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Speaker 1: the Mario Interview bulet caps show special guests in here.

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Speaker 1: My guy, the legend, My guy's good, Mario. Well, yah, sir, welcome.

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Speaker 1: How you being. I've been great, Bro, long time, it's

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Speaker 1: been a minute. Yeah, you got this new record out

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Speaker 1: with Chris, which is crazy. Get back, Bro, appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Like what's been going on in your world though, Man,

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Speaker 1: for people who ain't been paying attention, man a lot man.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the singles out right now. You know, we

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Speaker 1: just want to do something iconic for R and B.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're working on shooting the video, getting that

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Speaker 1: all the way right, setting up the summertime. I got

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Speaker 1: a couple of other singles coming. Really just focusing on

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Speaker 1: singles for this summer, you know what I'm saying, and

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Speaker 1: then project probably end of the year, top of next

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Speaker 1: year sometime. In my world, bro, I've been creating a lot,

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Speaker 1: creating a lot, writing and writing a book right now,

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Speaker 1: working on some other business. Is the book kind of

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Speaker 1: like your life story? Nah, it's not really a life story.

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Speaker 1: It's more of like a memoir. It's more of like

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Speaker 1: a balancing your personal spiritual space conversation, you know, this

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Speaker 1: world into. You know, I feel like I've been in

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Speaker 1: the industry so long, and I've also just been through

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Speaker 1: a lot of different things and different dimensions of my life.

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Speaker 1: I needed an outlet. You know. It's kind of like therapy,

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Speaker 1: therapy in a way, you know, So it promotes mental health,

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Speaker 1: it promotes spiritual awareness, it promotes social awareness. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's got a little bit of everything in there. You

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Speaker 1: have had a pretty wild ride through just life. When

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Speaker 1: we think about things that have happened in your personal life,

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Speaker 1: your career has always it's got peaks and valleys, and

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Speaker 1: it feels like, you know, sometimes we forget that, like

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Speaker 1: you have to train yourself as like you know, as

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Speaker 1: you know, And I always I've always been aware of that.

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Speaker 1: the craziest stuff in my life earlier on. So this

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Speaker 1: That's what I feel like the industry is more so

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Speaker 1: you talk about mental health, like, yeah, how like because you've,

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Speaker 1: like I said, you've been You've dealt with stuff that

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Speaker 1: You're dealing with a lot of shit. You know what

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Speaker 1: it comes to what happened with your mom, you know,

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Speaker 1: moving back to Baltimore when you were already on you

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes we look at artists and we're like,

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Speaker 1: everything else. Once I figured that part out, and luckily

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Speaker 1: to by now, which I was gonna say everything. Bro,

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Speaker 1: do you think starting kind of having to be forced

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Speaker 1: that kind of helped prepare you for life? Like you know,

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Speaker 1: it was like remember that scene on Men, It's a

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Speaker 1: We didn't know what was going on, but we knew,

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Speaker 1: I didn't as I got older, I didn't like like

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Speaker 1: attach it to a reality my mind. It was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is my reality, and the reality of the space

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, you have a house full

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Speaker 1: to Baltimore, by the way, total coincidence. I'm wearing a

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Speaker 1: But uh, you get on as a teenager, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean you're like super on. You're like running one of

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Speaker 1: six in park, Like you're like the next R and

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Speaker 1: B sensation, Dude, the house full of eighteen people start

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Speaker 1: far as bills or was it not? Never like that? Nah,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it was more about

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Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't get enough flowers for just kind of

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Speaker 1: like your legacy, like some of the records you've put

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Speaker 1: like just in general, do you feel like that four

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Speaker 1: it was also necessary for me to like not like

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Speaker 1: to be by people to be. You know, for me,

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Speaker 1: I redefine what success was for me. So success for

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Success is very subjective man, longevity, bro

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Speaker 1: let's be let's keep it a hondred. Like we live,

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Speaker 1: you know, these lives. You know, we have twenty four

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Speaker 1: Like it really can take a toll on you. So

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Speaker 1: Like you feel me because like you know, this shit

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, this is true. People be like, yo,

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm not just like throwing anything

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Speaker 1: to do that. But I definitely will say to the

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Speaker 1: fans out there watching, see the people out there, like

428
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Speaker 1: this is probably gonna be the most music but within

429
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Speaker 1: this next two years that I put out in a

430
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Speaker 1: long time, that's actually quality of music. Have you? You

431
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Speaker 1: know what was dope about the pandemic is we get

432
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 1: all these verses battles. Yeah, and the Scott Storch one.

