The Blueprint to the Bay: R.O.D Project x Mr. Carterblock 🎙️

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Wake your ass up.
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It is time for the podcast.
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We are live and uncovered.
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Oh man, we back again with another one, man.
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It's the Wake Your Ass Up Podcast, man.
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And today, man, I got a very special guest, man.
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Another one like the other one, man.
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San Francisco, California, man.
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Stand up.
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Come on.
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Come on, man.
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I'm a letting stand up, man.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Man, what's going on, brother?
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Come on, man.
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Mr.
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RLD Project.
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Come on, man.
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This guy right here, man.
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Man, this dude got about 20 years of friendship, you know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, that's about a duff.
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Um I started fucking with Rob when I was 18 years old.
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You feel me?
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I was 12th grade going into being into college, you feel me?
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We all kind of met up at Chabot College.
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I'll never forget this shit like it was just that, you feel me?
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Yeah.
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My brother ain't never changed.
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We're the same guy, same, you know, same resume, same guy, man.
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Nah, yeah, nah, nah.
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It's an honor, man.
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Let's listen.
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Thank you, man.
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I appreciate you, brother.
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Come on, man.
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Let's start it from the beginning, man.
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Yes, sir.
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How was it like, you know what I'm saying, growing up in San Francisco, California, man?
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So I only stayed in the city.
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I only stayed in the city for a few years.
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Moved to the East Bay.
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I think it was like seven.
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First pit stop was the town.
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67 of Bancroft, right?
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But living in the city, all like Pop's side of the family from the city, through and through.
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Mom's side, the majority of them is from the city, but the younger generation is from the town.
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It was cool for the most part.
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But once we moved over to, once we moved over to the East Bay, like I say, the first pit stop was, you know what I'm saying, the east.
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That shit turned me out.
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You ain't seen nothing like it.
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It was like two different worlds, you know what I mean?
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But, you know, living in the city as well, it was like, you know, fast-paced.
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It was a lot of, you know, a lot of gangster shit going on.
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As far as I could remember, you know, Pops was out there hustling.
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And that was just a way of life.
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You know what I mean?
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It's always been a way of life, you know, being in the city is just a hustle.
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You know, back then in the early 80s, you know, you know, even some of the 70s, a bunch of bank robbing and shit, you know what I'm saying?
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Like the OG was doing a bunch of bank robbing, a bunch of, you know what I'm saying, pimping and shit like that.
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So, I mean, it was cool for the most part, but I didn't really get to experience the shit that my older cousins got to experience, you know, the ones from Sunnydale, the ones from, you know, Double Rock and Lakeview.
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I didn't get to experience life like they did, you know what I mean?
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Because I moved, I moved on this side way early.
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You know what I mean?
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So when you say you didn't get to experience like they did, can you break it down a little bit for the people so they can understand?
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Because like you said, San Francisco and Oakland is two fast places.
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They remind me, if I could say if we was in New York, like Queens and Brooklyn, you know what I'm saying?
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Oakland, two different bureaux, you know what I'm saying, but one and the same, but a little different.
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Being a kid from San Francisco, but originated coming to the town and going to school, how did that feel for you?
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It was a culture shock.
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Because even when I, even when I came over to the town, I had a duck tail.
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Right?
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I had a duck tail.
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Now, granted, this is the 80s, so a lot of people had duck tails back then, but that was a real Frisco stamp.
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You know what I mean?
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So it was a culture shock.
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It was a culture shock because when I come over here, the first thing I see is uh the Shirley Temples, finger waves, nigga come through.
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And my at the time, my older cousin, she was messing with this uh, with the you know what I'm saying, D-boy from the town.
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And then that nigga slid through in the cool truths and voles.
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Cleanest shit I ever seen in my life.
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I ain't see that, you know, being on the other side.
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You know what I mean?
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Now, granted, I had a other, I had an older cousin that had some clean shit too, but they ride, they ride old school Skylarks out that way.
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So he was clean.
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But when I came on this side, these niggas was clean.
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You feel me?
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Candy paint, like it was just like it was just totally two totally different worlds.
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Two totally different worlds.
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Two totally different worlds.
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I know that had to be a like a crazy transition, like you said, because like you said, the Skylarks, the Chevelles, and they was on that side of the muscle course, and this side of the bay was on the other side, the the Falcons, the Mustangs, the Cougars, the Caminos.
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So it was like, like you said, two different fashion or you know, you being how you were, actually picked up so much season games.
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So I know when the summer came, you going over there introducing shit to them.
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And it's like, they like, what you talking about?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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How did that feel being a cousin from there?
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But going back on the other side, giving them some of this talent.
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Did they start treating you like you was an Oakland kid?
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For sure.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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They did they started treating me like, oh, that's that's our cousin from that's that's our cousin from the town.
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You know what I mean?
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But they still, they still embraced me, they still embraced me, you know what I mean?
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It wasn't like no, no, no weird shit going on, but they just they just knew I grew up on this side now.
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So my the way I interact with them was a little different.
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You know what I mean?
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It wasn't like it wasn't like hella different, like worlds or like worlds apart, but the lingo that we use, you know what I'm saying, was totally different than what they use out there.
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You know what I mean?
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So when I come over there and I'm over there, you know what I'm saying, saying shit like, you know, let me see.
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Growing, because growing up, they was they was saying like G-O-D and uh on tuna, you know what I mean?
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We didn't say that shit.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Like you, nigga, you over there high capping, you know what I mean?
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So when I'm going over there, they're like, what did you say?
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Like, you know, it was just it was just like different, you know what I mean?
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So, but it was cool though.
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Facts, facts.
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It was cool.
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So, you know, throughout the time, the back and forth transition, where did the point to where it's like, okay, I'm about to dip and dab and put my hands into the music.
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I think the first time I got into the music, I think I was 12.
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I was 12, and I wanted to be a rapper.
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I started off rapping.
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Me and my cousin.
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Me and my cousin, we had like a little rap group that we were trying to put together.
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And uh I was writing the lyrics, I was writing the lyrics, and then I think it was like a couple of songs where I was doing a hook, right?
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I was singing the hook.
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And uh the rapping was cool, the rapping was cool, but then everybody was liking who was, you know what I'm saying, to sing the the the the hooks.
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They were like, well, who's singing on the hook?
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Like, that's me, you know what I mean?
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So I just kind of just stuck with that, you know what I mean?
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But it all started at 12.
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Damn.
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So, like you said, at 12, you rapping, you figure like, man, I got this niche, but motherfuckers excited about this hook.
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Mm-hmm.
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Should I take it there and keep doing it?
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Or should I try some more rap shit?
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I think I fully said that I was gonna go RB.
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I think.
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No, no, no, no.
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18.
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17, 18, that's when I was like, I'm just gonna stick with the RB.
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Because me and me and my homeboy, one of my my good best friends, my brother, Dave, we had like this, uh, we had like this uh class project in English, right?
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Where it was like you could do like, you know what I'm saying, you can make a poster board.
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And I think it was reading a book called Othello, right?
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So it was like you can even do a poster board, you can do a you can do a play, or you know what I'm saying, you can write songs.
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So me and he was like, shit, we're gonna write songs.
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And he was a rapper, and I was doing a singing.
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And we got, you know what I'm saying, we got like, I think we got like an A on that motherfucker.
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So from there, I was just like, man, I'm sticking with this.
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Because this was the say, this was the second time where people was like, oh, we rock with the singing.
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We rock with the singing.
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You sound good, you sound good.
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I was like, all right, for sure.
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I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with this.
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So yeah, about like 17, 18.
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So, y'all, y'all had it, was it like a group or y'all was just vibing with each other so much, it was like, we're gonna just do these songs together because we sound cool together right now.
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It started off with us just, you know, being being partners and being classmates at the time.
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Well, let's just, you know what I'm saying, put it together.
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Because again, at this time, I'm rapping.
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I'm rapping with a little bit of singing on my on my hooks.
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So when it came, when it came time to do that project, I had the better vocals when it came to singing the hook or whatever.
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So it started off with us just, you know, being partners and doing it doing the project.
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And then after we got, after we did the project, that's when we got into it.
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It was like, I was shit, we should just do music together then.
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So it after that it went into a group.
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Mmm.
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So you went into a group.
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Y'all started catching a little vibe and shit.
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Yes, sir.
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Where did they get to the point to where it was like, okay, maybe I just need to do this shit by myself?
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Probably 2004.
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2004 is when I was like, you know, I'm just gonna do my own solo shit.
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Because after me being in the group with my boy Dave, the group was, the group was named Time Mir.
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We had a shit, we had a song on 94.9 and hella shit, right?
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Called Matchmade in Heaven.
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I'll never forget that shit.
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That was probably like 2000, 99, no, it was 2000.
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94.9, we had a song on 94.9, then that group disbanded shortly after.
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Then I wanted to join, trying to, at least trying to join another group with a few other casts, dope ass casts too, man.
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And the group was called Curve.
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This was like 2001.
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But I quit that, I quit that group because the nigga just wanted to be outside, you know what I'm saying?
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I I knew that I wasn't gonna take the shit as serious that I needed to take it.
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So 01, got out that group, and then um I really started taking it serious on my own and said, I'm gonna do a solo by like 04.
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Hmm.
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So 04 come in, you start taking it serious.
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What was your first song as a solo artist from 04 that gave you that courage to be like, nigga, I'm about to go?
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It was a song that I wrote and recorded called Temperatures Rising.
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That was the first solo record that I wrote completely top to bottom and recorded.
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The producer at the time that from the group that I had just quit, like a couple of years prior, Mark Garvey, he was making all the beats.
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Dope than the motherfucker, right?
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Southern Garvey, man.
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Yeah, sweet.
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My brother, my brother for sure.
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So I always stayed locked in with him.
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I always stayed locked in with him.
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So when it was time for me to lock in and, you know, and take my solo shit serious, I tapped in with him.
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He had like this BCD, and then I think I wrote like three other records, but the first record that I fully recorded was Temperatures Rising.
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And it was a slow record of ballot, and that shit, man, that shit came out so dope at the time.
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That's when I was like, oh yeah, we got something.
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So from that, you build up, you build up.
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We hear this record called I Can't Stand You, right?
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Is that record true?
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Everybody asked me that, man.
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Everybody asks me that.
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So the thing is, it's true, but it's not all my truth.
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It's it's a it's a it's a plethora of you know, a situation from one of my homeboys, a couple of my homeboys.
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And I just, you know, just put it all in together at just in one song.
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But what's crazy about that record is that I actually had the hook three years prior to I actually recorded it.
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I just didn't have no beats yet.
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Now the hook, I was actually going through some shit.
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And that's what made me write the hook.
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So sitting on the hook for like three years and then chopping it up, you know what I'm saying, with a couple of my partners.
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My partner going through some shit with his lady at that time, you know what I'm saying?
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I got a cousin that's going through some shit.
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My older cousin, he's going through some shit with his old lady at the time.
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So I just started joting, I just started joting shit down, man, and um started putting it together.
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So fast forward to 2008.
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Because like I said, I wrote the hook in 05, right?
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And I like and in between that time, I was just joting shit down.
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So fast forward to 2008, I wound up meeting DEO at Money Always, even I, through my boy Neo, Neo the Gift.
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And I did some shit with them.
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And then it was like, hey, would you would you mind if uh getting some of Money Always beats?
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I'm like, shit, hell yeah.
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Motherfuckers are dope.
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So he gave me the beats that can't stand you, and I had like three other records recorded to that record, right?
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To that beat.
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Three other records.
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And it was all the total opposite of what I was talking about on this record.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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Yeah.
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So we said before we actually got what we got to the public, it was three different versions of this one song, but completely different.
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It was completely different.
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You know what's so crazy that you said that?
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Because now that you say that, growing up as a kid, a lot of the hiss was created like that.
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It was multiple versions of this song, and then they picked the best one out of this song.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So you stayed with old school protocol when you did that song.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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Even to this day, I still stay with old school protocol when it comes to recording.
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I still stack my vocals the old school way.
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I don't really do too many punch-ins.
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I mean, I don't really believe in them because you're gonna have to go out there and perform it at some point.
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You ain't doing no punch-ins on your own stage.
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Get your ass in there and sing that motherfucker.
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If you mess up, if you mess up too many times, then okay, all right, let me just punch this in because tonight is a rough one.
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But for the most part, I don't really do no punch-in.
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I record the old school way.
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But yes, bro, three different records to that, to that same beat.
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The total opposite.
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I was talking about meeting the female in the club and you know saying, taking her home and all this shit.
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Totally different.
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And I was like, I kept, I kept telling DE, I said, I don't like this record.
