1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Yo, yo, Welcome to It's Up There Podcast. 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 2: I am your active and attractive hosts for another episode 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: of the fastest growing podcasts in the world. Right now, 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 2: you know, the vibration is high. You know, I deal 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: with the movers in shakep. 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 3: True GUMBOO. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: Believe that you know who we got in the building. 8 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: Man, we got a pioneer got we got a pioneer couple. 9 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: Let me rephrase that it's important to identify. This is 10 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: exactly what it is. This is a power of couple 11 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: moving through this industry and breaking barriers. 12 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: Today we got the founders of Gumbo. 13 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 3: How y'all doing amazing? 14 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having us. 15 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 3: Man. 16 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: You know, the vibes is high. 17 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 2: Man, y'all moving around. I wanted to talk to y'all. 18 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: I think the culture needs to see and highlight. 19 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: People that move around. Yes, to get this done. 20 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 2: Talk talk to the people about Gumbo. For those who 21 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: don't know what Gumbo is, talk to them about what 22 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: that is. 23 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 4: You know, Gumbo basically is a black owned cannabis brand 24 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 4: that is going global. We're available in Thailand, Barcelona, Amsterdam. 25 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 4: You know, we're just anywhere it's legal. You'll see us there. 26 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 4: We're probably already there. It might not be our product. 27 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 4: It might be our product. I mean, but it's a lifestyle. 28 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: You know. 29 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 4: People want to be a part of it. People have 30 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 4: to sell it and even duplicated just to make a living. 31 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 4: You know. It's it's a different type of feeling, right. 32 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 2: And I was telling y'all, you know people, I mean 33 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 2: this weird place where I probably I got a podcast 34 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 2: in the world, right and it's fire manratulation, thank you, 35 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: thank you, And it's a situation where my face isn't 36 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: it's it's a thing. 37 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 1: Where they like, I think I know that, dude. 38 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: But podcasting is a weird niche where you bleed outside 39 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: of it sometime. 40 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: But if you listen to part you know what it is. 41 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 3: But if you. 42 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 2: Don't, it's like I think on the South, because I 43 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 2: have done some big, bigger names that bleeds out of 44 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 2: podcast you know, we go. 45 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 4: Through the airport sometime and people try to tell us 46 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 4: because we have on Gumbo merch or whatever. I know, 47 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 4: the real gumbos, I know them. 48 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: That's what I was gonna tell ya. Yeah, this is exactly. 49 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: It's so crazy, like y'all in that place too, where 50 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: it's like the brand has kind of outgrew the face. 51 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: That's why it's important for us to have these conversations. 52 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 4: The star the. 53 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: Start, right right right. 54 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 4: The martyrs were not the start. 55 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: But because of duplication, it's important to put a face 56 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 2: on it. Because I was in Miami and you know, 57 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 2: I'm out there they taking camis but I'm outside smoking. 58 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: Dude push up on me and I got the gumbo. Yeah, 59 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,799 Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm I'm plugged with gumbo. I got 60 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: their gumbo and I said, let me see it. And 61 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 2: I looked at it, and I said, that ain't that 62 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: Ain't the same ship I just saw, but it got 63 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 2: the bag and everything. How do y'all maneuver around that? 64 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 5: Well, how we maneuver around it? Because like you know, uh, 65 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 5: I want to say that duplication and knockoff as a 66 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 5: form of flattery at this definitely. 67 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: Have people that I grew up and. 68 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 5: Went to school with that's supposed to be my friends, 69 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 5: that actually make my bags and knock them off. And 70 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 5: what I wanna do, I'm gonna kill I'm gonna hurt 71 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 5: everybody that that bootlegs me. No, you know what it is, 72 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 5: it's a form of flattery due to the fact that 73 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 5: they're still promoting my brand and they're putting bullshit in 74 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 5: the bags and everybody know that. 75 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 3: I don't under stand. 76 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 4: On one it's a form of flattery. But some people 77 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 4: they act like they're down for you, but they really 78 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 4: just want to be you. 79 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: They going for the interception. 80 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, she let me get to that point, that part. 81 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 5: But yeah, AnyWho, So how we we come up with 82 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 5: shape bags like so shot off bags with the you know, 83 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 5: they could scan the ball court on the back. 84 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 3: And it goes directly to their Instagram. 85 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 5: So there's a lot of way that we maneuver the bootleggers, 86 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 5: but they last forever. 87 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 3: I used to bootleg. I used to sea Iceberg for 88 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 3: the feeling how to make money off of some respect 89 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: the hustle really selling and I had to live my 90 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 3: livelihood by it. 91 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: Combs a bit right right right right. But see what 92 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: you said is important to business side of that. 93 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 2: It's saying like, yo, some get so big, you gotta 94 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: expect them to jump on the back of it. 95 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: It's gonna be what that is. 96 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 4: The good thing is is when people get real gumbo 97 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 4: it it supersedes anything they ever had that was. You know, 98 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,359 Speaker 4: people tried to sell them or whatever and capitalize off it. 99 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 4: So once they get it and they get the link 100 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 4: to be able to get it, and they go to 101 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 4: certain stores that really have it, it's a positive experience 102 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 4: and it's a cult experience, right, you know what I mean? 103 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: What made y'all choose Gumbo as the night Oh, we were. 104 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 3: Just formulating a name at the time, and Gumbo was 105 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 3: the name that we. 106 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: Came up with, just off the just because think thinking. 