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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously that's someone that you that's a very

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking aboutself, why is you gonna lie about somebody

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not trying to I'm not gonna over exaggerate

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Speaker 3: it and say we like good friends. You know, I'm

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Speaker 3: again we was on that double exelf freshman class. Just

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Speaker 3: whenever I see it's it's always good energy. And so

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Speaker 3: And it might not even have been about the Tory

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Speaker 1: Gunna use him obviously, the Plea deal that he went through.

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Speaker 1: I mean, dude got a Rico statue hanging over his head.

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Speaker 1: You talking about a long long time. I ain't talking

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Speaker 1: about no months we talked about, well, we talk about months,

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Speaker 2: So what do you say? They try to keep the

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Speaker 3: I haven't talked to Gunner, to be honest, since like

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Speaker 3: you know, Gunna just nothing but the best. I wish

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Speaker 2: And also the baby and Roddy Witch Roddy Rich.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people say, man, their music saying sounds

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, the baby. I wanted to bring

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Speaker 3: the incident happened on stage, right, well you could have

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Speaker 3: just on some like, man, we got to just brothers

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Speaker 3: I know what you said on stage was not the

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Speaker 3: like I don't, I feel like what And again it's

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Speaker 2: We held to a high standard.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like a death sentence when a black person

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 2: We held so accountable.

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Speaker 1: What's the uh the hardest part about celebrity? And I

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Speaker 1: But I look at it like this, Okay, man, I

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Speaker 1: don't rock with Corday Okay, I don't rock with cordae Man.

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Speaker 1: Cordy Man. A y'all trying to do something with Corday Man.

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Speaker 3: He'll sucker man.

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Speaker 2: That's my point. That's my point.

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Speaker 1: If you don't rock with me, why you trying to

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Speaker 3: So leave it. Like hey, if it's somebody I'm wrong

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's a lot of pandering that goes

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Speaker 3: It's all love family. Like people use that family word.

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Speaker 1: Even if he's not my brother. If somebody is having

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, he's a sucker for real, man, let me

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Speaker 2: But if here, if I don't have that experience.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so now what do you do?

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Speaker 3: And this is a question, like let's say you hear

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Speaker 3: Never, I got you, they got gray red. I can

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Speaker 3: but nothing's coming out of it. And so just investing

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00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,399
Speaker 3: in people that's gonna make the most out of the

435
00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,359
Speaker 3: opportunity versus people that's like entitled and just gonna do

436
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,320
Speaker 3: like the absolute bare minimum versus people like yo. Cause

437
00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,800
Speaker 3: I feel like gratitude is just so important. Man Like

438
00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,280
Speaker 3: even when somebody take care of my dinner, I'm like, man,

439
00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,600
Speaker 3: I appreciate you. I'm starting to learn, not even learn,

440
00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,640
Speaker 3: but just show gratitude at the highest level. Like I've

441
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,440
Speaker 3: always had gratitude, never have again. We raised in the South,

442
00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,200
Speaker 3: we say please and thank you for everything, always that gratitude.

443
00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,159
Speaker 3: But now I'm appreciative for just this tiny man, the

444
00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,000
Speaker 3: fact I done have a dag gonna escalate, had to

445
00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:52,800
Speaker 3: come and pick me up from the house to bring

446
00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,280
Speaker 3: me here. That's a blessing, you get what I'm saying.

447
00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:59,680
Speaker 3: So being appreciative of what we almost consider small things

448
00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,560
Speaker 3: but so huge. So just having people around, that's one

449
00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:06,000
Speaker 3: grateful for the opportunity gratitude. Don't gotta get down your

450
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,960
Speaker 3: hands and knees every day now, but just sometimes you

451
00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:11,200
Speaker 3: show appreciation with your actions as well. So that's one

452
00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:14,080
Speaker 3: thing I'm really learning is learning how to plant seeds

453
00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,160
Speaker 3: and other people and give them opportunities for fertile ground,

454
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,159
Speaker 3: because that's worth a lot more than just sending you

455
00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:20,680
Speaker 3: a wire.

456
00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,600
Speaker 1: You know, Have you had any purchases that you regret, Like, damn,

457
00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,880
Speaker 1: why not buy that that was so unnecessary?

