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Grounded Show Ep. 48 - Checkin' In · The Grounded Show

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The boys are back in time. Third Man, it's been a it's it's
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been a wild dog, it's been a while. It's funny because we've been
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like interacting more, but on the pod we haven't, you know what I
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mean, if that makes sense. It's funny because we've been interacting more,
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but the chat's been quiet and the pod has been um, like different lineups
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and stuff. We just we were talking about it before, like we're all
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three and just like a super busy time right now, and it's just man,
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it's crazy. It's we were just like I said, we were just
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talking about I'm drinking this corona. If you see me drinking a corona,
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that's the dad drink. That's me just proclaiming that I'm a father and I'm
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tired. Yo. Yeah, that's exactly how to reward yourself. Is finally
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slowing down after the last six weeks. Man, it's probably the commons week
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I've had. Man, I've I've commended you in our private chats, but
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dog, I don't know how you did it six weeks away from home on
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the go the whole time. No, Like that's like a different dynamic because
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it's like you're on the go and even if you're having fun, you still
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don't get to like unwind and relax because you're not home, you know what
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I mean. It's like whenever we used to go like to uh I mean
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not used to because we still do this kind of stuff, but like whenever
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we would go to Atlanta, La whatever, just to work on music or
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just get stuff done, it's always like people think it's like, oh man,
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you out there, you're just vibing or whatever. It's like, it's
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work. You do enjoy it when you're in it, and you know you
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love the process. But it's like, at least for me, man,
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I'm the type of person I want to be home, Like I just want
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to be home every time. I agree, and it it's it was it
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was just action packed. You know. We go over there and we're visiting,
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so we have to make the most of everything. And now her entire
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families there, My entire family is there, her friends are there, My
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friends are there, and it's just like a group of one hundred people combined
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that we got to set time aside for and there's not enough time to do
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it on the weekend, so that fitting in weeknights and just like you know,
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when Q was over there, we did have a barbecue, but y'all
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was working that morning. I pretty much did work that morning. Still,
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you start to fit you can't just have one day for one thing, and
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because there's not enough time. Past week, it was my first free weekend
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and it felt amazing. So, Joe, I don't know if you ran
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into this at all, but how does it feel when people kind of feel
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like they're entitled to your time? Do you run into that, like where
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somebody's like feeling a certain type of way or something. My first year gone,
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Yet every time my web bag, I kind of felt obligated and if
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I did, and I felt bad, But I said, after the second
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year, I'm like, nah, man, it's y'all don't know even know
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how much work it is to come and see y'all and not be able to
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say, hey, I'm doing this, just come through. So that's how
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it is now. So these last maybe a few months, I've switched to
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I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna be doing this. If if you want
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to come and meet up, come through. If not, they we'll try
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to work it out. But like you were, planned that barbecue a month
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before I went out there, and that's just to make sure that's just say
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we're planning that I'm going that's what I'm doing that day, and I'm doing
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not doing nothing else that day, and just because of that. So if
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I didn't plan something with you and I'm out there and you're like, hey,
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oh you're not, We're not gonna hang I'm like, this is a
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list of stuff I'm doing. If you want to come meet up. It
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up. But in the beginning, yeah, beginning, I was trying to
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just do too much and cater to everybody, and then I just found myself
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more just drained of energy than I would have been. I'm still draining of
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energy, but in the beginning it was kind of mentally draining. Now he
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was going, so long, bro, your car battery was there by the
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time you got back. Yeah, I doesn't remember when my office looks like
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he's questioned everything he said. He doesn't remember the couch behind me. I
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thought it was in a different room. Like, I'm like, what's going
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on? You reorganize or something. Shout out to a friend of mine,
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Ta te Man because she you know, one time I came back home and
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I saw I saw her and I'm like Damn, bro, you ain't telling
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nobody was gonna be out here. You know what, I would have set
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it up. And she basically put it straight. She said, Yo,
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I come out here with an agenda. If I can see somebody while I'm
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out here, then that's great. But I'm not letting nobody know I'm out
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here because then that expectation it's just stressful, Like I'm not trying to have
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that pressure of like, oh man, I didn't see you, Like,
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Bro, if you see me, you see me. If you don't,
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I see you next time. But I'm here for this and everything else is
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just icing on the cake. And when she said that, Bro, I
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was like, Yo, that's facts. Bro. There's no reason to announce
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that I'm gonna be in Orlando. Like, if I get out there and
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and it makes sense that we can link up, we'll link up. But
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if you're not on the agenda, bro, not only agenda mat it's rough,
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man. It's not like we're just going over there. Just wake up
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and figure it out each day. There's it's funny, man, because there's
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that element of certain people that they have a lot of free time, so
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they kind of don't understand or just don't really want to understand the concept of
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like I don't have time like that, you know what I mean. It's
