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So that means that get started 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: now with energy, Rashan mcdown Welcome to money Making Conversation. 27 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rashan McDonald my next guest um from 28 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: the Whendy City of Chicago. I spent five years up 29 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: there where I created in the executive produced Steve Harvey's 30 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 1: talk show Up in Chicago. So I know about Chicago, 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: the cold of Chicago, the food of Chicago, and now 32 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: we're about to talk about a Bob Mitts for Legend 33 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: in Chicago. He's a native of Chicago's West Side. He 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: is the founder and CEO of Flow Entertainment and Interactive 35 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,639 Speaker 1: Entertainment Company. He's also a recording artist with Level Next Music, 36 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: established songwriter, music producer, and the founder of the k 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 1: w Oe Hope Foundation. Please welcome to money Making Conversations. 38 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: Kareem Wales, what's up? What's up, y'all? What's up? My man? 39 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: You go, you go, you will come up with what's up? 40 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? What's what? Check? Mike, Mike, check, Mike, Mike, 41 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: check my check. I can't believe you did that. What's up? 42 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: What's up? What's up? What's line? You sound like a 43 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: software Airlines commercial. How you doing, my friend? I'm good, 44 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: I'm good brother. How you doing you? I'm really good? 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: And welcome to Atlanta. You also heard on sirius XM, 46 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: which is um HBCU campuses in Howard University campus. You 47 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: also heard on our Heart radio podcast So and also 48 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: if you have Alexa, just say money making conversation and 49 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: you pop onto somebody's house right now. That's how we 50 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: do it, that money making conversation. Sir. Now, we'll tell 51 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: me what you do in your life right now. You 52 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: know we're gonna expose you to my brand. My brain 53 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: is about as a female dominated brand, as a as 54 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: a brand dad that want about entrepreneurship, and that's what 55 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: you lead. You're an interesting, uh lane of entrepreneurship and 56 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: I wanted to bring you on my show just to 57 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: talk about your personality, talk about your background, talk about 58 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: the things that inspire you to be great, because after say, 59 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: you're being great because you're doing you're having success in 60 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 1: a very unique field. So talk to us well. UM, actually, UH, 61 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,119 Speaker 1: as you said before, I am the owner of Entertainment 62 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: which is an interactive UH entertainment company. We specialize in 63 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: DJ's dances, MCS, musicians, sound lighting, staging. UM. We mainly 64 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: do private events, one being bar Missvah's. They called me 65 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: the Kingdom the Mitzvah's Um. I book out three to 66 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: four years in advance, UM, and it's it's it's it's 67 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: an amazing thing just to be able to go out 68 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: and do something that you love with kids you know 69 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: in their family, to uh three years in advance. The 70 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: only thing I know is three years in advance tickets 71 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: to the Jazz games, to the Package game and the 72 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: Bears game. They get season Sea season tickets. So how 73 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: many advents do you do a year? And just to 74 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: just to bring everything into perspective, well, I have I 75 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: have a team of a team of uh early six 76 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: people that can go out and do these parties. So 77 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: in the in the Jewish community, have you know apartments 78 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: for which is for a boy and a bott mitzvagh, 79 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: which is for a girl. And they have to they 80 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,559 Speaker 1: started an early age to start reading from the tora 81 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: and learning the tora. Uh. It's a religious thing. So 82 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: it starts when they're you know, ten years old, nineteen 83 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,559 Speaker 1: years old, So they get those you know, eight nineteen 84 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: years old, and they get those dates early. They get 85 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,359 Speaker 1: them early to do to sell the actual celebration. They 86 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: have the service during the day usually and then at 87 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: night at Saturday night, they have a selling oberation. It's 88 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: a coming of age event. A it's a good deed 89 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: due to religious duty as a commandment. So they have 90 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: to do these things and when they do it, they 91 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: celebrate at night. And and we provide that entertainment. We 92 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 1: provide an interactive entertainment. And so in order to get me, 93 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: in order to get the company, you have to call 94 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: us early because you know, um, we go all over, 95 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: not just in Chicago, but you know here in Chicago 96 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: they get it's it's just a lot of parties. So 97 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: we do anywhere from you know, a hundred and you 98 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: know a hundred plus, like you know, hundred thirty hundred 99 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: forty parties. UM a season and the bar missile season 100 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: is from uh like the third week of August all 101 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: the way until June when the kids go away to camp. So, um, yeah, 102 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: it's been an amazing riding and something that I would 103 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,039 Speaker 1: have ever thought that I would be doing that, you 104 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: know that I would have found a niche born and 105 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: and and to create a special way of doing it. 106 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: You know, um, what what makes you? What makes your 107 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: brand so popular and engaging? Because you know, first of all, congratulations, 108 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: let's get that out there. Thank you. And secondly, you're 109 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: taking advantage. You're taking your taking advantage of an opportunity. 