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Speaker 1: First question we asked everybody with you.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna ask it in two parts, the first person

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Speaker 2: to bust your ass, the first person to bust your

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Speaker 2: ass on the basketball court, and then we're gonna ask

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Speaker 2: the first person to bust your ass in the studio.

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Speaker 2: You've seen somebody rap and you just like, I gotta

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Speaker 2: step my lyrics up or I gotta go back to

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Speaker 2: the page and get it right.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, okay.

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Speaker 3: On the on the court, it was this cat that

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Speaker 3: used to be from my neighborhood named Speedy.

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Speaker 1: He could really hoop, he was quick and he just man.

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Speaker 3: He just would get I thought I had to handle

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Speaker 3: you know. They'd be like, man, Rashi that's my name.

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Speaker 3: They was like Rashika who ros can who? And he

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Speaker 3: was shorter than me, Like he just telled my ass up.

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Speaker 3: But then on the on the MC side, man, it's

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Speaker 3: only it's only one song where I felt like as

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Speaker 3: an MC, when you get on a song with somebody,

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Speaker 3: you like I'm about to snap. You know you don't

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Speaker 3: want to. You don't want people to be like yo,

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Speaker 3: he killed you. On that side, yeah, it was a

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Speaker 3: song I did with with Cannabis. Y'all, remember cannabis.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: Man, he killed me on my own song, Like, and

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Speaker 3: my guys is like you let this kill yo?

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Speaker 1: The song I was just but I was. It just

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Speaker 1: was what it was. Man.

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Speaker 3: He was usually I don't never like I would go

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Speaker 3: back and rewrite, but he just was.

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Speaker 1: He was in his own and he just help.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yo yo yo yo, coming to you live. Man,

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Speaker 4: we at all Stars Shot Town were in the building, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 4: the blackest one me my main man Common you.

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Speaker 5: Got a real one in the house Chicago standing up.

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Speaker 2: I used to hear a lot of stuff about cannabis

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Speaker 2: and how dope he was and just he was lyrically. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he was on one of one of them guys that

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Speaker 2: really had like super dope versus. But you know one

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Speaker 2: thing about songs is it's a song gotta be dope too.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you could be a dope and see, but

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Speaker 2: you still got to be able to make dope songs

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Speaker 2: for people to really rock because it's still music. So

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Speaker 2: I had to learn that shit too, because it's like

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Speaker 2: people saying you could rhyme, but people ain't even messing

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Speaker 2: with your music like that, so you got to put

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Speaker 2: them both together.

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Speaker 1: It's just like I say, like in New York.

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Speaker 2: Not trying to dis New York or so far far,

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Speaker 2: but you know they they the motherland of it. They

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Speaker 2: all about lyrics and stuff like that. But you know,

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Speaker 2: they got a lot of casts that really can rap.

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Speaker 2: But putting the song together, it's like it's the most

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Speaker 2: difficult thing.

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Speaker 1: When did you like when you came up?

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Speaker 2: I know you loved hoop, you love the hoop, But

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Speaker 2: when did you know like this rap or this poetry

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Speaker 2: or all these words is something that I really want

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Speaker 2: to play with each other.

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Speaker 1: Man, I would do something. Well.

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Speaker 3: I was twelve years old when I wrote my first rap,

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Speaker 3: and all my homies and like my cousin was like,

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Speaker 3: they was like, damn, that's dope. So I was like

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Speaker 3: I might be dope. But then I just kept writing,

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Speaker 3: and like I had a group in high school, and

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Speaker 3: then like around second year, sophomore year, I was like,

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Speaker 3: I really want to I want to be a rap artist.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I just knew I

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Speaker 3: felt like I could do it. I knew I could

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Speaker 3: I would buy records and write down the address of

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Speaker 3: the record company to send my tape to the sending

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Speaker 3: my school school, straight up sending sending my tape to

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Speaker 3: the record label, trying to get signed.

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Speaker 2: It was the first time, like you got you got

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Speaker 2: the confidence to be like, I'm a rapper cause you

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Speaker 2: know I got homeboys and be like a rapp and

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Speaker 2: I'll be trying to car like, hey you raped and

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Speaker 1: But it be a moment where you'd be like, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to tell nobody, Yeah, you're a rapper. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: YEA. Honestly, I think by the time, by the time

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Speaker 3: I was in high school second year, I felt like

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Speaker 3: I could say that because I'd be freestyling and lunch

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Speaker 3: you know, so I could claim it. And plus at

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Speaker 3: a certain point, it just it got a click that

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Speaker 3: you can do it.

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Speaker 1: In your head.

