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Speaker 1: What's up its way up with Angela Yee and we

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Speaker 1: with me today. We got Tretch from Naughty by Nature

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Speaker 1: and we got money X all the way up and listen.

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Speaker 1: So glad you guys are here, because I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you I have a pack schedule. But I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: and let's make this interview happen. I feel like we

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Speaker 1: have like history because and you may not even know this,

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Speaker 1: but when I was young, I lived in Brooklyn. We

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Speaker 1: by Nature was like the biggest group on the planet.

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Speaker 1: And I just remember like it was every house party

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I remember Boogie Land, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: pool and everything. I was in Orange right there on

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that was a block away from where my

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Speaker 1: We were young. We climbed over the gate. We were

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Speaker 2: You were sneaking in you bot Brooklyn all with you

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Speaker 1: I had to walk down the block and then me

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Speaker 1: the back there was like a little side gate and

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Speaker 1: and then act like we've been there. And I was like,

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Speaker 2: Wow, y'all here this see.

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Speaker 3: I told you see, it gets way up up there.

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Speaker 3: I tell you, that's crazy.

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Speaker 1: But it was actually coming from Brooklyn. I had never

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Speaker 1: I cried like for days when we first moved because

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Speaker 3: You was over there in the burbs. Yeah, you would

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Speaker 3: have came down the East Stars ill ted breaking those

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, New York is.

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Speaker 1: thing about New Jersey is everybody drives, and in New

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Speaker 3: Half the cause in Jersey it was stolen that we

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Speaker 2: At that time.

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Speaker 1: At that time that used to say, didn't you to

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Speaker 1: that far. But I just want to talk about putting

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Speaker 1: Jersey on the map because money X, you're from Jersey City,

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Speaker 1: chill Town, chill Town. Now, how long did you know

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Speaker 4: Since I was fifteen, I always wanted I love music,

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Speaker 4: I'm very versatile, do everything and make old genres.

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Speaker 1: And so what was the first experience like for you,

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Speaker 4: It really started like I've been to I had it emmy,

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Speaker 4: I was locked up, you know as a kid robberies

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Speaker 1: But welcome home, thank you, you know. And now it's

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Speaker 1: it's too much at stake, you know, but seriously, because

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Speaker 3: And we're seeing like when he came home, what he

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Speaker 2: He stuck to it.

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Speaker 3: We see a lot come home. They be there for

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Speaker 3: He said, I'm sticking to this music doing it everything

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Speaker 4: Them then, plus being in there locked up during COVID,

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Speaker 1: And then you got the song fire Baby that you

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit about well, I'm actually I'm just

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Speaker 3: I'm on the album, on the album I have directed,

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Speaker 3: I did a little trench Tarantino, So tell tell about.

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Speaker 1: The love story, what inspired that or who.

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Speaker 4: It's just about as a vib it's a little party vibe,

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Speaker 4: but it's also about you know, it's just so bad

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Speaker 4: you fire baby like you just let me just letting

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Speaker 1: Lingo that's the new fire baby like I can't really

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Speaker 1: That was like a hit everywhere. That song is about cheating.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they.

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Speaker 3: Took them a long time to figure it out. They

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Speaker 3: Even when the song came out, like they started editing songs,

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Speaker 3: By the time they figured it out, and it was

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Speaker 2: Yep, gotcha.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was at the T shirts and listens the Naughty

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Speaker 1: That was in Newark? Man, let me tell you, everybody

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll shout out to what I just got finished

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Speaker 3: kicking with Ray, he was like, yo, you know you

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Speaker 3: He was like, we was watching y'all guys, how y'all

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Speaker 3: the cassettes and the albums back then before your time,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's phenomenal to even have the foresight to

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Speaker 1: I still see him running around doing all kinds of business.

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Speaker 3: Running the merchandise part of the whole thing. So that

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Speaker 1: And y'all recently reunited again, And why do you and

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Speaker 1: Benny fall out? Get back and fall out? Like what

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Speaker 1: is it? Because y'all both individually are so cool.

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Speaker 2: I can't It's a business. Certain business.