107 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 5: For us, Gumbo was like all different things of one 108 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 5: pot mixed up. 109 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 3: You know, good for. 110 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,840 Speaker 1: The soul, it's good for the it's love and you 111 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 1: in the South. So Gumbo, we know what Gumbo is. 112 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 3: Now we have the Gumbo Rap Snack. 113 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: Shout out to my boy James. 114 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 4: Lynas we have the amazing rap snack. 115 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 5: Give us an opportunity to be the first non rappers 116 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 5: with our own rap snack thinking and you know, we're 117 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 5: just so related man to be in a different market 118 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 5: right as being a cannabis brand, right. 119 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 4: And also as becoming partners with James and Rap Snacks. 120 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 4: We also have a whole product line of edibles that 121 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 4: will be at a store near you from seven to 122 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 4: eleven to your mom and Pops. 123 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: That's fire. Yeah, shout out to James. James is in position, right, yeah. 124 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: James, And he's putting people that's supposed to be in. 125 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:38,799 Speaker 4: Position in position. 126 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: That's the thing. 127 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: When I was I did right, I did the Rap 128 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 2: Snack Summit, Me Bag, Rick Ross, Semester, p Romeo. 129 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,159 Speaker 1: We did it for all of the stores, right. 130 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 2: And I was explaining the bag now because I know 131 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: how important it is for them to come out and 132 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 2: see two three thousand people, four thousand people but in 133 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: this building and it was only like fifty people, seventy 134 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 2: five people, but those people were the stores, they carried 135 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 2: these brands, and it's important to know that it's a 136 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 2: different thing. And I was explaining, like, yo, James is 137 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 2: in position to be able to put something like this 138 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: and help y'all with this brain building process. 139 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 4: He's very interesting till you know, a lot of people 140 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 4: talk about doing black business, but you have a brother 141 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 4: that's really really you know, reaching out to people that 142 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 4: are doing their things, and he's seeing, you know, our 143 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 4: work work for us, and the partnership is just you know, 144 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 4: going to take us to another level. He's a very 145 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 4: honest person, you know what I mean. And I told 146 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 4: him straight off the back, like we started in New 147 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 4: York with the Rap Snack and we're selling out. So 148 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 4: he's like, we're taking it to all the states, Like 149 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 4: I need you to, you know, be on top of it. 150 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 4: And I said, man, I'll meet and greet, I'll shake hands. 151 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 4: I'm so excited to have this. 152 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: Yes, that's what it's about, bro. 153 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 3: Right, it's what we do. 154 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 2: I fuck with the brand and I see it, Like 155 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 2: even every time I see Bag, he got gumbo on. 156 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: I need that. What what made you choose Bag? Not 157 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: just Bag? 158 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 2: I know you work with a lot of artists, but 159 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: it seemed like Bag has its highlighting gumbo gumbo in 160 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: a different way. 161 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 3: I'm gonna be real. You know what it is about Bag. 162 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 5: Bag understands business, understands branding, marketing, managing. 163 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 3: He's a CEO, so he gets it. 164 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 4: And not to mention Bagging, his whole crew are on 165 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 4: their way up. They're there there, they keep you know that, 166 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 4: look at the Bag. They keep going to a whole 167 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 4: nother level. A lot of people that are doing this, 168 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 4: they're kind of at a level where they're declining or 169 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 4: you know, steady and already made. But you got this 170 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 4: guy who has not only keeps catapulting, but he's also 171 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 4: bringing other people from his hood along with him. And 172 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 4: that's what gumbo is. It's about financial freedom and taking 173 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 4: everybody with us, you know, and we just we stand 174 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 4: on the same principles. 175 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: So it only made sense, right, What did y'all What 176 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: did y'all meet at? 177 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 3: You two Alexis and I met at my jeweler, my jeweler. 178 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 5: Well whatever, Oh, we were having the same problem, like 179 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 5: she had a bus down cuban. 180 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 4: On, a little joint, a little joint, ladies, tell us little. 181 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 5: About you had the big joint, the big jont bust 182 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 5: down cuban on And so ironically we had the same 183 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 5: issue that our locks were broke, it was stuck. So 184 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 5: that was destiny that draw us together. How long ago, 185 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 5: and we haven't been a part of her since six years. 186 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: That's dope. That's dope. 187 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 2: Well, y'all financially, How y'all have y'all gained financially since 188 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: y'all be together or since y'all been Like I already 189 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 2: hated when I met, or she had even. 190 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 4: I can't even go to the crap table without making 191 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 4: money without my dude by my side. I went with him. 192 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 4: You know, I've always been I've always been a winner, 193 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 4: but I'm really a winner. Like he brings out a 194 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 4: different side of me, and I feel like I bring 195 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 4: out a different side of him. Where we're focused, we're disciplined, 196 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 4: and we know what we mean to the culture, and 197 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 4: we know what we have to do to change the 198 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 4: trajectory of who we are as a people. Right, And 199 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 4: that's it, and it's very important to us. 200 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 2: And that's why I said that, because understanding that there 201 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 2: is value in that partnership, you know what I mean, 202 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 2: Like you meet somebody and say, yo, and everything right. 203 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 3: That we've built together as a as a unit, you know, 204 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 3: as a. 205 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 4: Couple, and it's not forced, it's it's really organic, and 206 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 4: we really like each other. 207 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: That's beautiful. 