Speaker 1: Um, worry with me here, you know, BT, it's just
Speaker 1: so low. Shout out, O c T no color? What
Speaker 1: we see? How game about the beth You can't stand
Speaker 1: on the suci. I already know he came by with
Speaker 1: me because you have up with the squad of me.
Speaker 1: They get they called mel allttle wasn't to the Bottler
Speaker 1: Show podcast. I go by the name of Ferrari Simmons.
Speaker 1: I go. You know, bet that the best special special
Speaker 1: special guests in the building, right, Dames, we snap, we
Speaker 1: snap whatever whatever what? She just came alive. But I
Speaker 1: love it. Let's go. Let's go. Happy to be here, man,
Speaker 1: let's have some fun to speak. We're gonna we don't
Speaker 1: get into your personal stuff in a second, but we
Speaker 1: need you to host the show with us. Does that
Speaker 1: come here? Man, Let's talk about a plethora of things.
Speaker 1: Anytime he called me, I'm coming. Okay. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Ferrari on his birthday, My brother, happy birthday? About you again,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to her. Look, I like that tennis necklace
Speaker 1: you get on. That's cool. Okay. TV for the weekend,
Speaker 1: The Upshaw starting starring Mike Epps, Kim Fields and one
Speaker 1: of the sexist back on Netflix. Are you guys going
Speaker 1: to watch that? Yes, I don't have time to watch
Speaker 1: TV like that, but I will. You know, my kids
Speaker 1: do watch it, and I pay for the Netflix, so
Speaker 1: I feel like i'm supporting. Do you share your passwords?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I've like twenty five TVs in
Speaker 1: my house, all of my TV TV get into that second.
Speaker 1: He has a very big house. It's not I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying it like that. I'm just saying I have,
Speaker 1: Like I think I grew up on TV. Everything I
Speaker 1: learned was from TV or music, So you know, I
Speaker 1: want my kids have access. So yeah, my kids watch
Speaker 1: it all day, so I pay for the Netflix, So
Speaker 1: I'm supporting. Okay, salute salute Bernard Boyd, Thams and Rema
Speaker 1: bringing Afrobeats to the two thousand three NBA All Star
Speaker 1: Game half show. Can we get some snatch for that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen an Afro beat halftime show.
Speaker 1: I've never seen that Afro halftime show that's coming to
Speaker 1: the NBA All Star But I don't love how popular
Speaker 1: their music is. Becoming black is in style, Brothers, you
Speaker 1: gotta pay attention. Not only is it black, is African Africa.
Speaker 1: This is super fire, especially Burnt Let's get it. I
Speaker 1: love his new stuff. Are you guys gonna watch the
Speaker 1: NBA All Star Game? They always watching NBA All Star
Speaker 1: I like how the afros a little bit more Afro
Speaker 1: centric the NBA is than the NFL. Well, the NBA
Speaker 1: they understand their fan base. NFL they understand their fan base.
Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. Well, you know, the
Speaker 1: NF the NBA has been dominated by black people, so
Speaker 1: they understand their fan base. And not only that, if
Speaker 1: you look at it, the NBA players, you know, you
Speaker 1: can see their face on the court, right, you can
Speaker 1: see them. NFL players everybody got on helmets, so they're
Speaker 1: cheering for the helmet. They're not cheering for the faces.
Speaker 1: You know. In the most important position in the NFL
Speaker 1: is quarterback, and you know most of them are. And
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, we finally had to black
Speaker 1: African American players playing. Well, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think we should get Michael Vick Moore pro. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys are old enough, these guys
Speaker 1: at the age where they was like kids seeing Michael
Speaker 1: Vick run the ball. And now, if you pay attention
Speaker 1: to the to the way it works. They're old now,
Speaker 1: so now they're like man, they was seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten years old and Vic was running. So now these
Speaker 1: guys figured out I could be a quarterback. So we
Speaker 1: have that, we have that thing happening now. So I'm excited. Alright,
Speaker 1: if you gotta see Rihanna and right, y'all see how
Speaker 1: Asap was like holding them. It was hard. That was artistic. Man,
Speaker 1: that was dope. Stop. No, you didn't like it, right,
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that now. Wait, so you
Speaker 1: did not like it and said I didn't like it.
Speaker 1: Anytime I see black people being celebrated, I love it.
