Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, all the smoke coming to you from Miami, Jack,
Speaker 2: where we're at what you call this ship, Lake Plastic,
Speaker 2: Lake Placid, thirteen gators.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I keep looking back. I know why. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I keep being that water move And we just want
Speaker 3: to give you.
Speaker 2: Guys a heads up. Man, were in the element right now.
Speaker 2: There's motherfucking airplanes flying over the traffic back.
Speaker 4: But we in the element.
Speaker 3: Plan from cocaine cowboys too. We got some right there.
Speaker 2: Some bells just got dropped in in the lake, hey, man,
Speaker 2: But we got a we got a really good one.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I came down to Miami early and played in college
Speaker 2: tournament and ran into my brother yesterday or the night
Speaker 2: before and just chopped it up and kicked it and
Speaker 2: asked if he would bless us with his presence today, man,
Speaker 2: And he said, hell, yeah, So I want to welcome
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 4: Man, spend my morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how's life? I mean, kids are doing well, family,
Speaker 2: what's going on?
Speaker 5: It couldn't be any happier except for, you know, with
Speaker 5: the hurricane situation. Outside of that, you know, but other
Speaker 5: than that, we're very very happy. My son Y g
Speaker 5: Molly it's an excellent year this year. You know, he's
Speaker 5: been at it for a long time, grinding, so it's
Speaker 5: nice when the kids flourish. My son Nico, they work together,
Speaker 5: they managed together. One of my brothers works with him,
Speaker 5: so it's nice, you know. And then my daughters they're
Speaker 5: doing their thing again.
Speaker 4: My one of my my.
Speaker 5: Eldest daughters, she's kind of the person who managed my
Speaker 5: kind of tell me what to do what not.
Speaker 3: Know.
Speaker 4: The children are in my life very very much.
Speaker 5: I every day at two o'clock ago get my little
Speaker 5: son from school. That is which is nice. I have
Speaker 5: to stop everything for that. So life is moving and living.
Speaker 5: Just launched a new relationship here in Florida with gold Flower,
Speaker 5: bringing line or the cannabis brand to Florida. So we're
Speaker 5: excited about that. You know, Marley Coffee, I'm trying to
Speaker 5: bring that to South Florida.
Speaker 4: So that's what's happening, bro.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm re enterprising the family legacy here because
Speaker 5: we got here in nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 4: We go to Bales right.
Speaker 2: There, right now, he said, drop one in the ards.
Speaker 3: Make sure y'all edit that out, and I go pick
Speaker 3: it up. I know what to do with it.
Speaker 2: That's what's happening bro the legacy in the fair. We're
Speaker 2: going to get to that. But I want to talk
Speaker 2: to you about about fatherhood because the way you smile
Speaker 2: and your energy when you talk about your kids, I
Speaker 2: could tell a special you know what I mean? We
Speaker 2: both are got seven of them. I mean you got
Speaker 2: eight that you're claiming. I mean, what is it like
Speaker 2: to see your children and see them grow and flourish
Speaker 2: and succeed and become young men and women? What's that
Speaker 2: meant for you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: You know I have twelve children. I didn't have many.
Speaker 4: Get twelve children?
Speaker 2: Oh you get okay, I get how many? How many
Speaker 2: did you have?
Speaker 4: I don't have none. Oh the woman have man?
Speaker 3: Get respect? Respect?
Speaker 2: But you know how mean did you make?
Speaker 4: Help help make twelve and nine grand children?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: So that is the most joyful thing in life. So
Speaker 5: that's why sometimes when people say, man, have you been here?
Speaker 4: Have you been there?
Speaker 5: I said, no, kind of like being home, like being
Speaker 5: one place so you can always find me because I'm like,
Speaker 5: I want to go to the old school way. Because
Speaker 5: old school way, right, You're not like in Jamaica. You know,
Speaker 5: there's no fool no, no thing you check out, money yard,
Speaker 5: sure is there is that you can't find me at home,
Speaker 5: And so I want to be that kind of person
Speaker 5: where you can find me at home.
Speaker 4: You know, if you just go to my house, I'm there.
Speaker 4: I'm there. I want to that.
Speaker 5: So it's more about the family and those things, you know,
Speaker 5: and thus dealing everyday life with children, not I mean
Speaker 5: not teaching them. I can only teach a young one,
Speaker 5: the little one, I can teach him, but I can
Speaker 5: show the other ones. You know, they have to choose
Speaker 5: because once you get to a certain age where you
Speaker 5: have your relationship with woman, and whether you're a man
Speaker 5: or woman, you know you have boyfriend or girlfriend. That
Speaker 5: mean you have age you have to take on certain responsibility.
Speaker 5: So them, if I can't tell you who to date
Speaker 5: who not to date, I don't.
Speaker 4: I only can just reasoning with you, you know.
Speaker 5: So I tried to show my older children them my
Speaker 5: vibes like are reasoning and try to show them right
Speaker 5: from wrong in my perspective and say you know, you know,
Speaker 5: just know that I said this, so you can always
Speaker 5: trying to govern it because you have to be realistic
Speaker 5: in teaching right that has to come over standing. So
Speaker 5: no matter how much it's like it's like it's like
Speaker 5: shooting a basketball.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't get it the first time. It's repetitive.
Speaker 4: And even with the older ones, you have to tell them, said, listen,
Speaker 4: I told you that's the Lucid Lake. I told you that.
Speaker 4: I totally keep checking.
Speaker 5: You dig what I'm saying. So you got to keep
Speaker 5: telling them, he that's Lucia Lake. Don't go out there,
Speaker 5: Oh daddy, but oh but daddy, it looks so cool today.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: All right, so you got to keep on, you know.
Speaker 4: So that's just showing.
Speaker 5: The teaching is when I have to hold the hands,
Speaker 5: you know, when I get a certain age and more,
Speaker 5: no more holding hands. So I'm it's joyful to see
Speaker 5: that they're within the frequency, you know, and they overstand
Speaker 5: that Father represents a certain way of life. Father deal
Speaker 5: with certain principles. Father has a consciousness of a certain
Speaker 5: place and being that.
Speaker 4: It wants to represent a higher self.
Speaker 5: So when they when I give them those type of things,
Speaker 5: I want them to relate to that.
Speaker 4: Not by force, but by example and over yes.
Speaker 5: So so sometimes you know they might see that He's
Speaker 5: still that is always whom but you know, it's just
Speaker 5: I'm always happy at home. So it's a it's a journey.
Speaker 5: So here's how I got here.
Speaker 4: And come on, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on that, not this, Come on, understand
Speaker 2: when that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you understand when so, but I don't, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not too rough on.
Speaker 2: Them, miss Lauren. Here you had babies with and and
Speaker 2: and I read something that.
Speaker 4: You like prince and princesses.
Speaker 2: You felt that it was your responsibility and and you
Speaker 2: weren't able to show her how you with it felt
Speaker 2: or or loved her or in the relationship when it
Speaker 2: when it didn't end up working out, did you put
Speaker 2: some blame on your heavy blame on yourself when.
Speaker 4: No, not, no, not blame on myself.
Speaker 5: I mean it's it's not say in the workout, you know,
Speaker 5: because in life, right, people must have independence, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's what it is, somewhere more independent than some.
