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Speaker 2: Legends only, another Legends only edition. This is a fact.
Speaker 2: You know, it's always fun for us to talk to
Speaker 2: legends in the game, and when we say the game
Speaker 2: as far as hip hop, but entrepreneur game as well.
Speaker 2: But you know, we grew up on music, so coming
Speaker 2: from New York, you know we was heavy East Coast influence.
Speaker 3: That's a fact.
Speaker 2: But you know, a lot of people from the West
Speaker 2: Coast really changed the game and really got up y.
Speaker 2: So of course, you know, you think about the obvious
Speaker 2: name Snoop and Dre, but you can't talk to West
Speaker 2: Coast without forty Rally sprink.
Speaker 3: That was the first time I asked you, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: That was the song that got me. It was that shug.
Speaker 4: My brother played out.
Speaker 5: Like who's that were like, it's that news vibe. It's
Speaker 5: called forty. I'm like forty, I dig it, I dig it.
Speaker 5: So he needs on introduction. E forty, you know, legendary
Speaker 5: just in every aspect of the game. He's actually been
Speaker 5: in the hip hop game for thirty five years. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: I was born in eighty four. He came out in
Speaker 2: eighty six. Yeah, so that's crazy. The long Jemmy is
Speaker 2: just that might be the Guinness Book of World Records,
Speaker 2: Like yeah.
Speaker 4: Short, is it too short? Too short?
Speaker 3: And like iced tea, you know, but you.
Speaker 6: Know, I came out, My actual first project came out
Speaker 6: in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 4: It was music on the shelves and everything.
Speaker 6: I haven't rapping since I heard sugar Hill Brand Gang
Speaker 6: when I was you know, in nineteen seventy nine. I
Speaker 6: was eleven years old. Everybody was kids back then, you know,
Speaker 6: for my age group. But anyway, you could just say
Speaker 6: I start. My first official album came out in nineteen
Speaker 6: eighty eight, so that's thirty three years.
Speaker 2: It's still a long damn time and lifetime. But I
Speaker 2: mean I was rapping at college in eighties, in eighty six.
Speaker 6: That's where you got eighty six from Okay, talent shows
Speaker 6: and stuff like that, you know, in college at ground
Speaker 6: State University.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, So let's get into this. Let's get
Speaker 2: into this. We we always love to talk from a
Speaker 2: different perspective. Most people they give interviews, and if they're
Speaker 2: entertainment or their sports, it's always about their career as
Speaker 2: far as the musician or their career as an athlete.
Speaker 2: But I feel like, you know, people have way more
Speaker 2: to offer than just you know, what meets the eye.
Speaker 2: And e forty to a perfect example this as far
Speaker 2: as being an entrepreneur. So we'll talk about all the
Speaker 2: different things that he has going on. But first and foremost,
Speaker 2: I want to ask you because you're known as like
Speaker 2: a pioneer in this entrepreneur space. Now it's cool to
Speaker 2: be entrepreneur hip hop, but it wasn't always cool to
Speaker 2: be an entrepreneur hip hop. And you guys, Independent, I believe,
Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong. Like even with Sick with
Speaker 2: It records like y'all like kind of pioneered that selling
Speaker 2: out the Trump vibe. And I think even when Master
Speaker 2: P went to California and that kind of really inspired.
Speaker 3: Him to really you know what I'm saying. You can
Speaker 3: see the similarity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what let's take it back to the beginning stages.
Speaker 2: What made you go to independent route and how did
Speaker 2: that look in the late eighties early nineties.
Speaker 6: Well, you know, being in the Bay Area, we kind
Speaker 6: of built for that kind of stuff. You know, as
Speaker 6: a teenager, you know, you know, I had a clothing
Speaker 6: store man, you know, on Solonno Avenue in Millersville, in Vale.
Speaker 3: California, and I knew I was on my way.
Speaker 4: To be an entrepreneur then, you know.
Speaker 6: And you know with music, when we you know, we
Speaker 6: actually had to you know, we ain't had no choice, bro,
Speaker 6: We didn't have the opportunities that at a lot of
Speaker 6: other rappers, especially New York rappers.
Speaker 3: Bro, like New York rappers, that's where it's from.
Speaker 6: So you know, they had a little easier, no disrespect,
Speaker 6: just like we just I'm from a small city, so
Speaker 6: I had it.
Speaker 3: We had it kind of harder than any city in the.
Speaker 4: Bay Area we from. I'm from Vallejll, California.
Speaker 6: Not Oakland, not San Francisco, not Richmond, Layhell, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. But we vlailed rock with all soils.
Speaker 6: But anyway, you know, it was by force, not choice.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: You know, if I had.
Speaker 6: Opportunities other rappers had back then, maybe I would have
Speaker 6: did it, you know. But then again, I was always
Speaker 6: a businessman, and my uncle Saint Charles taught me, well
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, So I always if it
Speaker 6: made sense. If it didn't make good business sense, it
Speaker 6: don't make sense at all. So that's what I was
Speaker 6: always told, you know what I mean. So we did
Speaker 6: it the right way man. You know, started off selling
Speaker 6: the tapes out the trunk of the car on consignment.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm sure y'all heard the story before of me.
Speaker 6: And then you know, with my uncle Saint Charles, you know,
Speaker 6: having this big book like an encyclopedia, full of addresses
Speaker 6: that he just put together slowly but surely, day after day,
Speaker 6: months after months and put it together. And it was
Speaker 6: every retailer that dealt with hip hop music in the nation.
Speaker 6: And he would send out a one sheet along with
Speaker 6: some CDs and a cassette or whatever at the time
Speaker 6: and say, hey, if you like this, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead and order from this.
Speaker 6: You had a barcode of our albums on there and
Speaker 6: have like a detailed how would you say this, like
Speaker 6: a bio of everything that we had going and where
Speaker 6: we were from and all this and uh. And he
Speaker 6: put it together like the weather man and so you
Speaker 6: know us with the great music we had, you know,
Speaker 6: because you know, all the soils was rocking with us
Speaker 6: because we were speaking.
Speaker 4: Everything we were speaking, they was living.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, So curve, we were just
Speaker 2: the curve commentators you know that actually was in it.
Speaker 4: You feel me not not no fake shit, you know.
Speaker 3: So that's how.
Speaker 7: I'm unfolded in the late eighties obviously for the hip
Speaker 7: hop area that this is a different, different type of
Speaker 7: sound Laos obviously a lot different from other parts of California.
Speaker 7: Who who was the musical influence that you're pairing your
Speaker 7: game after at the time, as far as us CEO's
Speaker 7: are just rappers at all, but just rappers.
Speaker 6: See, yeah, rappers. I would have to say, too short,
Speaker 6: Big Bro, too short. Uh empty Hammer, I would say,
Speaker 6: uh uh, Magic Mike and Calvinty out of Richmond, California.
Speaker 6: If you're looking at style, the style of rapping, the
Speaker 6: game that they were spitting and you know, and all
Speaker 6: that stuff combined.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying that that all unfolded Hammer with.
Speaker 6: His you know, taking things to a whole other worldwide
Speaker 6: stage and just being from the band, just letting the
Speaker 6: whole world for everybody know MC Hammer to short his
Speaker 6: game and you know, his selling making customized taste for
Speaker 6: dudes in the hoods, you know. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: stuff like that, and then you know, and then it's
Speaker 6: circulating and everybody dubbing it just double the uh the
Speaker 6: conssed just like Calvalti and Magic Mic and they style
Speaker 6: and you know what I'm saying, it's like it was,
Speaker 6: it was just game infested. Then on another note, you
Speaker 6: know you got to look at you know, I grew
Speaker 6: up listening to Grand Master Flash, the Furious Five. I
Speaker 6: can't Maley mailed them. Grew up listening to run them said,
Speaker 6: I grew up listening to ll who J. Cars One
Speaker 6: is a big influence of me. Uh that that I
Speaker 6: love cars One. You know, Chuck d you can say
Speaker 6: iced tea for sure. You know what I'm saying, Ice T.
Speaker 6: People don't know.
Speaker 3: How it came up.
Speaker 6: Ice tea really is and really was back then to
Speaker 6: this day. Bro too, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 6: it's so it's many, it's many others man. So that's
Speaker 6: that's what I was, you know, that's what I was watching.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I love Luke Skywalker, Jay Prince, you know for their
Speaker 2: uh you.
Speaker 6: Know, co status like being the owner of companies and
Speaker 6: they you know, they was up against a lot like
Speaker 6: government was trying to like everybody, like the States and
Speaker 6: the in the States they were in, there was a
Speaker 6: lot of people against hip hop and they stood strong
Speaker 6: on the front line about the about this culture. People
Speaker 6: like that mean a lot, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And we got to give people they roses in their
Speaker 6: gardens and you know what I'm saying, they flowers while
Speaker 6: they're here, because that's that's what I'm here to do,
Speaker 6: because we ain't gonna always be here.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. So you know that's how
Speaker 4: I go.
Speaker 2: Man, So at what point one, I want to talk
Speaker 2: about your spirits business? But even before that, at what
Speaker 2: point did you realize you diversified? Because I believe correct
Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong. You had a fat Burger. Change,
Speaker 2: that's the first stop I ever heard of it as
Speaker 2: a fat Burger.
Speaker 4: So at what point of wingstop that was in motion?
Speaker 3: Too?
Speaker 2: It didn't get it didn't get built due to the
Speaker 2: fact that at that time, it was two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, we was in a recession.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you.
Speaker 6: About that story one on a whole nother note, but
Speaker 6: it we I had. I was in the at least
Speaker 6: for five years. I went to Texas, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, and got and got the contracts done and everything.
Speaker 6: I was locked in, like, had the plans already built
Speaker 6: out everything, you know what I'm saying for for wingstock.
Speaker 2: For wingstopager Flatburger was up and running for three years
Speaker 2: along me and my business partner on that was my man,
Speaker 2: the lake Chester Mclockton. Okay, yeah, and then so you
Speaker 2: had a fat Burger and then you was gonna get
Speaker 2: a wingstop and then the recession came and then they
Speaker 2: just pulled the funding as far as like bank bank financing, but.
Speaker 6: Now the bank financial At that time, you know, it
Speaker 6: wasn't about the money. It was just I had spent
Speaker 6: like six hundred thousand dollars on my own cash money
Speaker 6: on wing on Fatburger, and so you know, instead of
Speaker 6: I had that on the next round. When I was
Speaker 6: getting the wings, I was like, man, let me try
Speaker 6: to get along.
Speaker 4: It was the wrong time. It was during the recession.
Speaker 6: It was giving loans no matter how good your credit was,
Speaker 6: no matter what you had, no matter what.
Speaker 4: And I was like, I couldn't get the loan.
Speaker 6: So I just I just I just backed up and
Speaker 6: just brought myself out of the lease, the five year lease,
Speaker 6: and just had to pay a few dollars and to
Speaker 6: get out of it. You know, it was it was money.
Speaker 6: It was money spent that I didn't gain no profit from.
Speaker 6: But it's okay, you know, cause I you know, I
Speaker 6: got bounced back abilities.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I also had also had a club, you know, out
Speaker 2: there in San Jose.
Speaker 4: It was called the Ambassador's Lounge.
Speaker 6: Many people came to visit that, you know, from all
Speaker 6: over many many stars and my man Big Big von
Speaker 6: Johnson cam Yale was the DJ there every Friday, so
Speaker 6: we had that thing cracking.
Speaker 3: Man, it was going down. Was the energy drink happening
Speaker 3: around this time?
Speaker 7: So forty one is during the time of the fat
Speaker 7: Burger and the Wings South potential.
Speaker 4: After you said.
Speaker 3: Energy drink, oh youre talking about forty water. So I
Speaker 3: did that with my man Kobe. Kobe. Kobe got in me.
Speaker 6: So first of all, before that, when I had my cloth,
Speaker 6: when I have my club, the the Ambassador's Lounge, I
Speaker 6: was working on like a hypnotic h kind of duplicate.
Speaker 6: It was called it was gonna be called Cloud nine,
Speaker 6: but that fell through that we didn't I didn't get
Speaker 6: that going because I didn't have all the avenues, you know, licens.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of things I didn't know. I
Speaker 4: wasn't seasoned like I am now.