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Let me do something else.
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Through the second one, listen, I don't like this record.
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Let's do something else.
00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:09.519
So the fourth time, the fourth time, I said, you know what?
00:17:10.639 --> 00:17:12.240
Let me try this.
00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:18.399
This hook in this song that I done had three years prior that had no beat.
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Let me go on and try this on this beat.
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And I did it.
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Right?
00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:28.720
I was like, okay, this is I'm like, I like this record.
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It feels better.
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Right?
00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:35.120
I was like, but I don't know if, you know, I don't know if people gonna fuck with it.
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Let me let me let me go back a little bit.
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So I do the record.
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And I got the hook, can't stand you, man.
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I said, you know what?
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If it's missing something, I was like, this shit is missing something.
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And I was like, ah, I get it.
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I got it, I got it.
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And me being, you know what I'm saying, me being a a two short fan since the kid, I always, I always reverted back to the Dauphin beat when he came on, bitch.
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Bruh, that's the crazy part of you saying this, bro, that was my next actual question, bro.
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Was that bitch part into the beat already, or did you apply this to this part?
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We applied it.
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We applied it.
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Because I was saying the bitch part at first, right?
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And it was just coming off regular than the motherfucker.
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I'm like, it don't, it don't it don't feel right.
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And I was like, I told DE I say, add the add a uh give me a two give me a two short uh bitch.
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And without me even telling him which record to get it off of, he already knew where to get it from.
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It was Dolphin B.
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Yep, and then you you got what you got.
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Boom, so we get the record.
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Yeah.
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The record take off and get legs.
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Who was the first DJ that actually believed in the record that gave you a spin before the bigger people start having the attention to it?
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The first DJ that actually spent the record was D Naz on the youth radio.
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He was the first one.
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And he was fucking, he was fucking with heavy.
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That's my dog, man.
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He was the first one.
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Shout out D Naz.
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Yeah, for sure.
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D Naz, man.
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That's a good brother.
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A good brother.
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So he was the first one that actually spent it.
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And then he spun it on the radio.
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Slow post started spinning it.
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He was fucking with it.
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And then a little bit after, I think I posted it on Twitter back in the day.
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This was like 09.
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And I posted it on Twitter.
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And my boy Dang, my brother, he hit me, he had DM'd me at that.
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He was like, hey, you got a uh you got a radio version of this record?
00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.640
I was like, nah, but I can.
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Right?
00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:08.960
And shot that to him.
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He shot it to my emotion.
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And once my emotion got a hold of it, that shit just did what it did.
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Mind you, I don't even know.
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I don't even have the confidence in this record like that.
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Like, I knew it was a good record, but I didn't think niggas was gonna fuck with it like that, bro.
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I honestly didn't think niggas was gonna fuck with it like that.
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I'm like, this is a cool record, but I'm like, I don't think the motherfuckers gonna fuck with it.
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It's too, it's too vulgar.
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Not knowing it's a bunch of motherfuckers feeling the same way.
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I promise you, I didn't know.
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I did not know.
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Where were you the first time that you heard it on the national airways when they played that shit?
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Damn, where was I?
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You know what?
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I think I was at home.
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I was at home.
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I had just got my car told.
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I had just that motherfucker got impounded.
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And the motherfucking tickets was so high on there, I just had to, I just all I could do was just go where they had where they got the where they had the boot on my car at.
00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.720
All I could do is go to go go to the go over there, get the shit out of my trunk.
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Y'all can go and have this motherfucker.
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But it was on my way to go get my shit out of the trunk.
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What the fuck?
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So you got a curse and a blessing at the same time.
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Yep.
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That's a cold coincidence.
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Yeah.
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And then, you know, it was like, even before they started playing on the radio, I let, you know, I let a few of my partners here, I let my nigga dive over here, and I let my nigga see.
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Yeah, you feel me?
00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:56.400
And them niggas was telling me, ah, nigga, this is it.
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This the one.
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I'm like, yeah, but these are my partners.
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You know what I'm saying?
00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:09.759
So I'm like, they ain't really telling me that, you know, too much of the shit that I made prior that it was weak, but they kept saying, like, this the one.
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This the one.
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I'm like, like this the one?
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Like, yeah, this the one.
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So, now I credit them too, man.
00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:22.960
Because if it wasn't, if it really wasn't for them, I wouldn't have really started pushing it like that.
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It just would have been another record.
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I don't know.
00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:33.759
The crazy part, now that we rewind back a little bit, I remember when Julie used to be playing that motherfucker in a little remember he had the little thread thing, you feel me?
00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:51.360
And It's crazy, bro, to see how that shit, like you see, even transition, bro, and just see, like, and that call, like that, that karate of friendship, bro, is it's it's hard to beat, bro.
00:22:51.440 --> 00:23:00.160
Like you said, bro, to get the phone call from Dame, and then Dame shoot it to my emotion, then my emotion believe in it, and then it just started growing.
00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:09.200
You know, uh a lot of times, bruh, we be afraid to show the homage of the appreciation.
00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:14.400
So we try to hide people out of the blessings that we achieved during the time that we achieved it.
00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.839
And um, yo, honesty is so dope, bruh.
00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:19.200
You know what I'm saying?
00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:22.880
Because a lot of times we don't like to tell the people the truth.
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We like to hide these messages, you know what I'm saying?
00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:26.960
Who play the domino fact.
00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:37.279
And uh when the record kicked off, started being hella big, started getting national attention.
00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:43.200
At that time, were you charging for shows?
00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:49.759
And at that time, like, what would you say a pay rate for an actual RB singer was?
00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:56.799
So when the record, are you you talking about the when the record started creating gaining that buzz?
00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:57.360
Yeah.
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Nah, I did it.
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I did a lot of, I did a lot of club runs.
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I did a lot of club runs, free club runs, man.
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Because you gotta push the record.
00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:07.360
You gotta push the record.
00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:12.240
So went on a went on a crazy club run, you know what I'm saying, to start pushing that record.
00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:21.279
Club Suede, Club Man Pollard, uh motherfucking uh Glass Cat.
00:24:21.839 --> 00:24:23.200
Um 17.
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Come on, 17, you know.
00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:28.400
What's your other club?
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.839
We were just so many other, it was just so many clubs that we was that we were 11.
00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:33.839
Yeah, like all them, all them clubs.
00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.880
I played all them clubs.
00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:37.839
I played all them clubs, bro.
00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:39.920
Club, what was that, 434?
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:46.880
That and that, and then that it used to be, I forgot the name of the club it was beforehand, but their name changed so many times.
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.240
But agenda.
00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:53.039
Agenda, fucking, I never got to do ambassador's lounge, dog.
00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:58.960
But a lot of those clubs, man, I I did a lot of a lot of club runs.
00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:09.519
Once 2010, going into 2011 kicked in, I was able, you know, I was able to uh to pay my bills.
00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:13.039
I was able to pay my bills, man, and have a few dollars in my pocket.
00:25:13.360 --> 00:25:14.640
So from that, right?
00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:24.400
Were you offered any type of deal or any type of publishing opportunities as that record blew?
00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:25.279
Yes, sir.
00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:39.279
So I had a deal, I had a deal on the table with Jive, had a deal on the table with with Indiscope, and I had a deal on the table with E1 at the time.
00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:45.839
Yeah, we wound up going with E1 because it was a it was a better deal that that more control.
00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:47.120
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.839
Creative control is a lot for sure, for sure.
00:25:52.640 --> 00:26:12.559
In hindsight though, in hindsight, I probably would have went with a I probably would have went with a different label because let me not say that.
00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:17.839
I would have been I would have been able, I would have been more lenient to give up a little bit more.
00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:28.480
And the reason why I say that is because when everything is in your favor, in the artist's favor, the label ain't got shit to make.
00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:30.799
So what's the purpose of even trying to push it?
00:26:31.360 --> 00:26:32.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:41.920
So with everything working in, working in me and my team's favor, them trying to promote it and push it, really wasn't there.
00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:45.200
It wasn't nothing for them to profit off of.
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:47.680
So it was kind of like pulling, you know what I'm saying, pulling teeth.
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:49.120
Give a nigga a bare minimum, huh?
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:50.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:55.600
Like it was like, you know what I'm saying, pulling teeth to try to, you know what I'm saying, to get them to push the record in these different markets.
00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:56.799
You know what I mean?
00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:05.120
So, yeah, I in hindsight, I would have probably just gave up a little bit more so they can have a reason to really push this motherfucker.
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:11.759
So, you had the I Can't Stand You, boom, you sign the deal, it's moving, like you said.
00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:19.039
Now, you expecting them to put some fire on the motherfucker to make it, you know, yeah.
00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:21.120
This torch is going crazy.
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:24.480
You said, due to the circumstances, boom.
00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:30.079
What was the next single that you put out after that?
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:36.720
So we was, me and my team was trying to put out this record I had had called Beautiful, right?
00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:43.279
Now, this song was obviously it was the polar opposite of what Can't Stand You was talking about.
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:47.360
This was actually like the uplifting for the, you know what I'm saying, the women, you know what I mean?
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:53.120
Like letting them know, like, no matter what, you know what I'm saying, what a nigga try to put you through, don't be discouraged, you beautiful, right?
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:55.360
So that's what we was trying to push.
00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:58.319
The label was like, nah, hold on, just hold on on that.
00:27:58.400 --> 00:27:58.880
You know what I mean?
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:02.480
Hold on, let's let's see if we can get this other song, you know what I'm saying, in these other markets.
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:04.319
So we can get everything, you know what I'm saying?
00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:10.720
We got we wound up getting freeway on the on the official uh radio mix for Can't Stand You.
00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:12.480
He did shot the video on anything, man.
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:13.680
Shout out the freeway.
00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:22.160
The label wound up getting um So this is hold on, before you go too deep, so was this the state property freeway?
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:23.120
Yes, sir.
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:24.799
Yes, sir.
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.920
Yes, sir.
00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:47.680
How the fuck did that feel to have to rock a partio sensational record at a time where the confusion between California and New York was, I mean, in Philly, because he from Philly, but his connection was with New York because they so close.
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.600
But it's like, I know that shit felt good, bro.
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:53.200
It did, it did.
00:28:53.279 --> 00:29:01.920
Like the shit still shocks me to this day, man, because mind you, this is this is a motherfucker that I'm a fan of, you know what I mean?
00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:04.160
And I was like then at the height of his career.
00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:04.720
You feel me?
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:10.880
So it's like, nigga, I would like it just wasn't too long ago where nigga was just slapping what we do, you know what I mean?
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:14.480
And just slapping, you know what I'm saying, flip side or you know what I'm saying, rock the mic.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:18.319
Like, I'm looking up to like these niggas is like stars to me.
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:27.680
So to to get him on the, not only just to get him on the record, but to also have this nigga come through and you know what I'm saying and shoot the video.
00:29:28.079 --> 00:29:29.759
On the love though.
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:32.000
On the love.
00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:38.079
But I do gotta give, I do gotta give that shot to PK though, man, because you know what I'm saying, PK and you know the mind.
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.120
Yeah, you know what I mean?
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:40.799
Rest rest in peace to Jack, you know what I'm saying?
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:44.160
They had they had that relationship with Freeway, you know what I mean?
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:52.000
So to get him this, you know what I'm saying, to get him on the song and to shoot the video, I gotta give, I gotta get him, PK, you know what I'm saying, and the Jack the love for that.
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:54.640
So was PK helping with management at that time?
00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.200
No.
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:59.120
So this is just a friendship of just wanting to see his other friend win.
00:29:59.360 --> 00:30:00.000
For sure.
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:00.720
For sure.
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:02.000
Shout out to PK, man.
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:03.360
Much love to PK, man.
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:09.039
And I told him, like, man, you need to share more light on your story.
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:09.360
Yeah.
00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:10.880
You gotta be more vocal.
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:11.279
Yeah.
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:13.120
I'm like, because you didn't did hella shit.
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:14.319
He was like, I know.
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:22.880
But see, that's why I think that's what would make him so special, is because he don't.
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:28.000
And he got other people to speak his greatness for him.
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.920
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:39.120
Like, when you know, when you know the imprint you put in the game, you ain't gotta see, you ain't gotta be so loud.
00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:40.000
You know what I mean?
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:42.240
Yo, your work is gonna speak for itself.
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:43.360
Right?
00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:51.680
So, him constantly doing what he did, you know what I'm saying, for the jack, for freeway, you know, for uh for Neta, for tracks.
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:55.039
It just, the proof is in the pudding.
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:56.079
You know what I mean?
00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.960
The proof, the proof is always gonna be in the pudding, because his name's gonna always come up somehow, some way.