110 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: And then like and then it didn't magnified it. But 111 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 1: you used to have a staff of thirty six people, 112 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: so obviously your business is a profitable business. So okay, 113 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: you did your first one and then all of a sudden, 114 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: how did the second one come about? And how did 115 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: you eventually realize I'm on to something? Well, you know, um, 116 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: the first the first party I ever did, I was 117 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: tall because the company at the time they were short 118 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: of dancing and one of my half brothers he called 119 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: me up and was like, you know, he knew I 120 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: could dance. He was just like, man, we need somebody 121 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: you know, right away he knew I was close in 122 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: the area, so I went over there and got over there, 123 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: and and I get there and it's inside of this 124 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: big nightclub they were in. They took over the entire nightclub, 125 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: right about the entire place. And I get there and 126 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: I look on stage and I'm just like, what is it, 127 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: like his fifty and birthday or something like, you know, 128 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: what is it? He said, no, he pointed to to 129 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: the to the young man, it was like, it's his party. 130 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: And I was just blown away, Like I couldn't believe 131 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: that it was a thirteen year old kids party with 132 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: you know, all those adults, all those kids singing and dancing, 133 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: and I just could not believe it. I was. I 134 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: was blown away. I did that. I didn't really know 135 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: anything about or anything in the Jewish community, you know, 136 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: I really didn't, and it just blew my mind. And 137 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: then I put in put in a little little research 138 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: to find out what it was really about. And when 139 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: I learned that it wasn't just about throwing a big party. 140 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: It was about a commandment, you know, from God, in 141 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: a big religious duty that you know, a good being 142 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: that the kid had to do. This was something that 143 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: was a part of their religion. And I thought that 144 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: was beautiful. I thought it was amazing to celebrate a 145 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: coming of age party that way. You know, I just 146 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: thought it was amazing. It was it was you know, 147 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: like like what I like to say to day. It 148 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: was a party with purpose. It wasn't just like, okay, 149 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: you know, a sweet sixteen. I get it, you know, 150 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: super sweet sixteen, but this is something you can only 151 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: do one time with a kid, you know, um and 152 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: you know it. Truly, it wasn't always like this for me. 153 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: It wasn't you know, I didn't. I didn't. It wasn't 154 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: always called the King of the miss was. I had 155 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: no idea that I would be doing you know, private 156 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: events the way that we're doing. Um no, because I 157 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: can't let you miss steps that. Okay, you came in 158 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: as a as a dancer. Okay, you're dancing. Now you're not. 159 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: You're not the king of about miss for yet. You 160 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: know you you're a last second dancer that Okay, I 161 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: was last I was. I was like I was. I 162 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: was an emergency call. Okay, let's let's go back to 163 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: the second one. Okay, So so now you're you're just 164 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: start so go to the steps here. So my fan 165 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: base can understand how you just took a concept, an 166 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: idea and when I said a blessing, you took a 167 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: blessing and bi okay. So so the first party I did, 168 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: the party, people were excited by that. By that Monday, 169 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: it was a Saturday. By that Monday, I get a 170 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: call from the owner at the time of that company 171 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,319 Speaker 1: and he said, you brought something different. And he was like, 172 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: you brought something you know, you brought something different to 173 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: the to the table. And he was like, so people 174 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: request you. The people that were there, we're doing some 175 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: of their parties and their kids. You just came in 176 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: as a dancer, dude, Okay, what were you doing? Made 177 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: the worm on the floor, the snag? What were you doing? Man? 178 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 1: You're a party you are a party starter. Like you 179 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: you're hyping the crowd of like okay, dancing with them. 180 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: They were doing like follow along stuff that they were 181 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: doing three steps to the left, three steps to the right. 182 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: Was that kind of thing but a hype master, Yeah, yeah, 183 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: we're hyping the crowd up with the m C. The 184 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: m C. The m C had the mic, the dances 185 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: were literally dancing with the people like you know, you 186 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: have a about four to six then and sometimes eight. 187 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: You go out there and you're just hyping the crowd up, 188 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: you know, singing with the kids. They get this time, 189 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: they get a lot of what we call following along dance, 190 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: and like, you know, it's just movement, energetic movement, you know, 191 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: interactive energetic movements. What I like to call was friendly 192 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,319 Speaker 1: and you were very accommodating to the young people, made 193 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: them feel at home. All this is called customer service, everybody. 