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Eh? 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:14.760 Got tired? 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:16.120 Yeah. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.680 Do you think that's the true source to economics though? Like, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:26.319 like micro managing budgets? What do you mean, Like, is 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.160 that the true source that like as some black people 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:31.800 like to say financial freedom, I don't really like that term, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.680 but you feel like that's the true source to financial 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.280 freedom is micro managing money. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.400 It's just understanding what you have to what it takes, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.280 and what your best path is to get to that point. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.520 You have to understand what it's going to require in 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:53.000 passive income and how your path to creating that level 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.520 of passive income occurs. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.200 It can be however you want it to be. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.200 So it's more about passive income. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.760 Yeah, financial freedom is the freedom to make money with 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:08.800 free time. So if you need if your budget is 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.720 I need eight thousand dollars a month to do whatever 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.000 I want, then your literacy is just understanding what it 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:21.560 takes to have a low entropy, predictable eight thousand dollars 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.760 a month stream, whether that's working a bazillion jobs and 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.000 saving your money or working one and being really a 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.440 student investor and getting good returns to a point where 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.240 you can divest them out or whatever it might be. 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.639 There's a different ways to skin a cat. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.480 You's got to know what kind of cat do you 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.840 want and where do they sell those cats? 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:47.119 Is that really something worthy of pursuing though, Yeah. 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.119 That's basically what most everybody does for retirement. Some people 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:51.680 just want to start the clock earlier. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:59.960 M It's funny because this is such an interesting commas 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.400 about how it's an interesting segue to get to the 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.480 conversation how of what I wanted to talk about right, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.840 which King was asking me and I almost lost my 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.160 train of thought. But so there's two type of medias 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:20.840 that we say hip hop media, right, So again it's 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.640 street urban culture. So there's people within the culture and 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.799 then there's people that's outside of the culture. Now the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.079 hip hop media or street urban the artistic. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:31.560 Merit of it. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.839 It's a lot of it outside of the culture now, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.080 like it's a lot of people who didn't grow up 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.240 in street urban culture. 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.880 Are they trying to mimic the street urban culture? Are 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.520 they just looking at it? No, they're just covering it. Okay, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:44.160 covering it. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.920 Right, But then again, it's like no different than a 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.160 like a guy that never played basketball or didn't study basketball, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.800 or the closest they came was watching games, right, And 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.640 I don't think there's nothing wrong with that. It's gonna 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.000 sound crazy, and I think my homeboys get it confused 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.080 that I think. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.520 I have a problem with that. Like I don't have 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:03.960 a problem with Steven A. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.760 Smith, Well steph Ate Smith actually played organized ball, he 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.320 just didn't look like he was that good. But let's 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.440 say like a DJ Flad or let's say like a 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.080 like a like Adam twenty two. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.120 I don't have a problem with them covering I'm not 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:19.680 one of the. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.200 Few brothers that's like, oh you know what, they're not 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.600 from it like, but there are certain things that bother 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:30.040 me about the conversation Pete. It's like true, like right now, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.359 like I saw a tweet from Academics where he was 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.760 saying he like he was giving advice or what he 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.080 thought should have happened with big Baby, like right now 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.880 that he's like in this case, it's like, oh, well, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.440 you know, why do these guys and even some of 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.520 my homeboys, even a d and pun like if we're 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.640 in the group chat, it's like, you know, these guys 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:51.480 get on here talking about crime. They're only hired because 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:57.040 they're criminals or gangsters and crips. Like Adam twenty two. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.359 Can go get a journalist that went to college that 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:05.760 has a skill set trade in journalism, right, But his 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:14.800 platform is not about journalistic you know, like professional journalism. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.279 It's a professional platform, but it's all about three urban 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:24.479 cultural perspectives. And I always applaud that he understands that 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.560 better than people with that grew up with it as 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.720 a as a as as a part of how we live. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:38.120 They have a different value for it. Vlad Adam act Blocko. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.559 All the people that didn't grow up and the people 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.880 that grew up in it don't see the value in it, right. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.200 And I always put. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.000 A lot of pressure on my homeboys, you know what 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.280 I mean about understanding what your task is. What see 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.000 they don't have the burden of responsibility, and that's what 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.800 people get mad at. They like, well wait a minute, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.200 you cover it. You should be responsible, you know what 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.160 I mean? For the people in it, that's not what 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.400 they do. But the problem is when you're from it, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.359 now there's a burning and I don't know if that's fair, Like, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.680 I don't know now seeing it out loud, am I 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:16.800 being unfair putting that responsibility on them? 