Latest / The Baller Alert Show / Episode 290 "Mariah The Scientist"
Transcript
- 0:03Speaker 1: World with me here, you know, BT know how it goes,
- 0:05Speaker 1: shout out oct no real color what we see?
- 0:08Speaker 2: Whole game? The butler something, Oh, you can't stand on
- 0:10Speaker 2: the house, you see. I already know you can't with
- 0:13Speaker 2: me because with the squad of me they get in.
- 0:15Speaker 3: They called me.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Hello. Ball Alert Well to the Baller Show. Podcasts available
- 0:26Speaker 2: everywhere you get your podcast. Please continue to like, share,
- 0:29Speaker 2: subscribe on YouTube page at Baller alert TV. I go
- 0:32Speaker 2: by the name of Ferrari Simmons. I go by the
- 0:33Speaker 2: name you know, BT see with that right, the scientists
- 0:36Speaker 2: of the building. It's not with us, y'all know. Code on.
- 0:41Speaker 2: It's cold outside, and it's cold outside fifty eight Okay,
- 0:45Speaker 2: it's very nicely.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Teeth I have in viziline. I just got it this year.
- 0:49Speaker 2: But you have diamonds in your teeth too.
- 0:50Speaker 4: No, that's like a case.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Okay, my bad, you ahead. I did have a visilin.
- 0:56Speaker 2: But maybe it's the maybe it's the ray bad metas
- 0:58Speaker 2: that I have one. Anyway, Mariah, how you doing? Where's Mariah?
- 1:05Speaker 2: The scientists from She's from Atlanta. She's from Atlanta. What
- 1:08Speaker 2: part of Atlanta? Okay, come on.
- 1:12Speaker 1: In the swats really, and then we moved to the
- 1:15Speaker 1: east Side.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Really, so do you where do you claim?
- 1:20Speaker 1: I claim the east Side? Okay, I mean I claim both.
- 1:23Speaker 1: If the conversations are deep enough.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Okay, So did you grow up wanting to be a scientist?
- 1:30Speaker 1: Really well, I wanted to be like a doctor in
- 1:32Speaker 1: the medical field. You're off, it gets very smart you.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Yeah, well that makes you feel Is that your name? Mariah?
- 1:41Speaker 5: Yes?
- 1:41Speaker 2: And then where did the scientists come from? Is that
- 1:44Speaker 2: really what happened?
- 1:44Speaker 1: I went to school for biology in New York, even
- 1:48Speaker 1: though I see you've got a spell house.
- 1:52Speaker 2: I did not go to Spelman, but it was for homecoming. Anyway,
- 1:56Speaker 2: we're talking to Mariah here.
- 1:57Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know what, when you first hopped on
- 2:00Speaker 6: the scene, I thought that, don't judge me. I thought
- 2:03Speaker 6: that you were like a scientist that became a singer.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I just said.
- 2:09Speaker 6: That.
- 2:10Speaker 2: No, like I'm thinking, like, you're a real scientist. She
- 2:13Speaker 2: went to school for fool when she was but she
- 2:17Speaker 2: she did you graduate?
- 2:18Speaker 1: She just said, wait, wait, wait, now what you just
- 2:20Speaker 1: sayn She said she didn't graduate? But I stayed for
- 2:24Speaker 1: a long time, I say for three years. Okay, she
- 2:27Speaker 1: knows a periodic table better than you probably probably saw.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Probably do you know what to know how to wear
- 2:32Speaker 2: a coat when it's cold?
- 2:36Speaker 1: When she she like she said she did time in
- 2:38Speaker 1: New York at Saint John, so cold here is nothing
- 2:41Speaker 1: compared to New York.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Was some different be brick? Can we can we discuss
- 2:47Speaker 2: the music part? Because you're in school and you're doing
- 2:50Speaker 2: stuff like this, How did the music play into it?
- 2:53Speaker 2: Have you always been singing? No?
- 2:56Speaker 1: I always like music. Well, I went to in elementary
- 2:59Speaker 1: school that was like a acquire of course, and I
- 3:02Speaker 1: have like some memories of like that. I like wanted
- 3:06Speaker 1: to be more involved in it, and then I just
- 3:09Speaker 1: stopped doing it after elementary school. And then when I
- 3:11Speaker 1: got to college, I just made a song.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Why it was for X?
- 3:17Speaker 1: It was it?
- 3:17Speaker 2: This song? No love song? Love song?
- 3:20Speaker 1: Whatever? Okay?
- 3:22Speaker 2: What what was the tone of the song.
- 3:25Speaker 1: It was like a lovey dovey song. But I don't
- 3:27Speaker 1: have excess, So I really tried to eliminate this part
- 3:30Speaker 1: of the story.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Where you don't have excess. No, I don't have them,
- 3:34Speaker 2: got it? Say? Lest So you made this song? Yes
- 3:36Speaker 2: about a guy or about somebody? And who heard it?
- 3:40Speaker 2: What happened?
- 3:41Speaker 1: My friends heard it. They liked it, and they said,
- 3:44Speaker 1: keep doing it. Put it out. So I put it
- 3:46Speaker 1: out on SoundCloud.
- 3:48Speaker 2: You put it out on SoundCloud. That's it.
- 3:50Speaker 1: When I put a couple of them out.
- 3:53Speaker 3: And then.
- 3:55Speaker 1: But I was kind of like I was quiet in college,
- 3:57Speaker 1: so nobody really knew me like that. And then I
- 3:59Speaker 1: think we started to hear what was on SoundCloud though,
- 4:02Speaker 1: and then they were like, that's that's you kind of
- 4:07Speaker 1: and then here we are.
- 4:09Speaker 4: Did you shoot a music video?
- 4:10Speaker 1: Of course? Who had the money for that?
- 4:12Speaker 4: I mean you had a phone.
- 4:13Speaker 6: But did you when you when you was putting on SoundCloud?
- 4:16Speaker 6: Did you put it under maraud of scientists?
- 4:18Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 4:18Speaker 2: I did, so you came up with your own name.
- 4:20Speaker 3: I did.
- 4:21Speaker 2: So you sat there like work of it.
- 4:22Speaker 1: But well, they needed to know where to find her
- 4:25Speaker 1: in science class when they were trying to find her
- 4:27Speaker 1: on SoundCloud.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Why do you want to get rid of it?
- 4:28Speaker 1: I thought it was like kind of corny, but everybody
- 4:32Speaker 1: was like, no, that's so marketable, you need to keep that.
- 4:35Speaker 2: I mean, I've never heard of anyone named the scientist
- 4:39Speaker 2: the creator. Yeah, well who's the scientist though? Yeah? That's
- 4:43Speaker 2: what I'm thinking, Like I've never heard of scientists.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Well, I do like that, it's it could be misleading, though,
- 4:47Speaker 1: I do like that part, you know, but I don't
- 4:51Speaker 1: know because people be like that sound like a rap name.
- 4:53Speaker 1: It's like, but I'm not a rapper.
- 4:54Speaker 2: But what happened next? So it's on SoundCloud people that
- 4:57Speaker 2: starting to say that you Eventually, then what happened?
- 5:00Speaker 1: And then I started getting these calls. I don't even
- 5:03Speaker 1: know how to get my phone number, but it started
- 5:04Speaker 1: with like Chubby and then I guess maybe it was
- 5:11Speaker 1: because the kids there, at least the ones who were
- 5:14Speaker 1: like social socialized, they were like talking about it. And
- 5:17Speaker 1: then I guess some kind of way it was getting
- 5:20Speaker 1: to like some New York and ours, and then I
- 5:22Speaker 1: guess he probably heard about it and heard that I
- 5:24Speaker 1: was from Atlanta, and then he hit me up and then.
- 5:28Speaker 2: So that was cool, but I moved on and then
- 5:34Speaker 2: you know what you did? Sign At that particular.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Time, I waited a little bit.
- 5:38Speaker 4: Okay, did you consult anybody about this?
- 5:41Speaker 2: Not?
- 5:42Speaker 6: Well?
- 5:42Speaker 1: Okay, So eventually I met Tory Lanez and then we
- 5:46Speaker 1: had like a what is it called? Not not it's
- 5:49Speaker 1: not distribution, it's a an arrangement production deal okay, and
- 5:55Speaker 1: then but we didn't really get that until after I
- 5:59Speaker 1: started to like find labels that I like and he
- 6:01Speaker 1: was like, I don't think you should sign to a label.
- 6:03Speaker 2: And then, but that's what Toy was saying.
- 6:05Speaker 1: Yeah, so he advised you to go independent maybe, but
- 6:08Speaker 1: I just felt like it was never really gonna be
- 6:10Speaker 1: independent because it was going to be signed to him. Oh.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I think he just didn't want me to sign to
- 6:14Speaker 1: nobody else.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Now what year is this If you don't mind me.
- 6:18Speaker 1: That it's in like twenty eighteen, okay or twenty nineteen.
- 6:23Speaker 4: That's not too long ago.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't that long ago.
- 6:25Speaker 6: So Tory Lanez you met him, he wanted you to
- 6:28Speaker 6: you guys did a production deal and he told you
- 6:31Speaker 6: don't go to a label pretty much to pretty much,
- 6:34Speaker 6: you know, sign his label or did he use that
- 6:37Speaker 6: I'm gonna walk you into the label.
- 6:39Speaker 1: No, it was like the labels were coming to me
- 6:41Speaker 1: and he was like, you don't need to do that.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Were good.
- 6:43Speaker 2: How'd you meet him?
- 6:45Speaker 1: Maybe? Like a Okay, So I have a friend named Beijia.
- 6:47Speaker 1: She lives in California. She's also from Atlanta though, and
- 6:50Speaker 1: she's like a real like social like influence, hardcore influencer
- 6:54Speaker 1: from the beginning too, like Tom Blade time, she just
- 6:58Speaker 1: like always on shiit ahead of time. So she was
- 7:00Speaker 1: like post my music and he had a photographer and
- 7:04Speaker 1: I guess they knew each other and was listening to
- 7:05Speaker 1: the music. Then he showed it to Tory and then
- 7:07Speaker 1: Toy was calling me, and then we started working together.
- 7:10Speaker 4: Okay, d Tory look at you and said I need
- 7:12Speaker 4: to work with her, I think.
- 7:14Speaker 1: So he was like, I just want to. I feel
- 7:16Speaker 1: like I love your sound. I want to help you
- 7:19Speaker 1: and this and that. So, you know, it was like
- 7:21Speaker 1: at first it was like a he didn't openly say
- 7:25Speaker 1: I want to do a deal. It was just like,
- 7:26Speaker 1: I fuck with your music. I don't want to look
- 7:28Speaker 1: out for you.
- 7:28Speaker 4: And then it was like, oh he want a deal though,
- 7:31Speaker 4: Oh because he wants to control the situation.
- 7:34Speaker 1: I think so a little bit. But it's I mean,
- 7:36Speaker 1: I feel like that's how it goes a lot of times.
- 7:37Speaker 1: It's business. And I feel like if I saw me,
- 7:39Speaker 1: I would probably try to sign this shit too, you know,
- 7:41Speaker 1: but that's good.
- 7:43Speaker 2: My question, so, how are you financially at this particular moment.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Are you making money?
- 7:49Speaker 6: No?
- 7:50Speaker 1: I wasn't making any money school.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Still, you're still in school right now. I dropped out,
- 7:53Speaker 2: So you dropped out? This made this made you drop out?
- 7:56Speaker 1: No, I had already dropped out.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Why did you drop out of college?