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like, it's not it's not saying that every single moment of your day is
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taken up. It's just whenever you do have a free moment, it's not
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that long. And at the same time, like you need that as downtime
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to not go insane, you know what I mean. Yeah, it's like
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when we game every once in a while, A lot of times that be
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like the only time in the day that I'm just straight chilling, you know
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what i mean. Like we get on for an hour, that's like my
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time to kind of online and not worry about anything else. And then as
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soon as we get off, I'm back in my studio doing some stuff on
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the computer, you know what I mean. I'm wrapping up some designs,
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like I'm doing different things. Yeah, that's right, even hard for us
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to like play together. And you made a comment the other thing. It
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was last Friday because you knew what you was gonna do for the night,
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and you knew when you wanted a game, and you were trying to make
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it work, like I'm trying to make it work for Ronnie, but it's
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not looking good. It's because like we want to play, but we only
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have this certain time before we got to do what we need to do for
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the night. But we tried, but not everybody is free all the time
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at the same time like we used to be when we were you know,
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younger. But it's also like, you know, we all recognized and understand
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that. You know what I'm saying is like everybody got their responsibilities and we
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understand that. And I think that's kind of like going to what you were
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saying Leicester, where some people just don't understand that because they have all this
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time, you know what I mean, Like they see things the way they
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see things, and they expect you to be just as available as then that'd
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be the breakdown. A lot of times I noticed in relationships just in general,
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you know what I mean, like any kind of relationship. It's and
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it's something I kind of tapped into last week when y'are wearing here or like
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people just not having that time to really sit and reflect within themselves and really
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see like what they got going on and what makes them happy like to themselves,
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and they kind of push these narratives and expectations on other people. And
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it's something that I've encountered, especially moving around with the music stuff, where
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like certain people have different reasonings why they're in the situation they're in, Slash,
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they have different ideas in their head of why they haven't gotten farther than
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they have. But at the end of the day, like we're all busy,
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Like everybody has their thing that takes up that takes up a big chunk
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of their day that they have to kind of navigate around to make other stuff
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happen. And it's like, if you're just not going to be the type
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of person to figure that out, then you're not gonna understand, Slash.
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I'm not gonna waste my time making time, you know what I mean,
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especially trying to make time for somebody that just got nothing but time. Like,
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if anything, you should be revolving around what I'm doing because you don't
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got nine going on, you know what I mean. I agree on And
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it's important too, Like I said, you know, as I get older
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and I do this more than I did when I was younger, and it's
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important to you. You know, you just got to set aside time for
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everything, prioritize your time, like today I went I went boxing today,
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and they used to have like these open hours in my boxing gym where you
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can just go and work out yourself and I work out with any trainer or
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anybody else. And they stopped that, and I asked, it's like,
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dude, you have that, and she's like, we don't. We don't
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advertise it, but we do it. And I was like, can you
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give me like the weekly hours where I can come in anytime I want?
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Because that's the biggest issue of me getting a boxing workout is they only have
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certain hours where I can go in there and that as an aligned with my
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schedule, but I need it because that's one of my best workouts where I
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burned the most. So now I have a custom schedule and I have hours
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written down literally on this on the sticky note of when I can come in
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and do my own private workouts. And now like that just opened the whole
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new world to me. Now I can rearrange my whole day without fitting in
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the only times after boxing and fitting boxing when I have time, So that
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that little bit of just asking a question and you know, giving my giving
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the intent to trying to find the best time for me to do it has
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opened up a whole new week for me. So next week is gonna be
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amazing now that I don't have to play my whole day around my workout.
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Now I could just do my day and be like, Okay, look I
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got three hours here where I can hit the workout for like forty five minutes.
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Whenever I walk boom. How's everything going with the engagement party, Quincy?
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I know you got this weekend. I know you've been running ragged,
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traveling and kind of preparing everything for it. How's that going. It's been
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busy, Manu. Yeah. For the last I would say month and a
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half two months, I've basically been just because you know, we're having it
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in the backyard. Got the pool done so the pools looking amazing, you
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know, been basically clearing out the backyard. We've been in this house for
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about a year, and uh, you know, we were taking care of
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the inside, but I just hadn't gotten to that backyard yet. So I
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finally was like trying to lock in and get the backyard looking pretty good,
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um, which I did. Um. I would basically you know, finished
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what I needed to do last week before I had to leave out to Chicago
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for work. Just got back from Chicago last night at eleven pm. Um,
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the engagement party is on Saturday. There's a few other things going on.
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Literally, got guys outside cutting the grass, trimming the trees and stuff
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right now. Um, you know, just trying to get things situated.
