1 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: Story Time with the legendary Jerry. 2 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 2: Man. 3 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 3: Y'all see, I'm already in laughing mode because I'm here 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 3: with New Faith. It might be one of the episodes. 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 3: It might because me and this dude have been We 6 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 3: literally have been doing this for years. We literally Jon, 7 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 3: we literally talked ship. So with all that saying, I 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 3: don't want to let y'all know, I ain't got to 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 3: do no big, huge introduction because this man his accolades. 10 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 3: I want to get him while he here New fans. 11 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 3: I want to get him his bouquet of flowers, you know, 12 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 3: the bouquet of roses. 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 3: I want to introduce this week story time with legendary Jerry. 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 3: We got my partner here, mister Jock. 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: You oh, I'm like not like with oh geez, It's like, yeah. 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, how you doing man? How's everything going? 18 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: Man? 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: Look, let me tell you something for you all that 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: don't know. 21 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 2: Uh. 22 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 3: Years years ago, I had I had a storytelling with 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 3: legend a j before a partner that with iHeart and 24 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 3: took this podcast hold their left and Jock was one 25 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 3: of the first people New Face to come on and 26 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 3: we talked ship. Then we go talk shit again. To 27 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 3: day because it's a lot to talk about music wise, 28 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 3: it's a lot. 29 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 4: And since then he made more history. 30 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 2: You know what, I'm still I feel like a headlines. 31 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I've watched him new face, you know it. I 32 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 3: ain't gonna say it's hard because we talk a lot 33 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: of it, but I watched him and always tell him 34 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 3: his progression from artists, entrepreneur, businessman to having the number 35 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: one radio. 36 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: She's like, come on, man, people just don't that just. 37 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 2: Ain't in the same city. 38 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 3: Man, that just ain't something you do. And it's It's 39 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 3: interesting because when he first got on the air, I 40 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: talked to him. He said, hey, man, what you think? 41 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: What you think? I said, and it ain't that good. 42 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 5: Man, I said that didn't like that, but you know, 43 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 5: you know what I mean, It sounds it sounds like 44 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 5: they just pulled you off the street. 45 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: Not even a year later, I hit him, I say, bro, 46 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: I said, you sound like a radio personality. 47 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 2: You know what sounds like that. 48 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 6: I got the text and I made a plaque. I'm 49 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 6: gonna make sure I give you that. I wish I 50 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 6: would have been able to have it today, to produce 51 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 6: it today, but you asked me something truth Now because 52 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 6: because it wasn't even like what it sounds like. He 53 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 6: was like, so is this a one off? 54 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: I'm trying to okay, trying you out, but it wasn't. 55 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 6: But you know what, it's different when somebody just trying 56 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 6: to pick your situation, like just kind of feel oh, 57 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 6: when you know someone is in your corner and just 58 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 6: have concerns this question that he was like, so this 59 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 6: is this, this is what you're doing. He's like, okay, okay, 60 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 6: it's because I can tell you. 61 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: Just you know, I feel like, you know, you're my boy. 62 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: I can tell you. 63 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 6: You know it's like and it sounds like you just 64 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 6: like you're just getting into it. I was like, I am, 65 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 6: but just give me some time. They would't hit me back. 66 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: You know. It was that the mall looked at like, oh, 67 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 2: you must have got a freaking text. 68 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 6: I was like, nah, hold look because I was smiling, 69 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 6: happy because I was happy. 70 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 2: But you know when the dude looking at their phone look. 71 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: Up that that that's that joint. 72 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was and I was, and I really 73 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 3: was telling the truth because even now when I listened 74 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 3: to it, of course that was years ago. 75 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: New face. I'm like, this dude is really good just 76 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: to watch you. You know, you're like a comedian man. 77 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: Whatever you do, you're good. You know. 78 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: I know it's probably other stuff you be like nah no, 79 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 3: But from what I've seen from the years we been 80 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 3: knowing each other, you know, and I know the relationship 81 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 3: we have. Like even when you had your own label, 82 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: you said, you said, yeah, you one of the first 83 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 3: people I'm called come out the studio. 