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Speaker 7: So one of the things I learned from Kelsey Grammar

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Speaker 7: So like camera left, you're looking kind of at it,

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Speaker 7: and you feel like so then then you start doing

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Speaker 3: Is it mischievous? Yeah? Are you angry? Yeah? Do you

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Speaker 3: feel sexy? Yeah? I was my guy.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, guys, welcome back e y l.

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Speaker 6: We're back home for a short period of time. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: this is gonna be a dope episode. Man, shout out

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Speaker 6: to my guy Punch first and foremost. Yeah, ran into

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Speaker 3: What were we out there for? It might have been Grammymy,

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Speaker 3: definitely Grammy for sure. I see what you did there.

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Speaker 3: Well I'm getting to that.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, so we was out there connected and then

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Speaker 3: Thank you, we all are. Let's just say, let's this

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Speaker 3: is not just like a youth.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't a big fan of your character.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wasn't there. I wasn't. I appreciate you. He

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Speaker 3: was necessary. It was necessary. It was very necessary because

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Speaker 4: So wrote to me. Interesting story.

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Speaker 6: I know a lot of people know you from power,

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about that father.

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Speaker 6: Nigerian, Yes, sir, That's why I wore my knights, say see.

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Speaker 4: By Nigerians, not your family.

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Speaker 7: Oh, so my mom was in public health and my

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Speaker 4: So he didn't want you to go into finances.

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Speaker 7: Now, he didn't push forward. He just made sure that

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Speaker 6: So, all right, you graduate college, yes, right, major in communication. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Okay, all right, so graduate school struggling artists. All my

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Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, cool whatever.

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Speaker 7: I'm not thinking anything. And this is how crazy I

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Speaker 3: I do it.

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Speaker 7: And I didn't realize that she's saying try it this way,

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize I'd done it like ten different ways.

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Speaker 7: They call me and like you got it, and I'm

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Speaker 3: And da da da da dah.

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Speaker 7: So my first real acting class was episode one of Boss.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy.

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Speaker 5: There's a lot there and those were I know there's

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Speaker 7: Absolutely at the time. Absolutely, And you know for me

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Speaker 7: And again that was a lifeline for me because I

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Speaker 7: I don't know if I would have been an actor.

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Speaker 6: So let's talk about this then, all right, the first

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Speaker 7: now it doesn't work like that. It's more so just

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Speaker 4: So when do you start working with at Power?

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Speaker 4: So a few years, how does the power story. How's that?

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Speaker 3: How's that for power? Oh, let's go in between that time?

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Speaker 5: Right, because the show doesn't last as long, which now

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 5: Because there's plenty of actors who don't get gigs, they

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Speaker 7: So a lot of people don't stand man being an actor.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's you have to have financial literacy because

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Speaker 3: We don't need to use this.

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Speaker 4: That was for boss.

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Speaker 4: So how much money was that that you put away?

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Speaker 7: So I put away about two seasons, about twenty five.

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Speaker 6: So you put a quarter million away quarter twenty five

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Speaker 7: Quarter million away, and then half of that I put

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Speaker 7: Then my agent called me and he was like, listen, man,

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Speaker 7: there's a TV show called Power. And all this time

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Speaker 7: Terrible slash back. Yeah, damn nah. So my my agent

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Speaker 7: to fly yourself out to LA because they're gonna want

437
00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,200
Speaker 7: to see you in the room.

438
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:38,440
Speaker 3: And do it.

439
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 7: I was like, all right, cool, I don't know what

440
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 7: Power is. It's fifty cent show. I was like, okay,

441
00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,560
Speaker 7: all right, I mean what else we got, so let's

442
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 7: do it. So I ended up doing put myself on tape.

443
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,160
Speaker 7: They loved it. They're like, okay, you get out here

444
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,960
Speaker 7: in two days. So I'm like, Dann, I said, tick,

445
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 7: that's a ticket. Oh shoot, okay, two days all right?

446
00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:57,879
Speaker 3: Cool?

447
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 7: Flight about a good seven hundred and five hundred. Okay, damn,

448
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 7: I'm down to twenty five hundred. Okay, cool, Bro, you're

449
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 7: gonna have to stay in the motel. Man, You're gonna

450
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,240
Speaker 7: have to stay in the motel. So I found a

451
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,159
Speaker 7: motel in East Hollywood with the road, trees, all.

452
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 3: Type of things. Bro. It was. I go to the

453
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 3: front desk.

454
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,640
Speaker 7: I'm like, hey, bro, I don't know how long I'll

455
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,919
Speaker 7: be here, but is there a way we could work out.

456
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 7: I'm a struggling artist. I don't really have that much,

457
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 7: can you. It was sixty a sixty at night. He

458
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 7: was like, I'll give it to you for thirty five,

459
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,400
Speaker 7: I believe. I said, okay, thank you, bro, thank you man,

460
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 7: thank you. So I was able to half that. Okay,

461
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,280
Speaker 7: so cool, I can stretch it half the time long? Okay, cool?

462
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 3: All right.

463
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 7: They don't even call me in until a week later,

464
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 7: so now I'm counting. All right, damn, it's thirty five.

465
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,679
Speaker 7: Then you come down and took her on it. Thirty five. Okay,

466
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 7: I can eat if I do this. Hmm what girl,

467
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 7: I know I can get some food. Shoot, yeah yeah,

468
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 7: yeah okay. Surety was cool. So let me just say

469
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 7: oh yeah, yeah, okay cool. Let me say at her

470
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:58,959
Speaker 7: crib like literally, bro, like, I'm trying to figure this

471
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,360
Speaker 7: out because I too much. I don't want to call

472
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 7: my dad and ask. I'm like, no, I can do this,

473
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 7: you know. And again, it's my money. But I love

474
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 7: the challenge of it, you know. I love the challenge

475
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 7: of it. And I really didn't want to touch that.

476
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 7: I really wanted to save that and see what I

477
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,360
Speaker 7: could do later with that money. So go in literally

478
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 7: a week later, get it. They called me, hey, ro

479
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,199
Speaker 7: we love you, but we're gonna see you. Can you

480
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 7: wait another week and a half because we wanted you

481
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 7: to do it again in front of the network. Now,

482
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,679
Speaker 7: So I'm there now three and a half weeks. So

483
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 7: now the money is just going like this, going like this,

484
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 7: going like this, going like this.

485
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 3: So now I'm I'm trying to uber. I'm trying to this.

486
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 7: So I'm down to about in three weeks, about twelve

487
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 7: hundred in terms of food, in terms of guys, in

488
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:49,119
Speaker 7: terms of everything, about twelve hundred. So okay, to me,

489
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 7: what are you gonna do, man, what are you gonna do?

490
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 7: So then go in and it was me and Lakeith

491
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 7: la Keith Stanford, right, la Keith.

492
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 3: So it's me and him. So he's over here, I'm

493
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 3: over here. I'm baling for the part of Bound. Nobody

494
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,879
Speaker 3: knows that. I don't really talk about that. That's crazy.

495
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:06,120
Speaker 4: Wow.

496
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 7: We both were balanced for Dre and we're both in

497
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 7: the same position. Like he's like, bro, you know, if

498
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 7: I don't get this, I kind of you know, I

499
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 7: can still. I got another show I'm working on, which

500
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 7: was Atlanta.

501
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So I'm like, dog, I don't care who

502
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,639
Speaker 3: you are. I don't care what's going on. It's not yours, bro,

503
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 3: it's not yours.

504
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 7: And that was the energy I had the whole time.

505
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 7: It's like I need this, I need this, So I

506
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 7: go in embody like my life depending on I brought

507
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 7: props about this, I did this. I did everything because

508
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,760
Speaker 7: I knew that I only had about one thousand dollars

509
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 7: left and go in and kill it and then move

510
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 7: to New York.

511
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

512
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 6: And then so the original you get the role, Yeah,

513
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,160
Speaker 6: you were supposed to only be like a short yeah

514
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 6: period of time, right yeah, yeah, And then that ended

515
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 6: up being seasons. So how does that work be Cuse,

516
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 6: like when somebody's writing a script, right, they write you

517
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 6: in a script and they say, okay, you're going to

518
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 6: be in for three episodes, and you get killed. You

519
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 6: impress them enough so they have to because now they

520
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 6: got to rewrite the whole script because I'm assuming now

521
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 6: that is like a domino effect, right, and when now

522
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 6: they have to write you in for another fourth seasons.

523
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 6: So now it's like now all of the other characters

524
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 6: have to be adjusted. Just a character might have to

525
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 6: be taken out. There's a lot of work involved.

526
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 7: So yeah, so my character was only really supposed to

527
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 7: be on season two and then die early season three,

528
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 7: and it was supposed to just be like, oh Canan's

529
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 7: little man that he's out of prison, he got his

530
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 7: little man and that was really it, and he does

531
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 7: some crazy stuff and he gets killed.

532
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 3: But again, I was on savage mode.

533
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 5: Bro.

534
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 3: I was like, listen, I need I need this, I

535
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 3: need this, I need this.

536
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 7: And so even though the first season I really didn't

537
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 7: have that many lines, I made sure everything I did

538
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 7: with my eyes was like what was that?

539
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 3: Is he up to something?

540
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 7: It was so I cast so much curiosity with the

541
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 7: character that they started realizing like, oh wow, like there's

542
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 7: something here. But if I would have played it to

543
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 7: with the words, it would have been like.

544
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 4: Talk about that is That's an acting trick with your eyes.

545
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 3: So okay.

546
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 7: So one of the things I learned from Kelsey Grammar

547
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 7: always always is a way you can look at a

548
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 7: camera where it's you're talking, you're talking to the people,

549
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 7: but you're also.

550
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,159
Speaker 3: Look, I'm looking at the camera as you're doing this, So.

551
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 7: Like camera left, you're looking kind of at it, but

552
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 7: you're not looking at it. But they feel it, feel

553
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 7: like you're about to break that fourth wall of oh ship,

554
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 7: that's good, keep going, keep going good, keep going, and

555
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 7: you feel like so then then you start doing things

556
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 7: that like is it mischievous?

557
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? Are you angry?

558
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 7: Yeah?

559
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 3: Do you feel sexy? Yeah? It's my guy.

560
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 7: So so it's a it's a trick where you're able

561
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 7: to one connect with the audience more. But then I

562
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 7: made it to where you don't know what he's actually thinking.

563
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 7: So I'll say something and then do something with my

564
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 7: eyes and make it be like should I believe that?

