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Speaker 1: but but you can't find but it's hard to like

421
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,639
Speaker 1: James said, you know, but you can't get health insurance.

422
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,879
Speaker 1: You know, you can't find you know, a mentor, you

423
00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 1: can't get into college. You can get into jail easier

424
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 1: than you can get into college, you know what i mean.

425
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,919
Speaker 1: Like there's not there's not useful resources around you, you

426
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But you can get anything you want,

427
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: any drug you want, fitting all oxy thistles, wet, whatever

428
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 1: you want. It's out there for you to indulge in.

429
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,120
Speaker 1: So a lot of that ship is the stomach bro

430
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,959
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of ships start off recreation

431
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: on a lot of people get hired just because they're

432
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 1: hanging out. You know, I never did marijuana. I've never

433
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 1: seen the reason to do that. Um, when when the

434
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 1: promos came out, everybody homies passing joints. You know what

435
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying, doing promos happen to motherfucker's that was hanging

436
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 1: around only did it because the homies was doing it.

437
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 1: Everybody was not junkies. But you became a junkie after

438
00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 1: when you're the only motherfucker's still doing great cocaine, you're

439
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: a junkie. You know what I'm saying. Harolin dog food

440
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: was totally different because it fed and and and attacks

441
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 1: you from the inside, right, Not no mind ship that

442
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: cocaine was totally different. Motherfucker's was robbing and stealing and

443
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 1: doing all other kinds of ship for different trugs. But

444
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: the kids of the day didn't have to get down

445
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 1: like in in my days. You know what I'm saying.

446
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 1: They're doing ship just because the next person is doing it.

447
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: Like you said, they're listening to uh Little Wayne rapping

448
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: about lane or or what you call them talking about percocets.

449
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,720
Speaker 1: So the mind tells them, Man, I'm gonna go try

450
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: that ship out, So we'll start off just a taste tester.

451
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 1: When they start liking it, everybody in the hood wants

452
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,560
Speaker 1: to hang out and be feeling good, especially when they

453
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,920
Speaker 1: go to park these yet the nightclubs, everybody already ready

454
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: they pop the theles, they're getting that motherfucker what they're doing.

455
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: They're drinking their ass off. It intensified. They hide, so

456
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,479
Speaker 1: they started getting used to it. It becomes a pattern.

457
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 1: I gotta this is how I gotta do it. So

458
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, if if I walked around the who to

459
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 1: say everybody is doing drug got a mental problem? I'd

460
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: be crazy and the motherfucker No, we're just doing ship

461
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: just because everybody else is doing it now, and I'm

462
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: doing it because it makes me feel good. Yeah, it's

463
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: some people in the hood that that's going through a

464
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: whole bunch of ship and doing drugs is a way

465
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: of forgetting you know what I'm saying, like alcohol, you're

466
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: the worstest motherfucking drug out there. Theory because m hm,

467
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: when I when I put myself in situations and did

468
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 1: certain things, I got drunk so I didn't have to

469
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 1: think about it. But guess what, when you wake up

470
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: that next day, you're gonna wake up with a hangover,

471
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: but you still gonna remember the ship you did and

472
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: I funked up you was, you know what I'm saying.

473
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 1: So alcohol was one of the worstest motherfucking things out there.

474
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: But these kids they're doing it. All these niggas out

475
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,639
Speaker 1: here today don't give a fuck. So it's just a

476
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: word of mouth. Let's try this, and everybody is uh

477
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: experimenting with whatever it's new today. Yeah, that's that's crazy

478
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: because you know, I never subscribed to that. And I

479
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: know exactly what you mean, James, because you know, growing up,

480
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: you know, all my friends drank smoke weed. You know,

481
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: that was what it was back then. Uh in case

482
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: you know wet you know that was the wed daddy,

483
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: the button nket that was a thing in the nineties. Um.

484
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: But you know, I think probably because I grew up

485
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,919
Speaker 1: in a household with function and alcoholics, you know, and

486
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: I kind of grew up around drugs like you know,

487
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 1: I grew up in the eighties, so you know, I

488
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: remember finding you know, when my mother and her friends

489
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: and my stepfather would be partying. You know what I'm

490
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: on the weekend. I remember finding them trades up under

491
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: the couch with the residue. You know what I'm saying.

492
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: I used to be drawn in the residute. I didn't

493
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: know what it was, you know what I'm saying. And

494
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: so but you know, I remember my people being inebriated,

495
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 1: and I don't know that just that ship just turned

496
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 1: me off, bro Like, I never wanted to be around it.

497
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: I never did it. My friends did it, but you know,

498
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: I never followed, you know what I'm saying. Like, and

499
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 1: and it could be just because I've seen it in

500
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: my household, you know. But you're right though, a lot

501
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 1: of people fall victim to just being followers and and

502
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: just trying to you know, fit in, you know what

503
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: I mean, And they funk around and try something, and

504
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: it takes some years to untry it, you know what

505
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean exactly. And and the thing it was, Court

506
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: I went through my period, man, because being a product

507
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,400
Speaker 1: of Midwest, some stuff was just then out of bordom.

508
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 1: You're out of sheer boredom. You know. The thing is,

509
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,160
Speaker 1: because you know, being in the Midwest and the small towns,

510
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: you don't already vote on everything that's walking around there

511
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: already and you don't know and everything, and then the

512
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: thing it was somebody got a kick back, they got liquor,

513
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: they got beer, over the wind up getting front. I

514
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: went through a period that went to one summer dog

515
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: where I blacked out twice, and that's when I realized

516
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: I didn't. That's when I kind of slowed down, but

517
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: I kept going kind of into my arm early twenties,

518
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 1: and then I remember my little boy came to me

519
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: one day and said, I want to drink beer too,

520
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: And I just looked at the way he looked at me.

521
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: I said, damn, did my son see me as a

522
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: drunk motherfucker woving around here? And my wife would kind

523
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: of making choice. It's easy to go be that for this,

524
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: and I just left the ship alone. I just stopped.

525
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: I didn't go to know where the draws or nothing.

526
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: I just left alone. That was after because after year,

527
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: it was still early for you, like like me, before school.

