Speaker 1: You're tuned into The Gangster Chronicles. Well, James McDonald, Reggie
Speaker 1: Right Jr. And Allen Tomanso on the Digital Soapbox Network
Speaker 1: material witness on an aggregated battery, I was a hang
Speaker 1: gun and um, they believe this might be in retaliation
Speaker 1: to our testimony. Welcome to another episode of The Gangster Chronicles.
Speaker 1: My name is Alex Alonso and you may be aware
Speaker 1: of my platform street TV, which is an extension of
Speaker 1: the o G website street gangs dot Com where we
Speaker 1: interview o G s, former and current gang members, hip
Speaker 1: hop artists, authors and entertainers, and other influencers. But I'm
Speaker 1: hearing my two co hosts, right, James McDonald. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got Reggie Right Junior and James McDonald in the house.
Speaker 1: And this is episode fifteen. And if you're new to
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Speaker 1: on radio dot Com. So we're gonna start off real
Speaker 1: quickly with some fact checking, and we actually have a
Speaker 1: special guest in the house. But before we get to
Speaker 1: our special guest, let me just get through some of
Speaker 1: these uh fact checks from last week and the week before. Actually,
Speaker 1: on episode thirteen, we had Chico Brown and according to
Speaker 1: the Corners report on Gary Webb, Gary Webb was the
Speaker 1: guy that Chico told us about that kind of broke
Speaker 1: the story of the CIA and freeway Ricky Ross. But
Speaker 1: listen to this quote that was in the Corners report.
Speaker 1: It is unusual in a suicide case to have two shots,
Speaker 1: but it has been done in the past, and it's
Speaker 1: in fact a distinct possibility. And that was from Gary Webb,
Speaker 1: who officially, they said he committed suicide on December ten,
Speaker 1: two thousand four, at the age of forty nine. Uh.
Speaker 1: Reggie James, what y'all think of that had two shots?
Speaker 1: It's possible, but it's unlikely. Well, how possible is it?
Speaker 1: I mean two shots were at in the head, two
Speaker 1: shots in the hand, two shots in the head, not possible.
Speaker 1: Not possible. Well now, and unless you did it with
Speaker 1: a Dinager shot, but you still got a cool got
Speaker 1: back twice with a Dinager, So that's impossible. Well, the
Speaker 1: corners trying to play both sides. I think he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to say it was a homicide, but he's definitely
Speaker 1: saying this is very unusual to have two bullet holes.
Speaker 1: And where he got to say a homicide? What other
Speaker 1: way would you go with that? I mean, ain't nobody
Speaker 1: gonna listen to just do kill the self twice? Well,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna homicide. That's suicide. Yeah, suicide, all right.
Speaker 1: The movie that Frank Lucas was in there, we didn't
Speaker 1: say last uh or two weeks ago? That was American
Speaker 1: Gangster came out in two thousand seven. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: on episode fourteen, um, Reggie's correct the police that we're
Speaker 1: standing around Orlando Anderson at the MGM. That was after
Speaker 1: the fact situation. I checked that out. That was the
Speaker 1: as already curd when I saw him standing there. He
Speaker 1: was standing there pretty much explaining to them, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: had just happened. So yeah, that was my bag on
Speaker 1: that one, and I kind of didn't you know, I've
Speaker 1: never watched the MGM video from beginning to end in
Speaker 1: its proper order. I've always assumed that Orlando Anderson was
Speaker 1: standing there talking to the police before the rat pack.
Speaker 1: That was my same, okay. And also I want to
Speaker 1: throw in that the video does not show tray Von
Speaker 1: Lane and pox Ear when Pocket is going through the law.
Speaker 1: The video didn't show a lot of ship. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: What id iss in the video is that one security
Speaker 1: guard out of law was trying to break it up
Speaker 1: in the white shirt. The security for m Jim was
Speaker 1: in the middle, actually on top of Nando's back. They
Speaker 1: actually that that security guard actually came and testified as
Speaker 1: ship probation violation here. And so if anybody that's out there,
Speaker 1: they're really care, y'all can pull up that transcer up
Speaker 1: and all and get that testimony from the security offs. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: so let's get onto our special guest of the week.
Speaker 1: This guy has probably one of the most viewed platforms
Speaker 1: on the Internet. He's probably got more subscribers in this
Speaker 1: genre than any other platform on the Internet. He's got
Speaker 1: over two billion views, that's whether it be billion views.
Speaker 1: And we're here with no other than Mr vladd from
Speaker 1: lad TV, a k A. DJ LAD right, what name
Speaker 1: are you going by? DJ VLAD LAD lad TV, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call somewhere, as long as the Vlad
Speaker 1: brand is there, whatever, we appreciate you coming down on
Speaker 1: the show. And you know, also, you know, Regge and
Speaker 1: James definitely made this happen because they've been on your
Speaker 1: platform and they've been responsible for tens of millions of
Speaker 1: views combined, more than that Reggie and James combined view count.
Speaker 1: What is that about? I mean, I know that. You know,
Speaker 1: last time Mob James was on, we did a quick
Speaker 1: count and it was like eleven million for his first interview,
Speaker 1: and Reggie's been on a couple of times, probably in
Speaker 1: the five million range something like that. That's incredible to
Speaker 1: two guys responsible for over sixteen seventeen million views possibly
Speaker 1: and still and still counting, still still counting every day.
Speaker 1: When I watched video done by Superhand and she had
Speaker 1: three point three million just on one of hers like WHOA. Now,
Speaker 1: You're most viewed video is actually a music video? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we sometimes put music videos for certain artists. What is
Speaker 1: your most viewed interview video? Ah Man mondily enough? I
Speaker 1: think it was a slim Jesus interviews. That's the white
Speaker 1: from the Midwest. It's ten million views. I think that
Speaker 1: one one it Yeah, and whatever happened is in Jesus.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard from he's still, you know, doing this thing.
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean I haven't spoken to them in
Speaker 1: some years. Now, okay, Man, I got a prediction though,
Speaker 1: got even video gonna do better than Keep You ds.
Speaker 1: Guarantee you you think. I think maybe, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people want to hear about what keep You do?
Speaker 1: You got the shade ring into the Chambe. He did
Speaker 1: one one episode. When I think when you start talking
Speaker 1: about the ship and ship crying and stuff, I think
Speaker 1: I got like two almost three hundred thousand vials in
Speaker 1: one day in time period. Well, let's start off with um,
Speaker 1: keep you d Man, since that's the hot topic on
Speaker 1: the table. I know you don't want to reveal too
Speaker 1: much because the way you do your videos, you put
Speaker 1: out I don't know thirty different clips one guy, and
Speaker 1: so that means it's keep you D. Won't be done
Speaker 1: for about I don't know, two three weeks maybe. I
Speaker 1: mean it's gonna be going through the whole month, the
Speaker 1: whole month, think it's twenty something clips. Can you reveal
Speaker 1: us reveal anything interesting about the keep D interview? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it just started to day. Um. Really it's
Speaker 1: a it's a vlad interview. You know, so if you've
Speaker 1: seen the way I do my interviews with guests for
Speaker 1: the first time, it's kind of like a biopic in
Speaker 1: a way, where it tells your story from the very
Speaker 1: beginning to where we are today. So you know, the
Speaker 1: clip that started today talked about how his family moved
Speaker 1: into Compton and how white flight started to take a
Speaker 1: hold during that time, some of the racist stuff he
Speaker 1: he uh kind of dealt with, and it kind of
Speaker 1: gets into the gang situation, uh in Compton, you know,
Speaker 1: how he got jumped by a couple of bloods when
Speaker 1: he was a kid. And the next clip is going
Speaker 1: to get into you know, how we joined the south
Speaker 1: Side Compton crips and how he kind of started his
Speaker 1: criminal enterprise and you know, leading to the to the
Speaker 1: Tupox situation and afterwards. I think that's the most interesting
Speaker 1: part of keypd story is his connection to the homicide
Speaker 1: of Tupox cor And I'm assuming you pulled no punches
Speaker 1: on that. If you've ever seen a vlad TV interview,
Speaker 1: you know how how I conducted. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: some interviews where you could have asked some more, UF
Speaker 1: could have win any more. And I think maybe you
Speaker 1: put the brakes on a couple of times. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you put the brakes on. Uh when it
Speaker 1: comes to Keep You D and and Tupac's Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a sensitive topic asking somebody about a murder that they
Speaker 1: were involved in, and that doesn't come up. And most
Speaker 1: of your interviews as much, you can't really say. But
Speaker 1: what he got to remember? He can only say what
Speaker 1: us in the book because if he go saying different ship,
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt him in the long run. So he
Speaker 1: don't want to and and it might be hard to
Speaker 1: get the real ship out of Keep You D. So
Speaker 1: a lot of people that's paying attention and watching this
Speaker 1: interview might be saying, oh, this dude full of ship.
Speaker 1: But they admitted everything to kayten. But but that was
Speaker 1: under a prophet agreement. Yeah, that's a big difference. So
Speaker 1: you know, just him being on lad Black can get
Speaker 1: it out of him like you do with everybody else.
Speaker 1: Then that you got a good interview going. But if
Speaker 1: if keep you d come off on some bullshit, everybody
Speaker 1: else going to read into it because man, we just
Speaker 1: do they't being truthful or this dude he not, you
Speaker 1: don't want to tell the truth. So but he put
Speaker 1: it in the book if for those who read his book,
Speaker 1: he basically outlines what happened that day pretty much almost
Speaker 1: the same as he told Cating, with uh slight modification
Speaker 1: of Pock having a weapon, I think was the biggest
Speaker 1: change in the story that he gave Cating. We talked
Speaker 1: about that part and uh, you know, without giving me
Speaker 1: too much away, there are some nuances in the story
Speaker 1: that in my interview that's slightly different than what he
Speaker 1: said in the book. Is a slightly different also from
Speaker 1: what he told Cating under that um admission, slightly different.
Speaker 1: So you got some new stuff, is basically what you're saying,
Speaker 1: slightly different. Um, you know, but we used the book
Speaker 1: as a as a blueprint. Oh how we're how we
Speaker 1: conducted that interview, and what did you think when you
Speaker 1: first read that he put a gun in hand? Uh, well,
Speaker 1: the first thing I thought was, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: good way to rewrite history to make it look like
Speaker 1: a self defense. You know, if somebody pulls out a
Speaker 1: gun and you, you know, on you first, and you
Speaker 1: end up shooting and taking their life, doesn't sound quite
Speaker 1: as bad as what most people know the story to
Speaker 1: be exactly. And I told you about three episodes ago
Speaker 1: that's why he did that. But in twenty some years,
Speaker 1: we've never heard that story before because he got legal
Speaker 1: people in his ear. Now publishers and writers and all
Speaker 1: of that kind of question these credibility it questions some things,
Speaker 1: but not the whole, the whole entire, the gest of it,
Speaker 1: because he's still on the street. Well, not only did
Speaker 1: it don't matter because of that, but it don't matter
Speaker 1: because he puts himself at in the car and he
Speaker 1: takes the away from me. The conspirators is out there
Speaker 1: to see, Uh, this person did it, or Reggie did it,
Speaker 1: or Sharita had somebody to do it, and all of
Speaker 1: that book or the cop did it. I actually interviewed
Speaker 1: Chris Carroll, who was the first responder in Vegas, and
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about the conspiracy theory. He said
Speaker 1: he would need a corpse riding around on a bicycle,
Speaker 1: you know, in order to switch it real quick with
Speaker 1: like like I when you're talking about the people. That's
Speaker 1: that's a whole different brands actually confirmed the injury that
Speaker 1: Sugar had on his head that a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought Sugar was exaggerating coming on he was just spurting
Speaker 1: out of blood. Yeah, and a lot of time, a
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't believe stories. Should believe to this
Speaker 1: day that there's a fragment in this here in this hand.
Speaker 1: He really believes that should believe you got a metal
Speaker 1: plate in this hear too they you didn't get no surgery.
Speaker 1: You didn't have surgery on that on that because if
Speaker 1: you did, you just stayed in the hospital. Wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been We all know it's great, some type of pragmant.
Speaker 1: You know, he was crazy. But my question is how
Speaker 1: do you feel about the keep you D interview with you? Well,
Speaker 1: I feel with the KEYP E D interview, it goes,
Speaker 1: it goes along with the storyline that I've been hearing
Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years that you know, there's no
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that the jumping of Orlando triggered a chain
Speaker 1: of events that ended Tupac's life. That the people that
Speaker 1: I've always heard were involved are the people that are involved.