433
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Speaker 1: You know, he had to bust out there and let

434
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Speaker 1: me love you, yes sir, remind people, uh you and

435
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 1: Storch get back. I mean Storch is super active right now.

436
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: He's doing the simmon thing. We definitely we wrap it up.

437
00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,919
Speaker 1: We've been chopping it up, so it's always it's always

438
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 1: a time and the energy thing. It's gonna be crazy.

439
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 1: I actually got a record that I want him to

440
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,840
Speaker 1: do some production on. It's already written. Fire got a

441
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,360
Speaker 1: feature on the Fire. But I just hear his touch. Man,

442
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 1: he's Scott is one of the most prolific producers. He

443
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: really understands musicality and he just he gets it. Bro,

444
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Speaker 1: he's talent. You you can't take you During the Let

445
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Speaker 1: Me Love You air, did you like ever go party

446
00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:40,919
Speaker 1: with him? When he was like on his like you

447
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Speaker 1: know what do you mean? Of course? This is like

448
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Speaker 1: legendary guy and the party stories are crazy. Listen, this

449
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:52,480
Speaker 1: is to Miami. Okay, Scott introduced me to Miami, like

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Also shout out to Scott who's totally clean now.

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Speaker 1: He's got a drug rehabby Cones with Steve Lobell. He's

492
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: doing some great thing, doing his thing, doing his thing,

493
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: great things, and he's just a great dude, man, great father, amazing,

494
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 1: amazing guy. Yes, So you say you're putting on more

495
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: music in the next two and you've ever put out?

496
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: Is this like, do you already have like a body

497
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: of work put together? Are you still are you just

498
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: constantly recording? Like? Nah, constantly? Well, I wouldn't say constantly.

499
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: I'm very I don't just record just to record. It's

500
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: an energy thing for me. When I go in the studio,

501
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 1: it's like while it depends on who I'm working with.

502
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I work with writers and I'm like, we vibe,

503
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna go ahead and get this producer to

504
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 1: come in, this producer come in, and you know, we

505
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: just go in and go crazy on some you know

506
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: what I mean, on records because the vibe is there.

507
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: If the ViBe's on there, we just cool, we kick

508
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: it whatever, whatever. So I'm just finding out out who

509
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: speaks my language right now, you know what I'm saying,

510
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 1: who how we can affect the culture together there it is.

511
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 1: We were talking about The Wire a bit. I got

512
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: the Wire shirt on. When you watch The Wire, did

513
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: you ever Obviously, being from Baltimore, that show was probably

514
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: came out right around the time you probably started to

515
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 1: Like I don't remember the year came out, but I

516
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: do remember, like when I first saw it, I'm like, Yo,

517
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: this is how realistic was it to the city, Like,

518
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 1: because I've heard a lot of people say it was

519
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: pretty spot on. It's bro it was really on, man.

520
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: Baltimore is a super raw city. Like, you know, what

521
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: you see is what you get, you know what I mean,

522
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,640
Speaker 1: And if you go deeper into it, you're gonna see

523
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, it's like so many different levels to it,

524
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: but like it was definitely spot on, you know, from

525
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 1: what I've experienced on what I've seen in my life

526
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 1: growing up characters, you know, the Yeah, it was in

527
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: the city, bro, it was looking black. It was all

528
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: of the houses I'll see, Like it's a lot of

529
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,959
Speaker 1: the actors too, were just like just they found them

530
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, like Snoop. Snoop was just in Baltimore. Like

531
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 1: it was real, man, it was real. It was one

532
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: of the best depictions of like if you're shooting that

533
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: side of it. I think there's a lot about Baltimore

534
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: that hasn't been shown though, you know what I'm saying

535
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Speaker 1: from the maybe the positives, the positive aspects, the politics,

536
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 1: how it's grown. You know, I'm working on some projects

537
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: there right now too, to like bridge music, intellect and

538
00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 1: mental health. So yeah, man, it's gonna be passionate about

539
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: about making sure you make your impact back home. I am.