528
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: Fuck school. We stopped that, just stove and got a

529
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: court of all English, and we drunk beer all the

530
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: way to school. Coming from school, when the sun going down,

531
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: we switched from liquor to bumpy face. Were drank and

532
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 1: by Jen we we were drinking. That was my way

533
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 1: of coping with everything that was going on the day.

534
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: So when nighttime hit down, I'm already ready half for

535
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: my motherfucking Shenanigans. Was because I was already drunk, feeling good,

536
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: and ready to go fuck it, you see what I'm saying.

537
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: But I was able to cope with with what was

538
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: going on around me for that day. I just didn't

539
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: do the weed. Everybody else was drinking with me from

540
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:35,119
Speaker 1: from from morning tonight on there to to hard liquor.

541
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: They smoked weed. I didn't. And then say the early

542
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: part of the eighties that that premo, Yeah, we had

543
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: the Vermont Drive in ten cars and everybody is going

544
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: back and forth back and forth to East Car smoking

545
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: premos and drinking. But when we had that motherfucking fighting there,

546
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: everybody looked like they was paranoid to know what the

547
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: fun to do. And I've seen the best of the

548
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 1: best loss even lost, Like what the funk am I doing?

549
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: Didn't know what to do? So man, that promo should

550
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: smell so terrible. Man, my aunt, you know my first

551
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: introduction in the promo um in the eighties. You know,

552
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: my my aunt used to smoke weed. I used to

553
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: like the smell of weed when I was a kid,

554
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: you know, I always loved the smell of it. And

555
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: my aunt would be smoking and I used to be like, Damn,

556
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: her weed smell funny, Like that was stronger ship. I

557
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: used to be like, why her ship smell like that?

558
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: You know it was. It wasn't until you know, I

559
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: got a little bit older where it was like damn,

560
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: aunt was on their mold and she was that with

561
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: that when before she started doing most like my uncle's

562
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: they were they were doing the blow, they were sniffing

563
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: the ship. Yeah, and and once that didn't funk with

564
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: him no more, they went to the next thing. Now

565
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: they're basing now basically you know, now they're doing different ships.

566
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: It's just it intensified once you get it in your

567
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: system and you just want more and you want a

568
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,719
Speaker 1: better effect. You want to you want to get you

569
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: want to be fucked up. So what they're doing, man,

570
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: is the why? Man, I just keep going. But like

571
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: James me, knowing your story, I totally understand. You know again,

572
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: you know why you would be you know, indulge in

573
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: having to uh you know, endure and go through all

574
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: the ship you was dealing with you know what I'm saying.

575
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: But but then you know what for for people that's

576
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: dealing with that, like what's the what's the alternative? What?

577
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: What are the alternatives? You know, I know you didn't

578
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: really have them in that day, James, or at least

579
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: you didn't know that you had them. But nowadays with

580
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: the Internet and in so much information at our disposal,

581
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: with our fingertips, like what what is the alternative? Even

582
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: though even though I did a lot of alcohol, I

583
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: didn't choose to do marijuana smoke weed like they did

584
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: on the daily. Um, you know, a lot of cats

585
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: that hung with us didn't do either one. But in

586
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: due time they're gonna be like everybody funked up looking

587
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: like they're having a good time. Now they want to

588
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: try it. It's just you know, we you hang with

589
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: people now they want to do the ship that they

590
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: see in and that's all they did. Man, if you

591
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: stick to your guns, ain't doing drugs. Likely forward one

592
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: of the homies. He was one of the biggest cats

593
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Never went to prison. Damn, Why is

594
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: this nigga so swollen? And they never met to prison

595
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: because he was a healthy. Motherfucker. He didn't do alcohol,

596
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: he didn't do we he didn't put that ship in

597
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: his body. M see what I'm saying. So it's the

598
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: choices that we made at that time doing it. Just

599
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: like the cast of the day, it's the choices that

600
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: they're making the people that they're hanging around bad influence.

601
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: So we don't have to. Yeah, but you see everybody

602
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: else doing something, so it's like fuck it, and everybody

603
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: is trying to cope and deal with something in their life.

604
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: The next person might be telling them, man, this is

605
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: what I do because I told them, mother nig I get.

606
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: I don't give a funk who I shoot. I'm cool.

607
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: Let me say something real quick to me. A lot

608
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: of this stuff is systemic because if you go back,

609
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: you can go back to the nineteen thirties. In the

610
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: black community. It seems like every decade we get a

611
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: tech with a new drug. In the sixties it was heroin.

612
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, even two sixties and seventies it

613
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: was heroin. I would go into the back. I remember

614
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: living this apartment building when I was eight years old, right,

615
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: and I would go to the back and it would

616
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: be needles all over the place, and I remember I

617
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: was outside with my shoes off, planning. I remember my

618
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: mama snapped me up and beat my ass. I told

619
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: you don't walk off this house without no shoes on.

620
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: And I didn't understand. I was a little hid on

621
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,360
Speaker 1: why she was so mad, mad mad, But she understood.

622
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: I stepped on one of them needles. I could work

623
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: around the overdose. You know, this was the seventies, you

624
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: know who those I believe the ades was around even

625
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: back then, but they didn't know what it was, you know,

626
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: but anything could have happened, right, and so we had

627
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: we went from heroin, we want to crack. Then they

628
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: came back with the you know, with the peels because

629
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: if you remember in the eighties they went through a rash.

630
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: You know, this OPIOU epidemic is nothing new because at

631
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: one time they had hospitals pain management so to speak,

632
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: hospitals that opened up in and it was always in

633
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: the hood to where pretty much you going that motherfucker,

634
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: they gonna write you a prescription for whatever you want

635
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: to get. I mean they was taking quay, lose and

636
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: ship back then, you know, yeah, you know, and here

637
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: we go again. Did you get the lean and we've

638
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: lost so many. Then it's then it's just really pervasive

639
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: in the music, Like, um, I'm a three six Mafia fan.

640
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: They all no qualms, are telling you we snore, we snore,

641
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: we're sniffering, we're drinking, we're pouring up in his motherfucker.

642
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: Then in U g K what we're two of the

643
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: first you know acts that that made it known that

644
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: about snorting. You know they sport the cocaine. Because I'm

645
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: gonna tell you this my pops too. You know, my

646
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: pop is the sixties nigga when they wore the suits

647
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: and they had the pinky rings with the little they

648
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: got a cram and their pinky ring and ship and

649
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: they you know what I mean, doing that. My pop said,

650
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: he did that. Never once got a dig He said, Man,

651
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: I did that ship the party with the party. He said,

652
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what they put in this ship. Now

653
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: I ain't working with him, but that's just what they did.

