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Speaker 1: Good morning, good as, good evening, good night.

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Speaker 2: No, we're not started like that.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, let's do this the right way.

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Speaker 5: Hold on, hold up, it's a boy d J E

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Speaker 4: We are intro doesn't include making.

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Speaker 6: Noise, which that's why it sucks.

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Speaker 4: He comes home with a catchphrase.

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Speaker 1: Why why does it have to be abuse?

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Speaker 3: Right away? Your cute in We're done, We're done.

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Speaker 1: We're done, all right, listen outside the sounds on Peter

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Speaker 1: Rosenberg and we're from one of his life, the first

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Speaker 1: ever hip hop podcast ever ever.

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Speaker 2: First ever, first.

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Speaker 6: But we're joined by the most successful hip hop podcast

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Speaker 6: success right and DJA.

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Speaker 2: And we're also.

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Speaker 6: Joined by an incredible cast of legends to celebrate hip

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Speaker 6: hop fifty Yeah. We got newcomers who are going to

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Speaker 6: be legends. We have absolute icons in our miss yeah.

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Speaker 4: This is a crazy collection again, this is wild right here.

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Speaker 7: We got pioneers, we got people doing it right now.

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Speaker 3: The game hasn't stopped.

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Speaker 1: Fifty years old right now, fifty years old. We're calling

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Speaker 1: this fifty SIPs, ladies and gentlemen, because we're getting drunk.

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Speaker 8: Okay, okay, toast today yeah, so toasted hip hop.

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Speaker 4: Who's crazy idea was this panel?

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Speaker 1: It's a great idea, want conglomerations energy?

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Speaker 9: Was it the monster go in the boardroom and say,

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Speaker 9: let's just do some fucking crazy shit.

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Speaker 1: That's how.

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Speaker 9: It's like, just put everybody together, like from every generation.

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Speaker 9: And who's whose idea was? I thought he was going

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Speaker 9: to claim it?

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Speaker 2: Rosenberg.

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Speaker 6: No, I'm happy to claim it, but I would be

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Speaker 6: utterly lying. Now this is super exciting. If I can

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Speaker 6: you announce the man sitting next to you plans this

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Speaker 6: is crazy man.

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Speaker 5: Leg Grandmaster kas is not mean, it's like hip hop

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Speaker 5: is officially here.

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Speaker 6: If grand Masters in the bills back, I mean you

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Speaker 6: the only one.

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Speaker 10: That was fifty years Yeah, you're really the only one.

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Speaker 1: You look fantastic. What about introducers next year?

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Speaker 4: I mean, guys, we're talking about the.

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Speaker 6: Original female MC a B girl going back to nineteen

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Speaker 1: Shut up.

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Speaker 11: But also let me add that to you.

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Speaker 12: Nineteen seventy seven, I became the first female MC of

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Speaker 12: hip hop culture before records before nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wow, yes, wow, that's my sister.

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Speaker 13: We on Rock and Bells Radio Monday through Product.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's right every single day.

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Speaker 6: And let me just start before we get to all

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Speaker 6: these other introductions. I do want to start with you, guys,

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Speaker 6: the ogs, the true og is here. How has hip

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Speaker 6: Hop fifty been treated you so far? Have you been

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Speaker 6: enjoying the celebration most definitely.

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Speaker 13: We've been on radio for about almost two years now,

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Speaker 13: and so we chronologically go over the history of the

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Speaker 13: culture on a regular since we've been on the radio.

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Speaker 13: That's what our show is about. And this year has

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Speaker 13: been amazing. I mean, we saw it coming, you know,

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Speaker 2: It continues in year fifty one.

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Speaker 13: Like we talked about earlier, this is important. This is

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Speaker 13: a milestone, and this is going to be our first

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Speaker 13: fiftieth and our last fiftieth.

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Speaker 11: We're going to be around here for the next one.

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Speaker 2: So it's extra special to us.

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Speaker 12: My thing, Yeah, my thing is that, And this is

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Speaker 12: what I want everybody to understand when we're.

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Speaker 11: Talking about the fiftieth.

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Speaker 12: In the version of hip hop culture, there is no

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Speaker 11: Culture, the culture and all.

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Speaker 12: A satus of hip hop coaching and all the elements

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Speaker 12: is the DJ, the B girl, the B boy, the

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Speaker 12: the show right now, if you're not celebrating all of

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Speaker 11: You're not. You're not.

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Speaker 1: These guys came with an agenda.

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Speaker 3: This is no no, This is something no no.

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Speaker 11: This is something that I preach you all the time.

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Speaker 11: This is something that I preach all the time.

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Speaker 12: And my thing is that you don't have to be

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Speaker 12: the DJ, the MC, We'll all celebrate. These are what

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Speaker 11: This is what hip hop is about.

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Speaker 12: And so when you hear you know, the status and

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Speaker 12: It's just the history of the culture that we're celebrating

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Speaker 12: that means, and it tells bottom line.

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Speaker 1: Blake makes a noise for that, and it's funny to

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Speaker 1: say that because I feel, you know, like you said,

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Speaker 1: the four elements DJing, graffiti, MC, and then Breaking, and they.

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Speaker 12: But those are the four core elements that encompass what hip.

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Speaker 1: Hop is and I feel Breaking sometimes gets treated lesser

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Speaker 3: So bro, come on, yo, man.

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Speaker 14: First off, I just want to say it's an honor

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Speaker 14: You know, I started Breaking ninety five, but to be

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Speaker 14: I think Breaking is finally going to receive that reinforcement

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Speaker 14: that is always needed because back in the eighties, I

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Speaker 14: elevating the culture in so many ways, but the Breaker

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Speaker 14: that just the concept and the idea of hip hop

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Speaker 3: Man, it's a true blessing.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was hard to see b boying and Breaking

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Speaker 1: So that's why they put it literally on a train

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So now it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: in the Olympics and on the main screen. It's going

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Speaker 14: Look, the Bee Boys, the B Girls, they don't exist

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Speaker 14: beautiful picture. And I just hope that the IOC, the

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Speaker 14: everyone is a little has a little fear that the

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Speaker 3: You know, I just want to see.

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Speaker 6: I just want to see what what commentators they have

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Speaker 12: That conversation we had because I'm a big girl in

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Speaker 12: nineteen seventy six, right, and so of course you know

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Speaker 12: We've we called him the father of hip hop because

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Speaker 12: and he changed their name you know recently, Right, No,

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Speaker 12: for real, and then you had Tricksy the first.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 15: I'm loving that. I don't know, I'm glad that he

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Speaker 3: His face was like, oh.

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Speaker 12: No, no, that's what they were called back in the days,

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Speaker 12: Older, twins, thank you, they recently changed the names changing.

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Speaker 12: But the thing is, what I'm saying is like you said,

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Speaker 12: Giralism started back, you know, in the thirties, you know,

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Speaker 12: when you had you know, different old older people, you know, breakdancing.

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Speaker 12: But we're talking about hip hop culture and Cass has

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Speaker 12: re reinvented everything. So I hate when people come, yeah,

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Speaker 12: breakdancing is going to or be girlism or bee boyism

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Speaker 12: is going to how it's going to affect you know.

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Speaker 12: I want to see it, take it taken from the

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Speaker 7: One thing we got to know is that I don't

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Speaker 7: think hip pop would have grown internationally the way it

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Speaker 7: they understood the lyrics they was dancing, was tagging up.

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Speaker 11: It's none without the other.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see the Bulgarian Olympic bee boy.

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Speaker 3: I heard.

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Speaker 12: We started with the up rocks, the up rocks in

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Speaker 12: the seventies with the up rocks, and then it progressed,

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Speaker 12: you know, to the floor moves and all of that.

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Speaker 14: Maybe they'll create a sequel to like Cool Runnings right

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Speaker 14: right about.

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Speaker 3: The Bulgarian Boys.

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Speaker 4: That would be something.

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Speaker 3: Rudenberg.

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Speaker 2: You can shout out the Bulgarian.

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Speaker 4: Shout out the Bulgarian twins side.

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Speaker 6: If only we had someone here from the graph world

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Speaker 6: to you know, explain the graffiti.

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Speaker 6: Risk.

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Speaker 16: Oh, I'm like gonna try on the wall here, man,

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Speaker 16: I'm just listening everything. I'm just it's honored to be here.

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Speaker 3: This is fucking amazing.

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Speaker 4: Risk.

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Speaker 6: You tell us a little bit about your origins, your

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Speaker 16: Yeah, man, so, uh, you know, I was interested stret

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Speaker 16: subwhere art that was like the Bible to us, stuff

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Speaker 16: like that, and all I want to do is paint trains, right,

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Speaker 16: So we didn't have trains. I went paying some freight trains.

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Speaker 16: That wasn't the same feeling. I graduated high school. I

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Speaker 16: and I just I was like, I was on a mission.

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Speaker 4: Is what is exactly h hitch hiking? What is exactly that?

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Speaker 3: Well, you put your dumb up and after that was

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Speaker 2: You do one of these days. I didn't even get

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Speaker 2: out of Hollywood. SOE was like, what are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I sad I'm hitchhiking to paint trains.

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Speaker 2: He goes, you're fucking stupid.

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Speaker 3: He goes, take my car.

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Speaker 16: I'm like, what's the acting is, I'll pay you to

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Speaker 2: So it was.

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Speaker 16: It was a little easier, but I made it to

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Speaker 2: And they're like.

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Speaker 1: What do you do?

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Speaker 4: I told me. They said, that's fucking wild.

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Speaker 2: They you're gonna get killed.

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Speaker 3: You're fucking out of your mind.

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Speaker 16: And they hooked me up, man, and they took me

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Speaker 16: I have a New York style, and that's where it

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Speaker 16: came from. That's how it started, you know. I was

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Speaker 16: love the art form. I appreciate every aspect of it.

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Speaker 16: I appreciate every aspect of hip hop, you know.

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Speaker 11: And let me let me go sound with you, sir.

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Speaker 12: When you talk about graffiti art, a lot of people

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Speaker 12: like to say, okay, so graffiti, you know, it was,

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Speaker 12: had their own their own section, right. But how it

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Speaker 12: you had the people like Buddy Esquire, who was the

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Speaker 12: Anthony Rowley, and then you had other you know, artists

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Speaker 12: you know that were painting on the trains in New

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Speaker 11: And what happened was in nineteen.

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Speaker 12: Seventy eight switched the whole game of graffiti coming into

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Speaker 12: he said, okay, well, hip hop, you know, graffiti is

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Speaker 12: Rowleies that would transferred that information over to flyer makers,

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Speaker 12: my group, the Flankie four plus one of the Brothers Disco,

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Speaker 12: and he began to start making fights for every single

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Speaker 12: that's how you know, graffiti intertwined with that. And he

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Speaker 12: started drawing uh graffiti on people.

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Speaker 4: Pays you make your sound French.

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Speaker 12: Saw the Bronx, but I'm living in Texas down so

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Speaker 12: you get the book. So you're getting at the book

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Speaker 12: the world. So what happened is that he he started

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Speaker 12: the eight ball jackets and all that stuff. And on

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Speaker 12: my DJ's car, DJ Breakout on the Doom Buggy. He

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Speaker 12: started doing the graffiti on doom buggies and cars. And

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Speaker 12: that's how graffiti came over to hip hop culture as

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Speaker 12: one of the elements for hip hop culture.

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Speaker 2: I want to I want to look at graffiti.

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Speaker 6: Guini, Why can you tell us a little bit about

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Speaker 6: your your coming up, your first sort of engagement with

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Speaker 6: hip hop, like do you I always ask that to

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Speaker 6: New York artists. But growing up in Texas, what was

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Speaker 3: Cost That's a.

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Speaker 10: Great question actually, So I had a stepmom that was

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Speaker 10: really into music and she would keep a lot of

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Speaker 10: of music, right, So there was some hip hop, early

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Speaker 10: hip hop throwing in there, but then it was also

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Speaker 10: like Millie Jackson and Dolomite and like real wold shit.

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Speaker 2: Right, you know.