Speaker 1: There is no conspiracy, there is no government, there is
Speaker 1: no sugar making, you know, trying to put a hit
Speaker 1: out on somebody. The most obvious answer, you know, they
Speaker 1: went and jumped a guy who was a dangerous individual.
Speaker 1: Every interview that that has a long history that was
Speaker 1: being investigated from multiple murders at the time. Uh, no
Speaker 1: one's ever painted Orlando as a soft guy or a
Speaker 1: wanna be or anything of that sort. He was a
Speaker 1: hitter in his neighborhood and it's set off a chain
Speaker 1: of events that never should happen. Exactly. Well, I got
Speaker 1: a question regard and keep you d because I've been
Speaker 1: dealing with this guy on and off since last year,
Speaker 1: and I could never get him to come on my
Speaker 1: platform because he's constantly asking for money. He wants to
Speaker 1: get paid for any time he opened his mouth. So
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you had to do some give him some
Speaker 1: sort of uh, you know, dangle something in front of
Speaker 1: him to get him to come on your platform, because
Speaker 1: I know this dude, He's not coming on anyone's show
Speaker 1: doing an interview, So how did you get him? We
Speaker 1: work something out. You can't talk about it worth about alright,
Speaker 1: last said he works something out. We works something out. Cool. Cool, alright. So, um,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about the way you you
Speaker 1: put your videos out. I guess when you divide your
Speaker 1: one and a half hour interview into these segments, it's
Speaker 1: all for the purpose of maximizing the view count. Well
Speaker 1: two things. It is there to maximize the view kind
Speaker 1: of obviously running business, so we want to make as
Speaker 1: much revenue off of our product as possible. But I
Speaker 1: think more importantly is to focus on the aspects of
Speaker 1: the different parts of that interview. Like if I just
Speaker 1: put mob James interview and just threw it out just
Speaker 1: like that, it would not get nearly the type of
Speaker 1: response as it would have gotten the way I broke
Speaker 1: it down, Like here is the part about losing his
Speaker 1: younger brother, you know what I mean, Let's just put
Speaker 1: that part by itself and let people just understand the
Speaker 1: importance of this part. Here's the part about you know
Speaker 1: how you know how the relationship with should have happened,
Speaker 1: and here's the easy situation. Here's you know, the fallout,
Speaker 1: and here's all these different parts that I believe deserve
Speaker 1: their own platform, you know that, their own peace. And
Speaker 1: that's really the main reason why I do do it
Speaker 1: the way I do. Otherwise so much would get lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle of it all. And who really sits
Speaker 1: in front of a phone for an hour and a half,
Speaker 1: which is the main way that people consume YouTube videos?
Speaker 1: Do you look at your analytics every day and I
Speaker 1: actually wish your average minute retention per video? It's it's
Speaker 1: hard to say because you know, the minutes range from
Speaker 1: five to sometimes fifteen minutes um, but about half of
Speaker 1: that so maybe three to five minutes on average. Because
Speaker 1: I noticed on my channel my average video retention is
Speaker 1: four minutes and like forty five seconds. But I'll put
Speaker 1: out a ten minute video, I'll put out a twelve
Speaker 1: minute video. But does that mean most people aren't watching
Speaker 1: the entire twelve minutes? Right? And you know most people?
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at that, some people are
Speaker 1: watching the whole thing and some people are clicking off
Speaker 1: after two seconds, So you've got to take that into account.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I'm not sure. I don't really
Speaker 1: look at that per se. I don't really look at uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when we get more views, we also get
Speaker 1: more minutes watched. Those go those usually go hand in hand,
Speaker 1: but mostly we want to focus on specific parts. And
Speaker 1: it's sort of sort of like what happens on Instagram
Speaker 1: these days. You know, if there's a hot interview that
Speaker 1: comes out, the hottest one minute is gonna be all
Speaker 1: over your timeline. But we've been doing that from the
Speaker 1: very beginning. We've been finding the hottest five minutes here,
Speaker 1: ten minutes here, three minutes here, and we just keep
Speaker 1: doing it over and over again. Now, I said this
Speaker 1: last week when we announced that you were going to
Speaker 1: be a guest, that you're only going to interview individuals
Speaker 1: that you know are going to bring numbers in terms
Speaker 1: of views, not just some guy that's out there with
Speaker 1: a mixtape, for example. And I was just making a
Speaker 1: distinction because, for example, you interviewed stupid Young Cambodie and
Speaker 1: guy from Long Beach, but only after he started buzzing,
Speaker 1: after he did us on with Mazzi. I interviewed Stupid
Speaker 1: Young six years ago, and no one ever heard about
Speaker 1: the guy you know and um, and and that's what
Speaker 1: that's the difference in Uh, I guess our platforms are.
Speaker 1: I interviewed people who aren't well known. I interviewed people
Speaker 1: that I see something in. But correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: You would have never interviewed stupid young six years ago
Speaker 1: when he didn't have a name. Probably not, because it's
Speaker 1: some it's like a symbiotic relationship, right, Like we have
Speaker 1: a platform and we introduce people to that platform, but
Speaker 1: we want those people to have a fan base already
Speaker 1: that will come to our platform, so new people will
Speaker 1: come to our platform as well, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: like it's a it's a situation where we'll both help
Speaker 1: each other most times, especially when it comes to artists
Speaker 1: and music and stuff like that. You know that this
Speaker 1: is why we never accept payment for interviews. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, we've turned on offers because it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I could put you on my platform, no one will
Speaker 1: watch it, you know, it really doesn't matter unless the
Speaker 1: story is completely insane or something of that sort. But
Speaker 1: you want to focus on your music, so you don't
Speaker 1: really have a fan base yet, so putting you out
Speaker 1: there is not really gonna help you. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be kind of a waste, a waste of our time
Speaker 1: potentially to our viewers who have no idea who you are. Either. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I interviewed uh stupid young and no one
Speaker 1: new him. And I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: his video has got over a million views, you know,
Speaker 1: just some unknown Cambodian kid banging Asian boys from Long Beach.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think you never know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get. You never know, and uh, that's why you
Speaker 1: made it. Well, you know, and and people, you know,
Speaker 1: there are certain stages in your career where you want
Speaker 1: to use different platforms to help you get there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, just like people turn us down because we
Speaker 1: feel we're not a big enough platform. Who turns you down?
Speaker 1: We get turned down every day. Everyone who would't want
Speaker 1: to turn down a platform that has radio. We We've
Speaker 1: never done a Chris Brown interview, We've never done an
Speaker 1: eminem video. You've never done jay Z. You can't understand
Speaker 1: jay Z turn you down. You know. I did Kindie
Speaker 1: a long long time ago and he was first starting,
Speaker 1: hasn't come back. I did Nikki kind of early on.
Speaker 1: She's never come back. You know it happens. We understand
Speaker 1: you think Cardi will come back. You did Cardio Carti twice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she hasn't come back. We've tried, you know, becauseptimes people
Speaker 1: reach a certain level. Now the only one to do
Speaker 1: Good Morning America. Well, I think once you're super super
Speaker 1: a list, any sort of YouTube platform is probably quote
Speaker 1: unquote beneath the artist. I mean it depends. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know a major artist that's about to do an
Speaker 1: interview on a on a YouTube platform. I can't say
Speaker 1: who it is because a friend of mine, but uh,
Speaker 1: it really depends, and I think that, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: trying to change that because you know, you see these
Speaker 1: artists will do like a major radio station. They'll put
Speaker 1: it out and get like a thousand views, and if
Speaker 1: we had that artist will get you know, five million
Speaker 1: views easy. So it just depends. Um, you did Cardi
Speaker 1: early on once she only had her mixtape. Yeah before
Speaker 1: that was before after before Okay, so you saw something
Speaker 1: in her. She really wasn't doing huge numbers, but she
Speaker 1: she was big on social media though her social media
Speaker 1: numbers were big. And then she's on the TV show.
Speaker 1: She was on Love and Hip Hop as well, you know,
Speaker 1: and and like she was already she was signed to
Speaker 1: I think Atlantic, so you know, her her music was
Speaker 1: starting to get you know, it was serious enough for
Speaker 1: a major label to sign her, and you know they
Speaker 1: saw something over there. So we we do experiment with
Speaker 1: certain types of people in certain to guests and so forth.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it works out and it becomes you know, like
Speaker 1: we were the first ones to ever interview me. Goes
Speaker 1: back before you know, Drake did Versace and that was
Speaker 1: their first ever interview, and that that worked out really well.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you interview people and you know that becomes really
Speaker 1: their only interview. I'm surprised how successful cardib has become
Speaker 1: over the last few years. And I came from loving
Speaker 1: hip hop, but it like I never thought she was
Speaker 1: a great artist, but I think she has grown over
Speaker 1: the years. She has certainly um impressed me with a
Speaker 1: couple of her songs, but I could have never imagined
Speaker 1: the success that she would have reached, you know, once
Speaker 1: she got her teeth fix them all right. So you
Speaker 1: often get criticized for your fascination with gangster stuff, like
Speaker 1: you love to interview about cripp and blood stories, and
Speaker 1: it seems like you ask every single person from l
Speaker 1: a about the crack co Can epidemic. Does it ever
Speaker 1: get tired to you to ask these same questions? No, not,
Speaker 1: not at all, Not at all. I think there's always
Speaker 1: been a fascination with the outlaw culture. Uh, definitely in America,
Speaker 1: if not the world. And you know, I grew up
Speaker 1: in the eighties, but I didn't grow up around that.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd already I only saw stuff like that
Speaker 1: in movies. And you know what I'm saying, Like with
Speaker 1: the prison culture, I grew up watching American media. I'd
Speaker 1: never gone to prison, you know at that point, and
Speaker 1: it was uh, you know, romanticized to a certain degree.
Speaker 1: And I remember I ended up doing an episode of
Speaker 1: American Gangster h for BT on Mac Dre and The
Speaker 1: rom Room in two thousand six season one, season two.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe maybe maybe. I mean it was two thousand eight,
Speaker 1: season three. It was the last season. They end up
Speaker 1: canceling it afterwards. Um, but yeah, I did the Matt
Speaker 1: Dre episode of American Gangster and I was given an
Speaker 1: actual budget and real cameraman and stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: when I saw that finished product, I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: Like I want to do something like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: American Gangster was going away, So I kind of did
Speaker 1: it on my own platform, and I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like lad TV is sort of a natural progression of
Speaker 1: American Gangster, and you know, we try to do, you know,
Speaker 1: the best job that we can with the kind of
Speaker 1: budgets that we have to to recreate those types of stories.
Speaker 1: Do you consider your platform hip hop oriented? Because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that you do that have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with hip hop. They're just pretty much
Speaker 1: like crime characters. I mean, it's also you know, financial
Speaker 1: characters like Grant card Own who owns one point two
Speaker 1: billion in property, or you know, we interviewed Jay Morrison,
Speaker 1: another real estate guy, or we've interviewed uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Malcolm X's daughter, or you know, Black Panthers or Nation
Speaker 1: Islam figures and so forth. So do those videos do
Speaker 1: well even though there is an expectation that vlad is
Speaker 1: going to cover something to do with hip hop, But
Speaker 1: when you go outside of that, do those videos perform
Speaker 1: as well as expected? Uh? Some do, some don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: we interviewed uh, two members of the Central Park five
Speaker 1: two years ago, and that was like the only look
Speaker 1: in the hip hop space really that I even know of.
Speaker 1: And then two years later you have this blockbuster TV series. Um,
Speaker 1: some pimps. Yeah, there's Pimps, Magic Juan Film or slam Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we jump around a lot. We jump around
Speaker 1: on a lot of times. It's just like what am
Speaker 1: I personally interested in and who would I like to
Speaker 1: have an hour and a half conversation with and we
Speaker 1: just kind of take it from there. And since I
Speaker 1: owned the company, I just make the final decision every time.
