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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 3: Everybody is the d j en Vy Jess hilarious, charlamage

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Speaker 3: the guy. We are the breakfast Club. We got some

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Speaker 3: special guests in the building. Well, I am a table.

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Speaker 4: Welcome fella.

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Speaker 1: What's up? How you feeling it's going to be here?

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Speaker 5: Good to see you, man, y'all got the new record

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Speaker 5: out of East l A.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, talks about that, man.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 7: Obviously we sampled Carlos Santana, so thank you for clearing that.

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Speaker 1: It's been sampled a bunch.

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Speaker 7: But there's a part in the song where he says, uh, Maria,

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Speaker 7: Maria fell in love with East l A. So I

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Speaker 7: just wanted to like highlight that part of the song

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Speaker 7: and shout out the community that's being hit pretty hard

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Speaker 7: by the ice raids. And what's beautiful about that is

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Speaker 7: uh also got it.

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Speaker 1: I also got a.

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Speaker 7: Text from y Cleft saying he's a producer of the song, like, yo,

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Speaker 7: let me get a clip of the video so I

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Speaker 7: could post that. So that that meant a lot. But

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Speaker 7: what's going on in our communities, it's pretty harsh, and

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Speaker 7: I'm all for, you know, making.

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Speaker 1: Sure our borders are safe.

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Speaker 7: But it's just inhumane to go after anybody that looks

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Speaker 7: Latin that you know, there's people that have been detained

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Speaker 7: that are residents and citizens. There was a person who

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Speaker 7: served in our military that has been detained.

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Speaker 1: I just think that's a.

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Speaker 7: Pretty you know, bad execution that took a good idea

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Speaker 7: to turned into a bad idea because they could have

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Speaker 7: been going out to making sure our communities are safer

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Speaker 7: by apprehending, you know, criminals, but to go after hard

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Speaker 7: working folks, people that are working two to three jobs

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Speaker 7: to keep you know, food on their table, their kids

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Speaker 7: going off to four year colleges. I know this firsthand

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Speaker 7: because of the my program, my foundation, the work that

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Speaker 7: we do getting kids to go off to four year colleges.

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Speaker 7: You know, we've witnessed, you know, the fear that's been

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Speaker 7: instilled in our in our neighborhood. So I just wanted

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Speaker 7: to lift up the vibration and celebrate the community.

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Speaker 8: And also as Angelino's born and raised in East Los Angeles,

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Speaker 8: his mom went to Roosevelt High School, my mom went

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Speaker 8: to Guarfield, So there was always this beautiful rivalry, but

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Speaker 8: at the end of the day, it was about uniting

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Speaker 8: and bringing East La together and standing in solidarity with

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Speaker 8: those folks that you know that are crying out for

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Speaker 8: help justice.

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Speaker 2: So what does East La mean to both of you personally?

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Speaker 5: Like, is this record like more of a tribute, is

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Speaker 5: it a time capsule or is it something else?

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Speaker 7: Well, for me, it's a thank you, It's a I

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Speaker 7: see you, I love you. I have a lot of

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Speaker 7: just beautiful memories there. I was born and raised there,

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Speaker 7: spent twenty five years of my life there in the

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Speaker 7: projects dreaming. I was able to move my family, you know,

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Speaker 7: and we migrated out of the projects, but I still

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Speaker 7: you know, loved my neighborhood, my program. I got a

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Speaker 7: robotics program right in the middle of the projects that

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Speaker 7: I'm from. My after school program is right down the

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Speaker 7: street from that. My aunt still works at the Homo

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Speaker 7: shelter there. My uncle still works at the park, you know,

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Speaker 7: keeping the kids off the streets. So although we moved

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Speaker 7: out of the projects, we're still in the heart of

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Speaker 7: the community. So East La is like an ongoing dialogue

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Speaker 7: of commitment dedication to you know, change the vibration of

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Speaker 8: And for me, as a Native Mexican kid from La,

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Speaker 8: you know, It means a lot to be able to

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Speaker 8: not only give back to the community in a sense

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Speaker 8: of championing the idea of solidarity and oneness, but also

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Speaker 8: to be able to wrap in Spanish or Spanglish like

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Speaker 8: that was dope for us, you know, using slang specifically from.

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Speaker 9: East la or Ball Heights.

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Speaker 8: Really loving the vibration and the frequency that is the

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Speaker 8: color and the texture of East Los Angeles, and that's

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Speaker 8: why the video is so colorful.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's crazy.

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Speaker 3: You know, you said something earlier that a lot of

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Speaker 3: people don't necessarily say. You were saying that you're not

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Speaker 3: mad if they're taking criminals off the street, taking people

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Speaker 6: Is that what you're saying.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, like you remembered, during COVID, they did a really

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Speaker 6: Specifically and forced it on most people.

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Speaker 1: But well that's a different subject.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but there was like a where you volunteered and

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Speaker 7: that did that, not a lot portion of the folks

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Speaker 7: undocumented people actually live. They got all the information, but

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Speaker 7: the way that they went about doing it is inhumane.

