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If you ain't pay 19 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 3: off your loan or whatever the case may be. 20 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: You in the five hundreds now. 21 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 4: All my life grinding, all my life Second Fights, Hustle Patrick, 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 4: One Slice, Got the Geysat All my Life, Poppy grinding 23 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 4: all my life, All my life, grinding all my life, 24 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 4: Second Fights, crust Bag Price, one Slice, Doctor Brother Geystwatch 25 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 4: all my Life, Poppy Grinding all my life. 26 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: Hello, welcome to another edition of Club Sha Shay. I 27 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriud of 28 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 2: Club Sha Shay. And the guy that's stopping by for 29 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 2: conversation on the drink today is a three time Grammy 30 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: nominated artist. The next time he's nominated, he's going to 31 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: win a gold selling artist. Rapper, singer, songwriter, businessman. Corday, 32 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: what's up? I'm good, brother, Thanks for stopping by the 33 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: shop man, appreciate you having me on h He was 34 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: born in North Carolina. Yeah, raised in Maryland? Yes, sir, 35 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 2: what was what's the Corday? Give me a story, Corday upbringing? 36 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: Okay? 37 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 3: So I was raised early, like I said, born in 38 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 3: North Carolina like you said, more so, raised with my 39 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 3: grandmother A lot mom and grandma very yes, ma'am, no, ma'am, yes, sir, 40 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: Oh sir, I got whooped with the switch on. Go 41 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 3: out there in the back yard pick out your switch again? 42 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: What with the sweet I said this rat bar. I 43 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 3: was like Grandma used to whoop a nigga with switches. 44 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: That was way before the switches, you know whatever. But yeah, 45 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 3: very you know southern hospitality, very southern. Didn't really like 46 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 3: have too much growing up, you know, not like really 47 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 3: don't know what was me type of stuff, but just 48 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 3: you know how it is a lot of the times. Uh, 49 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 3: my mom had me, she was super young. She was 50 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 3: sixteen years old when she had me, and so so oldest. 51 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: Yeah I'm the eldest. Yeah, I'm the eldest. 52 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 3: And my nickname was Mad because I was the man 53 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 3: of the house like my grandma and my mom, and 54 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 3: then my little Auntie, well she's like not a little auntie, 55 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 3: but she was young at the time Auntie. 56 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: So I was like the man of the house. So 57 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: my nickname was Man. 58 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 3: And I moved to South Carolina, lived out in Florence, 59 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 3: South Carolina for a little bit, and then I moved 60 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: to Maryland and lived in Suitland, Maryland, and I still 61 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 3: got it. 62 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: When I moved out in Maryland, people was like, man, 63 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 1: you sound countries mother boy, like for real. 64 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 3: And I was in fifth grade at that time, so 65 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 3: my bad, I'm going step by step from But Maryland 66 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 3: it was like not a culture shop, but it was 67 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 3: more so like oh, go go, like learning about new things. 68 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 3: So I became acclimated. So like Maryland is like home 69 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 3: now because I was. Maryland is really what made me 70 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 3: who I am. But still going back, you know, the 71 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 3: Carolina's for the summer to visit my grandmother and my dad, 72 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 3: my family on that side and stuff. So yeah, but 73 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 3: like Maryland, like Maryland really helped me become, not even 74 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: helped me, but like made me who I am, Like 75 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 3: made me love like sneakers, like live music because of 76 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 3: Go Go and more so in the South, it's like 77 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 3: you live in like a trailer or like well it 78 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 3: wasn't just straight trailers, but you get what I'm saying. 79 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: Versus Maryland, it's like neighborhoods and building so right by DC. 80 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: Maryland is the country to the south too, because I 81 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: think it falls Mason, so anything. 82 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: It's technically the south of them. If you know, it's 83 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: like an up a vibe. It's like d C. 84 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 3: It's still a city vibe myself because it's DC right there, 85 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 3: Like New York. 86 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: Y'all will y'all don't want to be labeled country. No, 87 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: it's not the country. I would say that for sure, 88 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: it's not the country. I would say it's nothing. But 89 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm listening, I'm looking at you. I've read your story. 90 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 2: And you raised by your grandmother and your mom in 91 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: a trailer park, uh sometimes fifteen people in and out, 92 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 2: no cable, no internet. So you had a pretty rough upbringing. 93 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 2: So as you're growing up, what are you thinking to yourself? 94 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: What do you want to be? 95 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I would say I want to say, it 96 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 3: was like fifteen people in and out, but we always 97 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 3: had like a good it was family running home. 98 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: So I always enjoyed that. 99 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 3: I want to say, fifteen, I ain't gonna you know 100 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 3: how niggas be lying since and I ain't finn live 101 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 3: fifteen ain't. 102 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: Yea yea yea yeah, it won't. Five. It was more 103 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 1: than vibe. 104 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, But and you know, I was 105 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 3: raised in like different environments, Like it was some points 106 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 3: where like like I said, we lived in the trailer 107 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 3: and then when we moved to Maryland, we kind of 108 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,280 Speaker 3: in the hood in Suitland, and then later on as 109 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 3: my mom getting older and she's getting a better job. 110 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 3: We lived in like towards like my my like fifteen 111 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,720 Speaker 3: through like seventeen, like them. Last two years of high 112 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: school we lived in like a better neighborhood. So I 113 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 3: kind of moved around like a lot. I went to 114 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 3: six different elementary schools, you know what I'm saying. So 115 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 3: I kind of lived in, like you said, like all 116 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 3: type of environments, like like I said, lived in like 117 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 3: the trailer in the countryhood, right, you know. And then 118 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 3: I lived in like the the Maryland, the city what 119 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 3: I consider the city hood, you know what I'm saying, 120 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: where like people were at their apartments like right by 121 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 3: Forest Creek, Suitland, they called it twenty eighth for Bradford, 122 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. 123 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: And then living like in a in a better neighborhood 124 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: in my. 125 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 3: Late teens, like late high school neighborhood, excuse me, late 126 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 3: high school years. So I think the culmination of all 127 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: those things allowed me to like interact with all different 128 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: like walks of life, like I didn't even really wasn't 129 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 3: around white people until I went to college. Like my 130 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 3: middle school, elementary school, high school all like ninety nine 131 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 3: point nine percent black, like niggas making fun, not making 132 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 3: fun but I'm the lightest thing in there. 133 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: You like, that's funny. 134 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: So growing up in a trailer park, growing up in 135 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 2: the inner cities, moving to the suburbs, so as you mentioned, 136 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 2: it gave you a better opportunity of how to navigate 137 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: and deal with different types of people in different types 138 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 2: of environments. 139 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, because like I was saying, I went 140 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 3: to five different elementary schools, so I had to be 141 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 3: out gone with so many just moving around just like 142 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 3: you know, just moving around figure having young you know 143 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 3: what I'm saying, young parents is figuring it out. 144 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:31,640 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 145 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 3: You know, I didn't know why, but like you know, 146 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 3: we're just moving around a lot. So so me having 147 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 3: to be outgoing because okay, I'm at this school, I'm 148 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 3: moving here in April the school year. 149 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: Damn there. Oh ho. 150 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 3: You know, so I got to be out going and 151 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 3: like in order to make new friends, in order to 152 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 3: to to get in you know. 153 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 1: So I think that kind of affected me today to. 154 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 3: Where I have more of a not like I'm kind 155 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 3: of to myself a lot now, more reserved, but like 156 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 3: I can turn on that social battery if when needed. 