654
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: That was like some baller ship. When you know when

655
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: you that was a baller ship. Nigga happens ringing on

656
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: and he got him a Graham up and that motherfucker

657
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: and he just floating doing his thing. That was the same.

658
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: Excuse me, that was the same way when cocaine came out.

659
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: When cocaine came out, everybody was punching the workers. Everybody

660
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: can do a learner to and go to work and

661
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: be productive. Then when when they come with this other

662
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: ship and now they dope things and everybody stretching. Yeah,

663
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: you had every every hood had that guy to get

664
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: the new ship. And he always had a smoker, somebody

665
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 1: that smoked weed to test that ship. Yea, And they

666
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: went off a word of out from that one motherfucker

667
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: that tested and was bent over in the corner somewhere.

668
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: Now everybody want that drunk because you get fucked up.

669
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: That's what they're looking for. When they get high. They're

670
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: gonna spend their money so they can get sucked up.

671
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: And so think about go ahead, I'm sorry, James, go ahead. No,

672
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, and think about how how

673
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: cold it is today, bro. Nowadays with this fitting all ship.

674
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: Whoever got the ship that mother the hot pack the

675
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: niggas are dying from. They want that ship. That's some

676
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: cold ship. Whoever got the hot pack of catching bodies,

677
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: that's the ship that they want, you know what I mean.

678
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: And the fitting all is just such a new you know, Pariah,

679
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: It's such a new threat because it's so the instability

680
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: of it, you know what I mean, the ship all

681
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 1: over the place, Yeah, like just a little grain because

682
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: the ship be dope so fucked up, you know. And

683
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: even these pills with these faith, these rock seas and

684
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 1: these fake as ox seas and all of that ship

685
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: they should be having fitting all and ship all in it.

686
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: And you know that's how motherfucker's be o dn like

687
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: like you said, like you said, with culture though, because

688
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: think about the code that black you know what he said.

689
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: I knew the purpose fake, but I ate it anyway,

690
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You know, and you don't

691
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 1: know what the fucking that bitch to be rap boys,

692
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: you don't know what it is. And you know what,

693
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. I was told to one

694
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: of my own boys the other day and he was

695
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: told about his nineteen year old like the smoke weed

696
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: and ship like that. Right, he was like, I'm a

697
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: whoop his ass. I said, Bro, I'm gonna tell you something.

698
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: You're almost better off because that niggas go smoke weed

699
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: if you want twenty way or now, you're almost better

700
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: off going to get dispensing. Just get this ship for

701
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: him and say, nig, don't do that ship and this

702
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: I was here, you go, because I'm gonna tell you

703
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: they're gonna try it anyway. Bro. Yeah, we can sit

704
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: up here, his parents, We can sit up here as

705
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: parents and look at our kids through rose colored lenses

706
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: just like we went off the right ship. Yeah, big experiment.

707
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: You just up on my kids and know what the

708
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: time and he was, man, just behind nobody. Don't be passed,

709
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: no joints with no motherfucker because give some to the

710
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: here you walking around this motherfucker, you'll be stuck in

711
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: the twelfth dimension. I know. I know. People just smoke

712
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: ship that never came back from it. Mind in the

713
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: right sense, you know. And and I think that's important

714
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: to like what you the point that you're making. Man,

715
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: we have to be one hunted with our kids. You know,

716
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: the same thing with my kids. You know, my kids,

717
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 1: especially my oldest daughter. You know, I had my first

718
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: shot when I was sixteen, and you know I laced her.

719
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: I raised her like almost like an oldest son. You

720
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And you know I told her

721
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 1: about drugs and weed. I mean, truth be told. You know,

722
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: WE was my hustle back then, so I even, you know,

723
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: to an extent, exposed her to that side of it

724
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: of getting money, you know. I mean, you know, there's

725
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: no handbook for parenting, you know what I mean, that's

726
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: what happens. But um, you know, and I always told her, man,

727
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: let the things have to have it, you know. Now

728
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: fast forward. You know, my daughter thirty years old, she's

729
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: a grown woman. I respect her. She smokes weed. That's

730
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: her choice, you know, Um, and I don't judge her

731
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: about it. You know what I'm saying. Uh, you know,

732
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 1: she can't smoke in our house when she's over. She

733
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: asked her to step out, smoke outside, be respectful. But

734
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think that you know, and you know,

735
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: back in the day, they used to say WE was

736
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: a gateway drug. Um. I don't know that to be true,

737
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: but I believe for some people it can be with

738
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: addictive personalities and people like James said that could be

739
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: dealing with you know, some type of self medication situation.

740
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: And they wanted to hire. You know, we was the beginning.

741
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: How can I get hired? How can I get hired?

742
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, so um, you know, but

743
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: but like I keep saying, you know, what is the

744
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: what is the alternative? You know? You know it's that

745
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: are listening, Like what could be the you know instead

746
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: of trying to self medicate and and and get high

747
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: and try to run away from your problem? Was like,

748
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,280
Speaker 1: what do they do? You know? Do they get help?

749
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: What are they running from? Do they go talk to somebody?

750
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 1: Do you know what? What? What advice will we get them?

751
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? You know what I think

752
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: you have to be very open and honest with your children. Again,

753
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: I know plenty of pearans to put the rose colored

754
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: lands on. And I'm gonna tell you the way society

755
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: use everybody and knew what your kids are doing, but

756
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: you you'll be sitting up there be the only dumbass

757
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: sitting in La la land and not knowing what's going on.

758
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 1: You have to give your kids to reel about stuff

759
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: and tell them maybe look, if you try that, you

760
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: may die. Because my biggest thing if I was always

761
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: scared of death because when I was younger, I was

762
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: allowed the opportunity to experiment. The big thing in Ohio

763
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: was what all the white homies would do. They would

764
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: be on that black tar heroin. They would had that

765
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: black tar heir when it was cheap, like everybody had

766
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: that ship and they would be in their smoking that ship.