208 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 4: You know, there's only a couple of couples I see 209 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 4: out here, like Remy Ma and pap Pu like really 210 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 4: like you so you could tell like they homies, like 211 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 4: they you know, laugh together or whatever. There's not a 212 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 4: lot of us, but the ones that there are, you know, 213 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 4: you you feel great for them, like you know what 214 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 4: that is and and the fact that we get to 215 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 4: project that through our business, you know, it's beautiful. It's 216 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 4: amazing to let the kids know that, you know, the 217 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 4: black family structure, in Latino family structure, it is the 218 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 4: right thing. You can win together. You don't have to, 219 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 4: you know, your focus doesn't need to be to you know, 220 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 4: deal with this one and that one and try to 221 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 4: you know, in all the you know, messages that are 222 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 4: out there, that's not really going to. 223 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: Help you win in life, right And not only can 224 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: you win together, you you will, you will. 225 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 4: We did doing it. 226 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 3: People be done. You know. 227 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 5: We're the people that you know, we were the black 228 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 5: sheep in the family that became the billy goats, you know. 229 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 3: So I don't want to. 230 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 5: Hear that shit about like opposite to tracking on that, 231 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 5: because me and Alexis are the same person and a 232 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 5: different body. 233 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 3: She's the male me, she's the female. 234 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 4: Me, and I'm the male her, and also too with 235 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 4: us pouring into each other equally, like really reciprocating to 236 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 4: each other. If you have that, you're gonna go upright, 237 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 4: Because if I'm taking care of you in the way 238 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 4: that you need to be taken care of for you 239 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 4: to evolve, and you're doing the same for me, how 240 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 4: could we not evolve? Together, right, because we're not tearing 241 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 4: each other down. We're not you know what I mean, 242 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 4: we're not. I'm not costing him nothing, he's not costing 243 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 4: me nothing. 244 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: So so that's an important word. 245 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're building. 246 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's important. I think that in this culture, though, 247 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: we have to change the narrative. It's so much, you know, 248 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 2: I tell people in the course, it's deeper. I mean, 249 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 2: energy is deeper inter course, So I pay attention to energy. 250 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 2: I don't need a lot of energy around me. 251 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:58,319 Speaker 5: And we say that collaboration is better than competition, m 252 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 5: because when you're collaborative and you do collaborative things, it 253 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 5: just works out better than trying to be competitive and 254 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 5: compete against someone else. And we don't have that problem 255 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 5: here at our company, our brand, or anything like that 256 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 5: because we're not in competition with anyone. So when people 257 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 5: see us winning, it's kind of difficult for them because 258 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 5: they're like, damn, Like these people really ain't focused on 259 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 5: the negative and the stuff that people saying, dude to 260 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 5: try to tear the business down. 261 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 3: Now, we just keep working. 262 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 5: We pray for our enemies, we pray for the people 263 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 5: that are unlucky and unhappy, and we keep it moving. 264 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 4: We're in our own lane and there's no traffic. 265 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: How did you get that though? How did you guys get. 266 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 4: Discipline? 267 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 3: You know? 268 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 4: With discipline, well, you know, it ain't. 269 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 3: What you do, It ain't how you start, it's how 270 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:43,959 Speaker 3: you finish. 271 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 2: I want to talk about y'all individually, right, you guys 272 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,319 Speaker 2: lives before each other or even with each other, but 273 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,199 Speaker 2: just individuals. Your perspective on him, his perspective on you. 274 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 4: I always I always looked at Luca as when I 275 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 4: first met him, I knew he was the person for 276 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 4: me because I saw the male version of me, you 277 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 4: know what I mean. Like I thought he was cool, 278 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 4: and I was like, you know, if I was a dude, 279 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 4: i'd be this dude. 280 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: That's dope cool, you know what I mean. 281 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 4: Because I'm the Trappers MVP, I'm the champ. I'm the 282 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 4: Trappers Champ. So when I meet another Trappers champ, that's 283 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 4: a rare thing. So yeah, I was sold. 284 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: What about you? Brother? 285 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 3: Oh? 286 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 5: For me, I just saw a bowl of light, a 287 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 5: being like an angel. God just dropped out the heavens 288 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 5: and gave to me because I was lacking a person 289 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 5: that was for me, and I have never been in 290 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 5: a relationship with someone loved me more than I love them. 291 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 3: Or a relationship. And I been said for us. We 292 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 3: prayed for each other, and you know they say, be 293 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 3: careful what you pray for. It wasn't easy. It was 294 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 3: hard at first. 295 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 5: But you know we're here now six years later. You 296 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 5: know we're about to get married. We got everything we want. 297 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 5: God favored us and blessed us to be successful in 298 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 5: our brand, and you know, to bless others and educate 299 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,719 Speaker 5: them on the candid and the good effects of it 300 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 5: and the medicinal park. So we're just gonna keep educating 301 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 5: and keeping powering our people. 302 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: How did y'all get into cannabis? Where did that come from? 303 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 3: I've been selling and smoking cannabis my whole life. And 304 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 3: this was always the type of guy that I liked 305 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 3: the krim dela crime like the best of the best. 306 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 5: So that's why I never compromised or put dounky or 307 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 5: anything in a bag. And we stayed full quality control 308 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 5: on gumbo. It's black owned, it's black grown, MM. 309 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: So we will keep providing that fuck the massive, that's fire. 310 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 4: Yeah. I was always awakened, baked kid. I moved my 311 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 4: room to the attic when I was a kid, so 312 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 4: I could awaken bake at thirteen years old, you know 313 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 4: what I mean. So you know, I kind of moved 314 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 4: past it. You know, I had smoked too much of 315 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 4: it and I just had stopped. It just chemically wasn't 316 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 4: my thing. But I knew how much it helped me 317 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 4: when I did need it. So when I got into 318 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 4: being an NFL manager agent space and I saw a 319 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 4: lot of the players