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Many lightning the tiles for you. No, no, we go hey,
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look I'm keeping the tiles just like that for Lester. Yo. That that
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was so funny dog, because to let everybody kind of know whence he sent
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a picture in the chat of like him like remulching like all the different areas
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around the house and stuff, and it looked really nice. But but then
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like he said this like path of like these tiles and like like were three
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of the towels, was like mad off the path and he sent the first
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picture and I'm like you know all right, you know, then he sent
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the picture after like yeah, I finished motion it and like you could tell
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he moved the toils. But you go some tell he was like fuck it
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at some point and was like just this is cool, like how it is.
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At that point, I'm like, come on, you gottas out.
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I gave it a little curve and it's funny because my OCD noticed about I
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was like, you know what, let me just zoom out, let me
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just joom out and keeping and then let's sit through it. He's like,
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yo, but what's up with those towels? And I was like yo,
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someone I didn't say. I was just like maybe he's maybe he hasn't took
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that picture after he fixed them up yet. And then the thing was like
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the um like the idea, Like I definitely understood the concept because I've been
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there too, where it's like you're outside doing work around your house and it's
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like you've done so much other stuff. You get to this one part and
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you look and you're like, man, this one's just gonna have to slide.
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Now. What really happened, dog is like I was mad because I
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didn't realize where I should have just moved the towers before I put the most
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down, because you know, once once I picked the tier up, all
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you're gonna see is what's under it, and now I gotta basically remote it.
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Yeah, so I was like, yeah, no, it's just gonna
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stay how it is. Right. Uh. A few weeks ago, during
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this uh, during this project I'm on and someone said it and they said
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good enough is the enemy of great, and I was like, wow,
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yeah, because you want to be great, but after a long time of
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time to be great, once you reach good enough, sometimes that's just where
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you stay. You know what is it right here? It's just as good
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as it's gonna get. That's that's the quote for the week right there.
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And that's something we talk about just as far as like different things we do,
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like whether it be the music, the DJ and anything. It's like,
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you get to a certain point where it's like, like you said,
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it's like good enough, Slash, I already did a lot of work to
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get here, but now you got to push through to the next level to
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make it something that people actually care about, you know what I mean,
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Like perfect example, we were talking before the pod, like last night,
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I finally was able to figure out my pro Tools thing. For everybody that
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don't know. Pro Tools is the program that most people that make music record
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their music on. It's kind of like the universal program that everybody uses,
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and it's you know, everybody's kind of compatible with it, so it's like
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the standard, you know, in the industry. And they dropped an update
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for pro Tools. Slash. My computer is kind of advanced for like the
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extras that I have for the program. So once they dropped this update,
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I lost a lot of things in the program. And I've been for like
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a week and a half trying to figure this out, and I got so
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many other things going on right now that I haven't given it the time and
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attention that I know I needed to give it. So last night I was
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like, you know what, I'm not gonna do my nightly routine until like
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ten o'clock. I kind of pushed it so that I could still have that
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energy later in the day to come in the studio, figure out what's going
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on, actually start recording something like get get my things situated again. And
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it's something that I've known I've had to do for like a week and a
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half. But other I wouldn't say more important things, but things that are
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equally important have kind of gotten in a way that I had to take care
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of first. But I knew, I'm like, I can't keep pushing this
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off. I can't keep letting the slide. So I took that extra time.
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I ended up having to go to sleep pretty late figuring it out.
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Slash working on the song that I was working on, but today's a new
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day. My thing is situated pause, and now I know that everything is
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gonna be how it's supposed to be. Now I can kind of go into
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the weekend with everything correct. You know, a lot of the projects I've
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been working on is very you know, in a stage where it needs to
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be. The other thing that I that I actually mentioned on the January podcast
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a project that I'm working on which is actually a brick and mortar business that
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we're going to be opening up. The other details I don't want to get
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into it yet, but that has been moving, but it hasn't been moving
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as fast as I'd like. So the busyness slash the stagnant nature of that
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have kind of been getting to me, you know what I mean. Like
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this week has been real trying in the sense of like something that we've been
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talking about before, like sometimes a lot of stuff is going on, but
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you don't really feel like things are getting done, you know what I mean.
