1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Yet get gettle boys. It's back and rehoaded all in 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: your mind, yeah, and a deep throating. This is for 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: the streets, the reel, the railroaded, the disenfranchise, the truth, 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: the scapegoating, and they ain't know wing. We speak the truth, 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: so they ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: South East coach, the gv my keeping your head bobbing, 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: it ain't no stopping and wants to be tricks head 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: by and then the system is so corrupt they throw 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: the rock out of the heads and then blame it 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: on us. Don't get it twisted on code and we 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: ain't dance it for no furtament biscuits. It's Willie d 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 1: y'all scar faces in the building. Collectively, we are to 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: get old boys. You tuned in to get old boys reloaded. 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 1: Now why do we call it reloaded? Well for the 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: four or five people on the planet that don't know 16 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: to get old boys. We started our career off in 17 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: the music industry, specifically hip hop, and the foundation of 18 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: our message has always been to inform and to what 19 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: educate and what ship instruct You see, inform, educate and 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: instructor and inform people about what's going on. In the world, 21 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: educate them about what's going on in the world, and 22 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: instruct them on how to navigate through all of that stuff. Right. 23 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: So this is how we come to Get Old Boys Reloaded. Right, 24 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: And so we're reloading. We're taking that same information and 25 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: we have bottled it up and putting it out into 26 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: the podcast world. Scarface came to me and he said, 27 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: wall you canna come to me? Called He called me. Okay, 28 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: he called me and he was like, say, well you 29 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: want to do this Get Old Boys podcast? And I 30 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: was like, oh no, I see it here, yeah, stop lying. 31 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: So I said, hell yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. 32 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: So he gets what. He makes a phone call, gets 33 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: shall Man on the phone. Sharlot Man say hell yeah, 34 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: we want to do that, Let's do it. So here 35 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: we are, fam uh Get Old Boys Reloaded. And this 36 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: is the first episode of Get Old Boys Reloaded. And listen, 37 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: fam there's absolutely no other person on this planet that 38 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: would have been qualified to do this first episode, were 39 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: more qualified to do this first episode than the man 40 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: in my left and the man that you know as 41 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: j Prince. Uh. We go back to Little Jay. He 42 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: dig what I'm saying. This is the guy that I know. 43 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: This is the guy that I have a lot of 44 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 1: respect for. And I think that uh, I think that 45 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: did the culture period owes him a debt of gratitude, 46 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: no matter what you may think of him. Uh, I 47 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: think the culture owes him a debt of gratitude because 48 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: he you know, he paid the price. You know. It's 49 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: one thing for somebody to say, hey, you know, I 50 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: gotta I gotta, I got an idea, I got a vision. 51 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: It's a whole another thing when somebody says, not only 52 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: do I have an idea, I got a vision, I'm 53 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: putting up my paper to do it. You did what 54 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying, and that's what he did, Ladies and gentlemen 55 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: in the building, Like, uh, I don't even know how 56 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: to say this man, So I'm just gonna just see 57 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 1: his name up J. Prince in the building. You know 58 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: what living and living color a y'all doing? Bro oh man, beautiful, beautiful? Uh, 59 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: perhaps not as beautiful as you've been doing lately. Man. 60 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,559 Speaker 1: I mean you're making some noise. Well you know, I'm 61 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep it moving, man, you know, as 62 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: we all as we know, you know what I mean. 63 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: It's it's the movement over the moment. So I've been 64 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: blessed to stay moving. Man, You've been blessed with a vision, man, 65 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,839 Speaker 1: And I always talk about that vision, man, like how 66 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: did you see this ship? Bro? Like? How did you 67 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: see me and Willie and Bill and Red? And how 68 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: did you you know what what happened? Man? How did 69 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: you visualize us going out to the ranch. No, we 70 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: didn't even know each other. We don't even know each other. 71 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: You remember that first ride, that first ride? I think 72 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: what happened the astro van. I'm talking about the astro van. 73 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: We got a story before that one though. Before that, 74 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: So James had pulled up to our apartment, right, they 75 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: were like, man, who is that? Bro? As a white 76 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: band white five hundred bons too though convertible with the 77 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: black top like Mann knocked on the dope man? Jay 78 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: walked in, Man, and that there like we're kids, like 79 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 1: me and Beato. We're kids. We never seen so many 80 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: diamonds in our life. The boy he walked in that 81 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: motherucking like nigga rock you Bro. He was out of 82 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: that and I was like, man, how did you find us? 83 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: How did you find me? Man? Well, you know it's 84 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: uh it's a small world. You popped up at my door. 85 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: I'm like, I just know people and no people that 86 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: know people. That man pulled up at my house with it, 87 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: and then he pulls up at my house. But before 88 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: that he came to me said, well, I got this idea. 89 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: I want to I want you to be a ghetto boy. 90 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I don't want being a group, 91 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: like I don't want group and uh and he was like, 92 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: uh yeah, man, uh, I got this dude on the 93 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: South Side at the time. He was calling Action, you 94 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: know Action. He was like DJ Action, you know, and 95 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: I want to put you out, you know, I want 96 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: you and him and it's other bar to being a 97 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: creel right boom, something like I don't want to be 98 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: in a groupe. And he was like, do it for me. 99 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: That's simple. You know what I'm saying. Bind you The 100 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: man two years old, a couple of years he's only 101 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: a couple of years older than me. But when he 102 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 1: said look look, uh he said do it for me, right, 103 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking like this this dude, at all the 104 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: people in the world, this is the this is the 105 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: dude that's saying you know what, I see your talent, 106 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: and I want to invest in it. So I couldnt 107 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: say no to that when he when he put it 108 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 1: like that, You've