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Speaker 1: Yeah, vocab. That was my Fuji's intro.

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Speaker 2: I was telling him how that came about. So that

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Speaker 2: was the only song I got to produce on that

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Speaker 2: first album. Vo Cap.

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Speaker 3: That's crazy that second one though, But y'all did with

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Speaker 3: that second one, Yes.

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Speaker 2: That's the one iduced you produced the whole hour, me

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Speaker 2: and my cousin Jerry Wonder. Okay, yeah, but that's the

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Speaker 2: beats I was cooking up in the basement, Okay right.

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Speaker 2: The only beat we didn't do was fat Fujil Salam

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Speaker 2: did that and that beat was for Fat Joe for real.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got that'd be crazy.

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Speaker 2: That be was for Fat Joe, you hear, You know

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Speaker 2: what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Like, I just saw something yesterday where the dude who

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Speaker 3: produced New York Ship for us rhyme.

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Speaker 4: That was a beat that he tried to give to E. P.

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Speaker 4: M D In the eighties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they didn't take it, and eighteen years later he

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Speaker 3: gave it to Bust the Rymes.

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Speaker 4: And a hit. So it's crazy, Like when.

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Speaker 2: Yo, you could on ship like for years. I remember

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Speaker 2: fucking Quincy Jones was telling me Austin power, so they

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Speaker 2: brought him to score the ship man. He said everything

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Speaker 2: he kept doing He's like, yo, cleft. There was like no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: no no, because he was telling me the power of

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Speaker 2: just constantly keeping your ship and if someone don't get it,

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Speaker 2: they'll get it later. My nigga. This is like years

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Speaker 2: later he said, cleft. After these niggas told me that

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Speaker 2: shiit seventy times, it clicked that I had one sample

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Speaker 2: that of some horn shit I sampled from the seventies.

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Speaker 2: He went and proved it and it was like, that's

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Speaker 2: what we want and that was it. I was just

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Speaker 2: like that to you.

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Speaker 5: You did a lot of movie soundtracks too.

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Speaker 2: That's my Yeah, that's that's the power though. Yeah, life

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Speaker 2: all that, yeah, life Rwanda. Yeah, I did a lot

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Speaker 2: of songs. Yeah yeah, but that's how I thought I

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Speaker 2: was going to make money though I never thought scoring movies.

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Speaker 2: Going found that's what I wanted to be.

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Speaker 3: A composer Alabama this morning, so I had to go

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Speaker 3: to the white man.

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Speaker 4: It's just a composer.

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Speaker 1: That's ship hard.

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Speaker 4: Can I say you one of the greatest.

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Speaker 2: Man your every battle, I see you watching, I see

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Speaker 2: you like you remind me and me. When I was

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Speaker 2: in the Cape Tiliam, I was telling them one of

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Speaker 2: my greatest da Vinci codes Is. I learned how to

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Speaker 2: battle rap at a young age as a defense mechanism

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Speaker 2: in the hood, coming from Haiti, like I had no choice. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's very very it's very entertaining. But overstarting, overstanding. I

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Speaker 2: loved it.

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Speaker 5: It used to but now we're permanent one and the

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Speaker 5: battle lost my finger, Mike became my arm.

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Speaker 2: I need this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, Cliff got that music, man that happy ship.

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Speaker 3: All the way, and I know that they had had

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Speaker 3: to be Yeah, nigga, it had to be hard to do,

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Speaker 3: you know, to have that freedom to just be like, man,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna do something that ain't nobody else doing.

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Speaker 4: That's always difficult.

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Speaker 3: I'm assured that had to be difficult when you're coming

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Speaker 3: with a sound and everybody like what the.

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Speaker 6: Fuck is this?

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Speaker 2: But you see the thing with our perception coming from Haiti,

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Speaker 2: like I was saying, my whole life was like slum

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Speaker 2: dog Millionaire, City of Guards. So when I came to America,

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Speaker 2: by the time I got to the projects, I was like,

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Speaker 2: we need it because I was the women singing some

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Speaker 2: crazy shit. And then I took the congos and just

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Speaker 2: started playing the shit and I started making melodies and

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Speaker 2: we was lik in this village like man poor, nothing

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Speaker 2: like crazy. But I used to take in the straight dogs.

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Speaker 2: So all the dogs used to be like my family,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying to you, and then like

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Speaker 2: then I used to fucking be writing songs and sing

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Speaker 2: ship for my dogs like a straight dog.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, like you know, the straight dogs and they would

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Speaker 6: be your audience.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my nigga, because I'm six. Look, I don't have

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Speaker 2: no Walt Disney, I don't have no television, I don't

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Speaker 2: have so nigga, we had the straight dogs in the cemetery,

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Speaker 2: and the cemetery to me was a playpen. You feel

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Speaker 2: me because when the ship would do thunder and lightning

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Speaker 2: and ship, that's when we were go play the hide

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Speaker 2: go seek ship. Yeah, you feel me behind dogs, hide

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Speaker 2: behind dog.

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Speaker 5: Found It was like that, like that right whole different

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Speaker 5: like what was what was the ship that blew your mind?

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Speaker 6: Like okay, before you asked that, which is going to

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Speaker 6: be on top of the course that.

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Speaker 7: I want because it picked back up with you said

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Speaker 7: from the Caribbean.

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Speaker 2: When you see that there's an extended life. When people

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Speaker 2: say America.

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Speaker 6: Is the Can you paint that picture so people can

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Speaker 6: who don't understand by living here, you.

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Speaker 2: Are already winning. Yeah, my nigga show. So to your point,

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Speaker 2: I was telling them, I ain't see. I ain't know

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Speaker 2: what light's work. Lights to me was a lamp. I

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Speaker 2: ain't know what a corse it was. Nigga. We we

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Speaker 2: ain't had napkins like you got. You want to take

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Speaker 2: the shit, nigga, you gotta go to the ravine like

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Speaker 2: the ravene is like you going to the fucking like

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Speaker 2: the woods in the back, right, and then you go

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Speaker 2: to the woods, my nigga, and then it's one big

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Speaker 2: hole you ever seen fucking slum dog millionaire.

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Speaker 1: That's the ravine.

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Speaker 2: That's where everybody got to take the ship at You

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Speaker 2: feel what I'm saying, Hey, yeah, this where I'm from.

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Speaker 2: My nigga ain't getting hit till I was ten. This

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Speaker 2: this was my reality. Then you go to school, you

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Speaker 2: gotta walk like for miles, right. But then we had

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Speaker 2: a donkey, so we would trade off on who would

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Speaker 2: take the dunk. Take the dunk. Yeah. So by the

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Speaker 2: time okay, peak this, I never seen a white person

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Speaker 2: ever in my life, never seen a car, never seen

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Speaker 2: a plane. I ain't know what that ship was, right,

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Speaker 2: So you gotta think about this. I'm gonna show you

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Speaker 2: the reality niggas is like six he miked up. Okay,

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Speaker 2: this shit getting deep, niggas. We need everything.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, y'all see y'all laugh down man, all walking around ship.

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Speaker 1: Come on, hurry up, this shit getting.

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Speaker 2: Good, right, So we would eat every like four days.

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Speaker 4: When we get food. You feel me every four days?

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Speaker 8: Damn don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't do me like that.

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Speaker 1: We get food four days.

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Speaker 2: But now trade water, you understand, because people do stand

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Speaker 2: fans to water. It's Jesus the Fast forty nine. They

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Speaker 2: mentioned nothing about water. So I gotta tell you this

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Speaker 2: shit because it's gonna.

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Speaker 9: Sound crazy, but this is our reality, man, right, So

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Speaker 9: how yo?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 8: Hey, you listening to the damn.

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Speaker 7: Whatever?

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Speaker 2: Baby, man, you're good cool, You got the right shirt

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Speaker 2: on though. I'll tell you that the Black Prince and

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Speaker 2: a fella koochie. Oh yeah, yeah, that's the nigga right there.

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Speaker 2: You'll know all.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But so it's so crazy because when I was

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Speaker 2: with uh we you know, we started the Fuji tour

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Speaker 2: to be continued this year, right and me and Lauren

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Speaker 2: was talking and she was She was like, Nigga, when

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Speaker 2: you used to tell me this ship, I used to

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Speaker 2: think like you was exaggerating on some three trillion ship

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Speaker 2: until Google came out and I would google dirt pots

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Speaker 2: because I told her, like, we used to eat dirt

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Speaker 2: till Google came out and I googled this shit years later,

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Speaker 2: was like this nigga was telling the truth because she

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Speaker 2: couldn't fathom a nigga peeking up dirt from the floor

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Speaker 2: and eating it. Ya, so people would really eating was

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Speaker 2: it a specific kind of dirt? Okay? So it's funny

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Speaker 2: coming you got a red dirt. It's like a red

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Speaker 2: dirt again Mississippi. Okay, it's nutrition. But you're not thinking

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Speaker 2: of that. You get what I'm saying, cause guard made everything.

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Speaker 2: But just here's my reality, my nigga. So when the

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Speaker 2: plane is coming right from where we are, we used

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Speaker 2: to have the sling shots. You see what I'm saying

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Speaker 2: to you, So the minute we hit the plane, it

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Speaker 2: shit is real high. So to us at six years old,

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Speaker 2: what you think the ship is a bird? Bird? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So I'd be like why'll translation the birds coming, assume

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Speaker 2: your position, My nigga, niggas is butt naked birds coming.

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Speaker 2: Niggas is butt naked like this on the ground, assuming.

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Speaker 1: Positions with your sling shot.

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Speaker 2: Nigga, whoever get the best some soccer zulu hit. So nigga,

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Speaker 2: that was the reality. So when you tell me so,

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Speaker 2: when you tell me about America, right, nigga, this shit

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Speaker 2: is sweet by the time we got here. So now,

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Speaker 2: just before we got to America, we used to hear

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Speaker 2: the stories like Yo Atlanta, the freedom, Atlanta opportunities. So

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Speaker 2: look like an alien. I ain't never seen the white man.