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Speaker 7: There is a you know, a path that they could

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Speaker 7: have taken to boost our economy by turning undocumented folks

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Speaker 1: Because these folks that.

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Speaker 7: Have these jobs, income taxes are taken from their paycheck.

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Speaker 7: And people in Beverly Hills in Brentwood, they know their

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Speaker 7: services are needed. Altadena and Malible Palisades burned down in

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Speaker 7: reconfiguring these neighborhoods. They know the value of these people's services,

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Speaker 7: and so I just think the way they went about

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Speaker 7: it is horribly wrong. There could have been a better

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Speaker 7: tax that, you know, gave people dignity, gave them the

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Speaker 7: opportunity to become citizens, just the way other countries do.

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Speaker 7: Just to blanket, just go into a neighborhood, mask people

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Speaker 7: right in unmarked vehicles, you're inciting kidnapping because there's.

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Speaker 1: No way to be able like who was that person?

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Speaker 1: You couldn't even you couldn't.

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Speaker 2: Even describe them.

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Speaker 7: You know what car was that You wouldn't even know

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Speaker 7: what if that was a government vehicle. I just think

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Speaker 7: the tactic was just poor, you know. And and it

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Speaker 7: doesn't reflect America's best. It doesn't reflect that sounds like

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Speaker 7: a third world country. That doesn't sound like America.

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Speaker 6: I agree.

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Speaker 5: Why was West Side Story to write song the sample

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Speaker 5: for this record?

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Speaker 1: Oh, because it's at East LA. That's the part.

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Speaker 7: I just love that part. And he said it with

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Speaker 7: so much emotion that I just wanted to highlight that part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I wanted to highlight you know.

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Speaker 7: And and Carlos Santana has always been a hero in

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Speaker 7: the Chicano community me growing up. You know, his brother

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Speaker 7: did an awesome song. Shout out to Kid Frost for

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Speaker 7: sampling his brother's record.

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Speaker 1: You know it's a.

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Speaker 7: It's it's a you know, and absolute Carlos Santana once

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Speaker 7: again for for clearing that record.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it was beautiful to have like the musical

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Speaker 8: transitions from the three to zero, which were used to

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Speaker 8: in East Los Angeles when you're on a date or

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Speaker 8: you're doing something with family, you see three oo's in

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Speaker 8: restaurants and then.

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Speaker 10: To go what is like a like a yes, Okay,

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Speaker 10: so that frequency that you first hear that's a three

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Speaker 10: ozero and the three dudes playing usually at restaurants or

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Speaker 10: you know, at different events, and then to be able

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Speaker 10: to have it go into a transition with Cumbia with

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Speaker 10: the undertone of the hip hop bop as you said,

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Speaker 10: like that's it's really dope.

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Speaker 2: What's the cool was it?

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Speaker 7: Cumbia is a style of music that originated out of

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Speaker 7: Colombia and then a lot of Central American countries have

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Speaker 7: adopted it. Thenald Cumbia's is really awesome. It's it's popular,

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Speaker 7: but originated in Colombia.

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Speaker 1: It's like a.

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Speaker 7: It's like this rhythm, like you know, like I thought this,

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Speaker 7: and you know, trap has a signature rhythm. You know,

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Speaker 7: there's all these house has obviously it has their four

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Speaker 7: that that's a signature rhythm throughout every Cumbia. And so

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Speaker 7: we we wanted to go from a trio to a

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Speaker 7: cumbia because that's what growing up in East La felt like.

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Speaker 7: I grew up in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood which.

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Speaker 2: Was you know, beautiful, The only black family there there was.

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Speaker 1: Like, okay, there was the Hammers, there were.

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Speaker 2: We don't know these people, will.

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Speaker 7: People, the Rose family, the Walkers, my family, which is

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Speaker 7: pretty pretty pretty large, No Canes. Uh, there's about five

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Speaker 7: black families in our neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: But to all the.

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Speaker 7: Mexicans, it was just one black family, you know what

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Speaker 7: I mean.

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Speaker 1: And it was beautiful. It was beautiful growing up there.

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Speaker 6: Oh, people say you said that.

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Speaker 11: People tell you that you're not from Easter Laborature from

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Speaker 11: boy Heights.

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Speaker 2: What's the difference.

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Speaker 7: So growing up was East l A. But then we

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Speaker 7: they like twenty years ago, they specified like we're from

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Speaker 7: Boyle Heights and Boyle Heights. Uh, boyl High it's just

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Speaker 7: you know, just east of downtown, but not as east

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Speaker 1: And these two schools.

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Speaker 7: I think, really you know, define the rivalry between East

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Speaker 7: East LA and Boyle Heights, Roosevelt and Garfield. There's a

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Speaker 7: lot of like, uh, as far as the vibe, it's

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Speaker 7: the same as far as like, but the high schools,

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Speaker 7: the gangs are totally totally different. But to to East

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Speaker 7: Siders it's all one thing. But then there's there's a

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Speaker 7: lot of people that's gonna be listening, watching this, so

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Speaker 7: I have to be super careful to be like Willie's

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Speaker 7: Boyle Heights food gonna be given of, you know, separating

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Speaker 7: us or like same world together. But right now we're

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Speaker 7: all together. Right now, we're all together, right you want to.