Speaker 1: I don't have to clear it by anybody or or
Speaker 1: get an approval or anything of that sort. And I
Speaker 1: think we all at some point, I've watched one of
Speaker 1: his interviews, right, James, Um, I mean you've been on
Speaker 1: the channel now twice. Ye, Jenny, don't even watch his
Speaker 1: own interviews. I haven't watched any of them. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just listened to how people talk and and and
Speaker 1: I say it all the time, you speak this way
Speaker 1: of black. But when I'm ownish, when when I did
Speaker 1: those interviews with him, I don't. I don't sit there
Speaker 1: and feel like I'm being leading into answer a question
Speaker 1: or if I'm getting the same question five or six times.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a straight up interview. And to
Speaker 1: each his own Every person that get interviewed has I mean,
Speaker 1: say what you say. If you don't want to say it,
Speaker 1: just don't say it or answer the question. So how
Speaker 1: can you blame blad for you opening you goddamn mouf
Speaker 1: and saying the wrong goddamn thing. No, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: not his fault. So everybody has a right to say
Speaker 1: what they say until their own opinion. And and and
Speaker 1: you know, listening to those guys that say, oh Black
Speaker 1: put me in the bag, or or he trying to
Speaker 1: get us to go against each other, me personally, don't
Speaker 1: see that me personally have to didn't have to deal
Speaker 1: with nothing like that, or or feel that, oh man,
Speaker 1: he just asked me too much, or felt like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm mean, he put me in the sweat box. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Every every both interviews I did
Speaker 1: where I mean, I'm just as comfortable as I am
Speaker 1: now you know what I'm saying. And there was no
Speaker 1: kicking your leg and and twitching up the eyes say no,
Speaker 1: that ain't what I want you to say, or can
Speaker 1: you repeat what you just said? Well, I think you've
Speaker 1: come with a lot of wisdom. James even myself. When
Speaker 1: I do interviews. I've done dozens of interviews. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: sit back and I say, Damn, I shouldn't have said that,
Speaker 1: or I don't like the way I worded that. And
Speaker 1: I'm a grown man myself, and I think there are
Speaker 1: some people that have went on Lad's platform and said
Speaker 1: some things that they shouldn't have said on on on that.
Speaker 1: I like mentioning my brother now an interview I've ever done,
Speaker 1: I've ever mentioned Timmy, you know what I'm saying, because
Speaker 1: of the place where we at. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: So I try to stay away from that. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I never mentioned how my pops was.
Speaker 1: I never, I meant, I never pretty much did my family,
Speaker 1: you know, speak on my family. But with him, I
Speaker 1: mean I was just comfortable with Lad, and I mean
Speaker 1: maybe I felt that it was I'm trying of holding
Speaker 1: on to that pressure with Jimmy. You know what I'm saying. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a conversation, so I chose to
Speaker 1: I wasn't. It wasn't forced out of me. I chose
Speaker 1: to speak on it. Well, like I said, you come,
Speaker 1: you bring more wisdom than the average person. You know
Speaker 1: age experience, all the things you've been through. But for
Speaker 1: example of that, I don't want to ask you about
Speaker 1: you did reject on that before you go too, because
Speaker 1: you know, Vlad always get a bad rap with um
Speaker 1: with do you know, not taking coach of Volter and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, But people don't, don't They forget.
Speaker 1: And what I always not I respected before that, but
Speaker 1: I really respect him the thing that he did with
Speaker 1: that dude Carrie Laton when he needed that go fund page.
Speaker 1: He used his platform and his audience to go and
Speaker 1: set up this form from a guy that was shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been in custody, you know, from a law enforcement spot.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't have been. He eventually got out. I don't
Speaker 1: know who the end knowing what the money, but that's
Speaker 1: not our business. But he before he knew all of this,
Speaker 1: he set this up, use his platform to make something
Speaker 1: happen that would have been a positive thing to help
Speaker 1: this man get out of the situation that he shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been there. And you gotta take your hat off
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Stuff like that, little stuff like
Speaker 1: that goes missed by us who liked to sit back
Speaker 1: on the keyboard and and say all the crazy and
Speaker 1: try to be the funny man and have the funny jokes.
Speaker 1: But that was a big thing that he did for
Speaker 1: that man, especially if he would have needed that attorney. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they raised about fifteen thousand the last I
Speaker 1: checked on. That might have been a little more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was a a little bor than that, a
Speaker 1: little more than that. But you for setting that up.
Speaker 1: I reached out to big you. Whatever you have to
Speaker 1: do it, you know, Yeah, yeah, Rember. At the same time,
Speaker 1: Glad is getting an incredible amount of content of exclusive
Speaker 1: over the phone interview that everyone want to get, everyone
Speaker 1: want to hear, right, Yeah, I mean and if you
Speaker 1: got flagged by by YouTube. So we didn't. We didn't
Speaker 1: really make any any real money off that. But uh
Speaker 1: that that wasn't the reason why we did it. I
Speaker 1: just I thought it was a fun up situation and
Speaker 1: so too much. But me being a person this in
Speaker 1: media are you I'm norm still But this whole job,
Speaker 1: he has a media company, he's a media he has
Speaker 1: to get in the interviews. This goes like he doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think asked the questions for itself. I think
Speaker 1: he asked the questions that the audience wants to hear,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the main thing. You try to
Speaker 1: get that because you know, if someone's to come here today, now,
Speaker 1: there are some things I probably will end it out,
Speaker 1: Like if a guy came in here, like there's some
Speaker 1: stuff that he may say that I may, you know,
Speaker 1: just because I know sometimes this seems like just a conversation,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, It's like we're having a conversation.
Speaker 1: So it's some stuff I may hear that I may
Speaker 1: edit out and say, you know what, I don't want
Speaker 1: to get Nobody in trouble had enough to come back
Speaker 1: on somebody. But I think what he does. I think
Speaker 1: he just tries to get the baste if you're possible.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's trying to necessarily real road
Speaker 1: because he don't seem that. I can give an example.
Speaker 1: I can play devil advocate, you know. I like to
Speaker 1: play both sides, and I can see where people will
Speaker 1: get that impression from because like on interview with me,
Speaker 1: I'll use my stuff. For example, I told him might
Speaker 1: want to talk about something, but he kept pushing. Now
Speaker 1: and it's on me though if I kept answering, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember that one. You know, it's on me.
Speaker 1: You know, he asked me about my course situation, and
Speaker 1: I told you I don't want to talk about it,
Speaker 1: but he pushed an accident in a different way, and
Speaker 1: I end up talking about it. So I understand when
Speaker 1: y'all say, what are you getting that on? That? Just
Speaker 1: like enough? But I could have this shut up, but
Speaker 1: you have to say afterwards, I could ask him to
Speaker 1: cut it out, but deep down you didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about it the way it was phrased, I think,
Speaker 1: and I think when he rephrased it, then I felt
Speaker 1: more comfortable or the way he rephrased that, and you
Speaker 1: would asked me to cut out a certain part of
Speaker 1: the first interview after the fact, and we honored that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I want to get back to what Reggie
Speaker 1: just said. Um, I remember that that interview he you
Speaker 1: asked about his case. He said, didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about it, but you kept probing. He kept probing. Now,
Speaker 1: let me just say this, when I do my interviews,
Speaker 1: my interviews are very sensitive because I'm in the streets.
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with people that are in the hood, and
Speaker 1: I'm usually in the hood with them, So when they
Speaker 1: tell me, Alex, I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: You know, my responses immediately immediately is okay, it's over
Speaker 1: with um. But when you're in you're in your own studio,
Speaker 1: you're in your own environment, and I guess that gives
Speaker 1: you the level of comfort to probe even though someone
Speaker 1: may not want to talk about something. But did you
Speaker 1: hear what he said? He said when I but I'm
Speaker 1: asking about his questioning stuff. Well, here's the thing. Hip
Speaker 1: hop journalism has historically been pr If you look at
Speaker 1: historically hip hop, UH journalists have never really pushed artists
Speaker 1: into serious interviews. It's always been just promotion for their albums,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much it. UH. When I came up,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do that. I looked at sixty Minutes.
Speaker 1: I looked at Barbara Walters, I looked at Oprah, I
Speaker 1: looked at these platforms that these interviews actually would change
Speaker 1: the world. They would change the laws, they would change
Speaker 1: the course of people's lives, they would unearthed wrongs in society,
Speaker 1: and they made a big impact. A great interview is
Speaker 1: supposed to be uncomfortable. It's not supposed to be just
Speaker 1: a bunch of happy topics and you know, celebratory conversations.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to break ground. And what I do has
Speaker 1: a higher purpose of you know, being a historian in
Speaker 1: this era and capturing the stories of what I feel
Speaker 1: are important people. And that's my overall reason for what
Speaker 1: I do. And uh, you know, in the course of
Speaker 1: doing that, there are gonna be tense moments, and there
Speaker 1: are going to be sensitive topics, and some people are
Speaker 1: going to open up. Some people are not going to
Speaker 1: open up. Some people can get angry, you know, some
Speaker 1: people are gonna threaten to walk out. Things happen, um,
Speaker 1: but there is a higher purpose of what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: And I saw two interviews recently. I know that your
Speaker 1: boy he started asking what are you talking about? He
Speaker 1: got angry, but but it was it was a playful.
Speaker 1: It was a playful, but it was It was one
Speaker 1: one cat that the guy that told you about see
Speaker 1: Gutter that was in jail, We'll see Gutter. I think
Speaker 1: he actually something that was kind of I think Chili.
Speaker 1: I think it was Hill, Yeah, where he pretty much
Speaker 1: called you all and was like, why do you ask
Speaker 1: people these type of questions? Didn't call you That was
Speaker 1: su surf baby yeah, Well it was a guy that
Speaker 1: doesn't have a national name. He had more of a
Speaker 1: regional name. I forgot his name though, But yeah, he
Speaker 1: didn't call you people. Yeah, I mean people have people
Speaker 1: are sitting down with me, so they absolutely have the
Speaker 1: right to call me out and to debate what it
Speaker 1: is that I do. And uh, I'll answer all those
Speaker 1: questions and we'll leave it. We'll leave it in the
Speaker 1: interview and we'll run it. Uh what is that? Uh? Uh? Yeah, man.
Speaker 1: People have challenged me, people have criticized me, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, most people who have who have problems with me,
Speaker 1: they have an open seat to come to come talk
Speaker 1: about those problems, and some do. Now. I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you earlier about the A r Ab interview you did.
Speaker 1: I felt that that he said a lot of things
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't have said. But then I also think
Speaker 1: some of those parts of that interview should have never
Speaker 1: been posted. I think it's gonna be used against him
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna serve some time. I don't know
Speaker 1: what role the video it was gonna play, But do
Speaker 1: you ever feel like this guy probably said too much? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get a lot of views. Yeah, people are
Speaker 1: going to be excited about it, but there's a level
Speaker 1: of responsibility that I should Um, we can need money
Speaker 1: back quarterback. That did you know that setting there that
Speaker 1: he was There's no way you didn't know he was
Speaker 1: saying some crazy stuff. Well first sorry, Uh, first of all,
Speaker 1: all my interviews focused on the past, you know. I
Speaker 1: focus on the statue of limitations on topics. I'll never
Speaker 1: ask about a murder knowing that there's no statue of
Speaker 1: limitations unless you know, and I have interviewed people about
Speaker 1: you know, and I have. I have interviewed people who
Speaker 1: have done you know, like Ben j from the New Boys.
Speaker 1: He killed somebody in self defense. Um admitted. Chili admitted
Speaker 1: to killing somebody and doing the time for it. Um
Speaker 1: no no plug Uh you know, admitted to killing Bankroll Fresh,
Speaker 1: you know, in self defense once again. But never have
Speaker 1: I asked anyone about doing crimes. Currently. Everything is things
Speaker 1: that you used to do, things that you rap about,
Speaker 1: and so forth. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's up to you to talk about what what you
Speaker 1: want to talk about. Anything you say in an interview
Speaker 1: can be used against you, just like everything you say
Speaker 1: in a song can be used against you people gotta
Speaker 1: people have gone to prison over songs. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Anything you do on social media can be
Speaker 1: used against you. Anything you say on a phone can
Speaker 1: be used against you. Being out in public with all
Speaker 1: these cameras and drones and so forth can be used
Speaker 1: against you. You have to be on point if you're
Speaker 1: still committing the type of crimes that you're glorifying. At
Speaker 1: the same time, you have to be on point whether
Speaker 1: you want to talk about it or not. My suggestion,
Speaker 1: my suggestion is if you're still actively doing crimes, don't
Speaker 1: talk about rhymes on any platform at any point. Norman,
Speaker 1: you had something, you let me ask you this. If
Speaker 1: I was the phone managed to get O. J. Simpson
Speaker 1: quote from this show, and he came in and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, fund I did it? Don't turn you.
Speaker 1: Don't even tell me to go tell me, Norman, go
Speaker 1: home and enter that peace out because O J kis
Speaker 1: did that. Hell nor think. No, it's different for O J.
Speaker 1: Because he was acquitted, so he can never go to
Speaker 1: jail for that. Even if he came in the middle.