Speaker 6: And then uh, Kobe had got in me because he
Speaker 6: already had high fee Hyphie energy drink popping during during
Speaker 6: the Hyphee movement, and he was like.
Speaker 2: Fody, man, let me let me show you something I
Speaker 2: want to I want to sit down with you.
Speaker 6: He sat down with me and he showed me the
Speaker 6: artwork to forty water, which is a kind of like
Speaker 6: a vitamin water at the time, and we and we
Speaker 6: did that, we made a few dollars and uh, you
Speaker 6: know that kind of you know went its way, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, because we was getting kind of
Speaker 6: like I ain't even lie, it was kind of getting
Speaker 6: kicked off the shelves by other company, you know, ship
Speaker 6: like that happens, you know, your shelf space. They're like, man,
Speaker 6: they're giving us too much competition. We're gonna move them
Speaker 6: off the way, you know what I'm saying, Like that happened.
Speaker 6: So but I can't just blame it on that. It's
Speaker 6: just that went away. That's okay. I didn't have full
Speaker 6: control of that, you know, I think Kobe for you know,
Speaker 6: coming through with that. But everything I do from here
Speaker 6: on out full control of anything, period and from start
Speaker 6: to finish. That's my entrepreneur is kicking in. Man, you
Speaker 6: feel me, and uh, you know, there's many things in
Speaker 6: the making. Man, you dig I talk your ear off.
Speaker 3: I love to talk.
Speaker 4: You better know it from the bay and.
Speaker 8: Don't say so let's let's let's let's get into this
Speaker 8: as far as one hundred percent ownership you all right, So, yeah,
Speaker 8: you're from northern California.
Speaker 6: The same the same as the Emerald Triangle in the
Speaker 6: in the uh in Napa and in wine country Nappa
Speaker 6: Napa Valley.
Speaker 2: Now you're right next to you, right next to the
Speaker 2: Napa which the wine country. That's where you know, a
Speaker 2: lot of wine is harvest and it's well known for line.
Speaker 2: But we don't really see a lot of black entrepreneurs
Speaker 2: in the spirit space, especially in the Wan space. Wine
Speaker 2: it's like one of these things where it's like a
Speaker 2: high end, you know, it's luxury. I so, a how
Speaker 2: did you get into the wine space? What made you
Speaker 2: because most rappers it's champagne is you know, it's like
Speaker 2: vodka stuff like that. You don't really see too many
Speaker 2: rappers champion wine, like you know, that's not very commonplace.
Speaker 2: So what made you get into the wine space and
Speaker 2: how did you get into the Wane space as a
Speaker 2: you know, black entrepreneur.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I'm right next to Napa. It only
Speaker 4: made sense.
Speaker 6: And not only that, but I've always everyone knows, everyone
Speaker 6: that's followed my music for many years, from the beginning
Speaker 6: for thirty three years.
Speaker 4: Know that's all I talk about.
Speaker 3: Out as wine.
Speaker 4: I mean all the time, like even if it wasn't mine.
Speaker 6: Uh, Gallo makes a wine called Colorassi, big jug of wine.
Speaker 4: Everybody has seen it.
Speaker 6: Every family has had a big jug of wine at
Speaker 6: the at the house. You know what they're saying during
Speaker 6: gatherings and stuff. So I used to you know, uh,
Speaker 6: my mom used to keep Colorassi around. She had the
Speaker 6: Rhine and she would have the Burgundy. Uh and and
Speaker 6: maybe sometime that should bleed. But I took a liking
Speaker 6: to the to the to the uh to the to
Speaker 6: the Rhine and the.
Speaker 3: Burgundy.
Speaker 6: And so you know, at parties and the gatherings and everything,
Speaker 6: I'm bringing a drug with me.
Speaker 4: You know. It was to the point where you know,
Speaker 4: I'm so soil.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm saying, I go to Ruth Chris back
Speaker 6: in the days, you know, I pay the corkish feet
Speaker 6: the fifteen twenty dollar crookids free and.
Speaker 2: Bring in a big ass battle of wine. Uh col
Speaker 2: ROSSI red wine Burgundy and uh and and and drink
Speaker 2: that and they and then my cat all my dudes
Speaker 2: be like, man, you got bread white, you just don't
Speaker 2: get some.
Speaker 7: Some high power.
Speaker 4: I would ask why, And I say, right, now at
Speaker 4: this moment, I won't this. You feel me. I haven't drunk,
Speaker 4: I haven't had drunk. I haven't drunk.
Speaker 6: Carlo Rossi and I loved them because they had a
Speaker 6: big influence, you know, Gallo. But I got my own
Speaker 6: wine now, so you know I haven't drunk. And since
Speaker 6: I made my own wine, which was twenty thirteen, I
Speaker 6: got Earl Stephens selections. You know what I'm saying. I'll
Speaker 6: be on this right here. You feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: This is not you know Earl Stevens selections. You know
Speaker 6: function red blend.
Speaker 3: So I think that's brilliant. Man.
Speaker 7: A couple of things you did. Obviously, you branded it
Speaker 7: and you named it after yourself. Well you're Pep, the
Speaker 7: world is you as he forty.
Speaker 9: They didn't know Earl seeds and probably some people still
Speaker 9: don't know what el seeds right?
Speaker 3: Why you specifically named it after that?
Speaker 7: And number two, you went straight to online was selling
Speaker 7: it before you even hit shows.
Speaker 3: So what was the playing behind that?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, straight to consumer is like the best
Speaker 6: thing right now, Like you know, you're cutting out the ason.
Speaker 6: It's like it's beautiful, you know, and you know it's
Speaker 6: good to have your stuff in the retail stores and all.
Speaker 6: That's fine, that's that's better too, But stretches, I mean,
Speaker 6: you're cutting out all the hard costs, all that stuff,
Speaker 6: you know, when you go straight to consumers. So I
Speaker 6: started off like that and the demand got really big.
Speaker 6: It got really big. First of all, I forgot tell
Speaker 6: you I named wyan Earl Stevens because I didn't want
Speaker 6: to name a wine E forty. This just don't sound
Speaker 6: right for a wine, you know what I'm saying. I figure,
Speaker 6: you know, you got names out there. People name they,
Speaker 6: you know, their wines after their last name or some
Speaker 6: of the family members and stuff like that. So I
Speaker 6: was like, let me call it Earl Stevens. You know,
Speaker 6: that's a square ass name, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I'm a hip square even though I'm gamed up. But
Speaker 6: Earl Stevens sound you know, that sounds real, you know,
Speaker 6: kind of luxurious. Earl Stevens.
Speaker 4: You feel me.
Speaker 6: So that's why I did. That's why I did that.
Speaker 6: But uh, getting back to uh, you know, selling it online.
Speaker 6: The uh did it online and it just starts flying,
Speaker 6: like flying, flying, flying, to the point where the de
Speaker 6: man got so big with all retailers was accent. How
Speaker 6: do we get it? How do we get it? Thanks
Speaker 6: to the power of social media, you know, thanks to
Speaker 6: the power of social media. I had those requests coming
Speaker 6: in from all of my fans all over the place,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 4: And so also.
Speaker 2: When you sell it on wine online, you can get
Speaker 2: it delivered directly to your door, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying. And you can be anywhere that accepts.
Speaker 4: You know, shipping.
Speaker 3: Some states don't accept.
Speaker 6: Shipping, you know, shipping wine and then liquor, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. So that's how I went man. And
Speaker 6: so the demand got so big where I had to
Speaker 6: put it in the retail stores. I had to I
Speaker 6: had to get a distributor and send it out.
Speaker 2: So what is the process of actually having a wine company? Like,
Speaker 2: because it's like wine, like you got to crush the
Speaker 2: grapes and all that. So it's like do you just
Speaker 2: go to Napolo and say, okay, I want you know,
Speaker 2: I'll take you three whole freights of wine.
Speaker 3: They like how they do it?
Speaker 2: Like, is it like a wholesaler that's wine and just
Speaker 2: sells it to different companies and then they just label it.
Speaker 6: We got tanks man, we got tanks. They don't do
Speaker 6: the stepping on wine with your feet no more.
Speaker 2: A newer process. But you know, like I said, you
Speaker 2: got to go sit. I went to go sit with them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Of course you have to get your license and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. That's another thing.
Speaker 6: You know, your first first start off with my California license.
Speaker 6: You know, that's the first thing. Everybody that sells adult beverages.
Speaker 3: Really, no matter even if it's a dope beverage with
Speaker 3: whatever you is, you want to tap into California first.
Speaker 3: So I have to take care of that first.
Speaker 2: After that, I went from state to state to state,
Speaker 2: the state to state, the state, the state states all.
Speaker 6: These years, That's what I've been doing. People don't know
Speaker 6: why why we have it? I here now I just
Speaker 6: signed this a major distribution company. I just Scientist national
Speaker 6: distribution deal with Southern places Wine e Spirits.
Speaker 2: Now everyone will start seeing you know, at least forty
Speaker 2: one states for now, forty one states.
Speaker 6: That's a lot for a man that owns his own brand.
Speaker 6: You understand me, one, you feel me. So that's that's
Speaker 6: that's how it unfolded. Then you got to go you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, you start from. You gotta know
Speaker 6: some You gotta ask questions. All this stuff was not easy,
Speaker 6: and I make it look easy.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: You gotta find out, Okay, who is the best person
Speaker 3: to go do my packaging? You know?
Speaker 6: So if you look at my packaging, I ain't gonna
Speaker 6: get no just anybody. This is somebody that actually does
Speaker 6: packaging from major h adult beverage companies, several of them,
Speaker 6: some that you.
Speaker 2: May have may not, may may not have heard of.
Speaker 2: Some you've heard of several times, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So and I have him. I had that company do
Speaker 2: all my my, my, my packaging.
Speaker 6: Then you got different manufacturers. You got your wine manufacturers,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. Then you got your distilled
Speaker 6: disteled liquor. You know what I'm saying, which is my
Speaker 6: hurricane Hurricane, my coypra belt, stuff like that. Then you
Speaker 6: got your sparklings. That's a whole other facility. These are
Speaker 6: these are pieces and puzzles that I put together. Then
Speaker 6: I go to Then you got last Goomxico. You know
Speaker 6: the distillery out there from my equad Into tequila, the
Speaker 6: Blanco Repo and the nail.
Speaker 3: You understand me as soon to be extra in nail
Speaker 3: with the tall bottle.
Speaker 2: Then you got your you know, then then you got
Speaker 2: your coniac, you know, your tycoon coniac from from Corneac, France,
Speaker 2: my VS and my vs O P and.
Speaker 4: Then I assume to be XO. You understand me. So
Speaker 4: it's just so.
Speaker 2: Many things and you gotta be focused, you gotta be
Speaker 2: dial in you.
Speaker 6: This ain't This is a real business. It's lucrative and
Speaker 6: and it ain't. It ain't built you.
Speaker 4: You can't. Everybody ain't built for it. Man.
Speaker 6: I'm built for this because I've been on my entrepreneur
Speaker 6: you understand me ever since I was about four.
Speaker 4: Hello, yes, I mean.
Speaker 3: A fet fetcher, a real feti fetcher. So all I've
Speaker 3: heard is that you're super involved. So you're actually taking
Speaker 3: trips to Mexico. You're actually taking trips to fans, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7: When you get to these places, are you like sampling
Speaker 7: tasting and saying you know what, nah, this needs something else?
Speaker 3: Like what's the process like when you take these trips?
Speaker 4: You know, I haven't had to do it too many times?
Speaker 2: Like you know, well, I lock it in and then
Speaker 2: you've then from there you send it samples, you sent samples.
Speaker 6: Okay, we find tuning it. We're making sure every that
Speaker 6: we're doing blind taste. We tasting them against other brands.
Speaker 6: You know, it's called blind tasting or you don't know
Speaker 6: which one you sip it. There's been times I've tasted
Speaker 6: my coniac and my Pottners. They was right here at
Speaker 6: this bar when I put this together, like the weather,
Speaker 6: you understand me right here sitting here, and we was
Speaker 6: drinking that. But I'm not gonna say no names of
Speaker 6: the Coniacs, but you can imagine the cony Acs that
Speaker 6: I had the blind taste with and everybody said, everybody
Speaker 6: they didn't even know what they was tasting.
Speaker 4: It was mine. Mine was the best period, you know.