157 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 2: Right, is it hard for you because you moved to 158 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 2: so many different schools and so you're in and out 159 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 2: of friendship. 160 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: Hey man, how you doing The next thing? 161 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: You know, you pick up, you got a new set 162 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 2: of friend and the you know you pick up and 163 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 2: they got a new set of friend So is it 164 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 2: hard for you to maintain stable friendship because you moved 165 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 2: so you kind of like a soul journal you were 166 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: just Upton? 167 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, nah, for real, man, You know what, I never 168 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: even thought about it like that, that that could be 169 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 3: a reason. Like and I think why I love Maryland 170 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 3: so much is because that was like the most like stable, 171 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 3: Okay I was, you know, like even when we lived 172 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 3: in a hood. 173 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: In Suitland in a Hickory Hill apartments, like. 174 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 3: I was there for like even though we switched apartments 175 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 3: like apart, We'll be like, okay, we lived in it. 176 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 3: When we first moved to Maryland, we lived in a 177 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 3: one bedroom apartment. Then we moved in that same apartment 178 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 3: complex and the one in the den, and we used 179 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 3: the den as our bedroom, and then we had the 180 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 3: two bedroom and it's like, oh me and my little brother, 181 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 3: we get we. 182 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: Got our own bathroom. We all got to share a 183 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: bathroom with moms. No more. 184 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 3: And so even that was still like stable for me 185 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 3: because We're still in the same neighborhood. I'm still going 186 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 3: to the same school essentially. So then when I moved 187 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 3: from Suitland to like Waldorf, which is like a better area, 188 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 3: that was like that was I'm like, we was like 189 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: in the townhouse at that time. 190 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: And again this is like I'm sixteen years old and 191 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: you really moved on up. 192 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 3: In my in my brain, I'm like, one't got listen 193 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 3: to my mom, like, Okay, we're gonna go to a neighborhood, 194 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 3: but like no cable, no why we ain't really had 195 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 3: cable Wi Fi before. But like, so I'm in this 196 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 3: area and one't got cable and WiFi. My mom driving 197 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,239 Speaker 3: a ninety six camera. Some of my classmates is driving 198 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 3: like that ship. 199 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They pull up in the 200 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: acro truck. I'm like, damn, like, oh y'all having that ship. 201 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: So even in that environment to where I'm like on 202 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 3: like the super low end of like that area, if 203 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 3: that makes sense, So my bad. 204 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: I'm going in all types of places. But the question was, 205 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 1: what was that. 206 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, no, I'm just saying because I said it 207 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 2: was your friendships and because you exactly, because you hear 208 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 2: and then you're going. 209 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: You hear and then you're going, and then you here 210 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 1: and then you're going, and the hear you're gone. Yeah. 211 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, So when I was in like that area, like 212 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 3: when wet down at that high school, I think we 213 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 3: moved there like tenth or eleventh grade. 214 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,719 Speaker 1: I really felt like like stable. It felt really good, 215 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: like stability. 216 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 3: So that's kind of why maybe I moved like an 217 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:12,559 Speaker 3: old man now you know what I'm saying in a 218 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 3: way like this, liking things to be stable. 219 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: Did you ever tell you Ma'm like, damn, mom, can 220 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: we just like stay wharmped? 221 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:19,199 Speaker 2: I just got a new set of friends and I 222 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: really liked these I really like these friends here. 223 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 3: And he's like, baby, we only get you know what 224 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 3: I wouldn't I would I don't know, to be honest, 225 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 3: I couldn't recollect that accurately, but I'm sure I did. 226 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: As a kid. 227 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 2: You know, I'm listening to you and you say you 228 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 2: had a speech impediment. I also had one, and I 229 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 2: know kids can be very cruel, very cool, Yeah, and 230 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 2: so how how did you deal with that? 231 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 4: Yeah? 232 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 3: It was it was tough because when I first moved 233 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 3: to Maryland again, like I'm uh and at this time again, 234 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 3: we is not really having this ship. 235 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: So I'm in Maryland. Fashion is huge yet even so 236 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: that's where he got it from exactly. 237 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 3: So even in elementary school, middle school, niggas is wearing 238 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,760 Speaker 3: I'm wearing shacks. Bro, I'm wearing Champion sneakers and so 239 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 3: I'm already the country boy and I'm wearing shacks. So 240 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:13,719 Speaker 3: it's like you, I'm getting it. No, you get you 241 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 3: ever got roasted so bad you want to cry because 242 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: it be true. I mean, bibles roasting this dude. And 243 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,839 Speaker 3: he was like, Nigga, that's why your mother drive a 244 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 3: fucked up call. 245 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: You live in the hood. I'm like, god, damn, bro, 246 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: Like that's cruel, but it's true. You had damn like 247 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: you say that at the lunch table. Nigga. 248 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 3: We're supposed to keep this, you know, mans so, but 249 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 3: but yeah, it just learned you to kind of get 250 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,439 Speaker 3: tough skin to help me now because even we live 251 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 3: in this world with the internet, So if I drop 252 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 3: a song, even though it'll be a million people that 253 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 3: love it, I don't have let's say you drop a 254 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 3: post or whatever, right, in ten thousand comments be like, man, fire, firefire, 255 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,319 Speaker 3: but our brains is so naturally geared towards that two hundred. 256 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 3: That's like, man, this is some bullshit. Bro, this is like, 257 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 3: this is not good and so it'll make you like more. 258 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: It can fuck up your whole day. 259 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,599 Speaker 3: But me growing up like in Maryland, well we be 260 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 3: joning like shit, like going at each other, joning all 261 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 3: the time. And give me a little bit tough to 262 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 3: skin to where even now with somebody talking about like 263 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 3: an outfit of something you were on a carpet at. 264 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: Of the vent or like niggas like, man, you know 265 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,599 Speaker 1: gain some weight, didn't you lately? Nigga? And I'm just like, 266 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,559 Speaker 1: you know, is this I got tough for skin? You know, 267 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna act like I'm impenetrable, and I like 268 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:23,839 Speaker 1: it don't phase me at all. But I would like 269 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 1: to think I got tougher skin. 270 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 2: When when they were talking about your speech impediment you 271 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: talk with a list, did you know you had it 272 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 2: at the time or did you? 273 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: Like, man, I'm talking just like you. I mean I 274 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: could I had one growing up. 275 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: I had to go to speech class, and so what 276 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 2: I did I would make fun of everybody else, so. 277 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,719 Speaker 1: People wouldn't talk about me. So how did you navigate that? 278 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 2: Because, like you said, kids can be cruel and it's 279 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 2: unrelenting because once we find out what bothers you, oh, 280 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 2: I can't let it go. 281 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: I think it kind of just stopped after like fifth grade. 