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This is a fact. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.920 You know, it's always fun for us to talk to 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.280 legends in the game, and when we say the game 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.399 as far as hip hop, but entrepreneur game as well. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.720 But you know, we grew up on music, so coming 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.360 from New York, you know we was heavy East Coast influence. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:22.960 That's a fact. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:24.799 But you know, a lot of people from the West 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.919 Coast really changed the game and really got up y. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:31.959 So of course, you know, you think about the obvious 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.840 name Snoop and Dre, but you can't talk to West 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:43.480 Coast without forty Rally sprink. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.919 That was the first time I asked you, it's crazy. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.200 That was the song that got me. It was that shug. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.639 My brother played out. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.519 Like who's that were like, it's that news vibe. It's 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:03.280 called forty. I'm like forty, I dig it, I dig it. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.160 So he needs on introduction. E forty, you know, legendary 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.200 just in every aspect of the game. He's actually been 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.520 in the hip hop game for thirty five years. That's crazy. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:13.240 It's crazy. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.359 I was born in eighty four. He came out in 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:19.400 eighty six. Yeah, so that's crazy. The long Jemmy is 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.160 just that might be the Guinness Book of World Records, 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:24.560 Like yeah. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.160 Short, is it too short? Too short? 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.040 And like iced tea, you know, but you. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.920 Know, I came out, My actual first project came out 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:36.920 in nineteen eighty eight. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.840 It was music on the shelves and everything. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.600 I haven't rapping since I heard sugar Hill Brand Gang 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.360 when I was you know, in nineteen seventy nine. I 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.040 was eleven years old. Everybody was kids back then, you know, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.160 for my age group. But anyway, you could just say 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.720 I start. My first official album came out in nineteen 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.200 eighty eight, so that's thirty three years. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.440 It's still a long damn time and lifetime. But I 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.560 mean I was rapping at college in eighties, in eighty six. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.320 That's where you got eighty six from Okay, talent shows 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.320 and stuff like that, you know, in college at ground 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:06.680 State University. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.600 Yes, yes, yes, So let's get into this. Let's get 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.480 into this. We we always love to talk from a 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.120 different perspective. Most people they give interviews, and if they're 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.800 entertainment or their sports, it's always about their career as 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.159 far as the musician or their career as an athlete. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.680 But I feel like, you know, people have way more 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.080 to offer than just you know, what meets the eye. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.120 And e forty to a perfect example this as far 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.800 as being an entrepreneur. So we'll talk about all the 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.479 different things that he has going on. But first and foremost, 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.359 I want to ask you because you're known as like 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.640 a pioneer in this entrepreneur space. Now it's cool to 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.880 be entrepreneur hip hop, but it wasn't always cool to 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.119 be an entrepreneur hip hop. And you guys, Independent, I believe, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.120 correct me if I'm wrong. Like even with Sick with 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.960 It records like y'all like kind of pioneered that selling 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.800 out the Trump vibe. And I think even when Master 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.360 P went to California and that kind of really inspired. 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.920 Him to really you know what I'm saying. You can 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:58.719 see the similarity. 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.880 Yeah, so what let's take it back to the beginning stages. 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:06.360 What made you go to independent route and how did 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.680 that look in the late eighties early nineties. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.720 Well, you know, being in the Bay Area, we kind 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.599 of built for that kind of stuff. You know, as 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.000 a teenager, you know, you know, I had a clothing 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:25.200 store man, you know, on Solonno Avenue in Millersville, in Vale. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.640 California, and I knew I was on my way. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.279 To be an entrepreneur then, you know. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.800 And you know with music, when we you know, we 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.240 actually had to you know, we ain't had no choice, bro, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.080 We didn't have the opportunities that at a lot of 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.800 other rappers, especially New York rappers. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.080 Bro, like New York rappers, that's where it's from. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.440 So you know, they had a little easier, no disrespect, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.480 just like we just I'm from a small city, so 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:50.880 I had it. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.400 We had it kind of harder than any city in the. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.760 Bay Area we from. I'm from Vallejll, California. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.760 Not Oakland, not San Francisco, not Richmond, Layhell, you know 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.400 what I mean. But we vlailed rock with all soils. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.520 But anyway, you know, it was by force, not choice. 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:07.719 Man. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.200 You know, if I had. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:13.080 Opportunities other rappers had back then, maybe I would have 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.200 did it, you know. But then again, I was always 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.960 a businessman, and my uncle Saint Charles taught me, well 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.920 you know what I'm saying, So I always if it 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.480 made sense. If it didn't make good business sense, it 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.440 don't make sense at all. So that's what I was 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.080 always told, you know what I mean. So we did 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.640 it the right way man. You know, started off selling 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.480 the tapes out the trunk of the car on consignment. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.800 You know, I'm sure y'all heard the story before of me. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.120 And then you know, with my uncle Saint Charles, you know, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.040 having this big book like an encyclopedia, full of addresses 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.000 that he just put together slowly but surely, day after day, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.279 months after months and put it together. And it was 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.760 every retailer that dealt with hip hop music in the nation. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.560 And he would send out a one sheet along with 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.760 some CDs and a cassette or whatever at the time 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:57.560 and say, hey, if you like this, you know what 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:57.960 I'm saying, go. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:58.800 Ahead and order from this. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.680 You had a barcode of our albums on there and 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.240 have like a detailed how would you say this, like 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.120 a bio of everything that we had going and where 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.000 we were from and all this and uh. And he 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.320 put it together like the weather man and so you 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.520 know us with the great music we had, you know, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.520 because you know, all the soils was rocking with us 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:18.840 because we were speaking. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.640 Everything we were speaking, they was living. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.040 You know what I'm saying, So curve, we were just 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.920 the curve commentators you know that actually was in it. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.160 You feel me not not no fake shit, you know. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:29.680 So that's how. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.360 I'm unfolded in the late eighties obviously for the hip 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.160 hop area that this is a different, different type of 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.720 sound Laos obviously a lot different from other parts of California. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.200 Who who was the musical influence that you're pairing your 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.160 game after at the time, as far as us CEO's 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.840 are just rappers at all, but just rappers. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:53.920 See, yeah, rappers. I would have to say, too short, 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:59.040 Big Bro, too short. Uh empty Hammer, I would say, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.320 uh uh, Magic Mike and Calvinty out of Richmond, California. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.920 If you're looking at style, the style of rapping, the 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.760 game that they were spitting and you know, and all 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:11.760 that stuff combined. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.840 You know what I'm saying that that all unfolded Hammer with. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.280 His you know, taking things to a whole other worldwide 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.680 stage and just being from the band, just letting the 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.560 whole world for everybody know MC Hammer to short his 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.680 game and you know, his selling making customized taste for 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.320 dudes in the hoods, you know. You know what I'm saying, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.720 stuff like that, and then you know, and then it's 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.720 circulating and everybody dubbing it just double the uh the 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.160 conssed just like Calvalti and Magic Mic and they style 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.800 and you know what I'm saying, it's like it was, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.600 it was just game infested. Then on another note, you 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.520 know you got to look at you know, I grew 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.280 up listening to Grand Master Flash, the Furious Five. I 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.880 can't Maley mailed them. Grew up listening to run them said, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:54.160 I grew up listening to ll who J. Cars One 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.520 is a big influence of me. Uh that that I 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.839 love cars One. You know, Chuck d you can say 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.559 iced tea for sure. You know what I'm saying, Ice T. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:03.280 People don't know. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:03.800 How it came up. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.200 Ice tea really is and really was back then to 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.520 this day. Bro too, you know what I'm saying. So 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.080 it's so it's many, it's many others man. So that's 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.200 that's what I was, you know, that's what I was watching. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:17.079 Uh. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.640 I love Luke Skywalker, Jay Prince, you know for their 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:22.240 uh you. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.320 Know, co status like being the owner of companies and 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.400 they you know, they was up against a lot like 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.839 government was trying to like everybody, like the States and 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.640 the in the States they were in, there was a 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:34.960 lot of people against hip hop and they stood strong 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.000 on the front line about the about this culture. People 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.920 like that mean a lot, you know what I mean. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.520 And we got to give people they roses in their 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.360 gardens and you know what I'm saying, they flowers while 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.240 they're here, because that's that's what I'm here to do, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.360 because we ain't gonna always be here. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.079 You know what I'm saying. So you know that's how 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:52.320 I go. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.160 Man, So at what point one, I want to talk 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.080 about your spirits business? But even before that, at what 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.520 point did you realize you diversified? Because I believe correct 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.959 me if I'm wrong. You had a fat Burger. Change, 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.200 that's the first stop I ever heard of it as 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:07.880 a fat Burger. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.439 So at what point of wingstop that was in motion? 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:11.720 Too? 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.880 It didn't get it didn't get built due to the 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.520 fact that at that time, it was two thousand and eight, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.400 two thousand and nine, we was in a recession. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:19.200 And I'll tell you. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.200 About that story one on a whole nother note, but 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.400 it we I had. I was in the at least 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.719 for five years. I went to Texas, you know what 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.240 I'm saying, and got and got the contracts done and everything. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.679 I was locked in, like, had the plans already built 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.600 out everything, you know what I'm saying for for wingstock. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.320 For wingstopager Flatburger was up and running for three years 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.760 along me and my business partner on that was my man, 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:46.040 the lake Chester Mclockton. Okay, yeah, and then so you 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:47.640 had a fat Burger and then you was gonna get 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.440 a wingstop and then the recession came and then they 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.600 just pulled the funding as far as like bank bank financing, but. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.880 Now the bank financial At that time, you know, it 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.240 wasn't about the money. It was just I had spent 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.920 like six hundred thousand dollars on my own cash money 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.160 on wing on Fatburger, and so you know, instead of 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.120 I had that on the next round. When I was 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.679 getting the wings, I was like, man, let me try 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:08.199 to get along. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.960 It was the wrong time. It was during the recession. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.160 It was giving loans no matter how good your credit was, 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:13.959 no matter what you had, no matter what. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.080 And I was like, I couldn't get the loan. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.160 So I just I just I just backed up and 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.680 just brought myself out of the lease, the five year lease, 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.000 and just had to pay a few dollars and to 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.000 get out of it. You know, it was it was money. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.280 It was money spent that I didn't gain no profit from. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.680 But it's okay, you know, cause I you know, I 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.000 got bounced back abilities. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:32.280 You know. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.880 I also had also had a club, you know, out 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:36.960 there in San Jose. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.560 It was called the Ambassador's Lounge. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.960 Many people came to visit that, you know, from all 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.960 over many many stars and my man Big Big von 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.880 Johnson cam Yale was the DJ there every Friday, so 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:51.880 we had that thing cracking. 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.199 Man, it was going down. Was the energy drink happening 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:54.719 around this time? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.920 So forty one is during the time of the fat 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.360 Burger and the Wings South potential. 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:01.520 After you said. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.760 Energy drink, oh youre talking about forty water. So I 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.160 did that with my man Kobe. Kobe. Kobe got in me. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.080 So first of all, before that, when I had my cloth, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.120 when I have my club, the the Ambassador's Lounge, I 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:19.040 was working on like a hypnotic h kind of duplicate. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.360 It was called it was gonna be called Cloud nine, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.679 but that fell through that we didn't I didn't get 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.160 that going because I didn't have all the avenues, you know, licens. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:28.560 It was a lot of things I didn't know. I 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.000 wasn't seasoned like I am now. 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.560 And then uh, Kobe had got in me because he 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.000 already had high fee Hyphie energy drink popping during during 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.679 the Hyphee movement, and he was like. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.559 Fody, man, let me let me show you something I 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:41.840 want to I want to sit down with you. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.559 He sat down with me and he showed me the 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.680 artwork to forty water, which is a kind of like 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.040 a vitamin water at the time, and we and we 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.840 did that, we made a few dollars and uh, you 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.920 know that kind of you know went its way, you 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.480 know what I'm saying, because we was getting kind of 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.400 like I ain't even lie, it was kind of getting 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.840 kicked off the shelves by other company, you know, ship 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.040 like that happens, you know, your shelf space. They're like, man, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.000 they're giving us too much competition. We're gonna move them 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.080 off the way, you know what I'm saying, Like that happened. 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.480 So but I can't just blame it on that. It's 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.960 just that went away. That's okay. I didn't have full 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.440 control of that, you know, I think Kobe for you know, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.679 coming through with that. But everything I do from here 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.880 on out full control of anything, period and from start 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.880 to finish. That's my entrepreneur is kicking in. Man, you 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.280 feel me, and uh, you know, there's many things in 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.800 the making. Man, you dig I talk your ear off. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:30.480 I love to talk. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:35.080 You better know it from the bay and. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.880 Don't say so let's let's let's let's get into this 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.520 as far as one hundred percent ownership you all right, So, yeah, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:53.680 you're from northern California. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.960 The same the same as the Emerald Triangle in the 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.080 in the uh in Napa and in wine country Nappa 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.000 Napa Valley. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:05.240 Now you're right next to you, right next to the 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.600 Napa which the wine country. That's where you know, a 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:14.400 lot of wine is harvest and it's well known for line. 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.920 But we don't really see a lot of black entrepreneurs 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.240 in the spirit space, especially in the Wan space. Wine 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.600 it's like one of these things where it's like a 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:26.040 high end, you know, it's luxury. I so, a how 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.720 did you get into the wine space? What made you 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:33.120 because most rappers it's champagne is you know, it's like 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.520 vodka stuff like that. You don't really see too many 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:41.200 rappers champion wine, like you know, that's not very commonplace. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.400 So what made you get into the wine space and 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.520 how did you get into the Wane space as a 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:46.920 you know, black entrepreneur. 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.080 Like I said, I'm right next to Napa. It only 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:51.680 made sense. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:56.200 And not only that, but I've always everyone knows, everyone 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.320 that's followed my music for many years, from the beginning 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.040 for thirty three years. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:00.240 Know that's all I talk about. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:00.720 Out as wine. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.520 I mean all the time, like even if it wasn't mine. 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.480 Uh, Gallo makes a wine called Colorassi, big jug of wine. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:10.360 Everybody has seen it. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.800 Every family has had a big jug of wine at 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.200 the at the house. You know what they're saying during 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.040 gatherings and stuff. So I used to you know, uh, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.560 my mom used to keep Colorassi around. She had the 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.760 Rhine and she would have the Burgundy. Uh and and 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.560 maybe sometime that should bleed. But I took a liking 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.000 to the to the to the uh to the to 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:33.280 the Rhine and the. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:35.480 Burgundy. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.200 And so you know, at parties and the gatherings and everything, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.320 I'm bringing a drug with me. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.000 You know. It was to the point where you know, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:43.040 I'm so soil. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.760 You know, I'm saying, I go to Ruth Chris back 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:46.800 in the days, you know, I pay the corkish feet 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.880 the fifteen twenty dollar crookids free and. 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.000 Bring in a big ass battle of wine. Uh col 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.760 ROSSI red wine Burgundy and uh and and and drink 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.320 that and they and then my cat all my dudes 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:58.960 be like, man, you got bread white, you just don't 0:15:58.960 --> 0:15:59.760 get some. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:00.000 Some high power. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.040 I would ask why, And I say, right, now at 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:07.600 this moment, I won't this. You feel me. I haven't drunk, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.040 I haven't had drunk. I haven't drunk. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.240 Carlo Rossi and I loved them because they had a 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.440 big influence, you know, Gallo. But I got my own 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.000 wine now, so you know I haven't drunk. And since 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.840 I made my own wine, which was twenty thirteen, I 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.440 got Earl Stephens selections. You know what I'm saying. I'll 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.400 be on this right here. You feel what I'm saying. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.120 This is not you know Earl Stevens selections. You know 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:29.240 function red blend. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.080 So I think that's brilliant. Man. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.200 A couple of things you did. Obviously, you branded it 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.240 and you named it after yourself. Well you're Pep, the 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.280 world is you as he forty. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.040 They didn't know Earl seeds and probably some people still 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.080 don't know what el seeds right? 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:43.920 Why you specifically named it after that? 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:46.960 And number two, you went straight to online was selling 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.360 it before you even hit shows. 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:49.720 So what was the playing behind that? 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.800 Well, you know, straight to consumer is like the best 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.800 thing right now, Like you know, you're cutting out the ason. 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.320 It's like it's beautiful, you know, and you know it's 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.400 good to have your stuff in the retail stores and all. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.440 That's fine, that's that's better too, But stretches, I mean, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.439 you're cutting out all the hard costs, all that stuff, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.359 you know, when you go straight to consumers. So I 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.199 started off like that and the demand got really big. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.879 It got really big. First of all, I forgot tell 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.080 you I named wyan Earl Stevens because I didn't want 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.359 to name a wine E forty. This just don't sound 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.919 right for a wine, you know what I'm saying. I figure, 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.320 you know, you got names out there. People name they, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.840 you know, their wines after their last name or some 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.680 of the family members and stuff like that. So I 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.359 was like, let me call it Earl Stevens. You know, 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.200 that's a square ass name, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.280 I'm a hip square even though I'm gamed up. But 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.520 Earl Stevens sound you know, that sounds real, you know, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.840 kind of luxurious. Earl Stevens. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:40.720 You feel me. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.439 So that's why I did. That's why I did that. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.240 But uh, getting back to uh, you know, selling it online. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.520 The uh did it online and it just starts flying, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.119 like flying, flying, flying, to the point where the de 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.120 man got so big with all retailers was accent. How 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.840 do we get it? How do we get it? Thanks 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.800 to the power of social media, you know, thanks to 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.840 the power of social media. I had those requests coming 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.200 in from all of my fans all over the place, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:06.960 you know. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:08.560 And so also. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.760 When you sell it on wine online, you can get 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.840 it delivered directly to your door, you. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.880 Know what I'm saying. And you can be anywhere that accepts. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:19.520 You know, shipping. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.000 Some states don't accept. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.480 Shipping, you know, shipping wine and then liquor, you know 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.119 what I'm saying. So that's how I went man. And 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.639 so the demand got so big where I had to 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.399 put it in the retail stores. I had to I 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.920 had to get a distributor and send it out. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:37.119 So what is the process of actually having a wine company? Like, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.080 because it's like wine, like you got to crush the 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.560 grapes and all that. So it's like do you just 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.800 go to Napolo and say, okay, I want you know, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.959 I'll take you three whole freights of wine. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.159 They like how they do it? 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.280 Like, is it like a wholesaler that's wine and just 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.720 sells it to different companies and then they just label it. 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.560 We got tanks man, we got tanks. They don't do 0:18:57.600 --> 0:18:59.719 the stepping on wine with your feet no more. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.080 A newer process. But you know, like I said, you 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:04.719 got to go sit. I went to go sit with them. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:04.879 You know. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.639 Of course you have to get your license and stuff 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:07.880 like that. That's another thing. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.280 You know, your first first start off with my California license. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.320 You know, that's the first thing. Everybody that sells adult beverages. 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.639 Really, no matter even if it's a dope beverage with 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.360 whatever you is, you want to tap into California first. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:21.959 So I have to take care of that first. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.040 After that, I went from state to state to state, 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.480 the state to state, the state, the state states all. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.320 These years, That's what I've been doing. People don't know 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.159 why why we have it? I here now I just 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.800 signed this a major distribution company. I just Scientist national 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:39.159 distribution deal with Southern places Wine e Spirits. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.359 Now everyone will start seeing you know, at least forty 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.720 one states for now, forty one states. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.800 That's a lot for a man that owns his own brand. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:54.560 You understand me, one, you feel me. So that's that's 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.159 that's how it unfolded. Then you got to go you 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.320 know what I'm saying, you start from. You gotta know 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.560 some You gotta ask questions. All this stuff was not easy, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:03.760 and I make it look easy. 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:04.280 You know. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.679 You gotta find out, Okay, who is the best person 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:08.639 to go do my packaging? You know? 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.480 So if you look at my packaging, I ain't gonna 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.120 get no just anybody. This is somebody that actually does 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:20.280 packaging from major h adult beverage companies, several of them, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:21.320 some that you. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.320 May have may not, may may not have heard of. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.040 Some you've heard of several times, you know what I'm saying. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.800 So and I have him. I had that company do 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.600 all my my, my, my packaging. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.439 Then you got different manufacturers. You got your wine manufacturers, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.480 you know what I'm saying. Then you got your distilled 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.520 disteled liquor. You know what I'm saying, which is my 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.840 hurricane Hurricane, my coypra belt, stuff like that. Then you 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.360 got your sparklings. That's a whole other facility. These are 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.960 these are pieces and puzzles that I put together. Then 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.399 I go to Then you got last Goomxico. You know 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:54.679 the distillery out there from my equad Into tequila, the 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.119 Blanco Repo and the nail. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:58.720 You understand me as soon to be extra in nail 0:20:58.800 --> 0:20:59.639 with the tall bottle. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.640 Then you got your you know, then then you got 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.359 your coniac, you know, your tycoon coniac from from Corneac, France, 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.400 my VS and my vs O P and. 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.920 Then I assume to be XO. You understand me. So 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:13.040 it's just so. 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.240 Many things and you gotta be focused, you gotta be 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:15.879 dial in you. 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.320 This ain't This is a real business. It's lucrative and 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:20.720 and it ain't. It ain't built you. 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.400 You can't. Everybody ain't built for it. Man. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:25.040 I'm built for this because I've been on my entrepreneur 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:27.280 you understand me ever since I was about four. 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:30.040 Hello, yes, I mean. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.800 A fet fetcher, a real feti fetcher. So all I've 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:37.720 heard is that you're super involved. So you're actually taking 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.720 trips to Mexico. You're actually taking trips to fans, Yes, sir. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.400 When you get to these places, are you like sampling 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.640 tasting and saying you know what, nah, this needs something else? 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.600 Like what's the process like when you take these trips? 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:52.879 You know, I haven't had to do it too many times? 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:54.720 Like you know, well, I lock it in and then 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:57.760 you've then from there you send it samples, you sent samples. 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:02.040 Okay, we find tuning it. We're making sure every that 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:06.560 we're doing blind taste. We tasting them against other brands. 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:08.960 You know, it's called blind tasting or you don't know 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:11.320 which one you sip it. There's been times I've tasted 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.639 my coniac and my Pottners. They was right here at 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:16.840 this bar when I put this together, like the weather, 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.600 you understand me right here sitting here, and we was 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:22.000 drinking that. But I'm not gonna say no names of 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.000 the Coniacs, but you can imagine the cony Acs that 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.600 I had the blind taste with and everybody said, everybody 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:29.919 they didn't even know what they was tasting. 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:34.159 It was mine. Mine was the best period, you know. 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:36.880 So and that's the same with my tequila and all 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:37.920 the other brands I got. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.399 Yeah, so I want to go back just a little bit. 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:44.000 You said Southern gladi is obviously that that's the largest 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.840 wine and spirits distributed in the country. Yeah, how did 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:49.720 that connection happen? Because that is the process where you're 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:51.879 now going into the retail space and they're putting on ourselves. 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:55.040 So how did you can act with them? That's for me. 0:22:55.800 --> 0:23:01.040 So so basically I was a I was with a 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.160 company called Landy Koniac as a brand ambassador for about 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:05.159 a year or two, right. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.480 And actually Landy they out of France. 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:12.439 They needed somebody and I got this excuse me, I 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:17.200 got this plug from my from when I had my 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.520 my from my mammnessa that had to be hive and 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:24.120 had he also had. He was also my business partner 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.280 at the ambassador's lounge in San Jose. And so you know, 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.720 when you're dealing with clubs, you know a lot of 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:31.960 bartend you know a lot of liquor companies. 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:34.640 So this liquor company, Landy, was like, hey, we need 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:35.440 to we need. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.520 Somebody to help us get this out there in the 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:40.080 United States because they were just in France, you know 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:40.600 what I'm saying. 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:42.840 So and so we need you know, we need a 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:43.280 better look. 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:45.760 And he was my Manvanessa was like, you know we 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:48.320 need I got eat forty and they hooked me up. 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:50.400 So they came down. We had a meeting and then 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:53.040 they was like, can you get Snoop? So I called Snoop, 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.000 put Snoop in motion with it, me and Snoop snoop 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:56.680 and rocket for years. You know, you gotta realize this, 0:23:56.800 --> 0:24:00.400 like two thousand and two, two thousand and three, two 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:02.680 thousand and four, somewhere around there, you know what I'm saying, 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:06.080 Like many moons ago, you know. So that's when I 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:08.840 had my club. And then that's when Landy came. They 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:14.640 came around two thousand. They came around two thousand, hey, 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.520 something like that. Years later. Right, that's how I go. 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:20.320 I'm rewinding everything. So I got what Snoop Snooker came in. 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:22.160 We became brand ambassadors. 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:25.000 They didn't work social media like they should have, you know, 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:26.400 like they should have been able to do it. 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.120 And social media wasn't that big. They didn't have Instagram 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:32.399 back then. I don't think they had just got it in. 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:35.800 It was a few things. So anyway, they that didn't 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:39.000 work out. So what I did was when I did 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:42.880 my wine. My man Mike, he used to work for them. 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:45.160 He was like, I got a wine, got I got 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:48.479 a spot in Napa that would love to you could do, 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:50.920 build your wine from the ground up, all yours whatever. 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:52.760 Woof the wo. We put it together. 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.720 So he went from working at Landy to working at 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:57.560 this winery, you know what I'm saying. 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:02.520 So then we went from there to uh, when I said. 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:04.679 When I was selling it online. Remember I told you 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:06.679 that the demand got so big I had to hit 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:07.440 the retailers. 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:09.240 So in order for me to hit the retailer, I said, 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.080 let me have a meeting with my man, Steve Harton 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.480 over at Southern Gladis of wine Spears. So Steve, he 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:18.400 brought me in and I knew him from Landy, from 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:19.200 Landy Kneyac. 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:22.080 See that's what that's one thing about when you're brand ambassador. 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:23.760 So that's why I'm mad at none of these cats 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.080 is brand ambassadors. You can't be mad at them. They 0:25:26.200 --> 0:25:28.360 getting their feet wet, They analyzing the game. 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:29.400 You know what I mean. That's what I did. 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:30.919 I sat back, you know what I mean. I was 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:32.520 a student of the game, and I soaked up the 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:34.800 game like a beach town, you know what I'm saying. 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.360 And I and I stayed with my connection. I told 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:41.199 Steve years before I was, before I got my own stuff. 0:25:41.240 --> 0:25:42.639 I said, I'm gonna be back to holler at you man, 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.560 I'm gonna have my own stuff one day, you know, 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:45.719 I'm having my own stuff. 0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:48.160 And I did bro and he accepted. 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:48.600 He came in. 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:49.320 I taste. 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:51.000 At that time, I only had three s k's. I 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.879 just had the uh, the function red Blend, the moscato 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:54.840 and the mango Scholar. 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:55.760 That's all I had. 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:58.119 I brought the slurri Ken in later, like about a 0:25:58.200 --> 0:26:00.240 year or two after. But when I brought on me 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:01.879 and he tasted them, he was like, let's go. I 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:03.520 showed them to our own line sales. 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:06.520 Let's go. I started off with a palette. 0:26:06.600 --> 0:26:09.679 I got my palate, went to the first palette, went 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:13.159 to uh uh Food for Less in Vale, California at 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.920 the time, Food for Less. And then after that, everybody 0:26:17.200 --> 0:26:19.639 they took I took a picture. They took a picture 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:22.560 and sent it to me. I posted it online. Everybody 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:24.359 was like, oh my god, food for that just got it. 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:24.920 Woo we move. 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.639 Everybody else started calling Costco all the stories, all the retailers, 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:34.080 all the on premise, off premise, Unsteady, the general market, 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:37.520 the clubs, everybody, they was all they wanted all my product. 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:39.399 They wanted that. They wanted the red wine. 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:41.200 They want the muscatto and the mango scott and the 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:43.520 mango Scotto was a big hit off top and it 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:44.080 still is. 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:46.760 It's it's in the class by itself. It's one of 0:26:46.840 --> 0:26:50.800 one and I just took it there. Bro So anyway, 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:56.240 so then next thing, you know, uh my man, the 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:59.080 guy that's in charge of my portfolio over at Slept 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:01.280 Southern Glad, his name is Kevin. 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:03.720 So Kevin was like, Earl, we're gonna see you. You're 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:05.960 gonna bring in We're gonna bring in a truckload one day. 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:06.240 Watch. 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:09.360 I say, well, what's the truckload? He said, twenty one palace. 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:11.040 I say twenty one palace. 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:12.080 He said yeah. 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:14.440 I say, that's a hell of them right there. He said, yeah, 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:15.200 that's a truckload. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:18.719 It's fifty six cases to a palette and it's twelve 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:21.600 twelve bottles and in a case. 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:23.600 So you know what I'm saying, you bring it in 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:24.480 a truckload. 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:26.120 You're gonna bring it. He really broke. I really brought 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:27.720 it in a truckload. He said, we come to pick 0:27:27.800 --> 0:27:32.000 up a truckload, serve that shit all through California, because 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:34.720 it's two branches in California. You got your you got 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:38.320 your Northern California, then you got Southern California chapters of 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:41.040 Southern Gladies of Wader Spears. So then they ordered a 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:44.440 truckload Southern California. You feel me. So that's how I went. 0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:46.239 Then that from there it just started cooking. So I'll 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:48.960 started getting license each state, slowly but surely, bro. 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:51.840 And that's that's how I get excited when I talk 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:55.159 about this, because really remarkable and incredible, and I'm very 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.440 grateful and thankful and shout out to all my fans 0:27:57.440 --> 0:27:58.600 who've been having my back. 0:27:58.400 --> 0:28:00.480 Like a massousse for sure. 0:28:00.760 --> 0:28:01.000 Shell. 