Speaker 6: So and that's the same with my tequila and all
Speaker 6: the other brands I got.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I want to go back just a little bit.
Speaker 7: You said Southern gladi is obviously that that's the largest
Speaker 7: wine and spirits distributed in the country. Yeah, how did
Speaker 7: that connection happen? Because that is the process where you're
Speaker 7: now going into the retail space and they're putting on ourselves.
Speaker 3: So how did you can act with them? That's for me.
Speaker 6: So so basically I was a I was with a
Speaker 6: company called Landy Koniac as a brand ambassador for about
Speaker 6: a year or two, right.
Speaker 4: And actually Landy they out of France.
Speaker 6: They needed somebody and I got this excuse me, I
Speaker 6: got this plug from my from when I had my
Speaker 6: my from my mammnessa that had to be hive and
Speaker 6: had he also had. He was also my business partner
Speaker 6: at the ambassador's lounge in San Jose. And so you know,
Speaker 6: when you're dealing with clubs, you know a lot of
Speaker 6: bartend you know a lot of liquor companies.
Speaker 3: So this liquor company, Landy, was like, hey, we need
Speaker 3: to we need.
Speaker 6: Somebody to help us get this out there in the
Speaker 6: United States because they were just in France, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So and so we need you know, we need a
Speaker 4: better look.
Speaker 6: And he was my Manvanessa was like, you know we
Speaker 6: need I got eat forty and they hooked me up.
Speaker 6: So they came down. We had a meeting and then
Speaker 6: they was like, can you get Snoop? So I called Snoop,
Speaker 6: put Snoop in motion with it, me and Snoop snoop
Speaker 6: and rocket for years. You know, you gotta realize this,
Speaker 6: like two thousand and two, two thousand and three, two
Speaker 6: thousand and four, somewhere around there, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: Like many moons ago, you know. So that's when I
Speaker 6: had my club. And then that's when Landy came. They
Speaker 6: came around two thousand. They came around two thousand, hey,
Speaker 6: something like that. Years later. Right, that's how I go.
Speaker 6: I'm rewinding everything. So I got what Snoop Snooker came in.
Speaker 6: We became brand ambassadors.
Speaker 2: They didn't work social media like they should have, you know,
Speaker 2: like they should have been able to do it.
Speaker 6: And social media wasn't that big. They didn't have Instagram
Speaker 6: back then. I don't think they had just got it in.
Speaker 6: It was a few things. So anyway, they that didn't
Speaker 6: work out. So what I did was when I did
Speaker 6: my wine. My man Mike, he used to work for them.
Speaker 6: He was like, I got a wine, got I got
Speaker 6: a spot in Napa that would love to you could do,
Speaker 6: build your wine from the ground up, all yours whatever.
Speaker 4: Woof the wo. We put it together.
Speaker 6: So he went from working at Landy to working at
Speaker 6: this winery, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So then we went from there to uh, when I said.
Speaker 4: When I was selling it online. Remember I told you
Speaker 4: that the demand got so big I had to hit
Speaker 4: the retailers.
Speaker 6: So in order for me to hit the retailer, I said,
Speaker 6: let me have a meeting with my man, Steve Harton
Speaker 6: over at Southern Gladis of wine Spears. So Steve, he
Speaker 6: brought me in and I knew him from Landy, from
Speaker 6: Landy Kneyac.
Speaker 2: See that's what that's one thing about when you're brand ambassador.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'm mad at none of these cats
Speaker 2: is brand ambassadors. You can't be mad at them. They
Speaker 2: getting their feet wet, They analyzing the game.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean. That's what I did.
Speaker 2: I sat back, you know what I mean. I was
Speaker 2: a student of the game, and I soaked up the
Speaker 2: game like a beach town, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I and I stayed with my connection. I told
Speaker 2: Steve years before I was, before I got my own stuff.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm gonna be back to holler at you man,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have my own stuff one day, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm having my own stuff.
Speaker 3: And I did bro and he accepted.
Speaker 4: He came in.
Speaker 3: I taste.
Speaker 6: At that time, I only had three s k's. I
Speaker 6: just had the uh, the function red Blend, the moscato
Speaker 6: and the mango Scholar.
Speaker 3: That's all I had.
Speaker 6: I brought the slurri Ken in later, like about a
Speaker 6: year or two after. But when I brought on me
Speaker 6: and he tasted them, he was like, let's go. I
Speaker 6: showed them to our own line sales.
Speaker 3: Let's go. I started off with a palette.
Speaker 6: I got my palate, went to the first palette, went
Speaker 6: to uh uh Food for Less in Vale, California at
Speaker 6: the time, Food for Less. And then after that, everybody
Speaker 6: they took I took a picture. They took a picture
Speaker 6: and sent it to me. I posted it online. Everybody
Speaker 6: was like, oh my god, food for that just got it.
Speaker 4: Woo we move.
Speaker 6: Everybody else started calling Costco all the stories, all the retailers,
Speaker 6: all the on premise, off premise, Unsteady, the general market,
Speaker 6: the clubs, everybody, they was all they wanted all my product.
Speaker 3: They wanted that. They wanted the red wine.
Speaker 2: They want the muscatto and the mango scott and the
Speaker 2: mango Scotto was a big hit off top and it
Speaker 2: still is.
Speaker 6: It's it's in the class by itself. It's one of
Speaker 6: one and I just took it there. Bro So anyway,
Speaker 6: so then next thing, you know, uh my man, the
Speaker 6: guy that's in charge of my portfolio over at Slept
Speaker 6: Southern Glad, his name is Kevin.
Speaker 2: So Kevin was like, Earl, we're gonna see you. You're
Speaker 2: gonna bring in We're gonna bring in a truckload one day.
Speaker 3: Watch.
Speaker 6: I say, well, what's the truckload? He said, twenty one palace.
Speaker 6: I say twenty one palace.
Speaker 4: He said yeah.
Speaker 2: I say, that's a hell of them right there. He said, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a truckload.
Speaker 6: It's fifty six cases to a palette and it's twelve
Speaker 6: twelve bottles and in a case.
Speaker 4: So you know what I'm saying, you bring it in
Speaker 4: a truckload.
Speaker 6: You're gonna bring it. He really broke. I really brought
Speaker 6: it in a truckload. He said, we come to pick
Speaker 6: up a truckload, serve that shit all through California, because
Speaker 6: it's two branches in California. You got your you got
Speaker 6: your Northern California, then you got Southern California chapters of
Speaker 6: Southern Gladies of Wader Spears. So then they ordered a
Speaker 6: truckload Southern California. You feel me. So that's how I went.
Speaker 6: Then that from there it just started cooking. So I'll
Speaker 6: started getting license each state, slowly but surely, bro.
Speaker 2: And that's that's how I get excited when I talk
Speaker 2: about this, because really remarkable and incredible, and I'm very
Speaker 2: grateful and thankful and shout out to all my fans
Speaker 2: who've been having my back.
Speaker 4: Like a massousse for sure.
Speaker 3: Shell.
Speaker 4: So all right, so being.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent on you're owning one hundred percent, does
Speaker 2: that mean that all of the finance, like how you
Speaker 2: finding Are you financing everything out of your pocket since
Speaker 2: you don't have any business partners or do you have
Speaker 2: bank financing? Because if us financing and out of my
Speaker 2: own pocket, then once once that happens, it's.
Speaker 6: A well oiled machine, it pays for itself. You know,
Speaker 6: you got to continue to buy product, you understand me.
Speaker 6: You got to make sure that you got some terms involved,
Speaker 6: whether it's thirty sixty, ninety one, twenty, you understand me,
Speaker 6: so that you can flip your money in time. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. You know I get paid every
Speaker 6: thirty days, man, you feel me. Sometime I might get
Speaker 6: seven or eight checks in one day. Every day for
Speaker 6: a whole week. It just go like that because different
Speaker 6: people putting in different pos and we invoicing different distributors,
Speaker 6: different distributors here and there every time, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. So that's how it really happened. It really
Speaker 6: unfolds like this. So like I said, man, this is
Speaker 6: it's more to I. I just feel like, you know,
Speaker 6: I tapped into something that I love to do anytime
Speaker 6: you're do it like you guys love to do what
Speaker 6: you guys are doing right, So you do because you
Speaker 6: wouldn't be doing it and looking like y'all have fun
Speaker 6: doing it. I have fun doing this. I have fun
Speaker 6: doing music. I have fun cooking. I got food products coming,
Speaker 6: I got I have fun doing doing startup company.
Speaker 4: I'll do it all you feel me.
Speaker 2: So I want to get to the I want to
Speaker 2: get to the Angel investment. Before that, let's let's take
Speaker 2: a hip hop moment. So you you've you've started a
Speaker 2: lot of trends and people might not be aware of a.
Speaker 3: Lot of language, a lot of slags.
Speaker 4: Your favorite ra.
Speaker 2: Yolo, that's the model, that's the model yolo. Like so
Speaker 2: many different words that you came up with, like how did.
Speaker 4: How did you.
Speaker 2: How did you come up with language? And have you
Speaker 2: ever thought about actually making like a dictionary?
Speaker 3: So wait, I might either have got this. I'm glad
Speaker 3: you just said that because he bonics, I feel like
Speaker 3: that man did that? Comes to me? Up? No, No,
Speaker 3: just to work he BONDINGX.
Speaker 6: I don't know who came up with E bonics, but
Speaker 6: you know it do start with the E, so it
Speaker 6: might as well be me. Hell nah, So you know, man,
Speaker 6: let me tell you something I'm not doing I got.
Speaker 4: I'm just a unique person.
Speaker 6: Like even my people out here in Northern California trip
Speaker 6: on me. I'm comedy and I and I'm from the streets.
Speaker 6: So I just put my own ship to ship. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. I make up a lot of stuff.
Speaker 6: Don't get a twisted but a lot of stuff I
Speaker 6: do get from the soils.
Speaker 2: Not no rappers like the soils. And if I do
Speaker 2: get it from a rapper, I always get that rap.
Speaker 2: That rapper some dapper. You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 2: always let him know, like my putting like such and
Speaker 2: such shit like this, Scott said, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: that's how.
Speaker 3: You cover he asked with that ship. You know, But
Speaker 3: for you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know, you know how that ship so anyway, But
Speaker 2: far as me being from the bay.
Speaker 6: We out here with that ship, man, we out here
Speaker 6: with that is them motherfuckers. Motherfuckers got my mouth pieces. Man,
Speaker 6: they you know they we spit them l rps. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. Like it's gamed up university out here.
Speaker 6: I'm not the only one. You should hear some of
Speaker 6: my O g's. They they man, they sharpened than a
Speaker 6: porcupine spine.
Speaker 4: You know, they extremely gamed up.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: But but I am a unique person in as far
Speaker 6: as this rap game. When it comes slang, it's me.
Speaker 6: Everybody know that hands down, that's a sack, that's a physic.
Speaker 2: You feel like that so Yolo thing was just so
Speaker 2: I respect that drink. Actually, now, Yolo ain't me. I
Speaker 2: say Yola, Oh Yolo, I thought Yola was you?
Speaker 4: No, I say Yola.
Speaker 3: Yola.
Speaker 2: Yola means Yola means candy, ice cream. You know, Yola
Speaker 2: mean yolder you get my drift. Yola mean bugger sugar.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Yola mean, Yola.
Speaker 6: Mean nasal Caddy made the yellow mean globa.
Speaker 3: You know that's that's Yola. That's what we call.
Speaker 6: That's what we call white lobster. You understand me. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. I'm trying to talk over you.
Speaker 3: Know what I said.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to throw the twist and the thing you did.
Speaker 2: So it's just another word for that. Yeah, y'all you
Speaker 2: feel me. I thought yo, because he did say, like
Speaker 2: pea mac dremna do for the bag.
Speaker 3: I think it was it was how much I saw that.
Speaker 2: He had.
Speaker 6: He was just showing a homage to mac dre on that. No, Yo,
Speaker 6: the word yo yolo is not me. I'm Yola.
Speaker 3: You understand me.
Speaker 2: Ice cream candy man, that year be coming in handy,
Speaker 2: you feel me?
Speaker 3: That's me.
Speaker 2: How was how was it coming from the like I
Speaker 2: feel like you know, like you you just when you're
Speaker 2: speaking of the bed used to speaking a forty, You
Speaker 2: speaking forty like he's like the king of the bag.