Speaker 1: He could come in there and said he could come
Speaker 1: in there admit that he did it all. He had
Speaker 1: a book. He had a book. If I did it,
Speaker 1: I found I found a copy of it that it's
Speaker 1: a little different. That's a little different because O J
Speaker 1: was acquitted from that and he can never get in
Speaker 1: trouble for that. What do you what do you? What
Speaker 1: are you really saying? Is I killed somebody? I'm I'm
Speaker 1: waiting on my trial to start, and then I do
Speaker 1: an interview with Blad. Do I sit here and tell
Speaker 1: bad detail from detail how I killed this motherfucker? This
Speaker 1: is somebody. No, not to talk about the end of
Speaker 1: the thing. It ain't play as a job, because you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm a manager. I managed a couple. I
Speaker 1: have managed Glass Malone and Crazy bone Off. I'm in
Speaker 1: there and they go see Flat and they say something,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Holloway and that crazy. I'm that's not
Speaker 1: his responsibility, well not his responsibility. Really. I feel what
Speaker 1: you're saying because I you know, I can have this
Speaker 1: thing in my head. Okay, well maybe this guy's will
Speaker 1: get in trouble. But at the end of the day
Speaker 1: when I talk to them, people back in New York
Speaker 1: like all these shows, like you know about the shows.
Speaker 1: They care about numbers, and so I know what, It's
Speaker 1: a business at the end of the day. So somebody
Speaker 1: comes in and saying something, it's not really his job.
Speaker 1: The baby said, people, if they come in there, now,
Speaker 1: that ain't what Alex saying. What Alex is saying it
Speaker 1: is basically, have you just said back and just had
Speaker 1: a conscious to say damn, I know he know what
Speaker 1: he just did on this. Before I edit this, let
Speaker 1: me call him and talked to him and tell him
Speaker 1: I've done that. I've done that before. Well not only
Speaker 1: have I done that it and and told people, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut this out. Uh, we've gotten a certain
Speaker 1: like for example, when I interviewed the baby, Uh, there
Speaker 1: was an incident where he kills someone in self defense
Speaker 1: and a Walmart and it was still technically an open case,
Speaker 1: even though ultimately that they dropped the charges against him
Speaker 1: because it was self defense. You know, they got him
Speaker 1: with like an illegal firearm probation bullshit. But I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I know this is an open case, so we're not
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it. We're gonna touch on you know.
Speaker 1: We touched on it that way and we kept it moving. Um.
Speaker 1: I have I have a number of offers of people
Speaker 1: who are in prison right now awaiting trial that want
Speaker 1: to do an interview. I want to do an interview
Speaker 1: with me, just to kind of get their side of
Speaker 1: the story out. And once again I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: an open case. Um. You know, we don't want our
Speaker 1: stuff to be used in courtrooms, uh, to hurt people's cases. Um.
Speaker 1: But ultimately, all this stuff is going to potentially be used,
Speaker 1: you know, the interviews, the all your social media uh uh,
Speaker 1: as well as your music possibly if you're an artist,
Speaker 1: So you have to be aware of that. It was
Speaker 1: a subject that I was willing to check you on
Speaker 1: and I told him you can ask me about it,
Speaker 1: and he told me, now, let's leave it alone. I
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. Yeah, okay, let's get your
Speaker 1: real ship. Man. How do you A lot of people
Speaker 1: say you have it out for Shig and you don't
Speaker 1: Night Man? Do you hate Shige Night? I've never met
Speaker 1: your Night. I can't. I can't hate someone i've never met, right,
Speaker 1: you can you can hate the persona. He said that
Speaker 1: if y'all listen to the interview that he did with me,
Speaker 1: he talked about he explained that great I will I
Speaker 1: will say this and I've said this before. I've been
Speaker 1: around Sugar two three, three times. I remember my life
Speaker 1: where we were standing close to each other, and I've
Speaker 1: always chosen not to speak to him because there's so much,
Speaker 1: so many bad stories I heard around him that and
Speaker 1: I know that he knows who I am. You know,
Speaker 1: he's spoken to two people who was spoken to me
Speaker 1: about it, So it's not like we would be complete
Speaker 1: strangers when we met. But I just chose not to
Speaker 1: associate with him based on all the stories I've consistently
Speaker 1: heard from everyone that's you know, deal would dealt with
Speaker 1: him in any sort of fashion. Uh, And that's basically
Speaker 1: how I feel. And he let some stuff go out
Speaker 1: on this error. Positive I said positive things about show
Speaker 1: and Gotty. If you listen to that interview, he makes
Speaker 1: you really get some new resfine respect for things that
Speaker 1: he said. I though. I thought, yeah, I thought she
Speaker 1: was going to get off, and I've said that he was.
Speaker 1: Never I thought that as much time as a guy.
Speaker 1: I never thought years when there was no chance of
Speaker 1: him getting off, none at all, unless you believe the
Speaker 1: gun theory, unless you believe actually you did mention that
Speaker 1: in an interview. I did mention. Let me clear this
Speaker 1: up for the record, because Bone is my man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard about this. Bone is never he had never
Speaker 1: he had no gun on him. I heard about talk.
Speaker 1: There was no The police never accused him of having
Speaker 1: a young man had no business walking up salking on
Speaker 1: him like that's another debate, and that's another debate. But
Speaker 1: he never had a woman because I understand that. But
Speaker 1: it looked like it looked like why would you hand
Speaker 1: someone a walkie talking when you're when you had just
Speaker 1: gotten run over. That's the end. It's a very grainy video,
Speaker 1: so there is a theory that it was a gun,
Speaker 1: but I had heard the same thing. We have a
Speaker 1: person in common as well. I know he was all
Speaker 1: upset over someone Piste because it's actually the faming his name,
Speaker 1: well his money. And he told me he wanted to
Speaker 1: sue anyone that said he had a gun. You know
Speaker 1: he was. Yeah, but I can tell you with confidence
Speaker 1: there was no gun. And in fact, if you look
Speaker 1: at it, he's using two hands because she never brought
Speaker 1: it up. But it's a story later. And you know,
Speaker 1: the way I even found out about that story is
Speaker 1: that I was trying to get Bone all that TV happened.
Speaker 1: He don't you never know, well, you never know. I
Speaker 1: should I should never say never say never, never say that.
Speaker 1: But I'll love for having to come in and talk
Speaker 1: about that whole theory and even get mad at me
Speaker 1: if he wants to that. You're calling it the theory.
Speaker 1: You know everything, everything is a theory. But if you
Speaker 1: look even just looking at that case, Okay, she got
Speaker 1: twenty eight years for either panicking and taking the funk
Speaker 1: off while getting punched on, I mean, it can go
Speaker 1: all different kind of way. So I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: why he got twenty years. He didn't get twenty eight
Speaker 1: years for killing for killing Terry Carter. He got twenty
Speaker 1: eight years for trying to manipulate the evidence that they
Speaker 1: recorded and presented to his lawyer right before he decided
Speaker 1: to take the deal. Tampering with evidence was part of
Speaker 1: why he took the twenty eight years that, like I
Speaker 1: told you, I said on last show, they cleared out
Speaker 1: the court room trying to pay witnesses to come testify,
Speaker 1: and when that was going on all before they did
Speaker 1: search once on his sister and for being a partner
Speaker 1: of that right. All types of people went down around
Speaker 1: that case. Culpepper the other, Yeah, lawyers, his girlfriend's friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it was the whole thing. It was a
Speaker 1: ship show man all right. Um but but but I
Speaker 1: just want to say this, I don't know Shug, so
Speaker 1: I can't like him or dislike him. I'm unbelievably impressed
Speaker 1: over what he did with Death Row, which he was
Speaker 1: very instrumental in building, uh, creating a catalog of timeless music,
Speaker 1: you know, which you know, everything that I cover, well,
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that I cover is really
Speaker 1: based on Shug's legacy. So absolutely, like yeah, that kind
Speaker 1: of talked about it on previous episodes. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of other people that were the brains of the operation.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just Sug was it was a whole lot
Speaker 1: of the people that don't get their credit but marketing
Speaker 1: and and and and strategizing there. So that's all honest,
Speaker 1: the marketing party that James. I ain't gonna say nothing
Speaker 1: on that. I'm just gonna say this, your platform Flat
Speaker 1: TV helps a lot of people. It helped me. I
Speaker 1: got every the majority of the people that contact me.
Speaker 1: I just had one guy four this morning hit me
Speaker 1: and said it was his brother's birthday. He had a
Speaker 1: drink and he had his gun and he was ready
Speaker 1: to go out. He left the gun at home. He
Speaker 1: thanked me for my words, for me speaking, and I'll
Speaker 1: show you on my phone that this guy, I mean,
Speaker 1: he made me feel good that he actually listened to
Speaker 1: me when I said, you know, I used to get
Speaker 1: drunk on a bunch of his birthday every fifth and
Speaker 1: be ready to trip now and I have to let
Speaker 1: that go, you know, I gotta move on. And and
Speaker 1: he listened to that. So this is what he did,
Speaker 1: and they would have never got it. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people call me and say, man, you speak well. Man,
Speaker 1: I I'm sorry about your your your situation, but man,
Speaker 1: I'm learn learning. Uh. One guy in Texas, he's teaching
Speaker 1: his students they watched your black video of me, and
Speaker 1: he he given them to the video to him and
Speaker 1: and they're coming back like, Wow, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a don't that thugsh it is don't pay you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I thank you for for
Speaker 1: my story being out there the way I told it
Speaker 1: and not switched around or whatever, and people getting it
Speaker 1: and they understanding and and all of these people hit me,
Speaker 1: man is is great. And since then Man, the first
Speaker 1: time my family ever said they was proud of me.
Speaker 1: You know, is watching this video and just like, wow,
Speaker 1: I thought you was a dumbass. You talked Okay, No serious,
Speaker 1: you know everything about me was gang. If I signed
Speaker 1: my name, I signed my name as a gang writer,
Speaker 1: you know, gang writing everything. I had to switch everything.
Speaker 1: So to be where I'm at now, just to be
Speaker 1: sitting here a is a blessing for me. And and
Speaker 1: that video, man, I swear to God it it changed
Speaker 1: my life. And you know, I applaud him. I applaud
Speaker 1: you for doing one with me, and you know, just
Speaker 1: it just all depends on the people that's listening. I
Speaker 1: think you've been there for a long time and you
Speaker 1: got me hooked up with it, and I just don't
Speaker 1: think my story would have been I mean, no, Greg, dude,
Speaker 1: a wonderful job, you know what I'm saying. And then
Speaker 1: I did to Blad and and man, just people just
Speaker 1: it's it flipped the strip. I was impressed with the
Speaker 1: interview you did with Greg. What was that a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago? You saw that interview. That was an
Speaker 1: impressive interview. Yeah, it flipped the strip. Yeah, the only
Speaker 1: part that damn why you wait till you fifty years
Speaker 1: old to be a crop baby? So that killed me,
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't want to keep going on
Speaker 1: and on, but it changed my life, lad, And I'm
Speaker 1: I love it when when I get these messengers and
Speaker 1: and all these uh people hitting me and texting me,
Speaker 1: I'm loving it and and I'm glad I can speak
Speaker 1: to other people when they understand my story and say
Speaker 1: this ain't the way I want to go. And that
Speaker 1: was one of my reasons for just letting it all out.
Speaker 1: If if if I can give one but man, I
Speaker 1: got more than one person understanding where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1: And I love it. And you go to Australia too, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be in Australia and I'll be out there to
Speaker 1: the eleventh. I got my cracket down shoes when I
Speaker 1: when I get down there about me this lone knife
Speaker 1: so I can protect myself when he got damn king
Speaker 1: ruse they're talking about they're gonna get on me, jump
Speaker 1: on and take me to the zoo. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to I'm good. But yeah, man, all of this has
Speaker 1: been wonderful. Man. And and you know, without what, without
Speaker 1: y'all doing what y'all do instead of Okay, let's put
Speaker 1: our hairs together and and and and this can be
Speaker 1: even greater, you know what I'm saying, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people across the world that don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell is going on here, and by what y'all
Speaker 1: do that now they hear it, now they want to
Speaker 1: be a part of it. And I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: they're just more than fascinated with with our culture and
Speaker 1: what's going on with us. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: How do you get to that point? You know? On
Speaker 1: this interview here with lad I mean, this is I mean,
Speaker 1: me telling him my life story. It's crazy, it kind
Speaker 1: of bothered me, but I mean, this is what I
Speaker 1: grew up in. This is how I became mom, James,
Speaker 1: this is this is how I feel about everything that
Speaker 1: I've been going through. And and my whole my whole
Speaker 1: life was taking it out on other people because of
Speaker 1: my my home situation, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it felt good to get it out. Man. Um, when
Speaker 1: I did the interview with James, told me some deep
Speaker 1: stuff about Pops. You've never spoke about that before. And
Speaker 1: then well I spoke with him, but this is the
Speaker 1: first time ever. And you know that was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest problems I had in my life. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying this, man, You know what I'm saying. You, You,
Speaker 1: my pops, you know my mother, you my mama. If
Speaker 1: I don't feel this love from y'all, ain't nobody else
Speaker 1: out here gonna love me? So fuck everybody. And that
Speaker 1: was my life Autamo City. Every day I wake up
Speaker 1: putting my shoes on. I'm gonna hurt today. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying that, that's the way I used to think.