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Speaker 3: You gotta start telling yourself that you could do it,

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Speaker 3: and once you go out there and do it, you're like, oh, man,

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Speaker 3: I am what I am with it, and you see

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Speaker 3: how to affect people. I was talking to Baron Davis

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Speaker 3: one time. It made me think of what hoop did

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Speaker 3: because he said, Man, I started wanting to hoop more

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Speaker 3: because I saw how it affected everybody. You know, what

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Speaker 3: I was doing is that how y'all felt, Like what

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Speaker 3: what made y'all like be like, Okay, I really want

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Speaker 3: to hoop? Like this is my dream. I'm going for.

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Speaker 5: Us simple for me, bro, I was watching MJ every day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: You know a lot of people say that and they

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Speaker 4: you know, now that's the real true life story for me.

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Speaker 4: I was watching MJ growing up here in Chicago WGN,

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Speaker 4: sitting on my floor watching the greatest ever do it.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, i want to be like Mike for real,

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Speaker 4: and I'm going out in the hall, in the driveway,

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Speaker 4: in the alley, trying to mimic the moves and doing

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Speaker 4: all of that until the point where you know, when

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Speaker 4: you get a little bit older and you start, you know,

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Speaker 4: seeing what really going on, You're like, I want know who.

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Speaker 4: I love this feeling I get when I'm doing it.

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Speaker 4: I don't get this feeling nowhere else, no no other way.

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Speaker 4: It's impossible to replicate. Like I'm out here competing and

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Speaker 4: then when you know, we start to get good.

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Speaker 5: Obviously you know what I'm saying. That's what we thrive on.

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Speaker 4: We thrive on the cheers, people calling your name, talking

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Speaker 4: want that. It just becomes you know that na feeling

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Speaker 4: all right, they supposed to be the best. I could

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Speaker 4: and then for you know, it's shit, it's go time.

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Speaker 4: Like you're getting talked about and stuff, and now the

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Speaker 4: to DTIs camp. That was the eye opening for me

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Speaker 4: my sophomore year. This is the camp where TMAC became TMAC,

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Speaker 4: This is that camp. I'm in that camp. All right, cool?

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Speaker 4: You know we're here where that ball dropped and they

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Speaker 4: clearly not in this league. I'm telling you, I had

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Speaker 4: a bad camp, didn't get the ball.

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Speaker 5: Then play well.

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Speaker 4: I came home that summer military mindset, I gotta get better, bro,

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Speaker 4: And then I did because I had you gotta understand

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Speaker 4: what Lamar Oldham was there. T mac was there, Tim Thomas,

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Speaker 4: When I got there, I was like, damn. I was like,

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Speaker 5: It was a new level when I wasn't on it yet.

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Speaker 2: When I started like really loving it. It was a

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Speaker 2: fifth grade year I started playing organized My mom made

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Speaker 2: by me going to practice.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I never went to practice.

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Speaker 2: So I tried to quit every time chance I got,

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Speaker 2: you know, starting out, you know how you start off

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Speaker 2: the team, and you'd be like that whole month that

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Speaker 2: Experienced that, a real workout or real like getting yourself

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Speaker 2: in shape and all that stuff. So I tried to quit. Quit, quit,

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Speaker 2: And I went through the season and we lost like

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Speaker 2: two games, lost in the championship, and I was boohoo crying,

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Speaker 2: like boohoo crying. But after that, every season after that,

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Speaker 2: the energy that, like I said, we was in elementary school,

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Speaker 2: over the years, every year it got better as I

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Speaker 3: When we clicked, like you was like, ah, I can really,

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Speaker 2: It clicked for me in ninth grade because when I

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Speaker 2: when I was in eighth grade, we had a bunch

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Speaker 2: but I was playing in programs I ain't played high

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Speaker 2: the proram. So I went through that ninth grade year

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Speaker 2: and when I got to high school, I was over.

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Speaker 2: After that. We had ten games the whole year, and

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Speaker 2: I tried to play high school but they wouldn't let

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Speaker 2: was like, nah, you can't play. So I had the

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Speaker 2: ten games. We played one team full time, two at

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Speaker 2: other team four times.

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Speaker 3: And but you went straight from high school to the

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Speaker 3: league though, Yeah, Like junior year. He was like, man,

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Speaker 3: I can go straight to the pros or was it?

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Speaker 3: When did you know that? I just wouldn't believe it.

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Speaker 2: I stayed naive to it, like everything, because everything got better,

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Speaker 2: Everything got better every year. I started seeing nothing but

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Speaker 2: college coaches at the game my junior year. Then when

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Speaker 2: I committed, I went ahead to commit it before my

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Speaker 2: senior year and next ye you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 2: nothing but NBA collars and my.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I talk.