565
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 7: So that's where the creation of Dre really really started happening,

566
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 7: and then they brought me in. They were like, man,

567
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 7: you know fifty in Courtney Kemp again, we were gonna

568
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 7: we were gonna give it to your character, but this

569
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 7: might be baby ghost, this might be something here, you know.

570
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 5: And then it felt like that, So this is this

571
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 5: is interesting because you started as season two. Yeah, and

572
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 5: so from a contractual standpoint, so about that, like how

573
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 5: it goes from being just a seasonal character to now

574
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 5: being a regular on the show, right the negotiations around now.

575
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the funny thing is, man, again, you have

576
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 3: to believe in yourself. So the first.

577
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 7: When I booked the show, my agents weren't happy with

578
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 7: it because I was making less money than I made

579
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 7: on Boss so my first season, so you're supposed to

580
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 7: obviously continue to grow in your and your income, but

581
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 7: I took a back seat because I believed in the show.

582
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 7: So I said, Okay, let me just sign this one

583
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 7: twenty year deal if I kill it.

584
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 3: So it's like it's like being on a.

585
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 7: Ten day contract kind of, you know what I mean,

586
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 7: Like not that extreme, but like if you kill it,

587
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,880
Speaker 7: you're going to get a long term deal with the team.

588
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 7: So mine was a one year situation where it was

589
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 7: less than what I made, and it was less than

590
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 7: per episode. So I was making like maybe twenty five

591
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 7: thousand episode, you know, and so power power, So I took.

592
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 3: I took a hit to believe in it, but then

593
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 3: I killed it.

594
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 7: So when you kill it, that money can quadruple four

595
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 7: time five x, you know once you once you show

596
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 7: your work. So then after season two, I redid my

597
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 7: deal and I signed, you know, for six figures every episode,

598
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 7: you know.

599
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 3: So then but every year it'll grow, you know.

600
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 7: So at that point in time, by season six, you

601
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 7: make it aft you know, you know, amount of money,

602
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 7: so it just grows.

603
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 3: But then that's how we back ended. So I started with.

604
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 7: Where it starts at, you know, a sixth figure, and

605
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 7: then it just consistently grows as the character grows, and

606
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 7: by by season six it's it's pretty nice.

607
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 5: So what was that that first encounter with fifth because

608
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 5: this is his shows, his baby, Courtney Camp.

609
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 3: We've had a conversation with her.

610
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 5: Incredible, Yeah, what is that first conversation with like from

611
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 5: an after standpoint, but then also from a music standpoint too.

612
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 7: So I had a crazy encounter at first because before

613
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 7: I could even say anything right, and this is God

614
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,360
Speaker 7: showing me your bro chill so so me. So fifth

615
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 7: is walking in and somebody's asking him like, yo, man,

616
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 7: can you check out my mixtape?

617
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 3: And he was like nah man. So I was like,

618
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 3: oh no, the office, no band for him. Yeah.

619
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 7: It was on the street walking before we did the scene.

620
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 7: That's all like just in the in the street he

621
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 7: was walking with watched filming. We're about to start filming Aronx.

622
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 7: We were everywhere, Queen Brooklyn, everywhere, but but yeah we were.

623
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 7: It was like literally him walking in bro and told

624
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 7: dudes like yo, can you can you say no and

625
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 7: sat down.

626
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,479
Speaker 3: And say what's up? So shit, okay, all right?

627
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 7: But now it was it was it was all right, bro,

628
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 7: if you're gonna do it, he got to find out

629
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 7: that you did music, not by you asking for anything.

630
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 3: Just do your job.

631
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 7: Let him know that you're cool, let him know that

632
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 7: you're hungry about it. And for me, I over prepare

633
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 7: so like I don't want to mess up a line.

634
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 7: I don't want to mess up anything. And I think

635
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 7: by the time for me as an actor, like and

636
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 7: for any actors watching, like the preparation you do and

637
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 7: anything but the preparation I had for it was so

638
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 7: crazy that it was fun. When I got on set,

639
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 7: it wasn't nervous, it wasn't I was able to just

640
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 7: play around. So my preparation is what got me my

641
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 7: extension really because I was I wasn't on set trying

642
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 7: to just okay, cool, cool cool cool. Now I was

643
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 7: really like, all right, whatever you do, I'm going to

644
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 7: counter that. Whatever you say, I know how to play it.

645
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 7: So that was how comfortable I was. So I wasn't

646
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 7: really nervous about the work, but the music, I was like,

647
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 7: oh shit, now never now, let me let me, let me,

648
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 7: let me get hot on my own.

649
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 3: Bro let me get out on my own.

650
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 7: So that was that was and he knew he knew

651
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 7: I was really serious about it because you know, my

652
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 7: my takes were flawless, so.

653
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 3: That was what he appreciated. So how did he find

654
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 3: out about your music? All right? So crazy?

655
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 7: So about four or five months into filming, still never

656
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 7: mentioned anything to him about music, So I go, I'm

657
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 7: recording on the low.

658
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: So what I was doing was I was going on set,

659
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 3: kill it, and then go to record at night. So

660
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 3: it was twenty four.

661
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 7: Hours of just working work, and work and work and working,

662
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 7: and then during the weekends, I was going to different

663
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 7: cities for hostings. So that was where I was That's

664
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 7: what I was eating off of the money I was

665
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 7: making from shows and bookings. That was the money that

666
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 7: paid for everything else. So go in Fifth Outside. So

667
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 7: I go in and these these producers. They're like, yo,

668
00:30:58,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 7: this whe Snapchat.

669
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: I just came out.

670
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 7: We're like yo, we just want a beat thing on Snapchat.

671
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 7: So this producer, this guy, he's an A and R.

672
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 7: He's going to come and take some of our beats

673
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 7: for some artists. So I said cool, cool, cool. So

674
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 7: old boy comes in and my record is playing. There's

675
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 7: a record called Lotto at the time. He's like, yo,

676
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 7: that's your I was like, yeah, man, that's me. He

677
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 7: was like, Yo, my name is Tony G. I worked

678
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 7: for G Unit Records. I said, bro, this is crazy.

679
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 7: I said, yo, I'm playing dre on the fifties new

680
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 7: show Power. He was like, bro, I do the music

681
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 7: for that show.

682
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 3: I said what. He was like, Yo, this fifth No

683
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: you sing? I said, bro. No. He was like, oh,

684
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 3: he got to hear this.

685
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 7: So he tells me to come to the office the

686
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 7: next day, right so my meeting was at one o'clock.

687
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,239
Speaker 7: I was supposed to be there at once. So when

688
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 7: you have these meetings you play records, it's really like

689
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 7: a forty five thirty forty five minute meeting, so you

690
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 7: just it's never that long. But this day, I was late,

691
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 7: so I'm panicking. So I get there at two fifteen

692
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 7: and he's a minutes later hour because of traffic.

693
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 3: Bro I was flippling.

694
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was out, So I'm like, damn, I lost

695
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 7: that bloom. This is crazy hour and fifteen. So but

696
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 7: they're cool. Tony he's like, it's cool, don't worry, bro,

697
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 7: I get it. So I get in and then as

698
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 7: soon as I sit down and play the first record,

699
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 7: fifth walks and he comes into the office. So if

700
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 7: I was on time, he would have himself. He No,

701
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 7: he wasn't supposed to be there. He wasn't supposed to

702
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 7: be there. Sorry, he wasn't supposed to be there. So

703
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 7: it was just Tony g getting to know play, hear

704
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 7: more stuff, and then we're going to figure out.

705
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 3: What we were going to yeah, introduce it to him.

706
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 3: So that's what that was crazy.

707
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 7: But so he comes in and he's like, yo, ro

708
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 7: what you doing here. I'm like, oh, I'm playing some records, man,

709
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 7: playing some records.

710
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 3: Bro. He's like, what you do music?

711
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 4: He was like.

712
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 3: I was like yeah. He was like, y let me

713
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 3: hear this. Okay, so he's thinking, I don't know he was.

714
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: He does that fifty laugh. Well, okay, this is gonna

715
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 3: be funny, that type of energy funny. All right. Cool.

716
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 7: He sits down and we played the record and he

717
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 7: just goes like, oh, it makes me play the record

718
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 7: ten times and he's like, okay, listen, I'm gonna put

719
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 7: a verse on this and I want to offer you

720
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 7: a deal. And that's how I got my Gami to

721
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 7: deal bro. Like literally, just god grace, Tony g the

722
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 7: snapchat guys meeting at the same time. Everything is aligned,

723
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 7: and you yeah, I signed to Genie so again. And

724
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 7: I think the thing about it was Fifth was so

725
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 7: impressed that I didn't even ask him, you know, so

726
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 7: I think he respected the grind of He still found out,

727
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 7: you know, on his own.

728
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 5: You know, what was that like being being signed to

729
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 5: Genius because this is this is different, this is past

730
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 5: you know, the Tony ya Yale with that eror, but

731
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 5: now it's like R and B So what was that like?

732
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 5: Because number one, you're working with him on the show,

733
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 5: and now you're working with him for the music.

734
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 3: How was that now? It was?

735
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 2: It was?

736
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 5: It was.

737
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 7: It was dope because at first it was like, all right, bro,

738
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 7: you gotta really really work hard. But then you're a

739
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 7: full time actor too, so how are you going to

740
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 7: do this? So I didn't sleep, bro, like I didn't.

741
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 7: It was studio, studio, studio, work, work, work, film, film,

742
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 7: and no life.

743
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 3: And I had to just compartmentalize my time.

744
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 7: And I knew I had to do the hostings and

745
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 7: as well because that was the only way I was

746
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 7: going to eat. Because I made sure I didn't touch

747
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 7: any of the power of money. Okay, yeah, so for

748
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 7: six years, for the six years, bro, I didn't I

749
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 7: didn't touch any of that. I didn't touch. I just

750
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 7: let that collect and build and be there. That was

751
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 7: like the nest egg, you know. I didn't want to

752
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 7: touch that, you know.

753
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 3: And so so yeah, I was like, this music gotta work.

754
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 7: But working with fifth Man, it was it was amazing

755
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 7: because I was able to see him as a businessman,

756
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 7: I was able to see him as an artist. I

757
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 7: was able to see him as an actor. I was

758
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 7: able to see and have close understanding of how he runs,

759
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 7: you know, what he does, you know and so, and

760
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 7: it was very motivating. But at that time I was

761
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 7: still trying to find my sound too.

762
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 3: So it was it was a really dope experience, really

763
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 3: dope experience.

764
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 4: So let's get into this.