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:04.040 So all right, so being. 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:09.160 One hundred percent on you're owning one hundred percent, does 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.520 that mean that all of the finance, like how you 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:13.720 finding Are you financing everything out of your pocket since 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:17.000 you don't have any business partners or do you have 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:20.520 bank financing? Because if us financing and out of my 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:23.520 own pocket, then once once that happens, it's. 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:26.520 A well oiled machine, it pays for itself. You know, 0:28:26.680 --> 0:28:29.199 you got to continue to buy product, you understand me. 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:31.640 You got to make sure that you got some terms involved, 0:28:31.640 --> 0:28:34.520 whether it's thirty sixty, ninety one, twenty, you understand me, 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:36.200 so that you can flip your money in time. You 0:28:36.200 --> 0:28:38.480 know what I'm saying. You know I get paid every 0:28:38.520 --> 0:28:40.600 thirty days, man, you feel me. Sometime I might get 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:42.800 seven or eight checks in one day. Every day for 0:28:42.840 --> 0:28:45.320 a whole week. It just go like that because different 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:49.680 people putting in different pos and we invoicing different distributors, 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:52.640 different distributors here and there every time, you know what 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:54.960 I'm saying. So that's how it really happened. It really 0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:59.160 unfolds like this. So like I said, man, this is 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:04.400 it's more to I. I just feel like, you know, 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:07.720 I tapped into something that I love to do anytime 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:09.280 you're do it like you guys love to do what 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:12.280 you guys are doing right, So you do because you 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:13.920 wouldn't be doing it and looking like y'all have fun 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:16.920 doing it. I have fun doing this. I have fun 0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:20.800 doing music. I have fun cooking. I got food products coming, 0:29:20.840 --> 0:29:24.240 I got I have fun doing doing startup company. 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:25.520 I'll do it all you feel me. 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:27.920 So I want to get to the I want to 0:29:27.920 --> 0:29:30.080 get to the Angel investment. Before that, let's let's take 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:34.840 a hip hop moment. So you you've you've started a 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.160 lot of trends and people might not be aware of a. 0:29:37.200 --> 0:29:38.560 Lot of language, a lot of slags. 0:29:38.760 --> 0:29:39.320 Your favorite ra. 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:44.640 Yolo, that's the model, that's the model yolo. Like so 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:48.960 many different words that you came up with, like how did. 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:50.760 How did you. 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:53.560 How did you come up with language? And have you 0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:57.160 ever thought about actually making like a dictionary? 0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:00.680 So wait, I might either have got this. I'm glad 0:30:00.680 --> 0:30:02.520 you just said that because he bonics, I feel like 0:30:03.000 --> 0:30:06.720 that man did that? Comes to me? Up? No, No, 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:08.680 just to work he BONDINGX. 0:30:08.680 --> 0:30:10.240 I don't know who came up with E bonics, but 0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:12.200 you know it do start with the E, so it 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:17.240 might as well be me. Hell nah, So you know, man, 0:30:17.440 --> 0:30:19.400 let me tell you something I'm not doing I got. 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:20.680 I'm just a unique person. 0:30:20.720 --> 0:30:23.480 Like even my people out here in Northern California trip 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.400 on me. I'm comedy and I and I'm from the streets. 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:28.280 So I just put my own ship to ship. You 0:30:28.280 --> 0:30:30.440 know what I'm saying. I make up a lot of stuff. 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:31.880 Don't get a twisted but a lot of stuff I 0:30:31.920 --> 0:30:33.520 do get from the soils. 0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:36.240 Not no rappers like the soils. And if I do 0:30:36.320 --> 0:30:38.560 get it from a rapper, I always get that rap. 0:30:38.760 --> 0:30:40.720 That rapper some dapper. You know what I'm saying. I 0:30:40.760 --> 0:30:42.880 always let him know, like my putting like such and 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:44.760 such shit like this, Scott said, you know what I mean, 0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:45.800 that's how. 0:30:45.720 --> 0:30:47.960 You cover he asked with that ship. You know, But 0:30:48.000 --> 0:30:49.880 for you know what I'm saying. 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:53.880 You know, you know how that ship so anyway, But 0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:55.960 far as me being from the bay. 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:57.320 We out here with that ship, man, we out here 0:30:57.360 --> 0:31:00.600 with that is them motherfuckers. Motherfuckers got my mouth pieces. Man, 0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:03.120 they you know they we spit them l rps. You 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:06.000 know what I'm saying. Like it's gamed up university out here. 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:07.960 I'm not the only one. You should hear some of 0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:10.160 my O g's. They they man, they sharpened than a 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:11.160 porcupine spine. 0:31:11.520 --> 0:31:14.479 You know, they extremely gamed up. 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:14.800 You know. 0:31:15.440 --> 0:31:18.080 But but I am a unique person in as far 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:19.920 as this rap game. When it comes slang, it's me. 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:26.360 Everybody know that hands down, that's a sack, that's a physic. 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:29.239 You feel like that so Yolo thing was just so 0:31:29.440 --> 0:31:32.440 I respect that drink. Actually, now, Yolo ain't me. I 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:36.000 say Yola, Oh Yolo, I thought Yola was you? 0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:39.560 No, I say Yola. 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:40.000 Yola. 0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:45.920 Yola means Yola means candy, ice cream. You know, Yola 0:31:46.000 --> 0:31:50.520 mean yolder you get my drift. Yola mean bugger sugar. 0:31:51.240 --> 0:31:54.400 You know what I'm saying. Yola mean, Yola. 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:58.040 Mean nasal Caddy made the yellow mean globa. 0:31:58.480 --> 0:32:02.240 You know that's that's Yola. That's what we call. 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:07.080 That's what we call white lobster. You understand me. You 0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:09.720 know what I'm saying. I'm trying to talk over you. 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:10.080 Know what I said. 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:12.320 I'm trying to throw the twist and the thing you did. 0:32:12.840 --> 0:32:16.600 So it's just another word for that. Yeah, y'all you 0:32:16.680 --> 0:32:19.560 feel me. I thought yo, because he did say, like 0:32:19.920 --> 0:32:21.560 pea mac dremna do for the bag. 0:32:21.600 --> 0:32:23.400 I think it was it was how much I saw that. 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:25.280 He had. 0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:29.320 He was just showing a homage to mac dre on that. No, Yo, 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:32.600 the word yo yolo is not me. I'm Yola. 0:32:33.040 --> 0:32:33.760 You understand me. 0:32:35.120 --> 0:32:39.040 Ice cream candy man, that year be coming in handy, 0:32:39.920 --> 0:32:40.440 you feel me? 0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:41.600 That's me. 0:32:43.680 --> 0:32:46.560 How was how was it coming from the like I 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.959 feel like you know, like you you just when you're 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:50.720 speaking of the bed used to speaking a forty, You 0:32:50.760 --> 0:32:53.880 speaking forty like he's like the king of the bag. 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:58.720 So how is it coming from a smaller town? Did 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:01.560 you ever get any pushback from Oakland or being that 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:03.800 you wasn't from Oakland? But I feel like you still 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.440 get associated with Oakland, like I mean like forty, like 0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:09.240 it's all a Bay area. Like, how was that coming up. Well, 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:12.200 what it is in Oakland, we got so many I 0:33:12.240 --> 0:33:14.600 got family in Oakland. I got so many potners from 0:33:14.640 --> 0:33:16.440 the streets. And all my partners from the streets know 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:19.760 the beep be in Oakland. Like we we connect like 0:33:20.040 --> 0:33:23.000 even the V, which is we call Valayl the V, 0:33:23.240 --> 0:33:25.360 the V and Richmond. You know what I'm saying, We 0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:27.880 like we close like all of us. We all know 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:31.160 pitners and shit like that. And so being from the streets, 0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:33.200 you know, we all knew a lot of I knew 0:33:33.200 --> 0:33:34.160 a lot of people from Oakland. 0:33:34.160 --> 0:33:36.280 A lot of people knew my my crew, you know 0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:38.800 what I'm saying. And so but but don't get it 0:33:38.840 --> 0:33:40.800 fucked up. We had to pay our dues. We had 0:33:40.840 --> 0:33:44.080 to let people know Balael is here to stay. And 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:47.160 yeunderstand me, you can't ain't nothing, Ain't nothing gonna stop 0:33:47.240 --> 0:33:50.520 us Valayl. We we got test afford, the two you know, 0:33:50.560 --> 0:33:52.240 self self esteem. 0:33:52.360 --> 0:33:52.479 Bro. 0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:54.480 We was ambitious. 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:57.320 We was ambitious and and and you know we knew, 0:33:57.560 --> 0:33:58.680 we knew we had talent. 0:33:58.960 --> 0:33:59.560 You know what I'm saying. 0:33:59.600 --> 0:34:01.200 And I'm not just saying me, I'm talking about the 0:34:01.240 --> 0:34:02.920 whole b. I can go on and on and on 0:34:02.960 --> 0:34:04.480 and on and on and on and down. The lift 0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:06.560 of so many great rappers from Valail. 0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:12.960 But her, yeah, who was that her? 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:16.160 Oh yeah, hell yeah yeah, her doing her things. She's 0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:18.160 straight from the feet too, and she read. She let 0:34:18.239 --> 0:34:22.239 people know she's from You understand me. 0:34:22.600 --> 0:34:25.000 I love that because we are small now. You know, 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:27.719 I'm gonna be honest with you, bro. People like Confunction, 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:32.920 uh myself, Matt Dre, the Click, you know many others 0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:36.720 we made c C. Sabathia. Uh you know what I'm saying. 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:38.759 People like that, We her, you. 0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:41.080 Know, it's so many bro, we made it you know, 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:45.160 really uh really good to say I'm from Valaale with 0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:47.839 your chests out like you understand me, like you ain't 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:49.799 you you know it's the V like we. 0:34:49.840 --> 0:34:54.040 Made it good to be from Valayale. Everybody scream that 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.160 now when you're from the F I'm from Valale. I 0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:59.200 ain't from nowhere else. I'm from the V. You understand me. 0:35:00.560 --> 0:35:03.600 We made They accepted us, Oakland, all the other cities 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:05.720 accepted us because we all rocked together. 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:07.360 That's what we do. You feel me? 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:10.000 So you know what is that when we were just 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:13.640 talking about I'm glad that you brought him up because 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:16.120 people forget how legendary he was. But for us growing up, 0:35:16.160 --> 0:35:18.080 it was I feel like, especially in the East Coast, 0:35:18.080 --> 0:35:20.120 it was like I ain't Wrap, but I would be 0:35:20.440 --> 0:35:21.080 who was who said that? 0:35:21.239 --> 0:35:23.080 Like play with him if you want here, gonna bust. 0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:27.359 Your ass like like outside of Wrap Street. 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.960 Oh yeah, he's by far not no suck at all. 0:35:32.080 --> 0:35:34.799 I ain't no sucking man. Just because he wore you know, 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:38.040 baggy pants when he danced. You know that was You 0:35:38.120 --> 0:35:40.319 gotta remember that was thirty five years ago. You know 0:35:40.400 --> 0:35:43.080 that's okay, that's that. Don't mean that don't make you 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:44.839 a break you man. Let me tell you something, man, 0:35:45.080 --> 0:35:46.680 A square would beat your ass. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:48.920 I'm not calling a. 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:51.399 Hammer a square. I'm just saying a square will beat 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:53.200 your ass. You can you know what I'm saying. 0:35:53.239 --> 0:35:56.400 You just are that quiet person that don't bother nobody 0:35:56.640 --> 0:35:59.800 with the wonders on you boy, You know what I'm saying, 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:02.400 blenders on you. 0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:04.759 Mix you up real good. You feel me. 0:36:09.520 --> 0:36:12.720 Everybody that's watching in the huddle, seeing them seeing this sweat, 0:36:12.760 --> 0:36:15.680 whoever square is, and you know in this bully trying 0:36:15.680 --> 0:36:18.839 to bully him. Man a bully man. Bullies get bull get. 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:21.120 Get the ass kicked all the fucking time, and just 0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:23.520 always remember it's always somebody out there tougher than you. 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:25.480 Don't give a fuck how many hot ones you got 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:28.080 up under your belt, there's somebody that got plenty more. 0:36:28.920 --> 0:36:31.120 And what I mean by hot ones is bodies. You 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:35.200 feel me, it's always somebody tougher than you. Trust that 0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:38.399 buddy anyway. But Hammer Hammer is a great guy man, 0:36:38.440 --> 0:36:41.560 you know, that's the big bro. And anybody got something 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:44.040 bad to say about him, it's just you know it 0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:45.840 hain't come with the plate, you know what I'm saying. 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:49.200 And you know, I think you appreciated him and after 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.399 because they realized how many people he put on and 0:36:52.440 --> 0:36:54.560 how much all that. 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:57.680 Man, it's because you file bank reps. It don't mean 0:36:57.719 --> 0:36:58.280 that you broke. 0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:02.640 Just know that job protecting your businesses, your LLCs, your escort, 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:05.959 whatever you got going on, your personal you know, uh, 0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:08.680 you know your personal state stuff like that. 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:09.239 You know what I mean. 0:37:09.680 --> 0:37:13.600 And so you know this man, you know when he 0:37:13.680 --> 0:37:16.280 when he when he filed for that, you gotta remember 0:37:16.440 --> 0:37:17.840 how many people he was taking care of. 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:21.680 His crew was about fifty people all get per diem 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:24.799 and ship. When he eat they gotta eat like hotels 0:37:24.880 --> 0:37:27.279 all this. You know what I'm saying me, he was man, 0:37:27.320 --> 0:37:30.080 he did a great job man worldwide. He did his thing, 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:32.719 and so you know, and right now to this day, 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:35.000 people you know you can you can pocket watch the 0:37:35.040 --> 0:37:37.200 motherfucker pockets. You never know what Hammer got because he 0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:40.040 ain't broke. Don't get it fucked up. He's backing all 0:37:40.120 --> 0:37:41.759 kinds of shit. You know what I'm saying that. 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:43.760 I mean, he's a legend. 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:45.680 He had to remember when he went on. He was 0:37:45.680 --> 0:37:47.040 like one of the first dudes to get a deal 0:37:47.080 --> 0:37:50.080 with Pepsi. He had his own cartoon, I. 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.279 Think Taco Bell. He did a bunch of stuff, man. 