767
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: They tried to get me to try that ship one day,

768
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: but I remember talking to my pops about that anything

769
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 1: they had h and I wasn't working with it. Well,

770
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm cool on that. I don't want

771
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,959
Speaker 1: none of that ship because I see how this nig

772
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 1: over in the corner doing this, he nodding off and ship.

773
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: I didn't want to funk with it. So my thing

774
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: was this. I actually tried weed when I was younger

775
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: and didn't funk with it. I just I didn't. It

776
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: wasn't for me. My pops is my pop smoke weed

777
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: back then and still is a regular weed smoker. And

778
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: that motherfucker was an account one of the sharpest do was.

779
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: I know, I've never known him to do the other ship.

780
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,879
Speaker 1: He told me said, yeah, in the sixties, I did

781
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: this and that. But my pops ain't never been no

782
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: fiend as nigga. But he he got his little um,

783
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: his little cigar box the crib with his little weed

784
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 1: and he brought them up with joint. He's sitting if smoked,

785
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: that motherfucker with his woman and watch TV and going

786
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: about his business right and pop on upstairs. You know. So,

787
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing quote we have to do

788
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 1: is realized, man, that we are under attack, and the

789
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: only way we go continue standing under the attack if

790
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: we don't start keeping the reel with ourselves and start saying, man, look,

791
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: we gotta start making different choices. We gotta start looking

792
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 1: at alternatives. U. We have to start expressing our feelings

793
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: because black men have a tendency the car departmentalized ship.

794
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: But we have ship in our mind and we just

795
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: keep it in there and anything. It's like anything else.

796
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,919
Speaker 1: If we feel the water balloon up to full water,

797
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. This will eventually explode. That's what happened.

798
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: That's when people have nervous breakdowns. That's when you see

799
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: the little rampages that you see. That's why you see

800
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:23,839
Speaker 1: so much real rage. Now the people actually don't got

801
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: a problem with each other, but motherfucker, the stress level

802
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: is so high. It's just that person in that car

803
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: that might have cut you off, that may not be

804
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: thinking about you. He laid for work, so he's trying

805
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 1: to get the work. He go around you and cut

806
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 1: you off. You're mad. Now you chased this motherfucker down

807
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: up the road and you're open his ask when he

808
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: get off the car, you might get shot and lose

809
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: your life all because you didn't have nobody to talk to.

810
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: You didn't want to express your feelings. You know what

811
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: I mean, Because you think about it, life can be

812
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: stressful in the motherfucker. You've got people especially and what

813
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: were yet right now, You've got people whose financial who

814
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: financially have not recovered since COVID. Because I'm gonna tell

815
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: you one thing, had that king about COVID and all

816
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: that stimulus money. You had some people that was making

817
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: more money than they ever made. You know, you had

818
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: a guy that worked at McDonald's. He getting unemployment. Now

819
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: now he's getting eight hundred of thousand dollars a week.

820
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: To him, that's the world. Now, he don't want to

821
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: go back to that job. But mcdownalds or that job.

822
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: But mcdownalds ain't dead for him no more. And he's depressed.

823
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: When you can't take care of your family and provide

824
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot, he said, I remember the darkest

825
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: period I had, man and I suffered from depression, and

826
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: I've been very open about it. I was suffered from depression.

827
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: Before the darkest period I've ever had, I was working

828
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: for a publishing company. I was making a quarter million

829
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: dollars a year. I was doing my thing. I had

830
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: a black card or whatever I wanted to go get

831
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: it if I would, and bought a ten thousand dollars suit.

832
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: They won. Question. We was making a lot of money

833
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 1: back then. Um, I was getting a lot of money

834
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: from other little stuff. You know, I'm managing glasses and

835
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: glasses and cracking at that time, so I'm getting money

836
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: from everywhere. I'm getting money and nothing lumps, you know

837
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,879
Speaker 1: what I mean. I got good money. I remember when

838
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: I lost that job. I lost my identity almost and

839
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: I said after that, it was hard for me to

840
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: go back because I was making money even before that, right,

841
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: it was hard for me to go back to the

842
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: idea of what am I going to do now? Because

843
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: when you're in the industry, you know this cord that's

844
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 1: the best time to get a job. I had people

845
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: from Turtle Music offer me jobs. I had people from

846
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: Universal Music offer me jobs. I wouldn't leave because they

847
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 1: couldn't max with that one company was giving me right.

848
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 1: So once I lost that job and I kind of

849
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: was being arrogant, my u brisk. I can do that

850
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: now through constling years later and say that was my fault,

851
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: because you know what, I remember when they closed the

852
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: office down, the lady told me, she said, well you

853
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: can continue working from the house. But I was so

854
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: arrogant like that. You know, They're gonna cut my pin

855
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: in half and I'm gonna work at the house, ain'tle

856
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: I got something that ass. I quit calling them from

857
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: them everybody else. So what you're doing in mind right now?

858
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: Oh well I'm no longer with them. Oh let me

859
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: get back with you. And I learned how the industry

860
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: work because those people and actually wanted me. They wanted

861
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: me to go, and there appeal for some of the

862
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: people I brought over there. You gotta remember I'd had

863
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: my first platinum record with the ice cream paining job ship,

864
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: right that was. I had something to do with that record.

865
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: I signed that producer. I found him and actually you know,

866
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: helped put that whole thing together. Um, we had some

867
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: other stuff going on. We had an opportunity at that

868
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: time to sign Kenfred Lamar they passed on. We could

869
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: have actually signed the whole TV roster. They passed on it.

870
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: You know, when I thought about all that stuff, and man,

871
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: I was just kind of stuck. Man Like, I went

872
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: through a period of um where I was just almost

873
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 1: the only way I could describe it as a mobilarity,

874
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: to where I just couldn't move. I was just like stuck.

875
00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: Every day I woke up at twelve o'clock, kind of

876
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,439
Speaker 1: walked around his motherfucking the days. Man, you know, would

877
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: go sometimes a day or two it. I was washing

878
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: my ass dog, and I was just gained a bunch

879
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: of fucking weight. The little bit of money I did.

