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In 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.560 one definition from from the bossons standpoint, what recession proof 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.440 mean to you and your words from what you've seen 0:01:58.520 --> 0:01:59.440 experience in the game. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:07.240 Recession proof to me, that defines success. Whatever you do, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.640 it means you're successful. And I want to keep as 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:18.880 simple as possible. Success begins with self. That begins with yourself. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.840 You gotta be a man of your word, because the 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.320 motherfucker that's your right hand man right now that you 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.520 losing with may come work with Rose and I may 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:35.880 get money with him. So we can't beat those type 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:41.160 of entrepreneurs or bosses. That's gonna continue running through different individuals. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:46.880 We gotta build. They gotta trust us. You understand. I'm 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.280 invest in my team. I want it to be cool 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.760 for us to work hard. Fuck that on our off day. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:01.799 Let's get flying, go have a meeting, nigguh heavy. 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:06.320 Man. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.480 Let's enjoy this today. We hustling, but we go enjoy 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:10.080 this today. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.040 Recession proof, y'all. Let's get to it. Do it. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.959 First and foremost, First and foremost, man, I gotta say 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.480 this off the rip. I fuck with Rick Ross because 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:27.120 he's teaching wealth. That's off the rep. Man R I 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.080 pter nipsey R, I p the d m X. All right, 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:35.040 Kobe definitely gotta pay pay our respects before all our 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.040 fallen soldiers. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:37.960 So Rose, I want to get right into this. 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:38.200 Man. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.280 You need no introduction. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.040 What you've been able to accomplish phenomena as far as 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.520 you know, starting from the rap game and transition into 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.920 being on a Magic Johnson level. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.440 That's how I really look at you with the promise. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.440 So I appreciate it, man, No, No, I appreciate you, bro. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:57.640 So I want to start at the beginning. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.400 I want to start at the beginning because shots out 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:02.440 boy jim Jones. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.800 We interviewed Jimmy and he said he was. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.480 An A and R at Warner and he said he 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.640 was spent a lot of time in Miami, and he 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.720 told Kevin Louds, He's like, Yo, it's this kid Rick 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:13.480 Ross out there. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.280 He got a single that's burning up the streets. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.800 And Kevin did some research and Jimmy was like, well, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.080 he wont a million dollars to sign on. Kevin like, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.680 I ain't giving him a million. He said, you need to. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.960 He said, no, you need to. So how did that start? 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.320 As far as building that momentum seven forty five, white 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.920 on white, building it in the streets and then coming 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.000 in the game with if I'm not mistaking a million 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.960 dollar bidding war just off the rhetic. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.640 That was just me, you know, putting that groundwork in 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:51.719 as an underground artist, you know, writing for others. And 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.400 it took me time to get on. But I also 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.800 that time that it took me to get on, I 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.720 also understood my value and I knew it that patience 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.680 of me having what's gonna be worth And that's what 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:08.600 it was. All the time that I was dropping mixtapes 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:09.720 back to back to back. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.200 Shit was really preparing me. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.919 So once I got that one smash record, every damn hustling, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.200 that changed the fucking forecast for Rose. And I told 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.640 him right off the rip, before I fly anywhere to 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.359 talk to somebody, it's got to be seven figures on 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:26.400 the table straight up. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.920 Yeah, it's crazy you say patience because I just left 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.120 rap Snack's office. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.640 That was with my guy James and. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.600 Wise and yeah, talking about it, he was like family, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.080 He's extremely patient. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.560 He said that. He was like, Rose has extreme patience. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.640 Talk about that as far as because from my understanding, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.200 you was rapping for ten years before you actually made 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.000 any money. 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.440 Right I was. I was writing there, I was writing 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.480 for others and rapping for myself longer than the decade 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.479 before I ever made a coin. So I understand that 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.120 we done all went years without having shit. So we 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.640 understand what patience is because believe it or not, that 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.719 counts as your patients towards whatever you're working for right now. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.680 And so that's exactly what I did. Fuck it, I'm 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.120 gonna be patient. And once we got in a position 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:18.719 of power, my negotiation was a little different. It was 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.800 a little different. I understood my heights, I understood my lows, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.960 understood what I had to work on, and I brought 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.280 it to the table and I sat down and shit, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:29.760 here we are still winning. 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:30.080 Yeah. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.760 One of the illest things I heard you say was, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.039 before you can be a. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.440 CEO, you have to be a worker. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.320 Yeah, you have to be a worker. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.200 And that says a lot because the grind you're talking 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:42.840 about the ten years, nobody ever sees that. 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.039 But where did you get that mindset from? 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.440 And was that in the early ages of your development 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:48.839 or did that come with music? 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.560 I believe that really came up growing up right here 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:56.000 in Miami. You understand, as a youngster, before they let you, 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.599 you know, doing all change, you gotta wash the car first. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.640 Before they let you work on this cil. You gotta 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.160 cut the grasshurst you know what I'm saying. And ship 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.400 I began hands on, still hands on. I still cut 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.760 my own grass right now till this day. If I 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.000 got time, I'm gonna. 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:18.119 Do it now. I saw that John did right right. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.680 And when we're talking, we're not talking about the every 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.080 day long. We talk about the biggest of state, the 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:24.880 state of Georgia in the east coach and. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.920 The east fact, I just got it right. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.960 So you out on the John Dere cutting all that long. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.880 Yeah yeah, yeah, actually me in four or five of 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.720 my homieshot, yeah, yeah, I got it. I got a 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.120 couple of homies, shout out that ko in the whole squad. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.600 But we get out there, we smoke us one and 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.200 we all get on our own tractors and go about 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.600 our day. But the beautiful thing about it is the 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.720 time that I get to sit by myself, reflect by myself. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.800 I think about my plans, I plot, strategize and so 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.960 on and so forth, you know what I mean, and ship. 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.280 By the time I in that for the day, I'm 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:02.840 ready to make some business calls. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.480 Step I game up some kind of way. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.920 So you said I started at the call wash you 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.280 was actually washing. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.600 Cars without a doubt. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:12.040 How did that? 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.880 Does that still keep your grounded remembering humble beginnings? Right, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.239 even once had a job point tall on the roof. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:25.840 Yeah yeah yeah without that Yeah, and that was all facts, 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.120 And still to this day that still makes me the 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:33.400 hustler that I am, regardless of the position we in, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.760 because I'm much further than I could have ever fathomed. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.160 And I think that was the word to use for that. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.240 You know what I'm saying. Yeah, but on some on 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.559 some real ship, I'm much further than I could have 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:50.320 ever imagined, you understand. And I'm still getting up every 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.880 day and going at it like weing got ship, because 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.600 to me, that's what represents a true hustler. 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.520 Your mindset has always been different. I mean from the 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.760 early stage. I remember, I think it was on the 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.680 Deep End Wrap album you said I won't fail, but 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.760 a lot of men will. And I was like, Oh, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.600 that's a bar because you know you're in a surrounding 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.760 that isn't promising, but you know that I'm. 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:13.360 Gonna make it out. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.679 And then later in your career you said, in a 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.800 room full of failures, I feel out of place. Right, 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.560 So you had that premonition for a while. How did 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:24.880 it develop like that? 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:26.640 Man? 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.600 It's just what you gotta do as being a boss, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.600 being a CEO. And I want to make this note, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.080 your life is the most important position you'll ever have 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.120 as a CEO. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.640 You the CEO of your life. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.840 You understand, and so for me, I always understood at 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.600 an early age, I wasn't the smartest at the room 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.720 when the teachers asked the question. I would have loved 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.040 to been a young brother that had every answer, and 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.319 I would have gave it to him. But I didn't, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.960 you understand, So I had to sit in the back, 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.600 crack jokes and do everything else. But I understood what 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.720 I did have, what's passion, and that's what separated me 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.400 from everybody else when I played football. My passion I 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.160 wanted to practice to a day when all my other 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.320 homies was, Man, I'm tired, I'm ready to go home, 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:23.920 watch cartoons. Fuck cartoons. Man, let's do this shit again. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.560 And that same passion still drive me to this day. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.080 You understand, it's Sunday. Let's still turn up after this. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:34.400 We're doing some more shit tonight. It ain't just about 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.160 the money, it's about the brand. That's where patients come 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.120 into play once again, the bill of brand. Man, you 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.760 gotta put ten years on that shit. Of course you 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.640 could make some money before then, whatever, whatever, But that's 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.520 the kind of mind frame you gotta have when you're 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.800 thinking about astronomical numbers. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:57.360 I think that was the word for that. Let's two. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.640 Let me ask you this as far as because we 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.360 like to do like deep dives in the business and 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:01.800 all of that. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.319 And you see over eleven. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:08.559 Hundred people here that's interested in learning about business. So 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.719 I want to break down the businesses first. I want 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.600 to start with music. So you come in and you 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.200 was hot off the rip. You sold one hundred I 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:17.920 think one hundred and eighty seven thousand. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:18.800 Your first record week, right. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.080 But the reason why I bring that up is because 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:23.559 it's not like I don't think your first record on 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.760 gold or platinum. But you started a record label Mayback Music, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.040 and everybody knows Meek. 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.280 Mill Valet that story. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.599 So how did you have the leverage to create a 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.800 label even though, like I guess, you wasn't a commercial 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.160 start yet at that time. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.640 What I did was I understood once again, I understand 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.840 my stress and I understand my weaknesses. That's just like 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.800 if I'm sitting in this crowd today, I would try 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.160 to make sure I connected with the most smallfuckers in 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.360 the crowd, meaning exchange numbers, introduce to myself, and do 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.920 it in the boss manner. And that's what I did 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.800 as soon as I got in depth JAM business. As 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.320 soon as I got into the office, I made sure 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.200 I bonded with the motherfuckers that had strengths in the areas. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.439 I was weekend, Oh, how we get to this? How 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.640 we continue to own this? This is what we need. Okay, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.560 this is what I want to do. Let's sit down 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.640 and let's build something together. You understand, And that's how 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.760 you begin to educate yourself. So what usually would have 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.400 took another artist five years to learn on his own, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.000 you know, I put somebody right by my side and 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.240 got the game from and you know, sixteen months later 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.560 I introduced may By Music. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:38.040 Yeah. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.720 So that's interesting because one of the things I think 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.720 people haven't given you credit for this, and I've heard 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.559 you say before, is that when you signed your deal, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.320 you didn't spend a dollar get in by jewelry, get 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:47.960 in buy a card. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.000 Well, the seven forty five, I'm sure it came before that. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.720 That's before why on White seven forty five? 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.440 That came befored he didn't buy Julie. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.240 Like I said, you said, I'm gonna save until I 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.120 know the next best move. And so when you signed, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.600 in your mind you're thinking already I'm going to create 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:05.000 a label. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:06.720 Was that the next best move? That's what you were 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:07.040 thinking of? 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.000 I know, most definitely that was you know, in the 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.320 forecast me being the CEO. You know, the time that 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.440 I will put into music that was enough for me 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.560 to share with possibly ten different artists. The amount of 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.080 beats that I listened to in one night, the average 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.199 artists won't listen to in three months, you know what 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.160 I'm saying. I could sit there for twelve hours and 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.119 listening to instrumentals, listen to beats, and go back and forth. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:31.559 You know what I'm saying. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.240 So I knew I would be a huge assistance to 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.680 the right artist, you know, the young dudes with the 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.559 right passion, you know. And I was blessed to come 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.040 across a young Wille of course, a Meek Mill. And 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.440 you know I came across other artists as well. And 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.480 you know, something nobody ever taught me was that, you know, 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.679 you may come across some motherfuckers with the talent, but 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.840 they may not have the passion. So that's just like 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.280 being a CEO. You gotta make sure you bringing somebody 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.720 to the table who got the passion. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.559 They gotta want to win more than you. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.319 The coach can't want the player to win more than 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.360 the player. Du shit ain't gonna happen. And that was 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.360 something nobody never taught me. That was something I had 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.079 to learn them own. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.200 So when you step in depth Jam's building, are they 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.280 gravitating towards you because they see the hungers. It's like 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.640 when you're meeting like the Leos and the Kevin Lows. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.880 They like this guy's special. This is bigger than music. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:26.120 I believe they did. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.960 Shout out to La Red jay Z, DJ Kellen was 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.680 my n R at the time, Shout out the ev 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.560 everybody that I had around me. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:34.400 They saw how I. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.760 Was on go you understand Rose released part of Miami 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.520 six months later, I was ready to put out another album, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.320 pushing to the Living. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:42.560 Yeah. 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:42.800 Yeah. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.040 It's almost like the label couldn't keep up with me. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.920 By the time I put out Triller, I was ready 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.600 for Deepening Rap. After Deepening Rap, I was ready to 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.360 put out another mixtape because they. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:52.960 Couldn't keep up. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.280 We had that argument all the time. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.720 Rich Favor that was the mixtape for my favorite. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.240 We always had an argument, like who was my favorite? 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.280 Is tef one? Though he always says deep in the rap. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.560 Deep in wrap, that won't change it for change the 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.120 game a lot. Let me ask you this, how do 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.960 you what's your process? As far as finding. All right, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.880 Meek mill is a global icon superstar right now? But 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.880 did you know that off the rep What made you 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.080 want to invest in somebody like me who's from Philly 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.160 and you know, not somebody like homegrown Miami whatever like? 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.400 Was it his buzz already in the streets of Philly? 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.160 Was it his energy? What did you see in him 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:30.840 that you thought he was gonna be a star? 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.680 Well? Really, with me, it wasn't his buzz. It was 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:34.000 you know. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.880 Once I was introduced to him and I got in 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.840 the studio with him, I understood his talent. Spending a 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.600 week with him, I understood his story, I understood his heart, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.600 and of course I felt that at that point, let's go, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:47.560 let's let's do this. 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:48.640 You know what I'm saying. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.840 I understood homie vision and he took it to another level. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.880 Did you did you foresee him being who he is now? 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:57.640 I did. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:04.440 I made a record called Tupackets back and one time 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.640 for the legend Tupact. No way was I saying, you know? 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:12.160 Absolutely? 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.160 But I knew Meek had a story to tell the 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.640 way pop did, and I knew that was special. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.720 Let me ask you this. I want to go on 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:23.840 music a little bit more. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.680 You have a unique here for beats. I remember, naw, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.840 it's called you the very white of our generation. Like 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.800 it's it's a different vibe, like you know what I'm saying, 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.800 especially coming from the South, so we're from New York. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.560 And like the first Southern artist that I really got 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.640 into his music was t I because I could understand 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.240 I can relate to him, like he had a fade. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:42.920 He was you could tell you from the South, but 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.120 he had a New York swag too, and I kind 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.760 of felt like you were the same way. Like coming 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.280 from Miami, all we heard before that was trick Daddy 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:51.880 and like that kind of. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.360 Music, which was dope. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.000 But you came on something just made back music, some 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.360 VASACEI linen shirt, like you came with the whole swag 0:16:59.480 --> 0:16:59.720 like that. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.040 Where that vibe come from the beat. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.879 Don't forget this and we just got this because he 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.680 left us. But he was part of the ball head 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.640 and beer crew, and now he left us. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.239 I'm not I ain't saying you are. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:16.359 I'm saying I am. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.520 He was Scott's crazy shout to my brother's wallowing Gilly. 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.520 We're still part of the team. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.760 It's still beer gang for like here we go. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.639 But as far as the flavor in the style growing 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:34.399 up in Miami, it's always been universal. You understand, Miami 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.000 always been high fashion, big money. We always love the 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.720 ballet's as a youngsters, you know, youngsters, I saw the 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.199 hustles with the Sway ballets, whatever it is. It was 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.199 always the flies. It was always universal. So if you 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.800 was in from New York City flying Miami, it always fit. Webb, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.399 you was from Atlanta, Webb, it was from So you know, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.040 I just made sure I stuck to the script. You 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.119 know what I'm saying. As far as the jewels, the 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.040 way we roll, the way the hustlers got around, you 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.639 know what I'm saying, I just stuck to the script. 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.439 I gotta give it to the ones before me. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.000 They always did it big. Big boys out here, always 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:08.680 did it big. So you know that was the only 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:09.720 way rose they could do it. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:10.240 Just do it. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:16.119 Big' Let's get into this conversation jet doc, right, so 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:17.480 if anybody watches, we. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.120 Got the biggest stock show. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:20.960 shout to jet Doc. 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.840 We got sound for jet Doc, went sound for jet Doc. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.320 So we got a stock show called Market Mondays. We 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:27.639 talked about stocks in Teledoc. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.520 Yes, so that whole industry of virtual medicine is going 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.240 through the roof right now. Pill Pack, Amazon's involved, they say, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.320 Apples actually bout thet. So from my understanding, you put 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.000 a million dollar investment in the jet doc. 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:41.159 Anybody doesn't know who jet doc. 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.359 Jet doc is an online health company where you get 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.600 virtual doctor visits and a subscription based looks like ten 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.400 to twenty dollars a month. And this is a whole 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:54.760 big thing, and it's really big, especially for black men, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.000 because it's like a lot of people don't go to 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:58.840 the doctors. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.640 Because they don't have health insurance. You don't need health 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:01.119 insurance for. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.520 That, right, you don't need health insurance. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:07.199 It's a low amount, right as far as actually the 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:08.760 access to see the doctor's. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.320