00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:01.440
Right.
00:31:01.600 --> 00:31:02.400
You know what I mean?
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:04.480
So he in good hands, man.
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:05.519
He in good hands.
00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.000
So what like we said, go back to the beautiful track.
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:10.400
They put a pause on the beautiful track.
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:11.039
Yes, sir.
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.640
And like they said, they wanted to go back into that record.
00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:17.039
So they put him on the remix, boom.
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:21.839
So now after the remix, pushing legs on his getting out there, the video going.
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.440
Now we still trying to figure out what is the official second record.
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:33.600
Yeah, so again, we trying we're trying to push this beautiful record as the official second record.
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:34.799
We're trying to push it.
00:31:35.120 --> 00:31:38.079
Label keep telling us to hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:50.720
Now that was one of the things that so I always heard these stories about, you know, being signed and being on these labels and stuff.
00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:52.240
You always hear these stories.
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.799
And it always be horror stories, right?
00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:57.440
And I always said, man, that ain't gonna be my story.
00:31:57.920 --> 00:31:58.720
That ain't gonna be me.
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:01.279
Ain't niggas ain't about to do me like that, right?
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:09.519
But I found myself getting a glimpse of that that horror story.
00:32:09.600 --> 00:32:15.039
And that was, you know, fully dependent on the label to do their work.
00:32:15.600 --> 00:32:17.759
You can't fully depend on the label to do their work.
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:20.480
You gotta go out there and just make some shit shake.
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:32.319
Because they don't really, you know what I'm saying, like a label, they might not fully believe, or they might not even see the vision that you see for said record or said album.
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:33.279
You know what I mean?
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:43.120
So you gotta, it's your job as an artist to go out there and show these motherfuckers the impact that this record, or you know what I'm saying, that it can be a potential hit.
00:32:43.600 --> 00:32:44.000
Right?
00:32:44.160 --> 00:33:00.640
So that's where I fucked up at was not showing them that this it got it got a huge possibility to have have some, if not the same length of legs that King Stanley have, even longer legs would be a bigger record.
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.559
Because it was on a positive note.
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.680
Do I know what I do I think that it would have been a bigger record?
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:10.319
I think it would have, but who knows?
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:16.640
So do you feel like due to you coming out with that style record, they try to keep you on that style of image.
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:24.480
So when you wanted to do really who you are as an artist, this is where the the business confusion started really coming in.
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:34.960
And that's where a lot of artists probably don't understand where it gets tricky because you didn't sign this paperwork, and now within this paperwork, here come statute of limitations on what you can and cannot do.
00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:35.839
Absolutely.
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:43.039
So that was like a finding moment for you to be like, Am I staying or am I going?
00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:44.240
Yeah.
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:50.960
So around that time, and then I think I think this was probably like the end of 2011.
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:57.039
Now, mind you, I didn't, 2010 was the peak year.
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:01.039
I done did the cameo house of soul.
00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.160
I done did Cameo Summer Jam.
00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:07.360
That mind you, that was the same Summer Jam as Drake.
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.960
Drake and YG, Fode.
00:34:10.319 --> 00:34:11.599
Hold on, you said who?
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.679
Yeah, Drake, YG, E Fote.
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.199
It was, I think it was a couple of other motherfuckers on there, but Drake was hairliner.
00:34:19.839 --> 00:34:20.480
Drake?
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:21.360
Yeah.
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:25.599
The nigga that everybody mad about that did the song for Mac Drake?
00:34:25.759 --> 00:34:26.000
Yeah.
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:26.799
Oh, okay.
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:27.839
I just had to make sure.
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:28.239
Yeah.
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.720
So Drake was the hairliner.
00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:31.120
Yeah.
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.800
YG on the show.
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:33.360
Mm-hmm.
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:34.960
Yourself.
00:34:35.120 --> 00:34:35.519
Mm-hmm.
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.880
And who else?
00:34:37.200 --> 00:34:38.000
E Fody.
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:39.440
Foady.
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:43.280
I'm trying to think who else was on that bill, man.
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.200
Oh, Jasmine Sullivan.
00:34:45.600 --> 00:34:46.160
Damn.
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:48.800
This was a all-star cast, wasn't it?
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:50.160
Yeah, no, that motherfucker, that.
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:52.480
Oh, Miguel was on that, on that bill.
00:34:55.680 --> 00:34:58.000
So this when Miguel had a door you and Jasmine Sullivan.
00:34:58.240 --> 00:34:59.040
Nah, it wasn't a door.
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:02.720
This was when he had just came out with All I Want Is You.
00:35:03.200 --> 00:35:04.800
And what's the what's the slow?
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:05.840
What's the other little record?
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:07.040
Uh, short thing.
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:07.760
Wow.
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:08.960
So that's around that time.
00:35:09.040 --> 00:35:12.320
Jasmine Sullivan, she had just come out with her first album.
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:18.960
And Forty, that's when nigga don't act like a, that's when that motherfucker is.
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:21.440
Okay, so that's when he brought the Trunk Boys out that year.
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:22.800
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:24.080
That year.
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.120
Yep.
00:35:26.160 --> 00:35:27.440
Yeah, so I did that.
00:35:27.520 --> 00:35:30.720
So that was that was 20, the summer of 2010, right?
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.640
So we're doing all that shit, man.
00:35:32.720 --> 00:35:38.400
And uh 20, you know, in 2011, we like, okay, it's time to gear for another record.
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:38.960
You know what I mean?
00:35:39.200 --> 00:35:43.360
So, but again, the label is like, they having a hard time.
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:44.960
They don't know how to promote this record.
00:35:45.200 --> 00:35:49.760
And that's a lot, that's what happens with a lot of Bay Area artists.
00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:58.480
We so fucking unique with our shit, when you do get signed to the label, they don't know how to market it.
00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:01.040
They don't know, they don't, they don't know how to market it.
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:04.240
Because we got a very unique sound.
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.560
You know what I think about that?
00:36:07.600 --> 00:36:18.240
A lot of times the people that take liking in it doesn't come from the same seasoning, so so they don't know how to put the ingredients in right.
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:18.960
Yes, sir.
00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:27.920
And then a lot of times, too, I feel what we fuck up at is that we sign to another, we sign to an East Coast label.
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:29.360
That's number one.
00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:41.600
And when we do that, being a West Coast artist, your budget is not the same as the people over there because the representation on the AR is not pushing the same value, or they don't even trust him on the same value to give you that same type of money.
00:36:42.080 --> 00:36:47.280
Because a lot of people don't know when we was coming up, the ARs had the most power control.
00:36:47.520 --> 00:36:52.320
That was like the power contrary that basically put the whole glue to the puzzle.
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:53.200
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:53.680 --> 00:36:54.000
Yeah.
00:36:54.240 --> 00:36:57.120
And I think that's what's missing today.
00:36:57.200 --> 00:36:59.520
It's not no true ARs going on.
00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:02.080
So it's like Hell, it ain't no, it ain't no.
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:02.640
It's nothing.
00:37:02.720 --> 00:37:03.920
It's not at all.
00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:13.280
It's kind of people like just going to beat stores and YouTube, and they think this was cool, and then I guess they would leave it up to the internet to pick and decide, but it's just like nah.
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:22.480
Like I remember growing up when these actual ARs was coming to niggas' cities and sitting down and talking and you know what I'm saying, making sure doing radio runs.
00:37:22.640 --> 00:37:34.640
But even that to say, like, when they do come now for radio runs, I think we kind of sabotage our own people and say shit like we don't got stars out here or just no really no representation.
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:39.040
And I think that put a bad taste in executive's mouths.
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:56.320
Hmm, you know, and it's like on a business standpoint, it's like, I don't think that's not a good fit for us to be doing that, knowing that majority of people have done it before us either was in the distribution through a major or they were signed.
00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:02.960
So it's kind of like, why do we always put so much of a dare of people to be independent?
00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:04.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:07.760
When independence only gets you somewhere if you don't have the finances already.
00:38:08.080 --> 00:38:08.720
You ain't got the capital.
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:09.360
You feel me?
00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:12.320
The financial literacy didn't even know how to move this as a business.
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:12.640
Yeah.
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:22.240
You know, so it's like I think we need to teach a lot of the people the business terminology and how to be a businessman or a businesswoman to defend in this game.
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:23.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:29.600
Because a lot of times of the people who done it before us, them niggas was only taught to be artists.
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:31.280
They were never taught to be business.
00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:36.480
That's why a lot of them up today just now learning the business because they always forced had to be the little man.
00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:37.200
You feel me?
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:50.320
So it's like me knowing this and paying attention now to society of what's going on, it's like, okay, at least this demographic of age now has a lot of willpower to be a better business person.
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:51.040
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:51.120 --> 00:38:55.840
And that's why you see so many successful young men, regardless of what type of music that they do.
00:38:56.080 --> 00:38:58.800
A lot of these young men's business is together because they're smart.
00:38:59.040 --> 00:38:59.600
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:00.240
For sure.
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:12.960
And they have all they you have everything at, you have everything that you should possibly need to succeed in this little thing right here.
00:39:13.200 --> 00:39:14.080
A walking computer.
00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:15.200
You feel me?
00:39:15.520 --> 00:39:25.200
So the generation that's the generation that's below us, and that's you know, and the generation that's below them, they utilize all that shit.
00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:26.400
You know what I mean?
00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:30.240
So, versus us, nigga, we had to actually go buy books.
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:30.560
Right.
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:31.920
You know what I'm saying?
00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:40.160
To learn how this industry works and learn how what, you know what I'm saying, what mechanical, you know what I'm saying, royalties is, you know what I'm saying, and what publishing is and all that.
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:40.960
You know what I'm saying?
00:39:41.040 --> 00:39:44.800
It wasn't at the at the, you know what I'm saying, we done had this, first off.
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:46.240
You know what I mean?
00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:50.320
So they got a huge advantage.
00:39:50.480 --> 00:40:00.640
They have a huge, huge, huge advantage to where, you know, they have the social media to where they can they can test shit out.
00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:02.720
They can get hella test runs.
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:04.960
You can get hella test runs, you know what I'm saying?
00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:08.720
This one is got a viral moment, you know what I'm saying, and then boom.
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:10.080
And that's what these labels is looking for.
00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:12.480
They ain't even taking chances on niggas no more.
00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:22.880
Labels ain't even taking chances on putting, you know what I'm saying, pushing an artist and building an artist, artist development, and then putting them out.
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:30.480
Nah, how many followers you have, do how many views you got, and they going off of that.
00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:33.760
It's totally getting totally different game now, man.
00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:35.680
The style of AR and got lazy.
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:37.360
It's so fucking lazy, man.
00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:38.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:42.160
But it also comes with, you know, saying these, these, these labels, they artists too.
00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:43.040
The artists too.
00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:44.160
The artists too.
00:40:44.240 --> 00:40:46.720
The artists that got the artists that got lazy.
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:50.320
Um, they some of them don't want to put in the work.
00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:54.560
And the ones that do that is putting in the work, they get overlooked.
00:40:55.440 --> 00:41:04.880
They get overlooked because of the content of said record.
00:41:06.080 --> 00:41:14.160
You know, we come, you know what I'm saying, we we us Bay Area cats, man, we love some shit with some, with some, we love quality, right?
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:15.520
That's where we come from.
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:18.240
You know, storyteller, you know what I'm saying?
00:41:19.120 --> 00:41:20.880
Home of the slang, you know what I mean.
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:24.000
We we know how to articulate our shit, you know what I mean?
00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:26.640
But the labels ain't, you know what I'm saying?
00:41:26.720 --> 00:41:30.400
The labels is only gonna push the shit that's uh catchy.
00:41:32.240 --> 00:41:33.120
Something that's catchy.
00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:35.760
We don't they don't give a fuck about what you're talking about.
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.080
Is the hook catchy?
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:40.480
Can these kids sing this shit?
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.280
If not, we ain't about to put our money towards this shit.
00:41:45.600 --> 00:41:53.360
We're gonna put our money there, we're gonna they gonna put their money on some shit that where they feel like they're gonna get up a show every time on their investment.
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:54.480
Right.
00:41:55.920 --> 00:42:04.320
So due to the situation never can come up with the understanding with the business part of them with the second record, right?
00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:11.120
How did it affect you and did you stop doing music?
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.000
It fucked me up.
00:42:14.720 --> 00:42:16.320
That shit fucked me up, man.
00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:22.080
With the decline, you know what I'm saying, with the with the decline of, you know, can't stand you, you know what I'm saying.
00:42:22.160 --> 00:42:24.160
That's that's fizzling itself out.