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Speaker 3: Uh you know, it's like I'm I'm I'm great on

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Speaker 3: supported boomboo. I ain't going get in that lane. If

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Speaker 3: lot of things with Naughty by Nature came. Always was

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Speaker 3: like we're gonna vote on it, but it'll be a

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Speaker 2: I'm the one, you know what I'm saying, not the two.

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Speaker 3: So it's like it's like I had to you know,

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Speaker 3: One day if you get back, to get back, but

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Speaker 1: But y'all did spontaneously hit the stage.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what happened there? What happened was, you know,

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Speaker 3: She said, nor diveld y'all come up here, and it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: And another time it was like played out with Latifa

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Speaker 1: You can't say, you know that's okay.

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Speaker 2: We a mad.

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Speaker 1: Today money watching everything that happens with the group because

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Speaker 1: groups are sometimes harder. Partnerships are harder because it's not

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Speaker 4: I mean I always thought about the group situation. I

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Speaker 4: stay with family and keep it like thathing.

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Speaker 1: All right, Now, I want to ask you this too,

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Speaker 1: because I told you I seen Queen Latifah at the

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nest game. It was actually the day after my birthday.

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Speaker 1: I was excited. I was like, oh she they go,

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Speaker 1: Queen Latifa. She always got like the coolest, best vibe.

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Speaker 1: What I love is the fact that I used to

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Speaker 1: but she was like a boss.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it was the boss yeah, which.

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Speaker 1: Was a really dope thing for me as a young

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Speaker 1: woman to see that situation. How do you think that affected,

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Speaker 3: For us, it was like it was a perfect perfect storm.

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Speaker 3: I knew Latifa before even Naughty by Nature when we

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Speaker 1: And she was one of the people that was like,

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Speaker 2: She's like, yo, for a movie, I said, movies, I said,

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Speaker 3: I was going into readings, not even know nothing about

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Speaker 1: But New Jersey was right there, but you were like,

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Speaker 3: Park was like, come state me him at Love would

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Speaker 3: be there, Big Stretch Rest in Peace from the Live Squad.

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Speaker 3: Moprim is brother Yaqui Kadafi, his little brother. All in

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Speaker 2: Back then its part you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: That probably was so much fun. That should have been

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, what was that like?

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Speaker 3: And then you in New York, right, so you walk

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Speaker 1: It was like that time will never be recreated, never never,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no smartphones no where. Everybody's sitting around on everybody was.

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Speaker 4: Like, damn, can y'all put you people walking down the

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Speaker 3: You have to go to the phone booth, put quarters in,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we was in a whole different era.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I remember when when I first moved to Jersey.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you had to go to Your father really threw

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Speaker 1: He was like, you gotta go and so and But

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Speaker 2: But we rob out the spots hot spots.

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Speaker 1: Always out side And to me, havn't spent that time

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Speaker 1: you know, just as far as the culture was, just

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Speaker 1: Because we didn't have that. We couldn't drive and be

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Speaker 1: you know, the guys would always be like, pull over,

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Speaker 3: They needed to pull over anyway because you needed directions, right,

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Speaker 1: There was a white castle, I think it was unfreelanmized.

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Speaker 1: And the stolen cars, you said, oh yeah, you and

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Speaker 1: the cops would chase these stolen cars. I mean it

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Speaker 1: Then and then skirt off, and then they would come

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Speaker 1: and everybody would literally be outside watching this like it

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you go the craziest video Naughty by Nature,

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Speaker 3: Had actual camp quarter of footage of the stolen cars.

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Speaker 3: One car had a police stolen head. Sovereign put out

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Speaker 1: It was a wild time. Yeah, you know, I always

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Speaker 1: no skips. Now I got to ask you money at

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Speaker 1: your how old are you now? Are you familiar with

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Speaker 1: like all of this music? Okay? Because I feel like

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Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, that's dope, Like I never you

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Speaker 1: heard that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, he from chill Town. So you know

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Speaker 3: Big Red shout Out, you know, Flavory On. It was

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Speaker 1: Who else was from Jersey City?

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Speaker 2: Right now?

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Speaker 3: I'll be out, Okay, I mean, uh Lord Alibaski, double

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Speaker 3: j rest in peace, Uh Joe Button's.