880
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: That is when you got it. Back then, I wouldn't

881
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 1: save the ship dog, and I was thinking, you know,

882
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: when I put the job, but I just traded. I

883
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: got this man, that money went so fucking fast because

884
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: you still have those same bills, and you still have

885
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: the same lifestyle, you know, And when you wake up

886
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: a look outside and see tolds getting cars getting told

887
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: off the driveway and ship they came to the point, dog,

888
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: I even get a funk. I sat up here and

889
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: watched them, told my escalator way, and I was just

890
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: so fucking just stuck, man, And you really, you know,

891
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. That's where my wife leaned being

892
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: on me. And she started telling me, hey, let's go

893
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: to church. You know, I don't wanna go to church.

894
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,800
Speaker 1: Once I started going back to my roofs dog and

895
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: hearing the word of God, I realized that I turned

896
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: into a man that I didn't want to be. I

897
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,439
Speaker 1: wasn't no good to my family. Um. I went back

898
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: in the regular world for a minute. Court. I went

899
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,240
Speaker 1: and got me a job. You know what I realized,

900
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I got an education. I'm

901
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 1: gonna get me a job, you know what I mean.

902
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't have got me a sales job. And

903
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: I went back into regular world for a little bit. Man,

904
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: I started coaching my son's football team. And so really

905
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: were most people leaning the drugs. I leaned in the

906
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: guy the family. Yeah, I'm leaning the guy of family.

907
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: And my wife she really helped me through that period. Dog,

908
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: She really helped because it was a very dark period

909
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: for me. Ain't thinking happened. Dog. I thought of killing

910
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: myself because I I was identifying. You know, I went

911
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: from being this provider to where whenever she needed something.

912
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,959
Speaker 1: Dog Like my wife, you know, when my daughter was born,

913
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: she took two years off of work. You know, it

914
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: was like, you don't worry about that. You gotta think

915
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: about the court. At that time, when I had my

916
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: situation with Mind of Music, they assigned me as a

917
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: writer and I had a couple of deals. I had

918
00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: to deal with a company called Peak would go for

919
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 1: an England and they were paying me nine dollars a

920
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: record nine nine hours, but nine pounds a record. At

921
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: that time, the pound was like two to one, so

922
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: I was wind up getting seventeen dollars a record. So

923
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing them selling five six thousand pieces. But

924
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: I was releasing albums every three months. I was distributing

925
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: all that you know Big eight during that time, I

926
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: was distripping all the dog ship over there. So I

927
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: just had an abundance of money because I got these

928
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,200
Speaker 1: people paying me a quarter million dollars a year. I'm

929
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: making about thirty forty rats a month from just selling

930
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: records dog overseas at the time. And then what happened

931
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,280
Speaker 1: was that ship slowed these you remember when Drama got busted. Yeah,

932
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: but drama got cracked. That's when all that ship, even

933
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: though my ship was legitimate, anything that you didn't talk

934
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: about drama from Atlanta. Yeah, when he got busted with

935
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff, I was doing the same stuff he

936
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,080
Speaker 1: was doing, but I was doing it with legal stuff.

937
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: But they were records that wasn't necessarily cleared from the

938
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: label like Das. You know he had ship was distributing

939
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: snoops mixtapes and you know you figured like this, you

940
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: know Big eight, Big eight I was a CD. He

941
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: cool with that. I'm I'm talking and he was on

942
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: the CDs because it's just us lying, ribbing nobody. But

943
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: it's an usle Dog. I used to walk around dog,

944
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: and then I was do tours over in Japan and stuff. Bro.

945
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: I would come back home with just rows of money

946
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: dog Like. I remember one time he got so bad man.

947
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: Remember when he used to win him to both chains. Yeah,

948
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: I remember one time I had like thirty five dollars

949
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: in one of my pockets and my wife watched them

950
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: and the money got kind of fucked up. I wasn't

951
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: like shot. I gave that ship to my kids though. Yeah,

952
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: it was just like that dog. I didn't have no

953
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: respect to what was going on. And when you lose

954
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: that dog, and I'm gonna tell you God got away, man.

955
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: And when your eagle get out of control, God has

956
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,399
Speaker 1: a way of stripping you down to your very minimum dog. Okay,

957
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: you don't want to listen, I'm about to strip your

958
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 1: ass down and and make you back. You know, people,

959
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,879
Speaker 1: you're back up again. I learned. I learned a less

960
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: than humility dog. And it really was a very humbling

961
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: and life changing experience. Because that's why I talked to

962
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: people when I when I tell people, oh man, somebody

963
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,320
Speaker 1: to kill themselves. That week I was saying all that

964
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: in that week, bro, I said, you can you don't

965
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,280
Speaker 1: never know what no men and going through. When you're depressing,

966
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: you are in a black hole. Literally, you feel no happiness,

967
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: You don't want to be living and and you know

968
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: suicide that that happens when you're coping. Mechanisms have failed,

969
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. When you lose hope, um,

970
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: you know, And I think like sometimes what people have

971
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,880
Speaker 1: to understand is when you can identify a purpose in

972
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: your life. When you identify a purpose, then you tend

973
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: to make you know different choices. You know, what I'm saying.

974
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: Um but yeah, you know that depression ship. Like you said,

975
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a dark hole. And you know,

976
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: after my mom passed away, I went into a deep depression.

977
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: And like you said, I used to you know, everybody

978
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: else in the house would get up. My kids will

979
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 1: go to school, my wife will go to work. I

980
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: would just lay in the in the room, sometimes with

981
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,439
Speaker 1: the TV not not on, you know what I mean.

982
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: And and I can remember when everybody would come home,

983
00:48:57,800 --> 00:48:59,439
Speaker 1: I would get up and act like I've been doing

984
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: some ship like you know what I mean. And you

985
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: know my money was straight at the time, so I

986
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily have to be doing anything. But you know,

987
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: um man, that was the U you know, a really

988
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: bad time. But you know, at the end of the day,

989
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: you know again in this world, because you know this

990
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: world as a motherfucker, it would beat you down and

991
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: it will hold you down to keep you down. This

992
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 1: world would literally stick its long arm to the elbow,

993
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: up your ass and wave you around like a puppet.

994
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And and and so what

995
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: I found is you you have to be mentally strong,

996
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: spiritually strong, emostly strong, physically strong in this world, you

997
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:37,879
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I think a lot of people,

998
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: like I said, you have to do your work. I

999
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: had to learn to do my work. Like you deal

1000
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: with anxiety. You know. Anxiety is worried about ship that

1001
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: ain't even happened. You're you're worried about the future. You know, depression.