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Speaker 1: I took a visit to DePaul.

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Speaker 4: I told him, I said, Bruh, were gonna go out

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Speaker 4: and hang out, but you out of here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm aware.

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Speaker 4: I knew the draft boards, I knew the you know,

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Speaker 4: the little mock drafts and all that. I'm like, Bro,

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Speaker 4: you on the draft boards in the top team, like

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Speaker 4: you not coming to the college.

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Speaker 5: Nobody's college for what. That's what I swear. When he

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Speaker 5: came on his visit, I was like, you know, we're

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Speaker 5: out of here. Bro.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that like because your style is not what

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Speaker 4: That felt like a neighborhood though the video and everything,

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Speaker 4: That's that's what I wanted to ask though. So how

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Speaker 3: Man, I was I put out. I don't think I was.

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Speaker 3: It's like if y'all agreed to something, but you know

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Speaker 3: I was going for, they don't be one rapper sometimes

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00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,280
Speaker 3: and I was like, yo, I'm an actor.

437
00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,000
Speaker 1: I ain't just a rapper. I'm an actor.

438
00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,920
Speaker 3: I'm like, you put me with any other actor I can.

439
00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,200
Speaker 3: I'm gonna burn the scene with him, you know her,

440
00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,720
Speaker 3: you know. But some direct is didn't want to see

441
00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,879
Speaker 3: me because I be wanting to do different types of movies.

442
00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,560
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna be like in the character. Yeah, yeah,

443
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:07,760
Speaker 1: exactly exactly.

444
00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,800
Speaker 2: You know, we love we love basketball movie, any basketball movie,

445
00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,080
Speaker 2: you just right, and it's with the Queen. Yeah, like

446
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,439
Speaker 2: I thope was that experience and you love basketball, you

447
00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,960
Speaker 2: get to do a basketball mother with Latif dope and

448
00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,080
Speaker 2: it was a great movie.

449
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 1: So how was that experience? Movie? That was like The

450
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 1: Best Man?

451
00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 3: That was like a dream because you know, as you said,

452
00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,320
Speaker 3: we know I love basketball, so it was like my

453
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,240
Speaker 3: little dream too.

454
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,399
Speaker 1: It's like I'm playing in the league.

455
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,240
Speaker 3: Cameos, came cameos and and they like, you know, for

456
00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,399
Speaker 3: the movie, they set it up. Well, I had to

457
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,560
Speaker 3: train with this assistant coach for the nets, you know,

458
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 3: like so he was working on my shooting.

459
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,280
Speaker 1: I was really learning shooting better, like shooting better.

460
00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,240
Speaker 3: And this is my first lead in the movie, and

461
00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,639
Speaker 3: I'm getting paid to like learn how to play basketball better.

462
00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:00,919
Speaker 1: And Latifa she wanted the cooler people.

463
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,600
Speaker 3: I mean, y'all probably met her, but she one of

464
00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,240
Speaker 3: the coolest people like you ever met in life. And

465
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,920
Speaker 3: she just she's somebody I always respected because she came

466
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,600
Speaker 3: from hip hop and took it to a new level

467
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 3: whole you know, I scared nominated actress and you know,

468
00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:23,399
Speaker 3: hosting the Grammys and doing you know, big big boy things.

469
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,040
Speaker 3: So she I always respected. So when we did that movie,

470
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna lie it was it was tough for

471
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,639
Speaker 3: like filming it, but it was a lot.

472
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 1: Of fun because I did a lead.

473
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,840
Speaker 3: So I ain't know what it's like to have that

474
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,600
Speaker 3: that movie on your back. Yeah, that that movie. It's like, yeah,

475
00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 3: it's like your team, man, you know what, it's your team.

476
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,400
Speaker 3: It's like in the movies, they say you number one

477
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 3: on the call. She like, I was number one. I

478
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,800
Speaker 3: was number two because it was my teeth was number one.

479
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 3: But it's just you that that's your old thing and

480
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 3: you got to do it every night. Like you know

481
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. If you don't get, if you don't get,

482
00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:02,400
Speaker 3: and that's for real because like ultimately you gotta kill

483
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:03,360
Speaker 3: every single.

484
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: One thing about the movies too. Like when I did

485
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,520
Speaker 2: the movies, what I didn't like was the hours. We

486
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 2: was either filming from six in the morning to six

487
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,080
Speaker 2: in the evening or it was six in the evening

488
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 2: to six.