- 7:59Speaker 1: So it's like a crossroads in college where it's like
- 8:02Speaker 1: I had a scholarship for undergraduate school. They do not
- 8:05Speaker 1: give scholarships out like that. For medical school. It's really
- 8:08Speaker 1: like rare so and medical school is expensive. It's more
- 8:11Speaker 1: expensive than So.
- 8:13Speaker 2: You did undergrad then, is what you saying?
- 8:14Speaker 6: I did?
- 8:14Speaker 1: I mean I didn't finish. I did three out of
- 8:16Speaker 1: four years, and so I just started weighing the odds,
- 8:20Speaker 1: like I don't know about this. And then we had
- 8:22Speaker 1: an Eastern break and I just stayed home from the
- 8:24Speaker 1: Easter break. I didn't go back. I left all my
- 8:25Speaker 1: shit in the dorm. Yeah, that was like a little risky.
- 8:29Speaker 4: What'd your parents say?
- 8:31Speaker 1: I didn't tell my dad because he's more strict, but
- 8:33Speaker 1: my mama was like, you need to go back, and
- 8:34Speaker 1: I was like, I ain't going back. So I didn't
- 8:36Speaker 1: go back. And then eventually when the school year was over,
- 8:40Speaker 1: we had to go back and get all my stuff.
- 8:42Speaker 1: M So at that point it was like in between
- 8:46Speaker 1: me dropping out during Easter break. It really wasn't that long, honestly,
- 8:49Speaker 1: I felt. I mean, I'm appreciative that it went, you know,
- 8:51Speaker 1: as fast as it did, but I guess like Tourri
- 8:54Speaker 1: and them, Chubby and them, they were calling like right
- 8:56Speaker 1: after that Easter break, Chubby was calling before Easter break,
- 9:00Speaker 1: and then like in between the rest of that school year.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Then it's like I got to know tour That was cool.
- 9:03Speaker 1: He taught me a couple of things. I appreciate that.
- 9:06Speaker 1: Fast forward maybe like less than a year later, then
- 9:08Speaker 1: I signed a deal. So how did that deal come about?
- 9:11Speaker 1: It was with RCA, So there was like a couple
- 9:13Speaker 1: of people before that. Maybe I'm not gonna second. Arista
- 9:17Speaker 1: was the first people that came, and of course it's like,
- 9:19Speaker 1: oh my god. Then now they're like showing me their
- 9:21Speaker 1: track record and it's like they have had Whitney Houston
- 9:24Speaker 1: at Oh my god, the people who sign Whitney Houston. Well,
- 9:28Speaker 1: you know, it's like all of that. And then I
- 9:31Speaker 1: wound up going with RCAO because I felt like it
- 9:33Speaker 1: seemed like they had a diverse staff. That doesn't always
- 9:37Speaker 1: mean anything, but in the moment, it seemed like they
- 9:41Speaker 1: have Like what.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Did they offer you that that stood out the most
- 9:45Speaker 4: besides the diverse staff.
- 9:46Speaker 1: I think that after it was like multiple different labels
- 9:51Speaker 1: coming after my first you know deal, it was like
- 9:55Speaker 1: it gave me more leverage maybe to ask for what
- 9:57Speaker 1: I wanted, but I asked it for my masses and
- 9:59Speaker 1: my where. It was like, they ain't gonna get it.
- 10:01Speaker 1: You ain't never made no music like you have no,
- 10:04Speaker 1: you have nothing?
- 10:06Speaker 2: Okay, now who this lawyer you worked for it? He
- 10:10Speaker 2: worked for the label too? Oh yes, but she didn't.
- 10:13Speaker 4: She wasn't there.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Name is Gillian Barr. She works in New York.
- 10:17Speaker 2: But she supported your uh, what you wanted and you
- 10:20Speaker 2: got it.
- 10:21Speaker 1: She was just like it might be hard to get
- 10:23Speaker 1: those things. But I was like, I'll tell you exactly
- 10:27Speaker 1: what I said. I said, I want to owe my
- 10:28Speaker 1: messes and I want a million dollars.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Did you get it? Yeah?
- 10:31Speaker 1: I did?
- 10:32Speaker 2: Boom.
- 10:35Speaker 1: But then that's something like this morse period started right,
- 10:39Speaker 1: not remorse, but it was like, damn, they gave me
- 10:41Speaker 1: this stuff and I've never done this though, they've never
- 10:46Speaker 1: even they never even heard me sing in person. I've
- 10:49Speaker 1: never done a show. At this point I've never ever performed.
- 10:52Speaker 1: It's like I literally just made some songs on SoundCloud
- 10:54Speaker 1: and these people signed and he was like, so.
- 10:56Speaker 2: You felt bad for taking the money I did?
- 10:58Speaker 1: I felt like Dad, and it's like listen, I can't
- 11:01Speaker 1: get you out of this. You know you brought this up.
- 11:05Speaker 1: You know, he like saying stuff like that. And then
- 11:06Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, but it was like a growing thing.
- 11:10Speaker 4: But they supported you so and I know it's like,
- 11:12Speaker 4: you know, the thing is on you now, like what
- 11:15Speaker 4: you're gonna do? So you just had to turn up?
- 11:18Speaker 1: Yeah I did. It was slow. It was a slow start,
- 11:21Speaker 1: but I feel like now it's turned But how was
- 11:24Speaker 1: it having a deal though? Was they like on you,
- 11:26Speaker 1: like to push you to make music? They already gave
- 11:27Speaker 1: you everything. My honest opinion is that in the beginning,
- 11:31Speaker 1: and this is for anybody who wants to make music,
- 11:33Speaker 1: the beginning is like, we believe in you, we love
- 11:35Speaker 1: your sound, we love your vision. We don't want to
- 11:37Speaker 1: change anything about you. We want you just how you are.
- 11:39Speaker 1: And then it's like then you sign this, like but
- 11:41Speaker 1: we need to do this, that, this and that and
- 11:43Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and it's like you feel obgated to
- 11:45Speaker 1: do it because they gave you a shitload of money,
- 11:49Speaker 1: you know, and then you wind up doing it, and
- 11:51Speaker 1: it's like that's there is a political aspect. I'll tell
- 11:54Speaker 1: you that for sure, it's a political aspect. But then
- 11:56Speaker 1: eventually it was like, that's like when a TikTok thing
- 12:01Speaker 1: was like booming, right, And I feel like that's when
- 12:03Speaker 1: labels just like whatever infrastructure they had and will usually
- 12:08Speaker 1: depend on and rely on for like their methods and
- 12:10Speaker 1: their their strategy on like making an artist. I feel
- 12:13Speaker 1: like it went out the window that TikTok stuff, the
- 12:15Speaker 1: internet stuff. It was like they expected you to be
- 12:17Speaker 1: on that internet. They don't want anybody else in their
- 12:20Speaker 1: office to have to do it.
- 12:21Speaker 2: It's like that's almost want you to work.
- 12:24Speaker 4: She got a TikTok that went viral.
- 12:26Speaker 1: I do, but I don't really care for the TikTok thing.
- 12:29Speaker 1: It's not that I dislike TikTok, don't get me wrong,
- 12:31Speaker 1: but I feel like it just requires a lot of
- 12:34Speaker 1: interaction with the phone and like the public and like
- 12:39Speaker 1: a public opinion that's not really your thing. You have
- 12:41Speaker 1: to submit to that if you want that to work
- 12:43Speaker 1: for you. And it's like I wouldn't say.
- 12:46Speaker 6: You could tell you artists. I feel like every artist
- 12:48Speaker 6: hates stearing it. Some artists love it, some artists hate it.
- 12:54Speaker 6: Depends on who you are.
- 12:55Speaker 2: There's a lot of attention. Now. I had a question
- 12:58Speaker 2: for you. I was a music director at the Preview
- 13:00Speaker 2: his radio station, and a single You're single, I remember
- 13:03Speaker 2: when you had first got to that label came across
- 13:05Speaker 2: my desk feature in a Little Baby. How did that
- 13:07Speaker 2: come about?
- 13:08Speaker 1: So there's this producer name Earl Earl on the beat
- 13:11Speaker 1: and he may like act up, you can get snatched
- 13:13Speaker 1: up and so, but I've known him for a long
- 13:15Speaker 1: time and he played me in his beat and I
- 13:17Speaker 1: was like, immediately when I heard it, I thought, I
- 13:19Speaker 1: feel like little Baby would just go crazy on that song.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Particularly that's when Baby was like and he and I
- 13:25Speaker 1: was like, I really need this, and my label was like,
- 13:27Speaker 1: you ain't gonna get a little Baby. We can get
- 13:28Speaker 1: somebody else.
- 13:29Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying. But it was hard to
- 13:30Speaker 2: get him at that particular moment. And you got list though,
- 13:33Speaker 2: and she got her million dollars and she got her.
- 13:38Speaker 1: I did, but he wasn't hearing me. So then I
- 13:40Speaker 1: had to here.
- 13:42Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So.
- 13:43Speaker 1: He told Torri yes, and then we paid him. Obviously,
- 13:46Speaker 1: I don't know what his rate was. Back then he
- 13:48Speaker 1: was starting a two hundred occasions and I appreciate that.
- 13:53Speaker 1: And actually he gave me my first gold record. Nice
- 13:56Speaker 1: And I don't even know if you know that, but
- 13:58Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
- 13:59Speaker 2: Now. Is Mariah at this particular moment you're signed? Are
- 14:02Speaker 2: you in a relationship then?
- 14:05Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I was just doing my
- 14:06Speaker 1: thing back then.
- 14:07Speaker 2: What is doing your thing mean? You know what women
- 14:10Speaker 2: mean by doing that thing.
- 14:11Speaker 1: I probably had a couple of boyfriends.
- 14:12Speaker 2: You were just entertaining the ol me.
- 14:15Speaker 1: I don't know if I can say about it, like
- 14:19Speaker 1: if my main relationship is not working out, I'm not
- 14:23Speaker 1: gonna like just like get rid of it. You know,
- 14:28Speaker 1: it can still be around, but it's just like, you know,
- 14:33Speaker 1: you just feel like, yeah, waters you know, like it
- 14:36Speaker 1: might not work out.
- 14:39Speaker 2: So you were dating at that particular moment, I was dating?
- 14:41Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, I probably was in that relationship. I don't know.
- 14:45Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I don't even I don't remember
- 14:47Speaker 1: any of that.
- 14:48Speaker 4: You know, when the scorpion moves, she is a scorpio.
- 14:53Speaker 1: You know, we water sized, so you know, okay, hey,
- 15:00Speaker 1: y'all are crazy, Okay, y'all more crazier, you know, silent crazy, interesting.
- 15:07Speaker 1: I would like to do some research on it. Yeah,
- 15:09Speaker 1: go ahead, scientists, Okay, fireuarious air.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Water sign you're air, I am.
- 15:19Speaker 4: Yes, but you're the water barrier.
- 15:21Speaker 1: But you're.
- 15:24Speaker 4: I'm a scientist.
- 15:25Speaker 2: I don't believe idding what Rick Ross said. He said,
- 15:27Speaker 2: when girls get to ask, and you know, it's this time.
- 15:31Speaker 1: It's conversational.
- 15:32Speaker 2: So my question to you is the reason why I
- 15:34Speaker 2: went personal because I know your personal life has your
- 15:38Speaker 2: You're human, so you have to have a personal life.