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You're just kind of like in the shuffle of like everything's so busy right
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now, and you got to kind of that that's where the goals and that's
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where keeping focus is very important, because it could easily just all turn into
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mush and nothing get done. You know. Yeah, I know in my
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personal experience, like especially just kind of on the music tip, Yeah,
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it's it's literally that like if you don't kick stay locked in, don't you
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know, stick to the details, stay you know, consistent, that's where
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things get lost in the sauce. And I mean going back to kind of
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what I said last week or two weeks ago, that Good Day's song got
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lost in the sauce, you know what I'm saying, Like, really,
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you know, I had that in amount of drive for about three years,
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so it's like and now it's actually my best performance song. So it's just
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crazy how that kind of plays out. But it just goes back to that
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point. Yeah, you get back to the right time. And I think
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that's important when you're reaching that level where and I noticed it when you guys
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said music that we listened to sometimes I hear it, I'm like, that's
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good enough, and y'all still critique it and there's still more changes, And
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then I hear those changes, I'm like, Okay, now it's great,
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you know, And so you have to if you can't get to that great
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level, you need to take a step back, and that's what I find
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myself doing. I'm like, if I'm not putting it, I'm like,
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no, maybe I need to come back to this later. And that later,
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like for Quincy, might be three years, but still come back to
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the time where you're fully invested in it can get great instead of just half
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asking it the whole way to just to say you got something done. Yeah.
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I definitely feel that because I have somebody in my life that it's something
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that I always tell them, like, hey, you might not have the
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time right now, or you might not have the perfect situation to be able
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to follow through the way you want to, but just chipping away at that
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is so important. So many people get caught up in like the situation is
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not right right now, but the situation is never gonna be right. If
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you wait for them everything they can be perfect, it's never gonna happen for
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some people. And I definitely have those people in my life that they get
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these opportunities that pop up that maybe I perceive as like that's something they don't
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deserve, But a lot of times they'll fumble the situation because they're not mentally
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or just you know, they're not there yet as far as like Okay,
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I can put in the work for this to make it turn into this.
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They kind of want to see it like, oh, I wanted to be
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already the whole big thing that I thought it was gonna be like once it's
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a finished product. But it's like nah, man, like you always got
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to jump in before you can get to the point where like everything is all
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set up and magical like how you want it to be, you know what
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I mean? Yeah, And that's for sure. Timing. Timing is never
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gonna be perfect. Um. So there's two different aspects of it. One
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um, when when, when the opportunity to do it, do it if
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you have time to step back and come back to it. That's the thing
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we were talking about, Quincy. Um. You know, stepping back and
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coming back to it at a time when you feel it's right. And maybe
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you didn't. You didn't say to you, so may I'm gonna come back
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three years later and see how this track sounds. But when you did come
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back to it, you made it great and it's probably greater than it would
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have been three years ago had you made it. And to be um like,
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just to give my my transparent feelings about the situation Quincy and the music.
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It was something where it was like from the outside looking in, if
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you didn't really know what was going on, it was kind of like,
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dang, what's you know, what's going on? Where did the music go?
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Where did that vibe go? Like, what's what's happening? But me
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knowing the situation and kind of being around it, I understood like, dang,
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the music isn't being done right now, But I know that all these
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other things are being worked on. I know there's a plan in place.
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I know there's a vision and something that we get caught up a lot in
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with social media and with music in general. Like since we're talking specifically about
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music, is like that there's like an age limit or something like that.
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And I think about some somebody like Ronald Eisley and the Isisley Brothers where it's
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like these guys they I believe they said they viewed in fifty nine, nineteen
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fifty nine. I mean they still drop a new records, They're still working
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on music, they're still touring. Ronald Oisley's talking about he don't even feel
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right when he's music. Yeah, yeah, bro, I mean they've been
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going, you know, hit for hit with artists since the sixties, bro,
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like since fifteen present like that. That's something that just I mean,
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I've never had the thing in my head of like there's an age limit on
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music. But it's something that's real big, like just in the community.
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And it's not even something that's real big in music itself. It's really big
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in the urban scene of music, you know what I mean. Like growing
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up and Wentworth, it was always kind of like this thing where everybody wanted
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to be the young rapper that was the dopest, you know what i mean.
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Like and even if you had somebody that was like twenty five, that
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was nice. It's like, bro, you old you know what I'm saying,
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Like I'm I'm spitting right now. I'm fifteen and I'm spitting right now,
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you know what I mean. I got everybody in school listening this,
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this and that, but it's like, nah, man like music, especially
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with music, it's such a it's such a soul feeling thing. It's such
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a deep and spiritual thing. I Mean, I forgot who said it recently,
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and I don't know if this is exactly how they said it, but
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my interpretation of it was like music is something that you kind of go to
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another place, you kind of pull it out of that place, you bring
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it back and you say, hey, this is what I brought from this
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magical land that I just went to in my head. And then me as
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an artist, just like when I open my phone and I open my Instagram
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and I see somebody saying, like, man, this I listened to the
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song every day or man like you know they say, or like for example,
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Spotify, they give you your stats, they give you a rap up
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at the end of the year, like and it tells you, like this
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certain percentage of your fans you were their favorite artists. They listen to you
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every single day. That kind of thing is so special and magical to me.