489
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 1: In the morning. How did you feel about that? Like

490
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:18,879
Speaker 1: them different hours.

491
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 2: I know, you do your studio stuff and you go

492
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 2: on there, but it's on your own time, on my

493
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 2: own time.

494
00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, because see that's what movie making is like. Man,

495
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:32,280
Speaker 3: you gotta like just surrender yourself to another schedule, another

496
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 3: way of working. During the album, you the director, I

497
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 3: meaning I set the times. I say I'm going to

498
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 3: studio three, I can get there in four. Y I'm

499
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 3: paying for it. But it's all right. But on a movie, man,

500
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,200
Speaker 3: you need to be on time and then you gotta

501
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 3: be there for them long hours. And man, I hadn't

502
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 3: done at least four movies where it's only night shoots

503
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,560
Speaker 3: with mostly night that's hard, like working the night shift.

504
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 3: But especially when man, I was I did this movie

505
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,400
Speaker 3: John Wick two with Keanu Reeveson. It's like a lot

506
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 3: of action, right, Man, we're filming at night. Now they

507
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,840
Speaker 3: ain came and got me for a minute. It's like

508
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 3: four in the morning. I didn't I'm trying to stay awake.

509
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 3: We got fighting scenes. So four in the morning you're

510
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 3: trying to like really be in tune and fight and

511
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 3: you know you done did, like y'all done, got like

512
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 3: two a month and a half worth to fight choreography

513
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 3: like long fights and you gotta be on point. It

514
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 3: just makes me appreciate the you know, the actors that

515
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 3: I do see out there, and you know, I appreciate

516
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 3: the work because I know it ain't always just easy

517
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 3: to film with it. You know, you standing outside of

518
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 3: the coat. If we was filming a movie out here

519
00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 3: in Chicago and it was cold like it was, yeah,

520
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 3: and you got to act like it's fucking like close

521
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,159
Speaker 3: to the summer up there and you can't put a

522
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 3: coat on, you still got to do the scene like

523
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 3: you cool.

524
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 1: That's that's you know, what's some of your favorite movies though?

525
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 4: Just in Room Coming to America. Yeah, that is my

526
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 4: favorite love of all time. Eddie is the theme all

527
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,960
Speaker 4: of my favorite movies literally, like not Yeah, Boomerang, all

528
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 4: of Nights Life, Eddie.

529
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: That's one.

530
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 3: That's one person I feel like we gotta continue to celebrate.

531
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 3: He got him and Martin him and they I mean

532
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 3: Eddie like Michael Jackson and he and Jord and like

533
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 3: Eddie like.

534
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:32,879
Speaker 1: Like Jordan.

535
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 3: He like Jordan, And I'm like, man, we gotta honor

536
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 3: that while he hit. I mean not that he going nowhere,

537
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 3: God bless you, but I'm like acknowledged, Yeah, give him,

538
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 3: I love you said that.

539
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 2: That's what I'm like all almost all of Denzil. Whatever

540
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 2: he do be dope to me. And you know, I

541
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 2: want to come back and just make dope movies. It's

542
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 2: Wesley Snipe's man. Come back and kind of do his

543
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 2: thing and get enough moving and do a dope bro.

544
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 1: Wait and he doing them coming to America too, that's

545
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: about to be epic. Yeah, what about y'all? I got that.

546
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,959
Speaker 1: I know y'all supposed to be interviewing.

547
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 3: Okay, what about when you first the first like NBA game,

548
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 3: is it like a super nervousness or like the first

549
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 3: time you step on the court and you're in the

550
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 3: NBA was it was it an anxiousness?

551
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 5: Like I had an anxiousness.

552
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 2: That's what I do nervous like when I got my

553
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,199
Speaker 2: mom used to tell me when you get butterflies or

554
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: you feel like you nervous, that's just you anxious. And

555
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 2: I used to day dream all day, like if I'm

556
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 2: we're playing at seven, I'm thinking about the game in

557
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,959
Speaker 2: my dreams. I'm just in a zone thinking about what

558
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 2: I'm finna do in this game.

559
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: So the nervous never come.

560
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: I turned it to anxiousness, and I turned that long

561
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 2: time ago.

562
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: Right, what you for me?

563
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 4: It was always there, like I had it last night.

564
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, that that's just who I am. Whenever it's

565
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 4: a game. I get it every time when I play

566
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 4: in a Big three, that's every time it's a moment

567
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 4: or more than one moment. It's just like you know

568
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, Like before the game, you be like,

569
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 4: all right, like whatever. It is like an anxious feeling.