00:42:24.720 --> 00:42:31.120
Trying to come up with another record, you know what I'm saying, and and now at this time I'm playing catch up like a motherfucker.
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.320
And this is around the time where the attention span is starting to get shorter and shorter.
00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.120
Right?
00:42:37.600 --> 00:42:41.920
So yeah, can't stand you had a had a nice two-year run.
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.920
But then again, this is at the at the time where the attention span started getting shorter.
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:51.200
So now I'm starting to see, okay, nigga's songs is only lasting like six months now.
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:52.400
Right?
00:42:52.560 --> 00:42:57.120
So putting this out, I'm trying to put this out, do some test runs and shit.
00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:58.800
Shit ain't landing.
00:42:58.880 --> 00:42:59.600
Shit ain't landing.
00:42:59.680 --> 00:43:00.640
Shit ain't landing.
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:04.320
You know, you got some people that fuck with it, but it's not landing, like I can't stand you.
00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:11.680
Well, so I'm already knowing that the people is looking for me to be the male Keisha Cole.
00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.120
And I ain't known that type of time.
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:16.080
You know what I mean?
00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:20.800
Like, I don't have that going on in my life to where I can give you a bunch of those.
00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:22.240
You know what I mean?
00:43:22.560 --> 00:43:30.240
I I wrote a song where, you know what I'm saying, where I had a situation and a couple other people had a situation, but then we move on from it, right?
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:36.000
So we making other records that that caters to the other part of our lives, right?
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:37.440
But those ain't lacking.
00:43:37.680 --> 00:43:39.120
They they want another can't stand you.
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:42.320
So that's not happening.
00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:50.400
And then I honestly started finding myself trying to ride a certain way.
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:51.680
Chasing his.
00:43:52.240 --> 00:43:52.800
Yeah.
00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:59.120
And I knew I was like, I didn't feel comfortable doing that shit, man.
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.120
I was like, what the fuck am I doing?
00:44:01.600 --> 00:44:03.440
Like this ain't even this ain't even me.
00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:05.280
This is not even how we even got here.
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.320
We got here by authentic authenticity.
00:44:08.720 --> 00:44:09.600
You know what I'm saying?
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:11.040
Being authentic.
00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:24.640
And once that, once that decline happened, and the second, second single, third record ain't ain't picking up, you know, then obviously the money slow down.
00:44:25.120 --> 00:44:25.920
You know what I mean?
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:29.440
The money, the money slowdown show shit slowing down and everything.
00:44:29.520 --> 00:44:34.960
So now you gotta figure out nigga, what you gonna do to pay these bills?
00:44:35.680 --> 00:45:28.160
Because these bills give a fuck about what's slowing down what show you ain't got none of that so it put it it put a nigga in a a real interesting situation you know what I mean so yeah it it put a nigga um in a deep depression honestly now I'm you know say now I gotta get out there and really get out the mud because my thing my thing always was if I gotta go back to work I'm done with this music shit if I gotta go do a nine to five I'm done with the music shit because I done did I done did the j the the nine to five then going to the studio after work and recording music I done did that shit nine ten years prior to can't stand you even hit.
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:30.080
You know what I'm saying?
00:45:30.400 --> 00:46:29.280
So I'm like nah I'm not doing that and that shit I done did that shit already so now you find yourself trying to figure out how could I make the money that I was just making in 2010 2011 without having to go punch a clock because this money is slowing down what you gonna do so now I'm starting to find myself doing doing some shit you know what I'm saying shit I ain't really proud of yeah that was that was a that was a real dark moment for a nigga I'll tell you that I'll tell you that for sure and overcoming them obstacles and shit at that time like you said you didn't really want to have to work right but that you put your pride to the side and be like you know what man I didn't put my this might be the best thing that I need to do right now.
00:46:29.600 --> 00:47:14.080
I didn't put my pride to the side until after I caught a case I wound up catching the case did a little short time and it was then nigga it was then when I was sitting down in jail and I'm finding myself arguing about to argue with a nigga over some bread in jail that's when I was like nigga this some loser shit what the fuck did I just get myself into right so that's when it was like okay I when I when I get out this shit isn't I ain't this shit is for the birds I ain't fucking with this shit.
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:34.080
I'm through I'm through I'm through but that's when I was like okay put your pride to the side and get out there and you know and and work you know what I mean my my lady ma my wife she had a she had a she had a plug into the construction her auntie R.I.P.
00:47:34.240 --> 00:49:54.960
Londie she had a construction company out there in the city and she was like you she she hired you know saying she's trying to look for some people to get into the union I'm like fucking put me on talked to her auntie auntie cool as shit all right come on let's go got me in the union and I was working and it felt so good to get back on my feet because like I say 2012 2013 that was a real dark moment for a nigga he ain't got no money coming in music ain't really popping like that just had one of the biggest records of your life you feel me music ain't you know saying that the records ain't records ain't hitting like you know saying like can't stand you so money ain't coming in nigga I'm going in I'm driving I'm driving wifey car nigga dropping her off at work nigga I don't even know where I'm about to get gas money from you know what I'm saying like it was a real dark motherfucking time for a nigga around around that around that time so you know I I had to I had to and that's one thing I pride myself on like yeah I could be hard headed at times but I'm gonna check myself so once I seen the path I was going the route I was going like nigga you tripping get your ass back in back in the workfield man you tripping and that's what I know that's why I encourage you know what I'm saying these these aspiring artists right now you ain't always gotta have the the um the the story about you only had$200 in a dream and you know what I'm saying you had to sleep in your car you ain't gotta you ain't always gotta have that go out there is okay to get a job it's okay to have a 9 to 5 you're not lame at all nigga it's it's some more it I know a gang of motherfuckers that got regular nine to fives and they bald majority of the balls got a regular 9 to five you know what I'm saying bald got all the toys that you can think of probably got more than what than the famous artists out there because it's just an image yeah it's just an image because yeah just because you're famous don't mean you got no paper man I remember one time I was I was washing my clothes at the laundry mat.
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Mind you this is this is around the dark time right washed my clothes at the laundry man then little youngster little youngster was up in there like man like ain't you ROD like yeah and I kind of said it like kind of shameful you know what I'm saying like at this point kind of ashamed to say I'm ROD like you R O D I'm like yeah you're like oh man I fuck with your shit man blah blah blah right I'm like man I appreciate that appreciate that and then he followed it up was like what you doing washing your clothes at the laundry Mac you got paper because I had to see you know I had to tell the answer like shit ain't always what what it look like bro it ain't always what it looked like calm down come on you know what I'm saying so that was yeah like that was that that was a real that was a real dark time and I like I said I had this I had to check myself nigga get your ass out coming at work man go get some of that money yeah it was crazy man it was crazy fuck yeah so well having that young man that came and gave you a little light was that the energy booster to make you feel like man I need to get back in the game coach nope nope that was um at that time I think at that time I was like I'm done done with the music I'm done I I'm done because I didn't I didn't like I didn't like where it was going where it was going the the glimpse of the the glimpse of the industry that I saw I wasn't enjoying it wanted to steer away from that shit yeah and because you know like we know saying like we mentioned earlier you know we've been locked in for 20 plus years right and it's no egos involved with none of us you know saying we real niggas right it ain't like that in the industry so you thinking you you thinking you really locked in with certain said people or certain said AR or you know I mean manager and it don't be like that and I'm like all these niggas is fake this is fake shit this is straight job this is fake shit oh yeah we gonna lock in man no sin I'm I'm gonna hit you tomorrow blah blah blah you don't get no calls the next day phony I have a nigga I have the AR who signed me who signed me I ain't gonna say his name but the same AR who signed me to E1 man we was everything was good when the record was was was popping but when the record was on a decline me and this nigga in the same building at the same party right I'm on stage performing we had a DJ's birthday party I'm on stage performing so the nigga can't say I'll he didn't see I'm on stage niggas just telling me niggas just saying oh we got ROD on the on this on the mic right now so you hear that and then a nigga don't even don't nigga don't even throw up the peace sign I had to I had to I had to hear from somebody else that the nigga was there.
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Because I didn't see him oh yeah such and such was there wait was he yeah yeah yeah he was he was in the V uh the other VIP across the across the across the club damn nigga ain't so that's when I was like oh so this goes back to the shit that I was saying about as far as the industry not you know the dark stories right that's tied into that they love you today but what have you done what have you done lately if you ain't did nothing for it for all right we're gonna hold it so that was one I was like oh okay nah I'm cool I'm cool I'm I don't I ain't I ain't with all the phony shit because I'ma I'ma wind up blacking out on the nigga and I don't want to do that but at this time I feel like niggas is playing with my life this is my livelihood at this point and y'all niggas ain't even y'all niggas don't give a fuck so that's why I was like I'm done with this shit and gone back to work you know I'm saying live a regular civilian life get this money you know I'm saying and build build my family up I was done I was done for it nigga ten years ten years 2015 is when I really said I'm done with this shit I really I'm like I'm done with this shit so I didn't do anything I wasn't even going I wasn't doing no performances I would still get like little like little perform you know motherfuckers asked me to perform here and there throughout those 10 years I wasn't even doing them now I'm I'm cool I need a feature from now I'm down I don't do music no more I really shut that shit down bro really shut that shit down for 10 whole years yeah this music industry boy will fuck up your mental it it'll it'll fuck it will fuck with your mental if you let it you really gotta come in this game knowing that you at the end of the day nigga all you got is yourself and you know what's so crazy bro due to the conversation and what you saying through this shit I be explaining a lot to the the younger generation that bro never forget that you sign up to be a part of entertainment for sure you feel me don't say real nigga records it don't say real nigga.com yeah you're paid to be a character just like in a fucking cartoon book yeah and a lot of times people don't understand what being a character is and I be having to explain to a lot of people like when you when you come outside or you get on these social medias you don't be your government then that's an alter ego so you ain't character for sure and a lot of people don't understand the alter ego of being a character because they don't see the value that they have with being they self.
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Yeah so we put on these disguised actions due to the the trauma that we done been through for sure due to what we seen and deciphered in these hoods these blocks and neighborhoods and shit you feel me so it's like it's fucked up bro because a lot of times we could have been 10 times ahead of the game if we was able to just be us from the gate.
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:20.000
From the gate yeah yeah but then you know we also come we also come come in the game at a time to where mystique is being mystique is what got you paid.
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Facts you know what I'm saying let your left hand know what's right hand yeah that's what got you paid now it's totally different.
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Yeah let your right hand know what's left hand yeah like you talk yeah exactly you know what I'm saying like it's totally different now that's a part of the game that I'm still having a hard time dealing with because I don't want motherfuckers know my every my every move you know what I mean like I never was type I never I never was that type of nigga to where you know I'm saying I just broadcast my every fucking move.
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Fuck you know what I'm saying like I be having this battle I be having this battle with my manager man Wayne Hayes I be man I be having this battle with this nigga all the time I don't want to do that shit man I don't feel like doing like man brush you have to show these you got to show these people you have to show these people a look you know give them a glimpse of something I'm like man I don't want to do that shit man I'm still I'm still stuck on the old school way old school way yeah y'all want to see y'all want to see a nigga you know saying do something book me for a show that's that's my mindset but I also know that when I'm coming back into the game you gotta you gotta learn how to play the new play the new game but keep your integrity too though I was just about to say that because what you're going about really ain't so bad because it's holding value.
00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:52.800
Mm-hmm if I'm able to get you all the time because you my partner and I'm never able to trying to put no dollar in your pocket, how we really folks?
00:58:53.120 --> 00:58:54.480
Facts, facts.
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That's a fact, man.
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Cause I I always I always pride myself on um It's a border system.
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For sure.
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For sure.
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And I think people lost that shit bro out here.
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Cause we again this is the Bay Area the land of the hustle everybody is trying to hustle everybody.
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It's only a handful of niggas that's really like when they say they supportin' they really supporting but a lot of niggas is like I'm supporting as long as you give it to me for the F.
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Thanks.
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And that's a lot of people out here and that's so fucked up bruh because when we think about the real reality of life right Uber Living Apple YouTube X.
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Niggas can get going Spotify all here bruh and they not telling niggas don't work with that nigga don't go fuck with that person.
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Nah 7-Eleven not telling motherfucking Rod Robbys that they can't be across the street.
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You feel me?
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Right.
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Chef Ryan not telling motherfucking shells that they can't be across the street.
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That's a fact we all gonna eat and you got AMPM so we got four corner husbands right here that we all mobbing on the same corner but I'm not telling them bro don't go fuck with Rod.
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Right.
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Them niggas like bro go fuck with Rod because tomorrow he can go fuck with bruh too he can go fuck with dude the other next day because he fucked with all of us we on the same four corners.