765
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, you talked about it briefly, but all right, your

766
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 6: dad is an investment banker. Yes, your first your first

767
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 6: job in acting, he made you save all of the

768
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 6: money a quarter million dollars you put up.

769
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 4: Then you are in power for six years, six seasons,

770
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 4: six seasons, and he made you.

771
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 3: Save all of that.

772
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 4: This was my choice, This was my choice, but you

773
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 4: had got that from him.

774
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 3: But I got that idea from him.

775
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 6: So the first time he made you do it, the

776
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 6: second time you did it on my own. Yeah all right,

777
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 6: So you so now you save all of your power money.

778
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 6: Yeah right, six seasons worth of money season and you're

779
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 6: only living off of club hostings and shows and shows

780
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 6: that you're doing. Now you got a nest each of

781
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 6: money that saved. What do you what do you do

782
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 6: with that money?

783
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 7: So with that, I put a lot of it back

784
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 7: into stocks. And what I did, right, after that was

785
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 7: by my first house. So the first purchase with that

786
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 7: money was real estate. So I paid for my first

787
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 7: shown primary resident that you're living in. Yeah, so you

788
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 7: brought no mortgage.

789
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 3: You just no mortgage. I just purchased at cash.

790
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 7: And then with then I built another house in Orlando

791
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 7: as an investment property so to airbnb it for Disney World.

792
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 3: Like Disney World, so I did.

793
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 7: So what I did was I tried to research where

794
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 7: can I make the most money and what would keep

795
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,959
Speaker 7: the occupancy rate of my house busy all year where

796
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 7: so Orlando was the first one one or two, and

797
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 7: I realized that if I could, if I could build

798
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 7: another house three miles away from Disneyland, five bedroom, six bathroom,

799
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 7: that's going to be very valuable. And then so I

800
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 7: bought that out as well cash. So now, okay, cool,

801
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 7: I know that I have liquid every month from that

802
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 7: is no anything, So it's like hoa fees and all

803
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 7: those things. But it's another money that I can just have.

804
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 7: And the first thing it was beautiful, man Like, within

805
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 7: now seven months of having it, it already went up

806
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, you know what I mean.

807
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 7: So again it's just realizing, okay, making the money, begets

808
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 7: more money and make money. So then now I'm like,

809
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 7: all right, cool, let me get another one, you know.

810
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 7: And so I built another one in Nigeria, Victoria house,

811
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 7: another house to Airbnb as well, but that one is

812
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 7: now for like film films used the house, content content creator,

813
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 7: music videos.

814
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's that in Nigeria as well.

815
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 6: So all right, we got the money in stocks money

816
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 6: stock blue chip companies like Google, Yes, Amazon, Apple, stuff

817
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 6: like that.

818
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 3: What year was that that you because you said that

819
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 3: twenty twelves.

820
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 5: In my head, I'm thinking about wait, this is like

821
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 5: the inception of Facebook going public.

822
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 3: No no, no sorry, so then Facebook came later with

823
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 3: power money sorry yes.

824
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 4: So all of those blue chip companies.

825
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 6: Yes, then you buy your own residents that you're living in, yes,

826
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 6: cash cash, the Airbnb property in Orlando cash. Then you

827
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 6: after that you buy the house in Nigeria cash. So

828
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 6: all right, this is interesting because so a lot of

829
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 6: athletes are entertainers. They go broke because they the decision

830
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 6: making that they make. Right, So it's like, all right,

831
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 6: instead of buying, let's say somebody has a million dollars, right,

832
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 6: and what they'll do is instead of buying five hundred

833
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 6: thousand dollars house in cash, they'll buy a ten million

834
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 6: dollar house and have a twenty thousand dollars a month mortgage.

835
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 6: And the problem is that it's no problem to pay

836
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 6: that if you're getting paid twenty thousand an episode. But

837
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 6: when the episode stops, what do you do Now you

838
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 6: got twenty thousand dollars a month that you gotta pay,

839
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 6: let alone with the taxes taxes, So that in itself

840
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 6: is an interesting decision to make. Was that your thought

841
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 6: process to say, Okay, I don't like this is an

842
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 6: up and down game for me, so I'd rather just

843
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 6: keep my bills low and pay it in cash as

844
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 6: opposed to having a dope crib.

845
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 7: But I got to pay it, so yeah, it was

846
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 7: more so like let me build. I was like, look,

847
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 7: I'm not going to build my dream house yet, let

848
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 7: me just build something that's really dope for me. At

849
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,239
Speaker 7: the time, I was a bachelor, So let me just

850
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 7: build a dope crib for myself and figure.

851
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 3: Out the rest.

852
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 7: But let me build another one so that you know,

853
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 7: I'm consistently going to see money for everything. So now

854
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 7: this home is now paying all my build my phone

855
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 7: at this so I'm living for free because at this

856
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 7: point acting in music is so all over the place.

857
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 3: You don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. So I

858
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 3: was like, let me just make sure everything was good.

859
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 7: And then during this time, man bro like it was

860
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 7: four months before COVID, so everything shut down except Orlando.

861
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 7: People were still figuring out ways to travel and this

862
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 7: and this and this because Florida was still open. So

863
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 7: I'm still being able to make money while sitting down.

864
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 7: And Hollywood was done for a year, you know, so

865
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 7: I with no buil, know nothing, and I'm still doing

866
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 7: shows and everything as well. Like it was just everything

867
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 7: was just still collecting and collecting, collecting by the choices

868
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 7: I made. So then the house in Nigeria was also

869
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 7: people were like, okay, cool, well the prices are low

870
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 7: for airbnb, so this is a time where I can

871
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 7: go stay in his place. So I was renting it

872
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Speaker 7: out for three four months at a time to people.

873
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 7: You know what I mean that I knew had some

874
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Speaker 7: bread and needed somewhere to go, so it was still

875
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Speaker 7: able to just collect collect and I know that you know,

876
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 7: God willing thirty years from now these homes of retirement plans,

877
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 7: you know what I mean, if if I hold it

878
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Speaker 7: along oil flipping and you know, get two more houses whatever.

879
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was still just making money.

880
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 5: So this is this is pretty incredible. And so you

881
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 5: got the power money your stashing. But the music money

882
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 5: starts to pick up. Yes, me and my beds out. Yes,

883
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 5: now you're watching this so to talk about watching the

884
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 5: growth of that record grow and the type of money

885
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 5: that that brought.

886
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 3: Because now everybody's streaming, it's exactly perfect timing for you.

887
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 7: So the record so in my Bed actually he got

888
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 7: hot during covidep So during COVID, everybody's making videos about

889
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 7: in my bed.

890
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 3: Everybody's doing this about whatever. So many people knew that

891
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 3: it was you. When I first heard that, I know

892
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 3: it was you. Yeah yeah yeah, a lot of people

893
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 3: didn't know.

894
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 7: A lot of people know. But then they started shazaming.

895
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 7: Then the video came out and people were like, yo,

896
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 7: he's really he really does this, you know what I mean.

897
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 7: And before In my Bed I had another record called

898
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 7: Love Love Rhythm. Yeah, so it was like, okay, he

899
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 7: did it, he did it once, Oh he did it again.

900
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 7: So it became that and I structured my deal with

901
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 7: Empire where it's not an artist deal. I was more

902
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 7: of a partnership, so a lot of the money that

903
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 7: I make independently comes to me, you know.

904
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 3: So during this time, so.

905
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 7: My streams are hitting, going crazy, it's going and I'm

906
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 7: still able to do shows. But if I was, if

907
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 7: I was to, if I was with a major at

908
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 7: the time, I would have seen way less money, you know.

909
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 7: So again it was a situation where I kind of

910
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 7: bet on myself because we skipped over the fact that

911
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 7: fifty had let me out my deal.

912
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 3: So yes, yes, yes, two thousand and seventeen, twenty eighteen,

913
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 3: so he had let me on my deal.

914
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 4: How long was the deal supposed to be for No,

915
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 4: it was I.

916
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 3: Think three albums, three albums with Fifth and you did one,

917
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 3: albur I did one.

918
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 7: You just told him, Mike, Yeah, I told him, like, listen, man,

919
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 7: I want to I want to bet on myself, you know,

920
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 7: and I feel like and during that time there was

921
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 7: a lot of he was changing a lot with the label.

922
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 7: It was hit fired everybody, So there wasn't anything really

923
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 7: tangible for me to stay there, and he didn't want

924
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,160
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925
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Speaker 5: You never made it till you owe me Monday, So

926
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Speaker 5: that's good. You never you never part that series where

927
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928
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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, he made I don't know if

929
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930
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931
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995
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996
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Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. Yes,

997
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 2: but so okay.

998
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 7: So that was actually a marketing again his marketing genius man.

999
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 7: So he let me out my situation. But any if

1000
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 7: you do any deal, obviously a label is going to

1001
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 7: put up money that they loan you to make whatever,

1002
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 7: and then you owe them back through your mechanicals. So

1003
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 7: we had a situation where he had put up about

1004
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 7: if in four years you put up and maybe like

1005
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 7: two hundred and fifty three hundred thousand investments in the

1006
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 7: videos and and shows, and da da da da da.

1007
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 7: So he just made sure that I paid it off

1008
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 7: through my mechanicals with Empire. So it was it's really nothing,

1009
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 7: you know, it's anything. But he was like, bruh, this

1010
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 7: is how I'm gonna market you. I'm gonna say I

1011
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 7: want to punch you in your face at least twenty

1012
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 7: five times and I'm gonna say this, and they got

1013
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:22,359
Speaker 7: the number one album in the country, and but I'm

1014
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 7: gonna say, I'm gonna punch you in your face and

1015
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 7: break your nose and this. So I'm like, bro, what's

1016
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 7: why why? He said, trust me, Bro, it's gonna work. Bro,

1017
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 7: it's gonna work. It's gonna work.

1018
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 3: So he's like, yo, TEMs, He's gonna call you the

1019
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 3: next day. Da da Da da da.

1020
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 7: And at the time, my album was number one on

1021
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 7: the R and B charts, but it was you know,

1022
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 7: it starts off for three four days and it could

1023
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 7: fall off. But with him doing that, it made people

1024
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 7: be like, yo, he we got a number one album.

1025
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 7: Well let me go check this second.

1026
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 3: And it stayed number one for about another two weeks.

1027
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 3: So it was brilliant.

1028
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 7: That's how That's what actually broke love rhythm, you know

1029
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 7: what I mean. But so I was able to pay

1030
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 7: that back off through my mechanicals and you know, get

1031
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 7: out of that situation.

1032
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 3: So but it was it was dope mechanicals. What does

1033
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 3: that mean?