84 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: When you had the flyers, it was like an old 85 00:03:57,880 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: fire department. 86 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 2: Was dope. Yeah, I feel like I was doing some 87 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: of the. 88 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: Did you purchase that? 89 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 6: You know, it's crazy. It was a historical fire station. 90 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 6: I think it was fire station number fifteen on Marie 91 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 6: o the Street right next thumbs up. And when I 92 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 6: when I initially signed the least well no, you know, 93 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 6: I knew that because it gave me some of the 94 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 6: historical rundown. But the building was only worth about it 95 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 6: was estimated about six hundred thousand. Within a year's time, 96 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 6: the tax jump boom because they made it the Lucky 97 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 6: District became a district and it went up because they 98 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 6: are you know, let's be for real. You know, sometimes 99 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 6: when the city has their own plans or developers have 100 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 6: come in, they put their bids in or have already 101 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 6: purchased this land that unbeknownst to us, we don't know 102 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 6: property values about the Skyrocket extra two three hundred thousand 103 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 6: because and your tax is going to do that too. 104 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 6: And they do that for a reason because it takes time. 105 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 6: You know, it's a whole process. 106 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 2: And it was like, yeah, it's become a lucky district 107 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 2: of like what I mean. 108 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 6: Like it was like, yeah, so the property is worth 109 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 6: like nine hundred ninety nine thousands, like I mean dollars. 110 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 6: So what that means for me? It was like if 111 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 6: you want to yeah, if you want to purchase it, 112 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 6: and that would be the time. I was like no, 113 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 6: I would I should have purchased it when I first. 114 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 6: So then they was like, yo, well if you purchased 115 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 6: the building, you get thumbs up too. 116 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 2: Whoa in that parking lot? And I was like hell 117 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: yeah right, But then here was this was twelve. Yeah, 118 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 2: I was just like twelve. 119 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 6: So at that moment, I'm like, oh, I owned that 120 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 6: too for my portfolio. I felt like that would look good, 121 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 6: you know what I mean. But when you step back 122 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 6: and I'm like, wait, but at that point, I own 123 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 6: this building now, so I'm difference. I take one hundred responsibility, 124 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 6: but then I also become a landlord. 125 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: For this restaurant. Oh. 126 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 6: I was like, I don't know, and I just didn't 127 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 6: feel like it was Uh now, if I knew, if 128 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 6: I had known what I know now, you. 129 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: Would have kept that. 130 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, because you've seen it now. You go 131 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 2: right down the street, whoever whoever virgils. 132 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, not even to give them a plug, but yeah, 133 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 6: I believe in that. It's they did it. 134 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 2: They came up. But see, you know, I remember going 135 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 2: to that building and I said, I'm a purchase. I'm 136 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 2: going to do it, and I built it. When I 137 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: built the. 138 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 6: Studio on that, we could not we could not nail 139 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 6: or do anything with the existing structure. You hit the brick. 140 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 6: The ship turned into the like I'm not buying this 141 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 6: ship four million dollars, you know. But of course, you 142 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 6: know there are ways around things. Bringing the architect and 143 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 6: say hey man, we'll build an infrastructure on the inside, 144 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 6: and and that's what they did over that, So good 145 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 6: job for them. I just I just I just felt 146 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 6: like it was just too much at that time for me. 147 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, you know, I won't do something else, 148 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 6: and I moved on. I ended up going up the 149 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 6: street of her road. I ended up getting a spot 150 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 6: called in the matchbox. 151 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 3: It was it's we just I just mentioned this off camera, 152 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 3: but I want to say this on camera to everybody watching. 