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Speaker 1: Oh he's some Jersey City Okay, but yeah, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: So y'all got some nice history.

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Speaker 2: There, double x posse.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right. I'm not gonna be able to do it.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: That The Jersey vibes though, are so like I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you this too, because some of your music

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Speaker 1: like obviously everything's gonna be all right. I think that

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Speaker 1: because I don't know, like after that song because in

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Speaker 2: I actually met up with him.

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Speaker 3: Me and my wife did a show, a reality show

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Speaker 2: You know, man, he just he flowed.

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Speaker 3: He's a float to POPA was a rolling stone and

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Speaker 3: he's still that type.

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Speaker 3: If you can't find me and all that, I'm like, yo, homie,

441
00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:32,480
Speaker 3: I done great without you.

442
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,000
Speaker 2: Piece of the gods.

443
00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,600
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you know, sometimes we don't understand people's stories

444
00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 1: until we actually sit down with them. So do you

445
00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,199
Speaker 1: feel like that was a piece that was missing that

446
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,439
Speaker 1: You're grateful that that happened.

447
00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, grateful found out everything else man like and like

448
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 3: hip hop, you know, you could really tell true stories.

449
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,679
Speaker 3: Ghetto Bassa was a true story. We actually got in

450
00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,960
Speaker 3: a lot of trouble from the city and all that

451
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,160
Speaker 3: and Nork when that video dropped because it showed all

452
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,720
Speaker 3: the projects and a lot of people across the world

453
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:10,399
Speaker 3: it's like it's projects in Jersey hoods in Jersey, you

454
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,760
Speaker 3: slipping and they said what is this? So it actually

455
00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,880
Speaker 3: was a great uh clean up point for the city

456
00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 3: as well, because they tore the project down.

457
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,760
Speaker 2: Right, it was embarrassed. Oh wow, show like this.

458
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,040
Speaker 3: Is really this is what you're doing in the Jersey Yeah,

459
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,040
Speaker 3: that's how y'all getting there.

460
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 1: And it wi And you talked about Ray Kwon having

461
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 1: his dispensary in new It Isn't it wild to see

462
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,400
Speaker 1: how different downtown downtown Newark it used.

463
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 3: To look like I rack, it was like a no

464
00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 3: go zone. We got the potential center there. Now, hockey

465
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 3: teams down there, shout out to Whole Food.

466
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,200
Speaker 2: You know, it's efficient on every corner.

467
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 1: Every Jersey City the same thing though. You know, I

468
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 1: think after nine eleven a lot of businesses moved to

469
00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 1: Jersey City and they really built up, like downtown Jersey

470
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,679
Speaker 1: City and the waterfront and all of that. You know.

471
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,320
Speaker 1: So talk to me about your upbringing in Jersey City.

472
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,640
Speaker 4: I'm born to raise dunkin projects growing up there. It's

473
00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 4: going to doing my music when I was started at

474
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 4: fifteen and then out of trouble whatever, but staying focused and.

475
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,640
Speaker 2: From the hood, the hood, telling us front of the project,

476
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 2: the struggle.

477
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 4: It was hard growing up everything like I just never thought,

478
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 4: I you know, when I came home this time after

479
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,160
Speaker 4: losing I was in there, little seven family members doing

480
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 4: during the five years I was incarcerated and I just

481
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 4: being myself, just keep telling myself. I said the only

482
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 4: thing I needed six months. I just need six months.

483
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 2: I ain't coming back shout out dunking she do it.

484
00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's good because right now, even being do

485
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 1: you still live in Jersey City. Yes, it's lit. It's

486
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,159
Speaker 1: like people are like, I want to move to Jersey City,

487
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: and I told you I lived there for a little

488
00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: while too. I lived downtown though when I first graduated

489
00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,719
Speaker 1: from college, it was a good halfway mark from you know,

490
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: South Orens and Brooklyn. So I just randomly said, I'm

491
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: gonna move to Jersey City because it'll make it easy

492
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 1: for me to go to South Throns, but also easy

493
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 1: for me to go to the city from there.

494
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 2: Yeah.

495
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're making like a little mini New York now.

496
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 4: They building in Jernal Square. They got like this little

497
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 4: Hot Rods building. It's got like one hundred floors and

498
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 4: I'll put that in the middle of the Journal Square.