- 15:41Speaker 2: And now now that you are in a relationship with
- 15:43Speaker 2: somebody very very big, how does that affect your personal life.
- 15:49Speaker 1: The way he's my personal life? You know, I put
- 15:52Speaker 1: a lot of priority on my relationship above like all,
- 15:55Speaker 1: because that's what is important to me. And like I
- 15:58Speaker 1: want to be married, I want to have a family,
- 16:00Speaker 1: you know, all that good stuff. So I feel like
- 16:01Speaker 1: I definitely prioritize that. But I mean, besides that and work,
- 16:06Speaker 1: like that's my life. How was it? What was your
- 16:09Speaker 1: initial thoughts, you know, getting with the man who already
- 16:11Speaker 1: has children. So before him, I always said I would
- 16:15Speaker 1: never date a man with kids. I always said that
- 16:17Speaker 1: I was just like not going for it, you know.
- 16:19Speaker 1: But I didn't like meet him with the intention of
- 16:22Speaker 1: dating him or like trying to holler at him or
- 16:24Speaker 1: anything like that and go into it with any assumptions,
- 16:28Speaker 1: you know. And then I found out, you know, cause
- 16:30Speaker 1: I have heard he had I had heard he had kids,
- 16:33Speaker 1: but I didn't know how many kids he had. I
- 16:35Speaker 1: didn't know like what the dynamic was. And then eventually
- 16:37Speaker 1: it was like, I have kids, so but it was
- 16:40Speaker 1: like it was okay. I mean I've met his kids,
- 16:43Speaker 1: you know, I met his children's mothers.
- 16:45Speaker 4: Were they receptive to you mostly?
- 16:48Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Obviously it's like I feel
- 16:51Speaker 1: like with children, it's like you got to be careful
- 16:55Speaker 1: and stuff. You know, you don't want to introduce everybody
- 16:57Speaker 1: to your kids or to your children's mothers, you know.
- 17:00Speaker 1: So I feel like it was definitely a process. But
- 17:02Speaker 1: I mean I feel like it's all in the family now.
- 17:05Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, how are you able to maintain you know,
- 17:09Speaker 4: a strong relationship Now?
- 17:10Speaker 1: I feel like we talk a lot, which I'm grateful
- 17:12Speaker 1: for because when he first got locked up. It wasn't
- 17:14Speaker 1: like that. It was like they had him on a
- 17:16Speaker 1: strict like schedule with when he can use the phone,
- 17:19Speaker 1: when he can use the phone, and then eventually it's
- 17:21Speaker 1: like they developed a new schedule and they have like
- 17:24Speaker 1: a tablet's there, so you know he has more options
- 17:30Speaker 1: and like ways and accessibility to communicate. You know, it's
- 17:35Speaker 1: more accessible now, which is great.
- 17:37Speaker 2: How did you guys end up meeting?
- 17:38Speaker 1: He DM me, and he said something like no, Actually,
- 17:41Speaker 1: when I look back on it, I messaged him a
- 17:43Speaker 1: long time ago and said have birthday, but he didn't
- 17:46Speaker 1: see that. It's like years ago. And then he messaged
- 17:49Speaker 1: me again after that and said something like asked me,
- 17:52Speaker 1: was I signed? So I honestly, in my opinion, I
- 17:54Speaker 1: thought he was like trying to do some business. I
- 17:58Speaker 1: mean maybe that was like That's what I thought. So
- 18:03Speaker 1: and then eventually I made a song that I wanted
- 18:05Speaker 1: him on and then I was like, hey, I got
- 18:06Speaker 1: this song. I want you to get on it. He
- 18:07Speaker 1: was like okay. He never said send me to He
- 18:10Speaker 1: said send it to me, but he said when you
- 18:12Speaker 1: get back to Atlanta.
- 18:13Speaker 2: Pull up on me. And that was and that was
- 18:16Speaker 2: then he said pull up and then you met Jeffrey
- 18:22Speaker 2: and not you on thub.
- 18:23Speaker 1: And he was just like tall and he was just
- 18:25Speaker 1: like he was just like he stood on the other
- 18:29Speaker 1: side of the room, very calm. It wasn't like, you know,
- 18:33Speaker 1: aggressive energy. But then when we did talk that day,
- 18:35Speaker 1: he was like, I know that you want a song
- 18:38Speaker 1: for me. This is way bigger than a song though,
- 18:41Speaker 1: because I won't shoot.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 18:49Speaker 4: When you've seen him, were you initially attracted to him?
- 18:52Speaker 1: I just I was shocked.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Wait what was your answers?
- 18:56Speaker 1: He asked me what I want you question? That's not question,
- 19:00Speaker 1: that's a statement. And I like that. But I feel
- 19:05Speaker 1: like he was just like so, I don't I don't
- 19:07Speaker 1: like saying intimidated. It wasn't that, but it was like
- 19:10Speaker 1: he was just like tall and he has like a
- 19:12Speaker 1: really like strong presence without really saying anything. So I
- 19:18Speaker 1: kind of was just like I was nervous. He made
- 19:20Speaker 1: me nervous.
- 19:21Speaker 4: And he's Leo too.
- 19:22Speaker 1: He is a Leo.
- 19:23Speaker 2: Yeah, he is absolute to that shut out to the Leos. Yes,
- 19:27Speaker 2: now what do we have coming out right now?
- 19:30Speaker 4: To be eating Alive project?
- 19:32Speaker 2: That's what she was gonna do with the with the scorpion.
- 19:36Speaker 4: She's going to eat him alive.
- 19:37Speaker 2: She's seen him the room. Can we can we talk
- 19:40Speaker 2: about that.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Some songs on there are pretty old, as old as
- 19:44Speaker 1: maybe four years, and then there are some songs on
- 19:47Speaker 1: there that are as new as like four months old.
- 19:51Speaker 2: You know.
- 19:52Speaker 1: So it was just like a working thing. And initially
- 19:56Speaker 1: I had like an idea for it, like I'm gonna
- 19:58Speaker 1: use this and that and that's gonna be And it
- 20:00Speaker 1: was like I was just like making stuff over time though,
- 20:04Speaker 1: and it just became like a compilation. You know, your
- 20:07Speaker 1: creativity is so good, Like I must commend you because
- 20:11Speaker 1: like the production of your records, you know, whoever vocal
- 20:16Speaker 1: arranges your stuff to your visuals, Like how much are
- 20:22Speaker 1: you a part of that process? And how do you
- 20:23Speaker 1: go about picking your producers? I am overly a part
- 20:27Speaker 1: of it, and I am a control freak.
- 20:29Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
- 20:29Speaker 1: So my art I don't know, because at a certain
- 20:33Speaker 1: point it's like too much, you know, it's too much
- 20:35Speaker 1: to do. It's like in the beginning, you can easily
- 20:38Speaker 1: be everything because you have the time for it, and
- 20:41Speaker 1: then eventually it's like you don't really have the time
- 20:43Speaker 1: for so much of it, so it's not necessarily compromise.
- 20:47Speaker 1: It just drives you more crazy, you know. But I
- 20:49Speaker 1: feel like with the beat thing, in the beginning, I
- 20:52Speaker 1: was always getting my beats so off YouTube. I still
- 20:54Speaker 1: get my beats off YouTube, but I am currently locked
- 20:56Speaker 1: out of my YouTube account. Why because it's attached to
- 20:59Speaker 1: my Gmail and so when you log in, the Gmail
- 21:05Speaker 1: has like this two factor thing and the phone that
- 21:09Speaker 1: is connected to I still have the number, but I
- 21:12Speaker 1: don't have the phone and I can't find the phone anywhere.
- 21:15Speaker 2: Oh my god.
- 21:16Speaker 1: So I mean I can resolve it by going to getting.
- 21:18Speaker 2: New get a new phone, get a new phone, new
- 21:20Speaker 2: some card.
- 21:20Speaker 1: And that's fine, but it's like who who wants to
- 21:22Speaker 1: do all that? And so I've been procrastinating, so I've
- 21:25Speaker 1: been locked out of.
- 21:25Speaker 4: It for dude, really, okay, have an assistant.
- 21:32Speaker 1: I do not, and I think I need one.
- 21:34Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you do.
- 21:35Speaker 1: I think I need one.
- 21:36Speaker 2: That's ahead, go ahead, solicitate getting an assistant. That's your camera.
- 21:40Speaker 1: I'm not ready yet.
- 21:44Speaker 2: Exactly.
- 21:46Speaker 1: I don't want to have to be like, hey, but
- 21:48Speaker 1: you know what if I had an assistant. I think
- 21:50Speaker 1: the thing I will make them do most is go
- 21:52Speaker 1: get me.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Food, Is that the way to your heart?
- 21:55Speaker 1: I love food, but I'm kind of picky though.
- 21:58Speaker 4: So we're young, thug takes you for your first date.
- 22:01Speaker 1: It's a place called our NT's chop House. Chop house,
- 22:05Speaker 1: I think, and it's in like, yeah, I go to
- 22:09Speaker 1: food and that was like our first like one on one.
- 22:13Speaker 4: Did he win you over with that food and all
- 22:15Speaker 4: that or he had already wanted?
- 22:19Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, I think we were in a relationship.
- 22:22Speaker 1: I know that sounds like, so you didn't go on
- 22:23Speaker 1: a date until after you got a relationship, but we
- 22:26Speaker 1: did everything after we got a relationship because he was
- 22:28Speaker 1: just adamant about that. Okay, fire, I'll take it.
- 22:34Speaker 2: What's your favorite song? Off to be eating a live?
- 22:37Speaker 1: I don't have a favorite. I love them all. I
- 22:39Speaker 1: love them all and I listened to it all the
- 22:42Speaker 1: time and I feel like it's my best work. I
- 22:45Speaker 1: just love it and I think now, So the difference
- 22:50Speaker 1: between like my previous projects and like where I'm at
- 22:52Speaker 1: now is like all of those projects I had music
- 22:57Speaker 1: before that I was willing to put on a project
- 22:59Speaker 1: and that was like I have I still have other
- 23:02Speaker 1: music obviously, but it's like I feel like my next
- 23:04Speaker 1: project will be from scratch, you know, instead of being
- 23:07Speaker 1: like like all new songs here. Yeah, Like I want
- 23:09Speaker 1: to just go to a studio, like I want to
- 23:12Speaker 1: start on it from scratch and see what happens, because
- 23:14Speaker 1: I never did that.
- 23:15Speaker 2: So what are the fan favorites. I know some fans
- 23:17Speaker 2: been hitting you up like this is my favorite, it's
- 23:19Speaker 2: my favorite.
- 23:20Speaker 1: They've been saying they really like different Pages and love Sick,
- 23:25Speaker 1: and I know they like Ride.
- 23:27Speaker 6: With the.
- 23:29Speaker 2: I know it's got to be tough for you mentally
- 23:31Speaker 2: dealing with that that he's locked up right now?
- 23:34Speaker 1: How do you It was way more sensitive about it.
- 23:36Speaker 1: I was like crying all the time. I was just
- 23:38Speaker 1: a hot mess.
- 23:39Speaker 2: Did you speak to somebody or I did?
- 23:41Speaker 6: Not?
- 23:43Speaker 1: Therapist understands that. I don't feel like anybody understands that,
- 23:46Speaker 1: unless it's like somebody who's been through that. But obviously
- 23:50Speaker 1: I didn't know it was gonna take this song. And
- 23:51Speaker 1: I feel like I see a lot of people commenting
- 23:53Speaker 1: on it like just Beach Dormer's fuck and just and
- 23:55Speaker 1: that and blah blah. It's like she don't know how
- 23:57Speaker 1: long he gonna be in there? What is she doing?