458
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,720
Speaker 3: I bought a house in Atlanta. Yeah, yeah, and I

459
00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,000
Speaker 3: know long term it's gonna be good. But man, I

460
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,000
Speaker 3: had a car out there too. I had a house

461
00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,199
Speaker 3: and a car, and you know, thankfully, I'm super blessed.

462
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 3: Like I own houses in different states, some for rental

463
00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,360
Speaker 3: properties and some just for whenever I go back home.

464
00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,040
Speaker 3: I got somewhere to stay. So I bought something in Atlanta,

465
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,800
Speaker 3: a crib in Atlanta, a nice crib to a super

466
00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 3: nice crib. Had a card house just out there. But

467
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,480
Speaker 3: I am never in Atlanta as much as I thought

468
00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 3: I was gonna be, And so I just shipped my

469
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,800
Speaker 3: car actually back in DC to where I I'm out

470
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,160
Speaker 3: there a lot. So I'm just like, you know, I'm

471
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,800
Speaker 3: just sitting on his car, you know. But it's a

472
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 3: blessing though. I won't even look that as a bad purchase,

473
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:09,600
Speaker 3: cause it's still real estate. I can always sell it.

474
00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,439
Speaker 3: I can always do whatever it's whenever I got family

475
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:14,520
Speaker 3: in time. My mom don't live too far from Atlanta,

476
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,720
Speaker 3: she go just stay there, et cetera. So I won't

477
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,960
Speaker 3: even call that a bad purchase.

478
00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 2: You ain't had no jewelry, no wide, no car.

479
00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 3: No. To be honest, I haven't been like suit like

480
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 3: you know this is paddic Philip. Maybe I can always

481
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 3: get my bread back, you know what I'm saying for

482
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,080
Speaker 3: this now, this is a gift actually, But I don't

483
00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,360
Speaker 3: really think I've spent like too much outlanded stuff. Cause

484
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,960
Speaker 3: even on clothes, like you look good, you feel good,

485
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,719
Speaker 3: you feel good, you do good, you do good, they

486
00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:43,400
Speaker 3: pay good. And then also that's a business expense. It's

487
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:48,280
Speaker 3: a rite off. I can't really think about bad money,

488
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,840
Speaker 3: cause it's even if I spent like say you go

489
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 3: to the strip club one night, you drop five it,

490
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 3: it would never be a a outlanded ShaSS price, you

491
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,119
Speaker 3: know when you go to the club, but you go

492
00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 3: like ca SEEO, I'm a drop five hundred dollars maximum.

493
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like I go to the club,

494
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 3: I've never spent a dollar. No, no, no, I'll be

495
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 3: playing the Roulette tables twenty five dollars minimums. I'm going

496
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 3: I ain't dropping too much on Listen, I bet on

497
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 3: myself like I like even on certain music videos like it.

498
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 3: Label will be like, okay, based on our projections, amount

499
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 3: of views we think this video gonna do, We're gonna

500
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 3: get you seventy five thousands of his budget, but the

501
00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 3: creative plan that I have the video costs two hundred

502
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,800
Speaker 3: thousand and so I'll spend out of my own pocket

503
00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 3: the difference in that one hundred twenty g's on a video.

504
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 3: But I look at that as investing within my brand,

505
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,160
Speaker 3: within my career, within how I'm presented my visuals. Wanna

506
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,120
Speaker 3: give the fans a great video. So honestly, man, I'm

507
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 3: not gonna lie. I haven't made like too much, like

508
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 3: really dumb purchases.

509
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,440
Speaker 1: On your first tour year with Juice World, and you

510
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: see a lot of these young rappers dying, some he odeed,

511
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 1: and then you see a young dolf get killed and

512
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: you see pop pop smoke.

513
00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 2: What I mean when you when you see that, you're

514
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,640
Speaker 2: like my age, Yeah, not for real.

515
00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 3: Especially Juice really hit me home because this was this

516
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 3: is my brother, Like for real like remember that combo

517
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 3: we hadn't Like, yeah, this was my brother in real life.

518
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 3: So again my first tour ever. I was on tour

519
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 3: opening up for Juice World, and this is his first

520
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 3: tour ever too. Like ever, this both of our first

521
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 3: time hitting the stage during the tour, and at that time,

522
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 3: I didn't have anything. I was on his me and

523
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 3: my homies. It was on his bus and it was

524
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 3: only me and my boy Day and my DJ. But

525
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 3: we're on his bus. We ain't even have enough money

526
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 3: for our own sprinter van. So we on his bus

527
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 3: with him and his team. It was that and I

528
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 3: realized through touring now, like that is not normal at all,

529
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 3: Like it's like Openers, y'all got your own thing, Headliners,

530
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 3: We got our own thing. And so I'm with this

531
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,760
Speaker 3: fool every day. We having conversations about God, about life,

532
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,520
Speaker 3: about family, about me. We free We love the freestyle.