499
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,919
Speaker 1: So that's crazy. I haven't been to Journal Square in.

500
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 2: A minute a hundred stories.

501
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: Now, you being on TV and even like doing reality television.

502
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,840
Speaker 1: For some reason, I always used to think, like from

503
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 1: you know, younger days, church would be the type of

504
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,640
Speaker 1: person that would not ever like put his life out there.

505
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 2: Like no, never, never.

506
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 3: What happened the first one, Like I said, a couple's therapy.

507
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 3: You know, been with my wife, We've been together eighteen years.

508
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 3: So I'm like, yo, she is saagarian too bullheaded everything.

509
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, she like we need therapy.

510
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I ain't not paying no why to

511
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 3: go up in there and talk And usually they gonna

512
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,360
Speaker 3: take the woman's side and.

513
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: All that, but we're usually right, yeah, yeah.

514
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 3: Done, don don breaking news falls that is flaking fiction,

515
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 3: flagrantly fiction.

516
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,240
Speaker 2: You get attacked now. But I said, let me figure

517
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 2: out how we could do this.

518
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: So I started, I'm like going to hit my management

519
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: at the time and everything. I'm like, yo, boom, I'm

520
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 3: trying to They was like, you know what, you know,

521
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 3: what's a couple's therapy show that you could actually go

522
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 3: on and get paid for it.

523
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: I'm like, I get to take what?

524
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 3: And then we was ending up, went to Cali, stayed

525
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 3: in the house with other couples and all that. So

526
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 3: doctor Jim shaha, she did a great job. And so

527
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 3: that was like the first taste of reality, the real reality.

528
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 3: And I was like yeah, to save my relationship, I'll

529
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 3: go and do that.

530
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: So your relationship was you feel like like it.

531
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 3: Needed definitely, definitely, And at the end of it it

532
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 3: looked like it was over for us anyway. But we

533
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 3: came home and fix it and all that. Thank God,

534
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,160
Speaker 3: we you know, we took it in and all that.

535
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 3: So I was like, Yo, reality shows may be cool.

536
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 3: So that's when oh lord, my daughter came to me

537
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 3: Egypt and it was growing up hip hop with my

538
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 3: ex wife as a producer.

539
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: You it sounds like a setup.

540
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 2: It was, thank you. I didn't have to say it.

541
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 3: So, but I'm like, my daughter's on here, they want

542
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 3: me on here, blah blah blah. Your mother is a producer.

543
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 3: All right, let's go. And then that's when I went

544
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 3: on there. I said, I never do reality show again

545
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 3: unless it's my own situation on the show or I'm

546
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 3: just producing it.

547
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: What about therapy? Do you still continue with therapy or nah?

548
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 3: Nah, I don't. I don't what I did I started.

549
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 3: I knew I had a problem anger management, so I

550
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 3: stawted actually because I was on a roll so much

551
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: and everything else and getting books on it. I had

552
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 3: spoke to one person that was a therapist at a

553
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 3: time and just kicked there was a homies uncle just

554
00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 3: kicked it with him and he was like, yo, if

555
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 3: you can't do it, try these books and.

556
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 2: Da da da da dada.

557
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 1: Okay.

558
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: I did that and it worked. Work.

559
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,919
Speaker 1: What did you learn from your first marriage that you.

560
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 2: Don't get married?

561
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,239
Speaker 1: I mean everything, even if it doesn't work out, it

562
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 1: is a learning experience and you got to learn yourself too,

563
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: and things about yourself and things that you want to

564
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: do better next time.

565
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 2: I mean me, I think it was more or less.

566
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 3: I learned it wouldn't be compatible for me to marry

567
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: somebody or get serious with somebody in the industry that

568
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 3: traveled just like I did, always out boom boom, boom,

569
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 3: boom boom. And I wanted more of a homebody. I

570
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:44,640
Speaker 3: wanted more of a because sometimes some women don't come

571
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 3: my head. Sometimes when they get out there boss and

572
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 3: they don't boss like Latifa, They boss.

573
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: Like a dictator.

574
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:53,719
Speaker 2: Thank you.