Speaker 1: But you can tell when there's an agenda being pushed
Speaker 1: on us, you know, and the guy is being he's
Speaker 1: following the woman, and the woman is leading the family
Speaker 1: and the guys holding the baby in his hand. The
Speaker 1: man should always be the leader of the family because
Speaker 1: he's the person that protects people, so he should be
Speaker 1: in the front because that's what his job is, to
Speaker 1: protect his family. But you know, that's a whole nother story.
Speaker 1: So you didn't you didn't like where he security. You
Speaker 1: were not an agreeiance with the positioning of the I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say I'm not in agreeance. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: that I think that there's a slight agenda being pushed
Speaker 1: and I think that that fits the narrative. And you know,
Speaker 1: if that was my family, I would have been in
Speaker 1: the front. I don't mind holding the baby, but I
Speaker 1: feel like the man should always be in the front
Speaker 1: leading because that's the man's job is to protect and
Speaker 1: lead his family. Don't you feel that way. I do
Speaker 1: feel that way. However, in that specific look, if it's
Speaker 1: a Rihanna, it's a Rihanna thing, and maybe she included me,
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna fall and I'm gonna guarantee her thing.
Speaker 1: Guarantee you if they said, if astap said this, how
Speaker 1: it goes, they were sure whatever they had to go.
Speaker 1: They is it a vote covert? When the last time
Speaker 1: every featured on that, When the last time anybody had
Speaker 1: cared m who's on the last one's vote? Do you
Speaker 1: know that anybody? Okay, we a little MoU before that.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just heightened right now because she just
Speaker 1: did Super Bowl, so all these promotions are coming out.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I love it like I
Speaker 1: love Rihanna, like dog, I've made a lot of money
Speaker 1: with rock Nation. I'm not it's not that, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying I just you know, it's like when you see
Speaker 1: commercials and you're like, damn that see agenda? Now you
Speaker 1: could just tell and you see commercial and you see
Speaker 1: the kind of couples they pushing in front of us, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see agenda. I can acknowledge the agenda. I might
Speaker 1: not like it, but I gotta respect it, especially one
Speaker 1: as my people. So are you a big sports causer?
Speaker 1: Big sports? They got know just so much about sports music.
Speaker 1: It is time for players ball. I'm a foul up.
Speaker 1: Kevin Love to get bought out? Kevin Love from the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Capitalers get bought out, Yes, even though he was
Speaker 1: still playing. I didn't either. You dumped on them last season.
Speaker 1: This season that bro, you're coming off the bench after
Speaker 1: you don't want he won his chip in sixteen coming
Speaker 1: off no bench. Damn. That's the first Kevin Love headline
Speaker 1: I've seen all year, Isn't it? Isn't that the different
Speaker 1: like they're not they're not relevant. Cleveland is really good
Speaker 1: this year. Yes, but they got some young guys on that.
Speaker 1: That's my point. But it's like, Bro, you you're the
Speaker 1: old g and you played with Lebron. Bro, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be be coming off the bench. No, he's getting old.
Speaker 1: Everyone does not have Lebron James longevity. All Right, We
Speaker 1: then retire because, like Ray said, we ain't heard about
Speaker 1: Kevin Love since he got dunked on and we ain't
Speaker 1: inside that. But he said that, But I would just
Speaker 1: say I've heard about Kevin Love this season. Alright. I
Speaker 1: didn't say that, but I want you let's get you
Speaker 1: guys here about Michael Jordan makes making a massive donation
Speaker 1: on the sixtie birthday, which is February seventeenth day after
Speaker 1: my uh thoting ten million dollars to make a Wish Foundation,
Speaker 1: the largest from an individual in their forty three year history.
Speaker 1: I think it should be Louder Way louder. I think
Speaker 1: they all. I think they try to allow Jordan as
Speaker 1: a villain out here, like he doesn't gave. You make
Speaker 1: Jordan's seem like he's a villain. And I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of villain stories about Jordan's soul. I think Jordan
Speaker 1: made itself to be the villain. No, Jordan's said, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a role model at that. He don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he said that. He said, Barkley said
Speaker 1: it that I'm not kind of any kind of agreed
Speaker 1: join Jordan's kind of you know Jordan, he don't, he don't.
Speaker 1: He don't get into politics or anything politics. And the
Speaker 1: funniest stories when when Chamillionaire of talking about that story
Speaker 1: where he bought Michael Jordan's and he seen him and
Speaker 1: he said, oh man, you know, you know get uh.