always had a way with words. Was 109 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: that a lot of people listen to you and they 110 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: respect you know how you vocalize things, you know, and 111 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: they respect your mind growing up? You know, like who 112 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: influenced you? Who was that person that you looked at 113 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: and said, man, you know, and I like how he 114 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: moved you know. I want to and I want to 115 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: pick up some of those days. Yeah, I would have 116 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: to say. It begun with my mother, you know what 117 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: I mean. It begun with my mother. Always tell everybody 118 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: over my my hero. Wow. I mean, so I watched 119 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: I watched her, I watched her struggles, you know what 120 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: I mean. I watched the movements, and uh, I was 121 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 1: influenced bomb And then it was my grandmother, you know 122 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,679 Speaker 1: what I mean, the same thing, you know, the work 123 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: ethic um, the struggles, the trials and tribulations like inspired 124 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: me as a as a youth, as a young boy, 125 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: and and I vowed at the age of like seven 126 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: eight years old, and I wanted to be the one 127 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: to break the poverty curse that existed in my family. 128 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: Because you know, every month people was crying and different 129 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: things over lights, getting cut off, we didn't have food 130 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: to eat, you know, different things like that. So yeah, 131 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: my eyes laid on my mother, grandmother first, and from 132 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: now you know, I was I was willing to risk 133 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: my life for that, for them to be able to 134 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: have what they wanted, you know, and that's amiable. Like 135 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: you grew up in a single parent household, right, and 136 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: so I picked up some ways from my mom in 137 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: terms of some some survival tactics that I was able 138 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: to use to my benefit. Right now, these are females, right, 139 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: and so with one think like J. Prince, They don't 140 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: think nothing feminine about J Prince. Right. A lot of 141 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: guys who are raised in single parent households or single mothers, 142 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: raised by single mothers, sometimes they don't quite they don't 143 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: quite get that the man, the man who the type thing. 144 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: They don't come you know. They kind of like, you know, 145 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: get a lot of those similarities from their their their 146 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: their their mother, you know, and they pick up a 147 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: lot of those female ways. You know, you understand what 148 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So how did what I'm saying is that 149 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: I got my ways and I got my ways that 150 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: I picked up from my mom. I picked up conflict resolution. 151 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: Conflict resolution for me from that I picked up from 152 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: my mom was really, you don't have conflict resolution. Go ahead, 153 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: conflict resolution. Don't have that, but go ahead listen. First 154 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: of all, conflict resolution is simply to resolve conflict. You 155 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: don't have that, but go ahead. Do you know you 156 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: can resolve conflict all kind of ways, right ahead. Give 157 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: me my credit for resolving it the way I resolved 158 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: back in the day. You got that back in the day. 159 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: I ain't saying right where I'm saying back then? All right, okay, 160 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: so so but I learned to settle conflict with fist 161 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: guns and insults. Okay, I know I learned. That's what 162 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: my That's what I got from my mom. Right So 163 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: going going from that, uh, I got I got that. 164 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: But then there's other things that you know, people will 165 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 1: tell you all the time that it takes a man 166 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: to raise a man. So that respect, thing that you 167 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: know that you know, standing for something, thing that that 168 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: fighting the biggest fights, the biggest battles, the biggest gangsters, whoever, 169 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: whoever bringing it. You know, if you, like you said 170 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: in the song, the first album that we put out. 171 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: If you want to go to war, I take you 172 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: a war that right there. How do you how do 173 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,319 Speaker 1: you convey that to youngsters out there who may be 174 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: being raised by mothers. And it's not to take away 175 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: anything from single mothers, but there's a shortage of courage 176 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: when it comes to me and young men out there. 177 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: In my opinion, I think there's a shortage of courage 178 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: and a shortage of ethics, a shortage of a street code, 179 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: a shortage of respect that that I don't that I don't. 180 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: I don't think that a person can just get without 181 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: having some type of male influence, whether that person be 182 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: in front of you, in the household with you, or 183 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: somebody you're watching on television or whatever. That's got to 184 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: come from somewhere. Yeah, yeah, no, I definitely agree that 185 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: a man role is important, you know, but you know, 186 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: I'm definitely uh a recipe of of a household where 187 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: the man was missing, and so many of us uh 188 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: uh I don't even want to call it a victim, 189 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: but so many of us come from households where, uh, 190 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: where boys don't raise their kids, you know what I mean, 191 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 1: Because we can't call them a man if they're abandoned 192 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: their kids and they loved one. So so you know, 193 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: you have to qualify to be called a man. So boys, 194 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: you know, may disappeal whatnot and then would end up 195 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 1: happening And what would happened to me where outside of 196 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: a woman in racing me? Was the hood? You know 197 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: what I mean? Filth war was homies on the blocks, 198 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: was you know, step fathers. You know what I mean. 199 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: I had males um in my life and a combination 200 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: of or ways that helped shape and mold me to 201 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: become you know, who I became. And that's that's why 202 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 1: I like with the hood. I'm I'm so like adamant 203 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: about those that abandoned the hood, you know what I mean, 204 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,839 Speaker 1: once you make and when you know this place helped 205 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: shape and mold you to become who you became. Man. 206 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: You know, I spent a lot of time with your dad, bro, 207 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 1: and I would have put all of that, I would 208 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: put all of all of what you are on him, 209 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: because after hanging out with Earnest so much and so long, 210 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 1: you know, it's that's you. Like you may not have 211 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: known Earnest or may not have been with Earnest early 212 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: part of your life. But man, you are Earnest prince 213 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 