- 23:59Speaker 1: And it's like, I feel like, if you found somebody
- 24:02Speaker 1: that you really want to be with, it's like, would
- 24:06Speaker 1: you just abandon them?
- 24:08Speaker 2: So you actually read the comments and see the negative.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Comments, like sometimes you don't even have to read it
- 24:12Speaker 1: because it's just in your face, you know. So it's
- 24:15Speaker 1: not like you even have to go search. And it's
- 24:17Speaker 1: like I could log into Instagram and just it'll pop up,
- 24:21Speaker 1: you know, and it's like or they'll tell you in
- 24:22Speaker 1: it repeatedly and then eventually you see it. It's like,
- 24:25Speaker 1: but I feel like at this point, I've learned to
- 24:28Speaker 1: just like it's not about that, It's about me.
- 24:30Speaker 2: How do you how do you cope with it?
- 24:32Speaker 1: Like what do you do? I do not miss a visitation?
- 24:35Speaker 1: For one.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Do you get to hug them when you you can't
- 24:38Speaker 2: touch them? So you can't touch them?
- 24:40Speaker 1: No, it's okay. It's okay because I feel like it's
- 24:44Speaker 1: our relationship is pretty strong. And then obviously besides it,
- 24:48Speaker 1: I just have turned into like a real workout. If
- 24:51Speaker 1: I'm not at work, I do not leave the house.
- 24:53Speaker 4: They probably have support groups for people who.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Go through Like I don't want to talk to anybody
- 24:57Speaker 1: about it, you know. It's like I don't want to
- 24:59Speaker 1: talk to them.
- 25:00Speaker 2: I like friends or anything. You don't have any friends,
- 25:03Speaker 2: but you got some people.
- 25:04Speaker 5: Like.
- 25:06Speaker 1: Maybe somebody like that, you know what.
- 25:08Speaker 4: Yandy definitely could give you advice.
- 25:10Speaker 1: I thought about asking somebody about it, who Monica Yama.
- 25:15Speaker 1: I met her and she was really nice, But I
- 25:17Speaker 1: haven't asked her about it, but I probably would, you know.
- 25:20Speaker 1: But I don't know if I'm prepared for that conversation
- 25:23Speaker 1: because it's like, I don't know if it worked out
- 25:25Speaker 1: for her. So it's like I kind of just want
- 25:28Speaker 1: to just stay on my own path, you know, and
- 25:31Speaker 1: just like focus on it. But I feel like I
- 25:33Speaker 1: have a song on project where I'm talking about it
- 25:36Speaker 1: and it's called us that people really like that song,
- 25:38Speaker 1: but it's like I feel like I talk about it
- 25:40Speaker 1: a little more in depth, you know. But I mean,
- 25:43Speaker 1: it's just the way it is right now, and I
- 25:45Speaker 1: feel like I have accepted that that's the current state
- 25:48Speaker 1: of my relationship. That doesn't mean it's always going to
- 25:50Speaker 1: be like that, but it also means I don't know
- 25:52Speaker 1: the timeline on it.
- 25:53Speaker 2: Appreciate you sharing that, And I feel.
- 25:55Speaker 1: Like if Monica, it'll organically happen, you know, for them
- 25:59Speaker 1: to brace you, right, And she's really cool. The times
- 26:02Speaker 1: that I have spoken to her or like interacting with her,
- 26:04Speaker 1: she's been really nice. She used a scorpio.
- 26:06Speaker 4: Yeah, so she definitely understand I think so.
- 26:10Speaker 1: I think she would.
- 26:11Speaker 2: Do you do you think that marriage is the next
- 26:13Speaker 2: step for you?
- 26:15Speaker 1: I mean when he gets out of jail. Yeah, yeah.
- 26:18Speaker 1: I don't think either of us want a jail wedding. Yeah,
- 26:20Speaker 1: but I do definitely. I feel like he definitely wants
- 26:22Speaker 1: to be married, and I feel like I do too.
- 26:24Speaker 4: Do you ever imagine life outside once he's out?
- 26:27Speaker 1: For sure? You talking about all day, all day long.
- 26:32Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like being imaginative can help every
- 26:38Speaker 1: human being on earth not lose your mind.
- 26:42Speaker 2: You know.
- 26:42Speaker 1: It is like a little slight state of delusion, it is,
- 26:47Speaker 1: But I feel like being in love making hard to
- 26:53Speaker 1: make a lot of really like touching music. You know,
- 26:59Speaker 1: people don't want to hear that happy stuff. They want
- 27:01Speaker 1: to hear like everybody wants to hear down Wall let
- 27:05Speaker 1: them Ryan, They you know they want to hear shit
- 27:07Speaker 1: like that.
- 27:08Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, they just want to hear stuff that you know,
- 27:10Speaker 2: people can relate to.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I got some love songs on there though, and
- 27:14Speaker 1: I feel like they like it a lot.
- 27:16Speaker 2: We'll be right back with more of a Baller Alert show.
- 27:26Speaker 3: You're listening to a special edition of the Baller Alert Shows.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Been writing a scientists and I would love if you
- 27:31Speaker 1: like to commented and subscribe to this video and this channel,
- 27:35Speaker 1: and feel free to share your opinion in the comments.
- 27:37Speaker 2: I all know about y'all. It's like when I listen
- 27:39Speaker 2: to R and B, like I want to hear the
- 27:40Speaker 2: sad song.
- 27:41Speaker 1: I'm glad that you talk about this. Let me ask
- 27:43Speaker 1: you something, Okay, what does R and B mean to you?
- 27:46Speaker 1: Not rhythm and blues? I mean, like, what defines R
- 27:49Speaker 1: and B to you?
- 27:51Speaker 2: What defines R and B to me? I think R
- 27:53Speaker 2: and B is so I think R and B is
- 27:56Speaker 2: is something that brings.
- 27:58Speaker 1: What does that mean? Is that something that is kind
- 27:59Speaker 1: of is about the lyrics, is about the sound.
- 28:04Speaker 2: That's really hard. I think I know where you're going
- 28:05Speaker 2: with this. I think I've seen this on the internet.
- 28:07Speaker 1: Because actually, I'm glad that you just said that, because
- 28:10Speaker 1: I would like to talk about it.
- 28:11Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. I
- 28:14Speaker 2: think R and B rap is a form of music.
- 28:17Speaker 2: R and B is for people who can sing and
- 28:19Speaker 2: express themselves through that space. I don't think it's different
- 28:23Speaker 2: from rap. Well, it's different from rap because one of
- 28:25Speaker 2: some people are rapping and then some people are singing.
- 28:28Speaker 2: But the emotion is the same whether you're rapping or saying.
- 28:32Speaker 1: Like it's like a lyrical thing mixed with them.
- 28:34Speaker 2: Yeah, because it is a passion you felt, you felt
- 28:37Speaker 2: the way you may have a slow R and B
- 28:40Speaker 2: sad song. I can have a rap sad song too.
- 28:43Speaker 2: You could have the same emotion. I just that person
- 28:46Speaker 2: can't sing. This person can. I do think R and
- 28:49Speaker 2: B is more of a beautiful experience because it sounds
- 28:54Speaker 2: and it soon as you it sues you better than
- 28:57Speaker 2: me hearing.
- 28:59Speaker 4: The audio and just the difference.
- 29:01Speaker 1: But I feel like you want to say something you
- 29:03Speaker 1: listening right, Okay. I did an interview Complex and they
- 29:08Speaker 1: asked me something about genre, and I said, if I
- 29:10Speaker 1: could coin the term of a new genre, it would
- 29:13Speaker 1: be A and B and it will be a mix
- 29:15Speaker 1: between alternative and R and B. Now, A and B,
- 29:21Speaker 1: that's what I said. Now in hindsight, it's a spectrum
- 29:24Speaker 1: in my opinion, Okay, it's a spectrum. I felt like
- 29:28Speaker 1: my comparison in that interview was if Lnadel Ray, who
- 29:31Speaker 1: was talking about touching and soulful concepts or you know,
- 29:35Speaker 1: like points of whatever. It's like her music is considered alternative,
- 29:42Speaker 1: but like somebody else who makes something similar to that
- 29:44Speaker 1: is considered R and B or like soul neo soul,
- 29:47Speaker 1: this and that, blah blah blah. It's like, what really
- 29:50Speaker 1: is a definitive factor?
- 29:51Speaker 2: Now?
- 29:52Speaker 1: Let me pull my phone out on this project. Let
- 29:59Speaker 1: me pull it up, me pull it up.
- 30:02Speaker 2: Well, you've been ready to drop these facts.
- 30:03Speaker 1: I just know because I was just listen to a
- 30:05Speaker 1: lot of music, you know, and I do, I really do,
- 30:08Speaker 1: and I and I'll be paying attention to like what
- 30:10Speaker 1: is why do they categorize it as such and such
- 30:12Speaker 1: A I feel like it's like, I'm gonna be honest,
- 30:15Speaker 1: I feel like it's discriminatory.
- 30:16Speaker 4: It is if you're black and you're singing it's R
- 30:19Speaker 4: and B and.
- 30:20Speaker 1: It's like and it's no problem with having a If
- 30:23Speaker 1: you want to say this is a category that black
- 30:24Speaker 1: people fall into because black people got the opportunity to
- 30:27Speaker 1: tell their story through this avenue, that's fine. Just say
- 30:30Speaker 1: that that's what it is. But don't say it's because
- 30:32Speaker 1: it's something else, but.
- 30:33Speaker 2: That's but that's how it is today. It wasn't like that.
- 30:35Speaker 2: Like John B back in the day was considered R
- 30:38Speaker 2: and B.
- 30:39Speaker 1: And that is I feel like this.
- 30:42Speaker 2: Version that's actually that's actually it's actually blue Eyes.
- 30:46Speaker 1: So so is it R and B? Is it something else?
- 30:51Speaker 2: Let's see what your definition? What you got?
- 30:54Speaker 1: You've heard the song of Okay, now let me play
- 30:57Speaker 1: you this other song. The production is similar, the lyricism,
- 31:06Speaker 1: it's similar. Cindy Lauper's music is considered when you go
- 31:11Speaker 1: to her and you go to her projects pop. For example,
- 31:17Speaker 1: Diana Ross music is considered R and B. Every single
- 31:20Speaker 1: project on our music it's categorized Army who was a
- 31:23Speaker 1: Sindy law Ferson too. Let's see, that's a good question.
- 31:27Speaker 1: Let's see do you know no, but.
- 31:30Speaker 4: I'm guessing if it's like one of the Big four,
- 31:32Speaker 4: that is why it's pop.
- 31:33Speaker 1: If because compared to you, you got Atlantic compared to Motown,
- 31:39Speaker 1: Black and White.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Yeah, and understood though I understood the point.
- 31:42Speaker 1: The point is like when they put up music out
- 31:45Speaker 1: and it's like this is considered such and such. It's
- 31:48Speaker 1: like they have this big, huge, platform and all these
- 31:52Speaker 1: other apps.
- 31:52Speaker 2: They get more radio played, they get more awards.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Suddenly it's like this is R and B and we
- 31:58Speaker 1: we and this, this is it. This is the one
- 32:00Speaker 1: category for us circle and I just feel like that's
- 32:04Speaker 1: just even like a lot of Diana Ross's own music
- 32:07Speaker 1: has similar structure sonically to Michael Jackson's music. He's considered
- 32:12Speaker 1: king of pop pop? That's it. Why is some music
- 32:15Speaker 1: R and B?