533
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 3: So we freestyling all day for six hours, just every

534
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 3: single day. And so we even so that was the

535
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 3: genesis of the relationship. And we always kept in touch,

536
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 3: talked to him, call him on Thanksgiving. How family doing

537
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 3: like this is like my real life brother, Like we

538
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 3: probably kicked I'll pull up on his full house five

539
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 3: hundred times. We only made one song, Like it wasn't

540
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 3: even about the music, Like he a superstar. This man

541
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 3: is a superstar. You know what I'm saying at the time,

542
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 3: But this is my man pulling out, pulling up on

543
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 3: his house. Man we watching anime I fall asleep on

544
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 3: his full couch, wake up in the morning. You know

545
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. It's like that this is my real

546
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 3: life homie. And so when he passed, I was I

547
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 3: was in Dubaio on the flight from Dubai and just

548
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 3: woke up when I landed and got the news. I'm

549
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 3: just like, bro, what like shed a tear for my

550
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 3: Like this is again, this is my real friend. I

551
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,879
Speaker 3: just talked to him a week before for Thanksgiving and

552
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 3: we was talking about this music because we did a song.

553
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 3: We was talking about the music video cause he called me.

554
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 3: He had this concept for this music video that he had.

555
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 3: He was like, Yo, what if we did it? Like

556
00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 3: there was a double XLF freshman freestyle? Cause he skipped

557
00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:59,959
Speaker 3: out on that class he did. He turned it down.

558
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 3: He was like, what if we did a double ExLF

559
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 3: freshman freestyle? And I put out a life saber and

560
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,440
Speaker 3: I start like destroying all y'all whatever, So I say

561
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 3: this say we was talking about the music video concept

562
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 3: and then just life about God like spirituality, just like

563
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 3: we talk about any and everything, bro, make jokes like

564
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 3: talk about like every and anything, bro. So matter of fact,

565
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 3: it's funny. My first time at Coachella, I just want

566
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 3: to Coachella to watch him perform. Okay, you get what

567
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 3: I'm saying. Like me as an artist, like usually you

568
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,719
Speaker 3: ain't going to no festival or nothing like that if

569
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 3: you're not performing. But I'm going there because it's my

570
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 3: boys first time at Coachella, support him, my first time

571
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 3: at Jimmy Fallon. I was going there watching him like

572
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 3: I'm with this, this is my mans. You get what

573
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 3: I'm saying. So I was really affected by that. That

574
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 3: really like hurt me a lot. As far as Dolphin,

575
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 3: Pop Smoke and P and B. It's just like it's

576
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 3: just it's just horrible, man, Like it's just horrible to

577
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 3: see so many people, y'all. Havene made it out the hood?

578
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 3: Like pop Smoke killed me cause he killed in Beverly Hills. Man,

579
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,120
Speaker 3: he done made it out the hood, made it out

580
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 3: the trenches. Out of these environments, being able to be

581
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: that guy that break generational curses with the people that

582
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 3: breaking generational curses in our family, kicking down them doors,

583
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 3: opening up opportunities for everybody, and then to be slain,

584
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 3: you know. And that's why I move like super private

585
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 3: now to where like nobody's at my house unless it's

586
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 3: like just knocked down family. I don't never threw no

587
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 3: parties at any of my homes in any of the

588
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 3: states homes, and like nobody there, you know, Like it's

589
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 3: just just a lot of even with my family. I

590
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 3: just got on my little brother for coming to time,

591
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 3: like hey, bro, don't just pop up Yeah not not no,

592
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 3: you can pop up whenever, but don't post nothing inside

593
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 3: my house, you know what I'm saying. Like that's a

594
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 3: real I'm real adamant about that, you know. So just

595
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 3: just safety, man, that's it just really a wake up call,

596
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 3: like man, I really gotta move. And and me being

597
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 3: where I'm front, me being from the hood, I'm always man.