1002
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: A lot of times you're stuck in the past. You're

1003
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: worried about ship you can't even change. It ain't even

1004
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: exist anymore, you know what I mean. So I think

1005
00:49:57,320 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: when you consider yourself and and and find and be present,

1006
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: and then you know almost like the a A say

1007
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: what they saying that they say, you know, uh, what

1008
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: is it? You know accepted things? You cannot change that

1009
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: And that's the real that's the truth. You know, you

1010
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: have to be president. And I think, like I say,

1011
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: when you feel like you have something to live for

1012
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: and you have a purpose. That's why I tell people, man,

1013
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: be a purpose chase and not a paper chaser. You

1014
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Because you know, chasing money that

1015
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: that that don't give you nothing. You know, money, But

1016
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: when you identify a purpose, when you really feel like, damn,

1017
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: I'm here for something, and then you're giving. Sometimes giving

1018
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: is just affecting other people, you know, because people remember

1019
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: how they how you made them feel. People don't remember

1020
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: the car you had, the jury you had, all that bullshit,

1021
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: but people remember how you made them feel. And that's

1022
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: your leg. So and then and then sometimes just got

1023
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: damn meditate. I meditate every day and I take inventory

1024
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: on my life, right, I think about, you know, the

1025
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 1: things that I need, the things that I don't, situations

1026
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: and different things like that to try to so so

1027
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: you know, unfuncked my mind and keep it as clear

1028
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: as possible. So I think that, you know, and I'm

1029
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: saying all this to say, these are tools, and these

1030
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: are ways that people can train their minds where they

1031
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,720
Speaker 1: don't have to the further drugs. You know what I'm saying.

1032
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: Just deal with your ship, sift through your ship. And

1033
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 1: I know for some you know, it may be easier

1034
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: said than done. You know, everybody's you know, mental for

1035
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,840
Speaker 1: to tow and emotional intelligence isn't developed like that, but

1036
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: with practice it can be. Because see, the language that

1037
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: I'm giving now is not something that I knew years ago.

1038
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: This is over time, you know what I'm saying. Hopefully

1039
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 1: I could share it with somebody that's going through it

1040
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: now and they could hear it and it could inspire

1041
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: them to say, oh shift, I'm not alone. Because depression

1042
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: will make you have make you feel like you by yourself,

1043
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: like like God is picking on you, like like God

1044
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,959
Speaker 1: don't like me. He just sucking over me and every

1045
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: body else. You know. But you know, people, you know,

1046
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: everybody's fighting a battle that you know, our battles that

1047
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: know what body knows about you know what I'm saying.

1048
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: One thing I found without man with dealing with my therapist,

1049
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: right because you know your therapist still go to therapy

1050
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: twice a month now, you know, because there's certain things

1051
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: that man, we need to have conversation sometimes with people

1052
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: that you may nothing necessarily I could talk to my

1053
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: wife about anything, but some stuff I can't talk to

1054
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: my wife about. Everything is some stuff. As a man

1055
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: that I go through the shot will have no clue

1056
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: to show, you know, you know, he's supposed to let

1057
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: them know. We gotta shoulder that ships as unhealthy as

1058
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: it is, that's just what it is. You know what

1059
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's us as protector. Sometimes we gotta protect them,

1060
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, we may not know. It's been times where fuck,

1061
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm gonna do certain ship. I

1062
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: don't you know, ship maybe a little worse than what

1063
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: my old lady may know. But I showed her that,

1064
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because as a man, as

1065
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: a protector, that's what I do for my kids. I

1066
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: never wanted my kids or my old lady to be

1067
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: frettened about nothing. You and me, I've always been kind

1068
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: of a leader, right, So it's like with me, you know,

1069
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: even with me running this network, I have multiple families

1070
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: that depend on me, right, So I remember, man, I

1071
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: would like, really, I don't think people had no idea

1072
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: how many months I would forfeit getting paid to make

1073
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 1: sure that they had some money. And it's just not

1074
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: one person, you're talking about four or five different people.

1075
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: And my therapist told me one day, he said, you know,

1076
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: to dye on self, be true. You can't be a

1077
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: blessing to nobody if you funked up. You gotta make

1078
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: sure you straight or you're not gonna be able to

1079
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: help nobody. And then one thing he told me to

1080
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: is take responsibility for situations that you create. Because I

1081
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: remember at one time it led to me having a problem.

1082
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to put everybody on that one time. Anybody

1083
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,439
Speaker 1: that can't I wanted to put them on, but didn't.

1084
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: I realized everybody is not worth Everybody can't go. My

1085
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: mom used to tell me that everybody can't go. Everybody

1086
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 1: can't go. And it's been people that I love that

1087
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: I've had to ex out my life just because it

1088
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: was unhealthy for me to be around them. And it's

1089
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: just like I had to take care of me. I

1090
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: had to take care you know, if this person is

1091
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,280
Speaker 1: not bringing nothing genuine to know the type of value,

1092
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 1: what is he wrong for? If he's you know, giving

1093
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: you bad information and making you feel even worse, why

1094
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: even have them around? Yeah, because you know a phrase

1095
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: of the addicts that misery loves company is very true.

1096
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: You would have people going to this stuff and they

1097
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: would track you down the stuff. It's like dog. One

1098
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: thing my uncle Doug told me, and I thought it

1099
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: was the coldest in the world. He told me. I

1100
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: asked him one day, man, what were your own? Boy?

1101
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: Let me when he said, man, I had to stop

1102
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 1: working with him myself. Why Because he said that motherfucker

1103
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: always got some ship going on. He said it just

1104
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: like that. He said, every time I leave them mother

1105
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: Funcker's house, I'm depressed. I stopped with him because he

1106
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: was an unlucky motherfucker, and I learned that that's real game.

1107
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: You have to not not that you get insensitive for people,

1108
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:01,640
Speaker 1: but sometimes you need to hear. Everybody helps ship. I mean,

1109
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: energies are contagious. Energies are contagious, and sometimes you have

1110
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: to moderate that ship, like you could care for someone

1111
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: you know. But I always say, you don't have to

1112
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,360
Speaker 1: set yourself on fire to keep other people warm, you

1113
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,280
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like you have to know you know, man,

1114
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: energy is is that's everything where we put out what

1115
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: we receive and we have to control that because yeah,

1116
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,680
Speaker 1: that ship can be parasitic, especially when it's not reciprocated.