- 32:16Speaker 6: And I feel like it's a marketing tool too. I
- 32:18Speaker 6: feel like when people label something that's pop, that's a
- 32:21Speaker 6: marketing tool. And people would label something as R and
- 32:23Speaker 6: B is and.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Not only that, not to cut you off, but Michael
- 32:26Speaker 1: he was also signed to Columbia, I believe forever.
- 32:29Speaker 2: Sony, You're right, it was Sony since ninety one.
- 32:32Speaker 1: He was signed.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Yes, Sony, do get your point of what you were saying.
- 32:36Speaker 2: There are categories that people will say and I don't
- 32:39Speaker 2: even know who are the people selecting this and saying
- 32:42Speaker 2: let's put that there. Who are that?
- 32:44Speaker 4: And it got people with.
- 32:45Speaker 1: The most money they up on the internet when I
- 32:48Speaker 1: said that, and it was like I feel like people
- 32:50Speaker 1: thought I was discredited R and B and R and
- 32:52Speaker 1: B is like you know, it has opened a lot
- 32:54Speaker 1: of different avenues for black people and this and that,
- 32:58Speaker 1: and it's like, that's not what I'm I'm not saying that.
- 33:00Speaker 1: What I'm saying is they're snubbing us, of course.
- 33:05Speaker 6: But I think the reason why people is probably coming
- 33:07Speaker 6: at you on the internet because you said I want
- 33:09Speaker 6: to create a genre, and people are considering your music
- 33:13Speaker 6: in a certain genre. I feel like people kind of
- 33:15Speaker 6: look at that. It's like, you know, you know how
- 33:17Speaker 6: people on the internet, if you say anything against the
- 33:19Speaker 6: grain on the Internet, it's like.
- 33:21Speaker 2: It's outside of the norm. So it's right there, you
- 33:23Speaker 2: got familiar. So they was like, she don't know what
- 33:25Speaker 2: you're talking about.
- 33:26Speaker 1: The people who are making those opinions about whether or
- 33:28Speaker 1: not they feel like my music is R and B
- 33:30Speaker 1: and I it's like, I can guarantee you they have
- 33:32Speaker 1: not listened to my entire musical catalog. You just haven't.
- 33:36Speaker 1: For example, her last project, like sure some of it
- 33:38Speaker 1: is R and B, but like a lot of that
- 33:40Speaker 1: was all turned to do and I just it's considered
- 33:43Speaker 1: R and B off top. It's like why for like
- 33:46Speaker 1: Grammy nominations or like any any nomination or major award
- 33:50Speaker 1: show it's like all the black singers are in one category,
- 33:54Speaker 1: and then it's like all the white singers are like
- 33:56Speaker 1: spread out. It's white singers in black categories. But it's
- 33:59Speaker 1: not the other way. It's it's like that board. I
- 34:04Speaker 1: can't remember the last of this conversation. To have it longer,
- 34:07Speaker 1: because like, you have to come back and talk about this,
- 34:10Speaker 1: like I'm glad that that y'all were willing to know.
- 34:13Speaker 2: I want to have it, like I hope you had
- 34:16Speaker 2: a good time, because we need you to come back.
- 34:18Speaker 1: I haven't. I would for sure you will.
- 34:22Speaker 2: You will, you will come back, you will.
- 34:26Speaker 6: We need more conversations like this because this is this
- 34:29Speaker 6: is really important because I feel like a lot of times,
- 34:32Speaker 6: you know, artists, you guys do interviews and then y'all,
- 34:34Speaker 6: y'all don't get to really express in detail on what
- 34:38Speaker 6: you really mean by what you say.
- 34:39Speaker 1: It's like us, we're we're black podcast, but you know
- 34:42Speaker 1: a lot of the big issues.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Yeah, people they rather go to like white podcasts, you
- 34:49Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, to give them, And.
- 34:50Speaker 1: That's another thing I feel like, even like with a
- 34:51Speaker 1: black podcast, it's almost like black podcasts are prolific with
- 34:55Speaker 1: black people it's like for a white podcast, it's like
- 34:58Speaker 1: they spread it out and make sure you see it everywhere.
- 35:00Speaker 1: It's like, I feel like they'd be doing that shit
- 35:02Speaker 1: on purpose. But then you have somebody like iHeart or
- 35:04Speaker 1: like somebody that really gives you the platform to like
- 35:07Speaker 1: be spread out and then.
- 35:08Speaker 2: We had to fight for But why does anything have
- 35:11Speaker 2: to be black nowadays?
- 35:12Speaker 4: It's like that's just that's just the way of the world.
- 35:15Speaker 1: But because even but even to go back in my
- 35:17Speaker 1: last point about this is, you know, even in Motown
- 35:19Speaker 1: and all these other people, you the goal and back
- 35:23Speaker 1: in those times were to get a crossover record so
- 35:26Speaker 1: that you can make more money and you can get
- 35:28Speaker 1: to a wider audience and you can go pop.
- 35:31Speaker 2: You don't want to stay in the ardila.
- 35:32Speaker 1: What does crossover mean? Is it the change in lyrics,
- 35:35Speaker 1: because like, for example, they're now using Jess lyrics against
- 35:38Speaker 1: him in court. Now, this is why this is absurds me.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Ask anybody whose main music. This is what they was saying.
- 35:44Speaker 1: They were saying when you read a lyric, or you
- 35:46Speaker 1: you were cite a lyric, that means you're adopting the
- 35:49Speaker 1: significance of the statement. You you're you're living by it,
- 35:52Speaker 1: you're dying by it. What you're saying when us you're
- 35:55Speaker 1: saying confessions. Everybody thought he had a baby on the way.
- 36:00Speaker 1: Did he cheat on his girlfriend at the time? Sure
- 36:02Speaker 1: he did, But does that mean that the song he
- 36:04Speaker 1: was singing was about it?
- 36:05Speaker 2: But wait, wait now cheating on his particular and it's
- 36:11Speaker 2: about the record.
- 36:13Speaker 1: And the crossover comes from the producer the songwriter, because
- 36:16Speaker 1: that's why a lot of these people get what works.
- 36:19Speaker 1: That's working. Let's keep making that. Let's keep signing people
- 36:22Speaker 1: that do do the same thing so that we can
- 36:24Speaker 1: get those records. And I just wonder, like when they
- 36:26Speaker 1: say crossover, does it just mean that you have now
- 36:29Speaker 1: stripped the song of lyrics that other people can understand,
- 36:33Speaker 1: you have assover?
- 36:35Speaker 4: Is you erase the line you have wide audience.
- 36:39Speaker 2: Everybody and doing that?
- 36:41Speaker 1: What exactly? What is what is the basis or template
- 36:45Speaker 1: forgetting that?
- 36:46Speaker 2: Is it just because you have template? I don't think
- 36:48Speaker 2: it's so.
- 36:49Speaker 1: It's the like I said, it's the whoever the hottest
- 36:51Speaker 1: producer is right now, whoever is the hottest songwriter, who
- 36:55Speaker 1: who has those songs?
- 36:56Speaker 4: They can give you that type of song.
- 36:57Speaker 2: About This is what cross you Over. I do think
- 36:59Speaker 2: that that also, so it determines a real hit record
- 37:01Speaker 2: because if everyone likes it and not just a particular
- 37:05Speaker 2: group of fans, if it goes everywhere and it spreads everywhere,
- 37:09Speaker 2: that's how you know you have a bona fidy Charles
- 37:12Speaker 2: Georgia on My Mind crossover record.
- 37:15Speaker 1: Do you feel like now the way or the trajectory
- 37:18Speaker 1: to get something like that has been compromised for the
- 37:22Speaker 1: sense of when you put a song out, it's almost
- 37:24Speaker 1: like it's not like selling records on the shelf right.
- 37:27Speaker 1: You don't have to actively go and purchase this. But
- 37:29Speaker 1: it's like if TikTok says it's a thing, now it's
- 37:32Speaker 1: a crossover record.
- 37:33Speaker 2: TikTok is just one is its own little bubble now.
- 37:36Speaker 2: It used to be like that, but I just think
- 37:38Speaker 2: it's changing to a point where it's like its own
- 37:40Speaker 2: bubble because they have TikTok Billboard chart.
- 37:47Speaker 1: I had a song go viral on TikTok. It wasn't
- 37:50Speaker 1: just TikTok. They were listening to the song everywhere spread.
- 37:54Speaker 2: I just think that that means it's a hit record everywhere,
- 37:58Speaker 2: not just TikTok.
- 37:59Speaker 1: Okay, but TikTok put it there. What I'm saying, it's
- 38:02Speaker 1: a lot of records like that, it's a lot of
- 38:03Speaker 1: records that could be cidered could be considered a hit record,
- 38:06Speaker 1: but it hasn't made it to the platform of exposure.
- 38:11Speaker 1: You haven't made it to It's not like when it's
- 38:13Speaker 1: being sold on a shelf and target or wherever. It's
- 38:15Speaker 1: not like that.
- 38:16Speaker 2: I could say, I give, I can do another examples
- 38:19Speaker 2: where it'll blow up on TikTok and it don't blow
- 38:21Speaker 2: up nowhere else.
- 38:22Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like there is I think TikTok starts
- 38:26Speaker 1: the conversation does exactly.
- 38:28Speaker 2: But see, you make great music, so it's gonna blow
- 38:31Speaker 2: up on TikTok regardless, because you're gonna blow up in
- 38:34Speaker 2: other places outside of TikTok.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Well, what I'm saying is there are a lot of
- 38:37Speaker 1: people that make great music. I know for sure, I'm
- 38:39Speaker 1: not the only one. However, if TikTok, and I don't
- 38:42Speaker 1: want to only say TikTok, but you know, maybe in
- 38:44Speaker 1: other places I don't.
- 38:45Speaker 2: Know where, we know.
- 38:50Speaker 1: That it's gonna go up. It don't even have to
- 38:52Speaker 1: be like you know, for example, there's a lot of
- 38:54Speaker 1: people who would say, who would argue And I'm not
- 38:56Speaker 1: giving my opinion on this one way or another. There
- 38:58Speaker 1: are lot of people who will argue that I Spice
- 38:59Speaker 1: Me is a particular genre of okay, but a lot
- 39:05Speaker 1: of people will not argue that A lot of It's
- 39:08Speaker 1: definitely controversial there. But it's like if TikTok decides it
- 39:10Speaker 1: it's a hit, you know, well.
- 39:13Speaker 2: It'll get you in the door.
- 39:14Speaker 1: But in order for you, but in order for you
- 39:17Speaker 1: to cross over or to get that mainstream attention, is
- 39:20Speaker 1: it's going to take that conversation to get a label
- 39:23Speaker 1: behind you.
- 39:24Speaker 2: You need to suspend it that you need them, you
- 39:26Speaker 2: need the promotion, you need them.
- 39:29Speaker 1: When my song went viral on this song has went
- 39:32Speaker 1: platinum in a span of less than a year. The
- 39:35Speaker 1: song went platinum when that song went viral on TikTok,
- 39:38Speaker 1: I was getting out of my deal. They put no
- 39:40Speaker 1: money behind that, zero dollars. They did not support that
- 39:43Speaker 1: in any capacity.
- 39:44Speaker 4: But if they did, but they did, it'll be big.