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And just the idea that I could, like I said, go to
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that place, bring them back for people, to make them feel so good
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and just lock in such a good memory for them. There's just nothing like
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it. And you can't tell me that there's an age where you say,
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hey, you can't do this anymore or it's not gonna be effective or whatever
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the case is, Like, ain't no way you can put a limit or
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a box on something so magical, you know what I mean. And that's
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something where like why I'm so critical of music in general and just any music
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because I'm always looking and even my music, like I'm so critical of it.
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Going back to what you were saying, Joe, Like you hear something
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and be like, oh, this sounds though, but I'm looking at it
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like, bro, I want this to be something that when somebody hears it,
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they just have a feeling that they can't describe and they can listen to
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it fifty years from now when it transports them back to that place. And
22:53
that's something that's not hard, that's not easy to do, you know what
22:56
I mean. And that's why with music, something that me and Quincy always
22:59
talk about, it's like you only got to be right once, you know
23:02
what i mean. Music it hits people different ways, but sometimes there's just
23:06
that one song that when you just do it and people hear it and they
23:11
feel it, it just works. And that's what you're chasing as an artist,
23:14
Like you're trying to do that as many times as possible, but you
23:17
want to do it at least once. Right, Do you have one song
23:19
like that that you feel that way every time you hear it? I mean,
23:25
for me, I'm a very harsh critic of my own music. It's
23:29
something that we've talked about before. I don't know if we are any any
23:32
artists, oh, just from any artist period, any artist period. Man,
23:37
I have one, and something just reminded me of it recently. That's
23:41
how I feel when I listen to the More Money, More Problems. I
23:44
feel like that is my all time favorite song. I can listen to that
23:48
any day, anytime, any amount of times, over and over again,
23:52
and I'm still not tired of it. Bro, it's crazy that you said
23:56
that song, because let me tell you a crazy story, dog. So
23:59
obviously, League, you know, I've heard a lot of music growing up
24:02
and just back in the day and stuff. But the time that I really
24:06
just got tuned in and really like zoned in on hip hop and like really
24:12
just fell in love with it was literally that song, Bro. I had
24:15
moved from Texas from Puerto Rico, and then it was like maybe like a
24:21
year or two, like it was at the point where like I was no
24:23
longer like real like island Puerto rican I was kind of like more as simulated
24:30
into the US, and I spoke English real good, and everything I was
24:33
like kind of been a different headspace than I was when I was coming over
24:37
here from Puerto Rico or whatever. I had these neighbors bro a brother and
24:41
a sister, and when I hung out with them, they put me onto
24:47
that more money, more problems like that they had just dropped at that time,
24:51
and it was something that like I remember watching the video, I remember
24:53
hearing the song. I remember hearing the old school vibe, and I didn't
24:57
know what it was at the time, but you know, they had that
25:00
kind of sample with the old school vibe, the rapping, all the elements
25:06
of it. It just drove me nuts, you know what I mean.
25:07
I was like what it Like, what is this? And then the video
25:11
is like the equivalent energy and like match the song so good it was.
25:18
I couldn't that that made any other way. And then this was at the
25:22
time when all that was really popping. And if y'all remember all that,
25:26
they always had a musical guest at the end, and it was always a
25:27
super dope guest. Mace was on there. I think the Locks was on
25:32
there, Like yeah, it was like, I mean, it was crazy,
25:33
and and those kind of two things like going together was like really made
25:38
me lock in and love hip hop. You know what I mean, Like
25:41
that song. But going back to your question, that song for me that
25:45
I can never skip, and it's just it just gives me this feeling that
25:49
I can't describe. Is DMX slipping. Oh, I love slipping whenever I
25:53
hear Slipping by DMX that hook and just like the just everything about that song,
26:00
it just it's so it's so full of pain, but it's so full
26:06
of hope at the same time. And it was just like it hit me
26:10
at a time where like even though I didn't relate to the things he was
26:15
saying in the verses and I didn't really understand what he's talking about until way
26:18
later, just the overall vibe and the feeling that it gave me, like
26:22
damn man, Like life is tough, but man, you know I got
26:27
you. He said, it's so hard, and the part where he's like,
26:30
I gotta get up, like you could tell like that's how he felt.
