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Speaker 1: Every day up we click up the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Finish y'all done morning, everybody is the j n V.

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Speaker 2: Just hilarious, Charlamagne to gud we are the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Law La Rosa is here as well, and we got

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Speaker 2: a special guest in the.

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Speaker 1: Building, a motherfucking icon.

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Speaker 3: I thought he was up here, this is his first time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's that's what I seen you on the road.

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Speaker 2: I know, but I thought you've been up here.

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, Hey many, thank y'all for having me.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, it's about time.

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Speaker 4: And everybody, we don't say good morning enough to our

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Speaker 4: fellow brothers and sisters.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: I was a victim of that until I started to

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Speaker 4: change my mindset. Sometimes I would come down, get in

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Speaker 4: the car going, you know, on the road, I didn't

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Speaker 4: say good morning. And once I started to change my mindset,

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Speaker 4: I realized that's a good way to start your day.

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Speaker 4: In a gesture to someone whoever you're riding with, you know,

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Speaker 4: the driver, whoever, that's.

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Speaker 1: How they feeling, and then that's how they're feeling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes that's also the case. Sometimes just say how

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Speaker 4: is your day gone?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 4: I found myself sometimes I'm a I'm a I'm really

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Speaker 4: in tune to my spiritual side.

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Speaker 3: I've been for a long time.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes I might just be I remember being in the

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Speaker 4: club and I might walk by a random person and

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Speaker 4: I can feel that energy and.

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Speaker 3: I'd be like, let me just give you a hug,

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Speaker 3: And sometimes that just changes somebody's life absolutely.

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Speaker 1: What about that?

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Speaker 5: What about when you were the person that might have

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Speaker 5: been creating energy though, Like if you felt like some

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Speaker 5: aggressive angriness from this person, but it was your fault

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Speaker 5: because it was.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm gonna tell you. One time I

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Speaker 4: was in South Carolina, a and a Hole in the

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Speaker 4: supposed to be a night where cash money was supposed

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Speaker 4: to be there, and they called me because cash money

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Speaker 4: couldn't come. So these folks in South Carolina was mad

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Speaker 4: than a motherfucker was not cash money. Little johnn Eastside

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Speaker 4: Boys show up and so I understand it's a hostile situation,

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Speaker 4: but I said, I looked out on that crowd and

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Speaker 4: I said, the biggest dude in this crowd, I'm about

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Speaker 4: to make him my best friend.

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Speaker 3: And I made him my best friend during the show,

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Speaker 3: like playing to.

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Speaker 4: Him, giving him drinks and hyping them up, and then

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Speaker 3: Like it turned the whole crowd around, and then they

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Speaker 4: But it was it was a way you can always

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Speaker 4: change the energy of a situation if you approach with

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Speaker 4: a calm manner. That's why good security don't go and

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Speaker 4: try to fight somebody. They try to defuse the situation.

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Speaker 4: That's the first rule is diffuse it, not be the aggressor.

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Speaker 4: Lok John, I want to go back.

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Speaker 5: So this is your first time, real quick, what is

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Speaker 5: a little John morning routine?

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Speaker 4: Like I knew you were going to ask me that morning,

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Speaker 4: So this morning I woke up, had a little water

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Speaker 4: because you know, I do my I do this Korean

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Speaker 4: facial stuff, so I do skin.

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Speaker 3: You know my skin is very important to my skin.

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Speaker 4: Look, ladies, one rule for that is positivity, positive energy,

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Speaker 4: positive thoughts, because if you're a negative person in all

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Speaker 4: this negativity, it's gonna wear the flesh down. So get

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Speaker 4: up in the morning and do my skincare routine, burst

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Speaker 4: my teeth, all that good stuff. And then since I'm

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Speaker 4: that's simple, easy and start with a positive mindset. It's

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Speaker 4: gonna be a great day. I'm always in my mind

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Speaker 4: saying affirmations for the day, even before I go to bed,

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Speaker 4: in my dreams, Like last night, I was like, it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be a great interview. This is I look at

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Speaker 4: this as one of the biggest interviews I've ever done

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Speaker 4: in my life because it's like, it's some fifty minutes,

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Speaker 4: forty five minutes, fifty minutes a long interview. It's a

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Speaker 4: lot to talk about. Charlot Man, you see me grow from.

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Speaker 4: I think we one time we taught you were like

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Speaker 4: you came to the radio station and in South Carolina

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Speaker 4: one time that was early on.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't even on air yet, right.

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Speaker 5: I think it was a phone or you called in.

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Speaker 5: You had just put out I think you had just

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Speaker 5: put out be a beer.

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Speaker 3: Wow. So twenty years ago.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So we were talking about you having the Confederate

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Speaker 5: flag in the in the video.

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Speaker 3: And I don't care about that. So that's what you know.

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Speaker 4: You've seen the growth, and it's I think it's important

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Speaker 4: because yeah, you've seen the growth. You've seen it from

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Speaker 4: a different angle. You've seen it from a different angle.

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Speaker 4: You've seen it from a different angle, and you know,

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Speaker 4: you guys moved the needle of culture and you had

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Speaker 4: everybody and their grandmama on this show. So I think

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Speaker 4: it's one of the most important and you know, best

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Speaker 4: interviews I think I'm going to have because because of

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Speaker 4: all of that.

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Speaker 1: Let's claim it. Let's claim it.

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Speaker 3: I want to go back.

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Speaker 2: I want to start from the beginning of these are

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Speaker 2: the interviews I love because for some reason I thought

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Speaker 2: you've been up here before. So I want to start

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Speaker 2: when you first got into the music industry, right, let's

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Speaker 2: start with you started working with your main Dupris yep

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Speaker 2: ninety three. Let's start from there. So how did you

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Speaker 2: hook up a Jamain dupri and what did you do

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Speaker 2: for Jamaine Duprix.

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Speaker 4: So I used to be in Atlanta in the nineties.

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Speaker 4: I was like the hottest DJ in the city.

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Speaker 3: I was the demand.

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Speaker 4: I did all the parties and I would see Jermaine

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Speaker 4: this one club called the Phoenix night Club, which was

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Speaker 3: We brought Biggie we brought Biggie.

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Speaker 4: I got Biggie and Craig Mac together when they did

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Speaker 4: the Big Mac Tour, so I got them.

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Speaker 3: That's an interesting story because we.

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Speaker 4: Got we we I worked on the radio station, but

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Speaker 4: I wasn't the PD. And you know how back then

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Speaker 4: he let us get Biggie and Craig because he thought

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Speaker 4: I was like the PD. And he get there and

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Speaker 4: the club is slammed like a million people and he's like, Yo,

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Speaker 4: what the heck, Yo, we need some more money because

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Speaker 4: And then he even tried to get the rep that

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that was normal back then when artists are

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Speaker 3: Tall like, yeah, but you had you wanted to go

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Speaker 4: You get to spend get your look. And we wasn't that,

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Speaker 4: but we were high promoters. So I was doing all

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Speaker 4: the hot parties and I would just see Jamaine all

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Speaker 3: I called it from Bankhead to Buckhead.

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Speaker 4: That was from the boogie spots to the the most

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Speaker 3: So I was literally everywhere. And Jermaine came to me.

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Speaker 4: Well, for one thing, people don't really know, Dallas Austin's

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Speaker 4: brother came to me first, so his name was Claude Austin.

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Speaker 4: He passed away, but Claude Austin came to me first

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Speaker 4: and wanted me to work for Rowley. But then Jamaine

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Speaker 4: just everywhere, and he was like, I need you, someone

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Speaker 4: like you to represent, you know, my label, because you everywhere.

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Speaker 3: So he hired me.

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Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety three, I started working at Social Death

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Speaker 4: he wanted someone that had respecting the city, that could

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Speaker 4: so that was represent Social Death from Bankhead.

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Speaker 3: Like I said to Buckheat.

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Speaker 2: And what artist did you have being in a and

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Speaker 4: I had I put together all of the Social Death

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Speaker 4: based all stars and at night.

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Speaker 3: I think yeah. And that changed.

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Speaker 4: That changed music too, like it gave us a whole

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Speaker 4: Like slow jam acapellas, like say, one famous mix was

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Speaker 4: these R and B A cappellas, and so I was like,

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Speaker 3: Nobody made an actual song.