153 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 3: You know, you, you and you in the media alive 154 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 3: from saying being jiyed some people consider it controversial. You 155 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 3: just say what's on your mind, how you feel. And 156 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 3: I noticed, like when I'm on social media under these 157 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 3: big blocks, you know. 158 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: People be really really like acting like that you ain't 159 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: got like no discography and like, like. 160 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 7: Man, y'all motherfuckers with with some respect on Jock's name, 161 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 7: Like I just be reading some of the commons new 162 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 7: faces like y'all like this man had one record even 163 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 7: if he did, like y'all want to hear trying to 164 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 7: clown man. 165 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: And I just want to tell you, I'd be like, man, 166 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: y'all better put some respect on this man. Damn this man. 167 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: Got records, his own features, like you like, come on, man, 168 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: like that shit fucks with me. 169 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 2: Man. 170 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 4: Part that that gets me is the part that the 171 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 4: people that they do celebrate don't be outside like him, 172 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 4: don't do it. He doing the community, and it's like, 173 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 4: y'all celebrate that, and like you said, this brother, not 174 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 4: even the music part, what he does in the community 175 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 4: and for the people in the city of Atlanta when 176 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 4: he comes out, the people come out and everybody benefits 177 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,679 Speaker 4: from there, Why that's not celebrated to you. 178 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 3: But yeah, that's definitely factual New Face. But the like 179 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 3: the like music part when people be saying that ship, 180 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: I like you got this because I know you gotta 181 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 3: be like, come on, bro, Like, do y'all not know 182 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 3: that I I'm more than just like like I've had 183 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 3: like so millions of records, my own records, I featured 184 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 3: on the big records. 185 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: I'm a lab artists. 186 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: You know. 187 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 6: The funniest part for that about that for me is, man, bro, 188 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 6: I don't be giving a ship about what nobody it 189 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 6: just like, well, you know what, here's a difference. You know, 190 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 6: It's like, are you willing to fight for this? That's 191 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 6: the difference. I wasn't willing to fight for a title. 192 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 6: I didn't care a title to be considered one of 193 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,719 Speaker 6: the greats or legendary or that guy or number one or. 194 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 2: Self proclaimed clan king or self proclaimed boss. 195 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 6: I wouldn't into none of that. I just be like, 196 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 6: what you know for me? When I when I started 197 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 6: to realize, like I don't want to say something wasn't 198 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 6: working for me, or maybe I wasn't working for something. 199 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 6: You know how I say music wasn't working for me anymore, 200 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,360 Speaker 6: or you would say in your field, respectfully, your music 201 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 6: wasn't really working for me. 202 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 2: No more. 203 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 6: I don't think I was working for music anymore, because 204 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 6: music is just the entertainment industry. 205 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 2: It's just one of the things. Yeah, that was That 206 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 2: was the. 207 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 6: Moment I stepped back for a minute, and uh, I 208 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 6: was looking. I was searching for clarity, do you know 209 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 6: what I mean? Like it was just like you know, 210 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 6: I'm sitting around looking at all my counterparts. I'm looking 211 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 6: at my t I S my gz's your gu cheese. 212 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, mmm, like what am I doing? What 213 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 2: do I know? 214 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 6: I just started realizing, like I'm not willing to exploit 215 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 6: certain sectors of my life for that look, because I 216 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 6: felt like I was always tied some other things that 217 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 6: I didn't want to ship light on. 218 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 4: But then you still have passion for the music making. 219 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 2: I did, Okay, I did, aspect of it wasn't necessarily conflicted. 220 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 6: It was like I got enough money, enough pull enough relationships, 221 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 6: enough knowledge, and no how now too. I can apply 222 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 6: this to anything that I'm doing. A hustle is a hustle. 223 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 6: You know, there's a concept we understand supplying themand you 224 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 6: know people are demanding something. All you gotta do is supply. 225 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 6: I remember when your when your iPhone first came back. 226 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 6: I remember when your iPhone came out. 227 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 2: I know you do. You probably got the first iPhone. 228 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 3: Don't look with this about to pull out right, look 229 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 3: at this new faces, new face was Look look it is. 230 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 8: Look at this ship this one, well that's the sprint 231 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 8: flip that came out in two thousand, betweenty nineteen, nineteen 232 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 8: ninety nine, two. 233 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 6: Thousand, because I had when this came out. I remember, 234 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 6: I remember my snow my son wasn't born yet, okay, 235 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 6: And I took my whole income tax check half of 236 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 6: it about one for me and one for my son's mom, and. 237 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 2: I bought a radio shack. 