282 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 3: And again, it wasn't like I was Poindexter when it 283 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 3: is like a nigga, like you know what I'm saying, 284 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 3: but like you know, when you jone on your man, like, boy, 285 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 3: shut your ugly ass something, I'm like a daffy duck 286 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 3: ass nigga, you know, So so it'd be like it 287 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 3: wasn't just like I walk in the school and it's 288 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 3: just like list boy, you know what I'm saying. But 289 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 3: it's like when we joning on each other, it's like 290 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 3: a back and forth type of thing. So when we 291 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 3: joning on each other, they gonna, you know, dish, that's 292 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 3: what they talking about. I'm talking about your shirt because 293 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,679 Speaker 3: we wore uniforms in Maryland. So I'm like, your uniform 294 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 3: shirt got a stain on it and you probably woar 295 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 3: that shirt yesterday, and they like, all right, daffied up, 296 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 3: you know. So it's like a back and forth thing. 297 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 3: It wasn't like just a attack. So you know, God, 298 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 3: if you go on dish, you gotta take it. 299 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: If young kid was sitting here and he or she 300 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: had an impediment, speech impediment, talk with a list or stuttered, 301 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 2: what advice would you give them? How would you have 302 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 2: explain to them how to navigate going through life? Because 303 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 2: sometimes you can possibly I grow it and sometimes you 304 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: still have it. Because I talk with a heavy colloquial dialect. 305 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 2: I'm from rural, rural South Georgia. 306 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: It is who I am. 307 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 2: I've learned to embrace it because that's the part of 308 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 2: who I am makes you unique, It makes me unique. 309 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 2: And so I went to when I first got on television, 310 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 2: I went not you know, I was trying to be 311 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 2: Ed Bradley and I'm trying to articulate my worth. 312 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: Behold up, not a who I am. That's not what 313 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:08,439 Speaker 1: it hired me. 314 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 3: Absolutely, And that's why you connect, how you connect and 315 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 3: your audience and how you've been able to build and 316 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 3: why people connect with you because it's it's authentic. Because 317 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 3: nobody can be Shannon Sharp better than Shannon Sharp. Nobody 318 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 3: can be Cordae better than Corday, right, And so that's 319 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 3: why I would tell that kid, just like, just be yourself, 320 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 3: embrace what it is. Ain't nothing wrong with you wanting 321 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 3: some self improvement, you know, and whatever that you want 322 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 3: to do. 323 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: If you want to take a speech class, not saying 324 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: you should or you have to, but like, whatever you 325 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: want to do, nobody can be you better than you. 326 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 3: So just embrace yourself. Embrace your imperfections, and embrace your 327 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 3: flaws and accept it and flourishing it. 328 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 1: Did you ever have a fear of public speaking? You 329 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: know what? No? 330 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 3: No. 331 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: When I was young, I wanted to be a lawyer. Okay, 332 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: so I wanted to win. 333 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 3: It was around the time Barack came out, So I'm like, 334 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 3: y'all want to be a president. And so I always 335 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:58,719 Speaker 3: read a lot when I was little, Like I was 336 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 3: in fourth grade reading fat ass Harry Potter books. So 337 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 3: at first I started reading Harry Potter books, right, And 338 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 3: then my mom and my stepdad was like, well, if 339 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 3: you can read an eight hundred page Harry Potter book, 340 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 3: you can read this book on w eb dou boys, 341 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 3: you can read this book on third good Marshall. So 342 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 3: I was like in fifth grade reading Souls of Black Folk. 343 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 3: I was in fifth grade reading third good Marshall, reading 344 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 3: books on Huey Newton and Malcolm X and things of 345 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 3: that nature. And this is when I fell in love 346 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 3: with rap, like super heavy too, from reading. And I 347 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: used to look at Na's lyrics and google rap Jeans. 348 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 3: It's super early rap jeans days and just look at 349 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 3: him and it's like, oh, same with jay Z. Just 350 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 3: google jay Z lyrics and just look at him like 351 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 3: oh and just annotate and so yeah, So me falling 352 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 3: in love with reading, it always gave me a I 353 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 3: guess above average like reading and comprehension level and an 354 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 3: ability to speak. 355 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: So now I would when they doing popcorn reading, I'm 356 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: raising my hand, you know. 357 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 2: Steve Harvey tells the story a lot that when he 358 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 2: was growing up, he told the teacher that he wanted 359 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 2: to be on television, and the teacher told him, said, 360 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: you can't be on television because you have a speech impediment, 361 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 2: and so he made it. And he says, every year 362 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 2: he sends her television because he's on TV. 363 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 364 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 3: In the first two years, damn, that's I'm sure he's 365 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 3: spending a nice ass TV too. 366 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, I might as well. Yeah, I mean TV's a 367 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: really cheap now dad, you know, yeah, yeah that's true. 368 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: But let me ask you this. 369 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 2: Did anyone ever tell you that you couldn't make it 370 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 2: because of your impediment? 371 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 3: No, not really, to be honest, it wasn't because of 372 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 3: the impediment, I don't. I remember this one person I 373 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 3: was in a group chat with and she was like, well, 374 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 3: you know how you do group chats and stuff in 375 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 3: high school and no, we didn't have those. 376 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah I know, but that's true. 377 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 3: So I was in this group chat, and I remember 378 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 3: I first moved to college and I took a picture 379 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 3: of me setting up my studio, my little home set 380 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 3: up like my Michael On laptop, speakers set up in 381 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 3: my dorm room, took a picture of it and put 382 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 3: in the group chat. She was like, yeah, your roommate 383 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 3: gonna think you, asked, like as a joke, and I 384 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 3: was like, all right, like I'm gonna show you say less. 385 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 3: And so now whenever I never forget that. So now 386 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 3: whenever I got a show back home, and she tried 387 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 3: to one of my friends like hey, can we bring 388 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 3: such or something like nah, I'm good for sure, absolute 389 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 3: understand the first time, but keep it going because stay 390 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 3: over there. 391 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: That's a customber but at that paying comstoable. But listen, listen. 392 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: All money ain't good money, bro, All money ain't good money. 393 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 3: But but but she was never like really a supportive person, 394 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 3: and so I'm just like, yo, let's just keep it 395 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 3: where it was before. So if you supported me before, 396 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 3: it's like people get above and beyond. 397 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: What if you have a n Q moment to change 398 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: your heart? Shit? Have it too late? Too late? So 399 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: I love if I if I would have run into 400 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: it'd be straight love. Like, man, how you been good? 401 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: That's a front? How we really feel? No? No, no, no, no, 402 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: that ain't the front because I'm just trying to omit 403 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: good energy. You know what I'm saying. I'm finna go 404 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: out of my but. 405 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 2: You're not going out of your way. Somebody came you said, ay, Corty, 406 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 2: you remember such as such? Man, She tried to come 407 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 2: to the She tried to come to the. 408 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: Well and shit hit the ticket. 