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Speaker 1: Every day up waiting, click your ass up.

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Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: You don't finished for y'all.

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Speaker 2: Dunk Morning.

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Speaker 4: Everybody is DJ n V Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy

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Speaker 4: we are the Breakfast Club. Law La Rosa is here

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 3: We got some special guests.

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Speaker 2: In the building.

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Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, we got Coach k who's been up here

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Speaker 4: several times, and we got the brother Mel Carter.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, thank you, thank you. This my first time, the

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Speaker 2: first time here.

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Speaker 4: Now, if they don't know who you are, you want

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Speaker 4: to break down who you are and what you've done

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Speaker 4: in this industry.

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Speaker 2: Me ah man, long time coming. I did music for

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Speaker 2: twenty years, and ten of it for free, and then

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Speaker 2: I got paid for the other And I used to

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Speaker 2: be the senior vice president of A and R Republic Records,

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Speaker 2: went over to Warner after that for three years, and

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Speaker 2: I just left Warner like it's the first time saying it.

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Speaker 2: I'm leaving Warner. Wow. Why why when you starting your

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Speaker 2: only thing? I saw right starting I started signing different

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Speaker 2: second in the State. Second State was a joint venture Warner.

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Speaker 2: I was doing that in control for the n R

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Speaker 2: team and starting sound in the Stream of Space. I

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Speaker 2: started managing this kid named Rod. He just did uh

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Speaker 2: Sabatine and the American Dream Mall. He did thirty days,

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Speaker 2: thirty nights, lived there. I just and I just really

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Speaker 2: liked that space. So I'm doing that and just focus

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Speaker 2: on these restaurants for real, for a little bit of

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Speaker 2: real estate, like you you know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 2: that's really it. It's focus on this new company and

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Speaker 2: focus on hopefully turning these restaurants into a hundred restaurants

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Speaker 2: in the next five years. Said A and R. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: but you said A and R. Yeah right.

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Speaker 4: I feel like A and R doesn't exist anymore. And

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Speaker 4: both of you brothers came from a place where y'all

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Speaker 4: were strong and rs for your artists. Does A and

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Speaker 4: R exist anymore?

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Speaker 1: Do we need A and RS?

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Speaker 4: Because it seems like the music is just getting trashed.

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Speaker 4: There's no guidance.

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Speaker 2: I think we need A and R. That's the problem. Yep.

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Speaker 3: You know, they got rid of the artists of Element

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Speaker 3: and started everybody started treating the music like stockbrokers, you

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, and chasing the number number number,

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Speaker 3: and you know, and that became now labels. I should

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Speaker 3: say chase songs instead of building and developed artists.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Once you build it, you build, you build an artist,

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Speaker 3: it turns into a brand. And you know that's how

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Speaker 3: you know, we and q see like I studied, We

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Speaker 3: studied the Motowns and you know the Russells and you

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Speaker 3: know those labels. And I think it needs to come back.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the problem. It's oversaturated and nobody's like

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Speaker 3: building stars.

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Speaker 4: Now you don't know who coach K is. Coach K

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Speaker 4: first time I met a music with g Z then

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Speaker 4: one of the creators and owners of QC that that

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Speaker 4: brought all the sluice Yati Gucci. He did Gucci back

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Speaker 4: in the day, but he bought Uh City girls, migos,

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Speaker 4: I mean just a host of them. But they actually

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Speaker 4: built from the ground up. These artists didn't have hits

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Speaker 4: at the time. You guys worked and created the hits

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Speaker 4: and created what ya wanted to do, which we don't

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Speaker 4: see anymore. Is that the reason why you feel feel.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, one of the things that got me

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Speaker 2: and I love Republic record shout out to Manti and Avery,

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Speaker 2: but it became this like you don't really need a

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Speaker 2: and R no more. You know how many kids I

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Speaker 2: flew to New York City because they had a song

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Speaker 2: that was trending, and by day three the song was

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Speaker 2: going down and I had to just explain to them,

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Speaker 2: we don't want to do the deal no more, you

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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So it's like you need A

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Speaker 2: and R. But it's such a research game now that

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Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to be at A and R

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Speaker 2: because it's like you could have an artist that's the best,

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Speaker 2: and you like you want to build them up, but

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Speaker 2: a kid from you know, Michigan, got something that's streaming.

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Speaker 2: They don't even have a song as they go after it.

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Speaker 2: So like that's why mid Coach and like QC and

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Speaker 2: like the last of that that's left for real, for real,

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Speaker 2: that's really in our it's a dude name top dog.

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Speaker 2: They really still building artists, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: instead of just like chasing what's moving and it works.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of like, I guess it could be

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Speaker 2: a bit of a better business model because you could

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Speaker 2: develop an act and they don't work. But a lot

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Speaker 2: of this shit that just start trending, they don't really

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Speaker 2: go nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Also feel like you got to have those boutique labels

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Speaker 1: like the QC. You need it, like the Top Dogs,

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Speaker 1: because reality is y'all niggas care as they simply just

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Speaker 1: don't care. I look at like some of the last

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Speaker 1: few releases that came out from people did fantastic ab

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Speaker 1: Offste fantastic album, Tianna Taylor fantastic album.

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Speaker 2: But they don't even feel like a Vince.

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Speaker 1: They feel like somebody just put it out there and

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Speaker 1: did the minimal amount of work possible and now what.

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Speaker 2: But think about it, right, every artist that's big, let's

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Speaker 2: let's say the Top two, Drake, Ken, Drick, Little Baby,

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Speaker 2: every one of these acts came from a joint venture.

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Speaker 2: So they had somebody in the middle, like a coach

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Speaker 2: who cared, you know what I'm saying, Like TV who

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Speaker 2: cared cash money. They had somebody who sat between the

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Speaker 2: label it was like, Yo, we ain't gonna do that.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna do this. Like every success in Republic except

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Speaker 2: for Po Malone, it's through a joint venture, Wayne Nikki,

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Speaker 2: even Taylor. It's all joint ventures with somebody who was

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Speaker 2: standing in the middle, who cared, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: So you need somebody who cared. Can we drop a

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Speaker 2: bomb for a little baby? Man?

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Speaker 4: Little baby sells so many goddamn records, and it's so

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Speaker 4: quiet about he. He's like diamond twice, right, diamond twice,

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Speaker 4: and nobody talks about it. Is insane. You telling me

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Speaker 4: the numbers earlier.