238 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 6: And it was really expensive because you know, it was 239 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 6: really really expensive. 240 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 2: It was new, it was new. It was like you see. 241 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: How this phone this got about radio? 242 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 6: So so long story short, you know, I'm just going 243 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 6: to show you what supplying the man looks like. 244 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: I remember when. 245 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 6: You could when you bout your first iPhone iPhone dropped 246 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 6: it with six o seven someone, Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely 247 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 6: because I was I was I was black Bear, I 248 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 6: was a Trio BlackBerry type of. 249 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: I had to get I had both, and so. 250 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 6: I remember when I got my iPhone, was like, yo, 251 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 6: it's kind of kind of cool, you can do this 252 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 6: and that. But that was the spot when you go 253 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 6: on the iTunes thing or whatever it was and they 254 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 6: said podcast and the cache it was. 255 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: Yes, it did. 256 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 6: It was empty because when you if you if you 257 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 6: didn't get the iPod, I mean the iPhone, you got 258 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 6: the what bear? 259 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 2: No? 260 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 6: No, no, what's the what you play the music on? 261 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: What you call it the iPod? No? It was yeah, 262 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: put the music on just a little square that I 263 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: used to put on the truck. 264 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 6: And so when you open the cache, it was always 265 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 6: a section for what podcast. 266 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 2: I remember that because I used to I was like, 267 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 2: what is a podcast? I never knew what it was. 268 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 6: But now it's such a demand for podcast that when 269 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 6: you open your phone, your phone is liable to take 270 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 6: you to podcasts or the music because the demand is there. 271 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 6: As soon as the demand is so hot that people 272 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 6: are supplying. We're here right now on the platform. I'm 273 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 6: talking to somebody I've known for quite some time, and 274 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 6: here you are, your hosting your own podcast. So that's 275 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 6: what supplying the man looked like. And that's what I 276 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 6: had to do. Had to step back and say, well, hey, 277 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 6: what other demands are out here and how can I 278 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 6: supply them? 279 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 2: So that's how I ended up in TV and radio. 280 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 3: Because I remember, you know, we both everybody you know 281 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 3: this this this life is like an elevator. 282 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody, and I don't care. Yeah, I don't 283 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: care who you are. We all go through. 284 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 3: We both had many many peaks making being financial, we 285 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 3: straight and out and you know we both had our 286 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 3: our valleys. 287 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 2: We got testimonies. 288 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:10,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, what when you was down? What is one financial 289 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: some financial advice or some things you learned that you 290 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 3: would never make the same mistake again that will put 291 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 3: you in that position. 292 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: Because I have somebody to tell my kids, like y'all 293 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: would make these mistakes. 294 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 2: I would tell anyone. 295 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 6: You know, when it comes to the whole concept of 296 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 6: trying to follow the pack. You know, everybody so just 297 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 6: where the money are. You gotta go over here, do 298 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 6: your research, don't. 299 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 2: I'm not just. 300 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 6: Moving with a herd or a pack just because there 301 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 6: are one or two notables at the forefront of this 302 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 6: pack who seems to be eating, because if it's not 303 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 6: trickling down, then it just seemed like game to me, 304 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So I would tell anybody 305 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 6: do your homework before you just go throwing your money 306 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 6: into summer or running behind the herd, because a lot 307 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 6: of times you they are narrative set set in place 308 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 6: that you know, if somebody sitting back saying, right, we're 309 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 6: gonna lunch tomorrow at three o'clock, we're gonna hit the 310 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 6: go button, it's gonna open up the floodgates and people 311 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 6: are gonna you know, it's just like Wall Street, you 312 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. And I think sometimes we don't 313 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 6: see the narratives, you know, think about it. And I'm 314 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 6: not saying that, you know, this was a plant type 315 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 6: of situation, but. 316 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 2: You know when. 317 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 6: Pitty said, when Phitty came and he hit y'all hit 318 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 6: us with the whole mixtape game, we saw his rise 319 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 6: to start him. It was like watching a Nasal Space 320 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 6: shuttle going to orn It's like, yo, you've never been 321 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 6: to space. I don't know too many who win, but 322 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 6: I believe if. 323 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 2: I follow the same strategy, I can get that to you. 324 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 2: So what happened our. 325 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 6: Exactly? And what did we do? Somebody sat back and said, 326 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 6: all right, y'all, here you go. So now we got 327 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 6: to start setting up those moments where everybody's going to go, 328 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 6: how do we shuffle? 