Speaker 5: And at times you have to allow a person to
Speaker 5: you know, meaning that during that time that you're present,
Speaker 5: you're bringing awakening. You know, you also bring a frequency,
Speaker 5: you bring a direction, and that direction can spark energy
Speaker 5: in that person because that person is what that person
Speaker 5: is from the beginning of time, so that energy.
Speaker 4: Can spark a direction.
Speaker 5: So you can't you can't be you know, when you
Speaker 5: say queen and you get a queen, you can't have
Speaker 5: to respect that and a queen give order, have order,
Speaker 5: have way and principles. You know about so and I
Speaker 5: SOO also have to create foundation. Two as a king,
Speaker 5: he did so the queen now have her foundation and
Speaker 5: the queen has his foundation. So it's like that, and
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, it's like a home, right,
Speaker 5: you know, when I go to Ethiopia and I learned
Speaker 5: from high this. Lastly, the first the king and his queen,
Speaker 5: Empress Omega. I realized that the home, the king bed
Speaker 5: is here and the queen bedroom is over here, and
Speaker 5: they have a room where they can hang out and
Speaker 5: share time. And that's what it should be. So it's
Speaker 5: not really it's no, I don't remember what you said before,
Speaker 5: but I'm going to tell you how it is. It's
Speaker 5: not really any separation. It's just a way of life
Speaker 5: and a journey of life. Because we are still great
Speaker 5: mothers and fathers to our children, where we speak all
Speaker 5: the time, were very much active in communicating together, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean, And realizing the benefit of mother
Speaker 5: and father and what father represents, what mother represents. But
Speaker 5: at the time, remember we're all so young too, right,
Speaker 5: and in them region, you know, twenties, early twenties, so
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, And I myself trying to
Speaker 5: also become a rassed up on your to you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, so I can support my children because
Speaker 5: at the time, she's the one with doing with the breadwinner,
Speaker 5: you know. So I after account of just sit.
Speaker 4: There and just can come on.
Speaker 2: I could, but I can't.
Speaker 5: Yeah you did, I mean, yeah, So make sure stability
Speaker 5: is there, and the queen have our domain where she rules,
Speaker 5: and the king has this domain where he rules and
Speaker 5: such and such. So there's never a separation. It's just life.
Speaker 5: We always communicate.
Speaker 2: How'd you guys meet?
Speaker 5: We met in nineteen ninety six, right after I left college.
Speaker 4: I wanted to do something again.
Speaker 5: So when I when I left football, I want I
Speaker 5: was trying to figure out what am I to do
Speaker 5: with life, you know, So I said, you know, I
Speaker 5: want to do something that I can do forever.
Speaker 4: Football I didn't think I can do it forever. So
Speaker 4: I stopped that.
Speaker 5: I stopped my passion for that to change, but I
Speaker 5: felt like I can play soccer forever. So I decided
Speaker 5: to move back to Jamaica. Move forward into Jamaica. But
Speaker 5: when I go to Jamaica, I am going there to
Speaker 5: be with my family, my brothers because this is six
Speaker 5: so ninety five. Now I leave ninety five, I leave school.
Speaker 5: Ninety five would play Orange Bowl. Right after that, I
Speaker 5: flied to Hate. My son, Nika was born. After I
Speaker 5: tell the University of Mim I'm done with football and
Speaker 5: not coming back as a junior. I tell my brothers
Speaker 5: that I'm done with this thing. No, I'm playing football
Speaker 5: no more. It's like, what you mean? I said, Yeah,
Speaker 5: as I'm coming to Jamaica and I'm gonna be a roadie.
Speaker 5: So I took that job as a roadie. So while
Speaker 5: I was on the road, we have a smoking Grooves
Speaker 5: and the Fujis are on that tour and Miss Lauren
Speaker 5: hell is on that tour as.
Speaker 4: Well as you know, the Fuji and my brothers.
Speaker 5: So one day I am I heard this voice.
Speaker 4: I'm on the bus because I'm security.
Speaker 5: I'm really, I'm security for my brothers and I'm I'm
Speaker 5: the road guys, so I'm not really I gotta roll
Speaker 5: with them.
Speaker 4: But I listened still, you know, so I listen. I
Speaker 4: heard this voice.
Speaker 5: I'm like wow, like and I'm like what I'm singing?
Speaker 5: Like real music, you know, So I'm like, who's that?
Speaker 4: I let it go.
Speaker 5: One day, you know, one day, I'm sitting on the bus. Again,
Speaker 5: She's walking in front of the bus with her guitar,
Speaker 5: and you know, I'm sitting in the driver's seat. So
Speaker 5: I topped the horn. I topped that horn. She looked
Speaker 5: back and.
Speaker 4: And she went along her way. Another day, you know,
Speaker 4: that was me introducing myself.
Speaker 5: So another day, now she was coming this way and
Speaker 5: with all my brothers, So why she's coming towards me.
Speaker 4: I just extended my arm like that.
Speaker 5: She extended her arm and we just touched hands, and
Speaker 5: I was like all right. And that was when how
Speaker 5: we met. On smoking groups story, it's the beginning of that.
Speaker 5: When you talk about a queen and a real woman
Speaker 5: and a real mother, she represented that someone that stands
Speaker 5: on what do you call it again, stand on my business?
Speaker 4: Hey, no one stands on business like miss Lauren.
Speaker 5: So I mean society may not see it as such
Speaker 5: and in regards to how they see business, but the
Speaker 5: way she sees business.
Speaker 4: Her happy and no one stands on business.
Speaker 5: Like her, and we have to give it up for
Speaker 5: her much respective and start for just being queen.
Speaker 2: And at so as you say, that's how you guys met,
Speaker 2: you guys ended up getting being together two years into
Speaker 2: your relationship. She she releases, The Miseducation of Warren Hill
Speaker 2: was just what was just rated by what publication.
Speaker 6: Edy Apple, but it's rated by every human being to
Speaker 6: the greatest album, the greatest app What were.
Speaker 2: What were the vibes around the family like when she
Speaker 2: was creating creating that album.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, like I said, the frequency right, and
Speaker 4: then there's some.
Speaker 5: Energy bringing all the things together, bringing some of my
Speaker 5: father's influence in regards to some of the musicians.
Speaker 4: You know, start one of the main thing was we went.
Speaker 5: To Jamaica started started the album out in Jamaica, Physics
Speaker 5: Hope with my dad's studio. That's what of my brother's
Speaker 5: musician worked on album. You know, she just I remember
Speaker 5: when she I remember the first day in the studio,
Speaker 5: and you remember I'm with my brothers all the time.
Speaker 5: So that's what we do. I followed them. I go
Speaker 5: to the studio. This is what this is like my
Speaker 5: life football. I get up in the morning with Steven
Speaker 5: and studio. Now I'm with Misslar and Hill. She's the
Speaker 5: same person studio, studio, studio. But remember she's now going
Speaker 5: to do this independently by herself without the group.
Speaker 3: Are you there?
Speaker 2: Are you there to support her? You doing some kind
Speaker 2: of stuff with the with the music.
Speaker 4: No, at that time, I'm just being self. I don't
Speaker 4: know what you call that. I'm president, support everything, everything, whatever.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Lady guy.
Speaker 4: At that time, I used to because ras them times.
Speaker 4: You know, I came in she.
Speaker 5: Met me raw ra ra rastafi rah No, you know
Speaker 5: I mean itally's like crazy. I was a little bit psychedelic,
Speaker 5: not not psychedelic, but they said, not crazy, but more
Speaker 5: like very much rigid in Rastafari like the way because
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, because.