1: to the t, like the whole thing and the brothers. Yeah, 214 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: you can't get away from no genetics, you know what 215 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 1: I mean. Those genetics are who you are, whether you know, 216 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: like I didn't know my my biological well, he was 217 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: a guy, you know what I mean. They started calling 218 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: me little prince before I knew who I was, you 219 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I missed that side of it. 220 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: But it was real fruit for the baby to tap 221 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: into him after I got grown. By the fact, it 222 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: was a missing link, you know what I mean. It 223 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: was a board that no other male could feel. So 224 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: that's how important it is for a man, for a 225 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,400 Speaker 1: father to be involved with his son. No nobody can 226 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: feel those shoes, you know. The trip part about that 227 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:49,079 Speaker 1: mentioning Earnest is that from a distance, no one would 228 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: ever could ever tell that he wasn't there all the 229 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: time because y'all were like so much alike. It's it's like, 230 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: you know, especially like you said, you can't get away 231 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: from those prince genetics. You know, like if somebody looked 232 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 1: at you two and be like, oh, that's the yeah, yeah, 233 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: that's absolutely that's that's his side. Uh, but you know 234 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: that was that was other things about about you that 235 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: that you you definitely did different from your dad, right. 236 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: You know, you took things to a different level and 237 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: you made sure that you know, you didn't make certain mistakes, right, Uh, 238 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: that that he made. Um. And so when you when 239 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: you think about the route, the route that you you took, um, 240 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 1: how much of how much of that route was happenstance 241 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: and how much of it was was was purpose driven? Uh? YEA, 242 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: if I had to chop that up, most of it 243 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: definitely was was purpose driven, you know what I mean. 244 00:14:54,880 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm wide and and kind of program uh 245 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: where I followed my spirit, my intuition, my disernment, you know, 246 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: over freestyle and over just you know, luck or stuff 247 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: like that. And it always been that way you know 248 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: with me. And and the more I tune into my gifts, 249 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, my spirit lead situations or 250 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: my my intuition, my desernment, the more, uh, I think 251 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 1: my decisions became more intelligent, you know what I mean? 252 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: So yeah, definitely more purpose driven. Over to that other piece. Yeah, 253 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: you you I've been noticing like over the last perhaps 254 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: I would say two three years, you seem more at peace. Yeah, 255 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, you're smiling, laugh a lot in public. You know, 256 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: like a lot of people don't know that. You know, 257 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: you're you're a funny guy, you know what I'm saying, 258 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: Like the funny how you know, not funny? No, no, no, no, 259 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: he's funny to you know what I'm saying. You know, 260 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: but but he got a good basically, he got a 261 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: good sense of human Yeah. Yeah, you got a good 262 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: sense of humor and you like to laugh right now now, um. 263 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: But but a lot of people, a lot of people 264 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: wouldn't know that about you. But lately it's like and 265 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: it seemed like in the past you may have been 266 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: guarded for that for whatever reasons, you know what I'm saying. 267 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: But lately, last two three years, and I've seen you 268 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 1: many many times, and I was like, man, ain't having 269 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: a black you know? Yeah, I mean that you can 270 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: see it, you know it is the little bitty house 271 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: on Della. He moved out of there in bought the island. 272 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: You know, that's kind of should will change your life, Willie. 273 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: No one in the Two Islands man, because y'all saw 274 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: you said Prince Prince Island one, right, Yeah, that's what 275 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: That's what happened. Man, smiling like that. You know, well, well, 276 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: it's deeper than that, you know, It's deeper than the 277 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: material things, you know. I uh, I gotta joy and 278 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: you know it's a time and a place for everything, right, 279 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: you know. And uh, I always tell everybody I'm at 280 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: like the beginning of the third quarter where my life 281 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: is concerned, you know what I mean. I played uh 282 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: first quarter, second quarter, now halftime is over. I'm at 283 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: the beginning of the third. A lot of people, I 284 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: believe they at the beginning of the fourth my age, 285 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: but I'm just at the beginning of the third. So 286 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: I figured out how to how to have fun, how 287 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: to enjoy my life, how to do everything you know, uh, 288 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: with moderation, you know what I mean. And how to 289 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: weed out stress, you know what I mean. It's it's 290 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:00,199 Speaker 1: a combination of things that one can do to have 291 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: a fruit for fulfilling life. And I figured it out. 292 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: And make me laugh a little more now because ship 293 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: I ain't dealing with you know what I mean, of 294 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: things that I had to deal with in the past 295 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: under graduated. I got to sit down with you again 296 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: and get that you know when when I was a kid, right, 297 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:23,439 Speaker 1: j would come pick me up. Man, I'd be like, man, damn, 298 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: because I knew that we was gonna ride for two days. 299 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: So when I when I got to my when when 300 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: I got to a point where I could buy my 301 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 1: own car, I would just ride behind it. And so 302 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 1: we go out to the ranch, man, and and not 303 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: knowing that the jewels that he was like like he 304 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: was a kid dropping jewels on a kid. You know 305 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: what I mean, Like those jewels man, that he gave me. 306 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: You know, hanging is life. It's life jewels, bro, that 307 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 1: you can take with you when you can use in 308 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: any situation or any circumstance. Man, Man, I'm telling you, Man, 309 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: I I tell you this all. Man. I appreciate you, bro, 310 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: because I know for a fact coming out of that 311 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: little house in South Asias where I grew up, and 312 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: the ship that I was doing. Remember when you say, hey, man, 313 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: you can do what you gotta do one another. You 314 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,439 Speaker 1: can't wrap and sell this ship. So you know you 315 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: want to sell that, I'm gone, you can't. I don't 316 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: want to be nowhere around it. Right. Yeah, I learned that, bro. 317 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 1: Then you you gave me that and