Speaker 1: I think he asked for a picture Michael Jordan, I
Speaker 1: will take pictures with niggas and he turned around, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't think Lebron would ever do that. Shut up man.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady reportedly has a plan to win back his
Speaker 1: wife just said he was supposed to start a Fox
Speaker 1: Sports job this year. However, he would rather begin in
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty four as he hopes to get some downtime.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think about that? I said, Tom,
Speaker 1: get you go get your family back, or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: Tom want to be a thought for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. What are you talking about. I think any
Speaker 1: time a man wants his family back, I'm all about
Speaker 1: family and family structures. So go get your family back.
Speaker 1: I support that completely. I don't have no I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you could kind of tell what happened. He
Speaker 1: probably didn't want She probably was, you know, unretired. Lad,
Speaker 1: that's when the divorce happened. Yeah, so obviously they definitely
Speaker 1: probably had that conversation like you go do this then
Speaker 1: and she got probably and then I hear that she's
Speaker 1: worth more than him, so she has you know, she's
Speaker 1: a big deal. We have. When we had an episode
Speaker 1: about that, Chapelle say he said jay Z got fuck
Speaker 1: you money, but Beyonce got fuck you two money, so
Speaker 1: to money. So yeah, let's take a quick commercial break.
Speaker 1: We got Ray Daniels in the bid and we're gonna
Speaker 1: pick his brain talk to him when we get back
Speaker 1: right here with the Ball Show. We'll be right back
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Speaker 1: This is Ray Daniels and I'm kicking it with my
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Speaker 1: get your podcast. Ray Dames is in the building. Can
Speaker 1: we get some snaps from my guys, Big, big, big,
Speaker 1: big deal that you're here, sir, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I love I love when you Bradley Stike. You please now,
Speaker 1: I got a quick story those me. Maybe I don't
Speaker 1: even know if you remember this. I met you. I
Speaker 1: was I had just graduating college maybe a year, and
Speaker 1: I was throwing parties. I didn't want to get a
Speaker 1: day job, like, man, I'm just throw some parties. Charge
Speaker 1: people at the door to the dug me Dave Mato,
Speaker 1: my Hatto and um My Dog cooked, and you brought
Speaker 1: rock City. You Bitty Barnes brought Rock City to Tampa,
Speaker 1: and um I was hosting d J was djan And
Speaker 1: that's the first time I met you. And then when
Speaker 1: I saw you guys, I was like, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: move to Atlanta. I moved to Atlanta and I will
Speaker 1: slip your intern for what maybe ten months, I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that. I didn't know either. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was doing Street Team and all types of ship and
Speaker 1: then um we started linking. And then I've known you.
Speaker 1: I always liked you. You and Dave like to my
Speaker 1: favorite people that I've met period, Like in the game,
Speaker 1: you've actually saw me come from zero. Yeah, and I's
Speaker 1: and I'm and I'm and when you hit me, I
Speaker 1: was like, you were working in Scope at the time. Correct,
Speaker 1: he was signed the inter Scope. I think I was
Speaker 1: working for Motown at that time. Town. Yeah. Please bragging
Speaker 1: yourself a little bit. I don't know, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I don't know how to brag on myself. Okay, well, okay,
Speaker 1: how to raise days? Get a start? Um? Somebody asked
Speaker 1: me to help them that I went to high school with, uh,
Speaker 1: a young musician. Yeah, he was an artist, artist, producer, writer.
Speaker 1: He wanted me to help him. So, uh, he said
Speaker 1: to me, since we were in seventh grade, I always
Speaker 1: talked and people listening. So I was working a regular
Speaker 1: nine of five. I was trying to figure my life out.
Speaker 1: So when he asked me to help him, I was like,
Speaker 1: maybe this is a guy want me to do. And
Speaker 1: I jumped in head first. Um, and that guy didn't
Speaker 1: make it and I'm here, So that was what God
Speaker 1: wanted me to do. You just you, just you, you
Speaker 1: just not even give me some more. So well you know,
Speaker 1: because okay, so let me tell what it is. Let's
Speaker 1: sell what is so let me get an example. I
Speaker 1: feel like we all at this table of dreamers right,
Speaker 1: And I think we all are like, I don't think
Speaker 1: our parents understand what we're doing. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: streamers right, Okay? So you know, for me, we all
Speaker 1: we all are here because we had a dream. And
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure all of us have met someone that
Speaker 1: we looked up to and got in the room with
Speaker 1: him and was like, how the fund did they get? Right?