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Speaker 10: So as hip hop started to become more reflective, I

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Speaker 10: was like, okay, well, well the ship they were making

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Speaker 10: then it's kind of like this but with different beats

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Speaker 10: and all of that. But I think for me it

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Speaker 10: was like, damn broken glass everywhere with the fuck are

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 10: Like we had we had projects and we you know,

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Speaker 10: we had projects.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, but it wasn't broken glass everything.

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Speaker 6: You know what.

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Speaker 11: People just don't care.

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Speaker 2: Right where they lived at.

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Speaker 10: And the more you listen to it, like me being

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Speaker 10: in Texas, in the small town of Port Art, I'm like, yo,

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Speaker 10: it shit happening in LA That kind of sound like

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Speaker 10: it's happening here. It shit happening in New York. That

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Speaker 10: kind of sound like it's happening here. I just don't

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Speaker 10: get those words right. And then you start meeting people,

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Speaker 10: you start to break down the lexicon. Oh, that's what

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Speaker 10: that means. We just call it like stabbing the nigga.

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Speaker 10: So that's what buck fifty mean, that's what okay?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 11: Cool?

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Speaker 2: And then you start all I'm like, oh yeah.

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Speaker 10: And then the Ghetto Boys made the song you know

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Speaker 10: the world is a ghetto, and we realized that everything

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Speaker 10: that we're doing, everybody else is doing. We use different words,

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Speaker 10: we saved a different way. We say graffiti, right, but

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Speaker 10: we all know what we're talking about. But I wanted

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Speaker 10: to be an active part of it, right. I came

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Speaker 10: and I was like, one day, like I want to

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Speaker 10: I saw a microphone fiend. I was like, I want

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Speaker 10: White Walking with the Light had the little dude with

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Speaker 10: the chain. I said, I'm gonna get Oh, I'm kids,

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Speaker 10: my little man gonna have a gold chain. We're gonna

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Speaker 10: be flying all that type of shit.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. But it was something that

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Speaker 10: It felt so different from everything else that everybody was doing,

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Speaker 10: and there was a clear entry point for me to

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Speaker 10: get in. So I started out actually breakdancing first. You

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Speaker 10: know what I'm saying. I think my move was a

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Speaker 10: suicide because I was a big dude when I got

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Speaker 10: this suicide. Yes, yes, I remember going to break In

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Speaker 10: two and we just started breakdancing in the movie, did

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Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying, Like, we just started.

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Speaker 2: Battling in there, you know.

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Speaker 10: But when I picked up depending, I started writing and trash.

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Speaker 10: It'd be very real. My first rounds were trash. They

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Speaker 10: were garbage. But I was on beat, which is better

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Speaker 10: than half of the niggas in the group I was with.

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Speaker 10: They didn't even nobody took the beat. But I wanted

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Speaker 10: where if I ever did go to New York and

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Speaker 10: I met somebody that I looked them to, like a

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Speaker 10: big Daddy or Coogi Rap or Bis Markie or Massas.

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Speaker 10: I was a big Juice Crew fan, obviously because they

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Speaker 10: were like one of the people that perpetuated eight or

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Speaker 10: part of the culture, so it was very easy for

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Speaker 10: us to enjoy New York music. But I wanted to

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Speaker 10: when I met MC's to be like, Yo, you can rap.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 10: It wasn't And when I started rapping in eighty eight,

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Speaker 10: it was not about getting money. It was not about

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Speaker 10: being rich. I never knew if I would ever make

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Speaker 10: any money off of hip hop. I didn't know if

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Speaker 10: people to say I was a dope MC. And here

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Speaker 10: I am thirty two years later, still beating niggas up

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 1: Well, And can we add burgers to the hip hop element?

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Speaker 12: There the number one Burger.

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Speaker 3: Let's make some nowise trill.

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Speaker 9: But by the way, if if you've never been there,

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Speaker 9: it's one of the coolest spots in the world. Like,

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Speaker 9: you go there, you can just chill out. No one's

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Speaker 9: gonna bother you. There's so used to stars there, like

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Speaker 9: everybody's v P. It's like and I stayed online like

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Speaker 9: a regular person. I paid my tab like a regular

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Speaker 9: person because I am a regular person and it's a

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Speaker 9: great spot. But the thing about it is when you

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Speaker 9: think about that's hip hop, like that's it is hip hop,

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Speaker 9: like it's almost it almost should be on every you know,

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Speaker 9: on your writer, like on your writer, Like I don't

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Speaker 9: even care if you don't go to Texas radio, I

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Speaker 9: don't know know nothing to just sell on the radio.

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Speaker 4: I don't need to care if you you go straight

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Speaker 4: to the.

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Speaker 9: Trio Burgers and get your hip hop experience.

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Speaker 10: On because it's hip our music playing, there's murals on

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Speaker 10: the wall, like you know. We try to make sure

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Speaker 10: for me, it's about cultural experience, right. We all representatives

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Speaker 10: of the culture. We all inherently carry culture with us,

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Speaker 10: so we every time we come outside and people meet us,

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Speaker 10: we may be the only representation of hip hop that

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Speaker 10: they see, you know what I'm saying. So I feel

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Speaker 10: like my restaurant may be one of the first cultural

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Speaker 10: buildings that they may come to and actually experience a

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Speaker 10: hip hop environment. So I needed to look like it's trill.

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Speaker 10: I needed to feel like it's trill. I needed to

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Speaker 10: sound like it's trick. But we already know the burger

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Speaker 10: tastes trill. But that's what I want when somebody from

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Speaker 10: New York or Miami or La whatever. When they come down,

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Speaker 10: they should feel like I'm in Houston right now. I'm

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Speaker 10: in bum be shit right now. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 10: because that's all we do is provide cultural experiences for people.

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Speaker 10: Were these cultural conduits.

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Speaker 2: To the world.

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Speaker 9: And I'm sorry to say that, but because so many

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Speaker 9: people besides jay Z rappers would never be the entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 9: they will always say that we was the stupid people

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Speaker 9: signed these contracts with perpetual long deals.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sound like this.

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Speaker 9: I know people that still signs in their contract right now.

445
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 9: People don't get a chance to have a second career,

446
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Speaker 9: so you know what I mean, or some of us

447
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,679
Speaker 9: are third career, you know what I mean. Like, so

448
00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,000
Speaker 9: just to see you in the culinary arts.

449
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Speaker 4: What does that?

450
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Speaker 3: There?

451
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Speaker 2: You go?

452
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 10: But it's really a cultural brand, right because what happens

453
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,480
Speaker 10: is is we go out into the world and we

454
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,600
Speaker 10: become more influential.

455
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Speaker 2: Whatever.

456
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 10: We're carrying cultural equity with us and typically that cultural

457
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,760
Speaker 10: equity is always co opted by the sponsors and record

458
00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,399
Speaker 10: labels or whatever. But they basically try to pay us

459
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,639
Speaker 10: a bunch of money to sell their products so that

460
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 10: we don't turn around and use this cultural equity to

461
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,920
Speaker 10: sell our products, you know what I'm saying. And that's

462
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 10: where the real transition comes in, when we realize the

463
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Speaker 10: real power we have. Well, if I'm doing this for them,

464
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 10: if they're paying me five hundred racks to promote this product,

465
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Speaker 10: they're gonna use my cultural.

466
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Speaker 2: Equity and they're gonna make millions.

467
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Speaker 10: So I got to get my hands on a product

468
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Speaker 10: that I can sell to the people and get my

469
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Speaker 10: own millions. So I found my burgen. I encourage everybody

470
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Speaker 10: to take the cultural equity that you inherently carry as

471
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Speaker 10: a representative of this culture and find you.

472
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Speaker 3: Now as.

473
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Speaker 6: At what point was did you realize that this thing

474
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Speaker 6: that you guys were doing back in the late seventies

475
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 6: could one day become something that has cultural equity and

476
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 6: leads to millions of dollars? Like was there was there

477
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Speaker 6: a moment when you went, oh, this thing's gotten way

478
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Speaker 6: bigger than I even realized.

479
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Speaker 13: Yeah, people ask me all the time, did you ever

480
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Speaker 13: did you ever, you know, did you ever field or

481
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Speaker 13: envision that hip hop would grow to the you know,

482
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Speaker 13: to the extent that it has. And I'll you know,

483
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Speaker 13: I honestly answered I, Hell no, I'll be stupid if

484
00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,960
Speaker 13: I say, yeah, I knew it was gonna be as big,

485
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Speaker 13: And I have no equity in it.

486
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Speaker 2: I have except for who I am.

487
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Speaker 13: That's equity though, Yeah, that's that's the piece.

488
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Speaker 2: But it's a lot of people. If I have known,

489
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Speaker 2: I would own hip hop, Okay, you.

490
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Speaker 11: Could not.

491
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Speaker 13: You couldn't not have a hip hop chicken store, or

492
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Speaker 13: a hip hop clothing store or hip hop.

493
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Speaker 2: Hip Hop is.

494
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Speaker 13: The biggest culture in the world, is the biggest business

495
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 13: in the world, and it's the only business you can

496
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Speaker 13: get into without answering to nobody. You ain't got to

497
00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 13: answer to nobody to say your product or.

498
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Speaker 4: Is hip hop.

499
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Speaker 13: You don't got to be certified by nobody. There's no

500
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Speaker 13: governing board of the culture of hip hop. It's just

501
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,120
Speaker 13: a free for all. Now, whatever industry, whatever conglomerate, whatever corporation,

502
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:40,520
Speaker 13: do you know that you could just walk into it benefits.

503
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Speaker 2: Off you know what I mean.

504
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Speaker 13: So in that sense, that's why it's grown to the

505
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Speaker 13: proportions that it has. And had I known, I definitely

506
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 13: would have taken a stake in it. But we were

507
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Speaker 13: part of developing it. It was in the process of being done.

508
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,639
Speaker 13: We were in the creative process. We wasn't looking on

509
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 13: how to market it to the masses or how to

510
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 13: mass produce it, you know what I mean. We went individuals,

511
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 13: all trying to make a name for ourselves in the bronx,

512
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Speaker 13: you know what I mean, or wherever we are.

513
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Speaker 6: We were, so do you when people started really blowing up,

514
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,480
Speaker 6: when the first rap stars started happening, right.

515
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 2: Well, I'm getting to that, getting to that.

516
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,560
Speaker 13: The first time I knew okay, there was a couple

517
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Speaker 13: of signs that showed me, okay, this is going.

518
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Speaker 2: Past what we're doing right here.

519
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 13: The first thing was in seventy nine when Rappers Delight

520
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 13: came out. Okay, when the first commercialized rap song came out,

521
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 13: and we knew, okay, this is going somewhere past where

522
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 13: we thought. The second one for me was the movie

523
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 13: Wild Style, and we did the movie Wild Style.

524
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Speaker 2: It was like a stamp of validation.

525
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 13: From outside, like, Yo, that shit y'all doing is valid.

526
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Speaker 2: It's cool. I don't care what if you Because hip

527
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Speaker 2: hop in the beginning.

528
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Speaker 13: Wasn't like, oh Wow, what's that thing you're doing?

529
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Speaker 2: That's great?

530
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Speaker 13: People was like what the fuck is Sit down now?

531
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Speaker 13: Why y'all, why are you scuffing up the see because

532
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:06,440
Speaker 13: spin around.

533
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,440
Speaker 1: On the floor. You're not supposed to connect to that

534
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: life post.

535
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:10,360
Speaker 3: What did you say?

536
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 13: You know what I mean, that's not music. That's all

537
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,119
Speaker 13: we heard, Okay. But and the fact that you know

538
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 13: it got passed all that and grew to the proportion

539
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 13: that it is. It's a testament to the power of

540
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 13: hip hop. And like budd Bee said, you know, find

541
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 13: find your burger, okay, because we all, we all got

542
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 13: a stake in this culture, especially us that been here

543
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 13: the longest.

544
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Speaker 7: One thing, I think that there needs to be a

545
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 7: distinction maybe between the culture that is hip hop and

546
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Speaker 7: the industry that monetizes hip hop calling itself hip hop.