329 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 2: And now here it is? Think about it like. 330 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 6: Record stores started going out of business, Like yeah, I 331 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 6: remember going into Turtles and ill Wax and Sound all 332 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 6: these places, and it's like where are they now? Supersize 333 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 6: all that? So, I mean, I would tell anybody to 334 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 6: do your research before you just jump off the bridge, 335 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 6: jump off the porch, you know what I'm saying. 336 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 4: And speaking of doing your research and the transition that 337 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 4: you speak of radio and being a CEO two fields, 338 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 4: was there anybody that you modeled, you know, being a 339 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 4: CEO that you saw inspiration from and even transition to 340 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 4: radio where you're familiar with radio personalities? Like what was 341 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 4: your research for both of those skills that. 342 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 6: You Yeah, I'm gonna keep it all the way one hundred, right, 343 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 6: I'm gonna keep it funck me with you. So when 344 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 6: it came to the music, you know, I was rocking 345 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 6: with j D first before I ever got down with Diddy. 346 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 6: And that was by way of, you know, my origins 347 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 6: where I'm from right here in Atlanta, you know what 348 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 6: I'm saying, real south side is and seeing JD in 349 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 6: my city was like, yo, I could I could do 350 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 6: what he doing because he's he's not caught in one place. 351 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 2: You know. I kind of felt like I had a 352 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 2: d D. Cause one day I'm on some. 353 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 6: Rap, tomorrow on some R and B, tomorrow on the 354 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 6: rap the next day that I'm making R and B. 355 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 2: So when I saw JD, I was like, he's very 356 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 2: much like that. He's right, that. 357 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 6: He's a It was a tangible, blunt prospect for me 358 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 6: or blueprint, you know what I'm saying. So I watched 359 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 6: him and I was like, you know what, but then 360 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 6: that was Diddy. I was like, yo, Homi got a 361 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 6: different kind of finess and I could kind of see 362 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 6: I kind of took, you know, a little bit from me, 363 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 6: a little bit from there. So me rocking with JD 364 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 6: initially and by way of uh fresh College Park introducing 365 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,440 Speaker 6: me to Carlmo Carmo introducing me to Block. 366 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 2: Uh. 367 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 6: Then after that, of course Block introducing me to Diddy. 368 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 6: It was kind of like, yo, I don't know, like 369 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 6: I mean. 370 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, well because it was like here I 371 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 9: am with JD, and me and JD didn't really have 372 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 9: a lot of hands on because it wasn't positioned that way. 373 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 374 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 6: Because I'm gonna be honest, I think if JD would 375 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 6: have been able to get to me directly and just 376 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 6: me and JD, he just may have been like, yo, 377 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,479 Speaker 6: I respect where you come from as an artist, as 378 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 6: a creative history might have been way different. 379 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 2: But it went the other way. So I went with Diddy, right. 380 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 6: So you know, throughout the throughout the the course of 381 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 6: my career, I watched a lot of people do a 382 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 6: lot of things. I sat back. I was always that observant, 383 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 6: observant cat who was like, you know what, I'm gonna 384 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 6: try this. I'm gonna try a little as try some 385 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 6: of that. And you know, I kind of looked up 386 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 6: one day and I was like, you know what, and 387 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 6: all these cats, I see a little bit of. 388 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: My dad in them. 389 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 6: So for me, it was even more tangible and more 390 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 6: feasible for me to do it because that was someone 391 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 6: in my life who I really respected and looked up 392 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 6: to and said to myself that how would he do this? 393 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 2: So I always approached. 394 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,679 Speaker 6: It from a not a like, oh, oh my god, this 395 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 6: could be the moment everything goes great. 