Speaker 1: So my thing is, I think a lot of us
Speaker 1: brag on what we do when we should open our
Speaker 1: mouth and when you're hear us talk, you can know
Speaker 1: what we do. So I don't really know how to
Speaker 1: brag on what I do. I just talk about what
Speaker 1: I do. And I think people tend to figure out
Speaker 1: like rock City, this nigga know his ship rock City? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then who's next? Uh, Well, I built city. I
Speaker 1: built rock City. I worked at in Epic and I
Speaker 1: worked with Sierra. What was your job? And UM shout
Speaker 1: out to l A read love that guy. UM left
Speaker 1: Epic to go to in the Scope? Was that in
Speaker 1: the Scope? And then when was your job at in
Speaker 1: the Scope? Vice Presidency? And UM left in the Scope
Speaker 1: because I quit in the Scope because I felt like
Speaker 1: they were I just didn't like the way. It felt
Speaker 1: like collecting the check and not being able to do anything,
Speaker 1: and I feel like being you know us all being here.
Speaker 1: I didn't. My dream wasn't to make money. You know,
Speaker 1: money is a by product of being successful. My dream
Speaker 1: was to be someone, and I just felt like they
Speaker 1: were paying me to be someone that I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be. So I quit. Uh. Then I went in
Speaker 1: to work at Warner Uh. And you know, I did
Speaker 1: pretty good there. I made him a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I did you know? I did Sweeties best Friend record?
Speaker 1: Did Sweeties tap in? Sign Eneli Choppola signed rmble Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I put. I put all of you married him a
Speaker 1: lot of money on the board. But then, you know,
Speaker 1: you start realizing as you work at these companies that
Speaker 1: they want your influence, they just don't want your voice.
Speaker 1: So I decided to just I started a new company
Speaker 1: called l y I, which stands for Leverage your Influence.
Speaker 1: And I decided to bet on myself. And here I
Speaker 1: am simple as that. You still manage one of the
Speaker 1: biggest songwriters in the country. One Record of the Year
Speaker 1: at the Grammys with Lizzo's About Damn Time and you
Speaker 1: can't wait to put the plaque up for that one.
Speaker 1: Uh a lot man, we got, I mean connotes a
Speaker 1: lot of those biggest record, big energy. Um Man, it's
Speaker 1: so crazy because I don't really know how to watch
Speaker 1: my work. I just do the work. And for me,
Speaker 1: it's like when you. I feel like most of us
Speaker 1: lose because we're so busy watching I work, waiting for
Speaker 1: a celebration that happened, and I don't live by that creed.
Speaker 1: I live by this. I'm the same You know this.
Speaker 1: You've been my friend for over fifteen years. I'm the
Speaker 1: same person I was from the minute I came in.
Speaker 1: The minute that I changed that thought process is the
Speaker 1: minute that I lose it all the minute that I
Speaker 1: walked like I mean no, every day I wake up
Speaker 1: willing to earn my keep. Every day I wake up
Speaker 1: willing to do the work. And good ship happened for me.
Speaker 1: Live ba. My mom ain't worked in ten years, and
Speaker 1: I ain't won't never work, damn never mansion. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: mom living the mansion, driving a nice range of but
Speaker 1: everything paid off. My mom ain't gonna never work a
Speaker 1: day in the life. And that's because of what we've
Speaker 1: done in the music business. So I honor that process.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about when artists have of shoes
Speaker 1: when they're talking about their contracts being signed to a label.
Speaker 1: I talked about this a lot. I think that I
Speaker 1: think you gotta take the good with the good, the
Speaker 1: battle with the battle with anything in life. I think
Speaker 1: that Lebron James we just talked about, I think Lebron
Speaker 1: James is underpaid and he makes more money than probably
Speaker 1: everybody on his team right. So for me, it's just
Speaker 1: the way of the world. You gotta if you're an artist,
Speaker 1: you knew what you were signed, and you took the check.
Speaker 1: You knew that you knew how much was in it
Speaker 1: for you. I see a lot of artists. It's so
Speaker 1: crazy because when I try to do deals an artists,
Speaker 1: I'm always the first question every artist asking for saying
Speaker 1: how much money? I'm like, why does that matter? Let
Speaker 1: me tell you why. Because my first year in the
Speaker 1: music business, I mean my first year, oh five, I
Speaker 1: made like seventy eighty tho dollars That money was going
Speaker 1: by the end of the year. So that means I
Speaker 1: gotta make more money oh six, oh seven, oh eight,
Speaker 1: And here we are in two thousand twenty three. I'm
Speaker 1: still making more money. And the reason why it's because
Speaker 1: I honored my word and honor the process, rather than saying, damn,
Speaker 1: I should be making more. Damn, I should be this.