1034
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,439
Speaker 7: So the money that you make from streams, the money

1035
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 7: that you make from airplay, the money that you make

1036
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 7: from publishing everything that's from title Pandora. Every time you

1037
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 7: get a stream, so basically one hundred and fifty streams,

1038
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 7: usually one hundred and fifty streams equates to like one dollar,

1039
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 7: So if you get five hundred, if you get about

1040
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 7: it takes about seventy five million streams in total to

1041
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:35,760
Speaker 7: go gold.

1042
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 3: So that's the thing.

1043
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 7: So you do the seventy five million divided by one fifty.

1044
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 7: I think it's about five hundred thousand. So that's how

1045
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 7: they break it up. So they break it up with

1046
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 7: definitely like getting So that's why it's so important to

1047
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 7: get your your your songs on Spotify, get your songs

1048
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 7: on Apple Music. All these things are super important because

1049
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 7: you need to be on these these playlists to get

1050
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 7: to get your streams up.

1051
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 3: So that's what it was.

1052
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 7: So I was getting whenever I make the money from that,

1053
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 7: I'd have to give a portion to him. So we

1054
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 7: had like a twenty five percent split, so he'll get

1055
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 7: twenty five percent of whatever came in until it's paid back.

1056
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 3: That's what.

1057
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 6: So when you're having that conversation with fifty, yeah, when

1058
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 6: so he says this is the plan, Yeah, it's going

1059
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 6: to help. But then when he's relaying, it's messing on

1060
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 6: social media. He's not joking, like people don't know what's

1061
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 6: a joke. No, yeah, they think it's serious.

1062
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so.

1063
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 4: Hey, how was that for you? Like people, people came like, yo,

1064
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:36,359
Speaker 4: you okay?

1065
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 3: Like where they can see yeah people, yo, bro, no

1066
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 3: even snoop call. He was like, Bro, I'll pay your

1067
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 3: debt for you. Bro.

1068
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 7: I don't want you to have these problems. No, I said, Bro,

1069
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,399
Speaker 7: it's good. We're just playing. It's like, oh shit, okay,

1070
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 7: cool bro, make sure you're good man, Like I know

1071
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 7: how fifty get bro. And you got to see him

1072
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 7: every day too.

1073
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 3: Oh shit, and we're still filming the show drink about

1074
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 3: to get killed. Yeah. Then we thought, yeah, so it

1075
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 3: was it was. It was crazy man, because again it's

1076
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 3: him just doing his thing. But yeah, I have to

1077
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 3: deal with that.

1078
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 7: I was like, yo, you're good, Like Jamie called me, like, yo,

1079
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 7: you're good, bro, Like I can give you fit them

1080
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 7: down from power fixed.

1081
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 6: So like the mind of fifty cent, right, yeah, let's

1082
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 6: talk about this for a minute, because I'm sure you've

1083
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 6: seen it.

1084
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 4: You've been around it.

1085
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 6: Yeah, how strategic because we see him do these things

1086
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:25,240
Speaker 6: a lot Yeah, how strategic is he as a person, because,

1087
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 6: like I said, on the outside, it just looks like,

1088
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 6: oh fifty just being fifty again.

1089
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 3: He going off on this person, going off on that person.

1090
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 3: Everything everything I knew. I realized a man was a

1091
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 3: marketing genius. Bro when.

1092
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 7: He sat us all down, he sot the cast down.

1093
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 7: And this is when we were filming season two, and

1094
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 7: he was like, yo, Empire, they're on Fox, they got

1095
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 7: the big bag. We can't compete with them with the

1096
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 7: the marketing and their promotion and advertisement.

1097
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 3: We're on Stars. We cannot compete.

1098
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 7: But I'm going to start a beef with them that

1099
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 7: they have to mention us every time they get interviewed.

1100
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 7: So I'm going to go straight for Taraji, I'm going

1101
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 7: to go straight for Terrence. I'm going to go straight

1102
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 7: for everybody and make whoever's the interviewer ask about did

1103
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 7: you hear what fifty said about power being better and everything?

1104
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 7: So I saw how he attached himself to one hundred

1105
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 7: million dollar.

1106
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 3: Promotion and it put us like this the pit, like, oh,

1107
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 3: what's better? Power? Empire? And I saw him create that

1108
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 3: and like so it was like a Monday.

1109
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 7: He said, I'm going to go sit down with I

1110
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 7: forgot who he was and it was went by Wednesday,

1111
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 7: it was Power and this to a point where Taraji's

1112
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 7: going crazy about fifty Terrence is going crazy and it

1113
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 7: was just like wow, like, you guys don't understand that

1114
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 7: this man really just is playing with you strategically, and

1115
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 7: now we are now in competition with y'all and every

1116
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 7: time you do something you have to mention that and.

1117
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 4: Your name is automatically automatically because your.

1118
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 3: Fifty cents show Power.

1119
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 7: He was saying that fifty cent said this about your show,

1120
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 7: not better being and better So everybody, I was like,

1121
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 7: what show is this to do that?

1122
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 3: Because at the.

1123
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,919
Speaker 7: Time Power Wasn't people found out about Power for real,

1124
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 7: like maybe season like they didn't watch it when.

1125
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 6: It was on.

1126
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 3: Did you watch it when it was first thought?

1127
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 4: Was the season two?

1128
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 3: I feel like that's when that's when it really hit,

1129
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 3: Like so that's when he went to Miami. Yeah that's two.

1130
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 7: Three was Miami yet that was mine. That was one

1131
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 7: of my first first episodes with Angela. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

1132
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 7: So that's when it took off. So it became that

1133
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 7: because of now we tied to one hundred million dollars.

1134
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 7: Marketing plan, gorilla marketing, gorilla marketing.

1135
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 5: But you have now we got to talk about something

1136
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 5: very important, said you once for a bachelor. Yes, yes, brother,

1137
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 5: Let's talk about one of the most important decisions you made.

1138
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 5: Yes brother, Mary and Vanessa. Yes, talk about how you

1139
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 5: met story behind it.

1140
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 7: So met v so v Vanessa Man, incredible woman, my god, man, Like,

1141
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:56,720
Speaker 7: she saved my life, bro, because I was out here thoughting.

1142
00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 7: Brother saved my life, my guy, recovering of recovering. Fact,

1143
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 7: it was bad for me. It was actually really good

1144
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:10,240
Speaker 7: for me actually, but nah. So she's an artist herself,

1145
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,280
Speaker 7: you know, and she's one of the biggest artists from Tanzania.

1146
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 7: So she was basically the East African Rihanna. So she

1147
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 7: had a show, she had a show. We met an Essence,

1148
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 7: so she had to show Essence and I also had

1149
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 7: a show of performing at the main stage of Essence.

1150
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 7: So this particular weekend, though, I had a joint that

1151
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 7: flew in, you know, like a little you know, weekend,

1152
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 7: So she flew in.

1153
00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 3: So this is the craziest story, bro.

1154
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 7: So at the time, Shorty was with me the entire day,

1155
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,720
Speaker 7: but then at night she was like, I'm not feeling

1156
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 7: too well, and I have to go stop by this

1157
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 7: private Spotify party and I was like, I'm going to

1158
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 7: be there for fifteen minutes. You don't have to come,

1159
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 7: I'll be there, I'll be back and then just meet

1160
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 7: us at the next spot. So in that fifteen minutes

1161
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 7: we go and then I see V sitting on a

1162
00:53:58,440 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 7: pool table.

1163
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, this is crazy, so start talking.

1164
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 7: I didn't know who she was at the time, but

1165
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 7: they introduced me and I was like, they told me

1166
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 7: who she was, but I didn't really care about that.

1167
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 3: I was like, yo, your vibing.

1168
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 7: We just started talking. So fifteen minutes turned into about

1169
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 7: two and a half hours. So I forgot, like I'm tripping, you.

1170
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 6: Know what I'm saying.

1171
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 3: I forgot, bro, So I'm getting text like where are you.

1172
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh oh. So then he was like focused.

1173
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 3: They focused.

1174
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 7: So V is like V is literally like, you know,

1175
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 7: I want to see you tomorrow before I leave, and

1176
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 7: I'm like, listen, let me just be honest with you.

1177
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 7: I got a situation. I don't want to put you,

1178
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 7: I don't want to let me. Let me deal with

1179
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,840
Speaker 7: this and then I can focus on you. And I

1180
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 7: usually I wasn't like that.

1181
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, you hear, what's up. But I

1182
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 3: was like, there was a fire to the city.

1183
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 7: It's multitizing, But I was there was a respect there,

1184
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 7: you know, and it was a it was a it

1185
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 7: was a different type of love, man.

1186
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 3: And so she goes.

1187
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 7: She leaves, still talking and still talking in that time.

1188
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,799
Speaker 7: Difference is different, man. So she leaves and at the time,

1189
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 7: now I'm building my house. I'm building the house in Atlanta, So.

1190
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 3: Asking her like, yo, what do you think of this?

1191
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 3: I want to do this. I want to do this.

1192
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 7: And by the time the house is done, me and

1193
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 7: her about three four months and it's just long distance talking.

1194
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 7: So I didn't know that the house that I'm building

1195
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 7: is basically being built for us, you know what I'm saying.

1196
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 7: So by the time it's done, it's like, Yo, She's like,

1197
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 7: I want to come to the States.

1198
00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 3: You know. She comes to States and she at the time,

1199
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 3: she hates America. She was like, there's too much going

1200
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 3: on here.

1201
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 7: And it gets to the point where bro, like, I

1202
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 7: was like, Yo, do you want to go back? You

1203
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 7: can just we can figure it out. You can stay

1204
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 7: with me.

1205
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 3: And when she came never left.

1206
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 4: So y'all was you hadn't seen in essence, you didn't

1207
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 4: see her again.

1208
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 6: I didn't see it for three months. But y'all talking

1209
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 6: talking every day when she comes back to America. Is

1210
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 6: when she comes back to America? Is it like we

1211
00:55:58,239 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 6: just friends or y'all like really.

1212
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 3: Non locking, Like it's basically a relationship.

1213
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 6: You get a relationship virtually virtually a lot of what's happened,

1214
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 6: a lot of what's that?

1215
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 3: What's that?

1216
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 4: How she comes to America? Y'all already, Yeah, we live.

1217
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 7: But it was like she was like, let me just

1218
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 7: come for two weeks, you know, let me just see

1219
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 7: for two Weeks'm gonna take off from everything. But then

1220
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 7: the two weeks turned into now four.