396 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 2: I always approached it from a we're gonna either. 397 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: Single self, wwd D what would Daddy do? 398 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,239 Speaker 2: What would Daddy do? You know what I'm saying, it's 399 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 2: so funny. 400 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 6: So, you know, even going into radio or TV, I 401 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 6: watched a lot of these, a lot of moments in 402 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 6: my life from me watching television no cap from watching 403 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 6: Making the Band. I was like, Yo, if I ever 404 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 6: get with Diddy, I'm going up through the boom making 405 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 6: the band. 406 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,040 Speaker 2: I got with Diddy Boom. I watched Love and Hip Hop. 407 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 6: Mmm, you know, and I said to myself, I ever 408 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 6: get on the show like this, I see the missing 409 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 6: and so and so I got to the point where 410 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 6: I was watching breakfast Clubs and I was watching different 411 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 6: people started to make a mark and be more vocal, 412 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 6: and I was like, if I ever get into radio, 413 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 6: I'm gonna just have fun with it. 414 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 2: I'm gonna go this way. So when the opportunity came about, Yo, shit, 415 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 2: here we are here. 416 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 3: Later, I want to I want to circle go back 417 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 3: a step. You mentioned linking over Blocking Puff, right you 418 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 3: Blocking Puff? Look back over the year. 419 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: From a strictly business standpoint, was it good business with them? 420 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: You know what? 421 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 6: It's so crazy. So when it came to Diddy, we 422 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,600 Speaker 6: never had a disagreement. We never had an argument, We 423 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 6: never had a fight. 424 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 2: You know. 425 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 6: It was one of those things like it was so 426 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 6: early on, soon as I got with Blocked, it wasn't No, 427 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:38,239 Speaker 6: it wasn't a long run with Block. Initially it was like, Yo, 428 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 6: what up, play boy? We will we want to do this. 429 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 6: I'm like, all right, let's talk about it, sit down 430 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 6: at the table. A few times, I'm like all I 431 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 6: seemed like you be for real because I remember listening 432 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 6: to Block on the radio one morning. 433 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: I'm laying in the bed. I just took my wife 434 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 2: to work. 435 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 6: I'm laying in the bed listening to the radio, and 436 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 6: I'm like, if I'm gonna rock with somebody, I need 437 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 6: somebody who sound it's passionate about this artist and the 438 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 6: whole concept of artistry. 439 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 2: And I was like, I might rock with Block. 440 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 6: So when the time came, like my man's fresh, put 441 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 6: me with Carlmo, Calmo, put me with Block. It made 442 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 6: me look at the situation like, Okay, I'm gonna be 443 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 6: honest with you. 444 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: Man. 445 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 6: In the beginning, everything was just happening fast, streamline. It 446 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 6: wasn't no, it wasn't a bumpy ride. I think I 447 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 6: had already kind of went through the turbulence getting that 448 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 6: once I landed on this particular you know, you go 449 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 6: from one airport to another. When I when I took 450 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 6: the independent route, that flight was the bumpy rock. When 451 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 6: I landed and got to the commercial or the international 452 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 6: ad space, it was a different It was a different 453 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 6: flight because it was like all right, it was it 454 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 6: wasn't no. 455 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 2: It was kind of like no time and no room 456 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,719 Speaker 2: for the fuck ups. 457 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 6: And uh so by the time I looked up, bro, 458 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 6: we was on and popping. I was already like for real, 459 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 6: for real, financially stable. 460 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: Once thing slowed down, that you pull it back. 461 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 6: No, things didn't slow down, that's the thing. Things didn't 462 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 6: slow down, Jared. What happened was I started to realize 463 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 6: that people around me weren't taking in consideration of the 464 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 6: concepts of how I got here. 465 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 2: I didn't get here. 466 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 6: It was people like you know, it was like you 467 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 6: know Block who was like, no, we're gonna do things 468 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 6: like this, and I'm like, Yo, this ain't how I 469 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 6: got here. 470 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: I gotcha creatively. Are you talking about from a business now? 471 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: Business creatively as well? So let's think about it. 472 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 6: Let's say you this your studio, you been your studio, right, 473 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 6: and this ain't the bash Block, you know, I'm not 474 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 6: with none of that, but I'm gonna tell my truth wholeheartedly. 