getting addicted to opiates, I knew 320 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 4: that there was a better way to cope with pain. 321 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 4: And I got into a partnership with the dispensary in Colorado, 322 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 4: and the sale of my partnership was one of the 323 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 4: positions that put us into not only knowing we didn't 324 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 4: want to be mom and pop about it and have 325 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 4: a brick and mortar situation. We wanted to have a 326 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 4: brand that always sold. But I learned that more from 327 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 4: Luca because he was already selling coats, and his coats 328 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 4: were selling. He would have wake up to like a 329 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 4: bunch of sales in his Instagram, and it opened up 330 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 4: my eyes too, like wow, like he gets it, Like 331 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 4: it's if you're stuck in one place, you have to 332 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 4: deal with that but if you have a brand that 333 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 4: you can sell around the world, because he would get 334 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 4: calls from Canada and France and all these different places. Yeah, 335 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 4: all these different places. We used to go to Chicago. 336 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 5: And sell I'm sorry, I had to go to a 337 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 5: TV bank and create a Swiss big account that I 338 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 5: know nothing about, and international transfers to your account. And 339 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 5: she said, we went to Chicago when y're for my 340 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 5: birthday and we sold twenty eight colts. 341 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 4: And one day, you know, and these cults were like 342 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 4: two thousand. 343 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: So when I saw it, yeah, I'll been hustling man. 344 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. So the only thing that. 345 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 5: Was missing from everything that Alexis and I were doing, 346 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 5: because Alexis was in the industry, music industry, and so 347 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 5: was I. Uh, she was in the NFL. She was 348 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 5: a manager at the time. I've did a lot of management, marketing, 349 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 5: and production for a lot of various artists and the 350 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 5: only thing that was missing from that equation was Gumbo. 351 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 5: So when we started Gumbo, like Alexis said, it was 352 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 5: for us to really help others and help you know, 353 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 5: NFL players cope with getting off of the opiates, and 354 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 5: we're pushing the flower on them more. And then it 355 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 5: grew out of nowhere. It was a demand that the 356 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 5: street and the people wanted. So we say, you know what, 357 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 5: we're gonna make gumbo our baby. Yeah, and we're gonna 358 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 5: take it in and we're gonna consume and we're going 359 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 5: to nurture it and make it grow. And it grew 360 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 5: into a household name. 361 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 4: Also, when we walk with Allah, you know, we are 362 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 4: under a law. So you know, I noticed even we're 363 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 4: very God fearing people. That's what brought us together too. 364 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 4: I never met a person that prayed it just as 365 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 4: much as I did. Right, and then when I when 366 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 4: I started to do Ramadan and take on, you know, 367 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 4: a Muslim religion, I realized all the blessings that came 368 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,200 Speaker 4: from a law, just like off the back it was. 369 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: It was, it was crazy, It really like I can't 370 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 4: really explain it. I've always been a Christian, god faring person. 371 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 4: I don't know if I could say Christian. I just knew, 372 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 4: you know, had a relationship with God, you know. And 373 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 4: then when I had the structure you know that comes 374 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: with being Muslim and with allaw it just took it 375 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 4: to another level for me. 376 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: That's what's up. I can appreciate that. 377 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 2: Let me let me tell y'all too, we got to 378 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: put this out at a certain quality. So I want 379 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 2: you all to record the entire thing. Y'all get y'all 380 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 2: some do. I know what it's about. Make sure y'all hustle. 381 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 2: But you know, we got deals with our heart and 382 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 2: and ship, so we gotta make sure. 383 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. 384 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 385 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, no shelf and shelf yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 386 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah. You know it's branded. They're notw to 387 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: make sure when it go out and go out right. 388 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying now, because you know, you know, 389 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 2: and y'all know, just like it's the bad look that's 390 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 2: bad were talking about. 391 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 392 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 5: We got a radio station, we got a brain that 393 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 5: people know has integrity, So. 394 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 3: You the same way. 395 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what I'm saying. So you gotta know, 396 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 2: to me, the equivalent of what I just was talking to. 397 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: Y'all about about it being in Miami with a bag 398 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: with y'all that ain't yours. 399 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 2: It's this podcast going up without it going up in 400 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: a proper way. 401 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying That branding is important. 402 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 3: Very imperative. They first rule in gumbo was to protect 403 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 3: the brand exact. That's what you're doing. 404 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, and we all for yeah, Yeah, that's a beautiful thing. 405 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 2: I know you respect it. What's your what's your background 406 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 2: before gumbo? And I'll get to yours as well as 407 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 2: far as what did you do before you got into it. 408 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 5: I was always a hustler from day one. My grandmother 409 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 5: and grandfather were entrepreneurs one hundred twenty fifth Street. They 410 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 5: had tables like this. They were vendors, so they'll open 411 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 5: up the table, they'll go set up their product. They 412 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 5: had dashiki's, they had bees, they had all types of 413 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 5: stuff that they would selling on a day to day basis. 414 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 5: And I was seven years old when I went there 415 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 5: on one hundred twenty fifth Street and Lenod's Avenue in 416 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 5: Harlem and Manhattan and started selling products with my grandma. 417 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 5: And she showed me one time she took me to 418 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:43,800 Speaker 5: the market to like the supermarket, and she bought me 419 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,640 Speaker 5: a case of sodas. The sodas were a quarter apiece. 420 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 5: I sold them. I turned around sold them for a dollar. 