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Speaker 2: And I said, Grandma, who that is? She got as

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ's she go do Jesus Christ. And I'm like

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. So now, okay, my nigga, look, no cap

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Speaker 2: go to these Caribbean people homes. Everybody got a picture

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Speaker 2: that's the thing. So now she goes as Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: So Jesus takes the rice, gives the village, and then

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Speaker 2: he's leaving. So now years later, my parents come and

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Speaker 2: get us from Haitia ten shit work out for them,

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Speaker 2: and then they put us on a plane. Shit looked

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Speaker 2: like a UFO. I ain't never seen the plane. So

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Speaker 2: me and my brother sitting next to each other, and

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Speaker 2: my brother freaks out. I'm like, Sam, what's wrong? And

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Speaker 2: we look up and we see more white people now right,

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Speaker 2: So he's freaking out and we mad confused because they

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Speaker 2: all wearing the same uniforms Jesus Christ. Right, So then

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Speaker 2: my brother and I said, calm down, right, these are

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Speaker 2: are is Jesus cousins because they look like Jesus and

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Speaker 2: they all rocket. Later we found out they were the

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Speaker 2: Now the fucking plane is landing and in New York,

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Speaker 2: we just see a bunch of lights. So per the

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Speaker 2: tale that was told in the village city of Diamonds,

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Speaker 2: So we landed in the city of Diamonds, my nigga,

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Speaker 2: so we get to the City of Diamonds, and now

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Speaker 2: my uncle pick us up in a big ass station

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Speaker 2: wagon LTD, old fucking station wagon. I look at my

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Speaker 2: brother and we both just start celebrating because we're rich.

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Speaker 2: Our father's Donald Trump, and I hadn't because now we're

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Speaker 2: pulling up to these brick buildings and them just looks

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Speaker 2: so we don't know that projects to us like yo, beautiful, beautiful.

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Speaker 2: So that's always been my reality. So that's what I

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Speaker 2: was saying, Like, no, man, I wouldn't even know. If

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Speaker 2: a man is saying, don't do a Pepe commercial, I

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Speaker 3: So when did you realize, like coming from Haiti getting

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Speaker 4: Y'all just moved around?

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Speaker 3: Like when did you realize y'all was still impoverished, just

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Speaker 2: I would say the first thing I realized was prejudiceing

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Speaker 7: So wrong with the niggas speaking the curses, big.

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Speaker 8: You know what.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm not Jamaican, right, but it's like, nigga,

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Speaker 2: but you know what I'm saying. Then I get back home,

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Speaker 2: And then I get in the school and I hit

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Speaker 3: To make your feet feel fine, jeepus exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And then you see I can't make this ship up.

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Speaker 2: So you see the cross culture. So Niggas was like, yo,

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Speaker 1: Last week right exactly.

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Speaker 2: From shoe.

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Speaker 10: You cookie doing.

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Speaker 5: This is how we're doing in my house, yo.

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Speaker 2: Yo. Yeah, man, that was the reality. And it goes

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Speaker 2: ask me one time you ever seen the fujis with

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Speaker 2: outside and get what they took from you automatically, So

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Speaker 2: they instilled that eighteen o four revolutions, Zoe mentality, so

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Speaker 2: all of that at a very young age. So for us,

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Speaker 2: That's why we was a different kind of author because

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Speaker 2: the world to look at us and a different way

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Speaker 2: to know, like we scientists, we intellectuals, like we Matsamusa's like,

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Speaker 3: And y'all put a lot of that into music because

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Speaker 3: first revolutions, the first people to stand up to hypocrisy

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Speaker 3: imagine y'all coming over here and seeing what we think

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Speaker 2: Exactly hell now, so why is it Haitians and the

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Speaker 6: Why is it it some type of beef when y'all

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like like Mexico and California before it was California

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Speaker 2: was all Mexico. Correct, talk now right geographically so and

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Speaker 2: then if we just talk about the Caribbean as a whole,

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Speaker 2: that's North America.

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Speaker 4: It's North America. Most people don't know that.

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Speaker 2: Now. If we talk about to your point, haitiing the

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Speaker 2: Dominican Republic, that's it's Spaniola. So one thing, y'all, let's

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Speaker 2: go step deeper. Keep talking. Haitians got their independence in

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Speaker 2: eighteen o four, and who helped the Dominicans get their independence? Patients?

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Speaker 2: But again, conquer and divide. It's always they do it here.

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Speaker 2: It's about the idea of conquered dividing. The politics, the rhetoric,

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Speaker 2: the whatever you instill in a youth as a child,

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Speaker 2: they gonna grow up into it. Now, I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 2: you something that people don't even know. My uncle, his

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Speaker 2: name is Raymond Joseph he was born in the Dominican Republic,

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Speaker 2: but in my point, he's just born in Espanola. So

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Speaker 2: the point is the love has to start with when

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Speaker 2: the kid is small and he's growing up that you

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Speaker 2: don't do that. It's like you can have beef with

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Speaker 2: like Cuban could have beef with the Puerto Rican, right,

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Speaker 2: or they could be like you know, they could have

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Speaker 2: ideas like imagine if the Dominican Republic and Haiti can

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Speaker 2: just unify and be one thing, right, and then imagine

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Speaker 2: if they take that same unification to Jamaica take it

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Speaker 2: all around. Right. Yeah, so you gotta think. But that rhetoric,

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Speaker 2: my man, it starts off with the politicians. It start

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Speaker 2: off with a nigga who's like, this is my land

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Speaker 2: and this is my turf, and he get a bunch

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Speaker 2: of niggas and say, okay, we're gonna fight these niggas

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Speaker 2: over this. So now what happens, right, So through bad policy,

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Speaker 2: Haiti gets failed, right, and I hope these Haitian leaders

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Speaker 2: watching this shit too, because lot of them is okie

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Speaker 2: doke fuck boys. So these okie doke fuck boys what

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Speaker 2: they do too? At times they sell their own Haitians

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Speaker 2: to the Dominican Republic. This is true. So at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, where does it start. It gotta

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Speaker 2: start with us, Like you know what I'm saying. You

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Speaker 2: gotta hold these leaders accountable. You know what I'm saying

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Speaker 2: to you. So to your point, we watch it here too,

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Speaker 2: conker and divide. Think about this, get my independence at

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Speaker 2: eighteen o four and you in America, they hanging y'all,

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Speaker 2: They burning, y'all. You watching him get hung and you shaking.

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Speaker 2: They're hanging you watch them. You know you're next. You're shaking.

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Speaker 2: But what happens if you got to me, I mean Haiti,

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Speaker 2: They won't let you. They won't let me have a

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Speaker 2: I'd be like, you know what we just did to

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Speaker 2: these dudes, We will just shift the whole Napoleon and

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Speaker 2: and then that information go with you. Then you would

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Speaker 2: have more NAT turners and want that no. So so again,

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Speaker 2: information is power. I always say that you know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying to you. But so then I pushed. I

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Speaker 2: even pushed forward now and try to become president of Haiti.

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Speaker 2: I wish.

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Speaker 10: The time I tried to be president, you go be president.

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Speaker 8: That's high with President Day.

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Speaker 2: I'll get elected on Frida on Saturday. You know, shout

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Speaker 2: out to Dave Chappelle. That's the first time I did that.

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Speaker 2: I was pretty high, was firing.

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Speaker 5: Don't all the legends, man, But I gotta ask you

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Speaker 5: this one.

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Speaker 1: You work with Tailne.

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Speaker 8: All the coats, Man already know that's.

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Speaker 2: I think they always actually my top five. And I'm like,

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Speaker 2: why y'all even bothered to do that? You already know it's.

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Speaker 1: We're welcome back today fans. Yeah, man, we're doing that

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Speaker 1: big food today.

433
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 5: Man, we got none other than the super talent we.

434
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 2: Got to give them.

435
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: Give him a goo, the super dope, the super instrumental.

436
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 5: Part of one of the hardest REP groups in REP history. Man,

437
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 5: hey man, multi cultural kid make music all across the board,

438
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 5: whether it be for the Hood, whether it be for.

439
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 2: South America, whether it be for Haiti.

440
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 1: Eat it ran for President.

441
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 5: I Ain't Got one of the highest grossest selling albums

442
00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 5: of all times, none.

443
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 2: Other the legendary mister white.

444
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: Cliff respect.

445
00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 5: Man thet I always wanted to ask you about this

446
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 5: man you in a legendary hood movie shots Man, you

447
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 5: playing and now you haten to the boys.

448
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 10: This is a whole lot of.

449
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: H lot of Jamaicans in that movie.

450
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 2: You know, you know, if you know it was a

451
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 2: white man and black man and a Chinese man, you know,

452
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 2: you know, And and it was easy to say that

453
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 2: joke and as Richie as and just murk dangles without

454
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 2: you see it coming right. You know what I'm saying.

455
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 2: All I gotta do is that is not for me

456
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 2: because coming from Haiti, grew up in Brooklyn first and

457
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 2: at the time, every Haitian wanted me Jamaican.

458
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: You know, That's what that was the reality.

459
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 2: This is before your ever, every every Haitian that's watching this,

460
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 2: that's my age, know that at that time you had

461
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 2: to have a Jamaican.

462
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 4: Accent because I was even making powerful.

463
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 2: Even my mill even my man watching this right now

464
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 2: in the d R like understands this like at the

465
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 2: end of the day, because them Haitians was no joke right.

466
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 2: So it was so crazy because in times in Brooklyn,

467
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 2: the the neighbor would be like, Yo, blood clad, Jimmy,

468
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 2: I kind might not do it, you know, yeah, se

469
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 2: pull up and then trust me money you see you see.

470
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 2: Let me just talk like that with the Jammior connounce

471
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 2: where I play it commune on money. So yo, when

472
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 2: the idea of doing shot us and what I loved

473
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 2: about that flick though, shout out to set. This is

474
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 2: one of my favorite thing about Shotters. So I'm about

475
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: to fuck y'all for a minute. So I actually started

476
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 2: off me Miss Hill aka l Boogie. We was in

477
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: an off Broadway play, right, this is like thirty years ago.

478
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 2: It was called Club twelve. And then of course you

479
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 2: see Miss Hill whenning she was doing sister acting, still

480
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 2: doing her music right, So and she was saying this

481
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 2: the other day when we was on tour and then

482
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: prize I thought like I was going to be an

483
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 2: actor at one time too, because it just so literally.

484
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 2: There's an article that said we did Hamilton thirty years ago,

485
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 2: me and Miss Hill mc light before Hamilton was Hamilton.

486
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 2: So now the thing about acting which we loved about Shotters,

487
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: everything you saw was improv a lot, you know what

488
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: I mean. You have a script, but the script is

489
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: on improv. So when the director come and he.

490
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 10: You go, all right, why you gonna.

491
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you already normal the lie. You're in the

492
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 2: murder of the why, but you can't let the audience

493
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 2: know that you're murder.

494
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: Roll them black clap camera, you know what I'm saying.

495
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: Cameras you you know what I'm saying. No, there was

496
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 2: a white man of black. And then so the the

497
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 2: idea of the improv and the feeding off each other

498
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: is one things like actors and actresses thrive off, you

499
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 2: know still till today, these improv classes and that natural vibe.

