's
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  Speaker 1: prolific season, but I'm sure you're always working.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we're always gonna keep this ship going. Man,
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  Speaker 3: it's a lot to be excited about.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just on both sides of the spectrum. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like you said, prolific season right now, we're gonna live
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  Speaker 3: in this right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're still indie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a situation.
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  Speaker 3: It's ot being a create music group, shout to create
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  Speaker 3: many shadow create.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good people over there. Shot, I got Carl the
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  Speaker 1: great over there six tape four What is it for?
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  Speaker 2: Is on four? And now I was just with last
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  Speaker 2: last night.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that, I saw he was at the Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we was talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: We to we let to get to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well listen, man, I appreciate both of you guys
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  Speaker 1: for pulling up super excited of the album. Go support
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  Speaker 4: All that stuff, yep, vinyls, CDs, tapes.
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  Speaker 2: All of it all.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's there's gear too, like dope, dope shout
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  Speaker 1: out to uh can I feel like I want to
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  Speaker 1: just shed a light on on. I feel like JP
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  Speaker 1: is a very underrated guy in the marathon story. Did
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  Speaker 1: the logo it's amazing photographer help with so much of
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: the aesthetic. Man, Can you speak to Jorge and just
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  Speaker 1: how how important he's been to the to the story.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, man, JP, Man is very important. Like I'll tell everybody,
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  Speaker 4: I remember when the when the marathon concept was coming around,
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  Speaker 4: our whole team was looking at JP, like, man, who's
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: this guy? Man hustles, he hustled around him. They they
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: doing photo shoots and they talking about reading books and ship.
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  Speaker 4: We was kind of looking at JP. Like, who is he?
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  Speaker 4: You know? But in hindsight, man, it was so important
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  Speaker 4: that Hustle had somebody like that like my it to
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  Speaker 4: talk about branding, to talk about you know, the aesthetic
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: and the look and black and white photos and Hustle
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  Speaker 4: wanted every every single that he dropped musically to have
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  Speaker 4: a unique photo to accompany it. And just watching the
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  Speaker 4: evolution and when the Marathon mixtape came out, the album
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: cover and the logos and them picking red because red
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  Speaker 4: is a very you know, attention grabbing thing, just everything.
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  Speaker 4: You know, our whole team was watching and learned so
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  Speaker 4: much and just so appreciative that you know, JP was
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: there to help, you know, bring that to life. And
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: it wasn't just a one time thing. It was throughout
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  Speaker 4: the whole time since we knew JP. It was everything.
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  Speaker 4: It was the all money in logo, it was the
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  Speaker 4: Marathon flag TMC logo. It was just him and Hustle
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: bouncing ideas off and JP being able to bring it
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  Speaker 4: to life and Hustle, what you think about this, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: let's do this, Let's change this just right there in
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  Speaker 4: the pocket twenty four to seven, and even now with
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  Speaker 4: so many different things that we're doing and like it's
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  Speaker 4: we're all over the place, one hundred group chats. JP
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  Speaker 4: is there twenty four to seven, you know, and there
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  Speaker 4: to assist and make things happen. And definitely a big
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  Speaker 4: part of the team, the marathon brand and all money
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