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Speaker 1: Welcome to more to it, where I talked to athletes,

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Speaker 1: entertainers and unique folks to find out the stories beyond

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Speaker 1: public perception look sort deceiving and there's nothing simple to

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Speaker 1: achieve it. I'm our Slust Whitely. You might know me

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Speaker 1: from Fox Sports or my ten year football career as

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Speaker 1: an All Pro defensive end. But you might not know

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Speaker 1: about me is that I'm from Compton and went to

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Speaker 1: the Ivy League, and I have a lot of opinions,

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Speaker 1: a lot that I don't get to express on TV.

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Speaker 1: But you know there's a lot more to my story

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Speaker 1: than that. Today we're gonna talk about growing up in

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Speaker 1: an environment where you know at a young age that

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Speaker 1: you would have to be the grad winner for the family.

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Speaker 1: As a kid in Compton, I grew up fast, much

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Speaker 1: faster than I ever desired. But I knew what my

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Speaker 1: family dynamic was. I knew that my family was in

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Speaker 1: pursuit of something better, in chase of greener pastors. Here

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Speaker 1: my grandmother tell us war stories of how she had

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Speaker 1: to move from Watts after the Watts Riots to Compton

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Speaker 1: just because it was so violent, and then hearing my

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Speaker 1: to South Central in the same pursuit of greener pastors.

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Speaker 1: I knew that what came with that was a huge responsibility.

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Speaker 1: I had a talent, not many talents, but I had

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Speaker 1: to be responsible. I had to choose differently. I had

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Speaker 1: my identity was so important. It wasn't just who I was,

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Speaker 1: growing up. Immediately, I had to figure out who I

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Speaker 1: try and find out who I could be. Our guest

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Speaker 1: most influential hip hop artists of his generation and is

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Speaker 1: often cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're talking to the one and man, what's up, Boy?

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Speaker 1: What up? Tune to how you feel? Brother? Whatever. Man. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's so good to be here with you right now. Man,

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Speaker 1: I think in my journey, nothing is better than working

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Speaker 1: with your friends. And just to start this conversation off

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Speaker 1: full circles. The first time I got a chance to

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Speaker 1: meet you, I was actually djan at an sp ESPN event,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we all in the V I P

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Speaker 1: and my V I P had one V and yours

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Speaker 1: just like, Yo, this is the dude that I've been

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Speaker 1: in the locker room telling everybody from Hello that this

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Speaker 1: it's just a great full circle moment as we became

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Speaker 1: our sports, talk our life, and now we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: at all right now, big dog, how are you feeling.

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Speaker 1: I'm great, man, Oh, I'm so blessed to have this

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Speaker 1: conversation with you, because we're gonna take it deeper than

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Speaker 1: just Google and Wikipedia. I'm a big believer that failure

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Speaker 1: is natural and success has to be sought and taught,

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Speaker 1: and talking to no one more successful and what he

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Speaker 1: They don't get to see from the ground level, that

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Speaker 1: are just growing up, growing up New Orleans. I was

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Speaker 1: from from an area called Holly Grove. New Orleans is

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Speaker 1: the seventeenth ward. My grandmother raised me because my mom

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Speaker 1: at the you know, times being different back then. My

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Speaker 1: And I already know what they want. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: they asking me to sing. Did you say sing that wrap?

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Speaker 1: You said sing sing sing? Yeah, they ain't trying to

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Speaker 1: wrap the old folks, not that that's all right? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: is I had to put on my grandmother wig, throwing

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Speaker 1: you know you could do the Michael Jackson well good

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Speaker 1: Let me go to sleep, to sleep over all that

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Speaker 1: And so with that said, I became infatuated with performing,

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Speaker 1: that's too many lines. I remember writing all that exactly.

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Speaker 1: They asked me to write like a poem. I can't, right,

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Speaker 1: So I just wrote a rap. I wrote the verse,

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Speaker 1: Right now, I'm looking at everybody's emotional you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: one of those moments you realize, oh I got something

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Speaker 1: I would say that moment was when I wrapped for someone,

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Speaker 1: He was like what he was like, what you're just saying?

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Speaker 1: You're knowing what that's That's when I knew that the

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Speaker 1: even at a a foundational level, it's just the fact

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Speaker 1: you could be little Wayne. You could just go hit

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Speaker 1: on a worldwide tour. But me being an athlete, my

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Speaker 1: playing you know, street likeness six four to like never stopped.

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Speaker 1: Stop the way, bro, I should have had n il

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Speaker 1: deal before they damn but like, uh Andy Reid for real,

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Speaker 1: But I was tall, skinny. Uh No one thought I

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Speaker 1: I raised your cousin, I race your uncle, I RACI

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Speaker 1: Dominique Walker walked up to me and he was like,

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Speaker 1: hey man, you need to play football. And I was

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Speaker 1: that you knew that you had a talent because my

427
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: dad's best friend. But when did you recognize from the

428
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 1: world that, wow, I have a talent, that I made

429
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: it moment? When did they come to you like that,

430
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: I got that? Oh, I got that moment. We're on tour.

431
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: We're on took cash Money Rough frid To Tour. Shout

432
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: out Resting Peace, Dmax cash Money Rough Frida Tour. So

433
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,919
Speaker 1: we used to come out to stage the hot boys.

434
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: We used to come out to the stage in the helicopter.

435
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: Because remember cash Money was the head of the helicopter.

436
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: We said that was that was the cash money sound

437
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 1: a helicopter was a kid, that's cash money. The helicopter

438
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: used to come from the middle of the middle of

439
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: the arena. From the middle of arena, go to the

440
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 1: top of the sea and fly all the way to

441
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: the stage, drop us off in the states. We get out.

