WEBVTT - ROC Solid Live: Château de Cognac 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.880 Yeah, you know what it is exclusive episode of rock 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:23.799 Solid podcast Yours Truly Memphis Bleak Live from Koyak, France. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.479 Man told me Koyak and this is brought to you 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.639 by Advanced Productions. My guys holding me down, but let's 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.080 toast to my partner who's oh in the building aka 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.920 Tommy Vegan. Sir, when you see the sign that means 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.519 the Mafias and the magi feak here man something my. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.680 Guy, Man nothing, man, just honor to be here, yo, dude, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.200 on this journey back again. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:53.720 We was just hand September. 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.360 Right during the super Bowl. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:55.120 You know what I'm saying. 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.400 We was here September during the super Bowl. We didn't 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.760 make it to New Orleans. And it's crazy that all 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:01.600 of Flower was everything was dead. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:02.840 It was cold. 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.160 We was running around, but we had to come to 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.120 the chateau. But why I got my guy, Tommy ve 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.720 Gan on with me right now because he's a very 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.360 very important person when it comes to this brand. Do say, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.679 because when we first launched the brand, who got the 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:18.720 call pools? 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.760 Nah? Yeah, we started this. Like I said, it was 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.200 the opportunity of a lifetime. What year was it actually 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.080 twenty twelve? 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.280 I want to say, yeah, it was twelve years ago, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.920 so yeah, twenty fourteen. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.360 And you had run up to the office to talk 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.640 to Jay, and like the rest was history. I think 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:38.800 from there you said I needed the opportunity to work 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.119 and do something different. The music. The music thing was 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.560 was in and out, like you weren't really into it time. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.480 No, no, no, keep it clean till that shit was dried up. 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.760 Like we could say that, say that part the. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.080 Music was dried. It wasn't checking for bleak. 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.480 But I was just in the right place at the 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.400 right time. I had. I had driven you to the office. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:57.480 That day, you know what I'm saying. 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.520 And then you came out with the bottle, if I 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.440 believe I'm correct, right, and you said we need to 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.160 start making some moves. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.160 Yo, And then it's crazy. Let me tell y'all that's 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:11.079 real scenario. So I called Jay. I tell him, hey, yo, Jay, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.560 the music ain't going down. I need something else, man, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.640 I want to I want to try something outside of 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:17.880 being an artist. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.280 And he was like, Yo, you ready to work. 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:21.000 Man. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.000 You can't be showing up to the meet and smelling 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.919 like weed bleak. You can't be sleep at the meetings. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.840 Wilding out. So I'm like, nah, man, this ain't bleak. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.440 This is Malik. I really really need a shot. Bro 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.680 give me something. So he like, all right, I got 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.520 something for you. Come to the office. You show me 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.000 the bottle, we take a shot. He like, bleak, you did. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.240 You can move this, and I'm like, of course. Now, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.400 Pools was downstairs because at this time the office was 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.720 just built. And remember they didn't have the parking. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.120 Lanes they started just started. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.040 The Pools was holding it down so we didn't get 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.200 a two hundred and twenty five dollar ticket. That's how 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.720 they bang you in New York two twenty five or 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.840 one twenty five, one of those. So Jay gave me 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.240 the bottle. I'm like, yo, you know me, I'm a hustler. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.040 I used to sell fireworks, crack whatever. I could move this. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.240 So he like, show me what you could do. I 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:10.280 go downstairs to the car. I show Pools or the bottle. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.760 I'm like, yo, Pools. Hope said, if we could move 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.959 this and turn this up, we could take over. Pool said, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:17.800 I got you bleak. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.079 Yeah from there. I mean it's like the wheels turned. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:20.320 You know. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.040 I'm not even gonna take the credit because all I 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:26.160 did was steal the deal. But Pool said, y'a, I'm 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:31.320 gonna make one call to my man, my tale you 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:31.639 t town. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.920 So now mind you, I didn't know who he was. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.880 Tell him who your tale was a tale? 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.360 He well, he's just a guy uptown, if you know. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.640 You know, he ran all the cabs services on Marina, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.520 which was the biggest club at the time. Like Marina 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.000 was wasn't even a Marina. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.000 It was just it was just it was just the 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.880 West Side was just building it, right, they were just 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:51.520 opening it. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.480 He was he was getting ready to launch, you know, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.560 at the right time. So we had brought the. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:56.480 Bay to him. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:01.640 Yeah, so Pools off the rip called me bleek. My 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.240 man uptown got a new club, Colllin Marina. He want 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.760 to buy a hundred cases. You gotta come here. You 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.600 gotta meet me up here right now. So I'm like, 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.160 all right, let's shoot up there. I get to the meeting. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:17.760 It's the representative for the NYC Taxi Cab Commission. It's 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.200 like anything ever happened in NYC with it with a taxi. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.440 He was on the new guy. But I don't know Spanish, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.279 so you know, that's where he was, and he was 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.840 going hard representing for. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.760 The Dominicans, anybody, any immigrant, Mexican, Dominican, any Latin descent. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:36.760 He was representing. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.480 So to see him at the meeting was like booso 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:41.160 for dull. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.240 You know, the cab. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.719 Dude, the taxi dude shout and yeah. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.920 And he wanted to buy a Hondrey cases. His whole 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.600 thing was Yo. I'm like, Yo, you buy a Hundrey cases. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.200 I guarantee j gonna pull up. I remember at this time, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.160 I'm like, yo, you gotta have the boat doc built 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.039 because Jay want to come in on the yacht. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.400 He said, what was it gonna take to get Jay here? 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.240 And then we said in. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.039 The boat the cases, the hondred cases in the boat 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.080 dove right. We never got the boat dock, but we 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.080 got the honey cases moving. And you know what's so 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.440 iconic about the honey cases because when they first started 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.880 to do, say, there wasn't no salary, there wasn't no Yo, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.760 you're gonna make this much a marsh You're gonna do nothing. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:20.599 It was commission. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.159 It was like, yo, for every case you moved, bleak, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.040 we're gonna give you fifty dollars off for case. So 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:33.320 mind you who's with I went crazy, honey off. So 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:37.840 then I called my bro uncle b I Brooklyn liquor store. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:38.800 We've been going to. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.279 The whole life Brooklyn. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.480 You know what I mean. Shout out my dog Mic 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:43.039 over there. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.080 You know what I mean, murder Ave got the liquor 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.320 store boom in our whole life, go talk the mic. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.880 Mike bought a honey Then I called my dog Fred. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.800 C out Vegas expansion. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.760 The poems could seine off went on the lits. I 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.240 got a call to the office. You know what they said, bleak, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.360 we can no longer give you commission. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.880 You bleed us drive. We're gonna give you a salary 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.280 and we're gonna hold you there, continue doing your thing. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.919 You have to keep in mind that was twenty twelve, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:19.640 so fast forward. Here we're in twenty twenty six, and 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.000 to be here at the Chateau is it's something that 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:24.040 you can't even describe. 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.599 But I just wanted to bring him through the journey, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.040 like back in the day to begin members like I 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.200 don't like bringing up other brands, and I'm not gonna 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.240 name other brands. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:35.280 But it was difficult to get Duce poppermember. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:39.080 It was another brand out there, paying bars clubs and 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.360 restaurants right not. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:41.480 To put us on the shelf. 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.840 So we had to deal with all of that, you 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.200 know what I'm saying, and think about it. We even 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.320 had haters on our team. I even had ambassadors that 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.000 would find out I got a certain account member. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.280 We got love and lesson Brooklyn, lot of jealousy YO had. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.360 It was another Duce ambassador who went to the cloud 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.080 and told the promoter, Yo, don't deal with Bleak. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.960 He's a rapper man. You want to buy it? 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.120 Didn't take you serious as an entrepreneur yet. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.600 Yeah, pools man, the rat has been crazy, right, how 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.440 much do say you that had in your trunk? 