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Speaker 4: So I came up with that concept and I went

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Speaker 4: to my boy DJ Cool Collie aka Rodney, and then

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Speaker 4: at the same time I met carlmo Uh. He used

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Speaker 4: to call the phone that Social Death and play his

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Speaker 4: just playing the keyboard, not like no CDs, no cassette tape,

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Speaker 4: So I ended up using him and we did my

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Speaker 4: Boo and so yeah, I did all of the Soco

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Speaker 4: Death Base All Stars, and then out of that we

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Speaker 4: had play a Pancho.

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Speaker 3: He got signed and we did a couple of records

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Speaker 3: with Player Pancho.

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Speaker 4: And Player Pancho is actually how I met the East

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Speaker 4: Side Boys, Wow, Because Player Pancho would always when he

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Speaker 4: would go out, he would have a whole like.

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Speaker 3: Twenty ten twenty guys with him, and.

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Speaker 4: The East Side Boys was always with him, even if

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Speaker 4: I was always with Pancho because he was my artist,

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Speaker 4: you know. And so me and the East Side Boys

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Speaker 4: just one day we were in the club and I

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Speaker 4: think we were in the club five five nine, and

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Speaker 4: we just start chatting this.

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Speaker 3: Chant who who you with? Get with and then everybody in.

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Speaker 4: The club start chatting and then I look at Big Sam.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, we need to turn this into a song.

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Speaker 2: When did you start producing? When did did the production

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Speaker 4: It started off where me and my partner I used

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Speaker 4: So what we did at that time we would kind

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Speaker 1: Did you have product your credits on my boot as well?

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Speaker 5: I'm glad you mentioned Sam and Bolt too, because people

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Speaker 1: What did they bring to the table?

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Speaker 4: We were just like because we were We were the

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Speaker 3: That's where we were.

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Speaker 3: So we were that.

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Speaker 4: And what people don't understand about krunk music. I know

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Speaker 3: For black youth. Yes, when you.

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Speaker 4: on in your life. You hear that fucking krunk music

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Speaker 4: what I mean. So that's why krunk music was able

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Speaker 3: That's why I still like going.

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Speaker 4: Like I see you talking of all the time about

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Speaker 3: And I think we do. And and like krunk.

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Speaker 4: Music tap into music to their ancestors because they were

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Speaker 2: What did you do when you were a band from clubs?

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Speaker 2: I remember in college there was some clubs that like,

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Speaker 2: you cannot play none of that in this club, put

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Speaker 3: Up and all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: We just kept going because when you when you tell

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Speaker 3: I've seen people.

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Speaker 4: I was in Louisiana one time we did a show

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy.

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Speaker 3: Steady, it is like moving.

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Speaker 4: That's how much energy was in that place. And I

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Speaker 4: We just brought something different, you know, And like the

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Speaker 5: And get crunked with such a great record, because I

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Speaker 1: Crunkd in that. But as soon as you hear who

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Speaker 1: in my Beohagen being me? Motherfuck you?

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Speaker 3: Like God killed that salute Bohagen out there?

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Speaker 5: How did you how did you even have the mindset

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Speaker 4: That beat was produced by Little j who produced Knock

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Speaker 4: If You Buck. So it was time to you know,

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Speaker 4: come and work on the album, and you know, everybody

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Speaker 4: down with be and me. Of course people that don't

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Speaker 4: of course I called all of the squad, you know,

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Speaker 4: Little Jay sent me. I think he sent me some

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Speaker 3: I thought it was one of the crukest beats ever too.

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Speaker 4: I think my favorite beats that I've produced are co

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Speaker 4: Gonna Do and what You're Gonna Do is unique. I

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Speaker 4: Brian Leash was like, Yo, you gotta go in and

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Speaker 4: knock out this song for this. I think it was

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Speaker 4: So like, fuck this guy. And so I was in

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Speaker 4: was angry when I made that beat. I'm never mad

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Speaker 4: I wanted to just go out like I was like,

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Speaker 4: I'm going on to the club. He was like, no,

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Speaker 1: Did you have a trademark the word crunk?

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Speaker 3: I can't remember. Probably did all my ad libs.

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Speaker 1: I know that because you're the face of crunk.

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Speaker 5: But to me, I would have to give I would

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Speaker 4: So that's another argument going around. It's an argument that

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Speaker 4: You couldn't be riding around not listening to master P.

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Speaker 3: Master P.

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Speaker 4: Master P changed the landscape of the South, the South period.

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Speaker 4: He was the first one that really got us rowdy.

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Speaker 4: I would say it was master P, but we was

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Speaker 4: listening to Balling G. And of course three six Mafia

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Speaker 1: Do you think he got us roody before three to six?

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Speaker 3: I think about it, about.

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Speaker 1: It, about it, yeah, but the club Up.

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Speaker 3: Club was ninety seven? What yet about about it come out?

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Speaker 2: I was in college.

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Speaker 4: I think it was like ninety five. I remember what

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Speaker 2: Over about about that was ninety five, definitely. That was

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Speaker 3: That was the record.

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Speaker 4: Motherfuckers in the hood was getting no limit tattoos.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's what changes for us. So I will say Memphis

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Speaker 4: Memphis was getting Bucks.

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Speaker 1: It was ninety seven. That's even late though.

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Speaker 4: No, No, when we got when we got Terry Club

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Speaker 4: was when they redid it.

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Speaker 3: That was ninety seven.

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Speaker 4: Because I remember it says on the Vinyl Tarrtor Club

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Speaker 4: up ninety seven. So but it started for us with

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Speaker 4: Master p Master about it about it.

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Speaker 3: Ship just changed it.

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Speaker 4: But we are influenced. But it's all different sounds, but

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Speaker 1: So what would you call what three six was doing?

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Speaker 3: They called it in Memphis Memphis buck, but three six

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Speaker 4: I think it was just three six created the three

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Speaker 4: they changed the landscape of what Memphis music is. So

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Speaker 4: salute Paul Juicy and the whole squad. That's family too.

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Speaker 2: You know, you know what the word ask too when

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Speaker 2: you made when you were making these tracks, did you

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Speaker 2: try to make it your business not to sound the same,

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Speaker 2: because you know, when you look at your desiography to

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Speaker 2: so amazed because they don't sound the same. Right, you

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Speaker 2: the ship is amazing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well it depends, well a lot of it. So

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Speaker 4: so let's talk Get Low. Interesting story of Get Low

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Speaker 4: get Load became because I was trying to make Party Up.

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Speaker 4: I was inspired by part I love dmxa's Party Up

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Speaker 3: I was like, I want to make something like that.

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Speaker 4: Let me go in the studio. This was like ninety nine,

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Speaker 4: get Low. If you listen to it, it's got the

447
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,240
Speaker 4: whistle like Party Up. It's some similarities. I'm inspired by it.

448
00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 4: But I sat on the beat. I couldn't really.

449
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 3: Come up with nothing.

450
00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,520
Speaker 4: And then I had a session with Yin Yang and

451
00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,680
Speaker 4: I pulled that beat out and we may get Low.

452
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 4: So it comes out like that just came like I said,

453
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,399
Speaker 4: because I was trying to do something different, but it

454
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,520
Speaker 4: turned from like a rowdy party up type song to

455
00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:33,680
Speaker 4: a tork song.

456
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,479
Speaker 3: But then like say tell me when to go E forty.

457
00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,560
Speaker 4: We were in the studio together, and that's the energy

458
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,400
Speaker 4: of what he's giving me and his squad is giving me, and.

459
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 3: It comes out into the drummer shot.

460
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 4: So every time I make the best stuff when I'm

461
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:49,919
Speaker 4: in the studio, young bloods.

462
00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:50,280
Speaker 3: Damn.

463
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,360
Speaker 4: We were in the studio together and it took two

464
00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 4: days for us to get that song done. Like I

465
00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,879
Speaker 4: did the beat the first day. We had the verses

466
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,200
Speaker 4: the first day, but we did not have the hook.

467
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 4: And then the second day we just threw a party

468
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 4: in the studio and then Bohagen again shout out Bohagen.