442
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: The whole time we up in the air this baby

443
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: before making rain. The whole time the helicopter is in

444
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 1: the air, we dropped, we're throwing we're making the rain

445
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: on the crowd. And so this way, before making rain,

446
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: we used to get to the to the middle of

447
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: the arena. The only way we would get to the

448
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: middle of arenas. We used to have to get them

449
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,880
Speaker 1: dirty them dirty as hampers, y'all, throw all y'all your

450
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: jerseys and every day after the game. Yeah, we used

451
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,959
Speaker 1: to have to get it because that's the only thing

452
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: they could put four people in and put the lid

453
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: on it without nobody knows what that is. I swear

454
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,239
Speaker 1: we used to get in that and they would they

455
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 1: would wheel us to the middle to the to the

456
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,679
Speaker 1: middle of the arena because you know, we're in the

457
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: middle of the crowd. Imagine the crowd looking at the

458
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: stage and they here, but they see the spotlight behind them.

459
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: They turned around. We're in the middle of the crowd

460
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 1: in the helicopter going up and yeah so so so

461
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 1: imagine so I get sick on that and on that tour,

462
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: I get like a little a little flu let, a

463
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,680
Speaker 1: little flu thet stomach bug. And so Slim baby, big

464
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: baby older brother who he's the president, Slim and Slim

465
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: was always like my second father, you know what I mean,

466
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: next to Rabbit. When Rabbit, Slim is always he took

467
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: me I was, I was Slim and steal them Slims everything.

468
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: And so with that said Slim Slim, you know he

469
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: made me, made me miss a few shows, and so

470
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 1: I stopped. So you know, well I missed like three

471
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: folk shows. What you are He just made me stay

472
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: in the room, man like some soup things like that.

473
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 1: And so mind you you know, I'm only fourteen, by

474
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: the way, I'm only like fourteen. Yeah, yeah, it's hot boys,

475
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: I'm only four team, so baby going. So this was

476
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: the days where that was that was these things we

477
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 1: gotta tell the kids. That was these things called um

478
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: play machines. So you already had your whole show. You

479
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: had your whole show already like put together, and it

480
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: was it was sync up into this machine. There's no

481
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: stopping that. However it goes. You have to go through

482
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: that whole show, you know what I mean, there's no

483
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: changing that's you know what I mean Like today. What

484
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: I mean by that is if you and I was

485
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: in the group and we're going tour, if you missed

486
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: a few shows, I could just I don't have to

487
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: play the songs that you're a you know what I mean,

488
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: I just do it. But back then I gotta play

489
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: the songs that you don't even if you they are

490
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: not exactly so Baby and them, so they only only

491
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 1: had one so a song at the time. It was

492
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 1: black his hot banger though Banger You feel Me? So

493
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: baby was like he was like, uh, Eric, So the

494
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: night I missed, the first night I missed, he was like,

495
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: you know, sorry, y'all, Little Wayne couldn't be here tonight,

496
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 1: but we're gonna still do his song for him, because

497
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: that's my little that's my son. We love him so banks.

498
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: So he played the night. As soon as he say that,

499
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 1: the crowd go the whole stadium. Dude, so stunning that

500
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: my song is the fourth song of the show, the

501
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: fourth song of the show. So he was like he

502
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: came back. It was after the second show. He was like, man,

503
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: we can't do that no more because the whole show

504
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: sucked after that. Yeah, he was like, the whole show

505
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: goes all the way down after that. We can't do

506
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: that no more. So after like four shows, I'm feeling great.

507
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 1: I'm not sick no more. You know, I can't. I'm

508
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: ready to get back on. So I see them they

509
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 1: were about to getting We're about to get in the hamper,

510
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,879
Speaker 1: you know, to go to the to the helicopter. Slim

511
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: tell me stop. You're like, now you're like I'm like,

512
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm not sick anymore. What do you mean? I'm good.

513
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: I missed, but I'm ready. I got my ones, ready

514
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: to get in the helicopter. I'm like, what are you

515
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: talking about? You're like no, now you need to fall back,

516
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: like what so not? The whole show going. Now they

517
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: go to doing the show, the helicopter sounding boys in

518
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,880
Speaker 1: the air. They're going the money. They they come down,

519
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: you and I'll do the hunh b G. Do his song,

520
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: Turk do his song. Baby say sorry, y'all. Little Wayne,

521
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: Little Wayne a little sick. He couldn't make it. I'm

522
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: sitting there like Slim says, take your shirt off? I said,

523
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: what take your shirt off? By the way, Slim always

524
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: thought I was a he loo. He looked at me

525
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: and like another tooth. Podcasts with the whole take your

526
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: shirt off, like taking you know, pod kept your shirt off,

527
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: Take your shirt off, take your shirt. I took my

528
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: shirt off, gave me the mike, pushed me out there

529
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: after the crowd, after the crowds, the crowd is boo boo,

530
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: my song comes on. I run out there. That was

531
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: the moment clarity, the moment of clarity. I never looked

532
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: for myself as I never saw that helicopter again. Yeah,

533
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm still flying without a helicopter, and never saw the

534
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: helicopter again. From then on, all three of the Juliy

535
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: BJ and Turke, they still got in the helicopter every

536
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: every show from then on, every show when we don't

537
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: have social media. So therefore we was able to go

538
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: every show when sorry, y'all, little Wayne couldn't make it tonight,

539
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: but we're gonna still do his song frohim and I

540
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: run out. And that's how and that's how it stunned up.

541
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: That's how stunn up Slim. Everybody knew he's a solo artist.

542
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: Yeah he's not a hot boy no more. He's a

543
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: little white And that was the beginning of everything. That's

544
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: how everyone knew, not just me, everyone knew. I never

545
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: saw the helicopter again. I never got in the hamper again.

546
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 1: My my, my new entrance from then on out was

547
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: little Wayne couldn't make it tonight, and then set it

548
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: up like that with those extreme emotions like this support

549
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: amen to wow. Here he is dog those shirt and young.