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.560 The responsibility would be on the other people. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.000 If you're a gangster and you go on their show 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.560 to be interviewed, the burnen responsibilities on you. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:29.640 That's what I just said. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.240 Yeah, but I mean, and I think to get a 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:38.440 perspective on anything, like let's say crime, for example, just 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.680 off my own personal observational experience, you don't get a 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.279 truly complete picture asking a criminal about crime. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.760 You probably need to get three people. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.640 You need to ask a criminal, a police officer, and 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:52.599 a neutral party. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.600 What's funny to get a holistic perspective. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.880 What's funny is when we design gangster chronicles. That's how 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:04.000 I that was my idea, Right, a criminal, a criminologist, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.400 and a person who saves crime. So that's somebody who 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.480 commits crime, somebody who studies crime. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.160 Is somebody who solves crime. That was the idea. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:19.200 That's why Reggie, James and Alex were the three people 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.560 that it'll been that perspective of crime. But don't look 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.960 at it that way. So street urban culture is a 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.640 little more unique than just crime. Right, it's a culture. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:28.600 That I. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:30.600 Got you. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:31.120 I got you. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.520 But you know how certain vegetations grow or certain insects 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.800 developed when they're around volcanoes. Yeah, it can be a snail, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.840 but it's a specific type of snail because of the environment. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.280 You know it when it grows up on a volcano. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.560 Like I was looking at this really dope snail. I'll 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.680 tell you right now, why are you doing I got 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.000 a question, go ahead now. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.400 Is because of the way the media shows it as 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.080 like you said, add on them, guys, versus the way 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:06.680 that the culture shows it. What you mean, shows hip 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.720 hop in the culture, Like you said, the people inside 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.840 the culture, you know, don't know the value. But the people, 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.040 you know, like you gave examples of hacking them guys, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.120 see the value of the culture even though they're not 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.480 in it. Is it all the way that it's shown. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.200 Yeah, I think that that's true in this space, and 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.760 that's true in anything. Like if you were to take 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:32.040 somebody from like a really poor environment, urban or rural 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.400 whatever and take them to Beverly Hills, they're gonna be 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.120 oh my god, I sound like a Ferrari and everybody 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.720 there's like, well, well you got to get to the 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.559 grocery store. You know, they wouldn't give it a second thought. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.320 So it's kind of can play both ways in that 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.880 regard to if you're if you're but no something. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.520 Ironically, I don't think you get played both ways, like 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:04.040 like for some reason, because there are more There are 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.560 more Beverly Hills than there are ghettos. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.000 Weirdly, mmm, that's true. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.000 Mentally, maybe I think I think. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.280 I disagree in media space, that's probably true. I don't 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:16.280 think that that's true by any of. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.720 The neighborhoods that feel their Beverly Hills and really not that. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.560 But that's the point of it, right, wouldn't that be 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.880 the point of it. There's more suburban areas than there 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.160 are Okay, I said, yeah, I agree with that. So 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.560 even in the upper scale area like Beverly Hills, you know, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.880 if you go to Beverly Hills, it's not quite the movies, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.240 just like when you go to the community, it's not quite. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.559 If that was the case, people would just go shoot 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:41.760 their videos in Beverly Hills. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.280 They of them do not, really, there's very few. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:47.440 When they get arrested. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.280 I mean, for sure they gonna get they pulled. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:56.480 Up in the Hollywood Hills or whatever the hell and 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.000 they shoot their videos up and all that ship. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.480 Yeah, but that's my point, like there would be there's 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.960 really no reason for people to come specifically to the ghetto. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:07.240 At all. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:09.760 Yeah, I mean. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.360 Outside the media's presence because they produce, they produced, like 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:15.800 the ghettos the place to go be. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.559 I don't know if it's me, that's what I'm saying that, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.080 that's what I'm telling you and Pete, Like, there's really 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.320 no reason for people to go to the ghettos at 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:23.880 all if. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:24.439 You're not from there. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:26.880 Yeah, that's that's true. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.400 I agree. I mean, but again, it's. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.080 Like that's why I used to get pulled over when 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:31.760 I was there. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.520 Like what are you doing here? Bro? Yeah? 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.920 All right, where's the drugs and hookers? I'm like, that's 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:38.120 what I'm trying to figure out. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:45.040 No seilings g L my brother Peter and the house player, Pete. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.040 I got my big brother King over here getting into 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.160 this crazy thought. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:51.960 Head over to www. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.600 Dot the cryptstore dot com, t H G C R 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.280 I P S t O R E dot com and 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:02.959 grab something so King could got a quarter commercial. King 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:10.000 can fulfill the order on time fast. Yeah, I was 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.679 thinking about that. But the burden of it's like you're saying, right, 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.360 It's like that's the burden of it, right. I didn't 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.960 blame Vlad when he sits down, when he sits down 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.960 with somebody that comes from this perspective life right like 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.760 this this environment, I don't blame him. If they say 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.480 something that incriminates themselves, I don't blame Adam for it. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.200 I keep telling people that they understand the appeal of 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.560 us better than we do. Even the people that exist 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.439 in the space that do cover that type of content, 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.120 they don't really appreciate the space, but they understand its value, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:48.200 right because they name their shows in specific correlations to 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:49.160 said community. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:51.680 Right, they name it. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.480 That way, like let's say, people that's within the space 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.360 that cover you know, that's like a hip hop media 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.480 the community. They spell it cuz on purpose. Back on 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.480 fig they big is a community thing. Back on fig 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.880 to even use that title fig. White people don't call 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.760 figaroa fig. I mean unless you peek. But the average 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.960 person that's figure out the street big is a A 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.480 is a cultural Inuindo. It's a nickname for that specific 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.440 street and it means something more than where the Staple 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.360 Center at the Staple Center is not on fig The 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:26.840 Staple Center is on FIGAROA. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.200 The Hoover Criminal Gang is on fig The whole Strow 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:39.840 is on fig but allegedly yeah, but is on FIGAROA. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.559 Well, looking at his show, you say, you know, guys 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.800 go on there and they self incriminate or whatever. A 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.120 lot of them were doing that anyway, that that's kind 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.120 of how they got on the show. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:52.800 There's no shortage of people that go. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.920 On social media trying to blast off for status about 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.600 what they've been doing on there. And probably to some degree, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.600 I don't go through everybody. A lot of those people 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:09.000 gateway their exposure from their own social media platforms. People 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.880 see them, they get some virality. Next thing you know, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.240 they're on a podcast and they're on another show and 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.400 whatever else. So like they kind of started that on 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.199 their own time, and we're selected because they were doing 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.360 that and because of the provocative nature that it attracts 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:21.920 an audience. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.920 But let's be honest, like they wouldn't have the jobs 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.080 without it, oh Adam and them, No, no, not Adam, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.520 the people doing the jobs like like a brig baby 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.679 or oh ad Like the reason Adam would hire an 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.880 ad Or t Rail is not because he's trying to 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.120 do a good favor for brothers from the streets, which 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.080 that does come with it, but I'm saying it's also 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:50.080 because he understands the street curbon, the street urban culturals thing. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.920 So basically Adam's just buying an interpreter. Oh Adam the 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.520 bridge between him and the streets. You know what I'm saying. 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.320 He's jail. I know. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.560 But instead of bringing on guests who star in movies 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.520 and TV shows, because that's the theme of his entertainment show, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.760 his theme is street crime type of thing. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.920 So he brings on people like that, but. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.240 He keeps the same once basically on no. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.000 So, but he hires them because they provide a cultural 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.600 avenue opens up the perspective. Not it doesn't open up 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:26.960 the culture to him because he can't just still go 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.960 walk down fig even though he hired he hired uh 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.480 t Rail or he can't go walk down Avalon because 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.800 or Central because he hired you know what you said, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.520 he could get the view of it. He understands what 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.840 he's selling. Whack under Whack, I just realized something. Whack 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.800 is a civilian and he's been a civilian. He been 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:52.680 had that, he been built this multi million dollar trucking business. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.760 He ain't committing no fucking crimes, you know what I'm saying. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.280 So it's like everybody I watched to sit down with, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.400 I didn't watch it. Forgive me, that's a lie. I'll 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:03.960 be telling them a lie because I don't want people 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.800 to ask him questions. I didn't watch it, but I 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:06.440 saw a picture. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:11.760 It was it was Lore in England. It was Actvlad Whack. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.600 And somebody else, right, and it was all these people, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.800 and I realized, like, oh, none of these people really 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.760 are into that thing, and they're giving you this very 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:30.120 kind of I mean somebody who don't have the true information, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.880 you know what I mean, They really only have it 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.480 from this limited scope. And I was thinking about the 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.440 people within the culture and how they're operating about the 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.200 same subject. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.600 It was really different. But then like I watched people 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.560 like I watched. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.680 Act condemn him, and I'm like, well, he was like, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.000 oh man, but brick Baby probably shouldn't have been talking 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.000 about what he was doing. I'm like, well, the only 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.120 reason he got the job is because he is from 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.440 six to Oh, the only reason Fox Extra's got the 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.520 job is because he's from Folti's the only reason people 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.040 get that job is because they're from the culture that's 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:06.520 from this walk of life. And it's people saying, oh, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:07.800 you know what they shouldn't be talking about. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:08.280 They crime. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.440 I mean, I could imagine glasses low bro in two thousand, 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:19.760 two thousand and two, when I'm selling sharm every day. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.720 I mean, like I probably wouldn't have took the job. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:24.400 But in two thousand and three or four, when I'm 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.920 tired of selling sharm every day, somebody come and say, hey, man, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.280 I'm gonna give you a thousand and fifteen hundred dollars 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.280 just to give your perspective on current topics and hip hop. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.320 You know what I'm saying, I could imagine what I 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.120 would be talking about. I didn't go to college for journalism, 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.600 fear me, I was bre I was an underdeveloped rapper 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:48.120 at that point, right, So it's like I would be 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.040 saying the same things I would be relating it. And 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:55.120 the funny part is about them brothers, is cause like them, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.640 niggas talk about a million things, but the things that 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.840 stick are the things that people respect them as experts in. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.320 I guess the point of this part of this thought 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.240 is like it's easy for us to talk shit about 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.720 these people now, or people to talk shit about them, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.920 because it's like, yeah, but they only got the opportunity 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:18.639 to change their life because of what they've been through. Now, 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.960 do I think it has a value to Adam and 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:22.720 everybody else? 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:23.119 Of course? 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.440 It's again, this is one of those things that I 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.800 keep saying, people outside of is understand how valuable it is. 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:33.120 People inside of it, don't you know what I mean? 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.639 Like they just don't do they not? 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.960 Or do they understand how valuable it is, but they 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:45.920 don't understand or at least appropriately or proficiently like create 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:54.160 a distribution mechanism to capitalize on that value. Because it's 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:55.840 like as soon as they get the opportunity, they jump 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.880 at it. They realize that they're valuable. Obviously they see 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:05.479 other people being used for value. But as it's you know, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.960 not complicated, it's easier to get on somebody else's show 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.399 than to maybe possibly create your own show out of 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:14.080 whole cloth. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.560 You know, it's not easier, right, It's harder to create 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:23.760 your own show, right, But it's not that right. It's like, Okay, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.840 so the thing that fuels street urban lifestyle is to 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.800 be recognized. Remember, Like I know, like you believe in 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.080 racism to somebody oppression, but I'm saying it's way worse 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.000 than you could think. This poverty is way worse than 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.840 you can think because it makes you feel ignored or invisible, 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.480 you know what I mean, Like nobody knows you exist. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.000 So coming from that type of cloth, you know what I mean, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.600 And it's natural in humans, but it's like ten times worse. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.400 And people that come from like where I come from, Right, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:53.040 I get that. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:53.480 That's like. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.680 A lot of those cultural underpinnings and stuff like that. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.400 That's like that that's my whole that's my whole thing. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:01.960 Like that's my entire. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.560 Thing. That's my whole thematic deal. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.960 Yeah no, no, yeah, And I'm not taking away from it. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:13.840 I'm just saying, so it's all about being recognized. Yeah, 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.720 Like that's how it works, even at the street level 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.320 before the Internet. Right, It's like you wrote your name 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:24.640 on the wall illegally, people can figure out who you were, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.400 like you know, glasses logo on the wall, Like that's illegal, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.320 and the police know that you wrote that because it's 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.120 your name on the wall. Not only that, right, Pete, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.560 you probably crossed something out in there. Yeah, but now 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.440 like a person that you then disrespect it on that wall, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.080 they know they are aware of your existence. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:47.480 Yeah, but there's like being recognized for free, being recognized 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:51.040 for illicit profit, and then being recognized for legitimate profit. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.720 You know, So to transition A to B to C. 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:59.720 You know, might be easier to just go from A 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.439 to to be to somebody else's C then to go 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.800 from A to B to your own organically created entrepreneur. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.480 See, you know, I mean, if I think, but that's 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:09.880 the point. 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:11.760 I think if they had I think, if most people 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.200 had the intellect to do it, they probably be doing 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.919 something different. They probably wouldn't be doing that. Like I'm 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.760 watching H. H. Young and from a trade do it 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.240 right now, you know, building his own platform. You know, 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.880 he did get some interviews, but he's building his own platform. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.320 It's like, you know, it's it's a different journey, which 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.160 again it all goes into the same thing. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.000 You go from again, the same thing. 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.480 That fuel street life, fuels this right to to It's 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.160 all the same thing. You're tired of being invisible, You're 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.240 tired of being You want to matter, you want your 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.400 name you want your legacy, You want things to mean 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:47.119 something to people. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:48.879 You want the world to know you exist. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.960 Right, So if you look at street life, right King, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.399 no matter if it's Yo gen to my gen or 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.200 any other gen, that's the vining point and that's that's 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.400 what makes it, that's what makes it revolved to be recognized. 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:03.040