Speaker 2: It was rough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm in a.
Speaker 5: Place and I'm realizing a lot of things happening around
Speaker 5: where I got to hold it down because you know,
Speaker 5: remember wherever a newborn son, So I got to hold
Speaker 5: it down in many spiritual ways in regardless to the
Speaker 5: industry and the type of artist this is and the
Speaker 5: woman it is and what this one represented that.
Speaker 4: So being that's being in that.
Speaker 5: Environment, you know, I had to hold it as Rastafari
Speaker 5: and be the gun lights that I am. I have
Speaker 5: to because I know that support like that, I am
Speaker 5: the order, you know. So I just remember the first
Speaker 5: thing in the studio she brought maybe every instrument I
Speaker 5: can think of, from it to bongo or just that
Speaker 5: because I remember like watching her create this album, you know,
Speaker 5: and and she had these two youths that she brought
Speaker 5: out a new wark and you know, I remember them
Speaker 5: young kids, talented kids, but they they're programmers, drum programmers
Speaker 5: and another you know, they're young musicians with you know,
Speaker 5: at the time, a lot of sampling. So they beat,
Speaker 5: but she tell them, she tells them what to play
Speaker 5: and how to press it.
Speaker 4: She gives them the sound.
Speaker 5: She because you know, it's almost like, you know, I
Speaker 5: want to hear something, but I can't play the keyboard.
Speaker 4: My favorite playing on the E card on the keyboard. Bang.
Speaker 5: I dropped that bang bang, And she's like, okay, give
Speaker 5: me that like bang bang. And this is how she's
Speaker 5: guiding these guys, like guiding them do every step.
Speaker 3: Of the way like a piece to the puzzle.
Speaker 5: Every step of the way. So when they when those
Speaker 5: guys came around, and you know whatever. But that's kind
Speaker 5: of how it started out, man. With with miss Lauren Hill,
Speaker 5: she is one of the minds where uh, she's an artist.
Speaker 4: A true artist, a Picasso.
Speaker 5: So when you ask about why certain things that she
Speaker 5: does certain things a certain way, it's the artistry.
Speaker 4: I'm certain she's a very talented artist.
Speaker 5: Like musician wise, her ear in regards to notes and
Speaker 5: keys spun on. So you talk about a master at work.
Speaker 5: But you know, I come from that. I listen every day.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you hear something a thousand times or
Speaker 5: fifty thousand times, obviously kind of gets to be able
Speaker 5: to separate what's what and what's not, you know. So
Speaker 5: being around her and watching her create the misidication of
Speaker 5: Lauren Hill, it was just magical, man. And those days
Speaker 5: I can always remember those days, man, and going into Jamaica,
Speaker 5: being in a studio with her, being there, watching her create.
Speaker 4: And always listening, you know.
Speaker 5: And one thing she always used to ask, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, as it feels, you know, So if
Speaker 5: for music didn't give me goose bumps, I.
Speaker 6: Called him just talking to hearing because I'm a big fan.
Speaker 6: So here you talk about it like this gave me
Speaker 6: for minutes ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if for music, don't give me goosebumps, I said.
Speaker 5: I said, no, no, no, I said, I said, you
Speaker 5: know that.
Speaker 4: I said, say, come take a listen. Go in there.
Speaker 5: It was guarding the commissioners in there, a couple of
Speaker 5: other engineers, but meanly Garden, the commissioner.
Speaker 4: I heard always at night crazy. I walked in the studio.
Speaker 5: I said, all right, So if I can't if I
Speaker 5: can't like move a certain way to it, you know,
Speaker 5: if I can't step to it like and it.
Speaker 4: Don't give me goose I said. I said, like.
Speaker 5: That's all right, Yeah, it's I kind of we had
Speaker 5: that kind of vibe, you know, when it comes down
Speaker 5: to music. Because Chuck d said something and when I
Speaker 5: read it, I was in her mother's kitchen and I
Speaker 5: was sitting there in their mother's kitchen and there her
Speaker 5: mother's in the kitchen, and she's just walking behind me,
Speaker 5: and I'm reading this thing. Chuck did so his Lauren
Speaker 5: here was like the Bob Marley of hip hop or
Speaker 5: something something something like that.
Speaker 4: I said, Wow, I'm.
Speaker 5: Sitting there reading this is early early, this is when
Speaker 5: we does that Zion Like, I'm like, oh wow, Like
Speaker 5: so that's how the hip hop community feel about her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so then all right, let's go. Yeah it's true and.
Speaker 3: We are that. How does Zion feel hearing that song today?
Speaker 6: That's an able to understand the lyrics and stuff now.
Speaker 5: You know, because I know it's touching. Yeah, because he's
Speaker 5: a Hebrew write and he's a true Hebrew, you know, study,
Speaker 5: So this is he's him, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: That's just him. He's a blessed one and that is him.
Speaker 5: And when you hear that song, you make him cry,
Speaker 5: like you know what I mean, you make it you know,
Speaker 5: when you hear that song, it's kind of touching because
Speaker 5: you and I watch now I watch because I'm watching
Speaker 5: on the TV, like when they're choring. Because he sings
Speaker 5: with his mother, you know, you know, it has a
Speaker 5: couple of songs out now too. So I see when
Speaker 5: he embraces his mother, and I see how he hugs
Speaker 5: his mother. I say, yeah, you know, mother Zion, because
Speaker 5: Nico my other children. When when Zion is born, all right,
Speaker 5: most people don't know this, but before I met miss
Speaker 5: Lauren Hill, I say something to her as my brother's
Speaker 5: security and those things.
Speaker 4: I opened my briefcase.
Speaker 5: I used to walk with an attache because I'm, you know,
Speaker 5: a military, because I'm a security.
Speaker 4: Just leave college ripped you?
Speaker 2: So you about five eight five how much right now?
Speaker 5: Because I became such vegan my junior year, I stopped
Speaker 5: eating or anything.
Speaker 4: I was like one ninety to muscle.
Speaker 5: So I say to miss Lauren Hill, I say, I
Speaker 5: need to you know, when after we met the first time,
Speaker 5: I need to show you something. I opened up my
Speaker 5: briefcase and I showed her my two children. I said,
Speaker 5: this is my this is my life. This is Eden
Speaker 5: and this is Nickel. Before me and her ever had
Speaker 5: a talk, these are my children.
Speaker 4: I said, So.
Speaker 5: This is me when my children now, and now I'm
Speaker 5: now when miss Lauren Hill have zion. I told my brothers,
Speaker 5: I say, listen, I got to move to New Jersey.
Speaker 5: I said, what do you mean. I said yeah, because
Speaker 5: if swimming have her career and it's her first time
Speaker 5: having a child and she don't know know about children.
Speaker 4: I got to go and take care of my kid,
Speaker 4: you know. He said, all right, go. My brother's nigga
Speaker 4: and Steve al right, go. So I go to New Jersey.
Speaker 5: But while I'm in New Jersey because you know she's
Speaker 5: remember she is the middle.
Speaker 4: So I got it.
Speaker 5: I can't be the guy. Oh man, this guy I
Speaker 5: got to hold down so she.
Speaker 4: Could keep moving. And you know what I mean, because
Speaker 4: they're like, oh man, you can't believe me went with
Speaker 4: this guy.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's up.
