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Speaker 1: degree in business, and have a minor in music. If

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Speaker 1: made a lot more money earlier than in life than

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Speaker 1: I did. You know, playing around in the music industry

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Speaker 1: and going to strip clubs. That's probably how my life

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Speaker 1: would have turned out. But going back to happiness, I

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Speaker 1: would have been horrendously unhappy. I liked what entertainment offered

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Speaker 1: to me that was not in money, in the sense

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Speaker 1: of I could wear whatever I wanted to work. I

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Speaker 1: look at Eric, who's in a sweatshirt. I look at Brian,

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Speaker 1: who's in a Dodger's hat, and we're all wearing jeans

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Speaker 1: or shorts or whatever. That's priceless to me because when

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Speaker 1: I worked at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, that was

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Speaker 1: a shirt and tie every day, and I was miserable,

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Speaker 1: absolutely miserable. I thank God every day that I could

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Speaker 1: walk in here in basketball shorts and flip flops if

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Speaker 1: I wanted to, and no one would say a word.

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Speaker 1: And there's not a monetary value attached to it. But

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Speaker 1: it's priceless in terms of just lack of stress. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time I ironed anything to

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Speaker 1: come to work. Not that I'm a slob, but I'd

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Speaker 1: like to have that option of being a slob. I

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Speaker 1: remember when I was in college, I worked at Vaughan's

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Speaker 1: and they made us be clean shaven, and for those

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Speaker 1: who don't know, you have I have a full beard.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been clean, clean shaven literally since I quit

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Speaker 1: that job. Basically, I haven't been clean shaven. I'm the

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Speaker 1: same way. I've had a beard since I was twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Now there are times in life I didn't wear a beard,

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Speaker 1: but it grows very fast, and I that is an

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Speaker 1: absolute deal breaker to work at a place which would

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Speaker 1: have a clean shaven policy. Like I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: be an LAPD officer. Sorry, that was a deal breaker

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Speaker 1: for me. Sorry, I'm not being clean shaven. Sorry, not

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Speaker 1: going to be a ball player for the Yankees or

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Speaker 1: the Rats back in the day with March shot. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are things for me which are a part of

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Speaker 1: the salary. Oh. A perfect example, right before we go

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Speaker 1: to break. I had a chance to take a job

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Speaker 1: before I started working at KFI, I had a chance

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Speaker 1: to take a job in Antonio viad Ragosa's administration. They

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Speaker 1: were looking for someone to be like an African American

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Speaker 1: community Outreachlaizone. It would be in the press department, and

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Speaker 1: the pay for that job was between seventy five and

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Speaker 1: ninety thou and at the time true story, this is

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Speaker 1: two and eleven, I was working part time at KFI

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Speaker 1: for like I want to say, maybe fifteen dollars an

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Speaker 1: hour part time at CAF, I come on, let's go.

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Speaker 1: And I had the opportunity if I went all the

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Speaker 1: way through with it, to work in the mayor's office

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Speaker 1: for like seventy five thousand dollars, but of course it's

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Speaker 1: suit every single day, and they wanted me to shut

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Speaker 1: down all my media because at the time I was

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Speaker 1: still doing interviews for like BBC, I had a column

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Speaker 1: online column, I was writing for hoops Hype dot com basketball,

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00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: I was a Clippers beat writer for them, and I

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Speaker 1: have to shut down all my media and all my

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Speaker 1: personal stuff I was doing to work in the mayor's office.

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Speaker 1: And I told them very respectfully, GFY, very respectfully, because

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Speaker 1: I was not going to give up all those things

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Speaker 1: which didn't necessarily give me money, but it gave me

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Speaker 1: peace and enjoyment, and that to me was more important

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Speaker 1: than the seventy five thousand dollars a year that would

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Speaker 1: have ended all my money issues at the time. And

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a lot of money, but you know, it

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Speaker 1: was right after going through foreclosure and the Great Recession,

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Speaker 1: so put that in context of the time period. So

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Speaker 1: there are things to this day which are more important

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Speaker 1: than money. And dress code has always been one of

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Speaker 1: them as in not having one. This is John A.