Speaker 2: So how is it coming from a smaller town? Did
Speaker 2: you ever get any pushback from Oakland or being that
Speaker 2: you wasn't from Oakland? But I feel like you still
Speaker 2: get associated with Oakland, like I mean like forty, like
Speaker 2: it's all a Bay area. Like, how was that coming up. Well,
Speaker 2: what it is in Oakland, we got so many I
Speaker 2: got family in Oakland. I got so many potners from
Speaker 2: the streets. And all my partners from the streets know
Speaker 2: the beep be in Oakland. Like we we connect like
Speaker 2: even the V, which is we call Valayl the V,
Speaker 2: the V and Richmond. You know what I'm saying, We
Speaker 2: like we close like all of us. We all know
Speaker 2: pitners and shit like that. And so being from the streets,
Speaker 2: you know, we all knew a lot of I knew
Speaker 2: a lot of people from Oakland.
Speaker 6: A lot of people knew my my crew, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. And so but but don't get it
Speaker 6: fucked up. We had to pay our dues. We had
Speaker 6: to let people know Balael is here to stay. And
Speaker 6: yeunderstand me, you can't ain't nothing, Ain't nothing gonna stop
Speaker 6: us Valayl. We we got test afford, the two you know,
Speaker 6: self self esteem.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 4: We was ambitious.
Speaker 6: We was ambitious and and and you know we knew,
Speaker 6: we knew we had talent.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And I'm not just saying me, I'm talking about the
Speaker 2: whole b. I can go on and on and on
Speaker 2: and on and on and on and down. The lift
Speaker 2: of so many great rappers from Valail.
Speaker 3: But her, yeah, who was that her?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hell yeah yeah, her doing her things. She's
Speaker 2: straight from the feet too, and she read. She let
Speaker 2: people know she's from You understand me.
Speaker 6: I love that because we are small now. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be honest with you, bro. People like Confunction,
Speaker 6: uh myself, Matt Dre, the Click, you know many others
Speaker 6: we made c C. Sabathia. Uh you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: People like that, We her, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's so many bro, we made it you know,
Speaker 2: really uh really good to say I'm from Valaale with
Speaker 2: your chests out like you understand me, like you ain't
Speaker 2: you you know it's the V like we.
Speaker 6: Made it good to be from Valayale. Everybody scream that
Speaker 6: now when you're from the F I'm from Valale. I
Speaker 6: ain't from nowhere else. I'm from the V. You understand me.
Speaker 6: We made They accepted us, Oakland, all the other cities
Speaker 6: accepted us because we all rocked together.
Speaker 4: That's what we do. You feel me?
Speaker 7: So you know what is that when we were just
Speaker 7: talking about I'm glad that you brought him up because
Speaker 7: people forget how legendary he was. But for us growing up,
Speaker 7: it was I feel like, especially in the East Coast,
Speaker 7: it was like I ain't Wrap, but I would be
Speaker 7: who was who said that?
Speaker 3: Like play with him if you want here, gonna bust.
Speaker 6: Your ass like like outside of Wrap Street.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's by far not no suck at all.
Speaker 2: I ain't no sucking man. Just because he wore you know,
Speaker 2: baggy pants when he danced. You know that was You
Speaker 2: gotta remember that was thirty five years ago. You know
Speaker 2: that's okay, that's that. Don't mean that don't make you
Speaker 2: a break you man. Let me tell you something, man,
Speaker 2: A square would beat your ass.
Speaker 3: I'm not calling a.
Speaker 6: Hammer a square. I'm just saying a square will beat
Speaker 6: your ass. You can you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You just are that quiet person that don't bother nobody
Speaker 2: with the wonders on you boy, You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: blenders on you.
Speaker 4: Mix you up real good. You feel me.
Speaker 2: Everybody that's watching in the huddle, seeing them seeing this sweat,
Speaker 2: whoever square is, and you know in this bully trying
Speaker 2: to bully him. Man a bully man. Bullies get bull get.
Speaker 6: Get the ass kicked all the fucking time, and just
Speaker 6: always remember it's always somebody out there tougher than you.
Speaker 6: Don't give a fuck how many hot ones you got
Speaker 6: up under your belt, there's somebody that got plenty more.
Speaker 6: And what I mean by hot ones is bodies. You
Speaker 6: feel me, it's always somebody tougher than you. Trust that
Speaker 6: buddy anyway. But Hammer Hammer is a great guy man,
Speaker 6: you know, that's the big bro. And anybody got something
Speaker 6: bad to say about him, it's just you know it
Speaker 6: hain't come with the plate, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And you know, I think you appreciated him and after
Speaker 6: because they realized how many people he put on and
Speaker 6: how much all that.
Speaker 4: Man, it's because you file bank reps. It don't mean
Speaker 4: that you broke.
Speaker 6: Just know that job protecting your businesses, your LLCs, your escort,
Speaker 6: whatever you got going on, your personal you know, uh,
Speaker 6: you know your personal state stuff like that.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And so you know this man, you know when he
Speaker 2: when he when he filed for that, you gotta remember
Speaker 2: how many people he was taking care of.
Speaker 6: His crew was about fifty people all get per diem
Speaker 6: and ship. When he eat they gotta eat like hotels
Speaker 6: all this. You know what I'm saying me, he was man,
Speaker 6: he did a great job man worldwide. He did his thing,
Speaker 6: and so you know, and right now to this day,
Speaker 6: people you know you can you can pocket watch the
Speaker 6: motherfucker pockets. You never know what Hammer got because he
Speaker 6: ain't broke. Don't get it fucked up. He's backing all
Speaker 6: kinds of shit. You know what I'm saying that.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a legend.
Speaker 7: He had to remember when he went on. He was
Speaker 7: like one of the first dudes to get a deal
Speaker 7: with Pepsi. He had his own cartoon, I.
Speaker 4: Think Taco Bell. He did a bunch of stuff, man.
Speaker 7: I think it's That's why I brought it up, because
Speaker 7: it's very interesting to see a big legend look at
Speaker 7: him obviously another big legend and still give them homage
Speaker 7: at the time where it was like him, is that real?
Speaker 3: But that's dope. Though I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: I used to see Hammer coming out of Felton Pilot
Speaker 6: Studio when I'm coming out of me be Legiti and
Speaker 6: d Shot and Sugar, when we're coming out of Felton
Speaker 6: Pilot Studio and James Early Studio out there on Solano
Speaker 6: Sonoma Boulevard and defeat hammer would be coming in and
Speaker 6: he always treated us cool.
Speaker 3: What something waiting? Woo woom woop him.
Speaker 6: And his crew coming in with truth jackets and shit,
Speaker 6: and we're like, oh this hammer man, what's up man?
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. And he going in for
Speaker 4: his for his studio session, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: So you know, it was always love man, he always
Speaker 6: and that's when we just like some little dudes on
Speaker 6: the total pole. You know what I'm saying. We ain't
Speaker 6: dead yet, you know what I'm saying. We recording, So
Speaker 6: he always been solid, not salad. And I hope that
Speaker 6: other rappers pay homage to other rappers in the future,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, Because that's the thing. People
Speaker 6: don't want to give up, no doubt. They think that
Speaker 6: they're gonna be on forever.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: Uh, some of some of the some of the youngsters,
Speaker 6: some of the older ones, like a lot of older
Speaker 6: rappers from my class, you.
Speaker 2: Know, they just they kind of got they didn't keep
Speaker 2: their foot on the gas. You know, you gotta keep
Speaker 2: you can't never get, you can't never be relaxed. And
Speaker 2: another thing don't call nobody. And I'm not saying everybody
Speaker 2: know I'm a half a hundred man, but I carry
Speaker 2: it well. Man, you know I said I'm the best.
Speaker 2: I'm the best thing since the washing machine.
Speaker 3: You did, you know, but but but but I'm just.
Speaker 2: Saying, don't say oh man he oh, cause nigga in
Speaker 2: a few months, niggas in a few years and five
Speaker 2: six years.
Speaker 3: Ago about down the line, nigga you old to the
Speaker 3: to the new rappers.
Speaker 2: Nigga, you feel what I'm saying, like it just go
Speaker 2: like that, you know, So stop saying don't say that.
Speaker 4: Don't say that because nigga, You're gonna be ancient one day.
Speaker 3: Nigga.
Speaker 4: But see if you can see if you can you know,
Speaker 4: have that longevity. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: Now, I feel like we're like the only culture that
Speaker 2: looks down or old. But it's like it's a blessing
Speaker 2: to become elder, Like being an elder is actually a
Speaker 2: blessing and to grow old as a blessing. And like
Speaker 2: we always referenced that. But that's a huge line that
Speaker 2: she Gluke said, You're gonna be older a lot longer
Speaker 2: than you're gonna be younger.
Speaker 3: That's just the fact.
Speaker 2: So it's like even with hip hop music, you know
Speaker 2: a lot of times we devalue the legends and the
Speaker 2: people that come before because it's like, oh, they're old.
Speaker 2: Like how does that devalue the music? That's like saying
Speaker 2: Diana Ross, No, not even even R and B, like jazz,
Speaker 2: every every other genre of music is still celebrated.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: Like, I feel like it's starting to change now, But
Speaker 2: like Na's winning the Grammy. Shout out to Escort, like
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, that's dope to see
Speaker 2: him win a Grammy after all these years he should
Speaker 2: have been one one.
Speaker 3: But get about that. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 6: Seasoned veterans are getting more money than ever, getting more popular.
Speaker 4: I'm probably bigger than I ever been in these days.
Speaker 6: And then I'm older now, you know, I mean, I'm
Speaker 6: you know, like I said, I'm a half a century
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. Plus you did, and so
Speaker 6: you know, I think that now that that that world
Speaker 6: old was hanging around for a while, Like when I
Speaker 6: turned forty, they're like, oh he oh, I didn't think
Speaker 6: I was that. People thought I wasn't I was gonna
Speaker 6: stop after that. But it's like, ain't no limit to
Speaker 6: this because I ain't slacking in my mac and on
Speaker 6: my on my microphone candy the way I spin it,
Speaker 6: You understand me. I'm not like, ain't nothing ancient about me?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't look ancient. I don't carry myself ancient.
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: And as long as you you got to turn with
Speaker 2: the times, are the times gonna turn on you?
Speaker 6: When you when you want to keep your vintageless, you
Speaker 6: can you You're able to do that if you kind
Speaker 6: of like keep your eye on the ball and find
Speaker 6: a happy medium to rap over certain beats, you know,
Speaker 6: like I like my song I stand on that with
Speaker 6: joining Lucas and t I.
Speaker 4: Y'all go listen to that.
Speaker 2: See the sick ass gas I got on that every floor,
Speaker 2: wrote everything to it, you understand me. Matter of fact,
Speaker 2: I was the one who started to flow off. Then
Speaker 2: I sent it to Joiner. Joiners say, fouty, nigga, you
Speaker 2: killed this ship, and they made Joiner evencome harder, even
Speaker 2: though he already hard did TI I? Then then we
Speaker 2: said to to t I, TI I got a hold
Speaker 2: to it and killed that ship. So it's like I
Speaker 2: set the bar. You know what I'm saying. My verse
Speaker 2: set the bar for out mind was first, I let
Speaker 2: Joiner go. Joiner went first. You understand me.
Speaker 6: Joyner killed that ship. He got a cold fan base
Speaker 6: and he got that's a cold man right there. That's
Speaker 6: gonna he's gonna be going down one of the greats.
Speaker 6: Trust me when I tell you that. Anyway, I'm just
Speaker 6: saying that you gotta be versatile.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: You gotta turn with the times or the time's gonna
Speaker 6: turn on you. But you gotta also beat you. And
Speaker 6: that's me you did.
Speaker 2: Let's let's get this Angel invest In conversation. So all right,
Speaker 2: you have an impressive portfolio of companies that you have
Speaker 2: invested in, one in particular that people might have hurt
Speaker 2: her baby Clubhouse early invest in Clubhouse, So let's talk
Speaker 2: about let's talk about I want to talk about Clubhouse specifically.
Speaker 2: But before that, when did you get into angel in
Speaker 2: the place Actually I'm just thinking about it, Napa Valley,
Speaker 2: Silicon Valley. So when did you get in to investing
Speaker 2: startup companies? And Angel investing? Twenty sixteen? Twenty sixteen.