man, I appreciate that, Bro. 318 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: You pulled me out that a little bit of ass house. Man. 319 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: I'm living my life, Bro, I appreciate that. Man. The 320 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: difference you know a lot of times, and it's important 321 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: for all the youth and everybody that's watching this right now. 322 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: Like I understood way back then that the FIDS and 323 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: the people that was in a high place it was 324 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 1: trying to stop our movement. So I understood that we 325 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: could have had ninty nine percent of everything legal and 326 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: one percent illegal, and they take that one percent and 327 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: destroy our ninty nine that were building up on. So 328 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 1: that's why I made statements like that, you can't straddle 329 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 1: the fence, you know, I told all the homers, don't. 330 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,880 Speaker 1: You can't come in my business with one feet here 331 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,919 Speaker 1: the other feet in the drug game or whatever that is, 332 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: because you know, this, this is a movement we got going. 333 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 1: This ain't this ain't buy no moment. So you know, 334 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: my mindset was there back then, and it's important for 335 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: for those who are really trying to build an empire 336 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: to understand those principles because if not, that's why people 337 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: empires and visions get destroyed by you know, outside forces 338 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: and outside and individuals that really don't play no major 339 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: role but doing some dumb ship bringing it back to 340 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: the movement. You know, you was always super smart, man. 341 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: It was always super smart and and in three or 342 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: four steps ahead, and and that type of thinking man. 343 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: That and you put that on me in Willie too, 344 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, We way ahead everybody else. Man. 345 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: That's that's like what brought that. Well, y'all had sense 346 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: enough and had the smarts to show up and to 347 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, exercise that very thing that 348 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 1: you wanted to become. Think about those that didn't, beginning 349 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: with my own brother, you know what I'm gonna say that, 350 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: because my own brother didn't have the strength to show 351 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: up and follow the movement, and I started it for him, 352 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So y'all had that. Y'all 353 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: had to work ethic true enough. You know what I mean. 354 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 1: I come blow the horn and pick y'all up, But 355 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,719 Speaker 1: I ain't made you walk outside. I ain't made you 356 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: write those dope rhymes and use that creativity y'all using. 357 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: So you know, y'all, y'all done that, you know what 358 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: I mean? And all of that help our movement, you know, 359 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 1: what I mean, what no eye? And we you know 360 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: I had strengths, y'all had strengths. We've brought them all 361 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: together and bam, you know what I mean, The Ghetto 362 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 1: Boys came to fruition the very thing that laid the 363 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: whole foundation for those that's born. Don't have no idea 364 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: you know what they're standing on. Who built it? You 365 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: know what I mean? But all that came from from 366 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: our mind, from our movement way back, you know what 367 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: I mean. And look how relevant it is the day, 368 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: and look look at what's what's happening to day. Listen 369 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: to that music, man, yeah, listen to that music from 370 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: way back then and applied to right now, timeless man. 371 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And and it's you know what. And it 372 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 1: started with doing like a gil. It started with us 373 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: in the room. No no, no, I'm just saying as 374 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 1: far as the first song, the first, but what I'm 375 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,679 Speaker 1: saying it was the first. It was the first Ghetto 376 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: Boys song that all of us of you and Bill 377 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: was on and and Read was on right do it 378 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: like a jail. But me and Jay was at his 379 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: house that day. They had a list of songs like this, 380 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 1: like a list of like a damn tablet or something, 381 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: a bunch of different song concepts and do it like 382 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: a geo was one of them, and he's the one 383 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: first told me what we what what you know, We're 384 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: gonna do it like gil That means like anything in life, 385 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 1: We're just gonna do it like a go you know 386 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: whatever it is. That just means do it to to 387 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: the highest level. Right and uh we purpose and so 388 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: uh when we started talking about the song, it's like, man, 389 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about just all the different elements of 390 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,239 Speaker 1: doing it like a geo. Social, political elements are doing 391 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: it like a gail. So we're talking about you know, 392 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about this educational system, We're gonna talk 393 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: about this this governmental system. We're gonna talk about corruptions 394 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: and dirty bankers and all of this stuff that that 395 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: happens in in our community that uh that controlled by 396 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: the oligorgy, right, you know the higher ups, you know 397 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: the people that that basically run it. You're gonna talk 398 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, We're gonna, we're gonna, we're 399 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: gonna talk about We're gonna we're gonna talk about that 400 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: and put them on blast and from from that moment 401 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: on it was like I just feel like that song 402 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 1: was really was like kind of like set the standard 403 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 1: for what we would do, the unapologetic movement that we 404 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: had going forward, and and and that, and that's to 405 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: your credit man, And and you know a lot of 406 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 1: people will say that, you know, ghetto boys. Uh you know, 407 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: of course, me and Brad. You know we are responsible 408 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 1: for the majority of writing everything. But it was those 409 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: sees that you planned. Man. It was that you know, 410 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: and and and being in that studio and I remember 411 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: and here's another thing, like you were saying like earlier, 412 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: like you didn't make us do it? Right? Uh you 413 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: would like, uh, that's not true. Way I got hold on, 414 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: he did make us do it because you know what 415 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: he would do. He would drive us way out into 416 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: the middle of no fucking where and leave us for 417 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,199 Speaker 1: were we still didn't have to do it. Could have 418 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,120 Speaker 1: walked off, like go home. How how did you boys 419 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 1: get on? He was dropped off? No, The beauty, the 420 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: beauty of that war was, man. I mean, once again, 421 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't no eye and we because it was tried 422 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: before y'all came, you know