575
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 3: And like I said, James Brown came out, this is

576
00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 3: a man's world. It died when he died, so it's

577
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 3: really a woman's world for really many aspects, right, And

578
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,960
Speaker 3: they out there running y'all out there, running things, turning

579
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: up with the rapping turn whatever.

580
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 2: Business wise, we have.

581
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: Different challenges you know that. I think men sometimes wouldn't

582
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: understand because you know, how could you how could you

583
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: possibly understand what that what that's like?

584
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 2: But what age you learned?

585
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 3: Like yeah, me and my wife we was and I'm

586
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 3: hot at the hottest people at the hot Yeah.

587
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: Like yo, it sounds like a power couple.

588
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 1: I remember that seeing that and being like, all right,

589
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: power couple. Yeah.

590
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,679
Speaker 3: She was powering her way to put the pull pants up.

591
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 3: She wanted to wear pants and a dress. I'm like, homie, homie, homie, homie, homie,

592
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 3: let's be here, don't you ain't he Hey?

593
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 2: She talking to me like a dude. I'm like, yea, yeah,

594
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 2: I know you.

595
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 3: For yeah South sidgea Makan queen shout out sn L

596
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 3: something in London.

597
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: That's my squad out there.

598
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: But she did come to your wedding.

599
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so she was invited.

600
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 1: I tried the men stuff, okay, I mean.

601
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 3: She kept taking shots and all the rest of that

602
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 3: through the reality show, these books and all.

603
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 2: This other, Like yo, you seriously you're still selling them?

604
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: So does that affect your parenting because sometimes when the

605
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: parents don't get along, it affects your relationship.

606
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 2: Like with your daughter, it did, It did because a

607
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 2: lot of things was going on.

608
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 3: I felt like like my daughter was fart of set up,

609
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 3: especially on the show promo when the propaganda her mother

610
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 3: was doing, and it crushed me. And then she got

611
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 3: with this dude she married and that you know.

612
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a real crazy storyline. Yeah are they

613
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: still married?

614
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 2: Yeah?

615
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: Okay, do you ever communicate with them or him? Or well,

616
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: your daughter but not him. That's disappointing to be a

617
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: father and not be in agreeance with who your child marries.

618
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: That's a hard thing. But she's an adult and has

619
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: decisions that she has to make on her.

620
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 3: Own, and that's something else. Like the the reality show

621
00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 3: destroyed that because I became a producer as well, so

622
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 3: I would hear stuff and see stuff that was filmed

623
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 3: before would hit the table and like this this homie

624
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 3: said this about me when I'm supporting him and Da

625
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 3: Da da and Bonhoma. Oh you know, maybe if I

626
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 3: wouldn't have seen it, it'd be a different But that's

627
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 3: why I said that reality show stuff.

628
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: It's real, real reality.

629
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 1: Now, if money X had an opportunity to be on

630
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: a reality show. Even with all these warnings.

631
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 2: He'll be focused because I'll let him know.

632
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: How to how to play the game.

633
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and know.

634
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 3: It's a game, and no, don't play the game to

635
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: throw the board off the table.

636
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: Play and win. You know, the music business is so

637
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: different now than when obviously then when you first came

638
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: into the game. So what's the plan now for you?

639
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: Like because it doesn't have to be sign a deal,

640
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: put an album together, promote the album, take a you know,

641
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: it's it's so different now, So what is the plan

642
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: for money X?

643
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 4: I want to be the all this other I just

644
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 4: want to want to around the world and tonash you.

645
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: But how does that happen with.

646
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 3: He's a great listener, so even like if I tell

647
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 3: him Son the same way, he's a sponge. So he's

648
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 3: let me tell you, he's going to get in from clothing.

649
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 3: He's going to get in from whether it's acting or

650
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 3: entrepreneurial anything. He's going to I'm going to show when

651
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 3: you get the first bit of money, invest in some

652
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 3: properties and leg you could tell.