Speaker 1: When I did what I did for Warner, I made
Speaker 1: him a whole lot of money. I could have stayed
Speaker 1: there and been like yo, but no. If the way
Speaker 1: guy worked it out, it was different. I could have
Speaker 1: went and begged for a job. But I know me
Speaker 1: enough to know my damn like. It's like Sean, like
Speaker 1: for Ferrari, no Ferrari. Since he was, you know, since
Speaker 1: I was, I have named my phone Sean. There is
Speaker 1: a thing. Whether he worked at Streets, whether he worked
Speaker 1: at V, whether he works at ball Alert, wherever he is,
Speaker 1: I still see Sean. And he called me I'm coming.
Speaker 1: I don't get so you've never told me no come,
Speaker 1: and my thing is bt same thing ever y'all ever
Speaker 1: called me I'm coming. So the reason why is because
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what brand you work for. It don't
Speaker 1: matter you are the brand. And once I figured that out,
Speaker 1: I was like, Damn, I could I could be the
Speaker 1: guy that represents Warner. I could be the guy that
Speaker 1: represents in the scope. I could be the guy that
Speaker 1: represents epic. I could be the guy that represents my
Speaker 1: fucking self and I'll take the good, the good, the
Speaker 1: bad with the bad that come with that. And that's
Speaker 1: just where I'm at with it. So my companies called
Speaker 1: y because I wanted people to see their influence. I
Speaker 1: want people to see themselves, like with all of us
Speaker 1: out here chasing money when we should be building value
Speaker 1: and leveraging that value for ourselves. So that's so, you know,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm at with it. Man. So when you're
Speaker 1: building value, you can't focus on what you did because
Speaker 1: you gotta wake up and build with value tomorrow. Got
Speaker 1: to build value the next day. I take the weekends
Speaker 1: off when i'm with my kids because I gotta be
Speaker 1: normal at some time. But yeah, my only goal is
Speaker 1: waking up building value, and that's it. That's what I've
Speaker 1: been doing. Speaking of value, what do you think about
Speaker 1: everybody selling their publisher? Now, um, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: I think it's a so I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Uh became a multimillionaire off those deals, so I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna say it's a bad deal. But here's a good part.
Speaker 1: We sold a piece of we sold part of our
Speaker 1: catalog that was from oh seven of two thousand fifteen, right, okay,
Speaker 1: we sold that, But Nigga two thousand fifteen to two
Speaker 1: thousand twenty, we did more records, more hits, Lizzo, Sierra,
Speaker 1: every DOJ cat got out of that deal. Now we're
Speaker 1: in a new deal and we got hits with Lizzo,
Speaker 1: Cardi everybody. I'm a worker. I don't you know how
Speaker 1: to look at it? And I look at it. I
Speaker 1: have a theory and it's gonna sound disgusting to you,
Speaker 1: but this is how I just want to be honest.
Speaker 1: I'll tell me. I wanted to tell me your name, Octavia.
Speaker 1: Nice thing. If somebody came to Octavia said I want
Speaker 1: to buy a couple of your piss, you would sell
Speaker 1: it right get like, where is this going? No, you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Tavia. Somebody came here and said me
Speaker 1: get a thousand US for your piss, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: say what are you gonna do with it? Like what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use the restroom right now? I'm actually gonna
Speaker 1: do that. Okay, So I'm not gonna just sell my
Speaker 1: whatever like that's DNA you flush it down the toilet,
Speaker 1: but you flush it every day. So my thing is this,
Speaker 1: So I couldn't work with you then because you don't
Speaker 1: see the world why I do it. What I see
Speaker 1: it is is you're gonna piss them all. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: piss four or five times a day. So somebody wanna
Speaker 1: buy a couple of piss. I'm a pist today. I'm
Speaker 1: a piston. Momna keepiss. I'm never gonna stop as long
Speaker 1: as I'm alive, I'm gonna use the restroom. So if
Speaker 1: you want to buy it, I'm gonna sell it. So
Speaker 1: as long as you're going, you're fine. Now. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna stop, then that's different. Now it's like, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know again, I'm gonna sell it. Okay, cool, that's
Speaker 1: what it's worth something. But as long as you're gonna
Speaker 1: pis tomorrow, then who cares. So for me, it's like
Speaker 1: sell your catalog for two reasons, either because you continue
Speaker 1: to go or you decided you want to stop. And
Speaker 1: it's that simple, you know it's But if you're doing
Speaker 1: it to make a check, that shouldn't be gone tomorrow
Speaker 1: because money goes fast. Um, can you talk about your podcast?