what I mean, People like 423 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: jew Box and uh, other people couldn't even embrace it. 424 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: It was too it was too heavy for them to 425 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,239 Speaker 1: even embrace, you know what I mean, or do it 426 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 1: like a geo or different concepts. They told me I 427 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: was too deep. This is what they said to me. Man, 428 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: that's too deep. Man. People ain't gonna be able to 429 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: understand that. But when I'm talking to Willie Deal, when 430 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, you know what I mean. I 431 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: was talking to people that understood English and was able 432 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: to embrace it and execute it. So you know, we 433 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: done that, you know, And I think it's important to 434 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: mention this too for all these youngsters out here is 435 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: trying to get on that you got. If you have mentors, 436 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: you've got people that's invested in you, it's their money, 437 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,640 Speaker 1: like even you're gonna ride with their vision or you're not. 438 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: You know. It's like it's like if if I wrote 439 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: something and it didn't come out like you wanted to 440 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: come out, it was whack whatever in your opinion, you 441 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: would say, man, I don't like that now that and 442 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: you know what I would do. I didn't at the most, 443 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 1: at the most, I might say. At the most, I 444 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: might might say, well, what you don't like about it 445 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,239 Speaker 1: all right, okay, cool man, Well you know, all right, 446 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: go back to the drawing board. Boom boom bam, got it, 447 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: Just like that. A lot of these cats today, you know, 448 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 1: you tell them, you know, you try to give him 449 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: some constructive criticism, and and all of a sudden, you know, 450 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: you run it on their parade, you know, like you 451 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: you against them, and so they get defeated when you 452 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: asked when when somebody try to give them construction construct criticism, 453 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: and so therefore they never even get to that, They 454 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: never even get to a point to where the world 455 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: can witness that their talents. Let me ask you a question. 456 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: The house that you built we're gonna call We're gonna 457 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: call the this state the house that James built. How 458 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: do you feel about the REP scene right now? Um? 459 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: The REP scene right now? Um? I'm not mad at it, 460 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'm not salute the youngsters 461 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: for you know, building uh what they're building with the 462 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: best of you know what they have to work with, 463 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: ye to work with, you know what I mean. And 464 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,719 Speaker 1: I think I even take responsibility, but that to a 465 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,679 Speaker 1: certain extent. Yeah, because I think I think we all should, 466 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: because they studied us. You know what I mean, we 467 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 1: came before them, you know what I mean, We actually 468 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: are influential on a lot of what's taking place right now. 469 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: So we have to own that, you know what I mean, 470 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: We have to own that, whether we want to or not. 471 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: You know, the realization of it is, you know, it's true, 472 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Not probably not the style 473 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: of which they are rapping in different things like that, 474 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: but it's a lot of substance for what I know 475 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 1: I've done and for what I witness, you know, where 476 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 1: music is concerned, that's influential. I think the content, uh, 477 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: like you said, needs to be a little stronger. Well, 478 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: you know, they thought that about Motown. You know, every 479 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: generation have their opinion about you know, the generation that 480 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: come after them, So that's legal to feel that way. 481 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 1: But by the same token, their generation is in love 482 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: with what they're doing, you know what I mean, a 483 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: little strong Yeah, I think, Uh, I mean I'm personally, 484 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 1: I personally for uh songs with messages. I like, I 485 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: like lyrics. I like somebody that's saying some substance, right uh. 486 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,479 Speaker 1: Having said that, you know, like my thing is like 487 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: to inform, Like I loved the artists that informed people, 488 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: but sometimes it gets lost in translation if there's no 489 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: instructions behind in for information, right and yeah, and so 490 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 1: that and and that's the thing that I I can 491 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: say that U, that we did well was that we 492 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: always instructed. We didn't just talk about the struggle music. 493 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: We gave you, uh a blueprint on how to get 494 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: through the struggle. We didn't just talk about the struggle. 495 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: And that's to me, it's very very important when it 496 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: comes to artistry. He did. Yeah, agree, I agree with that. Um, 497 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: but I think you know, even back then, it was 498 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: those that wasn't doing what we were doing, you know 499 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: what I mean, we were it was. It was a 500 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: beautiful combination. You know. I think it exists to day. 501 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: I think, you know, in defense, whether you talk concerned, 502 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: I think it's something that still have different messages that 503 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: they're trying to. Yeah, they may not as be as 504 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: as popular because I don't think the message is as 505 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: popular the day as it was. In fact. That that's 506 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: an excellent that's that's an excellent point. Tell me about 507 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: Rick Rubin, man talk about Rick Rubin that that was 508 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 1: what that was like really in the beginning to Yeah, yeah, 509 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: Rick Rubin, Uh, I heard hold not to cut you off, 510 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: but I heard you ain't like me dog in the beginning. 511 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: Go ahead, now, well I never I never heard Rick 512 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 1: Rubin not liking you. I think Rick Rubin enjoyed the 513 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: Ghetto Boys period as a whole, you know what I mean. 514 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: I feel like Bill better and he liked he liked Bill, 515 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: but he like you, Bro and Will and me Andry. 