598
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,920
Speaker 3: My mom always tell me, I remember when the Beach's

599
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 3: headphones came out, She's like, don't be walking around the

600
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 3: neighborhood with them headphones. And because she caught me walking

601
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 3: on time ten years old, eleven, twelve years old.

602
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 2: Whatever.

603
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: She's like, what you're doing walking around this neighborhood man

604
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 3: with both of your headphones and take one of them

605
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 3: headphones out, man like look around, like stop, be aware

606
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 3: of your surroundings. I learned that very young, especially having

607
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,920
Speaker 3: a young mom who a single mom, you know, so

608
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 3: I got I always was like super aware, but now

609
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 3: it just heightened that.

610
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: You know, how have you been able to avoid the

611
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: pitfalls of being a celebrity? You know, drugs are very

612
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: commonplace and the entertainment in your business. Obviously you have

613
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: a lady now, so women aren't the things, But how

614
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: are you able to navigate the pitfalls that comes along

615
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: with celebrity?

616
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 3: Just balance? You know, maybe I'm not quite that famous

617
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 3: yet to where you know, cause I can't speak for

618
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 3: like a super a list, you know, but for me

619
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 3: for like the level of where I'm at, not saying

620
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 3: I ain't no, ain't no bum you know what I'm yeah, yeah,

621
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 3: for y'all doing my thing, but just remain trying my

622
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,439
Speaker 3: best to remain grounded, trying to keep good people around

623
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,239
Speaker 3: me that that's not afraid to tell me, like if

624
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 3: I'm slipping, if I'm wrong, and if i'm you know,

625
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 3: on the wrong path, and things of that nature. So

626
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 3: keeping good people around me, keeping again everybody around me

627
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 3: that's gonna keep it a hundred with me, And and

628
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 3: and just also realizing I'm responsible for me. I got

629
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: to take accountability. And it's just like, man, we get

630
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 3: this far to just fuck it up, you know, we

631
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 3: here to take this even further. We're gonna here to

632
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 3: take this to new heights, the new levels, higher levels,

633
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 3: high level, you know. And so I realized will come

634
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 3: with that and just being responsible.

635
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: You know what, bankstream artists, what what was the person

636
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: that gave you your first your first opportunity like to

637
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: be on a collab with.

638
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 3: Him hmm at the time, Chance, chance to rapper, Chance

639
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 3: the rapper for sure, Like he's still to this day,

640
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 3: he's a huge brand, huge artist, right, So him giving

641
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 3: me that that song with bad Idea was just like

642
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,239
Speaker 3: a huge blessing at that And funny enough, I'm at

643
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 3: him at that Coachella meeting with Juice. Juice, you get

644
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

645
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: So so a lot of times when you a lot

646
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: of times when you were going to these events the

647
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: Southwest and you going to these different places.

648
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 2: It was like networking.

649
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the way I looked at it, because I've

650
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 3: been making music. Bro, I've been wanting to be rappers.

651
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 3: I was ten years old. I've been making music almost

652
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 3: every day or like knowing, like this is what I'm

653
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 3: doing in my free time, whatever second hour I got.

654
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 3: I'm making music since I was fifteen years old. So

655
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 3: I've been perfecting the craft and I'm still perfecting it,

656
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,239
Speaker 3: still getting better, still got new levels to get as

657
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 3: far as creativity goes. But I was just like, yo,

658
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 3: I'm making all of this music, but I gotta really

659
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: build relationships, man, cause I can just keep dropping this song,

660
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 3: but I gotta really I realized how important, you know,

661
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: networking was and building relationships long lasting ones was so

662
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: But yeah, Chance was definitely the first like major artist

663
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 3: that gave me that look. And he flew me and

664
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 3: my homies out to Chicago, flew a SSA all our

665
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: first class this before and I was still I was

666
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: popping at the time. I was up, but I wasn't

667
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: flying first class. We're still that new artist, you know.

668
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 3: It's still okay. If I sit in Roll thirty, you

669
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 3: get what I'm saying. So he flew me and my

670
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 3: homies out first class, got us in the fire Host

671
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: five star hotel. And again, I'm an artist, but I'm

672
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 3: still member. I'm having a million in my count I'm

673
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: living with my manager at the time, so I ain't

674
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 3: staying in the fire Star hotel. I'm not flying myself

675
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 3: first class.

676
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: So that you're still in an ASPIRCT hotel. Boy, you

677
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: hope up, no bad on Popper.

678
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 3: Listen, it's JANKI wanky yanky.