Speaker 6: Was my first I put like one hundred thousand in
Speaker 6: like I think five companies and I did that.
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Speaker 3: Chamillionaire, Big Boy, Trey Songs, many others.
Speaker 2: Right, we got one syndicate and we've done we've done
Speaker 2: that same thing a few times.
Speaker 6: So ended up being you know right now as of
Speaker 6: right now. Like my man Chamillionaire, he could have brought
Speaker 6: the whole syndicate. He could have got in Clubhouse two,
Speaker 6: but you know they would have had him. He didn't
Speaker 6: want to leave out the whole syndicate. My my my
Speaker 6: personal relationship. Uh you know how I got in with
Speaker 6: Clubhouse was my own situation.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, because you know, when you
Speaker 2: when you move around and you because it's all about
Speaker 2: it's not it's all about networking.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And if you're around certain people, things like that.
Speaker 3: Happen to you.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. You know, and it ain't
Speaker 4: it ain't uh, it ain't.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: It ain't about who you know. It's who know you.
Speaker 6: You did what I'm saying, That's what it's about. It's
Speaker 6: about who know you?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: So anyway to make a long story short and short story.
Speaker 6: Long, I had got into me like.
Speaker 4: I'm in so many startups like I'm just waiting.
Speaker 3: We just wait.
Speaker 4: You know, you kick back because it's a dice game,
Speaker 4: you know, you rolling the dice. And you know, just
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 2: Company that you think ain't gonna be the one that
Speaker 2: you ain't even studying.
Speaker 4: You know most school. I mean, I ain't studying that one.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, That one you ain't even studying, right,
Speaker 2: can end up being the one that golf of you know,
Speaker 2: three four five, you know, ten billion, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: And you put your imbles in that thing. You feel
Speaker 6: me and next thing you know, you get that call
Speaker 6: and you like it's time to drink up the whole
Speaker 6: bar behind me.
Speaker 3: You dig.
Speaker 2: So this is what it is, this is what it's about.
Speaker 2: So you know, uh, Clubhouse is a good one. You know,
Speaker 2: Clubhouse is a good when I think that, uh many people.
Speaker 6: It's a new platform audio platform for people to just
Speaker 6: you know, get some game, you know, get some game
Speaker 6: because you know, but everybody on Clubhouse, ain't that everybody?
Speaker 6: That's that's all?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: You got some You got people that really know the
Speaker 6: business like you had. They had Eli on there. You're like,
Speaker 6: must you know what I'm saying. They got real top
Speaker 6: pats and taccoos on that motherfucker. You got some people
Speaker 6: that just like like get on there and just talk
Speaker 6: that ship like they just know everything. It ain't got
Speaker 6: shit going on, but that's everything. That's Twitter, that's Instagram,
Speaker 6: that's Facebook, that's all that shit. But club House is
Speaker 6: the new the it's the platform.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I can't see it going no other place.
Speaker 6: It might be other companies that's out there that's trying
Speaker 6: to probably duplicate it. I mean, have anybody duplicated Instagram yet?
Speaker 3: You know, think about it? Oh no, So I'm wondering.
Speaker 7: Obviously it's a club out started as a Silicon Valley
Speaker 7: way for tech people to talk about ideas.
Speaker 4: So were you close with.
Speaker 7: A founder or somebody on the inside because it was
Speaker 7: invite only at that time, how'd you come in contact
Speaker 7: with it?
Speaker 3: To apisode?
Speaker 4: Just being around it?
Speaker 6: Man, let me tell you some when you go, when
Speaker 6: you when you call you, when you when you were
Speaker 6: being people use a.
Speaker 3: Trip like folks.
Speaker 6: You know, somebody called me one day and say, photy,
Speaker 6: hey man, who's your contact over at the Warriors?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: How do you? Uh? You know, how would I get
Speaker 3: complimentary seats? I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know, brother, what you mean complimentary? I don't
Speaker 6: get complimentary sipts? Brother, I said, I pay for mine.
Speaker 6: So while I'm.
Speaker 4: Spending all that money getting these ceased, you understand me.
Speaker 4: I'm from remote myself.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's if you can't get you can't get no better marketing.
Speaker 2: I'm court signed. I'm having the time of my life,
Speaker 2: me and my wife. You understand me. I might bring
Speaker 2: my partners, you know what I'm saying. You know, and
Speaker 2: you know we were running into everybody, billionaires and all
Speaker 2: kind of You understand me, don't you?
Speaker 4: Just especially when you're a good person like me.
Speaker 2: Man, I you know, you know I hugged folks, I
Speaker 2: kissed you know, I kissed, I kissed the babies, you.
Speaker 6: Know, shake hands, you know. Just I'm a loving person.
Speaker 6: I'm a people's person. You understand me. So I'm the
Speaker 6: you know, I'm the thrill of the party.
Speaker 2: Man. When out when I stepped being, people gather around
Speaker 2: me like a you understand me, like a tackle truck.
Speaker 3: Hello. You know.
Speaker 7: During those two thousand and six trip trip or referee, yeah,
Speaker 7: it was called you chamelionaire.
Speaker 3: I feel like them boll all, y'all. I mean you
Speaker 3: could not.
Speaker 2: But Eve forty was a staple because it was when
Speaker 2: they was playing No No. It was like him ver
Speaker 2: somebody and they was like it was when we when
Speaker 2: we used to play Houston Travis Scott.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so them them dudes traps will be talking big brocco,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, and ship like that. It's
Speaker 2: like we are warriors. Don't wait, you feel me? So
Speaker 2: camus my camevus my folks, so camps. I got cam
Speaker 2: to come. He wouldn't he wasn't he Man, I don't
Speaker 2: want to be all atribute on that. I said, I
Speaker 2: know you low key man, but you know we in this,
Speaker 2: we in this, we we in this tech world.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 4: This where it's at this where this this, this where.
Speaker 2: Everybody at and you can have fun and you know
Speaker 2: you're gonna be able to you know, promote your promote
Speaker 2: yourself so they can see you on a you know,
Speaker 2: when you when you see somebody course side, like when
Speaker 2: I've seen top Dog top Dog from TV. I tell
Speaker 2: top Dog this all the time. I wanted to see
Speaker 2: him at the games and Clippers. You know, he'll be
Speaker 2: over there with the TD hat just being hisself court side.
Speaker 3: I'll call him top Dog. I see you, my guy.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I was choosed.
Speaker 4: I it was joiced.
Speaker 2: You know, so I imagine the people that seen me
Speaker 2: several times sit right next.
Speaker 4: To the Warriors bench.
Speaker 2: Now me what you can bring up a good point
Speaker 2: that I never really thought about before. But it's a
Speaker 2: great marketing tool because even Chamelionaire, you know, when people
Speaker 2: saw him courtside at that finals game and it was
Speaker 2: like the tickets is like twenty thousand dollars. It was crazy,
Speaker 2: and they like it was a joke of like yo,
Speaker 2: his last hit was ten years ago. But then it
Speaker 2: wasn't a joke anymore because now it started to come
Speaker 2: out that he's been an Angel investor and he's invested
Speaker 2: in all these different companies, and then ever since then
Speaker 2: that kind of cemented him as like in the culture,
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, a go to person as far
Speaker 2: as like angel investing and all that. But that probably
Speaker 2: would have never came out because he's real quiet. It
Speaker 2: would have never really came out unless he was actually
Speaker 2: at that game.
Speaker 3: That one game that brought.
Speaker 4: Up to the game I brought to the game. We
Speaker 4: see when you when.
Speaker 6: You a lot of times when you buy tickets, you
Speaker 6: got to buy twos and threes, you understand me. So
Speaker 6: you know, if it's a Houston am I say going
Speaker 6: to get those two tickets, i'mnaly out there.
Speaker 2: He'll buy them, and then I just pay him something
Speaker 2: that I put in as a bank account. I'll just
Speaker 2: give him, give him to him right there, check or whatever.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying right then and there, and
Speaker 6: I do the same when he said I'm gonna come
Speaker 6: out there, going to give me to see.
Speaker 3: Now I get in and then here reimburse me.
Speaker 2: That's how you gotta do. You can't just go buy
Speaker 2: one individual seats. That's very rare, especially to sit where
Speaker 2: you want to sit court side. Then understand what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: So he he was with you, that he was with.
Speaker 3: You, Yeah, all the games when we was together. Yeah,
Speaker 3: change the game. So we gotta have we gotta have course,
Speaker 3: that's what I'm thinking, Like, we gotta be sitting the
Speaker 3: courtside because not only.
Speaker 7: Is it ad to, but it's a networking too, because
Speaker 7: I said, you bumping shoulders with billionaires and millionaires and
Speaker 7: the team will treats you like you part of the team.
Speaker 2: I see everybody running over to you, especially if you're
Speaker 2: in these cities like San Francisco, yeah, or Miami or
Speaker 2: New York or you know like l A, Atlanta, Like
Speaker 2: there's a lot of stuff going on and a lot
Speaker 2: of movies and shakers in that in that.
Speaker 3: Realm su stamp sustep you know what? That what I think?
Speaker 3: Did it? It?
Speaker 7: Actually I felt like after I saw a millionaire there,
Speaker 7: then I felt like tech became a thing in the NBA.
Speaker 3: And so now it turned me.
Speaker 7: On to the knowledge that Andre Engadala had and it
Speaker 7: was like, wait, this guy's digging the text space and
Speaker 7: he's in the Warriors and then Steph got into the
Speaker 7: text space and I was like, oh, okay, just from
Speaker 7: seeing you guys.
Speaker 3: There at the game, So that's dope.
Speaker 7: So my question is, is there a criteria that you
Speaker 7: have when you when you're looking for new businesses, new
Speaker 7: startups to invest in.
Speaker 3: Will you got it?
Speaker 2: First of all, the main thing is it Cam taught
Speaker 2: me this a long time ago.
Speaker 4: Make sure that there's.
Speaker 6: Some reptical people that's already in the investment, some people
Speaker 6: that most likely have some experience in being in the
Speaker 6: tech world, whether they're you know, starting it up, being
Speaker 6: the you know, the owner of the particular app or
Speaker 6: whatever it is, or the company you know what I'm
Speaker 6: saying that you're getting into, or you know, just it
Speaker 6: just has to be an idea, uh, something that has
Speaker 6: changed the world. Because that's the West Wi too. We're
Speaker 6: trying to be in the companies we're trying to get into.
Speaker 6: Is something that changed the world, you understand me? And
Speaker 6: and there's a there's a lot of them out there.
Speaker 6: So getting in early.
Speaker 3: Is always the best early stage, you know, it's always
Speaker 3: the best I got we we Uh, people don't.
Speaker 4: Even know I was in Ring. Me and Cam we
Speaker 4: was in ring.
Speaker 3: You know, we.
Speaker 4: Was a ring.
Speaker 6: We didn't get in early on that one, but we did.
Speaker 6: You know, it's great from our portfolio, and we did well.
Speaker 4: We did well.
Speaker 6: We got in just a few months before they, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying, got acquired. And but I wish
Speaker 6: we would have got in earlier. Let me ask you,
Speaker 6: a lot of companies like that that we.
Speaker 2: Are in early you hit a lot of you had
Speaker 2: a lot of artists that's getting into the text bage,
Speaker 2: whether it's nives with Queensbridge Capitals.
Speaker 3: I've been in it. I've been in it. J Z
Speaker 3: Marshy uh Fincher or something like that.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, but put you you guys, Yeah, you have
Speaker 2: a you have a syndicate.
Speaker 3: This is interesting.
Speaker 2: So right she said you clean their trade songs and
Speaker 2: a few other people were big boy. So what's the
Speaker 2: name of it and how did that come about? Like
Speaker 2: how did that come about? As far as like putting
Speaker 2: a syndicate together? Yeah, how'd that come about? Cam Camillionaire,
Speaker 2: that's who, that's who.
Speaker 3: That's who.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: When I first got my you know, uh, when I
Speaker 6: cut my gums into the tech world, you know, it was.
Speaker 3: It was I mean Cam that woke my game up
Speaker 3: to it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And and so he put the send syndicate together and
Speaker 2: was like, and it's others too involved, you know, and
Speaker 2: we all put our money in the pot.