516 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: He liked Bill the best. Well, once again, face, I 517 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: had never you know what I mean, I hadn't spend 518 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,800 Speaker 1: that kind of time with the brother where he even 519 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: because we would have said that to me then I 520 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: would have had something to say about that. Go ahead, 521 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: But Rick Rubin, you know, of course the history of 522 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: Rick Rubin. He started Deaf Jam with with Russell Simmons, 523 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And uh, Rick Rubin extended 524 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: uh invitation and opportunity to us after we had went 525 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: you know, I think gold On on which album was 526 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: that ripping on the other level and it and Rick 527 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: Rubin had something that like really got my attention that 528 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: I wanted to be a part of, and that was 529 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: the Geffing Machine at the time, David Geffin, You know 530 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: what I mean. If you remember that, David Geffing Machine 531 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: at the time was was a powerful machine. They had 532 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: something everything. Yeah, that was Rick Rubin has left. But 533 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: you know, I felt like if we could have that 534 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: machine behind us, it would really take us to a 535 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 1: whole different planet. And of course we know how that 536 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 1: story and David Geffen discriminated on the ghetto board. Can 537 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 1: you believe those hypocrits with descripted guns and roses and 538 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 1: they're not our ship? They say we're a racist act. 539 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: Ain't that kettle black man? You know it's been rumored 540 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: that you are the unseen hand. Wow, yeah, they like 541 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: they have labeled you a very dangerous man. Well, I 542 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,959 Speaker 1: wonder who what they do that? You know? My hands? 543 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: I mean I'm everybody see me. Um, I I used 544 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: to everybody see me. You know how they're doing the 545 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: craft table you know that? Yeah, but you know how 546 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: that is? Man. The rumors, uh they were did they 547 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 1: existed back then? They existed now, they're gonna exist tomorrow. Um. 548 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: But I think I'm more seen now than they've ever been. Man, 549 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: I have never seen you know what funny thing? Man, 550 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: I'm like social media, old man, I gonna never get 551 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: on social media and then bam, Yeah, well, I'll call 552 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: myself a justin to time, you know what I mean. 553 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: I have to learn to do that too. We can't 554 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: never be one dimensional and stuff the dinosaur age. Know, 555 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: I never allowed that to happen to myself. And when 556 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 1: I came out with my book, you know, I knew 557 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: it was time for me to promote my book and 558 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: ignite let people see it. Yeah, you know what I mean, 559 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: just that time of the day. You know, people need 560 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: to pick that book up too, because there's a lot 561 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 1: of jewels. It's it's a book full of jewels, man, 562 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: and and everything that you did like growing up bro, 563 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: and like wow respect wow yeah ja, what you think 564 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: about people having something to say about you injecting yourself 565 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: in the hip hop beefs and you know, trying to 566 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: I guess bring some type of order. Yeah, I would 567 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: have to repeat that that that. Uh. At first I 568 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:36,760 Speaker 1: started this gangster ship just the respect I get you. Yeah, okay, 569 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:40,319 Speaker 1: I thought that was as cute. Yeah, so you know 570 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,239 Speaker 1: it's kind of hard for them, but them U say 571 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: something stronger than that. I thought that was cute, man, 572 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,000 Speaker 1: Thank Himinem may have wrote that for him. I don't 573 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 1: know who wrote it for, but I know he said 574 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 1: I started this gangster ship and it's the motherfucker thanks. 575 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: I get dr He's bad. That's a bad producer. It's 576 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:10,279 Speaker 1: a bad man. But um man, just we give all 577 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 1: that success man, that came, you know in our career 578 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: as well in my career. I give all that ship 579 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,840 Speaker 1: to you, bro, because you gave me some game that 580 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: um it's fucking unmatched. I always tell people that, say, man, 581 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: James was raised by wolves and I was raised by 582 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 1: the wolf. So what you take that makes me? You know, 583 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:44,879 Speaker 1: I mean kidding, take take a WILLI d to say 584 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: some ship like that about me? You know, you know 585 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: we had always been a comedian. I remember one time, 586 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: man William Bill was fighting in the limousine. I'm just 587 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: I man, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get into detail, man, 588 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: but when Bill said trench coats and gangster pussies, Willie 589 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 1: went ape ship in the limo. Now you weren't at 590 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 1: that time, but man, can't you you know, every time 591 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 1: they got into some ship, I just sit back and 592 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,919 Speaker 1: watch the show. Right. And then we all got more 593 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 1: mature and he started ignoring Bill. Yeah, I always ignored Bill. 594 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 1: And let's talk about this drink lawyer. You know, how 595 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 1: did how did you come to talk about the alcohol 596 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,720 Speaker 1: industry for a person who had it is not known 597 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 1: to be a drinker. You know, I remember the first 598 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 1: time I think I probably ever saw you drink any 599 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: type of alcohol. Was I had a I think I 600 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 1: had a No, No, it wasn't my party. We were 601 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: at a party at Fox Sports Grill and I bought 602 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: your bottle and I was like, yeah, you know you 603 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,919 Speaker 1: like I bought your bottle of wine. That's the first 604 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: time I ever saw you drink. But uh, very impressive man, 605 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: you know, to see you get into this and to 606 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,879 Speaker 1: see you diversify before you went from you went from 607 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: uh the music to boxing and now and now you 608 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: are in the beverage business. Yeah, I'm really trying to 609 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 1: diversify my portfolio. And as you said, well I was. 610 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,120 Speaker 1: I was a late bloomer when it came to drinking 611 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: because I always wanted to stay focused. I never wanted 612 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,440 Speaker 1: nothing to end of the field with my focus. You know, 613 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,680 Speaker 1: in my twenties and my thirties, you know what I mean, 614 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,840 Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna allow that, so I would I would 615 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 1: have a glass of orange juice straight making everybody think 616 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 1: I had gin and juice watching everything, you know what 617 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 1: I mean. So that was important to me to keep 618 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: that focus. But as you can see now, you know 619 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: my choice to drink is red wine because it's a 620 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,400 Speaker 1: help drink, you know what I mean. It got antoxidants, 621 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,279 Speaker 1: all the good stuff. Uh in, as long as you 622 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 1: drink it with moderation, don't you got uncle then when 623 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,120 Speaker 1: Uncle don in in in wine country? Yeah? Did you 624 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 1: drinking wine up there? Back then? I have had a 625 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,080 Speaker 1: glass or two up there with all That's the real 626 00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: that's the real. Step on on the grapes valley up there, 627 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: half of valley in the hills. That's pretty dope. But 628 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,000 Speaker 1: it's been fun. You know. It's a real lucrative business. 