409 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 2: She You did a Ted talk last year nearly five 410 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: million views and six in six months. Yeah, obviously Bill 411 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 2: Gates was there. So what was it like meeting Bill 412 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 2: Gates and when you went there, what was gonna did 413 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 2: you know what you're gonna talk about before you did 414 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 2: the talk? 415 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: Yeah? So I did the Ted talk and I was like, 416 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: high level my you know, that's my shameless plugs, that's 417 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: my brand. I love my bad you know that might 418 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: get a sound my best for sound. 419 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 3: But so yeah, I was just like, okay, high level 420 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 3: mindset because that really helped me me not even realizing 421 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 3: what it was and me not having a name for 422 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,360 Speaker 3: it at the time, like being the youngin like really 423 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 3: helped me, you know, get to where I am at today. 424 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 3: And you know what one thing I did miss on 425 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 3: that Taed talk. I wanted to shout out why being 426 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 3: my mirror? Cause without him, I would not be where 427 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 3: I'm at today, Like hands down, Without Why being my mayor, 428 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 3: I would have still got to where I'm at today, 429 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 3: but it would have took me a lot longer. So 430 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 3: I got a shout out why being my mayor, He's 431 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 3: a huge reason why I'm here, why I'm here today? 432 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: Right, And. 433 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 3: So going back to the Taed talk, just the principle 434 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 3: is more so and in like little things that I've 435 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 3: learned on the lifestyle, things like discipline, so I wanted 436 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: to include that. The second idea I had, I was like, 437 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 3: it was like why prostitution made should be legal in 438 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 3: in America. It was just just on some like you know, 439 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 3: cause some Ted talks is like two points of it. 440 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 3: You get what I'm saying. So it just on some 441 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 3: funny shit too. I I I was telling the owner 442 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 3: of TED, I like, what you think of this Ted talking. 443 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 3: He's just like, uh, keep high level, buddy, Let's stick 444 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 3: with high level. So yeah, it was uh so when 445 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 3: they reached out, it was just one of the things 446 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 3: I wrote. You know how you got like a list 447 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 3: of things you wanna do at the top of the year, 448 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 3: So I had TED Talk in one of those. I 449 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,719 Speaker 3: asked Shennon Uncle Shay club at the beginning of this year. 450 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 3: So when Ted Talk they reached out to us, I'm like, oh, like, 451 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 3: that's that's fire. So we did it and it ended 452 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 3: up being the number one most watched Ted talk for 453 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 3: the year. And after I did my Ted Talk, they 454 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 3: was like, hey, I was in my green room. They 455 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 3: was like, hey, Bill, want to come meet you. And 456 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 3: I'm like, Bill, who like you know, like whatever? They like, 457 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 3: Bill Gates, I'm like. 458 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: Oh him on that man, you know. So I talked 459 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:27,880 Speaker 1: to him and he's just a really cool guy. 460 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 3: Knows a lot of things out there with him buying 461 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 3: like farm line and like a bunch of shit. 462 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: But buy some land. To god, ain't making no more 463 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: land exact. So I don't know what he's doing with 464 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to defend you know what I'm saying 465 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,920 Speaker 1: or whatever, But so I'm just like I'm trying not 466 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: to be closed minded. 467 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, that's Bill Gates. Why would I not 468 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 3: meet Bill exactly? You know, an opportunity. 469 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 1: Absolutely there we go. So so I'm just talking to him. 470 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 3: He's like, man like, that was like my favorite Ted 471 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 3: talk I've seen in a really long time. Man Like, man, 472 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:59,159 Speaker 3: take my number down, and we're just talking about it. 473 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 3: He's like, oh, you're doing Coachella. He's like, yeah, me 474 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 3: and my daughter gonna come see you at Coachella next weekend. 475 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 3: This and that didn't he still, by his word, came 476 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 3: to see me at Coachella like the next weekend. And 477 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 3: you know, he donates, I don't misquote me, but he 478 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 3: donates like a lot of money, like just every year 479 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 3: and again not to feed him. He should donate a 480 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 3: lot of money, right, But he he helps like a 481 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 3: lot of decent causes. 482 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: So yeah, he seems like a great guy from like 483 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: my interactions with him. 484 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 2: You said high level, high level your mindset. In the 485 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 2: speech it says remain positive, be disciplined, control your environment, 486 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: create good habits, remove negative people out of your life. 487 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 3: You are, That's what I was doing with Shorty, you know, man, 488 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 3: that was years ago. She changed And you know how 489 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 3: Michael Jordan did his damn Hall of Fame. Yeah, he 490 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: look that's different. 491 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 1: How do you remain positive? 492 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 2: You know a lot of people say, you know, even 493 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: though when things are going bad, you remain positive. It's 494 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 2: easy to remain positive when things. 495 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: Will go good. 496 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 2: Okay, you drop, you drop a song, it goes viral, 497 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 2: it makes you know, everybody's clamoring for it or everything 498 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 2: that you see to touch. But what happened when all 499 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 2: of a sudden that slows down? How do you remain 500 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 2: that positive mindset when things are not going as well 501 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 2: as you expected? 502 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: Man, it's a lot easier said than done. 503 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 3: Man, some days you might have a couple of days 504 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 3: where you just kind of like just fucked up and 505 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 3: just I can curse. 506 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, sorry we are saying that, so yeah, oh yeah, 507 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: exactly right. Maybe I should ask that before. I'm sorry 508 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 1: about that. But yeah, it's a lot like you said, 509 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: it's a lot easier said than that. 510 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 3: Like some days when things aren't going as well, it's 511 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 3: just it's hard, you know, it's super hard. But try 512 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 3: to just always find that counterbalance of just remaining like 513 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 3: what we said before we got here, like man, we 514 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 3: woke up this morning. 515 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: After that, that's anything else is an extra. 516 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 3: And so I say that now my mindset now because 517 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 3: I did have a really rough last year, like just 518 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 3: just mentally things I went through, like just personally in 519 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 3: my personal life. 520 00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: Eventually I really went through it. 521 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 3: I was like really like in a super dark place 522 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 3: last year, like really that I've never even been in before, 523 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,720 Speaker 3: like just growing up and things of that nature. 524 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: Even with me having success and money and all of 525 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: these things, Like I was in a really dark place 526 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: last year. 527 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 3: But I had to come and again it's easier for 528 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 3: me because again I'm super blessed, you know. But no 529 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 3: matter what, it's always a blessing that you can find. 530 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 3: It's like, okay, like even if I woke up, I 531 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 3: have all my limbs. Okay, even I don't have my limb, 532 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 3: I still have. You know, it's something that you can 533 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 3: find to be grateful for, to be appreciative of. That's 534 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 3: why when people ask me how I'm doing, I'm saying, man, 535 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 3: i'd be a fool to complain, because I truly, especially me, 536 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 3: I would be a fool to complain. 537 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 1: Oh, nobody want to hear it, you know, But but too, 538 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: I would be a fool to complain. 539 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 3: And so I think everyone, like, even though we all 540 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 3: may be at different stages of our life and careers 541 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,880 Speaker 3: and things, all have something to be grateful for. If 542 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 3: you sat down and wrote out things, man, we got Okay, 543 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 3: I know what my next meal is coming from. Okay, 544 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 3: I got a roof for for my hand. Correct even 545 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 3: if you don't got to okay. 546 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: I can find a way. I'm woke. I am alive today. 