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Speaker 1: Kensho Oka if I am six forty, We're live everywhere

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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app and tweets to still come again,

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Speaker 1: So hit me at mister m'kelly rmky. This comes from

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Speaker 1: Patty V who is at Bananas Slug for Life, so

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking that she went to UC Santa Cruz at

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Speaker 1: mister m'kelly. Hi, it's great listening to you. I just

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Speaker 1: want to know what songs became popular during your time

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Speaker 1: in the record industry. Well, too many to mention, but

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Speaker 1: I have to go back to the place where I was,

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Speaker 1: what the biggest artists were at that time that we

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Speaker 1: worked on. When I was at Virgin Records, this is

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Speaker 1: like ninety five to ninety seven. We were We were

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Speaker 1: responsible for Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope album and the Velvet

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Speaker 1: Rope Tour, which was fun. That was That was probably

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Speaker 1: the best time I've had in the music industry where

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Speaker 1: get to hang out with Janet Jackson. There are worse

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Speaker 1: moments in my life than that, Okay, And I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that to brag. I'm saying I've had a very

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Speaker 1: blessed life in terms of stories and moments, and that

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Speaker 1: was a big moment. When I was at Virgin Records,

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Speaker 1: we were also promoting the Spice Girls when they were

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Speaker 1: at their peak, having them just walked through. I have

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Speaker 1: Linny Kravitz slowly coming back to me. Linny Kravitz when

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Speaker 1: he had his greatest amount of hits in his career

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Speaker 1: was during that time. And then from there I went

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Speaker 1: to Warner Brothers Records, and we basically didn't have any hits.

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Speaker 1: You know, we didn't do well at all. And then

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Speaker 1: I went to Interscope Records, and Interscope Records, I was

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Speaker 1: there when we broke eminem of a plaque from his

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Speaker 1: very first album, The Marshall Mathers LP. I worked with

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Speaker 1: Sugar Night just about every day. I wouldn't say we

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Speaker 1: were friends, but we knew each other and we were cool.

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Speaker 1: And Eric raised his eyebrows. No true story, true story.

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Speaker 1: I'm just glad you're alive. Yeah. We Actually, the only

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Speaker 1: time I felt in danger was when I was working

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Speaker 1: at Virgin Records before then, and there was a rapper

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Speaker 1: by the name of Scarface. Oh. Yes, he threatened to

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Speaker 1: kill me. Oh and here's the tie in. Remember what

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Speaker 1: I was talking about how we try to get ads

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Speaker 1: of records on radio stations. Well, it's usually segmented where

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Speaker 1: one week will go for this artist's song, because radio

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Speaker 1: stations they don't add a lot of songs each week,

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Speaker 1: they only add a few weeks to record labels had

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Speaker 1: what they call priorities. This week we're going for this record.

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Speaker 1: Next week we're on for the next record. And I

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Speaker 1: was trying to explain the Scarface on the phone, much

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Speaker 1: to my chagrin, that that week he happened to call

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Speaker 1: us because he was asking about his record, and I said, no,

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Speaker 1: that's next week on our schedule. This week we're going

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Speaker 1: for Janet Jackson's record, And I was being an idiot.

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Speaker 1: I should not have told him that, looking back, and

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Speaker 1: he got mad at me. He took exception to that.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think I've ever said his name on

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Speaker 1: the radio, but I said it now. Oh, well, it's

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Speaker 1: out there, And he said, and he's calling from rap

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Speaker 1: a Lot Records, which is notorious in Houston, Texas. If

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00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 1: you look up Jay Prince and rap a Lot Records

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00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: and their history and their alleged associations. Scarface said, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: next time I'm coming to la, I want to kill you.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said. True story. The tie in you

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Speaker 1: know that ties back to Janet Jackson and also Shug Night.

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Speaker 1: That was the only time in which I was afraid,

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Speaker 1: you could say, because I took those threats seriously because

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Speaker 1: who was coming from. You know, Scarface, He's had some

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Speaker 1: issues with emotional health over the years. I hope he's better.