570
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 4: I know because I know I'm not scared. I did

571
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 4: it too many times. It's just like it's the same.

572
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 4: It's like riding by every single time.

573
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: I got it.

574
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 5: Like I said, I got it last night.

575
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,960
Speaker 4: I got there, I got in the locker room, got

576
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,479
Speaker 4: my jersey, I'm getting ready, and then I was feeling it.

577
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 5: You was that saying same, was that taking picsures and stuff.

578
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,479
Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I love that, man, I

579
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 3: love I loved you because I definitely get it every

580
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 3: like before any show, man, you know, before you're doing

581
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,679
Speaker 3: O ward show, doing something, you just get that feeling it.

582
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: But that makes me know I love what I'm doing.

583
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

584
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 3: It's a passion in in that because I get that

585
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,640
Speaker 3: little nervousness of what like you said, whatever you want

586
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 3: to call it, nervous, anxious, butterfly, I'm like, and then

587
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 3: you get out there and it's it's all that's that's

588
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 3: one of the best feelings to me.

589
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: But what would you say, y'all like playing a game?

590
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 3: What would be y'all? What would y'all use to inspire you?

591
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 3: Is it anything like you? What you do your own

592
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 3: you know how I just was liken this poly santo.

593
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 3: That's something I do. Like, was it anything y'all do?

594
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 3: Like ritual?

595
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: Why or music?

596
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 2: Or what I think about my matchups? Like I said,

597
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: the whole day, I'm already into it with them and

598
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 2: they don't even know I'm into it with them, you

599
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, especially like ones that I can

600
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: be a little bit more gritty with, like Rest in Peace.

601
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 2: Kobe was like, Kobe.

602
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:28,119
Speaker 1: A got you can go in there and bowl and

603
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: do all that stuff. It don't matter. He gonna do

604
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: what he does.

605
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 2: So you're wasting your time, So you might as well

606
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 2: think about your a game instead of trying to do

607
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 2: dirty stuff.

608
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: Or slick stuff.

609
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 3: But you're saying, so if certain cats you could bowl

610
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 3: and they just not gonna.

611
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: Like Tim Duncan, You're not gonna get a reaction out

612
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 2: of him. He's not gonna the spacer express gonna stay

613
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 2: the same, He's.

614
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: Gonna do all the same. Well, we're gonna continue to

615
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: butt your head.

616
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: So you trying to talk to him and trying to

617
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 2: get him out of their game, that's the wrong thing.

618
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 2: Your best better is just concentrate on what you doing,

619
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: like certain players like that you can, but then you

620
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 2: get the certain players that you can talk to, or

621
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 2: you can whistle too and bowl a little bit, or

622
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 2: you know, your IQ a little bit smarter than is

623
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,440
Speaker 2: so you can kind of make them, help them make mistakes.

624
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

625
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 3: But I ain't never think so the el bows and

626
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 3: stuff could take somebody out of the game.

627
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: I would do if I know.

628
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 2: If I know, you're gonna get mad at me and

629
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 2: I can frustrate you and get you a tech, I'm

630
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 2: gonna come down and bow you every time until you

631
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 2: push me in. I'm gonna flip on over real call

632
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 2: of tech and then you snapping on the rifts.

633
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:39,479
Speaker 1: Now you're out of it. You're a good It's not

634
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: just physical, it's a mind game. You gotta know this game.

635
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: You gotta know the plays.

636
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: I was type of player that played all five positions,

637
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 2: so I had to know where everybody was at all times.

638
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 2: So with knowing that your IQ get up.

639
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: I didn't.

640
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 3: I didn't realize how much intelligence in mind game the

641
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 3: game is. I've been and like going to some games,

642
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 3: I'm listening to cats talking like on the court, saying

643
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: different thing like damn cats. Just really it's really like

644
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 3: does that start in high school or that like it

645
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 3: start then?

646
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 4: Like with all of that, and especially here in Chicago,

647
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 4: have physical everything is you already know you got your

648
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 4: gang members in the crowd trying to inspire you not

649
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 4: to do well, so you know, like then that's why

650
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 4: for me, that's where it manifested that playing in the

651
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 4: Red West on the Chicago West Side and when you young,

652
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, that was the toughest public

653
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 4: league division. You know what I'm saying we could play

654
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 4: in and we didn't. We seen it all had locks

655
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 4: thrown on the court at us one time, all that

656
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 4: different stuff. So it's like, what you're gonna do exactly

657
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 4: Like I'm still about to go out here and give

658
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 4: it to y'all, and I'm gonna talk this trash because

659
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 4: if I don't, I'm more afraid it was'n gonna happen

660
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 4: if I don't than if I do like. If I

661
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 4: do like and then I go out here and put

662
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 4: this thing down on you ain't nothing. You could say,

663
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 4: you just looking stupid and then you want to do

664
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 4: something after we'll have that.