547
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Speaker 4: Yes, isn't it?

548
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Speaker 9: Isn't that you feel like the hip hop union that

549
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 9: we've been talking about, like like that That's what me

550
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 9: and e FN like when we first sorted ship. We

551
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,440
Speaker 9: felt like, you know, every other job that you have,

552
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 9: like you have pensions, you have shit like that, like,

553
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 9: and there's people who put it in time in hip

554
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 9: hop and I feel.

555
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 3: Like what I'm talking about, Like, I feel like I.

556
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 9: Feel like every artist, you know what I mean, I

557
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 9: should go to build a definitely a trust fund. Like

558
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 9: I don't know how much money it is, but you

559
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 9: know what I'm saying. So if anybody ever gets sick,

560
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 9: anybody ever would like need something like I feel like.

561
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Speaker 4: We should have a pension. I feel like like I

562
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 4: feel like, you know what.

563
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Speaker 9: I mean, like after twenty five years you're in here,

564
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,159
Speaker 9: you should get a big ass check or you know

565
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 9: what I mean, like and your family should be straight.

566
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Speaker 3: Like no one in hip hop.

567
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Speaker 10: But see that what the problem is is that everybody

568
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 10: within the culture agrees with the concept, but the funding

569
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,479
Speaker 10: has to come from the people that monetize the culture, right,

570
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 10: and we're never going to get the labels to agree

571
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 10: on that. So unless we the actual practitioners take it

572
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 10: upon ourselves to protect each other and help each other, it's.

573
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 2: Never just one new artist.

574
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Speaker 11: So I want to add to that.

575
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Speaker 12: I want to add to that, Nori, because you have

576
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 12: Curtis Blow, you have Chuck d you have Special Air,

577
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 12: that have the hip hop coalition that that.

578
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 11: Is what they're trying to do right now.

579
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 12: So they're still trying to form, you know, similar to

580
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 12: you know, a unique KRS one is a part of

581
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 12: it to MC like is a party two. So they're

582
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 12: still trying to form it to ensure that exactly what

583
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 12: everybody is saying, it does come.

584
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 10: To fruition, because if you go to Hollywood, like there's

585
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 10: there's funds, right actors, there's literally a house in Hollywood

586
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 10: where when actors is a big mansion and when actors

587
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 10: get old and they can't afford to pay rent, you

588
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,120
Speaker 10: can go and live in the house.

589
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a there's a big,

590
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 2: nice house.

591
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, you know.

592
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 10: So, but again, everybody has to figure out what their

593
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 10: level of participation is going to be. Do we make

594
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 10: the jay Z's pay more, right, do we make the

595
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 10: scar Lips pay less? Or do we just have a

596
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 10: general amount right that everybody contributes to and then somebody's

597
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 10: got a monitor to finance. Is that because so many

598
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 10: of us inside of the culture have had such bad

599
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 10: financial situations within the culture, have been taken advantage of

600
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Speaker 10: by contractual loss, we come in with a lot of

601
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 10: apprehension about money, you know.

602
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: What I'm saying.

603
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 10: So it's going to take literally the same way that

604
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 10: we have this diverse group of individuals representing the culture here,

605
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 10: we need hip hop lawyers. We need hip hop accountants, right, Like,

606
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 10: that's part of the culture too. Somebody's got to help

607
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 10: protect us from the vultures and.

608
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 11: They're out there.

609
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 3: Boys that.

610
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: We just we just have to really find a.

611
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 10: Way to agree on what the level of participation is

612
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 10: for different representatives of the culture.

613
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 12: And it would benefit all of us simply because at

614
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,719
Speaker 12: some point, Kas and I we helped create this culture,

615
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 12: and then you have Nori, and then we have you,

616
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 12: you know, and then we have Scarlet. At some point

617
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 12: we're all going to get older and we're all going

618
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 12: to become.

619
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 11: Legends, pre legends, you know, or legends, whatever.

620
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 12: School, old school, We're all going to become old school

621
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 12: and og. So this is to protect all of us

622
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 12: and for the people that's going to be coming behind us.

623
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 6: So you said there could literally be so you could

624
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 6: literally be like a card carrying member of the only issue.

625
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 2: The only issue is.

626
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 10: If you look at like workmen, unions and teamsits and

627
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 10: all of that, all of the people in the union

628
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 10: genuinely make the same amount of money, right, so they're

629
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 10: all getting the same ship pulled out of that check.

630
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 10: We have too many varying levels of income and hip hop.

631
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 10: So we just got to figure out if you're this

632
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 10: level of rapper, you contribute this. If you're here, you

633
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 10: contribute this. If you're independent and you get a higher profit.

634
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Not just a rapper, you're

635
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 2: gonna have to kick it. If you're a podcaster, if

636
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 2: you're if you're.

637
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 10: The most success if you're the most successful podcaster, if.

638
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 3: Your ship's up here, I know how this works.

639
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 11: But what you say, contribute, that's true.

640
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 15: I'm post.

641
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 12: We have to get the corporations that has been a

642
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 12: stake and have not really given best.

643
00:28:50,280 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 17: Every corporation, every quarter benefited.

644
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: But we talk all this hip hop, let's talk to

645
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: the youngest artists in the building.

646
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 3: Scarlet Starlet.

647
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: When you hear all this hip hop fifty talk, what

648
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: what do you think in your generation?

649
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 10: Like?

650
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: And you hear like, does it even make any sense

651
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: that it's fifty years old?

652
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:21,959
Speaker 4: Right?

653
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 15: I thought it was really older?

654
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: Right?

655
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 18: Right?

656
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: Ain't that.

657
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 11: Years?

658
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 3: Isn't that flow?

659
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 2: Right?

660
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 4: No?

661
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: No, babies say, they say very new in the in

662
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, a new culture, a new genre.

663
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: You know, it's fifty years now, But it's like think

664
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: of you know, yeah, classical music is hundreds of years old,

665
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: like this is very new. And do we all look

666
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: like old men to you? We look like a bunch

667
00:29:50,880 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: of old freaks, right, legends, Because I really like, I

668
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: really like I'm from the Bronx, and I really like

669
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: the resurgence of the Bronx and hip hop right now.

670
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 3: There's like so many brons exactly, and you.

671
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: Must be so proud.

672
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 4: I am.

673
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: Yes, it's crazy, yes.

674
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: And really so many dope girls right now, so many.

675
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 12: And I went to Scarlet off record and I told

676
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 12: her how proud I am of her, because the first

677
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 12: thing people like to say when when they know that

678
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 12: I'm a OG and the first female and see of

679
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 12: hip hop culture, Well, what do you think about the

680
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 12: female artists out here today?

681
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 11: And I rock with all of them?

682
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 12: Why Because a lot of times when we talk about

683
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 12: hip hop, and I said that before, people just look

684
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 12: at the rap aspect. But we are all individuals, we

685
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 12: all sounded alike. Then it wouldn't be rap music and

686
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 12: it wouldn't be hip hop. So I love what you

687
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 12: have brung to the table, especially being a new artist.

688
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 12: Because I told her when I heard our song and

689
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 12: I was driving on the highway in Texas, and she

690
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 12: was like, back the fuck up, move the fuck back.

691
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 4: You know what. I'm sad.

692
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 12: And I was on a highway like this, telling everybody

693
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 12: on the highway back to fuck up, move the.

694
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 11: Fuck back, because I get it. I get it, you

695
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. This is how we live, not

696
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 11: just in the Bronx, but also in New York City.

697
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 12: We always had that type of attitude in New York.

698
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 11: Look, I just gotta go fuck with me, let me

699
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 11: get myself together.

700
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 12: And I respect her so much in everything people think.

701
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: People think out of New York. People think New York

702
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: is a rude We're not rude. We're just in a rush,

703
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: like a favorite.

704
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 11: Back the fuck up, Move the fuck back. You know,

705
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 11: we got things to do.

706
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you personally.

707
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 6: But it's also crazy to think about now where hip

708
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 6: hop can still go because if you look back at

709
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 6: the last thirty years.

710
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 4: We've had all these moments.

711
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 6: I mean, Latifa and Moni put out Ladies First thirty

712
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 6: some years ago, right and you're.

713
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 3: Like, wow, it's time, it's time.

714
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 6: Fast forward, you get you get Lauren, fast Forward, you

715
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 6: get Nikki. We keep going, and it really was this

716
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 6: is the first year where the women have brow.

717
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 4: Redominated the whole fit. Yeah, it's amazing.

718
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,959
Speaker 12: Women has always been on the front line. We've always

719
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 12: been on the front line. It's just that y'all dudes,

720
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 12: wasn't talking about y'all wasn't talking about it. But we've

721
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 12: always been on the front line.

722
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 3: Always like a lot of.

723
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 18: Opportunity for all types of different females to come in

724
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 18: the game, because before it wasn't really like that, you know,

725
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 18: but like now it's just like a whole bunch of

726
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 18: femalesle to just take over and do what they want.

727
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 2: There's enough room for everybody. I mean, they're winning.

728
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 13: I think they're winning because they're so different from each other,

729
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 13: you know what I mean, whereas a lot of the

730
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 13: males is such a male dominated, you know, genre as

731
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 13: far as numbers are concerned, and it's pretty much the same.

732
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 13: You're hearing the same thing constantly. So when you hear

733
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 13: something different, it's innovator, is right, it's young and wakes

734
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 13: you up.

735
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 2: You be like, okay, let me go over here. And

736
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: that's where everybody is.

737
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 12: And that's one of the reasons why Scarlett is winning

738
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 12: right now, because people wouldn't expect you know adult, you

739
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 12: know mcs and female to come out and be that aggressive.

740
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 12: But at the same time, you know, lady, like you

741
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 12: understand because what you did was you appeal to so

742
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 12: many different aspects, not just the men, but the women.

743
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 12: So your content for every female that's out there, your

744
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 12: content at some point has to be different, because if

745
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 12: it's not different, you're going to be in the in

746
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 12: the in the rams with everybody else until you have

747
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 12: somebody like Scarlet.

748
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 11: They came out and said back the fuck.

749
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 12: Up, moved back, and she she got the attention of

750
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 12: everybody because her content was different. And in order to

751
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 12: stay in the game as a female artist, you got

752
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 12: to start bringing different content and that's how you're going

753
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 12: to survive.

754
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 9: And she signed to the perfect label Rough Riders. Yes,

755
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 9: perfect label, perfect label we all.

756
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 2: Know had great success yet with a female artist, you know.

757
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 9: But but but not only that in the streets and

758
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 9: like if you if I was to say that in

759
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 9: the first time I heard her music, I would say

760
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 9: that was a female DMX. I would say that, like

761
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 9: you know what I mean, like and like and to

762
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 9: be with I'm like, this shit is perfect, like this

763
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,359
Speaker 9: is God coming down.

764
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 4: Swiss beats. You know, this is this is.

765
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 9: DMX coming to Swiss in a different form.

766
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 4: I got to too deep? Did I get too deep?

767
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 4: Did I got too deep?

768
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

769
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is, but it is like,

770
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 4: just just think about it.

771
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 9: If we believe that life continues, DMX never moved on.

772
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 9: D MX is in her spirit. I mean, I'm sorry,

773
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 9: but that's hard. I felt like that's hard. I feel

774
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 9: like that's hard. I feel like that's Hall.

775
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,879
Speaker 6: Another another young artist who's impressed a lot of people

776
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 6: and who just like from the first second I saw him,

777
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 6: felt like he had that spirit and conscience of classic

778
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 6: hip hop mentality, caring about more than just the surface.

779
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 4: Is the Bay Zone symbol?

780
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,360
Speaker 3: Who's with us today? U?

781
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 6: Where did you get sort of your hip hop sensibility

782
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 6: because you are not like everyone who comes along.

783
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: In the game, but still very contemporary.

784
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 4: Well right, right, well said exactly.

785
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 8: First off, let me say, allow me to be patient

786
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 8: and answering this because I'm still fucked up that Bunn

787
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 8: told me they recorded riding dirty in a.

788
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 4: Bathroom, so.

789
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to put all that together.