1221
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 3: Years, Bro, she never went back.

1222
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 4: She hasn't gone back.

1223
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 3: She has not gone now. She hasn't gone back to Tania. No,

1224
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 3: she had four years and four years now.

1225
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 4: Does she miss it?

1226
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, she missed her family, But I think she was

1227
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 7: just like, there's nothing there really for me. And the

1228
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 7: cool thing about it was she wanted to When we

1229
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:35,240
Speaker 7: first met, she was already telling me she wants to retire.

1230
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 7: She just wants to be focused on business and focus

1231
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 7: on her life focused on just learning herself because she's

1232
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 7: been doing it for fifteen years. So it was like

1233
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 7: her ending that and then me saying, yo, just you

1234
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 7: might as well just stay and it became the perfect

1235
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 7: situation and.

1236
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,919
Speaker 6: I got the whole family and got so but she's

1237
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 6: still very big and yeas Africa yeah yeah, so all right,

1238
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 6: let's talk about the Africa. Yeah, so you are born

1239
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 6: in America, but obviously your roots are Nigerian, yes, yes,

1240
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,959
Speaker 6: and you go back there a lot, yes, And she's

1241
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 6: obviously huge on the East soul. You got the East

1242
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,320
Speaker 6: and West side. Yeah, so do you guy, what do

1243
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 6: you guys have plans?

1244
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:15,879
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1245
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 6: For Africa as far as like expansion business music, like

1246
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 6: how do you look at that?

1247
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 3: So again, so.

1248
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 7: For music for her, when she retired, she owns all

1249
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 7: her stuff, all her streaming and everything.

1250
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 3: She owns everything. So like when she retired, her songs

1251
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:36,920
Speaker 3: became iconic, so she's not making music anymore.

1252
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 7: So she's not making music anymore, but her songs have

1253
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 7: become iconic and staples. So then she's still streaming very

1254
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 7: well because of it. And what we did was in

1255
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 7: terms of business, we started the app, a wellness app

1256
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 7: together called for the better, not me, and what it

1257
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 7: is is. It started off in covid where it was

1258
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 7: just like, yo, let's just give gratitude to make gratitude

1259
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 7: posts for people of videos, so like every day they'll

1260
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 7: get a video post from me or her. But we

1261
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 7: wanted people to subscribe. So then we were like, well,

1262
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 7: that's too basic. Let's make it where they get an

1263
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 7: inside look at our life. Let's get to where like, okay,

1264
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 7: what we love, what we do, what we did. So

1265
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 7: we're like, okay, let's charge five dollars per month, forty

1266
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:21,880
Speaker 7: five for a year, twelve dollars for three month subscriptions.

1267
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 7: So we're like, let's figure this out. Let's let's let's

1268
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 7: make money. Let's let's give something to our fans. And

1269
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 7: they were like, yo, why is Instagram and all these

1270
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 7: platforms getting free money, like freedom, like they were posting

1271
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 7: to them and not earning anything, you know, why don't

1272
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 7: we control our content? And so it was like, all right,

1273
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 7: let's figure out a different way to make better. We

1274
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 7: know people and nosy as hell, so let's capitalize on that,

1275
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,919
Speaker 7: but also give you know, Bible scriptures that we love

1276
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 7: or what I like to eat on my workout regimen

1277
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 7: to our core fans, and we started seeing during the pandemic.

1278
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 7: For the last two year, we started seeing a lot

1279
00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 7: of subscriptions to our show. So we're constantly making content

1280
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 7: that's just for our fans, and that's what's keeping her

1281
00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 7: really alive as well in Tanzania because they're getting they're

1282
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 7: seeing her and what she really does as a mom,

1283
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 7: now you know what I mean.

1284
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 3: So it's been really good.

1285
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 5: You said keyword retired, and we kind of had this

1286
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 5: conversation before, but that that conversation when you're looking at

1287
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 5: your spouse, So you're looking at your wife at the

1288
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 5: time and seeing like I may want you to focus

1289
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 5: on something else, like as your career is thriving.

1290
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 3: What was that like, right, because she's obviously established as

1291
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 3: a musician.

1292
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 5: I told you it was there a number that you

1293
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 5: said that we need to reach as a couple, or like,

1294
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 5: how did the dynamics work for her to stop?

1295
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 7: Well, for me, it was like, Okay, let me figure

1296
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 7: this out because everything is paid off, so there's no stress,

1297
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 7: you know what I mean.

1298
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 3: So that's a big thing for me. It was like, Okay,

1299
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 3: there's no stress. You being here is not going to

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Speaker 3: make it ten to fifteen thousand dollars more a month.

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00:59:58,320 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 3: You know, it's more.

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Speaker 7: So okay, we'll figure this out, but let's start doing

1303
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,320
Speaker 7: outside businesses that now you're in control of. So we

1304
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 7: created the app and now she completely runs that. So

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01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 7: she gets her salary her monthly you know what I mean,

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01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 7: and it's all hers, you know what I mean. So again,

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01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 7: and she also has her streaming, which has picked up

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Speaker 7: more than when she was actually an artist, you know,

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01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 7: and it keeps growing every year, every year, every year.

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01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 7: And then we also she was like, I want to,

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01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 7: I want to, I want to make a Swahili book.

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01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 7: So we also made a Swahili book where it's like

1313
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 7: twenty five easy words that anybody in the world because

1314
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 7: Swahili is the number one spoken African language. So we

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01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 7: made a book whereas on Amazon and people able to

1316
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 7: just learn different words, easy words or easy phrases. So

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01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 7: that was also another thing that we did. So we

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01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 7: were like, let's just figure out different businesses that keep

1319
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 7: you busy and keep your mind coming up creative, keep

1320
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 7: you still feeling like you're part of, you know, the

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01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 7: culture as well.

1322
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 3: And yeah, so we just created more businesses for each other.

1323
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 3: How many subscribers we got on that, so we are

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Speaker 3: up to now about eight nine thousand, nine thousand subscriptions.

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01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, and so a subscription and it's just like

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01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,439
Speaker 7: a look in your life, yeah, looking in life.

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01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's like a look in our life.

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01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 7: It shows again what I like to eat, what she

1329
01:01:23,320 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 7: likes to eat, things we're reading, how how we both

1330
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 7: are as parents, how we deal with the relationship, giving

1331
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,400
Speaker 7: relationship advice. So it's all these things for the better

1332
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 7: than me that it just really just gives us, like

1333
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 7: we'll post That's why we stop really posting each other

1334
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 7: on our Instagram because it's like, if you really want

1335
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 7: to see us traffic here, So again we've done it.

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01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 7: Where nine thousand subscribers, that's that's five dollars a month.

1337
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 3: You know.

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01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 7: So she's in a space where okay, you know, she's

1339
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 7: really happy, you know. So again that is and then

1340
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:57,800
Speaker 7: keep building that and keep building that.

1341
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 3: And she has eight million followers, yes, eight million followers. Yeah,

1342
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:03,439
Speaker 3: cause we were like, yo, there got to be at.

1343
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 7: Least ten thousand people that want to pay file like,

1344
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 7: they got to be at least thirty thousand, like out

1345
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 7: of the eight million, and out of my three eleven million,

1346
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 7: there got to be thousands of people. So we're able

1347
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:17,520
Speaker 7: to make even three thousand subscribers a month. You know,

1348
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 7: that's you know, that's still a nice piece of change

1349
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 7: just to So we were just thinking from that and

1350
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 7: we were like, we don't need that much, but we

1351
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 7: can still build it every day.

1352
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 3: So you know what, again, that's what we're at.

1353
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 4: So where's the skincare line coming to play?

1354
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:33,720
Speaker 7: So during COVID, I was using a lot of different

1355
01:02:33,760 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 7: products that were breaking my skin out, man, and I

1356
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:38,919
Speaker 7: was just like, yo, like, let me create my own

1357
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 7: thing that both men and women can use. That's all organic,

1358
01:02:44,160 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 7: that is true to me, and it feels regal and again, man,

1359
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:49,960
Speaker 7: God's gift.

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Speaker 3: Man.

1361
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Speaker 7: I partnered with these these guys in Israel and we

1362
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 7: got minerals from the Dead Sea. So the Dead Seat people,

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01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 7: if you don't know, it's a healing component. So a

1364
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 7: lot of people go down to grease. I mean, it's sorry,

1365
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 7: a lot of people go down to Israel to go

1366
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 7: straight to the Dead Sea to heal any type of

1367
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 7: skin diseased, skin orders, skin disorders, skin cancer, e zima,

1368
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 7: all these things. So I was like, oh, this is

1369
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 7: perfect and it's one hundred percent natural. So we partnered

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01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 7: the deal. I was like, they were like, what do

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01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 7: you want to call it? I was like, no, I

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01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 7: want people to have favor favor, you know, favor over

1373
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 7: their life, faivor over this, and I know how important

1374
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:34,439
Speaker 7: skin and feeling sexy and feeling good and having good

1375
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 7: skin millions of people, so wanted to make a unisex.

1376
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:41,520
Speaker 7: So did the deal with them, and it's been about

1377
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 7: a good year so far and it's doing really really well.

1378
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 7: So we have skin cleanser, toner, moisturizer, lotion, under eye,

1379
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,720
Speaker 7: so it's everything that you need to take care of

1380
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 7: your skin and favor Skin dot com.

1381
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 3: You can go check it out. But it's really really

1382
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 3: really good and really healthy for you.

1383
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 5: So that the only place they can get is from

1384
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 5: the website or we trying and distribute to you know,

1385
01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 5: the big box stores here in America and internationally as well.

1386
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 3: So that's the plan.

1387
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 7: So we're actually talking to Target right now, but also

1388
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 7: we're getting it on Amazon as of right now, is

1389
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 7: from it's on the website, so Favorite Skin dot com

1390
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 7: FA v R Skin dot com. So it's on the

1391
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:26,320
Speaker 7: website now, but we're getting it through Amazon, so it

1392
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,160
Speaker 7: can now go global because again me and v our fan.

1393
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 3: Base reaches Africa, Europe. So once that happens, it's going

1394
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 3: to be crazy.

1395
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 7: And then we're working out a situation with HSN now yeah,

1396
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 7: so we're in talk, so we were about to finalize that.

1397
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 7: So once that happens, you know, and then the target

1398
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 7: conversation has happened as well. So and everyone loves the product,

1399
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 7: like genuinely loves loves the product, and it's.

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01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:52,439
Speaker 3: Been really really really really dope for both men, women,

1401
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 3: kids as well. And it's all organic, all organic.