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:55.799 I think it's That's why I brought it up, because 0:37:55.800 --> 0:37:58.600 it's very interesting to see a big legend look at 0:37:58.680 --> 0:38:01.000 him obviously another big legend and still give them homage 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:04.279 at the time where it was like him, is that real? 0:38:04.640 --> 0:38:06.080 But that's dope. Though I appreciate that. 0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:08.800 I used to see Hammer coming out of Felton Pilot 0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:11.480 Studio when I'm coming out of me be Legiti and 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:13.680 d Shot and Sugar, when we're coming out of Felton 0:38:13.719 --> 0:38:16.960 Pilot Studio and James Early Studio out there on Solano 0:38:17.360 --> 0:38:21.239 Sonoma Boulevard and defeat hammer would be coming in and 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:23.080 he always treated us cool. 0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:25.479 What something waiting? Woo woom woop him. 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:27.359 And his crew coming in with truth jackets and shit, 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:29.359 and we're like, oh this hammer man, what's up man? 0:38:29.640 --> 0:38:31.120 You know what I'm saying. And he going in for 0:38:31.160 --> 0:38:33.920 his for his studio session, you know what I'm saying. 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:37.000 So you know, it was always love man, he always 0:38:37.120 --> 0:38:38.840 and that's when we just like some little dudes on 0:38:38.880 --> 0:38:40.399 the total pole. You know what I'm saying. We ain't 0:38:40.400 --> 0:38:43.680 dead yet, you know what I'm saying. We recording, So 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:47.120 he always been solid, not salad. And I hope that 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:50.360 other rappers pay homage to other rappers in the future, 0:38:50.680 --> 0:38:52.680 you know what I mean, Because that's the thing. People 0:38:52.719 --> 0:38:54.239 don't want to give up, no doubt. They think that 0:38:54.280 --> 0:38:55.520 they're gonna be on forever. 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:56.440 You know. 0:38:57.080 --> 0:38:59.120 Uh, some of some of the some of the youngsters, 0:38:59.120 --> 0:39:00.960 some of the older ones, like a lot of older 0:39:01.200 --> 0:39:04.359 rappers from my class, you. 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:06.200 Know, they just they kind of got they didn't keep 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:08.279 their foot on the gas. You know, you gotta keep 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:10.719 you can't never get, you can't never be relaxed. And 0:39:10.800 --> 0:39:14.120 another thing don't call nobody. And I'm not saying everybody 0:39:14.120 --> 0:39:16.480 know I'm a half a hundred man, but I carry 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:18.000 it well. Man, you know I said I'm the best. 0:39:18.160 --> 0:39:19.840 I'm the best thing since the washing machine. 0:39:19.880 --> 0:39:23.279 You did, you know, but but but but I'm just. 0:39:23.239 --> 0:39:26.799 Saying, don't say oh man he oh, cause nigga in 0:39:26.840 --> 0:39:29.600 a few months, niggas in a few years and five 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:30.280 six years. 0:39:30.080 --> 0:39:31.799 Ago about down the line, nigga you old to the 0:39:31.880 --> 0:39:32.680 to the new rappers. 0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:35.440 Nigga, you feel what I'm saying, like it just go 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:39.200 like that, you know, So stop saying don't say that. 0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:41.879 Don't say that because nigga, You're gonna be ancient one day. 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:42.440 Nigga. 0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:44.160 But see if you can see if you can you know, 0:39:44.320 --> 0:39:46.160 have that longevity. That's the thing. 0:39:46.960 --> 0:39:49.680 Now, I feel like we're like the only culture that 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:52.400 looks down or old. But it's like it's a blessing 0:39:52.760 --> 0:39:55.360 to become elder, Like being an elder is actually a 0:39:55.440 --> 0:39:57.600 blessing and to grow old as a blessing. And like 0:39:57.800 --> 0:40:00.160 we always referenced that. But that's a huge line that 0:40:00.160 --> 0:40:02.479 she Gluke said, You're gonna be older a lot longer 0:40:02.520 --> 0:40:03.319 than you're gonna be younger. 0:40:03.400 --> 0:40:04.040 That's just the fact. 0:40:04.160 --> 0:40:07.239 So it's like even with hip hop music, you know 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:11.600 a lot of times we devalue the legends and the 0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:13.439 people that come before because it's like, oh, they're old. 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:16.319 Like how does that devalue the music? That's like saying 0:40:16.360 --> 0:40:22.760 Diana Ross, No, not even even R and B, like jazz, 0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:26.280 every every other genre of music is still celebrated. 0:40:26.320 --> 0:40:27.200 How do you feel about that? 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:29.400 Like, I feel like it's starting to change now, But 0:40:29.760 --> 0:40:32.120 like Na's winning the Grammy. Shout out to Escort, like 0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:33.319 you know what I mean, Like, that's dope to see 0:40:33.360 --> 0:40:35.120 him win a Grammy after all these years he should 0:40:35.120 --> 0:40:35.799 have been one one. 0:40:35.840 --> 0:40:37.960 But get about that. How do you feel about that? 0:40:38.320 --> 0:40:43.280 Seasoned veterans are getting more money than ever, getting more popular. 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:46.040 I'm probably bigger than I ever been in these days. 0:40:46.320 --> 0:40:48.680 And then I'm older now, you know, I mean, I'm 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:50.600 you know, like I said, I'm a half a century 0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:53.600 you know what I'm saying. Plus you did, and so 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:57.080 you know, I think that now that that that world 0:40:57.160 --> 0:40:59.440 old was hanging around for a while, Like when I 0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:01.879 turned forty, they're like, oh he oh, I didn't think 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:04.000 I was that. People thought I wasn't I was gonna 0:41:04.000 --> 0:41:06.239 stop after that. But it's like, ain't no limit to 0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:08.359 this because I ain't slacking in my mac and on 0:41:08.440 --> 0:41:12.279 my on my microphone candy the way I spin it, 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:15.279 You understand me. I'm not like, ain't nothing ancient about me? 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:15.680 I don't. 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.360 I don't look ancient. I don't carry myself ancient. 0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:19.160 You know? 0:41:20.520 --> 0:41:20.759 You know. 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:22.560 And as long as you you got to turn with 0:41:22.640 --> 0:41:24.120 the times, are the times gonna turn on you? 0:41:24.440 --> 0:41:28.400 When you when you want to keep your vintageless, you 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:30.680 can you You're able to do that if you kind 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:33.160 of like keep your eye on the ball and find 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:36.440 a happy medium to rap over certain beats, you know, 0:41:36.680 --> 0:41:39.200 like I like my song I stand on that with 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:41.200 joining Lucas and t I. 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:42.279 Y'all go listen to that. 0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:46.760 See the sick ass gas I got on that every floor, 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:49.839 wrote everything to it, you understand me. Matter of fact, 0:41:49.880 --> 0:41:51.960 I was the one who started to flow off. Then 0:41:52.000 --> 0:41:55.480 I sent it to Joiner. Joiners say, fouty, nigga, you 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:58.319 killed this ship, and they made Joiner evencome harder, even 0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:00.799 though he already hard did TI I? Then then we 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:03.120 said to to t I, TI I got a hold 0:42:03.160 --> 0:42:04.680 to it and killed that ship. So it's like I 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.399 set the bar. You know what I'm saying. My verse 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:09.319 set the bar for out mind was first, I let 0:42:09.360 --> 0:42:11.719 Joiner go. Joiner went first. You understand me. 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:13.839 Joyner killed that ship. He got a cold fan base 0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:16.359 and he got that's a cold man right there. That's 0:42:16.360 --> 0:42:18.440 gonna he's gonna be going down one of the greats. 0:42:18.480 --> 0:42:21.560 Trust me when I tell you that. Anyway, I'm just 0:42:21.560 --> 0:42:22.720 saying that you gotta be versatile. 0:42:22.760 --> 0:42:22.920 Man. 0:42:22.920 --> 0:42:24.600 You gotta turn with the times or the time's gonna 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:27.279 turn on you. But you gotta also beat you. And 0:42:27.360 --> 0:42:29.200 that's me you did. 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:33.239 Let's let's get this Angel invest In conversation. So all right, 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:37.360 you have an impressive portfolio of companies that you have 0:42:37.640 --> 0:42:41.239 invested in, one in particular that people might have hurt 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:47.000 her baby Clubhouse early invest in Clubhouse, So let's talk 0:42:47.040 --> 0:42:49.560 about let's talk about I want to talk about Clubhouse specifically. 0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:52.440 But before that, when did you get into angel in 0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:56.160 the place Actually I'm just thinking about it, Napa Valley, 0:42:56.480 --> 0:43:01.040 Silicon Valley. 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He could have got in Clubhouse two, 0:46:44.920 --> 0:46:47.879 but you know they would have had him. He didn't 0:46:47.880 --> 0:46:50.640 want to leave out the whole syndicate. My my my 0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:54.640 personal relationship. Uh you know how I got in with 0:46:54.880 --> 0:46:56.560 Clubhouse was my own situation. 0:46:56.680 --> 0:47:00.120 You know what I'm saying, because you know, when you 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:04.400 when you move around and you because it's all about 0:47:04.480 --> 0:47:06.200 it's not it's all about networking. 0:47:06.600 --> 0:47:07.320 You know what I'm saying. 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:13.680 And if you're around certain people, things like that. 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:14.200 Happen to you. 0:47:14.200 --> 0:47:16.480 You know what I'm saying. You know, and it ain't 0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:18.319 it ain't uh, it ain't. 0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:18.760 Uh. 0:47:18.960 --> 0:47:22.200 It ain't about who you know. It's who know you. 0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:24.960 You did what I'm saying, That's what it's about. It's 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:26.400 about who know you? 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:26.600 You know. 0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:29.239 So anyway to make a long story short and short story. 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:34.960 Long, I had got into me like. 0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:37.240 I'm in so many startups like I'm just waiting. 0:47:37.719 --> 0:47:38.279 We just wait. 0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:40.640 You know, you kick back because it's a dice game, 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:44.600 you know, you rolling the dice. And you know, just 0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:45.680 that one. 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:47.960 Company that you think ain't gonna be the one that 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:49.440 you ain't even studying. 0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:51.120 You know most school. I mean, I ain't studying that one. 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:54.439 You know what I'm saying, That one you ain't even studying, right, 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:58.040 can end up being the one that golf of you know, 0:47:58.640 --> 0:48:01.920 three four five, you know, ten billion, you know what 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:02.480 I'm saying. 0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:05.440 And you put your imbles in that thing. You feel 0:48:05.480 --> 0:48:08.479 me and next thing you know, you get that call 0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:10.839 and you like it's time to drink up the whole 0:48:10.880 --> 0:48:11.560 bar behind me. 0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:12.640 You dig. 0:48:13.360 --> 0:48:18.080 So this is what it is, this is what it's about. 0:48:18.120 --> 0:48:21.600 So you know, uh, Clubhouse is a good one. You know, 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:26.160 Clubhouse is a good when I think that, uh many people. 0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:29.600 It's a new platform audio platform for people to just 0:48:30.960 --> 0:48:34.359 you know, get some game, you know, get some game 0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:38.400 because you know, but everybody on Clubhouse, ain't that everybody? 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:40.120 That's that's all? 0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:40.480 You know? 0:48:40.480 --> 0:48:42.320 You got some You got people that really know the 0:48:42.400 --> 0:48:44.759 business like you had. They had Eli on there. You're like, 0:48:44.840 --> 0:48:47.040 must you know what I'm saying. They got real top 0:48:47.040 --> 0:48:49.280 pats and taccoos on that motherfucker. You got some people 0:48:49.280 --> 0:48:51.160 that just like like get on there and just talk 0:48:51.239 --> 0:48:53.359 that ship like they just know everything. It ain't got 0:48:53.400 --> 0:48:57.640 shit going on, but that's everything. That's Twitter, that's Instagram, 0:48:57.680 --> 0:49:00.400 that's Facebook, that's all that shit. But club House is 0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:02.320 the new the it's the platform. 0:49:02.360 --> 0:49:02.520 Man. 0:49:02.680 --> 0:49:04.640 I can't see it going no other place. 0:49:04.760 --> 0:49:06.919 It might be other companies that's out there that's trying 0:49:06.920 --> 0:49:11.200 to probably duplicate it. I mean, have anybody duplicated Instagram yet? 0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:14.720 You know, think about it? Oh no, So I'm wondering. 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.320 Obviously it's a club out started as a Silicon Valley 0:49:18.480 --> 0:49:21.480 way for tech people to talk about ideas. 0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:23.520 So were you close with. 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:25.360 A founder or somebody on the inside because it was 0:49:25.400 --> 0:49:28.280 invite only at that time, how'd you come in contact 0:49:28.320 --> 0:49:28.800 with it? 0:49:28.920 --> 0:49:29.600 To apisode? 0:49:30.840 --> 0:49:31.520 Just being around it? 0:49:31.560 --> 0:49:33.279 Man, let me tell you some when you go, when 0:49:33.280 --> 0:49:36.279 you when you call you, when you when you were 0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:38.520 being people use a. 0:49:38.440 --> 0:49:39.320 Trip like folks. 0:49:39.480 --> 0:49:41.720 You know, somebody called me one day and say, photy, 0:49:42.040 --> 0:49:45.040 hey man, who's your contact over at the Warriors? 0:49:45.080 --> 0:49:45.239 Man? 0:49:45.280 --> 0:49:47.239 How do you? Uh? You know, how would I get 0:49:47.239 --> 0:49:49.120 complimentary seats? I'm like, I don't know. 0:49:50.760 --> 0:49:52.879 I don't know, brother, what you mean complimentary? I don't 0:49:52.880 --> 0:49:55.759 get complimentary sipts? Brother, I said, I pay for mine. 0:49:55.840 --> 0:49:56.560 So while I'm. 0:49:56.400 --> 0:49:59.360 Spending all that money getting these ceased, you understand me. 0:49:59.600 --> 0:50:00.840 I'm from remote myself. 0:50:01.280 --> 0:50:01.440 You know. 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:04.160 It's if you can't get you can't get no better marketing. 0:50:04.280 --> 0:50:06.560 I'm court signed. I'm having the time of my life, 0:50:06.600 --> 0:50:09.319 me and my wife. You understand me. I might bring 0:50:09.360 --> 0:50:12.480 my partners, you know what I'm saying. You know, and 0:50:13.680 --> 0:50:17.640 you know we were running into everybody, billionaires and all 0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:19.360 kind of You understand me, don't you? 0:50:19.560 --> 0:50:21.560 Just especially when you're a good person like me. 0:50:21.680 --> 0:50:24.400 Man, I you know, you know I hugged folks, I 0:50:24.480 --> 0:50:27.120 kissed you know, I kissed, I kissed the babies, you. 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:30.240 Know, shake hands, you know. Just I'm a loving person. 0:50:30.480 --> 0:50:33.080 I'm a people's person. You understand me. So I'm the 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:34.720 you know, I'm the thrill of the party. 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:36.680 Man. When out when I stepped being, people gather around 0:50:36.760 --> 0:50:38.719 me like a you understand me, like a tackle truck. 0:50:38.800 --> 0:50:41.040 Hello. You know. 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:48.120 During those two thousand and six trip trip or referee, yeah, 0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:49.440 it was called you chamelionaire. 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:51.239 I feel like them boll all, y'all. I mean you 0:50:51.280 --> 0:50:51.680 could not. 0:50:51.920 --> 0:50:54.560 But Eve forty was a staple because it was when 0:50:54.560 --> 0:50:58.600 they was playing No No. It was like him ver 0:50:58.800 --> 0:51:02.640 somebody and they was like it was when we when 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:04.160 we used to play Houston Travis Scott. 0:51:04.239 --> 0:51:04.399 Now. 0:51:06.080 --> 0:51:09.280 Yeah, so them them dudes traps will be talking big brocco, 0:51:09.800 --> 0:51:11.520 you know what I'm saying, and ship like that. It's 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:14.719 like we are warriors. Don't wait, you feel me? So 0:51:15.719 --> 0:51:19.120 camus my camevus my folks, so camps. I got cam 0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:20.920 to come. He wouldn't he wasn't he Man, I don't 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:23.000 want to be all atribute on that. I said, I 0:51:23.040 --> 0:51:25.520 know you low key man, but you know we in this, 0:51:25.600 --> 0:51:27.399 we in this, we we in this tech world. 0:51:27.480 --> 0:51:27.640 Bro. 0:51:28.120 --> 0:51:30.920 This where it's at this where this this, this where. 