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Speaker 3: You know, we talk about, you know, black in the

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Speaker 3: Latin culture a lot, especially in New York, right is different.

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Speaker 3: It's more Puerto Rican Dominicans, right, And I'm not Dominican,

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Speaker 3: I'm black, he saysn't.

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Speaker 1: You look Dominican.

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Speaker 6: Everybody said, I'm not. I'm fully black.

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Speaker 3: But you know, growing up, it was kind of like

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Speaker 3: it was when I say us verse there and not

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Speaker 3: us as in it was the blacks, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans.

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Speaker 6: We stood together. We stuck together, right, We clubbed, we

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Speaker 6: partied together.

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Speaker 3: It was against So it's nothing to hear somebody Puerto

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Speaker 3: Rican say nigga.

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Speaker 6: You know that's my nigga. That's that. That's to the

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Speaker 6: ever So a Mexican ot recently said that people had

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Speaker 6: a problem with it.

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Speaker 3: It's different here because we didn't grow up with the

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Speaker 3: Mexican community. We grew up with Puerto Rican Dominicans. So

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Speaker 3: say Fat Joe saying nigga was never a problem j

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Speaker 3: Loo saying it. We didn't think, oh my god, it

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Speaker 3: was how we grew up, especially in Bronx, queens Brook

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Speaker 3: and whatever. How is it growing up in LA Because

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Speaker 3: people were disturbed by that one time.

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Speaker 6: But I'm like, that might be the same thing as

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Speaker 6: how we grew up here.

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Speaker 1: It depends, Like.

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Speaker 7: Nathaniels, they say they drop in bombs all the time people,

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Speaker 7: So the northern California and California and you know Richmond

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Speaker 7: and they embomb all the time. Daniels, southern southern Cali,

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Speaker 7: they don't really do that.

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Speaker 9: Was like yo, hip hop brought us together. It was

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Speaker 9: So I got a lot of flat like, hey, you're

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Speaker 9: And that's that that connection that I had growing up.

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Speaker 7: If you listen to like songs like it, he says,

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Speaker 1: It was like wise Black Eyed Peace different were like we.

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Speaker 8: And it was dope being able to drop Spanish versus

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Speaker 8: Okay said it's the offer. You Spanish tongue is spinaking true.

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Speaker 8: That was like you've been talking that ship.

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Speaker 4: You don't know what he says.

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Speaker 1: I could have said this ship sucks.

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Speaker 9: This shows.

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Speaker 7: We would always we would always be like yo time,

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Speaker 7: Like that's it's really like hone into our individuality cultural differences.

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Speaker 7: You know, like you the Latin native dude. You know

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Speaker 1: And you know that's.

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Speaker 7: That's why Black Eyed Peas is like super international.

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Speaker 9: Just be white like you.

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Speaker 7: Before before we even Matt Fred before you mat fraid

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Speaker 1: Not the way she said, and that was funny.

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Speaker 7: But our biggest audience outside of the not we're more

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Speaker 7: We have more success.

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Speaker 1: In Mexico than the States really really.

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Speaker 7: Like yeah, yeah, like we could play like multiple stadiums

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Speaker 2: That's in our mind.

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Speaker 5: Black Eyed Peas was just big and that's all your

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Speaker 1: Yeahah, outside of America.

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Speaker 6: Wow, I don't know why I could have sworn they

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Speaker 6: did the garden. No, no, we did. We did a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, twenty twenty thirty thousand stadiums is eighty dollars, no

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Speaker 7: med life, none of those.

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Speaker 1: No, we didn't do that just in Miami.

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Speaker 8: But we was able to do eighty three thousand in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Japan, all you that you were able to do

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Speaker 3: it didn't matter to you?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, I can't nitpick be like no.

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Speaker 3: Because some people want to do home like I want

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Speaker 8: And we've we've always had It's true, we've always had

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Speaker 9: Our goal is less.

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Speaker 1: Performed in the Philippine.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we got to go back to Apple's motherland, so

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Speaker 8: it meant international.

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Speaker 9: The idea is we're going to take this international.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Will being one of the only black people growing up

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Speaker 2: Did y'all have any identity issues growing up?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 1: Hip hop did a really good job.

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Speaker 7: That was like, hey, Willie rapped on, hey, rap about

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Speaker 7: the neighborhood they seen, or like he that dances food and.

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Speaker 1: So because not even like hey and I forgets it.

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Speaker 1: Now you come to all the kind of inside of

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Speaker 7: But like that's how I That's how I talked growing up.

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Speaker 1: Like that's how I talked growing up.

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Speaker 7: If you would have if you would have seen me

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Speaker 7: fifteen years old, like, hey, that's what it was.

