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Speaker 8: See it there feeding you know, the machine like machine

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Speaker 5: It was a producer.

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Speaker 4: They were like, yo, let's put Timberland for real, and

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Speaker 4: let's make beats. And it made like seventy beats in

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Speaker 4: Or I can take Blast's voice and I could be

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Speaker 6: As an artist, how you cause that's kind of scary. Like,

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Speaker 5: All right, guys, welcome back.

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Speaker 6: This is our second home, which is quickly becoming off

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Speaker 6: first home all the time now. And we got a

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Speaker 6: special special episode. So by now this show that we

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Speaker 5: Yeah, appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: But it all stemmed from what was that party? Where

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Speaker 6: it was a party. It was outside Amazon, the Amazon.

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Speaker 6: So so you might be familiar with Blasts music. I'm

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Speaker 5: We got both sides working here. We can't forget venture.

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Speaker 6: Capital a bunch of stuff and feel like it's a

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Speaker 6: My favorite one is on if you're a big step

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Speaker 6: all right, where do you guys meet at Because you

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Speaker 11: Then Carl, he had reached out from Instagram.

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Speaker 11: So what was crazy is vic mom and my mom

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Speaker 6: Other, right, yeah, okay, so all right, y'all, So y'all

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Speaker 5: When does the label start?

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Speaker 4: But you was doing music prior to that, right before

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Speaker 5: You in it.

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Speaker 3: It's dangerous.

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Speaker 6: That's another collective. So all right, so you you. So

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So what's each one of you guys responsibility in the label?

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Speaker 12: So, I mean, I'm the president of the label, and

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Speaker 12: I'm also a Blast manager too though, Yeah, we're both

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Speaker 8: I'm also also Blast attorney.

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Speaker 4: So you're managing that first, right, So where did you

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Speaker 4: me see where I can help, Well, like, did you

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Speaker 5: So really that's where all conjured up from.

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Speaker 11: I would say when we did the partnership with Red Bull,

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Speaker 4: so I was like, familiar did the tape with it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah? That that was the Stuck in the Grind?

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Speaker 5: Grind LP. That was That's dope.

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Speaker 4: So the Red Bull situation is interesting, right because and Carl,

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Speaker 4: were making actual artists. So how did you approach them

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Speaker 4: this is the first tape that y'all put out, right

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Speaker 8: I mean I always talked to the VIC about it.

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Speaker 8: It was a conversation like, who what label you going to?

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Speaker 8: But you know, I think RedBull offered something that the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's the I'm just envisioned this now.

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Speaker 5: Out after red.

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Speaker 6: So all right, you said something integrated vertically and shout

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Speaker 6: That was one of my favorite lines that he used,

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Speaker 12: I mean, man, I think everything starts with just how

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I got your masters obviously the publishing

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Speaker 5: Right? Is that? Like the vision from the beginning.

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Speaker 8: We're cool, We're cool company because the music is just

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Speaker 8: at Black, you know, it becomes it makes less sense

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Speaker 8: just from a time standpoint, Why would you? Why would

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Speaker 8: And you know it was signing more artists, signing more songwriter,

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Speaker 3: So but you had your an entertainment attorney, correct, right.

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Speaker 4: So as you're building this, are you still practicing in

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Speaker 5: So how are you managing both? Uh?

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Speaker 8: Man, It's funny. I got a lot of clients, like

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Speaker 8: But I'm not I'm not a traditional attorney, like I

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's interesting because to lawyer, like you said,

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Speaker 6: Like a lawyer screwed me. I didn't know the business.

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Speaker 6: I can't say that if you're a lawyer, no fight

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Speaker 8: We always talk about it too. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 4: So that that that's a big thing, right, So collecting publishing.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, publishing is just a collection sport. It's like really

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Speaker 8: there's a publishing royalty generate. Every time songs played on

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Speaker 8: And you know, I think most people think about publishing

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Speaker 8: all these foreign territories, so you need to I'm been

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Speaker 5: Is that correct? Man?

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Speaker 8: kind of crazy.

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Speaker 5: Think it too a few conversations.

443
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Speaker 8: Fifty percent goes to the songwriter, fifty percent goes to producer.

444
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Speaker 8: So like, if you're an artist who is putting out music,

445
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Speaker 8: you might not necessarily have any publishing if you didn't

446
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Speaker 8: write the song, you didnt produce, right, this is a

447
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Speaker 8: guy who writes and produces. So that's that's like a

448
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Speaker 8: published publisher's eyes. That's like the greatest person you ever see.

449
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Speaker 5: He's smiling within you'.

450
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Speaker 6: Let's talk about it, thank you, Let's talk about the music.

451
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Speaker 6: How did you? Yeah, you do everything right, So you

452
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Speaker 6: said that like from the producer from the singing to

453
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Speaker 6: the did you are you trained like that or you

454
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Speaker 6: just taught yourself.

455
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Speaker 5: I just taught myself.

456
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Speaker 11: I think just being bored because this was around of

457
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Speaker 11: time like when I got into music, I had moved

458
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Speaker 11: to the Ie, which is like an hour outside of

459
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Speaker 11: LA so I was at home a lot, Like I

460
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Speaker 11: wasn't really outside like that. I was just being a

461
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Speaker 11: nerd on YouTube, trying to figure out how to do everything,

462
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Speaker 11: and I just fell in love with the process over overall.

463
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Speaker 11: Like it didn't feel like I was working or learning.

464
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Speaker 11: It just felt like I was in the moment, you know.

465
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Speaker 11: So it kind of came natural to me to want

466
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Speaker 11: to produce and want to write and seeing people like

467
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Speaker 11: Ryan Leslie, seeing people like for real Kanye in the

468
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Speaker 11: studio jumping from the from the keyboard to jumping in

469
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Speaker 11: the booth, it was just like, I gotta be that

470
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Speaker 11: type of artist, hip boy from a Yeah, you know,

471
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Speaker 11: I didn't know I'm coming up now, but I just

472
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Speaker 11: find tanned for sure.

473
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Speaker 4: It's crazy when I saw you on the Freshman cover, right,

474
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Speaker 4: but I'm thinking, do you I mean you make music?

475
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Speaker 4: I don't know if it's hip hop over, it's R

476
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Speaker 4: and B. It just feels like authentic music to a region.

477
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Speaker 4: Like when I hear your songs, I'm like, Yo, this

478
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,280
Speaker 4: just sounds like West Coast, you know, sounding shoty.

479
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Speaker 5: On the way here.

480
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Speaker 4: I'm like, it reminded me of like when I heard

481
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Speaker 4: like a guy like Donielle Jones, I'm like, Yo, that's

482
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Speaker 4: Atlanta for that time. So I'm wondering, like, when you're

483
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Speaker 4: making music, are you intentionally saying like I want to.

484
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Speaker 4: I want people to feel like where we're from, where

485
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Speaker 4: I'm from, I want them to have that vibe.

486
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Speaker 11: I think it's just naturally come out of me, like

487
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Speaker 11: just the natural influences, the DJ Quicks and Doctor J's.

488
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Speaker 11: I can't escape it. I don't think it's an intentional thing,

489
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Speaker 11: but I do feel like I intend to, you know,

490
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Speaker 11: keep the soul alive, like the love and the message

491
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Speaker 11: is intentional, like I try to speak on a positive

492
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Speaker 11: spectrum of things. Yeah, I would say my message is

493
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Speaker 11: more intentional.

494
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Speaker 6: Because it feels to me when I listen to it,

495
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Speaker 6: it feels like and it's why I use your captions

496
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Speaker 6: a lot, because it feels like rap in an R

497
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Speaker 6: and B it's not like Marvin Gay R and B.

498
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Speaker 5: It's like the new age R and B. Like you

499
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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like it's it's.

500
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Speaker 6: Hip hop and I feel like, but that has more

501
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Speaker 6: because even if you look at Chris Brain, it's a

502
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Speaker 6: lot a lot of the new music as far as

503
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Speaker 6: on the R and B space, is in that vein

504
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Speaker 6: where it's like kind of a hybrid and some of

505
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Speaker 6: these dudes is really spind did so did you wrap

506
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Speaker 6: at all?

507
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Speaker 11: Absolutely? I feel like I came up rapping before I.

508
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Speaker 11: I was more insecure about my voice when I first

509
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Speaker 11: started making music. I didn't really get confident with putting

510
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Speaker 11: out like R and B type rap songs until my

511
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 11: voice developed, you feel me. But I'm a big rap

512
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Speaker 11: fan before anything.

513
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Speaker 4: You know when Again, when I'm listening to it, I'm like, yo,

514
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Speaker 4: I know this dude like grew up on nineties R

515
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Speaker 4: and B. Like I'm listening to it like I hit

516
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Speaker 4: it down now simple, I hit a case sample and

517
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Speaker 4: I'm like, then I looked, I'm like born in ninety three, Like.

518
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Speaker 5: Maybe it wasn't.

519
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Speaker 4: So where did you get the influence for the sound, right,

520
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Speaker 4: Because like I hear those simples I'm like, oh damn.

521
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Speaker 4: That reminded me of like when I was a teenager.

522
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Speaker 5: He was like four. There's no way.

523
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Speaker 10: Well, I'm the youngest, uh in my family.

524
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Speaker 11: I grew up with all older sisters, you know, so

525
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Speaker 11: that was the cheek cad. I pretty much just took

526
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Speaker 11: everything that was listening to and just incorporated into my music.

527
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Speaker 11: I feel like I give off my my taste. I

528
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Speaker 11: get it off of my sister. Like that's who I

529
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Speaker 11: used to look up to when it came to music.

530
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Speaker 6: So let's talk about the venture capital you guys investing

531
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Speaker 6: in companies.

532
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Speaker 8: Yeah, shout out to Ryan Leslie too. I mean we

533
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Speaker 8: talked of Ryan. Uh. We were in London for like

534
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Speaker 8: blast first shoutout show out there, and.

535
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Speaker 5: Ryan somebody went there.

536
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Speaker 6: Really she was just put it on Instagram story and

537
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Speaker 6: I'm like a rock with his music saying I love

538
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Speaker 6: this guy.

539
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Speaker 5: I saw it. I actually saw the show from her Instagram.

540
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Speaker 5: That's hard.