421 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 5: So once she did that, it's over my brain. Yeah 422 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 5: that I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. I always 423 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 5: wanted to sell for myself and not have a boss. 424 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: They're right there, that's a beautiful thing. What about you. 425 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 4: I've always been a hustler, I realized very young. I 426 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 4: had my first job at twelve years old that would 427 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 4: wake up five in the morning and get up and 428 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 4: I used to clean a restaurant called Chuck Steakhouse. And 429 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 4: I would make about from six to nine hundred dollars 430 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 4: a week at twelve years old. And as I got 431 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 4: older and started meeting, you know, different people that did 432 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 4: different things, I started flipping my money. I was the 433 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 4: worst weed dealer though, because I smoked a lot, you 434 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 4: know what I mean. But also, you know, in always 435 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 4: being a hustler and I always kept a job and 436 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 4: things of that nature, what really struck accord with me 437 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 4: was jealousy. Like my own father, he disliked me. I 438 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 4: always made money, right, And I think one time he 439 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,959 Speaker 4: opened up one of my checks from my job and 440 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 4: he realized, like I made like good, moneous dollars sixteen 441 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 4: years old on paper, you know, And yeah, and I 442 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 4: just remember him looking at me like he just he 443 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 4: just didn't like me, and I oh it. And he 444 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 4: would always talk to me because people will always try 445 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 4: to tell you what's possible for them and make it 446 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 4: you feel like it's not possible for you, like they 447 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 4: like like maybe he was scared for me that he thought, 448 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 4: like he would tell me things like you're never gonna 449 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 4: accomplish that. Alexis like, you know, just just go go 450 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 4: to college, get a government job, like you know, you're 451 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 4: never gonna have that Porsche because I like DuPont registry 452 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,679 Speaker 4: and stuff like that. And he'd be like, you know, don't, 453 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,479 Speaker 4: don't focus on that because he didn't see that for himself, right, 454 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 4: But so it always was I was very honerous, honest. 455 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 4: It was always a battery in my back to show him, 456 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 4: like what he says, I can't what what's this? 457 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 5: She has that car out of the du So he's like, yo, bro, 458 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 5: this is crazy this girl this is a dream car. 459 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,360 Speaker 5: And I'm like, you know, I make all come true facts. 460 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 5: And that's what it is as us as being partners 461 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 5: and having a very grounded relationship and foundation, because I 462 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 5: think that where people go wrong out in relationships. 463 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 3: Is the trust thing. 464 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 5: Like you know, with me and her, it ain't nothing 465 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 5: like we're best friends, we live together, we together. 466 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 3: Every single day. 467 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,600 Speaker 5: There's been times where me and Alexis that have been 468 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 5: together and are bad and people are dmaha or emailing 469 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 5: her saying that they're with me or your man's just laughing. 470 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 3: We just sitting there laughing. So we understand. 471 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 5: You know how jealousy and envy and just lust is 472 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 5: that people have because it's just sad. 473 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: But you can only battle that stuff with trust. 474 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 2: But getting to trust it's always what a battle is, 475 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 2: especially from my background. In your background, I'm not sure about. 476 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,400 Speaker 2: You know where you're from, but when you come from 477 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 2: the trenches for real, and you've been through hell because 478 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 2: everybody I know, you know, I come up under the rock, 479 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 2: these niggas in history, these niggas is riding man, these 480 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 2: dudes here, you know what I mean. Like you see 481 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 2: me by myself because I first of all, I'm a 482 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 2: boss first of all. 483 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: That's number one, but number two, yeah, and so. 484 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 3: Myself with Alexis, Yeah, And people be like, damn, bro, 485 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 3: you don't be like scared of ship like that. 486 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 5: You be walking around like two million dollar jewelry on 487 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 5: a whole bunch of money, and I'd be like, yo. 488 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 3: Bro, I just walk with God. 489 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: Number one. 490 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 5: I ain't got no beef with nobody. I don't own nobody, 491 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 5: no money, nobody looking to kill me. 492 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 1: So that's what that's why I'm comfortable too. 493 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 2: I hustle good in the street. I ain't old no 494 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 2: nigga noning. I ain't took nothing from no nigga. So 495 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 2: when you come this way, I depend on the universe 496 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: for me to spank you, cause I ain't done nothing wrong. 497 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: I'm in the right. 498 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 4: But what's really crazy is the people that you've helped 499 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 4: the most are the ones that are the most jealous 500 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,199 Speaker 4: and angry. 501 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 3: Right. 502 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 4: It's like they look at you like, why not me? 503 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: Right? 504 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 4: They have a sense of entitlement and they want yeah, 505 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 4: off your work and they and they wonder why. It's 506 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 4: like they look at you with the look of why 507 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 4: not me? How come it's? How come it's done? 508 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 1: How do y'all navigate through that? 509 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: Like say, when you do link up with a Jim 510 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 2: Jones or Cameron and y'all might be in New York 511 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 2: and you might hand him five pounds just off the 512 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 2: strength do gumbo like yeah, dud yo, yeah it's you. 513 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I'm taking care of you. 514 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 2: And then it's people who may know you from other 515 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 2: parts of the world, it's like, Damn, I ain't get 516 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 2: five pounds or how I ain't getting nothing. 517 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 1: Damn you gave them rap niggas something. 518 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie to get that shit every day. 519 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, people like, yeah. 520 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 5: You know you out here, you are Moti and all this, 521 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 5: but you're giving these rap niggas chains and shit and 522 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 5: you ain't giving a niggas that was struggling and came 523 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,719 Speaker 5: up with you. And I'm looking at these people and 524 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 5: I'm like, bro, you don't know what type of relationship 525 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 5: that me and this person got facts, or what me 526 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,959 Speaker 5: and this person has built. 527 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: Or what they done ran my weight or anything. 