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Speaker 6: What did your mother and pop say when you came

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Speaker 7: Late that, Oh, my mom's talking about my mom talks

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Speaker 2: What about your cousins?

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Speaker 11: Oh, in the hood hood and you came around with

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Speaker 1: So I just took my mom.

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Speaker 7: We had a every every summer, my mom comes with

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Speaker 1: So we were just there.

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Speaker 7: We were in Turkey and in France this summer. So

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Speaker 7: So my mom's trying pictures. I'm like, where's that. She's like, oh,

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Speaker 7: that's Media's king. I'm like, when was mean, Willie? That

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Speaker 7: was last week? I'm like, why didn't I do? Why

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Speaker 7: didn't I go and perform at it? Really? Because y'all

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Speaker 7: is like a Latin.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen.

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Speaker 7: So you know, my my and I wanted to make

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Speaker 7: A lot of my nieces and nephews and cousins are

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Speaker 1: They end up looking Dominican.

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Speaker 7: Mm hmm, Jessica, I call it homemade Dominican.

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Speaker 2: Homemade Dominican, yes, we.

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Speaker 1: Got homemade Dominican.

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Speaker 7: Yes, And in our in our neighborhood, like so a

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Speaker 7: lot of our niece, my cousins look like you.

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Speaker 2: Because you ain't.

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Speaker 1: You ain't Dominican, but Dominican they look like you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean.

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Speaker 6: They look like just married a Mexican man, you look.

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Speaker 7: Like you can look like sisters.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: My daughter is Mexican and black. It's do so I

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Speaker 7: have a homemade Dominican. You got a homemade Dominican. That's

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Speaker 7: a dope.

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Speaker 2: Dominican. Becauserie Dominican.

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, you just listen to the story Black and Mexicans.

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Speaker 7: Their kids look like Dominican. Therefore the yeah, so envy

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Speaker 7: might be homemade. Then I'm not dominic.

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Speaker 1: And here's the reason why.

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Speaker 7: If you think about, like, what's that island on the

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Speaker 1: So people look like got.

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Speaker 7: And so obviously if you have black, any African descendant,

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Speaker 7: that's gonna go.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna go right to the dominic community.

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Speaker 7: They're gonna be like, we're not African descendants, we're not black,

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Speaker 7: which is a different conversation conversation, but you unpack it

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Speaker 7: all they you know, ancestors look like me and gotcha.

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Speaker 7: You know we look alike. We could be in the

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Speaker 7: same family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, MV.

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Speaker 9: Have you guys noticed Ice out here like the way

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Speaker 9: it is in l A.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah absolutely not like no, not like l A.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, like you see him over in Jersey, heavy

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Speaker 6: But you see it.

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Speaker 9: Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.

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Speaker 6: Dominicans, Yeah, you see it.

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Speaker 3: Uh, And you know they're all online and they'll send

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Speaker 3: out of text, Hey just let you know Ice is

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Speaker 3: in Patterson today, Ices in this town, Ices in this town,

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Speaker 3: and you know, yeah, they running up grabbing.

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Speaker 5: And he never used to let people know he's not

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Speaker 5: kind of embrace it.

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00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 6: He's a lie.

448
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 5: That's In fact, he did a whole interview with TMD

449
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 5: and the headline is like I am black.

450
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:32,440
Speaker 6: Side.

451
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 2: He plays around.

452
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 6: All the time, he says, the Dominican he was even good.

453
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a ride along and call Ice to

454
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 3: see if they grab you.

455
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 5: If he confirmed he's a hundred, why.

456
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:52,439
Speaker 4: Not.

457
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,439
Speaker 6: I want a Dominican a war too. But I'm not Dominican,

458
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:55,840
Speaker 6: I'm black.

459
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 2: I don't get it. What about you have any identity issues?

460
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 8: So growing up in Los Angeles is a mosaic of cultures.

461
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 8: So I just felt comfortable moving through understanding and loving

462
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 8: and appreciating learning about all these different cultures growing up. Dude,

463
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 8: I'm Native and Mexican. So one end, my grandmother was

464
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 8: connected to the Jerome roots, which is the Native side,

465
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 8: and then on another end, I got my Mexican Chicano

466
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 8: roots right growing up growing up in La So it

467
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:33,639
Speaker 8: was a tough heavy lift to like bring other nationalities

468
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 8: to the house sometimes, But at the end of the day,

469
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 8: it was like, this is who I am, and so

470
00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 8: I'm going to be. I'm go an live this taboo lifestyle.

471
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 8: People rock with it or not, It's all good.

472
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: This is who I am.

473
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 9: I stand on business, you know.

474
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: It's dope too.

475
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 7: Like I was I rereading the comments on YouTube, and

476
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 7: there's this there's a there's a couple of people that

477
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 7: are like, hey, Willie, your mom, your mom raised me

478
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 7: at the park, mom.

479
00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: Took care of you know.