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Speaker 5: I was pulling it up.

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Speaker 6: I saw he I think it was let me, let

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Speaker 6: me get it right. So my turn is on Billboards.

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Speaker 6: He's number one of the bill Boards twenty the top

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Speaker 6: R and B and hip hop albums of the twenty

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Speaker 6: first century.

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Speaker 5: When you saw that, how did you feel about it?

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Speaker 3: I mean I felt I felt really good. But you know,

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Speaker 3: when we was making that album, I knew it was special,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And what made it so

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Speaker 3: special is when the album dropped. It dropped February twenty twenty,

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Speaker 3: two weeks two weeks later, like the middle of February,

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Speaker 3: because like two weeks later the world crash, you know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying, And it was it was like it

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Speaker 3: was really it was really a messed up time because

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Speaker 3: he didn't really get to go tour that album because

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Speaker 3: everybody was down for a year and a half. Basically,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, but it stood a test

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Speaker 3: of time up where like it was like every song

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Speaker 3: I was like damn, damn, damn, and it just kept

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Speaker 3: going to the point like right now like freestyle, you know,

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Speaker 2: It seven years later, it's just it was like that's

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Speaker 2: his dreams and nightmare.

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Speaker 3: Yeah Jesus, but yeah, it's it's you know, it's it's

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Speaker 3: a really good feeling.

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Speaker 2: It's a really good feeling.

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Speaker 3: That body of work was a well put body of work,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, and had been developed over time,

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Speaker 3: and you know, it's a good feeling.

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Speaker 1: Did you think that he was gonna come with you know,

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Speaker 1: basically the soundtrack for that year with a song like

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Speaker 1: the Bigger Picture. When you think of all the artist

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Speaker 1: that you thought was gonna come and represent with music,

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Speaker 1: Little Baby was not on my Bengo car to come

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Speaker 1: with the record.

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Speaker 2: You know what. It's crazy, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: Like he went and I remember him doing a Bigger Picture,

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Speaker 3: you know, I remember he called us, was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do this record, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: He played it, I was like, oh man, this is

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Speaker 3: about to change the game. He's like he said me

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Speaker 3: and Pete down and say, hey, man, listen, I don't

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Speaker 3: want this to sit on my album. I want to

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Speaker 3: sit on I wanted to sit alone. I don't want

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Speaker 3: to make the money from this album. You know what

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Speaker 3: I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Because everybody kept.

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Speaker 3: You need to speak up, you need to speak up,

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Speaker 3: you need to speak up, because he's big in the

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Speaker 3: community and they know he had a voice, you know,

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Speaker 3: talk to the kids. He was like, I want this song,

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Speaker 3: and we had to go to the label. He was like,

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Speaker 3: I want this song all the money that it generates.

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Speaker 3: I want this song that money. I wanted to go

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Speaker 3: to charities, you know what I'm saying, Yeah, criminal justice reform, yeah, everything,

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Speaker 3: you know. And to go to the label like hey,

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Speaker 3: this is what we want to do. And they was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. But he was like I

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Speaker 3: don't even you know, Like that's how he because everybody's like,

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Speaker 3: we need you come Marsh, we need to come speak

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Speaker 3: He went and he cut the record. He's like, this

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Speaker 3: is how I want to get my point across. He's

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Speaker 3: very vulnerable on the record, Like I hadn't heard him

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Speaker 3: that vulnerable. You know what I'm saying and let it

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Speaker 3: out and then we gave it to the world and boom.

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Speaker 2: So y'all ain't make no money off that record. Nah,

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Speaker 2: we donated it.

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Speaker 5: Point the number was at like one point five million, Like,

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Speaker 5: where is it now?

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Speaker 2: You got that many?

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Speaker 6: I don't think people understand the impact of that song

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Speaker 6: and what that means to just give that all to

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Speaker 6: you know, a great thing he did, but that's a

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Speaker 6: huge amount of money.

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Speaker 3: And so even even that year it got nominated for

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Speaker 3: Grammys and he got to performed Grammys, was like it

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Speaker 3: was still closed, you know what I'm saying, Like he

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Speaker 3: had a big performance, but you know, and really get

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Speaker 3: to get the magic of what it really was.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 4: So now you guys have jumped in and jumped into

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Speaker 4: the fast food spot.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Crazy thing about the fast food spot is, you know,

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Speaker 4: as a kid, fast food was cheap.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: You can go there and you can get two ninety

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Speaker 4: nine mel and you know, you walk out with fries,

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Speaker 4: food and a drink. The other day I went there,

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Speaker 4: it was like fifteen dollars and I'm like, this ain't

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Speaker 4: cheap no more.

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Speaker 2: I mean, but the coke was twenty five cents back

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Speaker 2: in the day.

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Speaker 4: I'm not that old, wasn't It wasn't.

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Speaker 2: I'm around the fifty cent I remember that time. I

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Speaker 2: was there for twenty five.

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Speaker 3: It was twenty five, thirty five, and fifty fifty five.

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Speaker 2: I mean talking about when I was like, I'm a

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Speaker 2: little older than that. A couple.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about what you know, why you jumped into

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Speaker 3: He was like, man, what you know about bow Jangles.

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Speaker 2: And you know, it's funny how that opportunity came to

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Speaker 4: So being one so you can go there, you can

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. But you know, like when I tell

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Speaker 2: I hired you for a party, like fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 2: So like coach my brother, we're gonna through both Jangles together,

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Speaker 2: And because we got a lot of is like in

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Speaker 6: Is there a certain area, like location, like in the

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Speaker 2: So, uh, the Carolinas number one, like South, both Jangles,

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Speaker 2: do it. Because New York, the labor is real high,

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying. I never really heard of the brand

436
00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,040
Speaker 2: until my friends bought it and I really started digging

437
00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,880
Speaker 2: into it. But like they don't want to hear nothing

438
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,400
Speaker 2: but bo Jangles. So it's like Bojangles is I mean,

439
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,400
Speaker 2: you know, it's religion. It's like it's like Chick fil

440
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,120
Speaker 2: A in Atlanta, you know what I'm saying.