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Yeah yeah we be so discouraged and fighting over one petty ass bag that it's a million bags here.
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Million bags a million bags this is Silicon Valley with the chill it's more trillionaires and billionaires here more than in the world bruh.
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:53.600
So I don't understand why people be so small minded when it comes to opportunities bro like it's only one it's just when you when you don't have a a visionary mind state to to open up the horizon yes you can be feeling like it's a discouraging thing that it's nothing else here.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's what made me try and go 10 times harder for the coaching here now it's like okay what's hurting me helping pushing somebody else because I got my own company it's not affecting me.
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Right.
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You feel me?
01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:38.080
It's not affecting me not telling somebody else oh you know what I'm saying go fuck with bruh and it's just like bruh how can I the vividly clearest picture that we had go back to the sports analogy that we was talking to back earlier right the warrior short is clear this day bro is strength and numbers for sure for sure but somehow we just don't we just bypass we think he only just stick with sports.
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That's life bro that's life that's a fact because this person is always three people away from that one situation that can change all of our lives but then sometimes you get certain people that want to stop when they get to the second person to go it's like I ain't about to record as this shit go.
01:01:57.120 --> 01:02:02.880
Right and it's like we hinder each other's growth so much by doing that weird shit.
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You feel me?
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For instance what we do out here oh I know bruh but I don't fuck with dude who asked you for all of that extra context you already said you know bruh.
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Right right but where all of this extra shit that comes behind it and that dims down people likes where it just didn't mean to it's a lot of people that I don't deal with I maybe not agree with but I won't put an aura on to their situation because what I got going on with you it ain't what everybody else needs to know what we got going on.
01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:36.960
Right, right.
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You feel me?
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Right.
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And it it tunes to sabotage you know what I'm saying like sabotaging each other's lives and cultures and elements that we done brought is kind of dope to people when they don't have nothing going for themselves.
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You know what I'm saying and majority like how we would we went through a a term in 2025 2024 when you hear all these people standing on business and nobody owns no business how the fuck you standing on something that you don't own yeah yeah you feel me so it's like we always using these terminologies or these slogans or these slang that fit into different situations don't that don't fit in reality.
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The crabs in the bucket shit crabs help each other get out the bucket so why we keep using this analogy right we keep putting the wrong characteristics with the wrong party and think that that party gonna go good yeah yeah I you know I and it goes back to one of the truest quotes known to man is that misery love company hurt people hurt people if a nigga if if you making some money off your hobby something that you that you just you know and this person don't have a hobby or they not making no money for some odd reason it's just hard for a nigga to be happy for you.
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I don't know I don't I don't get it that envy as a motherfucker yeah I don't get it and it could be it could be it nigga it could be your it could be your mama you making you got all this shit going on man you got motion nigga it could be your it could be your twin brother that'll hate you nigga devil come working in your family outside you feel me and that tune to be a true thing you know what I'm saying like we could do so much for so many people but they still think that you owe them something owe them something and they don't even want to do and they don't even want to go out there and work for themselves.
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Nah nah and they and they fault you for your accomplishments how you gonna fault me for something that I accomplished that we got the same 24 you got the same time in the day to where either we could have built together but sometimes people think separation is the best key to go because they feel like they have ownership of their own.
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Right.
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When most successful people have ownership within a group of people facts you feel me so it's like that be the suck of shit that fucks up a lot of black culture a lot of Hispanics picked in it.
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Yeah you feel me they grew from the shit and they understand it you know what I'm saying because they used to not having shit and they stick to each other to have something we always blame something on what the white man did but when we sold ourselves to these people you feel me so it's like a lot of my closest friends besides the people that I've been knowing like yourself are others and they help me faster than somebody who look like me.
01:05:52.160 --> 01:06:07.840
So it'd be like why do we keep putting out different ores of things about other amnificies when a lot of these people are willing to go faster than the people who look like you when we move into neighborhoods it be the nigga who look like you want to see who you about and what you about before these other people do.
01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:16.960
And it's fucked up I can I even gotta be a nigga who grind it but a nigga want to touch your temperature because you move into their neighborhood but they don't do this shit to the others though.
01:06:17.200 --> 01:06:37.840
No they could be selling nigga nigga the biggest the biggest shit but a motherfucker see you come move over here with a new car got a couple little cute family members and some more shit now it's kind of like who's bro yeah they must be getting it I could have been just been working and I know how to stack my money to make it look like it Came from the D-Boy game.
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:38.240
Exactly.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Exactly.
01:06:39.520 --> 01:06:39.760
Exactly.
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Motherfuckers just don't tune to understand that shit because we we quick to judge books by his covers.
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For sure.
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Without reading them.
01:06:46.640 --> 01:06:47.200
For sure.
01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:48.000
For sure.
01:06:48.240 --> 01:06:49.280
That's a fact.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's a fact, bruh.
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And it's a daily game, bruh.
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Just like I mean, like it goes back to, you know what I'm saying, the youngster in the laundromat.
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What you doing in here and washing your clothes, man?
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I know you got the paper, you got the number one song.
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Nigga, that don't mean that.
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But it's designed to make you feel like we're larger than life.
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Man, we we go through phases.
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Yeah.
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That's crazy too, bruh, because I remember when I was in my rap stage, bruh.
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Me having a wife, serious, family, and all this shit.
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And I used to be scared, actually, to wear my ring because of images what motherfuckers had to portray to the media.
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You feel me?
01:07:35.520 --> 01:07:37.280
Again, we come from that era.
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We come from that era where being single sold more than you being married.
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Married.
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Facts.
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We come from that era.
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Now they don't motherfuckers give a fuck.
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Right.
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You make good, you make, if you're a dope artist, you're a dope artist.
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Motherfuckers don't care.
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You know what I'm saying?
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They sometimes, I think they they champion that more now.
01:07:59.360 --> 01:07:59.760
Facts.
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They won't, they want you in a relationship.
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Yeah.
01:08:02.240 --> 01:08:03.760
The fucked up part, bro.
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I remember being so discouraged by that shit and getting into serious arguments at them times, too, like you're saying, bro, trying to figure out.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because it's just like, damn.
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We get caught in the phase of living these different lifestyles in one.
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You feel me?
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:24.960
Because the aura of what we want these people to accept us in.
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You know what I'm saying?
01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:34.239
So it's like you put this light out, they start accepting this light, but it's like, like we were saying, it's the image.
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They ain't people, motherfuckers at the time, we didn't know that you had to turn it on to turn it off.
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Motherfuckers always thought you had to keep it on.
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:45.439
Gotta keep that motherfucker on at all times, baby.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But not knowing that the forefathers and people that's doing it amongst us and around us, that's really the anarchy is nigga, they turning it off.
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Yes.
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Yes.
01:08:57.360 --> 01:08:58.000
You feel me?
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:05.840
And we still, and they looking like now that that's real talk.
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:07.600
Now that's real talk.
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Tell you they sipping this.
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They smoking that.
01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:14.079
Poppin' this.
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Nigga didn't put his kid in private school.
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He's gonna even hang around black kids and smoke shit.
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Like.
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Don't do no drugs at all.
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Nah.
01:09:25.280 --> 01:09:26.640
No substance.
01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:33.360
But this the illusion that we create amongst the culture to sell our own people out.
01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:39.840
But then we blame it onto the other people because they offer you a contract of number that you never even heard before.
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And that's always gonna be, that's always gonna be.
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I hope it changed one day.
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:47.920
I hope it changed in my lifetime, our lifetime.
01:09:48.079 --> 01:09:50.720
But that's always gonna be the downfall.
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When you throw that bag in a motherfucker's face.
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I think everybody, I think everybody, every black person in this world, we didn't touch the million dollars.
01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:02.720
For sure.
01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:04.000
We touched a million dollars.
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More than once.
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More than once.
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But we never had a million dollars in the world.
01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:15.680
But the crazy part, bro, to add on to that shit, most millionaires haven't either.
01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:16.640
That's real.
01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:19.520
They have it in credit, but they don't have it in physical credit.
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Right, right, right.
01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:28.560
And that's why people, you know what I'm saying, when they be talking about the wages and all of that shit, and your annual and all of that shit.
01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:37.039
Yeah, it's like you said, we we didn't touch it so many times, but it's kind of hard for a motherfucker to have that shit in physical.
01:10:37.600 --> 01:10:42.800
So having it equity, having it stocks and bonds and trust and all of that.
01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:49.360
The biggest form, the quickest form today of becoming a millionaire is to go get a million-dollar insurance policy.
01:10:49.520 --> 01:10:50.320
For sure.
01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:50.960
For sure.
01:10:51.440 --> 01:11:00.800
And it's easy to game to anybody that's on the live stream, that's on here listening to it with the podcast directly, so y'all can pick up this information, right?
01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:01.600
For sure.
01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:06.159
You want to be any forms of a hundred thousand years to a millionaire.
01:11:06.480 --> 01:11:10.320
The quickest form of that is to get life insurance.
01:11:10.480 --> 01:11:12.079
That's whole life that passes.
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IUL.
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You feel me?
01:11:14.240 --> 01:11:15.600
It's whole purpose behind it.
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:17.840
And it's not to wish death upon yourself.
01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:27.039
Us as African Americans, you feel me, as Moors, Moroccan people, you feel me, Hebrew people, you feel me, gotta understand at the end of the day, bro.
01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:34.240
When somebody telling you or trying to teach you about life insurance, that is to help you while you're alive.
01:11:34.480 --> 01:11:35.360
For sure.
01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:36.240
For sure.
01:11:36.400 --> 01:11:47.440
Majority of these Fortune 500 companies that we know of, the Walmarts, you feel me, the actual Walt Disneys and things like that, they were created through life insurance.
01:11:48.480 --> 01:11:56.800
So they got this shit to where you can pull percentages off of your shit where you can start businesses just like these other people.
01:11:56.880 --> 01:12:02.240
But if you have the lack of knowledge on this information, you will tune out to do these things.
01:12:02.320 --> 01:12:02.480
Right.
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:05.119
And that's why our people don't do these things.
01:12:05.360 --> 01:12:07.520
Even with these contracts that people sign.
01:12:08.320 --> 01:12:17.920
You can go do a self-investment loan to yourself and lower the interest down because all they do is go get you a high interest rate contract.
01:12:18.400 --> 01:12:24.560
That's how people be paying two to three times into their contract because it's the interest that you and perpetuity.
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:26.800
The perpetuity ain't nothing but interest.
01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:28.480
They just put a new word for it.
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:29.280
You know what I'm saying?
01:12:29.360 --> 01:12:31.520
Instead of saying interest, because people know what interest is.
01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:32.640
So they put perpetuity.
01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:34.720
Perpetuity interest is the same thing.
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:37.760
And it's un in perpetuity is unlimited.
01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:38.480
Yes.
01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:43.840
Because it can be from if I put a hundred thousand, I can want a hundred million.
01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:44.640
Yeah.
01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:52.400
Because I gave you the green light to open up this door that opened up this pipeline.
01:12:52.560 --> 01:12:54.480
So now I need all of this back in some.
01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:57.840
Because you wouldn't have A, B, C, and, D.
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:00.640
Come on.
01:13:01.199 --> 01:13:02.320
360.
01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:05.920
Nigga, we'll give you, yeah, we'll give you, we'll give you two million.
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:07.280
We'll give you five.
01:13:07.440 --> 01:13:08.320
Fuck it.
01:13:09.360 --> 01:13:12.159
But you, in order to get to five, you gotta sign as 360.
01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:16.560
And if a nigga sign you for five, he wants 15 back.
01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:17.680
Easy.
01:13:18.480 --> 01:13:19.199
Easy.
01:13:19.360 --> 01:13:22.560
And if you don't, you're gonna be his slave shelf for the rest of your life.
01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:23.039
Easy.
01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:25.760
And these people don't know that because the love of greed.
01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:29.199
Money is the biggest greed of all evil to all mankind of people.
01:13:29.360 --> 01:13:29.760
For sure.
01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:31.840
That's why we all fall in victim.
01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:32.960
You know what I'm saying?
01:13:33.119 --> 01:13:36.000
Oh, nigga put a dollar amount on your selfie.
01:13:36.079 --> 01:13:41.600
Yourself as a purse value should never have no mountain number that a motherfucker can buy you out for.
01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:47.520
But again, it's hard to tell a nigga that if they ain't never seen a million in cash in one time.
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:48.400
Facts.
01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:51.360
I mean, I had to look at that shit, right?
01:13:52.320 --> 01:13:57.199
I didn't hear people, oh bro, you give us the many episodes, we could do this or do that.