528 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, So you know you always don't look at the book, man, 529 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 5: don't look at the cover, you know, look at the 530 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 5: pages inside, like you said, see the hard, aching, pain 531 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 5: in the blood, sweat and tears that a motherfucker like 532 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 5: me to have been through. 533 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 3: Man. 534 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 5: You know, I smile because I cannot overcame a lot 535 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,919 Speaker 5: of ship. I ate ship for thirty something years. I 536 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,479 Speaker 5: had to go buy me some new teeth. 537 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:13,159 Speaker 3: Smile. 538 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: That's dope. 539 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 5: That's when you see that million. I would smile every 540 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 5: day all day that I hate. I love to smile 541 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 5: because it's a form of the cod in my religion. 542 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,840 Speaker 5: Smiling is it's like me giving a homeless person one 543 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 5: hundred dollars. 544 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 4: But also to people feel like the way that we 545 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 4: market is we're bragging. We really don't care about a 546 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 4: lot of this stuff. 547 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 3: You guys don't even see half of. 548 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: The ship that we got. We don't we want you 549 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: to see. 550 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 4: That's a certified fact. 551 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 3: I don't let that go over your head. 552 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. 553 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 4: But also too, the thing is is that we're not 554 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 4: really big materialistic people. We really do it for the 555 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 4: kids to show them that there's a different way because 556 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 4: to give them. But when you're rapping about what you're 557 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 4: rapping about in these runs, you're not motivating these kids 558 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 4: to like go get the bag for themselves. Like there 559 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 4: are there's very a slim amount of rappers now that 560 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 4: are like a jay Z that are trying to give 561 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 4: the blueprint. 562 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: Right, And that's why it's important for me, y'all. 563 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 2: In the place I'm in in podcasting right, I'm literally 564 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:19,959 Speaker 2: reaching down out finish. 565 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: I'm talking. I'm talking to General Street guys. 566 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 2: Man hey for million dollars, he might got six hundred 567 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 2: thousand somewhere put up. You know, I'm talking to them 568 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 2: kind of guys about now starting podcasting because I'm sitting 569 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,640 Speaker 2: here and I got deals everywhere, and they seeing dude popping. 570 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: Man, he popping that shit. 571 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying, just like y'all, And so 572 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 2: I think people have to understand that, yo, A lot 573 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: of this shit is a commercial. 574 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: You know, this ain't really a yo. I'm really want 575 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: to be. 576 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 2: Away from y'all people, Yeah, real, for real. Yeah, I 577 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 2: want to go in the house really, if we're being real, But. 578 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 3: I gotta want to be on the island somewhere. But 579 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 3: I really got to be working, so show you that 580 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 3: can be done exactly. 581 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 4: I really got. 582 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,120 Speaker 5: To be busting my ass three hundred and sixty five 583 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 5: days out of every single year, every day, so you 584 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 5: can say, you know what, that motherfucker ground like he 585 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 5: a twenty one year old and I'm damned there fifty. 586 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 5: But I will never give up that hustling spirit, never 587 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 5: a day in my life. 588 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: You know it's dope. 589 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 4: I've learned to take a day off, Like I took 590 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 4: a day off yesterday, took my daughter to the Bahamas 591 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 4: just for the day. 592 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: We were just talking about that. 593 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 5: I wrote a book while I was incarcerated, call on 594 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 5: the It was on the road to becoming a billionaire, 595 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 5: and I'm almost there. So the fact they thank you 596 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 5: for giving us the opportunity to let the world know 597 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 5: our story and our hard work and dedication, that's pays off. 598 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 5: We have our own radio station, Hot ninety seven fly 599 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 5: Trap Radio. We got our own Potato Chip, Gumbo Potato Chip. 600 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 5: We got our own brand, and we're not gonna stop 601 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 5: and til everyone in the world knows. 602 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 3: And it's a household name. 603 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 4: And we're also launching our merch. 604 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right too. 605 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 2: I'm ran Like I talk to a lot of people 606 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 2: every week and I see the thing about podcasting is 607 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 2: I'm the hobby for the people that say work for 608 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: them on the fork lifts. 609 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,679 Speaker 1: They listening to this shit right now. You know, this 610 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 1: shit is like a thing, man, every week they're waiting. 611 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 3: It's a lifestyle. 612 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, just like just like so all of this 613 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 2: shit in one hand, watched the other botha wash the face. 614 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 2: This shit is a beautiful thing. You said you was incarcerated, 615 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 2: What were you incarcerated for? 616 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: And how long? 617 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 3: For heroin? For dope? They give me a two to five. 618 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 5: Thank God, I had the means and the finances to 619 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 5: get that type of time with the type of record 620 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 5: that I had. But what it did was it made 621 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,239 Speaker 5: me a better man because I lost everything, you know, 622 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 5: and in return, God gave me a new life as 623 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 5: being a new person and being able to help other 624 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 5: people with their lives that recent It wasn't about me 625 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 5: being financial free. It was about teaching others how they 626 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 5: can be and educating them on that and giving me 627 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 5: a beautiful wife and a beautiful family that I could 628 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 5: call my own. Well, I ain't gotta ask nobody for nothing, 629 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 5: thank God, or beg anybody for anything, because there's a 630 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 5: lot of grown men out here that they're just beggars. 631 00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 5: You could give them something, You could give them five 632 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 5: to ten pounds, guess what. They're still gonna fuck up 633 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 5: and come back to you two weeks later and beg 634 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 5: you for something. 635 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: Else, and they mad at you when you don't keep 636 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 1: dumping it on you. 637 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:09,800 Speaker 3: You don't keep dumping it up. 638 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 1: But why is that though? What did that come from? 639 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 4: It comes from people being opportunists. It comes from people 640 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 4: feeling like they're entitled. You can be stripped from everything. 641 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 4: I've been up three times before. This is my third 642 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 4: time being a millionaire. I've been stripped of everything twice before. 643 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 4: But people that have known me for years they think 644 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 4: I owe them something, will you. You weren't there when 645 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 4: I was on my face. I had to do that myself. 646 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 4: I didn't ask nobody for nothing to get back on 647 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 4: or nothing. 648 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 2: And you know, my people, you know again, y'all lent 649 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 2: my trap. This is my trap. This this right here, 650 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 2: this this town. I ran around this motherfucker making a killing. 651 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: So this is my trap. Right I look at this 652 00:29:59,480 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: town right now. 653 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 2: Then I say, there's no way for me to look 654 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 2: at these people who I've hustled with in the street 655 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: and put them in position to blow everything I got, 656 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,760 Speaker 2: because if I put them next to me, they can't 657 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 2: operate on this level. This is a different thing. Just 658 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: take a different kind of mindset. It takes structure. You 659 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 2: gotta be able to you gotta have craftmanship, you can 660 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 2: you can't just wake up like we did in the 661 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 2: street and chase your phone. 662 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 4: But everything is not for everyone. And if you're chosen, 663 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 4: you're chosen, you know, so for you, for you, it's for. 664 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 3: You, and hopefully. 665 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 4: Hopefully in this conversation, we're we're catapulting someone to say, 666 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 4: you know what, I am working my construction job, but 667 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 4: I'm gonna start something on the side. You know what 668 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna pour into what I 669 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 4: love to do. 670 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 5: So I or that's this major and see how can 671 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 5: I become, you know, a cannabis brand over here? 672 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 3: Or what are the legalities for me to do such 673 00:30:59,000 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 3: and such? 674 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 2: Let's talk about that a little bit. What are what 675 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 2: are some of the legalities like in Tennessee? 676 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: Right now? We got himp that they best with. 677 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 2: It's I guess because it's such a broad question because 678 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 2: it changes depending on where you are. What did y'all 679 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 2: go through to get y'all licensed and get in that 680 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 2: situation where you was hustling, trapping to now legal. 681 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 4: To be honest with you, we built our brand, help 682 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,440 Speaker 4: building our brand. We're still building our brand where now 683 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 4: people with licenses and the big corporations are coming to 684 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 4: us to license us and to do different royalty deals. 685 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 4: You know what I mean. We are the blue label, 686 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 4: We are the you know, the ace of Spades. You know, 687 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 4: we don't we're not really interested in owning the liquor store. 688 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 4: But we respect everyone that does that part of it. 689 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 4: But you know, we decide. You know, I used to 690 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 4: own a clothing store before, Like I said, Luca owned 691 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 4: his businesses that he had, you know, on one hundred 692 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 4: and forty fifth and Broadway and trapped. 693 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 3: I used to trap on the streets selling CDs. 694 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: And the hand who CDs? Were you selling? 695 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 5: Anybody's everybody everything? I see knives come out the joint 696 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 5: one day came out the car and I was telling 697 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 5: his joint brought it. 698 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 3: He laughed. 699 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 5: He about to, you know why, because they respected some 700 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 5: little motherfuckers out on the street on the side hustling 701 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 5: and we wasn't killing robin or stealing we would really, 702 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 5: you know. 703 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: Right? 704 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 2: Or that's that's that's a form of hustling to the 705 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 2: older niggas. 706 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 5: I don't care what nobody says. I sold ship out 707 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 5: my trunk, right and now look at me. 708 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: Yea magazine. Yeah, I was telling him like that. 709 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 2: You was in there. But but this is what I'm saying. 710 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 2: I think you said something important right there. Nas embraced 711 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 2: that in a way where it didn't stomp your your 712 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 2: your hustle out. Now, I think the culture has changed, 713 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 2: just took this weird change where if you're doing something 714 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 2: like that, now know they shun you for doing something 715 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 2: that don't look and appear to be the highest level 716 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 2: of what you can do in that field. 717 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 718 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 2: It's like now, if I see a nigga doing something 719 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 2: like that, look at the little nigga, pitty hustling, you 720 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 2: little pit nigga, get some money, pit. 721 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 5: And when I see these little kids and the fruit 722 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 5: snacks and all, I buy the whole pack. 723 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 3: And I'm not none of it. I tell him keep 724 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 3: the money in the pack. 725 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: But I can even the kids were going with support. 726 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 2: But even a grown man that's starting it at the. 727 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, he gets snatching. 728 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 3: Grind start them. I told your man, I want to 729 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 3: do X y Z and they laughed at me. They 730 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 3: laughed at the same motherfuckers came back and asked me 731 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 3: could they join the. 732 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 4: Car, and then asked us how to do it after 733 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 4: we came to you first and gave you the opportunity, 734 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 4: and now you want to know the whole recipe on 735 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 4: how to do it, and they're still trying to figure 736 00:33:58,360 --> 00:33:58,680 Speaker 4: it out. 737 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: That's the same with part casting with me, like you. 738 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 3: Don't understand what's for you. It's for you. 739 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 5: Your podcast ability and capability and your reach, your demographic 740 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,000 Speaker 5: is gonna be different from everybody Else's the way that 741 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 5: I do what I do and what I sell and 742 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 5: my prices are gonna be I'm Louis Vauton, no disrespect. 