790
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 8: But being somebody from the West Coast, especially being from

791
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 8: the Bay Area, we grew up with an independent mindset.

792
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 8: So we grew up with this mindset of like we

793
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 8: could do it all. We could make the beat, we

794
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 8: could promote it, we could write the rap. For me,

795
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 8: a big part of hip hop was my mom. My

796
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 8: mom was a real estate agent that used to be

797
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 8: a rapper, and she sold houses all around the world.

798
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 8: So as a six year old kid, I knew what

799
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 8: it felt like to be in Brooklyn. I knew what

800
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 8: it felt like to be in Atlantic City. I knew

801
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 8: what it felt like. I had a sister in Texas,

802
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 8: so I seen the world a lot as a kid,

803
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 8: and one thing I would notice was West Coast music

804
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 8: didn't really translate the best around the world. So I

805
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 8: was like, when I started making music, how can I

806
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 8: make something that translates to the hip hop culture in general.

807
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 4: So I never was like.

808
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 8: Obsessed with trying to impress the youth. As much as

809
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 8: they say hip hop is a youthful sport, I still

810
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 8: feel like youth is very fleety. I feel like they

811
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 8: grow up at a point in time and they still

812
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 8: need guidance. I was always like trying to impress my peers.

813
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 8: So when Noori came to Oakland, in January and was like, Nigga,

814
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 8: you to do that gave me everything like that.

815
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: That meant more to me.

816
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 8: That meant more to me than my first check, because

817
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 8: it let me know I made him proud. It let

818
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 8: me know I made Joe Budden proud. It let me

819
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 8: know I made Jay proud. To let me know when

820
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 8: Bun just told me, oh man, we get the song,

821
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 8: I was mad about my vocals and let me know

822
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 8: I made him proud. So more than the money, more

823
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 8: than anything. I came in this shit just wanting to

824
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 8: make my peers proud and be accepted by people I

825
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 8: looked up to.

826
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: And that's why I love your story. You're hustle. I

827
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: remember you told a story where somebody invites you to

828
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: the studio in la You had to fly to the

829
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: Bay and ain't drove right back Nipsey right.

830
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 3: It was the first time I met Nipsy. So I

831
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: was in Atlanta.

832
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 8: This is around twenty twelve or I'm just young, trying

833
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 8: to figure it out, and I'm running around, you know,

834
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 8: got a little money, and it was a three sea

835
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 8: fests and I kept hearing about you need to go

836
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 8: to these festivals like south By, Southwest and a three

837
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 8: sea fests and all these different things. So I was like, man,

838
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 8: let me get a ticket and go. So me and

839
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 8: my homies went out there. And at the time they

840
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 8: had this club called Compound. I don't know if it's

841
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 8: still okay, okay, okay.

842
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 3: So Nipsey was in Compound. He was like, man, what

843
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 3: y'all do? I was like, Man, I do music. He

844
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 3: was like, next time you in La?

845
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 16: Hit me?

846
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 3: I straight up live to him. I was like, I

847
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 3: live in La. You know what I'm saying? Like, like,

848
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 3: I live in La.

849
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 4: Like when you going back?

850
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 8: He was, I'm going back Monday. I'm like me too, right,

851
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 8: So I flew back to the Bay. My car was

852
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 8: parked at the airport. I didn't even go home and

853
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 8: got closed.

854
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 2: I got my car.

855
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 8: I put gas in my car at a Camaro at

856
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 8: the time, got my car, put gas in my car,

857
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 8: and drove straight to La. I got on the Grapevine.

858
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 8: I text NIF Yeah, just landed at Lax.

859
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 3: Where are you at?

860
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 8: He takes me back twenty minutes later, I'm downtown. Pull up,

861
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 8: sent me the address. Came through and he had a

862
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 8: wall of books. He had a wall of books, and

863
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 8: we did a song, and before I left, he was like,

864
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 8: I want you to pick a book before you leave,

865
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 8: and I really want you to read it. And the

866
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 8: book I picked was The twenty two Immutable Laws of

867
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 8: Brandy And I read that book and it taught me

868
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 8: how to look at myself like a product, not a person.

869
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 3: And I got that from Newfoud.

870
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: That's something does without even reading the book.

871
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 3: Problem, don't you ever disrespect me.

872
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: Calling me a library, yo.

873
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 6: But theam so that's your story because literally of my

874
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 6: Namn story is just a few years ago.

875
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 3: It was pandemic. It was during the pandemic.

876
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe we'd met another time at a

877
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 6: random sobs or whatever, but my boy, Top Shelf Premium

878
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 6: was having an event in Brooklyn, early pandemic, super spreader

879
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 6: event by the.

880
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 4: Way, and oh super.

881
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 6: Shit, all right, but something didn't do as well as

882
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 6: good and you were when you were outside. So I'm

883
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 6: on the block and I see this dude who just

884
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 6: looks like somebody like this is a super underground event,

885
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 6: not a ton of people who look like they have something.

886
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 2: This dude just like, like, who is this guy?

887
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 6: He looks like a superstar standing outside a car posted

888
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 6: up little do I know that at this time, this

889
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 6: man is just finishing up his garbage route literally, like

890
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 6: you were still on the job, right, But the look

891
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 6: he had was superstar rapper and then bro within I

892
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 6: swear to god, within eighteen months you became a superstar rapper.

893
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 4: Like, how did you just like we heard simbl story.

894
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 6: Of he kind of figured out his brand, how did

895
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 6: you figure out how to get the whole gorilla and

896
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 6: Them's thing together?

897
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 3: It was day one.

898
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 19: I've been everywhere I go since I'm a teena's yelling out,

899
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 19: fuck your life.

900
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 15: That's been my shit since since as.

901
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:14,720
Speaker 4: Long as I can remember.

902
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:15,359
Speaker 15: You know what I'm saying.

903
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 19: Yeah, no, there's not nothing new like when I had

904
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 19: when I first started rapping in like the early two thousands,

905
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 19: I had a group of us my friends that was like, Yo,

906
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 19: we're gonna call ourselves.

907
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 15: I was like, were calling ourselves fuck your life that sit.

908
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 15: You know what I'm saying. If they don't like it,

909
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 15: if they're not with us, then fuck they life, you

910
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 15: know what I'm saying.

911
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 19: And and and then I started battling. I went to

912
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 19: the fight club. You know they told me about it.

913
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 19: I started just beating everybody like I had like twenty

914
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 19: wins and.

915
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: Like no loss.

916
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 15: I beat everybody and and it started though with the

917
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 15: branding with graffiti.

918
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 19: Before I was rapping, I was doing graffiti because I

919
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 19: knew that if you saw my name on the wall,

920
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 19: you was gonna talk about me. And then when I

921
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 19: started rapping, I'm not good at art or none of that.

922
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 19: I just were writing as big as.

923
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 15: I could on any wall that I could.

924
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 19: I kept a markle with me, and then it started

925
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 19: just every every block and Coney Island said and them's,

926
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 19: and then every block all over the city. And then

927
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 19: people started noticing me from that, and then the fight

928
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 19: club shit happened, and then people thought I was just

929
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 19: a battle rapper, But what I was doing was taking

930
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 19: verses from songs and just beating people with it, you

931
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 19: know what I'm saying, And and and I just kept going,

932
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 19: and then I kept trying and and and and not

933
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 19: doing it.

934
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 15: But I always knew that I had something, you know

935
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 15: what I'm saying.

936
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 19: And I knew that no matter what, should keep throwing

937
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 19: shit at the wall enough times, ships sign's gonna stick,

938
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 19: you know what I'm saying.

939
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 15: And I went to jail, and then.

940
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 19: I got fucked up on drugs, and then it was

941
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 19: just like you know, one night, I just had like

942
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 19: a moment of gravity where I was like, ya, I

943
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 19: could keep going how I'm going, I'm gonna be dead

944
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 19: by the time I'm thirty, or I could stop everything

945
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 19: right now, live my dreams.

946
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 15: And the next day I woke up.

947
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 19: I touch nothing, sense, I don't drink, I don't smoke,

948
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 19: I don't do nothing.

949
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 3: I just focused on winning. And then.

950
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 15: I just kept doing it, and then I just kept

951
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 15: Instagram came out.

952
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 19: I just kept showing my personality, showing the people on

953
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 19: my block, fucking with people, just real New York shit.

954
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 15: You know what I'm saying. We're on the block every day.

955
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 19: My error is from I came up right before the internet,

956
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 19: so before cell phones, right in that midst of it

957
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 19: was coming out.

958
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,439
Speaker 15: So when I used to come out, it was like, yo.

959
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 19: If you if you leave your house, you can't get

960
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 19: in touch with you to meet up on the corner

961
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 19: and joke on each other. And if you don't got jokes,

962
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 19: they're gonna kill you. You're gonna have a bad night

963
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 19: every night, you know what I'm saying.

964
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 2: So I just learned it.

965
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 19: But wait, quick, quick, like get getting on people. But

966
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 19: in New York, people don't understand that's like a bombing.

967
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 19: You know, that's like bombing.

968
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 15: If I'm joking on I'm not gonna joke down the road.

969
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not at all.

970
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 15: If I don't know you, I'm not gonna I'm not

971
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 15: gonna joke with you.

972
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 19: If I don't know you, if I don't like you,

973
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 19: I'm not gonna fuck with you in this the fuck

974
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 19: out here, you know. So it just I found a

975
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 19: cheat cold, you know what I'm saying. Like everybody thinks

976
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 19: I'm like a comedian or now I'm a rapper.

977
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 15: I've been doing this, you know what I'm saying.

978
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 19: I've been chopping people's heads or pauls, you know what

979
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 19: I'm saying. I've been battling, beating everybody. But and I've

980
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 19: been nice with the balls, but that ship wasn't getting

981
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 19: me this way. So I just went this way, started

982
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 19: joking on people and fucking with people. And then they

983
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 19: started taking notice. And then every between every don't ever

984
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 19: disrespect me video or bing bong side talk, I throwing

985
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 19: a freestyle, yo, you know what I'm saying.

986
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 15: Take that, And then eventually and then the bing bo shit.

987
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 12: Also, we talked about you on the radio, right because cassiay,

988
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 12: bing Bong, what the fuck is that? So I said, cass,

989
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,720
Speaker 12: watch what the fuck happened? That shit gonna go viral?

990
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 12: And and what probably liked about the next week bing Bong,

991
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 12: he started saying, that's a product.

992
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 19: Yeah, now that's a product, a straight hip hop blizzard

993
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 19: bomb bomb. So what I used to do, I had

994
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 19: the merch and I used to show it every week

995
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 19: when I dropped new shit and be like, yo, just

996
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 19: check the new ship bomb.

997
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 15: Check this new ship bomb on my Instagram. And then

998
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 15: one that I was like bing bong, bing bong, and

999
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 15: then people started laughing. I was like, I got something.

1000
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 15: And then side talked came.

1001
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 2: We did a video and I was like, yo, I'm.

1002
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 19: Gonna start saying that bing bong bing and then it

1003
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,959
Speaker 19: just took its own world, you know what I'm saying.

1004
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 15: And I was like, all right, I got something here

1005
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 15: and then.

1006
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 19: And then just kept doing those type of videos and

1007
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 19: then you know, you know, I did the album with

1008
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 19: scram Jones and then be met up with Paul Rosenberg

1009
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 19: and congratulations.

1010
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 4: All of it is is hustle.

1011
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 15: That's all of it is just hustled, like I knew

1012
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 15: I got something.

1013
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 19: And by this point where we're at today is like yo,

1014
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 19: like switch up, Like right to where Bing Bong was,

1015
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,279
Speaker 19: it was like I was working a regular job, but

1016
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 19: it was like, ya, I've been doing this rap shit

1017
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 19: now for probably like ten fifteen years. If I just

1018
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 19: quit now, that's like working a job about to retire

1019
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 19: and just saying.

1020
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 4: Fuck, I don't want my money.

1021
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 19: I don't want my retime and money. Now I'm gonna

1022
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 19: just cry. I said, nah, I put it too much

1023
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 19: time to fucking quit. I'm gonna keep doing this shit

1024
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 19: until this shit happens. And then you know, shit happened,

1025
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 19: you know what I'm saying.