Speaker 1: And you know I didn't care about a woman because
Speaker 1: if my mom's didn't feel that way, I love me.
Speaker 1: I know this broad ain't so I was very disrespectful man.
Speaker 1: That was deep. But it takes me longer to put
Speaker 1: my interviews out. I'm sure you're probably gonna beat me
Speaker 1: to the punch. Well, he's already out, James already that
Speaker 1: the part about his father. Yeah, okay, yeah, And y'all
Speaker 1: don't go looking for appreciate not to be out soon.
Speaker 1: I'm basically a one man band, so I don't have
Speaker 1: the resources to put him out as quick. But um,
Speaker 1: I met Sugar one time and it didn't go good.
Speaker 1: It was an argument, it was a threat, and I
Speaker 1: had some already animosity against him because he had one
Speaker 1: of my close friends packed out in two thousand thirteen,
Speaker 1: had him put him in the hospital, almost died. And
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, um glad, everything that I've
Speaker 1: heard about Sugar, every story, actually Red is probably the
Speaker 1: only one that got positive stories about Shug. Of everyone
Speaker 1: I know that No, but I have the people that
Speaker 1: I know that no Shugar personally, most of the stories
Speaker 1: are negative. You know, You've got the most positive stories
Speaker 1: of anyone that I know that No Sugar personally. And
Speaker 1: I know at least a dozen dudes that grew up Shoot.
Speaker 1: From what I know, Man, Shoot wasn't a bad person
Speaker 1: at the beginning. And you gotta look at it from
Speaker 1: from our perspective. When you start drinking, start doing other
Speaker 1: ship besides liquor, it started, it takes its toll, and
Speaker 1: it takes its toll and and you start you were
Speaker 1: totally somebody else, You totally out of character. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. When you wake up from drinking and
Speaker 1: drugs three days ago, you wake up, you're still on
Speaker 1: that ship. You're still You're still on that high. You
Speaker 1: might not be loaded, but you're still on that high.
Speaker 1: And you know a lot of people. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you get to a position where you had in your
Speaker 1: life and you got all these people. Man, you you
Speaker 1: some people don't there you go closing your eyes. Man, Now,
Speaker 1: you don't want me to start flipping on chick. Now,
Speaker 1: James was talking about reds what happened Now, I wasn't
Speaker 1: talking about it, I mean shood, But but I listened
Speaker 1: to his ship nights stories over he gave man should
Speaker 1: we wasn't a bad person at first, but he changed
Speaker 1: into this this this guy he is and where he
Speaker 1: had now he changed into that ship because he loved
Speaker 1: the power, and that's what fucked him up. Anybody else,
Speaker 1: Reggie and nobody else can't tell me that ain't what
Speaker 1: happened to Shoot. She was always a bullying O. Well,
Speaker 1: I ain't know him to be one. And what was
Speaker 1: he bullying was the high? You know? Well? And then
Speaker 1: would high he getting running and Donald to fight for
Speaker 1: you know, he talked talking ship to people and then
Speaker 1: calling your your cousins and Donald on a lot of people.
Speaker 1: They did it, they did it together. But you know,
Speaker 1: but when you have backup. You have you know, twin
Speaker 1: cousins that uh just as big as you. You know,
Speaker 1: those are three big fish, straight fighters, and they would
Speaker 1: with everybody asked that was ready to are talking about touching. Shoot,
Speaker 1: there was his cousin, so should would pick a lot
Speaker 1: of fights. But at the end of the day, when
Speaker 1: the bill rain, they go running down standing right there
Speaker 1: with Yeah, I believe he was a bully all along. Now,
Speaker 1: glad wouldn't an interview which sugar over the phone from
Speaker 1: California Department of Corrections be something that you'd be interested in?
Speaker 1: Why not? Like I said, man, too many bad stories.
Speaker 1: Not all good money. Not all money is good money.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot, there's lots of interviews that
Speaker 1: I turned down. Uh you know, like for example of
Speaker 1: people want me to interviewed uh SPM, South Park, Mexican,
Speaker 1: but he's in prison from pregnating at thirteen year old.
Speaker 1: You know that aren't cool on that? You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'd be a big interview or whatever else.
Speaker 1: And and that the the story around that is kind
Speaker 1: of weird because she was a stripper and a strip club,
Speaker 1: so he thought that she was of age. But still uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: but lots of stuff I turned down. And the Sugar
Speaker 1: interviews one. I mean not to say that I've ever
Speaker 1: been offered that interview or anything of that sort, but
Speaker 1: I've never pursued it. I'm not interested in. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking to have a connection with him on on any
Speaker 1: sort of level. Uh. Plus we all we all tell
Speaker 1: it you hadn't had Reggie James and other people. I
Speaker 1: think Nick Yeah, yeah, Nick Cannon, uh is trying to
Speaker 1: do some stuff with him. Uh. Antoine Food Qua put
Speaker 1: out a pretty good documentary on Showtime. Uh. It was good.
Speaker 1: Had his moment and crying at the end. I thought
Speaker 1: was that was pointing under an influence. Influence yea throwing
Speaker 1: up and all of that. It's called. I don't think
Speaker 1: Sugar is a good interview though I've seen him on
Speaker 1: half a dozen Chronic. They did a hell of a
Speaker 1: job with that. How he told that story from jail.
Speaker 1: You're gonna listen to Chronic and how he narrated that
Speaker 1: just over the years. He doesn't seem like an interesting
Speaker 1: interview you kind of uh oh No, He's very cond
Speaker 1: some of the questions, he doesn't He's not as articulate
Speaker 1: as James and he doesn't really big the different that
Speaker 1: she was good. You just don't like him, You're probably right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, real quick, I wanted to ask Glad about
Speaker 1: your reoccurring guests such as Lord Jamar brand new being
Speaker 1: with my one of my favorite groups in the late eighties,
Speaker 1: you get Tradey. So how does that work where you decide,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna have Lord Jamaar come back
Speaker 1: on a regular basis? Do they become employees of the
Speaker 1: Black TV Company? No, they're not. They're not employees of
Speaker 1: None of my guests are employees. Uh, let's put it
Speaker 1: that way. Uh. You know, it starts off where we
Speaker 1: did an interview and he had a very opinionated and
Speaker 1: open form of communication that seemed to resonate with people.
Speaker 1: So we bring him back, you know, maybe a few
Speaker 1: months later, and you know, people react to it again,
Speaker 1: and then before you know it, you know he's coming
Speaker 1: back on a regular basis. I mean we have a
Speaker 1: laundry list of people. I mean, outside of Lord Jamaar
Speaker 1: and trade E, there's b G knock out Uh. Uh
Speaker 1: truly had that guys between that's between y'all. You know,
Speaker 1: John Sally just as a regular guest. Big in the
Speaker 1: marijuana game. Yeah, in the marijuana game and the vegan
Speaker 1: thing as well, hugely boosey, Um, who else, China, Mac, Godfree,
Speaker 1: a bunch of people, man. And that's in two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen we realized that was sort of our strength, was
Speaker 1: our repeat guests still get good views, Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of You mean he got more views than keepd today
Speaker 1: and James. Yeah, like what I have. Current guys get
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of views trade D Lord Jamar. I
Speaker 1: mean it seems like every Lord Jamar video hits at
Speaker 1: least a hundred thousand views in the first few days. Yeah, usually,
Speaker 1: or more to three hundred thousand. Yeah. So, um, you
Speaker 1: must have been You came up in the eighties listening
Speaker 1: to the same music I was listening to. So it's
Speaker 1: been a big fan of Brand Nubian. Yeah, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: um absolutely. What do people think that this goes back
Speaker 1: to the comment that Reggie said earlier about being a
Speaker 1: culture vulture. You definitely are, I know, but you brought
Speaker 1: it up. You brought it up, and I think people
Speaker 1: say that because here's a white Russian guy fascinated with
Speaker 1: hip hop, the same hip hop that I listened to
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I'm not so much of a hip
Speaker 1: hop head with today's artist, but you know, eighties up
Speaker 1: until eighties and nineties. Uh, that was my my error.
Speaker 1: And you love that same music too, Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: got you into it? Uh what got me into it?
Speaker 1: I was, uh, well, initially it was breakdancing, you know,
Speaker 1: living in the Bay. Uh. When breakdancing became kind of
Speaker 1: a national phenomenon in the mid eighties around, I just
Speaker 1: fell in love with it. So I started, you know
Speaker 1: I used to break Yeah, I used to Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I never got to the windmill. I could head spin
Speaker 1: and you know, CENTI feed and I could pop flock
Speaker 1: eye and uh yeah, I just got into it real heavy.
Speaker 1: And I had a little crew, you know, my elementary school,
Speaker 1: and you know that led to the music and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just falling in love with the music. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think part of it was,
Speaker 1: you know, even though I was I was a white kid.
Speaker 1: I was a Russian kid named lad in an area
Speaker 1: where there were no Russians, and we were right at
Speaker 1: the height of the Cold War where really, like I
Speaker 1: was really hated by by a lot of people on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, and I think sort of like the
Speaker 1: the outcast kind of um feeling of hip hop is
Speaker 1: what kind of drew me to it, and um, you
Speaker 1: know I connected on that level, you know, of being different,
Speaker 1: of you know, I'm not fitting in to American society,
Speaker 1: and uh, I just kind of held on, you know,
Speaker 1: from whatever off thirteen years old. Here I am in
Speaker 1: my forties, you know, still still loving new music and
Speaker 1: still loving all the old music. So you didn't live
Speaker 1: in an American Russian community when in the Bay Area, No, No.
Speaker 1: I actually grew up in San Mateo, which is a
Speaker 1: suburb of San Francisco, uh, through through high school and
Speaker 1: then I went to Berkeley. Uh So I lived in
Speaker 1: Berkeley and Oakland, uh in the early nineties, and that's
Speaker 1: when I started kind of kind of doing hip hop.
Speaker 1: You know, we kind of stepped up. I started doing
Speaker 1: like production and djaying and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: because I was in an area where there was other
Speaker 1: hip hop artists, you know, like Hieroglyphics and you know,
Speaker 1: and and Too Short and everyone else like that. So
Speaker 1: I started kind of taking it more seriously at that point,
Speaker 1: you know, living in more of an urban kind of environment.
Speaker 1: So he was at Berkeley in the early nineties. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I graduated Berkeley from ninety six. Okay, I was at
Speaker 1: USC graduating. So we're both from the Pac tennant Yeah exactly, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: We're in a pac tenant during the same year. Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to pick but here a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't do a little bit of reading for about
Speaker 1: three or four minutes, but I went on this subject
Speaker 1: from all three y'all. It's the grand Jury, Nipsey hustle Nipsey,
Speaker 1: and I did some research. Y'all believe that I did
Speaker 1: some research. All right, Um, but anyway, let me read
Speaker 1: this and I want to pick your brains. And I
Speaker 1: think they got a problem. Um, and this is why
Speaker 1: this girl got a get um immunity agreement. Yeah, only
Speaker 1: throw it out and then then we'll talk about it
Speaker 1: for right quick. Okay. The they never tell us the
Speaker 1: name of a young lady. She's a thirty two year
Speaker 1: old thirty two year old girl. She worked as a
Speaker 1: caregiver during the day and transport and transport transporter at night.
Speaker 1: Probably uber or left has uh lived in California, says
Speaker 1: two thousand and four. She lived in the christian A
Speaker 1: district from two thousand five to two thousand seven, but
Speaker 1: claimed she has never heard of the Rolling Sixties. This
Speaker 1: is all in her grand jury testimony, even though she
Speaker 1: used to hang out at the Slawson swat meeting. Okay,
Speaker 1: Slawson swat his bod alright, but sixties also frequent that area.