Speaker 4: Who's this guy?
Speaker 3: Why is this guy?
Speaker 4: Who is he gonna? You need to do your music.
Speaker 5: That's why the song Zion. So I have to go
Speaker 5: there and hold it down. I gotta bring my strength,
Speaker 5: you know, like, so it makes makes makes her flow
Speaker 5: and make sure.
Speaker 2: Because that's important. Her ecosystem is important.
Speaker 4: To do that.
Speaker 5: She could go out that woman or that I'm wold
Speaker 5: it down, go and do your thing. Man, I got it.
Speaker 5: I got don't worry about that.
Speaker 4: I got this.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: So but now I'm living in Jersey, and when I
Speaker 5: would bring my children to New Jersey, Nick Eden, I
Speaker 5: tell them to how they have to address Zion's mother,
Speaker 5: Mommy Zion, they call her and they call them Momision
Speaker 5: untill they were like twenty because that's Mummy of science.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 5: Your name for the children. So that's how our family.
Speaker 5: So when they were young on tour. All my children,
Speaker 5: my children from my previous relationship, my wife which I
Speaker 5: married their mothers when I was a young boy, and
Speaker 5: then after her was Miss Lauren Hill, and I brought
Speaker 5: them all together.
Speaker 4: So when i'm my children, you know because yes.
Speaker 5: So I was able to make sure that my children
Speaker 5: know the most important thing is the brother and brotherly
Speaker 5: love and sisterly love.
Speaker 4: No matter. My life is my life. What I do
Speaker 4: has nothing to do with you. That's my that's me.
Speaker 5: Don't let that, don't don't get involved with me, don't
Speaker 5: stay in Your children must be children. Children, don't get
Speaker 5: in big people business. No, that's all you wrote. Make
Speaker 5: sure my children, make sure brothers and sisters are brothers
Speaker 5: and sisters.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm not the perfect man in the world that
Speaker 5: was able to do it, like they say no, because
Speaker 5: some things don't work out.
Speaker 2: I make all you motherfuckers, you all go love each other.
Speaker 4: You must.
Speaker 2: There's no other way, no choice, There's no other way.
Speaker 2: I'm a step dad.
Speaker 6: When she was when you when you all was together
Speaker 6: recording that album at that time, when you was hearing
Speaker 6: it and then we'll was putting together.
Speaker 3: Did you know it was gonna be what it is today,
Speaker 3: of course. Yeah, but that's one of them. Just when
Speaker 3: you listen to it, like, oh yeah, this is it.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm telling you this.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this is anywhere in the world,
Speaker 5: but I remember that that Sunny record said that this
Speaker 5: was coffee table music.
Speaker 3: That goes so how much they know?
Speaker 4: They don't know nothing.
Speaker 3: Crazy?
Speaker 5: And let me tell you what I means. She's standing
Speaker 5: on business. She says, no, this is the songs I
Speaker 5: wanted to make, and.
Speaker 3: She stood strong too strong strong.
Speaker 5: We'll get when I'm worried or she's just gonna do
Speaker 5: it her way you did because you're not gonna you
Speaker 5: can't lessen yourself to make someone greater.
Speaker 3: I mean, no sense who's a bigger Who's name another star?
Speaker 6: Who is who's just as big as Laura Hill with
Speaker 6: only one album?
Speaker 3: You know, oh one?
Speaker 5: I mean when you say no, but let's be fair,
Speaker 5: let's not let's not say one album because remember the.
Speaker 3: Food is one solo album.
Speaker 4: Solo. But she did do Misake, she did do the unplugged.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she did unplugged.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know how that's you know. I'm chilling in
Speaker 4: South Orange and I need to get my watch fixed.
Speaker 5: So I go into a place called Mainplewood, you know,
Speaker 5: and I walk into the Julia store to get my
Speaker 5: watch fixed. And this guy is there and he's like,
Speaker 5: yo't you roll in and say what's up? He says, Man,
Speaker 5: I'm from MTV, MTV London, TV Europe.
Speaker 4: I said, yeah, I said, cool man. But my moms
Speaker 4: exchange numbers and such and such. I go back home now,
Speaker 4: I said Lauren.
Speaker 5: I said, Lauren, I just met this guy from MTV
Speaker 5: London and they just started unplugged.
Speaker 4: M And at the time, Laren was playing a guitar a.
Speaker 1: Lot, you know.
Speaker 5: I said, why don't you talk to this man about
Speaker 5: doing an unplugged She says, yeah, give me his number, sir.
Speaker 4: This is no record company, no nothing, and I always
Speaker 4: she said.
Speaker 5: I'm going to introduce you to the guy from MTV USA,
Speaker 5: which is New York.
Speaker 4: I forget his name. Nice person. We go there.
Speaker 5: She brought her book bag with all her books because
Speaker 5: for me, what I admire most about her and what
Speaker 5: and what I tried to tell my children about music.
Speaker 5: You see, a certain type of music have to be
Speaker 5: made a certain type of way.
Speaker 4: You did her music.
Speaker 5: Comes like or overst and like her. Her perception of
Speaker 5: life comes directly from the Bible.
Speaker 4: The amount of.
Speaker 5: Knowledge that she has received just through her edifying her
Speaker 5: mind through the Bible and other great books that she reads.
Speaker 5: She translates that to life. That's her teaching of how
Speaker 5: to live. So she makes that kind of music and
Speaker 5: seeming like my dad, did their music come from like
Speaker 5: that biblical mindset, you know? So she writes like that,
Speaker 5: and she so I say to my children, I say,
Speaker 5: oh man, you know, you know you got to be
Speaker 5: inspired by some might as well be inspired by the
Speaker 5: greatest book of all time. So that's kind of her,
Speaker 5: and she translates that very well. And that's when the
Speaker 5: likeness to her of like you would say what Chuck
Speaker 5: de says in the in this community right, and she
Speaker 5: is because she lived at and she really is a
Speaker 5: true creative and a true lover of her arts.
Speaker 2: Before we transition out and get to know about your
Speaker 2: your upbringing, do you have me in your personal opinion?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like there will ever be another solo
Speaker 2: or Fujis album?
Speaker 5: Well, one thing I do know for sure, Miss Laurin
Speaker 5: Hill has a plethora of music.
Speaker 6: I can only imagine she's she's she's doing her music,
Speaker 6: she's touring, she she does her music.
Speaker 4: She she's doing what artist does like she is.
Speaker 5: It's like it's like seeing do you think Steven would
Speaker 5: ever go back into n B A. But you're you're
Speaker 5: you're playing around the world, you're doing you having seminars
Speaker 5: of teaching basketball and still yeah, what you're doing, you're
Speaker 5: playing whether you know what, doesn't matter what organization you're with.
Speaker 5: You're a joining the organization now, right. So she's with
Speaker 5: her own organization and she's still playing the music. Maybe
Speaker 5: it's not being recorded and delivered through a entity like
Speaker 5: a record company, then through a distributor and such. But
Speaker 5: if those guys wanted to really have a miscelonial album,
Speaker 5: they you can't. You can't treat her like she's begging
Speaker 5: you something.
Speaker 3: Yeah said, no, I'm.
Speaker 4: All right, So that's for me to have an album.
Speaker 5: I gotta just accept what you say.
