WEBVTT - EYL #178 Shyne on Being a World Leader, Relationship with Diddy, & Music Past 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.120 Coach, the energy out there felt different. What changed for 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:03.800 the team today? 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.000 It was a new game day scratches from the California 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.520 Lottery players everything. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:09.799 Those games sent the team's energy through the roof. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:11.880 Are you saying it was the off field play that 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:13.000 made the difference on the field. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.840 Hey, little play makes your day, and today it made 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:16.279 the game. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:18.440 That's all of now, Coach, one. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.320 More question play than you Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.880 forty nine Ers and Los Angeles ram scratchers from the 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.520 California Lottery. A little play can make your day. Peace 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.240 made responsibily. It must be eighteen years or older to 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:30.080 purchase late or claim. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:34.160 Removing the queen is of the head as the head 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.120 of state is something that's long overdue, and becoming a 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.239 republic just means that you know you're no longer you 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:46.840 have no affiliation with the United Kingdom and your former 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.440 colonial masters. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:53.159 So country is already an independent country, but they were 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.920 still kind of under. 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:02.400 The flag of real mafia criminal organization type mentality that Okay, 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.360 I'll let you have the block, but you know you 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:07.679 still gotta check in with me. 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:15.000 My graduate from my school being false backdrop B drop 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.280 drop backdrop. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.360 So if you watch Earn your Leisure, you know that 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:36.160 one thing we stay away from is politics. We've never 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.800 interviewed a politician. That is for a reason because we're 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.720 a political You could be a Democrat, you could be 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.800 a Republican. That's we don't really go into that lane. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:51.400 Our lane is financing business. But there's exceptions to every rule. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.200 So if we was going to have a conversation with 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.720 a politician, there was only one, maybe two that we 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.040 would have made an exception or so. Shout to my 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.280 brother Steve O. When he told me that we had 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.640 an opportunity to talk to Sean, I was like, Nah, 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.840 that's a no brainer. That's legendary. You know what I'm 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.160 saying for us being fans of the culture, being fans 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:20.079 of the music, seeing Sean's transition from being the hottest 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:25.240 rapper in New York and the unfortunate incident being incarcerated, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.320 being kicked out of America for almost a decade, wasn't 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.560 even allowed on American soil. To now before you say 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:37.560 his name, you must say the honorable, the honorable Sean Barrow. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:38.680 Clap it up for that. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.359 So this is a conversation that I'm extremely excited about. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.200 We're going to talk about finance, We're going to talk 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.040 about his journey, were going to talk about politics, We're 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.520 going to talk about world politics, crypto, all of that stuff. 0:02:54.000 --> 0:03:00.280 So huh oh, all my beliefs. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.400 We got some believes in the If you believes, it 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:02.839 makes no noise. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.880 Now, we got some brothers over here, shout out to you. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.600 We believe. 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.760 There's three one a head, two here and Shine. So 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.680 I need you to get on your feet. I need 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:13.399 you to get on your feet. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:13.680 Please. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.480 This is something that's extremely and poorant for us, poort 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:23.040 for us. And welcome my brother Shine Narrow, the honorable 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:23.840 Shine Barrol. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.040 Not so many people want to fuck with us. And 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.400 look your son snitches. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.920 All right, take your seat. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.160 Like what I'm saying, I'm telling them when my father 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:51.480 busting and loaded me. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.880 Think you just that's the vibe that. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.120 I like. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.240 I like how she blended that out in the Trump 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.400 Very good. All right, So here's the deal, ladies and gentlemen. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.600 We got a lot of good information for you guys today. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.080 We're gonna do this legendary interview. After that we're gonna 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.080 have a performance. Then we're gonna bring my brother Ian 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:26.200 dunlap out. He shout out to Ian, shout out to 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.440 Red pen. That's a fact. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.800 So it's only one thing that we ask of you, guys. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:31.880 That's it. It's free. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.800 Everything is you know, there's no charge to come in here. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.160 There's good hospitalities, good vibes. You can network whatever you want. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.640 But during the time that we're speaking, please please try 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.920 to be quiet. That's the only thing that we ask 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.640 if you guys, and shout out to my brother might 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.480 started to make a mallory before I forget. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.640 Thank you for your advocacy, Thank you for joining us. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:52.400 I appreciate you. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:58.599 All Right, let's get into this, Shine, the honorable, the 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:03.800 honorable Shine Arrow. This is like, it's not enough time. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.200 I feel like this needs to be a five part series. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:11.800 Your life story is so amazing, you know, so I 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.640 want to talk about the political aspect of it, but 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:21.479 I want to start at the beginning. When did you 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:27.320 actually realize that you had a talent for music and 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.000 when did you actually start to pursue that Because when 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.080 I first heard of you, everybody was saying like, this 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.880 is the new big that was the buzz in New York, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.640 And when I heard it was a bit in war 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.240 for you, and then I heard the music and it 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.440 was like it was just like something I hadn't heard before. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.120 So when did that start? As far as the musical side. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:55.719 You know, I always love music. My father was a 0:05:55.839 --> 0:06:01.920 DJ before he became a politician. So we always have 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.880 a joke in the family that, you know, I got 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.919 something on him that I'm actually a successful music and 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.159 he failed. But you know, I love music, you know, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.680 ever since I came out of the wound. You know, 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.480 I used to write poems. I used to write poetry, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.640 you know, because I you know, I thought I was 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.640 a casting over when I was a young kid, and 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.679 so you know, my path to a young woman's heart 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:37.560 was to charm her with you know, my lexicon and 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:43.120 my wordplay. So that was my first four way into 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.640 you know, music first is writing poetry. But you know 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.960 I love music. I love Bob Mally, you know, really 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:59.240 reggae music. It's my first love. And for those you know, 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:05.520 true uh hip hop heads, they'll confess that, you know, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:12.280 cool Her he's the Jamaican DJE that moved moved to 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:17.320 the Bronx and took the sound system from Jamaica. And 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.640 you know that's how hip hop started. So yeah, so 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.680 I used to listen to like Shaba Ranks and super 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.960 Cat and you know yellow Man and all the great 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:32.240 Jaman Yes, all the great uh DJs, and like KRS 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.120 one was very, very influential because you know when he 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.400 came out with the Bridges Over that had that whole 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:45.160 reggae you know five that was like a reggae song. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:50.640 So so I always love music, but I never necessarily 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:55.360 wanted to be a rapper. Just love music. But you know, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.240 when I was in the streets, as most young inner 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:05.400 city you are in the streets because they have no alternatives. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:11.080 There's a systematic design for young inner city males, brown 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.560 and black to you know, go down the path of 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.800 destruction that leads to jail or incarceration. You know, music 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.840 saved my life. You know, I was listening to music 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:30.040 for therapy, for escape, you know, to stay inside and 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:34.760 and stay away from dodging bullets and shooting bullets. So 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.559 I would just you know, listen to music. And that's 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.240 when I really started to develop the notion that I 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.920 could actually contribute something to the art form of wrath. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.480 So the first song on your debut album, so I 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:49.800 think the first time I heard you was on a 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:53.840 total remix. But then when when when I heard they're 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.680 America write that first bar at their America. Look at 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.600 what you made me? Young, black and crazy? Yeah, please 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.080 save me? Yeah the police saved me. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:03.839 Part. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.880 What was your vision? What did you right? 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.240 Because you were born in Belize and moved to Brooklyn, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.920 So when you said America, please save me? What was 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.040 the vision there that it was something you wanted to 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.160 see change at that time? 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:15.599 Going on? 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.400 I came to the United States of America when I 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.600 was about eight years old, and I lived with my mom. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.560 My mom was a you know, low, low income, working 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.000 class woman, and you know, she had to work so 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.320 hard that I was always by myself. You know, most 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.439 immigrants that come to the United States from Jamaica, from Haiti, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:43.560 from Belize, they you know, do housekeeping and babysitting, and 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.319 so she spent all her time taking care of other 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.800 people's children, and I was on my own. And I 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.640 wouldn't say that I was a bad kid, you know 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.160 that That's how I got the name Sean because I 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.440 was dark, because I had to be dark, you know, 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.080 I was. I'm a lion, but I don't necessarily believe 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.960 in eating gazelles. You know, if you if you do 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.960 the history of mankind, there was a time in the 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.680 gardener eating where lions and gazelles and everybody were one. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.560 And that's my mentality. You know, I don't I'm not 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.280 a predator, but I grew up with predators, and so 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.040 I wasn't going to be a gazelle. I was going 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.600 to be a lion. And if somebody was gonna get eaten, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.320 it wasn't gonna be me. And so my mentality was 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.160 always there should be an alternative. This shouldn't be the 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.760 way that we live. You know, we should be able 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.760 to grow up and evolve and you know, have for 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.319 one ks and you know, you know, get married and 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.559 you know, get a mortgage, and you know, take vacations 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.920 and be the best versions of ourselves. But kids growing up, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.560 you know, in my generation, and I'm sure in this generation, 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.280 that's not necessarily a reality. You know, the reality is 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:05.520 jail in early Gray. So I was crying out because 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.080 that's not who I wanted to be, and I wasn't 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.160 ashamed of that, you know. You know, I know your 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.520 theme song isnas That's one of my heroes. You know 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.360 him and people like Ray Kwan and Ghost Face and 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.959 Wu Tang, they had that same message like they were 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.520 talking about reality. It was their reality. But that doesn't 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.280 mean that's what we wanted to be. You know, we 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.600 don't necessarily want to sell the narcotics that you know, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:38.559 certain agencies put into our communities to destroy our communities. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.680 But we have no other choice because you know, we 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.480 feel that we're going to starve. You know, we can't 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.520 get jobs. They burned down our business. You know, remember 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.280 Black Wall Street. We can't get loans at the bank. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.079 You know, there's so many obstacles to having a healthy, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.760 normal life. So when I say saved me, you know 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.280 it was a true crime that you know, it could 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.079 be better and the legislators could make it better. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.200 Let me let me ask you this as far as 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:07.680 you know. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.240 Obviously the incident in the club and you get sentenced 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.000 to ten years in jail and Clinton Max. So that's 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.160 you and the belly of the Beast right talking about 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.640 overcoming adversity. Like to see you now to where you 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.960 were at that point in time, it's an amazing transformation mentally. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.600 What was you going through during that ten year time 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.000 and being incarcerated, and how were you able to come 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.439 out and not only just keep your sanity, but to actually, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.240 you know, move forward, change your life. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:42.200 You know, the way the architect of the universe designs 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:47.439 human beings is to withstand anything. I think we're all indestructible. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.120 Everybody in this audience has what I have inside of me, 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.640 and it's just a matter of finding it. And so 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.960 I went through different phases of my life's journey that 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:03.720 allowed me to develop the durability to withstand that ultimate pain. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.960 Because I wouldn't wish incarceration on my worst enemy. It's 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.920 nothing worse other than being bedridden in the hospital. But 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.400 I come from a country Belize, you know where I 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.320 grew up in a house where we didn't even have 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:24.200 a toilet system. So that's how I grew up. So 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:30.040 to go from that to the United States was an improvement. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:38.120 To go from Brooklyn, Flatbush Church Avenue, New Kirk, Little Haiti, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:47.839 you know, the most dangerous, challenging places on planet Earth 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:53.800 to go from there and to escape incarceration and to 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:59.360 escape death. I was a superhero. You know that that 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.040 wasn't my my destiny. Uh So to have been able 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.240 to do that and to you know, get signed to 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:10.600 bad Boy. Uh to put out a number one rap 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:16.319 album and to overcome that prepared me for whatever I 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.280 would face in life, because it's not probable. Everybody wanted 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.840 to wrap back then. But we didn't have you know, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.840 the Internet, we didn't have United Masters, We didn't have 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.240 all these platforms that would allow you know, unknown artists 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.800 to break through. 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Don't wait, don't hesitate, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:02.320 head over there now. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.760 But I knew that I could make it in music, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.600 and I made it. So you know, God is real, 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.040 whatever you want to call it, the architect of the universe, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:19.600 intelligence designer, and there is a divine source that you know, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.480 GUIDs everything on this planet. So if I did it once, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.440 I could do it again. And you know, I think 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:30.320 it was harder to go from Brooklyn, you know, single mother, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:37.840 you know, impoverished, household too, you know, millionaire rap star 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.800 signed to the biggest record label in the world. Like, 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.520 that's that's mission impossible. So to do that, that's it. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.359 After that, there's nothing that I can't do. And I 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:54.359 thank God for that invincibility that I was gifted with. So, 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.960 you know, going to Clinton Denamora and going through the incarceration, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:04.320 I rely on. You know, I'm I'm I'm not a 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:09.920 religious person, but my name is Moses. And you know Moses, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.560 you know, you got the Five Books, whatever your religion is, 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.560 it's the Old Testament for Jews, you know, they call 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:22.080 it the Torah. You know. So one of the things 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:27.800 that I have always had was this gift of just 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:33.879 divine invincibility. I could do anything. And so once I 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.119 did it once and I understood the science, however, the 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.840 divine science work, I knew that I could apply that again. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.040 And so in the in the Five Books of Moses, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.120 there's a part that says when the Israelites, the Jews, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.840 when they're going through the Red Sea, and they got 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.920 through the Red Sea and they're in the desert, they 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.560 say to God, you know what, man, we don't need 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.200 anything else, just the fact that you took us out 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.080 of Egypt. That's enough. You took us through the Red Sea, 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:10.159 that's enough. You gave us a fire by night to 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.920 keep us warm, and you know you let us through 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.480 all these scorpions and all these snakes. That's enough, they say, Diano. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.400 So what God did for me? Going from Belize where 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.640 I didn't even have a toilet system and my mother 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.920 was a poor teacher. We came to the United States, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.280 she was a housekeeper, then became a receptionist with a 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.800 little bit of nothing, and I was able to become 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.800 a multi millionaire, put our number one rap albums and 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.679 get nominated for Grammys. So like, what more could I 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.600 ask God for? So, you know, I wasn't entitled. I 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:48.280 didn't feel like I deserved anything. I got the hand 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.840 and I played the hand, and I played the hand 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.960 before and I was successful. So I just asked God 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.240 to continue to give me the wisdom and durability because 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.879 we're gonna have challenges. Everybody in this room, everybody on 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.440 this planet is going to have challenges. Alon Musk has challenges, 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:11.000 Jeff Bezos has challenges, Kanye West has challenges. You just 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.000 have to endure those challenges and figure out the science 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.760 to navigate your challenges. So you know, I thank God 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:17.960 for being able to figure that out. 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:23.359 I told you, yeah, clap it up with that. I 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.480 told you this backstage and I said, look like you 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.200 were my god. You've always been my god. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:28.640 Thank you. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.480 That's a fact, right, Like I remember twenty years ago 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.639 being in the mirror trying to rap like you. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.159 Thank you, dressing up like you. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:37.720 One of the things that over the course of time 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:41.919 is your level of integrity, right has never waivered. I 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:43.840 told you I still got the double xcel cover when 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.920 it was death before the Sauna and it still is 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.080 right and even Sean's the realist rapper alive. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.199 And so you said mom wasn't around. I know your 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.000 dad wasn't. Believeze, Where did we get this moral ethic? Cold, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.000 where we get this integrity from? Where was it built for? 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:06.240 You know? My grandmother, God bless her soul. I was 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.200 very close to her. She's a garridt from a woman 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:17.600 uh Africans that very resilient throughout Latin America. And yeah, 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.879 she she was very close to me and instilled a 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:27.159 lot of those integrity and ideas and you know, the 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.040 moral compassed that I had yeah, and you know, I 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.040 think I think you are who you are. I think 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.640 for me, it's not who I am, but how will 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:47.320 I use who I am to empower humanity? So it's 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.080 not about being great, but it's about how do you 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:53.480 use your greatness to make other people great? But to 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:57.560 impact the planet, not to impact your community, or your 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.000 state or your country. So I think, you know, certain 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:06.480 people are wired and designed to change the planet, to 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.240 change their country, to change their surroundings. And you know, 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.480 so that's how I was wired. I'm thankful that I 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.399 was able to find that. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:15.919 You know. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.800 Again, I encourage everyone to find their greatness is there, 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.760 it's inside of you. But you know, some of us 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:27.280 are afraid, some of us get distracted, but you could 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:27.760 find it. 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:30.840 So let me ask you this because I want to 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:34.359 jump into this crypto conversation. It's very rare that we 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:37.359 speak to politicians. But you're not only a politician, you're 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:42.400 a world leader. So your neighbor, yes, your Central American 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:48.440 navor El Salvador made news by buying seven hundred big 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:53.920 coins see bigcoin is a legal tender currency there and 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:58.000 they have a plan to finance a billion dollars of 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:03.400 infrastructure using bitcoin and cryptocurrency. So my first question is 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.119 what's your thoughts on that, and is that something that 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.720 your country or other countries in the region, all over 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:14.720 the world can duplicate to catch up to the superpowers. 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:19.240 You know, I'm a very bold and aggressive leader, so 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:24.359 certainly I would be prepared to examine the benefits of 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.440 you know, that path. You know, certainly to develop believes 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:31.679 you know, we have to have all options on the table, 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:35.120 so we'd have to look and see how that works 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.880 for Ol Salvador and you know, study how it's working 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:42.000 for other countries. But certainly I'm open to that. I 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:44.240 do believe that is that is the now, not just 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:47.400 the future. You know, it's what's smoothing the world. 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:50.800 So when you when you got released, right and you 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.400 were deported from the country, a country that you grew 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:55.600 up in. I mean obviously you're born in Belize but 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:59.760 raised in Brooklyn, and then you're deported, At what time 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:03.239 do you decide that you know what politics is going 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:05.560 to be my new passion. Politics is where I'm supposed 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.560 to be because I know your dad obviously was the 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.639 prime minister, and so when you're looking at him as 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:12.680 the guy that's like, you know what, I'm not following 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:14.879 my fat my dad's for sess, but that is an 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.680 avenue if I would like to explore. What was it 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:20.800 that triggered you to say, you know what, politics is 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:21.600 my route now? 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.600