WEBVTT - Conversations About Ja Morant 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.400 What's up And welcome back to another episode of No 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.520 Sealers Podcast with your hosts Now fuck that with your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:21.560 load glasses Malone. So it's like I'm saying, just this 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:26.360 whole healing process. It's weird because like in eleven twelve, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.600 when I started figuring out, like I had made all 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:32.599 his money and rap you, I mean, I had made 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:35.400 probably about two three million dollars in like three four years, 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:39.919 five years maybe from like seven to eleven, I had 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:44.239 made like money crazy right where it was like, you know, 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:45.720 I didn't know what I was doing. I was just 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.920 articuling enough and I had a good sense of rhythm. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:54.400 But really my engineer, Guido, who produced my first project, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.279 it was his time, you know what I mean, it 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.120 was his time. Like he had paid his dues in 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.600 the business to understand records, you know, to understand music. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.399 He knew what records were. As a DJ, he had 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.320 mixed y'all remember that pet y'all young, But it was 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.320 a paperboy song called Diddy Dude of Diddy Diddy if 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.040 you want to dad. So this was a huge platinum, 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.720 double platinum record on the West. He mixed that song. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.760 He had been working next to rhythm D. Rhythm D 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.320 did real motherfucking g'z you know, comp City g s 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.479 and all that. So he had been in at DJing 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.680 and knowing records. It was his time, and I was 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.440 a benefactor as an MC of what he knew about 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.800 making records. He would keep me in pocket when it 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.680 came to doing hooks, he would for the most part, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.160 you know, even if he didn't produce the specific record 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.920 on the album on White Lightning, he would be like, Okay, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.360 this record and this record. If I liked him, he'd 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.000 be like, Okay, let's use this one in this one. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.760 He knew what it was. I didn't know. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.880 Can I ask you a question not even interrupt you? 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.920 Yeah, I view that personally as producing as. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:03.400 You do you the same way. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:09.560 Yeah, And the irony is the irony is just backing 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.880 up something my nigga king asked me. He said, man, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.919 when did you think you was gonna have When did 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.119 you realize it was gonna be a problem? Like when 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.840 did you attribute to what part of your career that 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.600 it was going to be a problem. And I said, well, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.560 he said, what moment now that you know looking back, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.640 what moment? And I said, today, g we don't move 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.000 to Atlanta, gwedo move to Atlanta before I finished the 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.280 whole project, like the project was just about done, was 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.960 to the last points of it. The only song I 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.840 had to do left was two hundred, which ended up 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.080 being the biggest record on there, and face picked that 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.000 beat games older brother. I didn't even like the song 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.920 two hundred. Long story short. I say all that to 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.239 say that in twenty eleven, I realized I didn't know nothing, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.200 Like I just was articuling and just authentic, like it 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.679 was really the real story, Like all my shit about 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:03.160 gang banging selling that shit's real, Like no, for real, 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.640 like not joking. Like it's like I didn't carry it 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.920 like the way you hear you know the war stories 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.880 now how I've talked to you about it. I carried 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.480 it as a birden. So when you listen to early 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:16.360 Glasses Malone music, it's more bluesy, like you could tell 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.800 I was going through it. I mean, from two thousand 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.120 and five six to twenty eleven, you could tell something 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.240 that was a burden on my heart. So come fast 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.440 forward to twenty eleven, twelve, you know I made head 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.760 DJ head. I turned Head into a DJ in two 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.000 thousand and eight. Head was just like a nigga that 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.240 used to promote. He was like a nigga that was 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.520 like Head is like here seems so serious. Now I know, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.360 y'all look at DJ here, y'all be like, man, Head 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.160 is so serious, He's so deep. Head is a fucking clown. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.000 I want to talk to him one day. I want 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.000 to intellectual conversation with me. It seems like. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.720 It's super intimate. But he's a fucking clown. Like he's 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.520 a nigga like Kendrick, like Katok is a funny nigga, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.240 And you couldn't see it looking at I. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.800 Say that with kaw same thing with Kawhi. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:13.800 Yeah nigh, you couldn't see it with their personalities in 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.320 the public that these two niggas are probably two of 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.440 the funniest niggas in all the niggas I met in 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.279 the history of niggas I met over these years. Head 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:27.000 and fucking Katot and Kendrick are too funny. Like Head 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.559 used to bag on niggas. Head had a comedy show. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.280 He did a he did a stand up and he 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.919 bombed like it was like it was his first one. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.080 Like you know what I mean, Like that shit ain't 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.840 no joke like and he bombed and he stopped being 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:47.320 funny from that day on. But like Head in real 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.120 life is a funny ass nigga. Long story short, He 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.559 was a promoter. He was super social. Head can dance. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.680 Head don't look like he could dance. Hand can dance. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.960 Hen used to buss bitches. Head was always intellectional nigga, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.159 but he was always a social nigga. He was a 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.799 social butterfly. He knew how to be dope in in society. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.039 And I turned him into a DJ because he was 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.200 so smart like me and him click immediately off intellect 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.760 like we clicked, like we started just you could tell 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.679 we was gonna be thick as thieves for a while. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.760 And I made him a DJ so he could go 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.960 everywhere with me. It wasn't like I just have you know, 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.160 he not no nigga that for a fight a thousand niggas. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.560 So he ain't like the muscle. So I was like, look, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.080 I didn't have no DJ at that time, so I 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.239 was like, hey, be a DJ, like you smart enough, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.839 you fuck with music, you know how to dance, you 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.280 know parties. Head was like a huge factor on this 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.440 old thing La they used to have called the club Mix, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.640 like it was a social media thing. Head was like 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.880 a factor on that motherfucker. So heare became a DJ 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.520 and picked it up instantly. This two thousand and eight, 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.560 nine ten, he's picking it up. He started getting booked 0:05:56.560 --> 0:06:00.760 at parties. He was controlling parties fast, he was lended fast. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:06.680 He just got dope fast. And twenty eleven, twelve, he 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.440 came in. We was working on this project that's actually 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.200 gonna come out in the next twelve months called White 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.560 Lightning the two and it's this super musical, full experience 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.840 of being a dope boy, Like I know it better 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.120 than any nigga rapping today, Like that's something I know 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.000 the real experience of being a dope boy because I 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.680 used to sell PCP for years and it was just 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.920 super heartfelt and soulful and bluesy. And Head just came 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.880 in the studio being a jackass, like why is your 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.880 song so fucking slow? Oh, my fucking song. So he 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.960 went the booth and raped one of the lyrics, all 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.080 my fucking song slow, And I was like, man, what 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.719 are you talking about? And that was the day I 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.760 learned about tempo. In twenty eleven, in December, and then 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.359 I realized music was all different tempos. Before that, I 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.000 never listened to it like that. I just knew a ballad, 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.680 a rap song, and a Luke song. That's how I 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.360 pretty much broke it down. Ballad, rap song, Luke song. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.200 Bobby Brown made a grip of rap songs. Even though 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.400 you were saying that's a rap song. I mean, Luther 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:21.480 Van Dross make ballads and Luke c Hit Factory make 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.440 Luke songs. That's how I heard music. Scarface and Doctor 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.720 Dre music was the exact same to me. The Ghetto 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.200 Boys n w A was the same. They were rap 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:36.600 songs until that day. And then that becan that set 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:44.400 off this super crazy thing in my head, in my 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.400 mind and my life, in my career, to where I 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.320 didn't see music the same. Now I realized there was 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.960 some numbers involved. I'm a math nick, I'm super savvy 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.800 on songs. I've gotten a's at AP, physics, AP calculus, 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.600 all this shit in high school. Like me in math, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.400 we do it. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.280 Not even not even to be a facetious or the joke, 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.600 did you go to college at all? 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.440 Only? At first, but selling dope became more important. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.760 How do you define it first, what two months, a month, 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.280 three months, six months? 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:17.800 Gave me three months? 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.480 Okay, at least you tried it. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.840 You tried it. It wasn't that it was just selling. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.520 I just kept thinking of how much it was ignorant, bro, 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.400 I just kept thinking how much money I was missing, missing, Yeah, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.680 and it just was sit like I wanted to be 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.920 a pharmacist at that time in nineteen ninety seven ninety 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:40.080 eight became one. Right, ironically, it was crazy, right. Look, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.920 I was gonna go to a ZUSA Pacific and be 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.880 a pharmacist, you feel me? And pharmacists made sixty thousand 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.520 dollars a year. I was making sixty thousand dollars in 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:52.360 eight months. That wasn't even when I started selling PCP. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.800 This is just regular rocks, you know what I mean, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:05.160 Franklin Saint Rocks straight up. So no sellers gl in here. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.360 I got some of my favorite guys in the history 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:13.280 of entertainment and media in general. Hohoton, Bruce, my boy, Pavy, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:20.440 my boy TPJ. Let me make my points. So before 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.920 we getting to what we talking about soap twenty eleven, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.920 I realized that was the day tempo. You know, this 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.640 is twenty twelve, tempo was born in my mind. And 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:36.680 now everything I heard of my songs now it sounded 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.320 exactly closely to what it was. It stopped being just 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.400 rap songs and start being like, it's way more to 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.920 this shit. So I realized I didn't know shit about records. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.560 Everybody would be using this term in the music business, Oh, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.480 that's a record or that's not a record, and I'm like, 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:54.960 I don't know what the fuck y'all talking about. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:55.040 You. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.520 I mean, a fucking record is like a vinyl nigga. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.520 What do we but the structure to a record? 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.440 Yes, And I started understanding that it was more relating 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:10.240 to is this an experience on its own? You know 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.480 what I'm saying? Is this special on its own? Is 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.760 it special? Do you hear it? Do you know what's 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:19.439 going on? And I started trying to figure that out right, 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.360 and I ended up making my biggest song, which was 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.680 that good you know and Bam. Then I realized hip 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.400 hop was way more than what I knew and what 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.120 people was telling me. See, I thought hip hop was, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.360 you know, rappidy rap ass niggas, rappidy rappity rappie raps 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.040 niggas about rapping about rapping by being better than rappers. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.880 You know what I'm saying. That's what I thought. Hip 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.600 hop was nigga dancing and ship dancing against each other. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.760 And something funny and not to even be happy. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.560 I feel like, was DC told me that DC. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.480 I'm gonna say, I'm not going to take credit, just 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.199 let me finish. Before he moved to LA, that's who 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.280 he was, rappidi rapping. He just made songs. Once he 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.320 moved to LA, he finally started making records. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.680 And so that's crazy because that's really how to be right. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.640 So I realized hip hop was like more of a 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:16.320 cultural reveal, like I would think of Adidas in track 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.200 suits as hip hop. That's New York drug dealer, drill, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.440 you know out there. Facts like all hip hop is 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.520 reflecting street urban culture. And we talked about this time 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.000 where I'm like, you know, everything about hip hop that 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.640 we love came from street urban culture, right, some dope dealer, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.600 some gangsters. Hip hop in itself came from some gangsters, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.280 you know what I mean. And you know, crazy legs 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.280 and attack. All these niggas is criminals, you know what 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.439 I mean. They were trying to express theyself or trying 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.320 to make a living blah blah blah. So it started 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.840 off from twenty eleven twelve to twenty thirteen, fourteen, trying 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.240 to understand records. Then I started trying to figure out 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.200 hip hop, you know what I mean. I was like damn, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:02.200 And then I got a good grasp on it. Records 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.600 came to me a little simpler, even though I'm not 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.880 as good as like a doctor dre you know what 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.960 I mean, Like they're simpler to me. Hip hop came 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.960 a little bit more, but I figured it out. Marketing 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.720 became the hardest thing. And so from twenty eleven to 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:23.280 two thousand and eighteen December roughly, you know, to twenty nineteen, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.400 I was just in college. So in the first few 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.480 years I made three million to two three million dollars. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.040 In that time, I probably made eight hundred thousand dollars 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:40.600 because it became like school. I wasn't worried about doing concerts. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.160 I wasn't worried about what records were selling. I was 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.760 focused on learning, you know what had kind of changed 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:54.160 my life, and I asked the super super dope you 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:59.920 know niggas to help me. But long story short, at 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.640 so I haven't been doing shows. That was the point 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.640 I was making time. I haven't been doing shows. And 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.240 so now that I had the surgery in January, and 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.199 you know, I'm getting back on my feet, it's like 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.720 I'm starting to do shows because now I got music 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.640 in the cue. You know what I'm saying. I got 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.600 shit that's out there. Kanye should have never married that bitch. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.720 Songs is out so it's like, okay, let me start 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.440 getting warmed. But between his injury in them shows, like 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.040 I ain't really felt like myself, you know what I'm saying, 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:34.240 And so I ain't been socially interacting like normal. Nothing, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.880 Like I could really only put my attention to one 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.680 thing at a time because like my body is either 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.640 taking a lot of mental energy to heal or like 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.839 energy something wrong, you know what I'm saying. Because I ain't. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.200 I ain't functioning normal yet. So it's been a journey, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.559 but you know it was all worth it, you know 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.920 what I mean. Nigga here now, So now I'm coming back. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.400 But that whole journey from twenty eleven to nineteen, I 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:06.240 had so dope tutelage, iced tea too short battle cap, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.720 a lot of dope people that I thought, wouldn't you 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.439 know help me? Initially, I just didn't know the right 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.720 questions to ask. I talked to Forty, and I could 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.559 ask Forty stuff Me and Forty could talk for. I 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:22.040 was sugar free quick Quick. I've been doing quick since 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.000 I put out my first tape. So this two thousand 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:29.240 and five Me and Quick conversation had never been lower 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.880 than an hour till last year when I started understanding 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.320 what it is and then we found a space to 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:40.520 where we interact at. So it's crazy, but shout out 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.160 to all them legends that have been guiding me the 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.040 correct way and kind of which is crazy because this 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.280 brings us to this conversation that we're about to have now, 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:55.200 right is what the fuck is wrong with niggas? This 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.640 nigga daddy is around. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.960 We talk about John Moran. Yes, okay, all right, I'm 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.440 you know what, I'm glad. I'm glad the world can 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.800 hear this shit because I'm wanted to tell you off 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.760 since we had this fucking conversation and I told you 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.080 that he wasn't gonna stop, and he said, Tom, you 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.480 acting like you call you literally called me an uncle 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.080 Tom because I said that he is not taking accountability 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.120 for his actions, and he gonna crash out and do 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.320 some stupid shit and then we all be like, why 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:24.200 you do that dumb shit? 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.560 So please go ahead and finish. I want to hear it. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:34.960 So this is my problem, right, It's like, this is 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:44.640 my problem. He didn't do anything wrong, right, This is 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.640 that the argument? Though, No, this is not the argument, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.840 because the argument is I told you don't do this, 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.960 and you're still doing it anyway, So right, there is 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:55.080 where you're correct at. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.320 I also knew before he did it that he wasn't 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.520 supposed to be doing it. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:05.280 Again, he didn't do anything wrong. It's okay. It's legal 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.400 to have a gun. You could brandish it anyway you 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.640 want to. You could be over proud of it. You 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.680 could put it on Christmas cars like all the white 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.160 folks do with the kids. You can do all that, right, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:21.840 But if your employer is embarrassed by your actions and 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:30.480 they make you aware to why, and they make you 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.680 aware that this is a problem and this is punishable, 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:45.320 the thing is right is you should know better. You 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.360 should know better. Right, You should be like, I don't 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.280 care if they say don't wear green shirts. 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:52.040 Don't wear green shirts. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:59.640 If they're paying you twenty six million a year, thirty 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.280 two a year. They like, hey, don't wear green shirts. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.240 Nigga, I would never, I would I would see a 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.639 color green. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't, I wouldn't. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.840 Look twenty six million dollars and ask me if I 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:13.280 see the color green. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:14.560 No, that's blue. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:18.280 You wouldn't see the color green. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.840 Now, don't get me wrong, especially as black people in 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.920 this country, they don't want us to wear our hair 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:30.320 a certain way. We watch Alan Iverson go through this 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.639 with the fit of his clothes, with the style of 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.440 his hair. They're like, look, we're giving you thirty million 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.160 a year, please don't do this, and he's like, I'm 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:38.440 gonna do it anyway. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.760 Till they put a dress code in because people did 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:43.879 take a little too far, and I. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:44.800 Think it's too far. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:51.240 Clothing and brandishing firearms on Instagram are like both on 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.199 the opposite ends of the spectrum, though, but they're really not. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.600 They come from the same they cause they're rooted in 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:57.240 the same. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.840 They're rooted in the same get down they are. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.000 But like, let's be honest, you ai wearing fucking size 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.480 six X pants and. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.040 A side sick because of what Because being in front of. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:13.520 The world flashing guns and putting guns up to it, 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.480 playing like yeah, I got no different. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.399 The point yes and yes, wait wait wait wait let 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:21.919 me this. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:23.680 If you look at it in a vacuum, sure to 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.960 different things, but the point is to the people of them. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.480 You look like a thug either way. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.479 You're street clatter, street culture like. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.680 Either way like you brandishing a gun, and it's not 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.199 you brandishing a gun in the way he's brandishing guns. 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.080 You're riding around listening to NBA Young Boy with your 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.679 homies on i G Live and you just got the 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.920 tool like this, you're imitating street code. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.240 You look like something that my little homies that I 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:47.760 grew up. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.919 With, who like fucking twenty five right now, will do 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.560 on Instagram, except for they don't have twenty six million 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:58.520 dollars thirty AI wearing fucking size six pants and my 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.240 grandma seeing me growing up one have my g's biggest ship. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.400 I'm looking like I'm imitating, like, yo, what the hell 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:03.840 row was you? 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:04.160 Why? 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.119 Pansay like you like you imitating street like. 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.720 Yes, brandching a gun is in theory different, but it's 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:11.920 rooted the reason why. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.920 But it's really not even different. It's it's the same energy. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.480 And I and the reason I'm saying this I was 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.080 telling Charlotte Magne and Van Layton is right. We we 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.240 we were texting and I'm like, something don't feel right, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.240 and you know what it is? This is Alan Iverson, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.240 And I'm looking at where we are as a culture, right, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.120 as a society black folks, not as a culture as 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.760 a society. Right, how we do it? Like we our 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.920 generation stood behind Alan Iverson? Right, We was like, man, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.280 how y'all gonna tell the motherfucker to do this? Even 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.600 though we know his look was very much the look 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.719 of what we would call street urban, you know, gangster 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:52.600 street shit. 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.200 There's a reason but continue, though there's also there's also 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.760 another reason why we all still bew but sure. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:03.280 And then Jah right, who's probably legally brandishing weapons. These 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.720 are probably guns registered in his fucking name, which is 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:09.200 even low Ki Lange, forgive me, John, I'm sorry you're 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.880 not suppoleed to ride around show your actual guns, because. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.480 Not even that if the gun, I don't believe the 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.399 last gun he had, which is in saying that we 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.160 have to have, whether we have that, we have multiple instances. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.960 I don't believe the gun he had in Denver was 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.240 his gun, because if it was his gun, he couldn't 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:26.800 take it on the team playing, Otherwise he would have 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:27.520 been suspended for them. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.160 But that's why you have your boy bring your gun. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.720 Yeah, yeah, you holy breed. That don't mean it. 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.080 I believe all of these firearms he is really his. 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.240 He's the kind of guy that for sure went to 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.240 the gun strow when he got his record contract and 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.000 bought that ship and bought guns. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:46.320 He probably has an arsenal in his house. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.199 Yeah right, like I didn't go to war. 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:55.920 I need that iron iron baby. 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.560 Crazy though, you want something crazy though? 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.080 He not even not even putting this on, not literal, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.720 but he probably bought that gun, being like mephis and 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.280 inspect I guarantee you, after Young Dolph got murdered, he 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.040 probably would have bought way more guns. 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:07.119 He just bought way more guns. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.639 No no, no, no, no, no no no. We're not 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.280 talking about the beginning. I'm saying when Young Dolph got murdered, 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.560 him in his mind is like they gonna be out 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:21.080 to get me too. No, you goofy motherfucker, Go play basketball, 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.880 Young Dolph. Than this what probably one of the biggest 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.640 street guys in Memphis history turns and just like, come on, 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.959 I know, I know, I know that multiple times. I 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.199 remember wh they shot him in Hollywood. I was driving 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:37.320 here Hollywood and I'm like, why is all this police here? 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.119 So it's like, I just don't go ahead. I'm sorry, 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:43.280 but I just I'm that's that seems like the kind 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:43.959 of person he is. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.399 Like the others saw another celebrity get murdered, let me 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:46.960 go get these. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.040