01:13:57.280 --> 01:14:02.720
And I just started thinking, like, nigga, I can do all this shit.
01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:12.240
Motherfuckers, this would be letting me know that millionaires and multimillionaires are people who sign contracts.
01:14:12.320 --> 01:14:15.440
They can't do as and was told because they're under an oath.
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:15.920
Yeah.
01:14:16.079 --> 01:14:16.560
Yeah.
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:17.440
Yep.
01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:21.119
Yeah, they have the collateral and all of that extra shit.
01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:26.320
But once you sign this documentation, you might got 20 M's.
01:14:26.480 --> 01:14:28.480
Nigga, you can't go start your own podcast.
01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:30.079
Absolutely not, nigga.
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:32.240
You gonna do what the fuck we tell you to do.
01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:36.240
We taking ownership for your shit for the next five years.
01:14:36.480 --> 01:14:37.440
Yeah, it's your shit, though.
01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:39.039
You front face, yeah, it's your shit.
01:14:39.920 --> 01:14:43.199
But on this backhead, on this work, yeah.
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:44.640
You are a bitch, nigga.
01:14:44.800 --> 01:14:45.280
Yeah.
01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:47.600
And these that's what people don't understand.
01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:53.680
And that's why I thank God for giving me that willpower as a man to keep pushing forward to understand, bro.
01:14:53.840 --> 01:14:54.240
For sure.
01:14:54.480 --> 01:14:56.800
You can make shit happen if you use your mind.
01:14:57.039 --> 01:14:57.680
For sure.
01:14:57.840 --> 01:14:58.320
For sure.
01:14:58.480 --> 01:14:59.280
You know what I'm saying?
01:14:59.440 --> 01:15:00.240
For sure.
01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:06.400
And you really, you really have to, you really have to really believe in yourself.
01:15:06.640 --> 01:15:16.159
Really, really, like, and I'm not saying just believe in yourself, like, oh, you know, so I can do it and by, and nigga, and you you feel like you got a little bit of doubt that you can't.
01:15:16.480 --> 01:15:19.360
Nah, you really gotta believe in yourself, nigga.
01:15:19.440 --> 01:15:22.159
Even when it shit seemed like it's not working, oh no, it's gonna work.
01:15:22.480 --> 01:15:22.640
Right.
01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:24.240
You know what I mean?
01:15:24.320 --> 01:15:29.600
Because that that little doubt, that little doubt will kill all that shit.
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:35.760
All the hard work that you didn't put in, all the hard work that you had anticipated to put in.
01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:44.560
All that shit that's on that white on that whiteboard that you had that you're gonna do in 30 days or or or six months, that little doubt.
01:15:46.480 --> 01:15:49.520
Now that shit didn't take now that shit took a year and a half.
01:15:51.520 --> 01:15:52.800
Added another year and a half.
01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:54.159
Add another year and a half.
01:15:54.400 --> 01:15:55.360
Just off that little dot.
01:15:55.600 --> 01:15:58.640
So you really, really, really have to believe in yourself.
01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:00.720
Because everybody ain't gonna believe in it.
01:16:01.039 --> 01:16:02.159
They don't see the vision.
01:16:02.320 --> 01:16:05.360
It's like putting, you know what I'm saying, it's like putting the old school together, right?
01:16:05.840 --> 01:16:07.039
You got this, you know what I'm saying?
01:16:07.119 --> 01:16:08.880
I remember when I bought when I bought my box, right?
01:16:09.039 --> 01:16:10.159
I had a box shavvy.
01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:15.199
And that motherfucker, you know what I'm saying, it was the paint was all fucked up and shit.
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:16.079
You know what I mean?
01:16:16.320 --> 01:16:18.159
The paint was all fucked up and shit, right?
01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:20.800
And I'm like, man, this motherfucker about to be clean.
01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:26.480
Mom's was like, well, you got this raggedy ass car, get this raggedy ass car out from front of my house.
01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:37.280
But nigga, when I put money into it, I got the got the beat, I got the beat hug, got my 415s in that motherfucker, got my motherfucking shit sprayed, felt whitening hubs.
01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:38.960
That motherfucker was a beauty.
01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:42.240
I seen the vision already, but everybody ain't gonna see that.
01:16:43.199 --> 01:16:48.800
And you can't let them, because it's gonna be some motherfuckers as loud as fuck with their doubts.
01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:51.520
I'm talking about loud as fuck.
01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:54.159
They don't see it like nigga, you nah, this ain't gonna work.
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:56.480
You gotta do it like this.
01:16:56.720 --> 01:16:59.199
You gotta do it like how such and such is doing it.
01:16:59.360 --> 01:17:01.119
They're gonna give you all that shit.
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:05.039
But you really have to believe in yourself.
01:17:05.360 --> 01:17:06.320
Nah, facts.
01:17:06.480 --> 01:17:08.000
You know what I'm saying?
01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:09.520
That's real.
01:17:09.680 --> 01:17:13.360
And the crazy part that you say that, bro, I remember them days, bro.
01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:24.800
I remember when we was flipping box shells and delts and Yary and Rama to me and nigga, we was hitting the east and side shows.
01:17:25.199 --> 01:17:26.480
Tear that motherfucker up.
01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:29.440
Well, like, tearing that motherfucker.
01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:30.320
It's crazy, bro.
01:17:30.400 --> 01:17:34.640
You just brought back so many memories for you just saying that little bitch of peace.
01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:35.440
You feel me?
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:38.880
Like, that shit crazy, bruh.
01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:40.240
I remember that shit, bro.
01:17:40.320 --> 01:17:42.079
Like it was yesterday, bruh.
01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:51.440
Like, we some of them first niggas that put piece to course together, besides the OG niggas that was already clean.
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:52.240
Right, right, right.
01:17:52.560 --> 01:17:57.920
The Marlowe's and them, they was already clean, because we was looking up to them niggas like, bruh, niggas gotta come, bruh.
01:17:58.079 --> 01:17:58.560
For sure.
01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:07.600
But when we came down there as a collective of niggas and all them motherfucking niggas, we bringing them boxes out to the east, nigga.
01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:09.840
Oh man.
01:18:10.400 --> 01:18:11.520
Yeah, man.
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:16.159
Like, yeah, that shit, like, you know what I'm saying?
01:18:16.240 --> 01:18:17.680
Like, it was just like real.
01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:20.640
We were adding, we added different shit.
01:18:20.720 --> 01:18:27.600
Cause remember, like the OGs before us, it was true and vogues, 50 spokes, 100 spokes, right?
01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:30.079
Vogue, vogue ties, you know what I'm saying?
01:18:30.240 --> 01:18:33.199
That was, that was, you was the cleanest.
01:18:33.360 --> 01:18:36.159
We was putting gold things on regular low profiles.
01:18:36.320 --> 01:18:38.560
Nigga, regular low profiles, nigga.
01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:42.880
We came through with the doves on them motherfuckers, the 22s on them motherfuckers.
01:18:42.960 --> 01:18:46.159
We actually started putting rims on box shit.
01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:47.440
Yeah.
01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:49.520
For sure.
01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:52.079
Changed the whole motherfucking game.
01:18:52.320 --> 01:18:54.880
Changed the whole fucking game.
01:18:55.119 --> 01:18:56.800
Cause before then, that's all we knew.
01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:57.840
Straight wires.
01:18:58.000 --> 01:18:58.800
Straight wires.
01:18:59.199 --> 01:19:00.240
You was clean, nigga.
01:19:00.320 --> 01:19:03.280
You was at the top of being the cleanest if you had wires.
01:19:03.360 --> 01:19:08.960
Bro, I remember when niggas was wearing, having 14s and 16s and 15s on boxes, nigga.
01:19:09.199 --> 01:19:09.760
On box yeah.
01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:13.680
Big ass big body corny on some little ass gold things, nigga.
01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:14.079
Yep.
01:19:14.240 --> 01:19:15.039
Them niggas came up.
01:19:15.360 --> 01:19:17.280
And that was big duds back then.
01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:20.640
Nigga, you had 16, nigga, you spent something chunky.
01:19:21.039 --> 01:19:27.600
Bruh, I remember when we first got the line and niggas told us that the nigga in Brentwood had the gold things, bruh.
01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:29.440
It was You talking about the dubs?
01:19:29.760 --> 01:19:32.720
Yes, you remember when the nigga had the wires, nigga.
01:19:32.880 --> 01:19:33.199
Yes, sir.
01:19:33.360 --> 01:19:39.520
I remember, I remember when we went out there, bruh, and that nigga had that motherfucking, it was like a gas station, bruh.
01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:39.840
Yeah.
01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:42.560
That nigga had all the motherfucking rims, nigga.
01:19:42.720 --> 01:19:44.960
Niggas like, bruh, how much?
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:47.199
Niggas say 1600.
01:19:47.360 --> 01:19:48.880
That was 1600, nigga.
01:19:49.840 --> 01:19:51.920
Back then, nigga, yeah.
01:19:52.159 --> 01:19:54.320
That was like$5,000 back then.
01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:55.039
You feel me?
01:19:55.119 --> 01:19:59.520
Nigga, we was we was getting the old schools back then for nigga fully whipped.
01:19:59.760 --> 01:20:00.800
$1,500 nigga.
01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.640
That motherfucker candy painted on wheels, whipped like all this shit.
01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:05.280
Yep.
01:20:05.440 --> 01:20:09.039
Like niggas, six to six hundred to a thousand was gonna have you right.
01:20:09.280 --> 01:20:11.680
And it's like damn, like many.
01:20:11.920 --> 01:20:14.400
You might have had to do a little cosmetic shit here and there.
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:15.199
Little shit.
01:20:15.440 --> 01:20:15.920
Little shit.
01:20:16.079 --> 01:20:20.880
You feel we might gotta change the fucking Cadillac converter or you know what I'm saying?
01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:22.079
Some some little shit.
01:20:22.640 --> 01:20:23.280
It's some little shit.
01:20:23.360 --> 01:20:24.800
You might need to change, might need to change the colour.
01:20:28.960 --> 01:20:33.360
But the thing, but 1600, nigga, let you spend 2,000, nigga.
01:20:33.440 --> 01:20:34.720
You don't really have to do it.
01:20:34.880 --> 01:20:36.800
Ooh, nigga, you was stupid clean.
01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:38.159
You stupid clean.
01:20:38.320 --> 01:20:40.560
All you gotta do is go get your own rims.
01:20:42.480 --> 01:20:44.400
I finna have the velocities, nigga.
01:20:44.480 --> 01:20:47.360
Velocity, nigga, was like, we gotta die wild, nigga.
01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:48.720
Oh yeah, stupid clean.
01:20:49.360 --> 01:20:51.280
I'm talking about stupid clean.
01:20:51.680 --> 01:20:52.960
Stupid clean.
01:20:53.119 --> 01:20:58.640
That was a time though, like, like our like our era really, like, you know, saying, like, changed the game.
01:20:58.800 --> 01:21:07.520
Like, cause we was blending the old school and bringing that new school shit into we blend those motherfuckers together.
01:21:07.920 --> 01:21:10.159
Old school was just old school.
01:21:11.920 --> 01:21:23.760
But we came and ushered in like, like how, like, like how when motherfuckers started blending R ⁇ B with rap, that's what we was when it came to that particular car culture and shit like that.
01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:26.240
And then we started blending in that old school.
01:21:26.320 --> 01:21:29.280
Okay, we're I'm gonna take this old school, I'm gonna take this flavor from this, boom.
01:21:29.360 --> 01:21:31.199
But I'm about to throw these doves on this bitch.
01:21:31.280 --> 01:21:33.520
I'm about to throw these 22s on this bitch.
01:21:33.760 --> 01:21:34.480
That's crazy.
01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:37.280
You just said something that was hella valuable, right?
01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:44.560
The rapping in the RB, right?
01:21:46.480 --> 01:21:50.400
How do you feel about the rap?
01:21:52.240 --> 01:22:04.640
Took a point to where the auto tune took over the RB as the artist to wear kind of cute the singing of an actual RB singer out the game, bruh.
01:22:06.640 --> 01:22:14.079
Um how do I feel about it?
01:22:17.199 --> 01:22:18.800
Let me be honest with you, blood.
01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:21.520
I don't really feel a way about it.
01:22:23.440 --> 01:22:29.520
Because RB niggas followed that trend.
01:22:30.400 --> 01:22:34.880
So it just it just put that shit it just put that shit in the rapper niggas favor.
01:22:36.320 --> 01:22:43.119
Once we started following that trend, auto-tune, now we in they now we in their field.