547 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, you don't. Like the old said when they say, 548 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 2: you know, God don't make no mistake. I'm like, he's 549 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 2: doing this to me on purpose. I sure hope this 550 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: was a mistake. But you but for you to the 551 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: main and I'm listening to you talk and you say, 552 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 2: you know, look at the end of the day. I 553 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:22,159 Speaker 2: remain positive because I woke up this morning. Then I 554 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 2: can attack anything else that happens after that. We better 555 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 2: figure it out. We woke up, We can figure it out. 556 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 2: We can figure it out. Not the Kanye song, but 557 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 2: college drop out. You go to towsand and you're like, okay, 558 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 2: you were telling the story earlier. How you sitting everything 559 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 2: up at your door room, like yeah, I'm college college, 560 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 2: about to go, you know, be on campus, about to 561 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,360 Speaker 2: see these shortest and then you decided to leave. 562 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, because I really went to college because it was 563 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 3: it was bigger than me, Like I was like first generation. 564 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 3: Like my mother didn't get a chance to go to college. 565 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: She had to go to night school to get her 566 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 3: high school diploma. My dad had got his ged in prison. 567 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 3: You know my grandmother dropped out of school in third grade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 568 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 3: so exactly. So me is just like, okay, this is 569 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 3: And I always was, like I would like to say, 570 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,679 Speaker 3: a little smart growing up. You know, I always had 571 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 3: decent grades. So it's like this is my avenue. I 572 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 3: got no other choice, and I was that that was 573 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 3: like almost a plan B for me. And so when 574 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 3: I got to school, I would say It was like 575 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 3: my second year when I really locked in on the 576 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 3: music thing, and I was like, oh yeah, I ain't 577 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 3: finna finish. My goal was like, okay, I'm a finished college. 578 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 3: Give myself three hard years to like really go crazy 579 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 3: on the music. 580 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 1: But then by like my junior year, I'm taking out 581 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: extra Sally may Long shout out my mom. She co 582 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,479 Speaker 1: signed them for me, and I'm cashing. 583 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 3: I'm having about five g's in my pocket because I'm 584 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 3: taking out extra loans. 585 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: And so I'm using this the fly to La, the 586 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 1: fly to south Boy, Southwest to go, and I'm working 587 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: a job at this time too. I'm selling a little weed. 588 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 3: I'm getting money right in my brain, you know what 589 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 3: I'm saying. Like I wasn't escaball, but you know, I'm 590 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 3: selling my little old to my I'm getting a little 591 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 3: money working at the restaurant. Got you know, got my 592 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 3: extra Sally made loan. So I'm using all this to 593 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 3: just to put into my music. 594 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: Into it. 595 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 3: I'm I'm getting scammed. I'll pay like a local artist 596 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 3: for a feature. They done ran off on me. 597 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: I done money being a green bean. I done money. 598 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,360 Speaker 3: Gramness gave red and he done like appreciate your sir, 599 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 3: green Bean. 600 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: You know. So yeah, just taking risks, man, just just 601 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: taking risk, taking a bunch of l's and I was 602 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: just like, I can't. 603 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 3: I got into that mindset like, yo, I am not 604 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:36,479 Speaker 3: giving myself no other option but to do this music thing. 605 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: I'm not. 606 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 3: This is just my I'm not giving myself a playing beef, 607 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 3: just like cause I don't want to live with myself 608 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 3: when I'm fifty years old, older than like man, I 609 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 3: didn't tell I was being too safe with life, and 610 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 3: you never want to be too safe. And that's something 611 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: I'm like fighting right now because I have things to lose. 612 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 3: Like before, I didn't have nothing to lose. So I'm 613 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 3: taking every risk. I'm going heads on now. 614 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: I got, you know, thing I'm not. I'm not. I 615 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: got other people to think about it. That's depending on me. 616 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 3: And so I'm more risk averse, which is necessary to 617 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 3: learn that. But still like we still got to be brave, 618 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 3: we still got to take chances, we still got to 619 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,959 Speaker 3: take risks, and so just trying to find that balance 620 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 3: because I think it was a point where I was 621 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 3: almost like being too safe with the moves and things 622 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 3: that I was making. I would turn down things cause. 623 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: It wasn't like that. But it was just a lesson 624 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: more so of me. Just like nah, I still got 625 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: to be brave. 626 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 3: I still got to have that same belief and faith 627 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 3: in myself and God that like, yo, let's just go 628 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 3: for it. 629 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: Let's just go for it to take it to the 630 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: next level. 631 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: Were you a good student or were you partying doing 632 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 2: things that I like, like a lot of kid college 633 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: kids do. 634 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,399 Speaker 1: I mean, you obviously do in college. You want to 635 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: enjoy it. 636 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 2: This is an environment because hopefully you're going to grow 637 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 2: up and not party like you did in college. So 638 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 2: were you a good student and you said you got 639 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 2: good grades? But were you partying? Were you doing things 640 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 2: like a typical college kid. 641 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 3: I was a good student in high school and I 642 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 3: was still in high school, like you know, I was. 643 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: I've been spoking with I was like twelve years old, okay, 644 00:26:58,960 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: And so. 645 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: In college is like, oh, now I don't gotta smoke. 646 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 3: You know this when we was like illegal, so you know, 647 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 3: we had the hot box, a homie car be paired. 648 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: You already paranoyu. 649 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 3: I you know, you be looking around, make sure police 650 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 3: and nobody come around. And so college is just you 651 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 3: got a friend with an apartment, so it's just like, oh, 652 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 3: we can really turn up there. So so in high 653 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 3: school I was able to balance both you know, turning 654 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 3: up and things of that nature. 655 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 1: But in college I was a horrible student. 656 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,400 Speaker 3: It was just like yo, like especially when I found 657 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 3: out I'm really gonna do music all the way. Like, 658 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 3: I dropped a lot. I had like one class a week. 659 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 3: I can't one class a week. 660 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: And I was flying in Atlanta. 661 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 3: If it's something and there's some sort of convention like 662 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 3: complex con of South I said, I'm flying out there. 663 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: I had a friend who worked at Southwest. 664 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 3: I got the buddy pass, right, I got I'm gonna 665 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 3: find somebody couch I can sleep. 666 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: On, you know, so I'm a duel. I would take 667 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 1: all of them risks. And so yeah, in college that's 668 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: when I start. 669 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 3: I got heavy into poppingsans and perk has said, and trying. 670 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 1: Like acid and trying like type stuff. 671 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like and I'm not, you know, bragging about it, 672 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 3: but just like college, that's when I really well, iride, 673 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 3: you made it that long in school, yeah exactly. So 674 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 3: So yeah, college I kind of really got burnt out. 675 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 3: And this is when like a pill really became like 676 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 3: super cool and like in pop culture more so cool 677 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: if you would you know. 678 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: So, yeah, I was just I was. Yeah, I was. 679 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: I was burnt out for lack of a better. 