469
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,960
Speaker 4: He was like everybody was throwing hooks out and then.

470
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,120
Speaker 3: He was just kind of mumbling something.

471
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 4: I was like, what you got, because I'm shooting everybody

472
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 4: shit down like that shits trash, and then he's just

473
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 4: mumbling son.

474
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,920
Speaker 3: I was like, what's that? That?

475
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 4: That's it, that's it, go lay that and then I

476
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 4: got the second part, you know, And sometimes that's how

477
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 4: some of the records happened to, like you just stumble

478
00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 4: onto it. The whistle blow the whistle. I did that

479
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 4: bat that. I did that beat the same week that

480
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,000
Speaker 4: I did tell me when to go Damn.

481
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

482
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 4: So I was working on E forty's album and I

483
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:48,439
Speaker 4: think we had done muscle Cars that day. So too Short,

484
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 4: Too Short had came to the studio a couple of

485
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:51,480
Speaker 4: days after that.

486
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,640
Speaker 3: So before, like earlier in the.

487
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 4: Week, I was making beats and I was going through

488
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,120
Speaker 4: sounds and I found that sound and I was like, ooh,

489
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 4: this sounded like can tails baseline, Like this is a

490
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 4: base like that. I was like, let me make some

491
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 4: with that, and I don't know what made me instead

492
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,399
Speaker 4: of making it slow, make it fast.

493
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:10,439
Speaker 3: Because I like to do stuff different.

494
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,199
Speaker 4: I don't like to be expected, so I was like,

495
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,679
Speaker 4: let me make it one hundred whatever bpms. So I

496
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,120
Speaker 4: put it to the side, and when too Short came

497
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 4: to the studio a couple of days later, I was like,

498
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 4: here you go. You know I got something for you,

499
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 4: But first forty turned it down to forty Forty had

500
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,600
Speaker 4: to remind me of this the other day. He was like,

501
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,159
Speaker 4: you know, you gave me that beat first, and I

502
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,800
Speaker 4: was like, this sounded like Todd, so give it to Todd.

503
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 3: So that's what happened.

504
00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 1: Basically, he should get corproduction credits.

505
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:43,919
Speaker 3: You didn't want it.

506
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 5: What moment made you realize Crump had officially crossed from

507
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 5: suvering energy to a global.

508
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,679
Speaker 3: Move coming up doing MTV.

509
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 4: They let me get in Times Square on a double

510
00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 4: deckord bus with a little scrappy on tr doing what

511
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 4: you gonna do?

512
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 3: Bruh MTV.

513
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 5: I was gonna say MTV too, because I remember watching

514
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 5: the Video Music Awards.

515
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: I forgot what year it was.

516
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 5: They played get Low going in the commercial break and

517
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 5: the audience went crazy, and Justin Timberlake was wilent and

518
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 5: I just remember thinking to myself, Oh, get Lowers out

519
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 5: of here.

520
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then we end up performing get Low at

521
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 4: the MTV Video Music Awards.

522
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,880
Speaker 3: Get Low, Yeah, Lean Back.

523
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 4: And what else we did that year, I can't remember,

524
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 4: but that was that was a big time and Dave

525
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 4: Chappelle was the host, So that was pretty insane.

526
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 3: That was a pretty insane year for me.

527
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 2: And when when you touched when you started doing R

528
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 2: and B, did you think you could do R and B?

529
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: Or was one of the things. How did you get

530
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 2: introduced to say, let me try to make R and

531
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 2: B records for doing all already doing them with the also.

532
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 3: Well that was different. So here's what happened.

533
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 4: So Sean Garrett shout out Sean Garrett, incredible songwriter. He

534
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,760
Speaker 4: reached out to I guess he was trying to get

535
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 4: in touch with me and he couldn't get in touch

536
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,679
Speaker 4: with me, so he knew somebody that worked with me.

537
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 3: Her name was Delicia.

538
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 4: Delicia had all my beats, so she gave him a

539
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 4: beat CD and that's how he got the beat Basically,

540
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,120
Speaker 4: the freaka Eite beat.

541
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 3: Which turned into yeah, So she gave him the beat.

542
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 4: So thank you Delicia forgiving Sean those beats, and Sean

543
00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 4: wrote yeah to.

544
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 3: That Freakaak beat. So crazy thing about that is that

545
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 3: beat was for mystical. Freaka League's beat was for mystical.

546
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 3: So I did though.

547
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 4: I used to like have labels booked me in Circle

548
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 4: House shout out be bat Circle House in Miami, and

549
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 4: I like, take a week and I just go and

550
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 4: do as many beasts as possible, and the label could

551
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 4: take all the beats put them on whatever artists they want.

552
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 4: So these particular sessions was for mystical.

553
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 3: That beat was in there.

554
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 4: He passed on it, and so I think CEO shout

555
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 4: out Coo. He got the beat and he wrote freakalyk

556
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 4: my I don't even know, but he wrote that and

557
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 4: submitted it to the label Pete Pablo. He ended up recording.

558
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 4: But I don't even know this. So Sean Garrett has

559
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 4: the beat. He writes, yeah, Usher don't want to record

560
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 4: no more songs. He done with the damn out. He's like,

561
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 4: I'm good, I got burned, I got all these other songs.

562
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 3: I'm good, We're good.

563
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 4: LA reads like no go record the damn song. So

564
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 4: he goes to record the song and.

565
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 3: We come out with it.

566
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 4: I remember going into doing the session too, like we

567
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 4: I think we recording La and we were like, this

568
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 4: is a smash, right, and so the song is in

569
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 4: the can and then I remember it was around Christmas

570
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 4: time the album was done. La Reid is in Miami

571
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 4: and he calls JD going insane, and JD called me

572
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 4: on three Way and La Reid is like.

573
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 3: Why am I hearing this Usher record on the.

574
00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 4: Radio And basically it was the freakingly instrumental plan as

575
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 4: a bed. They had released the song as a single,

576
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 4: Freaka Leak, and we didn't even know.

577
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 3: I didn't even know they had used to beat.

578
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 4: So La Red is going crazy and then we're like,

579
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 4: all right, we're just gonna go in and do a

580
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 4: new beat.

581
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 3: Thank god we.

582
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 4: Did, because yeah over Freaka Leak is not as good

583
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 4: as yeah as Yeah.

584
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 3: Now that's how God worked.

585
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 4: And crazy story is when I went into the studio

586
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 4: to like redo the beat, I'm like, how that Pete Poplo.

587
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 3: Record ain't gonna be that big. Just take all the

588
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 3: keys off, let's just play a new STI because it's Usher.

589
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, and I don't, you know,

590
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 4: I just didn't think it was gonna be that big.

591
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 4: It could have been a cool record, but I didn't

592
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 4: think it was gonna be a number one song.

593
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 3: Like it was.

594
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 4: So that's why the beats sound similar, is because I

595
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 4: just used the same exact drums, but I played a

596
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 4: different synth line. So well, it got my boy a rock.

597
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 4: My boy Rock played the scynth line, so we just

598
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 4: played a new synth line and here we are with

599
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 4: two monsters.

600
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

601
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: It probably helped frequently though, because.

602
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, make them together lover and friends, so that I was.

603
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 6: Going to get to that that origin story tell them.

604
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 3: So when we when I can't.

605
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 4: We were working on my album Crunk Juice, right, So uh,

606
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,639
Speaker 4: instead of going with another up tempo I like to

607
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 4: be different. I could have certainly went to Usher, John

608
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 4: and Luda with another fast song. I said, let's do

609
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 4: something different. And at at in Atlanta, we go to

610
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 4: Strip club for everything, so we always in you know.

611
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 4: I was in the Strip club one day and the

612
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 4: DJ played the Michael Sterling Lovers.

613
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 3: And Friends, and I was like, huh, that.

614
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 4: Could be pretty cool for Usher to do. So let's

615
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 4: let's back up. So this is before Usher's album is done.

616
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 4: I give Usher the Michael STERR on the City, like

617
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 4: check this out. We should do this over this nigga

618
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 4: don't listen to it.

619
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 3: He don't listen to it. So we on my album.

620
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm gonna take that Lovers and Friends

621
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 3: I did and do it from my album.