475 00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:59,719 Speaker 1: Definitely legendary. 476 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 2: G please believe it. 477 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 1: Car Jock. 478 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,200 Speaker 2: If this was your studio, right and I got. 479 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,680 Speaker 6: To deal with you and you getting a deal from 480 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 6: your deals with the label, we all deal with the label, 481 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:13,439 Speaker 6: but the label's gonna cut. 482 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: The check to you. 483 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 6: You're going to be like, yeah, you recording everything here, 484 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 6: and I'm like, let me tell you something. This ain't 485 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 6: even what I want to be in every day, you know. 486 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 6: I mean, hey, like, don't don't don't take me out 487 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 6: to eat. 488 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: Every day, Like I don't want that. 489 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 6: Sometimes I only sometimes I want to eat at the house. 490 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 6: Sometimes I want to eat. I want to I might 491 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 6: not want a five course meal. Today, you know what 492 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 6: I'm saying. And it was because kind of one of 493 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 6: those things. I was like, Yo, I want to change 494 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 6: my synergy, bro. I want to be in places where 495 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 6: other artists come into. I want to go record at 496 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 6: a patchwork, you know, I want to record. 497 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 2: A silent sounds. You know what I'm saying. 498 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 6: I want to go over there with tip them and record. 499 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 6: Like I wanted to do different things. I want to 500 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 6: go to Miami record. And it was always like no, 501 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 6: we're gonna call it right here. And it started turning 502 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 6: to like, yo, like you know you got kids. Yeah, yeah, 503 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 6: I got kids too. You know you're married. I'm married 504 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 6: to you know. You pay taxes. I pay tax to 505 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 6: You're not gonna sign me my nigga. You can't bee 506 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 6: on me like I don't give a funk about what 507 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 6: no deals say or because we could change the narrative. 508 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 6: But I'll be fine with that. I made it to you, 509 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 6: you didn't make. 510 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 2: It to me. 511 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: The street ship. 512 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 6: Yeah, it was two incidents in the in the span 513 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,199 Speaker 6: of dealing with Block where three what things could have 514 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 6: gone before. 515 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 2: Because you know we as as as. 516 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 6: About to say six, No, I was gonna it's funny 517 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 6: you say six because you feel me. You saw me 518 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 6: about the former S word, a word that starts with 519 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 6: as suppression. I had to suppress a lot of things 520 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 6: because it could have gone different places. Just being straight up, 521 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. And you know, I just 522 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 6: I never forget, like having a real serious situation that 523 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 6: took place amongst you know, people that Block entertainment against 524 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 6: my man Chino Doll and some other ship was going on. 525 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 2: And sometimes Bro, like. 526 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 6: You might be a front line man, I'm a front lineman, 527 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 6: hell front land front lineman. Right, but we got to 528 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,199 Speaker 6: do We got them homies that's riding for us, and 529 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 6: they're not looking at the politics of it. 530 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 2: Then not understanding they. 531 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: What what what? 532 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 6: What? 533 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: What happened? He said, what? 534 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 2: Yeah? 535 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 6: So I just remember one day, crazy situation something that 536 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 6: kind of took place where. 537 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 2: Gucci this, Me and Miss B and Block in the 538 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 2: song and we got past that. Then Miss b ends 539 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 2: up dissing Zoe. 540 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 6: Grill the time, right, But it was so divided because 541 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 6: I just didn't think that Block understood how to properly 542 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:29,160 Speaker 6: leverage what he really had. And so I guess Zoe 543 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 6: felt like he was gonna, you know, pull up at 544 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 6: Chino House with some of the block's goons, but not 545 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 6: knowing where little Birdie was already in play boot. 546 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: So you know, somebody hit my line. 547 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,639 Speaker 6: I'm like, whoa that that don't that don't need to 548 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 6: happen because they pull up over that it's gonna be 549 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 6: x y Z and not saying that block people weren't 550 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 6: equipped to do whatever because they was. 551 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 2: I mean, let's be straight up. These niggas who don't. 552 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 6: Got gun, Okay, anybody can shoot you know, excuse my language, 553 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 6: but retard the motherfucker shoot you. And you know, so 554 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 6: I put the call in like, yo, I don't know 555 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 6: what's going on, but y'all need to live, Like, oh, 556 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 6: we ain't even at the house, Like well, I think 557 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 6: some niggas wanna pull up to the house. 