665
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 5: Like you know what I'm saying, Like you if you

666
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 5: you already know, if you you our way.

667
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 4: It's over. They won, So you know you can't do that.

668
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 4: But that that definitely started for me grade school, high school.

669
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 3: Who was y'all saying, been one of the smartest players

670
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 3: y'all played against Kobe Cold God bless.

671
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: You know who was when we first got to a league.

672
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: That I was like, this, motherfucker is good John Stocktor

673
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 2: like he ain't used to do nothing special. He probably

674
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 2: had two more years left. He one running the fast

675
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: and nothing like. He was just smart history, He was

676
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: in the right position, He did things the right way.

677
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,959
Speaker 2: He knew everything, and he did everything right. He barely

678
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: made mistakes. That's them guys to be having them regards

679
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 2: of what the game is. He's just not turning the

680
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 2: ball over, you know, fucking up Cob was Coob was unbelievable.

681
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 4: It didn't get smarter than that, Like, well we had

682
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: him on the podcast. That man was answering questions smart,

683
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 4: like for real, like for real, the dude, hey man,

684
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 4: man was more prepared than anybody. He put the utmost

685
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 4: time and he respected it different than anybody I ever seen.

686
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like we all gonna go

687
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 4: out and hang out and do this and that. Nah

688
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 4: My man was locking hisself away in the gym getting

689
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 4: to the money.

690
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 5: Like just thinks about what he did.

691
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: We just talked about a little bit like he like

692
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 4: everybody like we all you did too?

693
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 5: You want to be like Mike?

694
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 4: Right, he came closer than anybody to literally mimicking that man.

695
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 4: You see the videos and stuff on the internet where

696
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 4: they got a split screen MJ going into the move,

697
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 4: Kobe going to it's the identical thing, like like that's

698
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like everybody I want to

699
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 4: be like when my game went like that though your

700
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 4: love Mike to death, everything but everybody gains go the

701
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 4: way they go? How yo game identical to this name?

702
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 4: If you covered up their face and all of this,

703
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 4: you would think it's the same person. The man walk

704
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 4: like them to gum like them, talk like them, and

705
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 4: what's cold like him?

706
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, was unbelievable.

707
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 3: And my guy was telling me that Cob was watching

708
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 3: a lot of Watch Come Fly with Me a lot.

709
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 3: But you know that mic movies just a lot that

710
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: he said that was his thing.

711
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 2: Most point guards Hall of Fame point Guards. The IQ

712
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 2: was like, Jason Kidd was dope to me when out

713
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 2: in the league.

714
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's smart playing.

715
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 4: I want I know what, I want to know? Who

716
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: do you like watching now? I mean, we all love

717
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 4: Lebron and Russell Westbrook. I don't want to talk about

718
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 4: the obvious, like the people.

719
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 5: That playing them. Everybody loved them.

720
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 4: But I'm like, out of these new young boys coming

721
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 4: up and some of the under the rate, I do

722
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 4: who who you like watching that? You be like, man,

723
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 4: this kid he could I like, wait, what are you

724
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 4: doing out there?

725
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 3: John Morant really showing me that young boy fresh?

726
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: That boy, I see him through some stuff. You know.

727
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: I like excitement too. You want to be.

728
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 3: Entertained on being attained, so and that's one of the

729
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 3: things I love about basketball, along with it being smart.

730
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: It's a skill and so it's really to me an

731
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: art form in a way.

732
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 3: But but John Morrant got that and then man he

733
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 3: entertained man special.

734
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: He got that, he got that, he got that.

735
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 5: That boy hey, that boy go hey, he's special.

736
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: Boy.

737
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 5: He could do everything.

738
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 4: But like you say, he got that, he got that

739
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 4: bizaz ass well, like everything he do is too sweet.

740
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 4: That boy jumping in there, throwing passes and everything like, nah,

741
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 4: he got it. I rock with young boy heavy who.

742
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: Else y'all like that?

743
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 2: Like I think these last couple of these ten games

744
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: he done played twenty and eight.

745
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: That dude. Do you think has it ever been a

746
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: player like him?

747
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 4: Because I don't feel like that type of when when

748
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 4: you combine you know, size, way, athleticism and all those,

749
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 4: it's never been nobody like that.

750
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 5: Just leaving.