541
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Speaker 8: When we were out there, Ryan Leslie was out there,

542
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Speaker 8: so I ended up meeting him at like one of

543
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Speaker 8: the one of like a hotel. We sat there in

544
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Speaker 8: the lobby for like an hour or two and just

545
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Speaker 8: chopped it up and I definitely say like in terms

546
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Speaker 8: of like converting like the culture in the capitol or

547
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Speaker 8: you know, converting culture in the commerce. Like I feel

548
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Speaker 8: like he's one of the He's the guy like right,

549
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Speaker 8: like turning music money into like legacy, like we know,

550
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Speaker 8: generational wealth building. So for us, it was you know

551
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Speaker 8: at this stage, I mean vic Vic kind of pointed

552
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Speaker 8: to it earlier, like you know, the fact that Blast

553
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Speaker 8: you know, owns the stuff, the fact that we have

554
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Speaker 8: you know, a partnership where we get overhead and we're

555
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Speaker 8: able to grow and scale. You know, we didn't want

556
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Speaker 8: to wait ten to fifteen years to start sort of

557
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Speaker 8: investing back in the community or investing in the products.

558
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Speaker 8: So a lot of stuff we invest in now is

559
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Speaker 8: stuff that we can impact, like you know, consumer products.

560
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Speaker 8: So it's like you know, a post that he could

561
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Speaker 8: post us we get throw like a party and we

562
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Speaker 8: can put some of our consumer products you know at

563
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Speaker 8: the party. Right, we could post it ourselves and generate

564
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Speaker 8: buzz for it, so we get a discount on equity

565
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Speaker 8: or like you know a company like rec Philly, shout out.

566
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Speaker 5: To those guys.

567
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Speaker 8: Yeah we invest in rec Philly. Yeah, we those guys

568
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Speaker 8: are really hard. But you know, they call itselves like

569
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Speaker 8: a gym for creatives, so talking about owning the whole process.

570
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Speaker 8: They got like the studios, they got the arts, they

571
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Speaker 8: got the design studios, they got the Live Nation stage,

572
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Speaker 8: they got like the coworking space. So it's like they're

573
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Speaker 8: the definition of vertical integration. Like you get your fifty

574
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 8: dollars membership and you can literally, you know, put out

575
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Speaker 8: a song and perform it at the place. So we're

576
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Speaker 8: just invested in companies that I think that that we

577
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Speaker 8: that we align with right now. But I think you

578
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Speaker 8: everybody when you get money, I think it becomes like

579
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Speaker 8: an M and a game at some point or a

580
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Speaker 8: private equity. You gotta you gotta start buying stuff that

581
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Speaker 8: that's in your field and that you can control.

582
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Speaker 5: You know, A sixteen Z. Yeah you're you're involved with that.

583
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Speaker 8: No, the Culture Fund, right, we're not involved, but you know.

584
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Speaker 5: Some people that can introduce you. Yeah, you're interested for sure. Yeah.

585
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Speaker 6: So that's that's how people megan. You know, Chris Lines

586
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Speaker 6: heard about them. We just had dinner with them the

587
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Speaker 6: other day. So they're good too because they obviously in

588
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Speaker 6: Nisha Harwich is like probably the biggest venture capital firm

589
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 6: in the world. So the Culture Leadership f I'm just

590
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 6: speaking to the audience. The Culture Leadership Fund is a

591
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 6: division of that get towards black people. For short explanation,

592
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 6: people like and entertainment world stuff like that. But so

593
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 6: they invest in all these companies, but then they bring

594
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Speaker 6: the side deals to you as well. So it's like

595
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Speaker 6: they'll invest in one hundred companies, but then you can

596
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 6: invest in individual companies as well. So we've invested in

597
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Speaker 6: like like probably four or five individual.

598
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we got a number seven on the world.

599
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Speaker 6: But the good thing with that is that they do

600
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Speaker 6: the research already, so it's like they already go through

601
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Speaker 6: a filter process. So by the time that they're investing

602
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 6: in nothing that in venture is guarantee. But it's like

603
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 6: they got to check off so many boxes for them

604
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Speaker 6: to invest in it. So it's like when they bring

605
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Speaker 6: it to you, it's like, you know, it's it's fully

606
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Speaker 6: vetted and.

607
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Speaker 4: It's one of those things where it's like young people,

608
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Speaker 4: young people of color can get into the space right

609
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Speaker 4: through a vetted process.

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Speaker 5: Right.

611
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 4: So obviously a lot of people in athletics and music

612
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 4: have capital or they have liquidation, have cashing, you know,

613
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Speaker 4: what to do with it, and so it gives an

614
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 4: opportunity to educate but also invest too. You set something

615
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Speaker 4: early blast about the content calendar, and I started thinking

616
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Speaker 4: as being as an independent label. Obviously the partnership with

617
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Speaker 4: Red Bull is it still that process when you're trying

618
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Speaker 4: to create a project. Obviously you just put out the

619
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Speaker 4: new project, But when you're creating it, it's like, Yo,

620
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 4: we have this mapped out, here's how we're going to

621
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Speaker 4: do it. Or it's like, Yo, it's just kind of

622
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Speaker 4: a vibe and I'm in the mood to create.

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Speaker 11: Nah, you're definitely still hands on everything, but we're still

624
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Speaker 11: scaling everything to like we just brought on creative Shout

625
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Speaker 11: Out Mayo, which is here right now. But I think

626
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Speaker 11: for me, it's more so about delegating to people that

627
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,719
Speaker 11: I can trust, you know, so internally I have to

628
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 11: be hands on that ego. We have to be hands

629
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Speaker 11: on before we even get an approval from anything on

630
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Speaker 11: the other side, you know.

631
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Speaker 6: So yeah, how important is it to balance being an

632
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Speaker 6: artist and running a label, because it's like sometimes like

633
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 6: people are like, you know, the artist, they just want

634
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Speaker 6: to be artist. They got to be in an artistic

635
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 6: vibe and then the business people got to be in

636
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 6: their business vibe. So is there any obviously, you know,

637
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 6: all you guys work together, but for you particularly, do

638
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 6: you ever think about business too much? Or do you

639
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 6: think about art too much?

640
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Speaker 4: Like?

641
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Speaker 5: How is that balance it? It? Nah? I don't.

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Speaker 11: I feel like I found my balance, like just recently.

643
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 11: But again it goes into trusting you know, Carling vict

644
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 11: make it to where I can solely focus on the

645
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 11: music and they still give me updates on what's going on.

646
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Speaker 11: It's just like a funnel of information to where the

647
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 11: information is not too high or it's not too low.

648
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Speaker 11: It's like, you know, it's perfect for me to keep

649
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 11: my momentum because I think the most important thing is

650
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Speaker 11: the art. That's what's driving everything at the end of

651
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Speaker 11: the day, and that has to remain authentic, has to

652
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 11: remain genuine and intentionally for anything.

653
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Speaker 4: As he's creating the art, I guess, are you not

654
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Speaker 4: looking for the talent as well?

655
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Speaker 5: Right?

656
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Speaker 4: Like, what's that process like for y'all, because obviously this

657
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 4: is the main focus.

658
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Speaker 5: Is obviously a partner.

659
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Speaker 4: Are we looking for new talent to say, all right,

660
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Speaker 4: let's expand outside of just what we know?

661
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I'm not I wouldn't say like were

662
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 12: scouring the earth like for the next class. But I

663
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 12: think we take it as it all comes to us.

664
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Speaker 12: I mean a lot of these things come naturally. Synergy

665
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 12: is created naturally. I mean, the essence of our company

666
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,479
Speaker 12: in general is not nothing is like fabricated. So I

667
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 12: think just even creating these relationships with artists and understanding

668
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 12: like the values and the morals that we have as

669
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 12: a company, it's kind of like some of the stuff

670
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 12: is them there like out of bounds for it just

671
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 12: because like they morality don't line up with the business

672
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 12: ethics or the business acumen that we have. But I

673
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 12: think in every area we're looking to expand. No, I

674
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 12: mean I think that's how we stay competitive. I mean

675
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 12: that's how Blast stays fresh as a businessman. I think

676
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 12: that's that's probably like one of the most I mean

677
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 12: bringing up me speaking as a manager, like working with

678
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 12: an artist and actually seeing like, ah, this is like

679
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 12: your real potential and then let's see what happens when

680
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 12: we actually load it up and really try to take

681
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 12: it to the take it to the finish line, and

682
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 12: when you actually get that. I mean I feel like

683
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 12: that that side relief is damn there. Like, Okay, I

684
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 12: did it one time, but it's damn there. Like you

685
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 12: see all these people out here trying to achieve this

686
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 12: music goal, and it damners seemed unachievable when you see

687
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 12: how much music get put out every day and stuff

688
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 12: like that, and how many artists are trying to actually

689
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 12: reach that ceiling. So I think for us, but going

690
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 12: back to the original point, just as far as like

691
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 12: building scaling, I think in every area, we're trying to

692
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 12: definitely max out our potential.

693
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 6: Talk about artist management, that's something that a lot of

694
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 6: people don't fully understand why it's important, what the responsibilities

695
00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 6: of a manager is.

696
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, talking about that.

697
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 12: Yeah, But like I said earlier, I played football, So

698
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 12: I played middle linebacker in college. So I called all

699
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 12: the plays. So I'm getting three hundred and fifty pounds

700
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 12: defensive linement lined up right, So it's not I mean,

701
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 12: I feel like this is very synonymous with that, like

702
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 12: talking to employees, making sure that we actually delegating tasks properly,

703
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 12: and then just accountability, like I mean, a lot of

704
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,479
Speaker 12: I would say it's multiple different types of managers, but

705
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 12: like I'm a manager, but I also look at myself

706
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 12: as more so like I operate more in that president role.

707
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 12: I guess you could say, but it's just about me.

708
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 12: I get up there, Mary five thirty every day. But

709
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 12: I'm used to that because of sports. I'm used to

710
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 12: that because of the team stuff. And then also just

711
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 12: challenging blasts and making him uncomfortable before anybody else can

712
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 12: make him uncomfortable, having those uncomfortable conversations, like me and

713
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 12: him that have multiple one on one sit downs where

714
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 12: it's just like we're working through stuff and just growing pains,

715
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 12: just building a friendship, building a business, doing that manager

716
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 12: artist relationship. So I think that just as much as

717
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 12: the artist is invested in themself and trying to sharpen

718
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 12: their tools, like I gotta do the same exact thame too, Carl.