540
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,959
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I've done enough enough to be honest, right. Yeah.

541
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: So this year next year, like that was just my

542
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: main focus on outside of just like music stuff and

543
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 1: business stuff. How did you end up linking up with

544
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: Dre London? For people who don't know, Dre's a fucking

545
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: mogo in the business. But he also you know, I've

546
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: known Dres since twenty fourteen. Yeah, but he works with

547
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: post Malone, you know, he's yeah, he manages post Malone. Yeah,

548
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: he's a great business dude. Like I've met Dre through

549
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: through my manager Andy, who I've known for like thirteen years.

550
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: We've been homees for years and he's been doing his thing,

551
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: and you know, it was just a conversation bro about music,

552
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: about culture, about you know, about black music, and uh,

553
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: it was a note bringer. You know, we just we

554
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: got the same vision when it comes to like, you know,

555
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: how to impact the culture from an R and B standpoint,

556
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: and also me just stepping back into my my independency,

557
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,240
Speaker 1: but also doing it with people who've done it on

558
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 1: a certain level. I've done it on a certain level already,

559
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: so I have to work with people who understand that,

560
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: but who also understands the boss part of it, in

561
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: the independent part of it. You know, it's a lot

562
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: more responsibility when you're independent artist. As you know, it's

563
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: crazy because you know, with what you went through with

564
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 1: your mom obviously passing away. I feel like today there's

565
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: a lot of kids who are probably going through that

566
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: specific ordeal because of just the where the world is

567
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: with opiates and fetanol and like, there's a lot of

568
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: kids who are dealing with their parents that are addicted

569
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: or dealing with losing their parents to overdoses. What would

570
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: be some advice You've lived it and unfortunately, obviously the

571
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 1: absolute worst thing came true for you, but you got

572
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: through it. You're here today. What would be some advice

573
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Speaker 1: for someone watching this who might be dealing with someone

574
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 1: who they loved that's going through something like that that

575
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: you could give them that maybe you know, you lived

576
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: it for them, kind of counselor talk to somebody, you know.

577
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: I wish I would have started sooner. I just actually

578
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: started mental health counseling, childhood trauma counselor, and I'm okay

579
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: speaking about it because it's something that you know, when

580
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: you're a strong person and you're able to take the

581
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: world on your shoulders and perform under pressure, oftentimes you

582
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 1: train yourself to think that you don't need, you know, counselor,

583
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: you don't need to talk about things that really bother you.

584
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: Like it isn't until something really triggers you that you

585
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: realize you ain't here. And I've had those instances in

586
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 1: my life and I've ruined relationships because of those types

587
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: of things. So I was like, you know what, let

588
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: me do this for myself so that you know, I

589
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: can have a family one day, so that I can

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00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: be a father one day, so that I can be

591
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: a better brother, so I can be a better friend.

592
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying. It affects every part

593
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: of your life as you get over older, because those

594
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: things don't just leave, you know. For me, it was

595
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: definitely a driving force. It taught me how to be numb.

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00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: It taught me how to be perfectionist. It taught me

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00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: how to just focus on work, work, work, but it

598
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: didn't teach me how to heal. So I had to

599
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: take that upon myself. So I would say, man, mental

600
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: health is a real thing, and it needs to be

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Speaker 1: you know, if you know and you're dealing with something

602
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: and something's bothering you, you get triggered and you see

603
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: yourself being affected by this specific space in your life,

604
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: then you got to talk about it. You gotta get helpful. Yeah,

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00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: I think it's important for you to talk about that

606
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: because it lifts the stigma. And I think that the

607
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: stigma started to get lifted. But like when you're somebody

608
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: who is the head of the household, who so many

609
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: people depend on, you're a leader in your in your group,

610
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: your life, it's like who do you talk to? Right? Like?