680 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 2: So you say you're probably around, you say you're eighteen 681 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 2: nineteen when you says, okay, it's this music thing. 682 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: Damn school. 683 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 2: I ain't got no black up playing, I ain't got 684 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 2: no job lined up. It's either music or I'm gonna 685 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 2: be back on Grandma and mamacout. 686 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: But that that's it. Yeah, that's it. That's yeah, that's 687 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: why I gave out. I was just like, this is 688 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: just what it is. It's just no adoptions I'm reading or. 689 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 2: You say you met a lot of your your rap friends, 690 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: rap friends through social media, social social media, blessing or curse. 691 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,240 Speaker 1: It's it's a combination of the two. 692 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 3: It's just depend on how you let it dictate your mind, 693 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 3: your frame of mind. And so yeah, I met na Mirror. 694 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 3: I actually met Nahmer through my bro Simber, my dog 695 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 3: simberl but I met him in person at Roland loud 696 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 3: La for me taking them trips again. If it's something 697 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 3: that's going on like within music, I'm a fine, I 698 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 3: wouldn't even have a ticket there. I'm just like, yo, 699 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 3: just bout me moving off that mustard. See faith, I'm 700 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 3: a find a way and I'll just find for some 701 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 3: miraculous reason, nothing but god, I'll just find my way 702 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 3: with an artist band. Which now we get that, you know, 703 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 3: you just asked. You just get your agent and somebody 704 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 3: asks you in there. But like as a citizen at 705 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 3: the time, that's a big deal. And so that's how 706 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 3: I met Nahmir through that, he recognized he rock with 707 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 3: my stuff. So that was how that sparked. And again, 708 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 3: you know, without while being not mayor, I will not 709 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 3: be here and it will not be here this fast, 710 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 3: but even just would not be here regardless, and so 711 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 3: so yeah, so we just stay connected through social media. 712 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 3: But to go to your point of it's a blessing. 713 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 3: Social media change my life, right, you know it changed 714 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 3: millions of lives social media since the social media age. 715 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 3: I bet it's a study that shows more millionaires, multimillionaires 716 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 3: are being erupted. And that's how I learned a lot 717 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 3: of information. I'm able to watch I watch interviews. I 718 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 3: can watch somebody that's coming to your podcast and get 719 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 3: a gym. From there, I can watch people like earn 720 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 3: your leisure, you know, learn financial stuff from there. 721 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: So you know, that's the beauty of social media. 722 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting though, to see like studies of 723 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 3: human behavior like since social media, because it's still a 724 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 3: relatively new construct. Okay, people are more antisocial now because 725 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 3: of social media attention spans or a lot lower work ethics, 726 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 3: a lot lower things of that nature. So I'm just 727 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 3: curious to see what type of effects long term social 728 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 3: media is just gonna have on humans and human behavior. 729 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: Mentally, Like social media like isn't the best. 730 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 3: For me, Like right now, I can pull out my 731 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 3: phone right now, I have no Instagram, no Twitter, no 732 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 3: TikTok on my phone. 733 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: Like I'll just download it. I did get away with 734 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: it or you never had it. 735 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 3: I had it for sure, but like this last year again, 736 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 3: you know when I was like really going through it retally, 737 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 3: I think these last two years, I'll just download it. 738 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 3: When I got a okay cord, you gotta post this, 739 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 3: and okay, we got a song out, we gotta post this, 740 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 3: So I'll just download it. Do what I gotta do, 741 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 3: you know, still scroll a little bit, tap in what's 742 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 3: going on in the world. 743 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: You know, Twitter the new news. You know, that's the 744 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: new newspaper. 745 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 3: So I'll tap in, but then i'll once I done 746 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 3: gott the information I needed, posted what I need, I'll 747 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 3: just delete it just for my own well being, because 748 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 3: we're also comparing our lives. You gotta think people only 749 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,480 Speaker 3: post their highlights on social. 750 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: Only dubs like they're absolutely highestuff high. 751 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,480 Speaker 3: Moments like Nigga, I ran into Drake to day, so 752 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna upload that like to my so you know, 753 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 3: people can't create all type of illusions and things of 754 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 3: that nature. So I say that to say, you're looking 755 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,280 Speaker 3: at everybody's highlight reel and you're comparing your real life. 756 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: To someone's that's probably in that's a moment. 757 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 3: That's a moment, and so it gets you all the 758 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 3: way feeling you know, blue and feeling a little depressed 759 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 3: to just down, you know, and ungrateful for your life 760 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 3: that you live. So and again, it's just gonna be 761 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 3: funny to see like the long term effects on social media. Okay, 762 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 3: Like people are attention spans are a lot less. People 763 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 3: don't pay attention to conversation as much things, So it's 764 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 3: just gonna be interesting to see that because it's still 765 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 3: a fairly new construct, so it's just gonna be interesting. 766 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: I'm listening to you talking. 767 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 2: You said you were going through something last year, If 768 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 2: you don't mind me asking what was going What were 769 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 2: you going through that caused you to say, you know what, 770 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 2: I need to step away from social media? Was it 771 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,479 Speaker 2: something that was going through you were going through at 772 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 2: home because your lady was going through something. The music 773 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 2: wasn't being put out like you like or like you wanted. 774 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 2: What was going on in cor day's life? That says, man, 775 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 2: I need to step away from this. 776 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I put out an album last year, right, 777 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 3: and again, most people loved it, you know, like most 778 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 3: people loved it. 779 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: Most of my fans loved it. 780 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 3: A lot of people come up to me, a lot 781 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 3: of artists, which helped me feel better. A lot of 782 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 3: my peers come up and be like, man, that new 783 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 3: album is gas where I can see the improvement from 784 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 3: your first album. I think it was way better in 785 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 3: my opinion, and I think you were more like structurally 786 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 3: just songwriting ability. 787 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: And all this improved. 788 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 3: And again, like I said, a lot of fans love 789 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,320 Speaker 3: my second album more. But when I see it wasn't 790 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 3: being as well received as like my first one. I 791 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 3: just want to please the fans and please the people. 792 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 3: And so when everybody doesn't love it at the level, 793 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 3: and again, so when I'm making this album, I'm like, Nigga, 794 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 3: this is the best shit since Sliced Bread I make. 795 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,959 Speaker 3: I made a song called Want for Me. I'm like, man, 796 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 3: this shit gonna be bigger than Red Bone together. And 797 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 3: it ain't nobody, you know, because I'm a positive. Ain't 798 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 3: nobody that can tell me that. And so I'm putting 799 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,280 Speaker 3: out this album. I'm like, man, we're gonna win this award. 800 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 3: This award is gonna sell this amount of records. And 801 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 3: although it was successful, because it didn't meet the like 802 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 3: astronomical expectations. 