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Speaker 1: I wish you well, Scarface, love you lots mean it.

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Speaker 1: And then when I was working at Interscope Records, I

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Speaker 1: was working with Sugar Knight, and that's when they first

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Speaker 1: brought on Aftermath Records, Doctor Dre and they started with

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Speaker 1: Eminem fifty cent. To answer Patty V's question, it's like

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Speaker 1: I can say I've met just about every person I

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Speaker 1: ever wanted to meet in the music industry from my time,

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Speaker 1: with the exception of Michael Jackson. I never got to

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Speaker 1: meet Michael Jackson, and he was the only person that

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Speaker 1: I wanted to meet, you know, I met everyone else

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Speaker 1: from Whitney Houston on down. I was mostly on the

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Speaker 1: R and B side. But and you were around Janet

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Speaker 1: for what like two years? Yeah? Wow, yeah, yeah. There

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Speaker 1: was a party at her house or house at the time.

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Speaker 1: Like the Hollywood Hills, and she invited up all the

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Speaker 1: Virgin Record staff and and she's a person. Her voice

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Speaker 1: is so soft and sweet, one of the nicest people. Like.

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Speaker 1: I would never say that I know her, but I

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Speaker 1: can say I spend enough time around her to get

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Speaker 1: a feel for who she actually is. And she's very genuine,

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Speaker 1: very sweet, very soft spoken. She's not trying to be

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Speaker 1: the center of attention, and that's not something you don't

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Speaker 1: normally see. Beyonce is very much like that. I had

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Speaker 1: a chance to hang out with Salange or sister for

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Speaker 1: a birthday party years back, and Beyonce was there and

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Speaker 1: she's just He's chill, you know. Tuala has stories like

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Speaker 1: this as well. But I had some great time and

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Speaker 1: some great memories of the music industry for what it

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Speaker 1: was back then. The music industry now, from what I'm told,

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Speaker 1: is nothing like what it was when I was back then,

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Speaker 1: because we were footloose and fancy free. We had people

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Speaker 1: who had American Express Black cards going back to while

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Speaker 1: I was talking about expenses and everything, and we'd walk

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Speaker 1: into club and said, who has the black card? In

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Speaker 1: other words, who's paying for everyone's drinks tonight? And the

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Speaker 1: different regional managers for the record companies. It would just

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Speaker 1: kind of rotate. I was like, Okay, Earl's paying for

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Speaker 1: it tonight, and then next month there'll be my turn,

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Speaker 1: and I'll put it on my expenses and so forth.

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00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: We just the way money flowed back then, unfettered, without

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Speaker 1: the type of forensic accounting that goes on now. It

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Speaker 1: is amazing the stuff that went on that you could

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Speaker 1: never do now. Just never great times. I'm glad it's over.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad I survived it. I never did drugs once,

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Speaker 1: never had an opportunity just about every time I went out,

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Speaker 1: never did coke, never did ecstasy, never did any of

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Speaker 1: those things. They never appealed to me. You know, one

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Speaker 1: of my and you'll appreciate this, Eric before we go

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Speaker 1: to break, one of my fondest memories is one time

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Speaker 1: I got liquored up and there's this rap group group

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Speaker 1: called the Loonies, and they were performing at this place

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Speaker 1: called Faye Dodo in La and in town was Wu

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Speaker 1: Tang and Um red Man was performed with the Loonies

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Speaker 1: and I got to introduce the Loonies with Red Man.

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Speaker 1: And if you interapt you know who these people are.

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Speaker 1: So I got up on stage, jack and coke in

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Speaker 1: my hand. I got to be the hot hype man

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Speaker 1: for Wu Tang's Red Man rest of the Wu Tang crew,

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Speaker 1: and that was my moment of actually being a rap

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Speaker 1: artist for all of ten minutes. Wow, good time, just

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Speaker 1: being on stage with Wu Tang. That's that's quite the

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Speaker 1: Not everybody can say, quite the braggadocious memory. Not everyone

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Speaker 1: can say that. China Ken show ka if I Am

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Speaker 1: six forty We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app