Speaker 3: That's the only way, because she deserves it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: the only way we show on it. I wish I
Speaker 3: had a billion dollars. I'll give a couple of one
Speaker 3: hundred a couple of albums.
Speaker 4: You hear that ship, Yeah, what do you think, yeah, you're.
Speaker 5: Gonna get that money back so she can so she
Speaker 5: can do it her way.
Speaker 4: What do you mean you you you're gonna your profit margin.
Speaker 5: For instance, when she was back in the time when
Speaker 5: mis Education, when she made mis Education an album was
Speaker 5: selling for what nineteen ninety nine, when they get an
Speaker 5: artist ten cents, be talking about they made enough money.
Speaker 5: You think over the years, they made enough money. What
Speaker 5: do you mean, but she must get slave for that again?
Speaker 4: Coming Slavery days are.
Speaker 2: Over, man, Yeah, been over nineteen seventy two, Jamaica. Yeah,
Speaker 2: growing up you were telling us doubt shit about what
Speaker 2: were they call rock wars. But talk to us just
Speaker 2: about your upbringing. Obviously your father you losing your father
Speaker 2: at nine years old. But what was that journey like
Speaker 2: before your father passed.
Speaker 5: I was born in Kingston and a hospital called Jubilee Hospital.
Speaker 5: And I was born My mother had new and she
Speaker 5: was like fifteen sixteen, so she was a young mother.
Speaker 5: I have a brother that was born a few days
Speaker 5: before me too, different mothers. Of course, how it is
Speaker 5: popsy it is we're born in the same hospital, you know.
Speaker 5: It is my brother Robert, and then Stephen was born
Speaker 5: in April in the same year.
Speaker 3: What's stephen birthday? April? What twenty Okay, I'm April Field.
Speaker 2: Imagine that. Imagine that Killer.
Speaker 5: So it's the three of us, you know, Stephen, Robert
Speaker 5: and Rohan. Having a young mother. You know, there's many
Speaker 5: things that comes with that. You know, a young mother
Speaker 5: means she being but young in that time in jamaica's
Speaker 5: not as not this time, right, So young mother that
Speaker 5: means you live with your pearance still and then with
Speaker 5: the father like my father who's a Rasta man. Her
Speaker 5: parents Rosta don't really like that because their mother's Catholic.
Speaker 5: Growing up with a young mother obviously the your young
Speaker 5: mother at the time, she had to also find her
Speaker 5: way at that age having a child.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's rough because you live with your mother
Speaker 4: and father.
Speaker 5: So but I remember this is the one of the
Speaker 5: most important thing I do remember though, in the transition
Speaker 5: in life, because I remember there was a transitional point
Speaker 5: in life and I don't know, I don't know, I
Speaker 5: do know actually why actually, but there was a transition
Speaker 5: in my life where.
Speaker 4: My father he had all his children in the school called.
Speaker 5: Vosprep, which is like a private, private vast proprietory. It's
Speaker 5: like a private school, but it's you know, there's all
Speaker 5: different types of people there. So at the time, as
Speaker 5: a young boy, I lived in the community that wasn't
Speaker 5: too that was within the district of the school transportation.
Speaker 5: So my father would pay for the school transportation to
Speaker 5: take me to school and such. But I remember one
Speaker 5: day my grandfather, my mother's father, when he moved his.
Speaker 4: Family to a house.
Speaker 5: I remember I went to this house and there was
Speaker 5: two there's two sides to the house. I went in
Speaker 5: the house and I would run through the house. But
Speaker 5: I remember one day I couldn't run through the house
Speaker 5: no longer. Another family moved into the other side of
Speaker 5: the house. So my grandparents they were renting half of
Speaker 5: the house for their family and another family's renting theirs.
Speaker 5: But I only learned this as I grow older. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 5: this was what was going on, But I do so
Speaker 5: through that now. My grandfather then decided. My grandfather was
Speaker 5: a carpenter. He worked in the He worked downtown Kingston, Jamaica.
Speaker 5: He was a carpenter. He built windows, cheers and all
Speaker 5: that stuff. So he saved up some money. He bought
Speaker 5: a piece of land in Spanish down Jamaica. But I
Speaker 5: guess it was only at the time.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I guess it was the only place
Speaker 4: he could find land to buy.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: He built a little house.
Speaker 5: He told us to pack the bags, and I remember
Speaker 5: him taking myself and my cousin, which was my mother's
Speaker 5: brother's son, and we went down there to move into
Speaker 5: the house. But when I went, when I do remember
Speaker 5: when I moved into that house was the wet cement.
Speaker 5: It's like like half of the house was finished and
Speaker 5: half wasn't really finished, so he could I could. I
Speaker 5: remember smelling the wet cement, you know, like the house
Speaker 5: was still like you know what. I sell the cement,
Speaker 5: all right, and then I had to walk through the
Speaker 5: bush to go to the back to go buy oil and.
Speaker 4: Uh uh seasoning.
Speaker 5: And I also had to buy cursing oil to light
Speaker 5: the lamp because there's no electricity in the house, you know.
Speaker 5: So I remember doing all that and candles and lamps
Speaker 5: and watching my grandfather every time he go to Kingston
Speaker 5: and I'm back, he brings a little some of the
Speaker 5: windows until he was able to put the windows in
Speaker 5: seend the door, you knows, boom, Then he moved the
Speaker 5: other side of the family down, but it took him
Speaker 5: a month to get everybody, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But I also remember that we cement. But now what
Speaker 5: they did, they moved me out of the district. So
Speaker 5: now I don't have the luxury of a school bus anymore.
Speaker 5: And my grandmother she gets up at five o'clock in
Speaker 5: the morning to go to her work. So she got
Speaker 5: to take a taxi to the main bus station and
Speaker 5: take a bus to her to her work and gets
Speaker 5: off of their work and that's halfway to my school.
Speaker 5: So how it started out, my mother used to take
Speaker 5: me to.
Speaker 4: School, you know. But my mother, like she laid, always
Speaker 4: laid to school showing up.
Speaker 5: So her mother is cussing her this said that while
Speaker 5: you forget up earlier.
Speaker 4: I want to take him.
Speaker 5: But how they decided to take me was I would
Speaker 5: get get on the road with my granny on the
Speaker 5: taxi to the bus. But then my granny now or
Speaker 5: my mother would tell the bus driver or the conductor
Speaker 5: the guy where you pay. You know, hey, listen, when
Speaker 5: you get to downtown him get off at this bus
Speaker 5: to show him.
Speaker 4: Which but the bus thirty two. Because now I gotta
Speaker 4: take that bus and go to my school.
Speaker 2: So how were you at the start?
Speaker 4: Five?
Speaker 2: That's crazy five.
Speaker 5: My daddy passed away when I was nine, So all
Speaker 5: this time they call me Bob's bad son, because bad
Speaker 5: meaning like like.
Speaker 4: I'm doing this stuff. I can.
Speaker 5: I can take a bus by myself around Jamaica as
Speaker 5: a little boy like was flex, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: The conductors they all know me.
Speaker 5: Everybody everybody in the street know me and Jamaica you know,
Speaker 5: you know they know me like that because I'm in
Speaker 5: the street.
Speaker 3: I must on doctor porch early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when did you know your dad was what's kind
Speaker 2: of a big deal? At what age? Was it before
Speaker 2: he passed or after?