26:33
Like he you knew he was going through it, but you know,
26:37
he just he got you gotta get up. Look especially where you're at and
26:41
how far you made it. And like everybody thinks that Drake thing is corny
26:45
that he added that Kim Kardashian life. But it's true, like you don't
26:48
come as far as you are today just to stop. You know, you
26:53
gotta keep going. You gotta see until you can't know more. You gotta
26:57
see how far you can get what you're do. You got going up and
27:02
going off of the Drake thing you're talking about, Like, that's the thing
27:03
people like about Drake, regardless if you like him or not. He puts
27:08
his emotion in the song. Oh yeah, yeah, you know what I
27:11
mean. If it's an emotion that you relate to or not, you know,
27:15
whatever the case is, he's putting that real emotion in the song and
27:19
you you channel it, you know what I mean. And that's that's like
27:22
one of those things about DMX that it's like I feel like he's especially one
27:26
of those rappers that gets a little lost in translation in time, you know
27:32
what I'm saying. Like it's not something that you're really gonna listen to later
27:34
on and necessarily catch the vibe of what it really was. But it's like
27:41
seeing all the stuff that he was going through and what he was doing,
27:44
and just like the music he was dropping and just the feeling behind everything he
27:48
was doing. It was just so special and there's like a very short list
27:52
of people that can really put that type of emotion in such a simple and
27:59
complex way, you know what I mean. It's just so it's so layered
28:03
and it just hits in a way that it's like wow, man, like
28:06
you really feel that. Yeah, man, you know when I think about
28:11
like a song that you know always takes me back, you know what I'm
28:14
saying, Like for me, it's a J Cole song, and this was
28:18
actually Wade. You know, I've been a fan of J Cole since he
28:21
was dropping the mixtape stuff. And it gets me so mad because this song
28:25
you can't find it on streaming services Spotify, Apple Music, whatever. I
28:29
always got to go to SoundCloud or YouTube to hear it. But it's called
28:33
show Me Something, and um um, honestly, I think it was just
28:40
it wasn't awful. I don't think it was off of any of the tapes.
28:41
I think it was just like a single. But basically, um,
28:47
I remember the first time I heard that song. Mind you, this is
28:48
back when I like, probably my first job, I'm working at KFC minimum
28:53
wage, you know, fail in college. You know what I'm saying,
28:57
Like, really no direction just you know, doing whatever, And that song
29:03
spoke to me. Bro spoke to me, and it still speaks to me
29:04
to this day, fifteen twenty half, many years later. But I have
29:08
like this little ritual where every time I go for like a job interview or
29:15
anything like that, I listened to that song on repeat because it always takes
29:21
me back to where I started. It was that KFC minimum wage you know.
29:26
And I'm telling you, Bro, I've probably had nine or ten jobs
29:30
since then, and before every interview I have, I listened to that song
29:33
because it puts me into that It locks me into that mode of like I'm
29:37
pushing forward, I'm pushing towards a better life, you know what I'm saying.
29:41
Like, and I don't know, Bro, that song to me,
29:44
man is like still probably one of his best songs. That's dope, man,
29:48
because similarly, that's what Slipping does to me. Like it's something that
29:52
when I hear it, I just I really just get transported to my childhood,
29:56
Like I really it really just puts a picture in my head of the
30:00
streets and Wentworth and just the feel like that song really makes me go back
30:04
and feel how I felt at that time and really just understand how far my
30:10
life has grown and how far I've come, and like what I was able
30:15
to like overcome by the by the grace of God or however it happened,
30:19
like it happened, and it was just like it's something that when I hear
30:23
that song, I just remember that those hopeless feelings that I used to have
30:27
as a kid, you know what I mean. I just remember those moments
30:30
where I'm like, dang, like how am I in this situation? Like
30:33
what did I do to end up here? Like I'm not a bad person,
30:37
you know what I mean. Like it really just puts me in that
30:40
in that mindset, and it's funny because like I said, it's like it's
30:44
so it's so much hope and despair at the same time. But I just
30:48
love the way it makes me feel because it just makes me really appreciate life,
30:52
you know what I mean. Facts, Bro, like that song for
30:56
me, Bro, Like so this is the line that literally like this,
31:00
and that's another thing I didn't mention. It woke me up, Bro.
31:03
That song woke me up to get out of the stuff that I was doing
31:04
because I wasn't doing shit, and um, like on the last verse,
31:08
he he kind of starts it up, like, you know, my nigga's
31:11
drug dealing in the trap. I'm telling you, wake up, nigga gets
31:14
the trap. You set up and tell them young niggas fed up. Just
31:17
keep your head up, don't let up. You fall, you get up,
31:18
you make your bed up. That you're sleeping. Fake rappers ain't practicing
31:21
what they preaching. They tell you hit the trap while they relaxing on the
31:23
beaching. And I remember when I was hearing that. When I heard that
31:26
at that time, bro, it just like a switch one off in my
31:30
head, Like I was like, Bro, I gotta I gotta do better
31:33
for myself, you know what I'm saying. And again it just kind of
31:36
goes back to that ritual. But it's like every time I'm pushing forward,
31:38
I go back to that moment. Yeah, it all means something. The
31:44
click for me that the feeling them money more problem gives me. It's just,
31:48
um, honestly, was just the flashiness and it's something that I've always
31:56
wanted to attain. And now I'm not that flashy, but I feel that
32:01
in my life what I have is flashy like and it's just simple stuff.