1026
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 10: And then the thing you said when you said about

1027
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 10: it was just hustle, Like don't don't underplay your success

1028
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 10: like that because you was hustling twelve fourteen, sixteen hours

1029
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 10: a day and then fucking off for the other eight hours.

1030
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 10: And that shit on the gate all the hustling you did.

1031
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 10: You know what I'm saying. You see it all the

1032
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 10: time where people like I work all day grind then

1033
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 10: I go.

1034
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 2: Blow a check. You know what I'm saying.

1035
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 10: You gotta have checks in the mail, coming to blow

1036
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 10: a check. But at some point, like you said, I

1037
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 10: stopped doing the drugs, I stopped drinking, I stopped everything,

1038
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 10: and you locked all the way in and made hustle

1039
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 10: like your life's plan not a life stop.

1040
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I made that differ.

1041
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 15: I made it fun.

1042
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 19: I made like so since I don't drink, since I

1043
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 19: don't do none of that no more, what's fun of

1044
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 19: me is making money.

1045
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 15: When I go to the club, That's just not fun

1046
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 15: of me. When I'm getting paid to go club, that's

1047
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 15: fun to me.

1048
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 19: I just smucked it around in my head where it's

1049
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 19: not fun unless I'm making money, you know what I'm saying.

1050
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 19: And then, you know, just even before this rap shit

1051
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 19: and I bought my mother house and just that's all

1052
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 19: from the ground, you know what I'm saying, Because I'm

1053
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 19: not willing to take anything less than what I want

1054
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 19: to do. And since I'm a kid, this hip hop

1055
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 19: shit has been in me, instilled in me since watching

1056
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 19: The fucking Disorder these Fat Boys, you know what I'm saying.

1057
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 15: That was like my favorite movie back in the day.

1058
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 3: And yeah, because what happened is.

1059
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 19: My father died at four, and then Coney Allen in

1060
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 19: the project Dwyer Gard's my projects. You know, like my

1061
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 19: moms would go to work and I would just be

1062
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 19: in the crib by myself, and all day I would

1063
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 19: just watch rap movies and listen to albums and and

1064
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 19: and like I'm like a fucking encyclopedia for hip hop,

1065
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 19: you know what I'm saying. And hip hop raised me

1066
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 19: and and I knew since day one, this is what

1067
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 19: I wanted to do with my life. And some people

1068
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 19: give up, you know, life happens. I just wasn't willing

1069
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 19: to your mother.

1070
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: That's all hip hop mentality. Because I always say lately,

1071
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: I've been saying if anyone asked me my culture, my religion,

1072
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: my my background, I say hip hop is the answer.

1073
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, hip hop and drink.

1074
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 1: Hip hop is the answer.

1075
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 4: Political, what was it?

1076
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 11: No?

1077
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:21,959
Speaker 4: No, No, I'm Republican or Democrat? Yeah, hip hop craft

1078
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 4: hip hopocrats. Yeah, I'm just like it.

1079
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 3: Crazy branded.

1080
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: For somebody talking, I know, but that's that's that's the

1081
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: power of hip hop. And then I wanted to say

1082
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: d J. Stacks that going to building International club King

1083
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: he He's when I first heard your record scholar's record,

1084
00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: yet he was playing it, he was doing it a

1085
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 1: event together. And that's what the importance of a DJ

1086
00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: is still to this day. I know everybody breaks music

1087
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,720
Speaker 1: on TikTok and on the internet, but still there's nothing

1088
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: like a DJ playing a song loud in a club

1089
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: more an event. And that's what this guy does, man,

1090
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: and he's like pure hip hop stats.

1091
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 4: What was your what was your path to find in dj?

1092
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 4: Oh Man?

1093
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 20: I think it's a little different for everybody else in

1094
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,280
Speaker 20: a sense of I was born and raised in Brooklyn.

1095
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 3: Both my parents are Haitian.

1096
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 20: But when I say Brooklyn, I say different because I

1097
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 20: feel like people from the Bronx are like, that's hip

1098
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 20: hop right.

1099
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 4: But I'm gonna get to that though, but I'll be

1100
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 4: feeling like Bronx.

1101
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 2: Is like hip hop hip hop right.

1102
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 20: And in Brooklyn where I grew up at like Brownsville,

1103
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 20: seen Brownswi and flat.

1104
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 3: Bush, it was very Caribbean, like super Caribbean.

1105
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 4: So the hill part was growing up.

1106
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 20: My older brothers they used to run with this sound

1107
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 20: called stone Love that you probably know about all Legitimika, right,

1108
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 20: and my parents are Haitian, so the Haitian music was

1109
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 20: there and Spanish music, all types of music. My father,

1110
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 20: he was like a real music collector, so it was

1111
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 20: anything from Whitney Houston to Phil Collins whatever. Now my

1112
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 20: hip hop really honestly came from Queens because my older cousin,

1113
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 20: my older cousin, right, My older cousin lived on one

1114
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 20: twelve in Springfield's right, and I used to go to

1115
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 20: the crib and see the turntables and all that, and

1116
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 20: then you know, rest in peace. Like one of his

1117
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 20: boys used to come over and who's one of his

1118
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 20: voice was jam assja wow. So I just to be

1119
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 20: in a crib with them and I'm theyve chrise nam,

1120
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 20: you don't touch my turntables and I'm moving here sneak playing.

1121
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 20: And I started realizing the difference in music, like with

1122
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 20: dancehall and anything else, there's but so much technique you

1123
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 20: could actually do certain things, break it down the record

1124
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 20: and all that, and we're hip hop. It was like

1125
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 20: I could break this record down.

1126
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 3: And tell a story.

1127
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 20: I could do certain things with this I can't do

1128
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 20: with everything else. And then plus it was bars, you know,

1129
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 20: it was less singing and more you know.

1130
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 3: Words and lyrics and stuff like that.

1131
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 20: So you know that's my That's where I came from

1132
00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 20: with that, and in the fashion you know, the A

1133
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 20: repeat rock cams, the epm ds and then the queens.

1134
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 20: Hip hop to me that really caught me was the

1135
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 20: mob deeps the CNN.

1136
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, nas like, like, so I

1137
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 3: must say, like first thing is for just being on

1138
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 3: this panel.

1139
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 20: Right here and sitting amongst like real legends is like

1140
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 20: super dope, and I truly appreciate it. And I just

1141
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 20: did my homework, like I started just doing research on

1142
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 20: hip hop and like you know where it came from,

1143
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 20: and you know, and I started listening to like West

1144
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 20: Coast and Midwest and you know, I started listening to

1145
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 20: like the bum.

1146
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 1: B's and you know all that.

1147
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 4: So it was just weird.

1148
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 2: So I started.

1149
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 20: I was kind of confused for a while because I

1150
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,400
Speaker 20: studied music, so you know, I studied samples. Where did

1151
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 20: this record come from? Where didn't get this from? And

1152
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 20: I was kind of lost for a minute. But then

1153
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 20: I started realizing where the money at the moneys and

1154
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 20: hip hop like nothing nothing, and then the lessons are

1155
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 20: in hip hop, like it's so much more to be

1156
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 20: told than learned from to me, so I kind of

1157
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 20: just went that route, and I've been Gucci since, Like

1158
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 20: I literally played most of the biggest festivals across the world.

1159
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 2: Right now, That's that's why I'm at with it.

1160
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 8: Yes, the first time you drink asis Fee, what was

1161
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 8: la Champagne?

1162
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 2: I was?

1163
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 6: I was on drink Champa. I was super excited. Yes,

1164
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 6: I was a mix of scared and excited. I thought

1165
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 6: they a little scared walking.

1166
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 4: Into the room.

1167
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 6: I thought I thought Nori was gonna like really throw

1168
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 6: me to the wolves, not a bad way, because he

1169
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 6: was just like, there's a lot of watching, there's a

1170
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 6: lot of ship you could get from me, and he didn't.

1171
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:33,919
Speaker 3: They didn't.

1172
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:34,840
Speaker 4: They didn't actually.

1173
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 3: Steer me into that much of it.

1174
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: Yea, Now did I know that?

1175
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 4: Two weeks later they didn't have one guest.

1176
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 6: After another who hated my guts and would have rip

1177
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 6: me to thread no plan. They have whole clips on

1178
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 6: why they hate Peter Rosenbro.

1179
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 3: Because I'm.

1180
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 10: My thing is every time I would link with nor

1181
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 10: I've only really spent like five extended periods with.

1182
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 2: Nord and the third one was drink Champs right, But

1183
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 2: the first two.

1184
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 10: Times Pissy drunk just in general interaction like I went

1185
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,280
Speaker 10: to projects. I got there about like five in afternoon.

1186
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 10: I ain't leave to like three in the morning, and

1187
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 10: we just out we.

1188
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: Treating shit in pain, we drinking armadale.

1189
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 10: We just on the block, niggas getting slapped, niggas get fuck.

1190
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 3: It was hilarious.

1191
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 4: Fact this shit was hilarious.

1192
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 10: Yes, it's pissy, pissy drunk. So then when I get

1193
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 10: ready to go to drink tamps, I'm like, I'm going

1194
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 10: to do this interview knocking up.

1195
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 2: I'm not doing all of that.

1196
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 10: Three hours later, my interview with him in drinks After

1197
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 10: is literally two hours and forty five minutes, and we

1198
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,919
Speaker 10: try to stop from like ninety minutes all the way,

1199
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 10: and we just the show restarts like three times because

1200
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 10: like you know what, let's do this, let me ask

1201
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:49,240
Speaker 10: you this, and I'm drinking.

1202
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 9: Let's go yeh Ben, keep it real. This is when

1203
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,800
Speaker 9: we was learning ourselves. We were just letting you and

1204
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 9: the beatlets we fucked up on like like I can't

1205
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 9: wait till like we do our episode. Now I got

1206
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 9: our stick together now, I actually I'm actually articulated with.

1207
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 4: This motherfucker now. Like before before, what we were doing, like.

1208
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 9: Fat Joe just put a mic in front of us

1209
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 9: and started talking and then we threw the episode out

1210
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 9: and it was like everybody likes this, Like we don't

1211
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 9: understand that us just talking to each other.

1212
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 4: It's gold I kid you not kid you not.

1213
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 2: I know.

1214
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 4: I'm a say like we knew something.

1215
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 3: We knew something.

1216
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 4: That Nas had hit me. I forget which period career

1217
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 4: this was.

1218
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 9: This is alright, this is the time where Tyler Kali

1219
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 9: most death and who.

1220
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 3: Else was on that cover?

1221
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 4: What you mean the cannabis?

1222
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 13: You mean?

1223
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 4: No, no, what saw us cover? It was like back

1224
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 4: back hip hop okay, And.

1225
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 9: I don't remember. It was like it was like and

1226
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 9: Nas came when we better. We were just talking and

1227
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 9: he was just like, how you feel about to cover?

1228
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 9: I was like, you know, he was like yeah, And

1229
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 9: then we was just talking and then were talking and

1230
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 9: then we're talking and then he said to me he

1231
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 9: predicted it.

1232
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 4: He said, yo, one day.

1233
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 9: I don't know if we said one day they're gonna

1234
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 9: pay us for our conversation or one day they're gonna

1235
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:19,920
Speaker 9: pay you for your conversation.

1236
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: I forget.

1237
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,399
Speaker 4: And then I remember that. I was like, holy shit.

1238
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 2: And then.

1239
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 9: You assholes kept letting me go up to the motherfucking

1240
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 9: morning show and y'all let me talk.

1241
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 13: And then.

1242
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 9: I realized I knew ninety sevens number.

1243
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 4: I was like, what the fuck am I doing? I'm

1244
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 4: working for living I don't even know.

1245
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 9: It til Berg, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I definitely did my

1246
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 9: Spanish Trailburger first.

1247
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,400
Speaker 10: Glorie's key of success is that Norri might be the

1248
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 10: most genuine person facts and hip hop and when I

1249
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 10: mean and jam. I've known norriy through all these different

1250
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 10: stages of his career, same exact wild words made up

1251
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 10: on the spy, lots of drinking and all bregarious conversation.