- 39:46Speaker 1: They didn't, it would have been but they didn't. But
- 39:49Speaker 1: in order to get that record, they would have to
- 39:51Speaker 1: have pushed it because it would have been had all
- 39:53Speaker 1: I'm saying I mean, well, I can put out a
- 39:55Speaker 1: TikTok hick too, but I ain't you. I do feel
- 39:58Speaker 1: like if you have the resources to support and sustain
- 40:01Speaker 1: something like that, you can be huge.
- 40:03Speaker 2: But he just get a hit record. He just went
- 40:06Speaker 2: three million. He just went viral on TikTok. He just
- 40:08Speaker 2: did three million views on one clip. But that's bt.
- 40:12Speaker 2: He doesn't put out music.
- 40:14Speaker 1: But guess what if he did. I'm not saying.
- 40:20Speaker 2: I think people don't take I think people don't take this.
- 40:23Speaker 2: I think I think you're right.
- 40:24Speaker 6: I think TikTok does push the music, YadA, YadA, YadA.
- 40:28Speaker 6: But do people take TikTok record seriously?
- 40:31Speaker 1: No, don't be mad at us.
- 40:33Speaker 2: No, I don't think people say TikTok serious.
- 40:35Speaker 1: I feel like, begin with, but guess what the ship
- 40:39Speaker 1: is streaming?
- 40:42Speaker 2: No, it's not dope. Artists are doper on. You said,
- 40:47Speaker 2: have you had the experience of like a massive hit record?
- 40:50Speaker 1: I would say no, me personally, I have not? Right, yes, right,
- 40:54Speaker 1: So I feel like once you have that experience, I
- 40:57Speaker 1: think the conversation you'll have a more insight on it
- 41:00Speaker 1: and you could tell us. But here's my thing, Drake,
- 41:03Speaker 1: and nicely, what the label that he has. He's been
- 41:06Speaker 1: with them for a long time, right, and they have
- 41:09Speaker 1: withstood the time, I mean the test of time. They
- 41:12Speaker 1: were there in the moments of selling records on the shelf,
- 41:15Speaker 1: they have been there after the Tiktac shit, you know.
- 41:17Speaker 1: If I'm not the second that's Republic. Republic also has
- 41:19Speaker 1: coiler Ray, they have nigm Nas. They are very have
- 41:22Speaker 1: a very integrated system with that side of the internet.
- 41:26Speaker 1: A lot of labels I do not feel like have
- 41:29Speaker 1: fully comprehended it at this point. I don't feel feel
- 41:32Speaker 1: like they fully comprehend. But what I'm saying is they
- 41:36Speaker 1: support him. They've already they know what it takes to
- 41:38Speaker 1: take a Drake record, regardless from scratch and put it
- 41:41Speaker 1: in a place for it to be number one no
- 41:44Speaker 1: matter what. That doesn't mean that everybody feels like it's
- 41:46Speaker 1: a hit. That doesn't mean like, you know, it just
- 41:49Speaker 1: means that he's already established. He's already established for sure now.
- 41:55Speaker 1: But there is a break. To me, there's a splitting
- 41:57Speaker 1: time where it went from that traditional to this ship,
- 42:01Speaker 1: you know, And I just feel like now I do
- 42:04Speaker 1: feel like TikTok can give you the platform.
- 42:07Speaker 2: Agreed, could we just interviewed the g Way girls. Well
- 42:11Speaker 2: famous salary, but it got them in the door.
- 42:13Speaker 1: It is their job now to make something headphone, but
- 42:20Speaker 1: it's their job now to to come with something.
- 42:24Speaker 2: That's why I say you're different because you have a
- 42:27Speaker 2: body of work to support ktokt a fan.
- 42:32Speaker 1: Base before that. I'm gonna be honest with you. If
- 42:34Speaker 1: my song just like went up and I didn't have
- 42:37Speaker 1: that and it's and I also feel like artists who
- 42:40Speaker 1: don't have that underneath them kind of like the you know,
- 42:43Speaker 1: the foundation to that, I feel like it'll fall through.
- 42:48Speaker 6: Yeah, because if you don't, if you don't have the foundation,
- 42:50Speaker 6: then it doesn't matter having a big record on social
- 42:53Speaker 6: media if you don't have anything to support that. The
- 42:56Speaker 6: good thing with you is you actually have a fan
- 42:58Speaker 6: base like women, me and everybody.
- 43:01Speaker 1: You could see what sticks to the wall like you could.
- 43:04Speaker 1: You could try and keep trying to see what sticks
- 43:06Speaker 1: to the wall. A lot of people don't have that,
- 43:08Speaker 1: But like I said, TikTok will at least give you
- 43:10Speaker 1: the conversation.
- 43:11Speaker 4: It's up to the artists to make a hit record.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. It's a little bit of sweet though,
- 43:15Speaker 1: still because It's like some people will come to my
- 43:17Speaker 1: shows now and it's like they met me at that song.
- 43:21Speaker 5: You know.
- 43:23Speaker 1: That. I don't dislike it, you know, but it's like
- 43:25Speaker 1: it was more intimate when they knew every song and everywhere,
- 43:28Speaker 1: which I still do, you know, which I honestly, the
- 43:31Speaker 1: one thing I'm most grateful for is like when I
- 43:33Speaker 1: go to my shows or people will send my shows,
- 43:35Speaker 1: I know for sure that it's not like they know
- 43:37Speaker 1: this one song and they only know the words of
- 43:39Speaker 1: this song, and I feel like I see that a lot.
- 43:42Speaker 1: But I feel like in my shows, they know every song,
- 43:44Speaker 1: and I'm you know, that's maybe what I'm most grateful
- 43:46Speaker 1: for that they have like they're invested in it, you know,
- 43:51Speaker 1: in me, and that's nice.
- 43:54Speaker 2: You gotta come back. Listen. I'm gonna braak some I'm
- 43:56Speaker 2: gonna break some real R and B heads in here.
- 43:59Speaker 1: You know.
- 44:00Speaker 2: I'm gonna make some calls. You know, I'm talking about
- 44:04Speaker 2: Grammy Award winning our R and B producers. I'm a brand.
- 44:08Speaker 4: You have you guys, some R and B worker.
- 44:09Speaker 1: It's some people.
- 44:10Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, tell me, we gonna have rappens.
- 44:15Speaker 1: We gotta go tell Maria aside is that it started
- 44:18Speaker 1: at one o'clock and it's really gonna be it two.
- 44:21Speaker 1: Don't don't.
- 44:27Speaker 2: You holding up? Don't tell Marida side before we get
- 44:31Speaker 2: out of here.
- 44:31Speaker 4: We do have a pep talk.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Hello everyone, my name is Marita Scientists, and there's gonna
- 44:35Speaker 1: be a lot of people who can tell you or
- 44:37Speaker 1: we'll tell you that you can't do it, but you're
- 44:39Speaker 1: gonna tell them that you can't.
- 44:41Speaker 3: We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of the
- 44:43Speaker 3: Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of
- 44:54Speaker 3: The Baller Alert Show.
- 44:55Speaker 2: If you're a real baller, you need to be thinking
- 44:57Speaker 2: of big bitch.
- 44:58Speaker 5: I'm not talking about no thank a real baller. That's
- 45:01Speaker 5: it's time to get your stuff together because real ballers
- 45:04Speaker 5: get their stuff together, they get their finances together, they
- 45:07Speaker 5: get their credit together, they get their money together.
- 45:09Speaker 2: So if you are a real baller right now.
- 45:12Speaker 5: Y'all need to be top ten. I'm just saying, bitch.
- 45:15Speaker 4: Back with more the ba BLA.
- 45:16Speaker 1: I hope y'all enjoyed that Mariah the Scientistists.
- 45:20Speaker 4: She was so much fun and that conversation is to
- 45:22Speaker 4: be continued because she will.
- 45:25Speaker 1: Yes, But our next guest has authored over ten e books,
- 45:28Speaker 1: mentored over a thousand students, coached over two hundred students,
- 45:32Speaker 1: won the one hundred K in a Day Award, and
- 45:35Speaker 1: did a Ted talk y'all Getting Money child with an
- 45:38Speaker 1: estimated sales track record of one point five million.
- 45:46Speaker 2: You better say it?
- 45:48Speaker 4: How much should I say that?
- 45:52Speaker 2: We had?
- 45:52Speaker 5: Over three?
- 45:53Speaker 2: Over three?
- 45:55Speaker 1: Well, you have accomplished a great deal. He is not
- 45:57Speaker 1: only a military veteran, but you are all so a
- 46:00Speaker 1: father too. When you were right here with us telling
- 46:02Speaker 1: everybody to think big on THEHP.
- 46:07Speaker 2: Durin de Levante heylme you came here, smell it like money,
- 46:16Speaker 2: Malmo money. I'm like, oh my god, Now can you
- 46:20Speaker 2: can you kind of start from the beginning exactly, so
- 46:23Speaker 2: for someone that's just seeing your face for the first time,
- 46:25Speaker 2: what exactly do you do?
- 46:27Speaker 5: All right? So you asked two different questions, just said,
- 46:29Speaker 5: start from the beginning and then what do I do?
- 46:31Speaker 5: So two parts beginning. I'm from Jamaica. I'm not from here.
- 46:35Speaker 5: I wasn't born here. I came here when I was
- 46:37Speaker 5: twenty years old. I left everything that I knew in
- 46:40Speaker 5: Jamaica and I decided I'm going to take a chance
- 46:42Speaker 5: on me. So I left my mom my, sisters, everybody
- 46:45Speaker 5: back home. Came to a complete foreign country with no family, nothing,
- 46:50Speaker 5: just just just the hopes and aspiration that yo, I'm
- 46:54Speaker 5: gonna figure this out. So left there, went to dairy
- 46:57Speaker 5: queen was working making seven twenty five in an hour.
- 47:00Speaker 5: I thought I was killing it.
- 47:01Speaker 2: They got some ice creamer Bro, that's flame burger my favorite.
- 47:08Speaker 2: I just talked past day queen, like the ice cream
- 47:10Speaker 2: fire is fire.
- 47:11Speaker 6: No.
- 47:11Speaker 4: Back in the day, my favorite was a peanut buster Parfe.
- 47:14Speaker 5: That one was good.
- 47:15Speaker 2: It's so complicated to make that perfect. It is Bro,
- 47:19Speaker 2: the soft serve. It works. It was great.
- 47:22Speaker 5: And then left New Hampshire, come to New York. No
- 47:26Speaker 5: family in New York. I got my note, I got
- 47:29Speaker 5: my godfather's number right, and my godfather said, yes, come
- 47:33Speaker 5: to New York. We'll figure it out. Went to New York,
- 47:36Speaker 5: moved out. About a year later. I needed to do
- 47:39Speaker 5: my own thing. Got a job at five guys Now
- 47:41Speaker 5: making eighty twenty five fifty cents an hour, and I
- 47:45Speaker 5: was the best fry cook on the line. I don't
- 47:46Speaker 5: care what nobody said. Them fries were coming up great
- 47:49Speaker 5: than Cajun fries were phenomenal, right, nineteen times it had
- 47:53Speaker 5: to shake the basket.
- 47:54Speaker 2: I was good, right, So.
- 47:57Speaker 5: Fast forward, joined the military. Fast forward a few more years.
- 48:02Speaker 5: Now deployed, but still knew nothing about credit. And for
- 48:06Speaker 5: those of you that are seeing me and hear my
- 48:08Speaker 5: voice for the first time, my name is the Rain Delavante.