480
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, so my mom in the projects was the mom

481
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 7: that took care of people's kids. And so there's a

482
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 7: lot of people that are on that when I travel

483
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 7: out there, when I'm out in the streets on the

484
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 7: on the comments on videos that are like, your mom

485
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 7: took care of me, your mom raised me, and your

486
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 7: mom helped raise my kids, and so the love in

487
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 7: the community was real. The only time I wouldn't say

488
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 7: it was an identity issue. My mom was real strict

489
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,119
Speaker 7: growing up, like I couldn't really go outside and play

490
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 7: too far from where she could in line of sight

491
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 7: and so, and then a lot of my friends growing

492
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 7: up their family their their parents were kind of like,

493
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 7: you know, free, Willie. They go out and do whatever

494
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 7: they wanted, and so I would always be like, damn,

495
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 7: my mom is mean. I wish my mom was like

496
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 7: Andy's mom. I wish my mom was like Lollo's mom.

497
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 7: But now that I got older, I'm so happy that

498
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 7: my mom was strict, you know, rest in peace Lollo

499
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 7: that I grew up with. But yeah, my mama is

500
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 7: my mama strict, And they would be like, where you're going, Willie,

501
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 7: your mom did you get a switch, hunk?

502
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: So my mom would be like, go get a switch.

503
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 7: Make sure that I went and got a switch by

504
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 7: where people were playing.

505
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 2: I thought that was just some down south ship we

506
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: was born.

507
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: My mom was born in the South.

508
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 7: She was born in Louisiana, and Grandma was born and

509
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 7: picking in Mississippi, and then brought a lot of that

510
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 7: Southern like, you know, raising how she disciplined us, She

511
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 7: kept that and ongoing and how she raised us.

512
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: She'd be like, get.

513
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,879
Speaker 7: You put out there and go give me a switch

514
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 7: from over there where they at.

515
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: So I had to go get a switch.

516
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 7: And your mom's gonna hit you hung and your mom

517
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 7: me so they would follow me just to go see

518
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 7: me get disciplined.

519
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,160
Speaker 5: And then the old thing about it if you picked

520
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 5: the wrong switch, you can't. Yeah, that taught you a

521
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 5: lot about consequences and accountability at a young.

522
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 6: Age, not abuse.

523
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a different, different time, you know.

524
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 8: Speaking about moms. My mom send us a nice text

525
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 8: about the song. She said, I'm proud of you and

526
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 8: Willie taking it back to the neighborhood. My memories of

527
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 8: growing up in East l A start with the music

528
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 8: playing loud and watching Chicano culture evolve and take over

529
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 8: the streets. I never thought that my son would bring

530
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 8: the music to my childhood neighborhood.

531
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 7: Love you forever, Mom and my mom's My mom's text was,

532
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 7: I cannot believe I made a trailblazer, a waymaker, an

533
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 7: influencer and innovator.

534
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: That's my Willie.

535
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, you look like a man. What

536
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 2: took y'all so long to create a song?

537
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 5: I guess paying homs to this particular community.

538
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: That's a really good question. It is, I tell you.

539
00:27:58,560 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: I tell you.

540
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 7: So, up until this point, if you did a record,

541
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 7: it would be it would be a gang alignment. But

542
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 7: my neighborhood is you know, we know the gang in

543
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 7: the neighborhood. And I didn't want to make like a

544
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 7: record that can be misconscrewed. We misconscrewed as.

545
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: Like gang alignment. I didn't want to make a record

546
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: that that was like.

547
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 7: Street you know and celebrating, you know, the conditions of life.

548
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 7: And so now the record is about it's urgent. We'll

549
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 7: have songs like Latin Girls was well, have songs that

550
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 7: that shout out.

551
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: You know, the lifestyle of where we were raised.

552
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 4: But it was all.

553
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,239
Speaker 7: Fantasy music, so using your imagination. Most people like want

554
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 7: to keep a real, living reality. I wanted to stay fantasy.

555
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 7: I wanted to make music that was like different from

556
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 7: you know, the conditions of life, like.

557
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to relive that.

558
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 7: And so music, especially Daylight sold trump real quest I was.

559
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: Escape from my reality, and I think.

560
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 7: If I look at you know, that was a heavy

561
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 7: question because it makes you reflect on.

562
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: Like, hey, why didn't we do that?

563
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 7: Why didn't we have like an East LA record in

564
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 7: nineteen ninety eight, nine two thousand one. I think it's

565
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 7: been two decades, you know. Plus so why now? And

566
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 7: the reason now, it's because the urgency and the need

567
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 7: for you know, changing the vibration and you know, think

568
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 7: in the community and at the same time letting the

569
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 7: community know that we.

570
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: Got your back.

571
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 7: There's a lot of folks that don't want to speak

572
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 7: up because there's a lot of politics on speaking There's

573
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 7: a lot of folks that that remained silent because of

574
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 7: like what is it? What is it going to mean?

575
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 7: There's a lot of you don't know who owns what.

576
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 7: M there's there's a you could be signed in a contract,

577
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 7: you could be doing something with a certain organization and

578
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 7: that organization owns things.

579
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: You don't know who owns what. And so for that like.