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00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: Who you got to be? Somebody trust? You got to

612
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: be somebody you trust, trusted source, and you gotta feel comfortable.

613
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: But definitely don't push it under the rug. You know,

614
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: you can't force someone to stop using. You can't force

615
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, someone to see how they hurting you. Sometimes

616
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: they don't know because there is a disease. You know,

617
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: Addiction is a disease man, And it's like it's it's

618
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: something that that attacks people physically and spiritually. So it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a large karmic part of it that comes

620
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: with It's so much spiritually that comes with it. You

621
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Speaker 1: know that if you're if you you love somebody or

622
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Speaker 1: you're close to somebody that's experiencing that, it's important for

623
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624
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: you're still loving them through whatever they're going through. That's

625
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: that's right, man. Yeah, sure you said you were working

626
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: on the video for this Chris Brown record. Yes, sir,

627
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: are we getting all the details together now? You know?

628
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: And Andy they're chopping it up, getting the getting it right.

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Speaker 1: How many do you have the next thing already ready?

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Speaker 1: Or you just think I got it? I think so yeah,

631
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: I think I got it? Okay, So who have you been?

632
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: You don't tell us who you got songs with? It,

633
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: just who you've been working with, Like who you've been

634
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Speaker 1: in the studio hanging out with maybe of course my

635
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: bro a one and then you know me in London

636
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: about to get in learning on the track, so that's

637
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: going to be a movie. Hasn't been working with d Mile?

638
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I would just say those are d Mile

639
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: of London on the track, Like those are the two

640
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: producers I'm really excited about. Like working with D Mile

641
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: is just a genius. Man. He's just a musical genius,

642
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: and he really loves music, and he really loves storytelling

643
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: and he really loved just like creating, you know what

644
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So he's somebody always wanted to work with

645
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: and I feel like he just he gets music in

646
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: a way where he's like a quincy where he could

647
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: work with you this artist and that artist and give

648
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: y'all all three what's specifically for you? You know what

649
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: I'm saying in a space where it's also classic and relevant.

650
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: It's crazy because London has kind of been the architect

651
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: of like some of the R and B that we

652
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: still kind of like, oh, this is actual R and B,

653
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: which is obviously Summer walker you know Summer Walkers. Yeah, yeah,

654
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: London is crazy, or some of the R and B

655
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: acts that are new or that like inspire you or

656
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: that you're just like, yeah, this is this is some

657
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: like this is some shit. I can actually really the

658
00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: fuck man. Lucky Day Bro, Lucky Lucky's fire. I say Lucky,

659
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: I would say I like siss a lot. I don't

660
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: know if y'all still consider consider her new, but I

661
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: think female artists wise her paying she's crazy. I like

662
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: Queen Naja. I got a crazy record with her. Oh fire, Yeah,

663
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: she just put out a new record that's crazy. Shout

664
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: out to her. She's shout out. Shout out to the Queen.

665
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: Victoria Monet. Been knowing Victoria for years. She's an incredible right,

666
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: incredible artist, incredible visionary when it comes to creativity. Who

667
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: else It's a few yeah, bread Fires is not too

668
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: far from you. Blast Blast. Todd Dollars is still one

669
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: of my favorite you know, got something crazy on his project.

670
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: Coming ties of prolific artists. I feel like we don't

671
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: give tied into flowers. I'm like, bro, this tie is

672
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: a fucking he's him, he's him, dunk he really he

673
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: really wanted them guys. Man. Yeah, shout out to you

674
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: got something with on tis new album. Yeah, yeah, we

675
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: got it crazy and hopefully and make it on the project.