550
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: So it's just a it's all carbohydrates you just pumped,

551
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: and everybody in it you know what's crazy about that

552
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: story are the extremes, not only the crowd emotions, because

553
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: I imagine if I go somewhere and I want to

554
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: hear the hot boys and little Wayne's out there, I'm like,

555
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: what we're doing here? This is incomplete, and then boom,

556
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: here he is and that's next level. But you know

557
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: what's interesting about that that extreme is also parallel to

558
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: how the success must feel in that moment, because once

559
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: that happened, everything changed, as you just said, and success

560
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: as I found out when I got drafted, Like literally

561
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: the moment before I got drafted, I was just dusty

562
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: old teddy bear Marcella. And as soon as I got drafted,

563
00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: like the next moment, not only did everything change, but

564
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: first everyone around me change. Talk to me about how

565
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: that dynamic change. Where you wanted something, you got it,

566
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: but before you could even change, they changed, don't you

567
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: I want to say? I would say to that, I

568
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: would thank God for my blessings, and I would say,

569
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: because it started so young, so I was I was

570
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: always known, I was always who I am. Yeah, so

571
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: I never had the moment of I never had the

572
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: chance for them and even for them to even change.

573
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So because I was I

574
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: started at eleven, so I was always you know, so

575
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: I was always Wayne signed a deal at eleven, and

576
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So like there was no

577
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: one had to change. It was. I was always looked

578
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: at as we're not even sure this gonna even work.

579
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: This is something he does as a kid, until a

580
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: rabbit pass and I started paying bills, you know, and

581
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: I started playing bills and put my mom in another house.

582
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: And that's when that we start, you know, and they

583
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 1: start okay, okay, And so I would say I don't

584
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: I would say no one and I don't. I don't

585
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: want to say no one changed, but but you know,

586
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: it definitely went from Again, I would thank God for

587
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: the responsibility that my grandmother put on me at such

588
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: a young age, because with that responsibility, I still never

589
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: looked at them, them as in my family, when they

590
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: would come as family and friends. When people would come

591
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: at me once I had something and ask for something,

592
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I would never look at

593
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: that as them changing because I was always depended on

594
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: from a young age. Yeah, man, every child actor should

595
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: live that way at least had that mindset because It's

596
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: like most of us in athletics, we always have the

597
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: dream versus the reality. But it looked like for you

598
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: the reality was the dream, and so you lived it

599
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: all the way through. You never even had that intersection.

600
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: They were all just messed together. Huh yeah. And that's

601
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: why I think are whoever it is? I'm thinking I

602
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: think him every day, man, every day for never waking up,

603
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: say having waits, I haven't woke up yet. Imagine if

604
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: I'm challenged right now, speaking of whoever that is, imagine

605
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: if an alien came down here was like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

606
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: what's up my status? Man? I heard her to do

607
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: a Little Wayne. I heard he a living legend. I'm like, yeah,

608
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: he is. But what would you want me to tell

609
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: him about Little Wayne? Which makes you special? What is

610
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: in that secret sauce that you now about to let

611
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 1: the world know that it's not gonna be so secret?

612
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:39,719
Speaker 1: What is your special sauce? I think, pure, plain and simple.

613
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: It's to It's my drive. It's my driving, my love

614
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: for love and passion for what I do. Someone. I mean,

615
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: so I was on having a conversation with someone yesterday

616
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: and uh, I would like just understanding, I'm I'll never

617
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: master this. I am forever student. It's like I also

618
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: understand that the beauty of it is learning. I was like,

619
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: I learned, Like you know the cliche you're learning something

620
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: new every day, Like, well, that's if you're trying to

621
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: learn something new every day, you know. I was like,

622
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: so that's why I go to the studio every day,

623
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm like, I try to learn something

624
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: new about myself and about what I do every day.

625
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: And I figure it out over a beat, and you

626
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And once I and I, once

627
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: I finished, I listened to what I figured out, and

628
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: thank god I've been every time I play it back,

629
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: I'm loving what I played back. So now in that

630
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: position where not only are you still a student, but

631
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: be real, you're also a mentor. Man. I mean, you

632
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: conquered the sound that you were intended to conquer. Like

633
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: it's so crazy. When you play a football game, you

634
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: all the game plan and you also know the other

635
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: team strengths, and you also know when you make plays

636
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: the plays you left out there and you walk back

637
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: and you keep that quiet. You're like, ah, they don't understand.

638
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: They over there cheering, pumps, throwing confetti your way and

639
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: you're like, y'all don't even know I'm still in pursuit.

640
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: What are you still in pursuit of being the ultimate

641
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: the ultimate artists? What I mean by the ultimate artist is,

642
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: first of all, my grandmother she raised me, teaching me

643
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: things about like making me pay attention to people like Elvis,

644
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: you know, not we're not just said, I don't know,

645
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: not wanting songs, but just things like making me pay

646
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: like you're gonna pay like pattention to the greatness of

647
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: this man, you like, because she always would make me

648
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: pitt touch to the fact that he had so many errors,

649
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: you know, like some as in he was this person,

650
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: he was that, he was here in this error, he

651
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: was hitting that, he changed up, he was big, he

652
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: was he was that and he had to Vegas everywhere,

653
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: and she always meet Wayne Newton as well, Yeah, and Wayne,

654
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: and she was like, because of the fact that he

655
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: was um, he was able to do the Vegas Residency

656
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: and day, you know, things like that. So and then

657
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: Mike of course m J because of the fact he

658
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: was able to do it. And so as a kid

659
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: with the Bush Jackson five and then switch it up

660
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: and then do it and we loved every single way

661
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: he did it. I stopped still to be the ultimate artist.

662
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: So what I mean by that is, I want to

663
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: hit your time one day and I want here the

664
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: time to be like you know, a little Wayne is

665
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: coming to wherever. But I gotta hit it that Thursday.

666
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: Because therefore I gotta I gotta do. I gotta, I

667
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: gotta perform Thursday, Friday and Saturday because there's that much

668
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: of me and that mini means that you need, that

669
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: you gotta get. And so when there's a you know

670
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: how we do festivals now and we have a hundred

671
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 1: people on the list, a hundred because it's a festival,

672
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: we gotta spread it out. I wanted to be a

673
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: festival where it's just Wayne Thursday Friday, it's the ultimate artist.