441
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 3: So I went to school, I'm from Indianapolis. Man, I

442
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 3: never even heard of bout James. When I got down

443
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,840
Speaker 3: to North Carolina. That was like that was it with

444
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,880
Speaker 3: no KFC. You know what I'm saying. I mean literally

445
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:38,359
Speaker 3: it was KFC. It was it was. It was churches, right, Pope's.

446
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,399
Speaker 3: I don't even think it was n rally yet, you

447
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:41,919
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Pope's wasn't even there, but it

448
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:45,159
Speaker 3: was churches KFC. Right, I mean literally right across the

449
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 3: street from each other, man bow Jangles line State. I'm

450
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 3: talking about booked for real.

451
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,960
Speaker 1: Man, that Chicken fil A biscuit with some egg on it, man,

452
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,399
Speaker 1: and with a bowlberry biscuit and then big ass hash brown.

453
00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,720
Speaker 1: Oh my God, no biscuits beat us bro I don't

454
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 1: think it's the best basket in the game for real.

455
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: FA I agree, So, yes, the Carolina is as strong

456
00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: anywhere in the South they got. I think they got

457
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,640
Speaker 1: a thousand locations all together, and it's strongly in the South.

458
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,399
Speaker 1: They starting to move up this side now and I'm

459
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 1: gonna see how that go. But it's a really good brand.

460
00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:20,400
Speaker 1: The food is good.

461
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 2: I'm actually happy it's not in New York because I

462
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 2: would eat it every day. You know what I'm saying.

463
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,200
Speaker 1: People who want a franchise, does it make sense to

464
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 1: only own one franchise if you don't have enough capital

465
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:31,960
Speaker 1: to buy you know, several of them.

466
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 2: It do make sense if you are going to work

467
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 2: and operate it yourself every day, because we don't operate it.

468
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 2: We there managing partners. You know what I'm saying. We

469
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 2: got it. Like I said, a CEO is great CFO

470
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,520
Speaker 2: and a thousand other people under them. So that's why

471
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 2: I got the ability to be in New York. Coach

472
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 2: got the ability to be in Atlanta and run this shit.

473
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,639
Speaker 2: But it makes sense if you are going to run it,

474
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 2: because if the banks he run it and you're making money,

475
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 2: They're going to that money to you, and well, a

476
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 2: strong brand like a Bojangles, you may only have to

477
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 2: put thirty percent down, you know what I'm saying. And

478
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: if they see you growing and you know the business,

479
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,200
Speaker 2: it make a lot of sense.

480
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 4: So do you leave music at all now? Like use

481
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,159
Speaker 4: a f This music thing now too much of a

482
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 4: headache and I'm just going to stay as a nah.

483
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 2: For me, I love music, I really really do. But

484
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 2: more than anything, like while I'm going into this streaming

485
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 2: world is because I find so much. I was a

486
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 2: youth once, you know what I'm saying, and I find

487
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 2: so much Like you learn so much from them, you

488
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So I want to stay part

489
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 2: of that world where you keep learning, you know. So

490
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 2: for me, this is how I really did bow Jangles

491
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 2: and real estay in a few different things because my

492
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 2: dream coming up was to be Dame Dash jay Z.

493
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 2: You know those guys inspired me coming up. Coach K. Now,

494
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,919
Speaker 2: I never made it to where Coach K is in music,

495
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 2: and I'm okay with that, but I was like, you

496
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 2: know what, I am making really good money of deals,

497
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 2: made some money. I need to diversify and make sure.

498
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 2: Even if I don't hit that success in music, which

499
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 2: is my number one passion, I might have thirty two

500
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 2: bow Jangles restaurants. You know what I'm saying, I'll still

501
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 2: be able to feed my family. I still have a

502
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 2: couple of buildings. I still you know, so like invest

503
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 2: in Whoop and different things that I did, And that's

504
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 2: why we did the podcast because I was like, I

505
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 2: got I met these two guys, Mike Novograts and Dave Barry,

506
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: who are very very successful guys. But and Coach knows

507
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 2: them well. We all brothers, you know what I'm saying.

508
00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 2: They Mike is worth a lot, Coach is worth a lot.

509
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 2: I mean, Dave's worth a lot. But more than anything.

510
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 2: That's been my college for the last lot. Highest education

511
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 2: I had in a real way is fifteen years old,

512
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And I learned so much

513
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 2: from them. Of like, if you focus on one thing

514
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,360
Speaker 2: and you want it, and you make other money, put

515
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 2: it into other things and almost forget about it, you

516
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So I got a lot of

517
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 2: opportunity used to invest in a lot of different things

518
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 2: because of networking and meeting people and just being genuine

519
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 2: so like I love music, it's my passion. I didn't

520
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 2: get the success that coach got, you know what I'm saying. So,

521
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 2: but I wasn't gonna chase that for the rest of

522
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 2: my life. What about you, coach?

523
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,640
Speaker 4: You are dealing with all this and attitudes, and I'm

524
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 4: stealing it, man.

525
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 3: I mean it's had I and I wake up some

526
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 3: days like I hate this shit.

527
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 4: But two of your groups don't air with each other,

528
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 4: and then they get back together, then they don't.

529
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 3: Mess with I'm a creative at heart, man, Like, like

530
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 3: even building a business, I never did it for the money. Man,

531
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I just I'm a creative

532
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 3: and I want to be the best, you know what

533
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,919
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So I'm always I was always chasing that,

534
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 3: you know, like trying to be the best, you know

535
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So with that, you know, you do

536
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 3: good work, keep your head down, keep your face clean.

537
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: You know.

538
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 3: Eventually, you know, the finances came. But even with that, man,

539
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 3: I was like, shit, I got stuck to versifying my

540
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 3: portfolio business too, you know. So you know, when this

541
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 3: opportunity came, I was like hell yeah, And like he said,

542
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 3: like Mike and Dave, his brother. He introduced me to them.

543
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 3: I met them, and they's some good guys that like

544
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 3: just really gives us really good game and you know,

545
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 3: like being in school, you know, and a lot of

546
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 3: opportunities that have came from that. But uh, yeah, I'm

547
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 3: still in music, man, Like I still love it.

548
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 2: You know.

549
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 4: Who's on QC now?

550
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: You know, but before you said, there's a lot of

551
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: people who thought that y'all y'all back the way after that, yeah,

552
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: was like, no, we're good.