622
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 4: So I do the beat over and I let Usher

623
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 4: know yo, I got this joint for us, like, come

624
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 4: you know.

625
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 3: Let's do it.

626
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 4: So he flies in, he records it and he's out

627
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 4: and after he does his part, so I'm just like, wow,

628
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 4: this is a smash.

629
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 3: So I called Luda.

630
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 4: I'm like, bro, we got another one, like I need

631
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 4: you on his asap, saying it to Luda. He did

632
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 4: his part and then I go in last because I'm

633
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,880
Speaker 4: not the rapper, and so I was like, I need

634
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 4: to take my time to make sure my verse is

635
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 4: as catchy as possible because I can't compete against Luda Chris.

636
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 4: And then it's Usher like come on. So I was like,

637
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 4: let me take something from this record. We had a

638
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 4: record called It's a record we did with Ubi.

639
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 3: I forgot the name of it.

640
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 1: Nothing Free, Nothing Free, you forget that that's a classic.

641
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 3: Nothing's free.

642
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 4: So we did nothing free like in the nineties, and

643
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 4: so I was like, that shady part was really catchy

644
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 4: on that song, but it was regional. Nobody really heard

645
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: it out of the South. So it's like, let me

646
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 4: take that same little thing and put that in Lovers

647
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 4: and Friends, and that will be the little catch for

648
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 4: my verse to make it catchier and a little Did

649
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 4: I know that that was gonna be.

650
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 3: Like people's favorite verses because it's so simple.

651
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 4: It's so simple and it's catchy, and yeah, that's one

652
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 4: of That song went number one without.

653
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 3: A video.

654
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 4: Because it was the labels and Superstartists and Superstar.

655
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 3: Ad and Da Da Da Da Da.

656
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 4: But number one song rap song of the year without

657
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 4: a video in the two thousands is impossible.

658
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 5: You got three of and you made me think of

659
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 5: it when you said nothing for You got three artists

660
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 5: that I feel like should have been way yeah, China White, yeah,

661
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 5: Oubie and Bull Hagen Yeah what you What do you think?

662
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: Was why did I didn't connect?

663
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 4: We worked hard, like UBI was with me for a

664
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 4: long time. We did a lot of records, but we

665
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 4: just never got the right one. Just how It just

666
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 4: happens like that sometimes with artists. Uh, China went to

667
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 4: jail right when we shot the video for Bea Bea

668
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 4: and me and my boy Rob Mac left the video

669
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 4: at the end of the video shoot.

670
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: We drove her to prison after the video shoot, all

671
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 3: the way in Louisiana. So she did. I don't remember

672
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 3: how much time it was. It was at least five years.

673
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: That sound mixed deliriously.

674
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 3: She went to fan time for gun Running Damn yeah.

675
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 4: So she she didn't even get to perform the song

676
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 4: at his peak at all, so that that messed her

677
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,719
Speaker 4: window up. And then bo Haggen the same thing. We

678
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 4: were just trying to get the records. We just never

679
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 4: got the records.

680
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 3: You know.

681
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 4: We said, I set them up nicely and get crunk

682
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,959
Speaker 4: and you know he did the hook on Dan, but

683
00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 4: we just never.

684
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 3: Was able to translate.

685
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 4: Those are things that you know, hurt me to this

686
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 4: day because those were people that.

687
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 3: Are down with me for a long time and I.

688
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,400
Speaker 4: Was pushing, pushing, pushing and working they make the record,

689
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 4: but sometimes they just it just don't come out.

690
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 6: You know.

691
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 7: I was going to say with the Lovers and Friends

692
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 7: video when I when I watched you tell the story

693
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 7: you talked about. I know you mentioned labels loosely, but

694
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 7: you said that the labels didn't look at you as

695
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 7: a comparable artist too. Yeah, which when I heard, like,

696
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 7: I just I mean, I don't know, it made me

697
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 7: upset when I heard you say.

698
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 4: Well, you gotta think Ludacris is a rapper death Jam.

699
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 4: In the two thousands, Usher is fucking Usher at Monster,

700
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 4: biggest guy in R and B. And I'm this guy

701
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 4: doing krunk music. You got it.

702
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 3: It's not the time, it's not the same times.

703
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 4: Now as I'm I'm known, I'm established, I've proven myself

704
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 4: over and over again. But early in those in those days,

705
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 4: it hadn't happened yet.

706
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 5: So really, yeah, they feel like you helped the I

707
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 5: ain't that whole sound of the early.

708
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 4: Dude, but they didn't. I don't feel like, you know,

709
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 4: death jam, you know what I mean? Oh sure, I

710
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 4: don't think nobody got it back then. No, Yeah, lou

711
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: John was it was.

712
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 2: He wasn't looked at as an artist per se like

713
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: Luda or exactly Usher. He was a host, DJ production.

714
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 3: Yeah that's what it was, hype man, producer. Yeah, you know,

715
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 3: that's the.

716
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 5: Clubs without you know, what was.

717
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: The clubs without crunk music? Little John back then like no.

718
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 3: A lot less energy.

719
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: Was it ever a low period for Little John?

720
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 3: Yeah?

721
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 4: I got burnt out probably after after the forties album,

722
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 4: and I think I tried, we tried to do a

723
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 4: second Trillville and Scrappy album, and I just was.

724
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 3: Fried from all.

725
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 4: You know, you got to think about I was going

726
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 4: since the nineties, ninety three, you know, producing to was

727
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 4: that two thousand and eight or nine two thousand and eight,

728
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 4: and I'm I'm just depleted. I have no creative juices left.

729
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 4: I go in the studio, I'm trying to produce and

730
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 4: trying to make stuff. I think, yet nothing's coming out.

731
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 4: I think that's also what happened with two of those

732
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 4: artists too, because I might have gotten to the point

733
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 4: where I was.

734
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 3: Just had nothing left. I couldn't I couldn't create it.

735
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 4: And then so what I started to do was just

736
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 4: go back to the foundation DJ, go back to the clubs.

737
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 4: And what happened was Reggie Bush invited me out to

738
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 4: the first game in the super Dome after Katrina.

739
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 3: So I went there and that night he had an

740
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 3: after party.

741
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 4: Went to the after party and it was a DJ

742
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 4: DJ and I was just like, this dude is freaking dope.

743
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 4: So I met the dude and he was cool and

744
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 4: so the next day his.

745
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 3: Name is DJ Spider.

746
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 4: So the next day we were I was in the

747
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 4: airport and this nerdy white dude come up to me like,

748
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 4: hey remember me? Like who the He was like, oh, Spider,

749
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 4: I was DJing last night. I was like, oh shit,

750
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 4: So what happened was he really inspired me to get

751
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 4: back into DJing by the way he was mixing. So

752
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 4: me and Spider linked up. He like got me on Serado,

753
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 4: he started like gave me, helped me get my music

754
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 4: library up, and we started DJing together. So I started

755
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 4: to kind of get back into DJing. And so DJing

756
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 4: brought my producer creative energy back.

757
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: Is that when the records like Shot Shot Shots and

758
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: all that stuff came.

759
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 4: That came just by me being out and meeting people

760
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 4: and and you know learning this you know, Open Format

761
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 4: World and EDM World, and yeah, I ended up meeting lmfao.

762
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 4: I was kind of following their story and uh a

763
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 4: mutual friend of ours named Eric Deluxe who kind of

764
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 4: he wrote shots too. U. He reached out to me

765
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 4: and sent me to record. I was like, this record

766
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 4: is a smash. But around that time, I think I

767
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 4: first met them when we did a pit Bull video.

768
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 4: We were on like I think it was crazy. I

769
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 4: think they were in that video. So I was kind of.

770
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 3: Working with Pittbull because we did the anthem we did Crazy.

771
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 4: Then Yeah shots came so I was still I started

772
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 4: to move into another world because I saw that EDM world.

773
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 4: I kind of jumped in right at just starting to

774
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 4: get crazy, and I ended up getting a DJ residency

775
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 4: in eight in Vegas. So I've been in Vegas doing

776
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 4: a DJ residency since eight and I'm still there now.

777
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 4: So that was a place where I could really, you know,

778
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 4: learn a different style, this open format world, and just

779
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 4: get my energy back from just being in the midst

780
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 4: of the people and understanding what makes people move and

781
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:42,439
Speaker 4: groove again.