Speaker 3: We go for it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: How do you do you have like a said amount
Speaker 2: of deals that you try to get every year with
Speaker 2: the syndicate or was it.
Speaker 6: Just like we got we get updates every Cam give
Speaker 6: us updates. Man, we in so many companies I won't
Speaker 6: even reveal the.
Speaker 2: Companies that we are in early stage and great companies,
Speaker 2: companies that billionaires are in, like and you know, and.
Speaker 6: You know, I let I let Cam. You know, do
Speaker 6: he he's he's the one who driving the car because
Speaker 6: he got that. He's focused this all he fold. He
Speaker 6: don't want to even he want to do music. I
Speaker 6: got a verse from him. I got a verse when
Speaker 6: he came to the crib about a few months ago,
Speaker 6: a few years ago, a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 6: got a coal verse from him. I might put it out,
Speaker 6: but he ain't even tripping on no music.
Speaker 2: And Cam, you got to realize Kim never stopped doing
Speaker 2: music when he was at the bottom.
Speaker 4: He was already he was still on the top.
Speaker 6: But he chose to, you know what I'm saying, This
Speaker 6: boy chose to, you know, do do this other thing.
Speaker 6: This thing you know that's still a Combe Valley thing,
Speaker 6: this tech thing, this, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that's what he focused on.
Speaker 6: And that's and I was like, man, I wish I
Speaker 6: was in some of the ones he got early. Then
Speaker 6: I would have listened, you know, But I you know,
Speaker 6: a little bit before twenty sixteen.
Speaker 4: So it's been five years.
Speaker 3: I've been you know, I've been.
Speaker 4: I've been. I've been on it.
Speaker 6: And that's not bad from a dude from magazine Street
Speaker 6: the thirteen hundred block.
Speaker 4: You understand me, lay Hell, California, Maine.
Speaker 3: You dig I think I'm taking notes.
Speaker 7: So if I see the name Earl Stevens, I'm gonna
Speaker 7: get Chamelionaires real name. If I see those people as
Speaker 7: angel investors, probably a good space to get into.
Speaker 4: But you won't see it.
Speaker 3: All the sudden. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well that's like John Henry he told us with the
Speaker 2: CAP tape, and he was like, if you see like
Speaker 2: a sequoi Capital, Sequoia Capital is a real big player
Speaker 2: in space. He's like, if you see like people like
Speaker 2: this already in the in the company, that's like a green,
Speaker 2: like that's like cold green, like go code, because you
Speaker 2: already know that these people ain't They're not stupid, They're
Speaker 2: not just gonna be to spend the money with nothing
Speaker 2: interesting to you.
Speaker 6: I got a shout out because I used to see
Speaker 6: them at the games as well, being at Felicia Horwitz.
Speaker 6: They yeah, Yo, they top Pats and this ship and
Speaker 6: they you know, and they was days.
Speaker 3: They always been cool. And you know when you greep
Speaker 3: you see people like that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You meet people like that at the games, and you
Speaker 6: know you're with the owners like I hang out with
Speaker 6: I was hanging out with the owners at the games,
Speaker 6: and you know, just a little bit of everybody in
Speaker 6: the Silicon Valley world and being there, I mean, you know,
Speaker 6: you're just around it.
Speaker 3: How can you not get in it? You know? Now,
Speaker 3: that's a fact.
Speaker 2: Networking is extremely important, and especially if you are privileged
Speaker 2: enough to have, you know, that type of access where
Speaker 2: it's like a lot of artists, entertainers. I remember Floyd
Speaker 2: said this once. He was like, you know, I hang
Speaker 2: around the billionaires. He's like, it's not just good enough
Speaker 2: for me to hang around a billionaire and put him
Speaker 2: put me on his jet. I want to know how
Speaker 2: did you get the jet? You can't bring me around
Speaker 2: just as a token, you know what I'm saying, Entertainer,
Speaker 2: that's like just my friend. Now, you got to actually
Speaker 2: educate me, because if not, what am I here?
Speaker 3: Like? Why why do we have a relationship?
Speaker 4: What you got to ask? You? You're supposed to ask.
Speaker 6: Questions when you're around greatness and when you're around billionaires,
Speaker 6: And however you want to say it. You know what
Speaker 6: I say, it's because you have to be a student
Speaker 6: of a gang. And a lot of times they don't
Speaker 6: even have to teach you. You could just learn just
Speaker 6: by being a student of a game, observing a lot
Speaker 6: of in terms are millionaires because our billionaires because they
Speaker 6: were student of the they were students of the gang.
Speaker 6: They they kicked back and soaked up game like a
Speaker 6: beach tab. And that's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 4: Do you guys have a.
Speaker 2: Name for your syndicate or is it just like I
Speaker 2: just do the prime partners partners?
Speaker 3: I think I did see that. I like partners. I
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this being from the Bay Area,
Speaker 2: we introduced somebody shout the Meal Bran. He's an actor
Speaker 2: from Oakland. He was saying as far as like the
Speaker 2: gentrification that's going on Cifical, he's from an Oakland but
Speaker 2: like and he had a theory that like a lot
Speaker 2: of the sports teams that's moving out of Oakland, that's
Speaker 2: kind of like done intentionally to kind of like disrupt
Speaker 2: the city, kind of bring them more round down a
Speaker 2: little bit and then make way for gentifications. So what
Speaker 2: is your thoughts because I would watching it, you know,
Speaker 2: I watch a lot of these documentaries and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: and I see that, you know, the Bay Area is
Speaker 2: becoming heavily gentified, especially Oakland.
Speaker 3: Because it's right next door, which is the highest.
Speaker 2: The highest real estate market in the country, even even
Speaker 2: higher than Manhattan, and it's it's a very small area.
Speaker 2: So what is your thoughts on gentrification especially in the
Speaker 2: Bay Area? And what is your thoughts on sports teams
Speaker 2: leaving the band? I know you're a huge sports fan,
Speaker 2: so what is what's your thoughts on that? So you know, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, everybody won't you know.
Speaker 4: Now we have.
Speaker 2: Chase the Chase Center now in Frisco Warriors play, which
Speaker 2: is a beautiful stadium, but we all wish it was
Speaker 2: still at the.
Speaker 4: Oracle, you know, in Oakland, you know, because that's where
Speaker 4: the great.
Speaker 6: Times we're at and those can be come back. But
Speaker 6: the access to all of Oakland fans, they used to
Speaker 6: be at them games, you know, they used to you know,
Speaker 6: it was closer to get there. Now you got to
Speaker 6: go over the bridge, and it's a lot of traffic
Speaker 6: and this, that and the third.
Speaker 4: But that is what it is.
Speaker 6: And you know, you know, as we as todays go by,
Speaker 6: we'll get used to it and you know, things to
Speaker 6: get back, you know.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, gentrification.
Speaker 2: That's that's been happening for many years before we were
Speaker 2: even born.
Speaker 3: You know, y'all know that, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, And it's it's it's crazy because
Speaker 2: you know, if your pockets ain't all the way, like
Speaker 2: like my house on Magazine Street, I remember, I checked
Speaker 2: up on the house I.
Speaker 6: Grew up with, grew up on I mean grew up
Speaker 6: in on Magazine Street on the thirteen hundred block.
Speaker 4: I remember that thing. In two thousand and nine, it
Speaker 4: was like seventy seven thout.
Speaker 2: Wole three bedroom, very small, very twelve hundred square feet
Speaker 2: of some shit to total you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: It was like seventy seven thout wound, right, and uh
Speaker 2: I looked at that thing. Now that thing's worth like
Speaker 2: dan near half a ticket man. And it ain't nothing,
Speaker 2: it ain't nothing big about it. Just held the trees
Speaker 2: in front of it. Yes, stand what I'm saying. And
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 6: So it's like seventy seventh thout wound and now that
Speaker 6: motherfucker up to half a ticket.
Speaker 2: So it's crazy. Even in the soils of trenches, the octagon,
Speaker 2: the smudge, it's still the same thing.
Speaker 3: You feel me now.
Speaker 2: They it's like it's the prices are so high, like,
Speaker 2: come on, man, it's a million dollars?
Speaker 6: Really worth a million nowadays? No, it's about six hundred,
Speaker 6: six hundred and thirty thou wou huh? Probably you know
Speaker 6: they think about it, think about you know what I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 6: you you're talking before. Don't buy eight thousand dollar talk
Speaker 6: for you by house.
Speaker 3: Don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 2: Get you some property, man, Get you some property, and
Speaker 2: it don't have to be a brand new home.
Speaker 6: You can take you could you could buy something cool,
Speaker 6: you know, just something that you can fix up. A
Speaker 6: lot of people got talents. They know how to you know,
Speaker 6: refurbish and remodel homes. They can do it on your own.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: They might have an uncle, that's that's what they do
Speaker 6: for a living to come do that ship for them.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, you're flipping house. I got
Speaker 2: a few problems that flip houses.
Speaker 3: Man. They doing well. Man.
Speaker 4: They their money is working for them.
Speaker 3: Man, you know their money is working for their money.
Speaker 4: Man, you feel me.
Speaker 6: They this is a real wild machine, and real estate
Speaker 6: is some of the best stuff you can get into.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: Always buy a proper piece of the earth. Man, that's
Speaker 6: always yeah, that's always a plus.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Can we can we continue on with your diversification? What
Speaker 3: are your passion? You know they maybe people know about
Speaker 3: that is cooking the good fool himself?
Speaker 7: Uh so, can we can we talk about your your
Speaker 7: venture into the rest of our business with the company
Speaker 7: or your company?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man.
Speaker 2: So in the Bay Area, there's many, many, many, many
Speaker 2: many Filipinos out here.
Speaker 4: Many and we grew up with them.
Speaker 2: I mean I played sports with them with school Filipinos,
Speaker 2: like some of my best friends is Filipino. Like, this
Speaker 2: is just how it go man out here in the
Speaker 2: baker we're very diverse in the Bay Area. You understand
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. And you know, so I had an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I always liked the Olympia. I used to always tell
Speaker 2: my wife, you understand me. Since I was a young mustache,
Speaker 2: I used always tell you know, we all love lumpey.
Speaker 2: I one day I want to get a company, you
Speaker 2: know that sell lumpia.
Speaker 6: And I wanted to be either a walk up or
Speaker 6: drive through, you know, because one day I wanted to
Speaker 6: be a drive through.
Speaker 2: Keep them, keep them menu limited. You understand me, and
Speaker 2: just pull up. I want a twenty piece.
Speaker 6: I want a fifty piece and that's all you can
Speaker 6: get a hundred that's the family size whatever.
Speaker 4: You understand me.
Speaker 2: So Woopia, lupia, lupia. Let me tell you what lupia is.
Speaker 2: Lupia is like an egg row, but it's not an
Speaker 2: egg bro It's a certain rap very known and the Filipinos,
Speaker 2: you know, you know this is a Filipino dish, and
Speaker 2: you know traditional Olympias with pork. They got to shange
Speaker 2: hai Oswell, they got pork beef. You know, you canna
Speaker 2: do shrimp and pork like you know, we do non
Speaker 2: traditional and we do traditional Olympia. We got you know,
Speaker 2: we got Pepperoni piece Olympia. We have Philly cheese steak Olympia.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Like we go in boy
Speaker 2: and they go crazy.
Speaker 6: We got my my Olympia mind is called the Earl Special,
Speaker 6: which is ground turkey with veggies in it.
Speaker 3: You understand me. Yeah, And you fry it for four
Speaker 3: minutes at three point fifty.
Speaker 2: Get your grease and grease high three feet all you
Speaker 2: can air fright, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: They don't take but a high second.
Speaker 3: Main.
Speaker 6: Then you understand me, and you get you different dippings
Speaker 6: you use the main. The number one dip that can
Speaker 6: fit any Olympia is the sweet Chili Sauce.
Speaker 3: Was gonna say, I ran into that. The ta Chili
Speaker 3: sauce is great on that. Yeah, exactly, my god. You know.