674
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: And so Thursday you might get you whatever you know

675
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: you want, your your feature songs. When I bring out

676
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: special guests, I do that. Then Saturday, you know, Friday,

677
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 1: I might bring out do whatever the way and you expect,

678
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 1: and Saturday I do the way you're not expecting to

679
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: have it goes. I still strive to be the ultimate artist.

680
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: And still there's no confection in anything, So you know,

681
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: I used to always clown. In particular, one of my

682
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: home girls in the ninth grade. Her name was Tiffany

683
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: crane Bridge. I'm gonna call her out, um, y'all google

684
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: or if y'all don't know what she is and y'all,

685
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: but oh, that's Tiffy Cabbridge. Okay. But in the ninth grade,

686
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,280
Speaker 1: she used to wear heels, show up to school immaculate,

687
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: and every day she was late to class. And she

688
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 1: got away with it because she was just that fine.

689
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm just not at gonna lie like she broke school rules.

690
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: And you know, she just had all the older kids

691
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 1: at the school. Everybody every time they saw Timmy came,

692
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: it's just to walk Byre was a blessing, right. But

693
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: one day we had a real candid conversation, and I

694
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: was lucky because I was like, she ain't gonna never

695
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: like me. Right now, I'm Dusty in the night bread,

696
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: but I'm talking to Tiffany, and everybody looking, you know,

697
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: they're like, damn Tiffy talking to ourselves for real. And

698
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: what we were talking about was false humility. And I

699
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 1: was like, Tiffany, and all due respect, you're the finest

700
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: woman on this campus. But you gotta walk around every

701
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: day and wait for compliments, knowing you already that fine,

702
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: And she was like, what you talk about? I was like, basically,

703
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: you know when you walk in class, everybody like whoa,

704
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: But you gotta be like, oh this little thing, oh,

705
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: just me, And I ain't gonna lie a way. You know,

706
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: you're in the conversation, even if you're a hater, You

707
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: in the conversation of the greatest rapper all time. But

708
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: if people really want to be objective and look at it,

709
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,399
Speaker 1: a lot of people say you are the greatest rapper

710
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: all time. You literally can do a festival by yourself.

711
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: So when you hear that, how do you feel? And

712
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: what does that mean to you? Blessed? Blessed, thankful, grateful

713
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: and also exactly what I wanted? Mm hmm. I feel

714
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: like I threw the dark here that we write down

715
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: a little right right down, the little smallest right there,

716
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: right there. It's all I dreamed. I told you. It

717
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: goes all the way back to being woken up and

718
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: waken up in the bed at eight nine years old,

719
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: called to the living room to do what I have

720
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: no problem doing, performing, having getting getting the perfect re

721
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: getting the perfect reaction, the satisfied reaction, and the complete reaction.

722
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: I was still I still remember the lass myselfs I

723
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 1: still can hear the lass, and as I'm walking back

724
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: to my bedroom, I still can hear them. I still

725
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: remember the lass and that boy that. But I still

726
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: remember the things they would say, that boy know your

727
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: talents and things like that. Boys, anything that anything, just

728
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: like I still remember, man, I still remember so what

729
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: I said. I still remember the way the crowd sounded.

730
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: The crowd sounded when I got to stage, And think

731
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: the last time on stage was thank probably last week

732
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: with games I did. I went out there with Games.

733
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: I still remember the way the crowd sounded. Still remember

734
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: I felt all that. I still get stomach. I still

735
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: get the worst stomach ache before every show. I have

736
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: to tell him it's Anita Baker. That That's why I listened.

737
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: I listened to her. She didn't know. Obviously she didn't know.

738
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: I listened to her before every show. She's the only

739
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: thing that made my stomach stop. Sweet Love, sweet Love

740
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: got you right, man, Sweet Love loved joined paying anything.

741
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: So I just gotta hear her. Boys, man, man, I

742
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: love that bro talk to me man like you ever

743
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: just sit back quietly. You're not who they think you are.

744
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: You're not who you become. You just you and your

745
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: essence and sit there. It's just four walls, maybe the

746
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: lights on, maybe they off, and it's just you, and

747
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: you think of the alternative universe, like all universe, like

748
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: what would happen? What would life have been if I

749
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: didn't pursue music, I didn't dedicate myself to my talent.

750
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: When you think of those moments, are are in those moments?

751
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: What do you think of I think of that a lot.

752
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: I think of that, think of that a lot. And

753
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: I always think of how thankful and how grateful I

754
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: aim to have my mom, have her the way she was,

755
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: the way she is and the way she was, because

756
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: I always think of it. The answer is so, it

757
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: always popped up in my head so fast, doctor Lawyer.

758
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: It's so fast, so fat, you know, it's so fast.

759
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: And I'm from you know, I'm from the streets. I

760
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: could have easily been something or a damn shore. Don't

761
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: need to be, you know what I mean? And so,

762
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: but now the first thing I think every time I

763
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: think about it, what you think you would have did

764
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: if you wouldn't have done this The first thing I

765
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: think of his man? What kind of doctor? What kind

766
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: of lawyer I would have been? And it's on and

767
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: it's all due to the way my mom was and

768
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: the way she made sure that you're not gonna be

769
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: nothing else. You're not gonna You're gonna be something. You're

770
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a successful young You're gonna be a successful

771
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: black man. And she and she, you know, I mean

772
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: she refused for you know what, he refused for me

773
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: to be anything less anything lesten What that said? What

774
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: that said? When I say that I could have obviously

775
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 1: looked up to look and been something totally different, But

776
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: that said, you know, my father were he damned you

777
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: weren't no compented you know, you know you feel your

778
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: feel over your feel over straight. Hey, hey hey he

779
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: paid picture. He paid Manny Fresh for the be man

780
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: man many chulged. My dad is seven hundred. I had

781
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: to get that back once. I mean, you can't trace it,

782
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: so don't even try to face it. It's different. I

783
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: ain't no, Manny didn't, I ain't know Manny didn't he

784
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: he was, you know, like I told you, But Manny

785
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: and cash money was still had some of my dad

786
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: was like, we need to we need to beat. So

787
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: we hooked up with Manny got man Manny made me

788
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: a beat man. He was used to working with me too,

789
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: by by me even being with cash money for just

790
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: to split us for a little term. He made the beat,

791
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: and Manny made the Manny and Many is a genius.