Speaker 1: It's it's Harvard parkmood. She met the suspect on February
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen while giving him a ride as a customer.
Speaker 1: A social relationship began, but she claimed the suspect and
Speaker 1: her was not intimate towards her. They had one sexual
Speaker 1: encounter but never kissed. What's that call a low job.
Speaker 1: She claimed to have seen him multiple times with guns
Speaker 1: and which he said he needed for protection. She also
Speaker 1: claimed to never have seen his game. Tattoos are known
Speaker 1: he was a member of the Rolling sixty game. A
Speaker 1: week after meeting the suspect, she accompanied him to his
Speaker 1: cousin herl's apartment where they recorded music. Where she where
Speaker 1: he recorded music, and she witnessed his cousin giving him
Speaker 1: a gun before they left. On marsh to thirty, two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, the suspect wanted to hang out with the
Speaker 1: driver with her, but was unable to because she had
Speaker 1: to work that day. On the thirty one March, the
Speaker 1: driver called the suspect, who wanted her to take him
Speaker 1: to the Inn and out Burger. When they met later,
Speaker 1: they both lived in Long Beach and they decided to
Speaker 1: go to l Ad. Most of y'all, y'all think y'all
Speaker 1: know all of this, but a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know all that stuff. Okay, you're reading a summary of it, correct,
Speaker 1: I summarize. I'm gonna well, you can read that. I
Speaker 1: summarize it. When entering in the car that day, the
Speaker 1: suspect wasn't wearing a shirt this is the point I
Speaker 1: want to get to, but was carrying a red T
Speaker 1: shirt in his hand with the bandanna tied around his neck.
Speaker 1: When they reached Slawson Avenue, the suspect directed her to
Speaker 1: pull into the Strip mall, where the Marathon clothing store
Speaker 1: is located. When turning into the mall, the driver noticed
Speaker 1: Nipsey hustle and mentioned she wanted to take a picture
Speaker 1: with him. The suspect remained quiet, giving no indication he
Speaker 1: knew Nipsey. According to the witness, which is her at
Speaker 1: the same Nipsey recognized the suspect and asked one of
Speaker 1: his friends, is that shitty or shitty or whatever his
Speaker 1: name is. The suspect exit the car and walked into
Speaker 1: Master Burger. After leaving Master Burger, he approached Nipsey and
Speaker 1: the crew, shaking their hands. Nifty acts as suspect where
Speaker 1: he had been, which the suspect reply he had been
Speaker 1: staying out of the way. Nipsey mentioned there's being paperwork
Speaker 1: out on the suspect, which the suspect replied people were
Speaker 1: just hating on him. Nipsey told him noticed that Nipsey
Speaker 1: said to him, according to her, that he was his
Speaker 1: bro and suggested he addressed the situation. This is not
Speaker 1: from her though, This is from one of the guys.
Speaker 1: This statement right here addressed the situation, basically looking out
Speaker 1: for the guy. According to the witness, the conversation did
Speaker 1: not get heated and there was no animosity or harsh words.
Speaker 1: This is your boy, just talking cowboy group, my boy.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say the other guy, but it's not
Speaker 1: here this cowboy. The suspect also asks the group that
Speaker 1: had they heard his new song, which they all replied no.
Speaker 1: The driver left her car and approached Nipcy for a picture.
Speaker 1: According to her testimony, she heard the suspect acting Nifcy
Speaker 1: the ever snitched. Nipsey made a hand gester, waiving the
Speaker 1: suspect off, appearing to be done with the conversation. The
Speaker 1: driver left and the group and returned to the car
Speaker 1: and immediately posted the picture of her and Nipsey to
Speaker 1: her Facebook page. The suspect walked back and to the
Speaker 1: Master Burger, then to the driver car, acting her for
Speaker 1: two dollars to help pay for the food. He then
Speaker 1: walked walked back into Master Burgers and then before leaving,
Speaker 1: approach Nipsey and the crew, shaking everybody's hand. When he
Speaker 1: entered the driver's car, he directed her to drive around
Speaker 1: the corner. He then pulled out of the gun and
Speaker 1: began putting. The driver told him he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: do a drive by in her car, so from that
Speaker 1: from this point on, the driver knew something was about
Speaker 1: to go. Now this is my some some nation. According
Speaker 1: to her testimony, she pulled into the Alleyft eight Place,
Speaker 1: which is on the corner of Marathon Stroke, so he
Speaker 1: could eat his food. The suspect exited the vehicle, putting
Speaker 1: on a red T shirt, saying he'd be right back.
Speaker 1: According to the witness, to suspect approach Nepcy from behind
Speaker 1: and said you're through and began firing with a gun
Speaker 1: in both hands, so he had two guns. Don't read
Speaker 1: the whole thing. So I'm almost finished. It's been like
Speaker 1: five minutes. Okay, well, good listen to you. I listened
Speaker 1: to you forty five on your personal ship. Nipsy was
Speaker 1: hit a total of ten times. The driver heard two
Speaker 1: shots from her car and she waited for the suspect.
Speaker 1: The suspect and of her car told her to drive.
Speaker 1: The driver acts the suspect what happened, which replied, dry
Speaker 1: before I slap, Before I slap you. She asked the
Speaker 1: suspect where he wanted to go next? What she replied
Speaker 1: to the cousin Harold's apartment. This is an important part
Speaker 1: to Harold's apartment. He also suggested she turned on some
Speaker 1: some music. She dropped him off at the cousin Harold's
Speaker 1: apartment and returned home to her mother's house, where she
Speaker 1: learned nifty Hustle has been murdered. I got more, but
Speaker 1: y'all getting impatience, so I'll leave it with this go
Speaker 1: from there. My point to all of this is number one,
Speaker 1: this guy gets in the car. She's lying, and a
Speaker 1: good defense attorney gonna tear her up because you're trying
Speaker 1: to say she never noticed he had game tattoos on her,
Speaker 1: and how did he get into a car with no
Speaker 1: shirt on? And she didn't see two guns? You know,
Speaker 1: I know we got conspirators out there, everybody on the
Speaker 1: internet now saying that he got the gun from Master Burger,
Speaker 1: somebody in Master Burgers gave him the guns and all
Speaker 1: of that, which is not true. I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: show that this this young lady, it's lying. She gave
Speaker 1: her up. You didn't hear over there with the camera, lady,
Speaker 1: Let's start with line number one. Huh, Line number one,
Speaker 1: howl in the hell she didn't know that she got tattoos,
Speaker 1: that he's tatted up and he ain't got no shirt.
Speaker 1: Number number two, get in the car. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: You want her to be able to read the tattoos
Speaker 1: she said he had any tattoos on a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't know how to read those tattoos. And if
Speaker 1: she's not from l A, you said she's from from
Speaker 1: Loach from. I was gonna get to that, but she
Speaker 1: moved to California in two thousand four, two years when
Speaker 1: even then you don't know you in the sixty neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's been living in the Inland Empire for the
Speaker 1: last people in the in the empire, and I you
Speaker 1: know game tattoos and game members and that everyone could
Speaker 1: read those tattoos, know those tattoos and second second one
Speaker 1: to second one, no shirt on where was it? And
Speaker 1: then he had two guns on where did he hid
Speaker 1: the guns? That? Who knows? In the pockets and pants
Speaker 1: pockets from? I mean, what's your main problem with the girl? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: I would have got to all of it, but it
Speaker 1: did go a little longer than what I what. It
Speaker 1: sounds like you're trying to say there's a conspiracy that
Speaker 1: she's I'm lying, and that their main witness, that the
Speaker 1: prosecutor main witness is going to get tore up on
Speaker 1: the stand by her trying to cover up, to cover
Speaker 1: herself up. I don't see anything that she's covering up. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: for one, she got immunity. How does anybody she got
Speaker 1: an immunity. I'm not saying she's gonna get it. I'm
Speaker 1: saying she's gonna hurt their case because the young man
Speaker 1: per he's not talking, he's not he's not saying much.
Speaker 1: She's just a driver, that's all. She is, a d
Speaker 1: she unless you think she's a participant, she's a protest.
Speaker 1: She brought him back to the location. You watched him
Speaker 1: lowering up the gun. The um the car, would I
Speaker 1: mean the bullet. Watched him lowing up the gun, drove
Speaker 1: him a ray from the scene, win and got him
Speaker 1: a motel room. I felt, I felt in danger of
Speaker 1: my life. Left him a whole day later. She said
Speaker 1: she heard it on the news. Oh, she was with
Speaker 1: him the whole rest of the day. She went and
Speaker 1: w him a motel, got him a room. Not only that,
Speaker 1: I'm starting the shot. So basically, what you're saying is,
Speaker 1: I'm just solders might beat this case because they have
Speaker 1: a bad witness. I'm saying there's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: A good defense attorney gonna tear her up. And let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. Yeah, if you and I
Speaker 1: was in the car, you just picked me up. I said,
Speaker 1: hold up for a minute, I've been going here. I
Speaker 1: walked into this burger stand and I started popping, and
Speaker 1: she's gonna sit there and wait for me to come out.
Speaker 1: And I get in the car, and you ain't tripping.
Speaker 1: You go home. You don't call the police, you don't
Speaker 1: her that somebody got killed up in there. You don't
Speaker 1: say nothing. You're just as guilty as to shoot it.
Speaker 1: I disagree. No, let's say I wait and you get
Speaker 1: in the cart. Um drivers geta quit it all the time.
Speaker 1: I got to not guilty last year from drivers who
Speaker 1: were charged with first degree murder people Versusmad Welch from
Speaker 1: Fai Doos Hoover. They charged him with first degree murder
Speaker 1: because he was the driver. Tell us about Little All
Speaker 1: from Baby Lane, tell us about that situation. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just telling you people. They have new laws now where
Speaker 1: the driver is not given the same sort of culpability
Speaker 1: that they did in the eighties and nineties. They have
Speaker 1: a rule that they say is I was scared for
Speaker 1: my life. And there's the premeditation aspect of it. Like
Speaker 1: she could say she didn't know that he was going
Speaker 1: to go over there and do anything, but she's definitely guilty.
Speaker 1: You could actually argue Eric didn't go there with the
Speaker 1: purpose of killing. So there's no first degree. Well, technically
Speaker 1: there's no first degree murder here. He was charged with
Speaker 1: first degree because he was the second coming back. If
Speaker 1: you would to the shodow knee, ye, he did, but
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have a burger or a food. A good
Speaker 1: lawyer told me to drive back. Look, this guy's gonna
Speaker 1: get found guilty a second degree murder. No he's not.
Speaker 1: He got three minutes because when he left the location.
Speaker 1: When it came back and hands her drive in the
Speaker 1: parking lot, she tells him, then he doing no job
Speaker 1: by all of my car. But how much time passed
Speaker 1: from going to the car and coming back enough time
Speaker 1: to go on to hamburger stand? And yeah, a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Yeah well yeah, yeah, maybe first degree, second degree,
Speaker 1: but first it sounds like you're saying that, and he
Speaker 1: had two guns the cases because she has a lot
Speaker 1: of inconsistence going to prison. What do you think, Glad,
Speaker 1: I think he'll get life in prison. I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a baratorium on death penalties in California, right, so
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get the death penalty, but he'll get
Speaker 1: left from prison. Yeah, we haven't executed because at the
Speaker 1: moment that don't mean the prosecutor can ask for the right.
Speaker 1: He's eligible for it under the laws. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: but there's they haven't executed anyone, and what but they
Speaker 1: still they still will prosecute you and send you. They
Speaker 1: haven't executed anyone since January two thousand six, which is
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. What's your position on the definitely, Um,
Speaker 1: it's a tough call. Me and one of my guests
Speaker 1: had a big argument about it. And he he had
Speaker 1: more guest he had more you know, facts than I did.
Speaker 1: I think the problem with the death penalty is that
Speaker 1: if one innocent person gets executed, it kind of pulls,
Speaker 1: you know, pulls out the rug on that whole on
Speaker 1: the whole practice, questions, the whole process, questions process you know,
Speaker 1: certain people, I mean, and I believe in an eye
Speaker 1: for an eye. I believe certain people deserve to die
Speaker 1: for things that they do. I'm not a pacifist by
Speaker 1: any stretch of the imagination, but I think that the
Speaker 1: possibility of an innocent person being executed, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: makes makes that whole system flawed. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I interviewed the Central Park five who admitted to raping
Speaker 1: this woman through coerced police tactics and did seven years each.