194 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: You know, I didn't break this stuff down. I try 195 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: to break this stuff to people. And you know, what 196 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: they really like. What's what's interesting is they really love 197 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: you know, I wmuch, just call it what it was. 198 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: They loved my swack. Like I came baseball cap on. 199 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:45,599 Speaker 1: You know, I was dressed still nice, you know, and 200 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: all black and you gotta dress you know, we're all black. 201 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: We came, we were you know. I had that type 202 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: of attitude of I'm just gonna have fun. I was 203 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: excited too, and that's in that probably show two because 204 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that. And we're dancing to 205 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: the hottest music. They will listening to everything that the 206 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: kids in the hood would be listening to it wasn't like, 207 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: oh we purvous kids, and we listened to it, not 208 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: eventening to the same music, and they turned it all 209 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,479 Speaker 1: the way up to it. So I was just excited 210 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: and engaged. And when I did that, and you know, 211 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: I had a different style, like you know, with my 212 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: hat on and just you know, I got I had, 213 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 1: I had my black you know, I had some um 214 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: at the time, I own some George's I remember, had 215 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: Jordans on my feet, and I was just I had 216 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: a different swag about doing it, like you know, like 217 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: when I would when I would watch it, like when 218 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: I look back, I would I would be watching how 219 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: it was done, and I was like, man, we gotta 220 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: make this cooler. This this could be hip for and cooler. 221 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking to myself, like, you know, 222 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: it's tradition, but the way that they're doing these dances, 223 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: I think we could do it and make it look 224 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 1: a little you know, a lot more, a lot more 225 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: hip and a lot more cool, you know, put a 226 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: little bit more swag on it. And and that's what 227 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,679 Speaker 1: my attitude always was. And people they noticed it, you know, 228 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: the Jewish community noticed it. You gotta remember they they 229 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: Jewish community and the small community. People think it's a 230 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: big huge, it's a small everybody knows everybody. And the 231 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: word of mouth got out. It was this new cat, 232 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: that's what. That's what found out. They were like, it's 233 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: this new guy. You gotta have him on your party. 234 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: Got and I started getting requested. So on that Monday 235 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: from that party I got requested was like three different 236 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: families every and the guy he said to me, Hey, 237 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay you this much. He said, how would 238 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: you like to do? I was like, well, it's not 239 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: gonna interfield my music, right, It's not gonna sfere with 240 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: anything I'm doing through the weeks like no, So I 241 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: was like cool. So I started getting requested and and 242 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, but I mean being a rapper, 243 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,720 Speaker 1: you know, I was like I knew how to grab 244 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: the mic. And I was watching that guy at the 245 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,439 Speaker 1: time and watching other people and how I was done. 246 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: I was studying them. You know that guy when he 247 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,959 Speaker 1: was really good. I give him respect, you know, he 248 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: was he was really good. Uh his white guy, he know, 249 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: he was good at what he did. But I was like, 250 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: I gotta do it my way. Like he said. One 251 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: day he asked me to them. See. He was like, 252 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: how would you like the m c you know, cold 253 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: and see with me and my party. I was like cool, 254 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: So he gave he went on the mic and then 255 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: he gave me the mike, and I gave it a 256 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: different approach, you I mean, like a way different approach 257 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: where it was truly about giving something like like you 258 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: know when you get it's it's a difference when you 259 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: get on the mic and you get on that mic 260 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: and you just start, you know, making it all about 261 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: you trying to be a start doing it. I wasn't 262 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: on that. I was really highlighting the family and really 263 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 1: highlighting your friends, and like I took approach, let me 264 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: be self less, you know what I'm saying. Like I 265 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: was really in that mindset like this it's a little kid, 266 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 1: you know. I wanted to be about them because when 267 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: you're thirteen, you don't know if you're tall enough, if 268 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: you're strong enough, you're pretty you know, you have all 269 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: these different thoughts in amount at thirteen. So I was like, 270 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: let me highlight them like they just start on the 271 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: phone with the King about Mrs Chicago Kareem Whales fascinating 272 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: story fascinating story about how you've given an opportunity, you 273 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: educate yourself on the opportunity, you turn into a brand, 274 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: and you turn into a thriving business of thirty six employees. 