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.720 God, it was it was like selling out of my trunk, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.720 like bootlegging, you know what I mean. At that time, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.280 twenty twelve, it wasn't distributed yet, so we had bottles 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.920 coming from here Cognac. And then when you get to 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.720 you know, I highly recommend if you get to come 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.720 out here and come on a tour and just experience 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.400 this entire. Yeah, this entire. The way that it's made, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.320 the way that everything is done here is unique and 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.840 that's what makes it special. So I don't think is 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.200 really in competition with anybody else. Because of the history 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.200 of the of the castle and the way that everything 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.080 is done here. It's just different. It's a history, you know, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.080 it's a history lesson, it really is, and I'm a 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.880 nerd for that. So, like I said, the energy just 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.320 when you come here, if you get a chance to 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.840 visit Chateau de Cognac, highly recommend the tour and the 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.960 people here. Everyone here is incredible, So shout out to 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.640 advanced productions and all the people that work at the museum. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:06.120 Yo. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.400 But you're saying they like we about long golf. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.920 I just got here to meet everybody. So I'm just 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.720 I'm still blown away by the whole. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.680 Like Tommy Vegan is in his element, no I am, 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:17.560 He's in relaxed. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.240 I wish you would have saw Tommy Vegan in Paris. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.600 It's a certain kind of energy here. You know, it's 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.600 different than being in New Jersey and New York. You 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.240 know where we're from, so where we Yeah, it's a different, 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.120 different energy here. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:30.520 So it's just. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.400 We live right now. You know, Like just left Paris 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.400 and I did a couple of days there. I know 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.320 you had your daughter at Disney, you know, you know 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:39.720 what I mean. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.040 It's like a talking about yo, jay man. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.240 It's like it's like a workation for you though. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.760 Yo, when they're gonna take their kids or they girl. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.480 Out, listen, I don't know. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.000 Don't worry about what. Don't worry about the wrap side, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:56.760 the family side. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.640 But just you know, like I said, I was out 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.640 here when I was younger, at twenty one, I didn't 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.280 get to really experience Paris and then running around, you know, 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.640 with you on tour everywhere. Being able to come back 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.679 here and experience it as an adult, it's a whole 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:12.720 different vibe, yo. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.360 But let's give him some history about you, man, like, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.880 thank god everything is legal now. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.079 Rest in peace to my bro Ralph. Ralph was my dog. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.920 If you seen round here video here the reason the 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.760 doors was up in the truck that gave me all 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.800 the whips. Lay stole my whips after my guy. But 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.880 he used to brag about this guy who had good 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.360 weed in Jersey. He used to be like, Yo, my bro, Poozo, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.199 he got that fire bleak. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.960 You gotta meet him. So one day we ride bikes, you. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.319 Know what I mean, going to Beer Mountain and he like, yo, 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.360 my boy lived right over here, bleek let's stop by 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:47.720 the crib. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.880 I'm like, all right, I need some wee. Let's pull up. 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:57.520 The one time my god, Tommy Vegan actually had good weeds. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.400 That's how you're gonna You're gonna drop that to. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.800 Day I met him, the pack was fire, me and 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.440 my man Saffee, shout out, Saffee. We just pulling up 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.960 to the crib by zips. I think you lost that connection. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.080 Not at all. You're You're just you're a kinnoisseur. So 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.280 it's hard to keep a client like you happy all 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.360 the time, you know what I mean, Because you're you're 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.000 you have a different kind of uh you know, caste 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.079 bud for for the for the bud, you know. So 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.200 it's it's different. You're you're very hard to keep satisfied 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.400 in that department because I feel like you're traveling all 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.920 over the world, so you have the opportunity to smoke 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:34.880 on all kinds of exams. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.959 Yeah, I recognized tra personally. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.000 I'm only you recognized I go from howd I go 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.240 from such a great thing to such a track? 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.120 Did you lose? 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.160 What do you think I'm baiting and switching on you? 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.200 I don't know. We don't connect we don't. But now 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.839 I'm the connect, like you see how life work. He 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.520 started out as my con that now I'm your connect. 