1252
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 10: Big personality comes in the room and takes it over.

1253
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 2: That's always been a part of that.

1254
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 10: But also Norri has been ridiculously underrated as a man

1255
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 10: in this fucking game. Everybody put a wall around him

1256
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 10: and a roof over him that never held.

1257
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,280
Speaker 2: Nori was not supposed to go as far in hip hop.

1258
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 10: As he went, but he still had bigger records than

1259
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 10: niggas were way better marks. You know what I'm saying,

1260
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 10: Because personality like people genuinely want.

1261
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 2: To be in your company. You know what I'm saying, because.

1262
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 10: The only difference between going on drink champs and hanging

1263
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 10: on the corner with you is microphones and camp.

1264
00:55:58,400 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, that's the.

1265
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: Only one hundred percent I'm going.

1266
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 2: To your shows like going to the barbershope, right.

1267
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 13: I know.

1268
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: I always say Norie was my first rapper. Friend were

1269
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: almost the same age. The first rapper that was successful

1270
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: that was my friend is Nori. And I met so

1271
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: many artists through Norri before they were ever big. I

1272
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: met two chains in your studio before he was big,

1273
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne Project, Pat David Banner All was in the

1274
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: studio with Nori. Because he didn't worry about if they

1275
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 1: were wherever they was from. He showed love to everybody

1276
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: that came through, and like you came to New York

1277
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: and he would pick you up, or you come to

1278
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: the studio, he got weed for you and take people

1279
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:43,280
Speaker 1: to the tunnel for the club. And it's like everything

1280
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: he's doing now exactly like you said, He's always been

1281
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: the same. It's just you know, I guess if n

1282
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: gave him a little direction like do it this way.

1283
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, but by the way we work.

1284
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 6: While we're giving out, although we still got to be

1285
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 6: talking to the microphone but still but also while we're

1286
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 6: giving out flowers to people just being the same people

1287
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 6: all the time. I was literally just having a conversation

1288
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 6: with someone yesterday about like as radio people and really

1289
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 6: the three of us as DJs, DJs and radio people.

1290
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 4: It's kind of a similar thing.

1291
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 6: Like our relationships with people have ebbs and flows, and

1292
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 6: there are people that you're super close with for a time.

1293
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 6: Nine times out of ten, when they reach a certain

1294
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 6: level of success, I'm sorry.

1295
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 4: They get funny and they.

1296
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,959
Speaker 6: Stop, they stop returning the calls, the number goes green.

1297
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 4: You never hear from them again.

1298
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 6: We are sitting amongst the two most normal, non weird

1299
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 6: no motherfuckers.

1300
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 4: In the history of the game, between Buddy and No.

1301
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 6: There's not a stage that I've been in anything I'm

1302
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 6: dealing with where people are saying sit about me, that

1303
00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 6: you guys don't pick up the phone and.

1304
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 4: Show love and like, I'm just sorry.

1305
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 6: A lot of your peers, they may be great in

1306
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 6: many ways, they don't hold on to that quality though,

1307
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 6: which is endearing.

1308
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 3: Yo, that that goes a long way.

1309
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 19: But Yo, that goes a long way in hip hop

1310
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 19: because being getting in this game, I meet legends that

1311
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 19: I came up listening to and you meet them and

1312
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 19: you're like, this, dude's a fucking fun They're like, now I.

1313
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 2: Understand why they was dissing you.

1314
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,440
Speaker 15: Yell, you understand me.

1315
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 2: But then you meet genuine people that might have not

1316
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 2: been your favor.

1317
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 19: But like, I fuck with him so much, right, just

1318
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 19: because the energy and the love that they show, and

1319
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 19: it goes a long way just being yourself. That's is

1320
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 19: a big part of like, you know, listen, if I

1321
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 19: try to embody that because because I meet the legends

1322
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 19: like like Bun and I'm meeting no they and they

1323
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 19: genuinely who they are and who you think they are,

1324
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 19: because so many times in this rap game you meet

1325
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 19: rappers that you think who they are and they're nothing

1326
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 19: like that.

1327
00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 14: But if I could say something to that, because earlier

1328
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 14: you talked about the coalition, and the reason why coalitions

1329
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 14: and hip hop don't exist is because people have not

1330
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 14: found the route the right circle yet. It's hard to

1331
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 14: find the humility and the genuine people that can actually

1332
00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 14: come together and a trustworthy and create a trustworthy journey

1333
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 14: that people can trust and so like, the concept of

1334
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 14: building a coalition has existed for many years, but the

1335
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 14: reason why.

1336
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 3: Yeah or union or whatever either way.

1337
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 14: Right At the same time, the reason why it doesn't

1338
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 14: exist is because everybody can talk about it, but very

1339
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 14: few can actually do it.

1340
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 3: What Bun shared about.

1341
00:59:33,680 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 14: Like financial freedom or creating financial equity, Like who's talking

1342
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 14: about that? Nobody is, And the reason is everyone's thinking it,

1343
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 14: but very few can actually come together to do it

1344
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 14: because we stop just what.

1345
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 10: You're doing for you exactly and to start executing for us.

1346
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 10: And everybody quite frankly, just isn't take finance out of it.

1347
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 10: My people's mentality is not built around them taking things

1348
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 10: away from themselves for the greater collect you know what

1349
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 10: I'm saying, because a lot of us come from circumstances

1350
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 10: where we never had nothing. Then we finally get it

1351
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 10: and you like, why should I share it? You know

1352
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 10: what I'm saying with people that won't even appreciate it.

1353
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 10: So it just you got to find that in a circle,

1354
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 10: a diverse group of people from all walks of the culture, right,

1355
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 10: represent all walks of the culture that we trust, like

1356
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 10: just people that we trust, but like you said, mostly

1357
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 10: examt even who they think they are, they're not who

1358
01:00:26,520 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 10: they present themselves to be. And you get them in

1359
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 10: a room when you talk about some real shit and

1360
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 10: ain't got no conversation for it.

1361
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:32,919
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, I'm glad.

1362
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 12: I'm glad you brought up the entrepreneurship because that's one

1363
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 12: of the things that the younger generation said.

1364
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 11: Okay, y'all, don't kick the older ogs. Don't kick the

1365
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 11: ballistic to us. They don't taught us how to move.

1366
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 12: Only thing they say to us is you shouldn't be

1367
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 12: rapping like that. You shouldn't be doing this, you shouldn't

1368
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 12: be doing that. And this is how we bridge the

1369
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 12: gap between the younger generation, you know, and the older generation,

1370
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 12: you know, to kick those blistics and let them know, Okay, this.

1371
01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 11: Is how you move.

1372
01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,479
Speaker 12: You want to be a rap artist, be a rap artist,

1373
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 12: but take that money that you use and put it

1374
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 12: into something else because you may not always be that

1375
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 12: rap artist. So you have people here today to be

1376
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,439
Speaker 12: able to kick those ballistics to the younger generation and say, look,

1377
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 12: you know, we're going to give you the knowledge, but

1378
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:13,600
Speaker 12: you have to take the knowledge.

1379
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,920
Speaker 11: We're not talking at you, we're just talking with you.

1380
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 12: You just have to listen, and you don't have to

1381
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 12: take everything that we say, but just take it into

1382
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 12: consideration because.

1383
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 11: What we all may have went through with different right,

1384
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 11: we have the experience.

1385
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 2: But some older artists don't want to connect with young gus.

1386
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 11: And they should.

1387
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 10: Very honest, right, older artists, and I'm talking about mind

1388
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 10: generally before we even get to casual generation, my generation. Right,

1389
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 10: they look at what newer artists are doing, the level

1390
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 10: of success that they're attaining, the amount of money they're

1391
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 10: making for doing basically the same thing we did, and

1392
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,320
Speaker 10: in some people's minds, we did it better, but they

1393
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 10: made more money.

1394
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 2: For that's just a sign of the times.

1395
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 4: That's got nothing to.

1396
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 2: Take the money out of it. We're all fighting the

1397
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 2: same truck to get somewhere.

1398
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 18: See, it's like a younger artist like for real, like

1399
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 18: all the ogs really like been like supporting me for

1400
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 18: me of course, and like giving me advice and stuff

1401
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 18: like that, like Snoop Dogg bust rhymes, stuff like that.

1402
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 3: We will see one day one day.

1403
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 8: One thing I'm noticing is like when it comes to

1404
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 8: artists like me and Scarlet, who feels nostalgic, y'all open,

1405
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 8: y'all give it to us because.

1406
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,560
Speaker 3: We've been the criteria I feel like like.

1407
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 2: But when it's.

1408
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 8: Like and we respect that, but when it's like a

1409
01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:41,200
Speaker 8: younger person that ain't necessarily speaking when we speak, y'all

1410
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,160
Speaker 8: alienate them, and then that fucks up the culture as

1411
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 8: a whole.

1412
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 3: Not saying everybody, you.

1413
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 10: Know what I'm saying in general, I was looking at

1414
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 10: in my early years, well UGK was doing the ninety

1415
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 10: two was not popular, right, we would not looked at.

1416
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 2: We were not included and ship. You can go back

1417
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 2: and look, there's no videos. There's no music videos.

1418
01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,439
Speaker 10: Because the Red Company didn't want to make them because

1419
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 10: they didn't think gonna like us. There's not a lot

1420
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 10: of magazine shit. My first magazine cover was twenty two

1421
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 10: years after I started.

1422
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, It wasn't trendy to embrace

1423
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 6: Southern artists the East.

1424
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 10: Look at an artists and realize they're getting a bum

1425
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 10: rap just on how they present themselves. Like I was

1426
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:18,600
Speaker 10: with Sexy Red on Friday and Roland Loud sweet girl,

1427
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 10: beautiful girl.

1428
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1429
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 10: People look at her approach as being different. No, that's

1430
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 10: always existed. That's always existed. Hip hop has always had

1431
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 10: this idea of reclaiming their bodies and their identity. Right,

1432
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 10: that comes from slavery. Right, people came out of slavery.

1433
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,479
Speaker 10: They either wanted to recapture their soul because they felt

1434
01:03:37,520 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 10: broken and they went to the church, or they were

1435
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 10: people that wanted to reclaim their physical body because they've

1436
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 10: been raped, they've been slaved, and then just servitude all

1437
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:45,520
Speaker 10: of that, and those people went.

1438
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 2: To the jew joint.

1439
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 10: So both of those are equal representations of the black

1440
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 10: experience in America and the experience of people of color

1441
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 10: in America. So we can't look down at people who

1442
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 10: aren't bar centric, right, because that doesn't mean that they're

1443
01:03:58,680 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 10: the best people for the culture.

1444
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 2: They're just better at what they do. But maybe that's

1445
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 2: all they can do is rap.

1446
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 3: That's it.

1447
01:04:05,160 --> 01:04:07,919
Speaker 10: They're no good out of any other part in their life.

1448
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 10: So for me, if somebody isn't necessarily purely lyrically driven,

1449
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 10: then there's got to be other aspects of their personality

1450
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 10: that people are gravitating to, and we have to look

1451
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 10: at that and see like, well, maybe there's a part

1452
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 10: of life that I didn't experience based on where I

1453
01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 10: grew up, on my age.

1454
01:04:22,880 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 2: That they're experiencing.

1455
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:26,919
Speaker 10: And this person vocalizes that we got to be open

1456
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 10: to that because we were talking about.

1457
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 2: Crack and shit like that when it was not a popular.

1458
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 8: Thing, but it also wasn't everywhere, and then y'all OG's

1459
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 8: was saying the same thing.

1460
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:37,440
Speaker 1: We ain't with that.

1461
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's this generational gap, right

1462
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 10: that exists in society.

1463
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 2: Period's got nothing to do with music.

1464
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 10: Your mom's music was crazy to your grandmother. Your music

1465
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 10: is crazy to your mother, your kid's.

1466
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 2: Music is crazy to you. That's a generational gap.