Speaker 1: And you know, and being thrown in into prison as
Speaker 1: a rapist is not is not the same thing as
Speaker 1: going in as a gangster. Do you understand why some
Speaker 1: young people might just confess because I think people are confused,
Speaker 1: like if they said they did it, they must have
Speaker 1: did it. What's your position on that. You can throw
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old and you tell them, like, just
Speaker 1: tell us you did it, and you can go home.
Speaker 1: And you've been there for a couple of days and
Speaker 1: you're not a criminal, you have no record, you you
Speaker 1: had no bad experiences with the copsvious you're you're crying,
Speaker 1: you're confused, your parents aren't there, you don't have anyone there,
Speaker 1: and they're just like, we'll just say it and you
Speaker 1: could go home. The story before all of that, that's
Speaker 1: why you know, they were telling stories before they even
Speaker 1: found the lady. They were pretty much telling the story.
Speaker 1: The kids have something new, something about this this incident.
Speaker 1: Can you believe can you believe what ready just said?
Speaker 1: I truly believe that. Can you believe this? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: there was no DNA found one person's DNA on the
Speaker 1: sock on the sock, not even on a person. They
Speaker 1: had washed her down, they had did so much to
Speaker 1: her to u to clean her up. I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: you know, those guys are completely innocent. I'm I'm saying
Speaker 1: the story before dog them the boys out without no coffee,
Speaker 1: no vationline, no nothing, and they had them in there
Speaker 1: for a whole day. And when I watched those two
Speaker 1: guys on your interview, just listening to the way they
Speaker 1: articulate themselves, there's a sincerity, there's a realness that comes
Speaker 1: through them that they had nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1: Am I right or wrong? Absolutely? Man? Absolutely. I mean
Speaker 1: they said my interview that they thought the cops were
Speaker 1: their friends, they had no problems with cops or anything
Speaker 1: else like that. Uh, you know, it was it was
Speaker 1: horrific what they went through at such a young age.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean, I'm glad that an actual Netflix
Speaker 1: movie was made out of it. And you know, and
Speaker 1: it kind of applied some of the prison rapes and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like because you know, when you see
Speaker 1: I didn't interview Corey Wise, but when you see Corey Wise,
Speaker 1: he looks messed up. He he does not look like
Speaker 1: a regular. He does not look like it wasn't too
Speaker 1: sharp at the beginning. Just crazy, that's what that's documented.
Speaker 1: That's it that he was. He had a speech and betterment.
Speaker 1: He they said he was slow. They said that. Well look,
Speaker 1: look I was gonna ask you. You interview two of
Speaker 1: the guys. Um, how come you weren't able to get
Speaker 1: the other three stories told on the platform? Uh, we
Speaker 1: just didn't have a contact. And my friend, my son
Speaker 1: actually knew those two guys, so he was he was
Speaker 1: able to kind of uh set us up with that,
Speaker 1: you know, because I heard the story, you know, growing up,
Speaker 1: even though I didn't live in New York, but you know,
Speaker 1: he knew him. We set it all up. We did
Speaker 1: it with just the two of them because they were
Speaker 1: actually closer friends than than the other guys. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would love to interview the rest of them,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of like on a run right now.
Speaker 1: It must be bizarre to have an interview that you
Speaker 1: did a couple of years previously and then see a
Speaker 1: movie that almost mimics the interview that you did of
Speaker 1: the two guys. Uh yeah, I mean Michelle a same
Speaker 1: thing the interview I did with her pretty much hern
Speaker 1: into her biopic. I haven't seen that one. Yeah, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that, But that's that That's why I do them,
Speaker 1: you know, so some someone could look at it and say, hey, this,
Speaker 1: let's put some more money behind it and bring it
Speaker 1: into a bigger production. You know. I feel like not
Speaker 1: everyone is gonna get uh like, a full blown documentary
Speaker 1: made about them, but a lot of people have lad
Speaker 1: TV documentaries made about them, you know, like that. I
Speaker 1: did an interview with the surviving member of Milli Vanilly,
Speaker 1: you know, where he laid out that whole story, which
Speaker 1: is just a crazy, crazy story. You know there is,
Speaker 1: but there is no movie or documentary about him. But
Speaker 1: you could watch that. You could really get the whole
Speaker 1: story from one of the from the person who was
Speaker 1: there from beginning to now. So what are some of
Speaker 1: the upcoming interviews that you haven't even dropped yet? You
Speaker 1: got coming out? The back ten interviews not coming out? Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: we we did. We did that. We did the interview,
Speaker 1: and afterwards, he just didn't want it to come out
Speaker 1: right now, based on some stuff that he you know,
Speaker 1: he's working on. Not really that he said, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean partly, you know, he he just he just
Speaker 1: kind of had second thoughts after the fact, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we discussed it for about for about
Speaker 1: six months and then yeah and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And what I told him is, uh, you know, because
Speaker 1: he's telling me about certain things that are coming up
Speaker 1: and he's worried the interview might potentially get in a
Speaker 1: way that so I I told him just flat out,
Speaker 1: you know, man, And man, I said, listen, uh, I
Speaker 1: still own this interview, and I'm not gonna say it's
Speaker 1: never coming out, but I have no plans of putting
Speaker 1: it out for the time being. But if your ass
Speaker 1: die tragically anytime, so it's not that you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's say they do, uh, if they do a big
Speaker 1: ice Cube documentary or something like that, you know, and
Speaker 1: he's tied into the ice Cube story, we may put
Speaker 1: it out at that point. You know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I didn't, you know, I told him, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not telling you I'm never putting it out. But for now,
Speaker 1: I'm not putting it out. I'm just having my vault
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, you never know, maybe in the
Speaker 1: future will come out, maybe won't. Hm. We uh. Sorn
Speaker 1: Baker did one here on one of the guys that
Speaker 1: have the podcast here, did mac ten yet I heard
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, but you know my I do. Mynevies
Speaker 1: a little different than you know, shout out to sorn,
Speaker 1: but my NEMI is a little different. Well, that's disappointing
Speaker 1: that the mcten interview is not coming out. Might be
Speaker 1: frustrating because I get it a lot. I might either
Speaker 1: do an interview and they don't want it to come out,
Speaker 1: or they might cancel on the cancel you cancel on you,
Speaker 1: I should say, UM, talk about some of the frustrating
Speaker 1: incidents that you've had, either after an interview or trying
Speaker 1: to get the interview. Yeah, I mean we had one
Speaker 1: guy that canceled one didn't show up one day, and
Speaker 1: then showed up two hours late the second. The second
Speaker 1: time when the cameraman already gone home. And then we
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of years passed. They wanted to
Speaker 1: try it again, and we had two interviews set up,
Speaker 1: but he had some courtship that you know, he had
Speaker 1: to cancel last minute, and then on the day it
Speaker 1: was supposed to happen, he showed up so late that
Speaker 1: we said we couldn't do it because we had another
Speaker 1: interview coming up. We're not gonna canceled on someone else
Speaker 1: because someone can't be you know, there on time somebody
Speaker 1: was cooked out. I don't know, man. You know I've
Speaker 1: had I've had I've had interviews where they were scheduled
Speaker 1: but someone got in their ear and told them not
Speaker 1: to do it. So they just you know, didn't show
Speaker 1: up that day and told us afterwards what the reason was.
Speaker 1: I've had, um you know, all types of ship happens, man.
Speaker 1: You ever just like just really got into a serious
Speaker 1: conversation with somebody had the ball you fishing. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you with my ass type of ship you can
Speaker 1: go on and walk out. Uh no, man. I tried
Speaker 1: to treat by people respectfully, you know, if you're sitting down,
Speaker 1: you know, because generally people don't get paid for these interviews.
Speaker 1: If you're taking time out of your you know, out
Speaker 1: of your important life to sit down and donate your
Speaker 1: time to speaking to me, I'm gonna I'm gonna treat
Speaker 1: you respectfully, man, And you know I'm not here. You know.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of times, you know, um like
Speaker 1: like for example, with three Greedo, things got kind of
Speaker 1: heated between me and him. I kept asking him a
Speaker 1: question that he just didn't want to answer and got
Speaker 1: an answer anything. Well, you know, he was on his
Speaker 1: way to prison to do like what twenty years or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he was in a certain mind state, you know already,
Speaker 1: and at one point he kind of got angry at
Speaker 1: me over an interview I was at over a question
Speaker 1: I was asking. So we just gotta, you know, we
Speaker 1: calmed down the situation. We sat down, and we finished
Speaker 1: the interview and we cut that part out. Did you
Speaker 1: almost not even uploaded the three interview? No? No, because
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't like that. It wasn't like that. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I remember I did an interview with um you got
Speaker 1: from uh from Wu Tang and he was just would
Speaker 1: get angry at me every other question. So I was like, no,
Speaker 1: funk this interview, and I just I just shelved it
Speaker 1: for like a year and a half. But then the
Speaker 1: Woutang documentary came out on showtime and I'm like, well, ship,
Speaker 1: I got this unreleased Wou Tang interview that's talking about
Speaker 1: essentially the whole story. Fuck it. So, you know, we
Speaker 1: cut certain parts out where I felt like he was
Speaker 1: just kind of being disrespectful because because that's not the
Speaker 1: you know, like certain people, you know, like the drama
Speaker 1: in the interview and like people walking out and acting
Speaker 1: crazy or whatever else. But but that's not the platform
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to, you know, to display, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Because then everyone's gonna come in and
Speaker 1: try to do something stupid in interviews, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like we're trying to set up a professional,
Speaker 1: respectful platform and if things get kind of stupid, we'll
Speaker 1: just cut it out or we just won't put up
Speaker 1: the good interviews will be Gene deal. Uh we reached
Speaker 1: out to Genem Yeah, but he's nine now. But nobody's
Speaker 1: in urban stuff is bigger than that. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why the Source magazine or All hip Hop,
Speaker 1: who were the big hip hop internet machines in the
Speaker 1: mid two thousands that first decade, but the Source that
Speaker 1: was never an internet machine never. My question is why
Speaker 1: didn't ever the Source and even All hip Hop tried
Speaker 1: to have the web site. Well All hip Hop was, yeah,
Speaker 1: but when you look at their platforms right now, it's nothing.
Speaker 1: They they didn't focus on video, yeah, they just focused
Speaker 1: on web that they focused on the web. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, I mean my my dot com platform.
Speaker 1: I mean it's holding steady, but it's not like growing
Speaker 1: like the like the video YouTube platform. Um, they just
Speaker 1: didn't embrace the proper technologies. They must look at you
Speaker 1: and say, we're supposed to be lad. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean to take it even one step further. I've
Speaker 1: met with the Source and double x Cel early in
Speaker 1: flat TV days and offered to work with them, and
Speaker 1: they pretty much for like now we're good, really know,
Speaker 1: we know what we're doing. We don't need your help.
Speaker 1: Was like all right, had a Sunday Radio used to
Speaker 1: you know, Dave lost Dave and Benzino lost the Source
Speaker 1: to Londall McMillan, who was a lawyer who bought it
Speaker 1: out of it out of bankruptcy, and he's never taken it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he never really took it seriously. I mean he runs
Speaker 1: his law firm out of the same office that the
Speaker 1: Source has run off of, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's like just kind of like a side hustle.
Speaker 1: It's the impression I get. So you kind of passed
Speaker 1: up all of the traditional hip hop platforms in terms
Speaker 1: of viewership and subscribers. I think, so you must be
Speaker 1: really like saying, yeah, these guys, I just passed everyone up.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a surprise. I mean I was a fan,
Speaker 1: Like I bought every Source magazine that came out. I
Speaker 1: bought every Double Xcel. I would get rap Pages if
Speaker 1: I can find it. I would, you know, I would
Speaker 1: get Murder Dog if I could find it, Like you
Speaker 1: know I was and read them from cover to cover.