500
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: So for me, Shotters have a lot of that, you

501
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. That's what's amazing.

502
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: That's what I was asking, like, what was what was

503
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: the likes?

504
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 5: What was the feedback when they were they proud of

505
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 5: the representation that you put out there?

506
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean Richie f is in more places more

507
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: famous than why clap you know that why Richie as left?

508
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 2: Richie asked me, that's like one of those things that

509
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 2: you can't shake. The Shotters movie, whether if it's the

510
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 2: child is fifteen or fifty, like somehow that movie we

511
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: got across everybody. I just like two days ago.

512
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 4: New York.

513
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: You know that was you when you first touched down.

514
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 3: But like, how did you feel when were you already

515
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 3: wy left?

516
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 4: When you got to go down.

517
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 3: Down to Miami and see the presence that the Haitian

518
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 3: people have down there? Like were you already famous? So

519
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 3: did you get to see that prior to you becoming

520
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 3: a superstar?

521
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 2: So it's a deep question. So you hired two sets

522
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 2: brewing at the time. So we was in Brooklyn, Jersey,

523
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 2: the refugees. And the thing is, now, if you look

524
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: back at the refugees, John Forte who got the first pardon.

525
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 1: Now, hold on that, I gotta ask you that.

526
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had no idea who John Forte was and

527
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 5: he just showed up on the way cleft song.

528
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: But we was rocking with your ship so hard was

529
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: just like clip.

530
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Like today, like say, somebody you feel has talent,

531
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 2: you're gonna put him on a feature, you know what

532
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 2: I mean? So John was those John was always in

533
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 2: the studio. He was part of doing the beads, He

534
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: was part of the John was part of the brain

535
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: trust of the fujis so and automatically, definitely John had

536
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 2: the vibe. So I was saying like when we look

537
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 2: at it, John historically was one of the first rappers

538
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: that got a pardon from a president for his charge.

539
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 2: It was George Bush, right, So now I bring you

540
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 2: there to show you like when when when we say

541
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 2: like the refugees, it was literally taking a negative and

542
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: making a positive out of it, right without having a

543
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: top moo. So we was there then, and you had

544
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 2: the Zoo Pound that was in Miami, right, So so

545
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: let me tell you the story, the real story. Light right,

546
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: So do I get a lighter? So so I remember

547
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 2: we was doing the show with Boojou Bunton in Miami,

548
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: Salute to the General. We was doing the show and uh,

549
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: and I'm downstairs and keep in mind we bubbling but

550
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 2: we're still not And then my man like, yo, my

551
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: man Seana said, Yo, there's these dudes upstairs, you know,

552
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: like they not gonna get off. You know, they on

553
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 2: by the stage because my bro manager has to get

554
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 2: him and say, yo, it's not gonna get off. Man

555
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 2: to you, you know, they're just like they got to

556
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 2: see you. So I go and we catch and the

557
00:31:55,160 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 2: minute I see Macca Zoe, Macca Zoe looks like my brother.

558
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: So literally see the thing about Haiti is tribes, right,

559
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 2: So me and Max just start to hug each other

560
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 2: and it's just an energy with kids, right. So the

561
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: idea of the refugees and the idea of like zoppound.

562
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 2: It was a movement of struggle and like we're gonna

563
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: show like the world that we're on top and we

564
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 2: could do better. So I was the first dude, no

565
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 2: cap that put a festival together in Miami. This is

566
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 2: long before Ultra and all these festivals. I'm the first one.

567
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: The Carnival. The Carnival was the name of the festival, Aliyah,

568
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 2: you could google it, Timberland Ussha. That's the first time.

569
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 2: If Ussia's watching this, you know, that's the first time

570
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 2: people thought Usher was Haitian. That's where the roof started.

571
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 2: It started on my festival because I had Usher say

572
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 2: and every time we see each other, he'd be like, yo,

573
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 2: you know it's because you had me say, endless, I

574
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 2: keep going and going going. So and I remember being

575
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,239
Speaker 2: in the audience with Macaso when we both looking at

576
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: each other and he was like, yo, man, this is

577
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 2: the vision. Man, Like we're gonna take this music thing

578
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: to the next level. So he's a big inspiration because

579
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: it was like brother talking to brother. So we like

580
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 2: in the middle of this festival, we're talking. So I'm

581
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: gonna show you how deep it is. So when you

582
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 2: watch a video I have, which is called MVP Kompa,

583
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 2: MVP Kompa, you smoke about the Crayoll music that I

584
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 2: do too. So when the intro that video, now, if

585
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 2: y'all go back and watch it, the minute the song start,

586
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 2: that's me and Macazo in the very intro innocent Crayle.

587
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 2: So again, we was celebrating the idea of life, the

588
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: idea of music, red eyes, all these guys. It was

589
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 2: an idea of positivity. This is the start of let

590
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: me think, this is what it was gonna be. So

591
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 2: the embracement was like this because we all was repping

592
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: the flag and it was sort of like it's like

593
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 2: one set meeting another set, but part of the same service,

594
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, a big same flag

595
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: because one yeah, so free macers O, you mean, I

596
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: mean freemacher.

597
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, ask you this, what did you learn when you

598
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 5: ran for president? Like, because you this is real you

599
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 5: this top office old there? What did you what were

600
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 5: some of the lessons that you learned or some of

601
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 5: the things that you didn't know about government.

602
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 4: That you came in.

603
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: Well, I remember calling like my closest friends and I

604
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 2: was like, Yo, I'm going to run to be president

605
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: and Haiti, and all I heard was Nigga, you crazy?

606
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 2: Click right, Okay, Nigga, I'll be at the funeral. Click bigga,

607
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 2: be at the funeral. Click right, my.

608
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:18,800
Speaker 8: Lady, Nigga, I can't myself. You know your dad smoked

609
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 8: Snoop Dogg White Club.

610
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 5: This is a good ship.

611
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 8: I feel good. I feel.

612
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. So here we go on the real talk. Right

613
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 2: when I ran for president, look like dirty fist hour.

614
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 2: So when I when I ran for president, hit a

615
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 2: real talk, right. So we seen Kanye run Jordan's Trump.

616
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: I go way back like saying, like with Trump, I'm

617
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 2: just showing you, like I remember one of my early

618
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 2: shows that I did, like with for Donald Trump just

619
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: before he was president, and I have like a picture.

620
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: I'm just showing you this is like at the time

621
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 2: when I was running, right, So if I was under

622
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 2: your princess, I'm just giving you a different things. The

623
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 2: idea of a celebrity saying like, yo, I'm going to

624
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 2: run for office of a country. They're like, yo, what

625
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: you want? What you want? Right? So there was like, yo,

626
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: cleft stole money from his country. M right, they took

627
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 2: your whole people, they started doing what you now, you're

628
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: skiing politics. It's called a smear campaign. Right, so they

629
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: start this smear campaign, and then with the smear campaign,

630
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 2: you go from being most love.

631
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 5: This portion of the show is sponsored by Blue Magic,

632
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 5: had grease and Redtail con.

633
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: You had chicken, yes sir, and a doctor pepper.

634
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 2: You know what I know?

635
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: You did.

636
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 2: This ship right here?

637
00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 3: They got your order wrong, chicken on the Kuracterfuck out?

638
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 1: What do you yet?

639
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: Guys? Put chicken on only sang and reorder my ship

640
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 2: only shrink. Yeah, work good. I can't eat that chicken shit.

641
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 2: So we so we picked back up. Yeah. So so

642
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 2: on real talk, I ran for president and you all

643
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: saw how they came at me. Right now, we know

644
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 2: what that's called. It's called a smearing campaign. Smearing can

645
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: that's how they try to get you. Right. What made

646
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 2: me run and what made me think I could be

647
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 2: president is the most important thing, right, So let's get

648
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: into it. There's what you see on camera, and there's

649
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 2: what you see behind the camera. I'm sing so before

650
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: I ran in two thousand and five, when George Bush

651
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 2: gave the order for a colon powder or ip to

652
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: the general had to go to Haiti and literally kidnapped

653
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 2: the president. At the time, I restive and take them

654
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: out the country. Right, it's two thousand and five. I

655
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 2: remember watching I was in Palis, I remember, and this

656
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: was like past those dates. And I remember I'm watching

657
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 2: TV and the kid comes on the TV in Parish

658
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 2: and he says, the only person that could make us

659
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 2: put our guns down is why Cleft Young? Now why

660
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 2: he say that? Because even as a Fuji, the score

661
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 2: the Grammys put up my flag. Even when I'm on

662
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 2: doing music for Sony, I'm still doing music and crayon

663
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 2: and I'm sending it back to Haiti the same way

664
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: Biggie would do music. And Brooklyn feels like he you

665
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 2: know that Biggie is a Bible. So I would do

666
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 2: music like that on over. So there was always that

667
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: connection with them. So and that kid, his name is

668
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: Haysian Tupac. Now let me show you how the gangs

669
00:38:55,239 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 2: was working at Haiti. Yeah, hear me? And then I

670
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 2: need everybody after this to go watch the Ghost of

671
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 2: Seat they Sole and get deeper. All of the kids

672
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: that was in the Seat they Sole at the time

673
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 2: was inspired by hip hop, so they gave themselves hip

674
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: hop names. So go watch the doc. You're gonna see

675
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 2: fifty cent like Sea calls himself fifty cent. He's a

676
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 2: Haitian and it goes on and on. So we got

677
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 2: a chance to do a doc. You'll see it on

678
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: these kids. So I want you to get deep into

679
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: the gang culture down there, just to understand where it

680
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 2: comes from. So just to say that touched me when

681
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 2: he said that, and I said, Yo, I'm done with music,

682
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 2: Like what other record can I possibly break? My people

683
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: need me? Slum Dog Millionaire. I came from that village

684
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna go back and put my entire heart

685
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 2: into that. Now what in you y'all see behind the

686
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: cameras me and Haiti with all the gangs at the time,

687
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 2: saying look, I'm gonna put this. If y'all see any

688
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 2: of these trucks coming and they have a year a

689
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 2: Haiti sticker, don't rob them, right. They here to work

690
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: for us, They here to work for you, right. I

691
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 2: was inside of these communities with like women, giving money

692
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: out and having them start small businesses. I was the

693
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 2: one that was getting on the plane going from Haiti

694
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 2: to Washington, DC to negotiate with the gangs wanted with

695
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 2: the UN at the time.

696
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 10: This is all me.

697
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 2: This is before I ran for president. I was the

698
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 2: one that went to Congress and was like, yo, dog

699
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 2: like at the end of the day, I need you

700
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: to pass this bill so that the textile can be

701
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 2: on point and we could bring more job creations.