0:51:30.760 --> 0:51:33.640 Everybody at and you can have fun and you know 0:51:33.760 --> 0:51:38.040 you're gonna be able to you know, promote your promote 0:51:38.040 --> 0:51:40.440 yourself so they can see you on a you know, 0:51:40.480 --> 0:51:43.600 when you when you see somebody course side, like when 0:51:43.600 --> 0:51:46.200 I've seen top Dog top Dog from TV. I tell 0:51:46.239 --> 0:51:48.520 top Dog this all the time. I wanted to see 0:51:48.560 --> 0:51:51.040 him at the games and Clippers. You know, he'll be 0:51:51.080 --> 0:51:54.240 over there with the TD hat just being hisself court side. 0:51:54.680 --> 0:51:56.879 I'll call him top Dog. I see you, my guy. 0:51:57.200 --> 0:51:58.000 You know what I'm saying. 0:51:58.360 --> 0:51:59.280 I was choosed. 0:51:59.760 --> 0:52:00.840 I it was joiced. 0:52:01.320 --> 0:52:03.600 You know, so I imagine the people that seen me 0:52:03.719 --> 0:52:05.440 several times sit right next. 0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:06.160 To the Warriors bench. 0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:09.120 Now me what you can bring up a good point 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:11.239 that I never really thought about before. But it's a 0:52:11.239 --> 0:52:16.120 great marketing tool because even Chamelionaire, you know, when people 0:52:16.200 --> 0:52:20.120 saw him courtside at that finals game and it was 0:52:20.160 --> 0:52:22.400 like the tickets is like twenty thousand dollars. It was crazy, 0:52:22.800 --> 0:52:24.759 and they like it was a joke of like yo, 0:52:24.840 --> 0:52:27.279 his last hit was ten years ago. But then it 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:29.600 wasn't a joke anymore because now it started to come 0:52:29.600 --> 0:52:32.240 out that he's been an Angel investor and he's invested 0:52:32.239 --> 0:52:34.279 in all these different companies, and then ever since then 0:52:34.640 --> 0:52:36.840 that kind of cemented him as like in the culture, 0:52:37.200 --> 0:52:39.120 it's like, you know, a go to person as far 0:52:39.160 --> 0:52:41.640 as like angel investing and all that. But that probably 0:52:41.680 --> 0:52:43.719 would have never came out because he's real quiet. It 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:47.080 would have never really came out unless he was actually 0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:47.959 at that game. 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:49.760 That one game that brought. 0:52:49.640 --> 0:52:51.920 Up to the game I brought to the game. We 0:52:52.040 --> 0:52:53.040 see when you when. 0:52:52.920 --> 0:52:54.680 You a lot of times when you buy tickets, you 0:52:54.719 --> 0:52:57.840 got to buy twos and threes, you understand me. So 0:52:58.560 --> 0:53:00.640 you know, if it's a Houston am I say going 0:53:00.680 --> 0:53:02.239 to get those two tickets, i'mnaly out there. 0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:04.399 He'll buy them, and then I just pay him something 0:53:04.400 --> 0:53:05.880 that I put in as a bank account. I'll just 0:53:05.880 --> 0:53:08.240 give him, give him to him right there, check or whatever. 0:53:08.280 --> 0:53:09.880 You know what I'm saying right then and there, and 0:53:09.920 --> 0:53:11.279 I do the same when he said I'm gonna come 0:53:11.280 --> 0:53:12.880 out there, going to give me to see. 0:53:12.760 --> 0:53:14.840 Now I get in and then here reimburse me. 0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:16.719 That's how you gotta do. You can't just go buy 0:53:16.800 --> 0:53:19.560 one individual seats. That's very rare, especially to sit where 0:53:19.560 --> 0:53:21.880 you want to sit court side. Then understand what I'm saying, 0:53:22.440 --> 0:53:23.799 So he he was with you, that he was with. 0:53:23.840 --> 0:53:28.960 You, Yeah, all the games when we was together. Yeah, 0:53:29.800 --> 0:53:34.080 change the game. So we gotta have we gotta have course, 0:53:34.360 --> 0:53:35.759 that's what I'm thinking, Like, we gotta be sitting the 0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:37.120 courtside because not only. 0:53:36.960 --> 0:53:38.919 Is it ad to, but it's a networking too, because 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:43.480 I said, you bumping shoulders with billionaires and millionaires and 0:53:43.760 --> 0:53:45.479 the team will treats you like you part of the team. 0:53:45.600 --> 0:53:47.719 I see everybody running over to you, especially if you're 0:53:47.719 --> 0:53:52.360 in these cities like San Francisco, yeah, or Miami or 0:53:52.440 --> 0:53:56.400 New York or you know like l A, Atlanta, Like 0:53:56.480 --> 0:53:58.359 there's a lot of stuff going on and a lot 0:53:58.360 --> 0:53:59.759 of movies and shakers in that in that. 0:53:59.760 --> 0:54:03.200 Realm su stamp sustep you know what? That what I think? 0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:03.719 Did it? It? 0:54:03.760 --> 0:54:06.279 Actually I felt like after I saw a millionaire there, 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:08.799 then I felt like tech became a thing in the NBA. 0:54:08.880 --> 0:54:10.200 And so now it turned me. 0:54:10.160 --> 0:54:13.120 On to the knowledge that Andre Engadala had and it 0:54:13.160 --> 0:54:14.680 was like, wait, this guy's digging the text space and 0:54:14.680 --> 0:54:16.560 he's in the Warriors and then Steph got into the 0:54:16.600 --> 0:54:18.680 text space and I was like, oh, okay, just from 0:54:18.960 --> 0:54:19.920 seeing you guys. 0:54:19.640 --> 0:54:20.759 There at the game, So that's dope. 0:54:20.760 --> 0:54:23.520 So my question is, is there a criteria that you 0:54:23.560 --> 0:54:26.239 have when you when you're looking for new businesses, new 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:27.400 startups to invest in. 0:54:28.920 --> 0:54:29.960 Will you got it? 0:54:30.040 --> 0:54:32.879 First of all, the main thing is it Cam taught 0:54:32.880 --> 0:54:33.959 me this a long time ago. 0:54:34.400 --> 0:54:35.280 Make sure that there's. 0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:38.800 Some reptical people that's already in the investment, some people 0:54:38.840 --> 0:54:41.880 that most likely have some experience in being in the 0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:45.279 tech world, whether they're you know, starting it up, being 0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:48.440 the you know, the owner of the particular app or 0:54:48.480 --> 0:54:50.480 whatever it is, or the company you know what I'm 0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:54.920 saying that you're getting into, or you know, just it 0:54:55.000 --> 0:54:58.279 just has to be an idea, uh, something that has 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:00.839 changed the world. Because that's the West Wi too. We're 0:55:00.840 --> 0:55:03.359 trying to be in the companies we're trying to get into. 0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:07.520 Is something that changed the world, you understand me? And 0:55:07.520 --> 0:55:09.320 and there's a there's a lot of them out there. 0:55:10.400 --> 0:55:12.680 So getting in early. 0:55:12.560 --> 0:55:15.920 Is always the best early stage, you know, it's always 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:18.520 the best I got we we Uh, people don't. 0:55:18.320 --> 0:55:20.719 Even know I was in Ring. Me and Cam we 0:55:20.719 --> 0:55:21.239 was in ring. 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:22.840 You know, we. 0:55:25.320 --> 0:55:25.680 Was a ring. 0:55:25.719 --> 0:55:28.640 We didn't get in early on that one, but we did. 0:55:29.120 --> 0:55:31.719 You know, it's great from our portfolio, and we did well. 0:55:31.840 --> 0:55:32.399 We did well. 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:34.920 We got in just a few months before they, you 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:39.640 know what I'm saying, got acquired. And but I wish 0:55:39.680 --> 0:55:43.680 we would have got in earlier. Let me ask you, 0:55:43.960 --> 0:55:45.680 a lot of companies like that that we. 0:55:45.600 --> 0:55:47.839 Are in early you hit a lot of you had 0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:51.160 a lot of artists that's getting into the text bage, 0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:53.680 whether it's nives with Queensbridge Capitals. 0:55:54.760 --> 0:55:57.400 I've been in it. I've been in it. J Z 0:55:57.760 --> 0:56:00.000 Marshy uh Fincher or something like that. 0:56:00.040 --> 0:56:05.319 Uh yeah, but put you you guys, Yeah, you have 0:56:05.360 --> 0:56:06.440 a you have a syndicate. 0:56:06.480 --> 0:56:07.200 This is interesting. 0:56:07.400 --> 0:56:11.440 So right she said you clean their trade songs and 0:56:11.480 --> 0:56:15.920 a few other people were big boy. So what's the 0:56:16.000 --> 0:56:18.279 name of it and how did that come about? Like 0:56:18.400 --> 0:56:21.000 how did that come about? As far as like putting 0:56:21.200 --> 0:56:27.560 a syndicate together? Yeah, how'd that come about? Cam Camillionaire, 0:56:28.360 --> 0:56:29.200 that's who, that's who. 0:56:29.239 --> 0:56:29.600 That's who. 0:56:30.120 --> 0:56:30.319 You know. 0:56:30.360 --> 0:56:32.719 When I first got my you know, uh, when I 0:56:32.760 --> 0:56:36.719 cut my gums into the tech world, you know, it was. 0:56:36.760 --> 0:56:38.839 It was I mean Cam that woke my game up 0:56:38.880 --> 0:56:40.000 to it, you know what I'm saying. 0:56:40.600 --> 0:56:43.719 And and so he put the send syndicate together and 0:56:43.880 --> 0:56:46.680 was like, and it's others too involved, you know, and 0:56:46.680 --> 0:56:48.040 we all put our money in the pot. 0:56:48.080 --> 0:56:50.920 We go for it. Mm hmm. 0:56:51.800 --> 0:56:53.479 How do you do you have like a said amount 0:56:53.520 --> 0:56:54.880 of deals that you try to get every year with 0:56:54.880 --> 0:56:55.640 the syndicate or was it. 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:58.879 Just like we got we get updates every Cam give 0:56:58.960 --> 0:57:02.120 us updates. Man, we in so many companies I won't 0:57:02.120 --> 0:57:02.960 even reveal the. 0:57:02.920 --> 0:57:06.240 Companies that we are in early stage and great companies, 0:57:06.320 --> 0:57:10.879 companies that billionaires are in, like and you know, and. 0:57:13.360 --> 0:57:15.840 You know, I let I let Cam. You know, do 0:57:16.560 --> 0:57:19.120 he he's he's the one who driving the car because 0:57:19.480 --> 0:57:22.080 he got that. He's focused this all he fold. He 0:57:22.080 --> 0:57:23.960 don't want to even he want to do music. I 0:57:24.000 --> 0:57:26.080 got a verse from him. I got a verse when 0:57:26.120 --> 0:57:28.200 he came to the crib about a few months ago, 0:57:28.240 --> 0:57:30.400 a few years ago, a couple of years ago. I 0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:32.120 got a coal verse from him. I might put it out, 0:57:32.120 --> 0:57:33.800 but he ain't even tripping on no music. 0:57:33.840 --> 0:57:37.600 And Cam, you got to realize Kim never stopped doing 0:57:37.680 --> 0:57:39.360 music when he was at the bottom. 0:57:39.440 --> 0:57:40.760 He was already he was still on the top. 0:57:41.520 --> 0:57:43.800 But he chose to, you know what I'm saying, This 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:48.680 boy chose to, you know, do do this other thing. 0:57:50.040 --> 0:57:52.080 This thing you know that's still a Combe Valley thing, 0:57:52.120 --> 0:57:54.200 this tech thing, this, you know what I'm saying. 0:57:54.280 --> 0:57:56.360 So that's what he focused on. 0:57:56.440 --> 0:57:58.840 And that's and I was like, man, I wish I 0:57:58.880 --> 0:58:01.160 was in some of the ones he got early. Then 0:58:01.200 --> 0:58:03.800 I would have listened, you know, But I you know, 0:58:04.040 --> 0:58:05.600 a little bit before twenty sixteen. 0:58:05.960 --> 0:58:07.040 So it's been five years. 0:58:07.040 --> 0:58:08.080 I've been you know, I've been. 0:58:08.120 --> 0:58:09.000 I've been. I've been on it. 0:58:09.000 --> 0:58:11.080 And that's not bad from a dude from magazine Street 0:58:11.480 --> 0:58:12.680 the thirteen hundred block. 0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:15.640 You understand me, lay Hell, California, Maine. 0:58:16.000 --> 0:58:18.120 You dig I think I'm taking notes. 0:58:18.120 --> 0:58:20.680 So if I see the name Earl Stevens, I'm gonna 0:58:20.680 --> 0:58:22.920 get Chamelionaires real name. If I see those people as 0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:25.320 angel investors, probably a good space to get into. 0:58:25.560 --> 0:58:26.240 But you won't see it. 0:58:27.680 --> 0:58:28.800 All the sudden. Yeah. 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:31.040 Well that's like John Henry he told us with the 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:34.440 CAP tape, and he was like, if you see like 0:58:34.440 --> 0:58:36.840 a sequoi Capital, Sequoia Capital is a real big player 0:58:36.840 --> 0:58:38.640 in space. He's like, if you see like people like 0:58:38.680 --> 0:58:42.400 this already in the in the company, that's like a green, 0:58:42.680 --> 0:58:45.720 like that's like cold green, like go code, because you 0:58:45.720 --> 0:58:47.840 already know that these people ain't They're not stupid, They're 0:58:47.840 --> 0:58:49.560 not just gonna be to spend the money with nothing 0:58:50.520 --> 0:58:52.880 interesting to you. 0:58:53.720 --> 0:58:55.200 I got a shout out because I used to see 0:58:55.240 --> 0:58:57.760 them at the games as well, being at Felicia Horwitz. 0:58:58.640 --> 0:59:01.920 They yeah, Yo, they top Pats and this ship and 0:59:01.960 --> 0:59:04.040 they you know, and they was days. 0:59:04.280 --> 0:59:06.800 They always been cool. And you know when you greep 0:59:06.880 --> 0:59:08.919 you see people like that, you know what I'm saying. 0:59:09.360 --> 0:59:12.360 You meet people like that at the games, and you 0:59:12.400 --> 0:59:14.920 know you're with the owners like I hang out with 0:59:15.120 --> 0:59:17.160 I was hanging out with the owners at the games, 0:59:17.200 --> 0:59:20.000 and you know, just a little bit of everybody in 0:59:20.600 --> 0:59:25.480 the Silicon Valley world and being there, I mean, you know, 0:59:25.560 --> 0:59:26.280 you're just around it. 0:59:26.320 --> 0:59:29.160 How can you not get in it? You know? Now, 0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:29.800 that's a fact. 0:59:29.920 --> 0:59:33.920 Networking is extremely important, and especially if you are privileged 0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:37.080 enough to have, you know, that type of access where 0:59:37.080 --> 0:59:40.760 it's like a lot of artists, entertainers. I remember Floyd 0:59:40.800 --> 0:59:42.120 said this once. He was like, you know, I hang 0:59:42.160 --> 0:59:44.200 around the billionaires. He's like, it's not just good enough 0:59:44.200 --> 0:59:46.640 for me to hang around a billionaire and put him 0:59:46.680 --> 0:59:49.040 put me on his jet. I want to know how 0:59:49.040 --> 0:59:51.880 did you get the jet? You can't bring me around 0:59:51.960 --> 0:59:54.560 just as a token, you know what I'm saying, Entertainer, 0:59:54.720 --> 0:59:58.000 that's like just my friend. Now, you got to actually 0:59:58.120 --> 0:59:59.960 educate me, because if not, what am I here? 1:00:00.200 --> 1:00:02.080 Like? Why why do we have a relationship? 1:00:02.280 --> 1:00:04.400 What you got to ask? You? You're supposed to ask. 1:00:04.320 --> 1:00:07.600 Questions when you're around greatness and when you're around billionaires, 1:00:07.640 --> 1:00:09.440 And however you want to say it. You know what 1:00:09.440 --> 1:00:11.880 I say, it's because you have to be a student 1:00:11.880 --> 1:00:13.680 of a gang. And a lot of times they don't 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:16.080 even have to teach you. You could just learn just 1:00:16.160 --> 1:00:18.800 by being a student of a game, observing a lot 1:00:18.840 --> 1:00:25.000 of in terms are millionaires because our billionaires because they 1:00:25.040 --> 1:00:26.959 were student of the they were students of the gang. 1:00:27.520 --> 1:00:29.880 They they kicked back and soaked up game like a 1:00:29.920 --> 1:00:34.720 beach tab. And that's what you're supposed to do. 1:00:34.440 --> 1:00:35.360 Do you guys have a. 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:37.280 Name for your syndicate or is it just like I 1:00:37.440 --> 1:00:40.280 just do the prime partners partners? 1:00:40.600 --> 1:00:43.040 I think I did see that. I like partners. I 1:00:43.160 --> 1:00:43.520 like that. 1:00:43.680 --> 1:00:46.400 Let me ask you this being from the Bay Area, 1:00:46.520 --> 1:00:48.600 we introduced somebody shout the Meal Bran. He's an actor 1:00:48.600 --> 1:00:50.360 from Oakland. He was saying as far as like the 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:52.800 gentrification that's going on Cifical, he's from an Oakland but 1:00:52.920 --> 1:00:55.080 like and he had a theory that like a lot 1:00:55.120 --> 1:00:58.000 of the sports teams that's moving out of Oakland, that's 1:00:58.080 --> 1:01:01.600 kind of like done intentionally to kind of like disrupt 1:01:01.600 --> 1:01:03.320 the city, kind of bring them more round down a 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:06.720 little bit and then make way for gentifications. So what 1:01:06.840 --> 1:01:08.440 is your thoughts because I would watching it, you know, 1:01:08.480 --> 1:01:10.200 I watch a lot of these documentaries and stuff like that, 1:01:10.240 --> 1:01:11.800 and I see that, you know, the Bay Area is 1:01:11.800 --> 1:01:14.920 becoming heavily gentified, especially Oakland. 1:01:14.560 --> 1:01:17.200 Because it's right next door, which is the highest. 1:01:16.880 --> 1:01:19.560 The highest real estate market in the country, even even 1:01:19.600 --> 1:01:22.360 higher than Manhattan, and it's it's a very small area. 1:01:22.920 --> 1:01:25.680 So what is your thoughts on gentrification especially in the 1:01:25.680 --> 1:01:28.280 Bay Area? And what is your thoughts on sports teams 1:01:28.320 --> 1:01:30.160 leaving the band? I know you're a huge sports fan, 1:01:30.280 --> 1:01:38.040 so what is what's your thoughts on that? So you know, uh, 1:01:38.160 --> 1:01:39.880 you know, everybody won't you know. 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:41.160 Now we have. 1:01:42.960 --> 1:01:46.840 Chase the Chase Center now in Frisco Warriors play, which 1:01:46.880 --> 1:01:50.920 is a beautiful stadium, but we all wish it was 1:01:50.920 --> 1:01:51.800 still at the. 1:01:51.760 --> 1:01:56.360 Oracle, you know, in Oakland, you know, because that's where 1:01:56.400 --> 1:01:57.000 the great. 1:01:56.840 --> 1:02:01.800 Times we're at and those can be come back. But 1:02:02.680 --> 1:02:05.720 the access to all of Oakland fans, they used to 1:02:05.760 --> 1:02:08.640 be at them games, you know, they used to you know, 1:02:09.280 --> 1:02:11.120 it was closer to get there. Now you got to 1:02:11.160 --> 1:02:12.840 go over the bridge, and it's a lot of traffic 1:02:12.840 --> 1:02:13.760 and this, that and the third. 1:02:14.400 --> 1:02:15.720 But that is what it is. 1:02:15.760 --> 1:02:18.440 And you know, you know, as we as todays go by, 1:02:18.520 --> 1:02:21.960 we'll get used to it and you know, things to 1:02:22.040 --> 1:02:22.880 get back, you know. 1:02:22.960 --> 1:02:28.360 But at the same time, gentrification. 1:02:28.120 --> 1:02:31.360 That's that's been happening for many years before we were 1:02:31.400 --> 1:02:31.920 even born. 1:02:32.000 --> 1:02:33.640 You know, y'all know that, you. 1:02:33.600 --> 1:02:38.280 Know what I mean, And it's it's it's crazy because 1:02:38.280 --> 1:02:41.440 you know, if your pockets ain't all the way, like 1:02:41.440 --> 1:02:44.240 like my house on Magazine Street, I remember, I checked 1:02:44.280 --> 1:02:45.920 up on the house I. 1:02:45.440 --> 1:02:47.800 Grew up with, grew up on I mean grew up 1:02:47.840 --> 1:02:50.439 in on Magazine Street on the thirteen hundred block. 1:02:50.440 --> 1:02:53.640 I remember that thing. In two thousand and nine, it 1:02:53.680 --> 1:02:55.480 was like seventy seven thout. 