743 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 5: I'm not coach. I don't give sales. I don't give deals. 744 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 5: You know I'm gonna do you one better. I'm like 745 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 5: Rose Royce. I don't have a commercial. You know what's 746 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 5: in that bag? 747 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: Facts? What are the rappers y'all work with or have work? 748 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: Little Uzi verse shout out to. 749 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 3: He got a Gumbo coming out. 750 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: Is it got a name for it? 751 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 5: Yes, it does. Pink said pink like a but it's pink. 752 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 5: This album is the pink take. 753 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's his thing. He had the pink diamond. That's 754 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 2: his vibrations and works with a little baby. 755 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 3: Who else? 756 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 4: Oh man, there's so many Davis sig. 757 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 3: He got ape ship Gumbo. 758 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 5: So you know, we moving, man, And we're only funk 759 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 5: with the elite because we. 760 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 4: Got busy banks out of Brooklyn. 761 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 5: Yeah, we ain't signing no old talent no old rappers. 762 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 2: Nobody, no disrespect, but brand is brand preservation. 763 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, Brandon is everything because I seen Jada all the night. 764 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 5: That's my brother. I feel safe to say it. 765 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 3: He said. 766 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 5: Another cannabis company gave them their money and he was 767 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 5: going to give it back because it tastes like perfume. 768 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,399 Speaker 5: So Jada has a strength coming out with us as well. 769 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 5: Long overdue when that helped us us invent the name fly. 770 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, he came up with, Yeah, where did they come from? Jadad? 771 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 3: Man, it's we so sticky, it's like a fly on 772 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:38,880 Speaker 3: the trap. 773 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. That's hard. That's hard. 774 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,759 Speaker 2: I ain't even think about that. Damn, that's crazy. I 775 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 2: ain't think about that. How you meet all these rappers, 776 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 2: Jada and no just because just being in New York 777 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:54,879 Speaker 2: is it. 778 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 5: I always had the relationship where I was around and 779 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,240 Speaker 5: and and the entertainment world with Cameron is my brother. 780 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 3: You know. 781 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 5: I used to literally like I used to be outside man. 782 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 5: I was the tyrant of the hood. I was like 783 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:08,800 Speaker 5: the ship night of the hood. 784 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. 785 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 5: So I had a big, great influence on the culture 786 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,960 Speaker 5: and the community. And that's how I met all these 787 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 5: people and all my relationships are organic, Like when I 788 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,320 Speaker 5: meet these rappers, I don't kiss as no disrespect my language. 789 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,439 Speaker 5: I don't do the other thing neither. But like it's 790 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 5: just a mono mono thing, like it's camradery. Like I 791 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 5: met you and others felt your energy. 792 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 2: It was a brotherhood, right, and we got to talk 793 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 2: about this brother because I need to see us as 794 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 2: I'm walking through this. 795 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: Man, you got a thing. I'm coming out the street 796 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: for real. 797 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 2: So I'm walking through this industry like boy, the eat 798 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 2: niggas here different, like. 799 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,359 Speaker 1: It's some these is something weird as there's some other ship. 800 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,359 Speaker 5: I don't feel bad saying it because guess what can 801 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 5: none of you suckers beat me? Yeah? 802 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 2: And then I come in like yeah, I come in 803 00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 2: saying fuck them, nigga. 804 00:36:58,640 --> 00:36:59,160 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 805 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 5: But you know, you gotta also be receptive of what 806 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 5: they're around. 807 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,919 Speaker 2: Two though, That's what I was saying. So it's good 808 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 2: for me to look in here the fault right. 809 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 3: Fast with this bullshit and then you look around, Oh, 810 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:15,320 Speaker 3: I see. 811 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: They done shape them. 812 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,840 Speaker 4: But also too, we're out at an age that we 813 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 4: know a little bit of everybody. You know what I mean? 814 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,879 Speaker 4: If you're a trapper and you're a hustler. You've been 815 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 4: in rooms with all these people. They done seen you 816 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 4: around years and years and years, but you. 817 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 2: Got but doing business and just being around it's different 818 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 2: now doing doing business with these rappers and in this industry. 819 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: You gotta think, man. 820 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 2: I literally got deals in my email from every company 821 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 2: that's in this industry, from Spotify, Apple, every company. 822 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,399 Speaker 1: I decided to go with. Charlemagne and iHeart. 823 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 2: Now, but I got deals from Shout Out Charlemagne. I 824 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,879 Speaker 2: got deals. I had opportunities to go through everybody. Little 825 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,399 Speaker 2: Baby speaking up Bro gave me. He the one put 826 00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,800 Speaker 2: me in a position. He did the roll Out interview 827 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 2: with me when I was just a street nigga doing 828 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:03,799 Speaker 2: podcast that they just listen to. 829 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 830 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,280 Speaker 2: They plug in with me, give me the roll out interview. 831 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 2: I'm a hustler, I ain't a nigga. Get an ad 832 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 2: loop and don't dunk. 833 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, but real recognize it's really and you look real familiar. 834 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. 835 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,239 Speaker 2: So as we hustle through here, it's important for me 836 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 2: to look through here and say, Okay, I see I 837 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 2: see y'all operating. You know what, a lot of rappers 838 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 2: in this industry, we even in and out. It's important 839 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 2: for me to look in there and say they didn't 840 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,839 Speaker 2: have to change nothing, because in that game, it's a 841 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,439 Speaker 2: weird thing happening where people change who they are. They 842 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,359 Speaker 2: muscle themselves, they self correct, they don't say what they 843 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,360 Speaker 2: want to say because they're in the spotlight. 844 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,240 Speaker 5: Communication kills assumption. If you communicate with me, we're gonna 845 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,280 Speaker 5: be straight. And I tell everybody I'll come in contact 846 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,319 Speaker 5: with or mess around with, or we got a relationship. 847 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 5: Only you and I could mess up our relationship.