782
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 3: Because DJing is the foundation of my production.

783
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 4: Like I think I started playing the drums when I

784
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 4: was in elementary school, So drums and DJing are the

785
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 4: two key elements to my production style. That's why it's

786
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 4: more beat driven, and that's why they're all club records.

787
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 5: DJ side when you choose the pivot because you know

788
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 5: you've pivoted a lot. When you choose the pivot, is

789
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 5: it because of where music is going or where you're

790
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 5: going as a person?

791
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 3: Where my spirit leaves me? My spirit?

792
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 4: You know, when I started to get back into djaying,

793
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 4: God put these people in my path to say, okay,

794
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 4: you should now start moving over here. And I remember

795
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 4: like telling my manager and my lawyer, I want to

796
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 4: go over here and do this DJ stuff. They like, bro,

797
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,919
Speaker 4: you making one hundred grand or beat? What the hell

798
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 4: is wrong with you? I was like, I can't do

799
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 4: it no more.

800
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 3: But I saw the future and I just trust. I

801
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:36,720
Speaker 3: always trust my spirit.

802
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, don't listen to your mind, listen to

803
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 4: your spirit. And you got to learn the difference between

804
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 4: the two. And when you learn the difference, your spirit

805
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 4: is never gonna lead you wrong. Trust it and it's

806
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 4: gonna be fine. And that's what I've been doing, you know,

807
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 4: pretty much my whole life, and everything's been okay, you

808
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 4: know what I mean. Like I've been able to now

809
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 4: have a number one dium song, hip hop song, R

810
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 4: and B song, AC song. How many people you know

811
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 4: had a hit song in every in four decades?

812
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: Right? You know?

813
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 4: We had a hit with even the usher Glue song.

814
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 4: I think it was an AC hit number one, I

815
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 4: take it. And then I had a song with Pitt

816
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 4: Bull that came out two years ago called Jumping that

817
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 4: was like number one on some Charge. So yeah, since

818
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 4: the nineties, I've been doing this and I'm just thankful

819
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 4: every day to wake up and to still be able

820
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 4: to do this, and to also like, right now is

821
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 4: the time where the two thousands is on fire? Yeah, Like, yes,

822
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 4: it's on Like I'm doing so many shows that and

823
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 4: and for crowds that I haven't seen and you know,

824
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: or maybe not have done.

825
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 3: It's a headline.

826
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 4: I have never headlined for ten thousand people until like

827
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 4: the last couple of years Tackles. Yeah, So it's like,

828
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 4: it's amazing that that people the memories that people have

829
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 4: from that era, the fun time they had. It's making

830
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 4: this music you know now come back and it's in

831
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 4: a major.

832
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 6: Way made you what made you do the meditation?

833
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: So that's totally far the other end of the spectrum.

834
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, turning fifty, turn fifty, a lot of things started

835
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 4: to happen in my life. First thing I it hit

836
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 4: me was like I asked myself what makes you happy?

837
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 3: And I said, damn, only.

838
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 4: Making sure everybody else good, but that's not what makes me.

839
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 3: Like what makes me happy?

840
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 4: I couldn't really tell myself, and so I was like,

841
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 4: you know what, I need to kind of put myself first.

842
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 3: Like I'm not happy in this marriage. Like, so I said,

843
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 3: I want to do divorce.

844
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 4: And I was around the same time, me and my

845
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 4: my good friend Doug Davis. We talked like every year

846
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 4: because he calls and gives me shit because he's he's

847
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 4: like a couple months younger than me, so he's like, oh,

848
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 4: you're old man.

849
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 3: So we're talking and.

850
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 4: He was telling me he wanted to introduce me to

851
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 4: somebody that was in this space and I was like, oh,

852
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 4: that's interesting because I've been listening to like all of this.

853
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 3: Like by neural beats to sleep.

854
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 4: And relax and ocean and rain and all of this

855
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 4: type of stuff. So me and this guy kuld Bear,

856
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 4: his name is caber Sego, we connected. And so I'm

857
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 4: going through the divorce and like I didn't like where

858
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 4: my mental state was at because I'm angry. I'm like, ah,

859
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 4: why can't she just do this and that? And so

860
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 4: I'm like mad, and I don't like, that's not me.

861
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 4: I'm a positive at all times person. I don't think negatively.

862
00:39:54,960 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I started to like meditate. I started

863
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 4: to say affirmations every day, and it helped me to

864
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 4: be in a better mental state, as well as having

865
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 4: good people in my corner, like my queen.

866
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: Her name is Jamila. She was there for me at

867
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 3: that time, and she would give me.

868
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 4: Like also like just positive. She would just keep me,

869
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 4: try to keep me in a positive mindset. And she

870
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 4: had been through a rough divorce too, so she can

871
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 4: give me some insight and just you know, help me

872
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 4: keep my head up. So the affirmations every day, I

873
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 4: would literally get a cup of tea and I had

874
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 4: a copper pyramid on my deck. I'll drink, get my tea,

875
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 4: go sit in this copper pyramid and meditate and just

876
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 4: say these affirmations. I'm happy, I'm healthy, I'm at peace

877
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 4: every single day and throughout the day. And so all

878
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 4: of this happened at the same time I meet Caber

879
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 4: and me and Caber are talking. He's like, let's do

880
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 4: we should do meditation. I was like, yeah, let's do that.

881
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 3: I'm down with that.

882
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 4: I think that's great. Because I was saying these affirmations

883
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 4: I meditated. So we went in, we recorded a bunch

884
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 4: of stuff. But yeah, it was because I needed it

885
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 4: was time for a change in my life. I needed

886
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 4: to be in more positive mindset. One thing that I

887
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 4: also did was I was like, I would say, affirmations

888
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 4: of negativity can live inside of me.

889
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 3: I like, I don't. I try to get rid of

890
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 3: all negative thoughts.

891
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 4: And when I did that, when I really got rid

892
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 4: of the negative thoughts, I ain't not even saying the

893
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 4: word hate, I didn't even use that word. So I'm

894
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 4: always trying to change anything that happens to me. In

895
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 4: any negative situation, it's some positivity you can pull out

896
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 4: of that you focus on that. So I would always

897
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 4: pull that positivity out. And I've learned if you pull

898
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 4: that out, pull pull a positivity out of any negative situation,

899
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 4: and you let God drive, don't try to drive and

900
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 4: trust God, everything ain't gonna always be all right. And

901
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 4: so we went in, we recorded these albums, and you know,

902
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 4: this time of my life is feeling like I'm doing

903
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 4: what God intended me to do. But what's amazing is

904
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 4: everything that got me here. I was supposed to do.

905
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 3: And even like all of the music that I've.

906
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 4: Given people gave people positivity. So it's always been positivity,

907
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 4: but it's meaning more now when someone tells me I

908
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 4: never meditated, you helped me meditate. I was having trouble

909
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 4: getting over this grief of losing someone.

910
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 3: Your meditation about grief helped me. I'm inspired to do.

911
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 4: You know how many people have called me about getting

912
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 4: in the gym. It's insane, Like celebrities, all kind of

913
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 4: people are like, you inspired me to get healthy. So

914
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 4: I feel now like I'm doing what God intended me

915
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 4: to do. It took me a long time to get here,

916
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 4: but this is the time it's supposed to be and crazy.

917
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 4: I was thinking about this the other day. I met

918
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 4: mister Farrakhan at the Source Awards and he basically told me,

919
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 4: he said, you got power, you got a voice, and

920
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 4: he basically was kind of trying to tell me, like

921
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 4: use it and that like that stuck with me, Like

922
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, but now I'm using my voice and

923
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 4: my power in a good way to push positivity into

924
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 4: the world.

925
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 6: So that is what makes you happy.

926
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 4: That's what that's what you know. Yeah, it makes me

927
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 4: happy that just to be just to do good, you know,

928
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 4: just to do good because all that comes back.

929
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 3: And when you.