01:22:43.199 --> 01:22:57.600
If we would've just stuck to what we known to do is sing, nigga give us ballads, get you know saying, you know, make some real hardfelt songs and we're real motherfucking vocals, then they still would have been a separation.
01:23:00.480 --> 01:23:13.039
But because that but because that bag motherfuckers waving that bag in the motherfucker's face, you're gonna do what what they tell you to do so you can try to get that bag.
01:23:13.119 --> 01:23:15.440
So now they're telling you, oh, we want you to sound like this.
01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:17.280
That bag, bruh.
01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:19.039
Make a record like this.
01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:22.800
This is what this is what the kids, this is what the people is listening to.
01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:24.480
So you need to make a record like this.
01:23:28.240 --> 01:23:39.039
So that's what now that's why we don't we don't even have we damn near don't even have a fucking R and B genre no more or a rap genre no more, because all that shit is blended together.
01:23:39.280 --> 01:23:40.880
It's blended together, bro.
01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:44.400
I can't even tell you, I can't even tell you.
01:23:46.320 --> 01:23:48.400
Uh an actual rapper.
01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:53.039
Nah, I take that back.
01:23:53.199 --> 01:23:57.520
It's a it's a it's a coup, it's a it's a few niggas, it's a few niggas that's still getting and getting that shit off.
01:23:57.840 --> 01:24:02.240
But for the most part, at one point, nigga, all you heard was singing.
01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:04.400
And these was from rappers.
01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:05.920
That's it.
01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:08.720
That's it.
01:24:08.880 --> 01:24:09.840
That's it.
01:24:10.400 --> 01:24:11.600
Fuck, bro.
01:24:12.320 --> 01:24:14.800
It for sure killed the culture, you feel me?
01:24:14.880 --> 01:24:23.840
And it's fucked up because you have people like was pushing the deaf or auto-tune towards people like T-Pain, and T Pain actually could sing.
01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:24.880
He really could sing.
01:24:25.280 --> 01:24:26.480
That nigga can sing.
01:24:26.640 --> 01:24:30.640
And that's like, it's fucked up because like I go back to show what we were saying earlier.
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:32.800
We our own people hurt our own people, bruh.
01:24:32.960 --> 01:24:33.440
For sure.
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:41.280
Instead of uplifting our brothers when we seen Roger Trappman and other people do it before us, it's like, bruh, why wouldn't we keep that or going?
01:24:41.440 --> 01:24:44.320
We should have kept fighting for him.
01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:46.400
We should've, you know what I'm saying?
01:24:47.280 --> 01:24:55.039
The fucked up part, bruh, is like we keep doing this shit time at the time, but who was we building time at the time?
01:24:57.119 --> 01:24:58.000
You know what I'm saying?
01:24:58.079 --> 01:25:03.600
Like, we doing more breaking each other down than we doing uplifting each other when we need each other at the at this moment.
01:25:03.920 --> 01:25:04.880
You know what I'm saying?
01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:12.079
Like, and that's fucked up because a lot of times we don't understand each other until we gone away from each other.
01:25:12.320 --> 01:25:13.119
Facts.
01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:14.320
Facts.
01:25:14.720 --> 01:25:28.159
You know, just like how the Bay Area tunes to show so much love and aura for Mack Dre that he's gone, but it's just like, damn, well, he got a lot of love when he was here, but it's just like the love that you get when you're not here no more is crazy, bro.
01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:29.760
It shit amplified.
01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:33.520
I remember that shit vividly.
01:25:33.920 --> 01:25:36.480
When he was here, don't get me wrong.
01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:38.560
Motherfuckers loved him.
01:25:39.440 --> 01:25:44.800
And it because it was my n it was my nigga, it was my nigga Steve that put me on to the new Mac Dre.
01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:46.960
The Thears Mac Dre, right?
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:49.039
I didn't I didn't know nothing about the Thears Mac Dre.
01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:52.480
I knew Mac Dre hard so hard for the fucking radio Mac Dre.
01:25:52.800 --> 01:25:56.159
I knew Young Black Brother Mac Dre, right?
01:25:56.480 --> 01:25:58.240
When the nigga was actually rapping.
01:25:58.960 --> 01:26:03.199
And then when it came with the Thears shit, I was like, what the fuck is this?
01:26:03.360 --> 01:26:04.720
I ain't gonna even I ain't gonna even lie to you.
01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:05.680
I'm like, what the fuck is this?
01:26:05.760 --> 01:26:12.159
It wasn't until my nigga Steve put me on and the nigga let me hear not my job.
01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:13.039
Right?
01:26:14.240 --> 01:26:15.680
That nigga played not my job.
01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:17.199
I was like, oh, okay, all right.
01:26:17.360 --> 01:26:19.440
This nigga talking, this nigga on here talking.
01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:20.000
Right?
01:26:20.320 --> 01:26:26.640
But even then, you had spurts of people fucking with Drake.
01:26:26.960 --> 01:26:27.280
Yeah.
01:26:27.600 --> 01:26:28.560
You know what I mean?
01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:35.119
Like, at least when I was outside, I must hear, I wasn't hearing no Mac Drake on the strip.
01:26:36.320 --> 01:26:36.560
Yeah.
01:26:37.039 --> 01:26:37.520
Three times.
01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:38.960
Three times hella key.
01:26:39.199 --> 01:26:40.640
Nigga, you heard hella key.
01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:41.920
Hella Keek.
01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:43.760
Hella Keek.
01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:44.560
You know what I'm saying?
01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:46.400
So that was Yeah.
01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:50.240
So you know, that was what was nigga was playing on this side.
01:26:50.400 --> 01:26:51.039
Yeah.
01:26:51.680 --> 01:27:00.000
But once he passed, then that nigga just, his, that shit just amplified every way.
01:27:00.640 --> 01:27:03.920
And it's very unfortunate that niggas gotta die for to get to get that love.
01:27:04.079 --> 01:27:05.280
Yeah, that love, bruh.
01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:10.000
And that's why, and that's why these labels, that's why these labels be putting life insurances on these artists and that.
01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:15.680
They gonna get their m- They gonna get their money one way or another.
01:27:16.960 --> 01:27:21.520
And that's why our people need to be in tune about that shit now.
01:27:21.760 --> 01:27:22.320
Exactly.
01:27:22.560 --> 01:27:28.480
Don't wait till you on your deathbed to be feeling like nigga you ain't got it, but then when this this label comes cashing out on your ass.
01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:29.600
Cashing out on your ass.
01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:33.360
And then it ain't, they not giving your family no motherfucking money to bury you.
01:27:33.440 --> 01:27:36.159
Now you gotta do, now you gotta do fish plates and all the shit.
01:27:36.320 --> 01:27:42.240
You know what I'm saying, to come up with this money to send this cat off the right way.
01:27:42.400 --> 01:27:45.600
And if not, nah, you know what I'm saying, now, you know, nigga got cremated.
01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:47.280
Something that you ain't even wanna do.
01:27:47.440 --> 01:27:49.280
Or you gotta put up a go for me.
01:27:50.480 --> 01:27:52.960
So I got like two more questions for you.
01:27:53.199 --> 01:27:54.159
Yes, sir.
01:27:55.680 --> 01:27:58.880
Well, coming back, came back with a new record.
01:28:00.800 --> 01:28:03.199
What mind state you was in when you came back?
01:28:03.360 --> 01:28:10.800
Because when you came back, you showed you came back again almost like a I can't stand you, but you showing love to the whole fucking bay.
01:28:12.159 --> 01:28:18.560
What made you wanting to come back on that or instead of coming back on some this is personal this time?
01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:22.800
Honestly, bro.
01:28:25.840 --> 01:28:29.199
The music made me write that record.
01:28:29.840 --> 01:28:32.320
The music, the beat made me write that record.
01:28:32.640 --> 01:28:34.480
Shout out again, my brother Mark Garvey.
01:28:34.560 --> 01:28:35.760
He produced that record.
01:28:37.119 --> 01:28:40.560
When I heard it, I'm like, this motherfucker hard, right?
01:28:41.440 --> 01:28:45.440
And I was like I was just writing to it at the crib, man.
01:28:45.600 --> 01:28:47.039
I got I got a little setup at the house.
01:28:47.199 --> 01:28:48.320
I'm just writing to it.
01:28:49.039 --> 01:28:51.600
And then it was like, let me introduce myself.
01:28:51.920 --> 01:28:57.199
Because again, I it's a generation that don't that don't even know who the fuck I am.
01:28:59.119 --> 01:28:59.280
Yeah.
01:28:59.760 --> 01:29:00.960
Can't put the face with the music.
01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:02.800
They can't put the face to the music.
01:29:03.199 --> 01:29:09.760
So that's why I was like, all right, this will be a this'll be a cool introduction back into the game.
01:29:10.079 --> 01:29:11.360
You know, back into the scene.
01:29:12.400 --> 01:29:15.760
Let me reintroduce myself to the same to the to the people.
01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:16.800
You know what I mean?
01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:25.280
And just being, you know, just reminiscing on how the bay used to be.
01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:27.840
You know what I mean?
01:29:28.000 --> 01:29:28.960
How the bay used to be.
01:29:29.280 --> 01:29:37.280
Like we used to have those records where niggas was shouting out, you know what I'm saying, Frisco, the town, Vallejo, Pittsburgh, you know what I'm saying?
01:29:37.360 --> 01:29:40.159
Like we had those records that was showing the bait love.
01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:42.079
And we ain't got those no more.
01:29:42.159 --> 01:29:46.560
So I'm like, man, let me just let me tap into that old school man, you know, to show the bait love.
01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:55.840
Cause they you know when you know, when I was fully into the into the music, you know, doing these shows all through the through the Bay Area, they all show the nigga love.
01:29:55.920 --> 01:30:02.800
San Jose, Motherfucker EPA, fucking Padaloma, and going all these Setastable and all that shit.
01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:03.360
You know what I'm saying?
01:30:03.440 --> 01:30:04.880
They they showing the nigga love.
01:30:05.199 --> 01:30:08.159
So why not show him not show him some love back, man?
01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:14.640
So that was, you know, that was my mindset getting back into the game.
01:30:16.400 --> 01:30:29.199
Reason they're getting back into the games was for some odd reason it was a it was a flux of videos of the clubs playing can't stand you.
01:30:29.280 --> 01:30:35.119
Like it was just for some odd reason it just kind of just yeah, out of nowhere.
01:30:35.360 --> 01:30:36.640
Blood mind, I'm nigga.
01:30:36.720 --> 01:30:38.000
I'm I ain't doing shit.
01:30:38.159 --> 01:30:41.039
I'm working, you know, living my regular life.
01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:41.600
You know what I'm saying?
01:30:42.240 --> 01:30:42.560
You know what I'm saying?
01:30:42.640 --> 01:30:47.840
She has showed me some shit that her father's dust sent to her being like, these motherfuckers hanging this shit like it just came out, you know what I'm saying?
01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:57.360
And then everybody, you know, I'm starting to see other other clips on IG or you know what I'm saying on Twitter, you know, one from this slapping the record, like it's brand new.
01:30:57.440 --> 01:31:00.000
I'm like, damn, that's crazy, right?
01:31:00.560 --> 01:31:03.360
And then she's just started picking up again, started picking up again.
01:31:03.440 --> 01:31:07.680
I said, man, maybe this is maybe this is a sign.
01:31:08.560 --> 01:31:11.119
Maybe this is a sign for you know for a nigga to get back.
01:31:11.440 --> 01:31:13.119
But I I was still shunning it away.
01:31:13.199 --> 01:31:15.360
Like, uh, they just love the record.
01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:15.840
That's cool.
01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:16.800
I appreciate the love.
01:31:18.400 --> 01:31:21.280
But it started getting louder and louder and louder and louder.
01:31:22.079 --> 01:31:26.720
I was like, Man, I'm talking to my wife at this time.
01:31:26.960 --> 01:31:31.920
Like, what you think about me getting back into the gas?
01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:41.760
She was like, I mean, she's like, like, she was fully supportive, like, you know, if that's what you want to do, I'm I'm 100% behind it.
01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:46.800
She's like, she's like, you know, you really gotta listen.
01:31:47.119 --> 01:31:48.960
If this is what God telling you, you know, you know what I'm saying?
01:31:49.039 --> 01:31:49.520
You can't ignore it.
01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:51.520
You can't ignore it.
01:31:51.600 --> 01:31:53.360
So I'm like, you know what?
01:31:53.600 --> 01:31:56.000
At least let me give it another shot.
01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:58.159
You know, let me give it another shot.
01:31:58.240 --> 01:32:01.680
If it if it don't pay and all shit, it ain't like a motherfucker that's for this job, man.