275 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: We'll be back with more money making conversation in Kareem 276 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: Whales straight out of Chicago West Side, make conversation. HI, 277 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: This for Sean McDonald. You're listening to money making conversations 278 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: on the phone. Is a native of Chicago's West Side. 279 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: He's the founder and CEO of Flow Entertainment and Interactive 280 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: Entertainment Company. He's also a recording artist with a Level 281 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: with Level Next Music and established songwriter, music producer, and 282 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: the founder of the k w Oe Hope Foundation. The 283 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: reason I have on the phone, besides all those tremendous 284 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: accolades that I gave you, was that he is known 285 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: as the king of all missus in the city of Chicago, 286 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: and um, I'm familiar with the city of Chicago. He's 287 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: African American and he's uh already one of them. That 288 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: he's handsome. He's told you know, people just be giving 289 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: you extra Kareem extra handsthing tall. I said, I gotta 290 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: say all that to say he's talented, but you know, 291 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: she said he's handsome and tall. But the more importantly, 292 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: this is what I love about your story, and I'm 293 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: so happy you're on my show, money making conversations about 294 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: letting people see other slices of life to be successful 295 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:53,520 Speaker 1: because of what I've always trying to do with individuals 296 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: is that you know, there's so many lanes that you 297 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: can be successful. Says, you can have a career, that 298 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: you can gain financial support for your lifestyle. But keep 299 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: on an open mind, keep an open mind, and that's 300 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: what happened to my career. A lot of people says 301 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: always tell me, Rashan, you know how to reinvent yourself. 302 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: It is because I see opportunities, because I also see 303 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: the work that's tied to that opportunity, and I'm committed 304 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: to being successful because I'm willing to do the work. 305 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: When I hear your story, Mr called at the last minute, Mr, 306 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: just come on in and do your thing. You saw 307 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: an opportunity, whether it was natural or it was calculated, 308 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: to become engaged, and by becoming engaged, you established a business. 309 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: A business right now is very successful that you established 310 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: in yourself or your bookings are three years in advance. 311 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: My friend, that's a great thing. And I have to 312 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,640 Speaker 1: just say congratulations on that before we start talking about 313 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: anything else that has to be applauded. As a young entrepreneur, 314 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: you and that what they call that, that that age 315 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: group of being a millennial and you're and you're making 316 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: it happen. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. 317 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: You know. Um, one of the things you said, by 318 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: putting in the work, like that's something that a lot 319 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: of people miss. And the truth is, you know, I 320 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: put in the work when everybody else see I'm a 321 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: night out, But when everybody else is sleeping, I'm up 322 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about what I need to do. How 323 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: can I be better? How can I make things better? 324 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: And to be able to do that, UM, hiring people, 325 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: don't you know? You know Chicago, so you know what 326 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: eagle Wood is like. You know that originally from the 327 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: West Side, you know, from the projects. You know, UM, 328 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: I hired people from those areas. You know what I'm 329 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: trying to get in my opportunity the same way I 330 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: was giving an opportunity to see things differently than just 331 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: you know, a four to eight block radius. You know, 332 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: you know being in the streets like I was, I 333 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: was able to, you know, look, you know, reflect back 334 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: and say, hey man, I gotta I gotta pull people 335 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: up and get them out. Because before I was doing 336 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: you know, the whole party, miss the thing. Before I 337 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: got called from that party, I was pursuing music. But 338 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: I also was a bus boy, you know. I was 339 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: a bus boy at the East Peak Club, at a 340 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: at a Ritchie little club over here. So I I 341 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: had coportunity to get out of the neighborhood, you know, 342 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to get out of you know, 343 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: to see something difference, to open my mind up to hey, 344 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: I could do this, I could really do something other 345 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: than you know what I was doing, you know. So 346 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:16,159 Speaker 1: I I got there stop busting tables, and when the 347 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,199 Speaker 1: music canvy, I I just never gave up, you know. 348 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,239 Speaker 1: And what I hear is that you humble, you know. 349 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: And I find that the lanes of success because of 350 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: the fact that I've done a lot of significant things 351 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: in my life from a from an entertainment standpoint. And 352 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,239 Speaker 1: I I always remember this story people always tell when 353 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: I was managed in Steve Harvey very early on, when 354 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,679 Speaker 1: I was still doing stand up and people always say, man, 355 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: you're as funny as Steve Harvey, Why why would you 356 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: manage him? Why would you why would you not build 357 