Speaker 1: You started the podcast. Yeah, I don't like your podcast.
Speaker 1: You be talking that I didn't even know I started.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know I started the podcast. Just start first,
Speaker 1: you you first star, just started talking on Instagram. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I really did. Then then it came came
Speaker 1: into it because first it was tweets. It twee tweets,
Speaker 1: and it was tweets because the video. It was tweets
Speaker 1: because I worked that Warner and when you worked for
Speaker 1: major label, your voice has to be silenced. So like say,
Speaker 1: if I worked at a major company, how I have
Speaker 1: to ask the permission to do this show? If I
Speaker 1: was an A and R marketing guy, whatever, I gotta
Speaker 1: ask the permission. Yeah, yeah, asked the permission. You gotta,
Speaker 1: and now only guys permission. They want to know what
Speaker 1: are you gonna be talking about? What's going on? Because
Speaker 1: what happens if I say something dumb up here, They're
Speaker 1: not gonna say Ray Daniel said it. They're gonna say
Speaker 1: Ray Daniels of and it's got records said something that
Speaker 1: I respect it. But so I was tweeting because I
Speaker 1: couldn't use my voice. And then as soon as I
Speaker 1: left Warner, I started putting out videos, and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to go ask for another job. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go ask for another job. I just felt like
Speaker 1: I was bigger than that, and maybe that's me being arrogant.
Speaker 1: And I was like, man, put the camera in front
Speaker 1: of my face and asked me a question once a day.
Speaker 1: So I would do that, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: people everywhere I would go, people be like, no, could
Speaker 1: gradual on the podcast always? But then you made it
Speaker 1: and it's called people calling me to do I thought
Speaker 1: that was a podcast. I didn't start a podcast. I
Speaker 1: just started podcast. What I was like, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's in clue. And then even then this is and
Speaker 1: this is I always this. This podcast is an experiment,
Speaker 1: by the way, for artists. What's the name of it,
Speaker 1: god show It stands for goats and underdogs. But this
Speaker 1: podcast was it was an experiment. The Jamain the Jermaine
Speaker 1: Dupre clip was the one that took it over the
Speaker 1: top too, because you you had started, you had started
Speaker 1: some some like you know that's what that's what actually
Speaker 1: puffed is the first person that put it on. But
Speaker 1: there's the person that really set the podcast off because
Speaker 1: he posted one of my videos setting me out, and
Speaker 1: then he deleted everything off his page and it was
Speaker 1: just my video time for like four days. And that
Speaker 1: was when everything changed for me. Um, you know, because
Speaker 1: even though I know my peers were probably frowning upon it,
Speaker 1: saying what you're gonna do anytime you're doing some different
Speaker 1: people that know you're gonna be like, what the hell
Speaker 1: are you doing? But I just had I was just like, man,
Speaker 1: like I said, it was a really it was really
Speaker 1: a social experiment and I didn't have And the reason
Speaker 1: why I didn't have guests was because I have so
Speaker 1: many theories in business, but I feel like most people
Speaker 1: want to tell people what they're doing, and I want
Speaker 1: to tell people what I did. So for me, it
Speaker 1: was like, how can I come to somebody say hey,
Speaker 1: I'm starting a podcast. I already know what your response
Speaker 1: is gonna be in your head? Is you Everybody's doing that?
Speaker 1: Every doing everyone's doing it. So I remember calling a
Speaker 1: friend of mine, like real close friend of mine. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I think I started a podcast. It's
Speaker 1: like two years ago. He was like, I do the
Speaker 1: interview later, and I mean it's one of my close friends.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I couldn't get mad at him
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I'm just like everybody else. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: just put a camera in front of me and let's
Speaker 1: talk about all the equipment. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it turned into something and now it's I don't
Speaker 1: even call it a podcast. I don't believe in the
Speaker 1: word pot it's a show. That's why it's called the show.
