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Speaker 2: Hip hop is about that, you know. And look what

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Speaker 2: we took in jazz and everything we did.

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Speaker 3: That's what we do. We take what we've been pushed.

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Speaker 2: Out of us and then we translated into a way

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Speaker 2: where we can market it for ourselves, you know.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I tell young people coming up to date.

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Speaker 3: I do not dictate fashion. I translate culture.

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Speaker 4: My graduates from my school being forced back drop bag drop, Mike,

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Speaker 4: drop backdrop.

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Speaker 2: I need you guys to make some noise for Troy

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Speaker 2: and Rashad.

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Speaker 3: Make some noise for earn your leisure.

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Speaker 5: What's up?

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Speaker 3: We in New York? Right, ya? Gotta make more noise

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Speaker 3: than that. What up, y'all? Let's set the mood right,

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Speaker 3: Let's set the mood right. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I love to see this man make some

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Speaker 6: noise for your self, ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 5: So when we.

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Speaker 6: Did this, we wanted to do something special, and we did.

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Speaker 5: We did Miami, We did.

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Speaker 6: Our Basle south By Southwest brush shout out to Ally Shots,

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Speaker 6: to United Masters. But we're from New York, so this

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Speaker 6: means more to us than anything to do something in

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Speaker 6: Fashion Week legendary. Of course, if you follow us, you

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Speaker 6: already know the fashion journey, the drip journey. So we

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Speaker 6: got we got some surprises for you guys, were about

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Speaker 6: to get this show really really turned up. So anytime

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Speaker 6: that we speak to anybody, it's always a legendary conversation.

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Speaker 3: That's a fact.

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Speaker 5: Yes, of course, the rumors have been confirmed.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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Speaker 6: So when we had this conversation and we figured who

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Speaker 6: we wanted to talk to, there was only really one

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Speaker 6: person that was at the top of our list.

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Speaker 7: If we're going to do fashion and we're gonna do

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Speaker 7: New York, and we're gonna keep it hip hop and

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Speaker 7: we're gonna keep a business and finance, there's not many

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Speaker 7: people who can fit all those criterias. But I think

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Speaker 7: I think we might have nailed it. I think we

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So all right, I need everybody to pay close

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Speaker 6: attention because this is a very important person. So if

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Speaker 6: you look at the history of hip hop, hip hop

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Speaker 6: has always been about fashion since the beginning, and there's

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Speaker 6: been one person that's actually curated over three decades of

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Speaker 6: fashion and has really been the four father of what

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Speaker 3: But then, y'all, you.

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Speaker 5: Dapa. Damn, my brother, how are you man?

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Speaker 3: I'm great. I'm great man to be here man, to watch.

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Speaker 2: This culture and see how the culture came about, man,

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Speaker 2: and to be able to speak to you young brothers

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Speaker 3: Nah for sure, we appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 6: What are your views on ownership? We talk about black brands.

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Speaker 6: We talk about ownership. Of course, Kanye is going through

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Speaker 6: what he's going through right now. This is his fashion week,

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Speaker 6: so we celebrate fashion, but we're into business and business.

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Speaker 2: Ownership is important, very important, and the most important thing

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Speaker 3: The important thing is to own our name, you know.

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Speaker 2: And in the future, I'm hoping that we get big

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Speaker 7: so it means a lot for you. Saying that there's

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Speaker 7: Can you talk to us about symbolism right, because one

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Speaker 2: the essence of what religions is about. And in my

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Speaker 2: I'm bad, And he had nothing but one hundred dollar

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Speaker 2: But anyway, Jack Jackson came in there and he had

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Speaker 2: I said, why are they excited about this bag? What

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Speaker 2: I said, well, I'm gonna take these symbols and use

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Speaker 2: But look what we did with it. Hip hop is

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Speaker 3: And that's what I tell young people coming up today.

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Speaker 2: I do not dictate fashion. I translate culture.

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Speaker 6: Big ball, major ball. So so let me let me

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Speaker 2: This is for y'all young I don't I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: Let me give you an example, right, I'm gonna I

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Speaker 3: The next one, Tom.

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Speaker 2: Is a Jungle Brothers. Jungle Brothers said, Man, I'm on

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Speaker 2: that liberation thing. I'm about liberation that make me look

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Speaker 3: You understand what I'm saying. Eric being rock Camp come,

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Speaker 3: Eric B said, I'm a swag man.

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Speaker 2: He said, I'm a swagman. Give me all them geez,

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Speaker 2: give me that gold. I mean, like you see, look

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm here to serve man. You know I'm a part

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Said when you look on the back of Eric, I

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Speaker 2: who he is. So that's what That's what translating culture is.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You translate culture based on where.

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Speaker 3: People want to go.

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Speaker 2: You don't tell him where to go, because when you

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Speaker 3: Do you feel what I'm saying?

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Speaker 2: Then it stops. It's like what the what them brands do?

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Speaker 2: You know what music companies do? Now?

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Speaker 3: We want you to rap like this. We want you

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Speaker 2: You know you wrap.

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Speaker 3: Dead, you know. So that's what I call translateting.

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Speaker 6: Coach told you man, we only we only bring the fireworks.

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Speaker 6: So you talked about your trip to Africa. I want

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Speaker 6: Now, when you went to Africa, you was talking about

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Speaker 6: relating this to even when you was working with Gucci,

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Speaker 3: It work, great point, and I'm happy to talk about that. Right. First,

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Speaker 3: So one day doctor Henry Clark came.

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Speaker 2: He said, if we the original people on the planet,

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Speaker 2: And Doctor Henry Clark said, that's because of a transgression

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Speaker 2: And that shook me, you know what I'm saying, Because

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Speaker 2: I had studied like up from slavery before the Mayflower

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: I was associating everything that went wrong with my life

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Speaker 2: think about that. I'm gonna cont cool you. You know,

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Speaker 2: I think about being a could cool you. I said, Wow,

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Speaker 2: And I'm staying at Kurrasini International School where they're training

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Speaker 2: young black people from South Africa to fight in South Africa.

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Speaker 2: So I'm exposed to us. So I'm taking a look

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Speaker 2: I mean, and what was what happened? And there I say, wow,

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Speaker 2: so maybe this is what uh, doctor Henry Clark was

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Speaker 3: So I bear a witness to the way they was

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Speaker 2: Now, if you're if you know anything about aving history,

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Speaker 2: you know that Kenya had to can cool you in

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Speaker 2: the Luau, you know, and it was friction. Now when

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Speaker 2: I said, oh, that's what doctor Henry Clark was talking about.

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Speaker 2: All right, but I don't want to take go too

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Speaker 2: Then I said, President Knee Harry got the Chinese Bysilian road.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, He got the United States

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Speaker 2: building the railroad. I say, he playing these Europeans. So

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Speaker 2: the Object and Joe Kenyada and the area, all of

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Speaker 2: where it is. So that's equivalent to what I use.

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Speaker 2: When I went in the fashion, I say, I got

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Speaker 2: to get inside. You feel what I'm saying. I got

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Speaker 2: And this is one of the controversies that I had

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Speaker 3: If you tell.

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Speaker 2: Somebody, look, people want to see you on your own.

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Speaker 3: They want you to see you bet there but there.

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Speaker 2: And like I told you backstage, if I came out

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Speaker 2: twenty years or twenty five years ago, been dapper dam,

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Speaker 2: they didn knock me right out the market. I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: Say they took which they did, took all my ideas

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Speaker 2: So the object for me, I felt, was say, I

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Speaker 3: To be global, so and tools.

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Speaker 2: Then I stay on the ground, and all that change

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Speaker 3: I had no voice.

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Speaker 2: I'm sitting here, you know, oldhead, still hustling hard, ain't

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Speaker 2: two thousand I said, tim forward with walking the runway

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Speaker 2: with my creation. I said damn. You know, I said damn.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden social media popped, you know,

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Speaker 2: and I say, I heard people say no, capa dam

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Speaker 2: did that first? I said, damn, I got a voice.

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Speaker 2: I said, damn, I got a voice. So they had

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Speaker 2: to come see me then, because you'all wasn't having it in

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Speaker 7: The reason they had to come see you is like

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Speaker 7: what you said to translate in culture and so can

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Speaker 7: you talk about the importance of involving culture and what

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Speaker 3: I'm sure some people and some.

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Speaker 7: People are in design, Can you talk about the importance

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: One of the big things that I like the young

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Speaker 2: me say, I don't dictate fashion, I translate culture.

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Speaker 3: That's very important, you know.

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Speaker 2: And that's the lesson I learned from growing up in Halem,

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Speaker 2: real poor. Swimming in the Hallan River. One thing that

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Speaker 2: I noticed about when I was swimming in the Holland River.

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Speaker 3: We had the Hollan River like you see this here.

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Speaker 2: You see that, you got a platform you can come out,

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Speaker 2: and then over there you can dive in the hallanm River. Right,

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Speaker 2: But before we dive into Holland River, we had to

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Speaker 2: throw a little popsicle in to see which way the

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 3: So if we dive in, we diving over here. We

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 2: We was poor, were swimming in our drawers and all that. Right,

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Speaker 2: So and I said, damn. Later on, I say, I

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Speaker 2: realized what we did. You understand, I said, the Holland

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Speaker 2: River is always there, but it's always moving. All you

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 3: So I said, that's how the culture is. You understand.

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Speaker 3: You gotta understand our culture.

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Speaker 2: We are always gonna be here, but our culture is

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Speaker 2: gonna be always moving.

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Speaker 3: You have to know how to navigate that culture.

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Speaker 2: Jump in, walk out, jump.

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Speaker 3: Back in, and you know where to walk back out.

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Speaker 3: Do you understand.

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Speaker 2: So here's a problem with younger people today. Don't get

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Don't get young designers come to me all the time

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Speaker 2: they say, oh man, that but then I got this

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Speaker 2: crazy idea, crazy idea.

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Speaker 3: I said, listen, let me see.

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Speaker 2: So first thing you gotta do is say, first question,

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Speaker 2: Come on, why somebody gonna buy something from me? That's

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Speaker 2: the first question. I don't care what you are. You

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Speaker 2: you your best salesman to yourself. You because you don't

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Speaker 2: sow yourself on who you are. You feel what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So you say, why said I won't.

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Speaker 3: Buy something from me?

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Speaker 2: Then after you say that to yourself, the next thing

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Speaker 2: you say is how can I get them to buy something?

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Speaker 2: How can I give them a reason to buy something

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Speaker 2: for myself? You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: And I figured that out. You know, I didn't. I

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Speaker 3: said the same way I did. Eric Bee Rock came

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Speaker 3: and all of them. I said, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna collaborate everybody who walks through my door, I ask

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Speaker 2: them how they feel, how they want to look.

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Speaker 3: You know, people want to know where my life. Jefvity

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Speaker 3: come from, my line and jefvity come.

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Speaker 2: From you and you and you when you walk through

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Speaker 2: my door, we collaborating on you. That's your idea, me

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Speaker 2: and your idea, and me and your idea, and me

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Speaker 2: and your idea. So all that is the current. Keep

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Speaker 2: moving and I'm keeping tapping into the music, into the current.

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Speaker 3: But when you come up with them brands, and you.

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Speaker 2: Got everybody looking and like nobody got say soap and

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Speaker 2: how they look, they die. The brands die. So what

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody, man, don't get

467
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Speaker 2: caught up in yourself. We all creative, man, and we

468
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Speaker 2: all creative, but you go outside, tap into the culture,

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Speaker 2: blend that with who you are.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 2: Don't get hung up with your ideas.

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Speaker 3: Man, you feel what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: So you said something to us backstage about I was

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Speaker 9: Coach, the energy out there felt different. What changed for

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Speaker 9: the team today?

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Speaker 10: It was the new game day, scratches from the California

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Speaker 10: Lottery players, everything. Those games sent the team's energy through

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Speaker 10: the roof.

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Speaker 9: Are you saying it was the off field play that

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Speaker 9: made the difference on the field.

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Speaker 10: Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made

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Speaker 10: the game that's off of now, Coach, one more.

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Speaker 9: Question, play than you. Los Angeles Chargers, San Francis Go

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Speaker 9: forty nine ers and Los Angeles Rams scratchers from the

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Speaker 9: California Lottery. A little play can make your day, peace

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Speaker 9: made responsibil It must be eighteen years or older to

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Speaker 9: purchase plate or claim well.

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Speaker 6: Ralph Lauren has thirty year run or a gap has

528
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Speaker 6: thirty year run, and Noida could have twenty five year run.

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Speaker 6: But you said that black designers die on the shelves.

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Speaker 6: Then you gave the Macy's analogy. You talk about that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, black designers that on the shelf. Let me tell

532
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Speaker 3: you what happens.

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Speaker 2: Right, All the big brands that you name have places

534
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Speaker 2: where they can do close out, right, y'all, All y'all,

535
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Speaker 2: a lot of y'all KNOWNE went to them places where

536
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Speaker 2: they do close out. So why we like when I

537
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Speaker 2: went underground. When they forced me underground, I had to

538
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Speaker 2: travel from city to city. So I would leave from

539
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Speaker 2: Harlem and track, get on the road, hit all the

540
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Speaker 2: black cities going to Chicago, come back, load up, hit

541
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Speaker 2: all the black cities going to Atlanta. You know, because

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Speaker 2: I knew all the gangsters in these cities who used

543
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Speaker 2: to shop with me. And when I get to these cities,

544
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Speaker 2: I see these fly black stores. I said, damn man,

545
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Speaker 2: this joint is flying.

546
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Speaker 3: You gotta come.

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Speaker 2: But the problem with them is is that you know

548
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Speaker 2: what we want, number one, you have to be able

549
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Speaker 2: to get it, you know. And in all these stores,

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Speaker 2: none of them had Nike, and black people wanted Nike.

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Speaker 2: That's the first problem, right, And the second problem is

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Speaker 2: if you lucky enough to get goods that we want

553
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Speaker 2: and you stock your store, you can't kick that back.

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Speaker 2: Macy's in all them big places, they have closed out houses.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Macy's gonna never go out

556
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Speaker 2: of business because you put your stuff in Macy's. It

557
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Speaker 2: don't sell. Macy's give it back. When you got a

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Speaker 2: black business, you can't give it back. You got to

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Speaker 2: eat it, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So that's why so many stores close down, you know,

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Speaker 2: and go broke, because we got to eat everything. So

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Speaker 2: if you got one hot item, you know what I'm saying,

564
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Speaker 2: But you got all these shells full of goods that

565
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Speaker 2: don't compensate for what your bills are going to be.

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Speaker 7: And so that's why a lot of black businesses went broke.

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Speaker 7: That's important You know, a lot of people don't even

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Speaker 7: realize that, but you you talked about being underground. Obviously

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Speaker 7: if they haven't heard your story, you know, nineteen ninety two,

570
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Speaker 7: the fat fight happens, Mike Tyson, Soda Mario gets involved.

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Speaker 7: But in twenty seventeen, because you talked about black media,

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Speaker 7: black Twitter, and you talked about the power of social media,

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Speaker 7: they tried it. They tried to copy one of your designs, right,

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Speaker 7: and so it was the Louis Vuitton puffer.

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Speaker 3: And everybody said that.

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Speaker 7: Most of the five people in this room like, yo,

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Speaker 7: that's DAPs design, DAPs design. I want to know what

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Speaker 7: that was like for you, right, seeing people champion you

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Speaker 7: after being on the ground for so long, but seeing

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Speaker 7: a whole other generation champion you, and the impact that

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Speaker 7: it had in you in that moment.

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Speaker 2: You know one thing I love about black people. They

583
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Speaker 2: anxious to get as black as they can.

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Speaker 3: Man, they're right here. You give black folks a chance

585
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Speaker 3: to be black.

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Speaker 2: Here they come.

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Speaker 3: Black and then black black you know black?

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Speaker 11: Oh no, no, you ain't. We know where that comes from. No,

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Speaker 11: we know where that come from. Now y'all want this hell,

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Speaker 11: y'all want this problem. We gonna give y'all this problem, right,

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Speaker 11: But let me tell you, let me tell you something

592
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Speaker 11: strange about this man.

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Speaker 3: Because you know the mother folks.

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Speaker 2: It don't take them long for them to catch on, right,

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Speaker 2: So dig this and I shouldn't be divulging this, but hello, everybody.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, think what they tell me. They were completely honest

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Speaker 3: about this.

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Speaker 2: What you did, Depidan has never happened before and will

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Speaker 2: never happen again. Now what does that mean? They woke

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Speaker 2: up to the move. They say, Okay, Black Twitter did this.

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Speaker 2: How can we contain them? How can we contain because

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Speaker 2: that's what they got to do? Now, how can we

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Speaker 2: contain Black Twitter? Well, now, we got to open up

604
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Speaker 2: them doors. You understand, we got to open up them doors. Right,

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Speaker 2: so you send me on Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: We got them. I thought y'all was gonna be happy.

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Speaker 2: We got them. I'm telling you all, black I said them,

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Speaker 2: we got them. I'm telling y'all, ain't nobody getting it.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, we got them.

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Speaker 3: They got to let us in.

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Speaker 2: You hear what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: What I'm saying going back to Africa. What I'm talking about,

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Speaker 3: we got them. They gotta let us in.

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Speaker 2: We got an opportunity to get in the door and

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Speaker 2: learn how this is done, and so we can move

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Speaker 2: our products around the world the same way they move

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Speaker 2: their problems around the world. We got them, and y'all said,

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Speaker 2: uh uh, what.

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Speaker 3: Do you mean? Uh uh No, we ain't buying from

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Speaker 3: them no more. I said, you ain't buying anywhere.

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Speaker 2: You're not buying anyway.

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Speaker 12: We only three to five percent of luxury goods, three

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Speaker 12: to five percent. All talking about goods across the road

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Speaker 12: because we spend billions, but I'm talking about that Badanda's

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Speaker 12: in the luxury goes.

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Speaker 3: We three to five percent, right, But we are ninety five.

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Speaker 2: Percent of the influence the people in the world who

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Speaker 2: want to look like us and dress like us, and.

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Speaker 3: Walk and talk like us. You know.

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Speaker 2: So it's the influences that make the difference.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

632
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Speaker 2: So I said, let's take advantage of this moment. Let's

633
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Speaker 2: get inside so we can do this ourselves. But everybody

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Speaker 2: got upset, man, even people coming doun and I said you,

635
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Speaker 2: I said, you.

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Speaker 3: Ain't buying either. You ain't buying anyway. Man.

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Speaker 2: You Now, come on, I saw you down like that

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Speaker 2: bootleg joint when I was walking back. Come on, I

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Speaker 2: know the real deal. Now, I know how many y'

640
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Speaker 2: all fainting it? You know so so, but that was

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Speaker 2: the big problem. Everybody in here and all the people

642
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Speaker 2: of color need to ask themselves.

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Speaker 3: Are we gonna be inside and change things or we're.

644
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Speaker 2: Gonna walk away every time we can somebody disrespect us.

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Speaker 3: That's what you got to ask youself. And my answer

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Speaker 3: is let's get inside and change this.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 3: So that's what that's about.

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Speaker 6: So let me ask you about this because I know

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Speaker 6: that you have an adult collaboration with Gap, congratulations on that.

651
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 6: But there's a there's another fashion icon, cultural icon, one

652
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Speaker 6: of the most important people in our culture, Kanye West,

653
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Speaker 6: and he's he's in a major fight right now with

654
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Speaker 6: Gap and Adidas. I know a lot is going on.

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Speaker 6: They said, Adidas offer them a million dollars. They stole

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Speaker 6: his ideas different things that nature. And he's been very

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Speaker 6: vocal for a long time about fashion and about the

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Speaker 6: trials and tribulations of trying to break through in fashion.

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Speaker 6: What are your thoughts on his current situation and what

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Speaker 6: are your thoughts on some of the things that he

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Speaker 6: said before.

662
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Speaker 2: This is gonna be a two part answer because a

663
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,239
Speaker 2: lot of people in here don't don't really know about me.

664
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 2: They don't know about my revolutionary past, my spiritual journey.

665
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 2: They don't mean going to Africa. They don't know about

666
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 2: the whole of that there. So I like to take

667
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 2: the opportunity to explain. So I'm gonna dress that part,

668
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna dress the first part. And the first

669
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 2: part is this I am. I did not get into

670
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 2: the fashion game to dress bodies right because I used

671
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 2: to write for forty Acres and the Mule.

672
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 3: You gotta go back and see your molecules. I were

673
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 3: reading my book.

674
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 2: I did not get into the fashion game to dress bodies.

675
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 2: I'm into the fashion game to dress young minds, defind them,

676
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 2: to let them know what this is all about. And

677
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: that was the vehicle that I used. That's the first part.

678
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 2: And now in terms of gap, I say, wow, now

679
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 2: I'm doing luxury right.

680
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 3: And I know all the people.

681
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: So I take the train every day, the bus and

682
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 2: everybody in hallerw know.

683
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 3: They see me walking around Halem.

684
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: I'm standing on the corners and every everybody knows that

685
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 2: I'm greeting everybody. And the reason I'm doing that is

686
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: because I know they can't afford what I'm doing with Gucci, right,

687
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 2: because this is all exclusive, is high end, right. But

688
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 2: I said, they can afford me. And this is the

689
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 2: big part of like being a brand. Being a brand,

690
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 2: you got to be a part of the people who

691
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: made you that brand. So I make sure that I'm engaged, right.

692
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 2: So that's the first part. So I said, damn, Now,

693
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: Gap want to do something with me that gives me

694
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 2: the opportunity.

695
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 3: For them to wear me, to have a part of me. Right.

696
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 2: So I say, I'm gonna do this, but it has

697
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 2: another focus. I wanted to destigmatize the hoodie. Every time

698
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 2: they see a person of color with a hoodie, they

699
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 2: automatically categorize him.

700
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 3: Oh, this is a thug. Right.

701
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 2: So I said, Okay, I'm gonna do this hoodie thing,

702
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna do it in a way it never

703
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 2: been done before. So when you see that, but Dan

704
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: put on the hoodie, I throw a silk scarf around

705
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 2: my neck. Way, I asked God, So I raised the bar.

706
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 2: Do you understand so that we can have up and down.

707
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 2: They can't stigmatize us. That's part one and part two.

708
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 2: I say, this give me an opportunity, so everybody can

709
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: wear right now, what the difference between my journey and

710
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 2: kanye journey. My journey is from zero to trying to

711
00:34:59,480 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 2: be hero.

712
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 3: But Kanye was already a hero.

713
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 2: He already had power. And when you have power, you know,

714
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 2: the more power you you have the biggest sacrifice that

715
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 2: you could make in using that power. Now, I think

716
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: Kanye was on the he was on the right path

717
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 2: to doing everything you do here.

718
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 3: He had the following, you know, he had he.

719
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 2: Knows style and everything, but the missing element was like,

720
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: I need a team. I need somebody inside who understands

721
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: how to scrow. You know, it's just him against them.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think Kanye problem is we weren't at

736
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: the stage where we where he had that inside support

737
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 2: that he needed, you know, to follow through on the

738
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 2: things he did.

739
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 3: So you know, he lost a lot of money, you know,

740
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 3: And you gotta give Kanye credit because if.

741
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: I said the things he was saying now, you know,

742
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 2: they'd be trying to destroy me.

743
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

744
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 7: So you talked about being on the inside, and I

745
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 7: know part of that twenty seventeen collaboration with Gucci, they

746
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 7: made you a board member of the Change Makers Program

747
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 7: for North America. Can you talk about what that is

748
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 7: and some of the things that you were responsible for

749
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 7: and at in that role.

750
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, and good.

751
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked me not because this is a

752
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: follow up to the earlier question. Right, what Gucci did

753
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: with the change Makers Program need to be like, people

754
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: need to applaud it.

755
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you why.

756
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 2: Because they saw that they needed to put money into programs,

757
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 2: they needed to open doors, and they went across the

758
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 2: board and did that.

759
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 3: They had to do that, right.

760
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 2: And they followed through on that, and they continue to

761
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 2: follow through right. But in addition to that, it wasn't

762
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 2: like that was charity.

763
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 3: You know.

764
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 2: We are the influencers, so we had that coming, you know,

765
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 2: and they followed suiting that.

766
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 3: But the problem that I.

767
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 2: Had, what our reaction to what was going on, is

768
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 2: that we put that pressure on Gucci, and Gucci answered

769
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 2: and we kept quiet with all the other brands. If

770
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 2: we took that same energy that we put on Gucci

771
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: and apply to all them other brands, think of all

772
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 2: of us as gonna with all the spaces that we

773
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 2: would be occupying now, you know, and that and that's

774
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 2: the problem. So we have to make sure we continue

775
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: to do that. But what is our strength, already told

776
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: you in the luxury game, the strength lies in the

777
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 2: influence the influencers that we have, our musicians and our

778
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 2: artists on that level, right they answer to us, you know,

779
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: and and the brand's answer to them. So when we

780
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 2: put pressure, when we put pressure on the influencers, you know,

781
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: they can open doors for us. It's the influencers that

782
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 2: can open the doors for us, you know. So the

783
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 2: bottom line is it's always black Twitter. You know, it's

784
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,479
Speaker 2: always black twittered. The same way that black Twitter told

785
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: say don't wear Gucci or don't wear this, or don't

786
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 2: wear anything. You know, we could have took that same

787
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 2: energy and say don't wear them brands that it's not

788
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 2: gonna open up doors, don't wear the wear them brands.

789
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 2: That's not gonna bring money into our community. And that's

790
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: the problem. You know, the influencers have the power to

791
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 2: do that. So here's the bottom line. This is how

792
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 2: it works. The influencers get their energy from us and

793
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 2: their celebrity from us, right, they take that celebrity and

794
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: make money by marketing that celebrity to brands. So that's

795
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 2: the We need to manipulate that in a way that

796
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 2: the ones who put them in them positions that they

797
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 2: can be spokespeople and make sure that that's what's happening.

798
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this.

799
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,319
Speaker 6: You talked about forty acres and a mule when you

800
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 6: wrote for that and that was in nineteen sixty eight

801
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 6: when you wrote an article about the gentrification of Harlem. Yeah,

802
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 6: and that was a report based on nineteen sixty four

803
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 6: Urban renewl So talk about that because that was way

804
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 6: before it happened.

805
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,479
Speaker 5: But we see that now sixty years later.

806
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you what happened.

807
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: Right in nineteen sixty four, Constant Baker Montley, I was

808
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 2: like a teenager. In nineteen sixty four, Constant Baker Motley

809
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 2: did a study RB and I studied. Was entitled Urban

810
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 2: Renewal Negro Removal certain Way. Constant Baker Motley, she did

811
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: that thirty nineteen sixty four. I said, Wow, if I

812
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 2: ever get me some money, man, I'm gonna make sure

813
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 2: I get me a house in Holland. So nineteen sixty eight,

814
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 2: when I'm turning my luck myself around, I did a

815
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 2: study myself, you know. And then when you look at

816
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 2: my in my book, and then the newspaper that was

817
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: radical newspaper was boomed. I put on the front cover

818
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 2: of the newspaper a prototype of what the state building

819
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 2: that you see on twenty fifth Street is going to

820
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 2: look like. And I made it look like a trojan horse,

821
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 2: you know, to let people know that gentrification was coming.

822
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: And the first thing I did when I got me

823
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: some money, and for fifty thousand dollars, I got a

824
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: building that's worth four million dollars, now, you know. But

825
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 2: when I bought it, I begged people to state. But

826
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 2: what happened to me, I'm the sayer, I'm the first.

827
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 2: I'm the first generation of the great migration, came from

828
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 2: the South, so and into hallm. So what that means

829
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: was that my parents before me didn't have none of

830
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 2: the generation that came before me because they migrated from

831
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: the South.

832
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 3: They didn't have that kind of money.

833
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 2: In fact, my generation, the first migration, the generation that

834
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,800
Speaker 2: came from the South, is the first generation of people

835
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 2: of color to completely accross the board exceed the.

836
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 3: Accomplishments of those who came before them. Right, So that

837
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 3: was there.

838
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 2: But then I had, you know, I was into the

839
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 2: gangs the world, and all the gangs had money, and

840
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 2: they was the only ones who had money. Now, by

841
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 2: the time I'm a teenager, when I was growing up,

842
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 2: we had middle class and upper class blacks living in Harlem.

843
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: By the time the sixties got there came across, they

844
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 2: had already moved out because stech, the walls of segregation

845
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 2: came by, so they started moving in them communities outside

846
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 2: of hollm and redlining came down, came down the loose

847
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: so they could get money from the bank. So we

848
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 2: lost the complete middle and upper class. So nothing the

849
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 2: gangsters and the poor people was there. So my gangster friends,

850
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 2: I said, by here, by this property, you know the

851
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 2: rappers who that just got getting one. They said, man

852
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,479
Speaker 2: by man, please buy property in hollow and they didn't

853
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 2: listen right, And then the gangster guy said, man, you

854
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 2: just want us to be here because you're here.

855
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 3: They had no vision on where we needed to be.

856
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 2: And then all the middle class. Now just do a

857
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 2: survey all the middle class blacks that left Harlem, and

858
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: the upper class they moved in the suburbs. Now they

859
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 2: ghettos over there. You got to change the mind of

860
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 2: the people. You can't change the locationally think they're gonna be.

861
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 3: Better, even from a fashion standpoint.

862
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 7: And I read this when you were designing to clothes

863
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 7: right after the store opens in nineteen eighty two. The

864
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 7: middle class wasn't really rocking with you. They didn't understand

865
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 7: the vision.

866
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: Let me you talk about that, man, how do I

867
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 2: feel like? Bet Let me tell you something from here.

868
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 2: You got to come to the mind. I tell you should.

869
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 2: That speaker over there, I got my floor clubed with

870
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 2: magazines covered with magazines, all international magazines, six or seven

871
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 2: of them with me on the front cover. I did

872
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 2: not get recognized by black people until two years ago,

873
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 2: after thirty nine years in the business. Ebony recognized me,

874
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And me and my friend

875
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,399
Speaker 2: when we use kids, Man, we used to take jet

876
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: and just spend the pages looking at these pretty black

877
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 2: folks in and spending the pages.

878
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 3: Man.

879
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 2: But not until two years ago did I get recognized.

880
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 2: But you see all these magazines, you know, because what

881
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 2: they realized. You know, a lot of African Americans, you see,

882
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 2: they went to Europe to be discovered because one thing

883
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: about the mother folks. Man, they ain't gonna deny talent.

884
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 2: They're gonna look at it and figure out how they

885
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: exploit it. You know, So we gotta make it our

886
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 2: businesses look at things and see, you know what is this?

887
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 3: They had to say it.

888
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 2: You know, I was, I've been in European the first

889
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 2: European magazine. I was in nineteen eighty seven. I'm talking

890
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 2: now two years ago. This is the first time a

891
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: black publication now on my floor now the only black publication,

892
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: genuinely black publication that I'm on the front cover is

893
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 2: Don Devas against the move, but that's sometime I'm happy

894
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 2: with that, you.

895
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 3: Know, and that's why this is so important.

896
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,240
Speaker 7: That's why and I'm happy that everybody is selimentary science

897
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 7: right now because it's so important that we have nights

898
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 7: like this. When we thought of somebody who we need

899
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 7: to sit down and honor, it was you, right, just

900
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 7: because of the history and what you mean to us.

901
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 7: So this person, we wanted to give you a flowers.

902
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 7: So that's why we hit the nice So thank you personally.

903
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 3: Thank you.

904
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 6: Another question, so pressing piece to the late great Virgil,

905
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:46,399
Speaker 6: who do you think should replace Virgil Hall Louis vaton Earn?

906
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 3: Is what's going on as your gear a fall.

907
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,080
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911
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Speaker 7: looking for a sound engineer, a graphic designer, or an editor,

912
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Speaker 7: LinkedIn jobs is the first place we go. Create a

913
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 7: free job post and minutes on LinkedIn jobs to reach

914
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 7: your network and beyond to the world's largest professional network

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Speaker 7: of over eight hundred and ten million people. Then add

916
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Speaker 7: your job in the purple hiring hashtag frame on your

917
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Speaker 7: LinkedIn profile to spread the word that you're hiring, so

918
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:20,880
Speaker 7: your network can help you find the.

919
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Speaker 3: Right people to hire.

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921
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Speaker 7: on candidates with just the right skills and experience, so

922
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Speaker 7: you can quickly prioritize who you like to interview and hire.

923
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925
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926
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927
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928
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929
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Speaker 7: your job for free.

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Speaker 3: Terms and conditions apply. Who I think first list?

931
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: Could we talk a minute about the burgeah for sure?

932
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 2: Talking about vers Okay, let's talk about what Dapadam means

933
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 2: and what virgin means.

934
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 3: Virgil Man. We needed Virgil so bad man.

935
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 2: We needed virgial man. His death really hurt us. And

936
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have a big conversation about that later on.

937
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 2: Things I don't want to reveal about that Virgil in myself,

938
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 2: was gonna do.

939
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,439
Speaker 3: But here's what you need to see, right, I came

940
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 3: up a black staircase.

941
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: Everything that I've been able to accomplish is because I

942
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 2: came up a black staircase.

943
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 3: I served black people.

944
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 2: I served them in a black community, and I never

945
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 2: had any contact with the fashion industry with the structure

946
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 2: of it.

947
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 3: None at all.

948
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 2: So I did everything was well. What Virgil did was

949
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: amazing as well. Virgil came up a white staircase. Not

950
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 2: only was it amazing, it was dangerous. Let me tell

951
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 2: you why I was dangerous. Everybody here who's into fashion

952
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 2: is familiar with Andre Leon TALLEYR.

953
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 3: Peace. You don't get no high than that.

954
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying, And you see how miserable

955
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 2: they made him in the inn. So you can go

956
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 2: up a white staircase and get kicked down, you know.

957
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 2: So I went up a black staircase and some other

958
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 2: folks kicked me down, and they say, we got you,

959
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 2: and I went back up the black stacker. So you

960
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: can go up and down the black staircase because they

961
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 2: gonna be there for you, you know what I'm saying.

962
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:25,280
Speaker 3: So what Virgil did was phenomenal. But let's go further.

963
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 3: Black Twitter did it was phenomena, all.

964
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 2: Right, So Black Twitter forced Gucci to come see me,

965
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 2: and it was a good business deal for them, that's

966
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 2: primarily while they did it right. So when Gucci did that,

967
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 2: who is their number one arrival, Louis vuittone, right, they

968
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 2: had to come get Virgil wasn't doing luxury, you know,

969
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 2: they had to come get Virgil. So not only are

970
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 2: you all responsible for me, you're responsible for Virgil too,

971
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 2: because they had the answer. You know what I'm saying,

972
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,399
Speaker 2: How do you know that it was so obvious? It's

973
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 2: because a collection wasn't even ready. Anybody in fashion know,

974
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 2: you do not introduce somebody into a collection is ready.

975
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 2: Everybody in fashion knows that. But that's what y'all did,

976
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 2: you know, So if we put everything, we put all

977
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 2: that energy together and understand and he was he's been

978
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: deserving of where he is, and he's phenomenal. You know,

979
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 2: he's been phenomenal. You know, I mean he was God

980
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 2: bless her brother, but he was a phenomenal.

981
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:34,480
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