WEBVTT - The "Vlad TV" Episode 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.320 You're tuned into The Gangster Chronicles. Well, James McDonald, Reggie 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.160 Right Jr. And Allen Tomanso on the Digital Soapbox Network 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.560 material witness on an aggregated battery, I was a hang 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.920 gun and um, they believe this might be in retaliation 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:23.280 to our testimony. Welcome to another episode of The Gangster Chronicles. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.680 My name is Alex Alonso and you may be aware 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.880 of my platform street TV, which is an extension of 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.240 the o G website street gangs dot Com where we 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.239 interview o G s, former and current gang members, hip 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.360 hop artists, authors and entertainers, and other influencers. But I'm 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.960 hearing my two co hosts, right, James McDonald. Yeah, we 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.160 got Reggie Right Junior and James McDonald in the house. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.920 And this is episode fifteen. And if you're new to 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.560 the podcast, please go back and start with episode one 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.360 because most of our episodes are inter related and you 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.920 won't start hearing mental episode three. And if you're listening 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.600 to this episode of The Gangster Chronicles on iTunes, please 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.720 leave us a rating and a review so that we 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.080 can continue bringing you this amazing content. You could create 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.280 us from one to five five stars, meaning you love 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.200 the show and you want to continue hearing the show, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.400 and you could also in your review, um, you could 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.959 throw in questions, topic ideas, show ideas and we'll be 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.120 sure to follow up on that. And for those who 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.160 do not have iTunes were also available on Google Play 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:22.039 for you Samsung and Android users, were on Spotify and 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.759 on radio dot Com. So we're gonna start off real 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.920 quickly with some fact checking, and we actually have a 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.920 special guest in the house. But before we get to 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.600 our special guest, let me just get through some of 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.920 these uh fact checks from last week and the week before. Actually, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:41.200 on episode thirteen, we had Chico Brown and according to 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.840 the Corners report on Gary Webb, Gary Webb was the 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.880 guy that Chico told us about that kind of broke 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.280 the story of the CIA and freeway Ricky Ross. But 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.760 listen to this quote that was in the Corners report. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.480 It is unusual in a suicide case to have two shots, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.760 but it has been done in the past, and it's 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.400 in fact a distinct possibility. And that was from Gary Webb, 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.880 who officially, they said he committed suicide on December ten, 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.920 two thousand four, at the age of forty nine. Uh. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.720 Reggie James, what y'all think of that had two shots? 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.720 It's possible, but it's unlikely. Well, how possible is it? 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.600 I mean two shots were at in the head, two 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.920 shots in the hand, two shots in the head, not possible. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.960 Not possible. Well now, and unless you did it with 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.880 a Dinager shot, but you still got a cool got 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.360 back twice with a Dinager, So that's impossible. Well, the 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.360 corners trying to play both sides. I think he doesn't 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.640 want to say it was a homicide, but he's definitely 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.079 saying this is very unusual to have two bullet holes. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.000 And where he got to say a homicide? What other 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.440 way would you go with that? I mean, ain't nobody 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.640 gonna listen to just do kill the self twice? Well, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.639 he's not gonna homicide. That's suicide. Yeah, suicide, all right. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.520 The movie that Frank Lucas was in there, we didn't 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.080 say last uh or two weeks ago? That was American 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.880 Gangster came out in two thousand seven. Uh. And then 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:13.959 on episode fourteen, um, Reggie's correct the police that we're 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:18.720 standing around Orlando Anderson at the MGM. That was after 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.520 the fact situation. I checked that out. That was the 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.840 as already curd when I saw him standing there. He 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.919 was standing there pretty much explaining to them, Yeah, what 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.040 had just happened. So yeah, that was my bag on 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.799 that one, and I kind of didn't you know, I've 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.880 never watched the MGM video from beginning to end in 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.720 its proper order. I've always assumed that Orlando Anderson was 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.280 standing there talking to the police before the rat pack. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:48.840 That was my same, okay. And also I want to 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.400 throw in that the video does not show tray Von 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.000 Lane and pox Ear when Pocket is going through the law. 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.520 The video didn't show a lot of ship. Yeah, that's true. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.320 What id iss in the video is that one security 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.440 guard out of law was trying to break it up 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.480 in the white shirt. The security for m Jim was 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.640 in the middle, actually on top of Nando's back. They 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.920 actually that that security guard actually came and testified as 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.160 ship probation violation here. And so if anybody that's out there, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.440 they're really care, y'all can pull up that transcer up 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.600 and all and get that testimony from the security offs. Alrighty, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.480 so let's get onto our special guest of the week. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.240 This guy has probably one of the most viewed platforms 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.440 on the Internet. He's probably got more subscribers in this 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.320 genre than any other platform on the Internet. He's got 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.160 over two billion views, that's whether it be billion views. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.640 And we're here with no other than Mr vladd from 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.760 lad TV, a k A. DJ LAD right, what name 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.920 are you going by? DJ VLAD LAD lad TV, whatever 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.160 you want to call somewhere, as long as the Vlad 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.080 brand is there, whatever, we appreciate you coming down on 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.720 the show. And you know, also, you know, Regge and 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.960 James definitely made this happen because they've been on your 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.280 platform and they've been responsible for tens of millions of 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.320 views combined, more than that Reggie and James combined view count. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.800 What is that about? I mean, I know that. You know, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.280 last time Mob James was on, we did a quick 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.719 count and it was like eleven million for his first interview, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.760 and Reggie's been on a couple of times, probably in 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.120 the five million range something like that. That's incredible to 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.800 two guys responsible for over sixteen seventeen million views possibly 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.360 and still and still counting, still still counting every day. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.400 When I watched video done by Superhand and she had 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.560 three point three million just on one of hers like WHOA. Now, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.039 You're most viewed video is actually a music video? Right, Yeah, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.120 we sometimes put music videos for certain artists. What is 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:53.920 your most viewed interview video? Ah Man mondily enough? I 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.720 think it was a slim Jesus interviews. That's the white 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.400 from the Midwest. It's ten million views. I think that 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.719 one one it Yeah, and whatever happened is in Jesus. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.360 I haven't heard from he's still, you know, doing this thing. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.320 I guess. I mean I haven't spoken to them in 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.800 some years. Now, okay, Man, I got a prediction though, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.240 got even video gonna do better than Keep You ds. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.680 Guarantee you you think. I think maybe, I think a 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.640 lot of people want to hear about what keep You do? 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.800 You got the shade ring into the Chambe. He did 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.200 one one episode. When I think when you start talking 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.520 about the ship and ship crying and stuff, I think 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.080 I got like two almost three hundred thousand vials in 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:34.280 one day in time period. Well, let's start off with um, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.719 keep you d Man, since that's the hot topic on 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.440 the table. I know you don't want to reveal too 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.920 much because the way you do your videos, you put 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:45.359 out I don't know thirty different clips one guy, and 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.680 so that means it's keep you D. Won't be done 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.080 for about I don't know, two three weeks maybe. I 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:51.520 mean it's gonna be going through the whole month, the 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.840 whole month, think it's twenty something clips. Can you reveal 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:59.080 us reveal anything interesting about the keep D interview? Uh? Well, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.520 I mean it just started to day. Um. Really it's 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.880 a it's a vlad interview. You know, so if you've 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.200 seen the way I do my interviews with guests for 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.800 the first time, it's kind of like a biopic in 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.960 a way, where it tells your story from the very 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.360 beginning to where we are today. So you know, the 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.120 clip that started today talked about how his family moved 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.520 into Compton and how white flight started to take a 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.880 hold during that time, some of the racist stuff he 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.200 he uh kind of dealt with, and it kind of 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.320 gets into the gang situation, uh in Compton, you know, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.720 how he got jumped by a couple of bloods when 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.800 he was a kid. And the next clip is going 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.320 to get into you know, how we joined the south 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:40.040 Side Compton crips and how he kind of started his 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.760 criminal enterprise and you know, leading to the to the 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.720 Tupox situation and afterwards. I think that's the most interesting 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.640 part of keypd story is his connection to the homicide 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.640 of Tupox cor And I'm assuming you pulled no punches 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.440 on that. If you've ever seen a vlad TV interview, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.320 you know how how I conducted. I mean, I've seen 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.160 some interviews where you could have asked some more, UF 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.320 could have win any more. And I think maybe you 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.200 put the brakes on a couple of times. I don't 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.760 know if you put the brakes on. Uh when it 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.480 comes to Keep You D and and Tupac's Uh, it's 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.320 a sensitive topic asking somebody about a murder that they 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.920 were involved in, and that doesn't come up. And most 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.320 of your interviews as much, you can't really say. But 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.880 what he got to remember? He can only say what 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.200 us in the book because if he go saying different ship, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.240 that's gonna hurt him in the long run. So he 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.600 don't want to and and it might be hard to 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.080 get the real ship out of Keep You D. So 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.840 a lot of people that's paying attention and watching this 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.120 interview might be saying, oh, this dude full of ship. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.960 But they admitted everything to kayten. But but that was 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.760 under a prophet agreement. Yeah, that's a big difference. So 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.320 you know, just him being on lad Black can get 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.320 it out of him like you do with everybody else. 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.079 Then that you got a good interview going. But if 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:59.679 if keep you d come off on some bullshit, everybody 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.480 else going to read into it because man, we just 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.400 do they't being truthful or this dude he not, you 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.720 don't want to tell the truth. So but he put 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.880 it in the book if for those who read his book, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.600 he basically outlines what happened that day pretty much almost 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.559 the same as he told Cating, with uh slight modification 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.880 of Pock having a weapon, I think was the biggest 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.040 change in the story that he gave Cating. We talked 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.520 about that part and uh, you know, without giving me 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:35.679 too much away, there are some nuances in the story 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.040 that in my interview that's slightly different than what he 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.079 said in the book. Is a slightly different also from 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:47.720 what he told Cating under that um admission, slightly different. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.920 So you got some new stuff, is basically what you're saying, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.480 slightly different. Um, you know, but we used the book 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.400 as a as a blueprint. Oh how we're how we 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.760 conducted that interview, and what did you think when you 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:03.840 first read that he put a gun in hand? Uh, well, 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.000 the first thing I thought was, it's a it's a 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.960 good way to rewrite history to make it look like 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.319 a self defense. You know, if somebody pulls out a 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.880 gun and you, you know, on you first, and you 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.240 end up shooting and taking their life, doesn't sound quite 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.160 as bad as what most people know the story to 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.640 be exactly. And I told you about three episodes ago 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.720 that's why he did that. But in twenty some years, 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.800 we've never heard that story before because he got legal 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.840 people in his ear. Now publishers and writers and all 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.400 of that kind of question these credibility it questions some things, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.760 but not the whole, the whole entire, the gest of it, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.840 because he's still on the street. Well, not only did 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.560 it don't matter because of that, but it don't matter 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.520 because he puts himself at in the car and he 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.440 takes the away from me. The conspirators is out there 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.400 to see, Uh, this person did it, or Reggie did it, 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.319 or Sharita had somebody to do it, and all of 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.840 that book or the cop did it. I actually interviewed 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.240 Chris Carroll, who was the first responder in Vegas, and 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.560 you know, we talked about the conspiracy theory. He said 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.760 he would need a corpse riding around on a bicycle, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:11.720 you know, in order to switch it real quick with 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.920 like like I when you're talking about the people. That's 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.160 that's a whole different brands actually confirmed the injury that 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.720 Sugar had on his head that a lot of people 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.880 thought Sugar was exaggerating coming on he was just spurting 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.800 out of blood. Yeah, and a lot of time, a 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.840 lot of people didn't believe stories. Should believe to this 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.720 day that there's a fragment in this here in this hand. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.200 He really believes that should believe you got a metal 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.480 plate in this hear too they you didn't get no surgery. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.240 You didn't have surgery on that on that because if 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.040 you did, you just stayed in the hospital. Wouldn't have 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.679 been We all know it's great, some type of pragmant. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.600 You know, he was crazy. But my question is how 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.440 do you feel about the keep you D interview with you? Well, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.120 I feel with the KEYP E D interview, it goes, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.040 it goes along with the storyline that I've been hearing 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:10.360 for the last fifteen years that you know, there's no 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.800 conspiracy theory that the jumping of Orlando triggered a chain 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.200 of events that ended Tupac's life. That the people that 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.200 I've always heard were involved are the people that are involved. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.960 There is no conspiracy, there is no government, there is 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.560 no sugar making, you know, trying to put a hit 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.920 out on somebody. The most obvious answer, you know, they 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.440 went and jumped a guy who was a dangerous individual. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.959 Every interview that that has a long history that was 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.800 being investigated from multiple murders at the time. Uh, no 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.400 one's ever painted Orlando as a soft guy or a 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.880 wanna be or anything of that sort. He was a 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.400 hitter in his neighborhood and it's set off a chain 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.280 of events that never should happen. Exactly. Well, I got 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.080 a question regard and keep you d because I've been 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.520 dealing with this guy on and off since last year, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.920 and I could never get him to come on my 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.959 platform because he's constantly asking for money. He wants to 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.120 get paid for any time he opened his mouth. So 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.360 I'm assuming you had to do some give him some 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.520 sort of uh, you know, dangle something in front of 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.640 him to get him to come on your platform, because 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.280 I know this dude, He's not coming on anyone's show 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.520 doing an interview, So how did you get him? We 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:28.560 work something out. You can't talk about it worth about alright, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.079 last said he works something out. We works something out. Cool. Cool, alright. So, um, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.240 I wanted to ask you about the way you you 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.560 put your videos out. I guess when you divide your 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.439 one and a half hour interview into these segments, it's 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.880 all for the purpose of maximizing the view count. Well 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.880 two things. It is there to maximize the view kind 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.040 of obviously running business, so we want to make as 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.880 much revenue off of our product as possible. But I 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.880 think more importantly is to focus on the aspects of 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.880 the different parts of that interview. Like if I just 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.360 put mob James interview and just threw it out just 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.960 like that, it would not get nearly the type of 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.760 response as it would have gotten the way I broke 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.960 it down, Like here is the part about losing his 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.960 younger brother, you know what I mean, Let's just put 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.920 that part by itself and let people just understand the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.800 importance of this part. Here's the part about you know 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.640 how you know how the relationship with should have happened, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.680 and here's the easy situation. Here's you know, the fallout, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.920 and here's all these different parts that I believe deserve 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.720 their own platform, you know that, their own peace. And 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.480 that's really the main reason why I do do it 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.960 the way I do. Otherwise so much would get lost 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.400 in the shuffle of it all. And who really sits 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.720 in front of a phone for an hour and a half, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.840 which is the main way that people consume YouTube videos? 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.600 Do you look at your analytics every day and I 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:08.120 actually wish your average minute retention per video? It's it's 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.320 hard to say because you know, the minutes range from 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.560 five to sometimes fifteen minutes um, but about half of 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.720 that so maybe three to five minutes on average. Because 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.360 I noticed on my channel my average video retention is 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.400 four minutes and like forty five seconds. But I'll put 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.360 out a ten minute video, I'll put out a twelve 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.840 minute video. But does that mean most people aren't watching 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.080 the entire twelve minutes? Right? And you know most people? 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.800 You know, when you look at that, some people are 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.480 watching the whole thing and some people are clicking off 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.320 after two seconds, So you've got to take that into account. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.920 But um, you know, I'm not sure. I don't really 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.720 look at that per se. I don't really look at uh. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.480 You know, when we get more views, we also get 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.520 more minutes watched. Those go those usually go hand in hand, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.720 but mostly we want to focus on specific parts. And 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.400 it's sort of sort of like what happens on Instagram 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.680 these days. You know, if there's a hot interview that 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.960 comes out, the hottest one minute is gonna be all 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.320 over your timeline. But we've been doing that from the 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.640 very beginning. We've been finding the hottest five minutes here, 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.200 ten minutes here, three minutes here, and we just keep 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.040 doing it over and over again. Now, I said this 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.320 last week when we announced that you were going to 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.120 be a guest, that you're only going to interview individuals 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.440 that you know are going to bring numbers in terms 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.040 of views, not just some guy that's out there with 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.280 a mixtape, for example. And I was just making a 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.440 distinction because, for example, you interviewed stupid Young Cambodie and 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.240 guy from Long Beach, but only after he started buzzing, 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.400 after he did us on with Mazzi. I interviewed Stupid 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.600 Young six years ago, and no one ever heard about 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.400 the guy you know and um, and and that's what 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.160 that's the difference in Uh, I guess our platforms are. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.240 I interviewed people who aren't well known. I interviewed people 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.440 that I see something in. But correct me if I'm wrong. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.720 You would have never interviewed stupid young six years ago 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:01.480 when he didn't have a name. Probably not, because it's 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.639 some it's like a symbiotic relationship, right, Like we have 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.480 a platform and we introduce people to that platform, but 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.159 we want those people to have a fan base already 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.280 that will come to our platform, so new people will 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.760 come to our platform as well, you know. So it's 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.520 like it's a it's a situation where we'll both help 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.080 each other most times, especially when it comes to artists 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.800 and music and stuff like that. You know that this 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.080 is why we never accept payment for interviews. It's like, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.880 you know, we've turned on offers because it's like, well, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.080 I could put you on my platform, no one will 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.240 watch it, you know, it really doesn't matter unless the 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.639 story is completely insane or something of that sort. But 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.440 you want to focus on your music, so you don't 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.960 really have a fan base yet, so putting you out 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.640 there is not really gonna help you. And it's gonna 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.360 be kind of a waste, a waste of our time 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.640 potentially to our viewers who have no idea who you are. Either. Well, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.760 you know, I interviewed uh stupid young and no one 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.280 new him. And I think at the end of the day, 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.159 his video has got over a million views, you know, 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.600 just some unknown Cambodian kid banging Asian boys from Long Beach. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.600 And you know, I think you never know what you're 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.879 gonna get. You never know, and uh, that's why you 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.639 made it. Well, you know, and and people, you know, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.520 there are certain stages in your career where you want 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.240 to use different platforms to help you get there. Yeah, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.080 you know, just like people turn us down because we 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.400 feel we're not a big enough platform. Who turns you down? 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.719 We get turned down every day. Everyone who would't want 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.800 to turn down a platform that has radio. We We've 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.080 never done a Chris Brown interview, We've never done an 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.119 eminem video. You've never done jay Z. You can't understand 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.840 jay Z turn you down. You know. I did Kindie 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.120 a long long time ago and he was first starting, 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.400 hasn't come back. I did Nikki kind of early on. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.480 She's never come back. You know it happens. We understand 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.120 you think Cardi will come back. You did Cardio Carti twice. Yeah, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.480 she hasn't come back. We've tried, you know, becauseptimes people 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.000 reach a certain level. Now the only one to do 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.760 Good Morning America. Well, I think once you're super super 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.280 a list, any sort of YouTube platform is probably quote 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.320 unquote beneath the artist. I mean it depends. I mean, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:05.959 I know a major artist that's about to do an 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.080 interview on a on a YouTube platform. I can't say 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.280 who it is because a friend of mine, but uh, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.680 it really depends, and I think that, I mean, we're 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.640 trying to change that because you know, you see these 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.160 artists will do like a major radio station. They'll put 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.880 it out and get like a thousand views, and if 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.600 we had that artist will get you know, five million 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:29.520 views easy. So it just depends. Um, you did Cardi 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.240 early on once she only had her mixtape. Yeah before 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.240 that was before after before Okay, so you saw something 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.359 in her. She really wasn't doing huge numbers, but she 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.240 she was big on social media though her social media 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.240 numbers were big. And then she's on the TV show. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.919 She was on Love and Hip Hop as well, you know, 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.840 and and like she was already she was signed to 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.720 I think Atlantic, so you know, her her music was 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.440 starting to get you know, it was serious enough for 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.200 a major label to sign her, and you know they 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.399 saw something over there. So we we do experiment with 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.200 certain types of people in certain to guests and so forth. 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:02.919 Sometimes it works out and it becomes you know, like 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:04.560 we were the first ones to ever interview me. Goes 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.240 back before you know, Drake did Versace and that was 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:10.800 their first ever interview, and that that worked out really well. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.360 Sometimes you interview people and you know that becomes really 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.359 their only interview. I'm surprised how successful cardib has become 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.480 over the last few years. And I came from loving 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.639 hip hop, but it like I never thought she was 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.680 a great artist, but I think she has grown over 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.000 the years. She has certainly um impressed me with a 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.040 couple of her songs, but I could have never imagined 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:33.720 the success that she would have reached, you know, once 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:39.840 she got her teeth fix them all right. So you 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:43.760 often get criticized for your fascination with gangster stuff, like 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.520 you love to interview about cripp and blood stories, and 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.240 it seems like you ask every single person from l 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.360 a about the crack co Can epidemic. Does it ever 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.040