803 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wouldn't even. 804 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 3: Say unrealistic, just astronomical expectations. It just like Fume just 805 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 3: put me really down in the down space. And then 806 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 3: you start doubting yourself, like you start having like imposter syndrome, 807 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 3: like do I am I really worthy of being here? 808 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: Do I really deserve this? Like are people rock with me? 809 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: Like how am I. 810 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 3: Gonna make a li you know, just all of these 811 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 3: just thinking the worst thoughts that you can possibly think of, 812 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,440 Speaker 3: and like, man, it's even worth like just doing this, 813 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 3: you know. So it was really off that but of 814 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,839 Speaker 3: getting me seeing a positive like I did a tour 815 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 3: last year, and my. 816 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,760 Speaker 1: Tour sold out across the globe in ninety percent of markets. 817 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: You know. Obviously in Belgium it might have. 818 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 3: Been like eighty percent sold out or whatever, but ninety 819 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 3: five in America fully sold out in double capacity venues 820 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:58,759 Speaker 3: that I did off my first album. 821 00:34:58,800 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: So we did a tour. 822 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 3: Let's say we did a thousand cat venue for the 823 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,240 Speaker 3: first album. This album, we did two thousand cat venue. 824 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,399 Speaker 3: It sold out, and so it allowed me to see 825 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 3: a silver lining of like one, first week sales don't matter, 826 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 3: like album sales don't matter in today age. Well, I'm 827 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 3: really able to gauge my success from an album of 828 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 3: how much did the music connect is from a live show, 829 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,399 Speaker 3: because people gotta buy ticket, they gotta wait in line, 830 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,839 Speaker 3: they gotta come see you. It takes effort to see 831 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 3: a live show. So I was able to see like 832 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 3: that silver line. It really helped me out a lot, 833 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 3: going on tour, performing seeing real life fans wrap these words, 834 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 3: sing these hooks, you know, word for word, that really 835 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 3: helped me a lot. And so just being trying to 836 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 3: stay positive and finding the silver lining. And again it's 837 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 3: easier for someone who's like me that's super blessed to 838 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,319 Speaker 3: be able to find like a silver lining because it's, oh, 839 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:46,320 Speaker 3: we just got this deal. 840 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:47,680 Speaker 1: That came in. It's such a lot of money, you 841 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: know what. But all right, my day ain't too bad, 842 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:50,279 Speaker 1: you know. 843 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 2: So now your mentals are a lot You're in a 844 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 2: lot better place now than where you were, say a 845 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 2: year ago. 846 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, because realizing just life it ain't just always gonna 847 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 3: be pm is. 848 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: It's gonna be like blue Blue Blue Cup. Okay, we're 849 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: a little stagnant right here, Dennis Blue Cup. Bloo ooh. 850 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 3: You know, just like I remember watching your stuff and 851 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 3: you was like, how Fox Sports not for ABC? Forgive 852 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 3: me if I'm not yes, CBS, excuse me. Wasn't rocking 853 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 3: with you on the way. It wasn't embracing you for 854 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 3: how you are and at that time, and forgive me 855 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 3: if I'm speaking miscorrectly. For you, you could have thought like, man, 856 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 3: that's an opportunity loss. I may not get another opportunity. 857 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 3: But then that just opened the door for Fox Sports 858 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,759 Speaker 3: and you and skipped to do y'all thing, and then 859 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 3: you to have your own platform and do your thing 860 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,640 Speaker 3: to where now amongst the youth, they may know you 861 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 3: you're a Hall of Famer. 862 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 1: You know you won multiple super Bowl but then you 863 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,400 Speaker 1: I know you from the football or you being a superman. 864 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,279 Speaker 1: But a lot of the youth may know you more 865 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 1: from being on TV and some Uncle Shay Shane with 866 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: the black male and the handog. 867 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:51,480 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, That's what a lot of 868 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 2: the people know me for. I think the thing was 869 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 2: that CBS. I think they just I was just miscast. 870 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,400 Speaker 2: I needed to be in this format, on a platform 871 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 2: like this to showcase my ability that I could talk 872 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,640 Speaker 2: about things other than just football, and Fox presented an 873 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 2: opportunity for me. 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Like 900 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:23,799 Speaker 2: when you were growing up? Like, man, if I could 901 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,160 Speaker 2: live anywhere once I become an adult, I'm gonna live 902 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 2: in La or I'm gonna live in Miami, or'm gonna 903 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 2: live in Chicago. 904 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: Where did Corday want to live when he was growing 905 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: up as a kid. 906 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,840 Speaker 3: I wanted to just live life as a rich and nomad, 907 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,560 Speaker 3: like still even now, Like, oh, my goal is like 908 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 3: a own the house in LA, on the house in 909 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 3: New York, on the house in Atlanta, on the house 910 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 3: in London, on the house in Ghana, and just live 911 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,720 Speaker 3: like a rich nomad. Okay, it's winter time in DC, 912 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 3: so okay, let me go to LA for winter, or 913 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,840 Speaker 3: let me try going to let me make this album 914 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,360 Speaker 3: men turn so you get what I'm saying. So my 915 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,800 Speaker 3: goal was always to live like a rich nomad, you know, 916 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 3: to be nomadic but upscale. But my first time visiting 917 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 3: LA was for complex cond of twenty seventeen. 918 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 1: And I was just like, oh, yeah, nah, this the 919 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:15,840 Speaker 1: hould bee. Yeah. I was just like, yeah, this is 920 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,920 Speaker 1: the place to beleeve being DEMI living in LA for 921 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,799 Speaker 1: three years, like man, I got to go back home. 922 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,920 Speaker 1: I need to be with my mama, you know, so 923 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: be amongst family and all my friends and stuff. So 924 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,440 Speaker 1: just a balance. So my goal as a kid was 925 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: to just live a rich, nomadic lifestyle. You know, were 926 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:34,719 Speaker 1: you when you got to LA. 927 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 2: Were you locked in where you focused, were the focus 928 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 2: where it needed to be, or were you Like a 929 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,239 Speaker 2: lot of people when they come to LA, they get 930 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,719 Speaker 2: caught up in the lifestyle and they party and they 931 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 2: have a good time, and then sometimes they forget the 932 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 2: real reason that they came to LA to begin with. 933 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, nah. 934 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,719 Speaker 3: As soon as I it's like that my junior year 935 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 3: at college when I stopped, like, you know, just doing 936 00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 3: zans all the time, doing perk, smoking and drink lean 937 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 3: all this stuff all the time. Like when I made 938 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,400 Speaker 3: that junior year, when I made that mind frame up, 939 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,040 Speaker 3: I started fasting. I stopped indulging in all type of vices, 940 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,600 Speaker 3: you know, stop you know, doing drugs, stop smoking, stop everything. 941 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:14,960 Speaker 3: So by the time I got to LA, I was 942 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,960 Speaker 3: on my mind frame was just like, nah, we came 943 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:17,480 Speaker 3: here for it. 944 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,399 Speaker 1: I was on spot. Yeah. 945 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,280 Speaker 3: I was already built up that discipline, built up the habits, 946 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 3: built up of habit of doing good, habits of like 947 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:26,640 Speaker 3: staying focused on my work. 948 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 1: I made a vision board at the top of the year. 949 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,040 Speaker 1: I'll write down my goals. 950 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,360 Speaker 3: Every month and just want to stick to that and 951 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 3: just being disciplined of saving money, being disciplined, of just 952 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,560 Speaker 3: sticking to my craft and not letting any outside influencers 953 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 3: get to me. 954 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,560 Speaker 1: So by the time I got to LA, it was 955 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,080 Speaker 1: just like I was already cold turkey. 