Speaker 1: You know, I just eat them up. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: were if you were to telling me that would have
Speaker 1: a platform bigger than these guys, I just like, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: That's never gonna happen. These guys are you know, the
Speaker 1: Sources considered the hip hop bible. But it just comes
Speaker 1: down ultimately, you know, to the leadership. You know, every
Speaker 1: company needs a leader to keep elevating and recreating that company.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at the great companies, uh, you
Speaker 1: know in the world, and you hear names like Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos and Bill Gates uh and Warren Buffett you know,
Speaker 1: and so forth. Uh you know in jay Z and
Speaker 1: you know Puffy. You know, these business leaders who recreated
Speaker 1: themselves and reinvented themselves and pushed the business in New
Speaker 1: you know, to New Heights. If you don't have someone
Speaker 1: at the helm doing that, it will eventually go out
Speaker 1: of business. Like Ebony just filed for bankruptcy. And like
Speaker 1: you know, if you're old enough to remember, Ebony was
Speaker 1: a big deal, you know, to be like the Ebony
Speaker 1: Beauty of the month or whatever it was, Like you know,
Speaker 1: you would you would go and marry the president of
Speaker 1: some corporation after that, like you know, this this was
Speaker 1: a big institution and they just filed for bankruptcy and
Speaker 1: like it's gone, like run Ebony magazine that one of
Speaker 1: the eight from the White House or something. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: but I know that they filed for bankruptcy and and
Speaker 1: like their whole staff got let go, you know, without
Speaker 1: pay that that type of that type of thing. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. Now they're trying to sell off
Speaker 1: their assets, like their photos and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: nothing lasts forever if you don't have you know, great
Speaker 1: leadership at the helm of it. And I've tried to
Speaker 1: be as great of a leader as I can for
Speaker 1: lad TV, but I have a great staff. What's the
Speaker 1: future for um the platform? Because like you said, nothing
Speaker 1: lasts forever into some other He's gonna do a podcast
Speaker 1: with us, he goes, he goes, he go on his
Speaker 1: own TV podcast. I'm guessing that you gotta do, you
Speaker 1: gotta evolve, not not necessarily man like people. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a common question, and people think that you
Speaker 1: have to do something different as opposed to just get
Speaker 1: better at what it is that you're good at doing.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like the keype D interview
Speaker 1: was was something that I worked on for a while
Speaker 1: to get, you know, and also had to have a
Speaker 1: platform big enough to have something like that. React. Um,
Speaker 1: you have five good interviews going on right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something that you did with Nipsey. It wasn't that wasn't
Speaker 1: my interview. That is gonna be that given by DJ
Speaker 1: by DJ Charisma. You got Trade D was always good
Speaker 1: for you, James Mob, James got I just finished. I
Speaker 1: got Willie D. And you know we talked to him
Speaker 1: first right after Bush with Bill's passing. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we we try to yeah, we try to keep yeah,
Speaker 1: and we try to elevate. We try to push and
Speaker 1: and get the you know, the bigger you know names
Speaker 1: and and and just really give give someone something that
Speaker 1: they didn't even know they wanted, you know, get him
Speaker 1: a story that they have of someone that they've maybe
Speaker 1: heard of here there. But when you hear the story,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh wow, like this is this is an
Speaker 1: incredible story. And that's really the thing of just being
Speaker 1: a better interviewer, asking the harder questions, making a bigger impact,
Speaker 1: and focusing on what it is that we do best.
Speaker 1: And that's how we've just grown, you know, year after
Speaker 1: year where I think like three point three million subscribers
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we just had three million video
Speaker 1: views in one day a couple of days ago, which
Speaker 1: which is a big milestone for UCE. So and that's
Speaker 1: just doing what it is that we've been doing the
Speaker 1: whole time. It's not we're doing movies now, or we're
Speaker 1: gonna do script this stuff now. Now, We're doing what
Speaker 1: it is that we've always done. Yeah when I mean really,
Speaker 1: we're doing the same thing I did that I started
Speaker 1: eleven years ago. Are you frustrated with YouTube and their
Speaker 1: new policies just coming on? No, No, man, it's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, we just put out more content, and uh,
Speaker 1: we make sure that the content is impactful content, you know,
Speaker 1: We're not just we turned down a lot of interviews.
Speaker 1: We we we turned down. You know, we don't just
Speaker 1: take everything that comes our way. I mean we get
Speaker 1: literally every day we probably turned don't don't YouTube get
Speaker 1: your plant when you get a million? Yeah, you do it.
Speaker 1: All that's in my office somewhere in the closet, you know.
Speaker 1: So what advice do you give to a young guy
Speaker 1: trying to start his own platform, trying to create a
Speaker 1: brand from scratch from zero. There's been there. There are
Speaker 1: successful platforms that the owners based that platform on lad
Speaker 1: TV that I've interviewed them about and that they've told me,
Speaker 1: like No Jumper as an example. You know, Adam twenty
Speaker 1: two was was watching glad TV interviews and now he
Speaker 1: has a dope platform right now. Yeah, trade's are they?
Speaker 1: He interviewed some of the same guests that that I
Speaker 1: interview and I do the same thing with, you know,
Speaker 1: people that I look and see it on his platform.
Speaker 1: Um Sean Cotton from Stay Chess TV, same type of thing,
Speaker 1: you know. In our interview, he said how he used
Speaker 1: to work. He was working at best Buy, watching glad
Speaker 1: TV interviews on his break and decided one day to
Speaker 1: pick up a camera and just try it. What I
Speaker 1: do could be achieved by anybody. Tell people copy me? Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean because I you know, I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: have anyone to copy because there you know, I started
Speaker 1: kind at the beginning of YouTube. But um, you know what,
Speaker 1: what I what I do now could be recreated by
Speaker 1: anyone with an iPhone and a passion to actually do it.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think there's plenty. There's enough viewers to
Speaker 1: go around, there's enough money to go around. You could
Speaker 1: absolutely do it if you want to do it, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And um, you're a big stock guy, so before you
Speaker 1: leave here, give us a stock tip, man, because I've
Speaker 1: seen you debate stock versus property. I'm a property guy,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm a I'm property and stock guy. But
Speaker 1: my property performance far better than than stocks my stocks have.
Speaker 1: But I'm always looking for a stock tip, and you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be the guru here with you're always debating
Speaker 1: everyone about stock and property. Well I'm not. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: I can't give stock advice because I'm not a financial manager.
Speaker 1: I get sued for that. Ship is actually illegal to
Speaker 1: just say this is a good stock. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because if it does bad you know, they could, they
Speaker 1: could sue you for the money they lost. Well, let
Speaker 1: me ask this, but but I will say I will
Speaker 1: say this because I do want to answer your question.
Speaker 1: I've based a lot of my methodology uh after Warren Buffett,
Speaker 1: who is considered the greatest stock investor of all time,
Speaker 1: and he said that when he dies, he has very
Speaker 1: specific instructions to the person that takes over his portfolio
Speaker 1: to put of all his money into the SMP five
Speaker 1: and keep the rest in cash. Uh. So you know,
Speaker 1: you could have some some buying opportunities, and you know,
Speaker 1: for most people, that's what he thinks is the best investment.
Speaker 1: You know, you throw you have a little piece of
Speaker 1: the top five companies in America and you could reinvest
Speaker 1: the dividends and over time, historically that's that's been shown
Speaker 1: to be a great investment. You get a big coin
Speaker 1: before I don't. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not big. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not not that I missed it. I was just
Speaker 1: never interested. Uh. You know, because the way the way
Speaker 1: I cat it is that I look at bitcoin the
Speaker 1: same way I look at gold. For example. You know
Speaker 1: that you can invest in some gold and it's just
Speaker 1: gonna sit there, and you have to count on someone
Speaker 1: wanting to pay you more for it in the future
Speaker 1: than what you paid for it today. But when you
Speaker 1: invest in a company, that company is actually making money
Speaker 1: every day and so always there. But when you compare
Speaker 1: you know, gold or diamonds or silver or whatever other
Speaker 1: thing that just sits there versus a company that's making
Speaker 1: money and growing, like an Amazon or a Google or
Speaker 1: a Facebook you know, or a who you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but they're actually making money quarter after quarter
Speaker 1: or year after year and getting bigger and reinvesting that
Speaker 1: money and making themselves bigger from all the money they're reinvesting. Consistently,
Speaker 1: those have outperformed anything like a gold or silver or
Speaker 1: anything of that story. That's kind of how I look
Speaker 1: at bitcoin. I'm it's cool, but it's just gonna sit there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: gold is what twelve ounce used to be three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars an ounced, not that long ago, like then, maybe
Speaker 1: ten twelve years ago gold was three hundred dollars and ounce.
Speaker 1: So if you would have bought gold back then you
Speaker 1: would have called dupled your money. Yeah, but if you
Speaker 1: bought Amazon back then you would have liked fifty times
Speaker 1: your money even um, Google. I remember Google with two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars stock own I owned, you know, and I
Speaker 1: don't I don't talk about my portfolio, but I owned Google,
Speaker 1: I own Amazon. I also own SNP five, you know. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I was gonna buy some Google. But when when I
Speaker 1: saw two hundred dollars a share, I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit too that's a little too pricey
Speaker 1: for at the beginning, And that was the beginning. I
Speaker 1: think I think it started around two hundred. Remember, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really care about where it's at right now.
Speaker 1: I just think, is this a company that's going to grow?
Speaker 1: It will just grow over time. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it said it's all time high or whatever. Do I
Speaker 1: think this company is gonna grow over time? You know?
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm reading this this book right now
Speaker 1: called A hundred of one in the Stock Market, where
Speaker 1: it shows the type of companies that have a hundred
Speaker 1: times their money, meaning that if you put in ten thousand,
Speaker 1: you end up with a million. Uh. And there's been
Speaker 1: like a number of companies over the years that have
Speaker 1: done that. But you you had to wait like ten,
Speaker 1: fifteen years, twenty years. No, No, you don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not pulling out, it's just keeping it there.
Speaker 1: It's just keeping it there year after year after year,
Speaker 1: not touching it. Just like property, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna do look at the your property prices
Speaker 1: every single day? Do you look to see what the
Speaker 1: house next door so sold to you every single day? No?
Speaker 1: You've probably you know, as a as a property investor,
Speaker 1: I can almost guarantee that you've made your money by
Speaker 1: holding that property over a long period of time. And
Speaker 1: I've regretted selling some properties when I should have never
Speaker 1: sold something exactly. Some of my biggest financial mistakes was
Speaker 1: selling a property because I was gonna make this amount
Speaker 1: of money, but holding it I would have made this
Speaker 1: amount of money times ten. So same thing with stocks.
Speaker 1: Right down the street. The building that death Row was
Speaker 1: in I used to own. I owned the ability marted
Speaker 1: from ship because he had to pay off some debts
Speaker 1: three million dollars finance three million dollars. He stopped making
Speaker 1: the payments, of course, so I lost it. I had
Speaker 1: to get rid of it. I just read somewhere about
Speaker 1: it six months ago. The building so for nineteen million,
Speaker 1: I believe it. Yeah, nineteen. Well, the mortgage on three
Speaker 1: million was probably like a month we have bad loan
Speaker 1: had it was fort five six thousand a month for
Speaker 1: a million dollars loan, so times after three But um, glad,
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming down. I hope
Speaker 1: we weren't too hard on you. I know you used
Speaker 1: to this already. But you don't really do a lot
Speaker 1: of interviews, not a lot, not a lot. Why is that?
Speaker 1: What if I promote the platform or you don't really
Speaker 1: need that, Like like my my policy over the past
Speaker 1: year or so, was that only going to do interviews
Speaker 1: with people that have been on my platform, like China Mac. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: like people that have come to me and then interviews
Speaker 1: with me when they want an interview, you know, with them,
Speaker 1: I'll say yes. So I did No Jumper recently, I
Speaker 1: did China Mac. Aaron Foster has a podcast. I did something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you know this one here, Lord Jamaar did
Speaker 1: something with him. Yeah, you know what I mean, podcasts,
Speaker 1: you know, Because honestly, I mean, I could do whatever
Speaker 1: platform I wanted to do if I wanted to, but
Speaker 1: I'm not really tripping off. I'd rather support the people
Speaker 1: that have supported me. I saw you on the Breakfast Club,
Speaker 1: and I don't think, oh yeah, he can't he comes
Speaker 1: on your show. Not anymore, Charlemagne, not anymore? All right,
Speaker 1: real quick, tell us why before we wrap this up?
Speaker 1: Is what it is? That was one of your regulars too.
Speaker 1: It was, it was and a lot of those interviews
Speaker 1: did quite well. So you guys had a fallen out
Speaker 1: or something something like that. Can't get into it. It
Speaker 1: is what it is. It's been like three years. I
Speaker 1: think since he's been on the platform. We've more than
Speaker 1: doubled our traffic since then. So have you tried to
Speaker 1: make amends with him? Arrogant? You can't make meends with
Speaker 1: an arrogant person. He is very arrogant. All right, Glad,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming down. I'm sure Red and James
Speaker 1: thanks you as well. Thanks for coming in and being
Speaker 1: on another episode of the Gangster Chronicles and we're out.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me Y. Just appreciate you, Glad.
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