1402
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 5: I feel like you have a natural audience, right, you

1403
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 5: have nine thousand people that are watching it part of

1404
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 5: routine exactly. This is part of your daily routine exactly right,

1405
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,120
Speaker 5: So from a marketing standpoint that were you conscious of

1406
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 5: that and made that.

1407
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 7: Absolutely So on the app, we show the whole skincare regiment.

1408
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 7: We show how to how to use it, what to do,

1409
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 7: even give like a breakdown of what each mineral and

1410
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 7: what each thing does for it. So out of the

1411
01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 7: nine thousand, we may say about let's say four thousand

1412
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 7: have purchased it, you know, automatically, so and then realizing

1413
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 7: that once somebody actually tries it, they want it all

1414
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 7: the time, now, you know. And that's that's been the

1415
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 7: consensus from a lot of our fans and just people

1416
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 7: were just discovering it. But we know that once it

1417
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 7: goes the HSN, once it gets to Amazon, we know

1418
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 7: it's going to be on a different level.

1419
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 3: And it's doing pretty well.

1420
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 4: So all right, let me ask you this, Well, how

1421
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:50,920
Speaker 4: many before we get there?

1422
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:51,200
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1423
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 4: How many products are in that line?

1424
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 3: It's about five products? Fire products, so it's like a moisturized.

1425
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 7: Moisturizer, toner, lotion, uh, face mask, and and the actual

1426
01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 7: the actual wash.

1427
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 6: So we see Rihanna shot to her become a billionaire

1428
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 6: of fine yes cosmetics, Kylie Jenner, Yes, billionaire off of cosmetics.

1429
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 3: Yes.

1430
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 4: It's just the kind of goals that you have.

1431
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, yes, absolutely.

1432
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 4: Even though it's not cosmetics per se, but it's skinkill.

1433
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 3: Because it's my life, you know. And the funny thing is, man,

1434
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 3: I do.

1435
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 7: What really got me the idea was I did a

1436
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:35,960
Speaker 7: character named Butterscotch, you know, I put like this white.

1437
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:37,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1438
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 7: So a lot of companies were like, yo, we would

1439
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 7: love for you to be a part of this, can

1440
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 7: you rock out?

1441
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 3: This and this and this?

1442
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 7: And I'm like, why would I give my brand to

1443
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 7: you when I can create my own my own you know,

1444
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 7: face mask and my own face product and you know,

1445
01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:54,520
Speaker 7: skincare line.

1446
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 3: So let me just not give you this. Let me

1447
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 3: make my own stuff. So that's what started it.

1448
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 7: But yes, from seeing the success of it, man, like again,

1449
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 7: and you just start seeing like these checks come in

1450
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 7: every three months, You're like, oh, it's very motivating, you know,

1451
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 7: it's very motivating to see that damn something I created

1452
01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 7: is now you know, helping fund my life, you know,

1453
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 7: And so it's pretty dope.

1454
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 3: How do you protect the product?

1455
01:07:15,560 --> 01:07:18,760
Speaker 5: Like you said that you went to Israel, Israel got

1456
01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 5: minerals from the Dead Sea, Like, how do we protect

1457
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 5: another brand from following the same pattern or is there

1458
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 5: a way to protect it?

1459
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 3: That's a great question. Well anybody can you know, I can't.

1460
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 7: I don't own the Dead Sea right however, but like again,

1461
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 7: it comes into the marketing, you know, again, it comes

1462
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 7: into even just the even learning how the bottle, like

1463
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 7: the colors of the bottle, it depends on it, and

1464
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 7: then the product and then people just literally seeing results

1465
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 7: so fast, I don't think again, it being so pure

1466
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 7: and for people to trust you with their face, you

1467
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 7: know what I mean, and then for them to see

1468
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 7: that it works the word of mouth of everything. So

1469
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,120
Speaker 7: I think just the difference would be the marketing and

1470
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 7: just making sure people understand that it's unisex, that there's

1471
01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 7: not a lot of unisex products too.

1472
01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 3: You know, people are scared to do that, you know.

1473
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 3: But again seeing the results of that, it's been beautiful.

1474
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:14,440
Speaker 6: So to jay Z, you meet him when you're a teenager. Yeah,

1475
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 6: but then I guess you meet him again with the

1476
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:20,760
Speaker 6: Rock Nation branch. Ye when was that and how was that?

1477
01:08:21,320 --> 01:08:26,560
Speaker 7: So this was two thousand and eighteen, twenty eighteen, and

1478
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 7: at the time my song loved it and was going crazy,

1479
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 7: and so I haven't seen whole at that time for

1480
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 7: maybe wow, ten years maybe ten years if that. So

1481
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 7: I'm not sure how if you remember again, you don't

1482
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 7: know if he watch his power, you don't know nothing.

1483
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:47,920
Speaker 7: So he sees me, he's like, Row, what's up, And

1484
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 7: it's like, oh wow, this is what's.

1485
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 3: Up, bro, you know what I mean. It was a moment.

1486
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,280
Speaker 7: But then realizing he was like, man, I'm so proud

1487
01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:57,200
Speaker 7: of what you're doing. Man, I'm so happy for you.

1488
01:08:57,640 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 7: I love what you're doing. Man, you're super super talent.

1489
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 7: I love the songs. And then his nephews. He was like,

1490
01:09:03,240 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 7: how y'all niggas let this nigga go? How do you

1491
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 7: let this nigga go? It was there, He's like, how

1492
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 7: do you let him?

1493
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:10,760
Speaker 3: What? Damn? You know?

1494
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 7: But it was It was a dope moment of again validation,

1495
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,000
Speaker 7: knowing that you know again, like you made an impact

1496
01:09:16,040 --> 01:09:18,120
Speaker 7: on one of the greatest life and he's still watching

1497
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 7: you are up to now.

1498
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 3: I'm not too sure.

1499
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,679
Speaker 7: I think they worked for Rockne No no, no, no, no, no, nothing,

1500
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 7: nothing's wrong, But like, I think they still work with

1501
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 7: Rockne there.

1502
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 3: So I was telling you we were flying and House

1503
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:32,479
Speaker 3: Partly is my favorite movie of all time.

1504
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 5: So let me watch the new rendition of it, and

1505
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 5: I pop up and I see you on screen perfectly

1506
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 5: about to sit down on him next week. Can you

1507
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 5: talk about that, that transition from being on a TV

1508
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 5: series now being on the bag screen because a lot

1509
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:49,560
Speaker 5: of actors, I feel, find it it's tough because the

1510
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 5: TV series takes a lot of your schedule. Yes, whereas

1511
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 5: movies can be two to three months, and there's a

1512
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 5: timing that you have to do it right. You don't

1513
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 5: want to miss your moments. Talk about that transition from

1514
01:09:58,320 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 5: TV to film.

1515
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 7: So okay, So it took eight months out of the

1516
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 7: year to film Power, So we were filming eight months bro.

1517
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:12,719
Speaker 3: So again, with movies, the most it will be usually

1518
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 3: is about forty five days.

1519
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 7: So that for me freed up a lot of my

1520
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 7: time to do other things but still have a dope

1521
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 7: impact on whatever the movie is going to be. Again,

1522
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 7: I needed for me personally the transition, bro, I need.

1523
01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 7: I needed a break from TV because I needed to

1524
01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 7: consistently build the music up because it takes too much

1525
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 7: time and doing a series that long, you know, you

1526
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:37,200
Speaker 7: kind of need like a moment, you know. And again

1527
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:41,600
Speaker 7: for me, strategically, Dre was such a powerful character that

1528
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,599
Speaker 7: for me to jump into something right away I didn't

1529
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 7: want it felt like it it would hinder the new

1530
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 7: show because people would just still see that character. And

1531
01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 7: so for my mental health for the trajectory of my career,

1532
01:10:57,920 --> 01:10:59,559
Speaker 7: it was like, let's take a break from TV, Let's

1533
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 7: focus on movies. Let's focus on these months and a half,

1534
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 7: Let's build the music up. Let's don't streuss. And then

1535
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 7: at that time it was COVID, so everything kind of

1536
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 7: shut down, you know. So now that the world's done

1537
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 7: to app back open back up. Now it's like, Okay,

1538
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 7: if a TV show comes that makes sense, I'm open

1539
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 7: to it. So now I'm on a TV show called

1540
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:22,600
Speaker 7: Will Trent on ABC. So with that being said, different dynamic.

1541
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:24,960
Speaker 7: They don't have a lot of us on there, you

1542
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 7: know what I mean, It's on ABC. So for me

1543
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 7: it's like, Okay, you made the right choice. Ro you know, like,

1544
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 7: so you're able to do this for the two three years,

1545
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 7: get your family right, spend time with your kids, build

1546
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,160
Speaker 7: your relationship, get to know your woman more before you

1547
01:11:39,280 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 7: have to go away now for another eight months to

1548
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 7: do something. So everything just worked out perfectly.

1549
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 5: I think selfishly, as fans, it's like, we want to

1550
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 5: see a Mario on the show for ten season. Yeah,

1551
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:52,759
Speaker 5: I want to see eas do ten season of Strip.

1552
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:53,799
Speaker 3: We know there's a window.

1553
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 7: It's a window that you can't miss because and six

1554
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:58,640
Speaker 7: seasons of Dre it was a sweet spot where it

1555
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 7: was like, Okay, I still have room to make ro Timmy.

1556
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 7: You know, I still have room to build my brand.

1557
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 7: I still have room to do it, but it's also

1558
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 7: iconic enough that you'll never forget it. So that's that's

1559
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 7: that was the sweet spot. So now two three year break,

1560
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 7: get on something that's completely opposite from that and show

1561
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 7: you know, my range as an actor.

1562
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 3: So you got crazy Jamie Fox story too. Yeah, talk

1563
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:22,640
Speaker 3: about that.

1564
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 7: So man again, blessed my like God has been good

1565
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 7: to me. So the first first celebrity that I ever

1566
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 7: met in LA was Jamie Fox. And again knowing that

1567
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 7: I wanted to be a triple threat, knowing that I

1568
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:40,200
Speaker 7: wanted to be an actor, seeing a musician, that's somebody

1569
01:12:40,240 --> 01:12:43,200
Speaker 7: I looked up to. But that specific day he was

1570
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 7: filming Django. So if you if you remember he was

1571
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 7: he had the beard, the dirty beard. So it's night,

1572
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,600
Speaker 7: It's night is a party, so feel somebody taped me

1573
01:12:52,640 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 7: on my shoulder and he was like, yo, man, what's up.