751
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 4: Now that boy leaves Earth called NASA Earth when he

752
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 4: take off for real. Then when he when he banged,

753
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 4: he earthquaking the red hen broke the rim last night.

754
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 4: I love he like, come on, dog, they didn't they

755
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 4: didn't reinforced and fixed all this stuff. It ain't supposed

756
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: to happen no more.

757
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of crazy, you feel that dude.

758
00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 4: Nineteen nineteen, I like I like Luca luc or something

759
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 4: we ain't seen before. I tell people all the time,

760
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 4: this is how you know this, How you know he

761
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 4: cold because you know us. His brothers were like, yeah,

762
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 4: the white boy coming up in here killing us, ain't

763
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 4: he killing?

764
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: Don't get this work?

765
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 4: Every day washing repeat boy, he out there talking bad

766
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 4: to him, whoever talking and watching. He swagged out young

767
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 4: boy especial boy.

768
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: He out there, He out there taking his time.

769
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 4: He ain't fast. And then I'm nice, I'm about to

770
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 4: create my separation. I'm about to get back. You're about

771
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 4: to do everything.

772
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 3: That's why I was wondering, man, because he moved. He

773
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: don't move fast, and that's just like, that's just another

774
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 3: type of skill.

775
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 5: Hunh.

776
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 4: He got a lot of that, Jane hardening them where

777
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 4: you see James Harden know how to use his body

778
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 4: and your role and bump you off.

779
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 5: And just think about it.

780
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 4: Every time you see Luca, he's getting by somebody. He

781
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 4: had separation for his shot, like he unbelievable. Don't look fast,

782
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 4: don't he ain't.

783
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 3: Gotta be I'm like, man, he getting pasted. He getting

784
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 3: past Jesus when you can do that. He only twenty two, though,

785
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 3: I think, right, yeah, only twenty this game is all

786
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 3: You're right as a young specialist.

787
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: Them three, them three, got them three.

788
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 4: They gonna they're gonna be a huge part of leading

789
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 4: the whole new generation. They're gonna be It's some other

790
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 4: ones in there, but they gonna be part of that

791
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,240
Speaker 4: the face of the league deal once everybody started chiming

792
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 4: out the old heads.

793
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 3: Okay, besides, like we know the three point thing, like

794
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 3: you said, it's kind of position is not what would

795
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 3: y'all say is the biggest difference from like when y'all

796
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 3: first was in the league to now, Like what you

797
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 3: notice is difference any.

798
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 2: How they compete, You know what I'm saying, because like, uh,

799
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 2: I think point guards position is big these days, but.

800
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: The rest of the positions is lacking.

801
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: Like you look at the pre we was looking at

802
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 2: the previous All Star Games and we was looking like

803
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 2: who was all on that All Star Game?

804
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: And it was like.

805
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 2: GP call Malone and starting. It's like Shaq Kobe Hall

806
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: of Fame. All Star games was full of Hall of Fame.

807
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 2: Like you look at all ten players, they were like

808
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: Hall of famers. But these days it's like some of

809
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 2: these cats might not make the Hall of Fame. You know,

810
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 2: it might be their first time going to All Star

811
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 2: team or they might just go a few times.

812
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 1: It's like a toss up.

813
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 4: The biggest the biggest difference for me is just the

814
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 4: you know, the rules they make it it's more geared

815
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 4: toward offense. It puts the defensive player at a disadvantage.

816
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 4: You you used to be at a hand check and

817
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 4: things like you can't touch nobody, you can't do nothing.

818
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 4: You impeding progress. So it's like for the defender, you

819
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 4: had a handicap. And that's why you see a lot

820
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 4: of points being put up on the board. And you know,

821
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 4: we want to see points sports, so that's what that's

822
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 4: why it was done.

823
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 5: It's exciting.

824
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 4: You speed the game up and that to me, that's

825
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 4: the biggest difference.

826
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 2: I like how you speak up on defenders and you've

827
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: never been to the defense.

828
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: I love how you show us.

829
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 5: Look you remember doing that.

830
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 4: We did the video the song was go Yeah Brooklyn

831
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 4: Jordan brand Bush with me and that Yu and To

832
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 4: we did that. We did the spot for like it

833
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 4: was it was it was his song, but you had

834
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 4: hooked up with m J on the collaboration and like

835
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 4: push out the love whatever line he was dropping. It

836
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 4: was the we was in the magazine and everything, all

837
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 4: the kids on the brow.

838
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: We did.

839
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 4: That was like I was like, I was like, we

840
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 4: going to one O six you debut video like that

841
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 4: was the whole thing.