01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:02.960
I still I still work out.
01:32:03.360 --> 01:32:05.039
I'm we I'm living comfortable.
01:32:05.280 --> 01:32:08.079
So it ain't hurting me to give it another shot.
01:32:08.240 --> 01:32:09.440
You know what I mean?
01:32:10.240 --> 01:32:23.920
You know what sounds dope, though that a lot of people aren't paying attention to You got two brothers that stepped away from the music come together and congregate on a charity.
01:32:24.079 --> 01:32:24.720
Yes, sir.
01:32:25.360 --> 01:32:28.640
And the hook say, I can't shoot one down.
01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:38.720
The crazy part is both of you niggas stepped away, yeah, from the game about the same amount of years.
01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:39.440
Yeah.
01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:40.560
Yeah.
01:32:40.960 --> 01:32:53.760
And to have that collaboration, bruh, with that dope or where niggas swan hammer to the bay and remember how this used to be before niggas had ego tripping and yeah.
01:32:54.240 --> 01:32:54.720
Yeah.
01:32:54.880 --> 01:32:57.280
And that record don't even sound like a bay record.
01:32:57.680 --> 01:32:58.159
Larry.
01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:00.240
That's the beauty of it.
01:33:00.640 --> 01:33:01.039
DJ D.
01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:01.520
Sharp, man.
01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:02.000
Come on.
01:33:02.560 --> 01:33:03.039
DJ D.
01:33:03.119 --> 01:33:04.960
Sharp, man, one of the greatest, man.
01:33:05.199 --> 01:33:05.440
Man.
01:33:05.680 --> 01:33:08.880
Neo, one of the one of the hardest motherfucking spirit that we got, nigga.
01:33:09.280 --> 01:33:10.159
Nah, as of the motherfuckers.
01:33:10.320 --> 01:33:10.400
Come on.
01:33:11.680 --> 01:33:12.240
Come on, man.
01:33:12.320 --> 01:33:14.800
And that's another thing I owe a lot to Neo.
01:33:14.960 --> 01:33:16.240
Because if Excuse me.
01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:19.680
If it wasn't for Neo, I wouldn't have met D.E.O.
01:33:19.840 --> 01:33:21.039
Money always.
01:33:21.360 --> 01:33:22.720
If I would have never met D.E.O.
01:33:22.960 --> 01:33:25.520
Money always, you would have never got King Stange.
01:33:26.320 --> 01:33:27.600
Try working with Sterry.
01:33:28.240 --> 01:33:28.800
Oh, man.
01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:29.600
I owe a lot.
01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:30.720
I owe a lot to Neo.
01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:31.840
That's my brother, man.
01:33:31.920 --> 01:33:32.880
That's my brother, man.
01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:34.320
I owe a lot to that nigga, man.
01:33:34.480 --> 01:33:35.039
For sure.
01:33:35.280 --> 01:33:36.720
Wow, King A T G, man.
01:33:37.119 --> 01:33:37.760
It's a gift, man.
01:33:40.640 --> 01:33:40.960
Yes, sir.
01:33:42.480 --> 01:33:44.880
But you know, like we said, this part of it, man.
01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:48.720
I just want to show my gratitude for just showing your appreciation, bro.
01:33:48.880 --> 01:33:51.440
Thank you for coming back to the game, bro.
01:33:51.600 --> 01:33:58.079
To stepping away, you know, having some mental things to pick and decipher if this is what I want to do again.
01:33:58.240 --> 01:33:58.800
You feel me?
01:33:58.880 --> 01:34:05.360
Because the love and the or that a nigga used to have for made loss, but through God's power, it brought it back to love again.
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:06.240
For sure.
01:34:06.400 --> 01:34:06.720
For sure.
01:34:06.960 --> 01:34:08.880
So it's like, man, thank you for that, bro.
01:34:08.960 --> 01:34:21.039
Thank you for contributing the time and the energy and the patience that you put in your beginning of your career when you were frustrated and didn't know what to do, but you picked the right decision.
01:34:21.360 --> 01:34:27.360
Stepping away, rebranding, refining yourself, giving a time to your family.
01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:28.320
You know what I'm saying?
01:34:28.560 --> 01:34:32.079
Just learning what you as a man really want for you.
01:34:33.360 --> 01:34:38.400
Sometimes we give so much to the culture and to the people that went to give what we really want for ourselves.
01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:39.520
You know what I'm saying?
01:34:39.680 --> 01:34:40.640
So that's a fact.
01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:46.640
The appreciation of that, bro, just saying thank you, bro, for everything that you contribute, bro.
01:34:47.039 --> 01:34:47.440
Thank you, bro.
01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:48.159
A lot of time.
01:34:48.480 --> 01:34:48.800
Thank you.
01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:51.039
Like we were just saying about the dirty situation.
01:34:51.199 --> 01:34:56.320
Niggas don't want to show that gratitude will try life and death to people is gone.
01:34:56.400 --> 01:34:57.199
You know what I'm saying?
01:34:57.760 --> 01:35:05.360
Show the appreciation while the people is here so they can receive their gold bar, so they can smell the fire, so they can feel the gene so they come behind the show.
01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:11.760
I never, I never want to be like a lot of these people that turn to do that.
01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:15.119
They want to go and give their testimony due to on the podium.
01:35:15.280 --> 01:35:19.760
It's like, man, the podium is here while we can visibly hear that shit, while we can't really see it.
01:35:19.920 --> 01:35:23.760
Because when you talk into a shells, the spiritual form, why would it be the spiritual form?
01:35:23.920 --> 01:35:25.039
We can use it a hairline form.
01:35:25.280 --> 01:35:27.920
Yes, I saw when the spiritual form they can really lay to rest.
01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:31.119
Yes, appreciation was appreciated while I remember it was a while.
01:35:31.280 --> 01:35:32.720
Yes, I say, yes, sir.
01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:33.760
You know what I'm saying?
01:35:33.920 --> 01:35:36.240
Thank you, bro, for being always being a friend.
01:35:36.480 --> 01:35:37.440
You feel me?
01:35:37.920 --> 01:35:40.079
A stand-up brother, you know what I'm saying?
01:35:40.320 --> 01:35:42.159
Always being solid and a salad, bro.
01:35:42.400 --> 01:35:42.800
Thank you, bro.
01:35:43.039 --> 01:35:47.840
Never changing, brother, but changing for the best for those to understand who we are as men.
01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:48.320
Yes, sir.
01:35:49.199 --> 01:35:50.079
Thank you for that, bro.
01:35:50.240 --> 01:35:51.840
Man, I think I thank you, man.
01:35:52.000 --> 01:35:53.760
I thank you for always staying solid.
01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:55.600
Like you never, like we never switched up.
01:35:55.680 --> 01:35:57.280
It's always been the same, man.
01:35:57.520 --> 01:36:07.520
And I also want to congratulate you and give you your flowers on all the success that you have going on with all your businesses, man.
01:36:07.920 --> 01:36:16.000
You know, I you know we out all the time, man, but I definitely want to give you your flowers because I've been seeing, you know what I'm saying?
01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:18.880
I've been seeing you and I've been supporting you since day one, you know what I'm saying?
01:36:18.960 --> 01:36:21.039
From when you put your son out, you know what I mean?
01:36:21.199 --> 01:36:21.840
You know what I'm saying?
01:36:22.159 --> 01:36:25.119
Everybody, everybody that you've been putting on, you know what I mean?
01:36:25.280 --> 01:36:26.720
You ain't gotta do that.
01:36:27.360 --> 01:36:28.880
You ain't gotta do that.
01:36:29.280 --> 01:36:31.600
But God put you here for a reason, bro.
01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:36.320
God put you here for a reason, and everything is coming to fruition for man.
01:36:36.720 --> 01:36:39.920
And I just want to get your flowers, you're doing a hell of a job, bro.
01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:41.039
Thank you, bro.
01:36:41.199 --> 01:36:42.480
For sure, for sure, man.
01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:43.760
Thank you, bruh.
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:46.240
Thanks, bro.
01:36:46.320 --> 01:36:47.440
I appreciate that.
01:36:47.680 --> 01:36:49.360
Y'all be on the lookout for this, man.
01:36:49.440 --> 01:36:53.920
We done took this, we done took this podcast to a higher height, man.
01:36:54.400 --> 01:36:57.520
With the blessings, you crave blessings coming to scars, you know what I'm saying?
01:36:57.680 --> 01:36:58.560
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
01:36:59.680 --> 01:37:04.560
We we actually taking the podcast status to a higher level now.
01:37:04.640 --> 01:37:05.600
So, you know what I'm saying?
01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:06.800
We got the TV shit.
01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:13.440
So now y'all will be seeing Wake Your Ass Up Podcast on TV, on Roku and Fire TV.
01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:14.240
You feel our channel.
01:37:14.480 --> 01:37:15.600
So this we're talking about, man.
01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:24.800
Channel 803 and our if y'all want to put the actual, you know, the streaming service part of things on your TV.
01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:25.440
You feel me?
01:37:25.520 --> 01:37:27.440
Look up Wake Your Ass Up TV.
01:37:27.680 --> 01:37:33.199
Well I'm saying, shout out to my dope motherfucking brother, cameraman, extraordinary for the show.
01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:38.320
Westbell Entertainment boss, bro Jack.
01:37:38.400 --> 01:37:39.360
You know what I'm saying?
01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:42.240
Motherfucking Wake Your Ass Up podcast.
01:37:42.400 --> 01:37:42.480
Yeah.
01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:46.320
Motherfucker Destroy Near, Motherfucker, Wake Your Ass Up Production.
01:37:46.640 --> 01:37:47.600
Oh shit, man.
01:37:47.680 --> 01:37:51.840
I wouldn't be able to do half this shit, man, without me and my brother, my team, man.
01:37:52.079 --> 01:37:58.560
Bro Jack, time to time, I put people in position to be able to help them when I can because my brother be booked.
01:37:58.640 --> 01:37:59.280
You see me?
01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:02.800
It's us against the world.
01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:06.000
We've been like this from when I was an artist, so you know what I'm saying?
01:38:06.159 --> 01:38:08.480
We taking this shit to national levels, man.
01:38:08.560 --> 01:38:10.560
If y'all don't know now, y'all know, man.
01:38:10.720 --> 01:38:12.480
Wake your ass up podcast.
01:38:12.560 --> 01:38:15.280
We'll be on TV, Roku TV, yeah.
01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:17.600
Motherfucking Fire TV, man.
01:38:17.840 --> 01:38:18.720
803.
01:38:18.960 --> 01:38:20.960
Lock in the channel 803, man.
01:38:21.280 --> 01:38:22.320
Lock in the next month.
01:38:22.560 --> 01:38:24.480
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01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:27.039
Thank y'all for being a part of our journey, man.
01:38:27.199 --> 01:38:33.119
We have done some beautiful blessings real fast that God only knowing, only making things happen for us.
01:38:33.280 --> 01:38:36.800
So, you know, we're gonna keep taking it to another higher heights.
01:38:36.960 --> 01:38:41.680
Check us out on Apple Podcasts, check us out on YouTube, check us out on the website.
01:38:41.840 --> 01:38:42.480
Yeah.
01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:45.280
Wake your ass up podcast app.
01:38:45.360 --> 01:38:50.480
We have a social media app right now, like Instagram, and it has a podcast connected to it.
01:38:50.560 --> 01:38:53.280
That's the Wake Your Ass Up Podcast app.
01:38:53.520 --> 01:38:56.159
We got the actual TV app itself, too.
01:38:56.400 --> 01:38:58.079
Wake Your Ass Up TV app.
01:38:58.320 --> 01:38:58.800
Feel me?
01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:01.760
So we're just trying to take it to high heights, man.
01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:03.360
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01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:19.840
And shout out to my brother Gatter Boost with Big Fiends, man.
01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:21.760
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Another extraordinary motherfucking guest.
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Another one out the building, man.
01:39:26.240 --> 01:39:28.000
R O D projects, man, Mr.
01:39:28.240 --> 01:39:29.119
I Can't Stand You.
01:39:29.440 --> 01:39:29.920
Yes, sir.
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:30.880
Turn me up.
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Come on, man.
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Turn me up.
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Follow me on Instagram, the Ride Project.
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That's T-H-E-R-O-D underscore project.
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Same thing on X, Facebook, TikTok.
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I'm all over there, man.
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Turn me up on all streaming sites right now.
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Waste your time on all streaming sites.
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Can't stand you still on all streaming sites, man.
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Go run all that shit up, man.
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Come on, man.
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Wake your game up, but don't fuck your name up, right?
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Yeah.