553
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 3: Ah, hell no, we didn't. We actually doubling down. And

554
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 3: you know what, just the business shifted. Like I've been

555
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 3: in this business twenty eight years now, the music business,

556
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 3: I don't watched this ship shift so many times and

557
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 3: you know about every ten years. It's a real shift

558
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 3: that happened, you know what I'm saying. And we just

559
00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 3: saw that. We're going through it right now, and you know,

560
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 3: we got some new young talent that we're developing that's

561
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 3: super excited about. But to answer your question, who's still

562
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 3: on QC? A Baby still on QC, Yachdy is still

563
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 3: on QC. JT is still on from from the old

564
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 3: you know, j T still on QC. Quavo still on QC,

565
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: All Set still on QC. You know what I'm saying.

566
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 3: So everybody's still there and building, and then it's it's new.

567
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 3: You know, we got new talent that we're developing, you

568
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 3: know what I mean?

569
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love offset new album, man, but I

570
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 1: just feel like it should be bigger. Like I really

571
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: feel like I don't even know who's design to you

572
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,479
Speaker 1: see and who motown multime capital.

573
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 2: Somebody got to be doing. You know, it's still a weekend.

574
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 2: It's only a week, man.

575
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 6: It feels like nobody's been out for a little second.

576
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 5: I feel like.

577
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: I didn't realize it's only a week. Gave me too

578
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 2: because people really starting to talk.

579
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: About it a lot now the label lying lay will

580
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: be like, it's not about the first week, Yes it is, y'all,

581
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: don't do nothing for.

582
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 4: Feels like his album was out for a while because

583
00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 4: we've been talking about it.

584
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 3: Maybe we're the first week. It is about the first week,

585
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 3: but that we got to get off of that, you

586
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Because that's the thing, like these

587
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 3: bodies of work have, it's really good music on there,

588
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 3: and we sold mind fucked, you know what, I'm saying,

589
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 3: and custom what the first week numbers look like. So

590
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 3: if a first week number come out and it's low,

591
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 3: then we forgot about it. Let's go to the next one.

592
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 3: And that's that's really messed up, because these projects really

593
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 3: are good, you know what I'm saying.

594
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 2: So I just want to leave that thing. You know.

595
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 4: Another problem too is and I hate to say it,

596
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 4: but I feel like music comes so fast right something saturated.

597
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: Right now. I'm still on Clips.

598
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 4: Album and I'm still on Offset album. I didn't really

599
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 4: get a chance to dive in the Jit album, you know.

600
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 2: What I'm sat get a chance. It's crazy. Somebody told

601
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 2: me it's difficult. You know.

602
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: It's just a lot of music out there, a lot

603
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 3: of music to consume. Yeah, I remember like one week

604
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 3: it was like it was it was like so many

605
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: albums campus like Clips and ray Kwan And then I

606
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 3: was like, whoa, you know what I'm saying. But I

607
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 3: was happy because I'm a purist, you know what I'm saying.

608
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 3: So when these the Clips and the ray Kwan's and

609
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 3: then I look the Burning Boy drop. You know what

610
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Fucking Justin Bieber dropped it. I never listened

611
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 3: to it justin Bibro. The albums incredible, you know what

612
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like all these records, and I was just

613
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 3: like I was kind of overwhelmed, you know what I'm saying,

614
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 3: the same way, you know, but I think it's just

615
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 3: man a lot.

616
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 2: You know shit.

617
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: Well they say two hundred and fifty thousand records come

618
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: a day, you know what I'm saying.

619
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 2: Like, it's just crazy, you know what I'm saying. So

620
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: I want to I want to ask both of.

621
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: Y'all something like how important is regional identity when you're

622
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: developing a global stuff.

623
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 3: It's really important, I think super important. That's the most

624
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 3: important thing. And I think streaming messed that up, you

625
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Where you know, you own where

626
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 3: you're from, you know, and you become that you know,

627
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 3: like different slangs come from different places, and that's what

628
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 3: makes shit so great. But when the streaming happened, it

629
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 3: was just hit the button. It was everywhere, so you

630
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 3: you felt like you didn't have to like own your

631
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

632
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: And I think we got to get back to that.

633
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying That this West Coast because

634
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 3: it was a West coast, and it was a South coast.

635
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 3: It was the south and the East coast the east

636
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 3: and everybody had their own identity. And now it's just

637
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 3: kind of like you can't even tell no more, you

638
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, And that kind of like messed

639
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: things up.

640
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: But I think we're gonna get back to it.

641
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 5: How everything's gonna blended.

642
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,719
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard, you know. I think I don't know.

643
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 4: See West Coast and they got their old like they

644
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 4: stayed by their sound. Then they didn't stay away. They

645
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 4: did sound, but like there's no New York sound anymore.

646
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 4: There's no the like before there was a boombap, you

647
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 4: knew what New York was. Now it's like you hear

648
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 4: all this hip like where's he from?

649
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 2: That's a fact.

650
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 5: You don't feel like Sexy Drill is the New York

651
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 5: son it is.

652
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: But it's like, how big is it getting? You know

653
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It's not like you know it's it's

654
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: it's I don't know how big it could go hopefully somebody,

655
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 2: but it's for music for me too. One of the things,

656
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: one of the main reasons is that I really loved

657
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 2: this whole streaming culture is that they really I don't

658
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 2: know if I can say this, but I keep saying it.

659
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 2: They really like little niggas from the street. You know

660
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, I'm I'm I'm really like a guy

661
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 2: from the street. Like I I everything you could think of.

662
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 2: I went through. You know what I'm saying. I've been shot.

663
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: I've been I've been through a lot of stuff, and

664
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 2: like that was one of the things for me with music.

665
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 2: I was just getting burnt out of you know, artists

666
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: I done came through that got murdered, like King Vonn

667
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: and them. I didn't really even know them. I knew

668
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 2: his manager. I was in the studio with them trying

669
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 2: to sign him the night before all of that happened. Wow.

670
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: And then the next day four of the guys or

671
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 2: three of the guys I met in the studio got murdered.