702
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 4: This is me.

703
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 10: This is not on camera.

704
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 2: This is what's happening in real time. So when I ran,

705
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: I knew I could do it because I felt like

706
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: I was I was the face of the country. Let

707
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: me put you up on this last game. Two hundred

708
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 2: and two hundred and fifty thousand people under the rubble,

709
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 2: all right. What made me think I could do it?

710
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 2: And where am I going to get the money? Because

711
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 2: Haiti is tied to the World Bank and the IMF

712
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 2: your cleft. You know where you're gonna get that money from. Well,

713
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that money from the Environmental Fund. And

714
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 2: so what's that carbon credit? Literally through carbing credit, I

715
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 2: could have built my whole country over You know what

716
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 2: I'm saying to you, and that literally probably go over

717
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 2: some people's head.

718
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: Just google cars me go back.

719
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 7: Yeah.

720
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 5: And then Haiti being tied to the World Bank in

721
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 5: the IML, that's right.

722
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 2: So what that mean like Haiti being it's so funny

723
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 2: they called me the lawyer of the hook. I got

724
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: I break it down both ways and my brother is

725
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 2: the real lawyer though, So what that means real simple?

726
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 2: All right, So here you go. There's a house. Go ahead, man,

727
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you this house. You can go ahead

728
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 2: and live in it, but you're making absolutely no money

729
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 2: at all. Glad you can live in it, but you're

730
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 2: gonna pay me one hundred dollars a month literally for

731
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 2: the rest of your life. It's almost like I set

732
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 2: you in a structure to fail right from the gate,

733
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: because where you're gonna get that money. So if you

734
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 2: really want to help Haiti, the first thing I would say,

735
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 2: clear Haiti's debt completely from the French right from the

736
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 2: clear clear the debt, world bang, everybody, you clear the

737
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 2: debt because if you want to really help me, you

738
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 2: got to start from scratch. But why wouldn't you do that?

739
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 2: You wouldn't do that because you'd be like, hold up,

740
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 2: if I clear Haiti debt, then I got to clear

741
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 2: this person's debt and that person's debt. So by design,

742
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: feel me, that's how the ship set up. So again,

743
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 2: I am politically savvy, my nigga. So now I'm fighting

744
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 2: against a system that I can't see you feel what

745
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 2: I'm saying to you. So I got a few mentors

746
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 2: at the time. One is Harry Belafanti. So I got

747
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 2: to reach out and I go to Harriet and I'm like, yo,

748
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 2: he says, look, you're going to be fighting the invisible hand.

749
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 2: When he said, if your hands is clean, you're gonna

750
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,319
Speaker 2: come off balance and you're gonna be able to help

751
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 2: your people. So for me has that experience, what it

752
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 2: is is they took me out the race illegally. Did

753
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 2: I have power at the time to push a button

754
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 2: and Farrakhan and shit up? Like when Fara Khan put

755
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 2: a million men out there? Did I?

756
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 10: Yeah?

757
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 2: I could have did that, but I felt like I

758
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 2: ain't want blood in my hands. So I told the youth,

759
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 2: he who fights and walk away live to fight another day.

760
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 2: So it's like, at the end of the day, what

761
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 2: did I learn? I said, Man I need good government

762
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 2: because if I'm invest in money in Jamaica, I'm investing

763
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 2: in Africa, and I'm investing an Antigua and in different places.

764
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 2: Why can't I built my own point to color in

765
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 2: my own country. I got enough enough connections and I

766
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 2: have enough ways. I'm smart. I how to raise money.

767
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: I do it in other countries. So for me, the

768
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 2: lesson that I learned is we need better governance to

769
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 2: move forward.

770
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 5: Now, they try to make it seem like Haiti is

771
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 5: so poor, right, but it's this. I can't remember the

772
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 5: name of it.

773
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: It's this. It's this, I think. I want to say.

774
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,319
Speaker 5: It's a rare earth element that they make microchips out

775
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 5: of that they only get from Haiti.

776
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, Haiti has a lot of things. Haiti has a

777
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 2: lot of minerals there, like a natural resource. Yes, So

778
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 2: what I'm going to tell you about Haiti is this.

779
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 2: And keep in mind you said something earlier which was ill.

780
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 2: So in five percenter, you know you might hear jay

781
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 2: Z say peace guard, right or different peace guard. So

782
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 2: we have something called knowledge itself. So knowledge itself is

783
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 2: like you really understand what's going on. So at the

784
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 2: end of the day, King This is what I want

785
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 2: you to know. Whatever you see they say is the

786
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 2: poorest place in the world. Remember when they used to

787
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 2: say Africa the poorest place in the world, and then

788
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 2: we didn't want to go. You know what I'm saying.

789
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 2: First time I went to Africa, I was so like

790
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 2: into like the Black Power movement. I showed up with

791
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 2: Dashiki niggas is wearing roka where they're like, Nigga, what

792
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 2: year are you from?

793
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 7: Right?

794
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,479
Speaker 2: Because I thought you hear what I'm saying. You fail

795
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 2: me because you got back from Donna.

796
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: You go over there and see how they live in

797
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 3: and you have this perception that these people are flies

798
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 3: on the face and the arms of the agel.

799
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: No like that. No, they money, they got they get money. Yeah,

800
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 2: But to your point, King, natural resources is the game.

801
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 2: So what you've seen Africa has started to do now

802
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 2: is the youth have declared that they want the natural

803
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 2: resources back. That's what's going on. So now, so now

804
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 2: in Haiti, you know, and I know all the Haitians

805
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 2: are watching this, and I'm gonna say this. We have

806
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: a puppet prime minister right now in Haiti, you know,

807
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 2: and I know he's watching this. So this is perfect.

808
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 2: So his term was supposed to be only for four months.

809
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 2: After they went in, they assassinated the Haitian president, the

810
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 2: Colombians they went in right twenty two whatever, they set

811
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 2: up whatever, And again I think the Colombians was just

812
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 2: a pawn for the bigger picture of what was going on.

813
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,240
Speaker 2: So this dude that's literally been here in four months,

814
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 2: he's been here three years going on three years, supposed

815
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 2: to be four months. We have acts for him to leave.

816
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: So we're demanding that he needs because we don't need

817
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: the country to get into a crazier situation, you know

818
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 2: what I mean? Because what are the youth demanding now?

819
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 2: The youth want the natural resources back? What are they

820
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 2: demanding now? They want engine cation. Like, if you find

821
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 2: a situation to give a nigga a job, he gonna

822
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 2: put that gun down. He's gonna come work for you.

823
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 2: So that's sort of like where we're at now. You

824
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 2: feel me, and you.

825
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: Said they try to assassinate you too, It's all a lot.

826
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 2: How quick we ain't doing it? Your nigga's trying to

827
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: kill me. Yeah, you could read up on it. You

828
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 2: could read up on it.

829
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 5: You know.

830
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 2: When I ran they try to fight me, and that's

831
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: just how it goes. And then you know, again, there's

832
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 2: what social media, thank you enough, there's what social media

833
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 2: that could amplify something. There's always the reality because you

834
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: got the conspiracy theorist online this.

835
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: Is true, where.

836
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,919
Speaker 2: They'll try to paint different pictures of what happened. Yeah,

837
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 2: they try to assassinate me. That's what happened, and it's obvious.

838
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 2: All you gotta do is look at what they did

839
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 2: to the president when they rolled up in his crib.

840
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: But again, beyond the fact of whatever they did at

841
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 2: me and came at me, why the fuck or a

842
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 2: nigga trying to run to be president of a country

843
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 2: that they call a poorous country in Western Hemans fan

844
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 2: because I know that that's not true. That place is

845
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 2: wealthy and resource man gold, oil, copper, lithium.

846
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:29,760
Speaker 4: The people.

847
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 2: You heard that, The people are what you call right,

848
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 2: and then they're under like twenty the new millennials. It's

849
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: insane and guess what they want. They just want job

850
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 2: creations in education. So I feel that in the course

851
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 2: of history, because we live in our lives now, two

852
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 2: hundred years from now, they're gonna judge us. So some

853
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 2: things you do now ain't gonna be popular to the public.

854
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 2: They're just not gonna get it. But in history, my nigga,

855
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,239
Speaker 2: they don't understand it. That's right. So when you look

856
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 2: back at history and you go so two thousand and twelve,

857
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 2: whatever the year was, at an earthquake, and you'd be like,

858
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 2: where was Clef? Where was why Klef? That nigga that

859
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 2: came from the village that was riding a donkey. If

860
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, well he was shaking his hips with

861
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 2: Shakira and he was with Santana, but we never saw

862
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 2: him on the island. And in history because the only

863
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 2: thing they're gonna care about is this how you move

864
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 2: a culture forward.

865
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 4: That's shit called a ridium.

866
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 2: Well, we could talk about iridium. So iridium no, I

867
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 2: got you so, and then we're the second in the world.

868
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 2: Are just with iridium. I gotta shake your hand on that. Now,

869
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 2: everybody that's watching that, google this word aridian in Haiti. Okay,

870
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,320
Speaker 2: this is some of the fight. Why because as we

871
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 2: move forward into the future, here's another jew for all

872
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 2: the kings and queens watching you. Ridium is going to

873
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 2: be needed because now you're moving into a green environment,

874
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 2: everything is friendly. You're gonna need that for your cars,

875
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 2: for all of like where we go, electric vehicles and

876
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 2: all of that, so you're gonna.

877
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: Need all that.

878
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 2: So as we speak, this is what's happening right now.

879
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 2: So no, we're not the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

880
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 2: We actually one of the richest countries in natural resources.

881
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 2: We're being ripped off, that's what's happening. But that's crazy.

882
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 6: But because we talked, I found out I got Jamaican

883
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 6: in my blood and my native so.

884
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: Do gang you fear me?

885
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just I.

886
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 6: Love hearing about the Maroons and just about how y'all

887
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 6: fight for the rights, and like you're saying now that

888
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 6: the young millennia was like, we just want our resources,

889
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,959
Speaker 6: we just want to create, and it's like it always seems.

890
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 2: Like what's stopping us is the government. And just to

891
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 2: hear you say, we just need a clean government and

892
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 2: we have a clean, straight government where straight Yeah, y'all

893
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 2: need a clean government. You said something earlier Jamaica and

894
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 2: Haiti with the shots. How do we feel about that?

895
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 2: Just a little historical fact before I move on. Bouman

896
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 2: was from Jamaica. He was barely twelve. He was a

897
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 2: Jamaican who went to Haiti and was part of the

898
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 2: Haitian Revolution. You wouldn't have the Haitian Revolution without having Buutman.