792
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: So once he made the beat each other, my dad's

793
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: seven hunt for that man. I love it. You know

794
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: what I just caught. I heard you say this phrase,

795
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna repeat it. Successful black man Mama had

796
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: that right then in her by loss. This is what

797
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: little Wayne's gonna beat. And I remember years ago you

798
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: said something that hit my heart, and at the time

799
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: we weren't personally connected like we are now. But I

800
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: just gave you one of them three thousand miles away Depps.

801
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I hear him. You

802
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: said that you have never experienced racism. And the reason

803
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: I bring that up is because in my circle, all

804
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: of my black friends except two and I'm talking about

805
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: dozens said the same thing, like dog, they never experienced racism.

806
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: But the narrative, it's almost like pushing you. The narratives

807
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: almost like of course you have and I remember having

808
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: all those in their private conversations about Nabi, I haven't,

809
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: But then the public discourse was completely the opposite. Talk

810
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: to me about that moment when you said that, the response,

811
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: and how you felt about that response. So the moment

812
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: I said it, um, Actually it was so interesting because

813
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: it was it was it was asking me my uncle

814
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: Shannon on disputed. I thought, I mean mad when I

815
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: said my response because on kind of you know, he

816
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: was like, you mean to tell me coming from the walls,

817
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: you mean tell me you ain't ever been you know.

818
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: He was like, you mean tell me you ain't ever

819
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: been stopped by police and treated the wrong way just

820
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: because you was in a nice, certain call kind of

821
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: car and riding in a certain neighborhood they probably thought

822
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: you was supposed to be in. And I was like,

823
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: you know, like I never I'm sorry, I never had

824
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: that happen, you know what I mean. So one, as

825
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: far as the response I got from it, I remember

826
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: the very first response that means that meant the most

827
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: to me was his response. As soon as the camera

828
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: said cut for that segment, his hand was under the

829
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: you know, his hand was under the under the desk.

830
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: He hit my laces. He went to shake he on

831
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: he said, he shook my hand as soon as he said,

832
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 1: not even a split he said, he shook my hand,

833
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: and I said, he said, I want to thank you

834
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: for being real. It's I want to thank you for

835
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: it's I want to thank you for not being not

836
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: being stereotypical. I want to think, he said, because you

837
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,800
Speaker 1: could have easily just thought back of any time and

838
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: said yeah, I gotta stop, it said, and just say yeah,

839
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: yeah to my question, just just so you could be

840
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: in a victim role that the whole world, the narratives.

841
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: I want you to think. I want to thank you

842
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: for being exactly who you are and know nothing more

843
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: and nothing less. It was like, I really, I really

844
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: want to thank you for that. And I remember that

845
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 1: was the very first response that meant a lot to me.

846
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: That was my first response to what I said. And

847
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 1: so with that said, though I always when when people,

848
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: I mean, when I think about, well, why why didn't

849
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: you experience it? Why didn't you expect There's an answer,

850
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: there's an answer, and I always remember, and I when

851
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: I before, i answered, I'll be I'll before I'll let

852
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: this be known that my answer is it's only for me.

853
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 1: It doesn't go for no one else. I don't know

854
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: you're I don't know you, I don't know your situation.

855
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 1: For me, I just always handled every situation though there's

856
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: no right or wrong way to handle them, if I

857
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: just handled it the best way possible, and by doing that,

858
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: it led me to the to where I'm in, not

859
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: where I'm at now, and where I'm at now was

860
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: a guy that's already nine that never experienced that. I've

861
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: never experienced man, brother, brother, brother. Not what I what

862
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: I mean by handling it the proper way and things

863
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: like that is if I felt that I was you know,

864
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: if I felt that I was being being treated a

865
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: certain way, you know, it's simple exit that situation. Yeah, yeah,

866
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: it's super simple. Man. It's it's interesting you say all

867
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: this because we boys. So you know, I'll drop a wileyism,

868
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 1: which is basically I already know what they basically are.

869
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: You gotta tell ye, I'm about to say something and

870
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: maybe I made it up and maybe I heard it,

871
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: but I would give credit. I would give a credit.

872
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: I'll protect the guilty. But my experience is my expertise.

873
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: So what we're not about to do is deliberate and

874
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: argue my experience. What we're about to do. It's open

875
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 1: minds and open hearts. And I'm not on a mission

876
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: to try to change your or even change your heart.

877
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to lend my experience because this is

878
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: my expertise. So quick story, and I'm gonna make it

879
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: super quick because i want to hear from you. I'm

880
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: outside Jerome Bettiist birthday party and and this is like

881
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: my third time going in the Row annual event. And

882
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: every time I went no lies, something happened to me.

883
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: The first time, Coach check didn't give me my coat back.

884
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: Second time, they start just scrapping up there and messing

885
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: my table up, bottles filled everywhere. I'm like, dog, I

886
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: spent this money, but it's gone. But you know, I'm

887
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: in the league. I ain't tripping at least I gotta

888
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: act like I A And then the third year picture

889
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: this wine, I pull up in Valet and this I'm

890
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: at my heyday. So I'm feeling myself. I'm feeling yeah, yeah,

891
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm in the excursion. When they still with riding and expedition.