672
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 2: So I just was like, you know, coming up and

673
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: trying to like do something different and keep running into

674
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 2: like this violence in music, and like for music, you

675
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: gotta be tough. It was a rap in here. You

676
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: gotta be here with seven niggas, and they gotta be tough,

677
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 2: even if it ain't nothing to be tough about. So

678
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 2: for me watching this streaming culture and watching these content

679
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 2: creators who talk the same, who just as cool, but

680
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: they'll tell you straight up, bro, we're not into that

681
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 2: violent shit. For me, that just feel good to be

682
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 2: a part of and I hope it last. And that's

683
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 2: the drill music. Like you know, I love New York,

684
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: but the drill music, like you gotta be or act

685
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 2: violent or you gotta you know what I'm saying, We

686
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: gotta be dog for it to work. So it's like

687
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 2: that was another thing that for me I straight away

688
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,719
Speaker 2: because it was just like, damn, I'm almost forty. I'm like,

689
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: I'm kind of cool on that, and I don't want

690
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: the kids to be on that no more.

691
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: Were a little hard on the drill artist though. We

692
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: grew up on trap, you know what I'm saying. You know,

693
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: we grew up on crunk. Like the New York music

694
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: were super gangster and violence. We're a little bit hard

695
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: on drill artists, like like that wasn't our era.

696
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 2: Too, No, no, it was.

697
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 3: But it's just so what I'm saying is I'm gonna

698
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 3: come out shooting it, killing too.

699
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: It's like we're just old enough. Yeah, But you know,

700
00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 2: and this is the thing, right, I definitely or to

701
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: anybody who's trying to make it. I'm just saying, if

702
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 2: I see a way where I could get kids to

703
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 2: like understand they can make it without doing that, I

704
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 2: want to support me. I want to put myself more

705
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: behind that because I know what it feels like to

706
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: be shot in the face. I know what it feels

707
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: like to go through all that. I just my cousins.

708
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: Shout out to my cousin. He just died three weeks ago,

709
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 2: he got murdered. So it's like I got over three

710
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 2: hundred friends that's been throughout my life. So it's just like, yeah,

711
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: I supported it, and it's part of our DNA because

712
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 2: we grew up like almost like real glorifying violence. Absolutely,

713
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: I see a way that I'm like, you know what,

714
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 2: these kids ain't really doing that. Let me get behind

715
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: that and see if I could kind of guide them.

716
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 4: I think it's a matter of and you know, you

717
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 4: felt like people lived that life right And nowadays I

718
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 4: was watching some of you the kids like, nah, just

719
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 4: make it up.

720
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 2: Yeah I never shot a gun. I just make it.

721
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: Most of them make it up, bro. Like man, it's

722
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 3: just like when trap music. We came like you said,

723
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 3: we came up on trap music. Let's let's be clear.

724
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: Ice is Ice preaching this all the time. My artists

725
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 3: come to me. I'm like, bro, this is not real.

726
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I remember this one. I

727
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 3: ain't gonna say no name but me in the studio

728
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: when we first started QC.

729
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: Run off on the plug.

730
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 3: This is that that that? You know what I'm saying?

731
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 3: And they said something. I said, brow May Grabs is

732
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: in the quilo right. He was just looking. I said,

733
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: why are you talking about this real?

734
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: No, but it's just you know what I mean. Like,

735
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 2: but that was different compared to what's happening right now

736
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 2: with the drill Ship. And again, I love, I support you.

737
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 2: Gotta make your living, you know what I'm saying. You

738
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 2: gotta get your mom's out of the projects. You got

739
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: whatever it is. But now they don't live it right.

740
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: But when they make it the music and they get

741
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 2: so good at it, what's the next thing. I really

742
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 2: gotta live it. I really gotta shoot somebody. I really

743
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 2: got to get that. Nigga Shot was an artist who

744
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 2: was at the video shoot. One of the little guys

745
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: that I think you were signed and he was like, yo,

746
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 2: this kid and I was like, not this kid. I'm

747
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: looking at it. I'm like, yo, he's a wild one.

748
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 3: And then like a couple of weeks later, I'm looking

749
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 3: on the blocks. He just got picked up, did it?

750
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 3: And I was like, what the hell?

751
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 2: Kid I had from Markins. So he in jail for

752
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 2: twenty years? His friend he came here, I signed him

753
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: where he got double Life plus thirty seven years. I'm like,

754
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 2: why would you even give somebody that much time? Double

755
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 2: Life plus thirty seven years? Yeah, I hate when Jordge

756
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 2: do this is like just safe forever. He's just mentally

757
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 2: trying to like mess with me, you know what I'm saying.

758
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 2: But for me that was it's still a big thing,

759
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And I'm like, I ain't

760
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 2: removed from the streets completely, but if I could help

761
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 2: move from the streets and get money ways. But I'm

762
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 2: talking about, like, you know, my people, if I can

763
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 2: help them like see a different way where it's like

764
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 2: we don't got to like, you know what I'm saying,

765
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: glorify the violence. I'm all for that.

766
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: I want to ask y'all the same question about franchising.

767
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: How important is regional identity when it comes to franchising,

768
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: because you know, bow.

769
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 2: Jangles coming to New York, Chick fil A and New York.

770
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: Don't hit the same for me coming from the South,

771
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: chickl y'all not used to it.

772
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 2: I was excited at first.

773
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 5: I can't imagine bo Jangles in New York.

774
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 2: Certain things I'm getting from New York.

775
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 6: No, I'm from Delaware, but I got a family. That's

776
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 6: why I have my family from down south. And I

777
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 6: only know what Bojangles from when I'm down south. Like

778
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 6: I know literally when you're driving when you hit certain

779
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 6: areas because you see yeah yeah.

780
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 2: But like you look forward to in and Out. If

781
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 2: I'm in Florida, I look forward to the looking. But

782
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 2: if in and Out came here, it'll be a line

783
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 2: for twenty day absolutely, And Chick fil A is still

784
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: a line of Chick fil A. And tell you it's

785
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: still a line Chick fil A. I know all this

786
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 2: stuff because I'm in it, right. Chick fil A average

787
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: unit volumes is seven million, that's the average, and worst

788
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: they do, our average unit volumes is two point nine million.

789
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 2: I got one store, We got one store. That's doing

790
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 2: five million, which is amazing, right, Chick fil A averaged

791
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 2: or does seven millions? Crazy? In New York City, the

792
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: average does twelve million dollars. That's so somebody liked it,

793
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying something.

794
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: I still like having a regional identity with some of

795
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: these franchises.