Speaker 1: Famous here, Like when you call it a podcast, I
Speaker 1: think you put yourself in the box. For me, I
Speaker 1: feel like this ship is TV. This is premium content
Speaker 1: with premium My kids don't know the difference between HBO
Speaker 1: and YouTube. That's the fact. That's difference. My thing is
Speaker 1: that the only difference is is that you know, they
Speaker 1: want to established yourself as premium content and one establish
Speaker 1: yourself as pre content with ads. But the fans don't care.
Speaker 1: So for me, it was like I'm just gonna call
Speaker 1: it the show and whatever comes when it comes with it.
Speaker 1: I still haven't made a dollar from it, by the way,
Speaker 1: and because I didn't enjoying it, didn't know what I
Speaker 1: was doing. And that's another thing, like something for money,
Speaker 1: you're gonna always look for the money after everything you
Speaker 1: do and if you do something because you love it,
Speaker 1: then you just love the process of it. So for me,
Speaker 1: the fun part has been I remember one of you know.
Speaker 1: Another thing that I think we all under estimate is
Speaker 1: the power of our phones. I think, like, it's so
Speaker 1: weird to me how many people are chasing things when
Speaker 1: you have a phone in your hand. And if you
Speaker 1: have a thousand people, a thousand people can fill up
Speaker 1: center stage. You know. I looked at so I looked
Speaker 1: at social media differently. That's why I said this was
Speaker 1: a social experiment. My first time going outside after I
Speaker 1: put the show out was that revoked. I couldn't take
Speaker 1: three fucking steps. Everywhere I went, it was how about this?
Speaker 1: I didn't even have a ticket. I was trying to
Speaker 1: go get my ticket, and when I came up to
Speaker 1: the front door, they was like Ray, Ray, and everybody
Speaker 1: put him in. Where's your panel? And I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I had so I had a pass, but I had
Speaker 1: to go pick it up. So I'm walking to the
Speaker 1: front of this long line to ask where's will call?
Speaker 1: So as I walked to the front, I didn't even
Speaker 1: know what The girl watched. She said, Ray, let him in,
Speaker 1: who's with you let him and I got walked in
Speaker 1: and I couldn't take three steps every like puff, people
Speaker 1: will talcome to me like I love you, and I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, this ship is kind of working, like
Speaker 1: I gotta So for me, it's the exciting part has
Speaker 1: been the social experiment because I feel like so many
Speaker 1: people are victims and I'll never allow myself to be
Speaker 1: a victim. I'm a victory. So the only way to
Speaker 1: be a victory is to get off your ass and try.
Speaker 1: And you can laugh at me behind my back. I
Speaker 1: don't give a funk, But when it works, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, I do it because that's what people do.
Speaker 1: But I mean always, that's what people do, so you
Speaker 1: gotta want you just understand people. It's like, bro, just
Speaker 1: that's what when you call me him like nigga, what
Speaker 1: you need, I'm there. What you're doing, keep doing it,
Speaker 1: because as long as you don't stop doing it, you're fine.
Speaker 1: When you stop and wait for the applause, when you
Speaker 1: hold your hand up and be like, look around, oh
Speaker 1: you lost. I don't give a funk who's watching. I
Speaker 1: don't give a funk who's not watching. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: up every day, and I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna either benefit from it or I'm gonna
Speaker 1: learn from it, but I'm always gonna win. Alright, Cool,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Ray. Let's go to commercial. When we come back,
Speaker 1: it's time for Baller Man. Oh my god, Chris Parks
Speaker 1: got something to say. We'll be right back with more
Speaker 1: of the Baller Alert show message Dear ball Alert, My
Speaker 1: man took a bribe and I do not know what
Speaker 1: to do. So last week I overheard my man talking
Speaker 1: to somebody about taking a bribe for him making sure
Speaker 1: their sons started in the high school basketball game. Now
Speaker 1: high school high school basketball season is is well over,
Speaker 1: and I approached my man about the conversation I overheard
Speaker 1: because I did not like that. He assured me that
Speaker 1: it wasn't a big deal and not to ever ever
Speaker 1: worry about it. But being the guy, fearing person that
Speaker 1: I am, I can't stop thinking about how bad this
Speaker 1: is and I want to say something, but I do
Speaker 1: not know what to do. Should I leave this alone
Speaker 1: or that I do something, Do some more digging and
Speaker 1: find out exactly what happened and deal and handle with
Speaker 1: this situation need you all opinions on this. Thank you.
Speaker 1: By the way, I love the show. Is her husband
Speaker 1: the coach? All I know is she said, my man
Speaker 1: took a bride, so he took some money. I overheard
Speaker 1: my man talking about somebody taking money for him making
Speaker 1: sure their sons started in a high school basketball game.