892
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: So cast was like they like they're like wildy in

893
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: the build. It right, So I pull up. I had

894
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: more TVs than I had seats. I had just TVs stereo,

895
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,399
Speaker 1: you know, the teens. Everything, all right, I'm doing the most.

896
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: I'm doing too much, actually, So anyway, Valet, party out,

897
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: party out. I'm leaving. I'm not lying. I'm walking down

898
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: the stairs to Vallet and I'm like this the first

899
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: time I came the Betsest party. Nothing happened. I'm bumped,

900
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,399
Speaker 1: and I gave Valet my ticket. Took him a little

901
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: longer than normal to bring it because I thought it

902
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: was gonna be out front, because I told you, I'm

903
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: feeling myself. But whatever, he gonna get the car. He

904
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,320
Speaker 1: come back and he's like, hand me the keys and

905
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: he take off. He phoned out, and I'm like the

906
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: first thing, you know, my spotty sins going on. I'm

907
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: l a Compton South Center. I'm like, I ain't seen

908
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 1: Valet run like that. It ain't that serious. Where are

909
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: you going? I look inside the car. Nothing beholes where

910
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: the TV was nothing, beholes, where the radio was nothing,

911
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: beholes where the speakers were. They robbed my whole truck

912
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: and then gave me the keys like spin off. So

913
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there like what. And in that moment, next

914
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 1: to you know, everybody caught wind of what was happening.

915
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: It was not just me. Everybody was getting everybody getting wrapped.

916
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: So then they start scrapping the ballet fighting in front

917
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: of club all the And I only bring you this,

918
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: this conversation forward because what you said. And the police

919
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: come up to me long story short and say Marcellus

920
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: getting the car. And I was like, oh, two white

921
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: cops getting the car, take me away and drive me

922
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: down the street and they say we're taking you to

923
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: the police station. And I said why. They said, We're

924
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: gonna get you about of this, and I said wow.

925
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: And they took me to the police station. On the

926
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,760
Speaker 1: ride there and kept telling me where the Hollywood Division.

927
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: We deal with high profile celebrities all the time, and

928
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: what we try to do is mitigate these situations, not

929
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: let them flame up. And I'm sitting there and in

930
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 1: that moment, I just tucked that away way and I

931
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 1: took that story away. I may have told that story

932
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: once or twice publicly, but I heard everyone wanted to

933
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 1: fund the police and racism and all the police are races.

934
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: When half of my homies from high school seemed like

935
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: man the policemen as well, I'll be riding down the street,

936
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: my boy. But what like here, I'm like, I just couldn't.

937
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: I couldn't reconcile what the narrative was. I know that

938
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 1: was some experiences, but I couldn't reconcile it with my experience.

939
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: So that was crazy for me. And I'm glad that

940
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: you were fearless in that moment, or at least authentic

941
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: to your signature. Now, in that moment, it takes me

942
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 1: full circle to like that's some grown man ship like you.

943
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: In a moment you're on National TV. You're talking to

944
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 1: Shannon unc who speaks for all of us. It seems

945
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: like like uncle's uncle, and it's like you knew what

946
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,439
Speaker 1: to say because you knew what you had been through.

947
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: So now what would little Wayne right now say? Two

948
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: little who was seven, who was eight, who was eleven

949
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,479
Speaker 1: trying to start in this game? I think I would

950
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: tell myself, don't you ever for once, don't you ever

951
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: for once, one no one second become satisfied Because I

952
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: haven't yet. I told you, I haven't woke up yet.

953
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: So and that's why that the room we are speaking

954
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: and speaking to each other. And right now it's my studio,

955
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: you feel me. That's why we figured out how to

956
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: let how to make the computers to the studio computer.

957
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Oh we can make this this this computer con we

958
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: could work this out. Let's do this what so? Yeah,

959
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: So I would tell myself, just, man, don't you ever

960
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: you know, because it's easy. It's easy to sell. I've

961
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: been you know, I have I have friends that's artists

962
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: that you know what I mean that word artists that

963
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's so easy to

964
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: be sad and five with success just and I mean

965
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: the smallest bit of it. And when I say success,

966
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 1: I want people to know that I don't even mean

967
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: success as in money, fame, success to come in anyway,

968
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: meaning you could just like your verse. You could do

969
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: like you could do like you under seen that most

970
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: You could just like your verse. And that's you like, man,

971
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: I ain't, man, I chimped this man and you that's

972
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: saying you ain't. You might not do another verse for

973
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: three three months? Man, what just happened? Like like that

974
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, so success could come, don't ever be

975
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: satisfied with that success you feel. That's all I'm saying

976
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: I would have told I mean, that's what I would

977
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,720
Speaker 1: have told the young little wine. I ain't telling nobody

978
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: else that out dit my sons and my beautiful daughter.

979
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: Oh I love it. I love it those four kids.

980
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: So four blessings you got, man, I got four too,

981
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 1: So you you already know how the game goes. All right,

982
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna end this with a little fun. I want

983
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: it fast because I know you can freestyle, know you

984
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: can just spit them real quick. I want you to

985
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: liberate and I don't need no PC because if you

986
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: grow up on national TV and say you ain't experienced racism,

987
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: you're ready to fly through these. So let's get through it.

988
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: Let's get it. You know I'm stilly, all right, Well,

989
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: let's start off with something that kind of caught me

990
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: off guard recently. I saw that my man is a

991
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: Wimbledon tennis fan, and you're out there repping so of

992
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,919
Speaker 1: all the goats out there, because we know Yokovic took

993
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: this one again, one behind the doll of the goats,

994
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 1: the three goats, who's the goat of all goats? As

995
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: far as tenence I got, I'm sorry, I gotta go

996
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: right are you're gonna with Roger, even though he third

997
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: in terms of the majors. You're going to Roger Oak. See,

998
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm an the dog dude, like the dogs, my god.

999
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 1: Not seating the doll on the doll on Clay. Yeah,

1000
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's That's how defeated. You're not getting that.