1574
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:58,200
Speaker 3: I'm like, what what's up? Something man? Yo? Yo? Yo?

1575
01:12:58,280 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 2: Bro.

1576
01:12:58,400 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of you. Man. I'm like, oh, thank you,

1577
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 3: thank you man for show for show. Bro. Yo, bro,

1578
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 3: what's up? Man? What's up? Bro? I look and I'm like,

1579
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 3: oh wow, my bad dog? What bad?

1580
01:13:10,400 --> 01:13:13,400
Speaker 7: So So he was like, man, you're super talented man.

1581
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 7: Me and Leonardo DiCaprio. Stop our show. I stopped stop

1582
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 7: filming and watch watch you watch your show. Watch boss.

1583
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 7: On set, we have everybody. We have Quentin Tarantine, everybody

1584
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:26,719
Speaker 7: watch you man. I'm like, yo, this kid is super special.

1585
01:13:27,320 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 7: And he was like, how long you been acting? I'm like, man,

1586
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,599
Speaker 7: I've been acting, you know six months now.

1587
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:32,680
Speaker 4: He was like what.

1588
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 7: He's like, you can't take class Like now he was like,

1589
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 7: oh you like me? Okay, bet look bro, Litsten, come

1590
01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 7: to my cryb tomorrow. Let's talk le So go to

1591
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 7: his crib the next day and he's like, so, you've

1592
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 7: been acting, so what have you been doing this all?

1593
01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was like I do music too, Like he

1594
01:13:47,479 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 3: was like you do. So go to a studio playing

1595
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 3: records and he's now blown away. Bro, He's now blown away.

1596
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 7: And now he's like, yo, you are my little brother,

1597
01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:58,400
Speaker 7: like I got you forever, Like whatever you need, I'm

1598
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 7: here for you. You're like me, and he was like,

1599
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 7: I'm gonna help you figure out, you know, money, how

1600
01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 7: to handle these girls. So Jamie became my big brother

1601
01:14:07,880 --> 01:14:10,600
Speaker 7: very very fast, even to the point where when he

1602
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 7: wasn't even at the crib. I would have the key

1603
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,280
Speaker 7: to the house and just chill and just stay you know,

1604
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,720
Speaker 7: do my meetings and stay at Jamie's crib man. And

1605
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 7: it was that type of love and just knowing that

1606
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 7: someone of that caliber who's doing what you're doing, just

1607
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 7: shows you love and just says I got you. And

1608
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 7: he's never he's never switched up. And it's been like

1609
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 7: that for ten years now. But yeah, man, he would

1610
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 7: come to pop up to my events and get on

1611
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:35,559
Speaker 7: stage and be like, Yo, this kid's gonna be the one.

1612
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 7: He's the one watched, you know, and so having that support,

1613
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 7: you know, it's a confidence booster.

1614
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:42,560
Speaker 3: But yeah, I didn't recognize him, but it was. It

1615
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 3: was the funniest thing. And it was I was getting irritated,

1616
01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 3: like yo, stop stop touching me, bro, but it was

1617
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 3: it was Dole. That's crazy. So is there a dream

1618
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 3: role that you see yourself wanting to play one day?

1619
01:14:54,439 --> 01:14:56,400
Speaker 5: Like you brought up Jamie, And I felt like when

1620
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,720
Speaker 5: we watched him in Ray, he was born for that moment. Yes, yes,

1621
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 5: I mean even Common said it like they couldn't tell

1622
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 5: was me like Jamie Ray because you felt like you

1623
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 5: were watching Ray Charles. Is there a role out there

1624
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 5: that you've always dreamed of to say, you know, one day,

1625
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 5: if the situation is right, I want to be this.

1626
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 3: I mean I want to I definitely want to be.

1627
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 7: I don't know if I don't know, I don't know

1628
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,639
Speaker 7: for sure if it's a Marvel character, but I want

1629
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 7: to be a superhero bro and I have my own

1630
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 7: franchise of it, whether it's a superhero or whether it's

1631
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 7: something of like like a dope war veteran that you

1632
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 7: know goes through something crazy. But that those two ideas

1633
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 7: I'm definitely flushing out. But also like having like a

1634
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:39,040
Speaker 7: franchise romantic comedy, you know, like a Meet the Falkers

1635
01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 7: type of situation where it's funny as hell, but like

1636
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:44,679
Speaker 7: it goes three four or five movies and the dynamic

1637
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 7: of a Nigerian and another another race families meeting and

1638
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 7: just be chaotic, you know what I mean.

1639
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 3: So something something cool like that.

1640
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 7: But again, whatever's going to be, I definitely want the

1641
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 7: ownership of it, you know, definitely want the ownership of it.

1642
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 6: So your independent music, right, yeah, So why would you

1643
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 6: want to stay independent or go independent or what? Did

1644
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 6: you have other majors on the table?

1645
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 7: Yeah. So I think at this point in time, like

1646
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:15,600
Speaker 7: I knew that my value as as an artist and

1647
01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 7: as a name, as being somebody like Who's famous. I

1648
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 7: knew because of my relationships, I could cut a lot

1649
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 7: of the budget that a major would pay, you know

1650
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,040
Speaker 7: what I mean. So, knowing that I didn't have, knowing

1651
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 7: I'm not a new artist, I didn't I don't need this,

1652
01:16:29,120 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 7: saying I don't need a heavy marketing budget.

1653
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 3: I don't need this and this and this. I can

1654
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 3: use who I am and what I have.

1655
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 7: So if I keep my my overhead low, and I

1656
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:41,439
Speaker 7: know I have all these these these relationships, and I

1657
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 7: know I also have great music, and I know I

1658
01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:46,080
Speaker 7: can call the radio station and say yo, da da

1659
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 7: da da da da. I was like, why would I

1660
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 7: Why would I make Why would I ask for so

1661
01:16:49,880 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 7: much and pay back so much when I don't necessarily

1662
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:54,559
Speaker 7: have to. So I was like, nah, I don't give

1663
01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 7: me that much. Let me let's let's work this and

1664
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 7: then everything out of that. Get me out of the

1665
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 7: get me out of the red and black faster.

1666
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 3: You know. And so that's what I realized.

1667
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 7: But then again, you build the levers to then sit

1668
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 7: with a major and say, let's partner instead of letting

1669
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 7: letting me be just an artist underneath you know, underneath them.

1670
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,719
Speaker 7: Now it's like a fifty to fifty split, eighty twenty split,

1671
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 7: whatever we work out.

1672
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:17,800
Speaker 3: But I had to build that and show that, okay,

1673
01:17:18,040 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 3: you know.

1674
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 7: And plus I keep majority of the money, more than

1675
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 7: most most artists who are on majors, you know, in

1676
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 7: terms of deals, So it made more sense.

1677
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 3: When you're doing those type of shows and deals.

1678
01:17:29,040 --> 01:17:31,559
Speaker 5: The power or the leverage that you built from acting

1679
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,880
Speaker 5: yes helps in the music right absolutely, especially in negotiation.

1680
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 7: In negotiations, so you know my value. So it's not like,

1681
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 7: I mean, if the music was bad, then okay, but like,

1682
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:42,759
Speaker 7: since the music is good, you see that there's already

1683
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:43,720
Speaker 7: eyes on me.

1684
01:17:44,320 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 3: So okay, you don't have to do heavy lifting. Okay.

1685
01:17:46,840 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 3: It means I don't have to get a five hundred.

1686
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,639
Speaker 7: Thousand budget that I need to do all this when

1687
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 7: you can give us one hundred and we can do

1688
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 7: the same thing and then we out of that hundred faster,

1689
01:17:57,520 --> 01:17:57,680
Speaker 7: you know.

1690
01:17:57,840 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 3: So that's kind of the mindset that I was at.

1691
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 6: So what's your plans for the future, Like, what's your

1692
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 6: top priorities?

1693
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 4: Music is it acting, entrepreneurship.

1694
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 3: My top priority.

1695
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 7: Is entrepreneurship because it comes with everything, right, so that

1696
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 7: now being a father bro like it changes.

1697
01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 3: It makes you so selfless. So now, yeah, the music

1698
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:27,679
Speaker 3: is dope, the acting is dope.

1699
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 7: But now I'm thinking of, okay, everything, How can I

1700
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 7: make sure my son is good, my daughter is good?

1701
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 7: How can I how can I protect their future? Okay,

1702
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 7: I put up money here that they can't touch. Maybe

1703
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 7: when they're eighteen they can touch this or so I'm

1704
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 7: doing everything for them now, and I know being an

1705
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,760
Speaker 7: entrepreneur allows all of this to take care of.

1706
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 3: Them so selfishly.

1707
01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 7: Before that I would have definitely been like, oh, music

1708
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:54,640
Speaker 7: for life, but now it's more so like entrepreneur to

1709
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:55,719
Speaker 7: take care of my family.

1710
01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 3: You know.

1711
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 7: So, how do we make sure these books sell? How

1712
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 7: do we get more subscribe? How do we get more

1713
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 7: favor you know?

1714
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:04,160
Speaker 3: How do we get this? How do we make more

1715
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:06,599
Speaker 3: dope records? How do we get on TV and save

1716
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 3: this bread again? And do that run over? You know?

1717
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 3: So that type of thought and it is beyond me

1718
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 3: is beyond me.

1719
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 5: That's a lot, man, that's a lot. The next part

1720
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 5: of it is you spoke about investing. Yeah, So are

1721
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,320
Speaker 5: you still actively using your brokerage account or is it

1722
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 5: just long term?

1723
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 3: Long term? Long term buying hold, Yeah, buying hold, buying

1724
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 3: home man, Yeah, buying hold. Bro, there's no need, you.

1725
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 5: Know, lasting very last time, and it's because it goes

1726
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 5: back to being married.

1727
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have financial discipline. Yeah. Did you walk into

1728
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 3: the relationship with your wife has in financial discipline? No?

1729
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 3: She was the case man.

1730
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:48,640
Speaker 5: Bro.

1731
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:49,719
Speaker 4: She was so bad.

1732
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 7: Bro, Like it was so bad because it was so

1733
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:57,639
Speaker 7: bad that at one point of it, she she's not realized.

1734
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:00,560
Speaker 7: So when we're building the app, so she's not realizing,

1735
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 7: she's like, I want this part of it, I want this, this, this,

1736
01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:06,280
Speaker 7: and we're talking to the buildings. Yeah, so she's not realized.