930
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 4: Like, a guy came to me, I did the col

931
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 4: of Guard thing, right, A guy came to me in

932
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 4: the club one night in the club and was like,

933
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 4: I did that col of Guard test because of you,

934
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 4: and it came back positive, and he did he didn't

935
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 4: have hold and cancer, but he had polyps. So just

936
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 4: stuff like that, it just makes me feel like I'm

937
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 4: doing good in the workpirate people and being a good

938
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:11,959
Speaker 4: role model to my son.

939
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 3: I have a daughter now, you know, she's ten months old. Congratulation.

940
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 4: I look at life like with health like I got

941
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 4: to be here for her, you know what I'm saying.

942
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 4: I gotta be here for her first day of school.

943
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 4: I gotta be here for high school graduation, walk her

944
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 4: down the aisle. So health is even more important than me.

945
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 4: It was something I was doing to just you know,

946
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 4: live a long, full life. But even more so now

947
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 4: I have even more motivation because of my daughter.

948
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 3: And her mother. I got to be here for them,

949
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:41,959
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

950
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 5: So it's crazy to see you cry because a lot

951
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 5: of people who never even thought you had ice.

952
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 3: No, you know what, black man, we need to cry.

953
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: So we need to cry.

954
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 4: When you get more in tune to your higher self

955
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 4: and you stop vibrating at these low frequencies, you can.

956
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,439
Speaker 3: Let yourself, let the energy flow. We should. We don't

957
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 3: have to be tough all the time. And you're an.

958
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 4: Advocate for therapy. I push all brothers. We don't have

959
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 4: to suffer in silence. We suffer in freaking silence. Call

960
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 4: your homie sometime to just be like, my nigga, you good?

961
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 3: How you doing? Not just period, but how you mentally doing? Bro,

962
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 3: Because that one.

963
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 4: Little conversation could make him not go do some stupid

964
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 4: shit or take his life or whatever.

965
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 3: You know.

966
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 4: So I started doing therapy. I push anything, any knowledge

967
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 4: that I got, I try to share with everybody because

968
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 4: we got to help each other.

969
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:39,720
Speaker 1: We all we got what's the gym? What's the gymy?

970
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 4: This is a trying, This is positivity abundance and it's

971
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 4: also my daughter's birthstone.

972
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

973
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 5: I want to ask you a question about about marriage.

974
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 5: Like you never hear men say they were tired of

975
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 5: the marriage, like they wanted to walk away.

976
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 4: What happens is when you start to walk on those eggshells.

977
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 4: It's just not it's just not a positive environment. And

978
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 4: then when you get to the point where a lot

979
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 4: of times in marriage, we're just there making sure everything's good,

980
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 4: and who the hell checking on us, who's making sure

981
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,720
Speaker 4: we okay? Who's making who's coming to us and saying

982
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 4: what do you need today?

983
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 3: What can I do for you to make you happy?

984
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 3: You know? I know we're the providers and all of that,

985
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 3: but we need that love too. We need that assurance.

986
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 4: Sometimes women go to your men and just make them

987
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 4: feel like, appreciate it because to live in today's society,

988
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 4: to go out and make that money and all of

989
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 4: the things a husband and a father has to worry

990
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 4: about every single day, Like I said, suffering in silence

991
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,879
Speaker 4: that y'all have no clue about. Just be that positive light,

992
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 4: make that house a home, make it radiate positivity.

993
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 3: You know. So yeah, man, y'all got me up here crime.

994
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 6: You might have needed to release you know.

995
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 2: You know what I wanted to know when when Dave

996
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 2: Chappelle was doing the skits at first, did you take

997
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 2: it as disrespectful? Did you always was like, oh this

998
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 2: is great?

999
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 4: No, A cipher sounds called me and he was like

1000
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 4: when he did the first one, and he was like, Yo, Dave.

1001
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 3: Chappelle did this skit on you, Bro, It's crazy, it's hilarious.

1002
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 3: I was like, on me, I'm like, why are you

1003
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 3: doing sketch on me? Like I ain't nobody.

1004
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 4: And he's like, bro, trust me. And so when I

1005
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 4: saw it, I was like, that's really me.

1006
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 3: That is really me.

1007
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 4: And I got on this show because I went one

1008
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 4: day to just tell Dave thank you for doing the sketches,

1009
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 4: because we have a mutual a friend's named Corey Smith,

1010
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 4: and Cory is the reason Dave is part of the

1011
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 4: reason Dave does the sketch too, because I think they

1012
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 4: might have heard this song, like what song was it?

1013
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 3: I don't give Yeah, I don't give him. He might

1014
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 3: have heard it, and he probably was like this would

1015
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 3: be interesting if that's all he says. But he's actually intelligent.

1016
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 4: And then Corey was like, yeah, John, Corey thought I

1017
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 4: went to morehouse. I just was always hanging out in

1018
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 4: the AUC because back in the nineties, if you're from Atlanta,

1019
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 4: you went to the AUC, Clark, all of that to

1020
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 4: just get girls, you know what I mean. So you

1021
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 4: just used to go holler at the girls. So I

1022
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 4: used to be always up there. So Corey was like, no,

1023
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 4: he's smart, he come from this and that. So Dave

1024
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 4: ran with it, and so I went to the show

1025
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 4: to thank Dave and Day was like, man, hang out,

1026
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 4: I want you to.

1027
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 3: Let's do a sketch.

1028
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 4: Like he didn't even have it, he didn't even know

1029
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 4: I was coming, and so we was just we did

1030
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 4: one sketch and then he had an idea to do

1031
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 4: another one, so he just had me on camera and

1032
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 4: he was off camera, and we was improving back and forth,

1033
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 4: and that's how.

1034
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 3: We got the Little John and Little John sketch.

1035
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 4: And to think that I was able to improv with

1036
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,879
Speaker 4: one of the greatest comedians of our time. How many

1037
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 4: people get to do that? Not many, you know, So

1038
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,760
Speaker 4: that was that was amazing. And Dave took me places

1039
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 4: that music would never ever be able to take me.

1040
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: How did that change everything for you? Just that sketch.

1041
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 4: It just opened me up to more people that didn't

1042
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 4: get it or didn't would have never listened to the music.

1043
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 4: I remember just being in the airport and like all

1044
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 4: kinds of white people coming to me, like the whole

1045
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 4: families and all just all types of people because he

1046
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 4: was moving the needle at that time for the culture.

1047
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 4: So and it just yeah, it just opened up a

1048
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 4: lot more doors.

1049
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,280
Speaker 6: And that's when they started putting the t's in the name.

1050
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 3: Little John.

1051
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 4: That yeah so and shout out to Cat Williams too,

1052
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 4: because he he co signed me too when he did

1053
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 4: his Pimp Chronicles.

1054
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 3: I think that's his greatest special to. I'm going on

1055
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 3: record saying that.

1056
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 4: And you know, we he brought me out and let

1057
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 4: me do my catchphrases and we ended up going in

1058
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 4: the studio working on some songs together. He come by

1059
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 4: the house, shout out the cat. I need to get

1060
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 4: you in the gym with me. Cat, you can go

1061
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 4: work out, you can run, but can you push them

1062
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 4: wight up?

1063
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 3: Yeah? Do that to do?

1064
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 2: People come up to you all the time like come

1065
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 2: on one time, Oh.

1066
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 3: My god, could be yeah. Man, they don't do it

1067
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 3: as much as they used to.

1068
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 4: But like people that used to hang out with me,

1069
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 4: like say too early two thousands are you know twenty

1070
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 4: tens used to be like, bro, you don't get tired

1071
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 4: of that?

1072
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 3: And I'm like I don't even hear it no more.

1073
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 4: I zone them people out but like, yeah, I used

1074
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 4: to be a like TSA a grocery store exactly, and

1075
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 4: they do it, so they they expect me to do it,

1076
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:34,959
Speaker 4: so they keep doing it and I might just.

1077
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:39,400
Speaker 1: Be like, what's up, bro, meditation album?

1078
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 7: You do it's a soft yeah, but you yeah, yeah.

1079
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 4: So that's the new the new meditation album. So when

1080
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 4: we did the first, we recorded a bunch of stuff.

1081
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 3: When we you know, early too well. Sorry.