653
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: Them yeah yeah she's one, yeah for sure. And especially

654
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: there's so many opportunities right there for you Jersey City,

655
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: and especially because you're from there too, And I think

656
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: the best way for me to start something is doing

657
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: it somewhere where I'm from. So I'm very familiar with

658
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: what's going on with the value of certain things. But

659
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 1: how but sometimes it's harder to see it because you're

660
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: from there. You know, people from the outside it's like, oh,

661
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: this is dope. You might be like, I remember what

662
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: this was, but I think it's important. And there's all

663
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: kinds of incentives for people who are born somewhere, residents

664
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: somewhere to be able to invest.

665
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 3: And what I love, like he always want to go

666
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 3: and let's go here, let's go to the here list

667
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 3: And I love it too because it's more of just

668
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 3: like going to a dinner, going somewhere else. Like before

669
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 3: it used to be like wies you said, I never

670
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,719
Speaker 3: have dinner with the president. You want those political connections,

671
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, even if it's the mayor.

672
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 3: You know, like do it all shut out to do

673
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 3: all the first hip hop counselman and nork and all

674
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 3: of that, like those type of things.

675
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 2: Before we be.

676
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 3: Like, nah, we ain't messing with no politicians. And yes,

677
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 3: you need to all scales of everything. Invest your time

678
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 3: and your efforts in there and your finances to invest

679
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 3: in stuff that's out there that's going to make your

680
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 3: money grow. Where you're not chasing the money, you're setting

681
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 3: up opportunities where the money come to you.

682
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: Right. No, that's great advice. You got to have all

683
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: of that in order. And when it comes to writing,

684
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: what advice do you give because I know have you

685
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: written for besides Naughty by Nature, other artists ever, like

686
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: goes It.

687
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, easy e, the youngsters, Latifa, you

688
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 3: know it's it's been.

689
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: The wickedest man alive part on that song.

690
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 3: No, I wrote like Latifa had it up there and

691
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 3: oh Latifa got some great pen game.

692
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying. She's a writer as well.

693
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 3: But in the days wrote some of the stuff A

694
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 3: Pat used to you know, do that as well. But yeah,

695
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 3: he has to tell you like the new era, like

696
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 3: it's a different it's a different it's a different lingo,

697
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 3: it's a different bp ms everything. So what's your right?

698
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 5: They go, was it congestion prices?

699
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: What's chair? You know?

700
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: Money access? Mayo Jay Yah Yah Yah interview.

701
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 2: He come in to lead.

702
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: I made O came busting.

703
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 2: Man.

704
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: Look, oh boy, he had he had to go to

705
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: the dentist. That's some more advice to the dentists. Man.

706
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 3: I just had two wisdom teeth pulled from the back

707
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 3: this SI and I'm older than y'all better get I

708
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 3: had all.

709
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: Four of my wisdom teeth pull on.

710
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah? How long was you in paying?

711
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: Though? It actually was not that bad for me? And

712
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: you know what's crazy? When I did it was the

713
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: week and we'll talk about this since that we got

714
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: started working for eminem was the week I got all

715
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: four of my wisdom teeth pulled. And I just remember

716
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: we had to go do like this hip hop summit.

717
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 2: He was looking like Kanye after myf was And you

718
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 2: know what else was bad about it?

719
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: They put this thing in your mouth to hold your

720
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: mouth open, and I had cuts right here from this

721
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: like metal.

722
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, right right, right right. Yeah. I just feel like

723
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: I need to say that I hate playing that game.

724
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: I hated they got you on that. I hate it. No,

725
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 2: the besta medicine is not prescribed by the doctor. What

726
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 2: is that dual advil? So that dual advil that's the

727
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 2: best thing for that. My wisdom to go through.

728
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you waited that long to get it done

729
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: because usually you're calling me old know, I'm saying, because

730
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: people newly get their wizard ty pullway.

731
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 3: Now, I didn't have a problem. They said, don't bother

732
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 3: and tell it. But I started feeling some type stuff

733
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 3: going on, and then I had some flights that was.

734
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 2: Coming up in a month.

735
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 3: I said, I got to do this now because I

736
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 3: had an abscence one time thirty thousand feet in the air.

737
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: Oh oh no, the air pressure hit. I felt like

738
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: I was going to Cali.

739
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: And I don't think insurance didn't cover it. No, back then,

740
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: you had to pay for let me tell you, I

741
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: got mine done for free because I was working for

742
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: Eminem and the dentist, the oral surgeon. He just wanted

743
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: an autograph picture. I got to did you off that? Yeah?