- 48:11Speaker 5: I'm your favorite consumer law expert. I teach people how
- 48:14Speaker 5: to repair, rebuild, restore their own credit using consumer laws.
- 48:17Speaker 5: I also educate and teach credit repair professionals how to
- 48:21Speaker 5: grow and scale their credit repair business using four key
- 48:24Speaker 5: principles lead generation, lead conversion, client, ascension, and continuity. Implementing
- 48:29Speaker 5: those four can scale any business one twenty eight percent
- 48:33Speaker 5: off the rip.
- 48:34Speaker 2: Question where did you learn this?
- 48:37Speaker 5: I'm self educated. I got a high school diplumber everything
- 48:40Speaker 5: that I know now, but.
- 48:41Speaker 2: They don't teach the taxes and stuff like that, or
- 48:44Speaker 2: are credit. So how did you How did you do it?
- 48:47Speaker 5: Did you go on to denied for anything? Yeah? So,
- 48:51Speaker 5: the frustration of not being able to do what you
- 48:55Speaker 5: want when you want it can lead to one of
- 48:57Speaker 5: two things. It can lead to a solution where you
- 49:01Speaker 5: figure it out for yourself, or you just lay down
- 49:03Speaker 5: and become a victim, just like everybody else. So I
- 49:06Speaker 5: chose to solve my own problem educate. So I educated myself,
- 49:10Speaker 5: paid for masterminds, paid for mentorships, and no, I'm the
- 49:13Speaker 5: best at consumla.
- 49:15Speaker 2: Wow.
- 49:16Speaker 1: So in order to get that the money to fund
- 49:20Speaker 1: you know, your education on like you said, paying for
- 49:22Speaker 1: mentorship and paying for all that stuff, how did you
- 49:25Speaker 1: get that? Was it the military checks that were doing that?
- 49:27Speaker 1: Where where did the military come in at?
- 49:29Speaker 5: Okay? So the military came in at it was supplying
- 49:33Speaker 5: me for I've been in the military now on twelve
- 49:38Speaker 5: eleven years, right, six of which I was active duty,
- 49:43Speaker 5: and I drank the kool aid where I was in
- 49:45Speaker 5: the forty forty forty club. Well, in the military, it
- 49:49Speaker 5: would be the twenty twenty twenty club. So the twenty years, right,
- 49:53Speaker 5: do the military for twenty years retire, go get a
- 49:56Speaker 5: go get a house or a white picket. Fans use
- 49:59Speaker 5: the VA home, loan all of that great stuff. Drank
- 50:02Speaker 5: the whole kool aid, right, and then you find out
- 50:05Speaker 5: that the kool aid is actually what going to keep
- 50:07Speaker 5: a lot of people broke, especially a lot of people
- 50:09Speaker 5: in the military, because now they push use the VA
- 50:13Speaker 5: home loan. There's nothing wrong with using the VA home loan, right,
- 50:16Speaker 5: But you're going into a house with no equity because
- 50:18Speaker 5: it's zero down already, you're at a disadvantage. There's no
- 50:22Speaker 5: equity in there, and you're getting a primary residence who's
- 50:26Speaker 5: paying for it, not tenants, you are unless you get
- 50:29Speaker 5: a multifamily. That's where it comes in where it can
- 50:32Speaker 5: be beneficial to get a two, three or a four unit,
- 50:36Speaker 5: or you can get a four unit with a commercial space.
- 50:38Speaker 5: That's where it caps at.
- 50:40Speaker 2: Right. So if you're doing that, you can benefit from it.
- 50:44Speaker 5: But they're not teaching you that part. They're telling you
- 50:46Speaker 5: to go get a home. They're not telling you go
- 50:49Speaker 5: get a house. Go get a home. When you think home,
- 50:51Speaker 5: you think family, dog, whatever, Right, you're not thinking about investment.
- 50:56Speaker 5: But that's what keeps the news around. People's that financially
- 51:01Speaker 5: and it also happens with a lot of entertainers, artists,
- 51:06Speaker 5: everybody you can think of. Wrong education.
- 51:09Speaker 2: I didn't learn this until I bought my own home
- 51:11Speaker 2: and I saw, wait, I saw my equity in my house.
- 51:14Speaker 2: My house was almost double what I paid for it,
- 51:17Speaker 2: and I kept saying, damn, I could have did this
- 51:20Speaker 2: and not living it and then charge on to I
- 51:23Speaker 2: just kept saying in my brain, Wow, I didn't understand it.
- 51:25Speaker 2: And then when they if they build around the property
- 51:28Speaker 2: like commercial space, it makes your property V I'm not.
- 51:31Speaker 2: I didn't learn any of this until I bought a home.
- 51:33Speaker 2: I didn't learn about conventional loan or non conventional loan
- 51:35Speaker 2: and v a loan. I didn't know about none of
- 51:37Speaker 2: this until I bought a home because I wasn't educated
- 51:40Speaker 2: on it.
- 51:41Speaker 5: Amazing it is, but it's designed that way, like don't
- 51:47Speaker 5: hate the game, you just learn how to kind of
- 51:49Speaker 5: do it.
- 51:49Speaker 2: Kind of made me mad because I was just like, damn,
- 51:51Speaker 2: why didn't anybody tell me about this? Because they don't
- 51:53Speaker 2: want They don't want us to know, but not saying you,
- 52:00Speaker 2: but who is they?
- 52:02Speaker 5: All right, so let's think of who runs America. You
- 52:05Speaker 5: have to go back that far. Who owns this country? Yeah,
- 52:09Speaker 5: that's the question you need. Who made the education system?
- 52:14Speaker 5: And here you all know, no, John D. Rockefeller the
- 52:19Speaker 5: biggest oil mogul in the history of America, right, his.
- 52:23Speaker 2: Biggest oil oil correct?
- 52:25Speaker 5: Correct? Yeah, so he wasn't creating the educational system for freelancing,
- 52:32Speaker 5: free enterprise and entrepreneurship. He needed workers his factories and
- 52:37Speaker 5: oil rigs. Now they were going so fast. And his
- 52:41Speaker 5: friends were Henry Ford Edison, Andrew Carnegie, Woodroff Wilson, the Rothschilds,
- 52:48Speaker 5: all of these people right there. They're not looking for
- 52:51Speaker 5: independent thinkers. They want people that can fall in line
- 52:55Speaker 5: and go work. So what they did they gave them
- 52:57Speaker 5: these retirement plans. This is where the idea was birth
- 53:01Speaker 5: for the forty forty Club. And then they went and
- 53:03Speaker 5: changed the whole educational system to produce workers. What's the mantra,
- 53:11Speaker 5: Go to school, get a job, retire off of twenty percent,
- 53:16Speaker 5: get a house and a dog with a white picket fence.
- 53:20Speaker 5: And then you go to school and get a job.
- 53:22Speaker 5: And then you pay fifty to one hundred thousand dollars
- 53:25Speaker 5: to get a degree. And then now you're making thirty
- 53:28Speaker 5: five thousand with that degree if you're lucky, if somebody
- 53:31Speaker 5: hires you, right, and then now you are stuck with
- 53:35Speaker 5: a student loan for the rest of your life today.
- 53:37Speaker 5: And then you get a mortgage, right, you get a house.
- 53:40Speaker 2: It's a thirty year loan, twenty or whatever it is.
- 53:43Speaker 5: In the first five to ten years off that mortgage.
- 53:46Speaker 5: Most of the money that you're paying is going towards
- 53:49Speaker 5: the interest, the interest, the principle.
- 53:51Speaker 2: Correct.
- 53:52Speaker 5: But then what happens after seven to eight years, you're
- 53:55Speaker 5: gonna tell you, oh, refinance, we're gonna drop it one
- 53:58Speaker 5: percent and you can save on it. But you just
- 54:00Speaker 5: resetted the whole thing. With the first five to eight
- 54:04Speaker 5: years of that refinance, it's going right.
- 54:07Speaker 2: Back to interest.
- 54:08Speaker 5: So by the time you're ten or fifteen years in
- 54:11Speaker 5: half the mortgages, the mortgage should have already been paid off,
- 54:15Speaker 5: but you paid all that to interest, correct, and very
- 54:18Speaker 5: little went to principle. Correct.
- 54:20Speaker 2: But every time you.
- 54:21Speaker 5: Refinance, you're restarting that whole five to take. It's not
- 54:26Speaker 5: designed for you to win. And if you don't escape
- 54:29Speaker 5: the rat race, or if you don't get out of
- 54:31Speaker 5: the rat race and want more, you will not escape
- 54:35Speaker 5: the rat race until you decide that you want more.
- 54:37Speaker 2: Same thing with cars. Correct.
- 54:39Speaker 5: Yeah, when you say I want more, your mind starts
- 54:42Speaker 5: to say, yo, this is not it. Twenty nineteen, when
- 54:46Speaker 5: I was sick and tired because I was just broke,
- 54:49Speaker 5: busted and disgusted, and I was sick and tired of
- 54:51Speaker 5: just not being able to do what I want to
- 54:54Speaker 5: do right. I was a victim of subprime lending where
- 54:56Speaker 5: when I attempted to get a car, my first A
- 55:00Speaker 5: two thousand and seven is an Utima in twenty thirteen,
- 55:06Speaker 5: I couldn't get approofd for it because my credit was
- 55:08Speaker 5: so bad. He had seventy five thousand miles and I
- 55:11Speaker 5: still couldn't get approved.
- 55:12Speaker 2: Damn.
- 55:12Speaker 5: I had to get a co signer, right. But I
- 55:15Speaker 5: didn't know that I was putting my friend in such
- 55:18Speaker 5: a situation where I didn't know what co signer meant
- 55:21Speaker 5: at the time. So I if I say I'm not
- 55:24Speaker 5: gonna pay, they're gonna call my boy. That's the predicament
- 55:29Speaker 5: I put him in. And I didn't know. And there's
- 55:31Speaker 5: a lot of people that's co signing for people right
- 55:33Speaker 5: now that's putting them in these predicaments and they don't
- 55:37Speaker 5: know what they're doing. You want to be a good friend,
- 55:39Speaker 5: or they know you're just a great person, and they
- 55:42Speaker 5: know if you're the great person in the family that
- 55:45Speaker 5: has somewhat good credit, you're the one who's always standing
- 55:47Speaker 5: in security for them. And then you go to help John,
- 55:51Speaker 5: Mary and everybody, and before you know it, they start
- 55:53Speaker 5: defaulting everybody's coming back to you because when they pulled
- 55:57Speaker 5: your report, they see that you have a government job
- 56:00Speaker 5: or you have a stable job where you're making sixty
- 56:03Speaker 5: to eighty thousand a year. So instead of going after
- 56:05Speaker 5: your cousin, that's the primary no that'd beat anyway, We're
- 56:10Speaker 5: going to come after you because more than likely you
- 56:12Speaker 5: got the money to pay. So when I learned all
- 56:15Speaker 5: of this, I started reading my first book that I
- 56:17Speaker 5: read front to back, Rich Dad, Poor at and the
- 56:20Speaker 5: first thing that stood out to me in that book
- 56:22Speaker 5: was the rich don't work for money. They have money
- 56:24Speaker 5: work for them. And we had the system all backward.
- 56:27Speaker 5: We were taught to go and prostitute or time for money.