Speaker 4: Wow? I mean all right, my father first of all,
Speaker 4: I had to learn this too. You know. My father's
Speaker 4: type of father. You speak to your cry. Huh yeah,
Speaker 4: he speaks to you. You cry. Oh wow, you call
Speaker 4: your name, you cry? You know, like that's the kind
Speaker 4: of father.
Speaker 5: So my father have a certain sense, you know, a
Speaker 5: certain It's like a scent where like.
Speaker 4: Ginger and bineapple would smoke, you know, like Stu like
Speaker 4: Stu peas and Stu.
Speaker 5: Like I like fresh like you know, I see I'm sweet,
Speaker 5: he's sweet.
Speaker 4: Sweet, he's sweet.
Speaker 5: See well, I just used to I remember sometimes a
Speaker 5: young boy, because I tell you I'm a rude boy, right.
Speaker 5: I remember sometimes instead of me going to Spanish down
Speaker 5: taking a bus, I go to my father's house, you know,
Speaker 5: but he's not there. Someday I'm not going. I don't
Speaker 5: want to go to my mother. I'm staying in my
Speaker 5: I'm staying. I remember one time, it was like twelve
Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning. I'm sitting on the It's the
Speaker 5: day above my museum, and I'm sitting on the step.
Speaker 4: You know, this not going to my money. I'm in trouble.
Speaker 4: I'm in made the trouble. I'm not going.
Speaker 3: I'm staying here.
Speaker 5: I'm not going.
Speaker 4: And this is where the studio is, just where everything happened,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: I remember sitting on the step and I see the
Speaker 5: bus drive up to the the bus drive up to
Speaker 5: the gates, and man, I look, and it's my dad.
Speaker 5: They were a big time, like a big the locks
Speaker 5: you got it in a town. And I look, it's
Speaker 5: my father. I said, blood, I'm young. I remember, stop
Speaker 5: and just walk right. It's the kind of man he is, though,
Speaker 5: you see me just walk. He walk and he saw
Speaker 5: me and I saw him.
Speaker 4: I saw him and just look you look, and he's like,
Speaker 4: I knowing is not you know, as a as a father,
Speaker 4: I said, He's like, what the fuck is.
Speaker 3: He doing here?
Speaker 4: His mine? He's like.
Speaker 2: Nobody, but this is not this is.
Speaker 5: Not like that type of home. This is what Dad's.
Speaker 5: My dad's house is an office, studio, enterprise. Everything built
Speaker 5: and his bedrooms upstairs, everything around my dad. There's no
Speaker 5: there's only him there. There's no nobody who's lived there.
Speaker 5: No woman live in that house. It's my dad at work.
Speaker 5: And that's the way he's there. This is that that house,
Speaker 5: you know, but it's filled with people. It's about money
Speaker 5: museum today. But i'm him with dad.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: So I sat there, you know, and I'm there waiting
Speaker 5: to hear my name or something, and I see my
Speaker 5: father come back downstairs and say get over there. And
Speaker 5: he got on a boxing glove and he tell everybody circlub.
Speaker 5: Not with me, he says. He throw in all the.
Speaker 4: Gloves to another member.
Speaker 5: He said, come on, they circlub and they start boxing
Speaker 5: at twelve o'clock in the night, boxing, you know. And
Speaker 5: after that, after they start boxing. He going to go upstairs.
Speaker 5: He's going to the studio. So I go in the studio. Now,
Speaker 5: you know, y'all still haven't spoke. I'm saying unto you yet,
Speaker 5: I mean not really really OK, Like he's just I'm
Speaker 5: just I'm just existing there there. He's like, yo, you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm I'm moving with the movement. But the
Speaker 5: step is here, and where he's boxing is right over there,
Speaker 5: because when you go to the museum you'll see it,
Speaker 5: and then the studio is right here, right.
Speaker 4: So I'm there. I get up, I see them he
Speaker 4: did his thing with his friends. I go sit back down.
Speaker 4: He go up stairs.
Speaker 5: They call, he calls me into the studio. So I'm
Speaker 5: in the studio now. But inside of the studio, my
Speaker 5: dad is here, and the board is here, and the
Speaker 5: speakers are here, and the mirror you know how you
Speaker 5: see through the other side is here. So I'm there.
Speaker 5: But it's now two o'clock in the morning, and you
Speaker 5: can't sleep around my dad.
Speaker 2: You can't as much dope as were smoking, you couldn't sleep.
Speaker 4: He's recorded, and I'm like this, no, like, hey, hey boy,
Speaker 4: get up and go upstairs. I go upstairs. Now, I
Speaker 4: fall asleep.
Speaker 5: Like about an hour later, Man, my father says, hey,
Speaker 5: wake up and go wash your feet dirty.
Speaker 2: Can't get dirty feet on the bed. That's I love it.
Speaker 2: So obviously the business of Marley is is something that's
Speaker 2: well respected around the world. You guys were offering money
Speaker 2: early on. You guys came together because there was actually
Speaker 2: no will, But you guys came together and realized, hey,
Speaker 2: let's build this legacy out for our father. So you
Speaker 2: guys have been able to do that. So tell us
Speaker 2: some of the stuff. It's been estimated at about almost
Speaker 2: a half a billion dollar company annually making nearly twenty
Speaker 2: million a year. What is your part in the family
Speaker 2: legacy and business?
Speaker 6: So you start, that's a testament to your father for
Speaker 6: him to be gone and y'all still he took had
Speaker 6: the morals of y'all to still stay together and staying
Speaker 6: strong together.
Speaker 3: The fact you know what I'm saying, that's actual testiment,
Speaker 3: the pop factual.
Speaker 5: And you know because since yes, life after about you know,
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty one five, the pastaway, no will, trust happened
Speaker 5: to gather all the assets they sell it. We ended
Speaker 5: up taking the person that bought it to privy council
Speaker 5: because you wanted first right refuse it as the children, we.
Speaker 4: Didn't want the money.
Speaker 5: We then did that ra money bought our Dad's likeness
Speaker 5: and all publishing and likeness except for twenty five percent
Speaker 5: because that was a stipulation. After that, it took us
Speaker 5: like since nineteen ninety two, because from eighty one to
Speaker 5: ninety two it took took that time to really bring
Speaker 5: everything together for them to present the structure and the sale.
Speaker 5: So when we bought it, we then now started to
Speaker 5: nurture it and started to develop different businesses. One of
Speaker 5: the first business that we started being that there was
Speaker 5: a lot of bootleg material of our dad, of T
Speaker 5: shirts and all these different things. The first thing that
Speaker 5: we said we would do, we'll create Zion Roots for Yes,
Speaker 5: and we created Zion Roots, which is now our company
Speaker 5: that we produce all the mode the merchandise from all
Speaker 5: the T shirts, et cetera.
Speaker 3: I did a collaborate roots to fight Yes gotch we.
Speaker 4: Got you, We'll get you.
Speaker 5: So we have Zion Riture stuff. Then we stepped into
Speaker 5: audio electronics. We create a house it's called House of Marley.
Speaker 5: All audio electronics made from all eco fronts sustainable materials,
Speaker 5: which belongs in our ecosystem as roster fire people naturally.
Speaker 5: Then after that, I created a company called Marley Coffee,
Speaker 5: which is another organic sustainable coffee company right now number
Speaker 5: one coffee company in Chile. I started here, but I
Speaker 5: had to kind of pivot and work with the people
Speaker 5: that really believed in the brand to establish the brand.