744
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 2: I wish I was pretty? I wish I was pretty.

745
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: No, I have an autographed Eminem picture. And that's how

746
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: I got that's.

747
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 2: He wanted to get your.

748
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: Man come in here, and now you want to.

749
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 2: That's that k we get together?

750
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: Yea, Oh my gosh. But you know what y'all do

751
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 1: kind of like remind me of each other personality wise.

752
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that game. That is that guy man,

753
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 2: that god.

754
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: Man for real, like you know, both ladies like ladies man,

755
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: even though I know you're married. But back then church

756
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: was known for that because women like that. And then

757
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: mano is you know, has that persona too.

758
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm married though. All right, yeah, I

759
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 2: feel it's a feeling.

760
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: It's what he feels like. But go on talking about

761
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: your writing process, because that's what it.

762
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 2: Was, y'all. Y'all, y'all. I had a whole different Yeah,

763
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 2: I just write. I don't know. I just I'll be

764
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 2: in my room whatever.

765
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 4: I'll just be so I put the beat on, I'll

766
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 4: be bouncing all over the place, and like the media

767
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 4: make a song, I just start dropping man stuff down

768
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 4: and I just start pinning together, like my writing just be.

769
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I remember you said you write hooks first.

770
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 3: It depends sometimes, like say I could I could be here,

771
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 3: I jot down now you put it on the phone

772
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 3: before you write it, like a title or a punchline

773
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 3: or a hook, and I have it on the stash.

774
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 3: Or I could start writing a little part of verse

775
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 3: and just write it off air and then sometimes I

776
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 3: hear beat and the beat or write the song.

777
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 2: Okay, you feel what I'm.

778
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: Saying, show me about written on your Kitten.

779
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: Oh where's my kidd in Cat cat as stroke and

780
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 3: man Hop and She's Out and yeah, that was a

781
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 3: freak booty song. I was real hoarty in them days.

782
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 3: That was the naughty nineties. Baby, I was in my twenties. Yeah,

783
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 3: everybody was throwing in pennies and brawls on stage. I

784
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 3: had to do something for the lady, and ladies was

785
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 3: buying with a lot of records. Yes see, they come

786
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 3: to the concert screaming.

787
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say about the game. Now though, from the

788
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: nineties to now.

789
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 3: Ain't nobody in the crowd throwing them them panties like that,

790
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: like no girdles, not for rappers, no.

791
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: See.

792
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 3: The best thing about it, like I go on a

793
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 3: lot of the nineties tours and so solout venues and

794
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 3: it's just our area and everything.

795
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 2: Right, it's just a little older, but it's still grew

796
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: with rocket and it ain't nobody banging in the crowds.

797
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: You know.

798
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 2: It used to be like four five fights in the

799
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 2: crowd shooting outside. Chill. It's chill, did that.

800
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: Ever affect business for you, because your songs definitely, like

801
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: Naughty by Nature was a you know, guard your grill.

802
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: There was definitely songs that could be like let's get

803
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: it on in the in the audiences.

804
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 3: Nah, the show always went on. It was like brawlAnd

805
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 3: was a part of it. Y'all from Brooklyn, y'all.

806
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 2: Are no.

807
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: Mop used to perform and that would be Biggie brackets.

808
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: Man and bus Man. It just go on. But the

809
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 2: party went on.

810
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 3: It wasn't never stopping nothing, but like it's just a

811
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 3: whole different cool abody coming out to just hit classic.

812
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 2: Music and rock.

813
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to recreate something like maybe

814
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: we should ask the woman who bought Kg's house to

815
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: have another pool party like y'all used to do back.

816
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: We had one after that you did Yeah one she cool?

817
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 2: She will yeah yeah.

818
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: Maybe like an n J Pack situation or something like that,

819
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: like let's set it up like I feel like that error,

820
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: but that means that you got to do a you know,

821
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: another Naughty by Nature back together, and then maybe we

822
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 1: bring out we might could do something the way to

823
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: bring out money X and then I'll you know that.

824
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 2: Sounds good, all right, let's do the negotiations.