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: your career out Because guess what, that wasn't part of 358 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: my plan. I understood, yeah, and then and so so 359 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:54,959 Speaker 1: that's why here coming out of you is understanding your 360 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: lane and a lot of people need to understand that 361 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 1: that when you're trying to build a plan for success, 362 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: and that's with you. That's what you're doing on this 363 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: car right now. This is part of your brand build 364 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: to be on money making conversations because when you book 365 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: three years in advance, you pretty much don't need a 366 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: salesman at this point. But you would like the people 367 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: to understand your story. And let's go back a little 368 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: bit on your story. You know, grew up in a rough, rough, 369 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: rough neighborhood in Chicago, started selling drugs when you were fourteen, 370 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 1: and you dropped out of high school two years later. 371 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: Talk about that journey and and what made you what 372 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: made drugs an option? Well, when when you know, when 373 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: you're growing up in a single parent household, you know, 374 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: like many many others that I know, my father was 375 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: never in my life. You know, so we didn't, you know, 376 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: I had I had anger about that we didn't have 377 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have the latest clothes and the 378 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: latest sneakers and um, you know, we didn't have you know, 379 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: a lot of food. It was it was things that 380 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: you know that could for for a teenager, you know, 381 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: like with with you know, with low self estee because 382 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 1: most of us have when your father. You don't have 383 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: that positive black male role model in your life. A 384 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: lot of times yourself the steemmate really in order, you're 385 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: not really sure about things. You're not like you said, 386 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: you know, I should be tall enough, if you're cool enough, 387 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: be strong enough. He's just not. And I was presented 388 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: with an opportunity from a guy that I just loved 389 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: to this day. He's no longer here. He got murdered. 390 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: Um his name is Marshall Hill Jr. We called him 391 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: Chief and he was somebody that took me in. He 392 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: showed me how to you know, make money. You know, 393 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: I was presented with the opportunity and at that age, 394 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: you know, you're fearless. You really don't think about what 395 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: you're doing wrong, what you're doing right. Just go you 396 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: just go what the times is and you know what 397 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: it is, and that's what I did. I followed this 398 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: guy and I listened to him, and he, you know, 399 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: I know most people, you know, when you think of, 400 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: you know, a drug dealt, you think, oh, there's an 401 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 1: evil person. You think you know, this person is no good. 402 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 1: They they ate the community. This is this. It wasn't 403 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: really like that. It was more so to survive. You know, 404 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: you're thinking, you know, I'm doing this to survive. This 405 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: person showed me how to survive in the streets. He 406 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: showed me how to do you know, how to sales drugs, 407 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: how to how to do it. But in the same breath, 408 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,399 Speaker 1: as I got older and he saw I had a talent, 409 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: he said, he always something He thought I had something 410 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: special because I was always walking around wrap and then 411 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,719 Speaker 1: you know, singing melodies and throwing stuff like that, and 412 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: he was like, you know, you can't do this no more. 413 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: So he pulled me out to him and a bunch 414 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: of other guys from the neighborhood that I respect, al 415 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: vest and Judie George, just a lot of people that 416 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: I respect even to this disrespect him as individuals. And 417 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,360 Speaker 1: they're no longer in it either, you know what I mean. 418 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: But this particular person just believed in me. You know, 419 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: to have a black man, and I know it's important. 420 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: A lot of people may not understand this, but they 421 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: really should. Um, when you have a black male that 422 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: you could look up to, a positive male role model 423 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: that you can look up to, and that loves you, 424 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: would care about you enough to say, hey, yeah you did. 425 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: I did this for you so you could make money 426 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: and so you could do something for your mama. Right. 427 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: But then as he saw something in me that I 428 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: didn't even see in me, you know the way he 429 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: saw it, he said, you could no longer do this. 430 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: And he let everybody know from the community, abody in 431 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: the hood, everybody, and he moved me to a whole 432 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: another neighborhood that I wasn't even from. You know what 433 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm from the same neighborhood as a deal 434 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: gives the comedian like like I who I called him 435 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: my big sister, Like it was like that, you know 436 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, you had a lot of people 437 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: looking out for me, and I believed in me. And 438 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: and when he did that, he can Yeah, he said, 439 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: get a job, go back to school, or um he 440 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: said he did go back to school, get a job, 441 