899
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 2: That's what makes us closer than more separated. But they

900
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 2: ain't want to give us that a history. You know

901
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 2: what I'm saying to you. To your point, we said

902
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 2: we need clean a government and clean a governance. How

903
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 2: do we get to that? Y'all get to that to y'all,

904
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 2: y'all got to demand it. So that's what we tell

905
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 2: the youth in Haiti. Nobody is bigger than y'all. The

906
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 2: people y'all hit the streets. Y'all can't like back up

907
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, you saw what happened

908
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 2: in Sri Lanka, like you literally if you got to

909
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 2: run up in that White House and tell the people

910
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 2: that's what we want as a unit, that's how.

911
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 10: You got to move.

912
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 2: And the power is within the youth. And of course, yeah,

913
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 2: I do know a lot, because you ain't just gonna

914
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 2: run for president with our understanding what the bad side

915
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 2: channels are and how they move. But nobody is bigger

916
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 2: than the people. My family. They can't murder a million

917
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 2: people period.

918
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 4: Many getting back to the music.

919
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 3: I gotta ask, man, because you are a part of

920
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 3: one of the biggest groups in hip hop is and

921
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 3: music history, like and y'all getting back together to go

922
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,800
Speaker 3: back on tour, like you when you know one of

923
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 3: my favorite lines in any music is then the Fuji's

924
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 3: gonna break up? And every day I wake up, somebody

925
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 3: got something to say, Like just that power that you

926
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 3: had as a group. When did you realize that y'all

927
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 3: were at the status where people loved y'all worldwide?

928
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: The way that they do Fujis is short for refugees,

929
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 2: and right from the gate, we ain't want to do music.

930
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 2: We wanted to do a movement we called the refugees,

931
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 2: so we could touch you if you're in the States,

932
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 2: but also in a suit Dan, we touch you to

933
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 2: you in a feveelism Brazil, touch you to you in

934
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 2: South Africa. So it became bigger than us. It's not us,

935
00:52:56,840 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 2: It's like, that's why last year, if you show up

936
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 2: at the talk, we barely did promotions. Everything slowed out stadium,

937
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: right because when people show up and we make you

938
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 2: feel good, right, because what happens is like when you

939
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 2: listen to Bob Marley, like you feel good, Like it's

940
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 2: like what happened to that energy? So that's sort of

941
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 2: like how it started off. For us. It was more

942
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 2: we wanted to be a movement, you know what I'm

943
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:24,439
Speaker 2: saying too. And guess what, when you get like older,

944
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 2: you get wiser, like meaning like it's so deep to

945
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 2: me now because it's like you create something and and

946
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 2: I don't think people understand like when we say like

947
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 2: we bought, we took hip hop, and the way we

948
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 2: bought hip hop to Europe, no one has ever. It's

949
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 2: it's like we we we Harriot tubning it right, so

950
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 2: that it's like okay, we're we're out there and it's like, okay,

951
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 2: well who's going to open up for us? Let's bring

952
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 2: jay Z open Up's bring nas Because at the end

953
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 2: of the day, we felt like that the energy and

954
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 2: what the people should be getting is what's real because

955
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 2: it is going to start to circulate around the world

956
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 2: and because where we come from, it was created from

957
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 2: where we came from, so we needed people to get that.

958
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 2: Or again in Long b Yeah, and before us, you know,

959
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 2: you had like the Melly Nails and those guys that

960
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: was going out there. But I feel like when we

961
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 2: came in and another thing we killed was the stereotype

962
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: of hip hop is a microphone, the two turntables. Fuji's

963
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 2: killed that. So that was another thing in Europe like

964
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 2: it shocked them, Like when they see motherfucker showing up

965
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 2: playing instruments, when they hear Lauren Hill singing and they

966
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 2: see me playing keys, it's messing them up because they

967
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: have an ideology of what hip hop is. And again,

968
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 2: as keepers of the culture, we wanted to show them

969
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 2: that Noah, hip hop is everything. Think about it. I

970
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 2: remember when we was coming out people it was like,

971
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 2: it's not hip hop. They said it's alternative because we

972
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 2: were singing the melodies. And now look today, Nook for

973
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 2: year we're in. You know what I'm saying, you got

974
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: to oh no, But if you don't have if you

975
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 2: can't walk it out, if you can't walk with the melodies,

976
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:19,920
Speaker 2: you ain't saying nothing.

977
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 5: You You've generated billions of dollars Like globally, where did

978
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,399
Speaker 5: you learn the music business from.

979
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 2: It's so funny that you say that. So we're in

980
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four now, right, and I was looking and

981
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 2: I was like, oh wow, over a billion views for

982
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 2: Shakira hipstone Line. Right then I was like, okay, over

983
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 2: a billion views for Avic Avichi's My God. He thought

984
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 2: he actually started e DM. He was a genius. And

985
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 2: this is what I want kids to know. This is

986
00:55:53,440 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 2: the facts. So we produced killing Me Softly, Miss Hill

987
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 2: a ka oh boogie saying killing me Softly before my

988
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:10,800
Speaker 2: generation was the ROBERTA. Flack generation, and y'all know the

989
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 2: Lauren Hill version? Right? So who wrote it? We ain't

990
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 2: write the shit, So here goes to the game. Now

991
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: we're going to get into financial literacy. Let's talk about it.

992
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 2: So here goes the game. We ain't write it, but

993
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 2: we performed it and it was amazing, and we made

994
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 2: somebody eight million dollars. Right, So that mean that whoever

995
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 2: was the composer who wrote it was literally sleeping in

996
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 2: his bed and he made eight million dollars like that, right,

997
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 2: And then now look at how big that version is,

998
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 2: So that person copyright has generated them millions and millions

999
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 2: of dollars. So this is the game. So royalties, but

1000
00:56:56,080 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 2: bigger than royalties. Publishing the game is to own your

1001
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:04,320
Speaker 2: own copyright and your own composition. The game is the

1002
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 2: power of licensing dig your publishing is your real estate.

1003
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 2: So you're publishing is your real estate game, because you

1004
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 2: know how once you invest in real estate, it could

1005
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 2: be thirty years down from now, like you're still gonna

1006
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:19,160
Speaker 2: get money from that property. You can flip it whatever

1007
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 2: you want to do. So and saying that, I was like, Okay,

1008
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 2: I need to be on the other side of the game.

1009
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 2: I need to be on the side of when I'm

1010
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 2: fifty four, I could be sleeping and then I don't

1011
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 2: have to worry about picking up an instrument. So I'll

1012
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:41,439
Speaker 2: just give you one example. So the phone goes off, Yo, man,

1013
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,880
Speaker 2: what's up? My brother? You know me the best, right

1014
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 2: Regie Wahama Klin. We go way back right to this

1015
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 2: a shot, he said, Yo, yeah, and you know and

1016
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 2: then you know, so my brother is very excited when

1017
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 2: he has visions. Yo, I got this vision, man, Remember

1018
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 2: the song you wrote, Maria, Maria Man, I got this vision.

1019
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: You know, I think you can get Santana and boom

1020
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: boom boom boom. Right, but I owned the majority of so,

1021
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 2: so I hit up the Godfather Santana and I just

1022
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 2: put him with cal right. So, but keep in mind

1023
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 2: the actual composition itself, right, is a y cleft Jerry

1024
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 2: Wonder composition. So that means that now we're talking we're

1025
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 2: talking big now because we're talking about we own the building.

1026
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 2: So now you want you gotta pay rent for the building.

1027
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 2: So now watch this. So now of course DJ Khaled

1028
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 2: gets Rianna Ice and Taeler makes some shit ahead. I

1029
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 2: was a baby and I sat on the keyboard and

1030
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 2: was like boom boom boom boom boom. Right, now, what

1031
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 2: does that mean? That's a billion streams? So what does

1032
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 2: that mean When I'm at the super Bowl and I'm

1033
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 2: going to get There's countless images of this thing, so

1034
00:59:09,600 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 2: you look at it and say, well, what does that mean?

1035
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 2: Every time? That it could be a billion streams of

1036
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:21,919
Speaker 2: Calin and Rianna. But the composition itself is the real estate.

1037
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 2: So that means that this is what you call. You

1038
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 2: got to teach this in financial literacy, so the way

1039
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 2: that you get wealthy. Everybody's popping when they twenty and

1040
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 2: twenty one and twenty two, like you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

1041
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 2: I was my own main weather at twenty one and

1042
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 2: twenty two, you know what I'm saying. But I'm fifty four.

1043
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 2: So what used to matter to me doesn't matter. But

1044
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 2: when I'm twenty five, the ice that I wear like

1045
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 2: it matters to me, you know what I'm saying to you.

1046
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 2: But now fifty four, the ice has to translate into buildings,

1047
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 2: into small islands, into you know, investments. So how do

1048
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 2: you get there? And the way that y'all get there

1049
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 2: is y'all got to make sure that y'all have ownership.

1050
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: It could be O don't and don't think of it

1051
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,320
Speaker 2: like music, think of it as intellectual property. My nigga,

1052
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 2: if you say one phrase. I remember Pete I freaking

1053
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,479
Speaker 2: was doing one song one time, and all I wanted

1054
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 2: to say was let's get ready to rumbull And I

1055
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 2: did niggas just like, yo, you gotta go clear it.

1056
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, you know you could pattern this slogan.

1057
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 2: Do you know how let's start with battle rap? Do

1058
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 2: you know how many slogans is in battle rap? That

1059
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 2: if they understood that and they went and patting their

1060
01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 2: own slogan that little because that's the culture. They take

1061
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 2: those languages and it becomes it's like Shakespearean. So I

1062
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 2: ain't just talking about just music, just everything in general,

1063
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 2: you know, what I'm saying to you all the way

1064
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:54,840
Speaker 2: down to his generation one generation. You gotta retirement plan.

1065
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 10: Now.

1066
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 2: The thing is, when I was your age and I

1067
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 2: saw somebody retiring, I was like, Oh, they're about to die.

1068
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 2: They're gonna go to Miami, get a little condo, live

1069
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 2: out their life in the beast. They're gonna die. Yo,

1070
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 2: I'm fifty poor. I didn't even start living yet.

1071
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:13,840
Speaker 8: Hell right.

1072
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 2: So the thing is, but somebody gotta be like, Yo,

1073
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 2: start saving that bank when you're twenty something. Look up

1074
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 2: the policies, look at the benefits that you can get

1075
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:26,440
Speaker 2: at your age. All of this is important because you

1076
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 2: if you constantly want to maintain that fly lifestyle, you

1077
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 2: constantly want to live it, then you gotta start early

1078
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 2: and start saving early. You gotta stack save piggybank early. Yeah.