796
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 3: I know they still do have a regional identity. They

797
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 3: definitely I think that's a Chick fil A come here people,

798
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 3: that's you know, because let's be clear, most people from

799
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 3: New York lineages from the South, you know what I'm saying,

800
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 3: So they used to coming back and forth Grandmama, Auntie

801
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 3: this or that, you know, so you know, once when

802
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 3: it came, it's like, whoa, this is here now, so

803
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 3: let's flood it, you know what I'm saying, because you know,

804
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 3: you're not used to getting it.

805
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 2: And once it's good, yeah, once it's good. You know.

806
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 2: And your point you were saying earlier about our cheap

807
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 2: fast food used to be great point. What we did

808
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 2: with our company. We created a five dollar box outside

809
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 2: of corporate, outside of they can't really tell you what

810
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 2: to do with your pricing, and that five dollar box

811
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 2: our company is now comping twelve percent higher in corporate

812
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 2: an average because it could afford it, you know what

813
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So now everybody's running to our stores for

814
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 2: the five dollar box Crystal Mill deal.

815
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, my kids want the pope The other day was

816
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 4: fourteen dollars. It was just for strips, fries and the juice.

817
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 4: And I could not believe. I said, Nah, we're gonna

818
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 4: go home and cook. I hit the town of Cook.

819
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 2: I couldn't.

820
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 4: I could not give Popeyes, Sloop Popeys fourteen dollars.

821
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 2: And you know I got six kids.

822
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 5: You left Popee, they had stuff?

823
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 2: Would you cook? What did you cook? Burgers? How much

824
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: you think the burgers ran here?

825
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 4: So I ran, I said, I go to bj is

826
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 4: running big box of burgers, cousse. We twenty two dollars

827
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 4: for the big angus burgers and put them on the thing,

828
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 4: put the little fries in the thing and it was good.

829
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 4: After twenty minutes they had their meals. You know, I'm

830
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 4: a pappy that cooks though, So you know.

831
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: If this don't work out Bojangles.

832
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: But y' all right about that five dollar price point, man,

833
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: that ship changes a lot, like we got all changed.

834
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,439
Speaker 1: We got a four ninety nine deal for I think

835
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,399
Speaker 1: it's what two crystal burgers, a small frying and drink.

836
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 2: Then we got a breakfast meal deal for two for

837
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 2: five hours. Bro, you can't get four for five dollars

838
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 2: nowhere right, So when you could and it's good, you know,

839
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 2: people are running. I'm like, this is crazy with twelve

840
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 2: comping twelve percent higher. And I'm sure you've seen since

841
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 2: you did that, it just went crazy because let's be real,

842
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 2: times is real rough right now? Patty? Four dollars right?

843
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 2: Four dollars? Oh my god, that's crazy. See where you're

844
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: getting your bee Patty from? Though Bodegger, we might in

845
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 2: flat Bush, the first one coming to Flatbush.

846
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,839
Speaker 4: I wanted to ask, you know, back to be I

847
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 4: know you still deal with with with YACHTI what were

848
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 4: your thoughts when when I feel like everybody was attacking

849
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 4: Yachty and I feel like when sometimes we do things

850
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 4: wrong as a community, instead of having a conversation, were attacking,

851
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,839
Speaker 4: we like to cancel and obviously had a conversation and

852
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 4: went back and apologized. So what was your thought when

853
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 4: you heard Yady's line?

854
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 2: And did you call him? Actually I didn't.

855
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 3: I hadn't even talked to him until I seen because

856
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 3: he's he's in Australia on tour with with you know

857
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 3: so and I was I was just in Southeast eight,

858
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 3: so we was kind of we miss each other until

859
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 3: every like him and Stephen had a conversation, you know

860
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. But like when I heard, I was like,

861
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 3: you know, me and Stephen were really good, We're real cool.

862
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 3: You know, I was like, I'm gonna put them together.

863
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 3: But it happened naturally because y'ally, you know, if he

864
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 3: makes a mistake, you know what I'm saying. The kid

865
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 3: is so he's just a really good person and he's free,

866
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, and sometimes you know, a

867
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 3: lot of they just don't be thinking, you know. So

868
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 3: he's just going and writing the line come out and

869
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 3: then he gets to the backlash. You know, he's smart.

870
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm gonna hear Stephen. So he hit him personally,

871
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. They talked personally, which everything

872
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 3: was cool. You know, he bossed up, did what he

873
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 3: needed to do, talk to him like a man. Did

874
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 3: that and it's gone, you know. But I mean a

875
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 3: lot of times I think, you know, these artists have

876
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: free will. Man and sometimes at the end and they

877
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 3: just they just writing and thinking and not thinking about

878
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 3: you know, everything else. You know what I'm saying, can

879
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 3: come with it. But and I don't think he was attacked.

880
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 3: People use it at a moment to.

881
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 2: Teach, for sure.

882
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 6: I watched the documentary you guys did with JT when

883
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 6: she first came home, and it showed how, like also

884
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 6: to a Little Babies documentary, you guys are almost it's

885
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 6: such a family or felt like such a family at.

886
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,319
Speaker 3: This man. It's family oriented. Man, That's how we run

887
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 3: our business, you know, because.

888
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 6: I'm just wondering now, like how the dynamic works because

889
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 6: it's just JT. And are you guys still I do

890
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 6: still see like young Miami talking about you guys.

891
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's our relationship, Like we still have a great relationship,

892
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 3: see Miami. We text each other every Everything is still cool.

893
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 3: It's just at the time where she wanted to go

894
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 3: with her career, just things didn't It didn't match your work,

895
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: you know. So it was like, hey, I'm not going

896
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 3: to never hold nobody back, you know what I'm saying,

897
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 3: that's what you want to do. You're free, you know

898
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 3: your free will, you can go you know and explore

899
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 3: any option you want to do.

900
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 2: It's still love too.

901
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 5: Did it break your heart still?

902
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 6: Because I think we were all waiting for them to

903
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 6: have that big, major run together.

904
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 3: It didn't break my heart because I've been in the

905
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 3: game a long time and I know people grow apart,

906
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, be real, Like that's

907
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 3: why I think a lot of if you look in

908
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 3: the business, we were the only ones out there with groups.

909
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Everybody was scared of groups.

910
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean they I used to get man,

911
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 3: you're crazy, you know, to do a group. But I

912
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 3: think that's what that was our sweet spot, you know

913
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So it didn't break my heart just

914
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 3: because you know, hip hop raised me and I watched

915
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 3: and studied you know music, you know what I'm saying.