1737
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm like, every every time you call them

1738
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 7: and talk to them about this, so you're gonna put

1739
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 7: us in the whole before we even make it. And

1740
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:16,880
Speaker 7: she did you know what I'm saying. So it's like yeah,

1741
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:19,120
Speaker 7: and it's like I can't get mad. It's like, all right,

1742
01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:20,800
Speaker 7: we just gotta figured. And she felt so horrible. So

1743
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 7: I'm happy that happened early because now she's like I'm

1744
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 7: going to just listen and just follow what you're doing.

1745
01:20:26,400 --> 01:20:28,800
Speaker 3: Now. She's incredible with it. Now, man, it's really dope.

1746
01:20:28,840 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 3: That's dope. Still, I know you said saving power checks,

1747
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:35,960
Speaker 3: saving these checks. What is the basis that we do now?

1748
01:20:36,120 --> 01:20:38,679
Speaker 3: Is it the app? Like how it shows?

1749
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 4: Show?

1750
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 3: Still still wow?

1751
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 7: Still nothing else show money, hosting's endorsements and and and

1752
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 7: and and also just you know, singing wedding singing again,

1753
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:50,960
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. I have a new record

1754
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 7: called I Do and it's like a really powerful wedding song.

1755
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 7: So now people hire me to come singing their wedding

1756
01:20:58,160 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 7: for that song.

1757
01:20:58,760 --> 01:20:58,880
Speaker 3: Man.

1758
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 4: And so again you're still don't what you're still.

1759
01:21:01,240 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 7: Don't yea, yeah, yeahs at the price, I'm not and

1760
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 7: my parents ain't stealing my money, yeah, he.

1761
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 5: Said the Nigerian wedding sing And I'm in my head,

1762
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 5: I'm thinking coming to America. It's like because I think

1763
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 5: you're in part two, but in my head I'm saying.

1764
01:21:14,360 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 3: Geez your queen too.

1765
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, man, I was like, listen, man, again, let

1766
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 7: me just save all the acting. I still don't touch

1767
01:21:22,960 --> 01:21:24,960
Speaker 7: my active money. I still haven't, bro I still make

1768
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 7: sure I don't this because again for me, it's just

1769
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 7: there's no need to you know, and and again living

1770
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 7: off the road, that road money and saving everything else,

1771
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 7: everything else, so nothing is touched.

1772
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 4: So you're the most popular couple of Africa.

1773
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, So.

1774
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:44,519
Speaker 6: Do you have plans for Africa as far as like,

1775
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 6: I don't know in terms of what like musical bigger

1776
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 6: than music, just like ambassadors, like I feel like you,

1777
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,640
Speaker 6: I mean, like as far as like rebranding the continent,

1778
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,720
Speaker 6: I don't know, building a hotel or something the part

1779
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 6: like you see Akon doing what he's doing, right and

1780
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:06,680
Speaker 6: you see. So I feel like Africa right now is

1781
01:22:06,680 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 6: going to be the continent of the next century. And

1782
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 6: there's a lot of investment in Africa from a variety

1783
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 6: of different places, China and different things in the nature.

1784
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 6: So it's always good when people that's actually from yeah,

1785
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:20,400
Speaker 6: can actually benefit from it and rebranded, right.

1786
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:20,639
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1787
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 6: I call it positive propaganda absolutely as opposed to negative propaganda.

1788
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 3: Right.

1789
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 6: So you guys being you know how big you guys are.

1790
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 6: I see it as an opportunity and it's both sides

1791
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:35,680
Speaker 6: of the continent, east side, west side, so it's like

1792
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 6: really the whole continent. So have you ever even thought

1793
01:22:38,360 --> 01:22:42,560
Speaker 6: about that, Like you guys role as Africa Ambassadors.

1794
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, So we've talked about building a school

1795
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 7: out there and making it a school for.

1796
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 3: Film and everything.

1797
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 7: That's basically kind of like how Oprah did it, where

1798
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 7: it's not necessarily the curriculum, it's more so about kids

1799
01:22:58,479 --> 01:23:01,080
Speaker 7: being really gifted at something. So if you're a really

1800
01:23:01,160 --> 01:23:03,599
Speaker 7: gifted singer, if you're really gifted actor, if you really

1801
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:05,720
Speaker 7: if you're dope at sports, if you're dope at if

1802
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 7: you want engineering, it becomes not like STEM but more

1803
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 7: like really just tailor made school for just the gifted,

1804
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 7: you know, whatever they wanted to focus on it. So

1805
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:17,200
Speaker 7: if you go and say I like engineering, but oh

1806
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 7: I fell in love with music here, the curriculum will

1807
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 7: shift for you, you know. So having that type of idea,

1808
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 7: so like the next three to five years will definitely

1809
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 7: hone in on that. But and I don't know if

1810
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 7: it'll be in Nigeria or Tanzania, but obviously one of them.

1811
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 7: But we're definitely building the school out there, bro for

1812
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:34,759
Speaker 7: the gifted.

1813
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 6: So how's your kids, like, is it important for you

1814
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,839
Speaker 6: to teach them the African because they've grown up in Atlanta,

1815
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 6: they're Americans?

1816
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1817
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 4: Is that something you think about or you just.

1818
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 7: Absolutely absolutely again, like you know, she's she's only been

1819
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 7: in America for four years.

1820
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:52,840
Speaker 3: That's an African woman. You know, she does not played.

1821
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 7: Brol don't play you know what I'm saying. So she

1822
01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 7: her morals as a mom are so beautiful. And then

1823
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 7: also I was raised by African parents, like an African

1824
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 7: like in a Nigerian household where it was I was

1825
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 7: just living in America, but my parents raised me as

1826
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:14,120
Speaker 7: a Nigerian boy. So those principles are naturally instilled in us,

1827
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 7: you know, and and and we're going to make sure

1828
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 7: you know that they have that because it's really important.

1829
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 7: It's and especially in today's generation, kids get lost very easily, man,

1830
01:24:23,920 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 7: so you don't have a hold on them, you know.

1831
01:24:25,760 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 7: I make sure that my son, you know, reads and

1832
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 7: is creative and has less screen time than than than

1833
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:34,439
Speaker 7: than the average kid because now he's trying to figure

1834
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 7: things out and he's super intelligent. So yeah, so I

1835
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 7: think it's more so just keeping the principles I grew

1836
01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:40,600
Speaker 7: up with.

1837
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:45,080
Speaker 6: So last question, Afrobeats, how has it been for you?

1838
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 6: And is that something that you're you want to embrace

1839
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 6: because your music is.

1840
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 3: Not afrobeats, it's halving hal yeah. Yeah.

1841
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,800
Speaker 6: So seeing the rise of afrobeats from David Old to

1842
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 6: Vernon Boyd to TAM's Yeah, it's taking over the world. Yeah,

1843
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:02,720
Speaker 6: how does that feel for you? Like, you know, being

1844
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 6: Nigerian and yeah, are you leaning more into afrobeats these days?

1845
01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 6: These days because it is so popular.

1846
01:25:10,360 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 3: So for me, bro like, I just make music that

1847
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 3: feels right.

1848
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 7: And the thing about it is, the two records that

1849
01:25:17,200 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 7: are about to go platinum were afrobeat records of mine.

1850
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:23,439
Speaker 7: So it wasn't me trying to do anything. It was

1851
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,240
Speaker 7: me just being myself and making music that makes me

1852
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 7: feel good. So me and Punch were talking about earlier.

1853
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 7: It was just like, bro, like, why don't you do this?

1854
01:25:31,600 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 7: Why don't you get on this, Why don't you try this?

1855
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:35,400
Speaker 7: Why don't you do this? So I'm very versatile as

1856
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 7: a musician, so I don't really put myself in a box.

1857
01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:41,800
Speaker 7: But it's if it feels good, it feels good at

1858
01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:43,519
Speaker 7: this point in time, you know, and there's no real

1859
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 7: road map anymore for it. But like we have a

1860
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:48,800
Speaker 7: record you know that's coming out with Coil Er Ray

1861
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 7: that's going to be crazy, you know, it's not really

1862
01:25:50,680 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 7: an afrobeat records, more kind of dancehall reggae, you know.

1863
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:58,080
Speaker 7: So it's not it's it's kind of like all over.

1864
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 7: But I have a wedding song that's traditional R and B,

1865
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 7: you know. So it's basically just being able to play,

1866
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,559
Speaker 7: you know, the different levels of my talent being musician,

1867
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 7: be a musician, be free.

1868
01:26:09,640 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 4: There you have it.

1869
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 6: So how can they tap in? Get the skin kare

1870
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:15,600
Speaker 6: line and all of that. Tell them all of the

1871
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 6: stuff you got working on anything.

1872
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 3: So listen.

1873
01:26:17,640 --> 01:26:21,639
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, so favorite skin f A v R. Skin

1874
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 7: dot com is available for you guys everywhere. If you

1875
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 7: want to subscribe to our wellness app for the Beetter

1876
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:32,599
Speaker 7: dot me, if you want to pick up our book

1877
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 7: Swahili one on one and yeah, man, just keep supporting

1878
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 7: the records coming out very very soon, keep supporting man.

1879
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:42,360
Speaker 3: And this is really dope. Man. I appreciate y'all. Thank

1880
01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:42,840
Speaker 3: you for coming.

1881
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 4: Man. You gotta pull up on us in Atlanta.

1882
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, continent too, man, So we got big.

1883
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 4: You been Ghana before?

1884
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:51,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I just left me.

1885
01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 4: We gotta showing Ghana at the end.

1886
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:55,160
Speaker 3: Of the year. So it's gonna be dope. Look forward.

1887
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 4: To it.

1888
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:56,000
Speaker 3: I'm there with you.

1889
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 4: You heard it first, Troy Housekeeping Idols.

1890
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 5: Well, first, I'd like to just let everybody know if

1891
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 5: you're looking to book me as an actor, a method

1892
01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 5: actor out to a so at ernie leisure dot com.

1893
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 3: I can't say that. I well reach out to him

1894
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 3: on a serious note.

1895
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 5: Shout that everybody on EYL University, all our earners, OURPX people.

1896
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,160
Speaker 5: It's been a beautiful blue for community. We were up

1897
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:27,599
Speaker 5: in t dot and we we started a new chapter

1898
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 5: up there. So shout out to y'all.

1899
01:27:28,800 --> 01:27:31,719
Speaker 7: Shout out to the Merged team, everybody that's been supporting

1900
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 7: from day one. Man love his love, continue to to

1901
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 7: build with us.

1902
01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 4: Thank you guys for rock ros to see you next week.

1903
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:37,559
Speaker 3: Peace.

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01:27:37,760 --> 01:27:41,360
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