580
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 7: We've we've already had a career and now's the time

581
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 7: they do that. There's it if there was a time,

582
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 7: will be right now more so than then.

583
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 8: And also add that we are from the cloth of

584
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 8: like self Destruction, Boogie Down Production, Miss Melody, Dougie Fresh

585
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 8: m See like all that era, and then you had

586
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 8: We're All in the Same Game on the West Coast

587
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 8: with Young MC easy that record. So we've always been

588
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 8: pillars of activism, but movement with like songs like Where's

589
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 8: the Love Right, Well, we advocate for people that may

590
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 8: not have the same platform that we have, and in

591
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 8: this this situation, it was RASA, It was people that

592
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 8: we grew up with. It was the voices that didn't

593
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 8: have the platform, and it was our love letter to

594
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 8: our childhood. But also to stand in solidarity with those people.

595
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 7: Also, also there's you could talk about the community, or

596
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 7: you could be about the community and go to the

597
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 7: community and bring solutions to the community. So I'm more

598
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 7: solution orientated, like I don't have to talk about the

599
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 7: community to go out there and you know, have success,

600
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 7: come back to the community and build robotics programs, college

601
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 7: prep programs. And then during COVID, when when we realized

602
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 7: that when people were working from home, when they were

603
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 7: educating themselves from home, they didn't have access to the internet,

604
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 7: go back to the community, provide free Wi Fi for

605
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 7: the projects so kids could you know, learn from their

606
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 7: home because we realized that they were putting themselves in

607
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 7: harm's way when they had to go up to you know,

608
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 7: an area where they had free Wi Fi. So we

609
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 7: about any place any so we brought so my foundation

610
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 7: in collaboration when we link brought you know, free Wi

611
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 7: Fi to the projects and so you could talk about

612
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 7: it or you could do about it. And so I

613
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 7: we always wanted to I always wanted to do about it,

614
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 7: and now it's time to talk about it and do

615
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 7: about it.

616
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,719
Speaker 5: At the same time, though, I did the same thing

617
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 5: as South Carolina, same exact thing, d because I, you know,

618
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 5: I usually do like the book back drives and everything,

619
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 5: but like during that time, I'm like, all of these

620
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 5: kids are having to go to like fast.

621
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: From restaurants to get Wi Fi.

622
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 5: And so I did the same exact thing, got Wi

623
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 5: Fi for this, Yeah, the colony, Colony House of Projects

624
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 5: and Columbus Olina.

625
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 11: And then the visual that goes along with it as well,

626
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 11: like even your heartfelt message at the end. Well, I

627
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 11: thought that was really dope because specifically Boyle Heights have

628
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 11: been like they've been going through a lot, you know,

629
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 11: with the LAPD officer shootings, and everything like that. I

630
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 11: don't know if y'all heard, but it was an unfortunate death.

631
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 11: Reci peace to Jeremy Flores. He and his family. They

632
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 11: just they underwent, They underwent like some crazy trouble right

633
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 11: with somebody called the police on him because he was

634
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 11: driving a white van and they said that they that

635
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 11: he had a rifle and then the police came and

636
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 11: they killed him, you know what I mean. Like, so

637
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 11: this is a great tribute to them, and just just

638
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 11: this song just alone, the visual as well, Shine's light

639
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 11: on East LA and some of those projects and communities

640
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 11: because they really really need like like some healing right now,

641
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 11: so that this what y'all doing is great. Now, is

642
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 11: this a Black Eyed Peas song? Or will I Am

643
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 11: in Taboo song?

644
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 7: It's will I Am in Taboo? We struggle with that,

645
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 7: like is this black Eyed Peas?

646
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 6: Oh?

647
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: Yeah?

648
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 7: And I'm like, hey, why don't we do something that

649
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 7: we haven't done where you know, we we we know

650
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 7: what Votron's like, but if we could, like, you know,

651
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 7: highlight different clusters of what we are collectively, that means

652
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 7: a tab and Apple song will call a me and

653
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 7: Apple song, you know, you know, doing doing it like

654
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 7: that on this on this next face.

655
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: But I'm in solo mode.

656
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 7: I have records coming out, and I wanted to put

657
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 7: out as much human made music as possible.

658
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 2: Because hey, I take it over like that. Damn.

659
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 7: Well yeah, it's really dopey the aim.

660
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I want to.

661
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 5: That sounds crazy to even say I want to make

662
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 5: as much human made music as possible.

663
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, damn. How do you feel?

664
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 3: You know, people got on Timberland when he signed his

665
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 3: first AI artists, and people were mad and said, you're

666
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 3: taking the jobs from regular artists, taking the creativity away,

667
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,919
Speaker 3: taking you know, the fact.

668
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 6: What are your thoughts on it?

669
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Speaker 1: I think it's the way.

670
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 7: The environment, the proximity of what Timberland was around as

671
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 7: he was doing the AI music. So for a couple

672
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 7: of years before that, he was, you know, wanted to

673
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 7: sign people by having them submit music. And then the

674
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 7: thing that he signed is an AI, not a human

675
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 7: I could see why that rough feathers.