558 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 2: It was like, oh, really, we're. 559 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 6: Coming off a move right now, so we're on some 560 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 6: other ship already. So when they pull up, niggas is 561 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 6: in front of Chinino House. When niggas pull up, when 562 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 6: they pull up, it was like, Yo, what's going on? 563 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 6: Niggas is in a van pulling up in a van 564 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 6: with sticks type ship. You know what I'm saying. And 565 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 6: I don't even think Zol was really trying to go 566 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 6: over there to cross them lines. I think it was 567 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 6: more like, bro, what we're doing. 568 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: It was more like it WASO's camp versus your camp. 569 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 6: And nah, it was more like Zol with Blocks camp 570 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 6: pulling up to Chino camp. 571 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 2: It was my camp. 572 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 6: But he didn't have no problem with me, so to say. 573 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 6: He was trying to go out for the whole thing 574 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 6: with ms B and Gino because blocking Chino was at 575 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 6: UDS and I'm on PaperWorks. 576 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 3: I'm like, I remember, I'm trying to keep trying to 577 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 3: remember on the streets when they was at. 578 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 6: Long story short, the whole meetup of Zo and Chino 579 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 6: went a particular way. 580 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 2: It was actually very calm and chill im. 581 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 6: But it came back to Block like it was Ryan 582 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 6: and some ship got handled. But I happened to be 583 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 6: on the phone, so I heard it all. And I 584 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 6: pull up to the studio and I hear Niggas is like, 585 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 6: oh you know we had the Doo do do And 586 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 6: I just was like, I was peaceful, like I ain't 587 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 6: know nothing about it. 588 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 2: I went in the studio, well you know what it. 589 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 6: Is, man, I can't even say cappin sometimes man, when you. 590 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 2: You're younger, you're influenced. 591 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 6: By this whole machine of I'm gonna turn you into this, 592 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 6: I'm gonna change your life, or I've already changed your life. 593 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 6: I've already turned your zeros into comas and dancinals. 594 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 2: You know, people gonna ride house, so respectfully. 595 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 6: Whatever it was, and I just remember somebody want to 596 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,400 Speaker 6: approve a point for me and Chino. And I was 597 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 6: pulling up to the studio with my daughter and Cheno said, hey, 598 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 6: don't pull up. 599 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 2: I said why. 600 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 6: He said, Man, these young niggas are not listening. I said, 601 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 6: what you mean? He like, I think you about to 602 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 6: go down. I was like, what the fuck you mean? 603 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: A pun intended it's going down. 604 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 6: So when I look up the street, I'm like, I'm 605 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 6: about to pull up to the studio now. He said, 606 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 6: don't go up there. I said why, I'm right here, 607 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 6: studio on my left. I said, a car come on 608 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 6: the street, no lights on. He said, bro, if you're smart, 609 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 6: don't pull up because I think these young niggas are 610 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 6: not listening to what we're talking about, and I think 611 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 6: they're about to woo whoop. Then I hear a young 612 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 6: nigga call us fun he said, hold on, he put 613 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 6: me on. He're like, yo, we about to do I 614 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 6: see the niggas out there, and now they out there 615 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 6: with Block, got there with the brawl and some more niggas. 616 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 6: I'm about to wake this motherfucker up. And I just 617 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 6: remember seeing back like, Bro, this can't go down like. 618 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: And this was this was early on in your in 619 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:12,840 Speaker 1: your career. 620 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 6: And I'm being honest, you know, and this ain't no no, 621 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,560 Speaker 6: I'm trying to play tough guy like we were just gangsters, 622 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 6: but niggas was affiliated with some real street ship and 623 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 6: I was just like, they can't do it. Even though 624 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 6: I wasn't in the gate. I told them on the far, 625 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 6: I said, bro, we already in the gate with my daughter. 626 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,040 Speaker 6: And I've seen them niggas pull on paternal lights on them, 627 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 6: pull on off. 628 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: Is there any relationship with Block right now to this day. 629 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 2: Seen Block at the fifty years of hip hop thing? 630 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 2: Say that? 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