Speaker 5: So I've established that in Chile now, so it's great
Speaker 5: in Chili. We have a good footprint in Canada, etc.
Speaker 5: I'm here on Amazon in America, but I'm getting ready
Speaker 5: now to really start and to rebuild the coffee shop presence.
Speaker 4: That's Marley Coffee.
Speaker 5: We have Marley Naturals, which is our cannabis company, one
Speaker 5: of our cannabis companies, and I myself my main movement
Speaker 5: and main focus now here in Florida. I've partnered with
Speaker 5: a group called Goldflower to bring line order cannabis here
Speaker 5: to Florida.
Speaker 4: So they have the license.
Speaker 5: They're one of the I guess twenty two or twenty
Speaker 5: three license holders here on the medical side. So I'm
Speaker 5: working with Goldflower now to bring line order to Florida.
Speaker 5: I'm very very happy about it. So that's kind of
Speaker 5: the future and we're excited to really lay our stakes
Speaker 5: here in Florida and.
Speaker 4: Call this home because we've been here since nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 4: So it's now really life after bout Miami football.
Speaker 5: Playing to Miami. How was that playing to Miami. I
Speaker 5: get to Miami. The first thing they told me you
Speaker 5: don't belong here. You only hear call you Bob Molly's son.
Speaker 5: I said, yeah, I just ripped up high school. I'd
Speaker 5: done one of the top running backs in the country.
Speaker 5: I don't punish him. I lived the country or the
Speaker 5: state in all kinds of different things, and I was
Speaker 5: busting next. I was crushing people. And so I get
Speaker 5: to Miami. The first thing they do, where we're going
Speaker 5: to play him? Then move me to cornerback? I said, cornerback?
Speaker 5: I said, all right, what did I do? Because you remember,
Speaker 5: I'm every position. I'm learning for the first time in
Speaker 5: my life. I'm just playing. I'm just playing on the astute.
Speaker 2: I'm tripping off. How you even came from Jamaica to
Speaker 2: even be able to play football?
Speaker 5: I told you, Dan Marino, Yeah, Mark Clayton, Mark Duper
Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Forty nine ers beating him. Here we go yes, sir,
Speaker 2: he ain't gonna let you make it with that. I
Speaker 2: can't do it.
Speaker 3: We'll go ahead.
Speaker 2: So you're in college cornerback, Man, it was sad.
Speaker 3: It was sad memories.
Speaker 4: You know, college. I get to college.
Speaker 5: Now I get there. First of all, they say to me,
Speaker 5: you only hear cut you bought Money's son. I said, well,
Speaker 5: I mean, hey, you ain't watch film. Did y'all know watching?
Speaker 4: Fuck you think? I said, let's go.
Speaker 5: So I got out there with the attitude like all right,
Speaker 5: I got to prove myself. And I remember playing Cornerback
Speaker 5: cover two. Oh yeah, Roker jamu ass Marley was jam you.
Speaker 5: But I couldn't cover deep, like what's my thing?
Speaker 3: Because you couldn't get one time? One time? Cover two?
Speaker 4: Though, well you gotta remember cover two.
Speaker 5: Ain't it's not man the top? Yeah, but that one
Speaker 5: play looked like it was me. I walked in the
Speaker 5: locker room, the sirens went up, and they used to
Speaker 5: really pick on me. Man, I used to have to fight.
Speaker 5: I remember one day an article came on the Jet
Speaker 5: magazine about my family and was in the picture.
Speaker 4: This, Oh you ain't this thing ain't even in the family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not even where are you at? What we
Speaker 3: won't see you?
Speaker 5: Bro? So I said, man, whatever, So I used to
Speaker 5: have to fight and fight, I'm fighting. So my going
Speaker 5: into my now my red shirt year. The red shirted me,
Speaker 5: my junior going into my red shirt freshman year. Spring ball,
Speaker 5: they called me into the office and told me they're
Speaker 5: gonna move me into a new position, linebacker.
Speaker 4: I said, linebacker. I've been losing all this weight to
Speaker 4: be a dB. A lot of action, a lot of
Speaker 4: action in linement. But that's my place. But I promise you.
Speaker 4: When they told me that, I said, all right.
Speaker 5: I started feeling a bit more comfortable because being not
Speaker 5: on the be not a cornerback high it's a higher risk.
Speaker 5: You can cost a lot of games out there. Corner
Speaker 5: it's a higher risk.
Speaker 3: The hardest position on the football field, I I think.
Speaker 5: So cornerback they got, I mean, man to manage you
Speaker 5: felt like, because they have to guard you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm just saying, in general, cornerback is all reaction.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you have good feet. So they moved me there,
Speaker 4: they told me linebacker.
Speaker 5: First day of practice, inside run, I started making all
Speaker 5: the tackles. As you know what I mean. I love
Speaker 5: I love playing the run, so I started making all
Speaker 5: the tackles. I remember going back into the locker room
Speaker 5: and warn't saccess to me. You know, rohand, eve been
Speaker 5: fucking you.
Speaker 4: Man. You should have always been a linebacker.
Speaker 2: But you played with some real hitters on that man.
Speaker 5: Said Michael Barrett, dans Ma, Daryl Williams. I play with
Speaker 5: a lot of legends.
Speaker 3: No, this is the question though. Yeah, you know Uncle
Speaker 3: Luke had the Bundie program. Were you're part of that?
Speaker 3: When you're around Uncle Luke had the Bonnie program? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you got a couple of dollars. You know what
Speaker 3: they always said? You know, I didn't know they always thought,
Speaker 3: you know what he said?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 2: Goddamn it? Let me hold up.
Speaker 4: But all right, all right, all right, let me let
Speaker 4: me let me talk to you about something.
Speaker 5: Right, hold on, Lucas here, right, come real quick. All right,
Speaker 5: there's two types of Miami right when I'm growing up.
Speaker 5: There's South Miami and then there's North Miami. South Miami
Speaker 5: now is where you have like I don't know, I
Speaker 5: guess you're gonna call it the suburbs. But North Miami
Speaker 5: now is where you have the life. This where you
Speaker 5: have like people named like you. I don't know if
Speaker 5: you know these people that Cadillac Bird, certain type of
Speaker 5: people like that. You know where where the lake what's
Speaker 5: the cars with the big rim and them in the
Speaker 5: overtown and then Liberty, Yeah, the verts converted with the paint,
Speaker 5: the spring and the base and then and then rattle
Speaker 5: and rattle and then.
Speaker 4: You have that. So Uncle Luke Now, now Uncle Luke
Speaker 4: was the head of everything.
Speaker 5: When you talk about what you see today in the world,
Speaker 5: if you see girls, I don't know, I mean, we
Speaker 5: don't really, I don't condone these things.
Speaker 3: What what what them?
Speaker 4: Type of dance what you see today?
Speaker 5: This was happening in Miami right here where being banned, uh,
Speaker 5: fighting sheriffs and stuff because of the justice the music
Speaker 5: Two Live Crew, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I grew up in that era where yeah, Uncle
Speaker 4: Luke and Two Live Crew was the way.
Speaker 5: So that now that was now Miami because of the
Speaker 5: most of the athletes they're coming from North and South.