719
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 4: You said internationally known as a as a entertainment attorney.

720
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 4: And I heard obviously the show in London, London, and

721
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 4: so it makes me think about the strategic plan to

722
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 4: have him become a global artist. A lot of times

723
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 4: people create locally, and the sound states local. What metrics,

724
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 4: what analytics are you using to say, like, all right,

725
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 4: London is a place we can go or the next

726
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 4: international city is the place we can go.

727
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 5: How that? How did that happen? Man?

728
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 8: I think London chose blast for sure, Like I think

729
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 8: outside of LA I don't want to. I know we

730
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 8: have metrics to back it up. I think London is

731
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 8: probably a second on. Like we go out to London,

732
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 8: it's like, you know, it's crazy. So I think the

733
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 8: like you know, the listening metrics Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud

734
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 8: that told us that London was was the top market

735
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 8: outside of LA and then you put up a show

736
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 8: link and it sells out like this. That also tells

737
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 8: you Okay, nah, this is crazy. But you think about

738
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 8: like you know, London is a really black city. Like London,

739
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 8: there's like you know, it's like the Africa pipeline doesn't

740
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 8: really start in America. It's like you go out to London,

741
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 8: it's like, you know, everybody is from Ghana or in

742
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 8: Nigeria and you know, so so it felt like, you know,

743
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 8: we haven't been to Africa and we playing we're going

744
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 8: this year, but it felt like a bridge to Africa,

745
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 8: like you know that that's what London feels.

746
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Speaker 5: Like for me.

747
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 10: So everybody out there is first generation, first generation, a.

748
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 6: Lot of immigrant we did a show in London. It

749
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 6: was amazing, and London and energy out there, like you said,

750
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 6: is different because they when you're an immigrant, you have

751
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 6: a different level of psyche. I feel like, I mean,

752
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 6: like your parents is just teaching you just to fit

753
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 6: into society, and then they're looking at us and the

754
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 6: way that we're doing things. They're kind of like renegade

755
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 6: to the whole situation. So it gets not only educa

756
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 6: but inspiration and motivation as well. So it's like, you know,

757
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 6: in like Toronto, Canada is another one. It was just

758
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 6: like places where there's a lot of black people, but

759
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 6: they they don't have that scene like in America. We

760
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 6: take a lot of things for granted because we've been here,

761
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So it's like, you know,

762
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 6: of course there's issues with America, but it's like the

763
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 6: opportunities that we have in America, a lot of people

764
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 6: don't have those opportunities in different places. So it's like

765
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 6: even from a music standpoint, like it's harder to break

766
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 6: out of Toronto and London, like Drake has done it

767
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 6: and a few artists have done it, but look at

768
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 6: those artists compared to hundreds and thousands of artists that

769
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 6: have done it in America, right, Like there's still not

770
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 6: really a huge rapper Like Central Sea is making headway,

771
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 6: but think about it's still not really a huge South

772
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 6: to gigs. But nobody has become Drake out of London ever,

773
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 6: Like that's kind of crazy if you think about it.

774
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, now that's a fact. I mean nobody has come like.

775
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 8: But I also to say, like, I think like art

776
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 8: just comes from like a broken fabric, and I think,

777
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 8: you know, the best art comes from America. And I

778
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 8: think like, you know, you think about the generations of

779
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 8: hurt and pain, and you know you think about Las

780
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 8: you know, South Central, the riots to you know, the

781
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 8: way black people came here, the way you know, people

782
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 8: lost their property.

783
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 5: Right.

784
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 8: I was, I was looking at looking up Oakwood, right,

785
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 8: Oakwood and Venice, and I was like, you know, people's

786
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 8: owning their homes. It was like a real black place.

787
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 8: And you know, you go to Venice, now you go

788
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 8: to Oakwood, it's like the population the black population dropped

789
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 8: from like thirty five to like sixteen percent. And that's

790
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 8: the best realt that's one of that's some of the

791
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 8: best real estate in LA. It's Venice, like, right, near

792
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 8: the water, right near the airport. So I think art

793
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 8: is kind of like a I think the reason why

794
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 8: some of those not saying there's no, there's not a

795
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 8: struggle in London because there is, obviously, but like you know,

796
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 8: it feels like black people in America have kind of

797
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 8: been leading, like the the global civil rights movement for

798
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 8: the longest of time and challenging everything, and I think

799
00:36:58,840 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 8: the art's reflective of that.

800
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 5: No, that's a fact. That's a fact.

801
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 6: So as far as partnerships, right, you guys obviously have

802
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 6: a partnership with Red Bull, but you have any other

803
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 6: partnerships and his partnerships and collaborations part of your strategy moving.

804
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 12: Forward, absolutely, I mean, I think that's that's the baseline

805
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 12: of everything planning on given just giving the keys to anybody,

806
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 12: especially the foundation we set up to this point, like

807
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 12: we already Carl mentioned it earlier. We had every single

808
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 12: music label exec every chairman tell us like, you can't

809
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 12: record radio single at Red Bull, You're not gonna be

810
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 12: able to achieve these numbers, blah blah blah blah blah.

811
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 12: And I just was like, shit, hang up in the

812
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 12: middle of the and they faced like you're not gonna

813
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 12: tell me what we can and cannot do learn But

814
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 12: I think, I mean, at this point, we didn't we

815
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 12: didn't shot all those all those records down, like we

816
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 12: checked off every box that they said an artist and

817
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 12: the independent structure could check. And I think that's heavily

818
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 12: based off the fact that we are the culture and

819
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 12: we come with the culture, and there's these these relationships

820
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 12: that we've procured.

821
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 5: Rather it be Kendrick Lamar, rather it be nas.

822
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 12: Rather it be Rick Ross, like they all organic through

823
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 12: some type of network channel that we already pretty just had.

824
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 12: So as we continue to do that, I mean, I

825
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 12: think that with the partnership situation, I think everybody understands

826
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 12: going in the business with Eagle, like that's what it's.

827
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 5: Gonna be when I'm in black space. Like that was

828
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 5: the brunch on Sunday.

829
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 4: Til Sunday Man, I mean, Grammy nominated. Did we not

830
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 4: say that at the side of the show. We did

831
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:49,240
Speaker 4: not myself. We got to knowledge that, Man, Grammy nominated obviously,

832
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 4: you know you've been grinding obviously from l A so

833
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 4: to be Grammy nominated for you know, so with with Kendrick,

834
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 4: I mean, what was that like for the label right,

835
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 4: this is there's three guys obviously from employees. But you're like, yo, damn,

836
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 4: we've been in this game maybe five six years. We

837
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 4: already not made it for something.

838
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 5: What was that? Like, I want to hear your perspective

839
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 5: of this.

840
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 8: To be honest with you, I don't think it mattered,

841
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,919
Speaker 8: to be honest, Like, I literally don't think we were

842
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 8: we It's cool. I think some people want us to

843
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 8: be happier, but it's like, I think the fabric of Eagles,

844
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 8: like you know, we already believe, Like to even look

845
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 8: at a record label and be like, we're not signing

846
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 8: with y'all because we know the music is good. We

847
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 8: know we got these relationships, it kind of just takes

848
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 8: a different type of confidence and faith. So I think

849
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 8: we just you feel like that's just a not that's

850
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 8: a part of the process, and we want to win it.

851
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 8: Like it's like cool the nomination don't but it's like, yo,

852
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 8: we want to win it.

853
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 5: I definitely thought that was going to be the answer.

854
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 8: You said, well, and that's the other We kind of

855
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 8: all this like it's a good and bad thing. I think,

856
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 8: you know, we do it in different ways, but like

857
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 8: we're literally all kind of the same, Like the fabric

858
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 8: of the company is like, you know, we're definitely not

859
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 8: the We're not We're not going to go into office

860
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 8: and get hold you know what I'm saying, when they're

861
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 8: not gonna come and tell us lies and it's not

862
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 8: us like all three of us. Like he might be

863
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 8: quiet about it, you know, Vic might be louder about it.

864
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 8: You know, I might be more suit and tigh about it.

865
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 8: But we all like the same fabric. We're gonna own

866
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 8: this shit like regardless.

867
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 6: So, like you spoke about Kendrick, do you guys have

868
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 6: any inspirations as far as looking at labels like a

869
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 6: TD or like you know whatever, Like no, right, do

870
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 6: you guys get mentorship from any of those people?

871
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 5: And do you guys like look.

872
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 6: At those type of people where it's like, all right,

873
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 6: this is something we can use and kind of model

874
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 6: some things out there.

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Speaker 12: I wouldn't say like mentorship to be honest with you.

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Speaker 12: I mean, that's no disrespect to nobody, But I just

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Speaker 12: think that even the way when we came in I

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Speaker 12: mean the state of Law one, we did that deal

879
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Speaker 12: in the pandemic, So in the state of Music in

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Speaker 12: Los Angeles was so different from when Blast was starting

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Speaker 12: to really like create that large buzz that the whole

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Speaker 12: sound of everything. It was going from like gang bang

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Speaker 12: Ratchet to smooth my locky. So it was like that

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Speaker 12: transition to category yeah ratchet, but you know, just that transition,

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Speaker 12: I think that it changed everything.

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Speaker 5: I mean, music changed, people moved how they move around.

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Speaker 12: You started to see people just in different pockets, people

888
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Speaker 12: trying to make different type of music.

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Speaker 5: More positive music.

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Speaker 12: And I think Blass definitely set the tone to make

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Speaker 12: that cool outside of people like Kailin for real being

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Speaker 6: Well, I think that there is a pocket of like

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Speaker 6: Sir Boogie Blast. I feel like it's kind of in

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Speaker 6: a similar type of coming out of California. Like it's

896
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Speaker 6: like a new R and B hip hop infusion type.

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Speaker 4: Even like I was, I was thinking, like, yo, who

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Speaker 4: has that l A R and B? And I'm like,

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Speaker 4: it's a couple, like you just named some Klane that

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Speaker 4: that sound. I feel like, no, she has a sound

901
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Speaker 4: of what I'm saying, like it's R and B Janey,

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Speaker 4: I don't really put those I'm saying R and B.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's just like a vibe.