676
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: It's this crazy joint. Okay, it's gonna be a good

677
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: year for R and B for sure. We got stuff

678
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,200
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679
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681
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682
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Speaker 1: let's get back to the interview. Have you gotten in

701
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: or hung out with postmal nitals? Obviously now that you

702
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: guys have dre's like a comedy. Yeah, we hung We

703
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: definitely hung man. We definitely a different guy to kick

704
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: it with. Huh bud light, cool bud light. He's been

705
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: Did you play beer pong? Nah? No? Nah's he being

706
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: his own man. He's a man, good energy, but no

707
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: for sure he's the best man and he's still humble

708
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: as fuck too. It's crazy you wouldn't even be like, Yo,

709
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: you're the biggest streaming artists in the world. But I

710
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 1: think that's what it is though. Man, When you vibrate

711
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: on a certain level, it's like you're grateful for your accomplishment,

712
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: but you're likely literally living in the moment. Bro. It's

713
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: the best feeling ever. That's like, the greatest feeling ever

714
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: is being able to live in a moment and truly

715
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: enjoy what you're creating and the energy that you're cultivating

716
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: and like the people you like. That's what it's about

717
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: for me now. It's like we all enjoying this process

718
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: because I know we're gonna get to where we're trying

719
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: to go because we're focusing. We all great, but we

720
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: enjoying it. Bro, are you enjoying it? You know what

721
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You say you don't watch a lot of TV.

722
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: What are you doing in your spare time? What are

723
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: your hobbies like? If you're not recording, if you're not

724
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: being an artist, what do you do? Man? I want

725
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: my dogs, uh, literal literal dogs. I got two pits. Okay,

726
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, uh, traveling, writing my book, uh,

727
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: creating other business opportunities. I'm working on some things in

728
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: the NFT space as well. Oh, I just saw you

729
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: posted that NFT thing. But but not like on some

730
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: like quick money grab shit, like really on some I'm

731
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: creating the projects that I'm really passionate about. And then

732
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: man business, other business adventures that I have. Like so,

733
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: I saw you just posted one of the monkey things.

734
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,319
Speaker 1: Does that a trillionaire or some shit? I don't fun,

735
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many different lot of I don't

736
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: know what's going on anymore. I'm totally hip to that.

737
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: It was a gift. I'm not hip to that space whatsoever.

738
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's you know what it's. It's a

739
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: if you're if you like art. I like art, like

740
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: I collect art, so I have art in the house,

741
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 1: physical art. But like, if you are into art and

742
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: you're into storytelling, I think NFTs can be a fun investment,

743
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to just do like quick

744
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 1: flips and stuff, he's definitely got to learn about it, right.

745
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: If you have a storytelling and you're into art, I

746
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:29,839
Speaker 1: love you throw the oculus on and look at your

747
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: NFTs that way. I don't funk with the oculus I have.

748
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: I don't even have one. Oh you don't have one.

749
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: I don't have. Pretty crazy the oculus is, uh yeah,

750
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: I could see you ever see the movie Ready Player one? Oh?

751
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: You got to see it? Crazy, it's the oculus is.

752
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: I could see people getting like sucked into that ship

753
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: just like never coming back. Wow. It's like you put

754
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: that ship on and you're just in another world like

755
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: virtual reality. Yeah, but it's like you could like you

756
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: choose what kind of house you live in, Like I mean,

757
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: I think I think it's cool in moderation, you know

758
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, in moderation. And that's the key, because

759
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: I could see some some I don't know, man, imagine

760
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: like when they have called speaking bro, like all right,

761
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: that's cool. Like I think stuff like Instagram and some

762
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: of these other things are just as bad, bro, if

763
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: you do it too much, you know what I'm saying, Like,

764
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: if you're like it's so easy to spend so much

765
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: time and wait so much, specially TikTok. I think TikTok

766
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: is the one app that people been sucked into just

767
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: this swiping that algorithm just feeds you shit, it's hard

768
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: to put your phone down. It's all about balance, man,

769
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: you know. I think right now we're at the end

770
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: of the era going into a new era, you know

771
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: what I'm saying on so many different fronts, you know,

772
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: from economically, socially, spiritually, energetically. You know, right now there

773
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: are things being set in place that's going to affect

774
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: the next thirty forty years facts. So I think it's

775
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: really weird because, like, as a conscious person, I'm looking

776
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: at both sides. We're both very much so unaware as

777
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: we are aware of what's happening. Yeah, it's kind of

778
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 1: like every day you're giving the red pill with a

779
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: blue pill, and like some days you take the blue pill,

780
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: some days you take the red pill. But at the

781
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: end of the day, it all comes back down to

782
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: survival because that's the two things that that are people

783
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: are ran by. I think we're gonna look at that

784
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: like survival and like now and be like that was

785
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: like a really crazy time where the world was changing

786
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: and like we kind of knew it, but we also

787
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: didn't really realize how much it was changing exactly. Kind

788
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: of like when the Internet first came out like ninety

789
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: six exactly. It's like kind of like where we are

790
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: right now exactly, and there's like so many different ways.