1082
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 4: When I did the first meditation album, I recorded a

1083
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 4: couple other projects. So one of the projects was something

1084
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 4: that my my god, Doug Davis came up with. He

1085
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 4: was like, you should take your songs and remix them

1086
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 4: into meditations, and I was like okay, So we recorded it,

1087
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 4: but I was like, this don't need to come out

1088
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 4: first because nobody's gonna take me serious.

1089
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna like, yeah, get low and ground, you know.

1090
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 4: So I was like, we're not gonna do that first,

1091
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 4: So now the time we're gonna drop that. I think

1092
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 4: it's a fun project, but it's real meditations, but it's

1093
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 4: just a playoff of the songs that you know and love.

1094
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 5: I just got a couple of questions, you know, the

1095
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 5: industry rewards constant energy, right, like you gotta always be on.

1096
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 5: How did you learn the difference between performance energy and

1097
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 5: just personal peace?

1098
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 4: I just in myself it's spiritual again, Like I'm just

1099
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 4: I just know when to be crazy little John, I know,

1100
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 4: be going to be.

1101
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 3: Just cool, chill.

1102
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: It's just just.

1103
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 3: Let my spirit got me everywhere, you know what I'm saying.

1104
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 5: So and you talking about the meditation and the mindful

1105
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 5: this like what I would ask when you at the

1106
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 5: height of crump. Did you even have the language for

1107
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 5: like stress and anxiety and burnout back then?

1108
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 3: No, I didn't.

1109
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,359
Speaker 4: I was just go go go go, go, go, go, go, go,

1110
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 4: go go go. It was all just cause I don't

1111
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 4: I don't know where the peak is, you know what

1112
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 4: I mean? And I don't even expect to get where

1113
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,799
Speaker 4: I got, you know, because I just started off me

1114
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 4: and the East Side Boys. We did that first song

1115
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 4: who You With, just to make something for the clubs

1116
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 4: of Atlanta, and then that turned into Okay, now you

1117
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 4: gotta do an album, and then that turned into being

1118
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 4: on Anger Management tour with Eminem and fifty cent, and

1119
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 4: then fifty cent even took me to Australia.

1120
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 3: I went on tour with fifty in Australia, you know

1121
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So it's like I'm just happy to

1122
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 3: be here.

1123
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna keep going because and that's how I am, Like,

1124
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 4: I just I gotta work. I gotta keep working, you know,

1125
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 4: because these are opportunities that are coming to me. So

1126
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 4: I don't want to you know, somebody sitting at home

1127
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 4: right now wishing they could be out or somebody else

1128
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 4: could take this opportunity and use it if I don't

1129
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 4: use it.

1130
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna take advantage of all of that.

1131
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 4: Now.

1132
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: You are a big drink at one time and totally

1133
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 2: stopped Yes, yeah, what made you stop that drinking?

1134
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 3: Turning fifty.

1135
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 2: To fifty to stop drinking?

1136
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 5: Ye, judge, judgment, you still.

1137
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:17,720
Speaker 1: Damn.

1138
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 4: So I turned fifty and for a while, like a

1139
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 4: year or two, I had this constant like discomfort, excuse me,

1140
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 4: discomfort in my side and I didn't know what it was.

1141
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 3: So fifty like I.

1142
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 4: Need to go get a I need to go to

1143
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,799
Speaker 4: a doctor, right, So I went to the doctor and

1144
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 4: the doctor is like, okay, for one is I thought

1145
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 4: it was my liver because I'm like, I drink too much.

1146
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 4: It's got to be my liver, and I'm scared. So

1147
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 4: he's like, your liver's on the other side.

1148
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 3: It's not your li.

1149
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 4: And then he's like, it's probably inflammation in your gut.

1150
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 4: He's like, you're you're fifty years old. You need a

1151
00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 4: colonoscopy anyway to check for polyps. So when I'm in there,

1152
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 4: I can check. I can do an endoscopy and check

1153
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 4: your gut. So comes back and I have inflammation in

1154
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 4: my gut. So I had stopped drinking because I was

1155
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 4: scared of deliver. So I had already stopped. So by

1156
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 4: the time I had the colonoscoy, it had been like

1157
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 4: six months, and I was like, I'm good, I'm just.

1158
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 3: Gonna not drink no more. So I think I was

1159
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 3: going like three months and I was like six months.

1160
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 3: I was like nah.

1161
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 4: Then I was like maybe I go nine months. Then

1162
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 4: I went to a year, and I was like when

1163
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 4: I got to the year mark, I was like, I'm good,

1164
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 4: I don't even need to drink no more, you know.

1165
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 4: And I think one thing that kind of that that

1166
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 4: like brought some insight to me, like health has been

1167
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 4: like important me for a while because I knew like

1168
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 4: a guy that had a triple bypass.

1169
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 3: He was like thirty five.

1170
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 4: So that started me first on my like I need

1171
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 4: to start correcting stuff with myself before it's too late,

1172
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 4: because the older you get, the harder it is to

1173
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 4: reverse what's going on. So that's that started. And then

1174
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 4: when I was dating my partner Jamila, she really pushed

1175
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 4: me into I think she saved my life because she

1176
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 4: pushed me into getting my blood work done and getting

1177
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 4: lab work done.

1178
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 3: I found out I had inflammation in my gut.

1179
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 4: Like I knew I had inflammation in my gut, but

1180
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 4: I candida gut is the key to a lot of

1181
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 4: problems in your body, so you got to get the

1182
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 4: I saw the rock talking and he said his gut

1183
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 4: was messed up too, So no healthy bacteria in my gut,

1184
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 4: Candida inflammation. And then I found other markers in my

1185
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 4: blood work that I was like, oh, I gotta change

1186
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 4: this or take this out of my diet. So all

1187
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 4: of that helped me to like hone in on exactly

1188
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 4: what I needed to do also to get my health

1189
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:48,360
Speaker 4: like more.

1190
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 3: Tuned tuned in too.

1191
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 6: I saw you say it was like it came out

1192
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 6: of a like a a haze.

1193
00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 4: Stop drinking because if you think about it, I was

1194
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 4: drinking every weekend, so I never fully got over the drinking.

1195
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:08,240
Speaker 3: Like I would drink a bottle of forty two a night, Jesus, Jesus,

1196
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 3: Like so Friday, Saturday a bottle of forty two.

1197
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 7: Acoholic drinking, but all the lights, a whole bottle every.

1198
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 3: Because I'm doing shots.

1199
00:56:20,640 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 6: We might do a couple of shots, but we ain't

1200
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:22,879
Speaker 6: doing a whole bottle.

1201
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 3: I'm the party guy.

1202
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 4: We don't want to drink with me, and I got

1203
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,439
Speaker 4: to drink with everybody. When I turned down the shot,

1204
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 4: they were like, bro, come on, man, yeah, so I

1205
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 4: gotta damn near a bottle of night.

1206
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 3: So I'm always constantly.

1207
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,440
Speaker 4: Getting over the hangover or the getting My body is

1208
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 4: still trying to recover, so I never am recovering. So

1209
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 4: when you lay off the alcohol, you come out of

1210
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:53,359
Speaker 4: that fog and it's like it's like everything is clearer, everything,

1211
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 4: you know. So I just I like the way that felt.

1212
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 4: And then you know, when I started working out, it's

1213
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 4: like I can work out like you can't work out

1214
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 4: when you hungover. And then you put an alcohol in

1215
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 4: your body. That's sugar, that's that's not gonna help you

1216
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 4: get the goals.

1217
00:57:08,920 --> 00:57:10,240
Speaker 5: So if you write a book, you know it should

1218
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 5: be to have a chapter turned down for what and

1219
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 5: you talk about exactly all the reasons why you ask

1220
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 5: you turn down.

1221
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially especially when you get in your up there

1222
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 4: in the years, you know, because right I'm fifty three,

1223
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 4: I'm going down the hill, you know what I mean.

1224
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 4: I want to have That's another thing. At my fifties,

1225
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 4: I was like, I'm over that top. I don't know

1226
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 4: how much time I got. I want to enjoy my life.

1227
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 4: I want to enjoy my life. I want to do

1228
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 4: stuff that makes me happy.

1229
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 5: Do you think people truly understand the loneliness that can

1230
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 5: come with success and entertainment.

1231
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 4: No, because they just see the private jets and the

1232
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 4: trips and all that.