1079
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 4: The Score? Why the Score? What why that name for

1080
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 4: that classic album?

1081
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 2: Well, we felt like we had to come and settle

1082
01:01:51,280 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 2: the Score because we felt like we was is the

1083
01:01:56,320 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 2: word underrated, underestimated, And then we felt like when we

1084
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 2: did Blunted on Reality, you know that album the first

1085
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 2: so the Freshman album went comper, you know what I'm

1086
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 2: saying too, And then it went Copper and we felt

1087
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 2: like we was misunderstood and the reason why we felt

1088
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 2: was misunderstood. Off camera, I was telling y'all the Fujis

1089
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 2: was signed to Legem. That's a cooling the Gang brother

1090
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 2: production team. So calise beyond my man. That did r

1091
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 2: ipter and he passed away Jungle Bulgie, She's fresh, exciting,

1092
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 2: celebrate every ladyes not come they producing. You think I'm

1093
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 2: gonna say something so you know, and he's like, Yo,

1094
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 2: this is the direction at the time. So at the time,

1095
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 2: there was a group called Onyx. Yeah remember boy so

1096
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 2: being like, we had an energy when we was performing live.

1097
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:00,040
Speaker 2: He wanted to translate that to the album and and

1098
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 2: that didn't go off well with the hip hop audience

1099
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 2: in America not in Europe. I'll just give you an example.

1100
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 2: And then so on that album, I remember asking him.

1101
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 2: I was like, Yo, can I produce one song? And

1102
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 2: he was like what I said, I have an idea,

1103
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:22,280
Speaker 2: just an acoustic guitar and Roman over an acoustic guitar,

1104
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 2: and that ended up being vocal. And then Lauren was

1105
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 2: like could she get one? And hers ended up being

1106
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 2: some seek stardom, you know, but they forget Harlem and

1107
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 2: then so when you listen to those two records, you

1108
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 2: could just see like if we had that shot. Meanwhile,

1109
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 2: while that's going on, we get back to the Booker

1110
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 2: basement in the hood, were cooking on that MP. You

1111
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:46,400
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Like that ready or not? You

1112
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 2: hear that sample came from a Sleepwalker. It was an

1113
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 2: old sample from Sleepwalker. We up in the hood. I

1114
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 2: was smoking and I fell asleep to that sample in

1115
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 2: your shit and it was in a movie on a VCR.

1116
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:09,760
Speaker 2: And then I remember waking up. I remember Spub McKenzie,

1117
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 2: woke up to the dog, Spub McKenzie with one foot

1118
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 2: and then it hit me. I was like, Yo, if

1119
01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,600
Speaker 2: a dog can be famous in America, ain't no way.

1120
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 2: We ain't gonna be famous. I remember, like again, simple

1121
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 2: record to Tom. This is what people don't understand. So

1122
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 2: now you can do a whole album in your basement,

1123
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 2: you can do it in your room, you could do

1124
01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 2: it anywhere. You know what. We did that whole album

1125
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 2: at thirty years ago, right in the hood, in a

1126
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 2: booger basement, in my uncle's basement. That's another part of us,

1127
01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 2: we engineers. So imagine like we got to get the

1128
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 2: room built, the patch baby built. I'm talking about the

1129
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 2: whole old MCI board. Take everything like we was our

1130
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 2: home computers at the time. When you listen to like

1131
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 2: all that joint, I'm like this roll the tape I'm

1132
01:04:57,480 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 2: pulling when the base come out, So all of the

1133
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 2: math is in my head. I'm doing hand automation. It's

1134
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 2: not on no need So at the end of the day,

1135
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 2: it's like, that's what I'm trying to tell people, Like

1136
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 2: the Fujis are architects scientists, because think about what everyone's

1137
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 2: doing right now. You can do it with a laptop.

1138
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,480
Speaker 2: My nigga, we was doing our shit with no laptop.

1139
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 2: So you can have an artist who's a dope rapper.

1140
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 2: You can have a dope artist who's a dope businessman,

1141
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:30,959
Speaker 2: a good singer, whatever. But I'm telling you what we've

1142
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 2: what you heard, we built it from our hands, like

1143
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 2: from scratch, guttering the basement, putting the panels up, building

1144
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 2: a patch base, going to Junkyard sales, I'll take this,

1145
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 2: I'll take that, and from this in birth the score.

1146
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 2: So we did that because we was like we come

1147
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 2: to settle the score.

1148
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 4: That's great.

1149
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 5: Fifty years of hip hop man, did you ever think

1150
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:57,200
Speaker 5: you would see it?

1151
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: Fifty years make billion dollars?

1152
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 2: Fifty years of hip hop is amazing, And I think

1153
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 2: that we all are awoke now to a whole nother level.

1154
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 2: And what I want everybody to look at is as

1155
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 2: we move into these next twenty five years of hip hop,

1156
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 2: being a billionaire is not It's not like they're giving

1157
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 2: you a gift. You deserve to be a billionaire because

1158
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 2: you've consumed and have made companies billions and billions of dollars.

1159
01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:40,919
Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, understanding that, what's

1160
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 2: amazing to look at the next twenty five years is

1161
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 2: how savvy this generation is and how remember when Jay

1162
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 2: was like, I'm gonna make y'all pay for what y'all

1163
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 2: did to the coke crush. You see what I'm saying

1164
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 2: to you. So it's like, at the end of the day,

1165
01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 2: it's like we've leveled off in positions of power, all

1166
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 2: of us and in different sectors, right, But it's really

1167
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 2: only a few of us, Like it's really a handful,

1168
01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,160
Speaker 2: But we came in with hundreds and thousands of them,

1169
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 2: and it's a handful. So the thing is, when we

1170
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 2: look at the next twenty five years. What we want

1171
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 2: to make sure is when he's my age, it's like

1172
01:07:21,960 --> 01:07:25,200
Speaker 2: there's no longer a handful, Like it's a complete movement,

1173
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying to you, where it's like, okay,

1174
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 2: that's right, because they balanced out in a way of

1175
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 2: like generational wealth, like roth Child style wealth.

1176
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: Peo was talking about earlier about the jay Z Land.

1177
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: We said, and then the food is gonna break up.

1178
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: So clearly they had fucked this day up. No group

1179
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 1: wants to break up. How did you deal with that shit?

1180
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 5: Knowing that you got one of the dopest groups y'all

1181
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 5: and sold the most albums musically y'all just in sync.

1182
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 1: Like, how did you deal with that?

1183
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 2: Well? I mean, when I look back at it, we

1184
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 2: was Child's outstarts. It's kids starts, like I can see

1185
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 2: it now and I look back. But when I'm a kid,

1186
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm a kid? Right, So what do

1187
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,880
Speaker 2: you gonna do? You're gonna make mistakes. Now when you

1188
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:19,520
Speaker 2: become wrong, what do you do? Your consolation? You apologize

1189
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 2: for everybody that you did wrong, because now you start

1190
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 2: to understand it because it's not just my story, right,

1191
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:30,519
Speaker 2: It's long before me, there was somebody else long before

1192
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:34,519
Speaker 2: that person that was somebody else. What it did was

1193
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:41,960
Speaker 2: it made the reconsolation even more stronger. And you you're

1194
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 2: gonna understand what I'm saying for probably next twelve months. Right. So,

1195
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:52,720
Speaker 2: But it's like we see the mountains and ship and

1196
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 2: be like, yo, it's mountains dope. Yeah, you know, let's dope.

1197
01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 2: But my nigga, if we were still like smoker l

1198
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,679
Speaker 2: and then sit back and then jump on some science

1199
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 2: shit on how the mountain began the mountain, you know

1200
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, from the conductions and all of that,

1201
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 2: we'd be like, oh, so at the end of the day,

1202
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:14,600
Speaker 2: of course it fucked everybody day up, you know what

1203
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:18,080
Speaker 2: I'm saying to you. But it's sort of like sometimes

1204
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 2: you can question what happens at the time, but then

1205
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,599
Speaker 2: later it all makes sense, you know what I'm saying

1206
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 2: to you. I felt like if that happened, you wouldn't

1207
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 2: have got The Miseducation I was just about, which was

1208
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 2: a very insane and important album. You wouldn't have got

1209
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 2: the Carnival. You wouldn't have got so again, like you

1210
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 2: wouldn't have got someone please call nine one one like

1211
01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,759
Speaker 2: think about The mis Education. The Miseducation was an album

1212
01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 2: that is like a bible.

1213
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 4: One of the greatest albums.

1214
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 3: Come on, I gotta ask though, as a rumor that

1215
01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 3: I've always heard, I got to ask you directly, was

1216
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:56,479
Speaker 3: you just.

1217
01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:58,759
Speaker 4: Lost one of this song to wat left.

1218
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 2: You might win song? She really loves Money?

1219
01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,560
Speaker 4: How money changed the situation? That whole is that? Is

1220
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 4: that a good song to watch?

1221
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 2: That? I mean, I couldn't answer that because I didn't

1222
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 2: write the song right. But I'm a battle rapper, so

1223
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna dress you direct when I address you. So

1224
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 2: do I think the song is about me versus that

1225
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:27,920
Speaker 2: that's a different question.

1226
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 4: Well, okay, do you think that the song was about

1227
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:30,960
Speaker 4: you at the time?

1228
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 10: Said?

1229
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: Who was your reaction when you heard it? And you

1230
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 1: really just sat there and listen to shaid fuck.

1231
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:56,320
Speaker 10: You got you?

1232
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:58,720
Speaker 2: You take an L. You gotta take the L keep

1233
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 2: it moving. That's it.

1234
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 5: But you can work with anybody, bro, you can. You

1235
01:11:04,200 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 5: can go from Shakira to Ying Yang twins. I loved

1236
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:11,960
Speaker 5: that motherfucking Santana bro saying you got a new joint

1237
01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 5: with buler Brook and push your tea.

1238
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. So this chapter two I'm inspired again to start

1239
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:22,800
Speaker 2: to put workout. So for me, it starts off with

1240
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 2: my production brain. So I got approached by a company

1241
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 2: called t i A. We was talking earlier on getting

1242
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:33,360
Speaker 2: your paper right, and I was like, what, who can

1243
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:37,839
Speaker 2: convey that message in a way like for the YouTube.

1244
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 2: Don't feel like I'm preaching to them, you know what

1245
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 2: I'm saying. So I put a scenario together, like as

1246
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,240
Speaker 2: a producer. So I was like, Okay, let me get

1247
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 2: a little labrook J, push your t Coppella gray and

1248
01:11:50,520 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 2: just put a combination together.