629 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,840 Speaker 1: And actually I underestimated lawyer to you know, I pressed, 630 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:41,879 Speaker 1: I press. I'm thinking about CDs right anyway, Yeah, like 631 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: a half a million bottles and underestimated not a half 632 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,160 Speaker 1: a million bottles, a half a million dollars worth the material. 633 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,280 Speaker 1: And I underestimated it. Really one distrilled A bought everything 634 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: and I'm I'm chasing it right now, trying to catch 635 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: up with the sales. Yeah, So it's a that's a 636 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,920 Speaker 1: very good problem to have. Congratulations man, and then you 637 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 1: fight your your your your fight game is on point. 638 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,799 Speaker 1: Everybody winning, and you got brand new fight squad right here. 639 00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 1: You want to introduced them the Mason five, you know, 640 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:22,479 Speaker 1: the Mason five there from Cleveland or our started. Bro Uh, 641 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 1: they're just down here visiting, you know what I mean. 642 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 1: They're down here visiting and we just chopping it up, 643 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,440 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I had an opportunity to 644 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:36,120 Speaker 1: observe Duela in Um in Streeport at the tournament. You know, 645 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: he went the national tournament amateur, the tournament in Streeport, Louisanna, 646 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 1: and he cleaned the slate and I was watching him. 647 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 1: I watched his first fight. You know, this is like 648 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: all the best fighters in in Houston, I mean in 649 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 1: the United States that come together to compete. And he 650 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: was sixteen years old. That's I'm doing. And you know 651 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:06,600 Speaker 1: I watched him like not only just like edge and 652 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: badly beat these twenties something ye old men and different people, 653 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,360 Speaker 1: but like stopped. He stopped a couple of they stopped 654 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 1: the fight. And he'd done this three times. You know. 655 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: I watched one time, said was that luck? And I 656 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: came back a couple of days later and the same thing. 657 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,640 Speaker 1: And then the grand finale was this guy, I think 658 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:31,879 Speaker 1: one like eleven Nationals, you know, Latino brother bad boy, 659 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,359 Speaker 1: and uh, he'd done the same thing, stopped dropped him 660 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,239 Speaker 1: the first role and uh, you know that was amazing, 661 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that was amazing because sixteen 662 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 1: year old's not supposed to be able to beat up 663 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,319 Speaker 1: a grown man deliver like that, right, So you know 664 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,160 Speaker 1: what I mean. I that was somebody I had to meet, 665 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And him as Fall and 666 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,279 Speaker 1: all his brothers have came down and we've been like, 667 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,800 Speaker 1: you know, chopping it up man, because someday I hope 668 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: and pray that I can be in business with him. Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, 669 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: talk to me about talk to us about um, the 670 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: the press that the FEDS try to put on you. 671 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,800 Speaker 1: Not not going all the way back, but I'm talking 672 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,239 Speaker 1: about as for us, Like, I don't want you to 673 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:25,840 Speaker 1: go into details and all that. I'm just what I 674 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: want to talk about. What I want you to impart 675 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,760 Speaker 1: on the audiences for all of these young inspiring black 676 00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 1: business people out there and even other people out there 677 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:38,400 Speaker 1: who who There's certain people in the government when we 678 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,879 Speaker 1: say government. We think of this big old entity, right, 679 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,400 Speaker 1: but the government is made of individuals, human beings with 680 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 1: certain biases and convictions and stuff. Right, So these people 681 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,799 Speaker 1: may have their own uh thing. Person might wake up 682 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,680 Speaker 1: and see I don't like that guy, so he might 683 00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: target you and decide I want to target him. You know, 684 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,120 Speaker 1: how how do how do how do those people that 685 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,320 Speaker 1: are in business, are trying to make it in business? 686 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,800 Speaker 1: Uh make sure that they they can survive an attack, 687 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: an unwarranted attack uh against them by particular individuals that 688 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,560 Speaker 1: work within the government. Yeah. Uh, that ain't gonna really 689 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:31,400 Speaker 1: be a short answer, but I'm I'm gonna do my best. Um. 690 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:36,120 Speaker 1: The attack on me begun years ago and it exists 691 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:41,000 Speaker 1: even till this day. And if you really think about it, 692 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,440 Speaker 1: because it was an attack on us, you know what 693 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,759 Speaker 1: I mean. I I kind of brought you all into 694 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:50,040 Speaker 1: that attack, and y'all stood up right there beside me, 695 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,799 Speaker 1: and you know, we went to war together. But it's 696 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,920 Speaker 1: so deep, you know what I mean, so deep, and 697 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,239 Speaker 1: I you know, I gotta I gotta philosophy, um, and 698 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,080 Speaker 1: a lot of different areas on why this happened, you 699 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,960 Speaker 1: know what I mean, I truly believe that they were 700 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: trying to stop the movement of what's taking place today. 701 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,480 Speaker 1: They saw this coming to fruition, you know, everything that 702 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 1: we were doing, you know, from from ground zero. They 703 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:25,080 Speaker 1: they recognize our mindsets, they recognize our actions. And then 704 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 1: as we started evolving, you know what I mean, as 705 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:33,160 Speaker 1: we started growing and evolving and becoming successful, they they 706 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,879 Speaker 1: doubled down with the pressure. One of the things that's 707 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:42,160 Speaker 1: important to do when UH you are under attacked by 708 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:47,080 Speaker 1: fears or any police force, any anything, period, is to 709 00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:51,160 Speaker 1: not be afraid to put the spotlight on it. And 710 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,680 Speaker 1: that's something we've done through our music over and over again, 711 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,880 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We wanted to be the 712 00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,200 Speaker 1: voice forget olds all over the world. So we aim 713 00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,880 Speaker 1: together and you know in that room like this, we 714 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:08,160 Speaker 1: we we we we. UH was like minded in that 715 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 1: attack to be a voice for everybody and put the 716 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:15,000 Speaker 1: spotlight on all the wrong doing and all the crookedness 717 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 1: that they were doing, that they were conspiring to do, 718 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,720 Speaker 1: you know, whatever the case was. We didn't allow fear, 719 00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,680 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, to keep us in bundange 720 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,080 Speaker 1: where they can totally destroyt And it's that word fear 721 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:33,520 Speaker 1: that that anybody on a business or whatever it's concerned. 