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Speaker 6: I feel like Sir, I like Sir A lot, Yeah

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Speaker 6: But where it just feels like it's even ti dollards

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Speaker 6: on dallads signs another, I'll definitely on that in that bucket. Well,

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Speaker 6: but it's all in a similar type of genre of

965
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Speaker 6: West Coast New R and B type music.

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Speaker 12: And I think it's super reflective of just like what

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Speaker 12: are direct We're in the city too, Like you got

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Speaker 12: Dom Kennedy and NIP. I mean both they companies are

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Speaker 12: real business terms mean all money in and OPM, like

970
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Speaker 12: those are two of the paces of business. So when

971
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Speaker 12: you think about that, and that's right in front of

972
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Speaker 12: your face, you kind of get inspired inadvertently, even just

973
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Speaker 12: just watching their program, how they moved around, how they operate,

974
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Speaker 12: and how they stood on it too.

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Speaker 6: The demonstration that's so y'all from South Central y'all y'all

976
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Speaker 6: did y'all no NIP at all?

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 12: I never knew n personally, but I definitely, I mean

979
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Speaker 12: I grew up.

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Speaker 5: I feel like you know, God right, the energy for sure?

981
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Speaker 6: How was the energy in LA like because we got

982
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Speaker 6: the it kind of hit New York like Victory Lap

983
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Speaker 6: like that's when he became big in the East Coast.

984
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Speaker 6: But that was obviously the end of the situation. So

985
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Speaker 6: how was it like what the bullets had no names,

986
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Speaker 6: Mike tapes and all that like that came.

987
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Speaker 5: Out like my junior year in high school.

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Speaker 12: So I mean, you see the video like niit first

989
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Speaker 12: video the Hustle in the House, You're like, damn, like

990
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Speaker 12: everybody know that gas station on Crimshaw and Slass and

991
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Speaker 12: so you like, oh my god, hundreds and hundreds of

992
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Speaker 12: people out here, like I wouldn't want to get no

993
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Speaker 12: gas that day, right, But I think just the im

994
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Speaker 12: media impact in it, it was just like, Damn, you

995
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Speaker 12: got somebody that's that is rapping and that sounds like

996
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Speaker 12: la but the production value is so high that it

997
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Speaker 12: was like this is actually like tasteful and I can

998
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Speaker 12: actually rock with this.

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Speaker 10: Aside from all the crazy business stuff he was.

1000
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Speaker 4: Doing already, you said one of the verticals obviously is

1001
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Speaker 4: you said the publishing company, I got the songwriters, which

1002
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Speaker 4: fashion is one of those things that's listed.

1003
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Speaker 5: What's the plans for that?

1004
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Speaker 12: I mean we got to merch partnership, So another another

1005
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Speaker 12: partnership on the table. And I think again early on

1006
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Speaker 12: Blast being so creative and understanding how to really kind

1007
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Speaker 12: of like conjure up a vision and consistency through branding,

1008
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Speaker 12: like he was doing stuff that he didn't even understand

1009
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Speaker 12: that he was doing, right, And I'm just like, Damn,

1010
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Speaker 12: somebody made you like a color pardor like a color

1011
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Speaker 12: code or something like how you coming up with all

1012
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Speaker 12: of this, And it was really just so natural that

1013
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 12: when we started moving forward and making this merch, we

1014
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Speaker 12: walked into all these meetings showing like, we've already sold

1015
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Speaker 12: x amount of merch independently, We've already did all this

1016
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Speaker 12: so that, you know, you got to kind of have

1017
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Speaker 12: a proof of concept when you want to have ownership

1018
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Speaker 12: of all this stuff. So when we walked in with

1019
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Speaker 12: proof of concepts and showing that this is our merch business,

1020
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Speaker 12: this is the merchandising factory work with, this is how

1021
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Speaker 12: fast we can produce merch, they didn't have no problem

1022
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Speaker 12: handing that over to us. And I think now in this

1023
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Speaker 12: stage our tour merching goes so crazy that it's like,

1024
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Speaker 12: I think our big focus this year is just making

1025
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Speaker 12: sure that consistently year around that even when we're not

1026
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Speaker 12: on the road, that our merch business is growing in

1027
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Speaker 12: every single space from our product way, from product to

1028
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Speaker 12: the delivery to the packaging, even down just to the

1029
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Speaker 12: customer experience.

1030
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Speaker 6: So you said your tour and being on the road

1031
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Speaker 6: obvious that's a major part of any artist's career.

1032
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Speaker 5: Do you do.

1033
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Speaker 6: That yourself as far as devenizel or do you work

1034
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Speaker 6: with somebody like Live Nation to help out with that.

1035
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Speaker 12: Yeah, we did our whole list tour with Live Nation.

1036
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Speaker 12: We got William Morris Entertainment as our agency. Shout out

1037
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Speaker 12: to both of them. They did a super do job.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So are you hands on with that or you

1039
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Speaker 5: just let them just.

1040
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Speaker 10: Hands were approving. We're approving every stop.

1041
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 12: Were approving pretty much how we're doing it, the capacity,

1042
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Speaker 12: I mean, but that's why we chose them as a

1043
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 12: partner too, right like, because we respect their opinion, we

1044
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 12: trust what they've already done in the game, and they

1045
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 12: coming to us and really like teaching us and mentoring

1046
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 12: us how to be able to move through this world

1047
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Speaker 12: because we're getting money together.

1048
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Speaker 10: So it's not like it's usually beneficial for both parties.

1049
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Speaker 4: And when you're looking at them deals that we're looking

1050
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 4: at line item like yo, we need percentage of the

1051
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,400
Speaker 4: if there's a bar in the venue, we need percentage

1052
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Speaker 4: of concessions.

1053
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Speaker 3: We're doing all this Yeah.

1054
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Speaker 8: No, we definitely did. I mean, you know, every venue

1055
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Speaker 8: has a different like you know merch raise. It's like

1056
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Speaker 8: some venues are like, yo, we need twenty percent of

1057
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Speaker 8: the merchant some five. Yeah, we went through all that

1058
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 8: and you can't sell it, yeah, or you can't sell it.

1059
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Speaker 6: That stuff that even like so when we do it,

1060
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 6: we do it on ourselves and that stuff that we

1061
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 6: had to learn because so we have a big festival

1062
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Speaker 6: called Investments in Atlanta, right, and that's at the Georgia

1063
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 6: World Congress Center, a venue like that. We just we

1064
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 6: bought a venue for the weekend and we control a venue,

1065
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 6: so we sell merch. Whatever we do, we get one

1066
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Speaker 6: hundred percent. But then we do an event at MSG

1067
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Speaker 6: and that's a ticket Master event. So then it's like,

1068
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Speaker 6: all right, well it's twenty percent that you got to

1069
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 6: give to them. They got to sell a merch for you.

1070
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Speaker 6: It's a bunch of different things, and it's like even

1071
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 6: with getting paid, we had to learn that because it's

1072
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Speaker 6: like going back to GWCC. We set the ticket thing

1073
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Speaker 6: up ourselves and it's daily deposits that come in. Ain't

1074
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Speaker 6: time somebody buys a ticket. The next day we get

1075
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Speaker 6: paid from that, which is good because if you're funding

1076
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Speaker 6: something yourself, then you need the money. But then it's

1077
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Speaker 6: like a ticket Master venue, we don't get paid until

1078
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Speaker 6: like thirty days after the event, which you just got

1079
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:01,879
Speaker 6: to be able to budget that because it's like, all right,

1080
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 6: you're not going to get this money until it's over,

1081
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 6: so make sure you got money on reserve. This is

1082
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 6: stuff that you don't really you don't really know unless

1083
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 6: you actually are in it and doing it.

1084
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Speaker 4: Learn we're trying to put net now into the contrast,

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Speaker 4: ninety is over like a whole different year.

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Speaker 5: But put that ninety in.

1087
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Speaker 4: I think the most thing, most obviouslynything is going to

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1089
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Speaker 4: months later and you've got so many things happen.

1090
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 5: It's like, wait, what happened?

1091
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 6: Did we get the ninety Yeah, so we're trying to

1092
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 6: work on the net now now.

1093
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 8: I think the net thing is like the core of

1094
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 8: the problem with the music business.

1095
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 5: Right.

1096
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 8: It's like, you know, if more teams have liquidity, right,

1097
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 8: money in their pocket now, like they wouldn't have to

1098
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 8: do so many bad deals. But like publishers and back

1099
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 8: end sport, it takes nine months to collect. Like Chosen

1100
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 8: could be at radio number one, but you're not getting

1101
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 8: that money right now, nine months away.

1102
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 5: You know what's so crazy? All y'all. How old are y'all? Thirty? Thirty?

1103
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, thirty, that's crazy.

1104
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 5: So we're not that far off in age. But so

1105
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 5: there's a different generation for them, but it's not that far.

1106
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 6: But so ghost Face got one of the best lines

1107
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 6: of all time when he was like, waiting on these

1108
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 6: royalties take too long.

1109
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 5: It's like waiting on babies.

1110
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 8: Like it's like it almost makes you have to take

1111
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 8: in advance right in our industry, and advance can be paralyzing.

1112
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 8: Like you take advance and now all of a sudden,

1113
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 8: your business is compromised at so many different levels because

1114
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 8: you got to pay that back, you have less freedom.

1115
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 8: So I think like real time royalty payouts, like you

1116
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 8: think about the next technologies in the industry and change

1117
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 8: things for creators. I think that's the sort of.

1118
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 6: Real time royalty. So that is that anything? Like is

1119
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 6: that blockchain technology?

1120
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 8: I think it is blockchain.

1121
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1122
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 8: I talked a lot about how that was what I

1123
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 8: saw blockchain. You know, everybody had their sort of theories

1124
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 8: on what blockchain is going to help. But as related

1125
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 8: to the music industry, I thought it was going to

1126
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,479
Speaker 8: help in two places. I thought metadata, right, like painting

1127
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 8: a record you know, a lot of people don't get

1128
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 8: because songwriter splits are off the information is not at

1129
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 8: one spot, and it's not you know, there's no chaining record.