1467
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 10: We shouldn't be on the same shit at fifty with

1468
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 10: eighteen year old niggas. We should not be on the

1469
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 10: same page on no level other than just get it

1470
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 10: better in our situation. That's the only thing I should

1471
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 10: have in common typically with a young person is drive, momentum, hustle,

1472
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 10: you know what I'm saying, locking in on your goal

1473
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 10: those and so if we can't connect on the music,

1474
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 10: we can't connect.

1475
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 3: On the content. That's cool.

1476
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 10: I'm not supposed to like everything young people are saying,

1477
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 10: but I'm supposed to.

1478
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 3: Support the most what you do best best.

1479
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: Moms not understand me listening to the bread were still.

1480
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 3: In the same way you know, I make rap music.

1481
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 2: But she I said, my mom money, She's like, don't

1482
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 2: send me there. That's too much the.

1483
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 8: Same way, the same way that you just broke that down.

1484
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 8: It's how we look at it as younger artists. So

1485
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 8: it's like me personally, when NAS dropped last night, I

1486
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:52,040
Speaker 8: felt like I had to be the first to support it,

1487
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 8: one whole drop four four four. I feel like I

1488
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,439
Speaker 8: have to be the first to support it because these

1489
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 8: are people that showing me how to exemplify myself as

1490
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 8: a man. But when I get the forty seven year

1491
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 8: old rapper that's still talking about being on the block,

1492
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 8: fucking five girls and doing all nigga, you got a

1493
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 8: fucking wife with five.

1494
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 3: Kids, tell us about that? What's life like that like?

1495
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 10: Because they don't want to hear you compete with me

1496
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 10: to talk to you, and they shouldn't be talking to

1497
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 10: you exactly, should be talking to people that were eighteen

1498
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 10: when they were eighteen, exactly.

1499
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 2: When twenty five when they're twenty five.

1500
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 10: Because where I'm at in life is pretty much with

1501
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 10: everybody that started with me is in life. So the

1502
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 10: minute I stopped trying to connect with them about where

1503
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 10: we are now, that means I want some of what

1504
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 10: y'all got, and I'm never going to get it. I

1505
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 10: know every young rapper out here. I can go get

1506
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 10: a verse from any person. But do people really want

1507
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 10: to hear that? If I go get a verse from

1508
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 10: Future and I could go do that, do future.

1509
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 2: Fans want to hear me with him? No? Do my

1510
01:06:44,080 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 2: fans want to hear me with Future?

1511
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 11: No?

1512
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 10: Can we mutually agree but still have respect for each other?

1513
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 3: But do all of us?

1514
01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 8: But do all of us want to see Future go

1515
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:53,240
Speaker 8: to trull Burger?

1516
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 7: Yes?

1517
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. That's just shit I'm talking about. Yeah,

1518
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:58,840
Speaker 3: that's what I'm talking That's why I love you?

1519
01:06:59,120 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 4: What about?

1520
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,880
Speaker 1: And I asked the question real quick? What about the

1521
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 1: other side of it?

1522
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 11: Hold on?

1523
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 4: Let me say something though, Okay, let me say something. Sorry.

1524
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,920
Speaker 3: Sorry. A lot of times.

1525
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 9: O G would come and approach a young artist, and

1526
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 9: because it happened to me when I was the young artist,

1527
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 9: When I was the young artist, and the you this

1528
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 9: is this is DJ jump each other such like, okay,

1529
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 9: what's going on up Jo? And they sitting there and

1530
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 9: they talking, and then I can't identify with him because

1531
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 9: it's just me from different areasks, right, So I'm like,

1532
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 9: all right, cool, cool, cool, and you know everybody you

1533
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 9: don't know, like like we didn't know every single person

1534
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 9: in the NBA. He was a fan of the Cargo Bulls,

1535
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,560
Speaker 9: but you can't name every motherfucker on the goddamn team.

1536
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 9: So that should happened to me, and so I became

1537
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 9: dom g. Then I was walking in and people was like, well,

1538
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 9: who the fuck is this nigga?

1539
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like the young niggas was like, yo, okay.

1540
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 1: Something or But.

1541
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Speaker 9: What I had to do was I had to recreate

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01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 9: my whole ship, like oh shit, I had to start

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01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 9: wearing these juries for these people, something for them to identify,

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01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,360
Speaker 9: something for them to be like, Okay, I don't know

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01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:15,120
Speaker 9: this old motherfucker, but he got on a.

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01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,240
Speaker 4: Nice walk or he got on something like must have

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01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:18,120
Speaker 4: been what he did.

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01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 9: And sometimes sometimes that's the way to to relate to them,

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01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 9: because a lot of times I don't relate to all

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01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 9: of them. What you said, you said, we accept you know,

1551
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,679
Speaker 9: y'all three, because y'all got bars and you got things

1552
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 9: like that. But a lot of the times we don't

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01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 9: even know how to approach you because your energy wasn't

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01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 9: the same, Like we wanted to meet Michael Jordan. Like

1555
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 9: Alan Ibison wanted to meet Michael Jordan then crossed them over,

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01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 9: but he wanted to meet him first.

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01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. And a lot of times,

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01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:49,639
Speaker 4: as now I'm an.

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01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,839
Speaker 9: Elder statesman, I don't feel like the young generation we wanted.

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01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 4: To meet us. I don't feel like they wanted to,

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01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 4: but they Jordan Jordan, they.

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01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 3: Do want to meet with Steph Curry the day.

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01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 10: Where the space is, where we are the same space, right,

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01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 10: and where's the level of entry for young people? A

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01:09:08,840 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 10: lot of times what you think is is apprehension is

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01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:14,160
Speaker 10: really like, man, I want to say something to du

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01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 10: but I don't know.

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01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 2: I don't know how to.

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01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 4: I'm so happy for her.

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01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 9: I'm so happy for because I know her crew, I

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01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:23,880
Speaker 9: know everything that she represents. So it's easy for me

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01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:25,840
Speaker 9: to say, your homegirl, your little yo, I'm.

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01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 4: So happy for you.

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01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:28,400
Speaker 9: You know, Nims, I didn't even know he was rapping.

1575
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 9: I thought I just seen him on Instagram. I didn't

1576
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 9: even know, like he's actually a legend. I was like, damn, man,

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01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 9: I learned that the other day. You know what I mean,

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01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 9: and it's just like I want to relate but something,

1579
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 9: but I also don't want.

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01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 4: To feel stupid.

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01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 10: So this is what we need.

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01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,400
Speaker 4: We walk in that room and they're like, what in.

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01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:49,160
Speaker 10: The same way, in the same way that that monster

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01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 10: can put this room right with generational you know, counterparts

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01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 10: and contemporaries in here, we as a culture guy to

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01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,639
Speaker 10: make sure that there's better.

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01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 2: Entry points for these conversations.

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01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,600
Speaker 4: You know, I'm saying, take drink chests at Trilburger's. What

1589
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:04,600
Speaker 4: else is hip hop? Come on, there's maybe some more

1590
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 4: hip hop products English. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 9: Diamond chans, diamond change, Okay, don't own it, but we

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01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 9: gon own it today.

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01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:26,680
Speaker 13: We got we had enough jewelers of color, yes, and

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01:10:26,720 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 13: we're gonna have.

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01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 4: We should have a real hip hop day, like in

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01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 4: every state.

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01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,759
Speaker 2: We should have like hip hop like retreat.

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01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:34,519
Speaker 3: That would be fun.

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01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 10: A let's go to not journalists and people like that,

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01:10:38,160 --> 01:10:40,680
Speaker 10: like people that are you know, like people that are

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01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:45,640
Speaker 10: active participants in the culture. When we need to workshop

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01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 10: and build with each other, right, and it can't just

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01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,839
Speaker 10: be at you know, on a weekend where there's parties

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01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 10: and other ship that's gonna take us away. Yeah, we

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01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,680
Speaker 10: need somewhere where we can build with studios and bar

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01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 10: everything that we would want to participate an indulgent should

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01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 10: be on the site so nobody feels like they need

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01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 10: to leave and go anywhere. Whatever we need for us

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01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 10: to manage three days together somewhere have it there on

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01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:11,479
Speaker 10: the site.

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01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 13: It's a lock out the whole its subconscious effort.

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01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 12: And even a young generation, because I think it's very important,

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01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 12: you know, to include the young generations. Yeah, simply because

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01:11:22,120 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 12: you know, there's not an artist, a young artist that's

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01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 12: out there that I.

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01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 11: Don't know about.

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01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 12: I know about every single rap artist that's out there now.

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01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:34,679
Speaker 12: Why because I'm making my business to understand where they're

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01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 12: coming from. Because they're really speaking some of the stuff

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,600
Speaker 12: that we lived. It's just that they're talking about it

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01:11:40,760 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 12: more now, and so we have to include. Hip Hop

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01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 12: has always been inclusive. Everybody has always had a table

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01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 12: at hip hop, and we have to ensure, Like Jun

1624
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 12: be Ugk, I knew about y'all before y'all even started

1625
01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 12: making songs with jay Z because I had the best

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01:11:57,560 --> 01:11:59,680
Speaker 12: of both worlds. I'm from New York, the Bronx, but

1627
01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:02,719
Speaker 12: I was in Texas. So I appreciated y'all even before

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01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 12: he knew about y'all. So I think if you open

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,200
Speaker 12: up and learn about these different artists, you don't have

1630
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 12: to like what they're saying, because I don't like everything

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01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 12: that's out there, but I respect their craft. And until

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01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,120
Speaker 12: we get together and bridge that gap, that is the

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01:12:16,320 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 12: only way that that hip hop is going and rap

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01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 12: music within hip hop is going to survive what we're

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01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 12: all respecting the crafts from everybody to come through.

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01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's real.

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01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 13: The culture, The culture is alive, and well, the business

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01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,759
Speaker 13: not so much, you know what I mean. But because

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01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:40,320
Speaker 13: of the Internet and because of our access to.

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01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 2: Information, now everybody's better.

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01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 13: Everybody sounds better, everybody speaks better, everybody knows more, everybody's

1642
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:49,679
Speaker 13: a little more in tune with everything.

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01:12:50,040 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 2: So we take that and we.

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01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 13: Put that into like the things that we're trying to

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01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:56,840
Speaker 13: put together as far as preserving this culture called hip hop.

1646
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 2: Now, I gotta bounce, I'm out.

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01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:02,639
Speaker 4: All right, I gotta all right. Yeah, one last question

1648
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 4: before we lose you. First of all, on behalf of

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01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 4: all of us here.

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01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:07,040
Speaker 3: Thank you.

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01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:10,600
Speaker 4: You being here means this whole thing doesn't exist without you.

1652
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 6: But Is there anything as we celebrate hip hop fifty,

1653
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 6: is there any one specific message maybe that you feel

1654
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 6: like people are not getting.

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01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 13: The importance of it, is that we established the foundation

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01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 13: for a cultural movement that rivals any in history, any war,

1657
01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 13: any you know what I mean, calamity anything you can

1658
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 13: put hip hop up in the same breath as anything

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01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 13: that you can mention that happened in history. And I'm

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01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 13: proud of that and I'm proud to be part of

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01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 13: the fabric of the part.

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01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 9: Thank you my brother. Okay, he hopped on a flight,

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01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 9: You get some more money? Come on, God damn.

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01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 2: Yes.

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01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 4: And this is this, It's justould be how hip hop is.

1666
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 4: No one sitting his seat, no one sitting his seat.

1667
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 4: And see this, miserve put his jersey right here for

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01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 4: this jersey right?

1669
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:19,680
Speaker 8: I want I want to ask Rosenberg in Cipher a

1670
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 8: question before we get out of here. Being radio guys

1671
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 8: that came from, you know, traditional radio, how did y'all

1672
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 8: feel about the evolution of podcasting.

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01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:35,439
Speaker 3: I know that I know they were, but they come

1674
01:14:35,560 --> 01:14:36,400
Speaker 3: from so.

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01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,599
Speaker 10: Basically, do you guys look at podcasting the way cast

1676
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:41,679
Speaker 10: looks at right right, right right.