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: he said, or go back to school. He go back 442 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: to school, he was. He was telling me, I got 443 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: I got some things to do, three things that I 444 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: needed to do, and I did those three. I did 445 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: two of the three. I got a job, and I 446 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: pursued my music. That was the third thing he said, 447 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: to pursue pursue your music. I chose to get a job, 448 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: to pursue my music because at the time, I now, 449 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: I got a baby, you know, popping up. You know, 450 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: things are changing, you know, like you know, I got 451 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: a baby, and and just like you know, you're having 452 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: a baby, it's six seen years old. That's like that's 453 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: a no no, you know, like like but it happened, 454 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: and I did those suits things. And in that same instance, 455 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: I got hooked up in the bartmental world along the lines, 456 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 1: you know what. I'm as long as as the time 457 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 1: went by. But he got gets murdered, and I had 458 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 1: to make a conscious decision. Am I gonna go and 459 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: try to revenge and find out who did it and 460 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: really go crazy because I was hurt, you know what 461 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: I mean? That was somebody I really loved, like that 462 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: I knew loved me. You know what I'm saying. No 463 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: matter what nobody said. You know, he made some bad 464 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 1: decisions in his life. It was your father, Yeah, he 465 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: was like my father said, he's my big brother, like 466 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: for real all day. And I I had to make 467 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: a decision and I made it, and I pursued my 468 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: music and I got a job, and I got up 469 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: my first commercial, you know, doing like a little voice 470 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: over on a commercial. Interesting, thinking about what your story career. 471 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,399 Speaker 1: And I always tell people this, and I tell him, 472 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: is that there's a farking roll on every decision we're 473 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: making out. That's why people in jail, that's why people 474 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: are not and I and I can tell you this. 475 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: I've done some silly things in my life where I 476 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: could have been arrested for doing silly stuff. You know 477 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: what I did when I look back on it, special 478 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: stuff I did when I was pledging my fraternity because 479 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: they made you do stuff, you know, and uh, but 480 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,239 Speaker 1: they didn't. The negative thing didn't happen to me. And 481 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: also in the situation of violence, you know, the walkaway 482 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: or the hanging there or the man whoo, all those things. 483 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: But my man, I know that I respect your life, 484 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,479 Speaker 1: I respect your effort I'm proud of the fact that 485 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: you have a title like the King of Ava's in Chicago. 486 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: But before we wrap up, I want to I'll be 487 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: remiss if I don't talk about the k w O. E. 488 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: Hope Foundation, and the short synopsis tell us exactly what 489 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: that is, Kareem, so we can know how we can 490 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: make donations if possible. It's a five and one see three. Uh, 491 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: it's the co Foundation. And I'm just really usual using 492 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: myself in my life experiences to influence young young kids 493 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: and just into influence adults that they can. There's always 494 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: room for change, and my story is to help really 495 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: um remove people from the communities that they're in, remove 496 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: people from the communities that they're in, remove them from 497 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,439 Speaker 1: the mind state that they're in. More so, remove them 498 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: from the mind state that they're in. Because I was 499 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,280 Speaker 1: in that same mind state, I thought it was just 500 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: about a certain thing. So my my goal is to 501 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: continue to go out speak because I do speak, in 502 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: engage with where I go, and then just inspire the 503 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 1: kids with my life story. You know, I went back 504 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 1: and got much day two years ago. I went back, 505 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I tell them my entire story. 506 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: So it's to really help change the trajectory of our 507 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: young youth and to so that they can make better choices. 508 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: My job is to inspire them, to encourage them to 509 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: do better and to be better. That is my job 510 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,479 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna always do that As a black man, 511 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be that black man that can inspire people. 512 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: They can inspire the kids. And I want to show 513 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: the different white people. I want to show the other 514 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: communities that look, no, not all bad things come from 515 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: these places. Bad things come from everywhere in the world. 516 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 1: Like I want to oh you that look you got 517 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,000 Speaker 1: this young black high school dropout that's drug dealer who 518 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,439 Speaker 1: is now called the Kingdom of miss And I'm running 519 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: some of the top the top party in the country. 520 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: Like I gotta wrapper up of my friend, but you know, 521 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: I want them to give you my cell number so 522 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,879 Speaker 1: we stay in touch when I come to Chicago and 523 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: go to Battles and Berries and wrap a little bit, 524 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: my friend. 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