Speaker 1: So he is the coach. Sounds like it. And if
Speaker 1: he's taking money to start kids at a basketball game,
Speaker 1: you should be concerned because I'm gonna tell you what happened.
Speaker 1: He take that money and them kids don't start. She
Speaker 1: needs to grow up sometimes and listen. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. If Sean is running a radio station and
Speaker 1: I call him and say, give my son an opportunity,
Speaker 1: it feels like a bride, but he's gonna probably do
Speaker 1: it because I have favor with him. Use to use it. You.
Speaker 1: Nepotism is good. If a father or mother could help
Speaker 1: their kids get on, then get the funk on, Like,
Speaker 1: why are you worried about that? Grow up? Don't worry
Speaker 1: about that to me? It's like to me, it's like
Speaker 1: worry about if so many the things you need to
Speaker 1: be worried about, why you worn't about a damn game?
Speaker 1: It's a game that father just leading with ego, trying
Speaker 1: to get his kid on the game. Who cares? Who?
Speaker 1: Why do you care? If defend? Now, what you should
Speaker 1: care about is if he took the money and spent
Speaker 1: it on another broad Now that's when he's doing. But
Speaker 1: if he took the money and spenting on you, then
Speaker 1: you won. And to me, I feel like like the
Speaker 1: one thing I learned is that, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the biggest lesson to learn in life was cheat to win,
Speaker 1: cheat the wind, cheat the wind. Yeah, I'm only concerned
Speaker 1: about you found out and now your conscious is fucked up. Uh,
Speaker 1: I am a little concerned. I am concerned. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to tell you that too. You're in the
Speaker 1: conundrum in my tip voice, Um, I don't know what
Speaker 1: tell you do, sweetheart, it looks like you want to leave.
Speaker 1: Look like you want to snitch and leave your man.
Speaker 1: So if that's what you want to do, go ahead.
Speaker 1: But you look like you what you need to do?
Speaker 1: You got damn Yeah, you got money your business man.
Speaker 1: When that when I'm scared for you, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that you're you know, I just hope the kids to start. Man.
Speaker 1: Whoever he took the money for you didn't hear it?
Speaker 1: And you know that's what I'm saying. Roll up what
Speaker 1: you think? I think it's time to get out of here.
Speaker 1: What's up with my dog? Core? Sparse? Come over here, sir?
Speaker 1: Uh you you come on over here by me, sir.
Speaker 1: So you know, Ferrari's a good friend of min. I'm
Speaker 1: knowing him since he got to Atlanta. I've been here
Speaker 1: for about almost eleven years, um vice president promotion. That
Speaker 1: Warner Record has been there for roughly five months. Came
Speaker 1: up from Epic. I was there for eleven years. I
Speaker 1: was a vice president. We worked together over there. We
Speaker 1: sure did me. I met Ray when he was managing
Speaker 1: Noah when I was hanging postal boards back in early
Speaker 1: two thousand. Yeah, exactly. So I just want to say that, um,
Speaker 1: Ferrad got a job. I just have far our national
Speaker 1: director of Lifestyle, and Mike Show want the records to
Speaker 1: charge next week. Yo. I put him through some tests.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know he was in for a past
Speaker 1: couple of months. So when the position opened, I interviewed
Speaker 1: some cats, but I really only had one person really
Speaker 1: that was really interesting and he should be Oh Tom
Speaker 1: and Tom again. We had those conversations. He's ready. He
Speaker 1: wanted to come over to the record side open to
Speaker 1: warning my boy, you're you're in the records and I
Speaker 1: feel good. Time to you know, keep leveling up, making
Speaker 1: my folks proud. You know, Like I said, I wanted
Speaker 1: to do it with Ray because Ray saw me like
Speaker 1: I had a day job when I met Ray, ye
Speaker 1: and and um les apartments at least his apartment, at
Speaker 1: least a lot of people in apartments. So like Ray
Speaker 1: saw me like, you know what I'm saying, like at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of you know what I'm saying my
Speaker 1: care Yeah, So you know, I just wanted, you know,
Speaker 1: continue making Yeah. Yeah. I love to see when you
Speaker 1: guys win. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's why I love to
Speaker 1: see Corey winning. Like very birthday, alright, time for me,
Speaker 1: get up out of here. Think that was the pep talk.
Speaker 1: That was the pep talk. Keep going, kids, Appreciate you all.
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