791
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 1: Like you're like, oh shit, the world's changing, and that

792
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 1: means there's ways to make money, but then there's also

793
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: ways to lose a lot of fucking money, because if

794
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: you don't know what the fuck you're doing in this

795
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,879
Speaker 1: web three point zero, in this metaverse, you might fucking

796
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: end up. There's been so many scams and all kinds

797
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: of crazy on. It's a lot of stuff. Man. You

798
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: got to connect with people who are really passionate about

799
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: what they're doing and who really think about the long

800
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: term thing. But what I was trying to say is

801
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,919
Speaker 1: that in general, it's just like right now is the

802
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: time to invest in yourself the most. I feel like

803
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: that means making sure that you spend time out of

804
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: your day getting to know who you are, getting to

805
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: know what your strengths are, what your weaknesses are, maybe

806
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: some gifts that you haven't discovered, you know, because you

807
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: want to make sure that you are a well rounded person.

808
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it's unlimited. What you can

809
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: do is unlimited. So it's just a matter of making

810
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: sure you're a well rounded person, or you know yourself

811
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: and you're not driven by the outside world too much.

812
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: It's very hard because it's so easy. It's also very

813
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: hard to disconnect from like the ground seats yourself. Oh yeah, yeah,

814
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: for sure. Everyone's always just working, work and work and working.

815
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: You know. I feel like it's hard to just disconnect

816
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: and decompress. Like but in order for you to actually,

817
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, for me, in order for me to

818
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: see what I'm actually doing, sometimes I gotta take a

819
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: step back and look at everything, like, okay, three months

820
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: from now, I got to look at the contacts, the relationships,

821
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: the people who I've invited into my I'm doing step back,

822
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: How is that what? Because sometimes you could just be

823
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: moving and moving and moving, and then other things that

824
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: can be shifting your trajectory of where you started or

825
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: what your original vision. So sometimes you gotta step back

826
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: and look at the progress and give yourself time to

827
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: see the progress. Like all right, cool, Like we're still

828
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: on the track, you know what I'm saying. Like, I

829
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's just because it's so easy

830
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: to just especially living out here, It's like you know,

831
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: la is it's always the grind and always. I ain't

832
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: say it on grind. You gotta hustle. You know, if

833
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: somebody tell you don't get no money, get away from them. Yeah,

834
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: because we gotta survive for sure. But it's definitely like

835
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: living in La is like you're always on your toes here,

836
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. It's like, you know, it's like

837
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing, it's like, Okay, I'm gonna go out

838
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,359
Speaker 1: to eat. Well, shit, I'm in LA so I can't

839
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: just go out to eat. I gotta put something on.

840
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: I gotta you know what I'm saying. It's like there's

841
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: so much that goes into just I mean, I think

842
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: it's less. I feel like it was crazy like that

843
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: before the pandemic, like everything had to be But now

844
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: it's like I think people have relaxed a little bit

845
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: when it comes today ego in certain ways, and also

846
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: the pandemic checked a lot of people's a lot of

847
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: people were struggling. It's like, you know, yeah, got real,

848
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: so you're yo, let me love you you say. Uh.

849
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: We just had a an artist named Kyle on the

850
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: show recently, you know, super Duper Kyle. He had a

851
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: song I Spy Yeah yeah, so he uh he was

852
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: talking about how he has a song called I Spy

853
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: which is about to be diamond, right. He's like, he's like,

854
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: that's a I think it's eight times platinum. He's like, uh,

855
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: this song has changed my life financially. It's got me

856
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: in a place where, like, you know, yeah, it's so

857
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: it's so big that I could kind of do what

858
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 1: I want now. That's that's a gift and a curse.