1117
00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: You know what the energy is a motherfucker's it's like

1118
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: you know what I knowiced thumb. Whenever something good would happen,

1119
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: you get certain people that won't never call you. You

1120
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: don't hear from something good, but the moment they think

1121
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: they found something where they gotta barrel over you. Oh man,

1122
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: you saw it with such a suckceed about you, so

1123
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: with such and such they send you missed, just the

1124
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: videos and ship. It's like I have to tell the

1125
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: motherfucker's stop sending me ship. Man. I got a computer

1126
00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:51,399
Speaker 1: with this motherfucker. I don't need to see that ship.

1127
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,320
Speaker 1: I don't care about what they said. I entertained myself

1128
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 1: with that stuff. Let them do what they go do. Yeah,

1129
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: let them do what they go doing. Another thing I've

1130
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 1: learned in therapy to court is that you have to

1131
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: take time out for yourself sometimes. I've learned. Man. My

1132
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: therapist told me one day, he said, I want you

1133
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: to cut your phone off. You know, I don't mean

1134
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,479
Speaker 1: just cut your phone off for a thing. I want

1135
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: you to just cut this buttfuck off outside. You know,

1136
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: because my mama got my wife's number. You' wanna get me,

1137
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: he said, cut your phone off a week. I've learned.

1138
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: The worst thing in our lives right now is this

1139
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: motherfucker right here, because for the first time in history,

1140
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: do you remember when we just had home phones? James, Yeah,

1141
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: Moco call your house. They catch you when they catch you, right,

1142
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: But you know, when you land up with your wife somewhere,

1143
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,879
Speaker 1: your kids and Disneyland, that motherfucker ring the first thing

1144
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: you want to do is what's that Now you wind

1145
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:51,879
Speaker 1: up spending the time next you can have with your family.

1146
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,839
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you something. Time is the most

1147
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: precious commodity on this planet because when we lose time

1148
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: court we are never going to get that time back.

1149
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: You can't get it back. It's not like you've got

1150
00:57:01,719 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 1: time banked up somewhere. Well you know what, I'm gonna

1151
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,160
Speaker 1: go take me a couple of months out or I

1152
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: want to do that. No, you're not gonna get that

1153
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 1: time back. So you have to value your time. Especially

1154
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: I hear so many older people want to lose their spouse.

1155
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: The first thing they say is I wish I would

1156
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: have spent more time. Yeah, we all say that when

1157
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: we lose loved ones. You know what I'm saying, because

1158
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost like that that that emotion of

1159
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: of of of you know, guilt or or regret is

1160
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: stronger than gratitude. You know what I'm saying. Um, you know,

1161
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: but you know, hey, like I say, man, life is

1162
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: hard as ship bro. You know it's But but what

1163
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: I've learned too is you know what what life? Life

1164
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: is hard, but sometimes humans complicated. To be very honest,

1165
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 1: with you. You have to exercise a level of funcket

1166
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: in life. You have to sure, you gotta understand the

1167
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: controls and illusion. The best thing that we can do

1168
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: is try to influence the outcome that we want. But

1169
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's gonna be what

1170
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. So you know, all we can do

1171
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: is do our best, you know, be the best people

1172
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: that we can be. You know. Um, I was having

1173
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: a conversation with someone the other day. I tend to

1174
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: kind of have these conversations with millennials, and you know,

1175
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: millennials are built a lot different, you know, you know,

1176
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: And I was talking to him about grace and mercy

1177
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: and forgiveness. You know, we carried so much unnecessary baggage

1178
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: in life. That's what that's what contributes to depression and

1179
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: anxiety and drug use because we got all these unnecessary

1180
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: fucking baggage. You know, you gotta learn how to cut

1181
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: that ship off. Sometimes we are own worse enemy because

1182
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: we were in our heads with a bunch of ship,

1183
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Um, you know, pass ship.

1184
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: We all got pass ship, you know, But at the

1185
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: end of the day, that ship don't exist no more,

1186
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: you know, what I'm saying that we're carrying it around.

1187
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, just going to the self work,

1188
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 1: you know, just doing the work. You know. And one

1189
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: thing about me, a quality that that I have is

1190
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: I can be a hundred percent honest with myself, no

1191
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: matter how uncomfortable the situation is. Many people lie to themselves,

1192
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: you know, when you start trying. It's one thing that's

1193
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: trying to slick somebody else, but when you try to

1194
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: start slicking yourself, you funked up. You know. Yeah, So

1195
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: you know, I always encourage people, man, just do the work,

1196
00:59:17,040 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: because everybody's self work is different, you know what i mean. Like,

1197
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, with me, I knew I had them. You know,

1198
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 1: even though I'm cool and I'm calm and I'm reserved,

1199
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,080
Speaker 1: I have a very vengeful spirit, you know what I'm saying.

1200
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: You know, if you do something to me, it's like

1201
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: like I'm I'm gonna get you. You know what I'm saying.

1202
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: If it's ten years from now, like I'm not gonna forget.

1203
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: And I knew that that wasn't healthy. I was like, okay,

1204
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm putting out bad energy even with that, you know

1205
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that's why I say grace and mercy,

1206
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: forgiveness is usually for you. It's for you always, not

1207
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: even for the other motherfucker. You know. So when you're

1208
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: carrying in those gripes and those that that's heavy baggage

1209
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: and all that ship weighs you down and it alters

1210
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: your perspective because you know, perspective is the biggest thing,

1211
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: and it's fun is all about how you see. Ship

1212
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: is your disposition, you know what I'm saying, and it

1213
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: it tends to cater to your attitude as well. And

1214
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: your attitude is gonna reflect the ship that you you know, uh,

1215
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: that you receive, you know. So yeah, I think it's

1216
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: just doing the self work, bro, you know, just doing

1217
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: that health work. You know. One thing I want to say, Court,

1218
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: is that this right here, Um, we don't have time machines.

1219
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 1: And that's one thing you know, I learned my therapist.