Speaker 6: So you know, and it's we're doing very very well
Speaker 6: for one spot, small spot, but you know it's going
Speaker 6: to be a franchise very soon. And I got connected
Speaker 6: with my man Alex with Toto chef Alex from My My,
Speaker 6: My guy E Rock, which is a DJ from the
Speaker 6: Bay Area. He he got one of the ease. He
Speaker 6: gotta sick with the tattoo everything. You know, I watched
Speaker 6: him grow up as a young as a youngster. You know,
Speaker 6: you can find e Rock. You know, he about to
Speaker 6: be back in Vegas. You know, find him up on
Speaker 6: a you know, the big the big lights, the big
Speaker 6: the big jumbo trons and the big billboards out there
Speaker 6: and uh in uh in Las Vegas because he DJ's
Speaker 6: out there, you know, along with you know DJ Francis,
Speaker 6: you know DJ Francis Filipino too.
Speaker 3: So we've been around.
Speaker 6: We've been around these cats for many moons. But anyway,
Speaker 6: make a long story short, DJ I was. I told
Speaker 6: DJ e Rock, I said, I called him.
Speaker 2: I said, man, I need to get something walk get
Speaker 2: some lompia, ad man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And he hooked me up with Alex. He said, Alix
Speaker 4: had got me some ompia.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was phenomenal, you know what I'm saying. So from
Speaker 2: then I was like, hey, man, let's let's let's let's
Speaker 2: let's do some stuff.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: I love So you started a filipudo restaurant. Will He
Speaker 6: started it and I came in. It was it was
Speaker 6: a perfect match. And I came in, I put my
Speaker 6: guda in.
Speaker 2: And and you know, and we and we was off
Speaker 2: off to the races.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: The reason why I love that is because it's like
Speaker 2: sometimes a lot of times Black people we get boxed
Speaker 2: in like we can only do soul food.
Speaker 3: We can only do like.
Speaker 2: If somebody from Asian can have Kennedy's Fried Chicken and
Speaker 2: sell us fried chicken, why can't we sell Asiano?
Speaker 4: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 2: You know. So you know, along with the Olympia Company,
Speaker 2: also have the goon with the spoon. That's my handle,
Speaker 2: the goon with the spoon, you know, and I got
Speaker 2: there's some soil ship. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 2: if you can you can imagine a dude from in
Speaker 2: the trenches, you understand me fucking around with the spoon
Speaker 2: and the gumbo pot. You did what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, with the man, I got all kind of
Speaker 2: dishes I make. Man, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, let me tell you something I done.
Speaker 2: Had some of my chef partners say they say, man,
Speaker 2: forty man, you got to cut it out. Man, I say,
Speaker 2: why would I do? He said?
Speaker 4: He said, Man, they.
Speaker 2: Say, my man, my wife was like you a chef
Speaker 2: and the good I'm gonna sit up here looking at
Speaker 2: forty page.
Speaker 4: And why you don't make this for me.
Speaker 3: Because my food looked good? Man.
Speaker 6: I make food how I wanted, how I wanted to taste,
Speaker 6: you know, and people, some people might say.
Speaker 3: Man, you're gonna eat all that food?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 2: This that the third man. That's not man, Dude, I'm cooking. Man,
Speaker 2: you don't leave me alone. I'm mind your business.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: I don't even I don't go back for twos and
Speaker 2: threes and thirds, even though my food that good.
Speaker 4: But I'm when you get older, you don't eat as
Speaker 4: much as you used to.
Speaker 2: You know, when we was young, you know, our appetite
Speaker 2: was sick, playing sports and shit, we'll go get three
Speaker 2: and four back three or four times.
Speaker 3: Here I come again.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. You know the only thing
Speaker 2: keep waiting on me. Man, it's just this adult beverages.
Speaker 2: That's how that's I'm really a skinny man inside. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, I'm really supposed to be skinny.
Speaker 2: I went to seventy five in high school dripping wet. Yes,
Speaker 2: then what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, then I ended up getting the ball er belly man.
Speaker 3: Yes, thet me having that taste. And we be remiss
Speaker 3: if we didn't mention this. But you you have your
Speaker 3: your your own noodles, alumna massive.
Speaker 7: You know what we got ready, as of course we
Speaker 7: got the noodles the only way, the only way we
Speaker 7: got the noodles.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so my man, so that's my man going on
Speaker 2: for years.
Speaker 6: Huh your so, so here's the deal. No, that's so,
Speaker 6: here's the deal. My man p you know him and
Speaker 6: my man James, they got rap snacks. They've been having
Speaker 6: it for years, and so they wanted to do noodles.
Speaker 6: So they was like, I'm gonna do they want to call?
Speaker 6: They wanted nothing but icons on there. So James had
Speaker 6: asked peace, who you want to put on? He was
Speaker 6: like people was like, man, put faulty on there. He say,
Speaker 6: put a little boozy and put me You know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. And I love people for that, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. Like it's a lucrative situation too, you know,
Speaker 6: So pe them that's them raps snacks. That's Master p
Speaker 6: and my man James. You know what I'm saying. So hey,
Speaker 6: I'm glad to be part of it.
Speaker 2: I have my own products coming out under the goon
Speaker 2: with the spoon, So stay tuned.
Speaker 6: You should start seeing that pretty soon. It's not noodles,
Speaker 6: I'm not. We're not in this for competition. We ended
Speaker 6: to you know, broaden our you know, everything, our portfolio.
Speaker 6: So I got other things coming in. More is mine
Speaker 6: is more or less like.
Speaker 4: Frozen foods and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Shit you could heat up in the microwave.
Speaker 4: And stuff like that. Yes, stand me, so stay tuned.
Speaker 3: You know, Like I.
Speaker 6: Got the goon with the spoon, that logo. It's a reason.
Speaker 6: It's always a method for my madness when I'm cooking
Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff. I'm just really pretty much
Speaker 6: branding myself, showing people getting them subliminally, like when you
Speaker 6: see a McDonald's sign.
Speaker 3: Checked this out. My little niece many years ago, she
Speaker 3: was with my mama. I'm in the car, me and
Speaker 3: Mom's we in the car. We had it somewhere and
Speaker 3: my niece's in the back seat. She ain't number one
Speaker 3: years old. She can't she can barely talk. She see
Speaker 3: the McDonald's sign. She like, eat eat, eat, eat, And.
Speaker 2: Mom, I said, moms, what she talking about? She said,
Speaker 2: she see the McDonald She wants some French fries. She
Speaker 2: see the McDonald's sign. She just seen the logo. That's all.
Speaker 2: That's all she knew. She just knew was that's what
Speaker 2: she wanted to eat. So that's why I'm putting that
Speaker 2: that logo goon with the spoon on all.
Speaker 4: Every time I cook, you gonna see that goon with
Speaker 4: the spoon logo.
Speaker 6: Therefore, subliminally it's gonna be self subliminal in everybody's mind.
Speaker 6: So when they start seeing my products in these convenience stores,
Speaker 6: and when they see them in costcos and Walmarts and
Speaker 6: Sam's and Saved Ways and Alvason's and so on and
Speaker 6: so forth, they gonna say, that's forty ship.
Speaker 3: Right there.
Speaker 2: Before we wrap a lot to ask you a question
Speaker 2: about another Bay Area kind of a Bay Area legend,
Speaker 2: bay Area transplant, but a legend that you were friends
Speaker 2: with Tupac Shport. I believe he's the first person that
Speaker 2: we haven't spoken to that actually had a relationship with Pop.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: That's Tupac. How did you meet Tupac? And how was Tupac?
Speaker 2: Like we just you know Tupac god when we was young,
Speaker 2: but we just you know, he's a legend and we
Speaker 2: just admire him from afar. We never got a chance
Speaker 2: to actually, you know, meet him or anything like that.
Speaker 2: You see so many different personalities in one body. How
Speaker 2: was Pap as a as a person?
Speaker 3: Man? He was cool? You know pop.
Speaker 4: You know, you know the.
Speaker 6: Terminology real recognized real. Yeah, that's how Pap was real recognized,
Speaker 6: real brother. So just by you know, my music at Tupac,
Speaker 6: you know, being from out here and being gamed up,
Speaker 6: you know, we popping back.
Speaker 4: In the ninth early nineties.
Speaker 3: Uh, I forgot what albumals that was. I think it
Speaker 3: was strictly for my neiggas one of them albums.
Speaker 6: And he had shouted out forty in a Click, e
Speaker 6: forty in a Click, which is a group that I'm
Speaker 6: that I started off with and still instill in because
Speaker 6: it's my family.
Speaker 3: It's my brother, is my sister, and it is my cousin.
Speaker 3: Be legit, you understand me.
Speaker 6: So we we called we called the Click, so he said,
Speaker 6: he shouted out, he said, shout out to he forty
Speaker 6: in the click you understand me before I can even
Speaker 6: meet be fighting met y right, so you know, not
Speaker 6: too long after that. I believe this was ninety like
Speaker 6: ninety two.
Speaker 4: Uh, Richie rich from Oakland. He he been new Pop,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And so rich I've seen rich and I think it
Speaker 2: was June teenth out there and Dix my Davis somewhere
Speaker 2: out there, and uh, he was like, fody, Man, I
Speaker 2: meant to tell you Pop wanted me to get his number,
Speaker 2: I said, he said, He.
Speaker 4: Said, twop, I want me to give you his number.
Speaker 3: He said, call him.
Speaker 4: I said, for real.
Speaker 6: And you know, I just always thought that was just
Speaker 6: hella cool for Richie toes just to give me that
Speaker 6: number and to you know what I'm saying, to start
Speaker 6: that dialogue, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: And so I was like, right on, folks, And I
Speaker 3: called him the.
Speaker 6: Next day and we talked and we just started building
Speaker 6: a relationship.
Speaker 4: Next thing, you know, we met up.
Speaker 6: And next thing, you know, for every time I go
Speaker 6: to the studio, he there, and when I'm in La
Speaker 6: here and now when he and the baby were kicking
Speaker 6: it like it became solid, not salad.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, we started doing music together.
Speaker 6: I'm on he on my my biggest album, which is
Speaker 6: in a major way.
Speaker 4: I'm on his biggest album, which is all eyes on me.
Speaker 3: That's why we got it up. That's why we got
Speaker 3: it up. You go right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know so, man, it's a blessing man, you know.
Speaker 6: And he did, like I always say, he did so
Speaker 6: much in so little time. He died at twenty five.
Speaker 6: Just imagine all that stuff he did outside of the
Speaker 6: vocal booth. You know what I'm saying Like this, dude,
Speaker 6: imagine the movies and how much he would be making
Speaker 6: a movie if he was living.
Speaker 3: Because he was.
Speaker 6: Good in acting. Yeah, great, good actor. You know, dy
Speaker 6: be getting twenty thirty million in that movie or something.
Speaker 6: You know, you never know.
Speaker 3: So I got I got one last thing, one last thing.
Speaker 7: So the spirits industry, I know, you got the wine,
Speaker 7: you got the ready to make drinks. I saw a
Speaker 7: tequila and I saw kanyak. I saw a bourbon Is
Speaker 7: vodka in the in the in the horizon.
Speaker 3: Jin was yeah, yeah they're doing that.
Speaker 4: I had I have I had a molde made for
Speaker 4: my vodka and I didn't.
Speaker 6: I wanted to I wanted to be frosted, not you know,
Speaker 6: I didn't wanted to be I wanted to have a
Speaker 6: different frost to it. And so that's in Europe now.
Speaker 6: So those bottles are about to be on the way.
Speaker 6: The vodka is called Tycoon Vodka. I have all the closures,
Speaker 6: everything already ready to the shippers, already ready at the warehouse.
Speaker 6: All they need to do is just get here and
Speaker 6: uh set up a product to date with my distiller
Speaker 6: and uh and and bottle them things and you know,
Speaker 6: get my pos uh from my distributor.
Speaker 4: And uh we rocking and rolling.
Speaker 3: Baby. Then second, I want to take a look at
Speaker 3: the shelf.
Speaker 7: Man, it's there's still space for uh.
Speaker 3: Man, I don't make me fill up that whole, that
Speaker 3: whole chef, Man, have no.
Speaker 6: Room for nothing. I gotta get y'all some of this
Speaker 6: equot into tequila, the best tequila in the world. I'm
Speaker 6: not playing anybody that tastes my tequila. If you don't
Speaker 6: like it, you just a straight out, flat out hater
Speaker 6: because you don't want to like it. You just don't
Speaker 6: like me for no reason.
Speaker 3: You might like.
Speaker 4: You might not like me because one of your partners
Speaker 4: is a rapper.