1233
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 3: They don't realize.

1234
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes you can't go nowhere because people bugging you.

1235
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 4: You can't spend time with your loved ones without people

1236
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 4: bugging you, or the the I gotta make another hit record,

1237
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like or even when you

1238
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 4: start to go down, you're not as hot as you were,

1239
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 4: people not picking up the phone and all that.

1240
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a.

1241
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 4: Lot of most people couldn't deal with this life. It

1242
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 4: could not deal with it because it's too much pressure.

1243
00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 4: Then people on the internet with all their opinions and

1244
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 4: all of this and that, and it's a lot of

1245
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 4: pressure that you cannot be built weak to be in

1246
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 4: entertainment industry.

1247
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 5: So yes, sir, when you my last question, when you

1248
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 5: think about legacy, now, how much of it is about

1249
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 5: peace and purpose.

1250
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: Rather than I guess the plaques and the parties and

1251
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: all that.

1252
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 4: I think my legacy is going to be all about

1253
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 4: positivity because every step of the way it's been crunk

1254
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 4: was positive. It was a positive release. Then EDM stuff

1255
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 4: was positive, positive part It was all partying based initially.

1256
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 4: But it wasn't like I was saying go do a

1257
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 4: drive by on the ops, you know what I mean.

1258
00:58:56,960 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 4: It was just like, hey go release, turn up, you know.

1259
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:08,480
Speaker 4: And then you know, now in my latter years, it's meditation, mindfulness,

1260
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 4: get therapy, fellas I'm gonna tell everybody out there, get therapy,

1261
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 4: get a therapy. If it's going through it. You should

1262
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 4: not be left to your own devices to deal with

1263
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 4: some serious issues. Sometimes you need to talk to someone

1264
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 4: that's a qualified person. And I did em dr.

1265
00:59:25,960 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 3: Did you ever do Mdr?

1266
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 4: EMDR is amazing because it taps into your subconscious. When

1267
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 4: I did em DR, stuff came out that I didn't

1268
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 4: even really didn't know what's there. So it can tap

1269
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 4: to the it can find the root of why you

1270
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 4: got that trauma.

1271
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 3: And then like, so, yeah, I have not done any

1272
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 3: of that yet.

1273
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 4: I don't want to do it. I'm thinking about it,

1274
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 4: but I don't want to. I don't want it to

1275
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 4: change me. It won't because I just feel like I'm

1276
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 4: already at a certain place. But I do want to

1277
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 4: go tap into those things that I have locked deep

1278
00:59:59,320 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 4: deep depail.

1279
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 5: A lot of people who've done D and MAR tell

1280
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 5: me that the experience is pretty similar because it's just

1281
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 5: everything that is in your subconscious that you suppressed.

1282
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: God is like, no, look at it. Yeah, it's all

1283
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: on the table.

1284
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 6: A scary feeling that stuff.

1285
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 3: No, it's just it's profound.

1286
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 4: Em DR is profound because it's like that's why I

1287
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 4: act like that, or that's why my mother treated me

1288
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 4: that way, or this is why that happened. It helps

1289
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 4: you and then like em DR, like when I did

1290
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 4: it recently, I was able to go to my childhood

1291
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:36,560
Speaker 4: self and say it's okay, I'm here, it's fine, You're

1292
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:40,680
Speaker 4: you're loved, you're appreciated, you know, all of that, and

1293
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 4: it helped me to get.

1294
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 3: Past whatever that was.

1295
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 4: So that's why I like it, because it's stuff that,

1296
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 4: you know, because I was kind of not forced, but

1297
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 4: I was like, someone was like, you should, you know, go,

1298
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 4: you should try it, you know, because it helped them.

1299
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 3: And I did it and I was like, man, I'm good.

1300
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: I don't need this.

1301
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 3: And then I was like, damn, it's like I did

1302
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:06,479
Speaker 3: not know that.

1303
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 4: And the more you do it, the more stuff comes

1304
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 4: to you and you just realize this is.

1305
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 3: Why I'm the way I am.

1306
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,800
Speaker 4: I can now get past this and I can change

1307
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 4: these habits, you know, and I.

1308
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 3: Can be living more. I can live a better life. Wow.

1309
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 5: Man, little John, you are an icon, living living and

1310
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 5: one of the greatest producers of all time.

1311
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: You bought people so much joy.

1312
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 5: In this next chapter of your life where you are

1313
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 5: helping people heal, I think it's gonna be your best

1314
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 5: work yet.

1315
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 3: But brother, I do too. I do to.

1316
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,520
Speaker 4: It feels so good when people come to me and

1317
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 4: say you help me, you know, without me even directly

1318
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 4: doing anything for them, I'm helping so many people and

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01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 4: inspiring people like with the with the fitness journey, with

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01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 4: the you know, the bodybuilding thing, coming in third in

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01:01:55,360 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 4: this competition. I it was just it was hard, hard

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01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 4: to just do it period. It was hard to just

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01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 4: even get there. And I was just happy to be

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01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 4: a part of it. And I just want to inspire

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01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 4: people to say that that say I can't work out,

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01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 4: I don't have time. I'm on the road, i'm a

1327
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,000
Speaker 4: new father, I'm in the studio, I'm doing a million things,

1328
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 4: and I'm able to go to the gym and transform

1329
01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 4: my body, eat right, do all these things.

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01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 3: So you can do it too.

1331
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: Blanks Man, you can do.

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01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 5: You can training hit training with It's your music playlist,

1333
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 5: all the crunk music going body by John.

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01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 3: I love it, Okay, help me out with it. Solon

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01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 3: Man happy though, Oh no, I love it. Inspire. There

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Speaker 3: you go.

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01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 2: Well, Little John, we appreciate you for joining us. And

1338
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Speaker 2: also December eighteenth, you're performing for our sister station.

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Speaker 3: Shingle jingle Ball.

1340
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 2: So what what should the people expect for Little John

1341
01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 2: and that show Crunk period? They want it because it

1342
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 2: says Little John in Friends, It's.

1343
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,439
Speaker 3: Krunk, Crunk and Friends.

1344
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,960
Speaker 4: Crunk, crunk, you know, commercial just it's Atlanta and I

1345
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 4: gotta hit them hard, you know, Jermaine talking crap like

1346
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 4: but Jamaine my best family. Jermaine actually called me, was like,

1347
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 4: who you're bringing out?

1348
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I got friends friends.

1349
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,120
Speaker 4: So but I'm just gonna bring the crunk. That's what

1350
01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 4: That's what they want. That's what I'm gona give them.

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01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,320
Speaker 4: That's what they ain't seen in the whild So that's

1352
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 4: what I'm giving them. I ain't trying to do nothing

1353
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 4: crazy crunk excited.

1354
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 5: Could that error ever come back? Like the way metro

1355
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 5: Booman just did futuristic someer? Could that crunk era ever

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01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 5: come back?

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01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 3: If it did, it'll I don't know if people can

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01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 3: handle it.

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01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: I think we need like grown people who don't get

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01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: the release.

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01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:46,479
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.

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01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 1: Maybe you have something you put everybody. Everybody put their

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01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: phones up, but.

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01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 2: You don't heal the same way.

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01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,919
Speaker 3: You can't bebody.

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Speaker 7: And I don't know how to sprinkle down to the yns,

1367
01:03:56,640 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 7: Like how would they don't need sprinkle. I don't think

1368
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 7: that krunk could be recreated, but I'm glad that we

1369
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 7: do have these crunk classics.

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Speaker 6: That will never die.

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01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:07,880
Speaker 3: So I don't think it could come back.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I do something next year, Maybe I do, Like

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01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 4: why not you know Metro did?

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01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 3: Maybe why not? I was talking about it. But it's

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01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 3: got to be the right Everything with me is the

1376
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 3: right time.

1377
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 4: You know, when the universe tell me it's time for it,

1378
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 4: that's when it happens.

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01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 2: All right, Well ninety six point one, get your tickets.

1380
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 2: He will be performing at the Atlanti's Jingle Ball. Can't

1381
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 2: wait to see you guys. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

1382
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 3: Every day. I waiting up the Breakfast Club. Finish, y'all

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01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 3: done