1249
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1250
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 2: Remember she was the one she was doing ready or

1251
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 2: Not on Ready or Not be That's why they had

1252
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 2: come out crazy. She's fired Now.

1253
01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 5: We talked music all the time as a producer who's

1254
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 5: produced some of the biggest hits. When you get a track,

1255
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 5: do you still just do you just leave that bitch?

1256
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 5: Or you have to produce a little bit no matter

1257
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:15,639
Speaker 5: who you get it from.

1258
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 2: I don't get you. I don't get it. I don't

1259
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 2: get tracks. I built them from scratch.

1260
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:20,080
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

1261
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 10: I get this point.

1262
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 2: So I built it from scratch. But you can call

1263
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:28,160
Speaker 2: me and say I got a track and I want

1264
01:12:28,240 --> 01:12:30,639
Speaker 2: you to come and be on it. So one example

1265
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 2: is young Thuck. You know what I mean.

1266
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,360
Speaker 1: That crazy? So really.

1267
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:42,519
Speaker 2: You know, start with prison reform and when we say

1268
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 2: free to slime, we really mean that. Like at the

1269
01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 2: end of the day, we all could have been within

1270
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 2: that situation period. So you know, Dougle brings me to

1271
01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 2: the studio. I remember it was his birthday and we're

1272
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 2: catching a vibe and they have to beat. You know

1273
01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 2: what I'm saying to you, and it's there. And then

1274
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 2: so certain things I can feel right on the spot,

1275
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying to you. So there's things

1276
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 2: that you produce and then there's things that you wish

1277
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 2: you produced right and you feel what I'm saying thing,

1278
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 2: So no, come on, I could go to every doctor, dress,

1279
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:21,560
Speaker 2: every Kanye. So I'm just saying like, so at the

1280
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 2: end of the day, as a producer, you hear things

1281
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 2: and you're like, yo, that shit is so crazy, and

1282
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 2: the it inspires you too, you know what I'm saying

1283
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:32,320
Speaker 2: to you. So as a were always pushing the envelope.

1284
01:13:32,360 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 2: So I think with this new joint that we have

1285
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 2: again it's twenty twenty four, I started the production. This

1286
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 2: record is called payper right, I'm in a vibe. I'm

1287
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,560
Speaker 2: in a zone and the zone ain't gonna stop. We

1288
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,519
Speaker 2: have we feel it again? How do you how do

1289
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 2: you okay?

1290
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 5: You know, how do you get on why Cliff Radar

1291
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 5: just like Loler brook Flage and then you put the

1292
01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 5: push your t there?

1293
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: That shit just crazy.

1294
01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 2: You got to offer be a fan of them?

1295
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, how did she get on White Cliff

1296
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 1: right off?

1297
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 2: Man?

1298
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:05,680
Speaker 5: Cause you be over there building welles with bonow you

1299
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 5: and hated running for president.

1300
01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:10,639
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I just might have to spit

1301
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 2: some bars because based on what you just said right there,

1302
01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 2: you said, nigga be building wells, Like, I don't have

1303
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 2: time for this shit. But when you're a fan of

1304
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 2: the culture, you're a fan of the culture. So it's

1305
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:29,760
Speaker 2: like if I tell you, like if Murder Mook is

1306
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 2: watching this, he'll tell you like I was in the

1307
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 2: studio with Murder Move it was like twenty years ago,

1308
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:40,600
Speaker 2: just doing records, right, you know, Like so it's like,

1309
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 2: I love Remember I was telling you I never ain't

1310
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 2: really wanted to be famous. I keep saying that I

1311
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 2: wanted to be like Quincy. You want to be able composer.

1312
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 2: So people be like, yo, man, how do you feel

1313
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 2: that you ain't the top five best rappers of all times? Right?

1314
01:14:56,520 --> 01:15:00,479
Speaker 2: I said? I said, nigga, I a compos So I

1315
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 2: need you to judge me as a composer. Like, as

1316
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 2: a composer, who does what I do? I mean, I

1317
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 2: just showed you some ship offline like this's long before

1318
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 2: everybody whatever. I was at Carnegie Hall with the Tucks

1319
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 2: conducting the phil Harmonic Orchestra. Talk. You feel what I'm saying?

1320
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 2: So that that to me, Yeah, that's who we are.

1321
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying to you. Fact I think

1322
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 2: you know.

1323
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 7: You know.

1324
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 2: I'm like, maybe I should brag more as a rapper.

1325
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 2: I don't do that. But Carnegie Hall, Yeah, Carnegie Hall.

1326
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 2: But it's history. That's why you got Carnegie Hall. That's

1327
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 2: the one. I'm the first rapper ever full phil Harmonic

1328
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:52,760
Speaker 2: Orchestra one night with y Clift. Everybody is there. I

1329
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 2: reroute everybody's music. Destiny Child, they there, Stevie Wonder be there,

1330
01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:01,919
Speaker 2: Whitney Houston, she's there, Charlotte Chuck she's there. Eric Clapton

1331
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 2: he there, third and everybody came for me because I

1332
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 2: wanted to redefined Carnegie Hall because I felt like when

1333
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 2: I was younger, I felt like that Hall was intimidating

1334
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 2: to like us, like they felt like we couldn't be

1335
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 2: in that call. So literally, and so when I showed

1336
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 2: when you look at this why Cleff and Friends at

1337
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:25,360
Speaker 2: Carnegie Hall, My front band is all kids, so literally,

1338
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:28,760
Speaker 2: the oldest one is sixteen. So and I was calling

1339
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 2: them cleft kids because in high school, as a jazz major,

1340
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, I felt like I was

1341
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 2: super advanced. So at Carnegie Hall, I bought all of

1342
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,360
Speaker 2: these kids and I gave them that chance, you know

1343
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 2: what I'm saying to you. And a little bit of

1344
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 2: hip hop history. My first music video ever, I was

1345
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 2: an extra for Eric B and rock Kim upright base,

1346
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 2: don't sweat the technique, that's Lord, and I got it

1347
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,719
Speaker 2: because I knew the fingering of the upright right because

1348
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:00,479
Speaker 2: I it up right.

1349
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:02,880
Speaker 4: So the CFF note.

1350
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 2: Man, man, what's crazy?

1351
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 1: Man?

1352
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,560
Speaker 2: My dad was a theologian man. He was just a

1353
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 2: ip to him, but he was just like religious crazy.

1354
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 2: So so why Cliff John. He actually named me after

1355
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:21,160
Speaker 2: the Reformitator, the first translation of Matthew Mark Luke and

1356
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 2: John by why Cliff John from England who inspired the

1357
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 2: Lutheran doctrines later. So that's how the nigga named me

1358
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,599
Speaker 2: why Cliff John. So he always thought like I would

1359
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 2: pick up after them and be a minister or something.

1360
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 3: I got different being the first one to do Connegie Hall.

1361
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:41,240
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've noticed that everybody's doing that now.

1362
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 3: I just hosted something for while at the Kennedy Center

1363
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 3: where he did a live band.

1364
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 4: Tip just did a live orchestray.

1365
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 2: So you go back, go back.

1366
01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:52,320
Speaker 4: Everybody's doing it now. So you were the first one

1367
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 4: to ever do that.

1368
01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 2: And then not only being at Carnegie Hall is one thing,

1369
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 2: but the orchestration, writing all the sheet music, like I'm

1370
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 2: saying like yeah, and then being a conductor.

1371
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:09,679
Speaker 8: Is you wrote the music?

1372
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wrote, you write the music and every like

1373
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,479
Speaker 2: if I'm doing a back piece, I'm gonna construct it

1374
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 2: from backwards to forward because I hear it a different way. Yeah,

1375
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 2: So if I'm doing yeah, So shout out actually to

1376
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:28,960
Speaker 2: my music teacher from high school because she the one

1377
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 2: that that that that literally started teaching me how to

1378
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:34,960
Speaker 2: read music and get into it. So that's really me,

1379
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 2: Like at the end of the day. I was that

1380
01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 2: kid from the hood that could defy anything. I didn't

1381
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:42,759
Speaker 2: want to do what the average was doing. It's almost

1382
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 2: like a nigga pick up a golf stick, right, and

1383
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 2: they go, well, you're not supposed to wear this jacket.

1384
01:18:49,240 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 2: It's green. It's a master's jacket because of the color

1385
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 2: of your skin. You feel what I'm saying. So it's

1386
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,040
Speaker 2: like when you when the reason why he's he's amp

1387
01:18:57,240 --> 01:19:01,960
Speaker 2: like that. A composer is not addition subtraction. It's like calculus,

1388
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 2: like you're doing the highest level of math and you

1389
01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 2: moving at real time. You got to make it sound real,

1390
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:13,560
Speaker 2: one sound, make it one sound like And when you

1391
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,760
Speaker 2: git gone to November. Yeah, okay, so gone to November.

1392
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 2: That's the Philharmonic Orchestra. No, so I did so again,

1393
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 2: that's a that's a hip hop record with a symphony

1394
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 2: in it. So I put orchestra inside of hip hop music.

1395
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:32,839
Speaker 2: So that's all this stuff that I do and continue

1396
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:35,760
Speaker 2: to do. Probably just got to talk about it more

1397
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 2: because niggas be happening now.

1398
01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:37,599
Speaker 4: On one.

1399
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 3: Send you a thank you letter for that goddamn song

1400
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 3: you wrote someone Please.

1401
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 2: Yo, you know I hurt you have to be a

1402
01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 2: nigga to call nine one one knowing and police be

1403
01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 2: killing people. You like, still show up. Yeah, but how

1404
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:55,679
Speaker 2: do you look at it now? Because just just hearing

1405
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 2: about you saying.

1406
01:19:56,240 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 6: You're a composer because I love me, that's my passion.

1407
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 2: So just to hear people takes on, you know, certain

1408
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 2: levels when it comes to the music.

1409
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:06,520
Speaker 1: When you say I'm a composer.

1410
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 6: When it was important at a time when you had

1411
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:13,720
Speaker 6: to learn to read music, you had to know all

1412
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 6: twelve skills.

1413
01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:16,800
Speaker 2: I'm about to put you off. Got to know it.

1414
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:18,720
Speaker 2: And then now you see that.

1415
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:23,760
Speaker 6: It's computerized and motherfuckers can cheat it and it's not

1416
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 6: really If somebody will put some xylophone sticks in your

1417
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:27,679
Speaker 6: hand and be like, play.

1418
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 2: Me you twin skills, they'll be like, I don't know

1419
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 2: what you're talking about?

1420
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 6: How do you How do you try to like manage

1421
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 6: that and be like you know what and still keep

1422
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 6: your your authenticity on it.