1130
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 8: So I thought, you know, blockchain would help with that

1131
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 8: and then real time royalty payouts. But you know, so

1132
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 8: much stuff lives off chain that like you know, when

1133
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 8: I see like an NFT go up for like a

1134
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 8: music royalty, that's a joke, Like that's exactly, it's a joke,

1135
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 8: Like you're never gonna get paid because we're all not

1136
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 8: getting paid from the record label. Like you got your

1137
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 8: own twenty percent of a song that you're not going

1138
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 8: to get royalties from because you got to go do

1139
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 8: the same royalty process we do. So when things go

1140
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 8: on chain, when I think, like you know, we actually

1141
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 8: get stuff like faster, it's gonna be it's gonna that's

1142
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 8: gonna be the truer creator economy in my.

1143
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 4: Is that the vision for the publishing company that you're creating,

1144
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 4: right because at some point, like you're the company that

1145
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 4: is now collecting all this data, right, right, So is

1146
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 4: it to now see the flaw in the system and say,

1147
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 4: all right, here's how we can correct it.

1148
00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you got I think, like it's definitely

1149
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 8: not a goal right now, just because like you know,

1150
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 8: we'd have to go to foreign territories and establish that

1151
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 8: collection relationship. People do though, Like there's been pub companies

1152
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 8: that started and like, yo, I'm gonna go to South Korea,

1153
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 8: but you're gonna have to like go to South Korea

1154
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 8: and like sit down and you're gonna have to go

1155
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 8: to Italy and talk to like the people over there

1156
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 8: in Germany and develop that one and one like here's here's

1157
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 8: our license, here's our collecting. So it's not feasible, So

1158
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 8: which is why there's like sort of a monopoly on

1159
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:29,399
Speaker 8: publishing because whoever has those relationships already, You're just like

1160
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go to y'all, who's gonna charge me the

1161
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 8: less to collect?

1162
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 3: Who's taking the smallest percentage?

1163
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 8: He was taking the smallest percentage. But you think about it,

1164
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 8: and it's like, you know, if payments become a royalty,

1165
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 8: calculations become a little bit more streamlined, then we can

1166
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 8: see what money's out there, because you know, the technology

1167
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 8: allows us to see it. It's an interesting time.

1168
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 3: Y'all can be bringing off in South Africa right now.

1169
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 8: Right now, we know how much money we make in

1170
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 8: and all that sort of stuff.

1171
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 6: Well, it's interesting to see how Web three is really

1172
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 6: going to affect the music business. And this is another

1173
00:54:57,640 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 6: conversation that we was having on Chris Lines all the

1174
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:00,879
Speaker 6: night when he was it's just like even talking about

1175
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 6: like crypto, right, and he was like, right now, everybody's

1176
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,919
Speaker 6: looking at things singular, and it's gonna make more sense

1177
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 6: when it's looked at as a collective. So as opposed

1178
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 6: to saying like, okay, crypto is separate from you know,

1179
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 6: NFTs is separate from AI. It all got to work together.

1180
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 6: So the analogy that he gave was actually pretty brilliant

1181
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 6: where he was like, okay, like GPS, right, GPS is

1182
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 6: a technology within itself, payment processing systems is a technology

1183
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 6: within itself, and then the cell phone is a technology

1184
00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 6: within itself. But nobody realizes that Uber is a combination

1185
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 6: of all of it, right, Like Uber, there's no Uber.

1186
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 5: Without GPS, which but it just has to work.

1187
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 6: It's integrated in it, right, and then you need the

1188
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 6: payment processing system to work with the GPS.

1189
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 5: It's on your cell phone. Now you create Uber right.

1190
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 6: Where it's like there's no Uber without GPS technology, but

1191
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,439
Speaker 6: you're not just looking at like GPS is its own

1192
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 6: separate entity, right. GPS is really integrated in everything that

1193
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 6: we do. You don't even realize that a great and

1194
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,240
Speaker 6: everything that we do. Right, So it's like once the crypto,

1195
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 6: and then once the blockchain, and once the AI, all

1196
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 6: of that gets integrated in everything now, like you said,

1197
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 6: like real time royalty payments and different things of that nature.

1198
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 5: Like it's all going to make a lot more sense.

1199
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 6: I feel like we have the beginning stages and it's

1200
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 6: not making a lot of sense. But once it really

1201
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 6: starts to get a little bit more streamlined integrated, all

1202
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 6: of this new technology is going to make a lot

1203
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 6: more sense and make it a lot more efficient.

1204
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1205
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 8: I don't know what song that was when it was

1206
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 8: remember what's song and nip going like that ran at

1207
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 8: the end of the song about new technology.

1208
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,320
Speaker 12: That song the box money, Yeah yeah, my big businesses

1209
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 12: found stuffy Yeah yeah, yeah, it was distinctly I was

1210
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 12: a freshman in Washington.

1211
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 6: How you feel about how you feel about AI because

1212
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 6: we see this stuff where like they had an eminem

1213
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 6: song you see that, Yeah, and they used the voice

1214
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 6: and it sounds just like an Eminem song.

1215
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 8: I was literally on CNN talking about AI and music,

1216
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 8: like and AI has a too great. We've been using

1217
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 8: AI to create music more efficiently and faster for a

1218
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 8: long time now. Like a lot of the products that

1219
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 8: producers and songwriters use to put out music quickly is

1220
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:14,680
Speaker 8: AI driven. But you know generative pure generative AI music. Right,

1221
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 8: So like actually like feeding you know the machine, like

1222
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 8: machine learning technology, feeding it songs from Eminem, Travis Scott

1223
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 8: and then it producing a sound an original song that

1224
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 8: is based off that work. It it poses so many

1225
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 8: legal issues that.

1226
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 5: It's not like it was a producer.

1227
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 4: They were like, yo, let's put Timberland for real, and

1228
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 4: let's make beats. And it made like seventy beats in

1229
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 4: the house.

1230
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 8: Fit you just feed it to the machine and just

1231
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 8: put spits out of.

1232
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 6: Beat GBTV like all right, sing me a song in

1233
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 6: a sad mood with the Louisiana accent and it'll come out.

1234
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 4: Or I can take Blast's voice and I could be

1235
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 4: the person singing it and it's his voice.

1236
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 5: Fit on my body.

1237
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 6: They had a djin, I think it was one of

1238
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 6: these DJs. They played the record and it was like

1239
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 6: one hundred thousand people there and it was like and

1240
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 6: they thought it was a new record, like know what

1241
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 6: I mean? They didn't even know, like this was just

1242
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 6: an AI driven So as an artist, how you cause

1243
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 6: that's kind of scary, Like, you know, art is supposed

1244
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 6: to be curated by you know, it's a lot. How

1245
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 6: do you feel about a machine just making art?

1246
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 5: That's scary.

1247
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 11: It's scary, It's like and then it is becoming so

1248
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 11: real you can't even tell the difference. So it's just

1249
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 11: I don't know, it's mind boggling for me.

1250
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a fact. So do you still practice law?

1251
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,560
Speaker 6: Like are you still all right? You're running a label?

1252
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 6: Are you still are you the lawyer for the label

1253
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 6: as well?

1254
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, but we don't we don't have much like EA,

1255
00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 8: sure for sure, Like you know, I handle you know,

1256
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 8: our contracts and stuff like that, like protecting file for trademarks,

1257
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 8: copyrights for sure. I also think we're definitely bringing some

1258
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 8: some people on for that. But yeah, I still operate

1259
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 8: the Folks firm in downtown Newark, and I have an

1260
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:02,120
Speaker 8: associate attorney. I have offered manager, so I still take

1261
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 8: on some new business, but I've kind of transformed that

1262
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 8: practice practice to more of a like advocacy process practice,

1263
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 8: like how can I like do some cool stuff in

1264
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 8: law to like I'm taking expungement cases like stuff like

1265
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 8: that just to kind of keep my just make an impact.

1266
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 5: It's also it's also a good network. You know Vernon Brown.

1267
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 8: I heard Vernon Brown. I think it's a teacher Pace exactly.

1268
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Vernon Brown, he's I knew him my whole

1269
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 6: life actually, but he's Cash Money's lawyer. Yeah, and one

1270
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 6: of the most respected in the music business for a

1271
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,439
Speaker 6: long time. But he's he's an adjunct professor at Pace

1272
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 6: teaches law. But it's a great networking tool and it's

1273
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 6: a great way to kind of stay sharp and you

1274
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,480
Speaker 6: meet a variety of different people by still practicing, still teaching,

1275
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:51,479
Speaker 6: and it all.

1276
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 8: Comes together, you know, you know what deals are happening.

1277
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 8: It's like it's just so much of a benefit for

1278
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 8: my other business if I know, like, oh, this is

1279
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 8: what the ar curator is, like, this is what this

1280
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 8: is what this guy signed a record a record contract for.

1281
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 8: It's like, you know, I feel like that information is invaluable.

1282
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 4: So as a professor, right, he said, your professor Addrexel

1283
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 4: Yep from a standpoint of creating curriculum, what are the

1284
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 4: things that you're seeing from your students are like, Yo,

1285
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 4: these are the things that they want to know versus

1286
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 4: these are the things that you should know.

1287
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 8: Man, I'll be honest. Teaching the music business program, they

1288
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 8: want to know hip hop. Like the business of hip

1289
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 8: hop and black culture is like the strongest thing ever.

1290
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 8: Like they have curriculum. My class is probably the hottest

1291
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 8: class at Drexel because every semester I'm bringing in guests,

1292
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 8: like and they just want to hear from like tier

1293
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 8: Tierra Wax manager or whoever the hot artist is at

1294
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 8: that time. And those kids are producers, They're on fruity loops,

1295
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:45,600
Speaker 8: they're like making beats. So I think it just gives

1296
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 8: me like insight on like how strong black culture is

1297
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 8: and how strong hip hop is because those kids at Dredful,

1298
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 8: they really want to work in the industry, to kind

1299
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 8: of work in work on hip hop projects.

1300
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 6: I want to get all you guys perspective on this.

1301
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 6: Academic says something recently that got a lot of attention.

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Speaker 6: He said that hip hop is becoming more and more

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Speaker 6: regional and not global, where like afro beats is becoming

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Speaker 6: is a global form of music, and he was like,

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Speaker 6: you know, hip hop is becoming a regional art form,

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Speaker 6: not global.