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.640 Well there's an element of truth to that though, if 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.200 you think about it, because what you and I had 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:05.199 built with mine, right, I'm saying my right exotic, it 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.160 surpassed me because you guys actually started growing your own 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.560 So I never I never had I never really had 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.640 an opportunity. I was always trying to pay someone to 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.720 do it for me, you know what I mean. So 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.560 when you guys, I saw you building that part of 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:19.079 the business. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.680 This is the This is why we connect because you 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.640 know they used to say back in the days when 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.520 hydro and ship first came out. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.000 Who had it? The white boys? Right? We know what 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:28.760 I did have me. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.600 You're right about that, but you you would know better 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.119 because you know it started in Holland, started in Amsterdam. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.600 So you know those old growers, Jack Hira, Northern Lights, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.120 all those old strands, they came from Holland. And then 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.840 what happened is they migrated over to California. And so 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.559 you know about that. You've been in Amsterdam how many 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:47.240 times in your life? 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:48.200 Four million times? 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:48.840 Yea four million? 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.760 And he's three million times. 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.920 I've been to Kolnak twice, right right, so we gotta 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:56.719 add some more. 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.000 We should talk about that too. So we were out 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.640 here during the Super Bowl toa we gotta bring that 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.200 one back, and then we got to take the tour here. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.160 It was absolutely incredible. Once again, I can't stop talking 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.280 about it because of how incredible it is. That being said, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.800 I said, how can I get bleak back here? Yo, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.199 to you know, to do some kind of an event 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.240 or do something so low and behold Sullivan. Shout out 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.720 Sullivan put us on. There's a music festival in Kgnak 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:27.360 July second. So I said to myself, we gotta make 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.720 this happen because I don't think a hip hop artist, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.959 let alone an artist, has ever performed at the Chateau Cognac. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.920 So that being said is it's history being made here. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.400 And then you know, we were able to make this happen. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.199 So shout out Sullivan for having us and making this happen. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.160 But the music festival I'm most excited to see because 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.560 last time we were here was cold. We didn't get 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:50.440 to really enjoy this. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.640 East Hampton right. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:01.040 The river, so that the drop is beauty here. So 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:01.880 I'm excited for that. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.640 I'm glad you're excited because you know you the hype man. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:06.480 I know. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.280 Listen, we we talked about this. I know pretty much 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.080 like ninety percent of your lyrics. So in my head, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.200 I'm thinking to myself, maybe I could be an artist 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:14.840 one day. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.800 You could be the hype man tomorrow. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.679 I got it. I got a team of people. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.760 We was rehearsing right on the back and we rehearse it. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.480 My man was helping me because I forgot some of 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:26.000 the lyrics. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:26.920 But he's like, yo, I know. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:28.920 All the lyrics, so he helping me. That's not my 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.080 I was telling him he was one second, but that's. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.040 Not I'm always going to because I'm a fan man. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.320 At the end of the day, so I grew I 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.400 grew up listening to your music. Jah Ru, you know 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.280 all that coming up, so Nori like, I grew up 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:43.840 on all that music. So at the end of the day, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.480 you know that that to me, I know every single 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.640 line of all those tracks you could play, but I 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.360 never performed, so I'll never be able to. People don't 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:53.920 realize That's one thing I've been on the road with 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.000 you forever. That's how difficult it is. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.520 What's your favorite trip with me? We've been every man. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:00.640 Your favorite. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.880 There's a lot of them, bro, there's a lot of them. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.280 My favorite, I would. I'm gonna let you answer it. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.040 What was your favorite trip for me? 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.360 For me, it was a Ruba just because that was 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.080 right around the time you were about to get married, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.440 and it wasn't really it wasn't really any work stuff involved. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.480 Were able to just you know, chill out, see the island, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.720 kind of vibe, relaxed, drink du st. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:32.680 You know, said man's Canada Toronto would superstar j. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:35.800 I don't know who we were. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.440 Vancouver, Toronto went with me. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.080 When we got to the border, I was with you. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.320 Actually, as a matter of fact, you wouldn't have got 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.000 in the country if it wasn't for me, because what I. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.760 Said, you went with me when we got to the border, 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:48.480 I was with you. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.880 Won't get too specific specific because they don't want to 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:52.400 let me in. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.800 This is when we was illegal. So I used to 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.400 know no no bull right. I'm gonna tell y'all real 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.600 quick recap. I used to get locked up for we 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.040 every week in New Jersey. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:06.360 In my town. 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.360 There was a captain who had I don't know, he 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.720 just didn't like me whenever he sing my car pull 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:14.520 that shit over. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.200 So I remember telling this copy I'm. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.320 Not the average dude. I don't sell drugs in your community. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.240 I'm just coming through and you just for some reason 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.600 he's pulling me over. I got no problem with y'all 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.560 out of that. Harassment, straight harassment. So I called my 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.520 lawyer and I told him. He says, the chief, the 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.000 chief not supposed to be fucking with you. So the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:37.640 chief we win. My lawyer win sued them, did this 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.440 for harassment. He got fired. Long story short, here we 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.480 go going to Canada. All his charges fucked me up. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.800 They didn't want to let me in Canada and they said, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.160 you got too many charges. Go home. 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.000 Let me take over from that part. So I'm at 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.840 the window and we're talking to the lady for immigration 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.400 and they're like, well, your friend is definitely not coming 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.440 into the country because he has, you know, fifty arrests 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.080 from marijuana and that's not happening. So I was, you know, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.280 he's about to curse her out, and I was. I said, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.520 please stand aside, let the Italian handle it. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:12.680 I gave it. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.120 I had a little you know, I had a little 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.640 talk with the lady. I got her supervisor over. I said, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.800 he's got to perform with J. I made up a 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.440 whole story. But I don't even think we're on toward 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.840 J and I just made up a whole I think 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.840 I made up a whole story that he has to 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:25.600 perform with Jay. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.640 I'm going to get fired with Superstars. 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.360 I made up a whole story, but a bunch of 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:35.400 bunch of stuff. But anyway, eventually they led us in 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.440 the country and I did, I pulled my finesse, you 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.160 know what I mean, And I made that happen. We 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.520 were with Superstar J too, and then we took the 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.440 whole tour. So we're in Toronto, I believe. Then we 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.640 went to Winnipeg. We did a couple of tracks Winnipeg 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.000 Shoutout Peace, Silvan and Winnipeg did a couple did a 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.640 couple of tracks in the snow trip. Because bring that 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.000 trip up to this day where he legendary legend. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.520 I ain't know when you was taking that. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.920 Yeah, I think it was five cities in six days. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:05.520 I think it was. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:11.399 It was Winnipeg, Edmonton, a bunch of Yeah, the coldest 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.120 place you can ever go besides Finland, Finland too. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.840 Yeah, No, Winnipeg is is a negative five, negative six, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.400 you know, sub temperatures. But a lot of people don't 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.879 realize you're an exhausting person. Bro, since we're going to 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.600 break it down and get and get and get roll 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.480 with the like how that happened? What do you mean? 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.919 But going on tour with you is exhausting, So let 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.000 that be known. It's not a time like you think 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.800 you get to enjoy the cities and have a good 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.320 time with bleak, get up, we gotta go, get up, 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.160 we gotta go. It's non stop. So it's an exhausting process. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.480 So since you want to go through it, people probably 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.879 get the wrong concept misconception of what it is in Toronto, relaxing, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.320 hanging out, playing drake. There's none of that. You go 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.400 to bed, you sleep for three hours and your door 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.080 is getting kicked in. There's no grace period. So you know, 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.080 it's it's it's work. It's always worked. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.199 I don't think nobody always the work. We did. We 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.320 did five cities in one day. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.280