1677
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: Original I'll be honest, drink Champs is overcharging for what

1678
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:49,719
Speaker 1: they did.

1679
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 4: To the It's like, you owe, what's forty is that?

1680
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 4: You know this?

1681
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:03,479
Speaker 1: We started Rosenberg got put on the radio by Ebro,

1682
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:06,439
Speaker 1: introduced us and he said, y'all gonna do a morning

1683
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: show together. And we didn't know each other. So this

1684
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,600
Speaker 1: man had the smart idea. He said, Yo, let's do

1685
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: a podcast so we get to learn each other's personality.

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01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 4: So you had like a religious marriage. Yeah, basically it

1687
01:15:17,520 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 4: was arranged.

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01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 1: It was a marriage.

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01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:26,960
Speaker 4: You're supposed to be called a raised marriage.

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff that Rosenberg says and does

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01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: that I hate and disagree with, and.

1693
01:15:33,439 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 4: He got a lot that's overstated now I do.

1694
01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 2: I'm a big guy.

1695
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: But what I will always defend Peter Rosenberg is for

1696
01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:45,800
Speaker 1: his love of hip hop. Me and him can talk

1697
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: hip hop for hours and hours and hours. And what

1698
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 1: we did we didn't know what we were doing back then.

1699
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 1: We just we were lucky enough to be in Hot

1700
01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:00,720
Speaker 1: ninety seven and lost Forfessa was.

1701
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,240
Speaker 4: Dropping new drink ships this week.

1702
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:07,600
Speaker 1: Last week, yeah, like Large Professor was dropping a re

1703
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 1: release twenty anniversary of the main Source or something. So

1704
01:16:12,760 --> 01:16:15,400
Speaker 1: he was stopping by High ninety seven, and he would

1705
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: always grab and be like, Yo, can we go in

1706
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: the back room and do an interview, which then became

1707
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:25,960
Speaker 1: wand up interviews and the wand up interviews. We were

1708
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:30,839
Speaker 1: just two hip hop NERD fans getting the oral history

1709
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: of hip Hop'na be honest, y'all was ahead of yall time.

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01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know that, No, we know that.

1711
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 9: Like this is what it was like we were high

1712
01:16:39,880 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 9: ninety seven. We trained not the curse like y'all trained us.

1713
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,240
Speaker 9: Like I would go to Hot ninety seven. I would

1714
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 9: think of everything I'm about to say without a curse word,

1715
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 9: like I would be our I preman say that every interview,

1716
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 9: and then y'all were coming in a room and be

1717
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 9: like to the next room.

1718
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,880
Speaker 4: It's like we're in the principal's office.

1719
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 9: But then you I would say, let's go to the

1720
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 9: dean's office and then said you could curse here, said whatever.

1721
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 4: We never trusted y'all. This is a setup at somewhere.

1722
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,679
Speaker 4: We're gonna say something and then then we're gonna be banned.

1723
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 4: And then I didn't. I did get banned not to

1724
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 4: talk about Yeah, but that's I know, I know, Jesus, it's.

1725
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 9: Not talking about that well, but that's why, that's why

1726
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 9: I came off like I will always say, probably your

1727
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,200
Speaker 9: your fort Rosenburg. I'm like this that is like podcast

1728
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 9: is nerdy, And the e f N would call me

1729
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 9: and be like, I'm listening to a podcast.

1730
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 4: I'm like, damn, I know I helped the nerds get on.

1731
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:46,360
Speaker 3: Well for real.

1732
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 9: I mean, we're a billionaires boys club right now, Holy moly.

1733
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 9: But I was like, maybe we're not that nerdy yet. Yeah, man,

1734
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 9: and FM was like, listen, I'm telling you, I'm on you,

1735
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 9: and then he was.

1736
01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:09,040
Speaker 4: Right, but I'll tell you, I tell you what's crazy

1737
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 4: about that.

1738
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 9: I'm in La one night hanging out with Kid Cuddy.

1739
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 4: Excuse me, I was with Alchemists.

1740
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 15: It's a big difference.

1741
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 9: It's a big difference. No, No, it was Michael, No, No,

1742
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,640
Speaker 9: I'm with Alchemists. And he goes to me, let's go

1743
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 9: to this Kid Cutty show.

1744
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go.

1745
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 4: At the time, I'm in hip hop purgatory.

1746
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,600
Speaker 9: I don't know if anybody knows what hip hop purgatory is,

1747
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 9: but you're going to receive it at some point. And

1748
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:52,600
Speaker 9: that's where you go from being like here to like

1749
01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:53,439
Speaker 9: down here.

1750
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 3: But you're like right here, and you don't.

1751
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 4: Know because if you go up, you made it. But

1752
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 4: if you go down, no coming back, going to the garbage,

1753
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 4: getting back to the.

1754
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,559
Speaker 2: Garbage for real.

1755
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 9: You gotta realize they get tired of us after a while,

1756
01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:17,640
Speaker 9: they get tired of us and they want to kick

1757
01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 9: us to the fucking curve. That's the reason why we

1758
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 9: made dreams chance. We want to make people that's been

1759
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:22,679
Speaker 9: in the head so long.

1760
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 4: So anyway, what alchimist, he goes, let's go to this.

1761
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 9: I don't want to be seen like I don't want

1762
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 9: to like I'm in purgatory, Like I'm like, I'm not confident,

1763
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 9: So damn.

1764
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 4: This is ill right, I ain't gonna lie.

1765
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 9: I feel feel deep telling this story and I'm about

1766
01:19:40,439 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 9: and I'm about the light of.

1767
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 4: Blood and act like I don't know if you can

1768
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 4: smoke or not. I'm not sure. We're gonna figure that

1769
01:19:45,320 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 4: out later.

1770
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 9: So anyway, so anyway, I walk in and then I

1771
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 9: don't want to say nerves, but all of these hip

1772
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:58,599
Speaker 9: hop alternative people came up to me, was like, you're

1773
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:02,200
Speaker 9: the god, and I was like why, I was like,

1774
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 9: I didn't shoot nobody over here, you know, what I mean.

1775
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 4: And I didn't realize.

1776
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

1777
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,240
Speaker 9: That's that's how I identify with being the man like

1778
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 9: back then, like you had to you had to pop somebody,

1779
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 9: you know what I mean.

1780
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 4: But they're coming to me.

1781
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:18,639
Speaker 9: And what I don't realize is that like you put

1782
01:20:18,720 --> 01:20:20,879
Speaker 9: on for Rell, like the first time we seen Pharrell

1783
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 9: is and he's our god.

1784
01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 4: And I was like, this is this whole of.

1785
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:29,719
Speaker 9: The alternative hip hop that Kanye and this was like, holy,

1786
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 9: this is not gangster. There's nobody in there with a

1787
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 9: bandann and nobody quit walking, nobody, nobody, nobody in la.

1788
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 9: I'm like, I'm like, you ain't gonna ask me what

1789
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 9: hood I claim? Like you know, because I'm used to

1790
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 9: who you claimig Like, no, no, this was alternative that

1791
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 9: this word used alternative. And I looked and I was like, Wow,

1792
01:20:53,880 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 9: there's a whole nother section of hip hop that a

1793
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 9: tribe called quest because they had it to me through

1794
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,720
Speaker 9: for real, but for real's not where it comes from.

1795
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 4: It comes from.

1796
01:21:04,800 --> 01:21:08,640
Speaker 9: Actually call question and then what's the native tongue? And

1797
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 9: it's all under the native to and I'm looking like,

1798
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,760
Speaker 9: holy shit, it's still kind of went back to New York.

1799
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 9: But I'm in LA and that's when I will discovered

1800
01:21:17,880 --> 01:21:23,919
Speaker 9: what is it called? Uh the Kanye. It's not backpacking.

1801
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 9: This is upgraded from backpack. This is a different it's

1802
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 9: a kid cutting and yes, it's just alternative alternative alternative, Yes,

1803
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,639
Speaker 9: and and I realized this other places a hip hop

1804
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 9: like in my day.

1805
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, this is horrible.

1806
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:46,720
Speaker 9: But if I didn't, if I performed and nobody got stabbed.

1807
01:21:46,560 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 4: I was like, this is a horrible show.

1808
01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:52,640
Speaker 8: So I liked it.

1809
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:55,560
Speaker 4: If I did what what what? I wanted somebody to

1810
01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:56,360
Speaker 4: get what what? What?

1811
01:21:56,560 --> 01:21:56,680
Speaker 11: You know?

1812
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 9: What I meant, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry I

1813
01:21:59,240 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 9: went I went too far.

1814
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 4: Gods, I'm sorry. Don't get stabbed. No, No, I'm so glad.

1815
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 4: I don't wrap no more. I'm so glad.

1816
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 3: I'm like.

1817
01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 9: When I did reggae tho, I was like, I'm never

1818
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:16,719
Speaker 9: going back. You want me to go back to rap?

1819
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:20,639
Speaker 9: I just see people dance. So I'm like, got so lean,

1820
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:26,679
Speaker 9: Holy shit, this is and nobody nobody gets stabbed, Nobody

1821
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 9: like this.

1822
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:29,000
Speaker 4: Hip hop is fucked up. At one point, I'm sorry,

1823
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:30,720
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I didn't remind y'all of that. I know.

1824
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, it had nothing to do with the ninety people

1825
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 1: you walked in with.

1826
01:22:37,400 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 3: You have backstage harreat me completely. It had nothing to

1827
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 3: do with me.

1828
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 4: I'm tell you that. I'll tell you that. Well, you

1829
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 4: gotta say you're a question. I'm sorry.

1830
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 8: I'm telling this click story. Before we got here, I

1831
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:51,680
Speaker 8: think I'm in like the fourth or fifth grade. I'm

1832
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 8: like fourth or fifth grade, and I'm arguing on my teacher, right,

1833
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 8: and I tell the teacher, I'm like, you don't understand,

1834
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:59,760
Speaker 8: like dot, I'm finna blow up.

1835
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 3: Don't even got to be here, right, So she like,

1836
01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:02,680
Speaker 3: what are you?

1837
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:02,920
Speaker 11: Like?

1838
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 4: What are you talking about?

1839
01:23:04,479 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 8: So I'm like, you want me to learn this and

1840
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:07,640
Speaker 8: learn that when I already know what I want to

1841
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 8: do in life, I'm gonna be a rap star.

1842
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 3: So she was like, where is that going to take you?

1843
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:12,800
Speaker 1: And I was like to the moon.

1844
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 3: And she says what right? And I look at her

1845
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:16,920
Speaker 3: and I go what what what?

1846
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 2: What? What?

1847
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 4: What?

1848
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 2: What?

1849
01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 4: What?

1850
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 6: What?

1851
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 8: And the whole class, the whole class starts seeing this

1852
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:25,680
Speaker 8: ship to the point I just did an interview on

1853
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 8: BET and my mom told the story about when she

1854
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 8: got the call that I was in the class standing

1855
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 8: on top of the desk.

1856
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:32,760
Speaker 1: Going who what what.

1857
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 4: Greatest story?

1858
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:42,480
Speaker 2: Alternative?

1859
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 9: Holy this was great man. I want to thank everybody here,

1860
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:51,599
Speaker 9: even though I'm not moderating.

1861
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 3: Shut out, shut out the monster energy before.

1862
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:07,919
Speaker 8: Fifty of your hip hop right here, man, toast everybody

1863
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:11,040
Speaker 8: that had done this. Always say like rappers was my

1864
01:24:11,200 --> 01:24:12,559
Speaker 8: father when I didn't have one.

1865
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:14,000
Speaker 3: So I appreciate whole.

1866
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 8: I appreciate Nor, I appreciate Big, I appreciate Pop, I

1867
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 8: appreciate X. I appreciate Scarlet for being a female that's

1868
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 8: not hyper sexualizing, giving men something to shout out that

1869
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 8: women confide to when we could all be in the

1870
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 8: club together. So when I'm in the club, I want

1871
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 8: to tell them to hold the folk club.

1872
01:24:31,920 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 3: That's so nuts. That's hip hop, mister fifty

1873
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:00,599
Speaker 18: At