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Speaker 5: What's your thoughts on that? Going first, I think.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I think one. So we just we just

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Speaker 12: went on tour at the end of the year. We

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Speaker 12: damned the tour the last six months. We had an

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Speaker 12: Australian leg of tour, we had a European portion of

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Speaker 12: the tour, and then we had obviously domestic but just

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Speaker 12: just talking about those international plays for the most part,

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Speaker 12: like Carl was saying, like Africa, Nigeria five hour flight

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Speaker 12: from London, so that's New York to LA So it's

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Speaker 12: like being able to tap in with European markets. All

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Speaker 12: these Caribbean descendants and all these first generation African millennials

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Speaker 12: and stuff like that that are in our age bracket

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Speaker 12: that's moving around the world.

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Speaker 10: It's like they're servicing more of a global market anyway.

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Speaker 12: But on the back end of it, it's like all

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Speaker 12: of this is really the essence of it is poor

1323
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 12: from American hip hop culture. So it's like, I don't

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Speaker 12: ever think that hip hop can become regional because all

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Speaker 12: you hear in London is a version of drill music.

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Speaker 5: That's all you hear.

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Speaker 12: So it's like you can't really say hip hop is

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Speaker 12: becoming at all regional because we were in New Zealand

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Speaker 12: and like it was a girl trying to rap for us,

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Speaker 12: Like it was a New Zealand girl trying to rap

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Speaker 12: for us, and she literally was trying to rap like

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Speaker 12: the city girls.

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Speaker 10: And it's like, that's not that's not.

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Speaker 12: Even like that, remember that, Like we were sitting there

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Speaker 12: having a conversation but at a restaurant, like, well, that's

1336
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 12: not too like, it's not it's not even gonna work

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01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 12: like your accident all that when we started talking where

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01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 12: you dress, none of it adds up with what you're

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01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 12: trying to portray. So I never from the way that

1340
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Speaker 12: people in the way that American accents are mimicked in

1341
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 12: the UK and every other part of the world, like

1342
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 12: people grow up practicing this and watching our TV shows

1343
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 12: and pretty much you talked about Central C Central C

1344
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 12: number one line about Dosi Cat, you know what I mean,

1345
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 12: like everybody quoting that. So I don't think at all

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01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 12: it is really become a regional. Now is the message

1347
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 12: starting to become repetitive? I do think that some of

1348
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:25,200
Speaker 12: the message in hip hop is starting to become repetitive.

1349
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Speaker 12: But I feel that's a whole nother conversation.

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Speaker 8: I would say, I feel like music itself is always regional.

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01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 8: I think like only a certain level of song breaks

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01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 8: through anyway, right, like twenty years ago, like I think

1353
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Speaker 8: probably pro Ada, like the same amount of songs we're

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Speaker 8: breaking through from hip hop culture, like fifty cent in

1355
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 8: the Club, Like we still got those records now, But

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Speaker 8: like hip hop's regional, like it is, like it's just

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Speaker 8: a regional game, but every genre is regional. Like you

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01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 8: go to Brazil, they got their reasonal touch, but only

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Speaker 8: a certain bracket of those songs break through ely right,

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Speaker 8: it's the same thing. Yeah, I think I think only

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Speaker 8: a small fraction of songs from hip hop have breaking

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Speaker 8: through globally. That's been the history of hip hop.

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Speaker 11: Yeah sure, yeah, I kind of agree with what Carl said,

1364
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Speaker 11: even just traveling, like going to Europe and stuff, seeing

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Speaker 11: how it's artists that you never heard of, but you

1366
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 11: you'll look them up. See they following their the biggest

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Speaker 11: thing in that one section. So in a sense, I

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Speaker 11: feel like hip hop is regional and music is just

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Speaker 11: in a weird space, like we just we just want

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Speaker 11: change right now. It's like we're feeding for something new.

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Speaker 11: So anything that's off the ward, left field, we just

1372
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Speaker 11: hold on to it, like yeah, this, this is it.

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Speaker 11: This is the next thing, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I feel like and it comes in ways too, right.

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Speaker 6: It's like right now, Reggaetny's is huge, you know because

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Speaker 6: a lot of the artists Bad Bunny and Well and all.

1377
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Speaker 6: I mean, it's a language barrier as well, because Spanish

1378
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 6: is spoken in half the world's population, so that gives

1379
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Speaker 6: them an advantage. The Afro Beaches is on the rise

1380
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Speaker 6: right now. It is spreading, and I feel like hip

1381
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 6: hop is going through a remake. I feel like it's

1382
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Speaker 6: going through a remake, like you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 6: and that happens it's fifty years old. Like it's like,

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Speaker 6: this is the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop this year.

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Speaker 6: So it's it's grown from you know, just hip hop

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Speaker 6: to the gang culture to the bad boy era to

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Speaker 6: you know, so it's over the drill music. So I

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Speaker 6: feel like, you know, we're looking to see what's the

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Speaker 6: next iteration hip hop.

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Speaker 4: I think this is interesting. We're having a conversation with

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Speaker 4: you all, because you've created EGO. We would Dougie Fresh

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Speaker 4: and he said, there's five elements of hip hop, right.

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Speaker 4: He said, it's the MC, there's the DJ, there's the graffiti,

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Speaker 4: there's breakdancing. And he said he now this is really,

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01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 4: this is really he really said this to us. And

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Speaker 4: he said the fifth one was him. He could create

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Speaker 4: the human beat box, right. And I was like, you

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01:05:57,560 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 4: know what, there's a sixth element that's being created right now,

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Speaker 4: and it's the business of hip hop. And so the

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Speaker 4: fact that Eagle is creating that and obviously what any

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Speaker 4: leision is we always say, like yo, hip hop is

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Speaker 4: at the core of what we do. I'm thinking now, like,

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Speaker 4: you got all these verticals right on the landscape. What

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Speaker 4: verticals do you think that you're missing or you want

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Speaker 4: to add over the next couple of years.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say, really, no vertical that we want

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01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 8: to add other than like growing building a real company,

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01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 8: like actually building something horizontally and vertically that we could sell,

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01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 8: Like when a company does due diligence on EGLE, we

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Speaker 8: want there to be like you know, we have every

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Speaker 8: HR policy, we have all the back end of what

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Speaker 8: a real company looks like so because I honestly feel like,

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Speaker 8: you know, a lot of people from hip hop haven't

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Speaker 8: been able to build like or han't had the experience

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Speaker 8: to build something that was like you know, the Google

1416
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 8: or like those real massive companies. So shout to Larry Jackson.

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Speaker 8: I saw that, you know Gamma, you know, like stuff

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Speaker 8: like that is really really dope to see. I think

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Speaker 8: when they look under the hood, I just want, you know,

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Speaker 8: Egle to be like, man, that's a that's a wide company.

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01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 8: They got employees. You know, everyone asks health you know

1422
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 8: small so everyone has health insurance stuff like that, right,

1423
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 8: Like that's a real company.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like everyone When people talk like yo,

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Speaker 4: I got a label, right, you see an artist, I

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01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,600
Speaker 4: gotta label, I often want to like do they even

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Speaker 4: know what it entails?

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Speaker 8: Is a staff? Y'all have meetings like like is there

1429
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Speaker 8: a schedule? Like how are you guys holding each other

1430
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:27,840
Speaker 8: account policy?

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Speaker 5: It becomes something different like I'm an artist and I

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01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 5: like you, so I'll sign you. How do I do that?

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Speaker 3: I'll create a record label and now you're an artist

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01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 3: and now I have a record label.

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Speaker 8: I think that's the next fifty years of hip hop, right,

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Speaker 8: I think like, you know, it's the fiftieth anniversary of

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Speaker 8: hip hop. How much of hip hop is black people

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Speaker 8: even own?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 8: I know it's a really small number. I don't have

1441
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 8: the metrics, but it's you just people just don't own

1442
01:07:47,280 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 8: their masters, they don't own their publishing. So the next

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Speaker 8: fifty years it's about developing a business sophistication to properly

1444
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 8: staff and service your music in a way that you

1445
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 8: don't gotta you know, hold your stuff out. You don't

1446
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 8: got to sell it to this company for no reason.

1447
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 8: So I think, you know, I think that's what we

1448
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 8: want to be known for. And people look under that hood. Man,

1449
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 8: that's a that's a strong company. You know, there's a

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01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 8: lot of employees, there's a lot of reach. They're doing

1451
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 8: so many different things. They got competitive you know, benefit packages,

1452
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 8: all that sort of stuff.

1453
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:18,559
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think we just changed the term.

1454
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Speaker 5: We just did it.

1455
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:21,760
Speaker 4: And since you're the entertainment lawyer, we're gonna have to

1456
01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 4: train on this. This is the business education. This is

1457
01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 4: gonna be the sixth element.

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01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:26,600
Speaker 8: Six element. Yeah, I like that.

1459
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:27,600
Speaker 5: So let me ask you this.

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Speaker 6: You brought up a good point as far as selling

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01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 6: your artist your masters.

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01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 5: This is something that's very popular these days.

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Speaker 6: We just met somebody the other day that he's the

1464
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Speaker 6: one that brought Nickhi Minoag's catalog.

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01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 5: I even know she sold the catalog. We have to know.

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 8: I know, I know who you're talking about. Okay, I

1467
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,120
Speaker 8: know where that you know their office is, right.

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Speaker 5: I don't After this, we'll talk.

1469
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Speaker 6: But we have IRV Gotti on his couch and he

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Speaker 6: sold his catalog for I think two hundred million, right, yeah, uh,

1471
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:59,840
Speaker 6: incentives to make it three hundred explained. So now people,

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Speaker 6: it's like the last eighteen months, everybody's on the cattle future.

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01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 6: I just seen metro booming, so it's like liquidation events

1474
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 6: and they getting valuations like tech companies. So that's obviously

1475
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 6: beneficial whenever you can get a lump sum of money, right.

1476
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 6: I always say what people don't know about Elon Musk

1477
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 6: is that he actually sold PayPal for one hundred million

1478
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 6: dollars and then went broke because he used that money

1479
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 6: to fund space as in Tesla. Now he's the richest

1480
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 6: person in the world and he's worth two hundred billion, right,

1481
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 6: But it's like he wouldn't have had SpaceX or Tesla

1482
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 6: if he didn't sell PayPal. But then there's another argument

1483
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 6: where people are like, well, we gotta hold on to

1484
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 6: what we create and we keep selling it.

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01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:47,560
Speaker 5: You're not buying that.

1486
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,880
Speaker 6: What's your what's your thoughts on people selling their catalogs

1487
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 6: and that? Would you guys ever want to do that?

1488
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 6: At some point?