1423
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 2: So the first part of the orchestration come from your head, right, Yes,

1424
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 2: James Brown, one of the greatest composers, ain't play an instrument.

1425
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 2: MM you could look at the nigga and be like

1426
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 2: this the part basically gonna go like this through the right.

1427
01:20:57,120 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 2: So again, nothing is gonna be a nigga. You can

1428
01:21:00,439 --> 01:21:03,720
Speaker 2: cheat as much as he wants, but a nigga who

1429
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 2: got you got the shit in your head, then you

1430
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:10,799
Speaker 2: can tell the computer what to do. So man versus machine,

1431
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,599
Speaker 2: it's the AI smarter than you, or you smarter than

1432
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 2: the AI. Right, So because if you smarter than the AI,

1433
01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,880
Speaker 2: what you're gonna do is in your brain, you'd be like, hmmm,

1434
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:25,720
Speaker 2: I got a freaking orchestra here, I got a bass man,

1435
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 2: I got a guitar, I got these background vocals. But

1436
01:21:28,640 --> 01:21:32,000
Speaker 2: in your brain though, it's already here. And then so

1437
01:21:32,160 --> 01:21:35,280
Speaker 2: the computer you can go on freaking arcade and you'll

1438
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 2: be like, okay, exactly because it's already in your brain.

1439
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 2: So nothing beats the orchestra, so nothing beats the composer.

1440
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 2: So it don't matter if it's a computer or a nigga.

1441
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 2: I always say that if anyone's complaining like a nigga,

1442
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 2: be like, oh, nigg can cheat, he can, yeah, But

1443
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 2: the computer can't write nine one one, It just can't,

1444
01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:59,560
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like, look, I wish I

1445
01:21:59,600 --> 01:22:03,120
Speaker 2: could be like like fail ball bone work if I

1446
01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 2: knew that there was something, because it was already in

1447
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,400
Speaker 2: my head. So if I had a program where I

1448
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 2: could have grabbed that and saved me five minutes, I

1449
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 2: would have just did that. But if it's not here,

1450
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 2: then it would happen, you know, because I learned that

1451
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 2: from Michael Jackson being in the studio with him. You

1452
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 2: know how he moved his body, you know, drumming and

1453
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 2: just every sound that he's hearing and the orchestra comes

1454
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 2: from your head. And I always say, technology, my man,

1455
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:32,760
Speaker 2: every tech that you see. We are the Asiatic. There's

1456
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 2: nothing that is out there underneath the sun that's not us.

1457
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 2: So a pluggin before the shit was a plugin. It

1458
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 2: was from a patch bay and from the patch bait

1459
01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 2: it was converted like we So it's like what came first,

1460
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:49,200
Speaker 2: the chicken at the egg. At the end of the day,

1461
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 2: without the human being, nothing is possible. So it's like

1462
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 2: we got to push ourselves.

1463
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:56,680
Speaker 1: Look, we could do this all day.

1464
01:22:57,040 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 5: We're a huge Michael Jackson fans. We gotta get Michael Jackson.

1465
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 2: So Michael Jackson, I remember, I remember I was coming

1466
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:16,679
Speaker 2: off tour and and then uh, my phone goes off

1467
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 2: right and when my phone go off, like hello, it's

1468
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:26,840
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson, and you gave him a little bit more basing, but.

1469
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 8: Deep for real, it would.

1470
01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:37,160
Speaker 2: So so so Michael hits me. But in the in

1471
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,960
Speaker 2: the hood, man, we like, I'm a pranker, so I'm

1472
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 2: always working around with my friends, were always playing around

1473
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 2: so and I was like, Yo, get the fuck out

1474
01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:48,280
Speaker 2: of here, and I hung up on Michael Jackson.

1475
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 10: Damn I hung up on Mike.

1476
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, everybody said I would have hung up. Man, get

1477
01:23:55,640 --> 01:23:56,600
Speaker 4: Michael Jackson.

1478
01:23:57,960 --> 01:24:03,759
Speaker 2: Niggas yo, man, yo, this dude yo. And then Michael

1479
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 2: calls back and I ain't gonna lie to your nigga.

1480
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:13,640
Speaker 2: And Michael was like hello, And when my brain computed

1481
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,560
Speaker 2: that was Michael my voice be first, I was like

1482
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 2: my voice, and then he told me it was in

1483
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 2: some country in Asia and this song came in gone

1484
01:24:36,240 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 2: to November, and then he saw the orchestra and then

1485
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 2: he told his people who is that? And then he

1486
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 2: got my number and he had to call me and

1487
01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:46,760
Speaker 2: he said, Yo, I'm going to be in New York

1488
01:24:47,479 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 2: and I want you to come to the studio.

1489
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:52,800
Speaker 3: And it was freaking how that is to get a

1490
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:53,720
Speaker 3: nigga number back?

1491
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 8: Then like just to be like, and who is that?

1492
01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 4: Get his number for.

1493
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 2: Random?

1494
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:05,759
Speaker 1: Give me his numbers.

1495
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 10: I gotta.

1496
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 2: Call the whole phone.

1497
01:25:09,400 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, tryings.

1498
01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he definitely when I got in with him again,

1499
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 2: just the short time that I spent with him, it's

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01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:29,560
Speaker 2: like a whole day. He literally changed my perception and

1501
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 2: it was like that's how I knew, Like, whatever you do,

1502
01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:35,400
Speaker 2: just keep doing what you do because people are.

1503
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 10: Going to find you, sir.

1504
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:38,840
Speaker 2: They're gonna find you before you go.

1505
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 3: We got to talk about this Netflix documentary that they

1506
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 3: did on your life, like what is what is Dad?

1507
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 4: And when can we look forward to seeing it?

1508
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:51,480
Speaker 2: And yeah, man, so so Netflix is doing an animation

1509
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 2: film on Prince Supporter Prince, which is me. We talked

1510
01:25:56,360 --> 01:26:01,600
Speaker 2: about how you escape poverty through imagination. So it's on

1511
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 2: the level of like a rio a lion king. Because

1512
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:09,000
Speaker 2: I wanted my first field to be about that village,

1513
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 2: like what we talked about, because when you see shit

1514
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 2: from the eye of a kid, it's not like from

1515
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:14,640
Speaker 2: the eye of an adult, you know what I'm saying. So,

1516
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 2: so all I can do is tell you is when

1517
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 2: y'all watch this, make sure y'all bring our children with

1518
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 2: y'all your little nisse and then be like, yeah, this

1519
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 2: is a real dude, like he literally is from the Hut.

1520
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 2: So anything that you want to do, you can do.

1521
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:34,439
Speaker 2: I'm very excited too about what that score won't be

1522
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 2: for that. So I'm working as we speak with choirs

1523
01:26:38,880 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 2: in Haiti. You see choirs in Haiti. I'm also working

1524
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 2: with the conductor who's working with these kids building an orchestra.

1525
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 2: And these kids are in the village, so they're getting

1526
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,240
Speaker 2: instruments and they're building. So a lot of this score

1527
01:26:56,600 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 2: I wanted to be, like on the level of Lion

1528
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:01,920
Speaker 2: King right to the dream Man, is to be in

1529
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 2: the oscars with all those kids from that village playing

1530
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:11,320
Speaker 2: these instruments and going crazy, and I'm a cry if

1531
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:11,880
Speaker 2: that happens.

1532
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: You said that this going.

1533
01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:17,400
Speaker 10: That's like saying, say.

1534
01:27:18,840 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 5: One thing before we get you out of here walking

1535
01:27:21,280 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 5: when you gotta sign the table.

1536
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:28,640
Speaker 2: For anything you want to leave? When why would you.

1537
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: Anyway you want?

1538
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 8: We got next?

1539
01:27:34,720 --> 01:27:39,160
Speaker 2: Oh that's a dope instrumental. That's hard. Let that play.

1540
01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:41,720
Speaker 2: I got you. I'm a ride with you. Yeah, like

1541
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:44,360
Speaker 2: around you to him me. Okay, remember I tell you

1542
01:27:44,439 --> 01:27:46,840
Speaker 2: I used to battle round under one.

1543
01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:50,680
Speaker 9: I know what you're thinking, me too, But then I

1544
01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 9: gave a number they could don't need to be a

1545
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:57,680
Speaker 9: few under trinity. Yes the riddle, kidd one man on

1546
01:27:57,840 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 9: two six or stuff the crush.

1547
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 2: That's what they taught me in Sunday school. Forgive my

1548
01:28:04,080 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 2: foods fo I was putting up Pinocchio's nose. If it's sixth,

1549
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:10,960
Speaker 2: go to seven. That's the number of completion.

1550
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:12,799
Speaker 4: Had them eighth the apple.

1551
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:16,240
Speaker 2: So they cast them from the gardener, eating jealous sea

1552
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 2: god a woman. It's nineteen kills able here ten man,

1553
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 2: you know it's farts.

1554
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,280
Speaker 4: Pumps on your two one.

1555
01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 2: Ain't enough to make it rain. Microphone check one two

1556
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 2: grapplers in my veins. Even I'm from the era. Dudes

1557
01:28:31,240 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 2: scrap with their hands. Play Friday the thirteen. Their COVID

1558
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:37,679
Speaker 2: caught her body slam by my lepers don't use their hands.

1559
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 9: It In fourteenth and fifteen, guns and Roses pointed that

1560
01:28:41,960 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 9: you're sweet.

1561
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 2: Sixteen and nine.

1562
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 11: Was fall and I've told my seventeen that's the day

1563
01:28:47,320 --> 01:28:50,519
Speaker 11: they killed my leader. George, I guess I need Mama

1564
01:28:50,680 --> 01:28:53,520
Speaker 11: told me there's monster's the them mom mad day eighteen

1565
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:56,800
Speaker 11: thanks not from next to nineteenth. I was about any

1566
01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:00,559
Speaker 11: twenty and twenty even Jin's ain't a good all Young.

1567
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 2: I have to trick depth. That's how I made this

1568
01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:04,800
Speaker 2: past twenty one.

1569
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know I want to get one. I told you, bro,

1570
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:21,519
Speaker 10: no I get this.

1571
01:29:23,080 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 8: Let's going Oh man, I know who now?

1572
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going home.

1573
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:31,720
Speaker 1: Bro, that's crazy that love.

1574
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 4: I'm going crazy, left young whatever you go.

1575
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:40,720
Speaker 2: Ahead, camera, No one left.

1576
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:43,760
Speaker 8: This went crazy lives out.

1577
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:47,479
Speaker 1: That's crazy.

1578
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 4: Hell all right?

1579
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,799
Speaker 8: Yeah, I finally got my favorite episode.