1:02:55.200 --> 1:03:00.520 Wole three bedroom, very small, very twelve hundred square feet 1:03:00.520 --> 1:03:02.600 of some shit to total you know what I'm saying, 1:03:02.680 --> 1:03:05.880 It was like seventy seven thout wound, right, and uh 1:03:06.120 --> 1:03:08.240 I looked at that thing. Now that thing's worth like 1:03:08.480 --> 1:03:11.000 dan near half a ticket man. And it ain't nothing, 1:03:11.000 --> 1:03:13.280 it ain't nothing big about it. Just held the trees 1:03:13.320 --> 1:03:15.920 in front of it. Yes, stand what I'm saying. And 1:03:15.960 --> 1:03:16.640 that's it. 1:03:16.720 --> 1:03:20.680 So it's like seventy seventh thout wound and now that 1:03:20.760 --> 1:03:22.240 motherfucker up to half a ticket. 1:03:22.320 --> 1:03:25.840 So it's crazy. Even in the soils of trenches, the octagon, 1:03:26.160 --> 1:03:28.760 the smudge, it's still the same thing. 1:03:28.920 --> 1:03:31.600 You feel me now. 1:03:31.720 --> 1:03:35.080 They it's like it's the prices are so high, like, 1:03:35.360 --> 1:03:37.680 come on, man, it's a million dollars? 1:03:37.680 --> 1:03:41.120 Really worth a million nowadays? No, it's about six hundred, 1:03:41.400 --> 1:03:44.160 six hundred and thirty thou wou huh? Probably you know 1:03:44.760 --> 1:03:48.280 they think about it, think about you know what I'm saying. Well, 1:03:48.320 --> 1:03:51.080 you you're talking before. Don't buy eight thousand dollar talk 1:03:51.200 --> 1:03:52.200 for you by house. 1:03:52.520 --> 1:03:54.320 Don't do it. Don't do it. 1:03:54.400 --> 1:03:56.840 Get you some property, man, Get you some property, and 1:03:56.880 --> 1:04:00.320 it don't have to be a brand new home. 1:04:00.680 --> 1:04:02.640 You can take you could you could buy something cool, 1:04:03.080 --> 1:04:05.160 you know, just something that you can fix up. A 1:04:05.160 --> 1:04:07.320 lot of people got talents. They know how to you know, 1:04:07.400 --> 1:04:10.680 refurbish and remodel homes. They can do it on your own. 1:04:11.040 --> 1:04:11.320 You know. 1:04:11.560 --> 1:04:13.320 They might have an uncle, that's that's what they do 1:04:13.400 --> 1:04:15.360 for a living to come do that ship for them. 1:04:15.400 --> 1:04:17.600 You know what I'm saying, you're flipping house. I got 1:04:17.600 --> 1:04:19.000 a few problems that flip houses. 1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:20.760 Man. They doing well. Man. 1:04:20.800 --> 1:04:22.680 They their money is working for them. 1:04:22.720 --> 1:04:25.680 Man, you know their money is working for their money. 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:26.320 Man, you feel me. 1:04:26.400 --> 1:04:29.680 They this is a real wild machine, and real estate 1:04:29.720 --> 1:04:31.320 is some of the best stuff you can get into. 1:04:31.400 --> 1:04:31.600 Man. 1:04:31.680 --> 1:04:34.320 Always buy a proper piece of the earth. Man, that's 1:04:34.400 --> 1:04:37.160 always yeah, that's always a plus. 1:04:37.360 --> 1:04:37.560 You know. 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:42.320 Can we can we continue on with your diversification? What 1:04:42.920 --> 1:04:45.000 are your passion? You know they maybe people know about 1:04:45.000 --> 1:04:47.560 that is cooking the good fool himself? 1:04:48.200 --> 1:04:50.240 Uh so, can we can we talk about your your 1:04:50.800 --> 1:04:54.360 venture into the rest of our business with the company 1:04:54.520 --> 1:04:55.760 or your company? 1:04:56.000 --> 1:04:56.760 Yeah? Man. 1:04:57.000 --> 1:05:03.120 So in the Bay Area, there's many, many, many, many 1:05:03.160 --> 1:05:04.439 many Filipinos out here. 1:05:05.120 --> 1:05:09.040 Many and we grew up with them. 1:05:09.120 --> 1:05:12.480 I mean I played sports with them with school Filipinos, 1:05:12.480 --> 1:05:15.080 like some of my best friends is Filipino. Like, this 1:05:15.200 --> 1:05:16.680 is just how it go man out here in the 1:05:16.720 --> 1:05:19.600 baker we're very diverse in the Bay Area. You understand 1:05:19.600 --> 1:05:23.919 what I'm saying. And you know, so I had an opportunity. 1:05:24.320 --> 1:05:26.200 I always liked the Olympia. I used to always tell 1:05:26.240 --> 1:05:29.320 my wife, you understand me. Since I was a young mustache, 1:05:29.320 --> 1:05:31.600 I used always tell you know, we all love lumpey. 1:05:31.600 --> 1:05:33.760 I one day I want to get a company, you 1:05:33.800 --> 1:05:34.800 know that sell lumpia. 1:05:35.280 --> 1:05:38.120 And I wanted to be either a walk up or 1:05:38.320 --> 1:05:40.480 drive through, you know, because one day I wanted to 1:05:40.480 --> 1:05:41.200 be a drive through. 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:44.800 Keep them, keep them menu limited. You understand me, and 1:05:45.040 --> 1:05:46.439 just pull up. I want a twenty piece. 1:05:46.440 --> 1:05:48.440 I want a fifty piece and that's all you can 1:05:48.480 --> 1:05:51.160 get a hundred that's the family size whatever. 1:05:51.240 --> 1:05:51.960 You understand me. 1:05:52.360 --> 1:05:57.000 So Woopia, lupia, lupia. Let me tell you what lupia is. 1:05:57.160 --> 1:06:00.320 Lupia is like an egg row, but it's not an 1:06:00.320 --> 1:06:03.960 egg bro It's a certain rap very known and the Filipinos, 1:06:04.000 --> 1:06:07.240 you know, you know this is a Filipino dish, and 1:06:07.480 --> 1:06:10.320 you know traditional Olympias with pork. They got to shange 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:13.840 hai Oswell, they got pork beef. You know, you canna 1:06:13.840 --> 1:06:16.200 do shrimp and pork like you know, we do non 1:06:16.240 --> 1:06:19.240 traditional and we do traditional Olympia. We got you know, 1:06:19.320 --> 1:06:24.960 we got Pepperoni piece Olympia. We have Philly cheese steak Olympia. 1:06:25.320 --> 1:06:27.520 You know what I'm saying. Like we go in boy 1:06:27.600 --> 1:06:28.400 and they go crazy. 1:06:28.440 --> 1:06:31.680 We got my my Olympia mind is called the Earl Special, 1:06:32.120 --> 1:06:34.440 which is ground turkey with veggies in it. 1:06:34.760 --> 1:06:37.600 You understand me. Yeah, And you fry it for four 1:06:37.680 --> 1:06:38.760 minutes at three point fifty. 1:06:39.040 --> 1:06:41.200 Get your grease and grease high three feet all you 1:06:41.200 --> 1:06:42.720 can air fright, you know what I'm saying. 1:06:42.840 --> 1:06:44.160 They don't take but a high second. 1:06:44.160 --> 1:06:44.320 Main. 1:06:44.400 --> 1:06:47.360 Then you understand me, and you get you different dippings 1:06:47.360 --> 1:06:51.160 you use the main. The number one dip that can 1:06:51.200 --> 1:06:54.320 fit any Olympia is the sweet Chili Sauce. 1:06:54.720 --> 1:06:58.800 Was gonna say, I ran into that. The ta Chili 1:06:58.840 --> 1:07:01.840 sauce is great on that. Yeah, exactly, my god. You know. 1:07:02.320 --> 1:07:05.600 So you know, and it's we're doing very very well 1:07:05.640 --> 1:07:09.640 for one spot, small spot, but you know it's going 1:07:09.720 --> 1:07:13.000 to be a franchise very soon. And I got connected 1:07:13.040 --> 1:07:16.360 with my man Alex with Toto chef Alex from My My, 1:07:16.360 --> 1:07:20.160 My guy E Rock, which is a DJ from the 1:07:20.200 --> 1:07:22.040 Bay Area. He he got one of the ease. He 1:07:22.080 --> 1:07:24.520 gotta sick with the tattoo everything. You know, I watched 1:07:24.600 --> 1:07:26.840 him grow up as a young as a youngster. You know, 1:07:26.880 --> 1:07:29.040 you can find e Rock. You know, he about to 1:07:29.080 --> 1:07:30.840 be back in Vegas. You know, find him up on 1:07:30.880 --> 1:07:33.040 a you know, the big the big lights, the big 1:07:33.080 --> 1:07:36.360 the big jumbo trons and the big billboards out there 1:07:36.640 --> 1:07:39.720 and uh in uh in Las Vegas because he DJ's 1:07:39.760 --> 1:07:42.960 out there, you know, along with you know DJ Francis, 1:07:43.200 --> 1:07:45.080 you know DJ Francis Filipino too. 1:07:45.320 --> 1:07:46.040 So we've been around. 1:07:46.280 --> 1:07:48.640 We've been around these cats for many moons. But anyway, 1:07:48.640 --> 1:07:50.880 make a long story short, DJ I was. I told 1:07:50.960 --> 1:07:52.720 DJ e Rock, I said, I called him. 1:07:52.760 --> 1:07:54.480 I said, man, I need to get something walk get 1:07:54.480 --> 1:07:56.200 some lompia, ad man, you know what I'm saying. 1:07:56.440 --> 1:07:58.280 And he hooked me up with Alex. He said, Alix 1:07:58.360 --> 1:07:59.400 had got me some ompia. 1:08:00.080 --> 1:08:00.360 It was. 1:08:00.440 --> 1:08:02.760 It was phenomenal, you know what I'm saying. So from 1:08:02.760 --> 1:08:04.760 then I was like, hey, man, let's let's let's let's 1:08:04.840 --> 1:08:05.760 let's do some stuff. 1:08:06.640 --> 1:08:06.880 Now. 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:11.440 I love So you started a filipudo restaurant. Will He 1:08:11.880 --> 1:08:13.760 started it and I came in. It was it was 1:08:13.760 --> 1:08:15.960 a perfect match. And I came in, I put my 1:08:16.040 --> 1:08:16.639 guda in. 1:08:16.640 --> 1:08:19.599 And and you know, and we and we was off 1:08:19.800 --> 1:08:20.719 off to the races. 1:08:21.080 --> 1:08:21.479 I love that. 1:08:21.560 --> 1:08:23.120 The reason why I love that is because it's like 1:08:23.200 --> 1:08:25.519 sometimes a lot of times Black people we get boxed 1:08:25.520 --> 1:08:27.960 in like we can only do soul food. 1:08:28.080 --> 1:08:29.720 We can only do like. 1:08:29.720 --> 1:08:32.840 If somebody from Asian can have Kennedy's Fried Chicken and 1:08:32.960 --> 1:08:36.360 sell us fried chicken, why can't we sell Asiano? 1:08:36.880 --> 1:08:38.360 That's right, That's right. 1:08:39.760 --> 1:08:43.240 You know. So you know, along with the Olympia Company, 1:08:43.320 --> 1:08:45.439 also have the goon with the spoon. That's my handle, 1:08:46.880 --> 1:08:49.960 the goon with the spoon, you know, and I got 1:08:50.000 --> 1:08:52.000 there's some soil ship. You know what I'm saying, Like 1:08:52.479 --> 1:08:54.559 if you can you can imagine a dude from in 1:08:54.600 --> 1:08:57.040 the trenches, you understand me fucking around with the spoon 1:08:57.040 --> 1:08:59.240 and the gumbo pot. You did what I'm saying, Yeah, 1:09:00.439 --> 1:09:05.519 you know, with the man, I got all kind of 1:09:05.560 --> 1:09:07.479 dishes I make. Man, you know what I'm saying, Like, 1:09:07.960 --> 1:09:09.639 you know, hey, let me tell you something I done. 1:09:09.720 --> 1:09:12.599 Had some of my chef partners say they say, man, 1:09:12.640 --> 1:09:14.360 forty man, you got to cut it out. Man, I say, 1:09:14.400 --> 1:09:15.840 why would I do? He said? 1:09:16.200 --> 1:09:17.599 He said, Man, they. 1:09:17.439 --> 1:09:20.160 Say, my man, my wife was like you a chef 1:09:20.680 --> 1:09:21.960 and the good I'm gonna sit up here looking at 1:09:22.040 --> 1:09:23.000 forty page. 1:09:22.680 --> 1:09:24.200 And why you don't make this for me. 1:09:28.520 --> 1:09:30.000 Because my food looked good? Man. 1:09:30.160 --> 1:09:33.519 I make food how I wanted, how I wanted to taste, 1:09:34.200 --> 1:09:36.560 you know, and people, some people might say. 1:09:36.479 --> 1:09:38.000 Man, you're gonna eat all that food? 1:09:38.040 --> 1:09:38.240 Man? 1:09:38.479 --> 1:09:41.240 This that the third man. That's not man, Dude, I'm cooking. Man, 1:09:41.320 --> 1:09:43.400 you don't leave me alone. I'm mind your business. 1:09:43.400 --> 1:09:43.519 Bro. 1:09:43.600 --> 1:09:45.840 I don't even I don't go back for twos and 1:09:45.840 --> 1:09:47.720 threes and thirds, even though my food that good. 1:09:47.720 --> 1:09:49.599 But I'm when you get older, you don't eat as 1:09:49.680 --> 1:09:50.439 much as you used to. 1:09:50.920 --> 1:09:52.720 You know, when we was young, you know, our appetite 1:09:52.800 --> 1:09:55.200 was sick, playing sports and shit, we'll go get three 1:09:55.200 --> 1:09:57.280 and four back three or four times. 1:09:57.280 --> 1:09:58.759 Here I come again. 1:09:59.400 --> 1:10:04.760 You know what I'm saying. You know the only thing 1:10:04.880 --> 1:10:07.719 keep waiting on me. Man, it's just this adult beverages. 1:10:07.760 --> 1:10:10.160 That's how that's I'm really a skinny man inside. You 1:10:10.160 --> 1:10:11.639 know what I'm saying, I'm really supposed to be skinny. 1:10:12.080 --> 1:10:14.679 I went to seventy five in high school dripping wet. Yes, 1:10:14.800 --> 1:10:15.360 then what I'm. 1:10:15.240 --> 1:10:17.360 Saying, then I ended up getting the ball er belly man. 1:10:17.439 --> 1:10:24.400 Yes, thet me having that taste. And we be remiss 1:10:24.439 --> 1:10:26.920 if we didn't mention this. But you you have your 1:10:26.960 --> 1:10:31.680 your your own noodles, alumna massive. 1:10:33.240 --> 1:10:37.760 You know what we got ready, as of course we 1:10:37.880 --> 1:10:40.080 got the noodles the only way, the only way we 1:10:40.160 --> 1:10:40.959 got the noodles. 1:10:41.080 --> 1:10:41.280 Yeah. 1:10:41.360 --> 1:10:44.559 So so my man, so that's my man going on 1:10:44.680 --> 1:10:45.000 for years. 1:10:45.080 --> 1:10:48.720 Huh your so, so here's the deal. No, that's so, 1:10:48.840 --> 1:10:51.080 here's the deal. My man p you know him and 1:10:51.120 --> 1:10:53.120 my man James, they got rap snacks. They've been having 1:10:53.120 --> 1:10:58.480 it for years, and so they wanted to do noodles. 1:10:59.040 --> 1:11:01.000 So they was like, I'm gonna do they want to call? 1:11:01.080 --> 1:11:04.240 They wanted nothing but icons on there. So James had 1:11:04.280 --> 1:11:05.560 asked peace, who you want to put on? He was 1:11:05.600 --> 1:11:08.639 like people was like, man, put faulty on there. He say, 1:11:08.680 --> 1:11:11.160 put a little boozy and put me You know what 1:11:11.200 --> 1:11:14.240 I'm saying. And I love people for that, you know 1:11:14.280 --> 1:11:17.880 what I'm saying. Like it's a lucrative situation too, you know, 1:11:18.200 --> 1:11:21.840 So pe them that's them raps snacks. That's Master p 1:11:22.320 --> 1:11:26.479 and my man James. You know what I'm saying. So hey, 1:11:26.640 --> 1:11:28.040 I'm glad to be part of it. 1:11:28.120 --> 1:11:31.040 I have my own products coming out under the goon 1:11:31.040 --> 1:11:32.360 with the spoon, So stay tuned. 1:11:32.640 --> 1:11:35.080 You should start seeing that pretty soon. It's not noodles, 1:11:35.080 --> 1:11:38.000 I'm not. We're not in this for competition. We ended 1:11:38.160 --> 1:11:41.719 to you know, broaden our you know, everything, our portfolio. 1:11:41.840 --> 1:11:43.720 So I got other things coming in. More is mine 1:11:43.800 --> 1:11:44.920 is more or less like. 1:11:44.880 --> 1:11:46.599 Frozen foods and stuff like that. 1:11:46.680 --> 1:11:48.880 Shit you could heat up in the microwave. 1:11:48.479 --> 1:11:51.080 And stuff like that. Yes, stand me, so stay tuned. 1:11:51.320 --> 1:11:53.120 You know, Like I. 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:57.960 Got the goon with the spoon, that logo. It's a reason. 1:11:58.040 --> 1:12:00.960 It's always a method for my madness when I'm cooking 1:12:01.040 --> 1:12:03.120 all that kind of stuff. I'm just really pretty much 1:12:03.160 --> 1:12:06.760 branding myself, showing people getting them subliminally, like when you 1:12:06.760 --> 1:12:07.840 see a McDonald's sign. 1:12:08.160 --> 1:12:10.640 Checked this out. My little niece many years ago, she 1:12:10.760 --> 1:12:12.519 was with my mama. I'm in the car, me and 1:12:12.560 --> 1:12:14.200 Mom's we in the car. We had it somewhere and 1:12:14.479 --> 1:12:16.479 my niece's in the back seat. She ain't number one 1:12:16.560 --> 1:12:19.920 years old. She can't she can barely talk. She see 1:12:19.960 --> 1:12:23.320 the McDonald's sign. She like, eat eat, eat, eat, And. 1:12:23.320 --> 1:12:25.840 Mom, I said, moms, what she talking about? She said, 1:12:25.880 --> 1:12:27.479 she see the McDonald She wants some French fries. She 1:12:27.520 --> 1:12:30.360 see the McDonald's sign. She just seen the logo. That's all. 1:12:30.640 --> 1:12:32.639 That's all she knew. She just knew was that's what 1:12:32.680 --> 1:12:34.960 she wanted to eat. So that's why I'm putting that 1:12:34.960 --> 1:12:37.680 that logo goon with the spoon on all. 1:12:37.920 --> 1:12:39.600 Every time I cook, you gonna see that goon with 1:12:39.600 --> 1:12:40.360 the spoon logo. 1:12:40.760 --> 1:12:45.160 Therefore, subliminally it's gonna be self subliminal in everybody's mind. 1:12:45.320 --> 1:12:48.479 So when they start seeing my products in these convenience stores, 1:12:48.479 --> 1:12:50.680 and when they see them in costcos and Walmarts and 1:12:50.720 --> 1:12:53.640 Sam's and Saved Ways and Alvason's and so on and 1:12:53.680 --> 1:12:56.000 so forth, they gonna say, that's forty ship. 1:12:56.120 --> 1:12:56.599 Right there. 1:12:58.120 --> 1:12:59.960 Before we wrap a lot to ask you a question 1:13:00.040 --> 1:13:03.559 about another Bay Area kind of a Bay Area legend, 1:13:03.640 --> 1:13:08.240 bay Area transplant, but a legend that you were friends 1:13:08.280 --> 1:13:12.160 with Tupac Shport. I believe he's the first person that 1:13:12.160 --> 1:13:15.320 we haven't spoken to that actually had a relationship with Pop. 1:13:16.000 --> 1:13:16.120 Right. 1:13:16.640 --> 1:13:23.799 That's Tupac. How did you meet Tupac? And how was Tupac? 1:13:23.920 --> 1:13:26.280 Like we just you know Tupac god when we was young, 1:13:26.720 --> 1:13:28.640 but we just you know, he's a legend and we 1:13:28.800 --> 1:13:32.760 just admire him from afar. We never got a chance 1:13:32.800 --> 1:13:34.840 to actually, you know, meet him or anything like that. 1:13:35.520 --> 1:13:39.479 You see so many different personalities in one body. How 1:13:39.600 --> 1:13:41.360 was Pap as a as a person? 1:13:42.720 --> 1:13:45.080 Man? He was cool? You know pop. 1:13:45.439 --> 1:13:46.080 You know, you know the. 1:13:46.120 --> 1:13:50.799 Terminology real recognized real. Yeah, that's how Pap was real recognized, 1:13:50.840 --> 1:13:55.839 real brother. So just by you know, my music at Tupac, 1:13:56.280 --> 1:13:58.559 you know, being from out here and being gamed up, 1:14:00.080 --> 1:14:01.240 you know, we popping back. 1:14:01.120 --> 1:14:02.520 In the ninth early nineties. 1:14:04.240 --> 1:14:06.479 Uh, I forgot what albumals that was. I think it 1:14:06.520 --> 1:14:09.080 was strictly for my neiggas one of them albums. 1:14:09.080 --> 1:14:12.439 And he had shouted out forty in a Click, e 1:14:12.560 --> 1:14:14.240 forty in a Click, which is a group that I'm 1:14:14.400 --> 1:14:17.439 that I started off with and still instill in because 1:14:17.680 --> 1:14:18.400 it's my family. 1:14:18.560 --> 1:14:20.920 It's my brother, is my sister, and it is my cousin. 1:14:21.000 --> 1:14:22.120 Be legit, you understand me. 1:14:22.160 --> 1:14:24.599 So we we called we called the Click, so he said, 1:14:24.600 --> 1:14:26.880 he shouted out, he said, shout out to he forty 1:14:26.920 --> 1:14:29.760 in the click you understand me before I can even 1:14:29.800 --> 1:14:33.439 meet be fighting met y right, so you know, not 1:14:33.520 --> 1:14:41.080 too long after that. I believe this was ninety like 1:14:41.320 --> 1:14:41.920 ninety two. 1:14:42.720 --> 1:14:47.800 Uh, Richie rich from Oakland. He he been new Pop, 1:14:47.960 --> 1:14:48.679 you know what I'm saying. 1:14:49.160 --> 1:14:52.439 And so rich I've seen rich and I think it 1:14:52.479 --> 1:14:55.320 was June teenth out there and Dix my Davis somewhere 1:14:55.360 --> 1:14:57.680 out there, and uh, he was like, fody, Man, I 1:14:57.720 --> 1:15:00.599 meant to tell you Pop wanted me to get his number, 1:15:01.080 --> 1:15:04.000 I said, he said, He. 1:15:03.960 --> 1:15:05.679 Said, twop, I want me to give you his number. 1:15:05.680 --> 1:15:06.559 He said, call him. 1:15:06.800 --> 1:15:07.639 I said, for real. 1:15:08.000 --> 1:15:09.600 And you know, I just always thought that was just 1:15:09.640 --> 1:15:12.160 hella cool for Richie toes just to give me that 1:15:12.240 --> 1:15:14.439 number and to you know what I'm saying, to start 1:15:14.479 --> 1:15:15.840 that dialogue, you know what I'm saying. 1:15:16.240 --> 1:15:18.000 And so I was like, right on, folks, And I 1:15:18.360 --> 1:15:18.920 called him the. 1:15:18.880 --> 1:15:23.240 Next day and we talked and we just started building 1:15:23.240 --> 1:15:24.000 a relationship. 1:15:24.360 --> 1:15:25.720 Next thing, you know, we met up. 1:15:25.760 --> 1:15:27.160 And next thing, you know, for every time I go 1:15:27.200 --> 1:15:29.240 to the studio, he there, and when I'm in La 1:15:29.280 --> 1:15:30.920 here and now when he and the baby were kicking 1:15:30.960 --> 1:15:34.120 it like it became solid, not salad. 