676
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: I thought, you just did this campaign.

677
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:08,959
Speaker 7: And then the situation with the dude and the beat.

678
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: It's a there's a lot of noise around it.

679
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 7: Had uh. For example, we did some version of that

680
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 7: where we're like the new member of the Black Eyed

681
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 7: Peas is an Ai when we were about to do Vegas.

682
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: But like I said, I think.

683
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 7: It's the proximity because he was adjacent to you know,

684
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 7: a call out, you know, magnetizing the community to send music,

685
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 7: and then the thing he signs is an AI. But

686
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:39,919
Speaker 7: other than that, if you remove that out of the way,

687
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 7: there's no there's no there's no, it's no different of

688
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 7: lending your voice to a to a cartoon. For example,

689
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 7: I did Madagascar two that hippos a hippo.

690
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: I did a bird on Rio one and two who's

691
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 1: was Pedro. So it's using your.

692
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 7: Imagination and like building character.

693
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: You know, Mickey.

694
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 7: Mouse is the o g Ai character outlived freaking walk.

695
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 7: So there's nothing wrong with you know, avatars or you know,

696
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 7: uh alter egos. You know, there's nothing wrong with that.

697
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 7: It's just you gotta be careful in the environment and

698
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 7: they and the environment that you that you do it.

699
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 6: In what happened with Vegas because you mentioned Vegas the virus.

700
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 9: I was affected by the fires.

701
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 8: To be honest with you, I'm an altaden opacity in

702
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 8: the area and I was displaced for a long time.

703
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,320
Speaker 1: I didn't have a home. Wow, fact.

704
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, so we had a well we well, we'll revisit

705
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 7: that now that you know, you know, people are safe,

706
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 7: people can live.

707
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 6: You did you lose everything?

708
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 8: I had to get rid of Every internal damage was bad,

709
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 8: so we had to get rid of everything internally structurally.

710
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 8: Structurally were okay, but our surrounding area was devastated. So

711
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 8: you know, my hearts go out to Yeah, my kid,

712
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 8: both of my son's preschool burned down, So my heart

713
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 8: goes out to Altadina, Malibu Palisades and all the people affected. Dude,

714
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 8: our our year started off fucked up twenty five so

715
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 8: to be able to have come back in the summer

716
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 8: and have healing, as you said, with this song and

717
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 8: this whole idea of how can we be of service

718
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 8: and help and do our part to advocate, Like that's

719
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 8: that's a blessing for us as.

720
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 2: We made year.

721
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: Man, I feel like it was two years so far.

722
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 7: Now.

723
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 5: It's crazy because I feel like culturally LA is having

724
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 5: such a great moment, right, not a moment because y'all

725
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 5: at LA, but like, you know what Kendrick did well culturally,

726
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 5: but then it's like societally, the fire ice ray, It's

727
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 5: like God.

728
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, what is thirty fifty two.

729
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 11: I noticed that it's shouted in the song Copley fifty.

730
00:38:53,120 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 7: Two is a section and LAFC where the community they've made.

731
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 7: You know, the team did an awesome job making a

732
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 7: space for the community of Angelinos to really celebrate. You know,

733
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 7: they brought a tribal experience to sporting. The only place

734
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 7: we actually find that is outside of the States, the

735
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 7: Real Madrid or the Brazilian football team or Germany. You know,

736
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,959
Speaker 7: you see this like a different level of fandom that's

737
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:25,720
Speaker 7: that's tribal.

738
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: So thirty two fifty two.

739
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 7: I wanted to shout that out because I go to

740
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 7: I go to the games, and that section is you know,

741
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 7: a lot of the people from the community that I know.

742
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 7: There's people like Boyle Heights. They got the Boyle Heights

743
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 7: scarves and the Boyle Heights flags or.

744
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: Different cut a hay. You know, the whole East Side

745
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: east Siders.

746
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 7: Are there in the in the thirty two fifty two

747
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 7: like which is three thousand, uh three, five hundred and

748
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 7: fifty two seats.

749
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: It's really what.

750
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 9: It is, like the Seahawks, how they have the twelve

751
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 9: man like that.

752
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 2: Okay, did you have you bounced back to that book from

753
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: your house.

754
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: We did.

755
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, we moved in fortunately, but still we have eight

756
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 8: hundred trash trucks taking the debris out. We probably won't

757
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 8: be up and running as a community as far as

758
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 8: like good for a couple of years. Some of the

759
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 8: lots are being sold. Some of the lots are being

760
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 8: taken over because they don't have insurance.

761
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: Some of the people.

762
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 8: You gotta understand, bro, these are marginalized communities on the

763
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 8: other side of Altadina, A lot of black families and

764
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,479
Speaker 8: Mexican families that didn't have, you know.

765
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: The proper insurance.

766
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 8: They've been living there there for years and they were

767
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 8: affected by the fires, and unfortunately the city comes in

768
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 8: and takes their home because they can't pay for that lot.