Speaker 5: Remember South, down South is still like North. There's middle
Speaker 5: South and down South, so that's still like North. So
Speaker 5: the University of Miami and Uncle Luke relationships started because
Speaker 5: the inner city youths that were being raised by just
Speaker 5: just having someone in from the music industry, music in
Speaker 5: the street with some ends that can show us away. Right,
Speaker 5: So they talk about this Dad. We used to call
Speaker 5: it the hit, the hit bucket, or whatever you want
Speaker 5: to call it. But uncle, Uncle give us incentives. Hey,
Speaker 5: y'all go out there, y'all win this year. We take
Speaker 5: you know whatever, if the nil with the real nil,
Speaker 5: like real manifestation of a nil. But if you talk
Speaker 5: about my personal relationship with uncle, you not even going
Speaker 5: back into his his Jamaican heritage because I never even
Speaker 5: knew that till like later on in life, about that
Speaker 5: side of his life. I just I just love him
Speaker 5: because what the school I went to is how I
Speaker 5: got to know him, the University of Miami. But I
Speaker 5: grew up in Miami. I'd mind him seeing him all
Speaker 5: the time because I'm in Miami. So when I got
Speaker 5: to school and I was able to touch him. So
Speaker 5: when I got there, I saw how like Ray Lewis,
Speaker 5: Ray would wrap his head with That's what he wore
Speaker 5: in his head.
Speaker 4: It was as a scar. What is say against the wrap?
Speaker 3: The boy wrapped their heads with that.
Speaker 4: And so the U M culture you can't have the
Speaker 4: u M culture with our uncle Luke.
Speaker 3: He did, so that's that.
Speaker 5: And then as a as a young youth, I was
Speaker 5: able to like really experience like life from an elder
Speaker 5: and being in this this world as a leader in
Speaker 5: the well, I would's say the American community, the Ani
Speaker 5: American community, the community that looked like us, and being
Speaker 5: a leader and being up and being able to stand
Speaker 5: up against just being able to freedom of speech and
Speaker 5: freedom of self and being able to be a creative
Speaker 5: and bringing that to University of Miami and bringing that
Speaker 5: that culture where he merged because he merged them kids
Speaker 5: with us like we us meaning the u M and
Speaker 5: the like that was because we were able to should
Speaker 5: go into.
Speaker 4: Those regions and feel good because we walk in there.
Speaker 4: When you walk in, everything good, everything good. Where's the guy? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Because when we the University of Miami. We we love
Speaker 5: going to the Rolex, we love going up north.
Speaker 4: We want to go to one third three And what's
Speaker 4: the straw berries?
Speaker 5: We want to go to straw That's what ready didn't
Speaker 5: want to be that they want to and I'm going
Speaker 5: I'm tagging along.
Speaker 4: And then what's the other the men? What's the men,
Speaker 4: the men.
Speaker 2: What about this boat party I've been hearing about? He said,
Speaker 2: which one which.
Speaker 3: Earlier? Well, there's a lot of boat which boat party?
Speaker 4: All right, all right, I.
Speaker 5: Guess I gotta tell well one time, you know, you
Speaker 5: you you, this is what this is Some of the
Speaker 5: dreams you have as like a player at University of Miami.
Speaker 4: It's to hang with Uncle du Like to hang with
Speaker 4: Uncle Luke as a grown man too. One of the pleasure.
Speaker 5: So if he says, hey, Marty, what you're doing, and
Speaker 5: you know, he got to talk Mary, what you're doing?
Speaker 4: I say, meet me at seven ninth Street, Meet me
Speaker 4: at seven nine Street. What's what's the beer?
Speaker 3: The fear?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Seven nice right by the Chang whe the restaurant
Speaker 4: was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it was Chang Yeah, one
Speaker 3: of them the Chinese when it took the food on the.
Speaker 4: Ben.
Speaker 3: I don't know nothing. I don't know about this stuff.
Speaker 4: I don't love about this type. I been here, I
Speaker 4: get there.
Speaker 5: But remember now, Uncle Luke was the one that showed
Speaker 5: us like like that, like you're talking about convertible cars
Speaker 5: and luxury nice house boat, the good life, the good life,
Speaker 5: the good life by doing it himself. By his own independent,
Speaker 5: independent label. So now I get there, I'm like, all right,
Speaker 5: where I go?
Speaker 4: Said? I go up in the restaurant. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to go to the period.
Speaker 4: I don't know where to go.
Speaker 5: He said, Come to walk down the restaurant, come to
Speaker 5: the pair, come to the parent pair.
Speaker 4: Six thirty through five. I said, all right, I go
Speaker 4: down there. Now I get on the boat.
Speaker 5: It's says uncle Luke. It's me and a couple of
Speaker 5: the people, a couple of the other agenda and the captain,
Speaker 5: because I'm captain.
Speaker 4: Is vote too, man? He said, listen, we're going to Bimy.
Speaker 4: I said, where's that? He said, don't worry, We're going
Speaker 4: to Bahama's. Chill back and have a good time.
Speaker 5: I said, well all right. I sat there, man, I
Speaker 5: tell you, like I grew up, you know, to understand
Speaker 5: like when you're a king. When you're a king, you're
Speaker 5: king and you just live. So we had a good time.
Speaker 5: I was able to just as a little little little boy,
Speaker 5: a young man seeing what a general, how a general
Speaker 5: flex in the city rolling his board, can go to
Speaker 5: NASA when you want the chickenees. You got the chickens
Speaker 5: there you gotta have it. I mean, we're older now,
Speaker 5: so yeah, I'm care for the choice of words. But
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, no one did it better. Like I'm
Speaker 5: talking about, no one did it better. So the life
Speaker 5: of Miami, the University of Miami, the culture, what you see,
Speaker 5: the culture of University of Miami is right here. It's
Speaker 5: like the father of the culture. Because the boys, that's
Speaker 5: that's all the boys from the Jerome Browns. That's that's
Speaker 5: who they respect because that's how you that's that's kind
Speaker 5: of your card like to really, that's card in the streets.
Speaker 4: So that's what you represent for us at University of Miami.
Speaker 3: That's her.
Speaker 5: That's her street cred right here in the beginning, the
Speaker 5: street cred right here, you nor anywhere anywhere.
Speaker 4: You're good.
Speaker 5: When he walk in and he walked walking with the hat,
Speaker 5: ain't got the glasses, and he looked to the.
Speaker 4: Side and turned on the stage, just moving just so.
Speaker 5: So that's where so we grew up with that, and
Speaker 5: that's why forever, that's why you see the hurricanes and
Speaker 5: Uncle Luke here likes our uncle ever till this day.
Speaker 4: No matter no matter who I mean, I mean, when
Speaker 4: when when SAP and I together.
Speaker 5: We have to face time. We have group we have
Speaker 5: group FaceTime, like like five hurricanes on the phone and
Speaker 5: he's busy too. Shout shout out the SAP man and
Speaker 5: shout out to Raid LIU always rocking Uncle Luke Records,
Speaker 5: Luke Records always that is that that guy and Marlon
Speaker 5: Barnes pick up to Marlon Barnes, that's Bess Marl than Bond.
Speaker 5: But but them guys, it's almost like you you think
Speaker 5: there was n I L the way, the way the
Speaker 5: University of Miami independently represented Luke Records.
Speaker 4: It was Luke Records the way we represented Luke Records.
Speaker 2: Look help build that skyline.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you, my brother, thank you.
Speaker 4: Love the journey you already know.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmmm