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Speaker 1: He is drink Champs, motherfucking podcast man. He's a legendary

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Speaker 1: He's a Miami hip hop pyoneer. What up his DJ

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Speaker 2: And the most professional, unprofessional podcast.

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Speaker 1: And your number one source for drunk drink chans.

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Speaker 3: Moy day is New Year's CST.

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Speaker 4: It's time for drink Champions. Drink up mother mother.

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Speaker 3: Would a good be hoping he would be this your

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Speaker 3: f N, this drink Champs? We have We have today

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Speaker 3: one of the best execs of all time, one of

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Speaker 3: the most respect acted executives of all time.

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Speaker 1: His head still monkey foot in the game.

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Speaker 3: He's promoting shows and doing tours and doing all types

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Speaker 3: of things that's going on. He's been rewinding time as well.

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Speaker 3: In case you don't know who we're talking about, We

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Speaker 3: sure about my friend the one to know that.

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Speaker 5: Let's see that.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you, because you had one of the

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Speaker 3: craziest runs with with Loud, right, but let's suppose we

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Speaker 3: had a chance to reverse that and you as an

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Speaker 3: artist rewind and you as an artist knowing all you

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Speaker 3: know now, what was? What would we be a label

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Speaker 3: you would sign to? That's a good question.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 6: I do the vodka labels that are right now, either

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Speaker 6: either back then or both.

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Speaker 7: Back then, back then.

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Speaker 8: I would sign to Loud because the artist always came up.

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Speaker 7: Big up yourself, I respect and then I love what

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Speaker 7: topped us t D?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, did you go when Kitting Drink and Drake

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Speaker 1: was battling? Did you? Who'd you go for?

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Speaker 6: I mean I didn't really go for anybody, you did know.

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Speaker 6: I was just I thought it was just good for

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Speaker 6: hip hop?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What? What was? What? Did you? Was you excited by it?

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Speaker 6: I was in Vegas right well, this whole thing was

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Speaker 6: going on, and I was just like I was entertained

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Speaker 3: You you uh was that with Mob Deep and Mob Deep?

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Speaker 3: I was going into Pog and that was like a

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Speaker 8: So I don't know if you know this park was

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Speaker 7: What the fuck?

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Speaker 1: Wait? Okay, hell hold holdly gonna describe kidding? Okay? You ahead?

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Speaker 6: So on his first album, okay in It sco Pie

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Speaker 6: and he wasn't on Death Throw. He was on a

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Speaker 6: label called that It was Adrian Gregory's label.

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Speaker 7: Okay, this is after Digital Underground.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, after the Digital Underground and then the Scope just

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Speaker 6: a promotion tal oh, I don't want to down Thursday Sunday. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: so we get back out of late Sunday night or

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Speaker 6: and I mean and he worked. He would come to

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Speaker 7: Wow, that's It's just to be clear for the audience.

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Speaker 7: This is you before LOUD. Before I just know.

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Speaker 6: It was SRC, but the market was the Stephen Riffing Company,

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Speaker 7: Just started, yeah, but they hadn't taken off yet now,

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Speaker 7: so you're within the scope and this is him after

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Speaker 6: In Brendan got a baby trapped.

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Speaker 7: Right, Wow, that's amazing thinking what were those conversations like

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Speaker 6: They would he just wanted to work and win, like

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Speaker 8: He would smoke cigarettes, weed, you know whatever it was.

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Speaker 6: We were, right, we were our officers on Melrose and

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Speaker 6: I mean we would stay that until ten eleven o'clock

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Speaker 7: Tuesday was was radio day, and then we'd be on

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Speaker 8: So this is what I was going to say.

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Speaker 6: So I went to see uh Tony rich from at

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Speaker 6: I don't know if he was okay, I know he

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Speaker 6: was signed him with a face. Yeah, And I'm walking

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Speaker 6: where I stand with you?

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Speaker 1: Oh talking about yeah? Okay?

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Speaker 6: And he goes, are you talking about them? He goes, man,

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Speaker 6: I'm just messing with them so I could be relevant.

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Speaker 3: Whoa so Tupac saying that about Mom's Yeah he loved them. Wow,

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Speaker 3: I can see that too. I can actually think that.

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Speaker 3: Actually that's crazy. Has there ever been an artist that

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Speaker 3: you had an opportunity to sign and you didn't sign

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Speaker 3: and you regret it?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Who Jay? No?

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Speaker 7: But Jay by himself was an original flavor with him

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Speaker 6: No original flavor was on Atlantic. Jay was was Rockefeller,

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Speaker 6: So it was okay. Dame came to the office. We

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Speaker 6: their stuff up like it's not gonna happen, and they.

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Speaker 8: Wanted a JV. I was like, give him a JV

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Speaker 8: and just give us an over. Who don't know JB

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Speaker 7: Let's let's imagine Rockefeller flourishing under loud.

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Speaker 6: But I also had Gotti before, okay.

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Speaker 7: Before before Leo and Russell got him.

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Speaker 8: And he'll tell you that too.

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Speaker 8: That was it was? It was Mike Gronamo.

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Speaker 1: So wow.

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Speaker 6: So we were get to sign Mike. We couldn't get

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Speaker 7: You're gonna say Mike Drohn before Blunt Records, Yeah, wait

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: So we were in Paris, yes, and I got to

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Speaker 3: see one of the amazing, the most amazing shows period.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to say hip hop shows. I'm talking

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Speaker 3: Look like a documentary. It looked like they weren't there.

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Speaker 3: Steve Rifkin. He stops and he bigs you up, And

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Speaker 3: I start to think what other artists grew with their CEOs, Like,

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Speaker 3: how y'all grew together.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's too many people that exist.

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Speaker 8: Me, Me and Joe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm talking about other than you, motherfucker.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean Russell and ll.

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Speaker 8: You know, and you gotta go Jimmy and Dre. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Man, right and then oh yeah, you know, and then

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Speaker 3: They don't really work together still, I think they do deals,

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't just him, It was Unable that was sitting.

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Speaker 10: In this stuff?

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Speaker 6: I mean, we all, I mean risus family right, the

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Speaker 6: We all grew up together. It's like they changed my life.

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Speaker 6: I changed their life. And it was just you know,

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Speaker 7: You know, let's do this, let's do that.

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Speaker 6: You know, when I got them on the Rage Against

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Speaker 6: to me, that would have been the biggest selling hip

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Speaker 6: hop album of all time, right, I mean it was

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Speaker 6: a double album we debut. That was that when they

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Speaker 1: Okay? Was that when they got bafed for ninety.

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Speaker 6: Seven yeah, cool, so, and then we had the Rage

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Speaker 6: first hip hop million dollar video right with Triumph and.

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Speaker 1: Then Obamatoma Lee Bad. So I'm getting a class back.

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Speaker 6: So what happened was, you know, we scanned, which means

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Speaker 6: records sold in those days, we sold I think six

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Speaker 7: Million two right, so ninety four percent.

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Speaker 6: Around the world, number one every country, and then the

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Speaker 6: tours without radio too.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Right, the hot ninety seventh thing came right, we got

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Speaker 6: worry about the tour, it's going to start and the

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Speaker 8: So you know, we.

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Speaker 1: And that's just that was just in America. Was that

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Speaker 8: Starting, were going to naturally.

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Speaker 6: You know, they know it better than we know it.

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Speaker 3: So I want to know the first time you met Woo,

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Speaker 3: because it was it was it you met Rizza first.

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Speaker 6: I met Rizza thirty ministry for the rest of their guys.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I didn't know him personally. I knew who

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Speaker 6: You know if you saw the show, like you really?

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Speaker 6: I'm with East Swist from the Alcoholics chelt East right.

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Speaker 6: So I can picture this, right. So they come up

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Speaker 7: He comes and slams the doors.

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Speaker 6: It goes out. I've never seen him again. I still

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Speaker 6: just I don't know if they set me up and

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Speaker 1: Really never asked them, if they didn't see I mean.

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Speaker 6: Beings like you know, Rizza is like, he gives me

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Speaker 1: We signed him.

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Speaker 7: You know, the deal was done with in like two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Wow?

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Speaker 3: And I noticed this is a cliche kind of question, right,

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Speaker 1: To be proven. Did you no off top by looking

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Speaker 6: I mean dirty doing his verse to protect your neck

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Speaker 7: But even the name Wu Tang clans sound crazy?

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean you know that W to me is

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Speaker 3: That's what's a fucking amazing, man, this is hip hop music.

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Speaker 3: Hip Hop was predominantly at this time was not known

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Speaker 3: talking about not the group I'm talking about who signed

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Speaker 6: If they did, I would tell them to go fuck them, right,

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Speaker 6: because I never considered myself an A and R guy.

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Speaker 6: To this day, I don't consider myself an R G.

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Speaker 6: I consider myself a marketing and a promotion guy. Right,

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Speaker 6: So you know I own the name Street Team, right,

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Speaker 6: and that's all fire.

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Speaker 8: I knew how to do.

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Speaker 6: Like you know, when I left from Loud to start

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Speaker 6: you know. And God blessed me with a kon, God

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Speaker 6: and then it was like I found something. We just

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Speaker 6: Akon had the number one and number two pop record

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Speaker 6: I want to fuck you.

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Speaker 1: And I want to fuck to every Voga records.

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Speaker 6: One was with them and then you know the other

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Speaker 6: was saying, you got to move one of the records

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Speaker 6: and I was like, you laughed in my face and

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Speaker 6: I said, this will be the biggest shot outs in

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Speaker 8: I was like, nah, you guys are gonna lose your

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Speaker 1: Do you think Akon created afrobeats?

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Speaker 6: I don't know if you created afrobeats, but he has

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Speaker 6: a big he has a big saying.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was promoting going to Africa first.

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Speaker 8: I mean, he's from Africa.

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Speaker 3: I'm walking around, joking around, joking around. What's what's your

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Speaker 3: favorite era of music?

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Speaker 8: Nineties nineties?

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Speaker 3: You remember early nineties or late nineties, middle nineties or

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Speaker 7: I'm going to say, like from ninety two to you know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, ninety two, Okay, that's where who dropped.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, who dropped ninety three? When the Digital Underground drop.

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Speaker 6: That's late eighties, late eighties, eighty ninety nine, ninety.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, what is that? That's when did you do underground?

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Speaker 7: And so when you're starting your label and you're saying

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Speaker 7: said you trademark Street Team.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I trade trade. I trademark Street Team after the label.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, I didn't even want a label.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 6: I was like, I was, you know, my late twenties.

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Speaker 6: I was rich. You know, I was cool. I would

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Speaker 6: but you know, at that time, for sure, I was

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Speaker 6: got to have a label. I was like, nah, I'm cool.

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Speaker 6: And they ended up calling my father.

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Speaker 8: So I'm in this.

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Speaker 6: I'm staying at the hotel on fifty fourth Street, and

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Speaker 6: he said I need to talk to you, and no,

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Speaker 6: actually I was just saying at I was staying at

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Speaker 6: I'll have a bunch of you tomorrow. He goes, no,

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Speaker 10: Now.

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Speaker 6: My dad lived in Long Island, which was forty five minutes.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, Dad at ten o'clock, he goes, I don't

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Speaker 7: Now he put out the first hip hop record.

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Speaker 6: Yes, and you know when he when my dad talks

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Speaker 6: but you're only as good as your last contract. M

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Speaker 6: while you're sleeping right right, And I couldn't disagree with

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Speaker 7: But before you get into that part, what I wanted

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Speaker 6: So I was major lea dyslexic as a kid. I

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Speaker 6: he says, you got to change I was eighteen, nineteen

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Speaker 6: I'm like, what do you mean. He goes, I want

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Speaker 6: that what I was. He goes, you could end up

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Speaker 1: Your father's signed James.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, my dad's timed James Brownton.

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Speaker 6: And we went into the city and we sat down

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Speaker 6: I and literally write directions?

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Speaker 1: Then, right, I.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I was so but I'm eighteen years old

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Speaker 7: Right, what are we going to talk. We're going to

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Speaker 8: That was never really about money, right, So.

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Speaker 6: just kept in touch with a lot of the college DJs.

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Speaker 7: And when I moved out to LA, I was managing.

444
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 6: I moved out to LA to start managing New Addition

445
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 6: and then after that ran its course, I needed to

446
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 6: do something, so I started calling the record labels.

447
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: I said, hey, I'll help promote your hip hop records.

448
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 7: And that's when I put the whole TLD to.

449
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 3: Hip hop record help promote, Oh promote, Okay, okay, but

450
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 3: you went to manage New Addition.

451
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, al must pushed as you get at that time.

452
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: So this is a great story.

453
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Speaker 8: Did a good story.

454
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Speaker 6: So we're in Saint Thomas, h they're performing at Hal Jackson.

455
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Speaker 6: Remember how Jackson from wbls OOP. I'm sorry, not that old,

456
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Speaker 6: all right, So how jack he was the one of

457
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,199
Speaker 6: the owners of blis Hal Jackson's Talented Team contest. And

458
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 6: we're flying back from St. Thomas to LA and they're

459
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 6: talking about how many they went through. I thought they

460
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 6: were talking about for the weekends.

461
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay.

462
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 6: They're talking about per day day right. So when it

463
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 6: came up to mind, I thought I did good, right,

464
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 6: They said, you were doing that per day and I

465
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,120
Speaker 6: was like, no, I did that for the weekend. They said,

466
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 6: now we're talking about per day.

467
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 3: I gotta smell the ass. And because for urs of

468
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Speaker 3: R and B different there are different times too.

469
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Speaker 1: But there was a different times where they had to

470
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 1: come see you.

471
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 3: There was no Instagram, there was the count in fantasize.

472
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 7: They had to go and see you. It was a

473
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Speaker 7: little different things, but.

474
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Speaker 6: That was that was after the new edition was new

475
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 6: audition was like eighty six.

476
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Speaker 1: How many people in his room? Mighty took your mom's down.

477
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 6: This is fact, but but but this was a great

478
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,400
Speaker 6: thing with new addition. The reason why I let Wu

479
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 6: Tang do all their solo records because to.

480
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 7: Me, the group was always bigger, bigger than the whole.

481
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 6: So when Ralph wanted to do a solo record, that's

482
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,800
Speaker 6: why we put Johnny in the group and everything else. Ralph, Treasurent,

483
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 6: we all said, the group will still be bigger than

484
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 6: the solo.

485
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: So that's how I lay until Bobby Brown started. That

486
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to.

487
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 6: Bobby sold more records, but touring Michael sold more records

488
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 6: than the Jackson five. But Michael could have toil the

489
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 6: way that right when Michael went back with the Jackson

490
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 6: five for that victory tour that you know, and that

491
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:47,919
Speaker 6: day that was that was the biggest tour in the

492
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 6: world ever.

493
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Speaker 7: Now, but this is crazy because it makes sense how

494
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 7: you would have had that foresight to make that type

495
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,439
Speaker 7: of deal with Wu Tang because based on that what

496
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 7: you went through with new addition total sense.

497
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 3: But at that time, uh, because I believe Wu Tang

498
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 3: was on Loud, but you actually let Math go to

499
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 3: Depth Jam.

500
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: You had to give per mission for that or that

501
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: was that's what he's saying. He got that. That's where

502
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: I got.

503
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 8: Because a new edition.

504
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 6: So when I signed and they gave me, I wasn't

505
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 6: gonna say no no matter what, because it was about

506
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 6: survival of the fitish right, So I was like, go ahead,

507
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 6: if we can match it. I didn't have the money

508
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 6: to match it, and it wasn't even crazy money match

509
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 6: match Steph.

510
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:29,719
Speaker 7: Jams the oar.

511
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

512
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then you had Genius some believe was one

513
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 6: Geffen Dirty was on Electra and and we ended up

514
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 6: having Right and Deck.

515
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,479
Speaker 7: So when they already had those deals before, no, no, no,

516
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:46,719
Speaker 7: that was after Jesse had math had dirty?

517
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 6: Was that Electra Then when protection Neck and the teacher

518
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 6: d Man came, def Jam came and got mad.

519
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 3: Right, Okay, Now did Leo had to actually have a

520
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 3: mission for that or well under yes, But but it

521
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 3: was really that said, you know, this is what we.

522
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 7: Wanted because that's how you did the deal that it

523
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 7: would allow those things.

524
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 3: But but what was the agreement as long as Wu

525
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,959
Speaker 3: Tank get back together, that you'll.

526
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: Be with that. That's fucking genius.

527
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 3: It sounds so simple nowadays because we've seen so many

528
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 3: examples of it, but prior to that we have noticeas

529
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 3: on examples of it. And I never even put two

530
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,479
Speaker 3: and two together with the new additions, right, and we

531
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 3: take into just.

532
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 7: Now we could take for granted the fact that had

533
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 7: you not experienced what you a new addition, you might

534
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 7: not have done that type of deal. We might not

535
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 7: have had the Wu tang on the way we have

536
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 7: them today.

537
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: That's amazing.

538
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 7: And shut out the new addition though for being a

539
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 7: part and shout out to Hiram Hicks too.

540
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 3: It's genius because in a certain way, when you have

541
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 3: artists that's making these albums where all the artists is

542
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 3: on the group. It's like they're actually helping these other

543
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 3: labels to help them promote not only the group, but

544
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 3: other artists like you know what I mean, Like like

545
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 3: for instance, ghost Face album, I remember him, I remember him?

546
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: What is the Supreme Client Cells is.

547
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 3: The other one where Ray Raycorn is right there. So

548
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 3: it's like, you know it is in your best interest as.

549
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, the bigger they are the bigger, right And no,

550
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 6: forget they would pay us, not Rizzo, but Sony would

551
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 6: pay us, Elector would pays, would pay us for the

552
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 6: clear samples of the artists to market the record.

553
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: What the fuck did they about they're playing?

554
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had expertise and I had the blue plane.

555
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 3: Yeah you know how to promote him? You already sold

556
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 3: millions of records with them as the.

557
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 7: Crew, and the branding ultimately helps the group because they're

558
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 7: all screaming Wutan at the end of the day and

559
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 7: exactly Wu Tang is on left.

560
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 3: Did you ever did you ever see streaming? Like did

561
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 3: you see this coming?

562
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: So?

563
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 6: Man, let me right before I got the Florida Okay,

564
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 6: you know in twenty thirteen, I had my heart attack, right,

565
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 6: and I stopped working from twenty thirteen to today. My

566
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 6: Catalog has done twenty three billion streams.

567
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: I called my lawyer. Yeah, on my way, here.

568
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 6: Me some fucking money, right, Because the truth is I

569
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 6: sold the company and I think it generated.

570
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: I don't really know.

571
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 6: The math, but my son said it was like one

572
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 6: hundred and forty million dollars and this is Catalog, right.

573
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 6: I'm like, you sold the catalog I sold. I got sick.

574
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 6: I didn't think I was going to lift, so I sold.

575
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 6: I think Akon's like fourteen billion at them out of it, right,

576
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 6: But I am sorry.

577
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 8: Right, And then you have Joe with lean back.

578
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 6: That's I think two right, And I was like, somebody

579
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 6: should throw me something right.

580
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: Very true. I agree with you. Who would it be?

581
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 8: The universal?

582
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: Universal?

583
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 3: Universal motherfuckers, get your life together, make sure you break Steve.

584
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: But that's Jamie. I got another one, Jamie.

585
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I wanted to pick quick Thomas line, but

586
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 3: I guess we got to wait for if you could.

587
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: Do it twice. If so, Cassidy, Casside will be here soon,

588
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 1: explain explain this relationship. So we wait for him. No,

589
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: he let me say it first, and then.

590
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 7: I haven't called.

591
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: Bro.

592
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 6: So Cassie's like a son to me right. I gave

593
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 6: him his first record deal with O Neil McKnight. But

594
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 6: when I had sr C, we threw probably the best

595
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 6: party in the history of parties two thousand and seven

596
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 6: at my house. Right after the beat et or so

597
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 6: during COVID he calls me. He goes, I need you

598
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 6: to see something immediately, and like please, it's gonna take

599
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 6: thirty minutes. So he sent him talking to me and

600
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 6: he sends me this video of a show called Pastor Mic.

601
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 6: So I watch it and I said, this is going

602
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 6: to change your life. This is going to change my life.

603
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 6: I'm gonna make a deal for you on tv.

604
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 2: M.

605
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 6: And we made a deal with b ET and then

606
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 6: we discussed. I got a call that somebody said that

607
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 6: they want to make this a tour.

608
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

609
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 6: So Shelby Joyner, who has Black Promoters Coalition called. We

610
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 6: did a deal with Shelby for like eight nine cities

611
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 6: and and did extremely, extremely well.

612
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 8: And now we have this residency in Vegas with Live Nation.

613
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: And now who who is we know?

614
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: Uh By Joe and Dougie Fresh, doug Dougy Fresh, sick

615
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 6: Rick and then we have Ray and Goals coming one

616
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 6: night public Enemy Coming, one Night, Akon Coming for a weekend,

617
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 6: Jermaine and the Bratt one night, laurrange In Too Short,

618
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 6: one night. That's gonna be for the month of July

619
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 6: and Vegas. Yeah, we're gonna start off just one month.

620
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: Do you think, what do you Is residency something that's good?

621
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 8: I think so.

622
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 7: I mean, look how it restarted Ush's career. Yeah, and

623
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 7: it's it seems like, I mean, depending on the caliber

624
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 7: of artists. But the money that, at least in Vegas

625
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 7: they're giving up for these residencies is crazy.

626
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 6: That's why we need that. That's why we need to

627
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 6: do this residency with you guys. You'll make more money

628
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 6: than you'll love them make in your life.

629
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 3: You didn't have a residency, But I don't know if

630
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 3: you remember after all your Becando hit number one, I

631
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 3: got highed for the like all the Wednesdays of one month,

632
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 3: you don't remember, Like I kept going out just one place,

633
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 3: same exact place, did the same exact show. Can't Coo

634
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 3: in Mexico? Yes, yes, So, I don't know if that

635
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 3: was considered.

636
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 7: The rest of that was because these deals in Vegas

637
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 7: are totally.

638
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, so Vegas again, like if you have merged, right,

639
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 8: And why.

640
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: Is residency so so popular in Vegas?

641
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 6: Because everybody's in Vegas for the weekend for in those hotels.

642
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 7: They need to attract the people to get him in

643
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 7: the casino, and this is what's attracting them. Show no, No,

644
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 7: it could be weekly, it could be relaxed, buddy, one

645
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 7: time to make a republic.

646
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do it.

647
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: You can do it. We can do it.

648
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 7: There's people that do it every day.

649
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 8: All right, Cassidy, ten minutes out?

650
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 7: Okay, your your your residency once a year.

651
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 3: You got like because I remember like the residency when

652
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 3: I first heard of something like that, it was like

653
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 3: the rat pack type of thing.

654
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 7: It was like, that's that's the original residenced.

655
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm my bugget no, that's.

656
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 6: The originally that was Frank Sammy at the beginning of

657
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 6: Jean Lewis, Sammy, Well you said Sammy, Frank, Dean Lewis,

658
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 6: Jerry Lewis, and then then there's you know some you know,

659
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 6: they had their own beefs.

660
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: So so I also remember you had something to do

661
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: with Mary's residency.

662
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,719
Speaker 1: Was that the truth or would you would manage her

663
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: at the time?

664
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a it was a quick stint. What

665
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 8: it was quick?

666
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 6: You know?

667
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, they wanted her to replace Usher.

668
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: Wow, and she didn't take it, or she did.

669
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 6: She had to deal with Live Nation to do this tour.

670
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 6: So she's gonna do the tour first.

671
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 3: Okay, and you're I heard you say this a couple

672
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 3: of times. You're down with Live Nation now yeah?

673
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: What what?

674
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 2: What?

675
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: What?

676
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 8: I'm round the FID who manages Usher.

677
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 6: Is probably the biggest management company in Live Nation, and

678
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 6: he's a good friend. Then he said, come in giving

679
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 6: you know, an empty whiteboard to do whatever the hell

680
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 6: you want to do.

681
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 3: So and so, so what does that mean that you're

682
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 3: you're more on the concert side. I could do whatever

683
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 3: I want a lot.

684
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

685
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 6: So if it's Cassidy, if it's Mary, if it's like

686
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 6: if we could get the residency with you guys, I'm

687
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 6: starting out.

688
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 7: Doesn't mean you have to live there, no, no, no,

689
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 7: It just means you're gonna be there.

690
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: Consecution.

691
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 7: It probably originated like those guys used to have penthouses

692
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 7: in the in the hotels back in the day, So it.

693
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 1: Probably started with that.

694
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 7: That's probably where the name probably, I mean, at least

695
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 7: he's using a word understanding.

696
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 3: What it means, so I guess I guess that's the

697
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 3: point that if it is trying to say, is it

698
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 3: has to be because you don't want to fly back

699
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 3: and forth.

700
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: You live in New York. You might want to stay

701
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: there the whole month.

702
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what I mean, like because now we're

703
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 6: gonna have a good time. You know, my uncle has

704
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 6: his restaurant down there, so it's like, what's the name

705
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 6: of the restaurant picking up Piero's. Piero's sounds good.

706
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 3: One thing I know about Steve, he knows how to eat,

707
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 3: so you know, I mean, the best, best, the best.

708
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 5: You got some good eat with Steve Nobles.

709
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Remember you ain't got to blow

710
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: it up, damn.

711
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 3: Because other people listening, Sonny, Yeah, oh yeah, Oh that

712
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 3: wasn't no, that wasn't Noble. That was the original one,

713
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 3: the first None of us knew how to order.

714
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 7: That what.

715
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,840
Speaker 3: Little things like I don't know if I don't know

716
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 3: if it was like this the whole time, but it

717
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: was only raw and we couldn't like, we couldn't like,

718
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 3: we couldn't defrigerate.

719
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 6: What what was what was what was good? I mean,

720
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 6: but we were in Paris. Yes, he was eating at

721
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 6: the final stress. I was like what me.

722
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 3: And Sonny was I think we were texting each other

723
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 3: like which one.

724
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: Is what we could We couldn't. We couldn't get the savon.

725
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 5: Right, guys, don't worry anything. You guys want I got

726
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 5: that said, I want to stop something that looked like

727
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 5: fire fresh from.

728
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 3: By the way, but by the way, that's that's the crazy.

729
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 3: That's crazy because that.

730
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: Night walking we walked to see Steve. I don't know

731
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: if you remember.

732
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 3: Sonny and Diego where where are die Go at? We

733
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 3: walked to see Steve and we saw NICs right before

734
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 3: we walked and see it was like a legendary nights

735
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 3: were like who the point just walks into l A

736
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 3: and you see fucking nas basketball sitting down there. So

737
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 3: we're sticking to thee naves. We take a picture and

738
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 3: then I tell Nas the name of the restaurant. Was

739
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 3: the name of the restaurant about I came to pronounce it,

740
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 3: you know my dislexias, and.

741
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: I was like you could get in it.

742
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 3: And I was like, yeah, Steve, and then like apparently

743
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 3: come other people called me and I was saying that

744
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 3: that's where I'm at and it's like you can get

745
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:00,879
Speaker 3: did you get in there?

746
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 7: Like no one could get a reservation.

747
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: And that's that.

748
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 3: From that moment on, I knew Steve was a rest

749
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 3: of guarda.

750
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 1: You know, they looked at Steve.

751
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 3: They was like, you know, I tell you this, and

752
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 3: you tell me if there's this works works out for you.

753
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 3: One of my favorite CEOs that I got to work with,

754
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 3: you know me and you are friends. We never actually

755
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 3: got to work right, but one of my favorite CEOs

756
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: is Leo Combs, and Leo Comes would show me how

757
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 3: he would walk in a restaurant and he knew everybody.

758
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: When I tell you everybody.

759
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 3: He knew the guy mopping, he knew the person wiping

760
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 3: the tables, he knew the owner, he knew the matre d,

761
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 3: he knew the person that walk you and give you

762
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 3: the menus.

763
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: He knew everybody.

764
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 3: So it was a strategy for him because when you

765
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 3: walk into a place and everybody knows you, it's hard.

766
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: For me for you to say no to that person.

767
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 3: Like I knew he was tricking me this whole time,

768
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 3: but then I started to do it.

769
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 11: I started when you eat it the same at every

770
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 11: at every time. Look so.

771
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 5: And a half hours.

772
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:34,440
Speaker 1: We know.

773
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 3: So I mean that is a skill though, right, because

774
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 3: I mean even like even like something.

775
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: Simple like here.

776
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 3: Back from here, Okay, even when you think of something

777
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 3: like simple like Cheers. Cheers told us sometimes you want

778
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 3: to go where everybody knows your name. It was something

779
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 3: something simple like that. And I remember me always doing that,

780
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 3: me frequent into the same restaurant. But I did during COVID.

781
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 3: During COVID, nobody could get a carbo on reservation.

782
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's not destroying.

783
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 3: Every like posting it people were like people people would

784
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 3: hate it so much.

785
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: But I learned that.

786
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 3: I learned it from the York But I also do

787
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 3: so is that something you do with your artists too,

788
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 3: like you bring them to these restaurants and put them

789
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 3: on or.

790
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's a good restaurant, like it's not.

791
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 6: I'm not that way where you know, I'm not really flashy,

792
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 6: so I'm not I'm not trying to show up.

793
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 8: So when I started going to my Tahisa, yeah that.

794
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 6: Was really after my heart I mean I was I've

795
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 6: been going since ninety healthy, healthy, so when I had

796
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 6: my heart attack, No Boos truly a real friend, so

797
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 6: he would I would come and he would say, this

798
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 6: is what you have in tonight.

799
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 7: He would charge me, but he was like your dietician.

800
00:39:54,600 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fucking that's fucking fly. He knew you. Oh

801
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: that's kind of ill.

802
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 3: I think I thought I was special about getting chicken

803
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 3: pomeago on the cupbo got no movie telling Let me

804
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 3: just what you're eating. That's that's fucking fire. What is

805
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 3: your favorite restaurant in the.

806
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 1: World, in the world, in the world.

807
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 6: There's an old school Italian restaurant in New York on

808
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 6: forty third between second and third called Piero's Pueros, that's

809
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 6: what Pietro's Pietro's Pietro. And then my uncle's restaurant in

810
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 6: Vegas is called Piero's. Yeah yeah, Piero's in Vegas and

811
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 6: Pietro's in the city.

812
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 3: So so it's safe to say your favorite food is Italian.

813
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, okay, there what the chicken pot at Pietro's,

814
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 6: you had it?

815
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: No shit? And my uncle's.

816
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 5: Restaurant massive, the one because we go.

817
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:57,479
Speaker 1: The one on forty third is.

818
00:40:59,480 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 5: Crazy.

819
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: Compare it to Raos, Well you like better? I see

820
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: you want you want? Tommy Ma told up in Rails.

821
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: I see y'all.

822
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 8: I like, I like Beatrix.

823
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 6: Rails is more of a vibe like yeah, I mean

824
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 6: you got your reserve table, you have everything, but okay,

825
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 6: food wise.

826
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: So let me ask you an old wives tale.

827
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 3: They always said that Raos it was five tables, right,

828
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 3: they said, no, excuse me, they said it's five five

829
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 3: on mafia families right, But in Rails they have six tables.

830
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 7: So you said they had a table for every family.

831
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,799
Speaker 7: That is what you're saying. Yeah, that's no, I don't

832
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 7: know that's one. I don't even think that's a room.

833
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 3: That's one hundred percent like how they sell rals, Like yo,

834
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 3: five Italian families bought these tables and then so it's

835
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 3: like you like, yeah, so it's like you got this

836
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 3: experienced where in Rails it's six tables. And I always

837
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 3: wanted to ask, like, somebody who's close to that world,

838
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 3: is there.

839
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: A secret family that we don't know about?

840
00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 8: No, I think that.

841
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 7: Security I have no The Canadians, they would say, the Canadian, Yeah.

842
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: There's a there's a Drake.

843
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 7: You remember we went to Vancouver.

844
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: No you don't remember. No, man, I'm not gonna say that.

845
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 7: Homie was putting us that.

846
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: I always want to.

847
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 7: Hell, yeah, yes, yes, yes, So.

848
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 8: I'm gonna make one call.

849
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, Yeah yeah.

850
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: I left the hotel two hours and forty five minutes ago.

851
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 2: But but I don't know how you all got here.

852
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 2: You must have been coming from a different direction. I'm

853
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: flattered you guys came. I called Steve. I said, I'm

854
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: guessing no one's coming. He said, I'm almost there.

855
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: We'll see.

856
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 4: He called me and said, you guys are all here.

857
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 2: I was parked on one street, bumper to bumper, four

858
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 2: feet of water.

859
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: Wow.

860
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 2: Wow, I don't even know how we got past it.

861
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: But I can't believe you guys all made it.

862
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we don't play some games we don't play.

863
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 2: We're very serious to be here and flattered that you

864
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: guys made it here. I thought this for sure was

865
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 2: a cancellation, but I'm so happy we made it through.

866
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: The You're one of the you're one of the biggest

867
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 3: DJs on the planet, right, you got to You got to.

868
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 2: That's a very big statement. I don't know if I

869
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 2: accept it, but I'm flattered that you say that. But

870
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if that.

871
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: You are true.

872
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 3: I love the fact that so many people have great

873
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 3: relationships with you. Is how did how did you develop that?

874
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 3: Is that something that that you do? You did on purpose?

875
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: So that's something that you developed a long time.

876
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 2: Well, I've been djaying since I was ten years old. Wow,

877
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: so hm, it's been three decades of relationships. And I

878
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 2: think at the foundation of every career and every life,

879
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 2: not to sound over you know, poetic, but his relationships.

880
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 2: And you know, as a ten year old kid, I

881
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 2: never dreamt of doing any of the things I've done

882
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: as a DJ. My only dream as a ten year

883
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 2: old DJ was for my favorite rappers to know my name.

884
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: If you'd have told me when I was ten years

885
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: old that Trench would know my name, I would I

886
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: could have died a happy kid.

887
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 4: So that was really the only dream I ever had.

888
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: And in celebrating my heroes, I developed relationships with nearly

889
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 2: all of them. And I think the greatest gift of

890
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 2: my career thus far, by far, has been developing friendships

891
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 2: with those who I idolized as a child. By far,

892
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 2: the greatest gift of not only my career, of my life.

893
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 3: I like that let me ask me, let me ask

894
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 3: you to hi, let me ask you a low. Has

895
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 3: there ever been somebody that you looked up to that

896
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 3: you was as a ten year old kid and you

897
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 3: met them and he was like, because I've met plenty

898
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 3: that disappointed me.

899
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 4: You know.

900
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 2: The one person that comes to mind, and I don't

901
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 2: know if this is going to sound cliche if you've

902
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 2: heard this before, is actually no one in the music

903
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 2: business or hip hop. Everyone in music and hip hop

904
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: always actually really treated me as their fans with kindness,

905
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 2: And to this day, when I meet someone new, I

906
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: couldn't even think of a negative encounter. But I had

907
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 2: one negative encounter with Michael Jordan once as a child.

908
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

909
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 2: So I wasn't a sports fan. I was never a

910
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 2: sports fan. I only cared about Michael. You was a

911
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 2: DJ when this encounter happened, or I was?

912
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: I was?

913
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 4: I was a child.

914
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: Okay, turns hele Okay, cool.

915
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 6: Cool.

916
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: So the answer is yes, But he would have never

917
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,240
Speaker 2: known I was a kid. I was twelve thirty.

918
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 1: I didn't understand where's going good.

919
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 2: Michael I DJ, Michael Jordan's you know, birth Since then, So.

920
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 4: I'm on a family vacation.

921
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 2: And someone tells us that Michael Jordan is in the

922
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 2: lobby lounge, and I think I was wearing the elevens,

923
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 2: but not the padd of leather elevens, you know, the

924
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: low ones with the net, the gray concrete.

925
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 4: And then they had the net in them.

926
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: They were like the summer elevens, but they looked nothing

927
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: like the pedal leather. So someone tells me Michael Jordan

928
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 2: is in the is in the lobby lounge, and I

929
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: go down there and he's in a meeting.

930
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,479
Speaker 4: He's having a drink with a guy.

931
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 2: And I walk up to him very politely, and I

932
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 2: thought I thought I could get away with it because

933
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 2: I was a child. I don't think I would have

934
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: walked up to him as a twenty year old.

935
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 4: And I said, could you sign my shoe?

936
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 2: And he said something like I'm having a drink right now,

937
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 2: so and that was it and I walked away.

938
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 4: It was the no. It was the only disappointing moment.

939
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,760
Speaker 2: But as as an adult, I can appreciate why Michael

940
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,880
Speaker 2: Jordan doesn't sign every shoe he's asked to sign, so

941
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't left. If I was left a little salty,

942
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 2: then I was not. As an adult, especially when your

943
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 2: signature is worth however much money, I can only imagine

944
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 2: you're not just going to be.

945
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 4: Signing every sneaker that comes your way.

946
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 2: But that really is the only negative encounter that I

947
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: can even imagine. I've been really blessed. I have found

948
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:37,959
Speaker 2: that all my heroes, especially in music, have have really

949
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 2: proven to me why they're legends. And I mean I

950
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: could give you, you know, example after example, but so.

951
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 4: I think run in DMC.

952
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 3: I think that's why we always have one like a

953
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 3: hat like that, you're paying homage to Run DMC to.

954
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 2: So when I was a kid, I idolized run DMC

955
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 2: and I idolized Michael Jackson, and.

956
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,439
Speaker 1: I can see them both. Yeah, see both.

957
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 2: And you know I always thought as a kid that

958
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 2: everyone I looked up to looked like a superhero. You know,

959
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 2: as I was saying a minute ago, I was never

960
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 2: into sports. I was into Michael Jordan for the clothes

961
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 2: and the speakers. I was never into sports. I was

962
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 2: into hip hop, right, So hip hoppers were my superheroes.

963
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 2: They were my Michael Jordan, they were my Superman and

964
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: Spider Man. Well, and so I looked up to grand

965
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: Master Flash Cool Heirk in Africa, Bambada, and not because

966
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,879
Speaker 2: I knew much about them as a young kid.

967
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 4: I knew later on as a teenager.

968
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 2: I researched them as a young teen, But eight nine ten,

969
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 2: I don't think I knew much about them, but I

970
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 2: knew what they looked like, and they looked like superheroes.

971
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 2: Cool heirk in the convertible with the speakers. I know

972
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 2: you guys know that image and flash with the outfits.

973
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 4: They literally looked like superheroes and.

974
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: Alone on that one, I.

975
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 2: Was enamored by that, and they later influenced my career

976
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 2: and how I dj'. But initially I didn't know about

977
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 2: all that, but I just knew what they looked like,

978
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 2: and they look like superheroes.

979
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:18,959
Speaker 4: And then you cut to run DMC.

980
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 2: Three superheroes times a thousand. You know, if an alien

981
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 2: came from outer space to this day and said what

982
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 2: is hip hop? And you could only show them one thing?

983
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: You couldn't show them ten examples, you could only show

984
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 2: them one thing. I think I still might show them

985
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: run DMC and jam aster J. And if I could

986
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 2: only play them one thing, I think I might play

987
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 2: them Sucker MC, because that looks and sounds like hip

988
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 2: hop to me, and I know that's different with everyone

989
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: that's not fact. But so they were my superheroes, and

990
00:49:55,200 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: I always wanted as my career grew to to not

991
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 2: necessarily look like them, but to have a look like them.

992
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 2: And so I think I started experimenting with hats because

993
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 2: of Run DMCGM, Master J and Michael Jackson.

994
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 4: I think I were.

995
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 7: How early were you starting to experiment with the look?

996
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 2: It gets started in my late teens, early twenties, but

997
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 2: by my late twenties became really solidified. I don't think

998
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 2: the boter hat became my signature to my late twenties,

999
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 2: but I mean every kind of bit of my style

1000
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 2: I could trace back to someone in something where my

1001
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 2: pants really short, that's Michael Jackson. Every little bit is

1002
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 2: some kind of influence in a blender.

1003
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 4: As a kid, I idolized Bobby Brown.

1004
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 2: He's also become a friend, and he just looked like

1005
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 2: the coolest person on earth.

1006
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 4: The leather outfits. I got that from him.

1007
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 2: So you know, I've been idolizing people for a long time,

1008
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 2: and of those people are my friends today, but they're

1009
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 2: still my idols. And I say to my idols that

1010
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 2: have become my friends, I'll say to them, I'll say

1011
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 2: I'll say to Run, I'll say Joey.

1012
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 4: No matter how close we grow, Joey I get, I get.

1013
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 2: To call jo you don't call him Joey.

1014
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: I don't quote nobody.

1015
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 3: I call all my hip hop heroes by the hip

1016
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 3: hop names.

1017
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 4: So he has three names, right, Joey Rev.

1018
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, So, but but i'd say Joey or Run.

1019
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 2: I do call him Run. I don't call him Rev.

1020
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 2: I'll say Joey or Run. I'll say, no matter how

1021
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 2: close we go, I'll say, no matter how close we

1022
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 2: grow as friends, you will never stop being Run to me.

1023
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 2: And I think those two things can coexist. I think

1024
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: you can idolize your friend. I think you can look

1025
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 2: up to your friends. I think you can admire your friend.

1026
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: I'll tell that to all the time, so it doesn't

1027
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: dumb down my fanness, the fact that we're friends.

1028
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 2: I was at a birthday dinner in La two nights ago,

1029
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 2: and it was for one of my best friends, Mark Burnbaum,

1030
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,479
Speaker 2: who's owner of Catch, the restaurant Catch.

1031
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 7: I love the flow continue.

1032
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 2: So I walked into the to the restaurant that maybe

1033
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 2: fifty people there a cocktail hour, ready to sit, and

1034
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 2: I run right into nas in ll So they were

1035
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 2: walking to sit. I walked with them, and for the

1036
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 2: next three hours, the three of us sat and had

1037
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 2: the greatest conversation.

1038
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 4: This was literally three nights ago.

1039
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: You nas, yeah, make some noise for you and.

1040
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 4: Let's and I don't.

1041
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: I don't.

1042
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,439
Speaker 2: I don't think that's normal. No, I didn't. I didn't

1043
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 2: look in my phone for three hours. As we all know,

1044
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 2: at a dinner that you know that never happened. You're

1045
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 2: constantly checking your text, you're on Instagram, you're posting the

1046
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 2: birthday nothing.

1047
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 7: It looks on his phone right now.

1048
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 2: And every time, every time someone from the dinner came

1049
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 2: over to me to say, hello, oh a.

1050
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 4: Long time, don't see I kept can we talk later?

1051
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 2: I'm right, I'm listening to Ellen nods and I wanted

1052
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 2: to get rid of everyone, because how often do you

1053
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,839
Speaker 2: get to spend realities with Ellen NOAs.

1054
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 4: But here's the point I wanted to make.

1055
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 2: Watching the two of them together, these giants, right, giants

1056
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 2: from Queens Giants was such a beautiful thing. I don't

1057
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 2: even know that three days later, I know yet how

1058
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 2: to put in words. I tried to tell them at

1059
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 2: the end of the dinner and I hope I articulated

1060
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 2: myself so that they understood.

1061
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 4: I think they did.

1062
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 2: First of all, watching Nas talk to one of his

1063
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 2: heroes was first of all obvious that it was one

1064
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 2: of his heroes. You could have come in and know

1065
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 2: nothing about hip hop and you would have known something

1066
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: was going on.

1067
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 4: It was a beautiful thing. It was beautiful.

1068
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 2: I told them, I said, this has been the most

1069
00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 2: touching experience and watching the respect ELLLL had for Nas,

1070
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 2: and you know, I chimed in here and there, but

1071
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 2: I really just wanted to let them go because I

1072
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 2: don't know how many times they've done that.

1073
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 4: And Nas started quoting.

1074
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 2: Songs off of ELL's first album and talking about their

1075
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 2: favorite songs of each other, and you know, it was

1076
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 2: a beautiful moment. But I'm only bringing this up because

1077
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 2: we were talking about being a fan and a friend,

1078
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 2: and you look at those two who are megastars way

1079
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 2: beyond hip hop culture, just global superstars in so many ways, and.

1080
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 4: You forget sometimes that stars are fans.

1081
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, And watching them together and watching them together was

1082
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 2: so beautiful. And I also think that it speaks to

1083
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 2: a camaraderie and a fraternity like environment in hip hop

1084
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:54,840
Speaker 2: that's truly special.

1085
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: Yep.

1086
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 2: Maybe basketball has it, maybe baseball, maybe sports has it.

1087
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 2: I wouldn't know, not my terrorists, but I don't know

1088
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 2: how many businesses in this world that exists in And

1089
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 2: it's clearly more than a business. It's a culture. But

1090
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 2: there's such a fraternity and a camaraderie amongst I think

1091
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 2: people in hip hop, and it was a beautiful thing

1092
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: to watch.

1093
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 7: Specific you were witnessing a full circle moment between these

1094
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 7: two artists.

1095
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 3: You know, you're known for DJ and some of the

1096
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 3: biggest parties, right not as hip hops in gentlemen, Have

1097
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 3: you e a DJ for Michael Jackson?

1098
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 10: No?

1099
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 2: So, Michael Jackson when he died was one. He was

1100
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 2: the only person that I had never met that I

1101
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 2: wanted to.

1102
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: You about to say, DJ is a funeral.

1103
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 2: You met Prince, I've met me so so Prince and

1104
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:57,720
Speaker 2: I performed at the White House together.

1105
00:55:58,520 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

1106
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 2: Talking about so Prince and I performed at the White House.

1107
00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 2: It was one of the many times I DJ at

1108
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 2: the White House years of the Obama administration.

1109
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 1: I need to ask, Okay, did Prince invite you?

1110
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 10: All?

1111
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: This was Obama administration.

1112
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 2: So I got a call but I guess I have

1113
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 2: to give some context. Please, over the eight years of

1114
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 2: Obama's administration.

1115
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:22,919
Speaker 1: I've never been invited to the White House.

1116
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 4: Well, it was a special time.

1117
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,799
Speaker 2: I don't know that now you can feel exactly like

1118
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 2: what that felt.

1119
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 7: A lot of hip hop'st were going on at the time.

1120
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 2: I just think for so many reasons, I think that's

1121
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 2: that was a time that just.

1122
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 4: It was. Yeah, it was a special moment in time.

1123
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: And so did you smell weed at the White House?

1124
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 9: No?

1125
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: I didn't, No, No, I didn't. They'll tell me if

1126
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: you did.

1127
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 2: Anyway, So I was the first DJ to ever play

1128
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 2: a presidential inauguration, and I was the first DJ to

1129
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:02,839
Speaker 2: ever DJ the White House. So you know, there's this

1130
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 2: guy I forgot his name, and I don't know if

1131
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 2: he's still there.

1132
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:07,760
Speaker 3: But okay, can I be fair though, because he didn't

1133
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 3: in w a perform there. So when the interview performed,

1134
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 3: the performed the way he went to a Republican party thing.

1135
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: But don't.

1136
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 4: I don't know, but a group might have had a DJ.

1137
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, but you DJ is you did the

1138
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: party there? Right?

1139
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 2: So the first time I was at the White House

1140
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 2: was actually not the first, the first presidential inauguration that

1141
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: Obama had.

1142
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 4: The first, the first inauguration, his.

1143
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 2: Parties were not at the house, Okay, they were at

1144
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: a convention center, and I performed live at one of

1145
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 2: those parties. He didn't have access to the house yet.

1146
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 2: In the first inauguration, you get inaugurated January twenty.

1147
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 4: No, I think you move in that day.

1148
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 2: So you could have, but perhaps that was the reason.

1149
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's a big convention hall and there's like

1150
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 2: eight different parties going on, so I was like the

1151
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 2: curator of the music for all the rooms, and I

1152
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 2: played live in one of the rooms. But it was

1153
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 2: fairly impersonal, right. So a year or two later, the

1154
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 2: President is turning fifty and I get a call that

1155
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 2: the President would like you to play his fiftieth.

1156
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: Birthday at the White House. That big man.

1157
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: So I show up at the White House for soundcheck,

1158
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 2: and it was a moment I'll never forget. There's moments

1159
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 2: in your career. I don't even want to say career,

1160
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 2: there's moments in your life life, yes, where you just

1161
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 2: say how.

1162
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 4: Did I get here?

1163
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 2: You know that song by Talking Heads once in a lifetime,

1164
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 2: And I asked myself how did I get here? As

1165
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 2: the days go right right, so I walk in, I

1166
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 2: go how did I get here? And at that at

1167
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 2: that point, I think I left that night saying this

1168
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 2: was the greatest night of my life because I felt

1169
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 2: that what I did had a little meaning. I mean,

1170
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 2: I wasn't the leader of the free world, but I

1171
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 2: just thought that I left with a little more meaning

1172
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: than I had gone in.

1173
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, does the president pay?

1174
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 4: I did not accept money from the president.

1175
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 3: But did he say you want the bag or you

1176
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 3: just the first one would have been the DNC. I

1177
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 3: can't second one.

1178
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 2: I can't speak for others, but I never accepted money

1179
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 2: from the president.

1180
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 4: For me, it was an honor they had that the

1181
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 4: thing that you got in.

1182
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 3: Friends as funny as that.

1183
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 5: I want to know that.

1184
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 7: So did it take care of travel at least?

1185
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1186
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 4: Of course travel and equipment.

1187
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 2: And the crazy thing is is my sound guy at

1188
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 2: the time he fully outfitted the White House. So years

1189
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 2: later when the party with prints happened, it's my sound

1190
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 2: guy outfitt this out.

1191
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: Like these were.

1192
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 2: Full on parties, full on parties. So what unfolded that

1193
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 2: night after I walked in? I was not even prepared

1194
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 2: for Okay, I'm.

1195
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 4: About to go on.

1196
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 2: And when I say go on, if you're looking at

1197
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 2: the White House, if you can picture the pillars right,

1198
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:10,480
Speaker 2: there's windows.

1199
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 4: I don't know what the room's called.

1200
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 2: I did it ten times, but this is the last

1201
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 2: room on the left, the last window on the.

1202
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 7: Left, Lincoln Room.

1203
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1204
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 4: We're not so we're not.

1205
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 2: So we're not talking about a tent or in a

1206
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 2: dndum event area.

1207
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 4: We're talking about the White House.

1208
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 7: That's crazy.

1209
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,919
Speaker 2: Eleanor Roosevelt designed rooms in the White House, the Blue Room,

1210
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 2: Green Room, Yellow Room, in Red room years ago and

1211
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 2: now they're where the tourists go to see. You see

1212
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 2: the Red room, the Blue room, and next to all

1213
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 2: these rooms is the party room. Coincidentally, the red room

1214
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 2: was the green room, meaning the dressing room.

1215
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 4: So I'm in this red room and.

1216
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 2: I call my grandmother at that time, eighty years old Holocaust,

1217
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 2: you know, survivor came to America with nothing, and I say.

1218
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: Mama, guess where I am.

1219
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 4: And she knows, obviously, she says where And I.

1220
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 2: Said, I'm in the Red Room at.

1221
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 4: The White House.

1222
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 2: And you could just hear her having chills down her spine,

1223
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 2: and at that moment I knew that this night, if

1224
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 2: I never did it again, if I never came here again,

1225
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 2: this moment was special. So I get a tap on

1226
01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 2: the shoulder and someone says, hi, DJ Cassidy, Stevie Wonder

1227
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 2: would like to talk to you. So I immediately say,

1228
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 2: why is anyone asking my permission for Stevie Wonder to

1229
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 2: come say hello to me?

1230
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 5: Like?

1231
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 4: Yes, can he please? Where is he? I'll go, hello, Steve.

1232
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 1: He saw you on his way in.

1233
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:59,600
Speaker 2: So already this is starting off bizarre, like overly polite,

1234
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 2: like you know, strange, like.

1235
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:02,480
Speaker 4: Why are you asking it?

1236
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder, of course come interrupt my phone call. I

1237
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 2: literally said, Mama, I'll call you back. I got to

1238
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 2: talk to Stevie Wonder. So Stevie comes up. So let

1239
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,480
Speaker 2: me paint this picture. I'm in the Red Room. It's

1240
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 2: a famous room, you can google it, very Louis the

1241
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 2: sixteenth or.

1242
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,479
Speaker 4: Nate Versailles, like all gold, red.

1243
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 2: And the party people are in this room right to

1244
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 2: my left, five hundred people and the president is on

1245
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 2: stage thinking Janelle mone for performing, about to bring me on,

1246
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 2: but very casual. This is not a black tie event.

1247
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 2: This was like Sunday afternoon vibes. So Stevie comes up

1248
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,920
Speaker 2: to me and goes DJ Cassidy. So I was thinking

1249
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 2: we could do some I've done things with him at

1250
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 2: this point before.

1251
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 4: So he goes Cassidy.

1252
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 2: I was thinking, maybe we could collaborate and I'll come

1253
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 2: on and sit at the keyboard and surprise the President.

1254
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 2: I said, I'd love that. So he goes, maybe I'll

1255
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 2: just do sign Sealed Delivered? Could you drop a beat

1256
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 2: to that? So I'm thinking I have a solid fifteen

1257
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 2: minutes to prepare. What beat I'm gonna loop in serato

1258
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 2: for him to play sign Sealed Delivered.

1259
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 4: That fifteen minutes was fifteen seconds.

1260
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 2: Stevie walks on stage with the guy you know that

1261
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 2: holds his hand, and the next thing you know, the

1262
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 2: President goes, oh, looks like we have a guest unexpected

1263
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder. And Stevie Wonder sits at the keyboard and

1264
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 2: I follow him. I don't know what I'm about to do,

1265
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 2: so I have about thirty seconds to say to myself,

1266
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:41,919
Speaker 2: what beat?

1267
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: I just caught that he followed Stevie or stage.

1268
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 2: I followed Stevie on stage because he.

1269
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 4: Wanted me to jam with him.

1270
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: Literally stee moddy, so.

1271
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 5: Very independent.

1272
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 2: Yes, So Stevie was being got it, and I knew

1273
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 2: that if I wasn't there, he wouldn't realize I wasn't there.

1274
01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 2: He thought I was ready to rock with him. So

1275
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:13,240
Speaker 2: in thirty seconds, I'm thinking, what the hell am I going.

1276
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: To do with sign Sealed Delivered?

1277
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 2: So the President still talking, The President now announces Stevie

1278
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 2: Wonder and DJ Cassidy and he plays the first chords

1279
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 2: to sign Sealed Delivered Dan and I pull up Billy

1280
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 2: Squire Big Beat, praying that I have those first four

1281
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:39,480
Speaker 2: bars looped on serato, not looped so I'm sure you

1282
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 2: guys know, but for those listening, Billy Squire Big Beat

1283
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,120
Speaker 2: is a song from the seventies, a rock song that

1284
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 2: was first made famous when run DMC used it.

1285
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 4: For here we Go, Here we Go, Here we Go,

1286
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 4: Here we Go, Here Here, Here we Go and.

1287
01:04:55,280 --> 01:04:58,120
Speaker 2: Run DMC's performance of here we Go was never recorded

1288
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 2: in a studio, was recorded live at the Fund and

1289
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 2: you can hear Jim Master j going back and forth

1290
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,480
Speaker 2: every four bars, and I think there's one or two

1291
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 2: times he kind of messes it up, but he catches

1292
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 2: it r Wow, and then Rick Rubin used it for

1293
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 2: ninety nine problems, so I know it's about the same

1294
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 2: tempo as sign Seal Delivered.

1295
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 12: Right, So Stevie starts singing as that is pretty so long.

1296
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 12: That is still wrong. Baby here here, I am sign

1297
01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:32,800
Speaker 12: sealed delivered. I'm yours pool boo boo boo boo boo

1298
01:05:33,040 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 12: boo boo, poo boo boo.

1299
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 2: And I do that for the next five minutes while

1300
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 2: he not only performs sign Sealed Delivered, but an extended,

1301
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 2: improvised version of sign seals so I can picture it

1302
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 2: like it was yesterday. He's right here, everyone's right here,

1303
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 2: and I'm kind of tilted. They were gonna move me

1304
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 2: out straight. I was on wheels, but because he was there,

1305
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 2: now I'm tilted and I'm cutting up this song, praying

1306
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 2: that I just stay on, you know, on beat. Every

1307
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 2: four bars. Stevie's rocking, and I kind of turned to

1308
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 2: my right. I didn't wear glasses then, so it's probably easier.

1309
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:22,080
Speaker 2: And I see Jay Z and Chris rock the White

1310
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 2: House still and they're nodding their head. You know that

1311
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 2: mean face you make at the studio when you like

1312
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 2: a beat. You know that face and the head nod

1313
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:38,840
Speaker 2: there boom, and I look at them and they see

1314
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 2: me seeing them, and at that moment.

1315
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:44,520
Speaker 4: All the pressure went off.

1316
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 2: Then I was rocking when I saw that, and it

1317
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 2: was one of the greatest moments in my life.

1318
01:06:53,960 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 1: That's okay in there and it wasn't like the street party.

1319
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 1: Where are you segueing to that?

1320
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 3: He said, this Babo story cot in the way he said,

1321
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 3: Stevie dropped.

1322
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: Steve dropping.

1323
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,919
Speaker 4: Yo, listen on the way one listen.

1324
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 3: You know, you know what's crazy about Stevie wonder we

1325
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 3: have so many people who come on the show.

1326
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:22,919
Speaker 1: He love Steve.

1327
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 3: Be one of the stories if you have so many,

1328
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 3: because Shack is still the best that Jack said, that's.

1329
01:07:27,880 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 1: What he was like. He believed like it was believable

1330
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 1: the way he said it.

1331
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:33,919
Speaker 3: Jack said he got in the elevator with Stevie, wasn't

1332
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 3: by himself.

1333
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: Just must say. He pressed the butt. He said, what's up,

1334
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: Shack up? Yeah, and I think he said he present.

1335
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 4: But after.

1336
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:49,160
Speaker 3: Walking the snow the Rosley said. Roy said he saw

1337
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 3: Stevie walking across the street street on the busy street,

1338
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 3: and he said he went, they went and got him,

1339
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 3: but we right I forget, I forget exactly what he was.

1340
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 2: Everyone a Stevie story that transcends logic because he's actually

1341
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 2: not a logical person.

1342
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 4: But there are really if you think about it.

1343
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 1: Just then doctor called him at five am.

1344
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 4: Yeah he's he's not.

1345
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 2: But that's why there's very few artists that that have

1346
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 2: this level of genius. So it makes sense that most

1347
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 2: of the stories we hear are beyond you know, daily logic,

1348
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 2: because his whole being is is is a superhuman.

1349
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 3: Yes, I want to talk about a different super human. Recently,

1350
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:41,560
Speaker 3: a friend of mine is just released his trailer to

1351
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 3: a movie. Uh, he made me a lego character. His

1352
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 3: name is will What is what is your connection with

1353
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 3: Harrel Williams.

1354
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 2: I've known Pharrell for years and actually Pharrell called on

1355
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 2: me to DJ his three three of his closest friend's weddings,

1356
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 2: DJ Shay's wedding from N E r D and two

1357
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 2: other very close people in his life. So I've known

1358
01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 2: Pharrell throughout the years. He's been a supporter of my

1359
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 2: career and on various occasions that were important to him.

1360
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 2: I was kind of his gift to the wedding, which

1361
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 2: is very flattering, I mean and never. I take that

1362
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 2: responsibility very seriously. Get I get nervous to DJ parties

1363
01:09:30,280 --> 01:09:34,759
Speaker 2: to this day, especially if it's for someone whom I admire.

1364
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 2: You know, when Pharrell calls you to DJ a party,

1365
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 2: Farrell could call any DJ, and any DJ would go,

1366
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,599
Speaker 2: would jump at the opportunity.

1367
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 1: As do I.

1368
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:47,120
Speaker 2: And so when anyone of that stature, with critical ears,

1369
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 2: with extremely critical ears, who most people on Earth hold

1370
01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 2: on a very high pedestal, We're not just talking about

1371
01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 2: your average producer, someone who's commonly thought of as the

1372
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 2: ears you want to respect you. So when he calls

1373
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 2: me for a wedding of his three best friends, it's

1374
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,600
Speaker 2: something I take very seriously. But I could say that

1375
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 2: across the board, whether it's the White House or fell

1376
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:14,920
Speaker 2: or anyone of that nature.

1377
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 4: Beyonce, Beyonce and Jay.

1378
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 7: You worked with them both.

1379
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 4: I did their wedding.

1380
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 1: That's fucking awesome. What kind of DNA?

1381
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:24,760
Speaker 7: What is that?

1382
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: NDA? You had to sign for that? And DA?

1383
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 2: I mean it was a long time agoing now, I'm sure.

1384
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 2: I just I'm known for reading things over and over

1385
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 2: and not signing them on site. I'm sure I just

1386
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 2: signed it. I do remember I didn't bring anyone I

1387
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,800
Speaker 2: was asked not to bring like a side man or

1388
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 2: like a tech. I think I might have been able

1389
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 2: to bring my tech to sound check. It was at

1390
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 2: their apartment in Tribeca. It was very small, you know,

1391
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 2: like you got to understand, no matter how big your

1392
01:10:56,320 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 2: apartment is in Manhattan, it's still an apartment, right, It's

1393
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 2: still not a house. Okay, So I think I might

1394
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 2: have brought someone for sound check, but no one at night,

1395
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 2: and I remember it being like a marathon, like I

1396
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:13,720
Speaker 2: must have got there and ate. But here's the funny thing.

1397
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 2: So the only photo of that wedding is me walking

1398
01:11:16,960 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 2: into the lobby. So apparently they sent me a car

1399
01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 2: to pick me up in my apartment. The car never

1400
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 2: showed up, so I took a taxi.

1401
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:30,760
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get this correct. Did you us just

1402
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:31,759
Speaker 1: say you took a taxi?

1403
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 2: I took a taxi to their weddings because the car

1404
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 2: service never showed up and I didn't want to be late.

1405
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 2: I didn't want to be late, so I left the

1406
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:42,439
Speaker 2: apartment hailed a taxi. This was way before any apps.

1407
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.

1408
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,600
Speaker 2: All the celebrities are directed from the car services on

1409
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 2: where to go.

1410
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 4: So down the garage.

1411
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 2: Right, So all the paparazzi shots or of the celebrities

1412
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 2: like through the SUVs. But the one shot they have

1413
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 2: of the whole wedding is me walking in the front

1414
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 2: door of the main lobby in my like black velvet texto.

1415
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 4: I took a tax.

1416
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1417
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 4: Had I not done that, there would have been you know,

1418
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 4: no first song was Was.

1419
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:14,120
Speaker 3: There any black class from them? They're like, oh, nah, okay, now,

1420
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 3: so okay.

1421
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 2: I've done so many events, you know my mouth was

1422
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 2: you know, I never had a big mouth at these things.

1423
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 4: I mean that was part of why I was there.

1424
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,080
Speaker 3: It was getting high. Okay, one person around a little bit.

1425
01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 3: One thing I know is very private people.

1426
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 1: So how do you get this call? And then how

1427
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:34,640
Speaker 1: do you get the first time you got to work with?

1428
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 2: Right? So I think this was anyone could google it.

1429
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,560
Speaker 2: But I think they got married in two thousand and

1430
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:42,679
Speaker 2: seven or was it fourteen?

1431
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 4: I don't know why. I'm thinking it was seven. No,

1432
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 4: I think it was.

1433
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 2: It wasn't fourteen. I think it was seven. I think

1434
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 2: it was seven.

1435
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 4: It was seven.

1436
01:12:56,720 --> 01:13:00,360
Speaker 1: Nobody cares about when you got married, sir, And I.

1437
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:01,920
Speaker 4: Think it was April fourth.

1438
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 2: I think they're two thousand and eight April fourth, and

1439
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 2: I think they're lucky. Number is four, so was the fourth. Yeah,

1440
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 2: so it's four to four and blue Ivy ivy is

1441
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 2: a four.

1442
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 3: Oh.

1443
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 2: So I had already been djaying Jay's parties for at

1444
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:27,680
Speaker 2: least five years. Wow, So I got my first call

1445
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 2: from J. I think I was still in school, so

1446
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 2: I must have been maybe twenty. And so I would

1447
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 2: dj all all his parties, his birthdays, then Beyonce's parties

1448
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 2: when he threw them the forty forty club opening in

1449
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 2: Atlantic City and Vegas and all of those and college. Heah,

1450
01:13:47,320 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 2: I was in college at that point, and so I

1451
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:53,280
Speaker 2: had been doing all his parties. So the call to

1452
01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:55,919
Speaker 2: do his wedding was not at all abnormal.

1453
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 4: Yeah it was. It was not abnormal at the time.

1454
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 2: But still, as I say, you know about all these things,

1455
01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:03,840
Speaker 2: I don't want to say the same thing every time. Granted,

1456
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 2: look that's the two greatest entertainers of our time. Mind you,

1457
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,759
Speaker 2: this is now fifteen years later, even more the greatest

1458
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 2: entertainers of all times.

1459
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 4: Right, Like we knew then, but you know now right,

1460
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 4: and you know they could have anyone, you know, anyone.

1461
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:20,720
Speaker 2: And also This wasn't a wedding where they bring out

1462
01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 2: you know, this R and B singer to sing the

1463
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,400
Speaker 2: first dance and this band to do now it was

1464
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 2: it was literally just me, wow and control the entire

1465
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 2: party from beginning to end.

1466
01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: How do you approach that playlist? Do they tell you

1467
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 1: you too?

1468
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 4: So?

1469
01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 2: No, I don't think there was any talk of music

1470
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 2: other than like the first dance and the entrance song,

1471
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 2: like those songs you know that the bride and room choose.

1472
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 2: I think there was no discussion of music because I

1473
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:53,679
Speaker 2: had been doing this with him now for years. Yeah.

1474
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:56,600
Speaker 2: I don't think they were coming to me to direct it.

1475
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 2: I think they were coming to me for me, you know,

1476
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 2: to do me right. But i'm you know, still to

1477
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 2: this day, and I I mean, I swear to God,

1478
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 2: I think about this sometimes, like when I go to

1479
01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 2: her concerts, right like the Renaissance Store, I think about it.

1480
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 2: I sit there thinking about it. I DJ their wedding.

1481
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 2: It still feels like a very big deal to me.

1482
01:15:22,439 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 2: I don't let those things. I don't allow myself to

1483
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 2: become jaded. I actually keep those memories as memories that

1484
01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 2: continue to inspire me and hype me up because the

1485
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 2: two greatest entertainers in the world.

1486
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:40,360
Speaker 4: Could really call anyone.

1487
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 2: You know, their rolodex doesn't exist because they can get

1488
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 2: everyone's number. And so you know, I was as honored

1489
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 2: then as I am now. In fact, I think I'm

1490
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:52,720
Speaker 2: more honored now by the memory. I think then I

1491
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 2: was probably just so in it. But now when I

1492
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 2: look back, I say, damn, you know, thirty people at

1493
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 2: that party.

1494
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: Sounds rich to be. Let me. Let me just look.

1495
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 3: I've been analyzing all night. I want to see if

1496
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,600
Speaker 3: I'm correct. Is that the Cardia nail and is that

1497
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 3: the Cardia panther?

1498
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 4: No, so there's no I'm not wearing one name brand.

1499
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: Okay, break this down for me.

1500
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 4: So the only thing I'm wearing this is very dev

1501
01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 4: I respect it, thank you.

1502
01:16:23,560 --> 01:16:25,599
Speaker 2: So the only thing that's name brand that I'm wearing

1503
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:28,640
Speaker 2: is my sneakers air Force ones okay, just white air

1504
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:33,640
Speaker 2: Force one so so oh, and Polo Polo shirt. But

1505
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 2: the suit is custom made. I have all my suits

1506
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:40,920
Speaker 2: made on my stage, attire made. Contrary to what many

1507
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 2: people think, it's not more expensive than buying fancy name

1508
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:44,719
Speaker 2: brand clothes.

1509
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 4: It's not at all. But it's not a money thing.

1510
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 4: It's a fit thing.

1511
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 2: It's I never want to walk on stage or walk

1512
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:52,760
Speaker 2: into a party and someone else has my suit that

1513
01:16:52,840 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 2: they bought at tom Ford or Gucci. And also the

1514
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 2: crazy you know, the crazy ship I wear I could

1515
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 2: never even find in a store. You know, I'm tall

1516
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 2: and skinny. My body never fit things growing up. You know,

1517
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 2: my posture was always bad. I was lanky. I could

1518
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 2: never fit a suit or a tuxedo. So over the

1519
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 2: years I started custom making clothes. So and I buy

1520
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 2: all my fabrics. So I literally like, if someone ever

1521
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 2: says to me, what do you do besides music, I say,

1522
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 2: I make clothes, But I don't make clothes.

1523
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: To sell them.

1524
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 2: I don't go to fashion shows. I know nothing about

1525
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,240
Speaker 2: the brands on Fifth Avenue. I know very little about

1526
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 2: about the fashion industry.

1527
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: Fashion oval.

1528
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 2: I actually would though. You know, the things I do

1529
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 2: buy are cheap, too expensive, there's no there's no rhyme

1530
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 2: or reason. But really most of what I buy are basics,

1531
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 2: the Air Force ones, the polos. But I have fun

1532
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 2: going to the fabric store. All the fabrics I choose,

1533
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 2: the fabric, I choose the buttons. The jewelry is vintage

1534
01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:52,360
Speaker 2: that I either bought.

1535
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 5: I didn't care.

1536
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:58,559
Speaker 2: Okay, so the brooch, so the broke. Oh I should

1537
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 2: have said the glasses are name brand, but the the

1538
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 2: brooch and the cuffs are straight vintage stores, antique stores,

1539
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 2: flea markets, estate sales.

1540
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: Don't say flee marketers. He's gonna go crazy and but

1541
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:18,200
Speaker 1: but that's what I do. That's what I do. I

1542
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 1: don't think we give him a bow. He goes to

1543
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: the bad it's a different free market. He's a.

1544
01:18:26,760 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 5: Different market. I can already tell that we've been in

1545
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 5: the same.

1546
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 4: I could give you all the spots.

1547
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:41,800
Speaker 7: You know, they used to be a show you got

1548
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 7: shopping together.

1549
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:47,600
Speaker 1: That's so weird that a state sales champion.

1550
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 2: State sales is where you find all the heat because

1551
01:18:55,479 --> 01:18:56,680
Speaker 2: the rich old women die.

1552
01:18:56,920 --> 01:18:57,680
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm saying.

1553
01:18:57,680 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 7: People don't know he said when he said, that's people

1554
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:01,920
Speaker 7: that passed and they're selling.

1555
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: Off the estate.

1556
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:04,559
Speaker 4: I don't wear a name brand jewelry.

1557
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:08,040
Speaker 2: Nothing is expensive, nothing is real gold or diamonds.

1558
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 1: It's costume jewelry, right, it's costume jewelry.

1559
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 2: I don't walk around with anything expensive, and it's not

1560
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:14,600
Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with money. It's just what

1561
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 2: I like I like vintage costume jewelry. The hats are

1562
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:23,640
Speaker 2: all custom made, and I started wearing Boater hats. It

1563
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 2: was I experimented with hats for many years. And so

1564
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 2: there was this hat store in New York where I

1565
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 2: grew up on thirty second and Fifth called JJ Hat Center.

1566
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:35,080
Speaker 1: I used to have a studio on thirty second of Madison.

1567
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 4: So you must know that store was there forever small store.

1568
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 4: So this store was like the classic men's hat store.

1569
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 2: And every time I would go in there, they'd give me,

1570
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 2: you know, something that looked like a run DMC or

1571
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson felterstr And there was always this straw, stiff, thick.

1572
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 4: Boater hat with this brim that was like a it

1573
01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 4: was like hard, like a.

1574
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 2: Fucking, you know, weapon, and it looked very old school

1575
01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 2: in a stately and I thought maybe I could like

1576
01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 2: kind of transform that and it would give me this

1577
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:12,960
Speaker 2: kind of like classic thing, but I would do it,

1578
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:15,559
Speaker 2: you know, in a different way, in a hip hop way,

1579
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 2: or just in a different, you know, modern way. So

1580
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,719
Speaker 2: I start experimenting with the boter had it became my signature.

1581
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:23,800
Speaker 1: But then as.

1582
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 2: Styles evolved, I wanted a larger brim. So the machines

1583
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:32,640
Speaker 2: in America can only make the two inch brim, so

1584
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 2: the three inch brim has to be customye. But there's

1585
01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:37,519
Speaker 2: only one machine in the world that can make a

1586
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 2: three inch boter hat because of the way the quirk is,

1587
01:20:41,439 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 2: and that's in Florence, Italy, and one old man has

1588
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:45,600
Speaker 2: that machine, and when he.

1589
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 4: Dies it's a rat.

1590
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:47,960
Speaker 1: Wow.

1591
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 2: So I ordered these hats and you get them when

1592
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:51,600
Speaker 2: you get them, and sometimes you never do. And the

1593
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:53,600
Speaker 2: man's literally an eighty year old man making them in

1594
01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 2: this one machine that can make make them he can,

1595
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 2: and then the wrong sizes come and they're all padded.

1596
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 2: So it's a triple layer. You see one, two, three

1597
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 2: layers of cork three inch brim hat, So no one

1598
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:06,879
Speaker 2: really has the three inch.

1599
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 4: I mean a straw boater hat. It's kind of a unique.

1600
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 4: I never knew that's what that was. Cool called the

1601
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 4: boter hat.

1602
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:18,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never knew that. I never knew. So let

1603
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: me ask you.

1604
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:23,160
Speaker 3: You've been all over the world, what is one of

1605
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 3: the strangest places you ever performed?

1606
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:27,760
Speaker 4: At Kazakhstan?

1607
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: You ain't performing Borax country.

1608
01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's nothing like present, which is why that

1609
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:39,559
Speaker 2: country tried to sue him.

1610
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 4: I mean with the whole country.

1611
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were highly offended for.

1612
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 2: The whole country. Yeah, the whole country. Okay, But one

1613
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 2: interesting thing in Kazakhstan is that they eat horse.

1614
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:53,840
Speaker 7: Excuse me, there's not the only country, though, there's other countries.

1615
01:21:54,120 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 4: It was the first one that I had been.

1616
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 2: So I go to this country to DJ a black

1617
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:03,479
Speaker 2: tie gala like what you would imagine. I'm trying to

1618
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 2: think of an American example, but they're all like European

1619
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 2: galas that would acquaint to that, you know, like a

1620
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:15,240
Speaker 2: gala in can Am Far but in Kazakhstan. And you know,

1621
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:17,679
Speaker 2: I'm seated, I'm a guest before I go on stage,

1622
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:21,320
Speaker 2: and every single portion of the meal was horse meat.

1623
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 2: So that was a bizarre experience.

1624
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 1: Walked, walked the horse.

1625
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 7: This is your office.

1626
01:22:31,560 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 4: Have you ever had kasaks?

1627
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 7: Have you had then the horse?

1628
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:45,760
Speaker 3: The former US s are No, okay, we had him

1629
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 3: speak about it earlier.

1630
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:53,719
Speaker 7: I had buffalo, buffalo, buffalo wings.

1631
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 3: You were you were going to say something, sir, Oh no, no,

1632
01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:04,080
Speaker 3: no oh, yeah, So we spoke about Steve. You spoke

1633
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 3: about it earlier. But how did you come up with this?

1634
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:09,439
Speaker 3: Past of my idea. Was it during the pandemic.

1635
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, so in April twenty twenty, early pandemic, early when

1636
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 2: no one really knew what was going on. When I was,

1637
01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:22,960
Speaker 2: you know, cleaning my groceries with Clorox wipes, that whole era,

1638
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 2: I was facetiming one night with my friend and mentor,

1639
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:31,839
Speaker 2: Verdeen White of Earth Wind and Fire, whom I mentioned

1640
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 2: earlier when we started Nice Floors continue, And so Verdeen

1641
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 2: has been a hero of mine as far back as

1642
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:40,360
Speaker 2: I can remember, and I can tell you the story

1643
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 2: about how we met after.

1644
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 4: But he and I go to dinner every now and then,

1645
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 4: once every couple of months.

1646
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 2: So I called him to check in on him in

1647
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 2: this crazy time, and we were facetiming. Now, for those

1648
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:56,920
Speaker 2: who know Verdeen, everything I say about my clothes and

1649
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 2: my fashion, he's times a thousand. I mean, he's the originator.

1650
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:05,599
Speaker 2: He's the originator. And so I FaceTime him and he's

1651
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:08,599
Speaker 2: sitting on his couch and like red silk pajamas, looking

1652
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:12,240
Speaker 2: like verdein White should And while I'm facetiming with him,

1653
01:24:12,320 --> 01:24:14,800
Speaker 2: the Earthwind song That's the Way of the World comes on.

1654
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:16,839
Speaker 4: My son no speakers in the bat.

1655
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 2: And verdein hears his own song and he begins to

1656
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 2: casually sing along. Hearts of Fire Create Love Desire. So

1657
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:31,680
Speaker 2: this ballad on a regular day gives me chills. It's

1658
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 2: one of those ballads that just touches me. But in

1659
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:41,639
Speaker 2: this moment, those chills were multiplied. It's a crazy time

1660
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 2: in the world. I was literally alone for three months.

1661
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 2: I didn't have I didn't have human contact for three months.

1662
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:50,760
Speaker 2: But at that point it was still new and he

1663
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 2: starts singing along the first three months and he starts

1664
01:24:56,200 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 2: singing along just like nothing, to his own song. And

1665
01:25:00,600 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 2: I didn't take that moment for granted. I said to

1666
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:07,320
Speaker 2: myself as he's talking, how fortunate am I to have

1667
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 2: relationships with so many of my musical heroes, and how

1668
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:14,960
Speaker 2: fortunate am I to be able to experience their music

1669
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:16,639
Speaker 2: in this intimate way.

1670
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 4: It's crazy how we started this conversation.

1671
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:24,479
Speaker 2: However many you know now it's you know, an hour maybe,

1672
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:28,639
Speaker 2: and it all comes back to the same thing, because

1673
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:30,759
Speaker 2: the first things you asked me were about my heroes

1674
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:34,160
Speaker 2: and my friendships and relationships, and that's what sparked the

1675
01:25:34,200 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 2: whole thing.

1676
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:36,719
Speaker 4: So I said to myself at that moment.

1677
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a way for me to give people around

1678
01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 2: the world during this crazy time the feeling that I

1679
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 2: have right now, at this moment, of interacting with their

1680
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 2: favorite artists and experiencing their favorite songs in.

1681
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:54,760
Speaker 4: A more personal way than ever before. And a light

1682
01:25:54,840 --> 01:26:01,600
Speaker 4: bulb went off, and I imai. I immediately envisioned what

1683
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 4: became past the mic.

1684
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 2: I envisioned myself in my living room in front of

1685
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:12,200
Speaker 2: the fireplace with the palm trees and the flamingo wallpaper

1686
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:15,839
Speaker 2: and the lights dim down low, and I envisioned myself

1687
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:21,120
Speaker 2: dropping iconic hip hop and R and B records and

1688
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 2: bringing on screen the legendary hip hop and R and

1689
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 2: B icon who sings that song to sing along.

1690
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,680
Speaker 4: And I said, Fortina, I got to call you back.

1691
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 4: And I called my editor Ian.

1692
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:36,600
Speaker 2: And I said Ian, I said, we all know on

1693
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 2: zoom and FaceTime, if I trigger a song, no one

1694
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 2: can sing along in real time.

1695
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 4: They'll be five seconds late.

1696
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:41,680
Speaker 1: How can we do it?

1697
01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 4: And forty eight hours later we.

1698
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:49,760
Speaker 2: Concocted a way to break the code and have me

1699
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 2: trigger songs and have people sing along in real time.

1700
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:59,640
Speaker 2: And I started calling every icon of nineteen seventies and

1701
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 2: eighty R and B that I had relationships with. Now

1702
01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 2: I knew I couldn't call people that I had never

1703
01:27:05,320 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 2: met because the.

1704
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:07,880
Speaker 4: Idea was so crazy. No one would do this.

1705
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 1: They had to have some level of trust in me.

1706
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 2: And so I called back for Dean and his partner

1707
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,920
Speaker 2: in crime from Earth Win and Fire, Philip Bailey and

1708
01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 2: Cool from Cool in the Gang and Patrese Russian and

1709
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 2: Ray Parker Junior and Chryl Lynn and Howard Hewitt and

1710
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 2: Steve Arrington, and I said, guys, I have this idea.

1711
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit in my living room in front of

1712
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:35,400
Speaker 2: my turntables, and every time I drop one of your records,

1713
01:27:35,439 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 2: You're gonna pop on screen to sing along.

1714
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: Right now, did verses come out before this or the

1715
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:45,720
Speaker 1: d Nice? Is this before that or this just after

1716
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:46,840
Speaker 1: the same time.

1717
01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:48,439
Speaker 4: It's all around the same time.

1718
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: Come to fish. Yeah, I know.

1719
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:57,000
Speaker 2: D Nice started djaying on Instagram Live almost immediately when

1720
01:27:57,040 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 2: the lockdown started, so that probably preceded this phone call

1721
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 2: versus I'm forgetting the exact month they started, but I

1722
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 2: think it was all around the same few months, March, April, May, June, July.

1723
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: It was all.

1724
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 4: It was all very much happening, and.

1725
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 2: I start calling everyone, and shockingly, everyone says yes, except

1726
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 2: Philip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire. So I called

1727
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:25,560
Speaker 2: Redeen and I Goverdeen, can you talk to your you know,

1728
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 2: best friend of you know, fifty years And he goes,

1729
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 2: you know, Philip is very cautious and he likes to

1730
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 2: understand what he's doing. So I called Phillip's daughter, Trinity.

1731
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 2: I said, Trinity, can you help me? And finally I

1732
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:40,679
Speaker 2: finished the entire episode.

1733
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 8: You never told me that? He said no.

1734
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 6: He said no, no, my best friends, you know, at

1735
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 6: your birthday party when I wanted to strangle.

1736
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:52,960
Speaker 1: Oh god, I wasn't ready. It wasn't ready. I wasn't

1737
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:54,000
Speaker 1: ready send a block.

1738
01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 7: There's a lot of things we got to put a

1739
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 7: pin in. That's one we'll yeah.

1740
01:28:58,760 --> 01:29:03,360
Speaker 4: So I filmed the whole show and edited the whole show.

1741
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 2: Now, some things that people don't realize about the show

1742
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 2: is the show took me anywhere from four to eight

1743
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 2: weeks to create, to conceptualize, to playlists, to reach out

1744
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 2: to the artists, to film them all individually, and then

1745
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:21,040
Speaker 2: to put everything together.

1746
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 4: So it looked like I never got up from the chair.

1747
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 2: So the first episode is now assembled, and it's for

1748
01:29:29,240 --> 01:29:32,439
Speaker 2: Dean White playing bass on the song that inspired the

1749
01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 2: whole thing, that's the way of the World. Into Sayita

1750
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,439
Speaker 2: Garrett doing her duet with Michael Jackson. I just can't

1751
01:29:38,439 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 2: stop loving you and to picture He's Russian to and

1752
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:45,680
Speaker 2: remind me into Denise Williams, so on and so on,

1753
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:48,880
Speaker 2: and now there's twenty R.

1754
01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:49,839
Speaker 1: And B icons.

1755
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:54,200
Speaker 2: And I called Philip Bailey's daughter and I say, can

1756
01:29:54,240 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 2: I please speak to your dad? So she puts them

1757
01:29:57,080 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 2: on the phone.

1758
01:29:57,479 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: I go film.

1759
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 4: The thing I was talking about.

1760
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:01,800
Speaker 1: He said yeah.

1761
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 2: I said, look, I finished the whole episode. I left

1762
01:30:05,479 --> 01:30:10,200
Speaker 2: the space for you to sing with Maurice White. Maurice White,

1763
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:12,800
Speaker 2: who died I think now about ten years ago, the

1764
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 2: founder of the group. He sings half the song. The

1765
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 2: song is Maurice White and Philip Bailey. I said, I

1766
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:22,400
Speaker 2: want you to sing with Maurice White. So I said, look,

1767
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:24,799
Speaker 2: I'm going to send you the episode. Okay, let's schedule

1768
01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 2: a time to do it. I'm going to send it

1769
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:29,760
Speaker 2: to you. If you don't love how this turned out,

1770
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 2: we never had the call. Good but on everything I've

1771
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:38,439
Speaker 2: ever said, on everything we've ever collaborated on, and we

1772
01:30:38,520 --> 01:30:40,960
Speaker 2: had collaborated on a few things. I said, give me

1773
01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:44,240
Speaker 2: thirty minutes of your time and you have my word

1774
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 2: that you'll be proud of the product. So he did it,

1775
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 2: and I edited it and I sent it to him,

1776
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:55,320
Speaker 2: and five minutes later his daughter texted me in said approved.

1777
01:30:57,160 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 2: And that was the beginning of what became something I

1778
01:31:01,080 --> 01:31:05,759
Speaker 2: could have never ever imagined. And I finished this episode

1779
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 2: in late May early June, and I didn't premiere it

1780
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:12,320
Speaker 2: till a month later, and I texted it to Steve,

1781
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 2: who didn't know anything about it at that point, and

1782
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:18,639
Speaker 2: I said, Steve, watch this and call me back.

1783
01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 3: And you had you had recorded it online on Instagram Live.

1784
01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:25,920
Speaker 3: I would no, no, no, no, you just pre recorded.

1785
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,600
Speaker 2: Okay, So Instagram had nothing to do with past the

1786
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 2: Mike Evra YouTube. It was premiered on YouTube, and it

1787
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 2: was never filmed on Instagram Live or Zoom or any

1788
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 2: of the common apps we use.

1789
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:37,880
Speaker 1: Okay.

1790
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 4: It was a show that I filmed individually, edited.

1791
01:31:42,520 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 2: But when you couldn't go to anyone's house, it was

1792
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:47,759
Speaker 2: quite a puzzle to put together on how to teach artists,

1793
01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:50,439
Speaker 2: some of whom at that time were over the age

1794
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:55,320
Speaker 2: of seventy the computers, so I sent it to Steve. Now,

1795
01:31:55,400 --> 01:31:58,760
Speaker 2: before I sent it to Steve, I had sent this

1796
01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:06,280
Speaker 2: to every block, every website, every magazine, every network, and said,

1797
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:09,040
Speaker 2: would you premiere this for me? Now? You know, like

1798
01:32:09,120 --> 01:32:12,040
Speaker 2: a new single, premiere's, new music video premiere. It's a

1799
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 2: little vanity thing. It's not a big deal. Couldn't get

1800
01:32:14,240 --> 01:32:15,080
Speaker 2: one person's a premiere?

1801
01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 7: Wow?

1802
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:19,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, And my YouTube subscribership was low. I'm not a YouTuber.

1803
01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:23,799
Speaker 2: I have a basic subscribership. I've had six music videos.

1804
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 2: So I send it to Steve Rifkin, who's my dear

1805
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 2: friend and mentor for many years, and I say, Steve

1806
01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:30,720
Speaker 2: watched this.

1807
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:32,479
Speaker 4: Now he has no idea what he's about to watch.

1808
01:32:34,320 --> 01:32:37,720
Speaker 2: So he calls me twenty eight minutes later and says,

1809
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 2: this is the greatest thing I've ever seen. And I

1810
01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 2: said since COVID And he said no. Ever, he said,

1811
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 2: this is going to change your life. And it changed

1812
01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 2: my life really.

1813
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 7: Because I feel like we're hearing all the name dropping

1814
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 7: that you can, that you're saying, and all the things

1815
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:04,559
Speaker 7: that you've done up to this point. But I want

1816
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:08,400
Speaker 7: to go further back. How does this ten year old

1817
01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:12,360
Speaker 7: DJ who starts to get these turntables, starts djaying you're

1818
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 7: in Then you go to the high school college. What

1819
01:33:14,720 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 7: is the break that makes you feel that, Okay, there's

1820
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:21,080
Speaker 7: something here, I could really do this, I could do

1821
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 7: a career in this view. What's the break, what's the

1822
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 7: what's the thing that starts to get these people to

1823
01:33:25,720 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 7: call you to do these parties, to give you these

1824
01:33:28,360 --> 01:33:30,759
Speaker 7: these collaborations, connects you with these artists.

1825
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 2: There were many moments, and I'll tell you as as

1826
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:37,200
Speaker 2: many as you want to hear. But I mean started

1827
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 2: when I was ten years old, and I DJed every

1828
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:47,280
Speaker 2: single possible opportunity. I had to be in front of people.

1829
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:52,000
Speaker 2: I never enjoy DJing in my bedroom. I was never

1830
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:55,320
Speaker 2: a real scratch master. I was never that guy. I

1831
01:33:55,479 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 2: was never a competition style titles. I was never a

1832
01:33:58,800 --> 01:33:59,479
Speaker 2: turntable list.

1833
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 4: I was a part DJ.

1834
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:03,479
Speaker 2: So there's only so much you can do in your room.

1835
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 2: Can't practice routines. You need to be in front of.

1836
01:34:06,240 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 4: People because you feet off the crowd.

1837
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:08,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1838
01:34:09,040 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 4: So I would DJ every Rinky Dink school carnival.

1839
01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 1: The first two guests who drink the monster.

1840
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:17,679
Speaker 4: Yea, really.

1841
01:34:23,880 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 1: We appreciate Yeah, we appreciate that.

1842
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:34,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we just raised the value, but guests usually

1843
01:34:34,479 --> 01:34:34,680
Speaker 4: just go.

1844
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:35,360
Speaker 1: Straight with the drinks.

1845
01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 3: I re appreciate y'all, but ahead can't continue.

1846
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:44,680
Speaker 2: So I DJed every possible thing I could, and I

1847
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:49,679
Speaker 2: brought my milk rates of records and my turntables to school,

1848
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:53,920
Speaker 2: and although it sounds silly, it gave me my first

1849
01:34:56,720 --> 01:35:00,559
Speaker 2: experiences in front of anyone. Now I didn't value these

1850
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 2: kids musical opinion. In fact, I kind of had disdain

1851
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:08,240
Speaker 2: for it. I wanted to be in real life. But

1852
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:12,600
Speaker 2: as a sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade kid, and

1853
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 2: then into high school, it was a beginning school homecoming parties,

1854
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:22,840
Speaker 2: school dances, school proms, and then in this era of

1855
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:25,680
Speaker 2: New York, there were a lot of underage nightclubs that

1856
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:27,560
Speaker 2: were just out in the open, and I don't know,

1857
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:30,360
Speaker 2: I don't know how this existed, but there were full

1858
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:31,920
Speaker 2: on nightclubs that high school kids.

1859
01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:33,759
Speaker 4: Went to and everyone knew it and there was no party.

1860
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:36,479
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1861
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:40,560
Speaker 2: So I started djaying some of these parties, and that

1862
01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 2: was kind of chapter two because I was out there.

1863
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:47,519
Speaker 2: And then one thing led to another, and I met

1864
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:50,800
Speaker 2: some party promoters who at the time I thought and

1865
01:35:50,960 --> 01:35:57,720
Speaker 2: were real deal party promoters in actual New York City nightclubs,

1866
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:00,880
Speaker 2: and I went from doing these kind of high school

1867
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:06,320
Speaker 2: underage parties to actual New York hotspots to some degree.

1868
01:36:07,760 --> 01:36:11,200
Speaker 2: No no, no, by this I'm now seventeen, eighteen nineteen.

1869
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:15,599
Speaker 2: That would have been crazy if he was sad. Yeah, well,

1870
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 2: I had to learn how to use the turntable first,

1871
01:36:22,439 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 2: and those clubs were really the first exposure to real.

1872
01:36:27,560 --> 01:36:27,880
Speaker 4: People.

1873
01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 2: You know, in the nineties, everyone wanted to be an

1874
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 2: intern for a hip hop label, and if I was

1875
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:40,880
Speaker 2: old enough at the time, I would have wanted to

1876
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:43,680
Speaker 2: intern for Steve at Loud Records. That was you know,

1877
01:36:43,760 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 2: there were a few labels you would have interned at,

1878
01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:49,200
Speaker 2: you know as a Dream Loud Records, Deaf Jam Records.

1879
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:53,760
Speaker 7: I remember when he was thirteen years old, he would

1880
01:36:53,760 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 7: be at the office and would give him.

1881
01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:59,720
Speaker 2: Records because you know, back in the day there was

1882
01:36:59,760 --> 01:37:04,040
Speaker 2: aviously no Internet and the only way to get the

1883
01:37:04,120 --> 01:37:08,439
Speaker 2: newest hot record was to get it from the record label.

1884
01:37:08,640 --> 01:37:10,360
Speaker 2: To be in the record pools. Being in the record

1885
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:11,320
Speaker 2: on their list that.

1886
01:37:11,439 --> 01:37:13,960
Speaker 1: Was years old, you already had a name in the industry.

1887
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:16,679
Speaker 2: I had no name, but I was meeting everyone I could,

1888
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 2: and when somehow gets a Loud Records.

1889
01:37:19,200 --> 01:37:21,720
Speaker 7: You know, the babysitter was dating somebody that worked for me.

1890
01:37:22,439 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 4: Oh ship, that was So that's what was one in.

1891
01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:26,640
Speaker 4: That was one in.

1892
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 1: That was was fucking everything.

1893
01:37:31,840 --> 01:37:39,840
Speaker 6: And the babysitter, wait, his baby baby sitter, bab was

1894
01:37:40,040 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 6: fucking comb who controlled every beautiful woman in New York City.

1895
01:37:47,280 --> 01:37:50,599
Speaker 2: And the babysitter was also very good friends with Stretched Armstrong.

1896
01:37:52,960 --> 01:38:03,479
Speaker 2: Shut babysitter baby had two babysitters and Diane. I'm sure

1897
01:38:03,479 --> 01:38:05,280
Speaker 2: they might hear this. That's why I just shouted them out.

1898
01:38:05,960 --> 01:38:11,599
Speaker 2: And and they were friends, were Stretched Armstrong. They were

1899
01:38:11,640 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 2: friends with someone who worked for lab Rec't.

1900
01:38:15,080 --> 01:38:17,960
Speaker 4: So yeah it was. And so that wasn't the moment

1901
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:18,800
Speaker 4: that changed the game.

1902
01:38:18,880 --> 01:38:22,200
Speaker 2: But I had my antennas out right, and so what

1903
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:24,280
Speaker 2: I was saying was, you know, you wanted to intern.

1904
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:27,640
Speaker 2: So so one of the places I interned as a

1905
01:38:27,720 --> 01:38:31,960
Speaker 2: high schooler was actually not for someone in the music business,

1906
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:35,040
Speaker 2: but in the fashion business. But in this era, djaning

1907
01:38:35,200 --> 01:38:37,760
Speaker 2: for this person was as good as djang at a

1908
01:38:37,840 --> 01:38:42,800
Speaker 2: record label. Can anyone guess what that might be? Andy

1909
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 2: Hill figure? So I so I interned for Tommy Hill

1910
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 2: Figure's brother Andy now Tommy Hill Figure in the mid

1911
01:38:54,880 --> 01:39:00,599
Speaker 2: to late nineties was a revolving door of hip hop artists.

1912
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:03,880
Speaker 2: So being an intern for Andy Hill Figure met you

1913
01:39:04,040 --> 01:39:08,439
Speaker 2: folded rugbies and polos for q Tit and for Ray Kwan,

1914
01:39:09,920 --> 01:39:15,040
Speaker 2: and for Snoop and and so that was another kind

1915
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:19,160
Speaker 2: of path that led me out into the world. I

1916
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 2: remember Andy Hill Figure took me to Andre Herrel's white

1917
01:39:22,920 --> 01:39:26,559
Speaker 2: party at Tavern on the Green in nineteen ninety five.

1918
01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 2: I was fourteen, so Andre Herrel became a very dear

1919
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:37,200
Speaker 2: friend and mentor to me. When he passed, I was

1920
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:42,040
Speaker 2: filming past the mic and I always wished he could

1921
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:44,800
Speaker 2: have seen it because so much of what I do

1922
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 2: on the microphone comes from Andre Herrel. But that's I

1923
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 2: want to get to that, because that's a whole important.

1924
01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 4: Piece of the puzzle.

1925
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 2: But so the Hill Figures bring me to Tavern on

1926
01:39:56,439 --> 01:40:00,320
Speaker 2: the Green in Central Park for Andre Heral's fa aimed

1927
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:09,639
Speaker 2: white party, and I remember watching Kid Capri m tear

1928
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:12,720
Speaker 2: down that party. Now you have to remember I've only

1929
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:16,160
Speaker 2: maybe been to three parties. It wasn't like I had

1930
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:18,200
Speaker 2: been to thirty of these. I know, Kid Capri killed

1931
01:40:18,240 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 2: that one more than the other twenty nine. I hadn't

1932
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:20,919
Speaker 2: been anywhere.

1933
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:22,680
Speaker 4: I just heard about it.

1934
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:28,559
Speaker 2: So I'm watching Kid Capri, He's a master, the master,

1935
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:33,920
Speaker 2: and I'm watching Andre Herrel MC the party, and I

1936
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 2: can picture myself where I was standing a tavern on

1937
01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:40,479
Speaker 2: the green and I looked at Andre and I looked

1938
01:40:40,479 --> 01:40:42,640
Speaker 2: at Kid Capri and I said, I want to do that,

1939
01:40:45,600 --> 01:40:47,000
Speaker 2: and that became one of my goals.

1940
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:49,840
Speaker 1: God damn, it makes a noise for that.

1941
01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:53,519
Speaker 4: So I want to tell you something else.

1942
01:40:53,960 --> 01:41:00,439
Speaker 2: So the years, I think two thousand and two, I

1943
01:41:00,560 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 2: interned for def Jam as well in those years. And

1944
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 2: now I'm just making a name for myself. So I'm

1945
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:09,560
Speaker 2: finally getting the records from the labels without having to

1946
01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:14,879
Speaker 2: beg And it's two thousand and two and the hottest

1947
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:18,200
Speaker 2: record in the clubs is a song called nothing Oh

1948
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:27,840
Speaker 2: Goddamn by Noriega. And maybe I went to and excuse

1949
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:30,280
Speaker 2: my voice to damn a little horse, but good, you

1950
01:41:30,320 --> 01:41:31,760
Speaker 2: need some more water even no, I'm.

1951
01:41:31,640 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 4: Good, but that's why I'm drinking a lot. So I

1952
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:34,160
Speaker 4: am a little horse.

1953
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:41,240
Speaker 2: So I hear Flex playing this record, you know, over

1954
01:41:41,320 --> 01:41:44,400
Speaker 2: and over and over, and I'm now knee deep in

1955
01:41:44,439 --> 01:41:46,519
Speaker 2: the club, so I know this is the hottest record.

1956
01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 2: I'm I'm DJing at Cheetah on twenty first Street.

1957
01:41:50,320 --> 01:41:53,320
Speaker 3: Twenty first threet of Justice is right down the blot, Yeah,

1958
01:41:53,560 --> 01:41:54,880
Speaker 3: across the Yeah.

1959
01:41:55,080 --> 01:41:55,519
Speaker 5: How old?

1960
01:41:57,000 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 4: I was twenty one?

1961
01:41:57,920 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: Okay, So I.

1962
01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:00,439
Speaker 4: Don't have to record?

1963
01:42:01,120 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

1964
01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 2: So I go to Fat Beats. They don't have the record.

1965
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:07,000
Speaker 2: I go to Rock and Soul they have a bootleg.

1966
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:12,960
Speaker 2: I don't want a butleg. So I was always like

1967
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:19,800
Speaker 2: a sonic, you know. So I go to def Jam

1968
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 2: and I say, I need two copies of nothing.

1969
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:25,439
Speaker 4: What I tell you. They didn't want to give me

1970
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:26,000
Speaker 4: two copies.

1971
01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 6: It was so.

1972
01:42:29,960 --> 01:42:32,760
Speaker 2: It was so on fire. It's like the scene and

1973
01:42:32,840 --> 01:42:35,599
Speaker 2: Crush Groove when they're printing. It's like that or King

1974
01:42:35,680 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 2: of Rock in the movie, and they can't keep them

1975
01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:41,000
Speaker 2: on the ses. I couldn't get a copy. So they

1976
01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:44,160
Speaker 2: finally give me two copies. And I go home and

1977
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:47,280
Speaker 2: I put on the turntable to practice a few things

1978
01:42:47,720 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 2: and it skips.

1979
01:42:49,840 --> 01:42:52,320
Speaker 4: So I take it off and I put on the

1980
01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 4: double and it skips.

1981
01:42:56,479 --> 01:42:57,880
Speaker 1: I worked the record out here.

1982
01:42:58,160 --> 01:42:59,600
Speaker 4: Oh so, don't kill my punchline.

1983
01:43:02,120 --> 01:43:05,280
Speaker 2: So I go to def Jam back the next day,

1984
01:43:05,320 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 2: and I wish I remembered who was doing the streets team.

1985
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:10,080
Speaker 1: Well, he was ahead of it.

1986
01:43:10,200 --> 01:43:12,559
Speaker 2: It definitely could have been Rob Love. All right, let's

1987
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:14,599
Speaker 2: make it Rob up. So I go into Rob Love's office.

1988
01:43:15,320 --> 01:43:17,880
Speaker 2: It's definitely and I say I need too, And so

1989
01:43:17,960 --> 01:43:20,880
Speaker 2: I say I need two more. He says, said, no,

1990
01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:22,960
Speaker 2: he just gave you two. You begged for them yesterday.

1991
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:25,439
Speaker 2: I said, they're skipping at an integral part of the song.

1992
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 2: It's not even the third verse, it's like at the beginning.

1993
01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 2: So I said, he goes, well, those are your two.

1994
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:36,439
Speaker 2: I said, the whole batch is fucked up.

1995
01:43:36,479 --> 01:43:37,040
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.

1996
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,840
Speaker 2: He goes, you're crazy to get out of here. So

1997
01:43:42,800 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 2: I say, you have a turntable here? He says yeah.

1998
01:43:45,360 --> 01:43:49,800
Speaker 2: I said, who whose office is the turntable in? So

1999
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:52,960
Speaker 2: whose ever office that was? And we take the vinyl

2000
01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 2: and I say to him, take two vinyl from anywhere

2001
01:43:56,200 --> 01:43:59,400
Speaker 2: in this stack top middle bottom. I'm like David Blaine

2002
01:43:59,479 --> 01:44:03,760
Speaker 2: with the cards. Just pick a vinyl. So he puts

2003
01:44:03,840 --> 01:44:08,040
Speaker 2: them on same spot, same spot, same pot. I said,

2004
01:44:08,040 --> 01:44:09,639
Speaker 2: I just discovered a flaw in you're pressing.

2005
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:14,160
Speaker 7: I did.

2006
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 1: I did hear it, but I didn't remember it, Like

2007
01:44:16,320 --> 01:44:18,040
Speaker 1: how he just described.

2008
01:44:18,800 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 4: The whole pressing was fucked up.

2009
01:44:22,080 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 1: But this is what's ill.

2010
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:25,320
Speaker 7: This is how big the record was. People were still

2011
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:29,679
Speaker 7: playing the fucking record. You can't stop a hit record,

2012
01:44:30,400 --> 01:44:31,960
Speaker 7: and you can't stop wearing the mouth right.

2013
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 2: So, at the end of the day, and in my

2014
01:44:36,160 --> 01:44:39,680
Speaker 2: early days of djaying, when I felt I don't want

2015
01:44:39,720 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 2: to say when I was getting hot, When I felt

2016
01:44:41,520 --> 01:44:43,400
Speaker 2: I was getting hot, I'm not. I'm in no place

2017
01:44:43,439 --> 01:44:45,120
Speaker 2: to say I was getting hot. That's for other people

2018
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:47,439
Speaker 2: to say. But when I felt I was getting a

2019
01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:47,920
Speaker 2: little hot.

2020
01:44:49,760 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 4: There were there were four hip hop.

2021
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:59,639
Speaker 2: Records of that era that were the biggest and greatest

2022
01:45:00,280 --> 01:45:06,439
Speaker 2: club records ever at that time, and they have also

2023
01:45:06,479 --> 01:45:09,200
Speaker 2: had to test the time and remain songs that kids

2024
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 2: in their twenties now it's in every word too, and

2025
01:45:12,040 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 2: those songs are jay Z, give it to Me, gnoring

2026
01:45:17,120 --> 01:45:22,439
Speaker 2: nothing for else, fifty in the club, and lean back.

2027
01:45:24,840 --> 01:45:25,160
Speaker 10: Now you.

2028
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 2: There's no way to explain what those songs did if

2029
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:32,280
Speaker 2: you aren't there. You can try some things.

2030
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:33,240
Speaker 4: You just have to feel.

2031
01:45:34,439 --> 01:45:37,400
Speaker 2: You can't explain what it was. We could play the

2032
01:45:37,479 --> 01:45:41,280
Speaker 2: song four times in a row and it was a

2033
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:46,320
Speaker 2: magical moment in New York. And you know, I always

2034
01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:50,480
Speaker 2: tell people there's a lot of things that allow your stars.

2035
01:45:50,200 --> 01:45:53,479
Speaker 4: To align in life. It's not just talent, it's not

2036
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 4: just luck.

2037
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:58,160
Speaker 2: There's so many stars that have to align, and one

2038
01:45:58,200 --> 01:46:00,560
Speaker 2: of them is being a New Yorker who rose to

2039
01:46:00,680 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 2: prominence in the era of that music.

2040
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:03,639
Speaker 1: That's luck.

2041
01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 2: Because if I was coming of age now in New York,

2042
01:46:07,680 --> 01:46:10,400
Speaker 2: I don't think my life would have taken the same

2043
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:12,080
Speaker 2: course because the music is different.

2044
01:46:13,040 --> 01:46:14,200
Speaker 1: It's still disposable now.

2045
01:46:14,280 --> 01:46:17,840
Speaker 4: It's kind of like, yeah, and hip hop is different.

2046
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:19,880
Speaker 1: DJ culture is different, is different now.

2047
01:46:19,920 --> 01:46:20,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was.

2048
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:23,120
Speaker 2: I was coming of age. I don't even want to

2049
01:46:23,160 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 2: say rise to prominence. I was coming of age in

2050
01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 2: an era of New York hip hop that was magical.

2051
01:46:30,800 --> 01:46:31,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.

2052
01:46:33,479 --> 01:46:38,879
Speaker 2: I agree, And it gave me a platform because those parties,

2053
01:46:38,960 --> 01:46:41,879
Speaker 2: as you talk about the hot parties, the exclusive parties,

2054
01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:45,320
Speaker 2: you can't DJ them if they're not happening, and they

2055
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:47,920
Speaker 2: were happening, and they were happening in my backyard. And

2056
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:50,280
Speaker 2: all the music you played at those parties was being

2057
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:53,120
Speaker 2: recorded in my backyard from people who grew up in

2058
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:53,679
Speaker 2: New York.

2059
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:55,920
Speaker 4: And that's the stars aligning.

2060
01:46:56,080 --> 01:46:57,960
Speaker 2: You could have been born anywhere else, so you could

2061
01:46:58,000 --> 01:46:59,800
Speaker 2: have you could have been brought up anywhere else.

2062
01:47:00,920 --> 01:47:04,559
Speaker 3: Well, I want to stop for a second. I want

2063
01:47:04,600 --> 01:47:06,599
Speaker 3: to let you know that our show is about giving

2064
01:47:06,640 --> 01:47:10,000
Speaker 3: people their flowers. You know why they alive, you know,

2065
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:12,200
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, why they could smell them. Man,

2066
01:47:12,200 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 3: we wanted to give y'all both even though.

2067
01:47:25,880 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, so before you start, quick time, I'm gonna

2068
01:47:28,479 --> 01:47:29,160
Speaker 7: take a quick piss.

2069
01:47:32,320 --> 01:47:34,120
Speaker 4: Well I was gonna thank you on air, but I'll wait.

2070
01:47:34,560 --> 01:47:39,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh ship, look soone me flooded.

2071
01:47:40,120 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, because to stop we're sleeping here tonight.

2072
01:47:45,479 --> 01:47:49,360
Speaker 3: Yes, I can't. I couldn't believe it though, but we did.

2073
01:47:49,600 --> 01:47:52,240
Speaker 3: Didn't make it right there you go, we we.

2074
01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:54,639
Speaker 10: We are.

2075
01:47:55,360 --> 01:47:57,640
Speaker 1: We almost crashed, by the way. I'm just let you know.

2076
01:47:57,800 --> 01:47:59,640
Speaker 5: I don't know what was that.

2077
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 3: That's honey, Did you just take a shot of honey?

2078
01:48:02,800 --> 01:48:09,960
Speaker 3: That this was the dangerous on the way to work

2079
01:48:10,120 --> 01:48:12,839
Speaker 3: is the most dangerous has ever been. We were swerving.

2080
01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:14,080
Speaker 3: We couldn't get here.

2081
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:19,240
Speaker 4: We could uh, but uh, I can't believe you came.

2082
01:48:19,400 --> 01:48:21,960
Speaker 2: I kept thinking Steve was gonna call and say everyone's

2083
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:22,800
Speaker 2: not coming or left.

2084
01:48:22,840 --> 01:48:24,839
Speaker 4: I mean it was not water.

2085
01:48:24,840 --> 01:48:27,479
Speaker 3: Because once, yeah, once I hit Steve and I was

2086
01:48:27,560 --> 01:48:29,280
Speaker 3: like you know, and he was like, let's let's let's

2087
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:29,800
Speaker 3: make it happen.

2088
01:48:29,840 --> 01:48:31,920
Speaker 1: I was just like, you know what, let's just let's

2089
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:34,240
Speaker 1: just let's just do it. Let's just make it. But

2090
01:48:34,439 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie.

2091
01:48:35,200 --> 01:48:38,320
Speaker 3: I regredit on the way here because I was so scared,

2092
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 3: Like like at first it was it was it was like,

2093
01:48:41,000 --> 01:48:42,439
Speaker 3: was that the not exciting?

2094
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:47,240
Speaker 1: I didn't want to I want to limits? Yeah, right, I.

2095
01:48:48,920 --> 01:48:52,880
Speaker 5: Saw cars on the water and then we got to

2096
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 5: the highway and.

2097
01:48:59,040 --> 01:49:01,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not a good idea. It was not

2098
01:49:01,760 --> 01:49:08,160
Speaker 1: a good idea. I was scared of. Yeah, that was us,

2099
01:49:08,439 --> 01:49:10,799
Speaker 1: so hold on, Yeah, I was scared.

2100
01:49:10,960 --> 01:49:15,600
Speaker 3: So look, literally, let me ask, because you said you

2101
01:49:15,680 --> 01:49:17,519
Speaker 3: did a whole bunch of past mics, what made you

2102
01:49:17,680 --> 01:49:21,519
Speaker 3: pick for your residency right one of us in Vegas?

2103
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:23,679
Speaker 7: What made you pick these artists?

2104
01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:25,680
Speaker 10: You know?

2105
01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:27,599
Speaker 1: Actually both? You know what I mean? Which whoever want

2106
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 1: to go first? How did you make the decision.

2107
01:49:32,640 --> 01:49:33,160
Speaker 8: Before you go?

2108
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:38,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, when it comes to curating music, I feel he's

2109
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 6: probably the best DJ in the world I respect when

2110
01:49:42,200 --> 01:49:44,760
Speaker 6: it when it comes to somebody curating the show.

2111
01:49:45,760 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 7: So he's always going to come with the mural, right,

2112
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:51,759
Speaker 7: And then I'll say you know what, maybe.

2113
01:49:51,640 --> 01:49:55,200
Speaker 8: Had this color ad that color. But to me, he's

2114
01:49:55,240 --> 01:49:56,360
Speaker 8: one of the best DJs in the RW.

2115
01:49:56,439 --> 01:50:01,439
Speaker 6: I'm not going to question his th Sometimes I'll say,

2116
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:04,880
Speaker 6: you're out of your fucking mind on this, but I mean,

2117
01:50:05,080 --> 01:50:07,960
Speaker 6: he puts us face, he puts this together, so.

2118
01:50:10,200 --> 01:50:14,880
Speaker 3: I'm really time. I'm not going to question his curation. Okay,

2119
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:18,120
Speaker 3: So before you say this, how does this work? Does

2120
01:50:18,640 --> 01:50:21,240
Speaker 3: the Vegas registery reach out to you and then you

2121
01:50:21,320 --> 01:50:24,559
Speaker 3: say to Steve, Yo, listen, listen, how does this work?

2122
01:50:26,520 --> 01:50:28,320
Speaker 2: So first of all, thank you, Steve, because those are

2123
01:50:28,439 --> 01:50:31,479
Speaker 2: very very big, very big words to say the greatest

2124
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:35,040
Speaker 2: of anything. And I just want to I want to

2125
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:37,280
Speaker 2: answer your question. But can I take sixty seconds just

2126
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:40,320
Speaker 2: to say that I'm a product of so many people,

2127
01:50:41,200 --> 01:50:45,200
Speaker 2: I'm a product of Dougie Fresh. Without watching him over

2128
01:50:45,200 --> 01:50:47,160
Speaker 2: the years, I would have no idea how to unite

2129
01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:51,040
Speaker 2: artists on stage. He's the godfather of that and in

2130
01:50:51,120 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 2: many ways has I don't want to say past me

2131
01:50:53,439 --> 01:50:57,559
Speaker 2: the torch allowed me to hold the torch, and he's

2132
01:50:57,600 --> 01:51:00,680
Speaker 2: another hero that has become a dear friend. And and

2133
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:03,360
Speaker 2: I studied of course Flash HRK and Bambada, but also

2134
01:51:03,479 --> 01:51:07,960
Speaker 2: Kid Capri and SNS and Funk Master, Flex Legend, And

2135
01:51:08,520 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 2: without all of those people I just named, and Andre

2136
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:13,960
Speaker 2: Herrell as a Master of the microphone, there would be

2137
01:51:14,200 --> 01:51:16,720
Speaker 2: no DJ Cassidy and certainly no Past the Mic. I mean,

2138
01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:19,880
Speaker 2: everything I say on the Mic is all of those

2139
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:26,040
Speaker 2: guys in a blender, right. So there were chapters to

2140
01:51:26,160 --> 01:51:28,120
Speaker 2: this journey. You know, I told you the story of

2141
01:51:28,200 --> 01:51:32,880
Speaker 2: the first episode. After the first episode, I knew I

2142
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 2: wanted to celebrate my hip hop heroes. And whereas the

2143
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:39,599
Speaker 2: first episode started with earth Wind and Fire, the second

2144
01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:43,599
Speaker 2: episode started with Run DMC. And when from Run DMC

2145
01:51:44,360 --> 01:51:47,840
Speaker 2: to Elo cool J, you got DMC two Run and yep,

2146
01:51:47,880 --> 01:51:50,599
Speaker 2: and they did Sucker mcs together, and then LL did

2147
01:51:50,720 --> 01:51:53,880
Speaker 2: Radio and then Chuck d did Rebel without a Pause,

2148
01:51:54,479 --> 01:51:56,920
Speaker 2: and then Rock Him did Eric be as President, and

2149
01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 2: then Dougie Fresh did the show and Big Daddy Kane

2150
01:51:59,240 --> 01:52:02,400
Speaker 2: did Warm it Up. And you know, over twenty five

2151
01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:04,559
Speaker 2: artists were on that show, most of which who then

2152
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 2: joined us at my Radio City Past the Mic show

2153
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:10,360
Speaker 2: last summer, which was a full circle moment. But and

2154
01:52:10,400 --> 01:52:13,320
Speaker 2: then after volume two, there was a volume three where

2155
01:52:13,360 --> 01:52:15,519
Speaker 2: I wanted to pay homage to my R and B

2156
01:52:15,640 --> 01:52:18,160
Speaker 2: heroes of the nineties the New Jack Swing era, and

2157
01:52:18,280 --> 01:52:20,360
Speaker 2: that show featured Keith, Sweat and Boyce to Men and

2158
01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:23,360
Speaker 2: TLC and SWV and all six members of New Edition

2159
01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:28,400
Speaker 2: and then in a very long story short, the show

2160
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 2: went from Steve Rifkin to Jesse Collins, renowned television producer

2161
01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:37,719
Speaker 2: of every award show known to man, to Connie Orlando

2162
01:52:37,800 --> 01:52:42,559
Speaker 2: at BET. Volume one that I did completely on my own,

2163
01:52:43,080 --> 01:52:49,960
Speaker 2: premiered in July, Volume two, August, Volume three, October Volume four,

2164
01:52:50,080 --> 01:52:53,160
Speaker 2: a television special November twenty nine, five weeks later that

2165
01:52:53,240 --> 01:52:54,799
Speaker 2: over two million TVs watched.

2166
01:52:56,160 --> 01:53:00,160
Speaker 4: And I don't want to speak free, I'm curious or

2167
01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:00,639
Speaker 4: your opinion.

2168
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:04,760
Speaker 2: I could have never, in my wildest imagination thought that

2169
01:53:04,880 --> 01:53:07,519
Speaker 2: that would become a full on television special in a

2170
01:53:07,600 --> 01:53:13,240
Speaker 2: matter of five weeks, with millions of TVs tuned into

2171
01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:15,519
Speaker 2: in on its first airing.

2172
01:53:18,280 --> 01:53:20,400
Speaker 6: I told you your life was going to change. So

2173
01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:22,400
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, I mean, I knew

2174
01:53:22,439 --> 01:53:27,280
Speaker 6: what this was and I knew how he curated. Let

2175
01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:27,920
Speaker 6: me ask something.

2176
01:53:30,240 --> 01:53:33,920
Speaker 7: The first one that you did was everybody involved in it,

2177
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 7: strictly off of all the relationships you've been like it

2178
01:53:38,439 --> 01:53:41,680
Speaker 7: wasn't It wasn't about like you're hiring these people to

2179
01:53:41,800 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 7: do this.

2180
01:53:42,160 --> 01:53:42,679
Speaker 1: It was all.

2181
01:53:42,680 --> 01:53:45,720
Speaker 2: Relither people that were in my phone or people those

2182
01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:48,200
Speaker 2: people knew and conference in right.

2183
01:53:48,520 --> 01:53:51,080
Speaker 7: Right, but really because it's important for people to understand

2184
01:53:51,200 --> 01:53:53,240
Speaker 7: like the power of relationships.

2185
01:53:53,360 --> 01:53:54,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's go through it.

2186
01:53:54,800 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 2: If I can remember so Berdein and Philip, I've told

2187
01:53:57,040 --> 01:54:00,519
Speaker 2: you that story, Sayita Garrett, who wrote and Man in

2188
01:54:00,560 --> 01:54:03,120
Speaker 2: the Mirror from Michael Jackson and saying on I just

2189
01:54:03,240 --> 01:54:04,000
Speaker 2: can't stop love.

2190
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:05,439
Speaker 4: Ain't you is a dear friend?

2191
01:54:08,280 --> 01:54:11,880
Speaker 2: But Terrees Russian who sings Remind Me, which has been

2192
01:54:11,960 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 2: sampled and hip hop a thousand times and Forget Me nots,

2193
01:54:15,840 --> 01:54:19,920
Speaker 2: which became men in Black. I called her directly, she

2194
01:54:20,080 --> 01:54:22,879
Speaker 2: was a friend. Howard Hewett of Shalamar called him directly.

2195
01:54:25,360 --> 01:54:25,720
Speaker 1: Who else?

2196
01:54:25,800 --> 01:54:28,240
Speaker 2: Ray Parker Junior called him directly. I said, Ray, you

2197
01:54:28,320 --> 01:54:29,960
Speaker 2: played on to be Real by Sherylynn right?

2198
01:54:29,960 --> 01:54:30,479
Speaker 4: He said yeah.

2199
01:54:30,479 --> 01:54:32,560
Speaker 2: I said, do you keep in contact with her? He said,

2200
01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:35,560
Speaker 2: of course, now she's on the phone. And the list

2201
01:54:35,640 --> 01:54:40,800
Speaker 2: goes on. When I called Big Daddy Kane to take

2202
01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:45,120
Speaker 2: part in volume two, I looked at my text. I

2203
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:47,880
Speaker 2: hadn't spoken to Big Daddy Kane in six years. I

2204
01:54:47,920 --> 01:54:50,960
Speaker 2: don't call Big Daddy Kane, but I do have his number,

2205
01:54:51,920 --> 01:54:55,520
Speaker 2: and I called him in July of twenty twenty, so

2206
01:54:55,680 --> 01:54:58,320
Speaker 2: almost four years ago, and he picks up the phone

2207
01:54:58,360 --> 01:55:01,160
Speaker 2: and goes, hey, Ca, if you're calling me about that

2208
01:55:01,240 --> 01:55:04,600
Speaker 2: past the mic thing I'm in. And those were the

2209
01:55:04,760 --> 01:55:08,480
Speaker 2: kind of answers I was getting strictly based on Volume one,

2210
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:12,840
Speaker 2: and so Volume one, two and three were just a snowball.

2211
01:55:14,640 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 2: And by the time it went from Steve to Jesse

2212
01:55:17,400 --> 01:55:21,440
Speaker 2: Collins to Kanye Orlando, it's now a series of bet specials.

2213
01:55:21,520 --> 01:55:24,760
Speaker 2: And it went from twenty five thousand people watching on

2214
01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:29,160
Speaker 2: YouTube Live to one hundred on YouTube Live to maybe

2215
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:32,640
Speaker 2: quarter a million to literally Nielsen ratings like two point

2216
01:55:32,760 --> 01:55:38,440
Speaker 2: one million televisions on the first airing, and long story

2217
01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:44,640
Speaker 2: short after seven television specials and ten episodes all together,

2218
01:55:45,840 --> 01:55:48,200
Speaker 2: I had passed the mic to two hundred and twenty legends.

2219
01:55:49,640 --> 01:55:52,360
Speaker 2: And those two hundred and twenty legends spanned forty years

2220
01:55:52,440 --> 01:55:55,640
Speaker 2: of hip hop and R and B, earth Wind and Fire,

2221
01:55:55,720 --> 01:56:01,320
Speaker 2: Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Charlie Wilson, Hall and Oates, New Edition, TLC,

2222
01:56:01,600 --> 01:56:11,400
Speaker 2: S w V, and Vogue, He sweat Teddy Reiley and

2223
01:56:11,520 --> 01:56:15,879
Speaker 2: that was just the first three, and then Missy Elliott,

2224
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:21,200
Speaker 2: Y Cleve, Jean, Buster Rhymes, Wu Tang Clan, Ice Cube,

2225
01:56:21,400 --> 01:56:26,640
Speaker 2: Sean Paul, Shaggy, super Cat, Maxy Priest. I mean, we

2226
01:56:26,800 --> 01:56:29,800
Speaker 2: did a whole we do anything you guys, super Cat

2227
01:56:30,040 --> 01:56:32,280
Speaker 2: so and we did, and we did a whole episode

2228
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:37,680
Speaker 2: of reggae music. And I want to thank this amazing woman,

2229
01:56:37,800 --> 01:56:43,440
Speaker 2: Sharon Burke. Sharon Burke is kind of like the mayor

2230
01:56:44,400 --> 01:56:49,280
Speaker 2: of reggae music. And I met Sharon because she helped

2231
01:56:49,280 --> 01:56:52,600
Speaker 2: me get Shaggy. No, I'm sorry, she helped me get

2232
01:56:55,000 --> 01:56:58,280
Speaker 2: show me get Beanie Man on a previous episode, and

2233
01:56:58,400 --> 01:56:59,840
Speaker 2: we hit it off and I called and I said,

2234
01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:02,240
Speaker 2: I told b Et, I want to do the next

2235
01:57:02,280 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 2: episode all reggae.

2236
01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:05,480
Speaker 4: I said, will you co produce it with me?

2237
01:57:06,080 --> 01:57:07,400
Speaker 1: And she did and we.

2238
01:57:07,520 --> 01:57:13,960
Speaker 2: Produced this episode that featured Shaka de mis Imploied Terror,

2239
01:57:14,080 --> 01:57:18,400
Speaker 2: Fabulous sister Nancy doing bumb Bomb. And you know, her

2240
01:57:18,520 --> 01:57:21,560
Speaker 2: story is incredible. She deserves her flowers because that song

2241
01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:22,280
Speaker 2: has been used.

2242
01:57:22,840 --> 01:57:24,520
Speaker 7: I think she got a documentary right now. They've got

2243
01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:25,760
Speaker 7: a documentary about it right now.

2244
01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:27,720
Speaker 4: Right So it all just came full circle.

2245
01:57:28,360 --> 01:57:30,680
Speaker 2: She never made a sense from this track or the

2246
01:57:30,760 --> 01:57:34,560
Speaker 2: top line or the song for years, and so she

2247
01:57:34,800 --> 01:57:39,080
Speaker 2: was on the show. And so Sharon calls me and says,

2248
01:57:39,120 --> 01:57:42,040
Speaker 2: you have to come to Kingston for the premiere. So

2249
01:57:43,320 --> 01:57:46,080
Speaker 2: I'm used to watching the show in my living room

2250
01:57:46,120 --> 01:57:49,160
Speaker 2: with a couple of friends. I never did anything, She says,

2251
01:57:49,200 --> 01:57:52,120
Speaker 2: you know, just after COVID we're just flying again. She

2252
01:57:52,160 --> 01:57:55,360
Speaker 2: said you have to come to Kingston. And so I've

2253
01:57:55,400 --> 01:57:59,800
Speaker 2: never been to Jamaica, let alone Kingston. And so Sharon

2254
01:58:00,320 --> 01:58:04,760
Speaker 2: throws this event for me and all the artists who

2255
01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 2: were on the show, the mass majority of live in Kingston,

2256
01:58:06,880 --> 01:58:07,520
Speaker 2: so they all came.

2257
01:58:07,640 --> 01:58:10,000
Speaker 4: Junior Reid who did want Blood on the show.

2258
01:58:11,520 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 2: And words can't really explain what I felt on that trip,

2259
01:58:17,560 --> 01:58:20,320
Speaker 2: you know, for me past the mic was and in

2260
01:58:20,440 --> 01:58:23,840
Speaker 2: some sense it still feels like my living room show,

2261
01:58:24,680 --> 01:58:27,120
Speaker 2: in which I'm surprised if anyone who I don't know

2262
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 2: has ever heard of it. So when I walk into

2263
01:58:31,160 --> 01:58:34,320
Speaker 2: Kingston and everyone knows that the show's happened, it hasn't

2264
01:58:34,320 --> 01:58:37,000
Speaker 2: even aired yet, and everyone knows it's airing, and there's

2265
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:40,120
Speaker 2: a whole show dedicated to reggae. It was really it

2266
01:58:40,200 --> 01:58:42,720
Speaker 2: was quite a feeling, and honestly, in many senses, I

2267
01:58:42,840 --> 01:58:45,520
Speaker 2: have favorite episodes for different reasons, but that's my favorite

2268
01:58:45,520 --> 01:58:49,040
Speaker 2: episode because I think we stepped out of the comfort

2269
01:58:49,080 --> 01:58:50,800
Speaker 2: of hip hop and arm beat to some respect. But

2270
01:58:51,200 --> 01:58:53,360
Speaker 2: as a kid, dance hall music was hip hop. Yea,

2271
01:58:54,200 --> 01:58:56,800
Speaker 2: you know, I learned dance hall music through funk Master Flex.

2272
01:58:56,880 --> 01:59:01,040
Speaker 2: That was my in to knowing Super Cat Records. I

2273
01:59:01,200 --> 01:59:03,040
Speaker 2: learned it through hip hop, just like I learned soul

2274
01:59:03,160 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 2: music from hip hop. So after ten episodes, two hundred

2275
01:59:09,680 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 2: and twenty icon spanning forty years, and then Steve gets

2276
01:59:15,400 --> 01:59:19,080
Speaker 2: an email from the Black Promoter's Collective, who's an independent

2277
01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:22,480
Speaker 2: concert promoter who was very hot that year with the

2278
01:59:22,560 --> 01:59:25,760
Speaker 2: New Edition tour and the Mary Tour and the Maxwell Tour,

2279
01:59:26,160 --> 01:59:28,080
Speaker 2: and they said, have you thought about taking the show

2280
01:59:28,160 --> 01:59:32,040
Speaker 2: on the road, And of course we had, but they

2281
01:59:32,080 --> 01:59:38,520
Speaker 2: saw the vision. And over the past year we've been

2282
01:59:38,560 --> 01:59:42,120
Speaker 2: putting on past the Mic live concerts across the country

2283
01:59:43,400 --> 01:59:46,200
Speaker 2: and I've been walking out in front of arenas.

2284
01:59:47,800 --> 01:59:50,440
Speaker 4: That are sold out with ten to fifteen thousand people.

2285
01:59:51,240 --> 01:59:54,920
Speaker 2: And there's no feeling like this because at the end

2286
01:59:54,920 --> 01:59:58,440
Speaker 2: of the day, this whole thing started with this little

2287
01:59:58,520 --> 02:00:02,480
Speaker 2: idea of calling artists and convincing them to do this

2288
02:00:02,640 --> 02:00:06,920
Speaker 2: crazy concept to bring celebration to people at a crazy time,

2289
02:00:07,480 --> 02:00:11,040
Speaker 2: and it turned into a celebration of the soundtrack of

2290
02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:14,400
Speaker 2: our lives. It turned into a celebration of our favorite

2291
02:00:14,440 --> 02:00:17,560
Speaker 2: songs and our favorite artists, a celebration of our heroes.

2292
02:00:18,720 --> 02:00:22,480
Speaker 4: And so I have this incredible.

2293
02:00:24,600 --> 02:00:26,880
Speaker 2: Over the past year, I've had this incredible opportunity every

2294
02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:31,560
Speaker 2: month to walk on stage and experience that celebration in

2295
02:00:31,600 --> 02:00:34,280
Speaker 2: front of ten to fifteen thousand people with my heroes

2296
02:00:34,320 --> 02:00:37,840
Speaker 2: on stage, and every one of those shows has been

2297
02:00:37,880 --> 02:00:41,800
Speaker 2: a unique show. The show in North Carolina was different

2298
02:00:41,840 --> 02:00:43,560
Speaker 2: than the show in New Jersey. It was different from

2299
02:00:43,600 --> 02:00:45,720
Speaker 2: the show at Radio City. So every show is like

2300
02:00:45,800 --> 02:00:51,240
Speaker 2: a special event curated specifically for that time and place.

2301
02:00:52,280 --> 02:00:56,160
Speaker 2: And the show at Radio City was the greatest night

2302
02:00:56,240 --> 02:01:04,560
Speaker 2: of my life. Sugarhill Gang, Curtis, Blow, Cool Mo, D, Busy,

2303
02:01:04,640 --> 02:01:08,480
Speaker 2: b krs one mc shan. But listen to what I

2304
02:01:08,600 --> 02:01:11,800
Speaker 2: just said though on one stage, Cool Mo, D, Busy,

2305
02:01:11,920 --> 02:01:21,600
Speaker 2: B mc shan, krs one, Infamous Beefs, and Naughty My

2306
02:01:21,720 --> 02:01:25,120
Speaker 2: Nature and Rock came in, Big Daddy Kane and Karras

2307
02:01:25,160 --> 02:01:27,680
Speaker 2: one and Dougie Fresh and Slick Rick and Lords of

2308
02:01:27,680 --> 02:01:30,960
Speaker 2: the Underground and the Fushnickens and EPMD and.

2309
02:01:34,080 --> 02:01:37,360
Speaker 4: I will never forget every minute of that night. I don't.

2310
02:01:37,360 --> 02:01:39,040
Speaker 4: I don't think it can be topped. It's it's my

2311
02:01:39,240 --> 02:01:39,960
Speaker 4: thriller now.

2312
02:01:40,120 --> 02:01:42,640
Speaker 2: It's like in its own I just I can't touch

2313
02:01:42,760 --> 02:01:44,840
Speaker 2: that in my own in my own heart and soul.

2314
02:01:46,200 --> 02:01:48,640
Speaker 2: It was everything that I ever dreamt of. And I

2315
02:01:48,840 --> 02:01:51,560
Speaker 2: felt I don't feel it often, but I felt that

2316
02:01:51,760 --> 02:01:55,520
Speaker 2: night that I had made some contribution, that I did

2317
02:01:56,360 --> 02:02:00,000
Speaker 2: something for the music and the culture that gave me life,

2318
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:06,000
Speaker 2: life and identity. And you know, I remember some artists

2319
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:08,800
Speaker 2: saying that night that they had never been to Radio City.

2320
02:02:10,640 --> 02:02:13,000
Speaker 2: And I got a call from Roxanne Chante the next

2321
02:02:13,040 --> 02:02:18,560
Speaker 2: morning telling me just that, and so it's it's it's

2322
02:02:18,600 --> 02:02:20,400
Speaker 2: you know, we talked about a lot of memories early on.

2323
02:02:20,520 --> 02:02:21,960
Speaker 2: I think in one of the stories I said at

2324
02:02:21,960 --> 02:02:24,000
Speaker 2: that time, that was the greatest night. This was the

2325
02:02:24,080 --> 02:02:28,160
Speaker 2: greatest night of my life. So all this led to Vegas.

2326
02:02:28,640 --> 02:02:31,600
Speaker 2: And and you know you asked about the artist and

2327
02:02:32,680 --> 02:02:36,240
Speaker 2: how did you pick those artist? It's always been I

2328
02:02:36,360 --> 02:02:38,680
Speaker 2: just want to say about the artists, right, I'm really

2329
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:43,200
Speaker 2: just the messenger. I'm just really I have the fortunate

2330
02:02:44,160 --> 02:02:51,360
Speaker 2: position of being a bridge, right and if I'm nothing

2331
02:02:51,440 --> 02:02:54,240
Speaker 2: else in my life but that bridge, I'm happy with that.

2332
02:02:55,800 --> 02:02:58,320
Speaker 4: And I really feel.

2333
02:03:01,960 --> 02:03:05,480
Speaker 2: Again, sorry for this voice, but I really feel that

2334
02:03:08,440 --> 02:03:10,720
Speaker 2: this is going to sound very poetic. But I feel

2335
02:03:10,800 --> 02:03:13,080
Speaker 2: in all episodes and shows that passed the mic, the

2336
02:03:13,240 --> 02:03:19,240
Speaker 2: artists have chosen themselves. I think it It was always

2337
02:03:19,360 --> 02:03:26,560
Speaker 2: just clear, you know when when when Steven live Nation

2338
02:03:26,920 --> 02:03:33,520
Speaker 2: first started talking about Vegas, I was immediately inspired by

2339
02:03:33,960 --> 02:03:38,320
Speaker 2: the shows that we think of as the iconic Vegas shows.

2340
02:03:38,960 --> 02:03:42,720
Speaker 1: The rat Pack, That's what I said earlier. Yeah, I

2341
02:03:42,760 --> 02:03:44,480
Speaker 1: said that we were talking about that earlier.

2342
02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:51,000
Speaker 4: Elvis Presley, Liberaci. Steve always calls me Liberaci, so.

2343
02:03:51,680 --> 02:03:52,360
Speaker 1: He definitely did.

2344
02:03:54,320 --> 02:03:55,920
Speaker 4: So I can't wait to hear what was said before

2345
02:03:55,920 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 4: I got here.

2346
02:04:01,200 --> 02:04:06,760
Speaker 2: So, the rat Pack, Elvis, Presley, Liberachi, Wayne Newton.

2347
02:04:07,440 --> 02:04:09,120
Speaker 1: And these are the first people with residencies.

2348
02:04:10,480 --> 02:04:12,640
Speaker 2: They were the first ones to have a long term,

2349
02:04:13,000 --> 02:04:14,760
Speaker 2: the most definitive residencies.

2350
02:04:14,800 --> 02:04:15,920
Speaker 4: There were people in between.

2351
02:04:16,920 --> 02:04:18,280
Speaker 1: H I'm sorry for cutting it.

2352
02:04:18,600 --> 02:04:19,280
Speaker 8: I did forget.

2353
02:04:20,120 --> 02:04:23,680
Speaker 1: My father did bring Elvis to Vegas. He brought him

2354
02:04:23,720 --> 02:04:25,560
Speaker 1: to Elvis. He brought Elvis to Vegas.

2355
02:04:25,760 --> 02:04:28,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, the International Hotel, and he's told me that before.

2356
02:04:28,360 --> 02:04:28,680
Speaker 1: Wow.

2357
02:04:29,040 --> 02:04:34,320
Speaker 2: So so that's that's the DNA of this conception. And

2358
02:04:34,440 --> 02:04:38,320
Speaker 2: when this started, I didn't know that. As the esthetic

2359
02:04:38,400 --> 02:04:41,120
Speaker 2: and vibe started to form, he told me that. So

2360
02:04:42,760 --> 02:04:47,640
Speaker 2: I've always been fascinated with old world Las Vegas, with

2361
02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:53,560
Speaker 2: Freemont Street, the old hotels, the gangster stories, the neon signed,

2362
02:04:53,680 --> 02:04:55,520
Speaker 2: the lights, the glamour.

2363
02:04:55,360 --> 02:04:57,520
Speaker 7: The black and white of it all, the mob exactly

2364
02:04:57,760 --> 02:04:58,440
Speaker 7: black and white of it.

2365
02:04:58,680 --> 02:04:58,840
Speaker 6: Yeah.

2366
02:04:58,880 --> 02:05:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, the black and white of it all, even though

2367
02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:07,280
Speaker 2: it was actually very bright, very bright. So I thought

2368
02:05:07,320 --> 02:05:09,960
Speaker 2: about the rat Pack, and I thought about.

2369
02:05:11,320 --> 02:05:16,240
Speaker 4: Who are they? Were they unknowns? Now they were five stars?

2370
02:05:19,120 --> 02:05:21,160
Speaker 1: Is that we saw a flyer? When you see the

2371
02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:23,320
Speaker 1: basket of min it's like almost like the rat Pack.

2372
02:05:23,360 --> 02:05:25,400
Speaker 1: I didn't even I didn't even think of that exactly.

2373
02:05:25,520 --> 02:05:31,200
Speaker 2: So the rat Pack is five stars Frank Sinatra, Sammy

2374
02:05:31,280 --> 02:05:35,600
Speaker 2: Davis Junior, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford.

2375
02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:40,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2376
02:05:40,120 --> 02:05:44,120
Speaker 2: So these guys were singers, actors, comedians. They didn't need

2377
02:05:44,600 --> 02:05:46,320
Speaker 2: each other. They were stars.

2378
02:05:47,440 --> 02:05:48,040
Speaker 4: But what did they do?

2379
02:05:49,200 --> 02:05:54,960
Speaker 2: They came together and formed an ensemble that the world

2380
02:05:55,080 --> 02:05:59,400
Speaker 2: had never seen. That you could only see in one.

2381
02:05:59,280 --> 02:06:01,280
Speaker 1: Place, and that place was Las Vegas.

2382
02:06:02,240 --> 02:06:05,640
Speaker 2: And remember how we started, And I said, if an

2383
02:06:05,680 --> 02:06:08,120
Speaker 2: alien came from outer space and said, what is hip hop?

2384
02:06:08,800 --> 02:06:10,960
Speaker 2: I would show him a picture run the MCGM massage

2385
02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:15,640
Speaker 2: and playing this is the Sucker. If an alien came

2386
02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:18,080
Speaker 2: from out of space and said what is Las Vegas?

2387
02:06:18,120 --> 02:06:24,000
Speaker 2: I would show them rap back. So I thought there

2388
02:06:24,120 --> 02:06:30,000
Speaker 2: was an opportunity to create something groundbreaking and something trailblazing.

2389
02:06:30,880 --> 02:06:35,440
Speaker 2: There is very little hip hop in the concerts space

2390
02:06:35,560 --> 02:06:38,720
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. There is almost no hip hop in

2391
02:06:38,800 --> 02:06:44,200
Speaker 2: the residency space. Yeah, and they have new September and

2392
02:06:44,240 --> 02:06:48,800
Speaker 2: that's brand new so and drink chams were coming soon.

2393
02:06:49,480 --> 02:06:51,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, we need you.

2394
02:06:51,440 --> 02:06:56,560
Speaker 3: In July, Usha and Ussher and Ushia even though marriage

2395
02:06:56,600 --> 02:07:00,160
Speaker 3: considered a hip hop overall, they don't polyse.

2396
02:07:00,440 --> 02:07:02,640
Speaker 2: Because Usher and There's been a bunch of R and

2397
02:07:02,720 --> 02:07:07,520
Speaker 2: B for sure, okay, but virtually, with maybe one or

2398
02:07:07,560 --> 02:07:11,560
Speaker 2: two exceptions, there's been no hip hop in the residency space,

2399
02:07:11,800 --> 02:07:16,160
Speaker 2: very little in the concert space. And certainly DJs have

2400
02:07:16,280 --> 02:07:20,120
Speaker 2: always existed in Vegas in the world of nightlife, but

2401
02:07:20,280 --> 02:07:24,200
Speaker 2: not in the world of concerts. So I saw a

2402
02:07:24,280 --> 02:07:28,560
Speaker 2: tremendous opportunity to take inspiration from those that made Vegas

2403
02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:31,840
Speaker 2: what it is and to redefine it through a hip

2404
02:07:31,880 --> 02:07:35,640
Speaker 2: hop lens, through a New York lens largely, and to

2405
02:07:35,760 --> 02:07:41,040
Speaker 2: create an ensemble cast of five artists that all have

2406
02:07:41,240 --> 02:07:44,960
Speaker 2: their global careers, that don't need to come together, but

2407
02:07:45,200 --> 02:07:48,120
Speaker 2: choose to come together to create a once in a

2408
02:07:48,240 --> 02:07:52,080
Speaker 2: lifetime experience that you can only see in Vegas and

2409
02:07:52,480 --> 02:07:56,440
Speaker 2: all roads led to Job Rule, Fat Joe Slick Rick,

2410
02:07:56,520 --> 02:07:59,280
Speaker 2: and Dougie Fresh and myself as the core five.

2411
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:09,960
Speaker 13: Our Rule has coined us the rap pack Mmm looks

2412
02:08:11,440 --> 02:08:15,320
Speaker 13: and you know, every night, so it's every night this goes.

2413
02:08:15,400 --> 02:08:16,760
Speaker 4: So it's it's, it's.

2414
02:08:16,760 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 7: It's because it's just as long as there's every week

2415
02:08:20,760 --> 02:08:21,120
Speaker 7: every night.

2416
02:08:21,840 --> 02:08:26,600
Speaker 8: This is every weekend for the month of July, every weekend.

2417
02:08:26,360 --> 02:08:31,400
Speaker 4: Yes, Friday Saturday. So on night one.

2418
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:35,360
Speaker 2: We have Ray Kwan and ghost Face as our special

2419
02:08:35,440 --> 02:08:39,760
Speaker 2: guests every night one, No just on night one of

2420
02:08:39,880 --> 02:08:43,720
Speaker 2: the residency, every first night of the weekend. On on

2421
02:08:43,960 --> 02:08:48,400
Speaker 2: night two of the Residency, we have Public Enemy joining

2422
02:08:48,480 --> 02:08:49,120
Speaker 2: us on stage.

2423
02:08:49,160 --> 02:08:51,680
Speaker 4: Now, I just want to talk about this for a second.

2424
02:08:51,840 --> 02:08:54,120
Speaker 2: Public Enemy, first of all, has only performed once in

2425
02:08:54,240 --> 02:08:59,160
Speaker 2: America in seven years wow, meaning seven years ago right right.

2426
02:09:03,440 --> 02:09:06,160
Speaker 2: Out of all the people involved in the residency, for

2427
02:09:06,320 --> 02:09:12,320
Speaker 2: some reason, Chuck has been the person who has hosted

2428
02:09:12,640 --> 02:09:13,839
Speaker 2: the ad for the show.

2429
02:09:13,760 --> 02:09:17,080
Speaker 4: More than anyone. I cannot tell you what that means.

2430
02:09:18,400 --> 02:09:24,120
Speaker 2: There's really no words to explain how I feel when

2431
02:09:24,200 --> 02:09:28,720
Speaker 2: I see Past the Mic live on Chuck the Instagram

2432
02:09:29,880 --> 02:09:33,760
Speaker 2: the Ultimate Truth like capital t r U t H,

2433
02:09:34,280 --> 02:09:39,920
Speaker 2: there's no more truth. Night three and four we are

2434
02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:47,800
Speaker 2: welcoming a global icon a Steve Rifkin label mates and

2435
02:09:48,080 --> 02:09:55,160
Speaker 2: Discovery Akon and Night five we are welcoming Jermaine dupri

2436
02:09:55,440 --> 02:09:58,360
Speaker 2: and De Brat together doing something.

2437
02:09:58,280 --> 02:10:00,640
Speaker 4: Very special that we're Carl curated.

2438
02:10:02,200 --> 02:10:04,920
Speaker 2: And Night six we're welcoming too Short and War and

2439
02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:08,320
Speaker 2: g and it's going to be very special night. Obviously

2440
02:10:08,480 --> 02:10:10,920
Speaker 2: Vegas is in the West Coast, so that's going to

2441
02:10:10,960 --> 02:10:12,280
Speaker 2: be a particularly.

2442
02:10:12,360 --> 02:10:14,840
Speaker 7: And just to be clear for the people watching listening,

2443
02:10:15,040 --> 02:10:18,520
Speaker 7: when you say welcoming to the addition to fact, Joe.

2444
02:10:21,920 --> 02:10:23,440
Speaker 1: In addition, right, and the.

2445
02:10:23,480 --> 02:10:25,680
Speaker 6: Great thing about the month of Live for this year

2446
02:10:25,800 --> 02:10:31,000
Speaker 6: is you have the NBA Summer League in Vegas, but

2447
02:10:31,120 --> 02:10:36,040
Speaker 6: you also have the Olympic team practicing. Oh so pretty

2448
02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:38,840
Speaker 6: much eighty five percent of the NBA. It's going to

2449
02:10:38,880 --> 02:10:42,080
Speaker 6: be in Vegas, So this will literally be the number

2450
02:10:42,120 --> 02:10:44,240
Speaker 6: one residency for the month of Joe.

2451
02:10:44,440 --> 02:10:47,839
Speaker 2: The hotels is that Seasons Seasons, okay, plan in Hollywood,

2452
02:10:48,160 --> 02:10:54,040
Speaker 2: owned by Caesars so and and when this all started,

2453
02:10:54,080 --> 02:10:57,080
Speaker 2: Steve was very adamant about July. You know, I'm not

2454
02:10:57,120 --> 02:10:59,640
Speaker 2: a sports guy. As I've said several times, Steve is

2455
02:11:00,400 --> 02:11:02,880
Speaker 2: and so Steve goes No, I go to Vegas every July.

2456
02:11:03,120 --> 02:11:06,320
Speaker 4: It's you can feel the energy, the culture. We have

2457
02:11:06,440 --> 02:11:07,080
Speaker 4: to do it in July.

2458
02:11:07,160 --> 02:11:07,800
Speaker 1: And he was right.

2459
02:11:08,800 --> 02:11:12,360
Speaker 2: And you know, Jaw and Joe and Rick and Doug

2460
02:11:12,440 --> 02:11:19,040
Speaker 2: and myself are designing inexperience like you've never seen before.

2461
02:11:19,560 --> 02:11:21,560
Speaker 2: If you've been to a past to my concert over

2462
02:11:21,640 --> 02:11:26,360
Speaker 2: the past year, you've seen a three hour continuous show

2463
02:11:27,200 --> 02:11:31,520
Speaker 2: with no intermission and no breaks and no moments of

2464
02:11:31,640 --> 02:11:37,520
Speaker 2: silence and no opening acts and no headliners. It's straight

2465
02:11:37,640 --> 02:11:41,120
Speaker 2: one hundred miles per hour from eight pm to eleven pm.

2466
02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:45,360
Speaker 2: But in Vegas, we're taking that and multiplying it times ten.

2467
02:11:45,960 --> 02:11:46,640
Speaker 8: So what does that mean?

2468
02:11:47,880 --> 02:11:51,240
Speaker 2: We are creating a show that is more interweaved and

2469
02:11:51,400 --> 02:11:53,080
Speaker 2: collaborative than ever before.

2470
02:11:54,480 --> 02:11:56,320
Speaker 6: If I didn't believe in this, I was supposed to

2471
02:11:56,400 --> 02:12:02,360
Speaker 6: do Allow thirty on July fifth, and knowing what he does,

2472
02:12:03,480 --> 02:12:07,160
Speaker 6: I said, Cassidy, I'm gonna shut my show down. And

2473
02:12:07,240 --> 02:12:09,480
Speaker 6: I was doing the big theater T Mobile which hold

2474
02:12:09,520 --> 02:12:13,640
Speaker 6: twenty two thousand people, and I had WU three six,

2475
02:12:13,760 --> 02:12:18,520
Speaker 6: I had everybody, and I debit it for this. That's

2476
02:12:18,560 --> 02:12:23,160
Speaker 6: how much I believed in this. Because even though it's

2477
02:12:23,400 --> 02:12:26,520
Speaker 6: a month, this is going to be you know when

2478
02:12:26,560 --> 02:12:29,080
Speaker 6: he mentioned Wayne Newton or you know, this is going

2479
02:12:29,160 --> 02:12:32,280
Speaker 6: to be, this is gonna last. Because what they're doing

2480
02:12:32,440 --> 02:12:35,080
Speaker 6: is it's an experience. It's just not a typical hip

2481
02:12:35,120 --> 02:12:37,200
Speaker 6: hop show. This is really going to be a real

2482
02:12:37,360 --> 02:12:40,720
Speaker 6: fucking experience and take it to a whole different place.

2483
02:12:43,520 --> 02:12:46,360
Speaker 1: I respect that. I think I'm giving you a contact. Huh,

2484
02:12:47,200 --> 02:12:51,440
Speaker 1: he's not. I keep looking. I'm like he said, Aye, man, I.

2485
02:12:51,840 --> 02:12:57,320
Speaker 2: Was losing my voice before I got it. I was

2486
02:12:57,400 --> 02:12:59,400
Speaker 2: losing the voice already, but now it's taken to a

2487
02:12:59,400 --> 02:12:59,920
Speaker 2: different level.

2488
02:13:00,040 --> 02:13:02,920
Speaker 1: You want to explain him the rules with quick Thomas Live.

2489
02:13:04,360 --> 02:13:07,320
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, actually just hitting me back, and I was

2490
02:13:07,360 --> 02:13:10,480
Speaker 7: just time you got you play quick time already with us.

2491
02:13:10,560 --> 02:13:12,880
Speaker 7: Once you're you're new to quick time. So this is

2492
02:13:12,920 --> 02:13:15,760
Speaker 7: what we canna give you two, two different.

2493
02:13:17,120 --> 02:13:19,440
Speaker 1: I lost my choices. Choices.

2494
02:13:19,880 --> 02:13:23,200
Speaker 7: You get to pick one, and we don't drink. If

2495
02:13:23,240 --> 02:13:26,080
Speaker 7: you say both are neither. We all drink, but you're not.

2496
02:13:26,280 --> 02:13:28,440
Speaker 7: You guys aren't drinking. So you get to pick.

2497
02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:38,640
Speaker 1: He could be your designated drinker. This I got some drinking.

2498
02:13:39,560 --> 02:13:40,480
Speaker 1: Shout to us to drink.

2499
02:13:41,960 --> 02:13:50,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, right here they drink, right, Yeah, you're my drinker.

2500
02:13:51,040 --> 02:13:52,240
Speaker 1: You drink. Who's drinking?

2501
02:13:52,920 --> 02:13:53,520
Speaker 7: You're my driver?

2502
02:13:53,640 --> 02:13:54,160
Speaker 8: Hey, come.

2503
02:13:57,120 --> 02:13:59,600
Speaker 7: He's not going to be I can bring it.

2504
02:14:00,040 --> 02:14:03,800
Speaker 8: He drinks, right, Come on, you're my teammate.

2505
02:14:04,720 --> 02:14:05,320
Speaker 5: You gotta drink.

2506
02:14:06,640 --> 02:14:08,160
Speaker 7: You got one hair?

2507
02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:11,800
Speaker 1: You got I got with the hoodie? What you want?

2508
02:14:11,840 --> 02:14:12,040
Speaker 10: You want?

2509
02:14:13,800 --> 02:14:14,640
Speaker 4: I can't have the driver.

2510
02:14:15,560 --> 02:14:15,760
Speaker 1: Driver.

2511
02:14:16,760 --> 02:14:20,920
Speaker 7: I mean, let's go away. I'm funked up right now.

2512
02:14:21,400 --> 02:14:25,280
Speaker 7: You got Sonny, Sonny, listen, we.

2513
02:14:25,320 --> 02:14:28,720
Speaker 1: Got Yeah, you got the fleet market show. You gotta relax.

2514
02:14:28,800 --> 02:14:30,240
Speaker 4: I don't think you're gonna have to drink at all.

2515
02:14:31,280 --> 02:14:33,600
Speaker 7: What we call I don't know, because now it's too

2516
02:14:33,640 --> 02:14:39,920
Speaker 7: free to contest. If he State sales Champs, the state champs,

2517
02:14:40,520 --> 02:14:42,280
Speaker 7: this is yeah.

2518
02:14:42,640 --> 02:14:45,560
Speaker 1: Bring up? Come on, who's producing the.

2519
02:14:47,200 --> 02:14:47,480
Speaker 4: Hold on?

2520
02:14:47,920 --> 02:14:54,640
Speaker 1: Bring up? Bringing back I take the first two. I'm

2521
02:14:54,760 --> 02:14:56,680
Speaker 1: give the let's get his drinker up there.

2522
02:14:57,400 --> 02:14:58,680
Speaker 7: But where's this drinker?

2523
02:15:05,040 --> 02:15:05,280
Speaker 2: Then?

2524
02:15:05,400 --> 02:15:05,800
Speaker 5: Happened to me?

2525
02:15:05,920 --> 02:15:07,320
Speaker 1: Man, I can't even talk anybody.

2526
02:15:08,280 --> 02:15:12,200
Speaker 7: Hey, yeah, let me do the first two. I'm giving

2527
02:15:12,200 --> 02:15:12,840
Speaker 7: them both to Steve.

2528
02:15:14,760 --> 02:15:19,960
Speaker 1: Let care, I want his man Go ahead, man, you

2529
02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:21,280
Speaker 1: can sit next to it.

2530
02:15:21,400 --> 02:15:24,280
Speaker 5: Doesn't We got to stay right here for you?

2531
02:15:26,480 --> 02:15:28,440
Speaker 4: What what if I just answer everything and no one

2532
02:15:28,520 --> 02:15:29,240
Speaker 4: has to drink.

2533
02:15:31,760 --> 02:15:34,680
Speaker 1: Both for y'all going bounce back and forth. So because

2534
02:15:35,160 --> 02:15:37,680
Speaker 1: you explained of that, if you say both, yeah.

2535
02:15:37,520 --> 02:15:39,080
Speaker 7: We're giving you to let me say it because I

2536
02:15:39,120 --> 02:15:40,600
Speaker 7: don't know why the fuck I can't even talk. But

2537
02:15:41,080 --> 02:15:41,960
Speaker 7: you get two choices.

2538
02:15:42,320 --> 02:15:43,120
Speaker 1: You say this or that.

2539
02:15:43,840 --> 02:15:47,040
Speaker 7: If you pick one, nobody drinks. If you say both

2540
02:15:47,160 --> 02:15:47,560
Speaker 7: or neither.

2541
02:15:48,480 --> 02:15:50,200
Speaker 1: Correct, I got it. We all drink. That's it.

2542
02:15:50,560 --> 02:15:51,360
Speaker 4: I get it right.

2543
02:15:51,480 --> 02:15:57,040
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna start with you, Steve Tupac or d

2544
02:15:57,200 --> 02:16:05,120
Speaker 3: m X both, but when they're not drinking.

2545
02:16:07,720 --> 02:16:09,040
Speaker 1: Silo Hello, sollo.

2546
02:16:09,000 --> 02:16:11,160
Speaker 7: Drinking cheers cheers, cheers.

2547
02:16:11,240 --> 02:16:16,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Also to you against my life this moment,

2548
02:16:16,680 --> 02:16:19,720
Speaker 3: wanted this one. Yeah, I think you're gonna I think

2549
02:16:19,720 --> 02:16:21,720
Speaker 3: you're gonna let me not, let me not leave the

2550
02:16:21,760 --> 02:16:25,480
Speaker 3: witness yeah, don't lead the winnows m O P or

2551
02:16:25,560 --> 02:16:28,120
Speaker 3: mob D Come on, no hear?

2552
02:16:28,120 --> 02:16:28,880
Speaker 8: I mean, what the fuck?

2553
02:16:31,000 --> 02:16:33,800
Speaker 6: It should be sense? And I mean they're both loud.

2554
02:16:33,840 --> 02:16:36,520
Speaker 6: I mean, how can I Oh yeah, I'm thinking.

2555
02:16:36,320 --> 02:16:41,040
Speaker 3: About people's first Yeah, no, this is not this. There's

2556
02:16:41,040 --> 02:16:44,520
Speaker 3: a guy who white questions over there. I wouldn't say both,

2557
02:16:44,560 --> 02:16:45,279
Speaker 3: but I'm saying.

2558
02:16:45,120 --> 02:16:46,320
Speaker 1: I mean the witness.

2559
02:16:46,360 --> 02:16:51,680
Speaker 6: Now I'm gonna you know, I had more records with

2560
02:16:51,879 --> 02:16:55,000
Speaker 6: Mob Deep, okay, than I did with m O P.

2561
02:16:55,280 --> 02:17:00,160
Speaker 6: So you're saying, but Annie Up might be one of

2562
02:17:00,200 --> 02:17:01,600
Speaker 6: my favorite records of all time.

2563
02:17:05,280 --> 02:17:12,520
Speaker 9: Christmas cop out Rift, damn you all right, man, let's go,

2564
02:17:12,720 --> 02:17:18,959
Speaker 9: all right, let's go Cassidy NOAs or Kiss Jada Kiss.

2565
02:17:18,800 --> 02:17:22,200
Speaker 1: To be exactly, m hmm.

2566
02:17:23,440 --> 02:17:26,280
Speaker 4: I would like to answer elaborate.

2567
02:17:26,440 --> 02:17:29,119
Speaker 7: You can say why your criteria, why you would say

2568
02:17:29,120 --> 02:17:30,160
Speaker 7: one or the other or both?

2569
02:17:30,600 --> 02:17:30,920
Speaker 1: Nos.

2570
02:17:32,000 --> 02:17:35,240
Speaker 2: My my favorite album of all time is Illmatic, and

2571
02:17:35,360 --> 02:17:39,240
Speaker 2: it holds a very special place in my heart, and

2572
02:17:39,480 --> 02:17:44,160
Speaker 2: so anything that includes NAS might go to NAS because

2573
02:17:44,200 --> 02:17:44,360
Speaker 2: of that.

2574
02:17:44,720 --> 02:17:53,800
Speaker 7: Okay, that's fair, all right, Steve Pete rock and you

2575
02:17:53,920 --> 02:17:56,920
Speaker 7: gotta he did he did it masterfully. So I mean

2576
02:17:57,200 --> 02:17:58,440
Speaker 7: I'm not as smart as she is.

2577
02:18:00,120 --> 02:18:03,080
Speaker 1: You are you have to be.

2578
02:18:08,080 --> 02:18:11,600
Speaker 14: Wow, man, Let's let's just say, oh, they are both louder.

2579
02:18:14,360 --> 02:18:15,760
Speaker 14: I mean you can say, bo I ain't mad at

2580
02:18:15,800 --> 02:18:25,800
Speaker 14: both goth Steve. Let them give me a real question,

2581
02:18:28,280 --> 02:18:29,920
Speaker 14: all right, let me do this one.

2582
02:18:32,360 --> 02:18:32,800
Speaker 1: You can do that.

2583
02:18:34,160 --> 02:18:38,680
Speaker 7: I'm not talking to anymore. Let's go Wu Tang or

2584
02:18:38,800 --> 02:18:42,720
Speaker 7: n w A Wu Tang. Hello fast, I'm from New York.

2585
02:18:43,240 --> 02:18:46,960
Speaker 7: You know, it's just it's a good I experienced it.

2586
02:18:47,200 --> 02:18:47,800
Speaker 1: I'm not talking.

2587
02:18:48,360 --> 02:18:51,160
Speaker 2: It's not music versus music for me, It's just memories

2588
02:18:51,280 --> 02:18:54,480
Speaker 2: versus memories. I experienced it in a different way as

2589
02:18:54,520 --> 02:18:57,040
Speaker 2: a New Yorker. I experienced n w A in the

2590
02:18:57,120 --> 02:19:00,520
Speaker 2: moment more secondhand. So I don't I don't have the

2591
02:19:00,600 --> 02:19:03,480
Speaker 2: same kind of memories with that music. Although I love

2592
02:19:03,520 --> 02:19:06,039
Speaker 2: it and I know every word, I didn't I didn't

2593
02:19:06,080 --> 02:19:07,400
Speaker 2: experience it the same way.

2594
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:08,200
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2595
02:19:08,240 --> 02:19:10,600
Speaker 3: I think that's one of my favorite arguments on drinking

2596
02:19:10,680 --> 02:19:13,800
Speaker 3: chances with you and Tony yo yo the same. But

2597
02:19:13,920 --> 02:19:16,480
Speaker 3: I feel like that he just broke it down, No, bro,

2598
02:19:17,160 --> 02:19:21,320
Speaker 3: because that's right, he broke it down.

2599
02:19:21,400 --> 02:19:24,240
Speaker 1: When he broke it down, the experience, Yeah, yeah.

2600
02:19:24,200 --> 02:19:26,360
Speaker 3: That's what I meant by it, Like I'm not bringing,

2601
02:19:26,400 --> 02:19:30,520
Speaker 3: but still no, I still Tony ye Hill completely missco

2602
02:19:30,720 --> 02:19:31,959
Speaker 3: screwed the whole thing.

2603
02:19:34,360 --> 02:19:35,840
Speaker 4: I told him who it was.

2604
02:19:36,200 --> 02:19:38,840
Speaker 7: He did not like it, and an engage in argument.

2605
02:19:39,840 --> 02:19:40,879
Speaker 1: I love it beautiful.

2606
02:19:40,920 --> 02:19:43,240
Speaker 15: Ye asked you top five rappers of all times? Yeah,

2607
02:19:43,280 --> 02:19:46,040
Speaker 15: and I've always been the biggest ice Cube fan. I

2608
02:19:46,120 --> 02:19:48,240
Speaker 15: said ice Cream was my in my top five. He

2609
02:19:48,360 --> 02:19:51,560
Speaker 15: was my number one, and he didn't like to hantswer

2610
02:19:51,840 --> 02:19:54,800
Speaker 15: ice Cube did past the mic. Yeah, ice Cube did

2611
02:19:54,879 --> 02:19:56,400
Speaker 15: do past the mike. He was the two hundred and

2612
02:19:56,440 --> 02:19:57,160
Speaker 15: twentieth artist.

2613
02:19:57,440 --> 02:20:00,280
Speaker 3: God damn big of ice Cube. Wherever you at, needs

2614
02:20:00,320 --> 02:20:03,360
Speaker 3: you back on drink chaps. Okay, jay Z a big

2615
02:20:03,440 --> 02:20:03,880
Speaker 3: daddy king.

2616
02:20:04,760 --> 02:20:05,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with jay Z.

2617
02:20:06,959 --> 02:20:08,080
Speaker 7: Look at you answering that.

2618
02:20:09,560 --> 02:20:14,320
Speaker 3: I'm going with you, and then I'm coming something even

2619
02:20:14,959 --> 02:20:17,560
Speaker 3: on this one. And you can say it at the

2620
02:20:17,600 --> 02:20:22,279
Speaker 3: same time. If you want Big Pun or Biggie Smalls.

2621
02:20:22,600 --> 02:20:25,359
Speaker 1: M Stee, you go first. I'm going.

2622
02:20:26,760 --> 02:20:28,440
Speaker 8: I just have to say he's my heart Pun.

2623
02:20:29,879 --> 02:20:30,600
Speaker 1: I'll say Biggie.

2624
02:20:31,400 --> 02:20:32,720
Speaker 8: Okay, who do you need to say that?

2625
02:20:33,000 --> 02:20:33,600
Speaker 1: Technically you do?

2626
02:20:34,280 --> 02:20:37,240
Speaker 8: I mean to say, we're not gonna be Yeah.

2627
02:20:37,360 --> 02:20:38,119
Speaker 1: I'm taking a shot.

2628
02:20:39,879 --> 02:20:42,039
Speaker 2: I mean, if you seems questions are really fair. I mean,

2629
02:20:42,080 --> 02:20:44,080
Speaker 2: you're making between I.

2630
02:20:44,120 --> 02:20:47,200
Speaker 7: Think you've got to be on there good. I think no, no, no, Look,

2631
02:20:47,240 --> 02:20:49,520
Speaker 7: I mean I obviously I can't for you in your mind,

2632
02:20:49,720 --> 02:20:51,920
Speaker 7: you can't. But when we're telling our guests to have

2633
02:20:52,080 --> 02:20:54,400
Speaker 7: their criteria, was very close to you.

2634
02:20:54,520 --> 02:20:57,680
Speaker 3: So by that, that's why I wouldn't I wouldn't let that.

2635
02:20:57,879 --> 02:21:01,680
Speaker 3: I wouldn't let that change my decision. I kind of

2636
02:21:01,720 --> 02:21:04,160
Speaker 3: think that they both lived a short career, like they

2637
02:21:04,240 --> 02:21:07,160
Speaker 3: both had so much more to go, So I would

2638
02:21:07,240 --> 02:21:08,840
Speaker 3: say both, we're not really.

2639
02:21:08,680 --> 02:21:11,080
Speaker 7: Talking about careers because remember we're telling the guests it's

2640
02:21:11,120 --> 02:21:12,959
Speaker 7: whatever your criteria, that's my.

2641
02:21:21,200 --> 02:21:21,760
Speaker 1: I just not.

2642
02:21:23,560 --> 02:21:26,720
Speaker 2: But don't we don't we expect Steve to favor those

2643
02:21:26,800 --> 02:21:30,000
Speaker 2: artists his careers that he absolutely guided.

2644
02:21:30,360 --> 02:21:33,280
Speaker 7: That's why he's been so great guiding those careers.

2645
02:21:33,400 --> 02:21:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the only hard questions for Steve are

2646
02:21:36,280 --> 02:21:38,600
Speaker 2: not a loud artist for someone else's when it's too

2647
02:21:38,720 --> 02:21:39,360
Speaker 2: loud artists.

2648
02:21:39,520 --> 02:21:40,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's why we're gonna go to this wo

2649
02:21:42,440 --> 02:21:46,240
Speaker 1: project Pat Flip. It's just not fair.

2650
02:21:49,400 --> 02:21:50,680
Speaker 4: You're killing him project Pat?

2651
02:21:51,360 --> 02:21:52,200
Speaker 1: Wow? You big?

2652
02:21:53,480 --> 02:21:57,480
Speaker 6: There a reason in there that you big? Yeah, I mean,

2653
02:21:58,720 --> 02:22:01,040
Speaker 6: Flip was the last artist. I signed the lad before

2654
02:22:01,240 --> 02:22:05,600
Speaker 6: they kicked me out, so I had the record with him,

2655
02:22:05,879 --> 02:22:11,840
Speaker 6: but with Project Pat and Hypnotized Minds and three six.

2656
02:22:13,200 --> 02:22:14,800
Speaker 6: I don't think you guys realized it.

2657
02:22:14,879 --> 02:22:18,720
Speaker 7: Was Project Pat first before Unfield three three six came first.

2658
02:22:19,120 --> 02:22:21,879
Speaker 1: And then then you know, you know Pat was Pat

2659
02:22:21,959 --> 02:22:25,800
Speaker 1: and Juicy are brothers, right, brothers like that?

2660
02:22:26,000 --> 02:22:29,320
Speaker 6: Blood blood brother I'm almost positive blood brothers.

2661
02:22:29,560 --> 02:22:37,960
Speaker 1: Wow, Google, you said another? He said, I'm gonna go somewhere.

2662
02:22:38,040 --> 02:22:40,959
Speaker 3: They were like, he didn't know, We're gonna google this motherfucker.

2663
02:22:41,480 --> 02:22:46,000
Speaker 16: You got technology, you know, but we had you know,

2664
02:22:46,959 --> 02:22:51,119
Speaker 16: we had two monster records with Pat and the Chicken

2665
02:22:51,560 --> 02:22:54,480
Speaker 16: and then and then he got in trouble and what else?

2666
02:22:54,760 --> 02:22:56,280
Speaker 8: And then he got no. Then he got in trouble.

2667
02:22:56,760 --> 02:22:57,800
Speaker 1: Yes, right, so.

2668
02:22:59,440 --> 02:23:02,000
Speaker 5: Well, wow, I never knew that.

2669
02:23:02,640 --> 02:23:07,959
Speaker 1: He said, what I listen, take a shot for no reason.

2670
02:23:08,000 --> 02:23:12,480
Speaker 1: I'm taking I'm gonna tak a shot. I don't know why.

2671
02:23:12,480 --> 02:23:14,720
Speaker 7: I don't want I'm like, no, no, stas man.

2672
02:23:14,959 --> 02:23:19,160
Speaker 3: I just always love to see Project God name Project Past.

2673
02:23:19,240 --> 02:23:23,920
Speaker 5: He's telling you where he's coming from, and he definitely don't.

2674
02:23:28,760 --> 02:23:29,400
Speaker 10: So what should call you?

2675
02:23:29,520 --> 02:23:30,800
Speaker 7: Fleet Market, Sunny.

2676
02:23:33,800 --> 02:23:37,800
Speaker 1: State, s Sunday State, sales.

2677
02:23:41,240 --> 02:23:43,240
Speaker 4: I'm not taking anything away from clip.

2678
02:23:46,520 --> 02:23:48,480
Speaker 7: Artist dude w B T. I mean.

2679
02:23:51,520 --> 02:23:54,279
Speaker 8: A few a few years ago, Flip Kane.

2680
02:23:54,080 --> 02:23:57,280
Speaker 7: Flippers, we would yeah you know, Flip yeah, yeah, that's

2681
02:23:57,280 --> 02:23:57,640
Speaker 7: what we want.

2682
02:23:57,720 --> 02:23:58,440
Speaker 1: That's what you want.

2683
02:23:58,520 --> 02:24:01,119
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, Pat can't packed came, three to six came,

2684
02:24:01,360 --> 02:24:02,480
Speaker 6: So now Flippers don't know.

2685
02:24:02,879 --> 02:24:05,199
Speaker 8: So I'm just saying, I mean, he's.

2686
02:24:05,040 --> 02:24:09,520
Speaker 1: A drink Chambala la, Okay, we'll move on.

2687
02:24:10,560 --> 02:24:17,959
Speaker 4: You got it from Motana Ross, French Montana, you.

2688
02:24:17,920 --> 02:24:18,920
Speaker 7: Don't have bunny style.

2689
02:24:20,320 --> 02:24:21,480
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe it's a cop out.

2690
02:24:21,480 --> 02:24:23,560
Speaker 2: I have a personal relationship with him, so I just

2691
02:24:23,760 --> 02:24:26,800
Speaker 2: I just connect him in a different way. I love

2692
02:24:26,879 --> 02:24:31,440
Speaker 2: Rick Ross, but you know, I've seen French in the studio.

2693
02:24:31,480 --> 02:24:34,760
Speaker 2: I kind of been there. I just have different experiences

2694
02:24:34,920 --> 02:24:38,480
Speaker 2: for me. You know, these questions aren't just like who's

2695
02:24:38,520 --> 02:24:39,320
Speaker 2: a better lyricist.

2696
02:24:40,440 --> 02:24:41,760
Speaker 7: We actually respect both people.

2697
02:24:41,800 --> 02:24:44,520
Speaker 1: We always mention. Yeah, it's about it's.

2698
02:24:44,440 --> 02:24:49,160
Speaker 2: About just having these conversations everything conversation Who you know,

2699
02:24:49,200 --> 02:24:51,280
Speaker 2: who do I connect with on some kind of level.

2700
02:24:51,320 --> 02:24:53,360
Speaker 2: You know, Nas to me is cheating because that album,

2701
02:24:53,480 --> 02:24:56,320
Speaker 2: to me, just is the greatest. So most questions will

2702
02:24:56,360 --> 02:24:58,720
Speaker 2: be him. You know, French, I know is a person

2703
02:24:58,879 --> 02:25:01,400
Speaker 2: I hung out seen him records. I just feel it

2704
02:25:01,480 --> 02:25:02,119
Speaker 2: in a different way.

2705
02:25:02,320 --> 02:25:04,480
Speaker 1: You look, you go to the same karate class with some.

2706
02:25:05,959 --> 02:25:11,720
Speaker 3: Fresh ones rap Smockfield, I got the next one. Okay,

2707
02:25:11,760 --> 02:25:16,000
Speaker 3: go ahead, my bad all right, Steve u g K.

2708
02:25:16,240 --> 02:25:19,640
Speaker 3: Out casts. No excuse me, You're getting much harder questions

2709
02:25:19,680 --> 02:25:24,600
Speaker 3: than me. I'm gonna say, out casts, okay, any reason why?

2710
02:25:25,520 --> 02:25:29,520
Speaker 6: I mean they want album of the Year was a

2711
02:25:29,600 --> 02:25:34,080
Speaker 6: double album? Oh yeah, I forgot and you know l

2712
02:25:34,160 --> 02:25:38,600
Speaker 6: A and you know Face like brothers to me. So

2713
02:25:39,280 --> 02:25:42,120
Speaker 6: I was just closer to them. That's La eating baby Face.

2714
02:25:43,400 --> 02:25:46,039
Speaker 6: I like how you like seldomly say like some of.

2715
02:25:46,080 --> 02:25:48,279
Speaker 7: The through the executive reason why.

2716
02:25:50,280 --> 02:25:50,560
Speaker 1: Artist?

2717
02:26:00,280 --> 02:26:02,400
Speaker 3: I'm going to ask y'all both, but I'm gonna start

2718
02:26:02,440 --> 02:26:04,480
Speaker 3: with you, so I think I know your answer.

2719
02:26:04,640 --> 02:26:07,240
Speaker 1: Ready illmatic or ready to die.

2720
02:26:09,320 --> 02:26:09,840
Speaker 8: Ill madic?

2721
02:26:10,360 --> 02:26:11,119
Speaker 1: No madic.

2722
02:26:13,200 --> 02:26:15,680
Speaker 2: Illmatic too, but ill madic ready to die in reasonable

2723
02:26:15,720 --> 02:26:18,520
Speaker 2: doubt is always a fun and difficult conversation because there's like.

2724
02:26:18,600 --> 02:26:19,440
Speaker 4: No wrong answer.

2725
02:26:19,959 --> 02:26:21,840
Speaker 1: It's I don't think it is no wrong as.

2726
02:26:24,800 --> 02:26:27,760
Speaker 2: I said, NOAs, but I mean all all three and

2727
02:26:27,879 --> 02:26:33,359
Speaker 2: I threw in a third wait, didn't, didn't, didn't. Kendrick

2728
02:26:33,520 --> 02:26:36,240
Speaker 2: just post something about reasonable doubt and allmatic. Yeah.

2729
02:26:36,760 --> 02:26:37,039
Speaker 1: I saw.

2730
02:26:37,400 --> 02:26:40,720
Speaker 2: I don't know if because he said reasonable talk amongst yourselves.

2731
02:26:40,800 --> 02:26:43,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he put reasonable doubt over ellmatic. I saw

2732
02:26:43,440 --> 02:26:45,880
Speaker 7: something he was like following me. I don't know where

2733
02:26:45,920 --> 02:26:47,440
Speaker 7: that came from. I think it was a Twitter post

2734
02:26:47,520 --> 02:26:47,840
Speaker 7: or something.

2735
02:26:48,640 --> 02:26:53,320
Speaker 17: I think, you know, my Street team, my New York

2736
02:26:53,360 --> 02:26:59,279
Speaker 17: Street Team would have fights in the office about reasonable

2737
02:26:59,320 --> 02:27:03,240
Speaker 17: doubt and maadic like you know, but in the Arab

2738
02:27:03,360 --> 02:27:06,400
Speaker 17: when Buddha was was in this, it was Buddha, Goby

2739
02:27:06,640 --> 02:27:09,720
Speaker 17: and oh j I mean it was was it was

2740
02:27:09,920 --> 02:27:14,080
Speaker 17: all of them and definitely, I mean they literally would

2741
02:27:14,120 --> 02:27:14,520
Speaker 17: go at.

2742
02:27:14,480 --> 02:27:15,000
Speaker 1: Each other.

2743
02:27:17,400 --> 02:27:20,200
Speaker 8: And you know when reasonable that came up, they did

2744
02:27:20,240 --> 02:27:25,720
Speaker 8: that independently. So you really but that wasn't the question though, right, No.

2745
02:27:27,280 --> 02:27:28,600
Speaker 1: Great conversation regardless.

2746
02:27:28,680 --> 02:27:31,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, reasonable I just feel like it's the third.

2747
02:27:31,920 --> 02:27:34,040
Speaker 7: But but but at the end of the day, you know,

2748
02:27:34,840 --> 02:27:37,480
Speaker 7: Bigs Jay and Dane they did that ship themselves.

2749
02:27:37,920 --> 02:27:39,840
Speaker 6: You know, they didn't have a Sony muscle. They didn't

2750
02:27:39,879 --> 02:27:43,600
Speaker 6: have That was what freezing priority originally. Yeah, it was

2751
02:27:43,720 --> 02:27:46,240
Speaker 6: freeze and was a priority.

2752
02:27:46,320 --> 02:27:46,520
Speaker 7: Yeah.

2753
02:27:48,680 --> 02:27:53,320
Speaker 2: It's it's crazy that you think that like three masterpieces

2754
02:27:53,640 --> 02:27:57,880
Speaker 2: that really just kind of changed everything. Like I agree,

2755
02:27:58,080 --> 02:28:00,680
Speaker 2: all came out in a consolid the amount of time.

2756
02:28:00,680 --> 02:28:03,879
Speaker 2: I mean because when the two of them were ninety four, right,

2757
02:28:03,959 --> 02:28:05,840
Speaker 2: and when it was ninety six.

2758
02:28:06,120 --> 02:28:08,000
Speaker 1: And because reasonable doubt was ninety six.

2759
02:28:08,080 --> 02:28:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so ninety four, ninety four, ninety six. But

2760
02:28:11,200 --> 02:28:14,400
Speaker 2: it's just to me crazy when these conversations happened. I

2761
02:28:14,440 --> 02:28:16,720
Speaker 2: think all the answers are the right answers because when

2762
02:28:16,760 --> 02:28:19,080
Speaker 2: you talk about to these three, there's no wrong It's

2763
02:28:19,160 --> 02:28:22,200
Speaker 2: like off the wall and thriller, like, there's no wrong

2764
02:28:22,280 --> 02:28:23,039
Speaker 2: answer there me.

2765
02:28:23,120 --> 02:28:25,720
Speaker 1: Personally, let me just reiterate kind of what you were

2766
02:28:25,760 --> 02:28:26,360
Speaker 1: saying earlier.

2767
02:28:26,680 --> 02:28:30,280
Speaker 3: Atmatic changed my life like personally, but so did the others,

2768
02:28:30,320 --> 02:28:32,400
Speaker 3: but in a different way. But Ellmatic was the first

2769
02:28:32,440 --> 02:28:36,560
Speaker 3: time I identified with rap music when I actually I

2770
02:28:36,720 --> 02:28:39,320
Speaker 3: knew where this guy was talking about without me having

2771
02:28:39,400 --> 02:28:41,720
Speaker 3: to even be there, Like just listening to that, I

2772
02:28:41,800 --> 02:28:43,720
Speaker 3: was like, what the fuck? Like the way he was

2773
02:28:43,800 --> 02:28:46,760
Speaker 3: describing certain things, I was just like, go into it.

2774
02:28:46,879 --> 02:28:49,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was so there. I was so there, Got

2775
02:28:49,640 --> 02:28:50,480
Speaker 1: you want to go to the next one.

2776
02:28:54,760 --> 02:28:57,680
Speaker 2: I haven't made one person drink, by the way, I

2777
02:28:57,840 --> 02:28:59,760
Speaker 2: haven't you drink, but not because of me.

2778
02:29:00,720 --> 02:29:02,600
Speaker 4: I haven't said I haven't said both once.

2779
02:29:02,840 --> 02:29:06,800
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold you so, let me ask

2780
02:29:06,879 --> 02:29:10,880
Speaker 1: this one. Now, you're gonna make him drink Fat Joe

2781
02:29:11,120 --> 02:29:11,320
Speaker 1: or j.

2782
02:29:15,240 --> 02:29:16,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, let him drink.

2783
02:29:19,320 --> 02:29:20,720
Speaker 5: They're gonna take it versatile.

2784
02:29:21,280 --> 02:29:22,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to take a shot of that, Honey,

2785
02:29:23,600 --> 02:29:25,959
Speaker 1: don't cancel your register, said drink.

2786
02:29:26,640 --> 02:29:29,240
Speaker 2: I'm trying to sell tickets, ladies and gentlemen. Drink away.

2787
02:29:32,160 --> 02:29:32,520
Speaker 7: Cheers.

2788
02:29:35,400 --> 02:29:38,320
Speaker 3: Great answer, because you know they just did verses too,

2789
02:29:38,360 --> 02:29:39,560
Speaker 3: you know, remember back then?

2790
02:29:39,920 --> 02:29:41,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, and they had together.

2791
02:29:41,720 --> 02:29:43,320
Speaker 4: That's you knew you were getting me there.

2792
02:29:43,440 --> 02:29:44,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, yes.

2793
02:29:44,720 --> 02:29:45,800
Speaker 4: If you come with Slick.

2794
02:29:45,600 --> 02:29:47,440
Speaker 2: Record Zugie Fresh, you're getting the same answer.

2795
02:29:48,280 --> 02:29:48,920
Speaker 1: Let's go with that.

2796
02:29:52,280 --> 02:29:55,280
Speaker 4: Drink, right, Slick Rick and Zugie Fresh, Let's drink.

2797
02:29:55,640 --> 02:29:56,400
Speaker 1: Let's drink. Okay.

2798
02:29:56,640 --> 02:29:58,760
Speaker 7: I'm not giving this question to Steve because I feel

2799
02:29:58,800 --> 02:29:59,800
Speaker 7: like I know we all go with it.

2800
02:30:00,160 --> 02:30:00,440
Speaker 1: Okay.

2801
02:30:00,720 --> 02:30:04,279
Speaker 7: Cassidy beating nuts with alcoholics, yes.

2802
02:30:04,240 --> 02:30:12,360
Speaker 4: Yes, oh shit, I would say be nuts. Okay, because

2803
02:30:12,440 --> 02:30:13,959
Speaker 4: as a DJ, you stay in New York.

2804
02:30:14,040 --> 02:30:16,280
Speaker 1: Let's just be honest. You you very New York.

2805
02:30:17,920 --> 02:30:20,480
Speaker 2: They had two songs off the Books and Watch Out Now,

2806
02:30:20,560 --> 02:30:24,119
Speaker 2: which were big DJ records. They were big club party

2807
02:30:24,200 --> 02:30:27,560
Speaker 2: songs be Nuts at two Big Big and they started

2808
02:30:27,560 --> 02:30:30,320
Speaker 2: as a very hardcore group. Yeah, and they had some

2809
02:30:30,400 --> 02:30:33,520
Speaker 2: big Was that Pun's first published verse? Yeah, yeah, I

2810
02:30:33,560 --> 02:30:36,120
Speaker 2: think that's what his big big hit first hit, you know.

2811
02:30:36,200 --> 02:30:39,000
Speaker 6: But the great thing about both both groups, you know,

2812
02:30:39,520 --> 02:30:41,600
Speaker 6: even though I really talked basketball, I have to go

2813
02:30:41,720 --> 02:30:46,119
Speaker 6: baseball here, like the Alcoholics, you know, the number two

2814
02:30:46,200 --> 02:30:50,119
Speaker 6: hit it and the number six hitter are so fucking important, yes, right,

2815
02:30:50,520 --> 02:30:53,640
Speaker 6: And to me, like I knew what I was going

2816
02:30:53,720 --> 02:30:55,840
Speaker 6: to get with both groups. I knew I was going

2817
02:30:55,920 --> 02:30:59,520
Speaker 6: to sell three hundred and something thousand records. What was

2818
02:30:59,560 --> 02:31:02,400
Speaker 6: your group with the Licks and the beat Nuts. I

2819
02:31:02,440 --> 02:31:03,920
Speaker 6: knew they would be just going to get on base

2820
02:31:04,920 --> 02:31:07,280
Speaker 6: exactly what they were just going to get on base

2821
02:31:07,400 --> 02:31:09,680
Speaker 6: and somebody else was first for you.

2822
02:31:10,160 --> 02:31:11,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, I inherited the beat.

2823
02:31:11,680 --> 02:31:13,400
Speaker 7: Right and all them.

2824
02:31:14,200 --> 02:31:16,480
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, I knew what

2825
02:31:16,640 --> 02:31:19,480
Speaker 6: I had. It was like putting like the Yankees together, right,

2826
02:31:19,720 --> 02:31:23,760
Speaker 6: so they lab were they on first?

2827
02:31:23,879 --> 02:31:24,400
Speaker 4: Relativity?

2828
02:31:24,480 --> 02:31:25,000
Speaker 7: Relativity?

2829
02:31:25,240 --> 02:31:29,279
Speaker 1: Relativity beating us relatives? Yeah, that's just saying I inherited

2830
02:31:29,360 --> 02:31:31,000
Speaker 1: Joe relative as well.

2831
02:31:31,080 --> 02:31:34,360
Speaker 7: Right, Both amazing legendary groups.

2832
02:31:36,000 --> 02:31:40,080
Speaker 5: I always thought a baseball roster one do not.

2833
02:31:40,560 --> 02:31:44,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I always loved when a hip hop group

2834
02:31:44,360 --> 02:31:48,080
Speaker 2: that wasn't known for making party records made one just

2835
02:31:48,240 --> 02:31:52,160
Speaker 2: by chance, of course, because it was so natural and yeah,

2836
02:31:52,160 --> 02:31:54,480
Speaker 2: it's organic. You got the sense no one was trying

2837
02:31:54,520 --> 02:31:56,320
Speaker 2: to make a club record or a party record or

2838
02:31:56,360 --> 02:32:00,280
Speaker 2: anything that it crossed over in any way. But those

2839
02:32:00,280 --> 02:32:03,800
Speaker 2: two records, it was just like this organic. Well, the

2840
02:32:03,879 --> 02:32:05,600
Speaker 2: females were dope producers themselves.

2841
02:32:05,720 --> 02:32:08,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, they were exactly. They were one like they were twins.

2842
02:32:08,800 --> 02:32:12,400
Speaker 6: One's East coast, one's West coast, you know, as I felt.

2843
02:32:12,240 --> 02:32:17,640
Speaker 7: The same way alcoholic No, no, but literally twins, he said.

2844
02:32:17,560 --> 02:32:18,920
Speaker 5: One from one place to one.

2845
02:32:19,000 --> 02:32:20,400
Speaker 1: But they would have seen it.

2846
02:32:20,800 --> 02:32:22,560
Speaker 5: They were just from the East coast, once from the west.

2847
02:32:22,600 --> 02:32:28,720
Speaker 1: And the no that they have, yeah, I mean they

2848
02:32:28,959 --> 02:32:29,320
Speaker 1: were both.

2849
02:32:29,959 --> 02:32:33,440
Speaker 6: They were both contained. But the but the licks on

2850
02:32:33,480 --> 02:32:35,840
Speaker 6: the West coast, you mean make room only when I'm dropped.

2851
02:32:35,840 --> 02:32:39,240
Speaker 6: The next level were tremendous, tremendous, tremendous club records.

2852
02:32:39,400 --> 02:32:43,760
Speaker 7: Yea, and coming from King t Yeah, like that whole

2853
02:32:43,800 --> 02:32:44,720
Speaker 7: lineage was crazy.

2854
02:32:45,280 --> 02:32:49,440
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm sending this to you, Cassidy Timberland or

2855
02:32:49,480 --> 02:32:51,279
Speaker 1: Swiss Beats, Swiss.

2856
02:32:53,120 --> 02:32:53,280
Speaker 7: Going.

2857
02:32:54,760 --> 02:32:56,119
Speaker 1: He's not trying to get you all.

2858
02:32:57,280 --> 02:32:59,360
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm right, I don't know. We were waiting

2859
02:32:59,400 --> 02:33:00,640
Speaker 7: for seventeen hours today.

2860
02:33:02,040 --> 02:33:04,080
Speaker 3: By the way, I wanted to announce that to you.

2861
02:33:04,280 --> 02:33:06,720
Speaker 3: We they rappers. We have so much of a bad

2862
02:33:07,560 --> 02:33:10,640
Speaker 3: name coming late today. We had one of the famous

2863
02:33:10,920 --> 02:33:13,400
Speaker 3: DJs in the world and one of the biggest executives

2864
02:33:13,440 --> 02:33:14,600
Speaker 3: in the world, and they were both late.

2865
02:33:14,800 --> 02:33:15,920
Speaker 4: But it was rappers.

2866
02:33:15,959 --> 02:33:18,400
Speaker 1: We all stop this getting for.

2867
02:33:19,200 --> 02:33:21,280
Speaker 4: The record for the five feet of water.

2868
02:33:23,040 --> 02:33:26,240
Speaker 1: Just take it. Just take it, Cassidy. But we were

2869
02:33:26,280 --> 02:33:27,040
Speaker 1: all here though.

2870
02:33:30,040 --> 02:33:31,880
Speaker 2: I know that it's very true, and I still don't

2871
02:33:31,920 --> 02:33:37,160
Speaker 2: understand how you guys a marine flood with five ft away.

2872
02:33:37,000 --> 02:33:38,879
Speaker 7: The sneakers are still fucking spotless.

2873
02:33:39,600 --> 02:33:48,480
Speaker 1: Did you see that? That's the difference. We are literally

2874
02:33:48,520 --> 02:33:52,720
Speaker 1: in the trenches. The next one, let me see, Barker,

2875
02:33:52,800 --> 02:33:53,520
Speaker 1: what is the next one?

2876
02:33:55,320 --> 02:34:01,040
Speaker 7: Artifacts of Cela Dwellers because they were online. Yeah, I mean,

2877
02:34:02,480 --> 02:34:05,600
Speaker 7: I mean, they're both dope, but I would have said

2878
02:34:05,720 --> 02:34:10,360
Speaker 7: advanced the boardwalk funk flex or DJ clue funk flex.

2879
02:34:11,000 --> 02:34:11,440
Speaker 1: I like that.

2880
02:34:14,959 --> 02:34:17,360
Speaker 2: Let me explain answers, but I haven't explained the past few,

2881
02:34:17,400 --> 02:34:18,800
Speaker 2: but record.

2882
02:34:18,600 --> 02:34:20,920
Speaker 1: Explain the answers. What flex and clue I will love that.

2883
02:34:21,640 --> 02:34:23,560
Speaker 2: What was the last one I wanted to explain? I

2884
02:34:23,600 --> 02:34:26,000
Speaker 2: guess it's past the point. Swiss and Tim never mind,

2885
02:34:26,240 --> 02:34:27,360
Speaker 2: but I'll explain Flex and.

2886
02:34:27,800 --> 02:34:32,800
Speaker 7: Okay, you can explain both. It's okay. We waited for

2887
02:34:32,879 --> 02:34:33,120
Speaker 7: you all.

2888
02:34:33,280 --> 02:34:39,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got seventeen hours. I got three hours.

2889
02:34:41,160 --> 02:34:43,320
Speaker 2: He told you one White House story. There's many many

2890
02:34:43,400 --> 02:34:46,880
Speaker 2: more to go. One involving the song fight the Power.

2891
02:34:46,959 --> 02:34:51,200
Speaker 2: We can come back to that later. So what's that

2892
02:34:51,600 --> 02:34:54,360
Speaker 2: Flex and clue? Yeah, so both are friends of mine

2893
02:34:54,400 --> 02:34:56,880
Speaker 2: and mentors of mine. Came before me, looked up to both.

2894
02:34:57,400 --> 02:35:01,520
Speaker 2: Flex just symbolizes something that is, you know, to me

2895
02:35:01,680 --> 02:35:04,800
Speaker 2: growing up, it was like Hulk Hogan and funk Master Flex.

2896
02:35:05,400 --> 02:35:07,039
Speaker 4: I always compare Flex to Holk Hogan.

2897
02:35:07,120 --> 02:35:09,560
Speaker 2: You know how in the WWF they kept on taking

2898
02:35:09,680 --> 02:35:12,920
Speaker 2: the belt away, like they kept trying to take the

2899
02:35:13,000 --> 02:35:16,720
Speaker 2: belt away from Hulk, And whoever they made champion couldn't

2900
02:35:16,760 --> 02:35:21,160
Speaker 2: be Champion Ultimate Warrior. He just wasn't Hulk. Macho man,

2901
02:35:21,440 --> 02:35:27,320
Speaker 2: he just wasn't Hulk Rick Flair, he just wasn't Hulk. Yeah,

2902
02:35:27,400 --> 02:35:33,120
Speaker 2: ro limos woo, Yes, no one is funk Master Flex.

2903
02:35:33,800 --> 02:35:36,440
Speaker 2: It's why since I was in the sixth grade, I

2904
02:35:36,600 --> 02:35:39,760
Speaker 2: still hear the same voice on the radio. How uncanny

2905
02:35:39,920 --> 02:35:42,560
Speaker 2: is that? Think of how how hip hop music has

2906
02:35:42,640 --> 02:35:46,800
Speaker 2: changed from nineteen ninety three to twenty twenty four, and

2907
02:35:46,920 --> 02:35:49,720
Speaker 2: yet the person at the helm of it in New

2908
02:35:49,800 --> 02:35:51,680
Speaker 2: York City is the same voice.

2909
02:35:53,000 --> 02:35:54,720
Speaker 4: How insane is that?

2910
02:35:55,000 --> 02:35:58,440
Speaker 2: And he defies everything that everyone always thinks about hip

2911
02:35:58,440 --> 02:36:02,280
Speaker 2: Hop's a young man's game, you know, there's you know,

2912
02:36:02,320 --> 02:36:04,800
Speaker 2: there's a revolving door. You know, everything that's everyone said

2913
02:36:04,840 --> 02:36:06,840
Speaker 2: over the years. It's not really true in every sense

2914
02:36:06,920 --> 02:36:07,200
Speaker 2: at all.

2915
02:36:07,360 --> 02:36:07,560
Speaker 1: True.

2916
02:36:07,680 --> 02:36:11,320
Speaker 2: It's not but people say it. But isn't he like

2917
02:36:11,760 --> 02:36:15,200
Speaker 2: one of the greatest examples of how that's not true. Absolutely,

2918
02:36:15,600 --> 02:36:18,760
Speaker 2: And so for me, there's you know, hard to get

2919
02:36:18,760 --> 02:36:20,000
Speaker 2: a ticket, hard to get a ticket.

2920
02:36:20,480 --> 02:36:22,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, you know, it's crazy.

2921
02:36:23,959 --> 02:36:27,120
Speaker 3: We still went to New York twice, like just you know,

2922
02:36:27,360 --> 02:36:31,279
Speaker 3: since you know, we work out here, and I literally

2923
02:36:32,760 --> 02:36:36,080
Speaker 3: sometimes can't enjoy my city unless I listen to Flex

2924
02:36:36,240 --> 02:36:39,760
Speaker 3: on the radio and I see him tear it down. Absolutely.

2925
02:36:40,240 --> 02:36:42,480
Speaker 3: I love if there's a hit record that he's playing

2926
02:36:42,600 --> 02:36:43,480
Speaker 3: he tells people.

2927
02:36:43,280 --> 02:36:44,480
Speaker 1: To pull over. I love it.

2928
02:36:44,520 --> 02:36:47,440
Speaker 3: When he told people go on the cash register, I

2929
02:36:47,480 --> 02:36:49,680
Speaker 3: was like, wait a minute, this might be too far.

2930
02:36:50,160 --> 02:36:54,160
Speaker 3: But yeah, I love that. That makes me feel like

2931
02:36:54,200 --> 02:36:54,879
Speaker 3: I'm back home.

2932
02:36:55,000 --> 02:36:55,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, passionate.

2933
02:36:55,879 --> 02:36:58,119
Speaker 4: I mean he's home. I love Clue too, don't get

2934
02:36:58,120 --> 02:36:58,520
Speaker 4: it too love.

2935
02:36:58,879 --> 02:36:59,640
Speaker 1: I love Clue too.

2936
02:36:59,680 --> 02:37:01,800
Speaker 2: I love and Clude changed the game in many ways,

2937
02:37:01,840 --> 02:37:06,400
Speaker 2: and no one else did. THET albums of course too.

2938
02:37:06,760 --> 02:37:12,240
Speaker 2: But you know what you just said is so it's

2939
02:37:12,280 --> 02:37:14,560
Speaker 2: so Surreally, he's like the voice of home.

2940
02:37:15,080 --> 02:37:16,000
Speaker 1: Like like like when he.

2941
02:37:16,040 --> 02:37:19,640
Speaker 3: Says pull over, sometimes I pull over, Like I literally

2942
02:37:19,800 --> 02:37:21,879
Speaker 3: listened pull over New York City.

2943
02:37:22,040 --> 02:37:28,360
Speaker 1: I'm like he'll say something crazy like.

2944
02:37:30,920 --> 02:37:32,120
Speaker 7: Don't rock up your window.

2945
02:37:34,000 --> 02:37:34,840
Speaker 1: I listened to it.

2946
02:37:34,959 --> 02:37:40,960
Speaker 3: It's like, so I remember, I remember where it was.

2947
02:37:41,120 --> 02:37:46,720
Speaker 3: Drake and Meek was battling right, and this was like

2948
02:37:46,959 --> 02:37:49,120
Speaker 3: this was like the first King Drink and you know

2949
02:37:49,520 --> 02:37:52,560
Speaker 3: Ken Drinck and Drake is now the biggest battle. That

2950
02:37:52,720 --> 02:37:56,720
Speaker 3: is the biggest battle ever. But at this point, Meek

2951
02:37:56,840 --> 02:37:59,480
Speaker 3: and Drake was the biggest. And I remember Flex saying

2952
02:37:59,680 --> 02:38:03,960
Speaker 3: I got this record. I literally missed my flight. I

2953
02:38:04,120 --> 02:38:06,160
Speaker 3: was like, I can't get on the this is before

2954
02:38:06,280 --> 02:38:08,320
Speaker 3: like I was on a plane. It's like that I

2955
02:38:08,360 --> 02:38:10,640
Speaker 3: could I could have still caught my flight. Like an idiot.

2956
02:38:10,640 --> 02:38:12,879
Speaker 1: I'm at the airport. I'm damn there down the block.

2957
02:38:13,000 --> 02:38:16,920
Speaker 1: This is when you flew commercial listen.

2958
02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:20,200
Speaker 3: I was like, Yo, I said, hold up, I can't

2959
02:38:20,280 --> 02:38:26,039
Speaker 3: get on this flight knowing how you know, hip hop

2960
02:38:26,360 --> 02:38:29,920
Speaker 3: just fails without I got to hit listen to both

2961
02:38:30,040 --> 02:38:31,360
Speaker 3: both of these ships going on.

2962
02:38:32,400 --> 02:38:34,640
Speaker 1: Come to find down they have no record. Yo.

2963
02:38:34,800 --> 02:38:37,680
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I missed the flight. It was everything,

2964
02:38:37,760 --> 02:38:40,920
Speaker 3: but it was It meant so much. Even if I

2965
02:38:41,160 --> 02:38:43,800
Speaker 3: probably would have been offered, YO, just listen to the

2966
02:38:43,840 --> 02:38:45,000
Speaker 3: Apple on the flight.

2967
02:38:45,160 --> 02:38:46,040
Speaker 1: You know you have Wi Fi.

2968
02:38:46,480 --> 02:38:49,640
Speaker 3: Even if I even offered that, I probably wouldn't have

2969
02:38:49,680 --> 02:38:51,680
Speaker 3: wanted to do it, because you know why, I wanted

2970
02:38:51,720 --> 02:38:53,600
Speaker 3: to be in the city listening to it.

2971
02:38:53,760 --> 02:38:58,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a different feeling. And Flex has always gave.

2972
02:38:58,440 --> 02:39:00,760
Speaker 4: Me that, like it's a different film Christmas Eve.

2973
02:39:00,840 --> 02:39:03,880
Speaker 2: He plays classics, and he uses only vinyl, and he

2974
02:39:03,959 --> 02:39:06,280
Speaker 2: brings viral up to the station. He's done it for overtime,

2975
02:39:07,080 --> 02:39:09,280
Speaker 2: and I really know that, and I rarely miss the

2976
02:39:09,360 --> 02:39:13,760
Speaker 2: Christmas Eve and that for someone reason. Hearing him play

2977
02:39:13,879 --> 02:39:16,600
Speaker 2: hip hop from the seventies and eighties and soul music

2978
02:39:16,640 --> 02:39:19,640
Speaker 2: from the seventies and eighties, now it feels like Christmas

2979
02:39:19,680 --> 02:39:22,400
Speaker 2: Eve to me because it's really that music is really

2980
02:39:22,440 --> 02:39:26,040
Speaker 2: the sound of celebration. It's probably why I would imagine

2981
02:39:26,040 --> 02:39:30,160
Speaker 2: he he he chose that night to play that music.

2982
02:39:31,040 --> 02:39:32,920
Speaker 2: And you know, I moved to LA six years ago

2983
02:39:33,640 --> 02:39:36,240
Speaker 2: and I've listened to that on so notes. And to

2984
02:39:36,360 --> 02:39:38,640
Speaker 2: compliment what you just said, it's not the same. You

2985
02:39:38,720 --> 02:39:39,360
Speaker 2: gotta be there.

2986
02:39:39,440 --> 02:39:41,480
Speaker 1: You gotta be there. You gotta be out of the city.

2987
02:39:41,680 --> 02:39:43,879
Speaker 3: You gotta like, look at the guy with the frank stand,

2988
02:39:44,480 --> 02:39:45,760
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. You gotta look at the

2989
02:39:45,840 --> 02:39:49,120
Speaker 3: guy you know that's walking by selling peanuts, you know

2990
02:39:49,160 --> 02:39:50,520
Speaker 3: what I mean? Like that shit is like it like

2991
02:39:51,160 --> 02:39:52,960
Speaker 3: like I immediately get mad when I go back to

2992
02:39:53,000 --> 02:39:53,600
Speaker 3: New York City.

2993
02:39:56,000 --> 02:39:56,480
Speaker 1: You have to.

2994
02:39:57,959 --> 02:40:00,960
Speaker 3: We have a certain type of anger that comes with

2995
02:40:01,080 --> 02:40:03,000
Speaker 3: the city. And if you don't, you know, if you've

2996
02:40:03,000 --> 02:40:04,920
Speaker 3: got to be a little bit mad when you land back.

2997
02:40:05,200 --> 02:40:07,600
Speaker 3: You gotta just look at somebody, look at you know, well,

2998
02:40:09,720 --> 02:40:12,080
Speaker 3: because if not, the city will hit you up.

2999
02:40:12,160 --> 02:40:12,360
Speaker 2: Man.

3000
02:40:13,200 --> 02:40:17,920
Speaker 3: It's it's it's it's a beautiful, negative, most beautifulest place

3001
02:40:18,000 --> 02:40:18,680
Speaker 3: on the earth.

3002
02:40:19,240 --> 02:40:21,560
Speaker 1: But that energy you have to match it that.

3003
02:40:21,800 --> 02:40:25,199
Speaker 7: You cannot not be a lion in the lion's cage.

3004
02:40:26,160 --> 02:40:30,240
Speaker 1: Well setting even if you're not a lion. You Why

3005
02:40:30,280 --> 02:40:31,520
Speaker 1: are you in that lion's cage?

3006
02:40:31,560 --> 02:40:35,520
Speaker 3: You better act like it, get your get your ass

3007
02:40:35,560 --> 02:40:37,640
Speaker 3: out of there because you that.

3008
02:40:38,640 --> 02:40:40,400
Speaker 7: But all right, cool, let's go to the next one.

3009
02:40:43,040 --> 02:40:48,080
Speaker 7: Let's see what we got. Definitely you take this podcast

3010
02:40:48,120 --> 02:40:48,560
Speaker 7: of radio.

3011
02:40:50,400 --> 02:40:52,959
Speaker 1: I'm with you guys podcast radio.

3012
02:40:54,200 --> 02:40:56,920
Speaker 3: By the way, you just want to be let me

3013
02:40:57,040 --> 02:40:58,920
Speaker 3: just point out that you're the first person that I

3014
02:40:59,120 --> 02:41:00,920
Speaker 3: ever see honey.

3015
02:41:01,720 --> 02:41:04,160
Speaker 1: Like, like, like, did you plan this out? That shot

3016
02:41:04,280 --> 02:41:05,560
Speaker 1: takes two hours to get done.

3017
02:41:05,600 --> 02:41:07,560
Speaker 2: I'm losing my voice, so I asked the hotel for

3018
02:41:07,680 --> 02:41:08,680
Speaker 2: these little jars of honey.

3019
02:41:08,840 --> 02:41:11,240
Speaker 1: Oh, so you knew this was happening. So it's not

3020
02:41:11,360 --> 02:41:13,080
Speaker 1: my weed. It's not like that.

3021
02:41:13,440 --> 02:41:17,280
Speaker 3: Cool Now I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I'm like, yo, man,

3022
02:41:18,400 --> 02:41:20,480
Speaker 3: this is not right. The fans gonna look at this and.

3023
02:41:20,600 --> 02:41:21,280
Speaker 10: Like what is.

3024
02:41:23,080 --> 02:41:23,200
Speaker 2: Man?

3025
02:41:23,800 --> 02:41:29,520
Speaker 1: Like? Cool? So I he's so everyone knows. Nor did

3026
02:41:29,600 --> 02:41:32,880
Speaker 1: I try to out trying to smoke him the fuck out?

3027
02:41:33,000 --> 02:41:35,840
Speaker 3: No, he already knew his voice was cracking. Here he

3028
02:41:36,280 --> 02:41:38,560
Speaker 3: had pre honey. I never seen somebody with pre honey.

3029
02:41:38,720 --> 02:41:41,520
Speaker 3: That ship is fucking fantastic. I ain't gonna lie. I'm like,

3030
02:41:42,520 --> 02:41:45,800
Speaker 3: still your still your idea? Get you publishing on it though. Okay,

3031
02:41:53,800 --> 02:41:59,160
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it to Okay, three six Mafia or a.

3032
02:41:59,280 --> 02:41:59,760
Speaker 1: Boy m J.

3033
02:42:02,160 --> 02:42:05,080
Speaker 4: You're giving him very tough, loud affiliated.

3034
02:42:04,600 --> 02:42:10,800
Speaker 3: Questions six and I'm going to you too, three six Okay, Okay,

3035
02:42:14,879 --> 02:42:20,199
Speaker 3: this is definitely you brand Nubian or tribecal.

3036
02:42:19,840 --> 02:42:24,320
Speaker 2: Quest tribe called quest you just RAPI fire. I'm very

3037
02:42:24,400 --> 02:42:26,080
Speaker 2: definitive in my hip hop emotions.

3038
02:42:26,200 --> 02:42:27,680
Speaker 1: Do you would you like to explain it? Because I

3039
02:42:27,760 --> 02:42:29,480
Speaker 1: know you've you didn't like that.

3040
02:42:29,640 --> 02:42:30,920
Speaker 4: Could explain that you could?

3041
02:42:31,080 --> 02:42:32,160
Speaker 1: Can you please? Yeah?

3042
02:42:32,240 --> 02:42:35,400
Speaker 2: My other favorite album of all time is Midnight Marauders. Okay, Wow,

3043
02:42:37,400 --> 02:42:40,119
Speaker 2: so they're not going to lose too many questions.

3044
02:42:40,480 --> 02:42:42,960
Speaker 1: Okay, where was you at when you first heard mid

3045
02:42:43,040 --> 02:42:43,680
Speaker 1: Right MARDs?

3046
02:42:45,600 --> 02:42:49,800
Speaker 2: That was twelve, about the same age as Elmatic, maybe

3047
02:42:49,800 --> 02:42:50,400
Speaker 2: a year younger.

3048
02:42:54,520 --> 02:42:56,039
Speaker 4: I think you can tell like.

3049
02:42:58,040 --> 02:42:59,680
Speaker 2: Kind of the era people grew up in in many

3050
02:42:59,760 --> 02:43:02,160
Speaker 2: cases by what their favorite hip hop albums are, because

3051
02:43:02,240 --> 02:43:05,240
Speaker 2: my three came out in like a three year time span,

3052
02:43:05,440 --> 02:43:06,600
Speaker 2: the thirdest Cuban links.

3053
02:43:07,440 --> 02:43:17,760
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, they definitely been setting you up all night.

3054
02:43:18,120 --> 02:43:19,920
Speaker 3: By the way, it's your friend mister Lee who fucking

3055
02:43:20,320 --> 02:43:24,560
Speaker 3: writes these questions, So don't don't look at me, mister

3056
02:43:24,680 --> 02:43:26,160
Speaker 3: Lee and Hazard a sound.

3057
02:43:31,040 --> 02:43:32,600
Speaker 1: Exhibit or Rascal.

3058
02:43:32,800 --> 02:43:36,320
Speaker 4: You're really doing this? This this guys, that's not good.

3059
02:43:36,560 --> 02:43:40,039
Speaker 6: I mean they're best friends, they're extremely close, but don't

3060
02:43:40,600 --> 02:43:42,640
Speaker 6: you know you go with the ex Yeah.

3061
02:43:42,680 --> 02:43:45,360
Speaker 8: Do you remember when me and next had an argument? No,

3062
02:43:46,879 --> 02:43:48,480
Speaker 8: and me and you, you would come by the office

3063
02:43:48,520 --> 02:43:48,959
Speaker 8: to say.

3064
02:43:49,600 --> 02:43:52,360
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay, you back town. Recently, I'm like, damn,

3065
02:43:52,400 --> 02:43:54,640
Speaker 1: you had an argument yesterday. What happened?

3066
02:43:54,959 --> 02:43:59,040
Speaker 2: No, Jesus Jesus you you really haven't given Steve the

3067
02:43:59,240 --> 02:44:01,280
Speaker 2: hardest one of this category.

3068
02:44:01,560 --> 02:44:04,280
Speaker 4: Okay, es if you don't go there, I kind of

3069
02:44:04,360 --> 02:44:05,960
Speaker 4: want to. I kind of want to throw it out there,

3070
02:44:06,200 --> 02:44:07,160
Speaker 4: throw it out you want to take.

3071
02:44:08,959 --> 02:44:09,200
Speaker 1: Let's go.

3072
02:44:09,480 --> 02:44:12,240
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna ask the three of you. Okay, yeah,

3073
02:44:12,360 --> 02:44:14,760
Speaker 2: and rak Onon or ghost Face.

3074
02:44:16,040 --> 02:44:23,760
Speaker 1: Both? Okay, shot crowd. I'm proud because is really both wall.

3075
02:44:23,600 --> 02:44:26,480
Speaker 4: Wait, we're getting there. Okay, give up your answer yet.

3076
02:44:26,720 --> 02:44:27,440
Speaker 4: We're waiting for you.

3077
02:44:27,959 --> 02:44:30,400
Speaker 2: This is opening act, right, Okay, Yeah, this is the

3078
02:44:30,480 --> 02:44:32,520
Speaker 2: same question, the same question, Nori.

3079
02:44:32,920 --> 02:44:36,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, rak One the chef or ghost Face killer.

3080
02:44:36,440 --> 02:44:39,440
Speaker 3: I just said both. You said both of ye What

3081
02:44:39,560 --> 02:44:41,840
Speaker 3: that means the shot took it. Yeah, yeah, I said both.

3082
02:44:41,720 --> 02:44:46,400
Speaker 4: Steve Rifkins, I'm saying both, so we we I mean,

3083
02:44:47,640 --> 02:44:49,640
Speaker 4: you dank a hard question.

3084
02:44:49,760 --> 02:44:53,720
Speaker 1: That's like saying which kid you like better? Okay, that's fair.

3085
02:44:55,200 --> 02:44:55,440
Speaker 9: For me.

3086
02:44:55,520 --> 02:44:59,160
Speaker 1: It's like saying which foot you like better? I like? Okay, Yeah,

3087
02:44:59,320 --> 02:45:10,920
Speaker 1: go ahead, ask no, Yes, Premiere or Pete Rock? Okay?

3088
02:45:13,480 --> 02:45:19,400
Speaker 1: Got me? And I'm taking it back. Can you one more?

3089
02:45:19,400 --> 02:45:20,920
Speaker 1: And taking it back? Okay?

3090
02:45:21,480 --> 02:45:23,680
Speaker 2: And so we asked the same question to others. You

3091
02:45:23,879 --> 02:45:26,680
Speaker 2: a different one ahead, but I'm gonna ask the same

3092
02:45:26,720 --> 02:45:29,359
Speaker 2: to you. I'm curious what you he took a shot already.

3093
02:45:29,040 --> 02:45:31,480
Speaker 1: No, no, I didn't, but I would take a shot

3094
02:45:31,520 --> 02:45:31,920
Speaker 1: and say.

3095
02:45:31,800 --> 02:45:35,760
Speaker 4: Both, say both, Steve, DJ, Premier, Pete.

3096
02:45:35,560 --> 02:45:38,760
Speaker 1: Rock both definitely got the next one? All right? I

3097
02:45:38,760 --> 02:45:39,320
Speaker 1: can't do one more?

3098
02:45:39,440 --> 02:45:40,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, please go on more around for you?

3099
02:45:41,080 --> 02:45:47,360
Speaker 1: Yes, three three is my lucky numbers. Three and holding

3100
02:45:47,440 --> 02:45:54,840
Speaker 1: on to that rock him where big Daddy came? Okay,

3101
02:45:55,280 --> 02:46:01,080
Speaker 1: got me gain, Yeah that's what the game was. I'm

3102
02:46:01,120 --> 02:46:03,480
Speaker 1: not gonna fight you. I'm not gonna fight what was it?

3103
02:46:03,560 --> 02:46:10,240
Speaker 1: What was it? A yein rock came my big Daddy game. Okay,

3104
02:46:10,320 --> 02:46:11,320
Speaker 1: now it's back to me.

3105
02:46:11,480 --> 02:46:14,959
Speaker 7: I passed the mic back digital analog.

3106
02:46:16,600 --> 02:46:17,800
Speaker 4: Is it DJ or a listener?

3107
02:46:19,000 --> 02:46:21,360
Speaker 1: It's your criteria game all night.

3108
02:46:23,400 --> 02:46:23,800
Speaker 4: Digital?

3109
02:46:24,240 --> 02:46:24,520
Speaker 1: Okay.

3110
02:46:26,040 --> 02:46:28,760
Speaker 2: I just like having more songs with me. There's so

3111
02:46:28,879 --> 02:46:32,000
Speaker 2: much I like about Vinyl better. But having a million

3112
02:46:32,120 --> 02:46:33,640
Speaker 2: songs is better than having a thousand.

3113
02:46:34,080 --> 02:46:35,520
Speaker 1: Like, you couldn't have win just the crack.

3114
02:46:35,640 --> 02:46:36,200
Speaker 4: I missed a lot.

3115
02:46:36,320 --> 02:46:39,160
Speaker 1: You couldn't have went to jay Z and Beyonce's wedding

3116
02:46:39,280 --> 02:46:39,760
Speaker 1: with Vinyl.

3117
02:46:39,879 --> 02:46:41,320
Speaker 4: Oh, no I did. I went all over the world

3118
02:46:41,360 --> 02:46:42,080
Speaker 4: with Vinyl.

3119
02:46:42,080 --> 02:46:45,160
Speaker 1: Because they use only one guest invited, right, he was only.

3120
02:46:45,080 --> 02:46:47,120
Speaker 2: You, and I would have had to carry my own crates.

3121
02:46:47,480 --> 02:46:49,360
Speaker 2: You to carry your own I did that for many years.

3122
02:46:49,640 --> 02:46:50,240
Speaker 5: God damn it.

3123
02:46:50,640 --> 02:46:51,600
Speaker 1: That's made some noise for that.

3124
02:46:54,200 --> 02:46:56,600
Speaker 2: Any DJ that was worth anything to carry their own

3125
02:46:56,640 --> 02:46:59,240
Speaker 2: creates for a while. Eight crates in the trunk of

3126
02:46:59,320 --> 02:47:01,240
Speaker 2: a New York time. See one in the front, one

3127
02:47:01,280 --> 02:47:05,720
Speaker 2: in the back. You could bring eight crates in a cab, but.

3128
02:47:08,240 --> 02:47:09,280
Speaker 7: I ain't doing the cab though.

3129
02:47:10,520 --> 02:47:11,240
Speaker 5: That's horrible.

3130
02:47:12,080 --> 02:47:15,400
Speaker 1: Damn, I don't even like that's that's so yeah, because

3131
02:47:15,400 --> 02:47:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stick to the trunk.

3132
02:47:16,600 --> 02:47:17,800
Speaker 2: One in the front, one in the back. But it

3133
02:47:17,840 --> 02:47:19,880
Speaker 2: took five cabs to get one that let you do that.

3134
02:47:20,480 --> 02:47:22,400
Speaker 1: Diego couldn't even put up pizza in here today.

3135
02:47:23,040 --> 02:47:23,440
Speaker 5: He smell.

3136
02:47:23,920 --> 02:47:31,879
Speaker 1: He said, you carry the person.

3137
02:47:34,160 --> 02:47:34,840
Speaker 2: So listen to this.

3138
02:47:35,000 --> 02:47:36,000
Speaker 1: One night we were talking.

3139
02:47:37,000 --> 02:47:40,400
Speaker 3: Is the strongest guy on the strongest guy with the

3140
02:47:40,440 --> 02:47:49,240
Speaker 3: pizza pizza one of the strongest guys strong carry crates

3141
02:47:49,240 --> 02:47:50,600
Speaker 3: in the New York City taxi cab?

3142
02:47:50,760 --> 02:47:53,400
Speaker 1: Can you look at my front? Untell? What the hell

3143
02:47:53,520 --> 02:47:53,960
Speaker 1: is going on?

3144
02:47:54,080 --> 02:47:57,520
Speaker 2: In many In many instances in New York, you know,

3145
02:47:57,640 --> 02:48:00,680
Speaker 2: they would block the street off. So we talked about

3146
02:48:00,760 --> 02:48:03,440
Speaker 2: Cheetah for instance, right, I love so Cheetah was on

3147
02:48:03,560 --> 02:48:06,760
Speaker 2: twenty first Street between fifth and sixth Avenues, so if

3148
02:48:06,840 --> 02:48:10,640
Speaker 2: the club was extra popping, they would barricade the whole

3149
02:48:10,680 --> 02:48:14,480
Speaker 2: street on Fifth Avenue and sixth Avenue, and Cheetah was

3150
02:48:14,520 --> 02:48:17,560
Speaker 2: smacked in between fifth and sixth. So I would walk

3151
02:48:17,600 --> 02:48:20,000
Speaker 2: out of there a four point thirty and no cars

3152
02:48:20,080 --> 02:48:23,200
Speaker 2: could get through the club. So I was carrying a

3153
02:48:23,240 --> 02:48:25,280
Speaker 2: crate out of time to Fifth Avenue and had someone

3154
02:48:25,360 --> 02:48:27,760
Speaker 2: watch them while I went back and got the rest.

3155
02:48:28,240 --> 02:48:31,519
Speaker 8: So before Cheetah, it was a club called Privatize.

3156
02:48:32,680 --> 02:48:36,240
Speaker 6: Oh sound sound forty fifth Street, twenty first Street Privatized, right,

3157
02:48:37,240 --> 02:48:38,240
Speaker 6: It was just I.

3158
02:48:38,240 --> 02:48:38,920
Speaker 1: Got too excited.

3159
02:48:39,640 --> 02:48:42,720
Speaker 7: Strip club, Yeah, vip down the road, let me.

3160
02:48:42,760 --> 02:48:47,920
Speaker 1: Call myself down Yeah yeah, but okay, Private Eye privatized

3161
02:48:48,040 --> 02:48:51,800
Speaker 1: and it was the first video club. What does that mean?

3162
02:48:52,600 --> 02:48:55,680
Speaker 6: The club was full all videos. They would But what

3163
02:48:55,800 --> 02:48:58,880
Speaker 6: he did, like with past the mic it was the

3164
02:48:59,120 --> 02:49:01,720
Speaker 6: recorded is the DJ would play.

3165
02:49:03,320 --> 02:49:05,160
Speaker 1: The eighty three.

3166
02:49:07,600 --> 02:49:11,400
Speaker 7: Yes in sync with the DJ the videos playing Yeah,

3167
02:49:11,480 --> 02:49:11,800
Speaker 7: like it was.

3168
02:49:12,480 --> 02:49:13,880
Speaker 8: I mean it was, it was.

3169
02:49:14,080 --> 02:49:16,240
Speaker 1: It was amazing and the most beautiful woman in the

3170
02:49:16,280 --> 02:49:16,680
Speaker 1: world with it.

3171
02:49:17,920 --> 02:49:21,960
Speaker 2: A crazy, a crazy thing about Steve is, you know,

3172
02:49:22,120 --> 02:49:24,800
Speaker 2: much of the public associates Steve with Loud Records and

3173
02:49:25,400 --> 02:49:26,800
Speaker 2: hip hop New York hip hop.

3174
02:49:27,240 --> 02:49:28,920
Speaker 1: That's awesome, O.

3175
02:49:30,000 --> 02:49:32,880
Speaker 2: But Steve could tell you a place in time, in

3176
02:49:32,959 --> 02:49:36,560
Speaker 2: a story for every classic R and B record. You know,

3177
02:49:36,760 --> 02:49:40,840
Speaker 2: I do fancy myself somewhat of an encyclopedia. There's of

3178
02:49:40,920 --> 02:49:43,920
Speaker 2: course people who could you know, taught me. But every

3179
02:49:44,000 --> 02:49:46,520
Speaker 2: record I ever play or love or mentioned, there was

3180
02:49:46,600 --> 02:49:50,680
Speaker 2: an you know on the show pass to my Steve

3181
02:49:50,800 --> 02:49:53,600
Speaker 2: worked the record as a twenty year old, or Steve

3182
02:49:53,760 --> 02:49:58,240
Speaker 2: brought the record Frankie Crocker, or some crazy story that

3183
02:49:58,360 --> 02:49:59,279
Speaker 2: Steve was involved.

3184
02:49:59,320 --> 02:50:01,440
Speaker 4: He's like the far risk gump of like R and

3185
02:50:01,520 --> 02:50:02,959
Speaker 4: B promotion of the early eighties.

3186
02:50:03,040 --> 02:50:04,840
Speaker 7: We kind of already found out with this new addition

3187
02:50:05,280 --> 02:50:06,840
Speaker 7: added story.

3188
02:50:06,640 --> 02:50:09,200
Speaker 5: With you, it's always so new.

3189
02:50:09,560 --> 02:50:11,879
Speaker 1: Boom alight we moving on to the next one. Yes,

3190
02:50:12,959 --> 02:50:16,920
Speaker 1: oh god, I got, I got, I got hold up?

3191
02:50:17,640 --> 02:50:19,400
Speaker 7: Will be in her trap called quick. We said that

3192
02:50:20,760 --> 02:50:22,720
Speaker 7: I was in the bathroom. You didn't exhibit too?

3193
02:50:23,040 --> 02:50:23,240
Speaker 1: Yeah?

3194
02:50:23,320 --> 02:50:26,080
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, you you said Kanye too?

3195
02:50:30,600 --> 02:50:30,800
Speaker 3: Yeah?

3196
02:50:33,400 --> 02:50:47,080
Speaker 1: Kanye or Pharrell? I'm going with you Pharrell, Like, do

3197
02:50:47,240 --> 02:50:50,400
Speaker 1: we take a shot because they're not on the same level.

3198
02:50:50,920 --> 02:50:54,000
Speaker 7: Your connection with Yate? How did that form so so strongly?

3199
02:51:00,120 --> 02:51:04,280
Speaker 18: I didn't know him, Like when like his first few albums,

3200
02:51:05,080 --> 02:51:10,240
Speaker 18: he was at Matahisa at the restaurant, at the restaurant

3201
02:51:10,320 --> 02:51:13,080
Speaker 18: and I was there and Noboo comes up to me

3202
02:51:14,160 --> 02:51:15,879
Speaker 18: and says, you know Kanye.

3203
02:51:16,000 --> 02:51:17,920
Speaker 7: I said, actually no, I said, can you go back

3204
02:51:17,959 --> 02:51:19,840
Speaker 7: to him and see if it's okay.

3205
02:51:23,800 --> 02:51:24,320
Speaker 1: To say hello?

3206
02:51:24,600 --> 02:51:27,520
Speaker 7: So do you remember when you guys did to drink

3207
02:51:27,600 --> 02:51:29,240
Speaker 7: champs in my office in La Yeah?

3208
02:51:29,320 --> 02:51:31,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was.

3209
02:51:32,360 --> 02:51:35,680
Speaker 6: I had a concept to do an album where I

3210
02:51:35,720 --> 02:51:39,680
Speaker 6: took nine of the most relevant rappers in like twenty seventeen,

3211
02:51:39,680 --> 02:51:42,879
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen, and Redo thirty six Chambers.

3212
02:51:44,160 --> 02:51:46,800
Speaker 1: And I wanted, wait, wait, okay, you going keep going? Wait?

3213
02:51:46,800 --> 02:51:47,080
Speaker 1: Wait wait?

3214
02:51:47,200 --> 02:51:48,360
Speaker 7: What was resil?

3215
02:51:48,600 --> 02:51:50,560
Speaker 8: And honest yeah, me and ris were partner really.

3216
02:51:50,480 --> 02:51:54,960
Speaker 7: Yeah and that was like every song that redo the

3217
02:51:54,959 --> 02:51:55,480
Speaker 7: whole album.

3218
02:51:55,720 --> 02:51:55,920
Speaker 1: Wow.

3219
02:51:56,360 --> 02:51:59,080
Speaker 8: And I wanted Yay to be Risen.

3220
02:51:59,680 --> 02:52:00,560
Speaker 1: Mm wow.

3221
02:52:01,760 --> 02:52:02,119
Speaker 8: We didn't.

3222
02:52:02,120 --> 02:52:04,200
Speaker 6: I could have called Scooter, but I knew Scooter as

3223
02:52:04,240 --> 02:52:08,560
Speaker 6: a manager. No matter, even though I raised Scooter, I

3224
02:52:08,600 --> 02:52:09,600
Speaker 6: would be he would.

3225
02:52:09,360 --> 02:52:09,800
Speaker 1: Have blocked it.

3226
02:52:10,120 --> 02:52:12,840
Speaker 6: And he just happened to be there. I said, is

3227
02:52:12,879 --> 02:52:15,600
Speaker 6: it all right if I come by tomorrow or whatever?

3228
02:52:15,680 --> 02:52:21,160
Speaker 6: He says please, And he's a huge basketball fan and

3229
02:52:21,400 --> 02:52:25,160
Speaker 6: he had a game every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and he says,

3230
02:52:25,200 --> 02:52:27,280
Speaker 6: you play ball. I said, yeah, but I just had

3231
02:52:27,520 --> 02:52:29,880
Speaker 6: heart surgery, so I didn't know how. I said, okay,

3232
02:52:29,920 --> 02:52:32,200
Speaker 6: if I bring my son, and I don't like to

3233
02:52:32,320 --> 02:52:34,640
Speaker 6: lose it. So you know, my son played college ball,

3234
02:52:36,320 --> 02:52:40,280
Speaker 6: so so I brought my son, and.

3235
02:52:43,120 --> 02:52:44,400
Speaker 1: You know, he was on my team.

3236
02:52:44,440 --> 02:52:46,240
Speaker 8: And with my son on the team, you know, we

3237
02:52:46,320 --> 02:52:48,600
Speaker 8: didn't lose a game. So it was cool and we

3238
02:52:49,040 --> 02:52:50,480
Speaker 8: you know, and we just started talking.

3239
02:52:51,280 --> 02:52:54,200
Speaker 6: And then I saw what type of sneakers though it

3240
02:52:55,240 --> 02:52:58,920
Speaker 6: He goes, they're gonna be the easy basketball shop. And

3241
02:52:59,000 --> 02:53:01,320
Speaker 6: I said, that's another big dollars for you right there.

3242
02:53:01,320 --> 02:53:03,320
Speaker 6: And I said, you know, I consulted Nike, you know,

3243
02:53:03,360 --> 02:53:06,720
Speaker 6: for Alicia. I was feel nice personal consultant, and he

3244
02:53:07,240 --> 02:53:09,080
Speaker 6: literally pretty much hied me on the spot.

3245
02:53:09,680 --> 02:53:12,240
Speaker 1: Wow mhm.

3246
02:53:13,360 --> 02:53:16,480
Speaker 7: And that relationship has been tested, yeah.

3247
02:53:16,360 --> 02:53:19,720
Speaker 6: I mean there's times when he hates my guts, like

3248
02:53:20,200 --> 02:53:22,600
Speaker 6: you know, and there are times that he loves me

3249
02:53:22,680 --> 02:53:23,000
Speaker 6: to death.

3250
02:53:23,040 --> 02:53:27,200
Speaker 1: But I'll always be that from right, even when I

3251
02:53:27,280 --> 02:53:28,680
Speaker 1: just even when I disagree with him.

3252
02:53:28,720 --> 02:53:32,320
Speaker 3: You guys saw it that one time when yeah, yeah,

3253
02:53:33,200 --> 02:53:36,320
Speaker 3: don't man, he felt like you wanted to address that.

3254
02:53:36,760 --> 02:53:38,920
Speaker 1: Huh, I said, we felt like you wanted to address that?

3255
02:53:39,040 --> 02:53:42,600
Speaker 1: But then or now? Uh right?

3256
02:53:42,720 --> 02:53:42,840
Speaker 6: Now?

3257
02:53:43,000 --> 02:53:50,400
Speaker 19: Yeah, no, I mean finally make sense. I mean, yeah,

3258
02:53:51,959 --> 02:53:54,360
Speaker 19: I know he has a heart of goals, right, and

3259
02:53:54,760 --> 02:53:58,119
Speaker 19: you know what he means basically. And if you remember

3260
02:53:58,320 --> 02:54:02,640
Speaker 19: when I hugged him that I was a true it

3261
02:54:02,840 --> 02:54:05,400
Speaker 19: wasn't a fake, you know hug and I was like,

3262
02:54:06,280 --> 02:54:09,200
Speaker 19: whoever is wherever it came from?

3263
02:54:10,879 --> 02:54:19,440
Speaker 1: He just said it wrong, right, and and that's what

3264
02:54:19,600 --> 02:54:20,880
Speaker 1: it it was.

3265
02:54:21,640 --> 02:54:23,320
Speaker 19: You know, if I said, hey, you know what, I

3266
02:54:23,400 --> 02:54:26,480
Speaker 19: need to borrow five million dollars just you know, he

3267
02:54:26,640 --> 02:54:27,480
Speaker 19: was happy to see.

3268
02:54:28,240 --> 02:54:29,560
Speaker 8: He would he would give me the money.

3269
02:54:29,879 --> 02:54:32,920
Speaker 7: That's without that's what That's not what we're talking about, though. No,

3270
02:54:33,240 --> 02:54:35,520
Speaker 7: so I I just think he has a hard time

3271
02:54:35,600 --> 02:54:37,240
Speaker 7: communicating really what he wants to say.

3272
02:54:37,920 --> 02:54:41,040
Speaker 1: And and then that's all and that's all it is, right,

3273
02:54:43,040 --> 02:54:44,119
Speaker 1: Kendrick or Drake.

3274
02:54:45,160 --> 02:54:51,000
Speaker 2: Huh No, got what he's Jesus, No, it's not really

3275
02:54:51,080 --> 02:54:56,920
Speaker 2: got him. It's not a both or the ear. I

3276
02:54:57,080 --> 02:55:02,960
Speaker 2: just have different Well you have to answer one. Steve

3277
02:55:03,080 --> 02:55:15,720
Speaker 2: got him. Okay, Kendrick, you're not like us. I gotta

3278
02:55:15,760 --> 02:55:17,360
Speaker 2: be honest with you. It has nothing to do with

3279
02:55:17,520 --> 02:55:20,080
Speaker 2: the with the Beef records, no, but but I'm just

3280
02:55:20,120 --> 02:55:20,840
Speaker 2: saying I am.

3281
02:55:21,280 --> 02:55:22,440
Speaker 1: But they're not like Uh.

3282
02:55:24,520 --> 02:55:28,199
Speaker 4: I just feel musically the songs.

3283
02:55:27,879 --> 02:55:30,680
Speaker 2: That I'm going to listen to forever there there there

3284
02:55:30,720 --> 02:55:33,000
Speaker 2: are songs in Kendrick's catalog.

3285
02:55:34,600 --> 02:55:39,520
Speaker 4: Musically that to me are just deep, just on another level.

3286
02:55:40,000 --> 02:55:43,480
Speaker 2: And so for one word answer Kendrick, but you know

3287
02:55:43,560 --> 02:55:45,720
Speaker 2: it's obviously way more complex. But having nothing to do

3288
02:55:45,800 --> 02:55:47,480
Speaker 2: with it. That wasn't a who won the beef question.

3289
02:55:48,560 --> 02:55:51,160
Speaker 2: We're just having fun with it. How about you, Kendrick,

3290
02:55:54,400 --> 02:55:58,080
Speaker 2: Steve hesitate. He said, they're not like us not.

3291
02:55:58,200 --> 02:56:01,160
Speaker 1: Like, but but if you if you look at my

3292
02:56:01,320 --> 02:56:05,760
Speaker 1: heritage of music, right, who who? Who is Kendricks?

3293
02:56:06,160 --> 02:56:08,360
Speaker 8: I don't know for sure.

3294
02:56:08,400 --> 02:56:09,000
Speaker 1: It's Prodigy.

3295
02:56:11,200 --> 02:56:12,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, the reason why he started rapping.

3296
02:56:13,440 --> 02:56:14,160
Speaker 7: He says, Prodigy.

3297
02:56:15,040 --> 02:56:20,840
Speaker 1: Google it again, he's gonna save Please. Hey, Google, I

3298
02:56:21,040 --> 02:56:32,800
Speaker 1: like how Steve knows the room. What you said? He said?

3299
02:56:33,040 --> 02:56:35,359
Speaker 1: He said, google us under the influence.

3300
02:56:37,440 --> 02:56:38,560
Speaker 7: That's a horridful.

3301
02:56:39,720 --> 02:56:43,240
Speaker 1: Jesus, Jesus. All right, yeah, but you tell us when

3302
02:56:43,280 --> 02:56:49,600
Speaker 1: they when Hey, hey, Google's not that slow, bro, It's

3303
02:56:49,680 --> 02:56:52,040
Speaker 1: called high speed internet. Bro, don't blame it on the

3304
02:56:52,120 --> 02:56:57,320
Speaker 1: rain neither. Why do you both have just say Kendrick

3305
02:56:57,360 --> 02:56:57,920
Speaker 1: and Prodigy?

3306
02:56:58,959 --> 02:56:59,400
Speaker 10: M hm.

3307
02:57:02,600 --> 02:57:07,560
Speaker 1: A little okay? Well yeah, all right, he's on you

3308
02:57:07,680 --> 02:57:09,920
Speaker 1: let us know when you find it. He's on dialogue. Yeah,

3309
02:57:10,000 --> 02:57:12,360
Speaker 1: what kind of Yeah you you on.

3310
02:57:14,680 --> 02:57:15,280
Speaker 5: On analog?

3311
02:57:15,600 --> 02:57:21,039
Speaker 1: That's present? Yeah? What happened?

3312
02:57:21,440 --> 02:57:23,120
Speaker 7: And Prodigy?

3313
02:57:23,600 --> 02:57:25,120
Speaker 1: Yeah? You that's all you got?

3314
02:57:25,560 --> 02:57:25,840
Speaker 3: All that?

3315
02:57:33,800 --> 02:57:39,280
Speaker 1: Holy? We better, bro? Better?

3316
02:57:40,160 --> 02:57:45,080
Speaker 7: What's worry? Don't talking to sese?

3317
02:57:45,959 --> 02:57:47,280
Speaker 1: What's will? I am ship that?

3318
02:57:48,800 --> 02:57:48,959
Speaker 2: Hey?

3319
02:57:49,080 --> 02:57:49,480
Speaker 1: I well?

3320
02:57:49,560 --> 02:57:50,119
Speaker 2: I am right?

3321
02:57:50,680 --> 02:57:56,800
Speaker 1: No, you know you're a law bro. You're ce Iah

3322
02:57:57,080 --> 02:57:57,600
Speaker 1: the next one.

3323
02:57:57,680 --> 02:57:58,360
Speaker 5: You got a name?

3324
02:57:58,680 --> 02:58:01,120
Speaker 1: She got what Kenner said?

3325
02:58:01,920 --> 02:58:05,840
Speaker 7: Kendrick noted Prodigy's influence on his early style and development

3326
02:58:05,920 --> 02:58:10,000
Speaker 7: as its writer, and an MC describing the original recording setup.

3327
02:58:13,200 --> 02:58:14,199
Speaker 5: It's weird.

3328
02:58:19,240 --> 02:58:19,680
Speaker 8: Right there.

3329
02:58:20,800 --> 02:58:23,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, not all of us went to school. That's

3330
02:58:23,560 --> 02:58:24,760
Speaker 5: why you gotta read it.

3331
02:58:25,120 --> 02:58:28,920
Speaker 7: You school, Google, bro, You know you can spell it

3332
02:58:29,000 --> 02:58:31,000
Speaker 7: roll and Google says, no, this is what you mean.

3333
02:58:34,440 --> 02:58:37,040
Speaker 3: At the next one, We're fucked in the future.

3334
02:58:37,320 --> 02:58:38,240
Speaker 4: I heard the next one.

3335
02:58:38,760 --> 02:58:40,800
Speaker 1: You heard it, right, I know Steve's answer.

3336
02:58:40,800 --> 02:58:42,360
Speaker 7: Dead Present Clips was that to me?

3337
02:58:42,440 --> 02:58:42,680
Speaker 8: It's a.

3338
02:58:44,280 --> 02:58:44,560
Speaker 1: Both.

3339
02:58:46,400 --> 02:58:48,360
Speaker 6: I mean, as much as I love Pusher, I mean

3340
02:58:48,400 --> 02:58:49,720
Speaker 6: I'm going with Dead Press.

3341
02:58:51,680 --> 02:58:54,039
Speaker 1: Now you too. And hip Hop is.

3342
02:58:54,040 --> 02:58:55,720
Speaker 8: One of my top five records of all time.

3343
02:58:55,840 --> 02:58:58,760
Speaker 7: I love that record, A pivotal record.

3344
02:59:00,040 --> 02:59:02,480
Speaker 1: You may between y'all, and I mean, I think that record.

3345
02:59:02,280 --> 02:59:03,200
Speaker 7: Means a lot to hip hop.

3346
02:59:03,959 --> 02:59:06,720
Speaker 2: Clips, his first album is one of my favorite hip

3347
02:59:06,720 --> 02:59:08,960
Speaker 2: hop albums in the past twenty years. Well now it's

3348
02:59:09,400 --> 02:59:13,119
Speaker 2: twenty years. God willing will and I love the Clips

3349
02:59:13,200 --> 02:59:15,200
Speaker 2: really really, I'm not telling you what I mean.

3350
02:59:15,280 --> 02:59:17,400
Speaker 6: But the Dead Press, I mean, at the end of

3351
02:59:17,440 --> 02:59:22,160
Speaker 6: the day, I mean that record to this day will

3352
02:59:22,200 --> 02:59:23,800
Speaker 6: still be played everywhere.

3353
02:59:26,520 --> 02:59:26,680
Speaker 2: Is that?

3354
02:59:29,280 --> 02:59:33,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the last question for the interview, But

3355
02:59:33,080 --> 02:59:34,720
Speaker 3: this is the last question for a quick time with live.

3356
02:59:34,920 --> 02:59:37,720
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not going to lead the witness. Don't lead

3357
02:59:37,760 --> 02:59:41,120
Speaker 1: the witness. Both for y' all you can answer at

3358
02:59:41,160 --> 02:59:43,080
Speaker 1: the same time. Just to look way.

3359
02:59:43,120 --> 02:59:45,359
Speaker 7: One of the questions the whiz.