1001
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: That's the Warriors with k d right. That might be

1002
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:52,240
Speaker 1: the Warriors again with Katie the way they're talking right now. Okay,

1003
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:56,759
Speaker 1: you want Phoenix, I know you do? You get out

1004
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: there play? Are you just a fan from the outside? Man?

1005
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: I really, Me and my homie T. Shout out tea man,

1006
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: we get out there and play. And we went to

1007
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: the to the spot Hallepino with peace Halipino pieces. Yeah,

1008
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: halepeno peace, Yes, sir. He was with me that day.

1009
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: So shout out t T. We go to We go

1010
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: to the spot out it right close to where I

1011
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: live at. Man, we go, we go to the little

1012
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: club out here. We get it in okay and you

1013
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: know that all right? Well I'm not sure if we

1014
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: know what we're doing, but we get the ball go

1015
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: over the net. That's all that matters, exactly as all

1016
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: that matter. Greatest rapper of all time and not saying

1017
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 1: you who is that notorious? Why? I'm sorry you said

1018
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,919
Speaker 1: of all time, of all time. I'm sorry. I would

1019
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: uh and I would ask, I would ask for forgiveness

1020
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: because I didn't pay attention. I didn't pay attention to

1021
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: the question you want to remix. I take that back

1022
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: to the greatest rap of all time, Sean J. C. Carter. Why,

1023
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: it's just when when you do we you know, right

1024
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 1: when you do this rapping thing is a certain is

1025
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: a certain you know obviously, like like football, you know

1026
00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: what I mean, like football, Every sport is different. I'm

1027
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: sure you know, yeah, you play hockey. I'm sure they

1028
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: got something that they all that, you know, I mean

1029
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,280
Speaker 1: that they only know about something that they probably can't explain.

1030
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 1: But it's, you know, only they know, you know. So

1031
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: it's that that thing, that thing in wrap, that that

1032
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,360
Speaker 1: the only thing that only we know, and that he

1033
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: has that it's like he's the time Brady of that.

1034
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: I love that you said that because I get stuck

1035
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: so many times on air when I'm just talking. I'm like,

1036
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: y'all don't understand I used to do this. So when

1037
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm talking about another four player, it's something that he's

1038
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: doing that. None of y'all catching that. That's the special

1039
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: sauce that he has exactly exactly. Okay, let's get into this.

1040
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 1: This season, the Packers will like this season, The Packers

1041
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: will and I have the record we had last year

1042
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,280
Speaker 1: as far as probably, but we definitely will go third.

1043
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: Then we went last season game and I bet and

1044
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: if we get that playoff game man again again again

1045
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 1: again again. No, we only got in one time. Whatever

1046
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: for got Rodgers, you only got it one time. We

1047
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: want all the other ones on the roads props for

1048
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: that anyway, But I'm listening. Okay, Aaron Rodgers or Brett Farve,

1049
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: who you want to go with? You got your team,

1050
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: your all time Green Bay Packers team. Who your quarterback?

1051
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: Let's go. I gotta go with bred, I go with

1052
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: Bread telling you go ahead. You know, Aaron differ. Now,

1053
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: outside of tennis, because we talked about it already, one

1054
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: sport more people should watch is blank outside of town.

1055
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 1: I mean outside of basketball and the regular regular because

1056
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: you know everybody already. Yeah, yeah, outside the box. Because

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00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: I know you into that tennis? What else you into?

1058
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 1: Because I know you basketball and football? Let me ask

1059
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,359
Speaker 1: that first bastball, football, football, football. It ain't even close, huh,

1060
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: not even not even so outside of outside of tennis

1061
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 1: and you know, and outside of tennis and outside of

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00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: the regular bank. But I think you should. You should,

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00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: You should get that. People should probably watch a little

1064
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: more GoF just eat up their whole Thursday, Friday, Saturday

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00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:13,840
Speaker 1: and Sunday lived. So I shot a live on Sunday.

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00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 1: Give me over there. They passed eight. They over there

1067
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 1: doing extra holes. Bro, they that lived to it. Bro,

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00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna get that's next. That's the next episode. We're

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00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: gonna get into that spicy enough. We're good social media

1070
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: because I see you right now and it looks like

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00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: a gamer chair almost social media or video games, which

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00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: one gets to the little white a little closer? Which one.

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00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't even do social media, so uh yeah, team boy,

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00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: you got a team doing that. Uh yeah, I don't

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00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: do scial media. And the last time I was more

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00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,479
Speaker 1: I was, I knew how to really log onto something

1077
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: and really get into it was called my Space. You

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00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: skip black Planet. He was on that too. I don't

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00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: even know what that is. I love it even better,

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00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 1: Oh that was before. I love it. But as far

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00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: as games, it will be games because of my sons.

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00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: There it is. There is Okay, best competition for cash money,

1083
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: young money we're doing versus what's the best competition out there? Like, okay,

1084
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the people what they want. The money's

1085
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 1: worth you picking between like what no limit, death row,

1086
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: bad boy, quality of control, what you got? I would

1087
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: say the best competition I would have to go in.

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00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: I would have to go to Rockefeller. I don't even

1089
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: say that Rockefeller boy that jay Z forces It's like

1090
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: that is real. Okay, I love it right now? This

1091
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: country needs more blank man. I don't know to sound cliche, man,

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00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: oh man, do you but it's simple more damn love

1093
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: a simple and I think you need to start with

1094
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: yourself more self love and make it easy to love

1095
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: others love that. What dream night for little Wayne is

1096
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: doing blank, dream night for me is simple doing this

1097
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: right here at the studio, man coming over one of

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00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 1: the bangers. That's about it. Dream night and you know

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00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: it when you make it, hunt you already know. Huh. Definitely, definitely.

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00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: I would say dream light Also that you got to add,

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00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: if it's a dream, then have a nice female that's

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00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: bobbing her head you know, bobbing her head said, because

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00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 1: of females of females confirmation on the song. It's everything.