- 56:31Speaker 5: So we go trade all of our precious time for
- 56:33Speaker 5: a little bit of somebody's money. Time the most precious
- 56:38Speaker 5: thing you can never ever get back, and we use
- 56:41Speaker 5: it so nonchalantly and give it away to people that
- 56:44Speaker 5: don't even deserve it. So when I recognize this, the
- 56:47Speaker 5: shift's demanding. The military is one of the biggest time
- 56:50Speaker 5: waststerres on the planet. You will be called up at
- 56:54Speaker 5: four to report for seven o'clock, and then the mission
- 56:57Speaker 5: don't start till one, and you just wait six hours
- 57:01Speaker 5: doing nothing. So my mind started to change, so the
- 57:06Speaker 5: programming got deleted. The old me had to die for
- 57:10Speaker 5: the new me to be born. So when I started
- 57:12Speaker 5: learning this, I started teaching everybody in the military. And
- 57:16Speaker 5: first thing you're gonna hear, oh, you know credit?
- 57:18Speaker 2: What is that?
- 57:19Speaker 5: Nobody has time for that. This mission is more important.
- 57:22Speaker 5: Go do this, Go to Kuwait, go to Jordan. That's
- 57:24Speaker 5: what everybody's saying. No one knew, So let me ask
- 57:28Speaker 5: you what's on your credit? Oh, I don't know. I've
- 57:30Speaker 5: never even seen my credit report. These are the type
- 57:33Speaker 5: of responses I'm getting. And you would think there is
- 57:36Speaker 5: no for you to be a thought leader. The military
- 57:41Speaker 5: is not where you're supposed to be. The military is
- 57:44Speaker 5: you're supposed to take orders, just do what we say.
- 57:48Speaker 5: Don't think you're not supposed to be a thinker. Right,
- 57:52Speaker 5: So the person that I'm becoming, that programming didn't fit anymore.
- 57:57Speaker 5: So after I read the books and I decided that
- 58:00Speaker 5: it's time for me to make a change in my
- 58:02Speaker 5: own life. I repaired my own credit in six months.
- 58:06Speaker 5: So I went to Kuwait with a five h four
- 58:08Speaker 5: credit score. I came out with a ten. I fixed
- 58:11Speaker 5: it in six months.
- 58:12Speaker 2: Right.
- 58:12Speaker 5: So then I'm like, wow, I got funding. I got
- 58:17Speaker 5: credit cards now, Navy, Federal twenty five thousand. I'm getting
- 58:20Speaker 5: all of these credit cards. Right. But I learned from
- 58:24Speaker 5: the books with Robert Kiyosaki and all the books that
- 58:26Speaker 5: I was reading that when you have this money, don't
- 58:29Speaker 5: go out and blow it.
- 58:30Speaker 2: So I was just chilled.
- 58:32Speaker 5: Now I'm not about to repeat past events because I
- 58:36Speaker 5: went on deployment negative fifteen thousand with credit card that
- 58:39Speaker 5: I used a snowball method to pay it off. But
- 58:42Speaker 5: that's something I learned in the book. The book was
- 58:44Speaker 5: ten dollars. But if you want to hide something from
- 58:47Speaker 5: a person, put it in a book. How much are
- 58:52Speaker 5: people willing to bet on themselves to be the change
- 58:55Speaker 5: that they look for? You See, it's easy to blame
- 58:57Speaker 5: you and say the white man held me down or
- 59:00Speaker 5: this person held me down because I don't know. But
- 59:03Speaker 5: when do we take responsibility for own education. I wasn't
- 59:07Speaker 5: born here. I wasn't blessed the way you guys are.
- 59:10Speaker 5: I was running around in Jamaica with beer foot shorts
- 59:13Speaker 5: with holes in it, playing marbles. I wasn't blessed the
- 59:18Speaker 5: way you guys are here in a system that has
- 59:21Speaker 5: credit where if you will, if you have nothing, you
- 59:24Speaker 5: can leverage credit to become something. I didn't know any
- 59:28Speaker 5: of this.
- 59:29Speaker 4: A lot of people here don't know that either.
- 59:31Speaker 2: That's the problem because I'm saying I didn't notice until
- 59:33Speaker 2: I became like an older man, I was just like
- 59:36Speaker 2: I hadn't. I literally did not know the usefulness of this.
- 59:40Speaker 5: Yeah, but what are they pushing inside of these schools?
- 59:43Speaker 2: And that's that they're pushing you to go to college,
- 59:46Speaker 2: get a college degree.
- 59:47Speaker 4: And like you said, but now you're pushing something.
- 59:50Speaker 2: Yeah, what's this challenge that you have?
- 59:52Speaker 5: So I'm the challenge is actually going on right now. Right,
- 59:56Speaker 5: So basically I do challenges every month, right, it's this
- 1:00:00Speaker 5: letter challenge. So what I do is, on this challenge,
- 1:00:02Speaker 5: I'll get hundreds of people and I'll walk them through
- 1:00:05Speaker 5: the framework of deleting different items on their credit using
- 1:00:10Speaker 5: consumer laws. It's not a secret. These laws were here
- 1:00:13Speaker 5: before I got off the plane from Jamaica. Everything that
- 1:00:16Speaker 5: I'm using is here. It's been here, But I found
- 1:00:20Speaker 5: it because I was tired of being denied. And when
- 1:00:23Speaker 5: you were sick and tired of being sick and tired.
- 1:00:26Speaker 5: You're going to either be a victim or you solve
- 1:00:28Speaker 5: your own problem. I am a solution orientated person, so
- 1:00:32Speaker 5: I started learning consumer laws and I knew now that
- 1:00:36Speaker 5: I literally have the power to delete anything. So on
- 1:00:39Speaker 5: my five day Challenges, what I do is I teach
- 1:00:42Speaker 5: people how to get rid of bankruptcies, how to get
- 1:00:45Speaker 5: rid of charge offs, collections, student loans, any item on
- 1:00:48Speaker 5: your credit, any account on your credit can be deleted.
- 1:00:52Speaker 5: Late payments. Over one hundred million people within the last
- 1:00:57Speaker 5: three to six months have late payments. That's a lot people.
- 1:01:00Speaker 5: What does late payments lead to higher interest rates?
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: Right?
- 1:01:04Speaker 5: Yeah? And then one hundred and sixty five million to
- 1:01:07Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety million off the population of three
- 1:01:10Speaker 5: hundred and thirty four million are living paycheck to paycheck.
- 1:01:14Speaker 5: What do we know about people that live paycheck to paycheck.
- 1:01:16Speaker 5: They can't afford anything, and now they're rubbing Peter to
- 1:01:19Speaker 5: pay Paul. Because inflation is going up, prices are going up,
- 1:01:23Speaker 5: but wages are the same, so the cost of living
- 1:01:25Speaker 5: is more. So now I have to choose do I
- 1:01:27Speaker 5: pay this credit card or do I feed my kid.
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: I'm not gonna pay a credit card. You're not feed.
- 1:01:32Speaker 5: You're not I'm going to feed my child.
- 1:01:35Speaker 4: So how can people sign up for this?
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: Is challenge to do? So the challenge.
- 1:01:39Speaker 5: Now, all they got to do is text the word challenge.
- 1:01:41Speaker 5: So once they text me the word challenge, or go
- 1:01:44Speaker 5: on my Instagram at drain delavante d A r A
- 1:01:47Speaker 5: I n E d E l E v A n
- 1:01:50Speaker 5: t e. Once they go to my Instagram, everything is there.
- 1:01:53Speaker 5: Go on YouTube. My free content on YouTube is better
- 1:01:57Speaker 5: than people's paid content. Late payment is a thing of
- 1:02:00Speaker 5: the past, and one hundred million plus people don't need
- 1:02:04Speaker 5: to suffer from it when all they need to do
- 1:02:06Speaker 5: is learn how to get it deleted.
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: What's on YouTube?
- 1:02:09Speaker 5: Drain deliver every I made it, Everything's drained de I just.
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: Want you to keep saying it so people A R A.
- 1:02:17Speaker 5: V A n t E.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: It's it.
- 1:02:20Speaker 5: But you see nine out of every ten people that's
- 1:02:24Speaker 5: hearing this right now, they're still going to sit on
- 1:02:26Speaker 5: their hands and take no action on their own life.
- 1:02:28Speaker 5: They're going to remain stuck like trucking the pickup truck
- 1:02:31Speaker 5: and they wonder why they're not moving forward. You have
- 1:02:34Speaker 5: to like new life comes from a new mind, and
- 1:02:37Speaker 5: people want to move forward into a future still thinking
- 1:02:40Speaker 5: in their past. It don't work like that. A new
- 1:02:43Speaker 5: mind gives new life. The old you must die for
- 1:02:47Speaker 5: the new you to live. You cannot feed both.
- 1:02:51Speaker 4: And that's why we created I Think Big.
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: This segment is so important for people like yourself, who's
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: trying to give people the opportunity to think bigger than
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: what they already know. You know, So we appreciate you
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: for coming through and you know, dropping that knowledge. And
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: I hope everybody.
- 1:03:06Speaker 4: Takes this seriously and goes to your YouTube. Can you
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: say one more time?
- 1:03:10Speaker 5: Durin de Levante. So that's d A r A I
- 1:03:13Speaker 5: n E d E L E v A n t E.
- 1:03:16Speaker 5: That's YouTube, that's Facebook, that's Instagram. The information is there,
- 1:03:21Speaker 5: but until a person is willing to take action for themselves,
- 1:03:26Speaker 5: they will remain a victim of society.
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: And so the stop scrolling on a TikTok, stop scrolling
- 1:03:32Speaker 2: on Facebook. And sometimes but.
- 1:03:38Speaker 5: After you get stuck, you'd be like, damn, I didn't
- 1:03:40Speaker 5: think a programming. This is why it took so long
- 1:03:43Speaker 5: for you to learn this. You're not supposed to learn this.
- 1:03:46Speaker 5: You're supposed to be ignorant to that information. So when
- 1:03:49Speaker 5: you come out and you wrap these dead stuff as
- 1:03:51Speaker 5: an adult. No, it's time for you to work. You're
- 1:03:54Speaker 5: looking to start a family, you're looking to settle into
- 1:03:56Speaker 5: a career. Now they have you financially. It's slavery. It's
- 1:04:01Speaker 5: just a different type of slavery.
- 1:04:03Speaker 4: So you think you balling, but you really really not.
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: Listen, man, we will talk off camera. Does it cost
- 1:04:10Speaker 2: anything to do the challenge or anything like that?
- 1:04:12Speaker 5: Yes, So the challenge is if anyone is coming in
- 1:04:15Speaker 5: on any other challenges, the lowest ticket is ninety seven dollars,
- 1:04:19Speaker 5: and we have VIP which is two ninety seven, and
- 1:04:22Speaker 5: then there's an Ultra. It gives one on one laser
- 1:04:25Speaker 5: Q and a question in strategy and everything for like
- 1:04:28Speaker 5: seven forty seven or something like that. And for anybody
- 1:04:33Speaker 5: right now that's saying ninety seven dollars is too much,
- 1:04:35Speaker 5: go to my YouTube channel. I am positive and I
- 1:04:38Speaker 5: can bid anything right now that you will learn stuff
- 1:04:42Speaker 5: on my YouTube channel which will get you ahead. And
- 1:04:45Speaker 5: the key thing is get ahead. But until someone decides
- 1:04:48Speaker 5: to take action on their life, until you decide to
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: take action, you will forever be stuck where you.
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: Can't get enough of baller Alert, Follow us on all
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: social media platforms and baller alerts.
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: Log Onto ballar alert dot com