769
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,240
Speaker 5: Is this song gonna be part of a bigger project

770
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 5: or it's just like a one off statement.

771
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 7: Oh no, it's part of my solo project of one

772
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 7: of the three. So I got I got all pop

773
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 7: record that's like a big, big type of records.

774
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: Then I got like a just a.

775
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 7: Like a nineties influence boom back a record, and then

776
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 7: I have just like a fusion project.

777
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: This is the fusion project.

778
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 11: I just saw that you collaborated with Mercedes.

779
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he did. He did that. I tried to

780
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 6: get it for the last.

781
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: Yeah.

782
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 7: So we got two pieces of technology inside Mercedes. One

783
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 7: the sound drive that takes all the sensor data, yeah,

784
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 7: and aims at sensor data to a sound generation platform

785
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 7: that allows a driver to remix, reimagine songs just by driving.

786
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 7: And then I got this AI radio that's in Mercedes vehicles.

787
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 7: And because of that Qualcom, we just partnered up with

788
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 7: Qualcomm and we you know, just married our systems onto

789
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 7: Chip so they would get us in more OEM vehicles.

790
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: So we I go to India.

791
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 7: In two weeks to announce our partnership with three OHEM

792
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 7: auto manufacturers out there in India. What's awesome is one

793
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 7: of our kids that joined MY program. There's a kid

794
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 7: that comes from the same project as me. He joined

795
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 7: my my My program when he was like in the

796
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 7: ninth grade, tenth grade.

797
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: He then went to school for computer science.

798
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 7: He then graduated and now he's like one of the

799
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 7: lead in leadership implementing our systems and Mercedes. I'm just

800
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 7: really proud of his dedication, commitment and we rely on

801
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 7: him for his talents. But you know, just go to

802
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 7: show that people from the same projects can can align

803
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 7: and bring the best out of each other. So you know,

804
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 7: really really salute his h his growth and now leadership

805
00:42:58,920 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 7: at the company.

806
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 6: So I love that you.

807
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 5: That's really it's great when I sit here and I

808
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,240
Speaker 5: listen to you and Taboo talk man, and I think about,

809
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 5: you know, the other members Filipino, with all the different

810
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 5: coaches in the group.

811
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,439
Speaker 2: How did y'all land on the name.

812
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 5: Black eyed Peas because black eyed Peas is synonymous with

813
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 5: black folks.

814
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that accompanis.

815
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 4: And on that name.

816
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 7: I just I just uh, my grandma she used to

817
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 7: used to, you know, force me, not force me, but like, boy,

818
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 7: you ain't getting up out that table.

819
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: Tea finished in black eyed Peas and they were drive

820
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: and I didn't. I'm not. I'm not a fan of.

821
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 2: The love black eyed Peas.

822
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 7: Rights is good. It's just a peace by itself. Like

823
00:43:56,760 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 7: to me, sometimes it's good. But the way that way

824
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:01,319
Speaker 7: I had it growing.

825
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: Up, it was. And so the green beans.

826
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 7: And black eyed peace when they get cold, I ain't

827
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 7: trying to add that. And so my grandma would be like,

828
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 7: you ain't getting up off that table to you finish

829
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 7: the Black Eyed Peace. So for me, it just meant like,

830
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 7: don't stop until you're done. You can't get up until

831
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 7: you finish something. And no matter how hard it is,

832
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,320
Speaker 7: no matter what it is, if you got a dream,

833
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 7: if you were set to do something, you gotta see

834
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 7: it and you got to complete it.

835
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:30,879
Speaker 1: And it's good luck.

836
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 7: You know, it's a good luck and so good luck

837
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 7: and you know, good vibes and what you magnetize and

838
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 7: what you attract.

839
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 8: And also Black Eyed Peas and Soul Food and we

840
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 8: always felt like our music feeds the soul. And it

841
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 8: would have been weird being like, okay because your mexicanist

842
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 8: list named the group.

843
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 7: But they had that or Bees and Rice.

844
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 2: Hit Listen. Black probably would have been whack if y'all

845
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 2: didn't make it.

846
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: That's true.

847
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 4: I want to change the name.

848
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 6: Somebody was like Black Eyed Peas.

849
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 9: No, no, no, because the idea of soul food is dope.

850
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 2: We feed the soul with our music absolutely.

851
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 7: And you know, there was two groups that were out

852
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 7: that was named after food, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

853
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 7: I'm like, they got to smash the pumpkins. I'm like, yo,

854
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 7: they got food names. Bro, Like you know what I'm saying. Well,

855
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 7: let's get into the joint right now.

856
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 6: Let's get into you and introduce it.

857
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: Yo, what's up.

858
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 7: This is what I am Taboo and this is a

859
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 7: new record that we got called East l A.

860
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: That's right.

861
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 6: We appreciate you guys for joining us.

862
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 7: Man, thank you for having us all the time.

863
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 6: Sarahs Breakfast Club one. Let's get into it.

864
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 9: Wake that ass up in the morning.

865
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club