916
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 3: And I mean, eventually people are going to grow apart,

917
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And we worked hard at it,

918
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 3: you know, and who knows, one day it may happen again,

919
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

920
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: But like people just grow apart. How did the untimely

921
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: passion of a takeoff.

922
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 3: I mean packing to this day still, you know what

923
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 3: I'm saying like take Off was probably one of the nicest, humble,

924
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 3: like any artist I ever worked with. You know what

925
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like he just was It was God's child, man,

926
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, like for real, and.

927
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 2: That moment. Man, I'm still messed up on that moment. Man.

928
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 3: It's even hard to talk about it, you know what

929
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 3: I'm saying, just because you know, yeah, that's a hard one, bro.

930
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely does it feel safer, Well, you know you

931
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: got him up there to with this money you said,

932
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: God got him, but he got the halo over That's.

933
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 2: Dope, But it's a fire room. Man.

934
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: Does it feel safer to invest in franchises over people?

935
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ain't gonna lie to you. Yeah, man, I

936
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: mean in a way, you still invested in people, right,

937
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 2: because like I said, we went down because we didn't

938
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 2: have the right people. We got the right people, and

939
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 2: those people like made the business work much better. So like,

940
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 2: but overall, absolutely, And it's crazy. Like Larry Larry Monroe,

941
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: a good friend of mine New York, he told me

942
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: you got these QSR restaurants, and I was like, that's dope,

943
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 2: because like, as a people, like we need to understand

944
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 2: how Like it's a lot of money in it, you

945
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, and we just don't know. Like

946
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 2: we got it's thirty two restaurants that makes us the

947
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 2: number one black QSR franchise owners, which is quick service restaurant.

948
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: But look at this. I got a friend, one of

949
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 2: my really really close friends who also helped me. I

950
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: won't say his name, but they got seven hundred and

951
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 2: something Popeyes and Burger Kings. They're not even in the

952
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 2: top six. Wow. So look at that, right, being being

953
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 2: black is a huge accomplishment, and I'm so thankful to

954
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 2: be part of it. But thirty two puts us at

955
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 2: number one, seven hundred, don't put him at number five six.

956
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: So it's just like so many of these businesses that

957
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: one it's hard for us to get into because I

958
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,760
Speaker 2: wouldn't have got in if I didn't have those mentors.

959
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 2: I wouldn't even think about it. Coach wouldn't have got

960
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 2: in if it wasn't for me. So it's just like

961
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 2: when I hear you was doing it, I'm like, man,

962
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 2: that's dope. You got some good guidance or you just

963
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 2: really map it out, and it's like that sign that

964
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 2: could last forever for your kids, kids kids. These people

965
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 2: I'm talking about six hundred day I had it for

966
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 2: three generations already. So it's just like for us, it

967
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 2: is better to invest in something like that than people.

968
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 2: But you invest in the right people, like little Baby

969
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 2: there's that. You know, Yachty coach hit it four or

970
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 2: five times. I don't even think Rockefeller hit it as

971
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 2: much as QC did it, Like nobody really did it

972
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 2: like them. So it's just like, but how many shots

973
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 2: you took, you know what I'm saying. So to answer

974
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 2: that question, I think it is more safer to invest

975
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: in QSR, especially something that's established already, because you could

976
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 2: get behind something that's not as established and it blow

977
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 2: up or it don't, and more more times than less

978
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 2: it don't blow up. Because being an entrepreneur in business

979
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 2: is really hard. I know that.

980
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 3: I think both, you know, because I mean, like I said,

981
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 3: my twenty eight years of my career existence in music

982
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 3: has been investing in people. You know, I'm just learning

983
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 3: now you know the other business, you know what I mean,

984
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 3: like for real, for real, I got to saying I

985
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 3: always say, like damn, you know, being in a business

986
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,959
Speaker 3: so long and investing people. I'm like, bo I gotta

987
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 3: give me something that don't talk back, you know what

988
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

989
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 2: No, just been for real, you know.

990
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 3: So that's when I start diversifying and looking at investments

991
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 3: in different things, you know what I'm saying, Because I

992
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,840
Speaker 3: was so lasered in like locked in with music, you

993
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. Like I said, I'm a creative,

994
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 3: So it's like I never even looked outside of that

995
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 3: until like a couple of years ago.

996
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,280
Speaker 2: Like, you know, let me start. You know, as I'm.

997
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 3: Getting older, you know, I probably won't be able to

998
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: do this forever.

999
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1000
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 3: It's being real, So let me just start, you know,

1001
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 3: looking at my options.

1002
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

1003
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 6: Was that like a like something that happened that made

1004
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 6: you think about that? It was literally just you reflecting on.

1005
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 2: Like like years old.

1006
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like I'm not going to

1007
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 3: do music and chase artists and you know forever, you

1008
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.

1009
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 2: So, and you know, I have children, I have a family.

1010
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 3: You know, I came up in poverty, you know, so

1011
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 3: I want to change the way that looks for my

1012
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 3: children and my grandchildren.

1013
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 2: You know. So, so let me start.

1014
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 6: Diversify a lot of the artists you've worked with too,

1015
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 6: there's always like an entrepreneurial spirit about them, and y'all

1016
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 6: empower them to do that.

1017
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 3: That's I mean, I'm telling you, developing an artist, you

1018
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 3: turn them into a brand.

1019
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1020
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 3: And me being a manager for so long, you know,

1021
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 3: I only ate off the ancillary. I never ate off

1022
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 3: the product. The ancillary and the ancillary is all the

1023
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 3: businesses built around the artists. So once when you build

1024
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 3: an artist, it's like, okay, my soon as I sign

1025
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 3: of artists, I'm like, yo, so how.

1026
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 2: Big do you want to go? You know?

1027
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 3: I said, my goal is to turn you into a brand.

1028
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 3: Are you ready for that?

1029
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 2: You know?

1030
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 3: I want to turn into a brand and everything you touch,

1031
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 3: all the ancillary that you think. You know, you like this,

1032
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 3: you like that, Let's turn that into a business that's

1033
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 3: where you control and your own you know.