1:15:34.200 --> 1:15:36.040 You know what I'm saying, we started doing music together. 1:15:36.120 --> 1:15:38.840 I'm on he on my my biggest album, which is 1:15:38.840 --> 1:15:39.559 in a major way. 1:15:39.600 --> 1:15:42.080 I'm on his biggest album, which is all eyes on me. 1:15:42.520 --> 1:15:44.040 That's why we got it up. That's why we got 1:15:44.080 --> 1:15:45.320 it up. You go right there. 1:15:45.439 --> 1:15:50.120 Yeah, you know so, man, it's a blessing man, you know. 1:15:50.760 --> 1:15:52.880 And he did, like I always say, he did so 1:15:52.960 --> 1:15:55.000 much in so little time. He died at twenty five. 1:15:55.280 --> 1:15:57.960 Just imagine all that stuff he did outside of the 1:15:58.040 --> 1:16:01.000 vocal booth. You know what I'm saying Like this, dude, 1:16:01.240 --> 1:16:03.000 imagine the movies and how much he would be making 1:16:03.000 --> 1:16:04.000 a movie if he was living. 1:16:04.000 --> 1:16:04.439 Because he was. 1:16:04.439 --> 1:16:07.559 Good in acting. Yeah, great, good actor. You know, dy 1:16:07.600 --> 1:16:09.840 be getting twenty thirty million in that movie or something. 1:16:09.880 --> 1:16:11.519 You know, you never know. 1:16:13.320 --> 1:16:16.840 So I got I got one last thing, one last thing. 1:16:16.920 --> 1:16:19.839 So the spirits industry, I know, you got the wine, 1:16:20.360 --> 1:16:22.320 you got the ready to make drinks. I saw a 1:16:22.360 --> 1:16:25.760 tequila and I saw kanyak. I saw a bourbon Is 1:16:25.840 --> 1:16:27.639 vodka in the in the in the horizon. 1:16:27.760 --> 1:16:29.880 Jin was yeah, yeah they're doing that. 1:16:30.200 --> 1:16:31.960 I had I have I had a molde made for 1:16:32.080 --> 1:16:35.360 my vodka and I didn't. 1:16:35.479 --> 1:16:38.800 I wanted to I wanted to be frosted, not you know, 1:16:39.000 --> 1:16:41.240 I didn't wanted to be I wanted to have a 1:16:41.240 --> 1:16:45.000 different frost to it. And so that's in Europe now. 1:16:45.080 --> 1:16:46.960 So those bottles are about to be on the way. 1:16:47.400 --> 1:16:51.640 The vodka is called Tycoon Vodka. I have all the closures, 1:16:52.040 --> 1:16:55.400 everything already ready to the shippers, already ready at the warehouse. 1:16:55.960 --> 1:16:58.400 All they need to do is just get here and 1:16:58.640 --> 1:17:01.240 uh set up a product to date with my distiller 1:17:01.880 --> 1:17:04.439 and uh and and bottle them things and you know, 1:17:04.560 --> 1:17:07.679 get my pos uh from my distributor. 1:17:07.560 --> 1:17:09.200 And uh we rocking and rolling. 1:17:09.280 --> 1:17:11.800 Baby. Then second, I want to take a look at 1:17:11.840 --> 1:17:12.160 the shelf. 1:17:12.200 --> 1:17:17.160 Man, it's there's still space for uh. 1:17:17.400 --> 1:17:19.320 Man, I don't make me fill up that whole, that 1:17:19.360 --> 1:17:22.240 whole chef, Man, have no. 1:17:22.240 --> 1:17:24.840 Room for nothing. I gotta get y'all some of this 1:17:24.960 --> 1:17:29.360 equot into tequila, the best tequila in the world. I'm 1:17:29.400 --> 1:17:32.360 not playing anybody that tastes my tequila. If you don't 1:17:32.439 --> 1:17:34.639 like it, you just a straight out, flat out hater 1:17:34.800 --> 1:17:36.720 because you don't want to like it. You just don't 1:17:36.840 --> 1:17:37.920 like me for no reason. 1:17:37.960 --> 1:17:38.360 You might like. 1:17:38.479 --> 1:17:40.719 You might not like me because one of your partners 1:17:40.760 --> 1:17:41.680 is a rapper. 1:17:41.680 --> 1:17:44.080 And you want me to go away and it's your 1:17:44.160 --> 1:17:46.000 your your partners still might not make it. 1:17:46.400 --> 1:17:47.120 You know what I'm saying. 1:17:48.120 --> 1:17:49.960 It's how that shit be going bro for real, Like 1:17:50.000 --> 1:17:52.519 I did nothing to nobody. Mind my business and stay 1:17:52.520 --> 1:17:54.640 out the way so I won't get away. Understand what 1:17:54.720 --> 1:17:57.840 I'm saying. To make a long story short, I gotta 1:17:57.880 --> 1:17:59.639 get y'all some of this type of bell bourbon too. 1:17:59.680 --> 1:18:04.280 You did to the noodles. 1:18:04.479 --> 1:18:08.400 Put it right next to the noodles, scotto, Hello, any 1:18:08.439 --> 1:18:11.000 of this? Man? Cop can'ty sparkling wine? Man? You know 1:18:11.800 --> 1:18:13.360 we're going to go on and on forever. 1:18:13.439 --> 1:18:14.880 Man, Slurricane hurricane. 1:18:15.280 --> 1:18:17.960 Uh you know Earl Stephens Prosecco, Earl State, Earl Stephens 1:18:17.960 --> 1:18:20.519 proscco rose straight from Veneto, Italy. 1:18:20.840 --> 1:18:23.320 Hello, So. 1:18:25.600 --> 1:18:27.639 Are you gonna put out a dictionary at any point? 1:18:28.560 --> 1:18:29.439 No, sir, No. 1:18:29.920 --> 1:18:31.120 You know they were trying to get me to do 1:18:31.160 --> 1:18:35.000 that for years. You know, slang just keeps coming. It's 1:18:35.080 --> 1:18:37.840 just like it's I always say I'm probably doing app 1:18:37.840 --> 1:18:40.759 but that's time consuming, and things just keep switching. 1:18:40.800 --> 1:18:42.640 It's like it ain't no need for me, and I'm like, 1:18:43.120 --> 1:18:44.240 you know, it's cool. 1:18:44.280 --> 1:18:48.080 I'm just hey, man, the game is to be spreaded, man, 1:18:48.120 --> 1:18:49.040 so I spread it out. 1:18:50.000 --> 1:18:51.680 I just thought about, you're up on the NF you 1:18:51.720 --> 1:18:53.840 in you in the text fings, You're up on the 1:18:53.920 --> 1:18:54.479 NFT wade. 1:18:54.600 --> 1:18:57.400 I'm assuming you know about that for NFTs. Yeah. 1:18:57.479 --> 1:19:00.400 Yeah, that's been brought up a lot in my interviews lately, 1:19:00.920 --> 1:19:03.000 and uh, you know, I'm we're still trying to work 1:19:03.040 --> 1:19:04.640 that out, trying to figure out that, you know, that 1:19:04.680 --> 1:19:07.040 whole NFT thing, and see what I want to do, 1:19:07.080 --> 1:19:08.880 because I know I have a lot of interesting things 1:19:08.920 --> 1:19:12.200 that can probably you know, go crazy with the NFP 1:19:12.360 --> 1:19:13.559 in the NFT world. 1:19:14.960 --> 1:19:15.479 If you had a. 1:19:15.600 --> 1:19:20.400 Scroll, a virtual scroll of like ten or twenty sayings 1:19:20.560 --> 1:19:24.400 with the with the sayings actually mean and having like. 1:19:24.360 --> 1:19:25.880 A virtual scroll. 1:19:26.000 --> 1:19:27.800 And then on the other like having rotate and have 1:19:27.920 --> 1:19:30.120 them actually translated to pronounce it correct. 1:19:31.200 --> 1:19:32.080 Yeah yeah, I. 1:19:31.960 --> 1:19:41.400 Mean, man, our culture, our culture is Our culture brings 1:19:41.520 --> 1:19:44.559 up all evaluations period. 1:19:45.240 --> 1:19:50.600 You hear me, cuncture brings up all evaluations in anything, 1:19:51.400 --> 1:19:52.920 because we are at the trend setters. 1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:54.559 You see how you just came up with that idea. 1:19:54.640 --> 1:19:56.120 A light bulb popped up side of your head and 1:19:56.120 --> 1:19:57.360 he was like, Oh, I got an ideal. 1:19:58.160 --> 1:20:00.479 You know what I'm saying that light bulb right did, Like, 1:20:00.600 --> 1:20:02.960 you know, that's just how it go. We steady thinking. 1:20:04.040 --> 1:20:08.160 You know, that's a fact. We're very creative people. And yeah, 1:20:08.240 --> 1:20:09.960 the way you come up with slang is like it's 1:20:09.960 --> 1:20:12.160 more than just slang. It's actually like a brilliant like 1:20:12.200 --> 1:20:14.160 it's not easy to like you really like kind of 1:20:14.160 --> 1:20:16.760 making the language Shakespeare. 1:20:17.439 --> 1:20:17.679 Yeah. 1:20:17.920 --> 1:20:19.960 Other fact, I'm gamed up. 1:20:20.000 --> 1:20:21.560 I got so many sayings and what not. 1:20:21.720 --> 1:20:23.559 You know what I'm saying, I like the grit. 1:20:23.600 --> 1:20:24.320 Don't quit with me. 1:20:24.439 --> 1:20:29.200 Man, you know it's all gas, no breakpass man, didn't 1:20:29.200 --> 1:20:30.760 steal but a motherfucker. 1:20:30.360 --> 1:20:33.200 Broken down Bonaville and an old ass heel. 1:20:35.800 --> 1:20:40.080 Uh, I'm gonna keep it pushing baby for they water 1:20:40.240 --> 1:20:43.400 then Fonzarelli. It's been a it's been an eye and 1:20:43.400 --> 1:20:47.520 a pleasure. Man, thank you for for gracing our platform. Sprinkling, 1:20:47.720 --> 1:20:56.720 Sprinkling before salt Man, don't don't don't don't ever get itself. 1:20:57.400 --> 1:21:00.360 Before salt based, salt Bae, Saltbay don't know, he don't know, 1:21:00.520 --> 1:21:00.840 I don't. 1:21:00.840 --> 1:21:02.040 I don't get mad at nobody. 1:21:02.120 --> 1:21:02.280 Man. 1:21:02.320 --> 1:21:05.400 I'm like, I'm the first of many things, slang and all. 1:21:05.680 --> 1:21:07.439 I don't trip on that. But I hate when other 1:21:07.479 --> 1:21:10.800 people try to claim something and then they argue with 1:21:10.840 --> 1:21:12.840 somebody else that they claim it. And when it all 1:21:12.920 --> 1:21:16.040 came down from oh G forty wader that don't never 1:21:16.040 --> 1:21:18.280 say nothing about it. I don't even I kick back, 1:21:18.280 --> 1:21:19.880 and just like, oh man, these dudes. I don't want 1:21:19.880 --> 1:21:20.519 these dudes. 1:21:20.360 --> 1:21:22.439 Arguing over this word when they. 1:21:22.000 --> 1:21:23.960 Just don't know. This ship been around before they was born. 1:21:24.000 --> 1:21:25.840 I've been popping that ship man, you. 1:21:25.840 --> 1:21:30.479 Know, man, like I don't even know, don't. I don't 1:21:30.520 --> 1:21:32.120 get but heard, I don't. 1:21:32.360 --> 1:21:34.320 I know that a lot of people get mad at me, 1:21:34.439 --> 1:21:37.559 like a lot of these young dudes fans, because if 1:21:37.600 --> 1:21:39.559 I say I came with a certain word or something, 1:21:39.600 --> 1:21:42.200 they get mad at me, Like, bro, it. 1:21:42.160 --> 1:21:44.080 Ain't my fault. I've been saying this shit. What you 1:21:44.120 --> 1:21:44.680 want me to do? 1:21:44.800 --> 1:21:47.040 Like, don't And I don't even have to speak on it. 1:21:47.040 --> 1:21:49.200 It's other people that speak on it for me. They'd 1:21:49.200 --> 1:21:50.240 be like, man, forty came with that. 1:21:50.280 --> 1:21:51.880 They'd get to quote in the words and the ship 1:21:52.000 --> 1:21:54.360 I said on platinum and gold albums. These ain't no 1:21:54.360 --> 1:21:57.080 little low ass albums that I said the song. These 1:21:57.120 --> 1:21:59.880 are impact albums that I said certain shit on. 1:22:00.000 --> 1:22:00.719 You know what I'm saying. 1:22:01.040 --> 1:22:03.880 So they really did fan me that these youngsters they 1:22:04.000 --> 1:22:05.920 be getting, they fans get Maddy. 1:22:05.880 --> 1:22:08.559 Well, so what he made it better? He made it 1:22:08.600 --> 1:22:11.960 better than with like come mom, man, ain't nobody tripping 1:22:11.960 --> 1:22:13.720 on none of that ship made. If I had, if 1:22:13.720 --> 1:22:15.680 I had a dollar for every word I made up, 1:22:15.720 --> 1:22:20.400 I'd be a zillionaire. Hello, because that fizzle and all that, 1:22:20.400 --> 1:22:24.280 that's you, that's you, right. I was the first Me 1:22:24.320 --> 1:22:26.519 and two Shirt was the first rappers saying for CHEEZI 1:22:27.200 --> 1:22:29.640 you know, take doing all that for Shizzle, Forshezi and 1:22:29.680 --> 1:22:32.200 all that. But we were the first one standing on 1:22:32.320 --> 1:22:34.680 wax and the first rappers that was really actually just 1:22:34.880 --> 1:22:37.160 screaming it. But I got it from my pottinger Tweezy 1:22:37.240 --> 1:22:38.840 from twice you know what I'm saying. 1:22:38.840 --> 1:22:39.000 I mean. 1:22:39.160 --> 1:22:41.960 And then I gave a credit to three Times Crazy. 1:22:42.160 --> 1:22:44.320 I said my niggas three times Crazy. Last he told 1:22:44.360 --> 1:22:45.559 me how to stay for Chezi because I was in 1:22:45.600 --> 1:22:48.960 the studio with him one day and Bart was like. 1:22:50.400 --> 1:22:52.920 Bart was like Eve, but it's for Hezi, not for Hizzy. 1:22:53.200 --> 1:22:54.200 That I was saying it wrong. 1:22:54.560 --> 1:22:57.120 Twice was saying Forshezi a couple of nights before when 1:22:57.120 --> 1:22:59.240 I was in the studio working with him, and then 1:22:59.400 --> 1:23:01.479 so I said, I said it like that. 1:23:01.479 --> 1:23:03.720 Bart was like, but it's Forsheezy. So I was like, 1:23:03.840 --> 1:23:05.600 let me. It wasn't Keith that did it. 1:23:05.680 --> 1:23:06.400 And I love Keith. 1:23:06.479 --> 1:23:09.040 It wasn't Keith that told me. You know now, it Spasheezi. 1:23:09.120 --> 1:23:11.920 It was Bart from three times Crazy. You understand me. 1:23:12.040 --> 1:23:13.479 That's a group out of the out of the open, 1:23:13.560 --> 1:23:16.559 legendary group. So that's what that And I gave him that. 1:23:16.560 --> 1:23:17.080 That's what I'm saying. 1:23:17.120 --> 1:23:19.280 I show, I give the motherfucker's death. I just I 1:23:19.320 --> 1:23:21.559 tell people, I just told that. I said the whole group. 1:23:21.600 --> 1:23:24.120 I said my niggas three times crazy instead of just 1:23:24.120 --> 1:23:29.519 saying Bart, my nigga bort you know, lace me, I said. 1:23:29.280 --> 1:23:31.680 The whole three times crazy, just to include everybody. 1:23:32.040 --> 1:23:33.200 That's just how I do it. Man. 1:23:33.240 --> 1:23:35.240 You know what I'm saying, Like, I'm from the bay 1:23:35.280 --> 1:23:38.000 when this shit originated at the game, originated in the base, 1:23:38.000 --> 1:23:41.599 so I'm surrounded by just all kind of slang and lingo. 1:23:42.040 --> 1:23:44.160 What he's getting lingo from you? 1:23:49.160 --> 1:23:51.080 This is the truth, is the truth. 1:23:51.160 --> 1:23:54.400 Bro. I appreciate that. 1:23:54.760 --> 1:23:58.000 Dame Dollard's dancing somewhere this interview. He's gonna Dancena be 1:23:59.360 --> 1:24:00.880 shout out to man. 1:24:04.040 --> 1:24:04.880 He the he's the guy. 1:24:05.000 --> 1:24:06.880 He got that's the that's the Oakland days. They day, 1:24:07.240 --> 1:24:08.800 That's that's that's they dance right there. 1:24:08.880 --> 1:24:09.520 The town. 1:24:10.160 --> 1:24:11.040 I'm jack a little bit. 1:24:11.800 --> 1:24:15.759 Yeah, you own it, Jame Dollars. 1:24:15.760 --> 1:24:16.360 He gamed up. 1:24:16.400 --> 1:24:16.559 Man. 1:24:16.600 --> 1:24:21.200 He's from the town. You know, Hellow Town business. Understand 1:24:21.520 --> 1:24:22.439 that's a fact. Man. 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:25.200 What would you like to tell people? 1:24:25.240 --> 1:24:27.960 How can they find out information about your Spirit Company 1:24:28.400 --> 1:24:31.200 any other uh adventures that you have going on in 1:24:31.200 --> 1:24:31.759 your restaurant. 1:24:31.800 --> 1:24:34.280 All the information or what would you like to You 1:24:34.320 --> 1:24:34.840 can go. 1:24:34.760 --> 1:24:37.280 To Olympia Company Instagram. 1:24:37.360 --> 1:24:41.599 It'll give you the times we are open, location, how 1:24:41.600 --> 1:24:42.439 you could order it. 1:24:42.800 --> 1:24:46.080 You can go to my Instagram and go to my. 1:24:47.720 --> 1:24:49.960 Go to my bio and push the Lincoln in to 1:24:50.000 --> 1:24:52.559 say Uptown Spirits where you can order all my you 1:24:52.600 --> 1:24:54.360 know where you can order it. Used to be just 1:24:54.439 --> 1:24:57.519 wine back in the days where you sitting direct to consumer. 1:24:57.600 --> 1:25:01.200 Now you do liquor now like actual ship, you know, 1:25:01.400 --> 1:25:03.920 the copper buildings of the world, Copper Bourbon ship like 1:25:03.960 --> 1:25:04.559 that you feel. 1:25:06.880 --> 1:25:07.599 You know what I'm saying. 1:25:09.439 --> 1:25:11.800 You can order online, you can go to your and 1:25:12.360 --> 1:25:15.400 what I asked all y'all to do, go to your 1:25:15.439 --> 1:25:19.480 local store and say do you look at my Instagram, 1:25:19.760 --> 1:25:22.040 on my Facebook, on my Twitter, and say do you 1:25:22.160 --> 1:25:22.599 have this? 1:25:23.000 --> 1:25:23.599 And what that. 1:25:23.640 --> 1:25:26.519 Local store gonna say is we've been getting a lot 1:25:26.520 --> 1:25:30.360 of requests for that. I'm gonna order it from my 1:25:31.080 --> 1:25:34.000 distributor that that sells it to them, you know what 1:25:34.040 --> 1:25:35.960 I'm saying. And that's just how it's gonna go. And 1:25:35.960 --> 1:25:38.280 that's how you build that demand, that the demand. That's 1:25:38.280 --> 1:25:40.760 how it happened with me with my music. You know, 1:25:40.800 --> 1:25:42.960 it started local. Then next thing you know, it's in 1:25:43.560 --> 1:25:47.360 the north, the Northwest. Then next thing you know, it's 1:25:47.400 --> 1:25:50.240 in the Midwest. Next thing you know, it's on it's 1:25:50.320 --> 1:25:52.720 in the Deep South. Next thing you know, Yes, that 1:25:52.960 --> 1:25:55.400 is everywhere like air. So that's how it all happens. 1:25:55.640 --> 1:25:58.400 Where of mouth is the best form of cheapest form 1:25:58.479 --> 1:26:02.000 of you understand me, Like promotions and stuff and marketing, 1:26:02.120 --> 1:26:03.720 like word of mouth circulates. 1:26:03.760 --> 1:26:05.320 Man, it's all over the. 1:26:05.240 --> 1:26:06.080 Place like space. 1:26:06.160 --> 1:26:06.360 You know. 1:26:06.880 --> 1:26:10.080 So if we if we, if I tell people, man, 1:26:11.200 --> 1:26:13.240 if y'all keep on buying it. I'm gonna keep supplying 1:26:13.280 --> 1:26:15.479 it and for as music if y'all keep on streaming, 1:26:15.479 --> 1:26:16.880 and I'm gonna keep on bringing. 1:26:16.560 --> 1:26:21.479 It period, period. That is a fact. That is a fact. 1:26:22.800 --> 1:26:23.720 I appreciate that. 1:26:23.800 --> 1:26:26.639 I appreciate that because, like I said, but for us, 1:26:27.160 --> 1:26:29.719 we take a little bit from everybody. It's like gumbo 1:26:30.320 --> 1:26:32.759 and you know, it's just dope to hear different people's perspective, 1:26:32.880 --> 1:26:36.240 like sitting with Jim Jones and him talking about Hall 1:26:36.320 --> 1:26:39.519 them and everything, and you know, sitting with like somebody 1:26:39.600 --> 1:26:42.960 from Massape from Louisiana and his perspective, or even like 1:26:43.000 --> 1:26:46.720 our god domn Keith from Houston, Texas to screwed Up Click, 1:26:46.840 --> 1:26:48.960 like you know what I'm saying, Like that's their culture. 1:26:49.040 --> 1:26:52.400 And then like you know, everybody has different elements that 1:26:52.439 --> 1:26:57.360 they bring, but you get games. Yeah, it's like it's 1:26:57.479 --> 1:26:58.719 very nostalgic situation. 1:26:58.920 --> 1:26:59.760 So it's like we. 1:26:59.760 --> 1:27:02.160 Watched I remember reading about you in the Source, man, 1:27:02.280 --> 1:27:05.080 shout out to the source and to meet these people, 1:27:05.160 --> 1:27:06.680 speak to these people who are living legends in our 1:27:06.720 --> 1:27:09.840 lives and hear them outside of what they're you know, 1:27:09.920 --> 1:27:12.760 particularly known for music, but in business, it's just it's 1:27:12.800 --> 1:27:14.200 incredible Man, this was fun. 1:27:14.280 --> 1:27:16.880 This is really thank you man thinking off for having me. Man, 1:27:16.920 --> 1:27:19.639 I enjoyed myself. You know, it's always a pleasure when 1:27:19.680 --> 1:27:20.759 fixtures get together. 1:27:21.960 --> 1:27:24.559 That's the fact. Man, we gotta link up. Corona is over. 1:27:25.760 --> 1:27:28.080 Definitely got a link up in person, man, and we 1:27:28.160 --> 1:27:30.040 got a game. We gotta go to the Warriors. 1:27:30.040 --> 1:27:34.280 So now we know we gotta say yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:27:34.560 --> 1:27:36.599 I gotta get Hey, let me tell you something, y'all 1:27:36.600 --> 1:27:37.200 be right with me. 1:27:37.280 --> 1:27:37.679 Course side. 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:41.679 If it wasn't for the plandemic, get di so hopefully 1:27:41.880 --> 1:27:43.240 you know what I'm saying, they'd be over soon a 1:27:43.240 --> 1:27:43.920 week a tycoon. 1:27:44.040 --> 1:27:47.719 Hello. That is a fact, that's a fact. 1:27:48.160 --> 1:27:52.040 But pleasure, pleasure having you, brother. We appreciate it. Keep 1:27:52.120 --> 1:27:54.760 up the great work and anything that we can do 1:27:54.840 --> 1:27:57.240 to support. It's never a problem. 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