1489
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 5: I would? I want to.

1490
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 8: I want actually want to hear blast? Yeah, I want to.

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01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 11: That's funny because every time I see, like when they

1492
01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:05,559
Speaker 11: do a post of like how metro so did, it's

1493
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 11: always a rent in the comments, like black people.

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01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,599
Speaker 5: Don't never keep with you. Yeah that's a fact. That's

1495
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:12,400
Speaker 5: a fact. But you brought up a good point.

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01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 11: It's like you have to take the stairs that you like,

1497
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 11: you sell paypals, and people don't see the long term play,

1498
01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 11: you know, they focus on what you're doing right now.

1499
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 11: So I don't really know my answer to it, but

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01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,600
Speaker 11: I feel like I got to educate myself but be

1501
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 11: patient and see the long play of why people doing it,

1502
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 11: you know, because of course you want to own it,

1503
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 11: but for what it's not only about ownership, it's about

1504
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 11: controlling it too.

1505
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think too. It's like, you know, everybody else

1506
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 8: is building an exit, right, so it's like real even

1507
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 8: real estate. You invest in real estate, buy real estate

1508
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,840
Speaker 8: property for fifty k, and you sell it for a

1509
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 8: million dollars, that's a that's a steal, right. I don't

1510
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 8: know what that the ex is on that, but like

1511
01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 8: there's always a time where it makes sense to sell

1512
01:11:00,160 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 8: an asset to get other assets and to build other stuff.

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01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:06,040
Speaker 8: That's like literally what everybody else is doing. So there

1514
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 8: was a I don't know what company. So there was

1515
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 8: a I think it was a like a hair product company.

1516
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that sold you know what got Yeah, this

1517
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 5: conversation we were just yesterday.

1518
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, there was the same outrage that Blast kind of

1519
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 8: spoke about where everyone was like, Yo, why are you

1520
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 8: selling you know, a black owned company?

1521
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 3: And it was like Alia, Yeah, it's like yo, it

1522
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 3: came up.

1523
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 6: That's when we asked her the first time we met.

1524
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 6: It was like he was like, you know, people asked me,

1525
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 6: you know why I sold my Masters, Like I got

1526
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 6: a hundred million. People asked why I sold it? Said

1527
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,960
Speaker 6: because I got a hundred million, That's why I sold it.

1528
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 6: Like you know what I'm saying. So it's like, I

1529
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 6: think we really have to do a better job of

1530
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 6: educating black people that is not, and some of it

1531
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,559
Speaker 6: is valid because you know, we have a lot of trauma.

1532
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 6: So whenever we see QC or whatever, it's like, oh,

1533
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 6: you sold out. But the other people never get that,

1534
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 6: do You never see the white people like yo Eli

1535
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:02,360
Speaker 6: must sold out like you know what I'm saying that,

1536
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 6: like all right, this is business, is what he's doing whatever.

1537
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 6: But for black people it happens all the time, whether

1538
01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:09,080
Speaker 6: it's haircare, whether it's music.

1539
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 5: It's like you sold out, Da da da da, And

1540
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 5: then it'd be like like that you got like hate mail,

1541
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 5: like people like really I.

1542
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:17,439
Speaker 4: Had a conversation with her last night about it, and

1543
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 4: it was like it didn't hurt as bad because she

1544
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 4: had somebody to pattern it off of. So like richlu

1545
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 4: My Dance, who is you know over at Essence in

1546
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 4: charge of Essence He sold Shrey moisture that it was

1547
01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 4: a one point six billion dollar deal, Jesus Christ one

1548
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,600
Speaker 4: point six and so like when she was interested in

1549
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 4: going down that Avenue was thinking about selling like well,

1550
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:41,240
Speaker 4: she had him to lean on. And the problem is

1551
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 4: like we don't we've never we don't see it, right,

1552
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:45,639
Speaker 4: Like even the people that we know that are wealthy

1553
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:48,560
Speaker 4: of our billionaires. They're all first generation I said the

1554
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 4: stuff to day, but they're learning too, right, and so

1555
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 4: as they learn, yeah, they're gonna have to educate, and

1556
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 4: like that's part of our role, right, like sitting down

1557
01:12:56,320 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 4: with these people to educate people on the structure of career,

1558
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 4: eating an asset and selling an asset and then maybe

1559
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 4: creating more assets.

1560
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 3: But we're so stuck on, like we have that financial trauma.

1561
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:08,120
Speaker 3: It's like, Yo, you sold out.

1562
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 4: The product ain't the same how you say you change

1563
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 4: the chemicals? Bro different my head, it's like yo, bro,

1564
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 4: Like really, but I think what you said and I

1565
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 4: love it. I meant to say it earlier. It was like,

1566
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 4: when we think of business, we talk in terms of companies,

1567
01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:30,360
Speaker 4: but when we talk music we talk in terms of labels.

1568
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 8: What you like, I'm listening as the manager. It is

1569
01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 8: an operator, Like it like, what's a.

1570
01:13:36,920 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 4: It's a you're not creating. It's not a record label.

1571
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 4: This is a record company. We're in the business of music.

1572
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 4: But when we change that language, it feels like oh

1573
01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:46,800
Speaker 4: that it's like, oh, this is a label. I got

1574
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 4: an artist and now I have a label. But do

1575
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:49,040
Speaker 4: you have a company.

1576
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 8: It's elementary you know it's it's something that like again,

1577
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:56,599
Speaker 8: like it's how we control the next with the years

1578
01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 8: of black music, like just changing the way we think

1579
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:01,640
Speaker 8: about it, like really trying to build a company and

1580
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,560
Speaker 8: owning every process of it, learning how we distribute, like

1581
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 8: you know, bridging a gap on connections overseas, like just

1582
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 8: owning those processes, Like that's how we do it the

1583
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 8: next fIF the years.

1584
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 6: Another thing, going back to this selling, We had a

1585
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,679
Speaker 6: conversation with Rich and he was saying, what people don't

1586
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,160
Speaker 6: talk about is what happens if you don't sell, because

1587
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 6: we know that the vast majority of businesses don't make

1588
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 6: it to be a second generation business. It's even higher

1589
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 6: for black businesses, right, So he brought up one company,

1590
01:14:27,920 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 6: I won't mention their name, but a very successful black

1591
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 6: legacy brand, and he was like, at the peak of

1592
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 6: their success, like in the nineties, the company was worth

1593
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 6: like six hundred million dollars, and now the company's worth

1594
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 6: thirty million dollars.

1595
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:43,479
Speaker 5: So nobody tells that story.

1596
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 6: Like that's another part of the coin too, Like damn,

1597
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 6: like you had it up here and then you wrote

1598
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 6: it all the way down here, and then you know,

1599
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,519
Speaker 6: a kid ends up messing it up and you know, and.

1600
01:14:56,600 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 12: It's like I think that's like a doctor Dre situation,

1601
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 12: you know, right, Like doctor Dre was averaging like ten

1602
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 12: million a year, shold it for two hundred and it's like, shit,

1603
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 12: he's got like a brain an urhythm just had divorce.

1604
01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 12: It's like themn my next twenty years, Like who is

1605
01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 12: going to be able to operate this creativity? Like me

1606
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:18,240
Speaker 12: and you already hear like crazy stories of doctor Dre,

1607
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 12: how you about super ain't in the studio and stuff

1608
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 12: like that. So I can only imagine him thinking like, ah,

1609
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 12: do I want X, Y and Z that it is

1610
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 12: in my vicinity to be taking control of this and

1611
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:30,680
Speaker 12: not treating it the right way? Or would I rather

1612
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:32,840
Speaker 12: cast out on my next twenty years or what I

1613
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,400
Speaker 12: was already making and make those investments for the long term,

1614
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 12: Like you're a saying sell that pap really.

1615
01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just put up the bumpers, right, like put

1616
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,560
Speaker 4: up the bumpers for the next generation. So like you

1617
01:15:43,720 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 4: can't mess this up? Yeah, maybe if you try, you couldn't.

1618
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:46,639
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1619
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 12: And I think this is like directly correlated to like

1620
01:15:49,320 --> 01:15:52,560
Speaker 12: you think about like natural selection and like Darwinism and

1621
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:55,840
Speaker 12: like those theories about how you like over time, it

1622
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,560
Speaker 12: takes small portions to like, oh, think about like what

1623
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:03,160
Speaker 12: or or something like that. And the Amazon, like fifty

1624
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 12: years ago they beat might have been like two inches shorter.

1625
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 12: But now as climate changes, all that stuff changes over time,

1626
01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 12: the bird changes.

1627
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 5: So I think as far as the business should go

1628
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 5: the same.

1629
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 12: Way, like it take a future a future or a

1630
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 12: metro booman or a doctor Dre or a jay Z

1631
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,559
Speaker 12: to make these type of investments and sell these companies

1632
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 12: to be able to jump to that next level of

1633
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 12: business executiveship to be like, oh okay, now it goes

1634
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:31,840
Speaker 12: from us just being the supplier of the product to

1635
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:35,839
Speaker 12: us having say in what product is the next product?

1636
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:38,559
Speaker 12: So I think as that keeps rolling over, like you said,

1637
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,679
Speaker 12: these next fifty years, we'll see a whole different turnaround

1638
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 12: just because little about little.

1639
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 5: We'll start to see more people in more people in position.

1640
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 12: Hopefully that will change the tide of the gatekeeper, and

1641
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 12: there'll be more capital.

1642
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:52,680
Speaker 4: Right, there'll be people that look like us that have

1643
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 4: more capital or capital what decision means yep.

1644
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 6: So all right, let's talk about the future for eagle.

1645
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 6: So how many you have artists on the label. Now,

1646
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 6: how many artists you have?

1647
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 8: One signed artist? Hopefully another one soon singh. He's literally

1648
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 8: like a like a baby blast, like.

1649
01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 5: Baby blast her baby blast. Maybe let's not call him

1650
01:17:19,760 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 5: a baby blast. Might not appreciate that. I don't want to.

1651
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 5: I want to say it, right, is it? J J

1652
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 5: Millan J million million.

1653
01:17:28,439 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 10: He's We'll say he's another one hundred percent produced, writes

1654
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 10: his music. Oh yeah, plays instruments, producers.

1655
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 8: He produced half the BEINGO and Blast product six stage two. Yeah,

1656
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 8: so you hear his tag. I'll through that project.