1034
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: So I like having y'all up here, man and having

1035
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: this conversation because when people see y'all, it's inspiring, Like

1036
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: there's so many people that look like us that don't

1037
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: even know things like this are possible. You know what

1038
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: I mean, like franchising, like it's something I always wanted

1039
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: to do, thinking about like what E Class was doing

1040
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: and for sure you know, and.

1041
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 6: How did you get into trying to get No?

1042
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 2: I got it was watching people like it, bro.

1043
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: But I got into it because because the two Change,

1044
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: because you know, Two Changs became the head of creative

1045
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 1: marketing for Crystal.

1046
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 2: And then I saw a little duball.

1047
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: Little Uball was down that do Ball did with all

1048
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: the Crystal burg and I'm like, damn, I see Crystal

1049
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: in the minute.

1050
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,439
Speaker 2: I just asked him where you get that from?

1051
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: And that's when he told me about Two Changs And

1052
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, two Change had the creative marketers.

1053
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 2: I hit him change Tech.

1054
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, man, I want to talk about just

1055
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: seeing what's over Crystal.

1056
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: And they plugged me right in. That's crazy. They plugged

1057
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,439
Speaker 2: me right in and it just made sense. My team

1058
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: was like, yo, let's do it. You know what we

1059
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 2: do for brands as a culture, like it's it's crazy.

1060
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 2: Like even Rick Ross. I don't know Rick Ross, but

1061
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 2: like you know, uh, Wingstop. When Rick Ross got Wingstop,

1062
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 2: Wingstop was trading at like three times and multiple so

1063
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 2: that means if they ebotize them two million dollars, the

1064
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 2: most you could sell it for six I don't know

1065
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 2: if it's Rick Ross, but between that time and now

1066
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 2: Ringstop is trading at nine times, you got to give

1067
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: Ross a lot of credit for that. That's what I'm saying.

1068
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 2: Think about before nobody was thinking about it. So it's

1069
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 2: like again between him, you know, it's nine times. Now

1070
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 2: that's that's insane. So it's like we we add a

1071
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 2: lot of value to ship that we don't own a

1072
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 2: lot of times, you know what I'm saying. So I

1073
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 2: don't own Both Jangles, but I'm own these restaurants and

1074
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: I'm gonna help build it up, you know what I'm saying,

1075
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 2: instead of just like taking some money to help promo them.

1076
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, again, I want to preach

1077
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 2: to these kids, like you gotta own something, you gotta

1078
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 2: you gotta own sign and congrats on the crystals, y'all.

1079
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: It's inspired hearing y'all Talk thirty twenty eight, currently operating,

1080
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:19,439
Speaker 1: thirty two coming.

1081
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 2: Oh that's incredible, and next week one on the campus

1082
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 2: A U G A One Man that's the band Wow

1083
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 2: and uh the first one downtown Florence. You know, so, yeah,

1084
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 2: we're excited about that. Where are you from it? Are

1085
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 2: you close to from Florence?

1086
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: While to Charles, I was raised the most corner, so

1087
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: most corners, like thirty minutes from Charleston.

1088
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're on that side. Yeah, yep, low country.

1089
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you the brothers for joining us. Man, you

1090
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 4: guys couraging and keep pushing. I got one last question.

1091
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 4: I know, Coach, I know you on the road all

1092
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 4: the time. I know you probably never home. I see

1093
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 4: you on the road when you're gonna sell me to

1094
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 4: eat thirty m three convertible that you have.

1095
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 3: Coach has a car Bee trying to buy for the

1096
00:49:58,719 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 3: longest time.

1097
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 2: You don't want to sell it to me?

1098
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 3: Why don't you sell me that car? He should have

1099
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,439
Speaker 3: bought it. He was supposed to. It was his car.

1100
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 3: It was you know.

1101
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 2: And then I was being cheap my business partner.

1102
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 3: It was I remember it's twenty eighteen and we just

1103
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 3: renegotiated and it was my birthday and he was like

1104
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 3: I was on the computer looking at the car, and uh,

1105
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 3: my assistant at the time, he was like, Hey, what

1106
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 3: was that car Coach was looking at? Because I always

1107
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 3: used to be on the computer. And she went in

1108
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 3: and went in my thing and gave it to him.

1109
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:29,320
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1110
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 3: And he's like, man, pull up to the studio. I

1111
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 3: pulled up to the studio and they backed that thing.

1112
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 3: I was like, Wow, backed it off the damn trailer.

1113
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 3: I was like, but I should have bought it. When

1114
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 3: when when I got it, and he see said, man,

1115
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 3: you know I was that was my car. I was

1116
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 3: supposed to because the car said new Yard said New Jersey.

1117
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 4: And my Long Island, Long Island and my Long Island.

1118
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: Yep, you know it's crazy. I just got over cars.

1119
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 2: I sold him my Rose Royce. I always told me

1120
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 2: I got a good deal. Yes, I did. Never been

1121
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: round the body, Crystal, That's what I'm saying. I just

1122
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 2: love mind living in New York. I had three cars

1123
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 2: and I was taking Ubers everywhere. But the cause we

1124
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 2: buy it is a little different. They go up in value.

1125
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 2: The cause. I used to be all you because you're.

1126
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 3: Driving around Brooklyn and it's Bentley Ice Blue Bentley. Then

1127
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 3: you got a color in.

1128
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you doing? You can't even drive

1129
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 2: in New York. Real like they had a thousand cars

1130
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 2: though I gotta do this. I don't know. Race Collection

1131
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 2: allowed me to give a shout out, but I got

1132
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 2: to shout out my daughter Milan and a Hampton University

1133
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 2: crew that's listening. That's right, the real Hu, the real Hu.

1134
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 2: You know, she's a junior right now. Like it, she

1135
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 2: love it. She chose. I wanted to go to Howard,

1136
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 2: but she made the right shout out to my little sister,

1137
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,720
Speaker 2: you know, Uh, Mike Novo, Ben Black, Stephen Man, Cherian

1138
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 2: Rhanda Omar and all the people that really helped me.

1139
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 2: You know, it's a lot more, but just want to

1140
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 2: shout them out. They really are live a big role

1141
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 2: in my life.

1142
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 4: All right, Well, Coach k Melcarter, Yes, indeed, it's the

1143
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 4: Breakfast Club in the morning.

1144
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: Hold up, every day I wake up, click your ass

1145
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: up the Breakfast Club.

1146
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 3: Y'all finished?

1147
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 2: So y'all done.