679
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: Mean, I'm looking at some of the people that you've

680
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: been on with Stevie Wonder m d Wayne Common nods, grout,

681
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: you may whiz, Chris Brown, Mee Young Young, Thudd Gunner,

682
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: Q Tip, Little Dirk Anderson pack Chance.

683
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so who were you most surprised? Like you for real,

684
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: you gonna hop on there, you gonna hop on this.

685
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 3: With nobody, To be honest, was a surprise because when

686
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: you got confidence in yourself, like and not on no

687
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 3: cocky stuff, but it was just like it was a

688
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: I'm still grateful for it. It's still like, yo, wow,

689
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 3: that's crazy. And Anderson again, this is my brother. You

690
00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. I done kicked it with Anderson

691
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 3: a million before we did a record. So that's why

692
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: our records always come across so easy, so easy going,

693
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 3: and it's such a blessing. But I think M was

694
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 3: definitely like cause he's just like just so huge and

695
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 3: obviously he he's a goal to everybody, just listed right

696
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 3: its goals. And it's a blessing because it's like some

697
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: people say, you all who you align yourself with, you know,

698
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 3: or A And sometimes that gives me the confidence when

699
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 3: I'm talking to a Wayne or a M or you

700
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 3: know so many other uh great artists that like just

701
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 3: have shown me love along the way when I'm doubting

702
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 3: myself and I'm like having imposter syndrome and just again

703
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 3: just doubt myself in a bad headspace. When they give

704
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: me a call and be like, y'all, I love what

705
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 3: you're doing and et cetera. Give me good advice, and

706
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 3: the fact that they just call me a text me

707
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 3: is still like a blessing, Like man, like I am supposed, ma,

708
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 3: i am supposed to be here. It gives me a confidence,

709
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 3: you know, like man, I am supposed to be here.

710
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 3: But when I got that call from M, it's just

711
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,239
Speaker 3: like oh like yo, like whoa, that's still m bro

712
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 3: Like that's crazy.

713
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 2: Who haven't you work with that you would like to?

714
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: I don't know, to be honest, man, hmm may Kareem

715
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 3: Bailey Ray. Okay, this song on some like just different

716
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 3: super artistic vibes. But Michael Jackson, I love to do

717
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 3: a song, Michael Jackson. If I get them files. You know,

718
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 3: if I can get them files, we can make it happen.

719
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 3: I can make it happen. Hey, we're gonna make a Look.

720
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: How about this if you said you turned down ninety

721
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: percent of the songs that you asked to be on, Yeah,

722
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: why is that rate so high?

723
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 3: I think that was at my overthinking stage if that,

724
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 3: remember I told you pandemic I got time to think,

725
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 3: but I was just overthinking. So some things I'll just

726
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 3: be overthinking versus now is just like, Okay, if I

727
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 3: love this song, no matter how big or small, and

728
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 3: it makes sense, then I'm gonna do it.

729
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: You know.

730
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 3: If I love the song and I like the song,

731
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just do it. You know, that's what's most

732
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 3: important to me. So going back to that number of

733
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 3: like me saying no, the most stuff and two huge names.

734
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: Some names you'll be like, are you dumb? You know,

735
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 3: but it just comes out to me as an artist,

736
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: like you can't in the studio, I can't think with

737
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 3: a business mind. I try not to think like on

738
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 3: a business mind or a money level. You get know

739
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I just try to make it just

740
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 3: purely creative, because that's the pure part of it. And

741
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 3: maybe that's not the best thing or not the greatest thing.

742
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 3: But I feel like when the music it just got

743
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 3: to strike me creatively, or I'm inspired to write something

744
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 3: by it, you know, it's okay, I love this song.

745
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 3: Let me see what paint I can add to this

746
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 3: portrait more.

747
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 2: Do you like when blogs tweet your album selves?

748
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 3: Now? I think it's it's just the time that went in,

749
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 3: because even though I was doing that in the nineties

750
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 3: and the two thousands, but I just think today one

751
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 3: Sometimes they be wrong, right last time they said I

752
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 3: did nineteen K, but I did like twenty five K.

753
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 3: But I'm not finna tweet and be like, man, y'all

754
00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 3: got me wrong. I ain't do twenty thousand first week,

755
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 3: the twenty five thousand first week. You know, I ain't

756
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 3: gonna do that because it is what it is, right,

757
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 3: But and I just care more about my hard ticket sales,

758
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 3: you know. And I did my even with my last album.

