WEBVTT - REWIND: LaRUSSELL - What Is This Egg Sandwich Worth To You? 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:08.360 host Coleen Wits, and today we have in the building 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:16.440 music artists, philosopher entrepreneur Larussell, and I am truly excited. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.320 Nothing made my day more than like what two days 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.720 ago when your crew I think his crew confirmed like 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.439 two or three days ago, and it literally they were like, 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.639 holy why are you so silent? You're supposed to be happy. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:27.960 And I was like, well, I'm just making sure you 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:29.520 tell me the date because if you tell me a 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.080 month from now, I'm not getting excited because just in 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.600 case something happens. And she was like, so you're happy, 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.239 I said, what's the date two days from now? I said, hell, yeah, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.199 I'm happy. Girl Danks shout outs and Nicole from the 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:44.199 Black Effect for booking you. Super happy to have you. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.280 I love the name of your company and I love 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.239 what you're about. I'm the name of his company is 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:54.600 called good Come Penny as in coints, which I was like, 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:59.160 ooh ooh, that's different, I said, Man, Larussell's hitting us 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.040 with so much intech. Do you remind me of a 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.480 cross between jay Z and Drake and anyone that has 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.440 not heard your music or kind of even try to 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.120 cyberspy on you. It was like really missing out, like 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.720 on some good stuff. But since I have you in 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.640 my kitchen, the eating while broke kitchen, I have to 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.000 know what were you eating when you. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.480 Were broke man. Today I'm going to be making an 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.640 egg sandwich. This was a classic. My mama taught me 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.039 how to make eggs when I was like five, and 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.319 I used to wake up every morning and make eggs, 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.000 and that was the only thing I knew how to make. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.080 So we taking it back to the basics. We got 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.080 some eggs, we got some salt and pepper. Today we're 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.000 gonna be doing it on garlic bread. Yeah, because I 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.600 usually use regular bread, we just throw it in a toaster. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.360 But my boy Austin was like, you gotta do garlic bread, 0:01:45.440 --> 0:02:09.800 so I figured we just spice it up today. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.960 Yeah, we had a whole discussion about the whole garlic bread, 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.320 you and I because I've actually never even thought of 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.560 garlic bread. Actually, the first time I ever had garlic 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.280 bread for real, for real was the Texas toast in 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.760 the box. And now if you go into a store, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.359 it is sold out, like you can't get it. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.040 It's a miracle if you find. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.360 One, maybe on eBay, but I don't know the pandemic. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.280 Just like said, take away the best bread on earth. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.399 But I'm excited to eat with you, so let's get 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.519 it cracking. Oh my gosh, an egg fun. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.240 Let's get it cracked all right? 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:52.680 Oh. I listened to rap music so much that my 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.160 girlfriend and I shout out to a lap behind the 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.760 mirror over there. I listened to rap soap music so 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.280 much that I actually speak in metaphors, and sometimes people 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.560 have to stop me and say, coly, we get it. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.200 You know, you don't have to, you don't have to 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:08.960 rebreak it down in puzzle terms. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.960 You know, I'm a metaphor speakers. Can I move this 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.000 so I can crack some eggs? 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.240 Here? Slide over to my side the greatest? 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.280 Are you eating one too? So I should make all. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.400 Oh, you have to cook for both of us, because 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.600 if it's trash, we can both discover that garlic bread 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.160 egg sandwiches is. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.760 Just not I'm finna drop some butter up in here 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.880 because my mama would be like, use some pam so 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.160 you don't leave eggs stained all over there. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.000 Now, are you one of those people that are really 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.480 gonna use metal on a. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.440 Yes, yeah, yeah, I do. We're not supposed to do that. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.480 Even every listener is hearing that scratching is like, what 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:48.160 is he doing? 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:49.120 That's crazy? 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.880 What is he doing? His mama couldn't have ever let 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:52.400 him do that. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:53.640 Man, she did. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.680 You wouldn't believe how much stuff my mom let me do. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:03.400 Let I don't mean we had taflon back then. Maybe 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:04.320 I don't remember. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.760 You're right, it was like a luxury. I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.640 back then I think it was. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:10.720 You're right. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.960 You just had to butter everything down otherwise it's stuck. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.760 Or you get that good old pam spray and you 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.720 in it. Oh, I'm getting it all over there. 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.599 Yeah, I'm not a I'm not a you know, So 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.039 tell me a little bit about what was going on. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.240 I know this is like the first dish that you 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.599 ever cooked, But tell me what was going on during 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:32.360 the time. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.400 Of Also, I usually add bacon, beet bacon bits, and 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:37.200 chaddar cheese. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.600 But I heard y'all broke, so it wasn't a here. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.320 So we're gonna go pepper. I don't see salt over here. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.680 There's lorryes, y'all struggling. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:53.599 Hey, Yo, so much fun of us over here. Yeah, 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.200 you're not even gonna use Lorries because you don't. 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.520 Now, I'm not gonna use Larry I've never done that. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:00.760 I'm trying to keep it authentic. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.520 Wow. Okay, okay, I respect it to be honest. I 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.240 don't use Lowry's. Well, I just started to recently, but 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.240 it's only because I married a black man from Detroit 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.000 who believes. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:19.640 Lowry's is everything seasoning. Yeah, yes, yes, beautiful. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:25.080 So what was going on growing up? Like around when 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.560 you were making egg sandwiches? I know you started at five, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.360 you know, making these, but like kind of tell me 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.360 a little bit of your background growing up, Like were 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.560 you middle class? 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.919 I thought I was middle class until I got older 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.560 and realized we're definitely lower middle class. But my pops 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.160 was a hustler, so we were like we had enough 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.600 money to be like the richest niggas in a broke 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:56.320 neighborhood type shit you feel me, but definitely, uh, lower class, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:01.719 just regular neighborhood. Hard to describe when people ask that 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.520 question because you got to kind of grow up in 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.080 it to be familiar. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:06.679 Did you grow up in a two parent household? 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:07.360 Yeah? 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:08.000 Definitely. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.039 Wow Okay, okay, a lot of people on the show, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:12.720 they haven't. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:13.719 I'm going in. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:20.240 That's good. So when did you transition to music. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.320 I've been writing since I was like seven, whether through 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:32.839 like writing poems or just journaling, drawing, just I've just 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.479 always used kind of writing an art as like an 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:40.560 artistic expression and form. So yeah, since I was seven, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.080 and it's kind of just cultivated. Me and my sister 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.200 had this boombox and we used to download instrumentals from 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:51.159 LimeWire and burn them on the CD, the instrumentals on 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.360 the boom box and wrap over it. And I remember 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.159 we had a wrapped over knock if you Buck and 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.680 I was going crazy, but my sister was better than 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.320 me at the time, so I just had to keep working. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.480 Your sister was rapping too. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.200 Yeah, my sister was rapping too. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:07.400 So does she still rap? 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.000 No, she doesn't. 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.760 So you surpassed her in the rap skills. And then 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.200 she was like, I'm good. Is that what happened? I don't. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:15.960 I don't think she ever had a passion for it. It 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.960 was just something we like to play around and do, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.560 and I just kind of stuck with it. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:26.760 Okay, okay, okay, that's pretty cool. So you is it 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.640 that you like Drake because it like from what I've 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.640 researched on you, is that you from other articles and 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.440 you could correct me if I'm wrong, But your goal 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.800 was to be on the level I want to say, 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.640 and on the I don't know, like numbers level, because 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.600 obviously talent wise, you're on the same level as Drake, 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.240 but I'm saying numbers wise, you want to be on 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.880 the same level. But independently, Yeah, is that correct? 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:03.680 Not necessarily numbers wise, but impacting notoriety wise. You know, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.560 I want people to respect me as such, and partially 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.600 the way to do that is to put up the numbers. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:09.760 Right. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.160 If you're not scoring as well as Jordan, people don't 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.040 expect you respect you like a Jordan, right, And yeah, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.440 to do that independently and just show people that it's 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:23.600 possible to be the greatest at something without having to 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.840 utilize someone else's infrastructure that they tell you you got 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.920 to go through and you got to use these methods 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.440 and you got to sell away your ownership, you know, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.640 like everyone knows early on Drake didn't have his masters 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.520 and had a horrible deal. I want to show people 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.360 that you can get to that level without having to 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:39.880 go through that. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:44.360 Right when you say, just want to rewind, you said 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.120 it was important for you to have impact and notoriety, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:52.040 Like why what does that even mean to me? 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:57.720 It just it enables you to to It enables you 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.040 to make change, Like right now, feed the whole hood 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.360 where I'm from. You know, from now to the end 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.880 of the year, I've been feeding the hood out of 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.240 my own pocket. And I've only been able to do 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.600 that because of my impact and my notoriety. I've become 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.880 so great that I make enough money to where I 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.000 could take care of the place that birth me right, 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.000 and a lot of people don't get to do that 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.240 because they don't have either the talent level or the 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.160 resource to do it. I've been able to do it independently. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.880 I'm finna drop this garlic bread on this joint. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.760 It's already it's already done, already toasted it. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.160 And oh that's crazy. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:32.880 Yeah, I try to cheat it because I wanted to 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.800 get all up in your kool aid. Wow, so I 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.960 put the temple because you can't find. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.640 That anywhere intriguing. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:47.560 Let's try it. Let's be a team here. Dang, why 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.160 do we have to break from your story though, right? 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.120 Is this not the hardest interview process? 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.840 This is great, this is great. I'm a multitasker. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.199 I'm gonna try this too. All right, So we get 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.720 the bread everyone, we're getting the garlic bread situation together 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.079 and we're putting eggs in it. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.200 Yeah, this is new. I've never had this. Shout out all. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.359 Star for you have to turn off the store. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:11.480 Yep, let me get right on there. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.720 Berthie was talking is mess about us being broke? 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.120 Now, well, I was going to put garlic bread on there, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.719 but you know, you guys did it, so okay, I 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.480 completely forgot you were. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:24.959 Going to actually make it. You don't even know how 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.000 to make garlic bread, do you. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.400 I mean I use Texas toes, so I was just 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.199 going to throw it up on that joint and then 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:32.720 it does what it does and you're. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:33.359 Good after. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:39.720 I's trying. Okay, let's go back to notoriety and impact 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:47.679 and you feeding your community. Yes, okay, stealing all your eggs, buddy, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.640 All right, here we go. Do you want to sample 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.200 it first before we get into the nuts and bolts. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:07.920 Sure, all right, let's try and see here we good? 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:10.720 It did. It's a lot of bread. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.160 I think Texas garlic. 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:15.800 It Texas. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:21.560 At least we now know we actually I now know 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.559 how to do it in the future. But there's way 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:24.319 too much bread. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.800 On this one, way too much bread. It's like a 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:32.079 bread with a side of eggs. It's actually garlic, a 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.360 garlic bread sandwich. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.200 Would you ever serve the almost mm hmmm. That could 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:44.760 be an idea, but with dinner bread, right, yeah, look 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.400 at me? Do I Can we call it the eating 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.800 while Brooks? No, that would probably be horrible. Hunts to 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.800 name it the eating wall broke sandwich while you're at 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.160 a pay pay as you go? Is it pay as 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.120 you go or pay what you. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.000 Want, pay what you want? Proud to pay? 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.040 Well, come sit sit with me so I can get 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.079 all up in your I know he jumped off camera 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:07.080 on that one. Right, fine, it's fine, real life, real life. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:15.000 So let's go into Momos cafe for a second. What 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:21.080 inspired all of that? Mm hmmm, or at least a partner. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.000 Just seeing the need. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.800 There's a lot of homeless in Valoe and just people 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.640 who don't get to eat. And I'm always outside so 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.480 I always see it. I'm always giving someone money or 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.240 taking care of someone, whether my mom would drop off 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.040 boxes of merch to the homeless community out there, to 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:48.000 different encampments, and I'm just always trying to help, right, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:49.720 And this is the way that we can help now 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.920 that I'm in a grander position. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:52.600 I've done a. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.319 Few of these prior this year, but just for a day. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.640 And when you do it today, it's like, everybody don't 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.719 get a chance to eat. So this time it was like, 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.160 let's make sure everybody gets a chance to eat. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.679 Yeah, So I think what you're doing is great. I'm 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:11.840 gonna circle back to your music again. So you're a 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.920 talented artist. Again, for anyone that hasn't heard your music, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.240 I definitely would say you're in the same lay as 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.480 jay Z and Drake, which, by the way, I'm a 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.720 hardcore jay Z fan. Everyone that listens to this show 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.000 knows this. I have a huge five foot painting that's 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.640 literally the only one in the world that was custom 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.280 made of jay Z like hanging out in projects. I'm 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:33.920 from Brooklyn. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:35.800 There it goes. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:42.800 But I will say this in all truest form. Currently, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.839 over the last couple of years, I listen to Drake 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.840 more and I feel guilty. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.080 I feel like I'm cheating. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.640 Like for real, Like I don't let nobody know that, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.679 Like nobody knows that. This is the first time I've 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.679 said it out loud, but in my heart, I'm like, yo, just. 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.240 Listen to jay Z today. Don't and you don't have 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.439 to always pick Drake, but. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.640 I listened to your lyrics. I'm just wondering, like, what did? 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:04.920 Have you ever been signed? 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.520 Not in the capacity that artists get signed, like I've 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.040 never been signed to a major deal. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.640 All of my deals have been partnerships, like distribution deals. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.760 No, I've done like record deals, but in partnership for them, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.000 like fifty to fifty profit shares, like I don't belong 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.080 to anyone. I'm my own entity and we just split 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.480 profit versus when a record label usually signs to you, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.640 you're in like a royalty deal and they own your shit. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.960 And if they don't own your shit, they license it 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.320 for twenty years and they have power and rule over 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.280 when you release and how you release any of that. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.080 So I've never been in a major deal. All of 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.640 my deals have been partnerships. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.720 Currently, are you in a partnership deal or are you independent? 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.000 I've been independent the entire time, So all of these 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.360 partnerships are completely like me and my team do everything. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.560 You see, you're controlling all the marketing everything. So and 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.440 they're controlling because nowadays it's a little confusing a record 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.960 label is really bringing to the table at this point. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.360 It depends now I mean with I mean if oh 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.800 my gosh, why am I spacing when it comes to 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.640 who is Draked in Lil Wayne? And what's their name 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.400 of their young Money is it? No, it's not young Money, 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:23.080 it's race but no, no, no, he was signed to 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:29.840 Lil Wayne, who was the cash So they're so from 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.320 what I know of the history of uh, the music industry, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:39.000 Birdman had the best deal in the industry. So young Money, 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.680 cash Money has literally the best deals on the table. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:44.840 Cash money, cash money. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:50.080 So if cash Money calls you up right now, I'm 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:51.400 just playing it. It was advocate with. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:56.080 No to see there's a cash Money had the best 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.800 deal in terms of their deal with Republic, not in 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.080 terms of the deals that they gave artists. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.200 Really, you don't think they gave artists really. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.160 Good deals, No, because they Drake didn't have his masters. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:07.920 He just got him. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.880 He was in the royalty deal. Lil Wayne had to 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.560 take him to court to get his money. How could 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.920 they be in a great deal? O tig has been 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.200 complaining for years, How could they be in a great 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:19.680 deal that doesn't make any sense? 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.120 Yeah I didn't know that. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.800 Yeah, but yeah cash Money had a substantial deal, you know. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.800 Wen dy Day was a part of helping put that 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.080 together with Republic. They really broke the bank. 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.040 When did you So you're a music artist. What is 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.920 intriguing about you is, for instance, today we gave you 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.800 a release, Clarence, and you sat there quietly. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:44.600 And read it. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.360 You're a businessman all the way through. So were do 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.400 you think you're an entrepreneur before you were an artist? 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.840 Definitely? Definitely. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.200 Before I was releasing art, I was selling beats, I 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:01.280 was making album covers for people and selling I've been 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:05.960 I used to sell swishers one of your parents basketball team. Yeah, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.439 my pops was a hustler. He sold everything under the 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.200 sun except drugs, like everything. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.679 It was going to be my next question because when 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.400 I hear hustler, I'm like, what was he saying? There? 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.320 No, man, everything exactly. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.160 So you got your entrepreneur spirit from him, and then 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.800 your talent gross kind of came from you and your 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.359 sister like in this. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.000 Boombox kind of my pops as well. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:32.360 He's very creatively inclined, right, and he's a problem solver, right. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.399 And I feel like a part of my talent and 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.040 just my skill, my business acumen is because I'm a 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.160 problem solver. My favorite thing to say is I'll figure 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.200 it out, and I will. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.320 Yeah, yeah, yeah, spoken like a true entrepreneur. You know 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.000 how to pivot, right, Yeah, that's whenever I see a problem, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.960 I'm always like, it's not a problem, it's a challenge, right, 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:51.600 what to do? 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.199 I was I was walking to get my daughter the 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:55.960 other day and I was talking with my brother and 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.240 I was like, man, are you looking for problems or 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.159 are you looking for You usually find whatever you're looking for. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:09.880 I like that, you know what you say, how I think. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.280 I think that's why I like you so much. I genuinely, 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.640 I genuinely fuck with you hard do I say fuck 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.560 on the show ever? Really, I genuinely mess with you. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.359 I was just like, yo, is he as dope? So 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.240 what I've learned being a Christian and just living in 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.960 the world is like, there's so many dope people that 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.639 are doing great things externally. But now that I'm old, older, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.919 I've grown enough. Wasn't the to ask myself, well, if 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.560 they're externally have all this integrity? I just wonder, like 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.920 if I was a fly on their wall at home, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.639 you know, do they carry that same level of integrity. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.080 When I listen to some of your rap lyrics, I'm like, Okay, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.040 they're great. And then there's some that teeter into like 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:01.119 how you enjoy women in the past. I don't know 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.120 if it's current. I don't know. You know, it's hard 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.240 being a man. I'm not a man, So I just wondering, Like. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.640 I think, if you are a fly on the wall 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.200 in my house, you'd see a human and supreme form 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.919 right in every aspect, on their roller coaster and on 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.399 their journey. I think there's everyone around me could speak 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.040 to my heart and my greatness and my moral and 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.359 my character. But I also have issues as a human 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.720 as well that I have to develop from and that 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.520 I've had to grow from just through a journey. Right, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:39.359 Like you, you learn self respect and you learn value, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.680 and you learn respecting other people throughout your journey, depending 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.800 on your experience and your surrounding and what you witness. Right, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.960 most of us just replicate whatever we see if you 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.760 don't see anybody in like loving and nurturing situations and 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.880 providing that, you don't often replicate it, right, because that's 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.560 not something you're familiar with, So just through that process. 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.719 Of course, I'm a human, but I think for the 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.919 most part, what you see externally of me is what 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.280 you see and when you meet me, I'm the exact 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:09.000 same person. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:15.520 Right when I hear your lyrics, you're I feel like 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.080 you're vulnerable, You're you're honest with yourself, and I think 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.720 for a lot of men, I don't want to say 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.160 a lot of men, for humans, I think we we 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.359 tend to either tell ourselves the truth or we tell 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:31.360 ourselves a lie, and it's the battle of you know, 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.040 but the only way to grow is to tell yourself 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:37.240 the truth. So there's a lot of vulnerability in your lyrics, 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.000 and I love it like I love it well the 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.600 same reason why I love a lot of y'all. You know, 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:46.320 you are my top three, you know. Come, so now 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.480 I do do snooping. Obviously I had to cyberstalk the 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.439 hell out of you, but I noticed you were, like, 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:56.679 if you're a fan of mine, you come directly to me, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.239 Like how how did you even conceive that concept of like, 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.080 you want to come to my show, you buy the 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.520