842
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 1: Like that was yeah.

843
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 4: I was for the feature and I'm in the music

844
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 4: video man rocking James.

845
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. That love like felt popular.

846
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: He was already popular.

847
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: One of my biggest highlights is you name dropping me?

848
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 3: You dropping me tapping your head like Darius ma.

849
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 2: I thought that was the dopest I love it, y'all.

850
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 2: I love when I just name dropped. Somebody just think

851
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 2: I'm dope. I want to play with the words of

852
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: my name. That's just a dope, dope feeling for for anybody.

853
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 3: But I was Geiche sat up and when I said that,

854
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 3: the cast that was producing it was like yeah, because

855
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 3: we all love whoops.

856
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: So it was like, and y'all was doing that. You know,

857
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: y'all was doing that thing everybody. I love it.

858
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 3: Y'all really ain't let nobody know what it was. But

859
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: that was just y'all thing, you know, and.

860
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 2: You know it created this show, Like I think it

861
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 2: was dope that we kept it under wraps even though

862
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 2: it didn't mean the craziest things, but just to play

863
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: on it. And I never thought like twenty years later,

864
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 2: me and my man would be like sitting here interviewing

865
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: people that we like, love and the fans of and

866
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: doing it all off something that we celebrated and the

867
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 2: name of it.

868
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: You know what.

869
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 2: So this this is definitely a blessing and a dope feeling.

870
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 2: You ever think common sense would be in the White

871
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: House playing with these words, spending lyrics and doing this

872
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 2: thing right like the president president wife Like, bro, I.

873
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 3: Ain't gonna lie out your friend. That's my guy, man

874
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 3: straight up. The first lady I really you know Michelle Obama.

875
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 3: I respect to her a lot. She Yeah, she is

876
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Speaker 3: from she is from the Yeah, that's right, clear the.

877
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Speaker 1: South side of the man.

878
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Speaker 3: The first time I saw something about Obama, my stepfather

879
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 3: had a sign up in the window talking about I

880
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 3: ain't know who Obama was, But then I was like,

881
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Speaker 3: I saw him as some of it. He came to

882
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Speaker 3: some of these hip hop summits that they used to have,

883
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Speaker 3: So anyway, I got to know him a little bit,

884
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: and then I put his name in a rap I

885
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 3: claimed to be the first rapper.

886
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Speaker 1: Obama name.

887
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Speaker 3: I was on this Jadakiss remix of the song this

888
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Speaker 3: song called Why, and I put Obama's name there. So

889
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 3: anyway that we kind of started being a good brotherhood.

890
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 3: And uh, I supported, you know, obviously his campaign. I

891
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 3: was like out there trying to to speak on it.

892
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 3: And man, to be invited to the White House was like, man,

893
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Speaker 3: we one time I was in the White House and

894
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Speaker 3: it was it was like he had a thing about

895
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 3: he was trying to see some do some work with

896
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 3: criminal justice reform. He had me Alicia Keys, Rick Ross, Chance, Jacole.

897
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 3: I don't know if Cali was at Nicki Minaj. It was, Man,

898
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 3: we all sitting around in the White House and I'm looking,

899
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Speaker 3: I'm looking at this picture of like some white president

900
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Speaker 3: that I was like, man, he is in no way

901
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Speaker 3: he would want this many black ruggs sitting around in

902
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Speaker 3: the White House.

903
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Speaker 1: We're sitting in the White House. This wasn't gonna bet all. Yo.

904
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Speaker 3: When I got to experience that type of stuff, was like, man,

905
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Speaker 3: thank you God, thank you, thank.

906
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Speaker 1: You, thank you.

907
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Speaker 2: We proud proudly even to see that when we see that,

908
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Speaker 2: especially somebody that we admire and think just dope to

909
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 2: just get them opportunities like that. It's it's definitely a

910
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 2: blessing and dope within itself.

911
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Speaker 5: Man, we won't respect your time.

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Speaker 1: Bro, We appreciate you got a little.

913
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Speaker 4: We got some part and especially gain. We call this

914
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Speaker 4: the black box. Yeah, the blackest one to create the

915
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Speaker 4: black box.

916
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Speaker 5: For you.

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Speaker 1: You know I love that.

918
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Speaker 4: The hoodie too, then, you know that a special and

919
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Speaker 4: very special smiles. As far as our partners, you know

920
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Speaker 4: they logo on yes, look ahead, good looking, I'm gonna

921
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Speaker 4: say this and drink this a good time.

922
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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know I appreciate y'all.

923
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Speaker 5: Man, respect, you got blessed y'all. Common in the building.

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