722 00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,319 Speaker 1: It's that word feel that you can't allow to paralyze you. 723 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,040 Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Because fear is not even 724 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,520 Speaker 1: of God. And if you're allowed to paralyze you, then 725 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 1: you defeated. We never allowed that. We can't start allowing it. Uh, today, yesterday, 726 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,040 Speaker 1: all the day, so you know, put the spotlight on 727 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,480 Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Yea man fears not even a god. 728 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,440 Speaker 1: A jewel you can have the a ladies and gentlemen, 729 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,839 Speaker 1: you can have that. They gave you another good one. 730 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:12,479 Speaker 1: They gave you a good one. Fear is not of God. Man. 731 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,880 Speaker 1: So all you people out there ain't pickle, don't know 732 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,759 Speaker 1: about it now, but I'm gonna say this. I don't 733 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 1: say I'm gonna don't say it. Here we go, all 734 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,880 Speaker 1: you people out there who believe in God. But you 735 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,839 Speaker 1: know you got this fear of certain people. You know, 736 00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:36,120 Speaker 1: you got fear of even yourself and your capabilities. That's 737 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,279 Speaker 1: not of God. So you already off track. If you 738 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,880 Speaker 1: really really believe in God like you said you do, 739 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,400 Speaker 1: you should feel no man, no woman. You should fear nothing. 740 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,839 Speaker 1: If you really believe in God, you're the only one 741 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,520 Speaker 1: to feel feel you know what I mean. That's it, 742 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,840 Speaker 1: you know, And that's and that's the thing. You know, 743 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,839 Speaker 1: if you think about it, a lot of us never 744 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,520 Speaker 1: of our chance, ourself a chance because of that word fear. Man. 745 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:09,600 Speaker 1: It's a it's a paralyzing uh word that stop so 746 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:14,399 Speaker 1: many of us from you know, becoming who we were 747 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,080 Speaker 1: called or be meant to be or whatever it may be. 748 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,640 Speaker 1: You know what I mean. Just imagine if we would 749 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,920 Speaker 1: have been stuck on fear. Imagine but it never happened, 750 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,279 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. For example, the conversation with 751 00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:30,439 Speaker 1: Larry Hoover, you know what I meant. I remember all 752 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,680 Speaker 1: the threats. I remember if you do this, this's gonna happen, 753 00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:38,359 Speaker 1: and that the different police departments out of Chicago. Oh yeah, 754 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 1: I'm getting calls, you know what I mean a lot 755 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,880 Speaker 1: of the things and subject matters we spoke on was 756 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,319 Speaker 1: against you know the rules where y'all side mad they 757 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,080 Speaker 1: were you know what I mean, they came to my house, 758 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,560 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So we we never allowed 759 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:59,480 Speaker 1: that word to paralyze us. You know, even even though 760 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,040 Speaker 1: it was on comfortable, you know what I mean, it 761 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:06,839 Speaker 1: was uncomfortable, but you know, like are willing to die 762 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,279 Speaker 1: for some of those things, you know what I mean, 763 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,440 Speaker 1: because I'm like, Okay, it is what it is. I'm 764 00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 1: gonna stand on this to this capacity where I'm willing 765 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,799 Speaker 1: to leave all out for this. So it was that 766 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,880 Speaker 1: mind frame of strength, you know what I mean of 767 00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:28,120 Speaker 1: not aligned feel to paralyze us in our movement. Man, 768 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:33,800 Speaker 1: that I think has made it for so many that 769 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,080 Speaker 1: that's unaware of it where hip hop is concerned. Let's 770 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:41,680 Speaker 1: go back to that fearing God that coming. So God 771 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:48,600 Speaker 1: is this spiritual thing, that being that we're supposed to 772 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,920 Speaker 1: that's supposed to be on our side, right, why should 773 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,560 Speaker 1: we fear somebody that's on our side? See? And I'm 774 00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:02,320 Speaker 1: asking this question because you know, uh, I personally don't 775 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,840 Speaker 1: fear God, you know what I'm saying. So, Man, I 776 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,400 Speaker 1: don't know if I'm doing maybe I'm doing something wrong, 777 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,879 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I don't fear God. I don't 778 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,560 Speaker 1: fear like I don't feel like a man on the 779 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,759 Speaker 1: planet because I feel like anything somebody can do to me, 780 00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:17,799 Speaker 1: I can do to them. So I don't That's why 781 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,480 Speaker 1: I don't fear anybody like. I really just don't fear people, period. 782 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,279 Speaker 1: I don't fear and I don't fear people. I I'm 783 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,279 Speaker 1: not about to fear some guy in the sky or 784 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,600 Speaker 1: wherever he may be. And I know that it's very, 785 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,239 Speaker 1: very unpopular, and I'm sure I'm going to get some 786 00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,560 Speaker 1: some some calls on this one, but I just got 787 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:40,400 Speaker 1: to put it out there. Fam, I just don't believe 788 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,680 Speaker 1: and I and I do believe in God, but I 789 00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:48,000 Speaker 1: don't fear God. Well. I think it's uh, you know, 790 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,040 Speaker 1: you can say six and half a dozen and you 791 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,920 Speaker 1: can be talking about the same thing. Yeah, it's a 792 00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,040 Speaker 1: it's a matter of reverence in which I think you 793 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:01,360 Speaker 1: have where the Creator is concerned. And I think, uh, 794 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:08,560 Speaker 1: it's easy to like get spirituality and religious like mixed up, 795 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,040 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And a lot of people are. 796 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,640 Speaker 1: I don't know how to differentiate the two, but I don't. 797 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,759 Speaker 1: I know you with your thinking ability and with the 798 00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,920 Speaker 1: capacity that you the reverence you have for God not 799 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:28,960 Speaker 1: saying anything disrespectful concerning him. But I understand you know 800 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,600 Speaker 1: where you're coming from. Others may not. But it's a 801 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,840 Speaker 1: reverence that you have and that's what's important, you know 802 00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:39,400 Speaker 1: what I mean. The important part is acknowledging that the Creator, 803 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,200 Speaker 1: it is all powerful with me, all power. He not 804 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,680 Speaker 1: a man, you know what I mean. He not somebody 805 00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:50,040 Speaker 1: that you know what I mean? So I respect that, 806 00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,920 Speaker 1: you know, And I'm a humble myself where he is concerned. 807 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:59,720 Speaker 1: And you know, I think y'all feel the same way. 808 00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:06,719 Speaker 1: And on with that and with that, FAM, we conclude 809 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:19,360 Speaker 1: the first episode of Ghetto Boys reloaded with the Great Jay, Prince, Badman, Brad, 810 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,160 Speaker 1: Scarface Jordan's and I am Willie D. Thank you for 811 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:28,040 Speaker 1: tuning in, FAM until next time, Oh yeah, please out. 812 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,120 Speaker 1: This episode was produced by a King and brought to 813 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:37,520 Speaker 1: you by the Black Effect Podcast Network at Our Heart 814 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:38,120 Speaker 1: Radio