3360
02:59:46,840 --> 02:59:54,959
Speaker 1: Loyalty or respect loyalty same? Please we need both explanations.

3361
02:59:55,040 --> 02:59:57,160
Speaker 1: Why for for me? I grew up.

3362
02:59:57,200 --> 03:00:02,880
Speaker 7: If you aren't loyal, You'll be swimming somewhere. Man, You've

3363
03:00:02,879 --> 03:00:12,880
Speaker 7: been swimming with the fishes. And listen, not for nothing, Steve,

3364
03:00:13,240 --> 03:00:15,680
Speaker 7: but you've been giving Martlasky vibes the whole time.

3365
03:00:15,720 --> 03:00:20,960
Speaker 3: We've been always so we know, we know, Bro, you

3366
03:00:21,320 --> 03:00:23,080
Speaker 3: got it shut out to your family.

3367
03:00:29,000 --> 03:00:32,200
Speaker 2: I think loyalty precedes respect if you're not loyal to

3368
03:00:32,280 --> 03:00:34,440
Speaker 2: people who are going to respect you both.

3369
03:00:34,760 --> 03:00:35,360
Speaker 1: This is the thing.

3370
03:00:36,440 --> 03:00:38,880
Speaker 7: You can't pick both, right, But it's the thing the

3371
03:00:39,440 --> 03:00:41,840
Speaker 7: game was to not to not say both.

3372
03:00:42,560 --> 03:00:45,640
Speaker 2: It's not the goal to make decisive decisions.

3373
03:00:45,720 --> 03:00:48,640
Speaker 7: It's decisive for you. Whatever is decisive. What is your

3374
03:00:48,760 --> 03:00:49,520
Speaker 7: decisive right?

3375
03:00:49,680 --> 03:00:49,800
Speaker 1: Right?

3376
03:00:49,879 --> 03:00:51,039
Speaker 4: So I'm saying it's not both.

3377
03:00:51,440 --> 03:00:52,640
Speaker 1: Okay, No, no, I get it, I get it.

3378
03:00:52,680 --> 03:00:56,359
Speaker 7: But wouldn't both in this situation be the ideal situation?

3379
03:00:56,959 --> 03:00:58,560
Speaker 2: This is why I'm always getting I thought, you have

3380
03:00:58,680 --> 03:01:00,440
Speaker 2: to choose one of the other you could only have,

3381
03:01:01,280 --> 03:01:04,280
Speaker 2: but you've you've been choosing too well, not you going

3382
03:01:04,320 --> 03:01:05,480
Speaker 2: crazy with got a second?

3383
03:01:06,400 --> 03:01:07,039
Speaker 4: Hold on a second.

3384
03:01:07,280 --> 03:01:10,200
Speaker 2: With every every single pair you've mentioned, not one of

3385
03:01:10,280 --> 03:01:11,480
Speaker 2: us have disliked the other.

3386
03:01:11,680 --> 03:01:12,680
Speaker 4: It was always which.

3387
03:01:14,720 --> 03:01:15,120
Speaker 1: Right, right?

3388
03:01:15,240 --> 03:01:17,320
Speaker 4: So respect loyalty, it's which one if you could only

3389
03:01:17,400 --> 03:01:17,720
Speaker 4: have one.

3390
03:01:17,800 --> 03:01:19,840
Speaker 7: But there's two different things, to be honest with you,

3391
03:01:20,160 --> 03:01:22,640
Speaker 7: But if you had the idea, if you could ideally

3392
03:01:22,720 --> 03:01:30,360
Speaker 7: have both, you would have people say to both of

3393
03:01:30,800 --> 03:01:34,120
Speaker 7: all the questions on everything they have. They have a

3394
03:01:34,160 --> 03:01:38,400
Speaker 7: hard time saying one. Well, because you, guys, I think.

3395
03:01:40,280 --> 03:01:41,080
Speaker 5: Two different things.

3396
03:01:42,040 --> 03:01:45,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear you right now. There are

3397
03:01:45,879 --> 03:01:47,879
Speaker 1: there are, there are two different blocks.

3398
03:01:48,920 --> 03:01:49,800
Speaker 8: At the end of the day.

3399
03:01:52,360 --> 03:01:54,880
Speaker 6: You can respect somebody and not be loyal to them, right,

3400
03:01:56,360 --> 03:01:58,680
Speaker 6: And you could be loyal to somebody and that and

3401
03:01:58,760 --> 03:01:59,480
Speaker 6: not respect them.

3402
03:02:00,600 --> 03:02:02,560
Speaker 7: But if you look in a great world where you

3403
03:02:02,640 --> 03:02:05,000
Speaker 7: could say, hey, I want you to but it's loyal

3404
03:02:05,120 --> 03:02:09,039
Speaker 7: and respect me, yeah, I mean yeah that I would.

3405
03:02:09,160 --> 03:02:11,000
Speaker 6: I would love for the whole world to be loyal

3406
03:02:11,080 --> 03:02:13,120
Speaker 6: to me, to respect me, to do But at the

3407
03:02:13,720 --> 03:02:16,200
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, how I grew up.

3408
03:02:17,600 --> 03:02:20,840
Speaker 6: It's about loyalty. You always got you always got to

3409
03:02:20,920 --> 03:02:22,280
Speaker 6: go into somebody's house.

3410
03:02:23,400 --> 03:02:28,160
Speaker 7: Well, now is we often get respect more than loyalty, right,

3411
03:02:28,280 --> 03:02:29,400
Speaker 7: That's what we often get.

3412
03:02:30,040 --> 03:02:32,120
Speaker 3: Anything else I would say, like a fifty five not

3413
03:02:32,280 --> 03:02:33,080
Speaker 3: I'd say more.

3414
03:02:33,200 --> 03:02:35,959
Speaker 7: People say I would prefer they respect me because they

3415
03:02:36,040 --> 03:02:37,240
Speaker 7: say loyalty.

3416
03:02:37,640 --> 03:02:38,760
Speaker 1: People because it's limits.

3417
03:02:38,800 --> 03:02:41,600
Speaker 7: They say, rights.

3418
03:02:40,560 --> 03:02:42,680
Speaker 4: Comes from quality. I mean, people.

3419
03:02:42,560 --> 03:02:45,200
Speaker 1: Respect you if you if you if you look at

3420
03:02:45,280 --> 03:02:45,920
Speaker 1: Rock Nation.

3421
03:02:47,320 --> 03:02:51,400
Speaker 6: Or any you know, if it's Kevin Hart's company, Jay's company,

3422
03:02:52,720 --> 03:02:55,000
Speaker 6: they're all so loyal to each other. It's a it's

3423
03:02:55,040 --> 03:02:58,440
Speaker 6: a beautiful thing to watch. I mean, it really is

3424
03:02:58,600 --> 03:03:02,560
Speaker 6: the reason why Loud one we were a team, you

3425
03:03:02,640 --> 03:03:05,600
Speaker 6: know from the art. I mean thirty years ago. Like

3426
03:03:05,720 --> 03:03:08,520
Speaker 6: I still have a relationship with Joe. I mean when

3427
03:03:08,560 --> 03:03:10,440
Speaker 6: I was gone for thirty five minutes, I was on

3428
03:03:10,480 --> 03:03:11,480
Speaker 6: the phone with Rizza.

3429
03:03:13,440 --> 03:03:13,760
Speaker 9: I have.

3430
03:03:14,280 --> 03:03:17,080
Speaker 7: I was like that, but no, no, no, but you're

3431
03:03:17,160 --> 03:03:18,840
Speaker 7: taking a ship talking to Rise at the same time.

3432
03:03:18,879 --> 03:03:19,840
Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, I get it.

3433
03:03:20,000 --> 03:03:20,960
Speaker 4: No, No, let me say something.

3434
03:03:21,080 --> 03:03:26,200
Speaker 2: After the BT Hip Hop Awards that you are part

3435
03:03:26,240 --> 03:03:28,840
Speaker 2: of two years ago, Loud was honored, right, Yeah, and

3436
03:03:29,040 --> 03:03:29,720
Speaker 2: you guys were there.

3437
03:03:32,240 --> 03:03:32,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, they won.

3438
03:03:33,760 --> 03:03:39,400
Speaker 2: Maybe, So after after the awards we went to dinner.

3439
03:03:39,560 --> 03:03:41,480
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I was gonna ask if you were there.

3440
03:03:41,520 --> 03:03:43,400
Speaker 2: You were there, okay, So Fat Joe made a little

3441
03:03:43,400 --> 03:03:49,360
Speaker 2: speech and he says something about Steve that was so

3442
03:03:49,560 --> 03:03:54,040
Speaker 2: dead on that he't capitalizes Steve to me, he said,

3443
03:03:54,080 --> 03:03:59,280
Speaker 2: first of all, who gets ten or more of their

3444
03:03:59,760 --> 03:04:04,800
Speaker 2: four more artists artists to show up for a tribute.

3445
03:04:05,640 --> 03:04:10,640
Speaker 2: Then he said who gets them to rehearse? Then he

3446
03:04:10,720 --> 03:04:14,160
Speaker 2: said who gets them to rehearse the day before and

3447
03:04:14,280 --> 03:04:17,400
Speaker 2: the day of? And then he said who gets them

3448
03:04:17,480 --> 03:04:19,640
Speaker 2: to rehearse the day before and the day of and

3449
03:04:19,760 --> 03:04:21,119
Speaker 2: say nothing but nice things?

3450
03:04:27,720 --> 03:04:30,160
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. We was there to witness at hold and

3451
03:04:30,160 --> 03:04:30,480
Speaker 1: he used the.

3452
03:04:30,480 --> 03:04:33,640
Speaker 7: Back We were definitely there, so we so we we

3453
03:04:33,800 --> 03:04:38,480
Speaker 7: finalized this this love and loyalty, love and loyalty, loyalty respect.

3454
03:04:39,920 --> 03:04:40,160
Speaker 1: Well.

3455
03:04:40,240 --> 03:04:43,440
Speaker 2: See, I think the entire game I was under the

3456
03:04:43,480 --> 03:04:47,640
Speaker 2: impression was to pick because if you're supposed to say

3457
03:04:47,640 --> 03:04:49,680
Speaker 2: both and I would like to renag on my Swiss

3458
03:04:49,720 --> 03:04:50,800
Speaker 2: and Timberland and my.

3459
03:04:51,800 --> 03:04:55,720
Speaker 4: And I thought you had to choose a favorite.

3460
03:04:55,720 --> 03:04:56,280
Speaker 1: You didn't have to.

3461
03:04:56,760 --> 03:04:59,879
Speaker 7: It was preferably to your criteria. You could pick one

3462
03:05:00,080 --> 03:05:00,720
Speaker 7: or the other or.

3463
03:05:00,720 --> 03:05:03,400
Speaker 2: Both, right, But I thought the cop out is saying

3464
03:05:03,480 --> 03:05:05,640
Speaker 2: both the cop right, it's the cop out.

3465
03:05:05,680 --> 03:05:10,200
Speaker 7: Okay, so all right, but you're actually the way you're

3466
03:05:10,240 --> 03:05:12,640
Speaker 7: saying it, you're right, man, that you're fucking right, And

3467
03:05:12,720 --> 03:05:14,879
Speaker 7: it sucks because.

3468
03:05:14,600 --> 03:05:15,279
Speaker 1: You're saying.

3469
03:05:16,920 --> 03:05:17,840
Speaker 2: No, no way.

3470
03:05:18,080 --> 03:05:20,880
Speaker 12: Steve says to me every day, you can't debate the

3471
03:05:20,920 --> 03:05:23,440
Speaker 12: guy right, because the way I'm trying to argue it

3472
03:05:23,600 --> 03:05:25,560
Speaker 12: is like, if I had the choice, these are the two,

3473
03:05:25,600 --> 03:05:27,240
Speaker 12: I would want both of those things.

3474
03:05:27,680 --> 03:05:29,680
Speaker 7: But then you're saying the way we put the game

3475
03:05:29,800 --> 03:05:31,119
Speaker 7: up is the cop.

3476
03:05:31,240 --> 03:05:32,320
Speaker 8: So let me tell you a funny story.

3477
03:05:32,440 --> 03:05:34,680
Speaker 1: So this is passing.

3478
03:05:34,720 --> 03:05:37,360
Speaker 6: Mic is really it's his baby, like I'm an uncle

3479
03:05:37,560 --> 03:05:41,080
Speaker 6: or a grandfather. Right, So when I really disagree with

3480
03:05:41,160 --> 03:05:47,920
Speaker 6: them on something, my fiance, she she knows how to communicate. Right,

3481
03:05:48,080 --> 03:05:50,840
Speaker 6: it takes me two weeks. I'll streaming him for two weeks,

3482
03:05:50,879 --> 03:05:53,240
Speaker 6: something about himself, hang up the phone. I mean, I

3483
03:05:53,280 --> 03:05:56,400
Speaker 6: won't talk to him, Mike. I I gotta get I

3484
03:05:56,440 --> 03:05:59,920
Speaker 6: gotta get myself ready, knowing I got to get myself

3485
03:06:00,080 --> 03:06:02,160
Speaker 6: two weeks because I know how he's gonna come back

3486
03:06:02,360 --> 03:06:06,480
Speaker 6: with the fucking thing. No when he has a vision

3487
03:06:07,320 --> 03:06:10,240
Speaker 6: there's no fucking way you could change his mind. So

3488
03:06:10,400 --> 03:06:13,720
Speaker 6: I got to come with every fucking fact, possible reason.

3489
03:06:14,680 --> 03:06:19,960
Speaker 6: And Aliyah, she really knows how to communicate. Well, so

3490
03:06:20,560 --> 03:06:23,520
Speaker 6: your wife, that's your wife fiance. Yeah, so I'm like

3491
03:06:25,000 --> 03:06:29,560
Speaker 6: rehearsing every fucking day for two weeks, pacing back and

3492
03:06:29,640 --> 03:06:32,879
Speaker 6: forth in my bedroom to go at this motherfucker.

3493
03:06:39,320 --> 03:06:41,720
Speaker 7: So it's very rarely that you're gonna win a debate

3494
03:06:41,800 --> 03:06:42,040
Speaker 7: with him.

3495
03:06:42,840 --> 03:06:44,480
Speaker 1: You have to go a different way around.

3496
03:06:46,080 --> 03:06:48,080
Speaker 4: So again, I haven't found the way.

3497
03:06:49,400 --> 03:06:50,959
Speaker 8: I just said, there's no fucking way.

3498
03:06:51,360 --> 03:06:53,680
Speaker 7: Listen, I don't think you really answered when I told

3499
03:06:53,840 --> 03:06:56,760
Speaker 7: when I asked you like that moment, those things that

3500
03:06:57,000 --> 03:07:00,680
Speaker 7: that moment that really I know you said, there's many right,

3501
03:07:00,800 --> 03:07:03,120
Speaker 7: it's hard they got you down, but no, no, but

3502
03:07:03,200 --> 03:07:07,879
Speaker 7: there has to be this pivotal thing that happened between

3503
03:07:08,080 --> 03:07:12,000
Speaker 7: a moment that you're just this DJ kid and then

3504
03:07:12,040 --> 03:07:14,240
Speaker 7: you become this other thing.

3505
03:07:17,879 --> 03:07:20,280
Speaker 4: Again. I think I know it sounds it's not a

3506
03:07:20,480 --> 03:07:24,000
Speaker 4: copy out of an answer. There were there was like

3507
03:07:24,080 --> 03:07:24,840
Speaker 4: a five year.

3508
03:07:24,840 --> 03:07:30,280
Speaker 2: Span from age an era, Yeah, age seventeen to twenty

3509
03:07:30,360 --> 03:07:34,080
Speaker 2: three or eighteen to to you know, seventeen to twenty

3510
03:07:34,120 --> 03:07:36,040
Speaker 2: two or eighteen to twenty three, maybe a five year

3511
03:07:36,160 --> 03:07:42,000
Speaker 2: span where every opportunity really snowballed into the next and

3512
03:07:44,560 --> 03:07:50,160
Speaker 2: all those things, from the school parties to the internships.

3513
03:07:50,920 --> 03:07:53,760
Speaker 1: To the first celebrity.

3514
03:07:53,280 --> 03:07:57,600
Speaker 2: Seeing me DJ all led to what came next, and

3515
03:07:58,240 --> 03:08:02,520
Speaker 2: everyone heard me at someone else's party and ended up

3516
03:08:02,560 --> 03:08:02,920
Speaker 2: calling me.

3517
03:08:03,000 --> 03:08:05,680
Speaker 4: And by the time I was in my low twenties,

3518
03:08:06,440 --> 03:08:07,520
Speaker 4: I became known.

3519
03:08:09,560 --> 03:08:16,360
Speaker 2: For playing not only celebrities parties, but hip hop celebrities parties.

3520
03:08:18,320 --> 03:08:21,520
Speaker 2: And I think over the years when I get asked

3521
03:08:21,600 --> 03:08:25,080
Speaker 2: most like, what why do you think that happened? Why

3522
03:08:25,160 --> 03:08:27,320
Speaker 2: did you end up the guy at that time in

3523
03:08:27,400 --> 03:08:32,440
Speaker 2: your life playing for the heavyweights of hip hop? And

3524
03:08:32,800 --> 03:08:36,360
Speaker 2: I always I hate answering that question because I don't

3525
03:08:36,400 --> 03:08:38,520
Speaker 2: like speaking for the people who called on me.

3526
03:08:38,640 --> 03:08:39,760
Speaker 4: The truth is only they know.

3527
03:08:40,080 --> 03:08:43,920
Speaker 2: But I think the real answer is why I was

3528
03:08:45,160 --> 03:08:49,040
Speaker 2: the DJ that all these hip hop heavyweights was calling

3529
03:08:49,560 --> 03:08:53,480
Speaker 2: was because of soul music. I don't think any of

3530
03:08:53,600 --> 03:08:57,440
Speaker 2: them were necessarily like a jay Z, attracted to me

3531
03:08:58,480 --> 03:09:00,360
Speaker 2: because of the way I played hip hop. Now, I'd

3532
03:09:00,440 --> 03:09:04,599
Speaker 2: like to think I played hip hop just greatly, yes, immaculately,

3533
03:09:05,240 --> 03:09:10,320
Speaker 2: But I think what that one special draw was was

3534
03:09:10,720 --> 03:09:13,720
Speaker 2: how I played the soul music of the seventies and eighties,

3535
03:09:14,640 --> 03:09:18,680
Speaker 2: and that music wasn't how I started. I was a

3536
03:09:18,800 --> 03:09:21,039
Speaker 2: hip hop kid, I thought very early on in life.

3537
03:09:22,240 --> 03:09:24,280
Speaker 2: I thought that to fully embrace hip hop, you had

3538
03:09:24,280 --> 03:09:27,960
Speaker 2: to hate everything else. I thought that to really be

3539
03:09:28,080 --> 03:09:29,720
Speaker 2: a part of hip hop, you had to hate.

3540
03:09:29,640 --> 03:09:33,000
Speaker 7: Rock and roll and everything else when hip hop is

3541
03:09:33,000 --> 03:09:34,000
Speaker 7: sampling all of this.

3542
03:09:34,280 --> 03:09:36,680
Speaker 2: And so we talked about Cool Hark, Africa, Bimbad, and

3543
03:09:36,720 --> 03:09:40,200
Speaker 2: Grandmaster Flash earlier. And remember when I said, I knew

3544
03:09:40,200 --> 03:09:41,960
Speaker 2: what they looked like, but I didn't know about them.

3545
03:09:43,400 --> 03:09:46,760
Speaker 2: So once I was a little older in twelve thirteen, fourteen,

3546
03:09:46,959 --> 03:09:51,480
Speaker 2: and I learned about them. I learned that they weren't

3547
03:09:51,560 --> 03:09:55,400
Speaker 2: playing hip hop music because there was no hip hop music.

3548
03:09:55,520 --> 03:09:59,279
Speaker 2: They were creating what became hip hop music through playing

3549
03:09:59,600 --> 03:10:04,040
Speaker 2: R and B, soul, funk, disco, rock and roll, Latin music,

3550
03:10:04,160 --> 03:10:08,200
Speaker 2: and all kinds of music. And that fascinated me and

3551
03:10:08,360 --> 03:10:10,800
Speaker 2: made me want to be this encyclopedia of music. And

3552
03:10:10,959 --> 03:10:13,440
Speaker 2: that journey led me to the sole music of the

3553
03:10:13,520 --> 03:10:17,040
Speaker 2: seventies and eighties, which in many ways became not what

3554
03:10:17,160 --> 03:10:19,520
Speaker 2: I played everywhere for everyone, but in many ways became

3555
03:10:19,600 --> 03:10:20,600
Speaker 2: my signature sound.

3556
03:10:20,640 --> 03:10:23,640
Speaker 8: Can I say something. I threw a party at my

3557
03:10:23,720 --> 03:10:24,800
Speaker 8: house after the B E. T.

3558
03:10:25,000 --> 03:10:30,400
Speaker 20: Walls Is it two thousand and seven around and I

3559
03:10:30,480 --> 03:10:33,160
Speaker 20: must have had five hundred of my closest friends at

3560
03:10:33,200 --> 03:10:36,480
Speaker 20: my house. Well and and I mean name some of

3561
03:10:36,560 --> 03:10:37,360
Speaker 20: these closest friends.

3562
03:10:37,720 --> 03:10:39,800
Speaker 6: I mean I'm joking the famous people and the most

3563
03:10:40,000 --> 03:10:42,800
Speaker 6: the most famous people in the world, like the Who's

3564
03:10:43,520 --> 03:10:46,400
Speaker 6: not the B List? Not to C List that AA

3565
03:10:46,800 --> 03:10:51,160
Speaker 6: from Barba streisand on down Jesus at the house right.

3566
03:10:51,520 --> 03:10:51,600
Speaker 7: So.

3567
03:10:53,320 --> 03:10:54,080
Speaker 1: He was the DJ.

3568
03:10:55,760 --> 03:10:58,920
Speaker 6: So then no, he it was two thousand, it was

3569
03:10:58,959 --> 03:11:00,640
Speaker 6: two thousand and seven, it was it was the beat.

3570
03:11:00,720 --> 03:11:02,640
Speaker 6: He was an after party. The party started at two

3571
03:11:02,640 --> 03:11:04,600
Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning and it went to ten o'clock

3572
03:11:04,600 --> 03:11:05,039
Speaker 6: in the morning.

3573
03:11:06,320 --> 03:11:09,800
Speaker 7: Quincy Jones came up to me, who was like a

3574
03:11:09,879 --> 03:11:13,959
Speaker 7: father to me. He says, where's Barbara. I'm like, Barbara who?

3575
03:11:14,720 --> 03:11:16,880
Speaker 7: And he goes Barbara Streis and I goes, she's here.

3576
03:11:16,959 --> 03:11:18,959
Speaker 7: He goes, yeah, she was just over there.

3577
03:11:19,360 --> 03:11:19,800
Speaker 2: Let you go.

3578
03:11:21,760 --> 03:11:24,480
Speaker 1: No, I mean, it was the craziest thing.

3579
03:11:24,840 --> 03:11:27,200
Speaker 6: And again when before he got here, when I talked

3580
03:11:27,200 --> 03:11:31,320
Speaker 6: about how he just curates, he had those five hundred people.

3581
03:11:32,640 --> 03:11:34,200
Speaker 8: When I'm saying a.

3582
03:11:35,879 --> 03:11:36,400
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne.

3583
03:11:36,480 --> 03:11:38,360
Speaker 8: That was the day his album came away.

3584
03:11:38,400 --> 03:11:42,360
Speaker 6: He scanned over a million units from Lil Wayne on

3585
03:11:42,800 --> 03:11:46,200
Speaker 6: down to every major basketball player. I mean, and it

3586
03:11:46,360 --> 03:11:49,119
Speaker 6: was he had when I'm saying, that whole fucking house

3587
03:11:49,680 --> 03:11:50,840
Speaker 6: in the palm of his hands.

3588
03:11:51,440 --> 03:11:52,600
Speaker 8: But I did get him one time.

3589
03:11:53,160 --> 03:11:55,760
Speaker 7: Not at two thousand and seven, he says he has

3590
03:11:55,840 --> 03:11:57,119
Speaker 7: never been punk before.

3591
03:11:58,760 --> 03:12:02,080
Speaker 8: Again, right and again. It took me a month to

3592
03:12:02,160 --> 03:12:02,680
Speaker 8: set this up.

3593
03:12:02,800 --> 03:12:07,160
Speaker 2: They know the background of your pranks. No, I mean,

3594
03:12:07,200 --> 03:12:08,560
Speaker 2: you got to give otherwise it makes this.

3595
03:12:08,760 --> 03:12:13,160
Speaker 6: I mean, I'll go into death to get somebody like

3596
03:12:13,720 --> 03:12:18,600
Speaker 6: like he's famous for this prank, big expansion, original punk.

3597
03:12:19,320 --> 03:12:19,520
Speaker 4: Yeah.

3598
03:12:19,640 --> 03:12:22,400
Speaker 6: So remember I before he was here, I said, I

3599
03:12:22,400 --> 03:12:24,560
Speaker 6: gave him a record, Dearly Head On Neil McKnight signed

3600
03:12:24,600 --> 03:12:27,000
Speaker 6: to his label, and we do this record, and we

3601
03:12:27,080 --> 03:12:30,320
Speaker 6: were talking about something where he goes, I'll never be pumped.

3602
03:12:30,840 --> 03:12:31,480
Speaker 1: It's like all right.

3603
03:12:31,720 --> 03:12:33,480
Speaker 6: So a month later I invite him out to later

3604
03:12:33,520 --> 03:12:40,560
Speaker 6: have dinner at my house. I hired ten stompmen to

3605
03:12:40,680 --> 03:12:45,199
Speaker 6: come through the glass windows and to kidnap.

3606
03:12:44,959 --> 03:12:48,240
Speaker 4: Us, like they were gonna tie us up.

3607
03:12:48,680 --> 03:12:48,800
Speaker 3: Right.

3608
03:12:48,959 --> 03:12:52,879
Speaker 6: I was gonna spend seventy five thousand dollars to get

3609
03:12:52,920 --> 03:12:56,760
Speaker 6: his ass, so I don't, so, you know.

3610
03:12:57,440 --> 03:12:59,720
Speaker 4: So we go over to the house, we have some drinks,

3611
03:13:00,080 --> 03:13:02,480
Speaker 4: it down for dinner as a chef, and.

3612
03:13:02,920 --> 03:13:07,080
Speaker 6: For whatever reason, my head of security and we're literally

3613
03:13:07,200 --> 03:13:11,400
Speaker 6: I'm here, he's right there, comes and he goes, I'm

3614
03:13:11,480 --> 03:13:15,000
Speaker 6: doing a walk and he dropped a gun right, which

3615
03:13:15,080 --> 03:13:16,280
Speaker 6: wasn't part of the prank.

3616
03:13:16,959 --> 03:13:20,240
Speaker 8: And he just puts his gun right on the table.

3617
03:13:22,800 --> 03:13:23,480
Speaker 8: He passed out.

3618
03:13:27,320 --> 03:13:30,360
Speaker 1: I wasn't. He saved me seventy five grand I didn't

3619
03:13:30,400 --> 03:13:30,640
Speaker 1: have to.

3620
03:13:30,840 --> 03:13:34,040
Speaker 4: Like, never happened.

3621
03:13:36,840 --> 03:13:38,160
Speaker 1: Never happened. That was the prank.

3622
03:13:39,800 --> 03:13:42,279
Speaker 8: Holy, No, they were literally gonna.

3623
03:13:42,640 --> 03:13:43,360
Speaker 4: Was out laughing.

3624
03:13:43,560 --> 03:13:45,800
Speaker 2: He couldn't even tell the story for for for a

3625
03:13:45,840 --> 03:13:47,959
Speaker 2: half an hour. And he said, I have ten people

3626
03:13:48,000 --> 03:13:49,800
Speaker 2: outside for hey to tie us up and kidnapped.

3627
03:13:51,200 --> 03:13:54,080
Speaker 1: And this is going to be on the real No,

3628
03:13:54,760 --> 03:13:55,400
Speaker 1: this is this.

3629
03:14:01,680 --> 03:14:02,640
Speaker 5: No, no, no, not that.

3630
03:14:04,120 --> 03:14:06,520
Speaker 1: Holy taking a shot of that.

3631
03:14:09,440 --> 03:14:09,640
Speaker 5: Shot.

3632
03:14:09,800 --> 03:14:10,000
Speaker 8: Yeah.

3633
03:14:10,400 --> 03:14:15,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, pick up these new monster cups they.

3634
03:14:17,520 --> 03:14:19,640
Speaker 5: Monster bro. Definitely.

3635
03:14:21,760 --> 03:14:23,800
Speaker 1: I think we did it all right, we did it.

3636
03:14:23,920 --> 03:14:24,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, So.

3637
03:14:33,200 --> 03:14:35,280
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's let's let's let's talk to the people

3638
03:14:35,400 --> 03:14:35,920
Speaker 3: one more time.

3639
03:14:37,560 --> 03:14:39,960
Speaker 1: When is the resident start?

3640
03:14:40,480 --> 03:14:41,040
Speaker 2: So? D J.

3641
03:14:41,280 --> 03:14:43,680
Speaker 4: Cassidy is an excuse this voice. It won't be like

3642
03:14:43,760 --> 03:14:44,320
Speaker 4: this In July.

3643
03:14:45,720 --> 03:14:50,560
Speaker 2: DJ Cassidy's Past the Mic Live the Iconic Las Vegas

3644
03:14:50,840 --> 03:14:54,720
Speaker 2: Residency starring Nightly.

3645
03:14:54,600 --> 03:15:04,200
Speaker 10: Hold On starring Nightly Job, Rule That Joke, Slick, Ring

3646
03:15:05,280 --> 03:15:11,840
Speaker 10: Doggie Fresh, with special guests, Rape Won, the Chef, Goat's

3647
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Speaker 10: Face Killer, Public Enemy Had, Jermaine Duprie, Dabron Too Short,

3648
03:15:22,800 --> 03:15:23,320
Speaker 10: Warren g.

3649
03:15:24,360 --> 03:15:26,400
Speaker 4: And special surprise guests.

3650
03:15:30,680 --> 03:15:31,400
Speaker 1: This July.

3651
03:15:32,600 --> 03:15:35,880
Speaker 4: This July at the Back Theater at Planet Hollywood.

3652
03:15:36,080 --> 03:15:40,080
Speaker 2: Tickets on sale right now on Ticketmaster and every night

3653
03:15:40,200 --> 03:15:46,880
Speaker 2: really is going to be a groundbreaking, trailblazing musical experience

3654
03:15:46,959 --> 03:15:49,440
Speaker 2: that we honestly think is going to redefine the Las

3655
03:15:49,560 --> 03:15:50,439
Speaker 2: Vegas Residency.

3656
03:15:50,680 --> 03:15:53,000
Speaker 6: If you trust my taste in the artist that I

3657
03:15:53,120 --> 03:15:57,440
Speaker 6: signed and no, no, but I'm just saying in general

3658
03:15:58,560 --> 03:16:03,840
Speaker 6: this show, this show is just as special as every

3659
03:16:03,959 --> 03:16:06,440
Speaker 6: artist that I signed. I would not have I would

3660
03:16:06,480 --> 03:16:08,800
Speaker 6: not have stick my neck out to Live Nation and

3661
03:16:08,920 --> 03:16:11,120
Speaker 6: trond La Feet to say we got to get this

3662
03:16:11,240 --> 03:16:13,119
Speaker 6: thing done and shout out to sit at Live Nation.

3663
03:16:18,680 --> 03:16:22,640
Speaker 1: By the way, tell them they are to us. We

3664
03:16:22,840 --> 03:16:25,160
Speaker 1: risked our life coming out tonight.

3665
03:16:25,120 --> 03:16:31,920
Speaker 3: Around swimming an alligator my calmost diggle foul.

3666
03:16:33,360 --> 03:16:36,879
Speaker 5: All still let's still still.

3667
03:16:38,720 --> 03:16:56,800
Speaker 1: Damn And they said tomorrow even me work, I get me.

3668
03:16:57,320 --> 03:16:58,920
Speaker 1: Oh there there, there you go.

3669
03:17:01,120 --> 03:17:01,680
Speaker 5: The pictures.

3670
03:17:04,000 --> 03:17:05,600
Speaker 1: Why are we taking pictures?

3671
03:17:06,520 --> 03:17:08,480
Speaker 5: Sign I come on? The audio might come on. The

3672
03:17:08,560 --> 03:17:15,600
Speaker 5: picture your out your mic picture?

3673
03:17:18,720 --> 03:17:23,240
Speaker 1: You know norm we get it today. We take youre film.

3674
03:17:24,879 --> 03:17:27,640
Speaker 5: By the labious. Let me guess something.

3675
03:17:31,640 --> 03:17:34,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I've committed. Once I commit.

3676
03:17:37,240 --> 03:17:37,840
Speaker 5: Don't see you.

3677
03:17:38,280 --> 03:17:40,760
Speaker 1: I could have a pachuca got the army mine.

3678
03:17:41,160 --> 03:17:42,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, they just get some pictures with you.

3679
03:17:43,520 --> 03:17:46,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you're gonna have to do dry hands.

3680
03:17:49,080 --> 03:17:49,680
Speaker 5: I can't believe that.

3681
03:17:49,760 --> 03:17:50,960
Speaker 10: The work.

3682
03:17:55,360 --> 03:18:02,840
Speaker 5: I thought we're going into the sun break. You want

3683
03:18:02,840 --> 03:18:07,120
Speaker 5: your hard up the legacy. Let me take some pictures.

3684
03:18:07,320 --> 03:18:07,959
Speaker 1: Drink yeah.

3685
03:18:09,400 --> 03:18:17,800
Speaker 5: Right here, Yeah, gonna stop. It's not sound.

3686
03:18:19,240 --> 03:18:25,760
Speaker 1: The ring so when it got dar it's boldy.

3687
03:18:27,320 --> 03:18:37,160
Speaker 5: That That's why I'm going to the gun draw No.

3688
03:18:37,440 --> 03:18:41,959
Speaker 1: Yo yo cha, I got a rock.

3689
03:18:44,240 --> 03:18:44,760
Speaker 10: You guys.

3690
03:18:50,200 --> 03:18:53,560
Speaker 7: Drink Champs is a Drink Champs ll C production hosts

3691
03:18:53,600 --> 03:18:55,280
Speaker 7: and executive producers N O.

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Speaker 1: R E and d J. E.

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Speaker 10: F N.

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3696
03:19:06,440 --> 03:19:09,040
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