859
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: But it's also like he's also the I Spy guy.

860
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: Now you're not You're not to let me love you guy,

861
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: but let Me Love You is one of those songs

862
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 1: that is so massive, between the remix the original, it

863
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: is one of the most iconic R and B songs

864
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: of all fucking time. Yeah, what is the first part

865
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: of that for you? Because we know what the gift is.

866
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: I think the curst part of it is easy. It's just,

867
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: you know, having that level of success again with another

868
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: record because I was so young when it happened, and

869
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: it's like, I haven't had another record that big, even

870
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: though I've had other hits right since that record, you know,

871
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 1: And I think that's the curse. But I think every

872
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: artist has, well not every artist, Some artists got eighteen

873
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: twenty number ones. Right, But that's you know, if you're

874
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: so lucky to have that and to have that type

875
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: of system, Man, God bless you, that's amazing, you know.

876
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: But I think that's the curse, man, Just like trying

877
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,479
Speaker 1: to trying to beat it out, you know what I'm saying,

878
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: trying to are you with another like obviously every time?

879
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's the fucking your biggest record.

880
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: Are you tired of performing it? After all these years?

881
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: I feel like sometime I'm gonna get tired of performing it,

882
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: And then when I perform it it feels like the

883
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: first time every time. It's but it's because of the fans, man,

884
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: It's because of the people. It's because of them. It's

885
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: like when you're on stage and you see like it's

886
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: a connection, bro, because you just records. They they they're

887
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: like they're like time in the flesh, bro. Like this

888
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: this is like, I feel like recorded sound is time

889
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 1: in the flesh. You literally trap some time into a

890
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: sound and you're able to relive it over and over

891
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: and over and over again. So in some cases, yes,

892
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: it could feel as if you're not moving forward. But

893
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: when you see a record transcend so many generations. And

894
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: you see, like I see tiktoks of like babies or

895
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: like toddlers singing let me love you. I'm just like

896
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: Bro today. Yeah, of course, such a blessing man. It's

897
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: obviously the first record I'd ever heard of. Yours was

898
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: Just a Friend, which sampled Bismarcky BISMARKI recently passed away

899
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: Rest in Peace man. Yeah, as a young kid, like,

900
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 1: what was it like, you know, connecting with Biz sampling

901
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: his I mean, did you know much about Biz before

902
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: he ended up cutting that record? Like, what was what

903
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 1: was he like as a dude? Shout out to Warren Campbell,

904
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: my brother, hell lily man Biz. He really I feel

905
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: like anybody who meet him or feel like he liked

906
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:22,240
Speaker 1: they uncle, Like he was very much so expressive, very thoughtful.

907
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: He didn't hold his tongue, you know what I'm saying.

908
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: If he saw something, he had always hit me to

909
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: check up on me, like even if we talk for years.

910
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: I see him out at an event, it was always love.

911
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: When I was on tour last so at the Millennial

912
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: Toy he came out at my bottom one show, Oh

913
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 1: do he surprised me and pulled up like, man, just

914
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: a good dude, good dude indeed, Yeah, good dude. All right,

915
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: So we got more music coming this year, definitely more

916
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: music film stuff as well, you know a lot of

917
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: great Yeah. Well, I don't know if I'm gonna put

918
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: that out this year. Man, I'm really taking my time

919
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: with it, but it's definitely coming for sure. But tour,

920
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: just more more sauce. Man, what's the tour? Talk about

921
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: the tour? What what are you doing with the tour? Well,

922
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: we're planning it, you know, we're planning it for like

923
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: probably later this year. It's it gonna be you and

924
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: like some other people hopefully. Yeah, that's the plan to

925
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,320
Speaker 1: put a nice package together, like you know, that makes sense.

926
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: So I just put it out there, like you know

927
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's like tour, more music and

928
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,280
Speaker 1: just more me man, more more Mario for the fans,

929
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: for the people, like just you know, putting a stamp

930
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: on R and B where it need to be and

931
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: continue to do carry my carry my legacy on