825
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: And I know like you and I know obviously you

826
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: and Pack were like this, but he also had his

827
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: New Jersey affiliation because he.

828
00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 3: Had outlaws outlaws and Outlaws is from where my Claire

829
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 3: moves from, North Jersey.

830
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 2: Got it.

831
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was wild times back then.

832
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 2: I got the road Dogs from La Inglewood. Inglewood.

833
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: See, that was such a connection. I was at a cookout,

834
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: barbecue ones and Fato was there at the cookout and

835
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: he got into it with somebody and then went and

836
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: got in the car and try to run him over

837
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: on the front lawn.

838
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, outside the right Yeah, yeah, Atlanta. Yeah, but like I.

839
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: Said, y'all wouldn't even understand what it was like. It

840
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: was amazing, amazing, but dangerous, dangerous. Oh gosh, all right,

841
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: well listen, I know I got to start my show soon,

842
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: but I appreciate you both for coming, and I mean it,

843
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: that's why I sit it on camera. We're gonna put

844
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: something together, like maybe definitely we got to recreate like

845
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: some of this that sound good Jersey magic, especially for

846
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: the next generation of people coming up. I like that

847
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: South Mountain Reservation. There used to be so many things

848
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: that was lit like.

849
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 3: Like it's just you know, we could get with NJ

850
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 3: Soup and Jersey, the biggest promoter out there, and that's

851
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 3: how our sandbox we grew up with the said see

852
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: you don't start the will's turning out that man.

853
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: Got his new project on that. Yeah, that you needed

854
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: to do a solo album and.

855
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 2: It now do I need? I need main? No one

856
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: seeing reason?

857
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: Why did you never do it back then?

858
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 3: Because I was all a team player, like, I'm like,

859
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 3: it's gonna be Look, I wrote anything, but K and

860
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 3: Vin they got publishing.

861
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying, I'm like, this is a

862
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 2: long haul.

863
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 3: We a squad, and I did like the majority of

864
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 3: the of the verses anyway, so I felt like I'm

865
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 3: getting my solo off in the group. I should have,

866
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, catalog wise, but no regrets

867
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 3: regrets and I could still do it now and I

868
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 3: am doing it and I think I'm even doper.

869
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: Now what made you decide now? And I know you

870
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: said you want to do this on maybe on Shady

871
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: emin Yeah.

872
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 3: Right now, it's like, ain't too many signing, ain't nobody signing,

873
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 3: no artists for mine ever, But I think it's because

874
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 3: the labels is out there, don't listen to them, and

875
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 3: don't think we still gott it everything else, you know

876
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 3: what I mean.

877
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 2: It's like this is the only.

878
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 3: Genre in the world, hip hop, where you gotta get

879
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Speaker 3: a certain age and don't do music no more, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. So hopefully I want to prove

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Speaker 3: it wrong. I got a project with my homie Jay Wes.

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Speaker 3: We got like a double album worth of stuff with

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Speaker 3: collaborations with nineties era artists. Okay, crazy big Shout out

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Speaker 3: the Storm, that's my manager. Yeah, so we're doing some

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Speaker 3: shopping right now and everything else, like I said, And

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Speaker 3: I'm working with money X and a whole lot of

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Speaker 3: new project like that.

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Speaker 2: But you out to say before we go where they

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Speaker 2: can find video.

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Speaker 4: You can find me on Instagram at money X Tour one,

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Speaker 4: I'm all over world Star, Big Box world Star YouTube familiar.

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Speaker 3: And follow me at Trench Tribe so I can tell

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Speaker 3: you everything else and show you the promotions on what

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Speaker 3: we're doing.

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Speaker 1: I know you have so much going on. I regret

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Speaker 1: that this is before my show starts, but I will

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Speaker 1: do it part two and look.

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Speaker 3: Out for the Jason's lyric play that's coming out it's

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Speaker 3: coming back the We did New Jack City for two

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Speaker 3: years now, we're.

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Speaker 4: Doing Jason Me and All Yeah, Shout on Man, you know,

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Speaker 4: and Overcoats Entertainment, Reggie.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're hitting the King Theater again in Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll be there.

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Speaker 2: Ball