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00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: It did start that way, though it did start that way.

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00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: I ain't talking to no listen, I'm not talking about

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00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: a song about loving nothing like okay, that's what that's

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00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: the interesting part. It's a female's confirmation on the song

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00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: about the subject that you think about the things, the

1109
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: things that matter to us. Her confirmation on that is

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01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 1: is the confirmation of the general, confirmation of the public.

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01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 1: I want to break code right now and just be

1112
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: like you told me to get in the game. That

1113
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: confirmation from a man told you you had talent, but

1114
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: now where you are in the game, a woman would

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01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: tell you. If it's say, did I hear that right? Yeah?

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01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: You ain't never lied. Dog. If a woman thinking she

1117
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: like this, you ball that day, you put some work

1118
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 1: in that day on that field. That's why I think too.

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01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: That's when you know, when you know you got one

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01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: of them, when you got one of them bangers, bangers,

1121
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: when you haven't seen like you know, just the most

1122
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: beautiful woman singing the worst words to the nastiest song Evergence,

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01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: but the song just go too hard. The song all

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01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: I'm about to box you in. Man, don't get PC

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Speaker 1: on me now, Okay, So I got this thing. I

1126
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: always say that if I had one day to live,

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01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 1: take me to New York City. And this is in

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Speaker 1: my single day, so you know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 1: I hate New York by the way close. But I

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01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: ain't there. But if I said, if I had one

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01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: weekend to live, take me to Miami. But if I

1132
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 1: had I had one life to live, take me to

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Speaker 1: l A. So I know you live in New Orleans,

1134
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: grew up there. Miami. We used to be the home

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01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: or maybe the home, other home. But you in l

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Speaker 1: A dog a lot of them. So New Orleans, Miami,

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Speaker 1: l A. Let me here one to three New Orleans

1138
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: all day. Man, that's home, that's home, that's home, that's home. Home.

1139
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: You would have said Miami in l A. Okay, I'll

1140
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: say that Miami l A. Then I would have to go. Uh.

1141
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 1: I would have to go to Miami first because they

1142
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: adopted me. They adopted me, and they adopted me, and

1143
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: I went you know, I mean, I went through I

1144
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: was definitely I went through my struggles there. I went

1145
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 1: through everything, you know, I mean, But they still adopt me,

1146
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: wrap their arms around me. But man, all I can

1147
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: say about the last man, I ain't been back to Miami.

1148
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: What I say, if you gotta like to live. Look,

1149
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 1: look all y'all, look you New Orleans finest l A

1150
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: jay z he go to my school. He New York findest.

1151
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: We'd be wearing them. Yankee has something in l A.

1152
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: Stop playing? Did he did? He New York's fine? Y'all

1153
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: need to stop playing. Well. I'm glad Compton is in

1154
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,880
Speaker 1: the house. I'm glad that l A don't took your hearts.

1155
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 1: All right, I got three more questions, two of them

1156
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: rapid fires. Part is part of being little Wayne. Partest

1157
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: part of being little Wayne is not being able to

1158
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: be that from my kids. For everything they ever do,

1159
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: they never did. You gotta always I still have to

1160
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: be a little Wayne. That's the hardest part. I love

1161
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: that answer, Especially having to be a little Wayne when

1162
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: you're actually doing something for them and with them. That's

1163
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: more of the hardest part. And when that persona and

1164
01:02:55,880 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: what everyone public facing sin meets that identity need that

1165
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: real life You're like, come on, y'all, separate church and stays.

1166
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying, what's the best part. I

1167
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 1: know a couple. The best part of it is my

1168
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 1: four kids. A little ants for kids. That's the best

1169
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: part of being a little way, my dog, my dog.

1170
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: We're gonna end this on the Whitely as a man,

1171
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:18,480
Speaker 1: I want you to just tell me where this takes

1172
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:23,120
Speaker 1: you mentally in terms of life experience. Here's the whitely

1173
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:26,440
Speaker 1: Ism for you. Everybody wants to go to the parade,

1174
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: but nobody wants to build the floats. Where does that

1175
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:42,960
Speaker 1: take you? Mighty ground from New Orleans, slide right there,

1176
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: my dog, Man Living Legend, my dog, my boy. I'm

1177
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 1: a fan. It's hard to just be full friend when

1178
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: you respect somebody to the fullest. Man. In terms of

1179
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: doing this podcast and more importantly our friendship, man, it

1180
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: means a ton to me. Class. You've been great to me,

1181
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 1: my family and inspiration to millions across the globe, Man,

1182
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: Living Legend, a little one, Thank you, brother, man, Thanks

1183
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,959
Speaker 1: for having me. You're a real friend, for real brother,

1184
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:13,680
Speaker 1: for real. Man, your your energy. When I saw you

1185
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: the act, your house brother and you that's that's I

1186
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 1: was like, that's that's my bro. Like that's that's right right,

1187
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: Like that's my bro right there. I was like, I

1188
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: told you forgot it was at your house. Man, We

1189
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,560
Speaker 1: both forgot to watch you. I have to remind us.

1190
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:30,240
Speaker 1: But I just graduly like Marseller's Wild and Dwayne Michael Carter.

1191
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: Can you please a man than your brother? Love man,

1192
01:04:38,320 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: appreciate your fame. Oh that's that's the cut thing. All right,

1193
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 1: my dog, that's gonna do it. For More to It.

1194
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: You want to keep the conversation going, let's talk. You

1195
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: can find me on all socials at Marcellus while More

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Speaker 1: to It is brought to you by Dan Patrick Productions,

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Speaker 1: That Dude in Amen, Workhouse Media, and jam Street Media.

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Speaker 1: The show was executive produced by Dan Patrick, Marcellus, Willie,

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Speaker 1: Paul Anderson, Nick Panella, and Maddie Stout. I'm Marcellus, Willie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and thanks for those reviews. Say hell,

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Speaker 1: there's more coming More to It. Talk to you next week.