32:07
You know what I mean, but I feel to me, I've reached that
32:08
point where I'm getting what I've always considered was flashy in my life, and
32:14
I'm getting in now and I'm living that flashy lifestyle. And it's not about
32:16
brands and showing off, because I'm not even I don't even do that.
32:22
It is just that what I got, like my PC, my monitors,
32:24
my phone, might headphones, just this little shit that I enjoy being able
32:30
to have. I reach the level where I can get all these little things
32:32
I want for myself. So I've attained that level of success that they gave
32:37
in that video. Even though I'm not on a yacht or flying private jets
32:42
or got rollies on my hand, I still reach. I still feel I
32:45
reach the same level of success they did. I feel like in my life
32:47
I reached what I saw them reaching in their lives. And I feel like,
32:52
and I'm gonna keep going to see how far I can get. But
32:54
that's the feeling. So when I hear that song, I hear success,
32:59
I hear reaching the status. I hear living your dreams, and it motivates
33:06
me to continue doing it and just just keep going in. And I really
33:10
like how they in the video they put in big, big interview where he's
33:16
like, you know, the more money you get, the more problems you
33:19
get. And it just comes with the territory just negative and let a man
33:22
puffs say, but it's true. But but the way I looked at it,
33:24
you're gonna have problems with your whole life, don't matter what. And
33:28
if you think that reaching the reaching a certain level of success is going to
33:31
bring you more problems and more stress, you're gonna get that shit anyways.
33:36
And you shouldn't let that kind of stuff hold you back. So that that
33:39
that's kind of the message I've always heard, and that's how powerful that song
33:44
was to me. And then that's why I'm still here. And I'm like,
33:45
oh yeah, oh yeah, it just it just motivates me, feels
33:50
me, you know, just acknowledges that I've continued in my path as I
33:55
should be in I still got more to go. It's crazy how all three
34:00
of these songs are so different, but like they kind of hit us all
34:02
the same as far as like pushing us forward, you know what I mean,
34:06
Like and even just speaking specifically about like lyrics in the song that made
34:10
me feel a certain way, even just the beginning of the song for Slipping,
34:15
like the beginning as far as the beginning of his verse where he goes,
34:17
I've been through mad different phases like mazes to find my way away.
34:22
Now I know the happy days are not far away, like just like that
34:25
right there, when I really like took that in and understood that. It's
34:30
like, man, like you're in the situation you're in, you know what
34:34
I mean. You can't change right now, but you can make changes to
34:38
be somewhere else later, you know what I mean. Like, and that's
34:42
something um, you know, we're kind of wrapping up right now, but
34:45
it's something definitely I want to tap into because it's been something that's been heavy
34:47
on my mind as far as you know, I've been able to kind of
34:52
like get out of the trap kind of like um Quincy was talking about,
34:57
you know what I mean, like getting out of that trap and moving.
35:00
But I also understand the idea that some people don't have that luxury to have
35:07
that light go off. And a lot of people think that that's something that
35:13
people don't have happened to them because they're ignorant, I mean not because the
35:16
ignorant. They think that it's something that they just say, Oh, now
35:19
I'm lazy or not, I don't want to do better whatever. A lot
35:22
of times there's people that just don't have a situation or somebody around them to
35:28
really say, hey, there's something better than this, you know what I
35:30
mean. And that's something that I've always felt, like people that don't grow
35:34
up you know, low income and and and like those hood environments and stuff.
35:38
People that don't grow up like that, they don't understand that. Like
35:40
when there's so many people around you that are just so negative and just kind
35:45
of like all in a hurry to be at the bottom, it's hard sometimes
35:51
to find, you know, just even a light in your head to go
35:53
off to say hey, you don't got to be here, you know what
35:55
I mean, Like this, it's easier to get out of here than you
35:58
think it is, you know. Yeah, And that's something that's been like
36:01
heavy on my mind because there's so much to that, because there's also people
36:06
that even if you kind of paved the way, they still don't want to
36:08
come out of that situation, you know what I mean. But like I
36:10
said, that's a topic for another time. That's a good topic. That's
36:15
a good topic, and It's funny, like I see people over the years
36:20
and you know, image image is portrayed on social media is crazy. And
36:23
even people who I thought I knew, not close, but just I knew
36:28
personally. I'm like, oh, they're good, they're good, you know,
36:31
like, oh, they reached a good level, they're doing good.