759
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 3: It was a ten song conscious album, you know, so

760
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 3: it wasn't like most people's songs. They're doing twenty song

761
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: albums one hundred and seventy bpm, you know, faster paced,

762
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 3: where eight of my songs on that last of that

763
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 3: ten song album is like damn near R and B pace,

764
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 3: damn near di'angelo type paced records. And I feel like

765
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 3: a first week sale doesn't truly like represent like where

766
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: artists stands, because it's artists that do four times the

767
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 3: first week numbers that I do, but can't sell out

768
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 3: the venues that I'm doing. So I much rather sell

769
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 3: out the venues when I do a show and I

770
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 3: do a tour in them things selling out versus a

771
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 3: big first week number, But I'll take them both.

772
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: Into protesting you speak out of. You were arrested for

773
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: the Breonna Taylor. You're protesting in Louisville, Kentucky, outside the

774
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: home of Kentucky General Daniel Cameron. You were arrested twenty

775
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: four more and more than twenty four hours, uh wrote

776
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: defund the police at the twenty twenty uh US open

777
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: either at the protests in Minneapolis for George Boyd m Floyd,

778
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: your your significant other nel miosaka, you know she wore

779
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: the mask with the black name the Black victims of

780
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: police brutality.

781
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 2: He called out Kanye for being a.

782
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: Support Why at your age, why are we seeing more

783
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: people that look like you your age become so much

784
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: more involved in the community.

785
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: As far as protests speaking.

786
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 3: Out, Yeah, well my experience was a little different. Cause again,

787
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 3: like I was saying earlier, like I was ten years

788
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 3: old and my stepdad had me reading Marcus Carvey. Have

789
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 3: you read in w du Bois Thurga Marshall, Malcolm x,

790
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 3: Martin Luther. So I was young, like before the term

791
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 3: woke was a thing, right, I was quote unquote whoa

792
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 3: Like I was in middle school, elementary I was in

793
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 3: middle school, Like nah, brother, we ain't African Americans. We

794
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 3: are Africans in America, Like I literally was. I was

795
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 3: that kid in elementary school, middle school and nigga's like, man,

796
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 3: niggas shut up nigga. Like I was that guy right

797
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: in elementary and middle school, like just super I always

798
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 3: love history class because I knew most of it all

799
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: all the way, and I was blessed again to where

800
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 3: my stepdad will always just educate me, give me these books.

801
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 3: Things of that nature. Have me watching documentaries on Africa

802
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 3: when I was ten eleven years old, to where I

803
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 3: knew Africa was in huts and villages. I knew it

804
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 3: was the most like super modern. I know Africa is

805
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 3: the largest continent on Earth when they're trying to tell

806
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: you it's age yet at the time, and think that

807
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 3: all life comes from Africa and all of these things.

808
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 3: And again even Black history, American history, a Philip Randolph,

809
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 3: all these good folks. So I had the information and

810
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 3: so I was again even in high school, I was

811
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: that same guy. In college, I was. I went to

812
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 3: the in college, I went to the Mike Brown, you know,

813
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 3: Trayvon marya protest. So this is something that's always been

814
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 3: embedded within me. The only difference is now I just

815
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 3: have a platform, so it's I highlight when I do it,

816
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 3: because like even with Breonna Taylor, I didn't go there

817
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 3: with my phone now and this and that, this, and

818
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 3: I just happened to get arrested and because I'm you know, Corda.

819
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 3: It's the name about it is gonna make you know,

820
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 3: national news, et cetera, et cetera. So I just just

821
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 3: always speaking like what I believe in right at the time,

822
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 3: you know. And so when I feel like something is

823
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 3: messed up, and that's the beauty of social media, it's

824
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 3: because movement police brutality is getting highlighted to it. It's

825
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 3: always been going on, but now like the whole world,

826
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 3: and that was the thing about twenty twenty, the whole

827
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: world know what was going on in America. It's still

828
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 3: across the world. That's still going on. You know, everybody's

829
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 3: able to see it. People were being converted, you know,

830
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: the things of that nature more so converted to the

831
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 3: movement and understanding what's going on for just human rights,

832
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 3: you get what I'm saying. So that's the beauty of

833
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 3: social media. So it's just something that's always been like

834
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 3: embedded within me.