956 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,040 Speaker 3: I turned down, I turned down blunts with legends, you 957 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,799 Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, turn out and drink just because 958 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 3: I'm just so focused stuff, just like I'm. 959 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: Here for a reason. So I wasn't going to no parties, 960 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:56,680 Speaker 1: no nothing. 961 00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:00,800 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm reading that you're the original group, your original 962 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,680 Speaker 2: group of friends. You guys party with separate ways. Yeah, 963 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 2: what do you think did you outgrow them? There were 964 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,600 Speaker 2: things that they were doing that you didn't like. How 965 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 2: did that happen because you had been friends for a minute. 966 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was mainly because of the business side 967 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:16,719 Speaker 1: behind it. 968 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,800 Speaker 3: You know. Obviously every group group said hip hop just 969 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,640 Speaker 3: for some whatever reason, just doesn't end well for the 970 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,799 Speaker 3: most part, groups in general, I think in music. 971 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,040 Speaker 1: But you try to go solo, no, Na, not really, 972 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:31,279 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it the buck with you. 973 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,680 Speaker 3: What was really the issue was the business side of it, 974 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 3: and I'm still dealing with that today to be honest. 975 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 3: But just the business side behind like the YBN brand 976 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,960 Speaker 3: and the powers that be. That was a feel on 977 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,399 Speaker 3: the business side or so that was like the main 978 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,920 Speaker 3: main thing because like even when I had a conversation 979 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,360 Speaker 3: with him, I'm there, it was just like, look, bro, 980 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,800 Speaker 3: like this business thing is just like Bro, it's just 981 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,839 Speaker 3: it's just horrible. For lack of a better war, We're 982 00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,560 Speaker 3: gonna own the YBN name all of these things. So 983 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 3: we're building up this brand of why being that none 984 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,120 Speaker 3: of us own, like why if not miror owners, Like man, 985 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 3: I'm rolling this thing to the wills fall off or 986 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:06,680 Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. 987 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,480 Speaker 1: But like, bro, we don't own this. So like, man, 988 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:09,239 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to. 989 00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,040 Speaker 3: And obviously we had creative differences and things of that 990 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,040 Speaker 3: nature with that noum, but we gonna. I was gonna 991 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,040 Speaker 3: find a way because again, this man is the reason 992 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 3: why I'm here. 993 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:17,759 Speaker 1: You know, obviously I have. 994 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,359 Speaker 3: Talent and it's a god given blessing God above all, 995 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,279 Speaker 3: but like this dude, why be in my mirror is 996 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 3: a huge reason or why I'm here. So I'm trying 997 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,120 Speaker 3: to like figure it out. So I had a conversation 998 00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,359 Speaker 3: with him about, you know, the business side. I'm just like, man, 999 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to do this thing, like we're gonna 1000 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:34,560 Speaker 3: have to I'm gonna have to remove this thing from 1001 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,640 Speaker 3: my name. And then when we had a conversation, he 1002 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,880 Speaker 3: understood it like everything was cool. So I thought he 1003 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,120 Speaker 3: understood it from the convo we had. But then you know, 1004 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 3: he kind of went to the internet and said something else. 1005 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:45,239 Speaker 1: Man. 1006 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,399 Speaker 3: You know, I didn't really appreciate that, but just like whatever, 1007 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 3: Like I still got so much gratitude for him, you know, 1008 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:51,160 Speaker 3: for that opportunity. 1009 00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,800 Speaker 1: Even still to this day, not Mirror ever need anything 1010 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:54,080 Speaker 1: from me. 1011 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:55,799 Speaker 3: It's just like I still I talked to my mere 1012 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,359 Speaker 3: mom just last week, so just that that, uh, never 1013 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 3: outshine Master, if you would. 1014 00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 2: And what's your relationship, what's your relationship with him? I 1015 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 2: understand that you talk to its mom. Have you talked 1016 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:08,399 Speaker 2: to him last time? 1017 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,040 Speaker 3: I talked that I maryor I called him because I 1018 00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 3: wanted to bring him out on stage for Coachella, right 1019 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 3: and now, Mirror early on wasn't really a and I'm 1020 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:18,680 Speaker 3: not talking down upon him. 1021 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,720 Speaker 1: He'll notice he said no, come to the Coachella. 1022 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:23,880 Speaker 3: He was he just got his braces removed, so he 1023 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 3: didn't want to wrap and his mouth was kind of 1024 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:26,440 Speaker 3: messed up. 1025 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:27,960 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like me, I was upset. 1026 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, this is like Coachella, Like, come on bro. 1027 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: But so he didn't. 1028 00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:32,680 Speaker 3: So that was the last time I spoke to my 1029 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 3: mareor to bring him out for Coachella. And then we'll 1030 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,120 Speaker 3: just randomly text, you know, things of that nature, like 1031 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 3: yo bro, like the new song, things of that, but 1032 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,400 Speaker 3: like we always gonna be good, Like it's always a 1033 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,800 Speaker 3: love Like I will never ever talk down on that 1034 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,680 Speaker 3: man who presented me this like amazing opportunity. 1035 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that to be politically corrected. It's 1036 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: just the God's honest truth. 1037 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:51,840 Speaker 2: You know, you were a member of the twenty nineteen 1038 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,799 Speaker 2: Double XL freshman class. You got megda Stallion, you got 1039 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,319 Speaker 2: Blue Face Gunner or the baby Roddy Rich. 1040 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,560 Speaker 1: Do you do you follow? Do you follow that you 1041 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,160 Speaker 1: follow youmates? Yeah? 1042 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,400 Speaker 3: To an extent for sure, because it's it's always like 1043 00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 3: whenever we see each other, like it's just always like 1044 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:08,520 Speaker 3: we graduated high school together. 1045 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:09,000 Speaker 1: This's type of. 1046 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,399 Speaker 3: Feeling you had, type of vibes. So whenever I see Meg, 1047 00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,959 Speaker 3: it's always love with her. She always emits super good energy, 1048 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 3: always had even when she was going through you know 1049 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,800 Speaker 3: that thing with toy, like she all with our sender, 1050 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,839 Speaker 3: like a you know, a voice, no, you know, things 1051 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,440 Speaker 3: of that nature. 1052 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,920 Speaker 1: But like she always was like good vibes, good energies. 1053 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,160 Speaker 3: And every time I see them, it's always at Like 1054 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,000 Speaker 3: last time I seen Meg in person was at the 1055 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,960 Speaker 3: met Gala, you know, so it's just like, hey, hey, 1056 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,520 Speaker 3: it was something man freshman class. We hear, you know, 1057 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,480 Speaker 3: just talk about you know, how proudly are with each 1058 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,400 Speaker 3: other with Roddy. You know, we have the same A 1059 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,759 Speaker 3: and R with Dallas. Shout out Dallas. So I knew 1060 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:42,680 Speaker 3: Roddy a little bit. 1061 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: Before the Double Excel freshman class. 1062 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 3: So it was like super fire and inspiring to see, okay, 1063 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,440 Speaker 3: us me and each other twenty eighteen. Then we both 1064 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,640 Speaker 3: had a show together, and the next time we see 1065 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,239 Speaker 3: each other it was Double Xcel Freshmen. The next time 1066 00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,560 Speaker 3: we see each other it's at the Grammys. So it's 1067 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,320 Speaker 3: always like just good to see people leveling up and 1068 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,640 Speaker 3: see like how far they can take it or how 1069 00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:03,680 Speaker 3: far they took it and how far we going to 1070 00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 3: continue to take it. So it's gonna be funny to see, 1071 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:09,400 Speaker 3: like even five years from now, ten years from now, 1072 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,759 Speaker 3: to see where everybody is and how far they was 1073 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,279 Speaker 3: able to take it and things they able to do 1074 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 3: for their family, their community. 1075 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:16,359 Speaker 1: It's a blessing for sure,