1220
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 1: He said, you know, because I had all this stuff

1221
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 1: that I didn't realize it's bothering me. That was in

1222
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: the past, right he said, Man, check this out. We

1223
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: don't have time machines. Why are you worried about that ship.

1224
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: It's not like you can go back and correct it.

1225
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: Because even if you did, even if we could, you

1226
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,160
Speaker 1: can may go back and funk up something and you

1227
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: come back in your life, you've got another problem all

1228
01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with. One thing about it, bro, we

1229
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: are going to always have issues. We are always going

1230
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: to have complications. And I don't care if you've got

1231
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in the bank, that don't matter. Nobody's

1232
01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: in nobody don't matter, That don't matter. You hear about

1233
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: people all the time worth thirty forty million dollars putting

1234
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 1: a pistol in their mouth and just ding all because

1235
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: they cannot deal with it all. All the money they

1236
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 1: have is not go sure the elves that they got

1237
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: going in their life. But this is one thing I

1238
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: want to say, Man, if you've got a problem with drugs,

1239
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 1: go get some help. Drugs ain't drugs, ain't nomber the

1240
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: band day. They're not gonna fix nothing. They don't fix

1241
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: the damn thing. All they're gonna do is make it,

1242
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: make it, make it worse, and find some you know,

1243
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: find a spiritual You know, I'm not saying you have

1244
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 1: to be a Christian or a Muslim, but whatever that

1245
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: that moves you to to peace. You know what I'm saying,

1246
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: and to believe in something higher than yourself, you know

1247
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 1: what I mean, and something you can be relied upon,

1248
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: like make the necessary changes. That's really what this life

1249
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: ship is is to continue to evolve. If you don't

1250
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: evolve or nigga dissolved, you know what I'm saying, So

1251
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 1: you can't stay in the same place. Be open to

1252
01:01:58,480 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: new ideas, like from the hood, just like all of y'all,

1253
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like I've done some of

1254
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,560
Speaker 1: this ship. You know I was. I ain't gonna say

1255
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,400
Speaker 1: I was as gangster as James, but you know I

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Speaker 1: did my ship right, you know. But so at this point,

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Speaker 1: but I had to allow myself to evolve and accept

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Speaker 1: new ideas, you know what I'm saying. So I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, it's easier to blame

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Speaker 1: than it is to change. It's easy to say, mom, daddy,

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Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't it was this, it was dad,

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Speaker 1: it's the homies, it's this, that and the other. No,

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Speaker 1: at some point, motherfucker, you making choices. You know. Anybody

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Speaker 1: that don't allow you to grow past that person, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something, they're gonna fall off. From you.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna fall out here. The worst thing I ever heard,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna get the singing name because it

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Speaker 1: ain't the pop that I heard somebody saying, I told

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Speaker 1: you I could turn them back into Maum James, and

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Speaker 1: it sounded so evil, bro, it was kind of like, damn,

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Speaker 1: So you just want to homely, just to go back

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Speaker 1: and just sunk all this ship off now because he's

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Speaker 1: making progress. When this life it bothers you that bad?

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Speaker 1: You really you really want to see this man back

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Speaker 1: on the block on his ass. Yeah, they ally, they

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Speaker 1: still listen. There's powers that be. That's the devil, bro.

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Speaker 1: It's niggas trying to trick me out of my spot.

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Speaker 1: Is niggas trying to trick James, trick you? And I

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Speaker 1: didn't have them. I didn't almost been tricked to. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I don't almost fail for the

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Speaker 1: fucking banana tailpipe. But yeah, man, like that's that's why

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Speaker 1: I say Nigga's especially Nigga's just doing something. Nigga's gotta

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Speaker 1: be emostly strong, mentally strong, you know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: Spiritually strong, all of that ship. You gotta keep that

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Speaker 1: arm wrong when you nigga, it's a war outside. That's

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Speaker 1: how I look at my life. There's a war outside,

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Speaker 1: so many fucking wars. It's financial war, emotional war. It's

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Speaker 1: bitches trying to get at me, trying to funk up

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Speaker 1: my my, my relationship and temp me. It's it's niggas

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Speaker 1: trying to you know, play with me and trick me

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Speaker 1: off the streets. Is niggas trying to rob me, A

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Speaker 1: police trying to arrest me? Is you know what I'm

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Speaker 1: saying like, And nigga gotta just you know, keep it

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Speaker 1: tie bro right. A moultitude of motherfucker's and you know

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Speaker 1: we call them haters, no man, but there's people out

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Speaker 1: there that really can't stand and see somebody else content,

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Speaker 1: so they want to throw everybody of misery and way

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Speaker 1: they're feeling like. I'll tell everybody all the time if

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Speaker 1: you catch your troll in your comments me, I don't

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Speaker 1: go out my way to look at ship that don't

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Speaker 1: enterest me. But you have the same motherfucker all in

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Speaker 1: your mix. He telling you about this over you ain't

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Speaker 1: this and man, you'd be thinking, Man, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: I'm doing better than your bum mass Yeah, real talk.

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Speaker 1: You can just tell by the comment and nigga. You

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Speaker 1: can tell all about the nigga with what come out

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Speaker 1: of his mouth. If a nigga is hating all the

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Speaker 1: time and gossiping and talking about other niggas, he's talking

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Speaker 1: about you too. He gossip in about you too, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I always say, like I

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Speaker 1: used to tell motherfucker's all the time. Man, you hang around,

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Speaker 1: you know, uh, nine broken niggas, nine negative niggas. You're

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Speaker 1: finn to be the tent. You know, you could tell

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Speaker 1: what the nigga owned. You just let him talk, you know.

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Speaker 1: And when we go ind and right there, that was perfect. Well,

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Speaker 1: that concludes another episode of Against the Chronicles podcast. Be

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Speaker 1: sure to download the I Heart app and subscribe to

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Speaker 1: The Gangster Chronicles podcast. For Apple users, find a purple

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Speaker 1: mic on the front of your screen, subscribe to the show,

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Speaker 1: leave a comment and rating. Executive producers for The Gangster

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Speaker 1: Chronicles podcast and Norman Steve James McDonald, Aran m c tyler,

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Speaker 1: our visual media directors Brian White, and our audio editors

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Speaker 1: Taylor Hayes. The Gangster Chronicles is a production of I

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