835
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: You know, I'm to ask your two part question here,

836
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: give me your Mount Rushmore rappers and then give me

837
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of this generation rappers. So I want you

838
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: to go to the go the Mount Rushmore rappers who

839
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: you think are the best of all time, and then

840
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 1: you give me your four of this generation?

841
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 3: Okay, uh Jay z Okay, Kanye West, Kanye Nas nods

842
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:28,800
Speaker 3: and I would say big L, but he, you know,

843
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 3: rest in peace. He wasn't able to live, you know

844
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 3: as long, So we can't go off for full that's

845
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 3: my personal favorite, big L. I would have to put

846
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 3: him right there. I'm a big L for that top four.

847
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 3: I'm a big L for that top four. Oh Wayne, No, no,

848
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 3: no Wayne, So it's Wayne in no order, Wayne Hove

849
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 3: nas And who is the fourth? Kanye West? That's my

850
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 3: top four this generation. I mean, obviously you gotta go

851
00:37:54,920 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 3: with the big three. Drake j Cole. Can Drake in

852
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 3: that fourth spot? You gotta get at the future future Nikki.

853
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: One of those two.

854
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 2: Do you think uh Drake gonna crack that Mount Rushmore?

855
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 3: You can go thug a future of Nikki for that

856
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 3: force one of those three. I'm going thug Future Nikki.

857
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: Okay, since you was so your breastless, okay, give me

858
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: your give me your Mount Rushmore.

859
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 3: Female rappers, female rappers Okay, Lauryn Hill, all she needed

860
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 3: was one album. She got the job done. I love

861
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: the MTV I love the TV unplug album too, Okay,

862
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 3: Lauryn Hill, you got Nikki, you got Remy mak obviously

863
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 3: mc shan real rock saying let me see, and I'm

864
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 3: gonna be honest with you. I'm tapped into female rap,

865
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Speaker 3: but I'm not. And I know the predecessors, but Mount

866
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Speaker 3: rushmore so Top four, top ten, Top four, Top four, Okay,

867
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Speaker 3: Lauren Hill, Lauren Hill, NICKI, NICKI Remy Mammy and you

868
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 3: gotta go little Kim for the culture, just because she

869
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 3: helped expand that.

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Speaker 2: You know, Okay, I like I like that group.

871
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: I like that group. You had the Warriors game. I mean,

872
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan had a very public breakup. He was

873
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 1: dating Lauren Harvey and you were at the game with

874
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: him with the news broken. They put him up.

875
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Speaker 2: I mean, what advice for me?

876
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Speaker 1: Did you say, bro, it's gonna be okay, and Sauna

877
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: shine to much the son and come up tomorrow. It

878
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: hurts now because it's playing out publicly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, hmm. I didn't really give any advice,

880
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 3: to be honest, Like, we just there to enjoy enjoy

881
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 3: the basketball game. To be honest, we just there, man,

882
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 3: We got got to go there on his jet. You

883
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying shout out my boy. You know

884
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. That's and again, this is my brother

885
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 3: in real life. This is my brother for real, like

886
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 3: not the this is my brother for real. So we

887
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 3: just wasn't enjoying the game, to be honest, We just

888
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 3: at the game that were able to watch the Fine's

889
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 3: a blessing, you know, being able to watch the finals

890
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 3: courtside watching stuff. So to be honest, it wasn't even

891
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 3: like not even trying to be political or anything. It

892
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 3: wasn't even a topic of conversation. It's just more like,

893
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 3: and we're here to watch.

894
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Speaker 2: This game, right, you're just happy to be there.

895
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 3: When that had been yeah, because you know social media

896
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 3: in the news, they can be off as far as

897
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 3: just everything. You get what I'm saying, like just might

898
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 3: have been.

899
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Speaker 1: Over for two months and then social media is just

900
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: getting a hold of it and then.

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00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So yeah, it wasn't even a topic of conversation,

902
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 3: to be honest. So we just enjoyed the game. So

903
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Speaker 3: it was tight.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate, thank you, thank you, Glad we can finally get it.

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Speaker 5: There, Yes, sir, absolutely all my life, grinding, all my life, sacrifice, hustle,

906
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 5: the price. Want a slice, Got the bat? All my life,

907
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 5: grinding all my life, all my life, grinding all my life, sacrifice, hustle,

908
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 5: the price, one slice the bat, all my life.

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Speaker 3: I been grinding all my