Speaker 2: And you want me to go away and it's your
Speaker 2: your your partners still might not make it.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: It's how that shit be going bro for real, Like
Speaker 6: I did nothing to nobody. Mind my business and stay
Speaker 6: out the way so I won't get away. Understand what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. To make a long story short, I gotta
Speaker 6: get y'all some of this type of bell bourbon too.
Speaker 3: You did to the noodles.
Speaker 4: Put it right next to the noodles, scotto, Hello, any
Speaker 4: of this? Man? Cop can'ty sparkling wine? Man? You know
Speaker 4: we're going to go on and on forever.
Speaker 3: Man, Slurricane hurricane.
Speaker 2: Uh you know Earl Stephens Prosecco, Earl State, Earl Stephens
Speaker 2: proscco rose straight from Veneto, Italy.
Speaker 4: Hello, So.
Speaker 3: Are you gonna put out a dictionary at any point?
Speaker 4: No, sir, No.
Speaker 2: You know they were trying to get me to do
Speaker 2: that for years. You know, slang just keeps coming. It's
Speaker 2: just like it's I always say I'm probably doing app
Speaker 2: but that's time consuming, and things just keep switching.
Speaker 4: It's like it ain't no need for me, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know, it's cool.
Speaker 6: I'm just hey, man, the game is to be spreaded, man,
Speaker 6: so I spread it out.
Speaker 2: I just thought about, you're up on the NF you
Speaker 2: in you in the text fings, You're up on the
Speaker 2: NFT wade.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming you know about that for NFTs. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's been brought up a lot in my interviews lately,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I'm we're still trying to work
Speaker 2: that out, trying to figure out that, you know, that
Speaker 2: whole NFT thing, and see what I want to do,
Speaker 2: because I know I have a lot of interesting things
Speaker 2: that can probably you know, go crazy with the NFP
Speaker 2: in the NFT world.
Speaker 3: If you had a.
Speaker 2: Scroll, a virtual scroll of like ten or twenty sayings
Speaker 2: with the with the sayings actually mean and having like.
Speaker 3: A virtual scroll.
Speaker 7: And then on the other like having rotate and have
Speaker 7: them actually translated to pronounce it correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I.
Speaker 11: Mean, man, our culture, our culture is Our culture brings
Speaker 11: up all evaluations period.
Speaker 4: You hear me, cuncture brings up all evaluations in anything,
Speaker 4: because we are at the trend setters.
Speaker 3: You see how you just came up with that idea.
Speaker 2: A light bulb popped up side of your head and
Speaker 2: he was like, Oh, I got an ideal.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying that light bulb right did, Like,
Speaker 6: you know, that's just how it go. We steady thinking.
Speaker 6: You know, that's a fact. We're very creative people. And yeah,
Speaker 6: the way you come up with slang is like it's
Speaker 6: more than just slang. It's actually like a brilliant like
Speaker 6: it's not easy to like you really like kind of
Speaker 6: making the language Shakespeare.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Other fact, I'm gamed up.
Speaker 3: I got so many sayings and what not.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I like the grit.
Speaker 3: Don't quit with me.
Speaker 2: Man, you know it's all gas, no breakpass man, didn't
Speaker 2: steal but a motherfucker.
Speaker 3: Broken down Bonaville and an old ass heel.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm gonna keep it pushing baby for they water
Speaker 2: then Fonzarelli. It's been a it's been an eye and
Speaker 2: a pleasure. Man, thank you for for gracing our platform. Sprinkling,
Speaker 2: Sprinkling before salt Man, don't don't don't don't ever get itself.
Speaker 6: Before salt based, salt Bae, Saltbay don't know, he don't know,
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't get mad at nobody.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm the first of many things, slang and all.
Speaker 2: I don't trip on that. But I hate when other
Speaker 2: people try to claim something and then they argue with
Speaker 2: somebody else that they claim it. And when it all
Speaker 2: came down from oh G forty wader that don't never
Speaker 2: say nothing about it. I don't even I kick back,
Speaker 2: and just like, oh man, these dudes. I don't want
Speaker 2: these dudes.
Speaker 4: Arguing over this word when they.
Speaker 6: Just don't know. This ship been around before they was born.
Speaker 6: I've been popping that ship man, you.
Speaker 3: Know, man, like I don't even know, don't. I don't
Speaker 3: get but heard, I don't.
Speaker 6: I know that a lot of people get mad at me,
Speaker 6: like a lot of these young dudes fans, because if
Speaker 6: I say I came with a certain word or something,
Speaker 6: they get mad at me, Like, bro, it.
Speaker 3: Ain't my fault. I've been saying this shit. What you
Speaker 3: want me to do?
Speaker 2: Like, don't And I don't even have to speak on it.
Speaker 2: It's other people that speak on it for me. They'd
Speaker 2: be like, man, forty came with that.
Speaker 6: They'd get to quote in the words and the ship
Speaker 6: I said on platinum and gold albums. These ain't no
Speaker 6: little low ass albums that I said the song. These
Speaker 6: are impact albums that I said certain shit on.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So they really did fan me that these youngsters they
Speaker 2: be getting, they fans get Maddy.
Speaker 6: Well, so what he made it better? He made it
Speaker 6: better than with like come mom, man, ain't nobody tripping
Speaker 6: on none of that ship made. If I had, if
Speaker 6: I had a dollar for every word I made up,
Speaker 6: I'd be a zillionaire. Hello, because that fizzle and all that,
Speaker 6: that's you, that's you, right. I was the first Me
Speaker 6: and two Shirt was the first rappers saying for CHEEZI
Speaker 6: you know, take doing all that for Shizzle, Forshezi and
Speaker 6: all that. But we were the first one standing on
Speaker 6: wax and the first rappers that was really actually just
Speaker 6: screaming it. But I got it from my pottinger Tweezy
Speaker 6: from twice you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 6: And then I gave a credit to three Times Crazy.
Speaker 6: I said my niggas three times Crazy. Last he told
Speaker 6: me how to stay for Chezi because I was in
Speaker 6: the studio with him one day and Bart was like.
Speaker 3: Bart was like Eve, but it's for Hezi, not for Hizzy.
Speaker 3: That I was saying it wrong.
Speaker 2: Twice was saying Forshezi a couple of nights before when
Speaker 2: I was in the studio working with him, and then
Speaker 2: so I said, I said it like that.
Speaker 3: Bart was like, but it's Forsheezy. So I was like,
Speaker 3: let me. It wasn't Keith that did it.
Speaker 4: And I love Keith.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Keith that told me. You know now, it Spasheezi.
Speaker 2: It was Bart from three times Crazy. You understand me.
Speaker 2: That's a group out of the out of the open,
Speaker 2: legendary group. So that's what that And I gave him that.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I show, I give the motherfucker's death. I just I
Speaker 6: tell people, I just told that. I said the whole group.
Speaker 6: I said my niggas three times crazy instead of just
Speaker 6: saying Bart, my nigga bort you know, lace me, I said.
Speaker 4: The whole three times crazy, just to include everybody.
Speaker 3: That's just how I do it. Man.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, I'm from the bay
Speaker 2: when this shit originated at the game, originated in the base,
Speaker 2: so I'm surrounded by just all kind of slang and lingo.
Speaker 3: What he's getting lingo from you?
Speaker 4: This is the truth, is the truth.
Speaker 3: Bro. I appreciate that.
Speaker 7: Dame Dollard's dancing somewhere this interview. He's gonna Dancena be
Speaker 7: shout out to man.
Speaker 4: He the he's the guy.
Speaker 3: He got that's the that's the Oakland days. They day,
Speaker 3: That's that's that's they dance right there.
Speaker 4: The town.
Speaker 3: I'm jack a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you own it, Jame Dollars.
Speaker 3: He gamed up.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: He's from the town. You know, Hellow Town business. Understand
Speaker 3: that's a fact. Man.
Speaker 4: What would you like to tell people?
Speaker 2: How can they find out information about your Spirit Company
Speaker 2: any other uh adventures that you have going on in
Speaker 2: your restaurant.
Speaker 3: All the information or what would you like to You
Speaker 3: can go.
Speaker 4: To Olympia Company Instagram.
Speaker 6: It'll give you the times we are open, location, how
Speaker 6: you could order it.
Speaker 4: You can go to my Instagram and go to my.
Speaker 6: Go to my bio and push the Lincoln in to
Speaker 6: say Uptown Spirits where you can order all my you
Speaker 6: know where you can order it. Used to be just
Speaker 6: wine back in the days where you sitting direct to consumer.
Speaker 6: Now you do liquor now like actual ship, you know,
Speaker 6: the copper buildings of the world, Copper Bourbon ship like
Speaker 6: that you feel.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You can order online, you can go to your and
Speaker 6: what I asked all y'all to do, go to your
Speaker 6: local store and say do you look at my Instagram,
Speaker 6: on my Facebook, on my Twitter, and say do you
Speaker 6: have this?
Speaker 4: And what that.
Speaker 6: Local store gonna say is we've been getting a lot
Speaker 6: of requests for that. I'm gonna order it from my
Speaker 6: distributor that that sells it to them, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. And that's just how it's gonna go. And
Speaker 6: that's how you build that demand, that the demand. That's
Speaker 6: how it happened with me with my music. You know,
Speaker 6: it started local. Then next thing you know, it's in
Speaker 6: the north, the Northwest. Then next thing you know, it's
Speaker 6: in the Midwest. Next thing you know, it's on it's
Speaker 6: in the Deep South. Next thing you know, Yes, that
Speaker 6: is everywhere like air. So that's how it all happens.
Speaker 6: Where of mouth is the best form of cheapest form
Speaker 6: of you understand me, Like promotions and stuff and marketing,
Speaker 6: like word of mouth circulates.
Speaker 3: Man, it's all over the.
Speaker 4: Place like space.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: So if we if we, if I tell people, man,
Speaker 6: if y'all keep on buying it. I'm gonna keep supplying
Speaker 6: it and for as music if y'all keep on streaming,
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna keep on bringing.
Speaker 3: It period, period. That is a fact. That is a fact.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that because, like I said, but for us,
Speaker 2: we take a little bit from everybody. It's like gumbo
Speaker 2: and you know, it's just dope to hear different people's perspective,
Speaker 2: like sitting with Jim Jones and him talking about Hall
Speaker 2: them and everything, and you know, sitting with like somebody
Speaker 2: from Massape from Louisiana and his perspective, or even like
Speaker 2: our god domn Keith from Houston, Texas to screwed Up Click,
Speaker 2: like you know what I'm saying, Like that's their culture.
Speaker 2: And then like you know, everybody has different elements that
Speaker 2: they bring, but you get games. Yeah, it's like it's
Speaker 2: very nostalgic situation.
Speaker 3: So it's like we.
Speaker 9: Watched I remember reading about you in the Source, man,
Speaker 9: shout out to the source and to meet these people,
Speaker 9: speak to these people who are living legends in our
Speaker 9: lives and hear them outside of what they're you know,
Speaker 9: particularly known for music, but in business, it's just it's
Speaker 9: incredible Man, this was fun.
Speaker 6: This is really thank you man thinking off for having me. Man,
Speaker 6: I enjoyed myself. You know, it's always a pleasure when
Speaker 6: fixtures get together.
Speaker 2: That's the fact. Man, we gotta link up. Corona is over.
Speaker 2: Definitely got a link up in person, man, and we
Speaker 2: got a game. We gotta go to the Warriors.
Speaker 3: So now we know we gotta say yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I gotta get Hey, let me tell you something, y'all
Speaker 3: be right with me.
Speaker 4: Course side.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't for the plandemic, get di so hopefully
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, they'd be over soon a
Speaker 2: week a tycoon.
Speaker 3: Hello. That is a fact, that's a fact.
Speaker 2: But pleasure, pleasure having you, brother. We appreciate it. Keep
Speaker 2: up the great work and anything that we can do
Speaker 2: to support. It's never a problem. Let us know, like
Speaker 2: any updates that you have in the company, any updates
Speaker 2: that you have with you when they need, you know,
Speaker 2: press to get out there.
Speaker 3: You know that's that's what we're here for. Hey, no problem.
Speaker 4: Thank you all for having me mane all.
Speaker 3: Right, love appreciate you, bro.
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Speaker 2: my drop, backdrop drop.
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