36:34
They got this, they got that. And now years later I see him
36:37
like starting all over completely. I'm like, what happened? Like I thought
36:43
you was good? And it's like maybe, you know, maybe they wasn't
36:45
good. Maybe that light never clicked until now, and all power to them,
36:50
but it's just crazy how it seems like, and you know, having
36:53
micall kind of the same thing. He's seeing how his career progression went and
36:58
then just he did a one eighty. He's somewhere doesn't align anything that he's
37:01
ever grown up with. And it's just nuts. And I sometimes think if
37:07
a light's gonna go off for me and that I'm gonna change everything. But
37:10
I think I'm so confident, I guess I don't want to say secure,
37:15
because nothing's ever secure, but confident that I'm still in the right path,
37:20
I'm in the right lane. I'm still going where I'm destined to go.
37:22
I'm still on the right path, and I don't see anything changing. I
37:27
see things improving it, but I don't see anything drastically changing what I'm doing.
37:32
And kind of going off what you're saying with the social media and stuff
37:35
is like it kind of ties in to what I was talking about last week,
37:38
where it's like you gotta kind of look inward, put the phone down
37:42
and just really take in, you know, the spirituality of life and just
37:46
you know, really really really digest what you're doing and what's going on around
37:52
you and figuring out, is this how I want to spend my time.
37:57
Yeah, yep, but yeah, man, um, I know it's been
38:01
a little minute. Um. You know, if y'all wanted to give out
38:05
any updates anything that y'all got coming up, I know me and Quincy got
38:08
that Good morning Love dropping me nineteen one video is one of my favorite videos
38:15
y'all so far. Yes Man shot out to Johnny Man. Johnny did his
38:19
thing. I love working with him. He started to get Yeah, follow
38:22
him. He's funny. He posts a funny content too. Yeah. Yeah,
38:25
he had his cracking up at that shoot. Man. We had a
38:29
we had a good little time man, Yeah, we started, mind you,
38:31
we shot that the same day that the Good Day's video was shot.
38:35
For anybody, that's the video that Joe was talking about earlier that we were
38:37
up early that morning shooting another video that went to the cook at the barbecue
38:43
and shoot the other video, and oh man, it was just like you
38:46
said, Joe, it's it's a lot of a lot of time taking.
38:51
But if you don't take that time, things aren't gonna get done, you
38:52
know. And and that's the way. It's a lot of behind the scenes
38:54
thing. Like you guys didn't post about that. Nobody knows all that.
38:58
Everybody thinks we just had a barbecue and everything was glorious that day, but
39:00
there's so much that went into that day that we had to take care of
39:05
in order to enjoy that barbecue, and we were able to because of that
39:08
facts. Also, I got Reminisce dropping on May twelfth as well, so
39:15
we're gonna have some back to back joints with that. So yeah, definitely
39:17
a lot. Man. I'm excited, bro, It's been a good,
39:21
good few months with the music tip you know, just kind of going back
39:22
to what you said earlier, less just about the last couple of years and
39:27
kind of having you know, the situations I was going through, kind of
39:30
causing a little bit of writer's block, and you know the things that I
39:34
was going through. Kind of stopping the music journey and being able to kind
39:37
of just be consistent over the last few months has just been so exciting.
39:39
So yeah, man, y'all tap in with Reminisce on May twelfth, that
39:44
Good Morning Love joint with Less on May nineteenth, and we're just gonna keep
39:47
it rolling. Yes said anything you want to throw out there, Joe,
39:52
I finally download, so I want to be back a week. So mind
39:55
you, I haven't had a month and I have to even try to put
39:59
them in out. But I have music. I have music. I'm not
40:04
gonna say how I got the music I did. I just did five seconds
40:07
ago. I'm not gonna repeat it, but I have the music. It's
40:09
loaded, it's ready, mixes dropping this weekend. It'll be out before this
40:15
episode is out, so we can we can definitely look forward to the ground
40:20
and mixes very if these guys allow me, I'll make some unreleased tracks they
40:24
got. But the consistency of YouTube, and I've always watched Lester be consistent,
40:30
you know, and as Quincy started, I have seen him fall off
40:36
since he started, and it's crazy to see somebody pick up where they left
40:40
off years ago and not slowed down. And that's just admirable, influential,
40:47
motivational. I'm not slowing down. There's no way I'm slowing down. This
40:52
podcast isn't slowing down. We're not slowing down whatever. No matter where anybody
40:55
says, everything's gonna continue coming. We're gonna put in your face and we're
41:00
continuously asking for input, support, likes, everything, reach out, comments,
41:07
just hit us up, man, because we're not stopping. Nothing stopping
41:09
over here. You're gonna put it in the face Joe. Pause pause,
41:14
pause, gess the whole thing too. Do not, do not