1657
01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 6: So what's what's the goal as far as Yeah, what's

1658
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:48,439
Speaker 6: the what's the vision for Eagle in the next five

1659
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 6: to ten years?

1660
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 5: Of course all verticals.

1661
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:56,560
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I think one is making sure that

1662
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 12: well Carl mentioned earlier, like our employee, he's the artists

1663
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,960
Speaker 12: that are with It's like it's important for us all

1664
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 12: to be on the same page on structurally how we move.

1665
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:08,600
Speaker 10: So I think that's the baseline of it.

1666
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 12: Like even when even with us having Jamillion as an artist,

1667
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 12: we pour into him just as much as a human

1668
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,559
Speaker 12: being as we pour into him musically and like business wise,

1669
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 12: because if he's not if you don't have the regular

1670
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,839
Speaker 12: human intangibles. He's not going to go that far regardless

1671
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 12: if we're on his side or not, because we're not

1672
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 12: with him one hundred percent of the time. But we

1673
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:30,400
Speaker 12: taking every effort right now from the people we hire

1674
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:33,920
Speaker 12: right now, people we letting go all that type of stuff.

1675
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 12: All that goes into what this long term vision for

1676
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 12: egoism that is to grow vertically and the grow horizontally.

1677
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 5: Too, Blasphim.

1678
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 4: He's the standpoint we got Nas, worked with Kendrick, worked

1679
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 4: with DAGs, Sogn, Snoop Ross Ross, who's on the list

1680
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:52,360
Speaker 4: that we.

1681
01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 5: Haven't gotten this?

1682
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 11: I say for real, I say that in every interview.

1683
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 11: But I think my biggest goal is to have a

1684
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 11: Jack executive produced by for Real. That's one of my

1685
01:19:04,200 --> 01:19:09,000
Speaker 11: biggest things. But in terms of like artists collaborating, I

1686
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 11: feel like I'm still establishing myself in my own voice

1687
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 11: and my own narrative.

1688
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:14,840
Speaker 5: So that's my main focus.

1689
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:21,080
Speaker 6: M Yeah, your music is very It's a high vibration music,

1690
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:26,760
Speaker 6: thank you. It's not depressing music. That's important people vib

1691
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,640
Speaker 6: to every time. Like I feel like when you put

1692
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 6: out new music, I can count on Russell Westbrook to.

1693
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 5: Be in his call listening to this.

1694
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 3: I was there last night, like, y'all must have grown

1695
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 3: up each other.

1696
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 5: Yo.

1697
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 4: When you put still on my way, Yo, that just

1698
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 4: kept ringing on my timeline. I'm like, yo, I gotta

1699
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 4: go download this, so.

1700
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 5: Shout out Brodie Man. He pulled up last night to

1701
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 5: the release.

1702
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 6: So now we appreciate youall, guys, MA anything else, y'all

1703
01:19:57,320 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 6: want to let the people be aware of.

1704
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 5: Projects out now.

1705
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 11: Project just for clarity to go run out there for me.

1706
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 11: Much love to everybody that tapped in Eagle Gang.

1707
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:11,479
Speaker 3: We got Mustle producing on there.

1708
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:18,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Roddy Richards on the project, Terrris Martin, Larry June, Yeah, major.

1709
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 5: And you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Anything else, good money.

1710
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 5: I appreciate you.

1711
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 4: I wanted to say this really quickly because I I

1712
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 4: don't know how we went through this whole interview, like

1713
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 4: we're having Blast here and Shoty not mentioning that his

1714
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 4: nickname is Blast.

1715
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:37,640
Speaker 3: That's how did we get through this whole without you

1716
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 3: even saying that?

1717
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 5: Well, so this is a story. I spell it different.

1718
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:44,800
Speaker 5: I spelled the red live.

1719
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 4: I used to get in this car he'd be playing

1720
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 4: your music. I'm like he's only rocking it like this,

1721
01:20:53,160 --> 01:20:54,519
Speaker 4: like this is pretty nice.

1722
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 5: I take it.

1723
01:20:55,560 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 6: No, that's definitely so welcome audience. That's that's very not

1724
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 6: a lot of people know that. But my name is

1725
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 6: for Shot. So growing up, my nickname was Shoddy. That's

1726
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:09,080
Speaker 6: like every nobody. A lot of people don't even know

1727
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 6: my name was for Shot for a long period of

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01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 6: time because everybody just called me Shody. And then like

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01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:18,320
Speaker 6: my real close friends, like like family, like.

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01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 5: They call me Blast. That's crazy.

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01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 6: So that was still is like like people like I

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01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:26,240
Speaker 6: know like that somebody really like they call me Blast,

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01:21:26,320 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 6: Like I know that they really really know me.

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Speaker 12: You're not gonna do It's the insight how you got that, man?

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01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:36,720
Speaker 5: Blast got the name well, so I used to.

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01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:38,560
Speaker 6: I used to play ball and another one of my

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01:21:38,680 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 6: friends to want it's just like Shoddy Blast, like a

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01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 6: shotgun Blast, but there was no actual firearms in this.

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01:21:45,560 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 5: It was it was I had a ratchet. I had.

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01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 5: I had a ratchet, not a ratchet. I'm not trying

1741
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 5: to be.

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01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 6: But I'm actually a big fan of your music, man,

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01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:07,759
Speaker 6: and I appreciate it. My son is tired of hearing

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01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 6: me play it because I play you and tims all

1745
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 6: the time in my car. You're like, Yo, can we

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01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 6: listen to something else? I'm like, where you want to

1747
01:22:13,920 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 6: listen to, like drill music video something or I'm like,

1748
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:19,639
Speaker 6: we're not listening to that in the car. But it's

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01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 6: actually really like I said, it's a high operation.

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01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:25,760
Speaker 5: It's a dope. It's a dope vibe, and I really

1751
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 5: I like it. I actually like the music.

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01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 6: So, you know, whenever we get a chance to talk

1753
01:22:30,560 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 6: to people that were actually fans of that even makes

1754
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 6: the conversation even better.

1755
01:22:35,280 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 5: Like I'm actually a fan of the music.

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01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 6: So and now knowing you guys, I'm a fan of

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01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 6: what you guys are doing business wid I feel like,

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01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 6: you know, you guys definitely have a great head on

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01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 6: your shoulder and got a vision for what you want

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01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 6: to do. So anything that we can do to help

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01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 6: you guys, like I said, definitely try to connect you

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01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:54,320
Speaker 6: with a sixteen Z that's easy and anything.

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01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 4: You know.

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01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 6: Stop by the coffee shop too in Newark. What's the

1765
01:22:59,000 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 6: name of the coffee shop?

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01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:00,720
Speaker 8: It's a wine bar.

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01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 5: When is it open August? Okay, Yeah, it's going to

1768
01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 5: be like a night life vibe.

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01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:13,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, Jersey is a place stat everyone's actually

1770
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 8: like yo, when you leave in Jersey type, why, I'm

1771
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 8: actually from like south like right near Philly, so like

1772
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 8: Camden County.

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01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 5: Oh that's even worse.

1774
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 3: You live in Camden obviously live in Newark.

1775
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 5: Are you from Camden from Yeah?

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01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, But I didn't grow up like one step.

1777
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 5: Up shout everybody in Camden, Shout to the Wana, the

1778
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 5: whole Campden.

1779
01:23:39,400 --> 01:23:42,160
Speaker 8: Like my grandpa is like like he was like one

1780
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 8: of the early like first black students. So I came

1781
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:49,800
Speaker 8: to high So it's like a very interesting like the

1782
01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:51,759
Speaker 8: see Camden the way it is now is definitely different

1783
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 8: from me.

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01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:52,559
Speaker 2: It wasn't.

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01:23:52,800 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 8: The history of Camden is like very you know, the

1786
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:57,120
Speaker 8: r c A Plant was there, Like it's just it's

1787
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 8: like it's like a Midwest city in the middle of

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01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 8: New Jersey, Like factories left and it's like he's abandoned

1789
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:03,599
Speaker 8: Camden Once.

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01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:06,160
Speaker 4: It was like I went to a water park up there.

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01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:10,320
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, man, you know you know exactly, yeah,

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01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:13,519
Speaker 4: I know, yeah, I said, yeah, we can't come. Is

1793
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:14,519
Speaker 4: there another one that got.

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01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 5: Jersey to Jersey? Man? Yeah? But Newark? Yeah so so,

1795
01:24:21,479 --> 01:24:24,640
Speaker 5: but Newark is actually in the process of changing. You

1796
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 5: can see it.

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01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:25,720
Speaker 3: You can see it.

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01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 5: Man.

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01:24:26,240 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 8: I moved there during the pandemic. I was actually living

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01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 8: in Camden County. That's where my first law office was.

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01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 8: So I was doing a lot of deals and actually

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01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 8: I think we're wallowing, Gilly actually record what was where

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01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 8: my office was at. So I was doing it there

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01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 8: and then moved up to Newark during the pandemic, and

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01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 8: based on base, I just saw it. You just see it,

1806
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 8: like you know, marijuana is legal in Jersey. Newark was

1807
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 8: an international airport, twenty minute train ride into the city.

1808
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:58,719
Speaker 8: Black culture hub like literally black mayor, you know, black

1809
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:01,120
Speaker 8: congressman like all time and stuff. So you could just

1810
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 8: see the fabriculous city, like, man, this is a place.

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01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:07,240
Speaker 8: This is a place that you can afford, you can

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01:25:07,360 --> 01:25:10,160
Speaker 8: help sort of shape the next fifty years of and

1813
01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:12,680
Speaker 8: we just don't have stuff to do. It's like so

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01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 8: I'm like, all right, let's get that wine bar popping.

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01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 6: Don't let us know, man, we know for people out

1816
01:25:18,200 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 6: there too, So shout out to doing you know what,

1817
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 6: doing my god versus my enemies.

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01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 5: You ever see those shirt? Yeah? Yeah, he.

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01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 8: I gotta connect with him Salent, good.

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Speaker 6: Dude, all right, my gosh, I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all

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01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 6: for waking up early. That says a lot too.

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Speaker 3: No.

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01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 6: I know, you know, y'all just had the party yesterday.

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01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:43,680
Speaker 6: So I appreciate y'all waking up early. Man, and once again, man,

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01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 6: love is love.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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